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Kelly Ripa
The following podcast is a Dear Media production.
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Amanda Hirsch
Welcome back to the Not Skinny But Not Fat podcast. I'm your host, Amanda Hirsch, and I still can't believe that I get to chat with some of my favorite stars on my very own podcast, where you'll feel like you're just talking shit with your best friends in your living room. Okay, welcome to our new segment segment Things we need to talk about more, which in my daily life, include Lenny's cute legs. In my daily life, it includes your abs. Because, like, seriously. So things we need to talk about more. Yeah, it's summer. The. The city is empty. If you live in New York, it's wild. You don't know this until you live here, but you can get anywhere in five minutes. In five minutes. No people on the streets. Everybody is in the Hamptons but us. And everyone wants to do something on a Friday. On a half day Friday, everyone is also drinking margaritas. Everyone is drinking margaritas. Margaritas are back. Okay, so you know this about me. I'm typically a wine girl until it is summer. And in summertime, I'm a margarita girl. Because there's something just like so crisp, so clean, so refreshing. Yum. Especially, like sometimes the spicy. Yum. Yes, she is yum. So we are making margaritas today. I'm going to show you. You guys remember, if you follow me, back then I used to call it my skinny marg. I it with a straw Tequila. So good, so smooth, so fresh, so crisp. I'm obsessed. And we brought all the ingredients that you need to make my house margarita. So the home network. So Regina's gonna do it and I'm gonna narrate it. Okay. Yeah. Ice, you guys. Yum. Then we are going to take the austral tequila. We're gonna pour it. Did you guys know, by the way, this is called a jigger Marg? Summers are back. Okay, bartender. Okay, so we did the tequila lime juice. Oh. Pre squeeze queen. But by the way, this is squeezed lime, so don't be buying the lime in a bottle. No, I'm just kidding. You could buy the lime in the bottle. No, but actually don't buy the. The one. Okay. It's not good. No, it's not good. Oh, this is my special ingredient. I love a little bit of maple syrup because I'm. Because I'm such a sweet girl. Do you want to shake it? Okay, I'll shake it. Yeah, do you want to shake it? Guys, she is literally a bartender. Put your whole audience to it. Guys, this is her Pilates workout. What if we had jalapenos. Wait, this looks so good. Regina, pour out. Okay. That looks so professional. I cut off. Wait. But we wanted to talk about things. We need to talk about more, which I've been thinking because there was a photo of Monica Barbero and Andrew Garfield yesterday at Wimbledon. So chic. Matching white and white. I'm like, they're such a nick couple. And then it made me think, who else is in a couple right now that we need to be talking about more? So Monica Barbero and Andrew Garfield. Numero uno. Then we have Paul Mescal and Mezcal. Mescal. Whatever it is. I love a mispronunciation. Cheers, you guys. Let's see. Is that not amazing? Okay, bartender. No. Is that not amazing? Like, seriously? And, like, I feel like this is a perfect drink because it's not gonna make you like your wine. Like, at some points you're like, okay, this is enough. This is so light. So light. This is so refreshing. Isn't that tequila so good? No, it's amazing. Astral is so good. No. And things more people need to talk about. Marks are back. Mars are back. You guys know it's seriously Mark Summer. Also, don't ask me where I got these glasses, even though they're gorgeous. Wait, this is such a good mark. Like, you made my recipe better than me because I'm Mexican. It's, like, in my DNA. What do you mean? Another couple that I love, like I was saying, is Gracie Abrams and Paul Mescal. But did you see the pictures a couple of months ago of her, like, crying outside of a restaurant and, like, pushing him? Lovers quarrel. Regina. Lovers. But now that he's, like, singing. And then there was videos on TikTok of him, like, messing up the words and, like, vibing. And people are mad at him. No, but what do people want him to do? Yeah, it's not for him. He's not her target audience.
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Kelly Ripa
Yeah, yeah.
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Amanda Hirsch
Couple number three is long and steady. Taylor and Travis. Yeah. You're over them. I'm over. And even pretend. No, because, like, also, did you see those clips that went viral of him being like, we just want to have fun. Like, can people leave us? Like, not everything's a headline. Like, us going, no, we can't leave you alone by. No, like, leave them alone. Like, really, let. Let them live. Let them live. Then we have Kylie and Timmy. Like, any sighting of them, I will go through so many emotions at once. It will be like, I'm in love. I'm jealous. I'm feel. I'm just feeling all the feelings, so they're really, like, up there for me. What I love about this tequila, by the way, is it's perfect for making marks at home with your friends. You could also order it at a bar, at a restaurant. But, like, if you're having a party, you're having friends over. This is. This is the Tequila you want at home because it's, like, neutral and it's affordable and, like, the flavoring is neutral so it doesn't make it, like, doesn't overbear. Yeah. On the rest of the drink. Yeah. You're like, okay, Lion's eye. Like, you taste it all. Can we talk about how fresh it was? No. Amazing work. We just needed jalapenos for spicy and like, a tahin rib feeling room. Yeah. Let me just, like, pop out some tahin. You guys. Housemark summer is here. Time to stock up. Go to www.a straw tequila.com to find a straw near you. And don't forget the limes, which we didn't forget today. Freshly squeezed. Please enjoy responsibly. Well, you guys, we're going to go back to drinking our margaritas. I'm so excited. Hey, guys. Happy Tuesday. I don't know about you, but I really feel like the pod has been on fuegs like, this summer. I just feel like it's been guest after guest that I'm so excited about that we had so much fun with that was so, so interesting and fascinating and fun and exciting. So just makes me feel good, you know, Makes me feel really, really good. And I love hearing your guys's feedback and. And what you love and just makes me feel so nice when first of all, you. Because, for example, with Lena Dunham, like, I was like, oh, my God, everyone's gonna think I'm talking about Hailey Bieber when I was like, the guest of my life and blah, blah, blah. And Lena is amazing in her own right. And not that she's niche by any means, but she's so important to me. And I was like, by the way I'm describing, it really sounds like Madonna. Hailey Bieber. Madonna. Haley Bieber. One of the same. One and the same. And then when I was like, it's Lena, I just feel like you guys are me and you get me and you are excited about the same people that I'm excited about. And that's what I always say. Like when I have meetings about the podcast or whatever, some inside baseball, I'm like, and. And the people that I talk to like, get it. I'm like my listeners are me. Like I'm my listener, you know, and it's makes things so seamless and just so like I can't imagine if like your audience isn't you, you know, it's like, let's hear a dude. And you're like, my audience is 55 year old women across America. So anyway, hashtag blessed. Hashtag lucky, not lucky. You're not supposed to say that. Listen, these reels ruined my life. Hashtag blessed. Hashtag I earned it. I find myself in such interesting situations, like starting to do something that I'm used to doing that's in my human nature. And then a real, some like educational reel pops in my head. Remember, he's four years old and his brain is only 25 developed. Boom. Remember? I'm not saying it's all bad, you know, it just stops you in your track sometimes. It really does. Remembering like what you're supposed to do according to Instagram Reals. Anyway, into today's episode, you guys, I love this woman so much. She's kind, she is funny. She's been on TV for, she'll say it herself, a thousand years. She's always been a real one, a forthright one, funny, cute, everything, an inspiration to me, honestly, as a woman that, you know, is in the middle. Kelly Ripa. Kelly Ripa. And she's back by the way, because we did an episode a few years ago, but it was on Zoom. It was probably like Covid times or something, I can't remember. And we connected then and she was so sweet then and I remind her in this episode like she made sure after that I got her number and she was texting me like advice with the kids and it was Halloween and she told me to come trick or treat at her beautiful brownstone in New York. And she's just so complimentary and kind and such a lovely lady and one of the the realest ones around. We talk about her podcast, it's called let's Talk Off Camera. And I was like, oh cute. Like you know, when you're not live. But like, no, she meant it like let's talk off camera as in she doesn't film her podcast. Which honestly gel because I do miss podcasts being just audio. But you know, that's a, that's a great vibe. She has her live show live with her husband, sexy little Mark. And she has let's Talk Off Camera her podcast. She also just, you know, opens up about her, her marriage, doing the show with her husband now her kids being all grown up, whether she Ever considered doing a boob job? And more so enjoy my loves. TTYL.
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Kelly Ripa
How is it going from 1 to 2?
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Amanda Hirsch
What are you doing? You're interviewing.
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Kelly Ripa
I want to know. I'm going to interview you.
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Amanda Hirsch
No, you're not.
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Kelly Ripa
I will wind up.
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Amanda Hirsch
No, you're not. Kelly Ripa is here. You guys.
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Kelly Ripa
Hi.
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Amanda Hirsch
I'm so excited you're here in person.
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Kelly Ripa
I can't believe I'm seeing you in person. Is it weird?
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Amanda Hirsch
Is it weird?
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Kelly Ripa
No. Here's one of the things I will say about you. You are just as beautiful in person as you are on TV or phone. As you are on phone.
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Amanda Hirsch
As you are on phone. Yeah, you too. Well, can I tell people? So you were on when your book came out, Livewire, which. I loved your book.
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Kelly Ripa
Thank you.
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Amanda Hirsch
I think if people didn't read it, they should you read it, which is shocking.
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Kelly Ripa
I know a lot of people don't do that.
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Amanda Hirsch
I don't do that. I don't read.
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Kelly Ripa
I read everything.
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Amanda Hirsch
Yeah.
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Kelly Ripa
So when people come on the show, I want them to know that I've, like, taken the time because I. Oh.
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Amanda Hirsch
I just won't have people that. With the books anymore. You know what I mean? Like, you have to. I'm like, oh, it's a book. Let me think about that.
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Kelly Ripa
No, but you'd be amazed at how many people don't read the book.
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Amanda Hirsch
Yeah. So I read yours and loved it. And because I'm not a reader, it means more.
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Kelly Ripa
Thank you.
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Amanda Hirsch
And I will say two things. Well, this is. This is a true story, you guys. You are the reason I got Botox for the first time.
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Kelly Ripa
Really?
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Amanda Hirsch
Because you had a whole chapter dedicated to it, if I remember correctly.
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Kelly Ripa
Yes. I have an entire chapter.
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Amanda Hirsch
An entire chapter where she's, like, basically, like, yelling at you, like, oh, you don't want to look more refreshed.
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Kelly Ripa
Right.
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Amanda Hirsch
Like, you don't want to look like you got more sleep. And I was like, oh, my God.
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Kelly Ripa
Well, here's the thing. You now know this because you are a mom of two young sons.
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Amanda Hirsch
Yeah.
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Kelly Ripa
And as joyful and as amazing as an. As incredible as the experience is, you are in a profession that is a visual medium, like it or not, and as am I. And if I didn't have my job in front of a camera, would I do any of that stuff? Probably not. But it really makes you aware of the fact that a good portion of your audience expects you to remain exactly the way you were when they found you. And for me, that goes back 35 years. 40 years. Yeah. So while I know that I cannot look the way I did that amount of time ago. I do know there are ways, there are cheats that I can utilize that make my ready time faster.
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Amanda Hirsch
Yeah.
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Kelly Ripa
And for me, it's, like, all about, especially when my kids were young, being able to get ready fast was the key to everything.
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Amanda Hirsch
Right.
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Kelly Ripa
And so you've just learned that lesson.
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Amanda Hirsch
Yeah, I've learned that. And it was like, the way you put it in that chapter that was like, you're not getting some. Cause I remember I thought of it before I've ever tried it.
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Kelly Ripa
It's like a vanity thing.
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Amanda Hirsch
Right.
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Kelly Ripa
I'm not vain.
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Amanda Hirsch
Right. Like, or everyone does this. And you know how people that don't know what the different types of stuff you can do. Like, people will see Khloe Kardashian and be like, she got a face transplant.
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Kelly Ripa
Right? Correct.
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Amanda Hirsch
They, like, exaggerate or, like, what's surgeries? And you're like, no, that person just did filler.
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Kelly Ripa
You know, every time Christopher Buckle does my makeup like he did today, people think what people say, I got a nose job. And so according to people, I've had, like, hundreds of nose jobs. Hundreds and hundreds of nose jobs. They don't see, like, when I take the makeup off, my nose goes right back to normal.
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Amanda Hirsch
Well, I saw you did some, like, something with your lips that you're doing special, like, you're doing something different.
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Kelly Ripa
He did my makeup today, so I can't take credit for any of this, but. So I learned this from watching Instagram videos. And I always say, like, I'm not on Instagram very often. I don't really invest that much time. But every time I have my teeth cleaned, there's really nothing to do there except sit or the tv. Sit and scroll.
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Amanda Hirsch
Yeah.
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Kelly Ripa
And so I'm scrolling through Instagram and I'm watching these videos where these women literally paint their upper lips brown. I didn't do that because I, you know, I know my skill set, but I was like, I bet there's a way to do that that makes sense for me. And so I learned how to just trace the. The upper lip with, like, a. Like a brown eyeliner crayon. So I trace the upper lip all the way on the outside of the line. Then I put lip liner on top of that, and then lipstick, and it's.
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Amanda Hirsch
Like, so now is that your go to? You do it?
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Kelly Ripa
Every time I go to, I do it.
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Amanda Hirsch
But you just said when you got here to the pod that you did your makeup today, which.
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Kelly Ripa
No, I didn't I mean that you had it. I had it done for you.
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Amanda Hirsch
I love you.
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Kelly Ripa
I wanted you to think I look.
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Amanda Hirsch
Pretty, but you would look pretty all the time, you know? But you do your own for the show.
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Kelly Ripa
I do my own makeup for the show, which is so funny.
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Amanda Hirsch
So funny.
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Kelly Ripa
So funny. Like, and yours is on tv, My TV audience. But that feels like, you know, it's like it's you being here. Doesn't this feel like you're in your.
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Amanda Hirsch
Own home versus Right.
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Kelly Ripa
So when I go on to my TV job, I feel like I'm in my own home. And so they don't mind if I look. Not they don't mind if I don't look, but.
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Amanda Hirsch
So how long does it take you the makeup for the show to do it myself?
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Kelly Ripa
Like, a half an hour.
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Amanda Hirsch
Okay. Do you do eyelashes?
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Kelly Ripa
I do eyelashes. I glue those. That's the most challenging part. Gluing on my own eyelashes.
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Amanda Hirsch
Individuals or is it like.
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Kelly Ripa
No, I do, like, a strip.
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Amanda Hirsch
Okay.
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Kelly Ripa
I used to do individuals because that was, like, easier for me, but then Christopher taught me how to do a strip, and now I'm pretty good at.
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Amanda Hirsch
You should do a get ready with me for live.
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Kelly Ripa
I know. I just feel like people have.
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Amanda Hirsch
No one in your team has tried to get you to do it.
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Kelly Ripa
They try to get me to do it all the time. And I'm like, people have suffered enough in this country. They don't need me doing a get ready. It's like the Crypt Keeper. It's like watching the Crypt Keeper crawl out of. Crawl out of her tomb.
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Amanda Hirsch
Well, I want to say more about when we did the pod because people should know this too. You were so nice. And I remember how. But after you made sure that I got your number.
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Kelly Ripa
Yeah. So we could communicate in real life.
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Amanda Hirsch
That's so sweet. And it was almost Halloween.
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Kelly Ripa
Yeah.
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Amanda Hirsch
And you were like, you have to go. You're like, I'm not home. But, like, you have to go. Trick or treat.
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Kelly Ripa
Yeah. Because we give out full size candy bars.
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Amanda Hirsch
Yeah.
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Kelly Ripa
And I think that matters to kids.
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Amanda Hirsch
It does matter. And you do. I mean, in New York, I love post it around Halloween when all the brownstones are decorated so beautifully and you know where to go. And yours.
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Kelly Ripa
I mean, we go out this year. We didn't do it, and it was very sad.
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Amanda Hirsch
You did it to me.
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Kelly Ripa
No, because there's construction on the house next door to our house, and there's, like, a scaffolding over half of our house. So it's like their scaffolding is in front of half of our house. And I just didn't know, like, where to put anything. And like, how are you gonna have.
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Amanda Hirsch
The zombies hang from the.
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Kelly Ripa
How am I gonna have all that stuff hanging when there's a scaffolding there? So I didn't do it this year, but I wanted, like, I actually put out on my show. I was like, I'm still giving out candy.
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Amanda Hirsch
Wait, does that. Does that mean that people know where you live?
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Kelly Ripa
I mean, a lot of people know where I live.
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Amanda Hirsch
Is that weird?
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Kelly Ripa
No.
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Amanda Hirsch
Really? No.
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Kelly Ripa
I mean, it's.
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Amanda Hirsch
Dude, does it make you feel. I know it is.
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Kelly Ripa
It's New York.
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Amanda Hirsch
Do you have security?
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Kelly Ripa
No, but I mean, like, what are.
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Amanda Hirsch
They going to do? I don't know.
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Kelly Ripa
What are they gonna do?
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Amanda Hirsch
I don't. It's New York. What? It's only New York. What are they going to do?
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Kelly Ripa
I think New York is, you know, New York.
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Amanda Hirsch
How does it work, though, that people know where you live? That's what I want to know. There is no, like, I don't think.
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Kelly Ripa
They necessarily know, but they figure it out when I answer the door. What do you mean? You know?
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Amanda Hirsch
Oh, you mean just on Halloween?
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Kelly Ripa
Yeah.
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Amanda Hirsch
Okay.
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Kelly Ripa
Like, they, like, word gets around.
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Amanda Hirsch
Oh, word gets around.
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Kelly Ripa
The trick or treaters know where I.
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Amanda Hirsch
Live and then it happens and they.
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Kelly Ripa
Have this app now where they rate the houses for the candy. So we have like a top. We are like a five star rating or ten. I don't know. Like, it's like how many candy. Like those candy corns. Yeah, it's like we have the perfect rating. Like, we've got a perfect rating.
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Amanda Hirsch
That's so funny.
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Kelly Ripa
Yeah. So they know us. Like, I'm not saying random strangers in.
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Amanda Hirsch
New York know where we live.
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Kelly Ripa
The trick or treating people, the trick or treaters know where we live.
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Amanda Hirsch
Would you ever leave New York?
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Kelly Ripa
You know, Mark and I talk about it all, all the time. I don't really see us ever leaving New York because, you know, our son lives in Brooklyn. Our other son just graduated college and he's not sure if he's gonna live in New York or la. He's not really sure yet. He's still like.
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Amanda Hirsch
Cause he's. Joaquin is into, like, acting.
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Kelly Ripa
He's. Yeah, he's. He just. He actually just booked his first job and. Which I'm thrilled. Shoots in New York. So that's like, very exciting for us. It's nice when your kids graduate college and start to work, you get like, it's a sigh of relief.
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Amanda Hirsch
Oh. That you're like, you're gonna be okay.
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Kelly Ripa
Like, oh, it's gonna be okay. Because our kids, all three went into the creative arts and I was like.
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Amanda Hirsch
Oh, all three did.
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Kelly Ripa
I was like, not a single plastic surgeon. Like, we really discouraged. We discouraged them so much from going into our line of work.
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Amanda Hirsch
You did the opposite.
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Kelly Ripa
Because we know how hard it is and we know, like, it's an unforgiving business. And yes, like, we have connections, but we, like, we're not like a show business family. Like, we're not that connected. We still audition for everything. Like, nobody's just calling us and offering us roles.
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Amanda Hirsch
Yeah, yeah. You know, we're not getting like, you know, Martin Scorsese isn't calling.
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Kelly Ripa
Correct.
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Amanda Hirsch
Right.
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Kelly Ripa
That's not where we are in life.
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Amanda Hirsch
Are you scared people are gonna think that that is the case for them?
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Kelly Ripa
Oh, I think people definitely think that's the case. And I don't. I think my kids feel, like, very fortunate in general. Like, they don'. Have student loans, so they're like, we are good. Like, we don't care if people want to say that. We get it and we don't mind.
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Amanda Hirsch
Well, I think, you know, Allison Williams was just here.
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Kelly Ripa
Yeah.
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Amanda Hirsch
And she. I didn't even ask her about this, but she volunteered, like, her thoughts on the Nepo baby conversation because her dad is a journalist. Right, right, right. So she put it as like, not her dad could call and get her the gig. Right. But more the conversation around. She felt like she had the safety net, like you're saying about your kids. Like, she could go for it.
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Kelly Ripa
Yeah.
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Amanda Hirsch
And there was no floor.
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Kelly Ripa
Right.
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Amanda Hirsch
You know, so that, so that, that's.
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Kelly Ripa
There'S like a comfort in knowing, like, my kids got to graduate, knowing that they weren't, like, having to climb out of a mountain of debt.
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Amanda Hirsch
Right.
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Kelly Ripa
They didn't have, like. And they are so appreciative and so grateful and so. And I also think we kept their worlds really normal. When they were young, they always, from the earliest ages they could, had part time jobs always. And they were one of their, you know, in their friend circle, they were like the only ones to have jobs.
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Amanda Hirsch
You know, I was gonna ask you that question. You know, raising three kids in the city, living in a gorgeous home, living the life that you live, how you can keep them grounded.
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Kelly Ripa
They were fully aware. And I think it was partly. I had a lot to do with that. I was like, this is our money, not your money. We worked for this and you have done nothing for this. And one day you will work and you will earn a Living, if you're lucky, if you work hard, you will earn a great living. And we've given you all the tools and a stable life growing up so you didn't have to worry about where things were coming from. That was just like, you got super fortunate.
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Amanda Hirsch
Yeah.
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Kelly Ripa
And now it's your turn, you know, and to bust your ass and work as hard as you can and get things cracking for yourselves. And so we thought, like, because we always had jobs as teenagers and before we were teenagers, from our early, you know, as early as we could start working, you know, babysitting at. People used to let. People used to let 8 year olds babysit children.
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Amanda Hirsch
It is not okay. Like I look back, well, now I'm so overprotective that.
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Kelly Ripa
Can you imagine an 8 year old walking?
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Amanda Hirsch
I can't imagine a 14 year old.
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Kelly Ripa
Right.
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Amanda Hirsch
Like, with a baby.
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Kelly Ripa
Right.
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Amanda Hirsch
I could imagine a 14 year old like, oh, go play in the backyard while I'm at home. No, no, but like, I used to At 14, go babysit a full child, but baby, three children.
- [22:14]
Kelly Ripa
Right.
- [22:14]
Amanda Hirsch
Put a baby to sleep. I'm like, how'd that baby go to sleep with me? I didn't know what I was doing. Yeah, but, but got my $20 an hour.
- [22:20]
Kelly Ripa
That's.
- [22:20]
Amanda Hirsch
Oh, wow.
- [22:22]
Kelly Ripa
Wow.
- [22:22]
Amanda Hirsch
I mean, it was in Westchester. I went out to Westchester.
- [22:24]
Kelly Ripa
You were smart.
- [22:25]
Amanda Hirsch
I went to the rich people.
- [22:26]
Kelly Ripa
Yeah, I, I was a dollar an hour. So word spread, but then word also spread that if you didn't pay me, I wasn't necessarily in a position to argue with you. So, like, I would just get screwed over all the time.
- [22:39]
Amanda Hirsch
Like, they wouldn't pay you.
- [22:40]
Kelly Ripa
I would work for, for hours and hours and walk away with no money. And they'd be like, I'll get you next time. I'll get you next time.
- [22:46]
Amanda Hirsch
Wait, what kind of part time jobs did they work in the city?
- [22:49]
Kelly Ripa
So Michael worked at a toy shop. Joaquin worked in a gym. Lola worked in a gym and in a hair salon, which she really did. She did not enjoy the hair salon work. She said shampooing people's heads is disgusting.
- [23:02]
Amanda Hirsch
Wait, she did that, what, in like high school?
- [23:04]
Kelly Ripa
Yeah, in high school. Wow. Yeah, they always had part time jobs. I thought it was like essential because we worked. And I was like, it really does teach you.
- [23:12]
Amanda Hirsch
Like, if I take something, my mom did this too. It's like making your own money and realizing, like how much it's worth when you buy something. And wait, I just made, you know, 14 an hour. This costs, you know, 50.
- [23:25]
Kelly Ripa
It really, it manages Finances in their.
- [23:28]
Amanda Hirsch
Brains in a real way from an early.
- [23:30]
Kelly Ripa
Yeah.
- [23:31]
Amanda Hirsch
So you feel like, good about where they're at.
- [23:33]
Kelly Ripa
I feel really good about where they're at. Like Michael, I think our eldest, who's 28 now, is probably the hardest working person I ever.
- [23:40]
Amanda Hirsch
What did you want to do?
- [23:41]
Kelly Ripa
Well, he's a producer. He works in television production and you would actually love his job. He works in a lot of like different reality TV projects. Oh, cool. Like he just sort of. He's a freelance, so his life is. I wouldn't say it's, it's unpredictable, but he's such a hard worker that he always has his next job lined up for the job.
- [24:04]
Amanda Hirsch
Right. It's like you did so good. They take him. What's his dream, like show to work on live?
- [24:09]
Kelly Ripa
No, no, no, no. He, he would. That's not his bag at all. He really. He's a writer. So I think this is all a means to an end to get his novel, his novels published.
- [24:20]
Amanda Hirsch
Oh, he wants to do like Bug.
- [24:22]
Kelly Ripa
Yeah, yeah. He's like a writer in like fantasy novel stuff.
- [24:26]
Amanda Hirsch
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Kelly Ripa
Lola's a singer songwriter, and she lives in London.
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Amanda Hirsch
Oh, she does?
- [28:40]
Kelly Ripa
Yeah. She's lived in London for two years.
- [28:42]
Amanda Hirsch
Why?
- [28:43]
Kelly Ripa
Well, it's interesting. So Lola's freshman year was the beginning of the pandemic. Her. She never went back for her second semester. They closed the school.
- [28:54]
Amanda Hirsch
Where did she go to school?
- [28:55]
Kelly Ripa
She went to nyu and she went to the Clive Davis School of Music, which is, like, very prestigious. I didn't think she should go to school in New York. I feel like you gotta.
- [29:05]
Amanda Hirsch
You're like, experience the dorms and the.
- [29:07]
Kelly Ripa
Life, and none of that really happened for her. She had, like, one semester.
- [29:12]
Amanda Hirsch
She got even worse then.
- [29:13]
Kelly Ripa
Yes.
- [29:13]
Amanda Hirsch
Yeah.
- [29:14]
Kelly Ripa
So then part of the Clive Davis program was that your second semester, you moved to Berlin, Germany, and you create music there. And that was canceled because of COVID So her senior year, they let the senior class choose a different study abroad. Like, they never let seniors do a study abroad. And she had a handful of countries she could select from, and she chose London, and it made it. It was a really easy choice for her because her boyfriend is from London, and so. And he. Once he graduated college, he moved back to London, and so it was very easy for her. It was an easy choice. She fell in love with the study abroad program, moved home to graduate, and went right back up to the.
- [30:07]
Amanda Hirsch
And the boyfriend is still the boyfriend.
- [30:09]
Kelly Ripa
Boyfriend is still the boyfriend.
- [30:10]
Amanda Hirsch
How are you as, like, the mother in law vibe?
- [30:14]
Kelly Ripa
Oh, we're great. Here's the thing. She chose really wisely.
- [30:17]
Amanda Hirsch
Yeah.
- [30:18]
Kelly Ripa
And I feel the same way about Michael's girlfriend. Like, I love the people they've chosen.
- [30:23]
Amanda Hirsch
Okay.
- [30:23]
Kelly Ripa
They've got excellent taste. And I just said it there. I said his name. She's always, like, trying to protect his identity. The family and, like, we're all very close. Like, the parents travel together.
- [30:39]
Amanda Hirsch
Like, as in you guys and them.
- [30:41]
Kelly Ripa
Like, the parents are friends outside of our kids.
- [30:43]
Amanda Hirsch
Do they like that?
- [30:44]
Kelly Ripa
Yeah, I think they do. I think initially that sounds like initially they hated it, and now they love it.
- [30:50]
Amanda Hirsch
I would be scared to date one of your sons.
- [30:54]
Kelly Ripa
You would?
- [30:54]
Amanda Hirsch
Yeah. Like, if I didn't know you, my.
- [30:57]
Kelly Ripa
Sons would love you. Why would you be scared?
- [30:59]
Amanda Hirsch
Like, I would be, like, Kelly Ripa. Like, is she gonna be.
- [31:00]
Kelly Ripa
No, I don't think they even know. Like, they don't even really, like, y. Young people now don't necessarily. They figure it out eventually. Like, but I don't think they necessarily know Initially.
- [31:12]
Amanda Hirsch
Really?
- [31:13]
Kelly Ripa
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because, you know, like, you think they're.
- [31:17]
Amanda Hirsch
First meeting with you.
- [31:18]
Kelly Ripa
They're not like, is like, from a whole other country. So unless you're American, you don't.
- [31:22]
Amanda Hirsch
Right.
- [31:22]
Kelly Ripa
You wouldn't know. And Michael's girlfriend is a schoolteacher and, you know, is like, she's a learned person. She's not somebody that watches.
- [31:32]
Amanda Hirsch
She's not, like, into pop culture.
- [31:34]
Kelly Ripa
She doesn't really have a frame time. I ask, like, she'll say, you know, if we were to have a conversation about who was on the show. If I mention who was on the show, she has no idea who.
- [31:44]
Amanda Hirsch
I'm like, I have so many people like that in my life.
- [31:46]
Kelly Ripa
Yeah.
- [31:47]
Amanda Hirsch
I don't know how that happens to me.
- [31:49]
Kelly Ripa
Yeah.
- [31:49]
Amanda Hirsch
Like, how do you know? Nothing.
- [31:50]
Kelly Ripa
We're better off for it, though, like.
- [31:52]
Amanda Hirsch
That we're around because they know real things.
- [31:55]
Kelly Ripa
I know we know, like, a lot of pop culture things, and they know things.
- [31:58]
Amanda Hirsch
So how do you keep up with pop culture? I mean, I'm, like, obsessed with it.
- [32:02]
Kelly Ripa
I have to be.
- [32:03]
Amanda Hirsch
So are you into, like, do you feel like you're like, oh, I need to prep, so let me, like, read what happened or what I'm into.
- [32:08]
Kelly Ripa
I'm really into. And what I'm not into, I am steadfastly against.
- [32:13]
Amanda Hirsch
Okay, what are you steadfastly against?
- [32:15]
Kelly Ripa
Like, I don't like the Bachelor and that. And that makes me so unpopular with people, But I am not into women fighting each other over dating a guy.
- [32:22]
Amanda Hirsch
I got you.
- [32:23]
Kelly Ripa
I don't like it.
- [32:23]
Amanda Hirsch
Are you into women fighting each other, like, housewives style in general?
- [32:27]
Kelly Ripa
So here's what I think when. When it comes to the housewives, and I always make this distinction, the housewives are at a place in their lives where usually society is sort of, like, turning their back on them. They're kind of middle aged. Maybe they're divorced. Maybe they're in, like, a forgotten place. And the housewives gives them an opportunity to maybe launch a brand. Maybe they've got a plan already. They've lived their lives, and so this exposure is their choice, and they know what they're signing up for. And I feel like the Bachelor takes people that are maybe younger and more impressionable and maybe haven't gotten the launch yet and sort of can take them down a path that maybe they want to go. I don't know. It's just I shouldn't judge it because I don't watch it.
- [33:24]
Amanda Hirsch
Do you have bachelor people on your show every.
- [33:26]
Kelly Ripa
Every day, all the time, constantly Wait.
- [33:29]
Amanda Hirsch
Am I remembering something? And tell me if you have some time. Like, somebody on that. There was, like, a little bit. Maybe you asked them something and they got upset. Do you remember what I'm saying?
- [33:39]
Kelly Ripa
No, I think the girl. And again, I don't remember.
- [33:42]
Amanda Hirsch
Was a bachelor.
- [33:43]
Kelly Ripa
It was a bachelor girl. A bachelorette. I don't know. She was a girl.
- [33:48]
Amanda Hirsch
Yeah.
- [33:49]
Kelly Ripa
And I was like, but you are so beautiful. You could meet anyone anywhere.
- [33:54]
Amanda Hirsch
Oh, okay.
- [33:54]
Kelly Ripa
And she was like, well, you met your husband at work. And I was like.
- [33:58]
Amanda Hirsch
And everyone's like, clap back.
- [34:00]
Kelly Ripa
And I was like. And I was like, no, that was an actual job. That's not a dating service. Like, I met my husband at a job. Like, if you were to meet your husband at the psychology center where you work, then I would be like, go for it. That's a great meeting. But I.
- [34:19]
Amanda Hirsch
Did you feel like that was savage of you?
- [34:22]
Kelly Ripa
Was savage of me. No, I don't. I'm not trying to be savage. I'm, like, trying to.
- [34:26]
Amanda Hirsch
She was trying to also have a moment where she was like.
- [34:28]
Kelly Ripa
She was trying to have her moment. And I'm like. I was like, I've been down this road with you guys before. Like, I'm giving you good advice. Take it or not.
- [34:35]
Amanda Hirsch
But I'm giving you, like, but it triggers you. The bachelor triggers you.
- [34:38]
Kelly Ripa
It doesn't trigger me. I just feel. It doesn't trigger me at all. I feel like they get triggered because I'm not like, isn't it great you found true love? I'm like, no, I've seen this movie over and over again.
- [34:50]
Amanda Hirsch
The thing is, I think it's lost its charm because I used to watch until a certain season. I think we do have marriages and their kids. I think that now with social media, you just can't. I mean, everyone's coming on to get Instagram followers.
- [35:05]
Kelly Ripa
Everything's lost its charm. Everything's lost its charm. Everything. And. And. And it's. Again, this is why I stay off of. Unless I absolutely must. I think that people are playing, playing versions of themselves for clicks and likes or whatever it is. And I am just like, it's better to just be yourself.
- [35:27]
Amanda Hirsch
Yeah.
- [35:27]
Kelly Ripa
Than to play yourself.
- [35:29]
Amanda Hirsch
Yeah. There's so much of that that makes sense. It makes sense. Tell me about Mark starting to work with you. When was. So you're 25 years almost. Do you have, like, 25 on live anniversary coming up?
- [35:40]
Kelly Ripa
25 on live. Isn't that crazy?
- [35:42]
Amanda Hirsch
25 on live sounds good, guys.
- [35:43]
Kelly Ripa
Yeah, it's not. We should. We should Monetize that.
- [35:46]
Amanda Hirsch
Do something with that.
- [35:46]
Kelly Ripa
We won't, though.
- [35:47]
Amanda Hirsch
We will.
- [35:47]
Kelly Ripa
I mean, if it's one thing I know about our show, we won't. We'll like five years from now be like, oh, that would have been a fun. That would have been a fun thing to do.
- [35:56]
Amanda Hirsch
25 on live. Yeah, do it.
- [35:58]
Kelly Ripa
Yeah. We won't.
- [35:59]
Amanda Hirsch
Like the SNL 50th.
- [36:01]
Kelly Ripa
We won't do it. We just won't do it.
- [36:04]
Amanda Hirsch
So when is that? That's like February.
- [36:06]
Kelly Ripa
So, I mean, honestly, it's. Yes, we'll call it February. We'll call it February. We'll call it February.
- [36:13]
Amanda Hirsch
25 years. You're at the same job.
- [36:15]
Kelly Ripa
Yeah, the same job. But Honestly, it's been 36 years that I've been with the same company where I've worked in the same. I've worked only for ABC and the Disney Company. And before it was Disney, it was Cap Cities. I'm so old that it's like before Disney took ABC over because of all. Because of All My Children, I started out there, and then the live just sort of acquired me in the trade.
- [36:46]
Amanda Hirsch
In the trade.
- [36:47]
Kelly Ripa
In the trade. And then I did the sitcom also for abc. Like, I've only worked within the company, which is weird.
- [36:54]
Amanda Hirsch
I mean, what. In today's age, it feels like people no longer, like, stay at the same job. Even if, you know, whatever industry you're in, people, like, switch all the time. Like, how. How do you explain staying there for so long?
- [37:05]
Kelly Ripa
I think because my dad was a bus driver for New Jersey Transit for 30 years, and I think that, like, stuck in me somehow. And I was like, you have to stay at your job. People are counting on you. You stay at your job and you can work, you can work within the company in different aspects of the job, but it's still. You stay. You stay there. And Bob Iger, who was on my podcast, had the same experience. Like, he got his job at ABC Cap Cities and stayed there until he. Now, granted, his track up the corporate ladder was a way swifter rise than mine, but he still has stayed within the company all these years. So it's kind of a fascinating thing when you.
- [37:47]
Amanda Hirsch
And you love it, probably.
- [37:48]
Kelly Ripa
Yeah. It's like it's home.
- [37:49]
Amanda Hirsch
It's home to you.
- [37:50]
Kelly Ripa
It's second home.
- [37:51]
Amanda Hirsch
So what was it like bringing Mark into. Into the mix?
- [37:53]
Kelly Ripa
So it was really interesting because we started out our careers together at the Soap, so we knew we could work together. And we had worked together on a lot of other projects. So working together is not A thing for us.
- [38:09]
Amanda Hirsch
But did people warn you, like, don't work together? You know?
- [38:13]
Kelly Ripa
No, because they knew we could do it. Like we've done it for so many years over. Across so many different disciplines and different projects on camera and off camera. And so I think it was really convincing Mark because it took initially, when they came to Mark, he flat out refused.
- [38:33]
Amanda Hirsch
Was it your idea or theirs?
- [38:35]
Kelly Ripa
No, no, no, it was theirs. It was. I would never come up with that idea. I also sort of thought it was a bad idea. It was like a husband and wife hosting a morning show is different than a husband and wife acting together or producing something together. It's just different. And they were like, no, we think it really works.
- [38:53]
Amanda Hirsch
Because he did guess stuff too.
- [38:55]
Kelly Ripa
He guessed it all the time. And I think that's where they came up with the idea. They kept saying, you're really good. The audience really responds to Mark because mark has a gives zero Fs attitude.
- [39:09]
Amanda Hirsch
Yeah.
- [39:09]
Kelly Ripa
And the audience loves that.
- [39:12]
Amanda Hirsch
Yeah.
- [39:12]
Kelly Ripa
They. He. There is no artifice with him. If he hates something, he hates it out loud. No matter how much we're supposed to love it, you know? And when he thinks something is dumb, he says it. No matter how much we're supposed to pretend we like whatever this thing is, if we're tasting a recipe on the air and he thinks it's disgusting, he spits it out and says, this is gross. And that has found. Like this. We found a whole co viewership where husbands and wives are watching it together. Together. Which is like a first. We have men sitting in our audience. A first. We have never had that before. And I think that people really respond to him. And I have to say, shout out to Dana Walden and Deborah o', Connell, who were the two women at Disney who were like, mark's the guy. And they truly sat him down and.
- [40:07]
Amanda Hirsch
Were and said to him until he.
- [40:09]
Kelly Ripa
Said, you are the guy. And here is why. And here's the reason why we know this.
- [40:13]
Amanda Hirsch
Why. What were his hesitations?
- [40:15]
Kelly Ripa
I think he thought a. It would be the end of his acting career, which it hasn't been. He's, you know, he's been working steadily on camera and in other projects since he took the job. So that.
- [40:27]
Amanda Hirsch
But how does that work? He can just. You would host, you would bring a guest.
- [40:31]
Kelly Ripa
They have carves out. Carve out times for him to take other jobs. And then I bring in a guest host.
- [40:35]
Amanda Hirsch
Gotcha.
- [40:36]
Kelly Ripa
And it's like, just like it works. No big deal. And I think he thought the audience wouldn't want to look at two married people bitching at each other. Because we do bitch at each other all the time.
- [40:47]
Amanda Hirsch
I know, but so many good things have come. I mean, every day. Every day, I feel like something that you say yes on the show becomes a headline.
- [40:57]
Kelly Ripa
It's true. Yeah, it's true. And it's not intentional. We're, like, not looking to make headlines. We're just, like, hosting the show. But I think because it is relatable, it does gather a lot of headlines because we are two long time marrieds. We've been together for 31 years.
- [41:16]
Amanda Hirsch
Crazy.
- [41:16]
Kelly Ripa
And we are not afraid to express ourselves publicly. And there is no artifice. Like, we don't couch. We're not worried about protecting each other's feelings. We just sort of say what's on our mind. And I guess people find that very relatable.
- [41:35]
Amanda Hirsch
Can you say anything aside from cursing?
- [41:38]
Kelly Ripa
Yeah, we can say whatever we want.
- [41:39]
Amanda Hirsch
We can say whatever you want.
- [41:40]
Kelly Ripa
We can't say the big five or the big seven or whatever it is.
- [41:43]
Amanda Hirsch
What's the big five inside?
- [41:44]
Kelly Ripa
I don't know. There's like five curse words you are not allowed to say. It's like C, S, F, G, D, B. I'm trying to think of the other S. I know you're not saying it now here.
- [41:56]
Amanda Hirsch
You could say it.
- [41:56]
Kelly Ripa
I know, but I'm trying to, like, remember.
- [41:59]
Amanda Hirsch
Well, it's either five or seven.
- [42:01]
Kelly Ripa
Yeah, five or seven. There's five or seven.
- [42:02]
Amanda Hirsch
But that's the only thing you could talk about. Sex. You could talk.
- [42:05]
Kelly Ripa
Yeah, we can say whatever.
- [42:06]
Amanda Hirsch
Okay.
- [42:07]
Kelly Ripa
Yeah.
- [42:07]
Amanda Hirsch
So you don't have to worry about that.
- [42:08]
Kelly Ripa
No, we don't worry about that stuff. I mean, certain things we try not to say. Because I find it, like, repulsive for married people to talk about sex.
- [42:16]
Amanda Hirsch
Is Mark ever, like, Kelly, like, stop, or does he not at all try to.
- [42:21]
Kelly Ripa
No, he never tries to stop. If he tries to stop me, I'd be like, wait, why? Why are you kicking me? Like, he knows me enough.
- [42:28]
Amanda Hirsch
You would blow up his spot.
- [42:29]
Kelly Ripa
Yeah, he knows that I would be like, don't kick me.
- [42:33]
Amanda Hirsch
But after, like, at home being like, why'd you share that?
- [42:37]
Kelly Ripa
We haven't had that yet. And I feel like we've talked about everything you did.
- [42:41]
Amanda Hirsch
So he doesn't mind?
- [42:42]
Kelly Ripa
No.
- [42:43]
Amanda Hirsch
Okay.
- [42:43]
Kelly Ripa
No. But he's seen the show.
- [42:45]
Amanda Hirsch
Yeah, he knows.
- [42:46]
Kelly Ripa
He will say. He will say if you have him on the show, he will tell you this. It was way more fun and easier when he was just the guest host. He says it all.
- [42:56]
Amanda Hirsch
Oh, yeah.
- [42:56]
Kelly Ripa
Then like, really than having to, like, commit. To commit to saying what he feels.
- [43:02]
Amanda Hirsch
Right.
- [43:03]
Kelly Ripa
Like every day when he used to say what he felt and walk away, he was like, well, that's your problem.
- [43:08]
Amanda Hirsch
Yeah.
- [43:09]
Kelly Ripa
I'm just the guest host, Right?
- [43:12]
Amanda Hirsch
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- [48:14]
Kelly Ripa
He doesn't listen to me frequently and he will tune me out while we're live on the air. And I'm like, here's the thing. I'm used to you tuning me out in life. But when you are being paid, highly paid, by the way, to literally listen to me, then you have to listen.
- [48:37]
Amanda Hirsch
Like, you see, you already know the signs.
- [48:38]
Kelly Ripa
I watch him. I watch him drift away. And I. And I'm like, hey, hey, don't do that.
- [48:48]
Amanda Hirsch
Oh, my God. I know what you're talking about you have a husband. You know, I know. And you know what he does to me sometimes? It's kind of like he'll be like, get to the point quicker. And I'm like, this is a really interesting story. Let me tell all the journey to get to the point. It's like, are you busy, sir? We're in a conversation.
- [49:07]
Kelly Ripa
How long have you been married?
- [49:08]
Amanda Hirsch
Well, together, 10.
- [49:10]
Kelly Ripa
Right? Together, 10. Okay, so.
- [49:11]
Amanda Hirsch
Which is nothing compared to you.
- [49:13]
Kelly Ripa
No, no, no.
- [49:13]
Amanda Hirsch
But for other people, it sounds like a lot.
- [49:14]
Kelly Ripa
No, I'm just saying.
- [49:15]
Amanda Hirsch
Wait, sorry.
- [49:16]
Kelly Ripa
No.
- [49:16]
Amanda Hirsch
20, 10, 15. Okay, so what year is it? Thank you.
- [49:20]
Kelly Ripa
So multiply that times two.
- [49:22]
Amanda Hirsch
Right?
- [49:22]
Kelly Ripa
Okay, so picture him twice as bored and irritated with your storytelling. Like, if my mouth opens at home, I watch him drip.
- [49:34]
Amanda Hirsch
But imagine also, like, we're talking about people that don't know pop culture and celebrities. So he's so far removed. But if I want to tell him a story about a guest, I need to give the whole backstory about who that person is. So I get it. You know, it's like, this person is from this show, and they did this, and then. And then they got. He's like, oh, that's only the beginning. We just got to, like, Right. Who they are.
- [49:55]
Kelly Ripa
When you tell him about me, all you need to say is, the lady with the full size candy bars at.
- [49:59]
Amanda Hirsch
The townhouse, I think he knows.
- [50:01]
Kelly Ripa
And then he'll be like, oh, that. The old lady.
- [50:05]
Amanda Hirsch
So aside from that, everything great about working with husband.
- [50:09]
Kelly Ripa
Yeah, I love working with husband.
- [50:09]
Amanda Hirsch
I mean, it is crazy. There are couples, like, I'm like that with my husband, too. Where, like, you could never. We could be. No, no. Opposite. We can coexist for endless amounts of time.
- [50:22]
Kelly Ripa
Right.
- [50:23]
Amanda Hirsch
There are couples that can't. They'll say, like, we can't. We need to both of us be at separate, you know, all day. And then we can come together at night. Or else we'd fight. We'd go crazy. And we really do have that kind of like. And I think it's people maybe with, like, a strong friendship or something.
- [50:39]
Kelly Ripa
You have to be friends where it's.
- [50:40]
Amanda Hirsch
Like, you could just hang out all day.
- [50:42]
Kelly Ripa
You have not to be friends.
- [50:44]
Amanda Hirsch
Yeah.
- [50:44]
Kelly Ripa
You have to like each other.
- [50:46]
Amanda Hirsch
But you guys start as friends.
- [50:47]
Kelly Ripa
Yeah, we were friends. We were working together, and we were really close. Like, we were friends. And I was like, this guy, like, if he wasn't my friend and if we didn't work together because I had a very strong. Like, I didn't believe that if you work. I was like, you can never date anyone you work with. It will fall apart. The relationship will fall apart, and the job will fall apart.
- [51:10]
Amanda Hirsch
Right.
- [51:11]
Kelly Ripa
And I was like, it's a shame we work together, and it's a shame I like him so much because we are so, like, we would be a great team. And then over the course of time, I was like, are we vibing right now? Before that was a word. Is this a thing?
- [51:27]
Amanda Hirsch
Before that was a word?
- [51:28]
Kelly Ripa
Yeah. Like, are we doing whatever vibing was before we said that, like, we, like, discovered we were into each other in real life, but we didn't want people that we. We didn't want people that we worked with to knew we were dating.
- [51:43]
Amanda Hirsch
Right.
- [51:43]
Kelly Ripa
Because that would ruin. I don't know. They. It just seemed like a.
- [51:48]
Amanda Hirsch
Well, today, people love today. They, like, force people to pretend date. Today, they force people.
- [51:53]
Kelly Ripa
But back then, it was like, it was a. No, no.
- [51:55]
Amanda Hirsch
You did not.
- [51:56]
Kelly Ripa
You did not monkey around with people you were working with.
- [51:59]
Amanda Hirsch
So how long do you think you're gonna do live for?
- [52:02]
Kelly Ripa
I don't know. It's a question we get asked a lot. It feels so easy. It doesn't feel like a job, really. Yeah. So I don't know. But I do believe that. I do believe that at a certain point, we have to turn over the reins to, like, a whole new gen. I don't believe, like, I am not one of these people that believe that the show should end when I leave, and nor is Mark. We believe, like, that is a franchise show. We have such reverence for it. It has given us so much. It has given us literally provided our family with everything. And so many incredible opportunities, meeting so many extraordinary people. Our children are fully aware. They'll meet people on the street that will come up to them and say, I watched you grow up. It is such a pleasure to see you as an adult. And that means something to me.
- [53:01]
Amanda Hirsch
Well, I love that you. Because you're not just. I mean, on one hand, I understand what you're saying, that it. You wanted to live on, but it is so personal to you.
- [53:08]
Kelly Ripa
Yeah.
- [53:08]
Amanda Hirsch
And you. I mean, now you're doing it with Mark, but also you show, you know, stuff about your family and the graduation. Like, there's a peek into your personal life.
- [53:18]
Kelly Ripa
You know, when my kids were little, they had the opportunity to come on and do, like, little segments, Halloween segments, and people got a glimpse into their lives and. And then they grew up and they move on and they move out, and they move out of the country in some cases. And, and people don't get to regularly check in with them. And so I feel like, you know, once in a while it's important to sort of let people in on because I feel like they had, they want to. They had a group experience. My kids had a group childhood. It was like they had lots of aunties, lots of uncles, lots of grandparents. It wasn't just our parents and our siblings. They had like, America and Canada raising them in some way. And so. And they really, like, looked out for them and rooted for them, and they are fully aware of that. Having said that, I do believe that the show is too special for it to just die with us. Does that make sense?
- [54:19]
Amanda Hirsch
But I think, I mean, if you're happy to keep doing it.
- [54:21]
Kelly Ripa
Yeah, for right now. We are so happy. And I think the audience will let us know. I do believe, like, the audience, like your viewership will let you know when it's time.
- [54:31]
Amanda Hirsch
I got you.
- [54:32]
Kelly Ripa
You know, and right now they're sticking with us and they've. And we've grown an audience in a time where TV isn't growing an audience. And so I feel like right now.
- [54:42]
Amanda Hirsch
Is Mark trying to take credit for that?
- [54:44]
Kelly Ripa
I give him total credit. I do. I give him total credit for it because. Because it can't be done right now. And yet it happened when he joined.
- [54:54]
Amanda Hirsch
Wow.
- [54:54]
Kelly Ripa
And so I do give him total credit.
- [54:56]
Amanda Hirsch
Nice.
- [54:57]
Kelly Ripa
Believe me, I would love to give myself credit, but I've been there.
- [55:01]
Amanda Hirsch
The numbers speak for themselves.
- [55:02]
Kelly Ripa
I've been there since they were etching the show on the wall and people would be like, look, this is TV on the cave wall.
- [55:10]
Amanda Hirsch
The way you exaggerate. I can't. So, okay, like I said, so many headlines every week. You say something.
- [55:16]
Kelly Ripa
Yeah, I say words.
- [55:17]
Amanda Hirsch
You say words. But you say something that is like titillating, provocative. I guess so, but I don't even know it's provocative. But everything. Like the weighted vest thing.
- [55:26]
Kelly Ripa
Yeah. What?
- [55:27]
Amanda Hirsch
The weighted vest.
- [55:27]
Kelly Ripa
What about it?
- [55:28]
Amanda Hirsch
I mean, I think it was like.
- [55:29]
Kelly Ripa
What did I say?
- [55:30]
Amanda Hirsch
You saying on, on, on live tv? Yeah, like I have no boobs. It's like a big deal. I mean, we are in 2025, but it was a big deal for people to, to. To hear you say that, by the way.
- [55:40]
Kelly Ripa
And it's weird. Every time I say I have no boobs, it is a big deal. And I'm like, guys, I've said this 800 times. We know that. I'm flat chested.
- [55:48]
Amanda Hirsch
Yeah.
- [55:48]
Kelly Ripa
It's not a mystery at this point. At this point, it's Like a. It's almost a point of pride, but it is also.
- [55:53]
Amanda Hirsch
Can I ask you something?
- [55:54]
Kelly Ripa
Yeah.
- [55:55]
Amanda Hirsch
Did you have bigger boobs before kids?
- [55:57]
Kelly Ripa
Mildly. Like, I would just say. I wouldn't say they were necessarily bigger. I would say I nursed what was in there away. So now I just have, like. Like, nipples that hang lower. Does that make sense? I would always say I'm a 30 people.
- [56:12]
Amanda Hirsch
They're like, I had double GS before kids. Now I'm an A. And I'm like, wait, that's crazy.
- [56:16]
Kelly Ripa
No, no, no. I was like, I went from an A to an A. Long.
- [56:20]
Amanda Hirsch
Yeah. But I love that you're representing.
- [56:22]
Kelly Ripa
Yeah. I just feel like there's somebody out there that can relate.
- [56:26]
Amanda Hirsch
Did it ever make you feel insecure, like you wanted bigger boobs at any point in your life? I love how we have to touch them.
- [56:32]
Kelly Ripa
No, I have to touch them. I have gone to more, like. I've gone to more breast augmentation consults than I would like to admit. Like, I. Every time I hear about the new boob guy, I go and I have.
- [56:44]
Amanda Hirsch
A concert to see. What, like, if he'll just, like, what.
- [56:47]
Kelly Ripa
What will you do? And they always, like, say all the right things and do all the right things. And, you know, because our cell phones listen to us.
- [56:57]
Amanda Hirsch
It pops up for you.
- [56:58]
Kelly Ripa
It pops up, like. And I scroll through, like. Like, so many horror stories of boob jobs.
- [57:03]
Amanda Hirsch
Oh, really? Like, horror stories, like, just turn out not good.
- [57:06]
Kelly Ripa
Like, turn out not good. People that have had complications, blah, blah. And it, like, talks me right out of it, really. And I just feel like at this point.
- [57:14]
Amanda Hirsch
At this point, imagine you show up with, like, boobs.
- [57:18]
Kelly Ripa
No. But at this point, yeah, here's the reality. Because all of my friends, or a majority of my friends, have had breast augmentation, and they've had multiple. Because, like, every 10 years or so, you have to, like, swap them out. So let's say I get them at 55. Right. That means at 65, I have to swap them out. At 75, I'm on my second pair. Let's say I live to 85. I'm going under the knife again. Like, I'm just gonna. I'm good. I'm good. Nobody's talking to these except for Mark. And even he seems like he's on a don't ask, don't tell policy with. He's like, we're good. I'm fine.
- [57:59]
Amanda Hirsch
What do you think about this whole thing in Hollywood that's like. Like, this annoys me. And I was talking to somebody about it. Read the plastic surgery stuff.
- [58:06]
Kelly Ripa
Yeah.
- [58:06]
Amanda Hirsch
If somebody has beautiful work done.
- [58:08]
Kelly Ripa
Yeah.
- [58:09]
Amanda Hirsch
Then we're like, oh, my God, you know, so and so looks so good.
- [58:13]
Kelly Ripa
Yeah.
- [58:13]
Amanda Hirsch
You know, and we. We kind of, like, elevate them and. And talk about how gorgeous they are. And we say, maybe they had work done, because look at them. They're glowing. They're this. And then if somebody has work that's like, something didn't write off off, then we're like, why did she do that? Like that, you know? And it's, like, not their fault, obviously. They didn't pick to have bad work done.
- [58:33]
Kelly Ripa
I read this meme that really resonated with me, and I'm gonna try to remember it exactly, but it's like, she's. She's starting to get old. She's. She doesn't. She doesn't look the way she used to. Starts with, she doesn't look the way she used to. And then it's like, why did she do that to her face? She ruined her look. She's trying to look like her younger self. She used to be so cute. And I'm totally screwing up the saying, but it's like a circle of things that women, women, women hear. And it's this. She used to be so cute. Why doesn't she do. Why doesn't she, you know, why doesn't she invest in her. You know? It's like, she used to be so cute. Why doesn't she do more? It's a shame. She did that to her face. She ruined her look. Why did she. It's like. It's a whole circle.
- [59:26]
Amanda Hirsch
I see what you're saying now. And what's your relationship with aging in general?
- [59:30]
Kelly Ripa
I feel like the alternative of aging is very bad.
- [59:33]
Amanda Hirsch
Right.
- [59:34]
Kelly Ripa
So I am not afraid to age. And like I said, I'm not necessarily, like, I'm not a vain person. I know what I look like, and I'm very comfortable in my own skin. Having said that, like, I whiten my teeth. Why? Because I'm on camera.
- [59:52]
Amanda Hirsch
I hate those zingers. I can't handle them.
- [59:54]
Kelly Ripa
I know.
- [59:54]
Amanda Hirsch
Do you get them?
- [59:55]
Kelly Ripa
The what?
- [59:56]
Amanda Hirsch
Like, the day after, do you get those, like, zaps?
- [59:58]
Kelly Ripa
So I put. I asked them to put that stuff on. They can give you a tray that is the soothing, soothing gel that takes.
- [60:07]
Amanda Hirsch
The zingers away for the next, like, 24 hours. Oh, okay.
- [60:11]
Kelly Ripa
Where you breathe and you feel like a zap.
- [60:13]
Amanda Hirsch
I couldn't deal. That's what I'm saying. Like, I Couldn't deal.
- [60:15]
Kelly Ripa
So you just need to get the tray. Yeah, the tray will help. But I feel like aging is a necessarily a necessary part of living right. But I want to live my best life and I want to look a way that makes me feel good. I don't really give a shit what other people think. I stopped caring about that a long time ago. And so, you know.
- [60:39]
Amanda Hirsch
Well, you look amazing.
- [60:41]
Kelly Ripa
Oh, thanks.
- [60:42]
Amanda Hirsch
My mom, for instance, like her relationship to aging, I just could tell, like she doesn't take it well. And I hope that I will be a little bit better with that.
- [60:49]
Kelly Ripa
What's weird is my mom is an 84 year old woman who has never had Botox, has never had any plastic surgery, and looks probably, I would say younger than me. She does have extraordinary bone structure and she's never worn makeup. And I think that is the key.
- [61:10]
Amanda Hirsch
Really not wearing makeup.
- [61:12]
Kelly Ripa
She doesn't go in the sun and she doesn't wear makeup. Yeah, yeah, I like the sun.
- [61:16]
Amanda Hirsch
You do like the sun, do you?
- [61:18]
Kelly Ripa
I do protect. I protect myself. I protect my. This is like a spray tan.
- [61:23]
Amanda Hirsch
Okay.
- [61:23]
Kelly Ripa
I protect myself, but I like the feeling of going to the sun.
- [61:27]
Amanda Hirsch
I mean that. I mean, I love the sun too. We can love the sun.
- [61:32]
Kelly Ripa
I feel like vitamin D. Vitamin D. As long as you wear sunscreen, it's okay.
- [61:37]
Amanda Hirsch
Back to the crazy things you say on the show.
- [61:39]
Kelly Ripa
Yeah, back to that.
- [61:40]
Amanda Hirsch
Well, now this is in or on this podcast. You've said in an interview that actually wasn't on your show that the one thing that has always been good in your marriage was your sex. Is that what you said? The one.
- [61:54]
Kelly Ripa
No, I just. No, I, I wouldn't say that's the one thing. I'm just saying that's the thing that like. Yes, it doesn't. Yeah, that's really problem still to this day. Yeah.
- [62:03]
Amanda Hirsch
Give us your tips on. On being in the mood for so many years.
- [62:07]
Kelly Ripa
I'm gonna, I'm gonna break this down to my producer, Jan Chaletta, because she's the person that coined this phrase. I get the credit for it, but I think it's because I'm. The more. I guess my face is on camera. So I get credit for saying this, but it's her saying it's like exercise. The more you do it, the more you do it.
- [62:27]
Amanda Hirsch
Got you.
- [62:28]
Kelly Ripa
So you just have to do it. And then you're like, oh, I remember why I like this.
- [62:33]
Amanda Hirsch
My husband actually says that to me. He's like, you like this. Like why aren't like you have.
- [62:38]
Kelly Ripa
Because you're exhausted. Your kids are young, you're working full time.
- [62:42]
Amanda Hirsch
Right.
- [62:43]
Kelly Ripa
You have a lot on your plate, and that can easily get pushed by the wayside.
- [62:47]
Amanda Hirsch
Yeah.
- [62:48]
Kelly Ripa
And I don't know about you in your marriage, but I'm going to go personal. Are you an evening person or a morning person?
- [62:55]
Amanda Hirsch
Definitely not morning. Do not breathe on me in the morning.
- [62:57]
Kelly Ripa
But men are morning people.
- [62:58]
Amanda Hirsch
No, no, no, no, no. If he comes to me in the morning, first of all, props to you that do it in the morning. I. No, no, no.
- [63:06]
Kelly Ripa
I find it disgusting to do it. I feel. I find it.
- [63:09]
Amanda Hirsch
He wants to do it in the.
- [63:10]
Kelly Ripa
Morning, only in the morning. And I'm like, so still.
- [63:13]
Amanda Hirsch
He hasn't learned.
- [63:14]
Kelly Ripa
No, he hasn't learned. He'll never learn. He's a.
- [63:16]
Amanda Hirsch
He's a guy.
- [63:17]
Kelly Ripa
He's a guy. He's never going to learn. But I said to him, here's the thing. There needs to be a yin and a yang here. It can't always be your way.
- [63:26]
Amanda Hirsch
Yeah.
- [63:27]
Kelly Ripa
Because it feels like 90% of the time, it's your way. And now that we work together every day, it's gonna have to sometimes be my way.
- [63:36]
Amanda Hirsch
Yeah. And your ways at night.
- [63:38]
Kelly Ripa
My ways at night only.
- [63:40]
Amanda Hirsch
So in the morning, like, do you kiss, too, with the morning breath?
- [63:43]
Kelly Ripa
Yeah, he wants to kiss, which I find. And I have a retainer in and I gotta rip that out.
- [63:49]
Amanda Hirsch
No, the retainer.
- [63:50]
Kelly Ripa
And he's got, like, his nasal strips on. It's like, we are the most repulsive.
- [63:54]
Amanda Hirsch
I know. They don't care.
- [63:56]
Kelly Ripa
They don't care.
- [63:57]
Amanda Hirsch
They don't seek, which, like, is romantic, but it's also not. Do you know what I mean? It's like, you don't care. You love me anyway. But it's also like you're. You just think with your dick.
- [64:07]
Kelly Ripa
You know, it's that dick energy has a brain of its own.
- [64:11]
Amanda Hirsch
Yeah, they don't care.
- [64:12]
Kelly Ripa
And it doesn't see retainer. It doesn't see the retainer. I just feel like, look at my face.
- [64:17]
Amanda Hirsch
I'm disgusted. Yeah, I'm disgusted about the morning.
- [64:19]
Kelly Ripa
I'm already pre disgusted for tomorrow morning. Although I will say.
- [64:23]
Amanda Hirsch
Wait, is it every fucking morning, though?
- [64:25]
Kelly Ripa
No, it's not. The greatest thing about this job, it's putting a cat. This thing has, like, almost, like, repulsed him. For morning time during the work week.
- [64:33]
Amanda Hirsch
That would be great. What time do you have to be at the studio?
- [64:36]
Kelly Ripa
It's so early. And it's like a miracle. It's like a miracle has occurred.
- [64:39]
Amanda Hirsch
You're like, Hallelujah.
- [64:41]
Kelly Ripa
I'm like, may this show. May this show. That's why she wants May this show last until he suffers from erectile dysfunction, which should be like. Like he's in his mid-50s. Shouldn't that be happening now?
- [64:54]
Amanda Hirsch
Wait, I was promised. But you said the more you do it, the more you do it, so. But. So I like that you're giving us a moment where you are a little bit like us. Yeah, no, that we, you know, I'm.
- [65:05]
Kelly Ripa
Going back to when I was your age. We are now in our 50s. We are not doing it every day. That is not happening. Yeah, but this. This interview that is attached to me was, like, said 20 years ago.
- [65:18]
Amanda Hirsch
Oh, really?
- [65:19]
Kelly Ripa
Yeah, like, well, you look the same.
- [65:21]
Amanda Hirsch
That just shows you.
- [65:22]
Kelly Ripa
Long may it live. But I'm just saying, I'm like. Okay, guys.
- [65:26]
Amanda Hirsch
Okay, so he. The night is that this show is working well for your night preference.
- [65:30]
Kelly Ripa
Yes. Oh, my God.
- [65:31]
Amanda Hirsch
Oh, you know what I'm thinking? Because do you shower at night or in the morning?
- [65:35]
Kelly Ripa
I do both because I go to the gym, so it's like I shower in the morning because I have to for work, because I have to. I'm not a monster. My guest deserves.
- [65:45]
Amanda Hirsch
Why, if you showered at night, it would be.
- [65:46]
Kelly Ripa
No, my guests deserve, like, a clean, soapy moment.
- [65:50]
Amanda Hirsch
Got you.
- [65:50]
Kelly Ripa
And then I go to the gym, and then I shower when I get home. So. At night.
- [65:55]
Amanda Hirsch
At night, yeah. Yeah. But what would be your preference if you didn't have to smell good for the guests?
- [65:59]
Kelly Ripa
Oh, at night.
- [66:00]
Amanda Hirsch
At night.
- [66:00]
Kelly Ripa
Yeah.
- [66:01]
Amanda Hirsch
So, yeah, I feel like maybe that's. It's like we should. We're showering.
- [66:04]
Kelly Ripa
We're nice and clean and fresh, and we haven't, like, sat in our own funk all night.
- [66:08]
Amanda Hirsch
Correct.
- [66:09]
Kelly Ripa
And you haven't started. Like, you haven't gone started. No, you haven't.
- [66:13]
Amanda Hirsch
You have night sweats. Been there.
- [66:16]
Kelly Ripa
Yeah, but your night sweats are more hormonal because you're young. You're having youth night sweats. Wait till you have elderly night sweats. And by elderly, I mean, like, you're in your 50s. Night sweats. It's a whole different. It's. It's not cute. It's not like waking up.
- [66:31]
Amanda Hirsch
But do you remember post pregnancy stank? Like the hormones all speak the same language. You get what I mean? So I'm not saying I know what that's like yet, but I think that because I'm fresh off a baby.
- [66:42]
Kelly Ripa
You are fresh.
- [66:43]
Amanda Hirsch
I mean, not that it's a year and a half.
- [66:44]
Kelly Ripa
No, but you are so like, you are. This is crux. You're not going to appreciate how stunning and special and gorgeous and like perfect you are for 20 more years.
- [66:58]
Amanda Hirsch
Well, it's always like that.
- [66:59]
Kelly Ripa
I want you to remember this moment. Remember this because I am telling you, you are going to be like, I cannot believe. How did I not know I was stunning and perfect?
- [67:16]
Amanda Hirsch
You're so sweet.
- [67:17]
Kelly Ripa
No, I'm telling you.
- [67:18]
Amanda Hirsch
But how do you do that then? How do you not even just with looks, I feel like with everything, it's so hard to just be in the moment with everything. And I'm constantly like, time is fleeting. I can't remember the weekend I'm waiting for Monday. Why I really, like, I need someone to educate me on how to just be in the mother fucking moment.
- [67:37]
Kelly Ripa
You're not going to be because right now you have little kids. So your whole life is zoomed out five years in advance. You are planning, you are looking at nursery schools, you're applying to programs, you're looking at summer camps. You wanna make like you're doing all of the things that you have to do as a modern day working parent. Yeah, you're doing all of the things and those are all of the right things. And I will tell you, and I want you to take this and like, live in it and know, have this knowledge that I didn't know the work you are putting in now. Even though you feel like you're not living in the moment, the work you are putting in now pays in dividends when they grow up. Because my kids have these incredible memories and things that I can barely recall because I was so in it that I wasn't necessarily paying attention to it. But they remember. They know. They're literally paying attention to all the work you're doing. They are fully aware of it. They are super aware. And having said that, they will give glory and honor to all the times they spent with their babysitter. Like, their favorite moments will be babysitter adjacent. But I just want you to also prepare yourself for that. That is also like, I'm like, what was your favorite moment as a kid? Oh, that time that Jess took us to Victorian Gardens. And I was like, but I took you there 500 times. They were like, but when Jess took us, like, it's like their memories will all go to their best. Babysitter moment.
- [69:13]
Amanda Hirsch
I can't believe you had three kids. Yeah, Like, I have to realize, well, I have two. I know, but three? Like, how did you make the decision about the third?
- [69:23]
Kelly Ripa
We just got pregnant. It was like, crying.
- [69:25]
Amanda Hirsch
Okay.
- [69:26]
Kelly Ripa
It was like, oh, my God. I didn't even know I was pregnant for a really long time. I thought I had the flu back in the day, back in the stone.
- [69:33]
Amanda Hirsch
Ages, when you didn't put your period in an app and you didn't know.
- [69:36]
Kelly Ripa
There was no app, there was no period tracking. And they used to tell us, as long as you're exclusively nursing, you will not get pregnant. That was like the lie they used to tell. And then I got pregnant and thought I had the flu. Went to get Tamiflu, which was at the time a brand new drug, and it allegedly cut your flu symptoms in half and, like, you know, cut your flu in half. And I went to the doctor and I said, I've had the flu for 10 days and I feel like I'm dying. And he said, could you be pregnant? And I had Lola with me, who was six months old. And I go, no, I have a baby and I'm nursing her exclusively. And he said, well, I can't prescribe this drug without, like, a clean urine test, so you have to. So took a urine test pregnant.
- [70:27]
Amanda Hirsch
What. What did that feel like, having a six month old?
- [70:30]
Kelly Ripa
Well, I blamed her. I was like, this is your fault.
- [70:35]
Amanda Hirsch
That's crazy. I couldn't imagine. I literally. I know people. This happens to many. And later on, it's such a blessing. We had many.
- [70:41]
Kelly Ripa
Like, we were going to have him anyway.
- [70:43]
Amanda Hirsch
Yeah.
- [70:43]
Kelly Ripa
Like, we. It was never a thought if to.
- [70:46]
Amanda Hirsch
Have two or three.
- [70:47]
Kelly Ripa
Yeah, yeah. We. Once we had two, we were like, oh, we're definitely doing this again. We just didn't know we would be doing it where we had, like, kids that were 15 months apart in age.
- [70:57]
Amanda Hirsch
Are they besties?
- [70:58]
Kelly Ripa
They were besties all through childhood. And now as young adults, they argue the most.
- [71:05]
Amanda Hirsch
Oh, they do.
- [71:06]
Kelly Ripa
It's interesting. They argue the most.
- [71:08]
Amanda Hirsch
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- [71:09]
Kelly Ripa
But they really are. They're. All three of my kids are close, but when they were little, they were almost raised as twins, you know, like, they were almost like twins.
- [71:18]
Amanda Hirsch
Yeah.
- [71:19]
Kelly Ripa
But now they fight. Like, twins might fight.
- [71:22]
Amanda Hirsch
Right.
- [71:22]
Kelly Ripa
When you're a boy and a girl.
- [71:23]
Amanda Hirsch
Right.
- [71:24]
Kelly Ripa
Or a man and a woman.
- [71:25]
Amanda Hirsch
This is important, you guys. Your podcast. Let's talk off camera.
- [71:29]
Kelly Ripa
Yes.
- [71:29]
Amanda Hirsch
Which reminds me of our first interview. And this is another thing you taught me. Aside from Botox.
- [71:33]
Kelly Ripa
Yes.
- [71:33]
Amanda Hirsch
You taught me another thing. I remember when you were like, was it Regis who used to say this or you that? It was like, save it for camera.
- [71:39]
Kelly Ripa
Save it for the. Save it for the air.
- [71:41]
Amanda Hirsch
Save it for the air.
- [71:42]
Kelly Ripa
Save for the air.
- [71:42]
Amanda Hirsch
Save it for the air. It makes me think every time I have a guest and we chit chat before, I'm like, should I say something?
- [71:48]
Kelly Ripa
You know, Save it for the air.
- [71:50]
Amanda Hirsch
Save it for the air.
- [71:50]
Kelly Ripa
Save it for the air.
- [71:51]
Amanda Hirsch
So you're a pod. Let's talk off camera.
- [71:53]
Kelly Ripa
Yes.
- [71:54]
Amanda Hirsch
You're doing a pod. Like, you're like, I don't mind it off camera, which is that you're right.
- [72:01]
Kelly Ripa
You guys, this should not be happening.
- [72:03]
Amanda Hirsch
I agree.
- [72:03]
Kelly Ripa
It.
- [72:04]
Amanda Hirsch
I agree. I think podcasts should have. I'm just trying to keep up with the times. But, like, that's how my heart is with the audio only. That's also where my listeners really are. Because, like, it's the people in the car. Like, you know what I mean? You're like, video, okay? You put it up, you make the.
- [72:20]
Kelly Ripa
No, but the successful podcast we just saw, the successful podcasts are all on camera. People want a video component.
- [72:27]
Amanda Hirsch
Right.
- [72:28]
Kelly Ripa
I don't know how to make that happen, but I think the name of my podcast is let's Talk off Camera.
- [72:33]
Amanda Hirsch
But you know what? I think that will also allow you to get guests that don't feel like being on camera.
- [72:38]
Kelly Ripa
We just had Oprah for this reason. I heard Oprah Winfrey was like, what do you mean?
- [72:43]
Amanda Hirsch
Not because.
- [72:44]
Kelly Ripa
Not because. It was for this reason. She goes off camera. I would do that podcast, and I go, and we'll book you out and have my talent booker reach out to me.
- [72:51]
Amanda Hirsch
That is an amazing selling point. Like, Kelly Ripa, check off camera. You don't need makeup. You don't need to be dressed.
- [72:58]
Kelly Ripa
I've spoken to people in their pajamas, in their beds, but do you see that? Sometimes I see that.
- [73:03]
Amanda Hirsch
Sometimes I see Oprah put camera on.
- [73:05]
Kelly Ripa
Oprah was camera on.
- [73:06]
Amanda Hirsch
Okay.
- [73:06]
Kelly Ripa
But Oprah was interesting. She was getting ready to go out to dinner, and she looked so nice. They were, like, doing her hair, and she was like. Like, this is crazy. And I said, you look so beautiful. You know? And I told. I was like, you know, this is off camera, right? She goes, no, I have to go out after this.
- [73:22]
Amanda Hirsch
Okay.
- [73:22]
Kelly Ripa
So it allowed her the freedom of wedging in a podcast that she could get her hair done and still have, like, wow, Freedom to get her hair done.
- [73:32]
Amanda Hirsch
That's amazing.
- [73:33]
Kelly Ripa
Yeah. So. And. And like, you can. I've had people on their. On their phone, in the car, picking up their kids from school. I've had Carol Burnett. Carol Burnett was on her landline, obsessed on her landline.
- [73:47]
Amanda Hirsch
She figured out how to do that.
- [73:48]
Kelly Ripa
Yeah. It was like, we will meet you where you are.
- [73:52]
Amanda Hirsch
So you have your interviews with celebrity guests, but now you're also doing bi weekly, like call ins, live call ins.
- [73:58]
Kelly Ripa
On radio Andy, which it's so astonishing to me that as a creature of live television and we do this every day, you know that the live call in show freaks me out.
- [74:14]
Amanda Hirsch
What? Cause you don't know what they're gonna say.
- [74:15]
Kelly Ripa
No, it's not even about that. It's just somehow live radio freaks me out way more than live tv.
- [74:21]
Amanda Hirsch
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- [74:22]
Kelly Ripa
I don't know why that is. I think because it's. Anything new is new and new is scary. And so I just feel like I'm somehow going to ruin the entire platform of drive time radio. But it really does make it interesting. Like, people call in with advice based. It's advice based. Yes.
- [74:43]
Amanda Hirsch
You're really good at advice, though.
- [74:44]
Kelly Ripa
You would think.
- [74:45]
Amanda Hirsch
I think you always, like.
- [74:47]
Kelly Ripa
I always find that I come up with my best advice immediately after the caller home. The caller comes up and I'm like, oh, God, are you still there? I just thought of some. I just thought of 12 things that are really good.
- [75:01]
Amanda Hirsch
So where can people listen to this on radio? Handy.
- [75:04]
Kelly Ripa
Yeah.
- [75:04]
Amanda Hirsch
Okay.
- [75:04]
Kelly Ripa
Serious channel. And then wherever you get your podcast, I mean, it's.
- [75:09]
Amanda Hirsch
She's a multi platform queen.
- [75:11]
Kelly Ripa
Multi platform queen. Multimedia queen, such as yourself.
- [75:14]
Amanda Hirsch
Not really.
- [75:15]
Kelly Ripa
Well, yeah, I mean, you are, you are. You're doing this on camera like a.
- [75:19]
Amanda Hirsch
Maniac, like a fucking freak.
- [75:22]
Kelly Ripa
Why don't you. Let me ask you why.
- [75:23]
Amanda Hirsch
Tell me, tell me what's up.
- [75:24]
Kelly Ripa
Why don't you do this very same thing, but like, in your marital bed, you like to get out of the house.
- [75:31]
Amanda Hirsch
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- [75:33]
Kelly Ripa
See, I'm like.
- [75:34]
Amanda Hirsch
I also feel like it's become such a cliche to like do your podcast in your sweatpants. Do you know, like, we, you know, when things have popped past the thing and then they become cliche and now, like, everyone wants to bring their dog and be in sweats and you're like, you're doing a bit.
- [75:46]
Kelly Ripa
Yeah, but that's my bit. But I. But I. But my podcast is off camera.
- [75:51]
Amanda Hirsch
It's off camera. So I literally.
- [75:52]
Kelly Ripa
And do you know what I did for Oprah? I put a brassiere on because I felt like she, like, I felt she deserved a bra. So there I was in my bra. That's literally like riding up and I keep having to like, why is everything.
- [76:06]
Amanda Hirsch
Riding up for you?
- [76:06]
Kelly Ripa
Because it rides up. Because there's, like nothing there to, like, hold it down.
- [76:10]
Amanda Hirsch
Wait, how was Was Oprah. Was it the first time you've ever interviewed her?
- [76:14]
Kelly Ripa
No, no, no. She's been on my talk show a bunch, but, like, it was the first time on the podcast, and I just got very.
- [76:22]
Amanda Hirsch
Are you friends now?
- [76:23]
Kelly Ripa
In my mind, we are friends. Like, in my mind, I think we are friends.
- [76:27]
Amanda Hirsch
Yeah. Yeah.
- [76:28]
Kelly Ripa
But Oprah told me it's not time for me to leave the talk show, which is the opposite.
- [76:32]
Amanda Hirsch
Is she a psychic?
- [76:33]
Kelly Ripa
She just said, you'll know when it's time, and it's not time. She's like, you and Mark have just hit your stride, and you.
- [76:38]
Amanda Hirsch
I love that. So it's true.
- [76:41]
Kelly Ripa
Have you had Oprah here yet?
- [76:42]
Amanda Hirsch
No.
- [76:43]
Kelly Ripa
I feel like you need to interview Oprah. I think she would love you.
- [76:46]
Amanda Hirsch
Really?
- [76:46]
Kelly Ripa
I do.
- [76:47]
Amanda Hirsch
I'll put her on my wish list.
- [76:48]
Kelly Ripa
Yeah, I think. I think that she would love you.
- [76:51]
Amanda Hirsch
Do you have a wish list?
- [76:53]
Kelly Ripa
Well, Oprah was the wish list. She was it. I think you should do my podcast, too.
- [76:57]
Amanda Hirsch
I want to.
- [76:58]
Kelly Ripa
And I think we should talk about in bed.
- [77:00]
Amanda Hirsch
Oh, yay.
- [77:00]
Kelly Ripa
In bed. Pop culture. You can have your kids.
- [77:03]
Amanda Hirsch
Right? I know, because, look, we didn't get to pop culture. This is all pop culture.
- [77:06]
Kelly Ripa
We had a whole pop culture page.
- [77:08]
Amanda Hirsch
I save it for yours.
- [77:09]
Kelly Ripa
Yeah, save it for mine, and we'll talk about it.
- [77:11]
Amanda Hirsch
Okay.
- [77:11]
Kelly Ripa
I mean, unless you didn't get enough. If I didn't, I got.
- [77:14]
Amanda Hirsch
I got enough.
- [77:14]
Kelly Ripa
What else do you want to know?
- [77:16]
Amanda Hirsch
That's it. That's it. I'm like, I'm letting you go.
- [77:18]
Kelly Ripa
Is this the big brush off?
- [77:21]
Amanda Hirsch
No, it's me keeping you on time for your. For your out skis, my love. As a pro does. As a pro does.
- [77:28]
Kelly Ripa
You are a pro.
- [77:28]
Amanda Hirsch
You are a pro. I'm obsessed with you.
- [77:30]
Kelly Ripa
Do you know that? I love, love doing your podcast.
- [77:34]
Amanda Hirsch
Really?
- [77:34]
Kelly Ripa
Yes, in a way that typically, I'm very nervous.
- [77:37]
Amanda Hirsch
Yeah.
- [77:38]
Kelly Ripa
And I'm never nervous with you. You are like. I don't know. I feel like you're my other daughter.
- [77:44]
Amanda Hirsch
I love that.
- [77:45]
Kelly Ripa
Which means I have two young grandchildren.
- [77:47]
Amanda Hirsch
Which, by the way, I never like. I usually don't really have people back, but I always want you back.
- [77:53]
Kelly Ripa
Really? I'll be back tomorrow.
- [77:54]
Amanda Hirsch
Yeah.
- [77:54]
Kelly Ripa
What do you want to know?
- [77:55]
Amanda Hirsch
What do you want to know? So much more. I love you, Kelly. Thank you so much for coming.
- [78:00]
Kelly Ripa
It's great to see you.
- [78:01]
Amanda Hirsch
It's great to see you. Thank you guys so much for listening to this episode of Not Skinny but Not Fat. Follow me on Instagram at Not Skinny but Not Fat. Subscribe to the podcast so you don't miss any episodes. Rate the podcast that you love so much on Apple Podcasts and write a little review. If you tell me you did, I'll give you a big virtual smoocharoo. Thank you guys so much for listening and I'll see you next Tuesday. Please note that this episode may contain paid endorsements and advertisements for products and services. Individuals on the show may have a direct or indirect financial interest in products or services referred to in this episode.