0:04

How's everyone doing on this cold winter day.

0:06

I know there are many many things to dislike

0:09

about this time of year, but there are so

0:11

many things to love about it, like making

0:14

snow angels are going sledding

0:16

if you live in an area with snow, or

0:19

endless cups of your favorite hot beverage

0:22

warming you from the inside out. There's

0:25

books to read and puzzles

0:27

to put together unless you've got a five year old

0:29

like I do, and then the puzzle pieces disappear,

0:33

and games that you never have time

0:35

for. Shoots and Ladders is

0:37

the big one in our house these days. How

0:41

about extra snuggles with your babies or

0:43

your fur babies. There are so

0:45

many activities, experiences, and

0:47

things that are only possible when

0:49

shorter days keep us inside longer

0:52

and cooler temperatures make

0:54

that time more inviting. I

0:57

hope that if you feel a little down

0:59

or loomy, you can find something

1:02

to love about this season we're in right now,

1:04

because that is the best way to chase

1:07

away the winner blues. Well. That

1:09

and walking. If I can get in a good walk

1:11

every day, even if it's raining, I am

1:14

so much happier. Maybe

1:16

this podcast is one of those things

1:18

you can save her and enjoy I

1:21

sure hope. So that is my goal, after all,

1:23

to spread a little joy and a lot of

1:25

love and a lot of light into

1:27

some of the dark places of our

1:29

world. Right now, my guest today

1:32

will definitely help too. She's an

1:34

Emmy, Grammy and Golden

1:36

Globe nominated actress, singer,

1:39

and songwriter who became

1:41

famous at the age of fifteen with

1:43

her debut pop single Candy

1:47

and her platinum

1:49

albums So Real. After

1:52

releasing multiple chart toppers,

1:55

she made the move from stage to screen,

1:57

starring as Lanta Thomas in

2:00

the comedy film The Princess Diaries

2:03

and Jamie Sullivan in the gut

2:05

wrenching A Walk to Remember

2:08

and several more in the early to mid two thousand's,

2:10

But since twenty sixteen, many

2:13

of us know her as Rebecca

2:15

Pearson from the hit NBC

2:18

family drama series This Is

2:20

Us. That's how I

2:22

fell in love with her. I am

2:25

obviously not alone. I

2:27

can't wait to ask her a thousand questions

2:29

about her role on my favorite show of all time,

2:32

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2:34

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3:28

me on our new episode

3:30

of Love Someone. Uh. And I just

3:32

confessed off the air. Uh.

3:34

But it's gonna be hard for me to

3:36

have this conversation without just

3:39

gushing and drooling because I

3:41

am such a fan girl. Mandy

3:43

Moore, Welcome to Delilah's Love Someone.

3:46

Hello, I'm so happy to be here.

3:48

So we've got a lot to cover because

3:51

you've got music that came out right before

3:53

COVID that we didn't ever get to connect on

3:55

You've got music that's about to come out,

3:57

and you've been a little busy, you

3:59

know, out with that little TV

4:02

show that Please tell me

4:04

they were lying when they said this is the last

4:06

year. I wish,

4:08

I wish it wasn't the truth. But yes,

4:11

we're we're about halfway through with our final

4:13

season, season six. I hate

4:15

that word final, you and

4:17

me both. I mean, this has just been like the

4:20

best job I've ever had, and

4:22

I've been in the industry for twenty

4:25

one years. It's going to be so challenging

4:28

to say goodbye to the character. But also,

4:30

like my friends, I get just like go to

4:33

work every single day with

4:35

with like my family, and we've been a

4:37

family from the very beginning, and the idea

4:40

that I'm not going to see those faces every day is just

4:43

gutting to me. So there

4:45

was a woman who called into

4:47

a radio show, not even my radio show,

4:50

my girlfriend Linda, who was on the air

4:52

in um Worcester, Massachusetts.

4:55

A woman called in who had

4:57

been kicked out of her parents home h

5:00

as a teenager, and she had had

5:02

some really hard times and

5:04

she said, you know, if I had

5:06

known it was my last night, I

5:09

would have enjoyed it more. And

5:11

Lyndash I listened, you know, I was listening

5:13

to her show and I heard

5:15

that, and then she shared it. You know, when we got

5:17

together and talked about how impactful

5:20

that was for her, and we

5:22

kind of made a pact, our little

5:24

circle of friends that we would

5:26

face every day based

5:29

on that phone call. Because

5:31

you don't know when it's going to be your last.

5:33

But this girl said, if I know it was my last night

5:36

at home, I would have enjoyed it more.

5:39

Goodness, that is so heartbreaking. Yeah,

5:42

I mean, isn't that sort of the trick of being

5:44

human as trying to be as present

5:46

as possible And it's it's indefinitely

5:50

hard, Like I I struggle with it every

5:52

day. But yes, I give you that gift because

5:54

you know it's your last season, unless, yes,

5:57

the network decides to get smart

5:59

and with a good thing. You

6:02

know, Can I just put a vote as it's up for a vote.

6:06

So let me let me tell you, Mandy Moore, how I discovered

6:09

you and fell in love with you. I had adopted

6:11

a young boy out of foster care. He

6:14

was twelve when we got him, and he had

6:16

had a really really

6:19

horrible experience. He had been in foster care

6:21

most of his life, bounced around

6:23

to eight or ten different homes, and had

6:25

a pretty tough exterior, And

6:28

so I thought it would be good to get him involved

6:31

in our youth group at a church. And

6:33

so the youth group decided

6:35

to go see a movie at

6:38

the local theater. And

6:40

my tough, really tough

6:43

exterior son came home like's

6:47

not crying that

6:50

movie? You gotta go see?

6:52

You what to remember, Mom, but take

6:54

a lot of tissue. Like he was

6:57

still crying when

6:59

he got home, And I'm like, wow,

7:02

Like what touched him so deeply?

7:04

I wanted to know? So, like the next

7:06

day, I call a couple of my

7:09

dearest friends and we went to see a walk

7:11

to Remember. I'm so

7:13

floored. You were like two years older

7:15

than him or three years older than him at the time you started

7:17

in that right, How old were your seventeen? I

7:20

was, I was sixteen. I turned seventeen in

7:22

the middle of filming. He will to this day if

7:24

you ask him what movie touched him

7:26

the most, it was you and

7:29

the character you played, and

7:31

for some reason, just that reality

7:34

that life's not fair, like he

7:36

knew, he knew that life wasn't fair,

7:39

but I don't think he had words to put with

7:41

it. And I don't know seeing your

7:43

character and seeing what you faced in

7:45

the and I know that was a character,

7:48

but but you played it so convincingly

7:51

that it touched my heart. And

7:53

and so from that moment on, I

7:56

was a fan girl. And then I went back

7:58

and and just ever your music, what you

8:01

had released as a couple of years before,

8:04

and uh, and

8:06

and and then I've just followed you

8:08

all along Princess Diaries and everything.

8:11

Oh my goodness, I am

8:13

so flattered. Wow. Yeah,

8:15

for some reason, that movie in particular,

8:18

Oh my gosh, it's actually the twentieth anniversary

8:20

of that movie this year. It really

8:22

had just it resonated then and

8:24

continued somehow to resonate with

8:27

with folks. I think the idea of, you

8:29

know, having someone recognize the

8:32

goodness in you that you may not see in

8:34

yourself, the idea of

8:37

being able to change,

8:39

Like, there's just so many themes

8:41

I think that like feels so universal

8:44

to people that they have really

8:47

just like taken that film to heart. And

8:49

uh, it's it's fun to watch like

8:52

younger folks discover it even now. It's

8:54

it's amazing. Well, you

8:56

play a character that that's kind

8:59

of old. Yes, I do,

9:01

Like right now, your character and this is Us

9:03

is seventy right, Yeah,

9:06

I get to play the matriarch character

9:10

on the show. Yeah that I I get to play this

9:12

this woman from her mid twenties

9:15

to her mid eighties and everything

9:17

in between. It's it's an incredible

9:20

um gift to be able to

9:22

to portray this woman at so many different

9:24

junctures of her life. I get to work

9:26

with all of the actors, all of

9:28

the different ages of the children

9:31

portrayed, from like babies to adults.

9:33

It's it's a dream.

9:36

Well, you play it so convincingly

9:39

that when I was doing research for this

9:41

interview, I was

9:43

shocked to remember. And I had

9:45

a traumatic experience a few years ago, so

9:47

my memory is gone. I'm

9:49

almost as bad as your character in

9:52

the movie. But I

9:54

was shocked to remember that you

9:56

could be my child in

10:00

real life. Now, in

10:02

in the TV show, you're ten years older than

10:04

me almost of the day,

10:06

but in real life, you could

10:09

be one of my children. And

10:11

I was like, how do you play a

10:14

seventy year old woman so convincingly?

10:17

Oh, you're very kind. I have to

10:19

say so much of the

10:21

physical transformation I think is a huge

10:24

part of it. I I go through about

10:26

three and a half hours of prosthetic

10:29

hair and makeup, um with

10:31

you know, to sort of go through the aging process

10:34

to play Rebecca Pearson and her

10:36

seventies and so I can interact with my adult

10:38

children. That helps. It also gives

10:40

me like the you know, the three

10:43

and a half hours to sort of get

10:45

into that frame of mind. I mean, because

10:48

normally there's something, you know, undoubtedly

10:50

emotional going on, so just be

10:52

the time to sort of just

10:55

zen out and think

10:57

about who I am, where I am, what I've

10:59

lived through at this point in my life. And

11:02

I I love it. So

11:04

Often people are like, oh my gosh, how do you

11:06

go through, you know, hours and hours of pir and makeup.

11:08

I think we've this season alone already

11:11

done it over twenty times. Um, it's

11:13

a lot of hours of my life. But I

11:15

I really like look forward to that time.

11:18

Actually, I think it does help me sort of

11:20

prepare and mentally get in the

11:22

right frame of mind to approach today's

11:24

work. But yeah, I think

11:26

the physical transformation has so much to do with

11:28

it. I was really nervous initially

11:31

because I remember the very first scene

11:34

in the first season for them to sort

11:36

of really uh give

11:38

the sums up that this was going to be something that worked.

11:41

Instead of potentially hiring an actress

11:43

who was a little bit older than me to portray the character,

11:46

um, I had to interact in a scene with ron

11:48

Cephas Jones, who is quite a bit older

11:50

than me. He's not quite as old as he was playing,

11:52

but he's you know, a fair bit older than me. And

11:55

I was so nervous to have

11:58

to you know, get made up and

12:01

do this very emotional scene with him. But somehow

12:04

it worked. And now it feels so

12:07

comfortable to sort of slip on

12:09

those shoes and and to be that

12:11

woman at that age and a

12:13

place in her life, even even

12:15

though she's in the midst of dealing with dementia

12:19

and Alzheimer's and and everything

12:21

that sort of comes along with it. It's a yeah,

12:24

this this season is a real doozy for all of

12:27

us. Well for anybody

12:29

who has not seen this

12:32

is us. Um, they're

12:34

just they're missing out on such such

12:38

a treat, in such an emotional roller

12:40

coaster. I told

12:42

you I have many children that are adopted. So

12:45

I love the

12:47

the care with which the adoption stories

12:50

are threaded throughout. But I have to tell you,

12:53

it was hard for me to forgive your character there

12:55

for a while when she didn't tell

12:57

Randol the truth. I almost

12:59

broke up with you over that. I

13:02

was like, how could you, um,

13:05

how could you hide such a huge

13:07

truth from him? But being

13:11

an adoptive mom and being in the adoption

13:14

community so much, there

13:16

are there are times where

13:19

you ask yourself, you know, is is this a

13:21

truth that I should share? Or

13:24

is this something that would hurt my

13:26

child? Or so

13:29

I forgave you. No, I

13:32

had to forgive her as well. I mean, that's the thing

13:34

about playing a character when you often

13:36

don't agree with all the choices that they make. And

13:39

that's such the truth of this show

13:41

is, you know, the Pearsons are

13:43

not a perfect family. They're human, they're

13:46

fallible. They make choices

13:48

that we're not all going to agree with

13:50

the way that they handle their life. But ultimately

13:53

they're trying to be, you know,

13:55

the best version of themselves, and

13:57

they live and they learn and and Repelta

14:00

is a seriercely loyal

14:03

matriarch. She loves her family, She puts

14:05

her family before everything else, and that

14:08

was a you know, a particularly

14:11

challenging part of the character, especially in

14:13

the beginning, to sort of forgive her and

14:16

allow myself to like to hold

14:18

space for her and have grace for this

14:21

this, you know, what I presumed to

14:23

be a big mistake, that

14:25

she had been, this lie she had been

14:27

living for you know, over thirty years of

14:29

her life. But um, but it

14:31

certainly is fun to sort of take all

14:33

of the colors of who these people are

14:36

and sort of flash it on the canvas.

14:38

Every day. How many days

14:40

a week do you guys shoot

14:42

five days a week and months

14:46

out of the year, long days, long days? Yes,

14:48

Because I I would watch and I go, did they

14:51

like shoot this? Because you know,

14:53

you're in the same room, in the same

14:55

costume, in the same conversation

14:58

two years later, and

15:00

I'm a detailed person. So I look at

15:02

all the details. I look at the decorations, I look

15:04

at the cops that you serve,

15:06

the tang in. I look at all

15:08

that because that was my

15:11

generation. So I'm sitting there going, I remember

15:13

that. I remember that. I remember that, And

15:16

then I think, do they like? They go, Okay,

15:18

we're gonna shoot all of the scenes

15:20

from the fire all at

15:22

the same time. I wish

15:24

we did. It never happens that way. And

15:27

the funny thing about our show as well, it's like,

15:29

no one should ever assume if they're

15:31

just coming on and they have one line in an

15:34

episode that that's it. There's

15:37

very often a chance that they might be brought in

15:39

and have an entire episode built

15:41

around them. Like it's

15:43

been wild to watch that, And yes, uh,

15:46

it's so often you think like, okay,

15:48

we're we're done with that scene, and

15:50

to three seasons later you'll revisit

15:52

that exact same time period with

15:55

the exact same costume and sort of have to

15:57

you know, sort of file through the filing cabinet

16:00

and go back to that that particular time

16:02

and go, Okay, I need to like place myself back

16:04

there again, because here

16:06

we are. It's important. And the

16:08

kids, the kids have now the

16:10

first set of kids have aged out, because I see

16:12

this season it's another set of kids, and

16:15

yet they're they're they're they're able

16:17

to get into character as well as the first

16:19

set of kids. Yeah, at

16:21

six years old too. It's just

16:24

unbelievable. We're so lucky.

16:26

We we have never had a bad apple, like

16:29

from the very top. Um uh

16:32

from from our boss who created a show,

16:34

Dan, it's sort of a trickle

16:36

down effect. No, everybody is just fantastic

16:39

and the kid actors are so much

16:41

fun. They are also patients.

16:43

Um. Yeah, I can't say

16:45

enough good good stuff about everybody. Well,

16:48

you guys do a phenomenal job. And

16:50

your character in the show is

16:53

a young woman who wants to

16:55

be a singer. You went to California when you went

16:57

to l A and the record producer said

17:00

you're great for Pittsburgh.

17:02

Yeah, it's good. That

17:06

line broke my heart, I gotta

17:08

say, but I love

17:10

that throughout the storyline

17:13

you put your career on

17:15

the back burner so that you can focus on your triplets,

17:18

on the three kids. Um.

17:20

And I think a lot of women who

17:23

do that have a

17:25

lot of mixed

17:27

emotions joy to be with their kids,

17:30

anger or resentment that they, you

17:33

know, put that part of their life on

17:35

hold. And um.

17:37

In real life, you are

17:40

quite an accomplished singer performer.

17:42

That was that happened before the acting happened.

17:45

Do you ever feel like you had to put your music on hold

17:49

for for this baby of this is us?

17:51

Or no, it's

17:53

it's funny, I think had it. I started

17:56

off in the music industry, you know, when I was

17:58

fifteen years old, and that's sort of what opened

18:00

all of the doors for the

18:02

Princess Diaries and A Walk to Remember

18:04

and all of the acting things that subsequently

18:07

came after that. And there

18:09

was a period of my life where

18:12

music was really dormant for about almost

18:14

a decade or a little over a decade. And I

18:16

think it really was the gift of

18:18

This is Us and Dan Fogelman

18:21

and our writers that decided to sort of

18:23

infuse my character's backstory

18:25

with music because

18:27

it unlocked something and me

18:29

again that I really couldn't

18:32

ignore, which was that music

18:34

is a huge part of who I am. It's a huge part of

18:36

my identity, and I missed it and I

18:38

just needed some

18:41

way to sort of find, you

18:43

know, find my way back to myself for that part

18:45

of myself. When when

18:48

when COVID hit, you guys had some

18:50

challenges with filming everything we

18:53

did. I read some of the rigamarole

18:55

you had to go through just to be on the set, just to

18:57

be able to shoot. And you were pregnant

18:59

then, yeah, I was pregnant.

19:02

I was five months pregnant when we went back

19:04

um and started season five, and

19:08

um, it was it sort of felt like the wild West

19:11

because you know, it was pre vaccines,

19:13

still sort of understanding

19:16

what COVID meant, and we were one of

19:18

the first shows or productions at

19:20

least in Los Angeles to go back to work. So

19:22

there were tons of protocol, most of which

19:24

is still very much in place to this day

19:27

of you know, the ppe that everybody had

19:29

to wear, we test multiple times

19:31

a week. Um. But yeah, it

19:33

made it feel a little, um

19:36

crazier just because I was

19:38

pregnant. UM. But oddly

19:40

like once we've sort of gotten the flow of things,

19:43

I felt safe for being at work than

19:45

I did pretty much anywhere else besides like being

19:47

at home, just because there was you

19:49

know, we were surrounded by folks in

19:52

masks and shields and so

19:54

much for cautions were taken.

19:57

Um. But it does make things

19:59

tough in the sense that you know, I remember in the

20:01

early days, one you know, positive

20:04

case would potentially shut the whole show

20:06

down for like a week in a time or something

20:08

until we started to understand the virus

20:11

more and how things spread. But

20:13

but it's still challenging. I mean, we were

20:15

just I'm directing an episode this season,

20:17

and we were just up in San Francisco and one

20:20

positive case sort of had the

20:23

trickle effective, like well, this person

20:25

was around this person and around this person, and it kind

20:27

of like wiped everybody out and we ended up having

20:29

to come home a day early. So it's, uh,

20:32

it's certainly not ideal. It's better

20:34

now, but um, but yeah, it's

20:36

it's a strange days to be

20:39

shooting during this, this era of

20:41

of COVID. So,

20:43

um, how far in advance

20:46

of shooting an episode, do you guys know what's

20:48

going to happen in the episode? Like, do you

20:50

know what happens in this season? Are you?

20:53

Oh? Yes, how

20:56

it all ends. We've actually

20:58

shot part of the very very last

21:00

episode a couple of seasons

21:03

ago, so yes, we're we're

21:05

in the know. I mean, I think it's important for

21:07

all of us to sort of be able

21:09

to understand the journey that we're

21:11

on, like it informs how

21:14

do you keep it a secret? Like how do you keep

21:16

it a secret? If you and I were buddies, if we

21:18

were friends, there is no way I

21:20

would let you keep that a secret from me. I would like

21:22

cook you your favorite foods. I

21:24

would have a glass of wine give you. My

21:30

friends know that. Do

21:32

they ever use that to their advantage? I

21:35

think in earlier seasons, But at

21:37

this point everybody's like no, no, no, no, no, especially

21:40

my family. My family used to want to know, and now they're

21:42

they're sort of of of the minds like, no,

21:44

we want to sort of watch it unfold with everybody

21:47

else and be surprised. And so

21:49

yeah, I'm I'm pretty good at at staying tight

21:51

lipped. Well, I hope it has happy

21:54

endings, because if I have been

21:56

married to you guys for six years now

21:58

and then it ends with you know,

22:01

it'll make you feel good. I promise. Okay,

22:04

okay, Well I would watch anyway because

22:07

I don't have it. We don't have TV in our house

22:10

and I don't let my kids

22:12

have very much screen time at all. But

22:14

you are my guilty pleasure.

22:17

Oh well, I am honored. Thank you.

22:22

So back to music. You had an album

22:24

that you released like the week that COVID

22:27

hit. Yes, ma'am. Yeah,

22:29

good timing there, great

22:32

timing there. Yeah, I mean who was

22:34

who was to know what was about to hit us? So I

22:36

made my first record was called Silver Landing's

22:39

first record in over a decade. We

22:41

were four days away from

22:44

hitting the road for my first tour since

22:46

two thousand and seven. I wrote

22:48

the entire album with my husband. He

22:50

played on it, he was in my band,

22:53

and yes, the record came

22:55

out and the next week the world sort of shut

22:58

down, so it was wild. We

23:00

were actually in New York. We did Today's show,

23:03

we had done Fallon, and it was

23:05

funny. In between the time that we got

23:07

to Fallon and and sound checked. I

23:10

remember them telling us, like, you guys

23:12

at the last show with an audience, because starting

23:15

next week on Monday, like, we're

23:17

taping without an audience, And I

23:19

remember all of us thinking like, wow, that's crazy. We

23:21

got in right under the wire by the time sound

23:24

check rolled around, and then the time we started

23:26

filming, they were like, actually, there's

23:28

no audience and we're

23:30

getting like the heck out of Dodge as soon as we're done taping

23:32

the show, and I remember

23:35

we performed for a completely

23:37

empty theater. Jimmy Fallon had already

23:39

left to go home, and I don't

23:41

think they none of the crew like they that

23:43

nobody showed back up to that theater. I thinks for you

23:46

know, six eight months or something was crazy.

23:48

So it was a very strange time and

23:51

uh yeah, but the silver lining

23:53

for me was, um, I got

23:55

to come home and spend some time with my husband, and I

23:57

got pregnant. So there you go, there

23:59

you go. That was the silver lining.

24:02

That was the silver lining. And now you're

24:04

working on another album

24:06

that, ma'am, that is going to be out

24:09

soon. Yes, sometime this

24:11

year, I think, probably just

24:13

in time with the end of of This

24:16

Is Us and then hopefully we'll be able

24:18

to pick up, you know, where

24:20

we left off with the tour in June and July

24:22

of this year. But I think the

24:25

idea was trying to find

24:27

some some way to sort of

24:29

pour the creative

24:32

momentum that we had making Silver Landings,

24:34

making the last album, trying to find a

24:36

way, um to

24:38

still feel creative during the pandemic.

24:41

And very early on I just decided

24:43

with my husband Taylor, like, let's just keep writing

24:45

music and figure out how to record

24:48

it and make another record and go on

24:50

the road with it when the world opens back up,

24:52

and and you know, it just sort of coincided

24:55

with this idea of like my entire

24:58

world turning upside down. And becoming

25:00

new parents and being on the precipice of so

25:02

much change. So the records

25:05

really rooted in that, in the idea

25:07

of this discovering, this new sense

25:09

of self and wondering

25:12

what our life was going to be like and this

25:15

you know, indescribable love

25:18

and the immediacy of it all,

25:20

and um, yeah, so that's I'm

25:22

super excited for everything that this record

25:25

is is gonna unlock and open

25:27

up and hopefully be able to go on the road

25:29

and be with my husband and with my

25:31

my son with us, and he'll he'll

25:34

come with us and it'll be a whole family affair.

25:36

The best part of just everything,

25:40

everything like the unknown. I mean,

25:43

everyone told us it gets it just keeps

25:45

getting better, and that is the truth,

25:47

every phase, every age.

25:50

Just when you think like it can't get better, um

25:53

it does. Write a song about that, and

25:55

then when they're thirteen, listen to

25:57

it every night. I'm

26:01

sure that's coming months.

26:03

He's only ten months old. He's only

26:05

he's just starting to like, you know,

26:07

pull himself up and starting to you know,

26:09

because he's on the precipice walking and so

26:12

it's like all the good stuff of the laughing

26:14

and smiling, and his personality is

26:16

coming to light, and it's

26:19

just it's the best. And I feel so

26:21

lucky that I get to, you know, bring him

26:23

to work with me most days. And he's

26:26

just like he's come to work with me since

26:28

I was since he was a month old. And

26:31

he's very confused sometimes when I'm in

26:33

the prosthetic age makeup, he's

26:36

like, I joke that he's

26:38

he calls me Grandma mom because you

26:40

know, I'm like the grandma and the mom in one.

26:42

It's very weird. He hears my voice. I

26:45

know he smells me, but I look entirely

26:47

different. So um. I don't know. He'll

26:50

probably have to therapy at some point in his life because

26:52

of it, but but I feel

26:54

lucky I get to bring him with me. I am

26:56

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okay outside of your children, and

28:35

your child and your husband. Happiest moment

28:37

of your life, um, I would

28:40

say summiting Mount Kilimanjaro

28:43

was the happiest day of my life. It

28:46

was something I had wanted to do since

28:48

I was a teenager, and

28:50

to sort of fully realize

28:53

this goal that I had had in mind for

28:55

so long, and to be

28:57

there and to be present, and it

29:00

was just this incredibly foggy

29:03

day. It almost felt like we were in a light installation,

29:06

all these sort of pastel colors from

29:08

the sun and being up on top of this glacier.

29:11

It was mind blowing.

29:14

How long did you train for it, Chilly, I didn't

29:16

really train for it, but we took

29:18

I believe it was like a seven day

29:20

adventure of like camping as you as

29:22

you climb the mountain. I love hiking and

29:24

I love being in the mountains. So um,

29:27

this was yeah, just in unbelievable

29:31

bucket list accomplishment.

29:34

Um. Definitely the happiest moment. There

29:36

are lots of tears on the summit. Very

29:40

fun, very fun. Well,

29:42

I can't wait to see what other mountains you're

29:44

going to climb. Ah, you're

29:47

very kind. Thank you. That means so much

29:49

to all of us. Please when the

29:52

album is ready to be released,

29:54

UM, I will be back. I'll talk about it anytime.

29:56

I would love to love to have

29:59

another chat with you. This is so much fun.

30:02

You promised me you'd call me back, So we're gonna.

30:04

We're gonna have that conversation as soon as you're

30:06

ready to release the music. It

30:09

has been such a joy to

30:11

talk to you. You too, I look forward

30:13

to chatting again at some point soon, very

30:15

soon, Mandy Moore, thank you

30:17

for for joining us, and just

30:20

be safe, be blessed. I'm gonna I'm

30:22

enjoying all the moments, soaking it all

30:24

in. Okay, thank you, Bye,

30:26

bye, Hunt Bye, thank you. Who

30:29

What a pleasure it was to share this time

30:31

with Mandy Moore. She has been a fixture

30:33

on stage and screen since a very

30:36

young age, and has matured

30:38

in both her music and acting skills

30:40

beautifully. I watched very

30:42

little TV, but I fell in love with This Is

30:44

Us when it first debuted six

30:46

years ago. Actually, my friend

30:49

Leslie told me about it and she said,

30:52

you've got to watch this show because

30:55

I have um,

30:57

I have adopted children, and she knew it would

30:59

resonate with me, and I'm hooked.

31:02

I will miss the series so

31:04

much, but I am eager to see

31:07

and hear what this now season veteran

31:09

takes on next. She's teased us

31:11

with the promise of some new music later this

31:13

year, so keep your ear to the ground

31:16

for that. In the meantime, do sit for

31:18

a minute and ask yourself what

31:20

beautiful things are unfolding in your

31:23

life right now that you might be overlooking.

31:26

It's easy to do when the weather isn't welcoming,

31:28

when you're eager for spring, when there

31:30

are COVID shutdowns, when

31:33

the kids bus schedule has

31:35

been canceled. Are

31:37

there birds or squirrels outside

31:39

your windows? They can entertain

31:42

me for as long as I let them. I

31:44

love watching the wild birds. I

31:47

love listening to the sound of my children's

31:49

laughter when you let them go

31:51

play in the snow. If you have snow in

31:53

your area, or just go outside

31:56

and splash in the rain, allow

31:59

yourself the luxury of a long, hot

32:01

bath at the end of a long cold day.

32:04

Nothing else can steal your

32:07

joy when you stay focused on the

32:09

goodness. Twinkle lights

32:11

aren't nearly as sparkly in the sunshine

32:14

as they are in the dark. Enjoy

32:17

winter while it's here. We'll

32:19

have plenty of opportunity to complain

32:21

about the heat of summer soon enough.

32:24

I'll try to keep you company, no matter

32:26

what the weather is outside, no matter

32:28

what craziness is going

32:31

on in our world. Join me

32:33

on the next episode of Love Someone, and

32:35

of course nightly on my radio

32:38

show. Because I love spending

32:40

time with you. Since

32:42

you've all been so wonderful and supportive

32:45

of Love Someone, I was

32:47

inspired to do more on the podcast

32:49

platform, So earlier this month,

32:52

on Valentine's Day, I launched

32:54

a new daily podcast called Hey

32:56

It's Delilah. This one's

32:58

a little different most days. It will be

33:00

ten to fifteen minutes long, and it's

33:03

made up of some of my favorite moments

33:05

on the radio. It'll be a mixture

33:07

of listener calls and dedications,

33:10

Delilah's dilemmas, things

33:12

that cracked me up, or thoughts

33:15

I had that I felt worth sharing

33:17

again. So look for Hey

33:20

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33:22

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33:25

It's a little daily dose of Delilah

33:28

that you can listen to whenever it's

33:30

convenient for you.