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women wiser than me season two is

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Yeah, I Don't

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know Hey, Stephanie

3:53

Miller. I mean this it's great to be

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with you and I have been a fan

3:58

of yours from afar Oh,

4:01

well, I was going to say, I think when you called

4:03

yourself a divisive poll on Nicole Wallace

4:05

Catholic is when I finally fell hopelessly.

4:09

There's nothing that makes a woman hotter than

4:12

a man admitting he was wrong. And

4:14

I just have to say, well, then

4:16

and you actually said, I should

4:18

be extremely hot, Stephanie, because that's

4:20

all I've been doing for six

4:22

years. I know for

4:24

people that don't know, tell

4:26

us what, because we just, we are literally

4:29

at like, oh, the rapist isn't going to

4:31

pick the puppy killer now for vice

4:33

president in your party. I hate

4:36

what has happened to my dad's party, to

4:38

your party. It

4:40

became an authoritarian embracing cult.

4:44

I know that sounds kind of trite by now,

4:46

but I started saying it four

4:48

or five years ago when I left the party. It's

4:51

it's stuff. It's not about ideas. It's

4:53

all about homage to this man, because

4:56

the base of my former party

4:58

is really pissed off. And

5:01

this man said, I will go after the

5:03

people you hate. And they've

5:05

clung to him and they've never let go. How

5:07

much of it showed? We've mentioned this before about people

5:09

just don't want to be wrong. They want to don't

5:12

want to feel like they've been conned. They don't want

5:14

to feel like they lost. And Donald

5:16

Trump plays to all of that, I guess, doesn't

5:18

he? Yeah, that's a

5:20

big part of it. Look, again, you know,

5:22

my history. I come from the cult. I'm

5:24

a reformed MAGA gang banger. But

5:27

I still engage with these folks every day

5:29

because they used to be my friends and

5:31

my supporters and my radio talk show listeners.

5:34

I lost them all. Yeah, you did call

5:36

the C word almost as much as I

5:38

do, Joe. Oh, my God.

5:40

You and I share that stuff. My God.

5:44

I'm a traitor. I mean, when you

5:46

lose when you leave your family, you

5:48

become a traitor. Many of them

5:50

do have a hard time admitting they're wrong. But

5:53

we underestimate how

5:55

strongly these folks still believe

5:57

in what he is. Okay,

6:01

I just cuz I can't he is

6:03

so despicable showed that I just I can't

6:05

I have to I can't help but think

6:07

you were Despicable you support him. I just

6:09

don't I We are what 88

6:12

felonies in I I

6:14

don't even know what thing to focus on anymore We're

6:16

in the first of you know four

6:19

trials, right? You

6:21

just you tweeted democracy dies

6:23

when you check out. Oh, they're both bad

6:25

choices tough stay in the game Vote then

6:27

pick up a history book democracy needs you

6:29

I mean really democracy is

6:31

the only issue but I also you know

6:33

I also take issue Joe with the whole

6:35

book, you know lesser of two evils We

6:38

always play this audio of Lindsey Graham crying

6:40

Joe crying Back when he

6:42

was Lindsey Graham about how God has never made

6:45

a better man than Joe Biden My

6:48

if I could bring one person back

6:50

to life Stephanie It would be John

6:52

McCain because John McCain would whack Lindsey

6:54

Graham upside the head every damn day

6:57

What a disgrace he is but like all of

6:59

my former colleagues Look

7:02

we Nothing should

7:04

matter more than the preservation of

7:06

our democracy because this man would

7:08

do away with it But

7:11

Stephanie look to his base and I

7:13

hear this every day and I've heard

7:15

it for six years They've

7:18

given up on democracy like they want

7:20

a certain America back They don't believe

7:22

the democratic process can get it back

7:24

for him. So they want they tell

7:27

me every day They want a dictator

7:29

a strongman to do it for them.

7:31

That's scary stuff. Yeah. Yeah

7:35

It's just but it is interesting that Colin

7:37

you just talked about decency that I just

7:39

I really do feel like here We are

7:41

Joe like have we at long

7:44

last no decency in this country? I mean, I

7:46

hate to say it but Kristi Noem cruelty

7:49

has become Not a

7:51

you know a bug but a feature

7:53

of the Republican Party. You can go

7:55

with candidate after candidate in the Republican

7:57

Party Amen

8:00

Stephanie, when I was a Republican congressman,

8:02

and especially when I was a right-wing

8:04

radio talk show host, man,

8:06

the crueler you were, the better. The

8:09

meaner you were, the nastier you

8:12

were, your ratings went up. We

8:14

were all incentivized to feed

8:16

our audience the right in

8:18

America, that stuff. I

8:20

just couldn't take it anymore, but it works.

8:23

And let's be honest, the radio talk show

8:25

host is already the lowest form of life.

8:28

No. It doesn't

8:30

really matter. By the way, this is

8:32

why I love you. I love radio.

8:34

I miss radio. When I oppose Trump

8:37

publicly, I lost my show. Radio

8:39

to me is like so intimate, and you're

8:42

so good at it, so keep it up.

8:44

Thank you, honey. No, but we've

8:46

had this conversation a million times. You know this to be

8:48

true, Joe, that people have said if you would go back to your

8:50

dad's Republican

8:53

roots, you'd get 500 stations

8:55

tomorrow and be a multimillionaire. And

8:57

I'm like, I couldn't do it.

8:59

I couldn't do it. You had syndicators tell you that. Oh,

9:01

yeah. I mean, you know, it

9:04

is, but that's what's so frustrating on

9:06

our side, is that you just, I

9:08

can't, I'm like you. My

9:11

democracy is more important to me. I mean, I

9:13

look forward to the day I go back to

9:15

hating you, Joe Walsh. Do you know what I'm

9:17

saying? We fight about actual issues, but you are

9:19

wrong about everything else, except- Well, I

9:22

was wrong about plenty, and I say

9:25

often how I haven't changed. I've always

9:27

been kind of a tea party libertarian,

9:29

but Stephanie, I can't lie. I woke

9:31

up on a lot of the cultural

9:33

issues. I was at JAGOF six

9:35

years ago if you'd have said Black Lives Matter

9:38

to me. Now I understand

9:40

what that means because I spoke to

9:42

Black Americans. I used to go crazy with the

9:44

64 different genders because my

9:46

audience wanted to hear that crap. But

9:50

again, so I've woken up on a lot of

9:52

the cultural issues, but my

9:54

right flank, they still

9:56

get off on that stuff, which

9:59

is why they're fed. Well you personally because

10:01

you fell in love with a lesbian radio host. I

10:04

am in love with you. Yes. Oh

10:06

my god. So were you were you visited by

10:08

three ghosts? Seriously, what happened to you? Stephanie,

10:14

people ask me all the time

10:16

what finally changed. It really was

10:18

his election in

10:20

16. When he became president and

10:22

I finally started to pay attention

10:24

to him, I'd go home every

10:26

night from my radio show and I'd ask

10:28

my wife, my god, do I sound even

10:31

a little bit like that? Yeah. He

10:33

woke me up. Yeah, yeah. Oh

10:36

look at you, you're woke. Probably

10:39

woke. Um,

10:42

you know, we just got talking about what's going

10:44

on in college campuses, Joe, and I thought, you

10:47

know, the other thing, first

10:49

of all, I might be too old to understand it.

10:51

I understood Vietnam, it was our war. We were sending

10:53

a lot of American kids to die unnecessarily. This

10:56

isn't our war. I feel like Biden

10:58

is doing the best he can in a

11:00

horribly difficult situation. I don't understand what Jewish

11:03

kids have to do with Netanyahu's policies or

11:05

Muslim kids have to do with Hamas. Do you know

11:08

what I, and so I sort of am at

11:10

a loss and I do think there's a

11:12

lot of, as you know, outside agitators that,

11:15

you know, Republicans now want to rush in

11:17

to be able to say, you know, we

11:20

stand with Israel and condemn this or that.

11:22

And these are the, this is

11:24

a party of Charlottesville. This is a party that

11:26

routinely has Nazi flags show up at their rallies,

11:28

right? You know, very fine people

11:31

on both sides. I

11:33

am, I'm very pro-Israel. Look, Stephanie, this is

11:35

a bad issue for Biden. It's a bad

11:37

issue for Democrats because I believe, and you

11:39

and I could have a fun conversation about

11:41

this, for a lot

11:43

of different reasons, Republicans are very

11:45

pro-Israel. But this issue divides the

11:48

Democratic coalition, plain and simple. There's

11:51

pervasive anti-Semitism on the left

11:53

that the country's being exposed

11:55

to. Stephanie, I don't think

11:57

most of these student protesters

12:00

are protesting because they want to cease fire.

12:02

I think a lot of them in their

12:04

mind, they just oppose Israel. They think Israel

12:06

is bad. And that's a

12:09

problem with Biden because he's right in

12:11

the middle of it. Netanyahu has a lot to

12:13

do with that though, Joe. I mean that's what, you

12:15

know, I guess you were, oh somebody tweeted, you retweeted,

12:17

all of us together are confronting the shocking reality

12:19

the group of Yale students has declared the center

12:21

of Yale off-limits to those who's not sure their

12:24

political views, particularly since their intent and effect is

12:26

to rid parts of Yale of Zionist Jews, among

12:28

others. And you said protest, sure, but you can't

12:30

be allowed to block off a piece of campus

12:33

from everyone who doesn't share your views. And

12:36

you just also said news flash the world Jews

12:38

aren't going where Israel isn't going anywhere, deal with

12:40

it. You probably have

12:43

heard me say my dad was a Nuremberg prosecutor.

12:46

But you know, I just,

12:49

this part, Donald Trump, Joe, and

12:51

the Republican Party, I'm sorry, they

12:53

are anti-Semitic and anti-Islamic. Whatever side

12:55

of this issue you're on from

12:57

any point of view, this is

12:59

not your party. They

13:02

are the Muslim ban party, they are

13:04

the party that Nazis gravitate to. I

13:07

mean, it is just, as someone was

13:09

saying, this is like there's not a basket

13:11

big enough for the deplorables in the

13:13

informal party. They are, Stephanie, my former

13:15

party is the party of intolerance, plain

13:17

and simple, keep everybody out. The

13:20

reason Trump won is because when he came down

13:22

that escalator in 2015, and

13:25

he said I'm going to build a wall and keep

13:27

brown and black people out, the

13:29

Republican establishment went crazy, like this is

13:31

horrible. But I went on my radio

13:33

show that night and every Republican person

13:36

out there loved it because

13:38

they wanted that. I

13:40

agree with all you're saying about the Republicans,

13:43

I really do. This particular

13:45

Israel issue though is a problem

13:47

for the Democrats because they really

13:50

are generally divided on how

13:52

we should relate to Israel. And I

13:54

think 20 years ago, Biden could have

13:56

addressed it. I just don't know if

13:58

he can right now. I

14:00

don't know. And it

14:03

scares the crap out of me

14:05

because Donald Trump is evil. He's

14:07

anti-democracy. And Stephanie, if the damn

14:09

election is held tomorrow, he beats

14:11

Biden electorally. And that

14:13

scares the piss out of me. You're

14:16

also a potty mouth, which is why I love

14:18

you. You actually called yourself a device last

14:20

week, and I love that about you. But,

14:25

you know, I mean, Joe, I think that's

14:27

the thing is you and I long to get back to where

14:29

we're actually talking about real issues,

14:31

you know. And it's just there's

14:33

such a huge, like, fight against disinformation.

14:36

I mean, we're not even we're

14:38

not even dealing with one set of facts as

14:40

Americans anymore. What do we do about that? So

14:42

here's the deal. I I'm older than

14:44

you. I'm an old. Oh,

14:46

now you're really trying to get in my pants. I

14:51

mean, man, we are starting some. I

14:55

I will in my lifetime, I could never, ever

14:57

run as a Republican again. I think it's done.

14:59

I think that party is on this train track

15:01

and it's never getting off. I'd

15:04

have an easier time becoming a very

15:06

conservative Democrat. We need to get back

15:08

to the issues, but that party won't. I think

15:11

maybe in the next couple of elections,

15:14

you may see a viable new

15:16

center right party. Yeah. And

15:18

then I'll hate you again. But there's

15:20

something about handsome former Republican congressman that

15:23

triggered my daddy issues. And

15:25

I didn't yell David Jolley's name out once during this

15:27

interview. There

15:33

you go. But

15:35

I say it over and over. I'm joking about,

15:37

you know, my dad was the vice presidential candidate.

15:39

Guess how many puppies he shot in the face,

15:41

Joe? Zero. Zero. I mean,

15:43

we don't know. Stephanie, we

15:45

don't know if that's going to hurt her

15:47

chances to be Trump. I mean, yeah, I

15:49

mean that. Yeah. And we've already bonded. Well,

15:52

first of all, you have two beautiful labs.

15:54

And then I said I have two little

15:56

sheets of Yorkies and you said those aren't even done. And

15:58

then I hated you again. They are dogs. I

16:06

mean but it is a bipartisan issue you know I

16:08

mean I'll never forget I told a story right

16:10

Chris that Shawn when my beloved

16:12

Saint Bernard died many years ago quite

16:14

subtly Shawn Hannity wrote to me

16:17

and said I'm you know because he's a big dog

16:19

person too and he wrote and said I'm so sorry

16:21

and whatever and he said can I buy you another

16:23

dog and then I went and I'm

16:26

a liberal I don't buy dogs I rescue them

16:28

all I hate you but that was nice but it was

16:30

nice. It was nice. It was nice.

16:32

It was nice. It's an idiot

16:35

but yeah think about that. I mean

16:37

that but Stephanie think about this I

16:39

got elected with Kristi Noem I got

16:41

to know her pretty well she's no

16:43

dummy think about what went

16:45

through her head when she wrote that in

16:47

her book she believed that

16:49

would help her with the base

16:51

of her party. Thank you. That

16:54

she bragged about it that she thinks it's a good site.

16:57

That someone was there an editor going it's

16:59

real good what you did tell the story about the rabbits again

17:02

you boiled I mean oh

17:04

no I don't yeah go ahead. No

17:07

I Steph I just here's my problem

17:09

though it this

17:12

election is too close yeah and

17:14

none of Trump's trials mean anything

17:16

him sitting his big fat ass

17:18

in court every day doesn't mean

17:20

anything somehow we all

17:22

have to this lovely coalition of

17:25

you and I tea party

17:27

guys and good decent progressives got

17:29

to come together and and carry

17:31

Biden across the finish line and

17:33

listen people like Michael Steele at least

17:36

they're honest he has told me he is the scorpion

17:38

that is going to sting me when we get to the

17:40

other side of the river oh

17:42

he's a big puppy he won't by the

17:45

way I will protect you Michael

17:49

Steele that mean man he

17:53

is my dad with RNC chair too so I got so

17:56

many daddy issues going on you have no idea. Joe

18:00

Walsh, thanks for coming on. I've been wanting

18:02

to get you on forever. And thanks for

18:04

just caring about, you know, just country over

18:06

party, about democracy, about decency, as Colin Jost

18:08

would say, right? You rock,

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Stephanie. No, you rock, Joe Walsh. And you

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like, here it comes, here it comes. And

21:04

it never happened. I

21:07

think it's different than what actually I'm dreading,

21:09

dreading the chiron, the pecker chiron underneath

21:11

him. Okay. All right.

21:14

Let me just say, you're the smartest,

21:16

prettiest, funniest girl in the world. You

21:18

were, you were always the one that

21:20

guessed everything on. I've got a secret experiences

21:22

of my life. Getting to work with both of

21:24

you guys. I've said it just over and over. I, you're

21:28

not only so smart, so funny, but so

21:30

nice, both of you. And, and I just

21:32

was, I always talk about you and John

21:35

and Stella and hair and makeup. And I've

21:37

got a secret cause you were the best

21:39

funniest parents. I remember you guys doing Jerry

21:41

Lewis to Stella together. And I, can

21:43

I, I'm going to lay it. I'm going to lay in

21:46

something right now that I could

21:48

probably only lay in on this show and be

21:50

that as it may. That

21:53

kid you're talking about is now a

21:55

handsome young man. Oh, okay. I

21:57

did not know. How

22:01

old? How old is he? He's

22:03

25 years old. Oh god

22:05

we're old. And he's a

22:07

writer and everything

22:10

else. Wow. The

22:14

comedy and the weirdness lay in

22:16

is always there. As

22:18

we know, gender doesn't matter. Being

22:22

able to do a crossword in pen does.

22:28

I seriously wonder what it would be like. You were

22:30

the funniest parents. You seriously both at the same time

22:32

were like hey hey lady look over here.

22:34

And I was like oh

22:37

my god. I don't know

22:39

and it's you know of course horrible

22:41

John died. 20.

22:47

I remember when this was all Orange Grove. As far as the

22:49

eye could see. You never start to say like

22:51

20 something but you say 19. Like

22:55

something goes what happened in 19? 19

22:58

in 100? Did you just become

23:00

Lillian Gish? Okay she did. I

23:06

just but I have to say I know it's just

23:08

because the news cycles are so horrible and you

23:11

know rapists running for president and puppy killers

23:13

and I I just have

23:15

to say. When I heard the puppy killer thing I

23:18

thought of you and like

23:21

how your head must explode. I just remember

23:23

you like dogs. Yeah oh god well a

23:25

lot of a lot of dog lovers in

23:27

this guy. Yeah who knew it's wildly unpopular shooting

23:29

puppies in the face. Who hates

23:31

her enough to

23:33

say that's cool put that in. I know

23:37

I shouldn't check in with any no publisher no

23:40

editor. No nobody went. You

23:42

might want to. Yeah leave

23:44

that out. I'm sorry. Okay anyway. This

23:46

is not my TED talk. But anyway

23:48

I just I just I don't know

23:50

why there's so many stories about you and John and

23:52

just stick in my head but you were just

23:56

dealing with loss. The way you talked about it

23:58

was just so moving. I just I think you

24:00

talked about laying in bed with Stella.

24:02

Do you remember that story? And can you tell

24:05

the story? She lifted her hands up. Oh

24:08

my God. Are you going with, you're going

24:10

back to that? Yeah. Yeah.

24:13

That was a, that was a crazy moment

24:15

of, I

24:18

think a kid trying to wrap their

24:21

head around developmentally what, what death is.

24:24

And you and I still can't probably wrap

24:26

our heads around. But for a

24:28

child, it was just like drop them as like

24:32

heaven. And I was really like

24:34

laying in religion or anything, but you

24:36

definitely know atheists in

24:39

a foxhole or when your husband

24:41

dies, they're trying to explain it to your five

24:43

year old. Yeah. When we said

24:45

daddy went to heaven, she was just like drop him. And

24:47

you said, what are you doing? And I'm just telling God

24:49

to drop him, give him back. And that, and that

24:51

doesn't work at church. Yeah. Oh

24:54

well. It doesn't work. So

24:57

in, in lieu of magical

24:59

thinking, I went

25:01

to my nerdy practical

25:04

science thinking. And the

25:06

minute I heard, which I did not hear here

25:09

on the night that he passed away, you

25:12

know, cause he died from a

25:14

misdiagnosed aortic dissection treated for

25:16

a heart attack, which is kind of, it's not

25:18

kind of the opposite. It's in your chest. That's

25:20

about all it has in common. Like

25:23

a heart attack is a block

25:25

in your heart. So

25:27

if you treat someone for a block in their

25:29

heart, but they're actually dying from a tear in

25:32

their aorta, everything you do for

25:34

it, right? And

25:36

it's very, very, very common for

25:38

aortic dissection to be treated

25:40

as other things. God forbid you are, you

25:42

know, the paint, you come in with chest

25:44

pain and you are darker

25:46

than a paper bag, drug seeking.

25:49

Or it's all in your head. Is this a rough

25:51

period this way? No, no, no, Amy, I haven't, I

25:54

haven't heard it all. I haven't talked about this is

25:56

40 years ago. I haven't talked about my dad a

25:58

lot, but you know, my dad had... just lost

26:00

vision in the right eye a couple times, you

26:02

know, that's the sign of, you know, possibly a

26:05

stroke, a, you know, blockage. So he

26:07

went in for an angiogram, which is just the

26:09

test. It was like right after I graduated USC,

26:11

he went in for the test, the angiogram, and they

26:14

hit a clot going in. It sprayed clots all over

26:16

his body, caused a stroke

26:18

and a coma and then death. And

26:20

I mean, we always suspected a

26:22

medical mistake. Yeah, they, John

26:25

died during the angiogram because

26:28

the angiogram is where they're

26:30

looking for your heart attack that they've diagnosed.

26:33

I'm going to get now. Now the

26:35

TED talk. Thanks for coming.

26:39

What is the

26:43

chest pain and they just go for it. John

26:45

didn't have an x-ray, which is not

26:47

the gold standard, but there's, you do see it.

26:50

You actually don't see the aorta being aneurysmal or

26:52

big. You see everything else moving out of the

26:54

way. It's called the, I call

26:57

it the glorious signum because I try to

26:59

remember the medius signum, whatever it's called, the

27:01

stuff in there. We have to have the

27:03

mnemonic devices for the ADHD of us. And

27:07

no that, no echo, no nothing. It's

27:10

like a little bit overweight. 50,

27:12

he was about to turn 55 the next week, walks

27:15

in and they go chest pain, heart attack,

27:18

boom. That's how it

27:20

happens. A lot of times angiogram they

27:22

were doing, right? You go up

27:24

through the groin, through the aorta

27:26

to put the dye, look

27:28

in the heart. And sadly,

27:32

I mean, they showed that at the trial, Valentine's

27:35

Day. So that was great on 2008. Amy,

27:38

we went through the same thing where one doctor's

27:41

like, well, in retrospect, maybe we should have gone

27:43

in a different way. Like what are you saying?

27:45

Oops, sorry. We killed your dad.

27:47

Yeah. So, you know, we all thought

27:49

like we maybe should do a lawsuit to prevent

27:51

other families from going through this. And my mom didn't want to,

27:53

she didn't want to look like, you know, she was trying to

27:55

make money off of, off of it. But

27:57

I mean, it is heartbreaking. I got so

27:59

much. crap and

28:02

yet it

28:04

brought so much attention to it. Yeah. And

28:07

people were in the end because I know honestly

28:09

I don't think I'd be look

28:11

I'm wearing pigtails. I still think I'm a kid.

28:13

I'm an idiot. But the 20 years that have

28:16

gone by and it's not like in a blink

28:18

of an eye. It's like every day I talk

28:20

about John. I've set myself up. Yeah. Yeah.

28:23

Every day I talk about John. Every day

28:25

I talk to people. I

28:27

have hundreds and hundreds of like

28:29

families. But you're helping.

28:31

You're helping so many people. I mean

28:33

that's the thing. It's just I

28:36

know it's your pain but you've turned it into...

28:38

It is weird but it... Yes.

28:42

I'm just... and

28:44

so much

28:47

awareness has come out of it and research. I

28:49

mean we make

28:51

money to fund research. Millions of

28:53

dollars worth of research. And there's

28:55

even a... there's John... we didn't even

28:58

say. I was going to say... I was going to say... I was going to

29:00

say... Yes. John Ritter Foundation. You're doing

29:02

an evening of the Heart Fundraiser May 9th at the

29:04

Sunset Room here in LA. You can go to... Oh

29:06

yeah. JohnRitter foundation.org.

29:09

And we've linked to it on all of your social media

29:12

and all that. Amy, talk a little more about what the

29:14

John Ritter Foundation is and what it does.

29:16

The John Ritter Foundation immediately

29:19

started after he died and

29:21

people were like started like sending in

29:23

lieu of flowers here's 50 bucks, 100

29:26

bucks. And the first tranche of it

29:28

went to... that's the word and it

29:30

is but I have to act like

29:32

I don't know because if I get something else wrong it

29:34

makes sense. What? Wow. USC

29:37

Theatre Company. I didn't know you

29:39

know theatre program which was great. And

29:42

then in the intervening months

29:45

somebody... there was like a lady

29:47

going oh my husband died. Check out

29:50

at Law's Drugstore in Brentwood. And

29:52

it's like my husband had the same thing erected

29:54

to section. I'm like oh so sorry. It's like no keys

29:56

in the car. He's waiting to put me up after my shift. I'm like you

29:58

can win. I

30:00

mean, I was not, I didn't know anything

30:03

about it. And so, you know,

30:06

deep Google research, which I do not

30:08

recommend, and I did just to

30:10

see what was not there. And I

30:12

thought, how do we put like the real information

30:15

there? And it's very highly genetic. And

30:18

the woman who was doing the above

30:20

the title kind of genetic research in this,

30:23

I reached out to her and so

30:25

then 2010, there was the John Ritter

30:27

research program in aortic and vascular diseases,

30:29

which is genetic research done in Houston.

30:32

Fantastic. So we have moved

30:34

the bar or whatever the F people

30:36

say. But every time,

30:39

you know, you and I talk about John,

30:41

it's John. It's not a new ordic. By

30:43

the way, since you brought up USC theater, you

30:45

know that I have a very esteemed degree in drama

30:48

from USC. And if can I

30:50

tell you how many times I had to sit through a John

30:52

Blankenship story about how great John Ritter was? So

30:56

I was already pretty supposed to not like him. Through

30:59

a John Ritter story, hearing how great

31:01

Blankenship was. I

31:04

hear one more effing. And then he

31:07

could not have been, I just remember how generous of spirit

31:09

he was. He was so sweet to me when he

31:11

came and did. I've got a secret. He was really,

31:13

you know, I hear something crazy. It's not crazy. Of

31:16

all the blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. It

31:19

was interesting because John was most absolutely

31:23

turned on by if I was

31:26

good at something, if I was smart. You

31:28

know what I mean? When I was quick,

31:30

when I was, and he said one time

31:32

to me early on, I'm talking problem child

31:34

one time, like 90. Well,

31:37

I remember. As far as the eye could

31:39

see, orange rose, whatever. And

31:42

he said at one point, oh, you're

31:44

the funniest woman I know. And I'm

31:46

like, that's sexist. I'm

31:49

like, why do I have to be the, you

31:51

know what I mean? And I said,

31:53

I want to be the funniest person, you know, don't think

31:55

of me as a woman. And he's like, that could be

31:57

tough. But it's.

32:00

made me so happy on that show because

32:02

in real time there was a lot of

32:04

improv going on there. Yeah. Yeah.

32:06

Oh my god you were so hilarious and but I

32:08

just remember he was so he was

32:11

so sweet and complimentary to me in a way

32:13

not in that Hollywood bolt kind of way in

32:15

a way that where you're like oh my god

32:17

it was not just John Ritter that said that

32:19

but the you know just that he was so

32:21

generous of heart and spirit as you know. And

32:23

he became just absolute torrid

32:25

lovers with Jim Jake Bullock you

32:27

know that. Yes well we all

32:30

did. Yeah we've all been.

32:32

Right. We've all done Jim Jake Bullock once. Oh

32:36

my god can I tell you I you know I

32:38

have so much insomnia. I watched some movie with John

32:41

Ritter and Connie Celica from I don't know 19. Last

32:44

fling. 37. The last fling.

32:46

It was fantastic. Wow

32:49

it was 1937 the first copies. It was

32:51

the first copies. Connie said

32:53

it's because boy found it like

32:55

this. Glenn

32:58

Close actually dubbed her.

33:00

That's what we call Glenn Close but

33:02

no cigar. Yes. Oh my god I didn't

33:05

even turn around. You're the funniest

33:07

woman ever. You're the funniest woman

33:09

ever. John Ritter was

33:12

right. johnritterfoundation.org Amy

33:14

Asbeck. Yes we love you. What's that? What's

33:16

that? That's John's dad Tex

33:18

Ritter. Who

33:20

probably died of an aortic dissection. John's brother

33:22

had an aortic aneurysm in the exact same

33:25

place as John's but got it treated. Oh wow.

33:27

You were doing such good work. I

33:29

miss you. We love you so much.

33:32

Come back anytime all right. Tell Jodi I

33:34

said hi. Hi. She

33:39

knows another funny redhead. Yeah. Oh

33:42

I'm not a redhead Stephanie. Neither am I. We

33:45

established this. I know I

33:47

shared a dressing room with

33:49

you. Okay. Wow. That was a beave joke.

33:51

Okay. Did I tell you my joke? No.

33:54

What does a woman in pantyhose and Brooklyn

33:56

have in common? What? Bapush,

34:01

yay! Alright

34:03

goodnight Amy, I think. Thank you

34:05

Amy. And honestly God, good luck.

34:08

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Oh

34:16

I shared a dressing room with you. Ha ha ha ha ha

34:18

ha ha. That was a

34:20

beave joke. Okay love you. Did I tell

34:22

you my joke? No. What

34:25

does a woman in pantyhose and Brooklyn have

34:27

in common? What? Bapush,

34:29

get an apple! Bapush, yay!

34:33

Alright, goodnight Amy, I think.

34:35

Thank you Amy. And

34:37

honestly God, good luck. Ha ha ha ha ha ha

34:39

ha ha.