- 12 minutes ago
Category
📺
TVTranscript
00:17Welcome to the Kelly Clarkson Show.
00:20We are kicking things off with a Kelly Oki encore
00:22we loved doing a couple months ago.
00:24I love this song so much.
00:25Here's me and my band, y'all, with Sombra's
00:27I Wish I Knew How to Quit You.
00:32I won't call it off till I'm stoned
00:38I write a book with all the reasons
00:41I could call you my own
00:43But I won't
00:45Cause you're unavailable
00:51I want to save myself
00:55I'm unwell
00:56I'd rather take another bottle
01:00Pop the top of this stuff
01:02We need help
01:04Cause it's no good for my health
01:13I wish I knew how to quit you
01:17You were never mine
01:19But I was always mine
01:22I wish I knew how to quit you
01:27But I'm addicted to you
01:30But I'm addicted to you
01:31I love you while I sleep
01:33When I wake up alone
01:39I live inside a house
01:43Without it's not home
01:48But I don't know what it's like to live
01:53You would never know
01:56You would never know
01:59If the one that you wait for
02:01Is ever gonna show
02:09I wish I knew how to quit you
02:13I wish I knew how to quit you
02:14You were never mine
02:15But I was always yours
02:18I wish I knew how to quit you
02:23But I'm addicted to you
02:25I love you
02:31One more time, give it up for my band, y'all
02:37All right, let's welcome our first guest
02:40Over 20 years ago, America fell in love with them
02:43as the mother and father of the chaotic, quarrelsome, and all-too-relatable family
02:47in Malcolm in the Middle
02:47They are now back in those roles for Malcolm in the Middle, Life's Still Unfair
02:52All episodes are now streaming on Hulu
02:54Everybody give it up for Jane Kaczmarek and Bryan Cranston
03:32Any time, I'm telling you
03:35Any time you're like, I'm a little tired today
03:36And they don't allow you to be
03:38They've got so much energy
03:39It's good, it's good
03:40Is it cold in here?
03:41Is it cold too?
03:42It is
03:42I cheat
03:44I have a seat heater
03:45Oh, you do?
03:46Is that funny?
03:47Are you from Texas?
03:48I have to
03:48I'm so cold in here
03:49Yeah
03:50I can't do it
03:51Welcome back and welcome to the show
03:53Thank you
03:53Thank you
03:54Y'all met initially on set, right?
03:57In the pilot?
03:58Yeah
03:58That's the first time that y'all met?
03:59Oh, yeah, they had
04:00They were looking for a very different physical type for Hal
04:04And couldn't find it
04:05And then said, just bring in the normal-sized actors
04:09What kind of weird-ass compliment is that?
04:12Oh, that's me, normal guys
04:16That's awesome
04:17And the first scene was the beginning of the show
04:19Which is me shaving, Lois shaving his body
04:22Awesome
04:23And so Brian came on the set
04:25We met him for the first time
04:26And he was covered in yak hair
04:29So hot
04:30They glued yak hair
04:32All over his
04:35Super hot
04:36Privacy pouch
04:37Yes
04:38Yes
04:38Okay
04:42Congratulations, sir
04:43Congratulations
04:49Whatever you do
04:50I love it
04:51Do not set out the rumor that there was a big privacy pouch
04:55I love it
04:56Don't do that
04:57It's such a dude thing to do that
04:59They come to the trailer and you're like, I'm gonna need a bigger one
05:01I'm gonna need a bigger one
05:02Privacy bags
05:03No, but you did have a body double for that too though, right?
05:07When they
05:07Well, for the most part, it was me
05:11Three hours of gluing the yak hair on my body by three or four makeup technicians
05:18Yeah
05:18And they were gluing it
05:19I couldn't sit down
05:20What a weird
05:20Because it would mat the whole thing
05:22So I had to stand
05:23And I'm standing there with just that little privacy
05:26I mean
05:27Enormous
05:28I mean that huge privacy part
05:30And I was standing there
05:31And
05:33And
05:33It came time to shave
05:36To actually see the razor go up the back and take off the hair
05:40But I'm not overly hairy
05:42Yeah
05:42So they had to go find someone who had a lot of hair
05:46On their back
05:47On their back
05:48Oh my god, what is this conversation like?
05:50Are you hairy?
05:51Can I see?
05:52How did they find
05:53Well, yes, kind of
05:53There are a lot of teamsters on the show, right?
05:56And they thought that might be a good place to start
05:58Very burly men, manly men
06:01Annie, you have hairy backers
06:02But I loved it because that clip, you know, wouldn't go through the spirit gum
06:07Oh
06:08You know, so we needed real hair
06:10Okay
06:11And a real back
06:12And we found them
06:13Yeah
06:13But I
06:14But they brought in a bunch of guys
06:16They took their t-shirts off
06:17You know, and it was just looking at their backs
06:19And
06:19Yeah
06:20It was like, uh, no, you
06:21Gave him a hundred bucks
06:23Yeah
06:23And he went home that night with a ski slope down his back
06:26Oh my god
06:27His back looked like shag carpeting
06:29Okay, so Hal was it written actually to be a major character
06:32Which I didn't know
06:33I found that out later
06:34So how did you build out Hal?
06:37The character
06:37How did you build it out?
06:38Well, Hal
06:38You looked at me like, who said it was not supposed to be
06:42Well, no, he was the, you know, the father of the family
06:45But the character of Lois was so dynamic
06:49Yeah
06:50And Malcolm was at the center of it, you know
06:52And so I only had like five lines in the entire first episode
06:58The pilot episode
06:59And I really didn't know where to go with it
07:02And I thought of two things
07:03First, I want to make the distinction between being disinterested
07:09I can't play disinterested in the family
07:11But I can be distracted
07:13So I can be distracted and then all of a sudden
07:16Oh, what happened?
07:17You know, and I try to catch up to what's going on in the family
07:20So that I found
07:21But also, I was kind of stuck
07:23And so I thought of this amazing actor playing that amazing character
07:29And everything that she was
07:32Fearless
07:33Strong
07:35Loud
07:35Hairy
07:38You know, all these things that I went
07:40Oh, fearful
07:41I wrote down on the side
07:43Fearful
07:44The opposite, yeah
07:44Quiet
07:46Sensitive
07:47Vulnerable
07:47All the things that she didn't appear to be
07:50And I started
07:51I go, oh, that's my character
07:53That's how I created the character
07:56Was I started thinking of the opposite of who Lois was
07:59And we just complimented each other
08:02That's brilliant
08:02Yeah
08:03And also such a lesson, I think, for people that are younger actors
08:07Like, see more than just the five lines
08:09Oh, boy
08:10You know?
08:10Yeah
08:11We were just in the dressing room
08:12Because I remember those five lines
08:14You were kind of
08:15Lukewarm, too
08:16I don't remember
08:17No
08:17There was something at the
08:19We were at the kitchen table
08:20And, you know, something was erupting
08:22Yeah
08:22And one of the kids
08:23Or maybe me even says, how?
08:26Like, weigh in on it
08:27Oh, yeah
08:27And you picked up a plastic pitcher and said
08:32I make a pitcher of iced tea every morning
08:35And I come home and it's always empty
08:39It's always, yeah
08:40And it's just
08:40And that was it
08:41That's his distraction
08:42Yeah
08:43He fixates on the smallest thing
08:45Not like the privacy pouch, which is huge
08:48But he's fixated on the smallest things
08:51Yeah
08:52Oh, my God
08:52There's no segue there, Brent
08:54We need to do a few commercials
08:55Some big ones
08:56Let's have someone in the audience help us out
08:59Hi, Kelly
09:00I'm Athena
09:01I'm a huge fan of Brian and Jane
09:03But I'm an even bigger fan of Malcolm in the Middle
09:05If that's possible
09:07It makes sense
09:08I'm the middle child of five kids
09:11I understand Malcolm's struggle of vying to get his parents' attention
09:15I watched the original show with my whole family growing up
09:18And maybe with this reboot my parents will watch just with me
09:21Oh
09:22Stay here
09:23Kelly has more with Brian and Jane after this
09:36Hal, for 39 years of anniversaries and birthdays and really every celebration
09:42You do the most wonderful, romantic, amazing grand gestures
09:46The fireworks display?
09:47Oh, yeah
09:48Releasing those doves?
09:49That should have been done outside and away from the fam
09:53And now this once, I want to be the one deciding how we celebrate and not have your plans just
09:59happen to me
10:02We are back with James and the American Brian fans too
10:06That was a look at their revival series, Malcolm in the Middle, Life's Still Unfair
10:10All episodes are now on Hulu, you've got to check it out
10:13So is it true, I've heard, you've been trying to do this for like 15 years
10:16Yeah, it's been a while
10:17I love that
10:19You've been after, were you just hounding them? Like, why aren't we doing this?
10:22Well, kind of
10:23Yeah
10:23Because I had questions myself, but I would run into fans all the time and they would ask
10:27Well, Lois and Hal were pregnant when the series ended
10:30What did they have? A boy? A girl? What?
10:32And I said, I don't know
10:34These were fictional people
10:36I know
10:37What did you want him to have?
10:39Exactly
10:40And they wanted to know, and then what happened to Malcolm?
10:43Did he become the president? And I went, I don't know
10:45So I kept saying, I don't know, I don't know
10:47And I took all those I don't knows to Linwood Boomer
10:49Yeah
10:50Our creator of the show
10:51And I said, I think there's material here
10:54People want to know what happened
10:56And at that time, it would be ten years later after we said goodbye
11:00And he said, absolutely not
11:02I'm retired, I'm done
11:03I couldn't think of another idea, it's over
11:06Yeah
11:06I went, okay
11:08Had dinner with Frankie
11:09Frankie, I said, I'd kind of like to do this
11:11And he said, so would I
11:12And he sent out a tweet to his followers
11:14And he got millions of responses going
11:17Yeah, do it, do it
11:19Yeah
11:19So I took that to Linwood
11:20I said, look, there's a lot of people
11:21The demand
11:22And this time, he said, I don't think so
11:25I don't know that I would have an idea
11:27I don't, I really don't see it happening
11:30But I took that as progress
11:32Because the first time, absolutely not
11:34Yeah
11:35You're weighing him down
11:36Now it's, I don't know
11:37And so I knew there was, there was a fissure in his body
11:41Yeah
11:41I cracked a hole and I just kept wedging through there to get him to break
11:45And then three years ago, he said, I think I have it
11:48That's so cool
11:49Yeah
11:50I love that something was so special too
11:51Not only for pop culture, like every, it impacted so many people
11:54But y'all as a team
11:55Oh, but
11:55Like everybody was excited
11:56Kelly, don't kid yourself
11:57He was so tired of killing people
12:00Yeah
12:02On all those other shows he was doing
12:05Being on that
12:05All these things
12:05You know
12:06Yeah, you gotta play
12:07You gotta play
12:08You killed too many
12:09Yeah
12:11Lighten it up
12:11He wanted to come back to be sweet doofy Hal
12:14Yeah, yeah
12:15Is that how you see him?
12:17With a huge privacy pouch
12:20So massive
12:21No, so talk about the concept of the revival though
12:24Because you're getting to answer all these questions that you've been asked, right?
12:27Yes
12:27Yeah, so what's going on with the revival? What's happening?
12:30Oh, it's, well, it's going to be our 40th anniversary
12:33And all the kids from wherever they live are going to come
12:36And we're all going to celebrate
12:37And we have all the guest stars who are on the show coming back
12:40But there is a problem
12:42Malcolm
12:42Malcolm doesn't want to come back to the family
12:46He feels as though the reason his life is now successful
12:48Yeah
12:48Is that he has maneuvered, created a whole life
12:52That he doesn't have to see his parents
12:54Yeah
12:55Yeah, but he comes around
12:58Yeah
12:58Kind of give him that
12:59But it's a lot of fun
13:01We have some really crazy surprises
13:04And it was so much fun to see everybody
13:08Our little family that we were together for seven years on the air
13:12A year before that to do the pilot
13:14Yeah
13:14And now we get to recreate these roles
13:1720 years after we said goodbye
13:19Do you step into that timing?
13:21Well, and we had the same writer, you know
13:21The same writers were the same
13:23The director was the same
13:24The producer, you know
13:25So it was the same people who had created it for us in the first place
13:29Yeah
13:30Handed it to us
13:30So as far as wondering whether you walked right back into it
13:34It was a wonderful
13:36It was surprising
13:36That's cool
13:37That every character really already knew what to do
13:41Even after 20 years, we just kind of slid in like comfortable slippers
13:46That's beautiful
13:47But Eric was the one child actor that didn't come back, right?
13:51Right
13:51Yeah, he was too busy, was it Harvard?
13:54Yes
13:55I called him and I said, hey, great news
13:58We're doing the reboot of Malcolm in the Middle
14:01And he goes, oh, that's fantastic
14:03And I said, oh, good, you're excited to do it
14:06Oh, no, no, no
14:08No, no
14:09No, I've left that world when I was a kid
14:12And it's just not for me
14:14Yeah
14:15We've talked about our admiration for this kid
14:18I mean, as fictional parents, we did a good job reading
14:21Fictional parents
14:22Ended up at Harvard
14:23We have a deep fictional love for these kids
14:25We really do
14:26No, I hear it's not fictional
14:28He knows who he is
14:29Yeah
14:30He knows who he is
14:31He knows what he loves doing now
14:32He's studying Victorian literature
14:34Loves Charles Dickens
14:35Yeah
14:35And he's happy
14:36Yeah, for sure
14:38And they offered him buckets of cash to do this
14:41Yeah
14:42Oh, I'm happy
14:43That's what he loves, yeah
14:44Just doing what I love
14:45And I just, in this day and age, I really am in awe
14:48I respect him for being somebody who just knows what it is
14:51What the source of his happiness is
14:53Yeah, get one life
14:54Do what you want
14:54They offered him buckets of cash
14:56They only offered me one bucket of cash
14:59That's because they knew you were hungry
15:02They're like, he wants it
15:04He's been trying to get it for 15 years
15:06All the gap there you can put on your body
15:07Ah
15:08All right, we need another break
15:09Malcolm in the Middle, Life's Still Unfair
15:12Is available on Hulu
15:13We've got more with Jane and Brian after this
15:27All right, welcome back
15:28We've got Jane Kelsnerick and Brian Creece from here
15:31You can check out their revival series, Malcolm in the Middle, Life's Still Unfair on Hulu
15:36The nice thing about revisiting a show like Malcolm is you get to go back and look at photos of
15:41all the good times you had in the past
15:42Which is what we're going to do right now
15:44This is Malcolm in the Middle, Photo Dump
15:46Malcolm in the Middle, Photo Dump
15:49Malcolm in the Middle, Photo Dump
15:53I love the angst
15:55All right, Jane and Brian have brought in some never before posted photos from their first run on Malcolm 20
16:02years ago
16:02So let's check, I'm excited
16:04Here's the first photo
16:06What?
16:06Oh
16:08What?
16:09What are you doing?
16:11We're singing
16:11We did an opera episode
16:14Yeah
16:15Because we got a new mattress
16:18Lois wanted a great big mattress
16:19And Hal thought it was because she didn't want his affection
16:23And Dewey, Eric, would hear us bickering about this new mattress
16:28And was so worried and he wrote an opera about what was happening
16:33Yeah
16:34And what was really happening
16:35As one does
16:36Yeah
16:36Yes
16:37And what was really happening was Lois had some gas at night when she was sleeping
16:45So she wanted to get a new mattress
16:47As one does
16:48As one does
16:49And it wasn't
16:49But the result of that was Dewey writing an entire opera that we then performed
16:56Yeah
16:57You look incredible
16:59I know
16:59Look at us
16:59Yes
17:00Next photo, here we go
17:02Oh
17:04This was an episode called Bots and Bees
17:06No
17:07The boys, the Krellboins, the smart boys that Malcolm was in this class
17:11They were trying to figure out how to build a robot
17:14You know those robot shows that were, they would fight each other
17:17Yeah
17:17And Hal got very interested in it when the boys lost interest
17:21So he completed the project to have a cavity full of bees, like a hive in there
17:27And the bees would come out and Malcolm says to me, but it's attacking another robot
17:32And I go, no, it's attacking whoever's operating the robot
17:36You know, so he, I get maniacal and the bees actually attack me
17:41So there I am wearing like 60,000 honey bees
17:45How much did they weigh?
17:46Oh God, I don't know, but 25 pounds or something like that?
17:50Wait, none of them were like real, right?
17:51Oh, they're all real
17:52Oh, they're all real
17:53Oh my God
17:54Oh yeah
17:54And the bee wrangler
17:57Oh my God, you didn't freak out?
17:59No, no, you don't want to do that
18:01I, well, I would
18:03That would not be well
18:04Did they go in, you know, I don't know
18:06No, you see why, you see they're not on my face?
18:09Well, everywhere they're not on my face is where a makeup person put an insect repellent, right?
18:17Just the whole thing, put it all on my face wherever we wanted the bees not to go
18:22And so you could see them coming right up to that point and stopping
18:26But the bees were about three and a half or so inches thick on me
18:31And I remember you saying that it was the humming
18:35The humming and the movement
18:37The energy from the frequency
18:38Do you remember those, those massage chairs like at Brookstone or whatever?
18:43Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
18:45It felt like that
18:46Like you're
18:47And they're constantly moving and it was warm
18:50And it was actually very zen-like
18:53I was standing there going
18:56We are just so different
18:58Now the guy said, the guy said
19:00Okay, now listen, if you get stung, let me know
19:03And I can, you know, flick out the stinger right away
19:07So that the amount of venom that gets into you is not so bad
19:11This is a horrible conversation
19:14The amount
19:15Okay, so two things I learned
19:17First
19:19The biggest thing about getting stung by a bee is not the pain
19:23It is the surprise
19:26So I'm, you know, you're wearing bees
19:28It shouldn't be much of a surprise if you get stung
19:32So all of a sudden I went, because I had to turn around in the scene
19:36And I went, oh, oh yeah, I think, I think I got stung
19:44And the bee guy goes, where?
19:49Ready to go to flick it out
19:50And I go, in my scrotum?
19:54No!
19:55They got down there?
19:56They got in?
19:58Yeah
19:58No
19:58And he said to me
20:00No
20:01You're on your own
20:04I'm not going there
20:05No
20:06No
20:06So I got, yeah
20:07Well, see, because
20:08I am sweating from just looking at that picture
20:11Oh yeah
20:11So I had to put, like, cotton in my ears so they wouldn't go into my brain
20:16Oh
20:16And you're probably your, what the hell?
20:19And then, no, I didn't have to worry about the nose because they put the insect repellent
20:23But I had to tape down my shirt so they wouldn't crawl inside
20:27You should have taped down your underwear better
20:29Well, you could see from that picture that they stopped about there
20:33Because how they wanted to get on me was he had a vial of their queen's pheromones
20:40And he would take an eyedropper and would drop all this pheromones all over my body and my head and
20:48everything
20:48And then he'd scoop the bees out of the hive and lay them on me and they would just all,
20:53you know
20:54That's, that's just a hard no
20:56Yeah
20:56And you obviously knew you weren't allergic
20:58There wasn't, like, a trial by error
21:00Right
21:00Okay
21:00No, because my, yeah, I know a lot of people that are allergic to bees
21:04Oh, yeah
21:05Would not be a good thing
21:06Yeah, yeah, yeah
21:06Oh my God, I just, that was a stupid thing to say but I'm so nervous right now and I
21:10know it's already happened
21:11But this is the dumbest thing, I would never do that
21:13You would never do that
21:14I would never do that
21:15There's not enough money in all the land
21:17And I was just the opposite, any time I had to get wet
21:19You know, there was one episode where I, I was yelling at the property line about a neighbor and she
21:25turns the sprinklers on me
21:26Yeah
21:27And I was like, could I have that stunt woman come in?
21:30Oh, no
21:31I don't want to get wet
21:32No ma'am, you can't complain about water? I was like, what?
21:36Oh my gosh, that's crazy
21:39I never saw that
21:41I never saw that
21:41Jane's philosophy was, if you can't do a scene sitting down, then why not lying down?
21:47Why, why do we have to stand?
21:49I think we can cover it from here
21:52Okay, here's the last photo
21:53The B one is still gonna haunt my nightmares
21:58Well, it was just a grabbing of the butt, I like it
22:00Well, Hal
22:03What was that one?
22:04You built a tiki lounge for me in the garage
22:07Oh, right
22:08I think Lois was working a lot and was frazzled or something and his enduring love for his wife
22:14We had the most wonderful marriage on that show
22:17I'm telling him
22:18It was great
22:19But that was a tiki lounge he built for Lois
22:21Yeah
22:21I was hoping this wasn't a moment you were shooting, y'all were just like, comfortable, you know?
22:25I know, that was just waiting to start the scene
22:27You were like, just chilling out
22:29It was like, oh my god, that was photo dump
22:32I'm still sweating, you were a warrior for that B thing, man
22:35Oh, well
22:36I can't even
22:37That was photo dump, the kind of high-class programming you've come to expect here on The Kelly Clarkson Show
22:43Once more, y'all give it up for Jane Kaczmarek and Brian Sandstrom
22:49Check out Nothing in the Middle, Life's Still Unfair
22:51All episodes are out now on Hulu, Actors Store Meet, it's here next to Garibald
23:06Welcome back, y'all
23:08Our next guest is a very talented young actress who starred in A Wrinkle in Time as well as shows
23:13like Euphoria
23:13She even won an Emmy for her guest role on The Last of Us a few years back
23:18She's got a new movie out now, it's called Roommates, it premieres this Friday only on Netflix
23:22In your life
23:28August!
23:30August, what are you doing?
23:32You psycho!
23:34Wake up Luna, you can't call people psycho anymore
23:37Oh, well you're literally throwing my f*** out of the window
23:40That is textbook definition of psycho!
23:43You took a video of me while I was sleeping!
23:45To show you how loud you snore, you legit have sleep!
23:49Ethnia!
24:12You look like you just came from vacation or something
24:17I wish, I wish!
24:18Okay, I'm like you look, you look, you're like glowing
24:20Thank you, I'm trying to manifest the springtime vibes
24:23Yeah, you look very rock and roll which is a good segue because I had to start with this
24:27I heard you've been in the studio like making music
24:29A little bit
24:30Okay
24:30A little bit, yes
24:31What are the vibes, what's the vibe?
24:32It's like R&B vibes
24:34Okay
24:34I'm trying to find my sound right now but I've loved music for my whole life so to be able
24:39to like
24:39What got you, what got you like in the studio the first time, what was like I'm gonna go in
24:43and just do it?
24:43It's so funny, so it was like 3 in the morning, it was probably my
24:48Sophomore year of college and we didn't have anything to do so we're like let's just go to the studio
24:53and make a silly song
24:54I did that with my friends and when I was in the studio I grew up in the studio a
24:59little bit with my mom because she did some music stuff
25:01Yeah
25:01Like behind the scenes but I was like oh my gosh like I really enjoy doing this so I would
25:06go here and there make little songs and then I sat myself down and I was like I think this
25:11is something that you can really do if you put your mind to it and it's really about like not
25:16acting but it's really about like
25:16Asking for permission and just doing what you want to do
25:20Yeah
25:20So I'm excited
25:21Yes, if it makes you feel good, why not?
25:24Exactly
25:24Yeah, absolutely, I'm excited to hear what's gonna come
25:26Yes, oh my goodness, that's gonna make me nervous
25:28You?
25:30No
25:30You listening to my song?
25:31I love it, I love R&B too
25:32Okay
25:33I love too, I feel like R&B is almost coming back a little bit to how it was whenever
25:37I was young because I'm that old
25:38You're not
25:39Coming back around
25:40So what drew you to roommates?
25:43Oh my goodness, I'm such a big Adam Sandler fan
25:45Who isn't?
25:46Right, he is a legend and I grew up watching his movies so of course when they sent the script
25:51over I was like oh I don't even really need to read it but then I read it and I
25:56graduated in May from USC
25:57So I think it's just such a relatable story about friendship and about you know how to be a good
26:03friend, how not to be a good friend
26:05Yeah
26:07And it's a really good story and some great people are part of it so I'm glad
26:11You just said you graduated right?
26:13I did
26:13Well congrats on that
26:13Thank you
26:14But you were homeschooled?
26:17I'm sorry?
26:17You were homeschooled right?
26:19Yeah
26:19Because you were acting and everything but what was that transition like being homeschooled and all of a sudden you're
26:23at USC?
26:23I know
26:24Yeah
26:24It sounds scarier than it was
26:27It sounds overwhelming
26:29Yeah
26:29It was a little overwhelming but I was very excited to you know be in the school setting
26:35I was a fish out of water but in the best way possible and I had the best time
26:39What were your roommates like?
26:41I have friends, I didn't go to college, I auditioned for a talent show but I have friends that did
26:47and I have heard horror you know just experiences and then really great ones
26:52Yes
26:53Thankfully I was on the side of having really great roommates
26:55Okay
26:56My freshman year I had a roommate she was fabulous we had so much fun and I think we were
27:00just like you know getting used to not being at home and living with our parents and our families
27:05And then sophomore year I moved in with my best friend who I just love dearly so we had no
27:10problems no issues other than we had one issue but we didn't really speak about it which is funny cause
27:16like
27:16Oh no
27:16We love each other so much but she likes the house the room really hot and I am not and
27:24especially when I'm sleeping I cannot sleep in hot weather not hot weather but like the thermostat was just too
27:30hot so we would go back and forth changing the thermostat
27:33I would not say anything
27:34I would never say anything about it until we moved out and she's like my sister so we laugh about
27:39it now but that was the one issue that I had
27:42Yeah
27:42Oh man I moved my first not my first one of them though I'm it was right after high school
27:47we moved in to this department
27:48She people they leave food everywhere everywhere and I'm like that's got milk in this situation like so what happens
27:59is that sours like it becomes a science experiment
28:01Yeah I did not enjoy that I bet you didn't I wouldn't either
28:05Yeah people can be gross and nasty
28:08Let's take a quick break for commercials you can catch roommates starting this Friday on Netflix y'all
28:13We're gonna be right back with a teacher reviving cursive for this next generation stay here
28:27Welcome back everybody way back in the day cursive was kind of the norm most of us learned it anyway
28:32In recent years it's fallen off school curriculums kids have no clue what it is when they look at it
28:38One Virginia teacher is bringing the art of cursive back for her students and the kids are going crazy for
28:43it
28:43In fact her efforts are so popular they've been featured across national news everywhere from NPR to the Washington Post
28:50Clearly this teacher is best in class
28:57I like that one
28:58Let's welcome the founder of the cursive club Charisse everybody
29:04Welcome to the show
29:05Thank you thank you for having me
29:06How did you end up with the cursive club how did that happen
29:09Well I've been teaching for 18 years the last four years I've been at Holmes Middle School
29:14When I went there I became a multilingual learner specialist
29:17So I actually helped those students who don't speak English as their first name language
29:21I helped them to develop their English language
29:23I decided to join the summer school program because I don't usually work summer school
29:28I typically take summers off
29:30But I figured I would go learn about the culture get in touch with the staff learn about the students
29:34And as I was doing that I was writing on the board in cursive
29:37But when I turned around to get some clarification the students were looking at me like I was strange
29:42And I was like what's going on?
29:43They're like what did you just do?
29:44I said I wrote the assignment on the board
29:46We can't read that
29:47And I was just blown away
29:48Yeah
29:48These are rising sixth graders
29:50And they did not understand my cursive writing
29:52So I said you know what we should have a cursive club
29:54And that's when I found out that we did have an after school program
29:57And just like the movie Field of Dreams if you sponsor it they'll come
30:01Yeah
30:01I became a teacher and we had three or four students almost every single semester
30:05And that's how we started the cursive club
30:06Yeah
30:07I was telling her in the break my daughter is obsessed with writing in cursive
30:11And she is dyslexic and so I know that that has kind of a tie-in as well right?
30:16Yes it does
30:17She is obsessed with it and her penmanship is insane
30:19Yes, cursive has many benefits but one of them is for those who are challenged with dyslexia
30:23It can be a friend to them
30:24And the reason being because in the alphabet you think about the letters B, D, P, G
30:31They sound alike but they also look alike to someone who is challenged with dyslexia
30:35Yeah
30:35They have a circle and a line
30:37Yeah
30:37That's right
30:37So in cursive those letters look absolutely different
30:39Yeah
30:40And that's what helps them to be able to understand it when they're reading and to also write them better
30:44I know I didn't know that and I found it very interesting
30:46I was like oh I thought they weren't teaching cursive anymore and they do it at her school
30:50Yeah
30:50A lot of schools that I've been at they have kind of fallen out of that
30:54I'm actually licensed in Texas, North Carolina and Virginia past military family
30:58Yeah
30:59And they did kind of take it out the curriculum I think because of the technology boom
31:02Yeah
31:03But I still write in cursive because I learned when I was in the third grade it made me feel
31:07fancy like an adult
31:08Yeah
31:08So I truly enjoy it but it has lots of other benefits
31:11Your brain is on a ten when it's writing in cursive, a five when you're in print
31:15And it's zero or one when you're texting or typing
31:18So that by itself the benefits you have that are similar to playing an instrument
31:22You also have those same benefits when you're writing in cursive
31:25Yeah
31:25So there's lots of benefits for writing in cursive
31:27I enjoy it, my students who come to the cursive club they enjoy it
31:30And it seems like America thinks it's all the rave right now
31:33Man and it's a beautiful thing too
31:34My daughter loves, she just will write stories or letters for people because she just loves doing it
31:39And I think especially when kids that have had a hard time in school find something that they're like, you
31:43know, emboldens it
31:44It makes them more confident
31:45Right
31:46It's such a beautiful thing
31:46But our friends at Minted are all about bringing back small gestures like a note handwritten in cursive
31:52A meaningful form of connection that sparks joy for everybody
31:55So to help the cursive club keep its efforts going they're donating $5,000 just to help out
32:00Oh my god
32:00Yeah
32:02It's so cool what you're doing
32:03Whoa
32:04And it's so cool to find out how your brain is stimulated like far more when you're writing in cursive
32:10I didn't I didn't know that little fact
32:12That's very cool
32:12According to research
32:13Yeah
32:13Well thank you so much for your service
32:15Thank you for having me
32:16And yeah and for those people
32:17Thank you
32:18Thank you
32:18We're in the kitchen with Danielle Cardis next
32:21Stay right here
32:32Welcome back everybody
32:33Few people make cooking more simple and fun than our next guest
32:36She is the author of the rustic joyful food series a mom of two and a friend of our show
32:41Her latest cookbook is called my very first baking book
32:44Let's welcome back home chef Danielle Cardis
32:48Thank you so much
32:51Congratulations
32:53This is really special I was thinking about it in my little hotel room this morning
32:57Yeah
32:57I have launched every project every book every cool thing on your show in the last seven years
33:02Like this is really special
33:03I know I know
33:04I love you so how fitting that we're doing my very first baking book
33:07I like it
33:07Follow up to my last cook
33:08My very first cookbook
33:11And this my little friend
33:12Today we're making a strawberry lemonade tiramisu
33:14As I just get into it
33:15My mouth is watering
33:16It's so good
33:17Yeah
33:17And we want to make it easy for kids
33:19Like get your kids in the kitchen
33:20And I'm just dumping this in
33:21We're just going to pretend for the magic of television that we're incorporating that in slowly
33:24Okay
33:25But don't worry about that
33:26I don't want you to splash yourself
33:27So what I'm going to do is incorporate it in slowly
33:30I know I was getting you don't want me to use this
33:31Yeah
33:32I do want you to use this
33:33I was like it's plugged in
33:33I put it all in there so wait a second
33:36There we go we're going to go slow
33:38And now there
33:39So we protect you
33:40Well you do have an apron on
33:41Okay go for it
33:42Yeah I'm good
33:42Okay so the cool part about this recipe is that we've got the little lady fingers
33:46We're going to go ahead and add some vanilla
33:48Yeah
33:49Add our little pinch of salt
33:50Because you've got to salt your desserts you guys
33:52You have to salt your desserts
33:53Salty and sweet
33:54Salty and sweet
33:55And what we went ahead and put in here
33:56Because I just got excited like you all know what I'm doing anyways
33:58You don't
33:59We put lemonade concentrate
34:01Who remembers like old school lemonade concentrate?
34:03Yeah
34:03It's delicious
34:04It's whipped cream cream cheese
34:05And it makes the perfect layer
34:07And then the soap
34:08You know when you're normally using your lady fingers to dip in some coffee
34:12Yeah
34:12What we're doing is we're doing the frozen strawberries
34:14A little bit more of this lemonade concentrate
34:17Which is so delicious
34:18Strawberry
34:19Me too
34:20This is basically strawberry lemonade
34:22Fine
34:22I'm so creative
34:23Yeah
34:25And I don't want this to go on me
34:27But it's simple that's what's effective
34:27Yeah
34:27There we go
34:28Okay
34:29We move this little guy along
34:30Okay
34:31Okay
34:32This little guy is going to go over here in our bowl
34:35And this is the cool part about this
34:36Like even just now I kind of misspoke
34:37I'm like oh what do we do next
34:39That's the part that you want to get your kids into
34:41Like cooking shouldn't be intimidating
34:43It should just be like this second nature thing
34:45Like make your kids do it and they'll love it
34:47They get their little fingers in it
34:48Okay
34:48So over here the bottom layer is going to be our soaked little lady finger
34:52And you want to count one flip them over two
34:56Get in here
34:57Oh it's tougher than I thought
34:58Yeah it's like a little crispy cookie
34:59Yeah yeah yeah
35:00Isn't that cool
35:00Like a little biscuit
35:01Yes
35:02And in the book there's all kinds of swaps
35:04Like what if you're missing this concentrate
35:06Or what if you're missing this
35:07Like use different fruit
35:08So now goes your cream
35:09Oh my
35:10This is so delicious
35:11Here have a little taste
35:13I know you probably shouldn't be tasting yet
35:14But girl go for it
35:15Yeah get in there
35:17Just to make sure it's good
35:17Taste it
35:18It's so good
35:19And I'm pretty generous with the cream
35:21So you want to go half down this way
35:23I need to check again
35:24Right
35:25Check them again
35:26Oh my god
35:27Isn't that so good
35:28Yes
35:29And then
35:30We have our little strawberries to go over the top of that guy
35:35Look how cute
35:38I love it
35:39Oh my god it smells so good
35:40It's so simple
35:41And this is like perfect for like barbecue season
35:43All kinds of good stuff
35:45The next thing we would do is another layer of cookies
35:47Another layer of cream
35:48And then we're done
35:48Okay
35:48And then now we have our little finish guide
35:51TV magic
35:52It's perfect
35:52Here
35:54Oh if I don't eat some more
35:54It doesn't have to be perfect
35:55You just get right in here
35:57And then if you can see the little layers
35:59Look at that cute little dish
36:01Isn't he cute
36:02Yes
36:02Okay
36:03And then here
36:04I won't feed you
36:05But we know each other well enough
36:07Fine
36:07You know what okay here
36:08I love it
36:09I didn't even say use teeth
36:10With my kids or husband
36:12I'd be like teeth
36:14Oh my god
36:15Isn't that so good
36:16That's so good
36:16I love you
36:17It's so simple
36:17I love you too
36:19Thank you for everything
36:20Thank you
36:21It's so simple
36:22Yeah
36:22Which is what people like me need
36:24I know
36:25Oh my god
36:25We over complicate everything
36:26With like honeybee tears
36:27And you have to you know
36:28Have it from a far off land
36:29Honeybee tears
36:30We don't
36:31You don't need that kind of stuff
36:32No this was awesome
36:34Yes
36:34That tastes delicious
36:35Isn't that fabulous
36:36I love this job
36:37Thank you so much Janelle
36:38We've loved you
36:39You're welcome
36:39Every single time you've been here
36:40Your food is amazing
36:41Your desserts are even better
36:43I love them
36:43They're good
36:44Janelle's new book is called
36:45My very first baking book
36:47And everyone in the studio audience
36:49Is going home with a copy
36:50Yay
36:55We'll be right back y'all
36:56With What I'm Liking
37:07Alright y'all
37:08We've got one more great story
37:09To share that we found online
37:11This is What I'm Liking
37:15So parents want their kids to know
37:17They're always thinking of them
37:18And that's why I love this story
37:20About a mama who started a business
37:21All about helping parents
37:23Connect more with their kiddos
37:24And it's beautifully done
37:26It's called Lilu et Violeta
37:28She creates beautiful
37:30Handmade watercolor note cards
37:31That moms and dads can slip
37:33Into their kids' lunch boxes
37:34Backpacks or under their pillows
37:35It's super sweet
37:36And honestly artistically
37:38It's so beautiful as well
37:39We have her on the line right now
37:40To tell us more
37:41Everybody say hello to Janelle
37:42Watching on NBC New York
37:44What's up Janelle?
37:47Hi
37:48I fell in love with these
37:50The first time I saw them
37:52But I did find out this
37:53You didn't set out to make a business
37:55When you did this, right?
37:57No, not at all
37:58I started making these little sketches
38:00For my kids when they were in preschool
38:01I have seven year old twins
38:03And so throughout the year
38:05I've gotten better and better
38:07And then I upped my game to watercolor
38:09And one day my daughter came home
38:11And she said mom
38:12I'm gonna really need you to come
38:14To like give me more and more lunch notes
38:16Because the kids at school
38:17Want to take them home
38:18So I started sketching them at night
38:20The night before
38:20And then I started printing them on nice paper
38:23And then the parents started calling me
38:25And saying oh we have your lunch notes on our fridge
38:27And we love them and they make us happy
38:29And so that's, it really grew from there
38:32I mean seven year old twins
38:34And you got a side hustle business
38:36Doing all this
38:37That's, you're making us all look bad
38:38So tell us about the different cards though
38:41They're so sweet with different messages
38:43Yes, so if you, my daughters are very involved in the business
38:48Everything's hand drawn and painted
38:50But then I show them
38:51One of them loves everything
38:52She's like this is great, I love it
38:54The other one has notes on notes
38:56She loves to give me notes
38:58But she also has great ideas
38:59And so we have these little lunch notes
39:01And the, she came home the other day
39:04And said that she had a rough day at school
39:06So we created a rough days packet
39:08And if you see that
39:09There's the dinosaur down there
39:11That was her idea
39:12Yeah
39:13She said I had a bad day
39:14So I want to make a note that says
39:16Look on the positive side
39:17Not the negative side
39:17And I want to use a battery
39:19And I want to show the plus side up
39:21We just love doing them
39:23They're so fun
39:23They're so beautiful
39:25I mean there's like a children's book series
39:29In here somewhere too
39:30I'm just saying
39:32It's just beautifully done
39:33And it's so sweet
39:34And it does mean something
39:36I know it
39:36One of my kids is more blase about stuff like that
39:39But one of them is just like
39:41Feels so special
39:42And it makes her day
39:43So it's a
39:43It's a
39:44Well I said her
39:45So you know which one it is
39:47So
39:47But it's
39:48It's just really really beautiful
39:49But people can also
39:50The thing I love about it
39:51Is like on the back
39:52They can write their own little notes too
39:54That's what I like about it too
39:55Yes
39:56Because we're all so busy
39:57So I hope that I've done some of the work
39:59So that parents can write their own messages
40:01And give it to their children
40:03Yeah
40:03Thank you so much Jana
40:05This is a beautiful thing you're doing
40:06I'm liking your post right now
40:07But that's not all
40:08Our season long partner
40:09Pilot pen makers of friction
40:10The go-to erasable pen
40:12Of the Kelly Clarkson show
40:13Want to celebrate
40:14Your love of handwritten notes
40:15So they're going to give you a thousand dollars
40:17Just for being rad
40:21Thank you so much Jana
40:24They're beautiful
40:25Thank you to all our guests this hour
40:27Brian Franston
40:28Jane Kaczmarek
40:29Thorin Reed
40:30Therese
40:30And Daniel Kydus
40:32Y'all have a great thing
40:33If it's not too good
Comments