Are You A Charlotte? - Don't Fake It with Mark Feuerstein... (S2 E4 "They Shoot Single People, Don't They?"

Episode Date: July 7, 2025

Practical Magic and Royal Pains star fakes it til he makes it with Kristin while they discuss Season 2 Episode 4: "They Shoot Single People, Don't They?". Mark reveals what shocked him about seeing his own shirtless body on camera, shares a hilarious story about his father telling everyone he knows to watch Sex and the City, and what his Rabbi thought of his scenes!Mark also has high praise for Cynthia Nixon and you'll want to hear all of the behind-the-scenes stories! This episode was on FEUERstein! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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All right, you guys, I have the incredible Mark Forstein. Did I do it right? You nailed that pronunciation. I was really scared for myself and for you. I really could tell. I really could tell. This is the thing, if you look at how your name is spelled, it is confusing. But if you just think about it, like...

It's a lot of vowels in a very short span. Don't look at them, just think about, it is confusing. But if you just think about it, like a lot of vowels, right? You can't look at them. Short span. Right. Don't look at them. Just think about how it sounds. Right? Yeah.

So that's what I did. Hannah and I were her. Great job. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. So you all, I'm sure know who Mark is for many reasons, but our reason that we have him today is that he was in an incredible episode called They Shoot Single People, Don't They?

Filmed in 1999. Wow. Right? Oh my God. Looking at yourself, I mean, this must happen to every guest on your show, but looking at yourself at that time, I mean, on the one hand, yes, so young and God,

the skin is young and vibrant and unaffected by cracks of life and age, but I'm also quite thick and Meathead II to myself. Oh, you look adorable. You look very handsome, but kind of real like a guy Yeah and by the way, another weird thing that my wife and I both noticed watching it last night, I have an incredibly hairy chest. I noticed this as well.

It's gone. I don't have that hair. Where did it go? Can I show you? No, no! Yes, I'm gonna show you. Why not? Why can't I?

You'll be the first person. Boom.. So much less hairy than in the show. Wow. I'm like a gorilla in that. Where did it go? I don't know. So you didn't do anything. It's a fascinating thing about biology. And there's a chance we would do a podcast

for the medical show that I did called Royal Pain. Yes. So in that, we can explore where my hair went. Fantastic. It'll be like a crossover episode. It'll be the medical show that I did called Royal Pains. So in that we can explore where my hair went. It'll be like a crossover episode of podcasts. I'm going to listen to that. So were you aware previous to watching, rewatching this old episode that there was this absence of hair?

Was I aware that I would see how hairy I was? No, I forgot. I've had this phantom feeling like, wait, I think it's much better up there than it used to be. And this was confirmation. Really funny, really funny. I like that a lot. I mean, it is really funny the things that you notice when you look at your younger self.

You know? Sometimes they're just random. There were so many things about the episode, so I want you to guide me. Yeah. Believe me, I have things to say. Oh, I know? Yes. Sometimes there's just random. There were so many things about the episode, so I want you to guide me, but believe me, I have things to say. Oh, I can't wait. I'm sure, I have a lot of things to say too. I have to say, my overall gist of rewatching the show

is that it's all much, much better than I remember. Great. I remember thinking that it took us a long time to get ourselves really together, but when I look back, I'm like, no, no, it's fantastic. Sometimes there's funny production things, like when this episode starts and it has the stars, it has like the twinkling lights and the stars,

to me is so charming. Yes, it is. It's so sweet. So sweet. It's so not, you know, HD, blah, blah, 4K, whatever the heck, blah, blah, blah. No. It's adorable.

I love it. And then there's some really funny camera angles. This episode, by the way, is directed by John David Coles. Who I've worked with on other things, many other things. He was the first time, and then we would do an entire series called Three Pounds, which I did with Stanley Tucci about brain surgeons. He played the bad bedside manner guy.

I was the good bedside manner guy. Perfect. It was like ahead of its time. It was a great show created by Peter Acco. And Indira Varma, a great actress from England, was wonderful on it. And it just was too specific and niche for that time where you want just general medical practice.

But this time, it was, like there was a question which asked the question, an episode which asked the question, does the brain create God or does God create the brain? And like, it went into some deep. Wow, I missed this show. I wanna look it up. I love you and Stanley Tucci.

Oh, I loved him. He was amazing. He's amazing. He had us all to his house in upstate New York or yeah, South Salem, somewhere like that. And made us all fresh pizza in his pizza oven. Oh, how incredible. That was pretty good.

So I have to ask you, cause you just reminded me, do you remember, and I don't know, I feel like this was after this episode. Do you remember running to me into me in the Hamptons? Yes, I do. I don't remember where it was. So my best friend, Lisa, her mom, Dorothy Cornblith,

not everyone needs to know this. No, she's a dear friend of our families, of course. So Lisa, I was out there because at that time, I don't even know if I rented a house. I think I just went to Dorothy's house. Because why not? Yeah, if you know somebody with a house near Georgia Coupons. As you learn from this episode and many others,

you just take the opportunity to go to the Hamptons. 100%, you go with it. At least it would come out and we had no children then, so we would just have fun on the weekends and it was really fun. And then there was like a cocktail party or dinner party, I can't remember, and there you were. So you are still, your family's still out there,

you still go? Yes, I mooch off my parents who rent a house in Bridgehampton and my brother and his wife own one in Sagaponik. Oh, fantastic. So the gang's all there for like some of July and August and it'll be great. Yeah, when we work, we go out as well still.

Oh, amazing. It's like every other summer, which is perfect for the kids, because they love it. Love it. They love it. Okay, let's talk about, first of all, what I love to ask my actor friends to come on,

which is so exciting. Tell me about your life when you got this part. What do you remember? Oh my God. I, it was 1999. I had just, okay. So I came to New York in, I want to say 94, after drama school, voiceovers,

agent, pretty quickly got an agent, was doing regional theater, did a play called Adibic at the Hartford Stage Company, did something at ACT. And then in 96, 97, I was doing sitcoms. So Sex and the City was, oh my God, I'm just remembering the story that I very much wanna tell you about being on Sex and the City.

But I will- I have a story also, I can tell you, yes. Great. Maybe the stories go together. Feels like we're gonna be telling each other things. Yeah, yeah. So I got some sitcoms when I first came out to LA. One was called Carolina and the City.

Yeah. And one was called Fired Up with Leah Remini and Sharon Lawrence. Wow. And then I came back to New York, was on Broadway in a play called Last Night of Ballyhoo. Oh yeah. And somewhere.

I saw that. Oh you did? Yes. Okay. Yes. Well, Paul Rudd had been in it originally. And then for that summer of like 97, I was, I replaced him. With Jessica Hecht.

Jessica Hecht, Aria Boekus, Terry Beaver, Dana Ivy. I remember him vividly, I'm pretty sure I saw you in Not Paul. Okay, well then, awesome. Amazing. That's a win. What a great thing. It was an amazing play.

Yeah, it was so great. It was great, it was really good. To be in that and be on Broadway a great thing. It was an amazing play. Yeah, it was so great. It was great, it was really good. To be in that and be on Broadway and go to Sardis every night afterwards. Oh my God, it's so special. And my father was leading various contingents from my life in New York to come.

So it was like a bar mitzvah every night after the play. It was one night it was the building, one night it was the synagogue, one night it was my school, I had teachers come. But which is leading into my Sex and the City story. Because now I got this role of Josh, the ophthalmologist on Sex and the City. And while my sitcoms were fun to do and real work in TV,

this was the first time I was on a cool show that was like, I mean, come on, Sex and the City was the s*** at its time. I mean, were we the s*** at this point? See, I don't really remember that. Are you kidding? I thought it took a while. After season one, it was everywhere and HBO was just hitting some stride. Yeah, Sopranos. Yes, of course. And so, yes, very cool. Cool, okay.

And so my father's feeling that to the extent he can be aware of what's cool, and he's telling everyone that I just mentioned in the building, the school, the synagogue, everybody, Mark's gonna be on Sex and the City. You gotta watch Mark on Sunday night on Sex and the City. So now all of our Upper East Side New York is aware and the show comes on.

And we're watching. And there's the scene with Miranda where she says, Josh, you know where the clitoris is? And I say, yeah. She goes, it's two inches from where you think it is. The second the episode is over, Rabbi Einseidler is calling my father to go, Harvey, how could you tell me to watch this show?

I'm watching with my daughters, Sarah and Rivka. It's horrible. They're saying clitoris. What is happening? I'm so sorry, Rabbi. Harold. Anyway, it was my father, you know, be careful what you wish for. I understand.

I understand. I feel bad for your dad that he didn't grasp the entirety of the situation. Well, the sex part of the title didn't hit him until he heard the word clitoris. I get it. I get it. It was not a word you heard a lot on television. I still don't think it is a word you hear a lot on television, but I could be wrong because there's so much now.

I don't know. It's hard to say. Right. It is hard to say. Right. It is hard. I mean, does, does, has there been any show there's dying for sex, which is maybe. It's true, but I haven't heard. I only watched one episode, but they didn't talk about. No, nothing.

It's, it's so funny. Cause as I was watching it, I was thinking to myself, this still an issue, this stuff, you know, faking orgasms, where's the clitoris? These are still things that need to be discussed, which is kind of insane, because that's like 25, almost 28 years ago. Crazy. I mean, I guess what could have happened in that 25 years,

like better sex education, fathers sitting their sons down and going, this is what you have to do. Wouldn't that be helpful? I mean, I may have a very interesting conversation with my son Frisco tonight. I think it would be great. Frisco is a great name.

Thank you. I mean, look, I have a son, he's seven, so I really haven't had to contemplate this yet. Thank goodness, because it is daunting, right? It is daunting. But the thing that I think could have changed that obviously went kind of the opposite way is if you think about the ascension of porn.

Right. Because now this is where kids apparently are seeing things. It's not a good source, okay? No, no. It's very misleading. Yeah. And no one's explaining anything. It's just some mayhem.

So how would you go about educating young men? Right. They got to watch Sex and the City. So they won't fall into the Josh trap. Right. Well, the Josh trap, first of all, let's just talk about how incredibly adorable you are. I mean, cause this is one of the things I've been seeing in the beginning of

the show, especially the men sometimes are just awful. Like just like. You mean in terms of their behavior or their performance? Yeah, the storylines. The storylines. I don't mean their performance at all, because usually they're just, I mean, who knows? I've been trying to get Gabriel mocked on here

to explain how he felt, because he has to play this guy in the first season who is secretly filming himself having sex with models and tells Carrie that it's his work of art. But it was secret. Right. And he's just bragging to tells Carrie that it's his work of art. But it was secret. And he's just bragging to her. And it's all the girls from the pages of Vogue. It's like so ick.

Does she? No, she smokes a cigarette. And she's like, oh. She's just like, interesting. Yeah, she's like interesting. You know what I mean? We should be a little more sensurious about that. Yeah.

But it was 1998, right? And it was a different time. And I talked to Candice Bushnell about that. Also saying like, where were these stories coming from? She said, oh, they were real stories. People would come up and volunteer them to me because they wanted me to write them in a column. Which is very interesting to mull all of that over

and how we as women were just kind of used to it. Because it's not even a big deal in that episode. It's horrible. I mean, there was this scandal in France. I don't know if you saw it. Oh, don't even, I know. Horrific. Talk about like that situation on- you saw it. Oh, don't even, I know. I mean, that was so awful.

Horrific. Talk about that situation on a times a million. Yeah, horrific. Yeah, horrific, an incredibly brave woman. We're not even gonna go deeply into that because that's a different show. But I mean, that's a good example of things gone horribly wrong, right?

No, but just the most extreme example proves just how awful it would be to tell that story without the judgment that is warranted. Absolutely. And that's the part when I look back and it's so interesting, like as a time capsule. And people debate a lot about Big and Carrie at this point. And Sarah Jessica has been on the record and I understand her point of view.

And largely what she's saying is if you think about the time and then the generation that raised Carrie and Beg right in us as well, but we're raising the young people and so now things are different, right? So now we know all these words about, you know, gaslighting, bread crumbing, when you just leave enough tidbits to keep someone interested, but you're not really there, you're withholding. Like we have all these words now, right? We didn't even ever talk like that in 1999.

No, no, but is bread crumbing a good word for what happens to Samantha in this episode? Definitely. When the guy keeps mentioning, we, we, we're gonna go to the Hamptons. Yes. We, and then she's sitting alone at the table. It's so sad.

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Wow. I'm saying Raj, like anybody would. That's okay. But anyway, there was a great character named Divya played by Resh Macheti. She married a character named Raj and Ajay Mehta. Is his dad? No, no, is her dad.

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Yeah. But yes, it's funny. It was a little odd how close they were so quickly in that little vestibule by the bathroom. Listen. Because it was like you were like, oh, this is something's about to happen that you did not expect. Totally, but I think that's because Samantha is vulnerable, which is rare, really rare.

You know, that she's like crying at a table. It's like unheard of. It was very moving and sad. It was shocking, I know. But I also think as Candace told us when she came, back then, everybody was like, available to having sex, at least in Candace's world, right? I don't personally remember it like that, but phones had not taken over our lives.

Oh my god, phones! Phones that's the thing from that scene that you take away. She's sitting there and she's like, I didn't have anything to distract me. I didn't have a book or a newspaper. And I'm just sitting there and I'm like, right, we didn't even have a phone. And she has to call her machine. Right, the machine.

To find out if he left a message. It's such a different time. And I'm just so glad it's on film so that people can see what it was like. This now anachronism. Right? Just like no young person would be like, just take out your phone.

I know. I know. Yeah. I know. And then at the end when Carrie is sitting by herself, which I thought was, say, I remember none of this. Some episodes I remember everything. This episode I was like, what is going to happen? And like when Carrie's at the end and she's got her Pashmina around her and she has her

glasses and she's like, I did it on purpose. I'm sitting by myself. I'm claiming this. I'm not going to distract myself. I was like, yes, yes, yes. Yeah. But like, yes, in a very profound way, because she's saying I'm, I'm leaving myself open and bare and vulnerable publicly to be approached, to just be in my own space. And that doesn't exist anymore. I know. No one sits alone and puts their phone on their table and looks out and goes, take me world.

They just go on their phone. I know. I would be scared. I would be scared to sit at a table, take my glasses off and just stare into the distance. I don't know what would happen. But you know this writer, Jonathan Haidt, who talks about our dependence on social media, child psychologists, and how kids all agree if we could all agree to get rid of certain of the apps from like Snapchat and TikTok, they would do it. Like they would all like they would get rid of it if the other kids would agree, but no one agrees

and therefore we just have this. Well, I think we're gonna get there. That's my feeling. I haven't let my daughter have any social media. She has a phone now. She has a phone, no social media still. Amazing. I know.

Good for you. I know and I think it's really good for her. Of course it is. Yeah, it's super interesting. They're like these two young girls in eighth grade at the school we send our kids to. But this one dad and this one couple who have, they're like from another era. These girls on a Saturday night,

they go to one of their houses whose parents are artists and they paint and the eighth grader of my friend's daughter doesn't have a phone at all. And he's like, I think I need to get you something so I can like know where you are. And she's like, get me a flip phone. I don't know. Love her.

Good for her. Good for her. Okay, let's go back to the show and yourself. So you're there, you get this cool show, your dad's all excited, then you get in some trouble with the rabbi, oh dear. Yeah, wait, wait, I have a thing about the sexual aspect. Tell me.

Because we were on that, so I'm just gonna stay on that for one more minute. Go for it, go for it. I'll never forget how comfortable Cynthia Nixon was. I know, she has no fear, it's crazy. Like, I, maybe this is gonna sound chauvinistic, but like, I enjoyed being the actor, the guy, who would make his counterpart feel comfortable. Oh, good.

Feel safe. Sure. She's disrobing in some way. We're doing intimacy stuff without intimacy coordinators. Definitely without. Being respectful, but also chivalrous, all of that. And I come in with that attitude to Cynthia Nixon and she's like, drops her top, she's like, let's go.

And I'm like, oh, and now I'm uncomfortable. And now I'm like, would you please make me feel, no, I was fine, I was fine, but like, I really thought. Yeah, she's not normal. But you gotta love that about her. It's very unusual. I was very impressed. Yeah, it's very impressive.

But the rest of us were always a little bit like, oh God, what's gonna happen? And then what about for yourself? Oh, I'm nervous now, like big time. So how would you handle that in a time when I didn't have to do it. We didn't have intimacy. Didn't have to do it a lot for a while,

though we have discussed this. Because your character was a little more conservative. But see, I'm not really conservative. It's a very funny and interesting thing. This particular episode, pretty conservative, but I had more guys in the end before I found my different husbands than even Samantha. Really?

Can you believe that? Who knew? I know. I know. You mix. I wasn't even really aware. There was a time where I was like, oh my god, if I have to kiss another guy this week.

Oh my lord. Like, you know, it was hard, right? Can you dish or at least just say about the guy in this episode where that started and did Oh my Lord. Like, you know, it was hard, right? Can you dish or at least just say about the guy in this episode, where that started and did- Can I tell you that I literally remember nothing? You remember nothing? I felt so terrible.

Like I read- Did that guy last more than one episode? No, at this point, no one in Charlotte's life lasts. He was the guy who just came and fixed stuff and then you were like, all right, let's see what happens. Yes, yes, yes. It was funny that he was an actor deciding whether or not to stay with acting.

I know. Cause that all of us can. He was like the least literally actor looking actor that they've ever hired for any of us. Well, you've given me a perfect segue to the most actor looking actor who appears in this episode. Who? Oh, Bradley.

Are you kidding? Is he not incredible? I mean, he is so great. Yeah, he's Bradley Cooper. And he has like four lines. He, right, right. It is amazing. No, I remember, I remember,

it's so funny that he was in this episode because I went to a Christmas party at Darren Star's house and there was Bradley Cooper, who was at that moment and I don't know where it falls in the timeline. He was a star of Kinship and Confidential. Wow, what year was this? I mean, God. Because we were his first on-camera job.

No. Isn't that insane? Insane. And he has talked about it at some point on something and said that he was really nervous and that he couldn't drive a stick shift and they told him, you're gonna be driving a vintage Porsche. You have to drive a stick shift.

And they sent him to driving school and he still messed up on the day. I'm sure it was like 4 a.m., right? Stick shift is so hard. It was my first experience in a car. I stripped the clutch within a week of having it. For sure. And you can imagine a vintage Porsche,

I'm sure it was nervous making. I would be dying. So he said someone else had to do it. And that then in the take, cause they pull over and then he says he's getting cigarettes, but apparently they had to just kind of ad lib, lib the pulling over.

I don't know, he wasn't supposed to do it like that, but it worked. It worked and who cares? Cause he's super interesting. But you have, we have to believe other than maybe Silver Linings playbook or something that that was the last time we're going to see Bradley Cooper rejected like he is on screen. Well look, he is not rejected in a casual manner. He's rejected because she's having this large existential crisis based on this magazine cover.

She's saying like exclamation point. I am single. Exactly. Exclamation point and I choose to be and I don't need men to define me. Right and the thing that I loved about Bradley because I only have the vaguest memory. I don't think I ever like ran into him or whatever. It was the Mildenite. I'm sure I wasn't there and I just remembered that he was there and that I would talk to him intermittently as his success happened. Like, oh my God, you know, when I would see him.

But I didn't really remember the gist of the part and that it was in this particular episode. So I think he makes a couple of really fascinating choices even in his very newbie self, right? And one of them is when, so he goes to get cigarettes. Part of why she chooses him is that he's, I don't even know if she says good looking, he's single, heterosexual, so he goes to get cigarettes. Part of why she chooses him is that he's, I don't even know if she says good looking,

he's single, heterosexual, and he smokes. That's why she goes out of the bar with him, which I think is very funny. I mean, those are really the reasons to be with Bradley Cooper. I guess, I mean, there's some other reasons. Yeah, there's other reasons, but in the young Bradley Cooper self, I could see it,

and that's where the character Carrie is at, right? And so Stanford is left saying everyone here is homosexual, even though there's two heterosexual people like fully making out behind her, but whatever. And so then Bradley, yeah, I was like, huh, those people, anyway. Um, then Bradley walks in and I mean, why not?

Right. And he's got a cigarette. So she's like, yay, hey, and he's, you know, dreamy. So then they leave, they're in the Porsche. He gets out to get the smokes and of course sees this magazine where she does not look the best of herself.

And it says, is it single and fabulous? Question mark. Right? That's the point. Rather than single and fabulous with an exclamation point, which is what she thought. Well, it's a big question mark on how she looks and how's weathered. All of it. All of it.

She's been up all night. It's all my fault. I made her have more drinks, but we'll get to that in a second. That is true. So then he comes back and the window is up of the convertible Porsche, and he takes the magazine and puts it right in her face, and like a kid says, is that you? It's the most interesting choice,

because he really could have gone negative there, but he doesn't. He's like, is that you? It's not necessarily like he thinks it's horrible, right? It's just really in her face, you know, but he doesn't. He's like, is that you? It's not necessarily like he thinks it's horrible, right? It's just really in her face, you know what I'm saying? That like confronting this perception of being single, you know, and maybe that's bad, and we've been talking about it the whole episode, right?

And that's when she says, if I go home with him, I am going home with him to prove exclamation mark, but I will actually be proving question mark. And I'm not gonna do that. And then he goes, I'm not gonna let you out, which he also says in the most adorable way, which could also have been kind of sinister, right? That was a little sinister.

Right? It was a little sinister, but his choice there was super interesting. Like he doesn't go sexy at all. He just goes like, I'm not gonna let you out. Right. Well, he's very charming. He's very fucking charming, okay?

And he seems like he might be playing a little drunk. Like when he gets out of the car in his leather pants, he looks a little drunk, you know? Like high on the night, whatever, I don't know. It's all very fascinating, and I thought we could have had a whole episode of them. You know what I mean? But I also- Well he never came back.

That was it. No, that was it. It wasn't even a whole episode, right? But I also really would have loved a whole episode of you and Cynthia because- Oh God. Oh my God. And that's what I started saying to earlier is that some of the guys, especially first season, you're just like, ew, ick, ew.

To them saying, like part of it is the storyline, but part of it is just like, you can't see the positive. And what I loved about what you did, and I don't know if this was conscious, and I'm so curious how you felt, you're just adorably like wanting to please. And it's almost like the look on your face when she tells you that all these other women

must've been faking it. And you're just like really trying to think through, oh my God, were they faking it? Like it's so adorable. What were you thinking? I just took what was written very seriously and that this guy's a doctor and if he's going to, if his skill set is lacking, he is going to learn,

just like he did with medicine. Sure. But the fun of it for me was knowing that she's faking it as an actor that it's only held in starker relief by a guy who thinks he's the shit. So there was one ad lib that I was proud of. At the very last moment of the episode,

I guess Samantha is, not Samantha, um, Carrie is saying in voiceover and not much was happening uptown and Carrie's giving the performance of her, I mean, uh, Miranda, Miranda's giving the performance of her life and I'm behind whatever. Yeah, yeah, that's funny. For camera. Yeah. And I'm like, oh, oh yeah.

And then at my moment of climax, I yell, I'm the man. Oh. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. That's adorable. Which is just stepping into how pathetic he is. That's so cute though. Even more. But it's funny.

In his mind, he thinks he just nailed it. Totally, but that's what's so adorable. And she's so cute though. Even more, but it's funny. Because in his mind, he thinks he just nailed it. Totally, but that's what's so adorable. And she's so not, she's so funny on her side because she's in front of him, you can't see her face. It's very funny. My Uncle Chris is definitely somebody worth talking about. He was the kind of guy that lived in a trailer with an ex-con and a retired stripper, left

loaded machine guns laying around, drank a bottle of whiskey a night, claimed he could kill a man with his bare hands, drove a garbage truck for a living, spoke fluent Spanish with a thick southern accent, and is currently buried in a crypt alongside the founding families of Panama. Listen to the Uncle Chris podcast to hear all about him and a whole lot more. Wild stories about adventure, romance, crime, history, and war intertwine as I share the tall tales

and hard truths that have helped me understand Uncle Chris. This collection of stories will make you laugh, it'll make you cry, and if I do my job right, they'll let you see the world and your place in it in a whole new way. I can't wait to tell you all about Uncle Chris. Listen now to Uncle Chris on Will Ferrell's Big Money Players Network on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. So what happened at Chappaquiddick? Well, it really depends on who you talk to.

There are many versions of what happened in 1969 when a young Ted Kennedy drove a car into a pond. And left a woman behind to drown. There's a famous headline, I think, in the New York Daily News. It's, Teddy escapes, blonde drowns. And in a strange way, right, that sort of tells you. The story really became about Ted's political future,

Ted's political hopes. Will Ted become president? Chappaquiddick. The story really became about Ted's political future, Ted's political hopes. Will Ted become president? Chappaquiddick is a story of a tragic death and how the Kennedy machine took control. And he's not the only Kennedy to survive a scandal. The Kennedys have lived through disgrace, affairs, violence, you name it. So is there a curse?

Every week we go behind the headlines and beyond the drama of America's royal family. Listen to States of Kennedy's on the I heart radio app Apple podcast or wherever you get your podcasts. I Know a lot of cops and they get asked all the time. Have you ever had to shoot your gun? Sometimes the answer is yes. But there's a company dedicated to a future where the answer will always be no. Across the country, cops call this Taser the revolution. But not everyone was convinced it was that simple. Cops believed everything that Taser told them.

From Lava for Good and the team that brought you Bone Valley comes a story about what happened when a multi-billion dollar company dedicated itself to one visionary mission. This is Absolute Season 1, Taser Inc. I get right back there and it's bad. It's really, really, really bad. Listen to new episodes of Absolute Season One,

Taser Incorporated, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Binge episodes one, two, and three on May 21st, and episodes four, five, and six on June 4th. Add free at Lava for Good Plus on Apple Podcasts. Welcome to Pretty Private with Ebene, the podcast where silence is broken and stories are set free.

I'm Ebene and every Tuesday, I'll be sharing all new anonymous stories that will challenge your perceptions and give you new insight on the people around you. On Pretty Private, we'll explore the untold experiences of women of color who faced it all, childhood trauma, addiction, abuse, incarceration, grief, mental health struggles, and more,

and found the strength to make it to the other side. My dad was shot and killed in his house. Yes, he was a drug dealer. Yes, he was a confidential informant, but he wasn't shot on a street corner. He wasn't shot in the middle of a drug deal. He was shot in his house unarmed. Pretty Private isn't just a podcast. It's your personal guide for turning storylines into lifelines. Every Tuesday, make sure you listen to Pretty Private from the Black Effect Podcast Network. Tune in on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.

The summer of 1993 was one of the best of my life. I'm journalist Jeff Perlman, and this is Rick Jervis. We were interns at the Nashville Tennessean, but the most unforgettable part? Our roommate, Reggie Payne, from Oakleth, sports editor and aspiring rapper. And his stage name? Sexy Sweat. In 2020, I had a simple idea.

Let's find Reggie. We searched everywhere, but Reggie was gone. In February 2020, Reggie was having a diabetic episode. His mom called 911. Police cuffed him face down. He slipped into a coma and died. I'm like thanking you, but then I see my son's not moving. No headlines, no outrage, just silence.

So we started digging and uncovered city officials bent on protecting their own. Listen to Finding Sexy Sweat on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I thought that John did a great directing job of this episode. He's a great director, like a real stalwart, amazing New York director. And he does some fun, like he, do you remember in the beginning when we're out dancing, which we'll talk about in a second, because I'm not in order, and he does these funny camera things, he then comes back later on when, I don't know if I take a drug or something, meaning Charlotte, but I have this trippy dancing, I don't know if we just called

him when we had dancing or whatever, it seems like we did. And I had this trippy dancing that I do maybe next season. And I can't remember what leads to this, but something unusual... Are you like the Elaine of Sex and City? Was there a little... No, no, no. A little like Elaine? No, no, it wasn't that.

It was Charlotte being uptight and then Charlotte... Letting loose. In some way, having an alternate experience. You bring Carrie back and like you're the one saying, let's come on, we never. With the drinking. Yeah. I know, which is very unusual too. Very unusual. And I remember all that, but we're going to talk about that in a second because I want to tell you my story that I remember. Yes.

Okay. So you come, it's your first day. Now, I don't know, did you go to a read through or anything like that? Do you remember? No, I don't think so. Okay. Okay. I know that we always tried to have read throughs, but at a certain point, it got really hard with the, you know, the schedule and then the new people, you know, and whether you're free or not free. So some people remember the read throughs like vividly, like a theater, it's almost like a theater level read through

cause Michael Patrick especially looks at it like that, you know, like old school read through, right? Where like, if that joke doesn't land in the read through, that joke gets cut, which I'm continually trying to explain to my pretend children, like, please act in the read through because they're, you know, young and they would like to be very real. And I'm like, your jokes are going to get cut. So you need to do it up. Okay. Smart. Yeah. And then look at me like I'm insane.

It's a great, it's a great piece of advice because it's like in Hollywood, you're always selling, always like gotta always be in a pitch, in a development meeting, whatever it is, like don't let it sag because they'll just go, ah, you know what, I've lost all enthusiasm. Yeah, and I just think the young people, idea, whatever it is. Right, I don't think they know this, you know?

And I mean, they are young, so, you know, I mean, and I am their pretend mother. They're getting paid, so. They are getting paid, right. Teach them well. But I just want their stuff to this, you know? And I mean, they are young, so, you know, I mean, and I am their pretend mother. They're getting paid, so. They are getting paid, right. Teach them well. But I just want their stuff to stay, you know, too. Just for selfish reasons, I want them to have good stuff. Anyway, sometimes, maybe they listen occasionally, I don't know, but anyway, so you did never read through.

So I think that was your first day, and the three of us were in the trailer, and in the trailer, what we would do is we would run our lines, because Michael Patrick, he expected us to have our lines. Perfect. Oh, hell yeah. Perfect.

And on this particular day, I remember him, we were going around that one section with the fence and I'm stretching or whatever and I had some line, I don't remember exactly what the line was, I should have paid more attention whenever you watched, but it's like something, something, something, comma, something, something, something. And I flipped two words and he comes like, you know,

with some energy over to me, like, don't flip those words. And I'm like, did I flip the words? And he's like, it's not funny that way. I'm like, okay, Michael, okay, all right. I'm really gonna, woo. I mean, look, the guy's brilliant. No joke. And he gets comedy and he comes from like sitcoms

and like bam, bam, bam, where it's all about this. So I get that. And there's also some situations where there's room to have fun. 100%. And he's more relaxed now, but I mean, we never ad lib. Like everyone's like, were you guys ad libbing?

We're like, no, we're still not ad libbing, okay. But that's what I remember about that day from him. And then from you, we're in the trailer, we're running our lines to make them perfect, right? And snippy, snappy, snippy, snappy. And you come in, you know, later, because obviously we come in early to get ready, and we're all in the like, you know,

amped up mode of like pre-scene, right? And you say some, we say like, hey, you know, Mark, do you wanna run some lines? And you're like, oh, I don't really know them. And we're like, oh! No! Yeah, something, you're like, I'm not sure if I'm a hundred percent,

something like that. Not, not like totally. Oh my God. I know we were very scared. To me. Look, it could have been, and I think about this now, it could have been because like,

it's a lot to walk in, you know, to another show, another, you know, group of people show. But it's so funny. It's so great to hear this story because I am someone who now is so prepared. I know my lines. I'm on royal pains with medical terminology for eight years. I had it down

and I pride myself on that. That's good. And I get a little disappointed when people don't. Right. Because it's just like I even was on Instagram today and Tom Hanks was giving some advice about like show up on time, which means a little early. Yes. Know your lines and then give that extra perspective that only you can add to it. That's nice. I like that. It's not much more complicated than that. I think that's well put. I think that's really well put. I mean that's really well put. I mean, this is 1999, right? So whatever was going on with you, whatever.

But also, so what happened was, and this is the part that I remember the best. So we were kind of like, we were at that point, I mean, I don't know that I felt that we were a hit, but we were definitely a group, like we were in it. You know what I'm saying? We were working all night every night. Walking around the streets of New York was different for you guys

than just a bunch of girls walking around. Yeah, we were feeling that. You were the sh**, let's be honest. I don't know if we felt the sh**, but we felt like, we felt like we had to really work hard. Do you know what I mean? Like we were like, cause we had to film and film and film and all night long and getting those heels and look great.

And you know what I'm saying? Like we were in it and we were like... But you were the Beatles of New York at the time. We didn't feel like it, but maybe we were. I don't know. You were. I mean, you were. I didn't know. I don't know if we felt like it. So let me tell you the rest of the story. I'm not saying the edgy, like the Sopranos, but it was cool and made... Oh sure, we were cool, yeah.

Every girl was obsessed and every guy was aware. Which is nice. I don't know that we were aware of that fully at that point. I feel like third and made every girl was obsessed and every guy was aware. Which is nice. I don't know that we were aware of that fully at that point. I feel like third season is when that clicked for us. Because we got nominated for an Emmy, which we never, never, never thought would happen. And that was when we were like,

ah, people are watching. That's so cool. Because no one ever talked about numbers at HBO. No one, it wasn't like being on a network show where Monday morning you would hear, you know, what the overnights were, whatever the heck, you know what I'm saying. No one, it wasn't like being on a network show where Monday morning you would hear, you know, what the overnights were or whatever the heck, you know what I'm saying? Right. But no, it wasn't like that.

So anyway, you come in, some version of this conversation happens where we were like, oh, and then you said something in my mind, maybe I'm wrong, but this is the, the reason that I remember this is because it was kind of a watershed moment for me. And we had a conversation amongst ourselves about it later, that we had to be more considerate about our guest stars, especially the men folk. Because you guys are coming in as the guest stars, kind of like as the girls, you know?

Which is not normal back then especially, right? Like it wasn't like a regular... You mean as the girls who had traditionally been visiting the more male dominated shows of the time. The girlfriend role, yeah. Like the one episode girlfriend role, right? For sure. But it was flipped.

So you come in, we're like, you wanna run some lines, and you're like, oh, I don't know if I'm 100%, which could have just been you also, like I'm sure all of this- It's fine, I like hearing it. Okay, good, and then- I was relaxed at one time in my life about being prepared and not so intense. Very good. Then you say something like, I mean, are we going to have to do it exactly like the script?

And we were like, oh! Did I really say that? Yes! Something like that, right? And all of us were just like, oh! Yes! And then it seemed like maybe we had created a bit of tension in the trailer. Do you know what I mean? That's how I felt, right? With me.

Yeah, that we hadn't maybe been the nicest. Do you know what I'm saying? Yeah, sure. That was the conversation. Did I look like I felt? You just seemed possibly quiet. Not like standoffish, but, and also you weren't over with us physically in the scene, you were running past us, right?

So it's not like we got to kind of bond with you. We didn't. You were just like running past and we all look at you like, well, who's that? You know, Miranda, you know what I'm saying? Like, oh, who's that? Rather than us being in the scene with you. I remember having the best time.

Oh, good. I'm on the reservoir where I trained for football and wrestling seasons as a high school kid in New York. And I ran into people I knew, like as I'm waiting around, on the side of the reservoir, friends running, said hi. It was just like, it was so much more casual

than I had imagined in my head. Like this is just, oh, I'm just shooting Sex and the City and there's some cameras and these guys are nice. And it wasn't as intimidating because it wasn't as like as legendary as it would become. It was still new, but I just was, and you know, being on something as cool as that makes you think you're cool for sure. I mean, look, especially when we're all young like that, I mean, you definitely feel,

you know, you're looking for validation. Like, yes, I am going to be able to do this career. I mean, yes, for sure. Yeah. Yeah. Good. I'm so relieved that you didn't remember us being mean. I'm such a pleaser on a set. Yeah. And so to hear like, I feel like the way your story is painting me is like, this guy didn't give a f... I mean, I wouldn't go that far. I just felt like you were...

Because, you know, I had a friend too. I mean, I had numerous actor friends more here in LA. And I remember we'd done the first season and I was just so devoted to the show, right? I was just so like, we're gonna keep going, it's gonna be amazing. And luckily I was right. And I remember this guy was like, well, you're not gonna watch it, are you?

And I was like, yeah, I can't wait. Just waiting for them to send the VHR tape, VHS, whatever it was. And he was like, no, no, you don't watch your television. You just make the television for a check. You don't watch your television. I was like, no, beaches, whatever it was. And he was like, no, no, you don't watch your television. You know, you just make the television for a check. You don't watch your television. I was like, no, no, no. Who said this?

I'm not going to say. Okay. He would know if he's listening, but he's probably not. Right. But it was an actor, okay. And I remember just thinking like, well, that's not what we're doing. Like we care, you know, we care a lot.

I watch every episode of Stuff I'm In. Right. I mean, there may be things that I missed because it was just a small part or something I wasn't excited about. Yes. I don't know, but like always. Yes, yes.

I agree, I agree. But I also think there's just different types of actors and some people have a hard time watching themselves like Sarah Jessica. It doesn't mean she doesn't care. It means she cares too much. Right. It's hard for her to watch because she judges herself. She can't get over judging herself to watch.

For me, it's like it takes three viewings to actually watch it with any objectivity whatsoever. Impressive. Like the first time you're just watching yourself. Like what did they keep? What did they cut? What do I look like? Then the second time,

maybe you have a sense of the general story. And then the third time, like I could probably say, oh, not the best choice. Oh, that was fun. Cute. I like that. I would not watch myself three times because I would definitely go down a rabbit hole probably. But rewatching one time now many, many, many years later is just pure enjoyment. Yeah. Pure enjoyment.

There's so much time and space and we're such little children. And luckily we're all still working together, which is wonderful. So we have that kind of solid, you know, thing that you can then look back on and see all the things, you know? And mostly I'm just, I mean, occasionally I'll think like, I was bad in that moment. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Like you do.

But mostly it's all good. We're crazy, of course. Or we would not be actors. Absolutely, we're insecure psychopaths. But do you ever bring things you see in doing research for the podcast to the other castmates and go, do you remember that? Are you kidding?

Can you give me like one that you- I have to stop from texting them every single day about it because I think I might be driving them crazy. I mean, I've had them on, there's more to come on, but you know, there's things that none of us remember. Like there's an episode in the first season where Carrie levitates off Fifth Avenue. What the heck? Carrie's like, huh, I'm like, you don't remember?

She goes, well, I remember one time we had this kind of like jerry-rigged kind of platform. I'm like, that must have been it because obviously we had no actual, you know, harness or what, you know what I'm saying. But somehow she lifted up. I don't know how it happened. She doesn't know how it happened.

I'm sure it was 5 a.m., right? Which influences everything. But yeah, no, we have, but the great part is to try to weave the memories together because we all remember different things, you know? So that's the fun part. -♪ MUSIC PLAYING -♪ My Uncle Chris is definitely somebody worth talking about.

He was the kind of guy that lived in a trailer with an ex-con and a retired stripper, left loaded machine guns laying around, drank a bottle of whiskey a night, worth talking about. He was the kind of guy that lived in a trailer with an ex-con and a retired stripper, left loaded machine guns laying around, drank a bottle of whiskey a night, claimed he could kill a man with his bare hands, drove a garbage truck for a living, spoke fluent Spanish with a thick southern accent,

and is currently buried in a crypt alongside the founding families of Panama. Listen to the Uncle Chris podcast to hear all about him and a whole lot more. Wild stories about adventure, romance, crime, history, and war intertwine as I share the tall tales and hard truths that have helped me understand Uncle Chris. This collection of stories will make you laugh, it'll make you cry, and if I do my job right, they'll let you see the world and your place in it in a whole new way.

I can't wait to tell you all about Uncle Chris. Listen now to Uncle Chris on Will Ferrell's Big Money Players Network, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts. So what happened at Chappaquiddick? Well, it really depends on who you talk to. There are many versions of what happened in 1969 when a young Ted Kennedy drove a car into a pond. And left a woman behind to drown. There's a famous headline, I think, in the New York Daily News.

It's, Teddy escapes, blonde drowns. And in a strange way, right, that sort of tells you. The story really became about Ted's political future, Ted's political hopes. Will Ted become president? Chappaquiddick is a story of a tragic death and how the Kennedy machine took control. And he's not the only Kennedy to survive a scandal.

The Kennedys have lived through disgrace, affairs, violence, you name it. So is there a curse? Every week we go behind the headlines and beyond the drama of America's royal family. Listen to United States of Kennedy on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. and beyond the drama of America's royal family. Listen to United States of Kennedy on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,

or wherever you get your podcasts. I know a lot of cops, and they get asked all the time, have you ever had to shoot your gun? Sometimes the answer is yes. But there's a company dedicated to a future where the answer will always be no. Across the country, cops called this Taser the revolution. But not everyone was convinced it was that simple. Cops believed everything that Taser told them.

From Lava for Good and the team that brought you Bone Valley comes a story about what happened when a multi-billion dollar company dedicated itself to one visionary mission. This is Absolute Season One, Taser Incorporated. I get right back there and it's bad. It's really, really, really bad. Listen to new episodes of Absolute Season One, Taser Incorporated on the iHeartRadio app, really bad. Welcome to Pretty Private with Ebene, the podcast where silence is broken and stories are set free. I'm Ebene and every Tuesday I'll be sharing all new anonymous stories that will challenge your perceptions and give you new insight on the people around you. On Pretty Private, we'll explore the untold experiences of women of color who faced it all,

childhood trauma, addiction, abuse, incarceration, grief, mental health struggles, and more, and found the strength to make it to the other side. My dad was shot and killed in his house. Yes, he was a drug dealer. Yes, he was a confidential informant, but he wasn't shot on a street corner. He wasn't shot in the middle of a drug deal. He was shot in his house unarmed. Pretty Private isn't just a podcast. It's your personal guide for turning storylines

into lifelines. Every Tuesday, make sure you listen to Pretty Private from the Black Effect Podcast Network. Tune in on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. Sometimes it's hard to remember, but... Going through something like that is a traumatic experience, but it's also not the end of your life.

That was my dad reminding me and so many others who need to hear it, that our trauma is not our shame to carry and that we have big, bold, and beautiful lives to live after what happened to us. I'm your host and co-president of this organization, Dr. Lea Traetate. On my new podcast, The Unwanted Sorority, we wade through transformation to peel back healing and reveal what it actually looks like, and sounds like, in real time. Each week, I sit down with people who've lived through harm, carried silence, and are now reshaping the systems that failed us.

We're going to talk about the adultification of Black girls, mothering as resistance, and the tools we use for healing. The Unwanted Sorority is a safe space, not a quiet space. So let's lock in. We're moving towards liberation together. Listen to The Unwanted Sorority, new episodes every Thursday on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I just wanna know, because you're a married person, right? You're a successfully married person, which I'd like to say congratulations. Thank you.

Not easy. Now what you're doing is not easy. Thank you. It's definitely not easy. Thank you. It's definitely not easy, but you know, it is what it is and I love it. You're a force of nature. Oh my God. Thank you so much. I'm just trying to keep it all going.

You know what I'm saying? Isn't that what we all do? You are. Here we are. Thank you. We are here. And then you're getting to your kid's thing and like look at you.

I am, hopefully, hopefully. Knock on the wood. This is what I think. And I'm curious your thoughts. I had so many moments of watching this thinking nothing has changed about being single in our world. And I don't know if it's because I come from the generation of us, right? I'm not a younger person.

And I do feel like younger people possibly have more freedom about being single. Are you? I, I'm fully single, 100% single. Okay. But what you're asking me? No, no, I'm saying like, are you, I Is that what you're asking me? No, no. I'm saying, like, are you, I was gonna say, are you crazy?

Because, like, the apps have made dating so different, I think. Yeah. Like, there's such a different attitude. There's such a swipe mentality. Right. And, like, I'm not gonna take the risk of even five minutes of sitting awkwardly with someone.

Well, that is an interesting point someone if I don't have to. But you're doing it, so I don't know. I'm not doing it. No, I'm not on those apps, man. No. I mean, disaster. But you can speak better if it's the same. I don't know.

Well, this is the thing that I think is confusing. So we've had all these changes, right? Like the apps 100% have fundamentally changed things, right? But I'm not really in the dating pool, right? I've got my kids. I don't understand that, right? To me, cause I'm, I'm from our group, right? Like I, I didn't, I didn't make the change.

I don't know how to put it. I didn't roll with it. You know what I'm saying? I was paying attention to the kids. I wasn't even about dating, you know? So then I was just like, what the heck is this? Like strangers? Yeah.

I mean, I don't understand. Like really? Like I'm going to talk to a stranger and then potentially meet up with them? Like what? But you've never done it. No. So you've never swiped or looked and gone and showed up?

No, I had a friend, a single guy friend. I was like, please show it to me. Because we have it sometimes. Even the Raya, the fancy one? No, he showed me the Raya because he's fancy. OK. But no, I fancy one? No, he showed me the Raya because he's fancy. Okay. But no, I'm scared to death, Mark. I don't understand.

I'm shy. I know it seems weird to say that because I'm sitting here easily with you, but you're lovely. But, and I'm an actor and people think that actors can't possibly be shy, but we really can. Sure, of course.

Because you have a character. You have like a job. That's partly why many of us got into it. That's why I got into it. Right? So like the idea that I would be just like swiping at people's faces with weird descriptions and then just be like, well, that one looks nice. And then texting with them or whatever.

I don't understand. And then everyone would know if you liked them or not. I don't get that. And then you might meet for coffee with a total, 100% stranger who could be a psychopath. Yeah. And you might have already done like sexting and weird things before that. Well, we never have.

I mean, not you, but like other people. Is that what they do? For sure. Well, that's crazy. For sure. See, I don't understand at all. But, but maybe what you're also saying. That's out of order.

Maybe what you're also saying is that like the loneliness or the feelings that are evoked by Samantha sitting at that table are time immemorial. Like they are all like from Jane Austen on through to today. Absolutely. Women or men want companionship and love and it's hard when you can't find your hubble. Well for sure. Don't get me started on that. Whew. But what I will say also is like, I really related to Carrie, I would say. But like when, so Sarah Jessica, Carrie, you know, she gets this picture taken, like she's

laid and she's smoking and this photographer is not her friend. She's living her life. And they catch her in a bad moment. Right. But no, they don't even catch her. They zero in on that. They go for it. You know what I'm saying?

In the way that the press is like now, right? And for the whole time that I've been in the press. 30 years of this insanity where you have to like be so careful and they'll make you look bad and they wanna make you look bad. And they're like, why is Kristen single? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I know it's okay, but I mean, this is our world, right?

But I mean, you are, I like, I know why you wouldn't be on the apps because you're the catch of catches. Well, you're kind, that is so sweet, that is so sweet. I'm not on the apps because I think I would pick a crazy person, that's why I'm not on the apps. Because I can find them, okay? Then that's a good reason not to.

Wherever that, isn't it? Isn't it? See, this is the things that I've learned, right? Like you do learn over time. You know, I know myself, I know myself, I know what's interesting. Crazy people are interesting. Right?

Right? So that's why I'm not on there. Watch every crime docu-series on TV. See, exactly right. I wanted to ask you about your show. Is your show gonna come back? There was an announcement about it. It's still like fighting its way to the moment

of official green light. Oh, amazing! But it is really in process. And I saw things, and I think it's amazing. And it would be so great for Royal Pains to come back in a new form. And we shall see. Incredible.

And then what about, aren't they also redoing Practical Magic or doing a next... They are. And were you not in that? I don't want to ruin it for anybody who's about to see it, but I will because, you know, it's a side character. I got hit by a truck and killed. But they're witches, so all I'm saying to Sandy and the whole team at Practical Magic is like, hey, Dan Wiest and Stockard Channing, just do a little, you know, hocus pocus

and the kid is back on the screen. Yeah, isn't it fascinating how things are coming back? I mean, I'm like on the one hand, I know sometimes people criticize that, but on the other hand, I feel like our business is in free fall and if there's an IP that people know, why not? But you know, in the discussion about

the Royal Pains reboot, one of my partners in it was like, there's no good example of a, and isn't your show the best example of a successful reboot? Well, there's the thing. First of all- Is it not a reboot? We don't like to call it a reboot because it's a continuation.

Great. Right? But like, couldn't we say, if you had to find an example of a reinvention, a rebirth. It's a reinvention, it's a rebirth, yes. That is as good as you can get. I think you're really kind. I'm just gonna be totally honest and say not everyone would agree with that.

That's fine, that's fine, screw them. I'm like, whatever, we're doing it. Can you think of a better one? No, I mean, I don't know your idea. There's lots of reboots on the table, but I haven't seen a lot of great ones. And we have continued and we live on and that's really what matters to us.

What season of this? Third, we're just putting the third on the air. It's awesome. And to us, we're women in our 50s now, right? So like, we're pushing some different boundaries that are not that easy to get someone to say that you get to push now. So that in and of push now. Right.

So that in and of itself is an accomplishment. If anybody would be allowed, it would be you guys. That's exactly, that's why we have to do it. Yeah. Do you know what I mean? Amen. Because we're like, we gotta show them that it can be done.

And even though that's still young, you don't look like, you look like you're 27. That's only because I'm having a good time, but thank you. Okay, you guys, this has been the absolute most fun with Mark Feuerstein. He has been a dream guest, okay? It has been a dream to be here. Thank you.

I am so happy to see you again. Me too. And let's not let it be so long. I know. Until we see each other again. I know. And I will have to say, I will keep my eyes peeled because frankly, you're the catch of the century.

So just in my travels, just in my travels. I know your life is full as it can be. See, I need a referral. You know what I'm trying to say? Yes, I do. You're shy, it's out there. Yeah, I can be swiping. Yeah.

Who know you? Thank you, Mark. I appreciate your thoughtfulness. But that aside, this was so fun. You're so good. It was so fun, thank you. So are you. And thank you for having me. And that aside, this was so fun. You're so good. Thank you. So are you. And thank you for having me.

And you're so great on that episode. So I'm just happy that we got to be together, because I'd like to really be able to kind of rehash and re-immortalize the amazing episodes that we did way back there. And I just want to say, playing a guy who was so bad in bed that Miranda had to fake her orgasms was so great for my single life at the time.

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