The Chris Voss Show - The Chris Voss Show Podcast – TV’s General Hospital: Andy Page’s Behind-the-Scenes Revelations

Episode Date: September 26, 2024

TV's General Hospital: Andy Page's Behind-the-Scenes Revelations Shophomeandheart.com Andypaige.com Girlygogarter.com Episode Summary: In this stimulating episode of The Chris Voss Show, Chris Voss converses with Andy Paige, the multi-talented actress and entrepreneur currently featured on ABC’s General Hospital. Chris engages with Andy about her diverse career, expanding from reality TV hosting to acting, and her foray into creating beauty innovations. Andy shares fascinating details about how her past professional endeavors led her to a pivotal role at General Hospital, emphasizing the importance of seizing opportunities and being consistently dependable in one's career. Throughout their conversation, they delve into modern dating issues, reflecting on ghosting, nurturing femininity, and the challenges faced by today's singles. Andy details her new approach to integrating products from General Hospital into the consumer market strategy, explaining how fans can now buy items seen on-screen. Besides TV talk, Andy offers valuable beauty tips, including the benefits of red light therapy, and discusses her unique invention, the Girly Go Garter. From her fascinating professional journey to actionable beauty and dating advice, this episode is packed with enriching content. Key Takeaways: Professional Commitment: Andy stresses the importance of showing up on time, being prepared, and always giving your best effort since these qualities help make lasting, positive impressions in your professional career. Red Light Therapy Benefits: A non-invasive beauty treatment that sustains collagen and enhances skin elasticity, which Andy personally endorses and uses regularly. Modern Dating Challenges: Ghosting, a significant issue, is discussed alongside the profundity of nurturing true femininity and how to approach contemporary dating scenarios with confidence and clarity. Innovative Marketing in TV: General Hospital’s integration of on-screen products into actual consumer goods is a novel approach, potentially paving the way for other legacy TV shows. Entrepreneurial Insight: Andy shares her journey in inventing the Girly Go Garter and the expansive potential of entrepreneurial ideas when pursued earnestly. Notable Quotes: "You don't eat the fruit from the seeds that you plant today. You plant the seeds and the fruit will bear itself over time." "Red light therapy really does work. It helps with fine lines and wrinkles… I use it on my neck and my knees." "Femininity is the most powerful thing in the universe. It moves mountains, it starts wars." "Modern dating is different because you question why… Being direct is so helpful because it at least allows you to check so many things off." "All work has value. No matter what the project is, if you can give your best and show up prepared, you're getting closer to what's right for you." About the Guest(s): ACTRESS, PODCAST HOST, QVC GUEST HOST, BEAUTY/IMAGE/LIFESTYLE EXPERT FOR NATIONAL TV & WEEKLY RADIO, AUTHOR, INVENTOR/PRESIDENT OF GIRLYGOGARTER® AT ANDY PAIGE STYLE, INC. With her current role as Pearl, on ABC’s General Hospital, Andy Paige mimics her actual QVC guest host expertise, captivating and selling products to both TV audiences through innovative consumer advertising. You can find Andy’s podcast, The Dating Lab with the Hillbilly Yenta on both Youtube and podcast platforms and listen or watch her explore modern dating, its frustrations, realities and solutions with interesting and funny guests from all walk of life. Andy’s international best selling book, STYLE ON A SHOESTRING, now available in three languages and hundreds of “fabulously frugal” makeovers on over 200 episodes of television airing in 14 countries, earned her the TVGuide appointed title “Budget Bombshell”; and with good reason. Andy’s extensive work on NBC’s Emmy winning, Starting Over, TLC’s Ten Years Younger STYLE Network’s How Do I Look,

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Maybe it's not. Anyway, guys, go to goodreads.com, fortuneschristmaslinkedin.com, fortuneschristmas, christmas1, the TikTokity, and christmasfacebook.com, and you can see all the wonderful stuff we're up to. Today we have Andy Page on the show with us today. She is Pearl on ABC's General Hospital, spokesman for GHShopHomeandHeart.com, QVC guest host,

beauty and style expert on national TV and radio for over 25 years, and now she reaches the pinnacle of career. She's on The Chris Voss Show. Welcome to the show, Andy. How are you? I'm well. And after my episode, I'm expecting you to include soap stars to that amazing list of people that you can expect to experience on The Chris Voss Show.

We should have more soap stars on. We've been trying to get more Hollywood on, so we should probably get more soap stars. In fact, one of these days, I need to get invited on General Hospital as the leading man, I think. I think. I've got the chops. I can help you make that happen, and I can totally see it. The voice alone.

I'm still trying to get it on Dallas. That ship may have sailed, kind sir. However, I don't know if you know this, but do you know who my co-star is on General Hospital? JR? No, I'm just kidding. Nope. Get ready. I think he's passed, but

I am actually co-starring with Morgan Fairchild. Oh, Morgan Fairchild. Talk about a voice. He's got a hell of a voice. I mean, and let me tell you, she is amazing. I can't believe she's still acting and memorizing her life. I mean, she's almost 80. She looks incredible. Wow. And she's doing better than I am from the looks of it. You've been on over 200 episodes of TV, thousands of weekly radio programs, best-selling book in three languages, inventor of the girly go garter. I'm wearing one of those now. I love that. Ms. Wixman and QVC Guestos.

I got one in hot pink. And the style expert, wife, bonus mom, and carbon farmer. What is a bonus mom? You know, I am fortunate that my second husband came with three amazing girls. When I say bonus mom, I mean, you know, the evil stepmother thing is kind of not me. I'm actually, I'm in there. I'm in the trenches. I change diapers.

So bonus mom is just a little sweeter way to put it. Maybe you can play an evil mom on the, on the next soap or whatever you get involved with. I cannot wait to be a nemesis. I am looking forward to that day. Wow. Coming up, coming up soon from Amazon evil mom,

starring Andy page. So Andy, give us your.com. So where do you want people to find you on the interwebs? Yeah. So of course you can go to Andy page.com. Girly go Garter is my invention and I invented it as a mic pack holder for television and film, but it is a hands-free

purse you wear on your leg and it will hold all the stuffs when you don't want to carry a handbag. And then, you know, shophomeandheart.com is why I'm doing this whole kind of media tour because it is the latest innovation in advertising, marketing, and television. So shophomeandheart.com is where you can find everything that you see on General Hospital that's now for sale. So is it like merchandising for General Hospital? Okay, you and I, I'm supposing we're around the same age. I'm in my 50s, and perhaps we are not. Perhaps you, you know, prematurely gray. But we grew up in a time where, you know, every hour of television had anywhere from 10 to 14 minutes of advertising.

And, you know, even though it was like a bit of a bore, the advertisements ultimately paid for what we were watching. So that's great. This is not how we watch television anymore. Now people stream and they do their best to avoid ads. So legacy shows like General Hospital have had to be creative with how they can sustain themselves. Deception Beauty is a 20-year-old storyline that has existed in General Hospital. And so the powers that be got together and said, okay, what if everything that we have created, you know, in quotes, within deception became reality for our friends and consumers. And that's exactly what they've done. Home and Heart is the fake shopping network within, you know, General Hospital. And Deception Beauty brings all of their products

to Home and Heart to sell on general hospital. And now you can buy them and bring them home. You know, like the deceptor. Yeah. I mean, it's actually genius because we want shows like this to stick around and millions of people still watch it.

I mean, Chris, it has been on for 61 years. Yeah. I mean, it's the longest running show in television history. It's crazy. Yeah.

And you're holding up well being on it from the very beginning. Oh, thank you. I knew try. I use my, I use. Yeah. Oh, I'm 54. So I'm 56. Yeah.

So we were born in a, I mean, but think about it. What if Chris, you could have bought Fonzie's leather jacket? Oh, geez. Wow. Yeah. That would have been awesome. Hey. Or, you know,. Yeah. That would have been awesome. Hey. Or we could have bought Rachel and Monica's hair solutions because their hairs always look so good.

That would have sold like hotcakes. Totally. So when you think about the shows that we watch, the characters that we love, and the things that we would naturally support them with. This is just another evolution of television, advertising and media. And it's the newest sort of thing out from General Hospital. They're 60, but they're not that old, damn it. And they're willing to try new things. Let me just tell you, I mean, Chris, so here's going to be a throwback. So everyone knows Luke and Laura, but did you know that Liz Taylor was on general hospital?

I believe, I don't know. I think I kind of know that. I used to, I used to come on during the day and my mom was a stay at home mom. So, you know, the soaps would be on and all that stuff. I think I'd see some of it when I was cruising around. I got news for you, honey. It's still on every single day. Every single day. Wow. Every single day. So you can watch it on ABC or you can stream it.

Ah. I always wanted to be one of those debonair gents on the soaps. I can see it. I don't know the names of the dudes, but I've always seen, you know, they're good looking guys. And of course, they're the men that the women usually love and hate, which pretty much describes my dating life. Boundary, I believe, is the appropriate term. I've been called that on first dates. That's what I'm expecting. So what are the hottest beauty trends out there going on?

The thing that I love to talk about is, you know, I'm all about, first of all, you should know I want to live to be 100. So I'm doing everything humanly possible. I'm like determined to be a centenarian. So in living to be 100, I, you know, I want to be vibrant and I still want to have on my lashes and my nails and all that stuff. But one of the things that isn't invasive, because, you know, I'm sure, you know, women are injecting their face with all kinds of things to, you know, keep them younger. But one of the things that's not invasive is something called red light therapy and red light therapy, you know, penetrates a couple of layers of your skin and it actually helps sustain your collagen and all that stuff. So this is the latest innovation and deception beauty on general hospital created a red light therapy wand called the deceptor,

which you can now buy. And I love it. I've been doing red light therapy wand called the Deceptor, which you can now buy. And I love it. I've been doing red light therapy for years. And so the fact that you can bring it home in a General Hospital version is fantastic. So that's one of the latest and the greatest that I'm really proud to be a part of. But yeah. I like it. I see it here on the website at the shop homeandheart.com. and it's like a handheld red light one yeah i've got one actually right here so it's really small and you could engage in this let me just tell you it would help you with fine lines and wrinkles you scoundrel you my character lines as they say in hollywood my character it is it's a little unfair because you know men get to age so beautifully and women

are expected to stay forever young. But so red light therapy really does work. But the thing that I love about this one is you can use it on all your body parts. So you can use it on your neck and your knees. Did you know that we get wrinkles on our knees as we age, Chris? Wow. I don't know. I never looked down that far.

I'm still – I don't think I can see over my belly. Fat jokes, people. No, I never looked down that far. I'm still, I can't, I don't think I can see over my belly. Fat jokes, people. But no, I've been using red light therapy for years as well. There's a few devices we have here at the house. Someone sent me a really cool one that's waterproof. And so you can wear it in the jacuzzi and stuff like that. But it is, it is amazing how it heals.

It's, I mean, it's been, if I've got pain or problems or different things going on, you know, maybe I went, did the Taco Bell buffet there the night before, you know, we've all been there, right? The Taco Bell buffet line. Absolutely. Yeah, yeah.

The next morning you're in that fetal position going, what, they're not a sponsor anymore? Who saw that coming? Anyway, but yeah, the red light therapy is really amazing. I mean, it is healing and it's really just kind of the power of the sun, I think, the red light therapy is really amazing. I mean, it is healing and it's really just kind of the power of the sun, I think, isn't it? Really? To a certain extent. Yes. To a

certain extent. There are, you know, different therapeutic properties to all. There's a blue light therapy. There's orange. There's several. Red specifically helps with collagen and it helps with elasticity and resilience. And collagen is really important for skin health, tissue, I think bone and everything else, right? All of the above. I love that you know about red light therapy. I have to say, I've been doing lots of podcasts. You were the first one to come at me with, yeah, I know what it is and I use it.

I love that. We're the only cool podcast. That's why. It's true. I'm believing the hype. So the, yeah, the red light collagen you know one of the one of the problems with collagen as i understand it you may know more than i do because you're the professional is is over time when we're young we're getting all this collagen

i guess and that's why we have these great bones and you know we we grow from these babies and some people are still babies i I've seen them on Facebook. But evidently as we age, we lose the collagen there, eh? Is that true? That's right. And that's what ultimately causes us to wrinkle. And become donkeys. Well, no. I don't think that wrinkles are ugly.

No. But I will tell you, I mean, so I talk to a lot of people about, you know, that we are all youth obsessed. And it's not really that we're youth obsessed as much as it is, or at least for me. And this is my stance. Let's put it this way. I want to always give the appearance that I am eager. I am willing.

I am open. I am, you know, fresh and excited about the possibilities. And one of the best ways to reflect that is to show that you're trying. So I'm always trying to, you know, put my best foot forward to ultimately show up, you know, looking my best. And, you know, red light therapy, having good skin, all of that stuff is a way for you to hold on to your youth, which sends a subliminal message of you being relevant. Yeah. I just walk around on dates and stuff and just be waving. And they're like, what are you doing?

I'm preserving my beauty with collagen. You want to know more? Come on a second. Here's what I want to know more about your dating life. Tell me about these people you are dating, Chris. They're wonderful. I date all the best. But no, I'm 50.

What am I? How old am I? 56? I have COVID, people. Six day. COVID brain. So are you a single man? Do I need to find you?

I'm a single man, yeah. I need to find you a match. If you have any hot actresses on the show that are single and available. No, I'm single. And I have big meetup dating groups and Facebook dating groups. And so we're trying to circumvent dating apps because they suck. And so we have these huge meetups in person where we have 100 to 200 singles go and they meet in the old fashioned way, like at the clubs, basically. No, I love this. You should know that this is like my

seventh business. I actually run a business called The Dating Lab with the Hillbillyinta, and I'm the Hillbillyinta. That's right. We want to get a plug in for that podcast as well. Yeah. I'm all about modern dating and what's going on. I love the fact to hear that you are single, and I cannot wait to get started on finding you a match. I would hope you would, because it's 54 and I've been single all my life.

It's probably about time, I think. You said you were 56. Is it 56 or 54? I'm 54. You're 54. You're 56, COVID brain. I'm 56, COVID brain. I don't know.

I was born in 70. Yep, 68. When's your birthday? It's January. It's January. Let's put it that way. I don't want to put the date across the internet because I don't want people. There's only enough people that have my identity that are hackers, I think, at this point.

Maybe it doesn't really matter. I don't know. So you're going to be 57 soon? I'll be 57, yeah, in January. So what do you guys talk about there on the podcast? What's kind of the general rundown there? I am in this huge exploration of modern dating. You know, we're talking about ghosting.

We're talking about flirting. Does your husband know about this? Yes. I'm sorry to interrupt, Jandy. I had to get that joke in there. No, he does know about it. And that's, my husband actually gave me the name, the Hillbilly Yinta, because I am, you know, I'm from Alabama and, you know, he's half Jewish and, you know, he's a Yankee and

he's, you are insane. You are literally a hillbilly. And so that's how I actually got the name. But modern dating is, I mean, there are so many issues. And my podcast is just about an exploration of flirting and femininity and masculinity and roles. And like I said, ghosting and, youing and how do we couple up? And really, I mean, I have three bonus kids, right? So I'm telling you, the world is a scary place for them.

I have got the most amazing 22-year-old bonus daughter in my life who can't even get a guy to show up on a date. She has graduated from school, has a great job. I mean, her first job right out of school, she's making over a hundred thousand dollars a year. She's doing really well and gorgeous, blonde, beautiful. And she has literally been in New York city dating for the past three months. And she's been stood up twice, twice. Wow. That just kills me as to guys standing up women. In my experience, ghosting has been around probably pre-dating. But, you know, I was being ghosted in the 80s and the 90s. And I'm being ghosted now.

That's why the reason I'm still single. I haven't ever had a date. I'm always ghosted. But no, ghosting has been around forever. And, you know, I think in the 20s, it's really hard right now. The apps are still going well for the 20-year-olds from what I can tell. But yeah, if you ever want someone on your podcast who knows dating really well, I'm like a historian. I'm excited to know you're single because the problem in my life is I have got amazing women in my life who cannot find a dude.

Really? Yeah. It seems like what the coaching and advice that I give to women and men in our groups, we have thousands of people, is what is the coaching advice for the COVID brand, Mr. Boss, today? I segued one too many times and lost myself. It's that simple this morning. But one of the things I tell people is or one of the complaints biggest complaints i get is they can't find men that are masculine and sometimes there's a polarity issue like women are really stuck in their masculine because they're single moms and stuff and so they have a hard time getting out of it so you end up on dates with somebody and you're just like

i'm a very masculine dude and you're very masculine woman and this is two dudes having a conversation. So this is going to work out. It's a good point. My philosophy about that is I think that women tend to forget that femininity is the most powerful thing in the universe. It is. It is. I mean, it moves mountains.

It starts wars. It's like everything. I mean, femininity. The woman can move. It's like everything. I mean, femininity. The woman can move the world with a look. That's right. So we tend to think that femininity means weakness and femininity does not mean weakness. So I, you know, embracing your femininity. And it also, there's a big difference in femininity and sexuality, you know, from really re-educating

on femininity is kind of another one of my missions through my podcast. Please write a book for the love of God. There's so many women that they've been at for so long they can't get back. And, you know, it's really hard right now. It's a lost art. I've been in so many first dates where I'm just sitting with another dude and there seems to be sadly a lot of deception that's been given towards women that's told women that hey act like a dude get dude stuff like careers and money and assets and stuff and that's attractive to men because men find women find that

attractive in men so men must find attractive women and it's not it's we don't we really don't care we just we want somebody who's nurturing so i was lucky my grandmother was one of the most feminine women i've ever known she was a she was a powerful matriarch but i hate using that word powerful because people think you know it's it's power and aggressive as feminine and it's not and you you you didn't have to she didn't have to tell you not to fuck with her you just didn't fuck with her because she loved with you she loved you but she'd be stern with you and she'd make you anything you wanted she was soft as peaches and and just loving caring nurturing but you know she still had her power but she didn't wield it

running around you know like men do i guess Okay, so I have the best story. I love that you love your grandmother. You should know that my grandmother is still alive. Congratulations. She is 98 years old. I talk to her every Monday. So my grandmother is still alive, and she had a huge hand in raising me. And my grandmother always used to say that your papa is the head of this household, but I, my dear, am the

neck. And where the neck turns, the head will go. And so that's what she always taught me that, of course, your papa is the head of this household. Of course, he is the leader of our home, but I'm the neck. So I've always believed that. It's a team effort. And I think that's what a lot of people don't get. They just like, oh, I don't need this other person. And it's so important. So yeah, femininity needs to come back in, in the truest form of what it really is. Cause I think it's, I think everyone's just acting like dudes pretty much. So tell me what feminism, what femininity looks like to you.

I want to know. Femininity looks like nurturing. It's softness it's caring it's subtle it's non-aggressive it's non-belligerent it's you know men are built are designed to be disagreeable and there's a lot you can you know we could spend a whole robert green book human nature sort of rundown on history but we're designed to be aggressive and and non-agreeable we're designed to be aggressive and and not agreeable we're designed to fight with each other and we're given the body strength to do it and that's how we

you know can do what we do femininity is designed not to be aggressive and i it's designed to be soft the nurturing loving kind you know it's it's know, no one wants to give the baby when you're in the caveman tribe to, you know, I don't know the person with all the calluses and I don't know, farts a lot or something. I don't know. You don't want to give it to the guys, you know, we're busy killing things and hunting and women are designed to, you know, be that bridge between men that are kind of disconnected because we have to be and emotionally because we got to go out and do stuff and provide and and deal with the realities of the world and women are good at at nurturing and loving and raising that kindness you know the children need from that that that

baby stage so i i love it i i have to agree with so much of what you said there's i definitely believe that women can be multifaceted, that we can be feminine and also powerful. But one of the ways you do that is it's not that we're being disagreeable, but we can certainly offer, women tend to think that the only way that they're going to be heard

is if they are loud and aggressive. And that is not the case. As a matter of fact, I teach women because I do I have a whole style business where I, you know, basically can come and up level your your presence and your your appearance so that you know, you're ready to up level in business or anything like that. And I teach women that, you know, femininity, again, is powerful. And you don't have to look like a man act like a man to get ahead. The truth is

the more unique that you are and the more grounded in all of the gifts that you have, the more your perspective is needed, wanted, and valued because, you know, the workforce and business is, is really looking for, you know, diverse ideas and, and, and women certainly bring a whole different perspective. And we are 50% of the consumer base. So we are no longer, you know, we don't have to fight for a position. We don't have to, you know, be obnoxious. We ultimately need to be more of ourselves so that our opinion is taken with validity. Yeah. It's, you know, it's power there there is power behind the word behind femininity but it's a real subtle power you know a woman doesn't have to really say much though i'll look

and change the world and everybody jumps it's it's you know women are kind of indirect communicators where men are very overt women are more covert so they're more they're more subtle in their negotiation and what they want and how they want to achieve it. And if you don't listen to that subtleness, you will eventually find out that she'll be overt about it. That's true. I would give you that. As someone who, yeah, I mean, I don't wield kind of my stick very often. But when I'm pushed, I can do that.

But I do really respect your opinion. And I do think that we are very like-minded in this. And I, and I, I'm trying to teach my girls and their friends about the power of femininity because it's just lost. And I, you know, you say, write a book. I started a book about 10 years ago. The name of the book was called from pigtails to porn stars, the lost art of femininity. And my, yeah, yeah. From pigtails to porn stars the lost art of femininity and my yeah yeah from pigtails to porn stars the lost art of femininity and so because i just believe that it kind of hit me when i had a goddaughter who was you know three years old and standing on the bed after taking a nap and singing, I'm not Britney Spears. And I was like, you're three. What do we, what is, what is all this three? You know what I mean?

Yeah. So she was singing this Britney Spears song to me. And this was like, I was like, holy hootie, like this is bananas. And then, you know, I had the benefit of raising three amazing daughters who were subject to all kinds of sexuality. So I do believe that femininity has been surpassed by sexuality. And that's ultimately what I kind of wanted to talk about. But we are peas in a pod on this, I'm sure. Yeah, I've had women come up to my events and be like, I'm just like you, Chris. I'm really successful and I have my own business and

I've got three cars that are Mercedes and I've got yada, yada, yada, and they'll run down literally the list of what a woman looks for in a man as their attraction of why I should be attracted to them. And they're literally selling it to me that

way, which is very man-like, right? If you've ever been on a date with a guy, he tells you how many she makes. Yeah, he's trying to woo you with some of his, go to this car in this house in Miami or whatever. And so to have a woman do that to you, you just sit there looking at her going, nothing you said has any interest to any dude. My dick is in the car waiting to go home. It's left. I don't know. That's what you have to do.

But you'll just sit there and just be like, there's a lot of first dates. I've been on coffee dates. And you'll sit there and just go, I mean, she's really cool, but I'm talking to another dude. Yeah. I want to go fishing with you and hang out, but I have no interest in going anywhere with you after that. Why don't we circle back?

How did you get on ABC's General Hospital? Tell us a little bit about your history and how'd you become an actress? Get into it. What drew you to it, et cetera, et cetera, maybe from your childhood? So Chris, again, I'm 54. This is my very first acting gig. Really? Wow. Really. So I'm really fortunate. I've been in television, but I've done reality television. So I was always kind of playing've been in television, but I've done reality television. So I was always kind of playing myself and being myself and instructing and kind of teaching in television. And how I came to this show is really, I think, a great example for your listeners because, you know, you don't eat the fruit from the seeds that you plant today. You plant the seeds and the fruit will

bear itself over time. You know, 20 years ago, I did this amazing show called Starting Over. I did three years of that show. And I was the beauty and style expert, hundreds of episodes, it was fantastic. And I worked with over 35 producers on that show. And when the time came for them to have a shopping host, a home shopping host, who, you know, looked very different than Morgan Fairchild and was darker and, you know, a little spicy. One of the producers that I worked with 20 years ago had found on LinkedIn that I was now a QVC host. And she knew that I was going to be on time, I was going to be engaged, I was going to be prepared, I was going to show up as my best self, I was going to make every situation better and not worse. And that I was going to, you know,

improve a scenario and not make things harder on people. And so when the time came for this role, this producer who I worked with many years ago reached out to me and it happened within 24 hours. I literally got the call. She sent me a text and she's like, Hey, do you remember me? I'm like, Oh my gosh, how are you? This is fantastic. Of course, I'm happy to talk to you. I talked to her on a Friday and I was offered the job on a Monday. Wow. What Monday was this? Cause I think I was applying for the same job. You beat me out on it. You should know there were very few applicants. It is a very good lesson, though. And when I talked to her, she's, of course, I remembered you. And I tell you the things that she said to me.

She's, I know that you're going to show up. I know that you're going to try your hardest. I know we can depend on you. And I mean, the scary thing is, she goes, that. And it's, we don't see a lot of it. So I think that that's something that your listeners need to hear. I of course, teach it to my daughters that, you know, you just want to show up and do your best at everything because all work has value. So no matter what the project is, you know, if you can give your best and you're always showing up, you know, prepared on time, all those things, then you never know where that's going to lead. And this is a perfect example of that. So this is literally my first acting job. I'm what's known as an under five,

which means I'll probably for the foreseeable future have under five lines because that is actually a pay bump after five lines, you get like a pay bump. Yeah. So I'm an under five, which is totally fine, which means I got to sell you an under five, but I'm thrilled to have it. And I'm also just thrilled to be a part of this innovation. Again, this is a huge experiment. And if it goes well with ABC and General Hospital, I think, like I said, you know, the items that we see in all the shows that we know and love are then going to become available to consumers and fans wow all right it turns out i'm getting ripped off i've been doing more than five lines on the show for

16 years and i haven't got paid extra for shit yeah you need to reach out to the sag or after like stat hey hey get the management in here i want to double my pay to 10 bucks a show all right there that'll fix it and we we got Caroline coming in from the YouTube there. Great. I saw you earlier this day. Greetings from Germany. Oh, fantastic. Oh, hi, Caroline.

Yes, I did Caroline's podcast earlier today. Oh, thanks, Caroline. And spicy, Scott says from LinkedIn, whatever that means. I don't know. I'll take it. Yeah. That Morgan Fairchild, I've had a crush on her since I was young. Me too.

I think she was up on my wall with Farrah Fawcett. Oh, yeah. She is captivating. Another woman that I've always been captivated with and reminds me of the same is Dolly Parton. Oh, Dolly Parton. Yeah. She ruined me at 11 and I've never, they're just,

there's like about five or six iconic women of our generation that just the minute that you say just one word, like Morgan fair, like you just know, you just think elegance and stature and beauty and dominance. And at the same time, just a different kind of feminine power. I,

yeah, I'm totally with you and farrah fossett was another one highly but like hyper feminine as well is morgan fairchild so single maybe you can hook me up on the show let's see 74 i have to be honest with you i know she lives in the northeast okay so she's closer to me in new york than she is in here yeah and believe it or not like she is still working. She does local theater. She's very much active. Hey,

you don't want to send me on a date with a ghost or that'd be kind of funny. Maybe that could be, maybe that could be going to do that to a woman. That could be like a punk show. Like who the hell would, I don't, you know, kind of rounding back to that,

that I wanted to have a say about was, I just don't understand why guys would ghost the woman. I have no idea. It's so hard to get a date. It's so hard to find good dates out there. With the fact that you would ghost a woman, it's just insane to me. I think it's a loss of confidence. I do have a theory, and I don't know if it's real, but I will tell you what I'm thinking.

Sure. So I'm thinking that there's a whole generation, especially for my my 22 year old, there's a whole generation of young men who have really spent their life on some sort of game in a virtual world. And they're much more comfortable on a virtual or in a virtual world than they are a real world. So it's great to talk and to interact. But then when you have to pull them into reality, I'm not quite sure that they are comfortable, know how to act, what to do, what to say, like all of it. I think, too, in addition to that, I think that the texting can be so faked. I mean, now you can actually have AI write your text. I think one of the dating apps has an automatic AI text writer. Yeah, response, yeah writer so you can sound like

you know a suave shakespeare rico suave rico suave on the on the texting there but you know when she meets you she's going to be like you this is some this is some dude who's 56 years old and mary's a loser yeah i can't talk your talk or walk your walk. So you have to figure that those people that are ghosting have somehow presented themselves inauthentically and are a little worried about the reality of it all. You should greet it. You should greet ghosting like, you know, okay, cool. You took yourself out of the thing. Yes. But let me just tell you the other things. In my daughter's experience, she did have a guy that did show up and was highly eager, shall we say. And then from that date on, he asked for another date and then was incessantly texting her for five days post-date to the point where she was like, okay, I can't go out with him again because he's not getting it. And so she said, you know, I don't know what to do. Like I want to just block him. And I was like, do not do that. Have the courage to say to him,

you know, I am grateful for the enthusiasm that you have shown around our relationship, but it has made me uncomfortable and this is not how I like to communicate. So I don't think that I can continue, but I just want to make you aware that I've tried to send you several signals. I'm not sure that you picked up on them. So maybe in the future, you want to be a little more receptive or perceptive about what someone's trying to say. So my point in telling her that was that I don't think you should exit without leaving an understanding of why, because we all have got to learn through this process. And so I just think that you've got to have the courage to be honest.

I love that. There's times where I've had women be honest about dating me, wherever you are in the process. To me, I just always think of it as, it's not rejection. We really need to change that word in discussions that I've had with my singles group. It's not rejection. We really need to change that word in discussions that I've had with my singles group. It's not really rejection when someone says you're not quite for them. You know, a lot of people make quick judgments. Sometimes they're not very accurate. I mean, I've had numerous women that have made quick judgments on me and then come back later. You know, they see what I'm posting online or some of the content I make.

Or sometimes they're just like, maybe that Chris wasn't that bad. He smelled bad, but other than that, he's not that bad. He's really cool. And sometimes I'll wander back, but it's not very masculine to be needy. And I think a lot of men don't understand masculinity nowadays. We can start bashing masculinity now.

And that sort of obsession, a woman goes, goes hey he's put me on a pedestal he's you know he's being very emotionally needy and it's not very masculine and a lot of guys don't get that it's it's really but i'm glad that she's being really honest and direct because i've liked it when women are direct with me hey chris i don't think we're quite a fit because you know i i have some different things going on you do and i i teach my people in in coaching for dating is is not everyone's a fit for you very a very small percentage of people are going to be your person sort of people and you know just you can't expect that everyone's going to like you i mean not all jobs like you what do you do you walk around you

know job rejects you you throw a hissy fit you're like oh my god I'm so crushed it's not is you go apply to another job it's so funny how people will do that with dating if they don't find some product in the store then they go to another store they're so resilient in so many different ways in their life but then when it comes to dating they're like oh my god I can't handle it's different because you question why that's why being direct is so helpful, because it at least allows you to check so many things off, right? It's not that I didn't use deodorant that day or my breath smelled or they didn't like my hair or whatever. So it is helpful

to be a little more honest. But there's a few things that I want to add to that. You talk about finding your person. Some of the best advice that I ever got was that a third of the people on this planet are going to, you know, love you. A third of the people on this planet are going to hate you. And a third of the people on this planet are not going to give two craps that you're on this planet at all. So the more time that you spend on the two thirds that either don't care or hate you, the less happy you'll be. So just focus on your third and cultivating your tribe, and you are going to be much happier. And a third is a lot. You know, I wish somebody told me that earlier, because I've been operating off the percentage of make 100% of people hate you. And trolls are the best thing to validate you and give you

attention because they're harmless. You know, we've been on YouTube for, what, 20 years or 16 years, something like that. I think 20 years. The trolls are what keep us warm at night, you know. Waking up to just hateful comments, you just look at them and go, oh, they care. That's true. That is a reflection of them caring, for sure.

It is true. Deep hatred. There's work that goes into that. You know, there's one other thing that I wanted to tell you. I mean, you know, I was fortunate enough that God made me tall at a very young age. If I had not been made, you know, almost six feet tall by the time I was 10 years old, I would have been the best checker at the Piggly Wiggly in Chickasaw, Alabama. Let me just tell you.

I'm very fortunate. And to that end, you know, starting off my life, I'm a high school dropout from a very small town in Alabama, I got my GED and got into college when I moved to New York. But, you know, starting out my life in a very competitive field where I was expected to hear no all the time every day. My agent set my little 17 year old hillbilly ass aside and said, Okay, look, here's a chart. you figure you're going to get about 10 percent of the jobs that you go after. So if you figure every time you get a no, you can check that off and you're getting closer to your your job that was meant for you. Then those no's are not negative, you know, rejection. Those no's are

stepping stones. And that it's what it's going to take to get you closer to the job. So you cannot look at rejection as if they didn't like it. You just have to know that that is getting you closer to your next gig. And that is how I have looked at, and don't get me wrong, I hate the word no. It's like my least favorite word. But I also know that that no is not especially rejection. It is protection in many ways. And it's just getting me closer to what's right for me. Yeah. You have to find that person who's the simpatico, that person for you. And I've been saying that since the 90s, because I come up from sales. So sales works that way. If every no is one step closer to a yes is what they teach you. And so,

basically, I just walk down a line of women I meet on the street and I just go, you want to go out? You want to go out? You want to go out? And they all go, no, no, no, get away from me. I'm going to call the police and stuff. And then maybe someone will say yes and then they'll ghost me later once I get their number. That's usually how it goes. I am going to

literally try to help you find a girl, like a fabulous woman. It's going to try I'm going to literally try to help you find a a girl like a fabulous woman it's going to be my new mission oh so what else I noticed there's some other products here on the on the website is there anything we want to feature on top of the red light yeah of course we are coming out with the deceiver serum do you know a lot about serums I Do you know a lot about serums? I know you know a lot about to red light therapy. So do you know about what serums? I said serum. I don't know what that means. We're just doing the jokes here, people. So serums are, you know, they've been around for about a decade now, but you know, you put them on your skin and they are highly, they penetrate better than other forms of lotions and potions and moisturizers. So there's a new

Deceiver Serum that's coming out there. They have been working with the makeup artists who have won Emmys and are just incredible makeup artists on General Hospital to help create the Deception cosmetic line. And so there are new blushes and lipsticks and all kinds of things coming out, which is great. What you find on the website right now are things like handbags that you've seen your favorite characters wear or maybe jewelry that you've seen your favorite characters wear. And as more things are basically, you know, passed by legal, you will see more and more of things like that at shophomeandheart.com. That is an incredible, like I said, it's the ultimate platform for all of the things that you have loved and possibly seen on the show. They will be now for sale on this platform. But in addition to everything that I'm doing for General Hospital, of course, I've got the

Girly Go Garter, my bestselling book, Style on a Shoe String. I've got my own podcast. You can see me on QVC selling you all kinds of wares. So there's lots of fun things that I try to stay involved in. I mean, if I'm going to be, if I'm going to live to be a hundred, I've got a lot I've got to get accomplished. Your mom's 98. You got the DNA for it. My grandmother is 98. My mom is my grand. Yeah. My mom is 79. Oh, wow. See, it's a, it's a, I, my mother's side has a great DNA. So I'm hoping I have a little bit of that DNA in me. I, at one point I had four women. How would I say this? I would,

I would have four women in line alive at the same time. So I had my great, great grandmother, my great grandmother, my grandmother and my mom. So I had all four alive at the same time. People were like, that is wild. And they were from West Virginia. There's a little bit of hillbilly going on there. I would go to their house. They still had those stills and the outside bathrooms and stuff. And it's crazy. Wow. That's amazing. But they also got started very young. So that's why, I mean, my grandmother had her first child at 18 who had her first child at 18 who had her first child at 18. Wow. So that's how my grandmother has great, great grandchildren.

And, you know, so that's how things kind of happen. I'm not quite sure that my children will see their great, great grandchildren, but maybe I can hope. Yeah. If they live longer. That's a lot of have children at 18 gun to your head sort of generational pressure, right? You've got to have kids at 18. Maybe a little. Because everybody else did it.

I think it was just different. Alabama's just different. People just, you know, they meet, they fall in love, and we just think that you're supposed to get married and start a family. That's how it's supposed to go. That's kind of a byline. I never had children myself. I mean, I left, right? So I left at 17 and that wasn't the path for me, but I'm still, you know, very much connected to all of my friends and family

back there who took that path. And I don't think it's a bad one. I mean, they're all extremely happy and I have cousins in their forties who have grandchildren. There's it's, you know, some of it's really lovely. I did the same thing. I skipped the, I do the same thing. I skip the children thing. I really love sleep. It was my problem. I like sleeping in. I just skip the whole children thing. What's nice is

once I reached 28, 30, everyone was starting to get divorced again. I'm like, I just have a pop-up family wherever I go. I don't really need anything of my own. Mari still tries to call me about something, but I don't return his call. You know, I know so many people on their

deathbed when they say, if I could have only had more sleep. Yeah. That's usually what you're trying to get to on your deathbed is, can I finally get some sleep in here? I think that's where most parents are. For the love of God, let me die so I can finally get eight hours. Do we want to plug the book anymore? Do you want to get any more on that?

Yeah. My book is basically how to look like a million without spending a fortune, which is a huge part of my mission. I am not especially a label girl. I come from very humble beginnings, but yet as a model and spokesperson and someone on television, I was always expected to look a certain way. But that didn't mean that I wanted to spend all my money on things like a dress I wear once and clothes that I don't wear all the time. So I trained myself on how to build a conscious wardrobe that would sustain me through anything and keep me at the height of fashion. So I teach people how to do that through my book. And, you know, I just think that we need

to be more conscious and a lot of the things that we do with regards to style and beauty. And the truth is that our age, a lot of people just kind of give up because they don't want to keep up with it. They don't want, you know, the hassle. They don't think it's important. I mean, I have plenty of, you know, women at my age who, you know, think I'm nuts because I still, you know, dye my hair and do my lashes. And I'm like, no, I'm not going down without a fight. You know, I want, like I said, to always have a seat at the table and to look relevant. You know, but if you can do it on a budget, then I think it makes it a little easier and palatable for most people. And so that's what my book teaches.

Oh, yeah. You can't get too crazy with it. You know, I've been espousing that how to look like a million bucks without spending a lot of money. And it's not working. It doesn't work. I disagree. I think you look fantastic. I'm working on a book right now called Looking Great During Having COVID and Spending Most

of Your Time in the Fetal Position and Then Getting in Front of a Camera. I'm so sorry that you have had such a hard week. You know what I have done, though? I've lost weight. So it's actually, it turns out COVID is a great diet, intermittent fasting. Yeah, like you lose your taste buds, right? I didn't lose my taste buds, but you just don't want to eat. The only thing I've been eating is Dayquil and some penicillin and the crap they

gave me for sinus infection. So yeah, it's been great for losing weight. As we round out, let's get a plug in here for the garter product that you have. Let's flush that out if you want real quick. So the Girly Go Garter is a hands-free purse that you wear on your leg. And I invented it as a place to put my mic pack. But I had no idea that people could use it for their insulin pumps or medical devices. And that every girl going to prom was told by their principal they can't bring a handbag. So they want to have their money, their ID, their lipstick, their cell phone. Every bride walking down the aisle can't lug a handbag, but she wants a tissue and her lip gloss. And I invented it. It's patented. It holds 19 patents.

It's sold in like over 80 countries. And I'm really, really fortunate, but it's just an example of God kind of gives us all nuggets and ideas and inclinations. And you can just decide if you want to run with them or not. And I'm a runner. I believe if I've got like a little nugget of something, I'm going to try. Yeah. The girly go garter was a huge risk and it's been great. We've been going for 12 years and I'm really, really proud of it. Because women like to, you know, they don't like to be carrying a lot of stuff, but they carry a lot of stuff because, you know, they're ready for everything. They're kind of like Girl Scouts. Be prepared.

But, you know, there's a lot you can, you know, sometimes women will take out this, you know, if they go out on the town or if they go on a date, you know, they'll bring just the small bag. And so I guess that makes probably a place to keep stuff safer. You don't have to worry about it being stolen as well. You got it. I'm wearing two of them right now. I love it. So that means there's no chafing. I double up. stuff safer you don't have to worry being stolen as well i'm wearing two of them right now i love it so that means there's no chafing i double up there's no chafing and i just keep i keep i keep goodies in one you know candy bars and and and maybe as coke and then a can of coke but a can

of coke wow yeah there's a whole can in there i'm a big guy and in the other one i just have popcorn it's kind of like when i go to the theater i use them when i go to the theater too Yeah, there's a whole can in there. I'm a big guy. And then the other one, I just have popcorn. It's kind of like when I go to the theater. I use them when I go to the theater, too. It's great. They're excellent confiscation devices, for sure. Yeah, you put the red vines in one, you got the popcorn in the other. The butter doesn't work out so well, folks.

Don't get the butter popcorn. I will tell you, I love to wear them to concerts because I can get in, you know, when I can get in like a little flask if I want. So there there are bennies. You can use it because most of the time, you know, your purse is rifled through. Like when I love Jazz Fest in New Orleans, I go to Jazz Fest every year and I'm always in a sundress because it's hot as Hades. And yeah, I can get in, you know, a little flask and lipstick everything, and I never have to worry about a purse. So there are lots of benefits. I'm happy to hear that you carry popcorn, red vines, and Coca-Cola.

Yeah. And back in the day, I used to run what I called cheaters that were flasks of liquor, hard liquor, into events and stuff, and I'd put them in my sock. And back then, they really didn't check you, and so I'd ended up with the hard liquor and then i just sort of cokes and then mix it see so there's there's another thing you could do with the garter you could just put the cokes in there you can you can just double down

you know and and i highly recommend women do that i was on a lovely date a couple weeks ago before i got sick and and stuff and she brought this giant tote, kind of like the Jordan suede tote that's on your guys' website. Yes. And that thing ended up being such a cock blocker to me in a way that when I was trying to make my moves to put my arm around her and hold her hand and stuff, I was always having to move around to wherever against that tote. So ladies, please bring a small bag on it.

Yeah. It's like having a stuffed animal in between you i totally get that and she was great wonderful i don't think she i think she just wanted to have everything with her she was a mom you know mom's gotta have their mom stuff but yeah i was like trying to you know do the moves to put your arm around her and hand hold it it was like okay i'm gonna have to move you over here or you're gonna have to move that bag she's like probably should have brought this bag, but she was wonderful. Maybe that's a sign she's a keeper.

Yeah, or maybe you just need to buy her a girly go-garter. That's what I need to do. We know what we're up to on the second date. Andy, anything more we want to plug as we go out? You've got so much going on. You're kicking ass taking names. I appreciate that. I appreciate you giving me the platform, and I cannot tell you how excited I was to

do your show. I have been a listener. I think I'm a fan. I think it's amazing what you do. And I'm really, really grateful that you would give me this platform, especially for General Hospital fans and all the people who love you. I know that I was kind of a stretch for you. So the fact that, you know, you said yes, I was like, I can't believe it.

I was really, really pleased. So you are just as charming and engaging and funny and awesome as your introduction explains. Thank you very much. I appreciate the compliment. And so are you. It's been lovely to have you on the show as well. Just don't tell all the women all those great things you said about me because you're ruining my reputation. Scott says, Chris, ask Andy for a few tips on the dating process i think we

covered some of these she has some great advice love her honesty my pleasure great show chris certainly a wonderful to have you on give us your dot coms andy's we go out so people can find certainly you can find everything at shop home and heart.com i encourage you to follow me at shopwithpearl.gh on instagram you can find me at theandypage on Instagram as well, or andypage.com. Thank you very much for coming on the show, Andy. Thanks for tuning in. Go to goodreads.com, 4chatschristmas,

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