WEBVTT NOTE recognizability 0.972 NOTE language en-us 00:00:07.320 --> 00:00:11.100 Hi, today all day we've got a great show for you on this Wednesday 00:00:11.100 --> 00:00:14.340 morning, including an all day exclusive chat. You can only see here. 00:00:14.340 --> 00:00:17.850 Let's kick it off with Pop start. We check in with Carson who's 00:00:17.850 --> 00:00:20.820 covering all the buzzy headlines, including some happy news for John 00:00:20.820 --> 00:00:22.170 Mulaney and girlfriend Olivia Munn. 00:00:23.240 --> 00:00:26.990 Time for the best part, one yeah pop star times on the results of the 00:00:26.990 --> 00:00:30.240 food bracket at the end of the hall. Yeah fish round burst round 00:00:30.240 --> 00:00:33.740 elite Eight were down now for more on that in a minute we're gonna 00:00:33.740 --> 00:00:36.740 start today. Wings John Mulaney and Olivia Munn. Last night the stand 00:00:36.740 --> 00:00:39.990 up comedian stopped by late night with Seth Meyers to give an update 00:00:39.990 --> 00:00:43.490 on what he's been up to lately. And after a difficult year in which 00:00:43.490 --> 00:00:46.240 Mulaney went through a divorce, battled substance abuse and is now 00:00:46.240 --> 00:00:48.990 living in recovery. He did have some good news to share. 00:00:50.030 --> 00:00:53.924 Then in the spring I went to Los Angeles and, uh. 00:00:54.130 --> 00:00:57.190 Met and started to date the wonderful woman named 00:00:57.190 --> 00:01:00.250 Olivia, who I know well. Yes, lovely woman. Olivia 00:01:00.250 --> 00:01:03.650 Munn very well and we are having a baby together. 00:01:05.810 --> 00:01:09.362 Thanks so John Mulaney and Olivia Munn are expecting baby number one 00:01:09.362 --> 00:01:12.914 big news and congratulations to them next Blues clues. It's been 25 00:01:12.914 --> 00:01:16.170 years since the Nickelodeon series starring Steve and his buddy Blue 00:01:16.170 --> 00:01:19.722 hit the small screen in to celebrate the big milestone. The original 00:01:19.722 --> 00:01:23.570 host of the first Four Seasons, Steve Burns, took to social media to 00:01:23.570 --> 00:01:27.122 share a sweet message to the kids who grew up with him. 00:01:28.370 --> 00:01:35.398 I mean. We started out with clues and now it's what student loans and 00:01:35.398 --> 00:01:41.086 jobs and families and some of it has been kind of hard. 00:01:42.150 --> 00:01:46.000 You know, I guess I just wanted to say that after all these years. 00:01:47.020 --> 00:01:49.310 I never forgot you ever. 00:01:51.120 --> 00:01:52.730 And I'm super glad we're still friends. 00:01:53.680 --> 00:01:57.790 Extra whiskey. 'cause it hasn't changed at all. No, he looks exactly 00:01:57.790 --> 00:02:02.174 the same. He did the show in 2002, 2020 left yes, when I was at TRL 00:02:02.174 --> 00:02:05.736 at MTV. It's the Viacom building. So there in the same building. It's 00:02:05.736 --> 00:02:09.846 Steve all time 2002 he went to college show but he went to embark on 00:02:09.846 --> 00:02:13.682 a music career, but his voice when he is still just as soothing. It's 00:02:13.682 --> 00:02:17.244 crazy. I used to watch that would bring up court running back. She's 00:02:17.244 --> 00:02:18.888 a little II. So mail call. 00:02:20.480 --> 00:02:24.485 Send that to court. My guy. I'm going to be sure to stick around. By 00:02:24.485 --> 00:02:28.757 the way, in the third hour, Dylan is going to have a lot more on the 00:02:28.757 --> 00:02:31.427 20th anniversary of Blues clues and finally our tailgating food 00:02:31.427 --> 00:02:34.631 value. I get to it, yeah, alright. Thousands of you went online 00:02:34.631 --> 00:02:38.102 yesterday to cast your vote for the best game day snack with football 00:02:38.102 --> 00:02:41.039 starting tomorrow. Let's take a look. The results go. No shocker 00:02:41.039 --> 00:02:43.709 there loaded nachos course shortstop pretzel. Yes, not even crossed 00:02:43.709 --> 00:02:46.646 $70 around the vote. Wings move, sorry Savannah, but the Buffalo 00:02:46.646 --> 00:02:49.049 wings or as you call them bones with sauce. 00:02:50.350 --> 00:02:54.146 Have proven they are dominant beating out chili. It's a bowl of soup. 00:02:54.146 --> 00:02:57.650 They will be heading into the semifinals across the board. Take a 00:02:57.650 --> 00:03:00.862 look the great battle of cheese mozzarella sticks took down the 00:03:00.862 --> 00:03:03.198 cheese fries. Yes, no 9% of the vote. 00:03:04.660 --> 00:03:07.590 She pressed her out there disgusting. That was applicable. That 00:03:07.590 --> 00:03:11.399 wasn't disgusting. Well, try in any variety. It's all. I think it's a 00:03:11.399 --> 00:03:15.501 fry is sick enough to hold up. It's a mess that will make a 00:03:15.501 --> 00:03:19.017 difference. Yeah, please, like a twice fried fry. Hold up the Nacho 00:03:19.017 --> 00:03:21.947 songs. Maybe that's fine but like they're soggy, like mozzarella 00:03:21.947 --> 00:03:24.584 sticks well because they're front they're fried, they're crunchy. 00:03:24.584 --> 00:03:28.393 Yeah, she's over there to first look if there was twice baked potato 00:03:28.393 --> 00:03:31.616 skins. Yeah, with chief. Also the mozzarella sticks like a distant 00:03:31.616 --> 00:03:33.667 cousin to the pizza, really? I mean. 00:03:34.670 --> 00:03:38.114 The sauce you dip it in the sauce, right? It's a different thing, but 00:03:38.114 --> 00:03:41.804 it's a meal in a small love you more every last but not least, people 00:03:41.804 --> 00:03:44.510 just can't say no. The classic cheeseburger just whooping up on 00:03:44.510 --> 00:03:46.970 cheese sticks. 72% think we'd be like, cheeseburger loaded nachos. 00:03:46.970 --> 00:03:49.922 Finally here, yeah, that's like UNC Duke. Back in the day, that's 00:03:49.922 --> 00:03:52.874 who's gonna win over nachos and cheese burgers when you're going all 00:03:52.874 --> 00:03:55.580 the way. Isn't upset your breath. That's my brothers. You're going 00:03:55.580 --> 00:03:59.024 all the way. I think things loses steam down the stretch when we do 00:03:59.024 --> 00:04:02.222 these things. I don't know why I was at your bracket. That's my 00:04:02.222 --> 00:04:04.928 bracket every year out. I actually voted for bones with sauce. 00:04:05.100 --> 00:04:08.232 'cause I knew I wanted to be right, but I think every 00:04:08.232 --> 00:04:10.842 time you say that and and your blasphemous about wings 00:04:10.842 --> 00:04:12.147 and Angel loses their wings. 00:04:13.650 --> 00:04:17.108 Or you could that be great if an Angel actually had chicken wings. 00:04:18.600 --> 00:04:22.175 Boney, they'd be Boney and not delicious. Not if you got my wings. 00:04:22.175 --> 00:04:25.200 Will you bring me some? That's what we need to do. 00:04:27.320 --> 00:04:30.960 Your past with Buffalo wings scares me. That you've had such a bad 00:04:30.960 --> 00:04:34.320 relationship with wings. Yeah, for so long in your life, no nachos 00:04:34.320 --> 00:04:37.960 like the bad boyfriend. Yeah yeah. Oh wait, you're now married to the 00:04:37.960 --> 00:04:41.320 best wings ever. That's why it's true. It's true, that's right. How 00:04:41.320 --> 00:04:42.440 we get into that. 00:04:43.910 --> 00:04:46.568 Faster vote to go to today.com/food. 00:04:47.680 --> 00:04:51.148 Welcome back today. In the third hour, Can you believe that the 00:04:51.148 --> 00:04:54.616 beloved children show Blues clues? Is turning 25 Dylan caught up with 00:04:54.616 --> 00:04:58.084 all three hosts from the show's run to help celebrate the milestone, 00:04:58.084 --> 00:05:02.932 take a look. I had the chance to catch up with all three hosts from 00:05:02.932 --> 00:05:06.064 the show's quarter century run to hear their memories and find out 00:05:06.064 --> 00:05:07.108 about working with blue. 00:05:09.140 --> 00:05:11.908 On September 8th, 1996. 00:05:13.310 --> 00:05:16.460 It's me, Steve. Have you seen blue my puppy? 00:05:18.590 --> 00:05:22.020 Nickelodeon unleashed a brand new children show. 00:05:23.770 --> 00:05:27.718 Featuring a puppy named Blue who would leave behind clues for her 00:05:27.718 --> 00:05:31.337 owner Steve, as well as little viewers everywhere. Steve, did you 00:05:31.337 --> 00:05:36.272 know how big of an impact it would have and how long it would be 00:05:36.272 --> 00:05:39.562 around for? I mean, we're celebrating the 25th anniversary, no? 00:05:41.720 --> 00:05:46.016 Even when we were shooting the pilot, here's the mail. It never 00:05:46.016 --> 00:05:51.028 fails. I thought it was too weird to work. There's a clue from you're 00:05:51.028 --> 00:05:55.682 trying to get the home viewer to actually play along and solve a 00:05:55.682 --> 00:06:00.336 problem with me and then would have not only worked but really work, 00:06:00.336 --> 00:06:04.632 that was certainly surprised to me. We just figured out Blue's clues. 00:06:04.632 --> 00:06:08.928 Steve Burns earned his stripes, serving as the first host of Blues 00:06:08.928 --> 00:06:12.150 clues for six years. You know what we need? 00:06:12.270 --> 00:06:15.618 Our handy dandy. Before passing the famed Handy Dandy 00:06:15.618 --> 00:06:18.966 notebook to Joe. Played by Donovan Patton. Hello my 00:06:18.966 --> 00:06:22.314 daughter. When she was young, wanted to watch Blues 00:06:22.314 --> 00:06:26.406 clues and I want to watch that show, but with Steve. 00:06:28.920 --> 00:06:30.000 Which I kind of love. 00:06:31.090 --> 00:06:34.626 Are you ready to watch the movie after four years of playing? Joe 00:06:34.626 --> 00:06:37.618 Patton now works behind the scenes of Blues clues and you. 00:06:41.080 --> 00:06:44.584 A reboot introducing a new generation to blue. 00:06:49.790 --> 00:06:54.194 And the show's third host, Josh Delacruz, the first Asian American to 00:06:54.194 --> 00:06:57.130 fill the role. It's one of his grows. 00:06:59.090 --> 00:07:04.130 My very first clue, Josh. How does that feel to be the one to reach 00:07:04.130 --> 00:07:08.162 that milestone growing up? I never saw any characters on screen that 00:07:08.162 --> 00:07:12.866 I identified with and I hope that I'm able to help inspire kids that 00:07:12.866 --> 00:07:16.562 even if they don't see themselves reflected that, doesn't mean that 00:07:16.562 --> 00:07:20.930 they can't achieve whatever it is they want. The trio of hosts now 00:07:20.930 --> 00:07:24.962 joining forces to star in an upcoming original Blues clues film who 00:07:24.962 --> 00:07:29.330 first asked us to play along with the music video full of some 00:07:29.330 --> 00:07:31.890 familiar faces. Spell blue 00:07:33.150 --> 00:07:38.130 all in celebration of Blues. 25th birthday that's 175 in dog years, 00:07:38.130 --> 00:07:43.110 by the way, talking about blue. How does she stay so youthful 00:07:43.110 --> 00:07:46.015 looking? You know I heard about talks. 00:07:48.760 --> 00:07:53.016 This show is known for its catchy tunes. We are going to the kitchen. 00:07:53.016 --> 00:07:57.272 We just got an email. I mean, how often do you find yourselves? You 00:07:57.272 --> 00:08:00.920 know at the grocery store, just walking around town and these songs 00:08:00.920 --> 00:08:05.176 are just stuck in your head all the time. There was about five years 00:08:05.176 --> 00:08:09.432 of my life where I wanted to forget some of those melodies. We just 00:08:09.432 --> 00:08:13.992 got a letter. We just got a letter but could not. You know, I'd be 00:08:13.992 --> 00:08:17.944 like I am doing nothing now and I'm singing this song. Stop, stop, 00:08:17.944 --> 00:08:21.592 stop, stop Speaking of music, Steve. I know you're also a singer. 00:08:21.770 --> 00:08:25.106 Songwriter one of your songs actually became the theme song for Young 00:08:25.106 --> 00:08:28.998 Sheldon. We can't help but ask here at the Today show. Is there any 00:08:28.998 --> 00:08:33.168 way you could create a new theme song for us? I think the third hour 00:08:33.168 --> 00:08:36.226 today needs two days. The day that you're watching the show. 00:08:37.380 --> 00:08:39.048 It's your day. 00:08:40.700 --> 00:08:46.180 Second, I love it. 00:08:49.180 --> 00:08:53.016 I don't know I'm gonna get stuck in your head. It's funny I had 00:08:53.016 --> 00:08:57.126 Calvin help me do the research for this show and and now he is just 00:08:57.126 --> 00:09:00.962 beyond obsessed. Like it's all we watch in the house well and also in 00:09:00.962 --> 00:09:03.702 honor of the anniversary Nickelodeon is partnering with the global 00:09:03.702 --> 00:09:06.168 global nonprofit organizations Save the Children and this morning 00:09:06.168 --> 00:09:09.182 fans are feeling extra nostalgic because Steve put out this sweet 00:09:09.182 --> 00:09:12.470 video telling all the shows, loyal viewers he never forgot them. Oh 00:09:12.470 --> 00:09:16.032 you wanna just Google that and try to find that video because it's 00:09:16.032 --> 00:09:19.046 really cool and you can catch Blues clues and you weekdays. 00:09:19.110 --> 00:09:22.282 At 11:00 AM on Nickelodeon, I sent it to Courtney, Oh, really, she 00:09:22.282 --> 00:09:25.942 said, oh, I watched it last night. Oh so he talked to the adults as 00:09:25.942 --> 00:09:29.602 if he were talking to them as kids. What is special to be a special 00:09:29.602 --> 00:09:32.774 place? Or you hold a special place in everybody's heart? You know? I 00:09:32.774 --> 00:09:34.482 mean, that's really know for so long. 00:09:35.870 --> 00:09:39.289 Welcome back today on Hoda and Jenna new month means a new page 00:09:39.289 --> 00:09:42.971 Turner for my read with Jenna, Book Club. Hoda and I talked about why 00:09:42.971 --> 00:09:45.864 I chose the amazing memoir, Beautiful country by Chen Julie Wang. 00:09:45.864 --> 00:09:50.590 Take a look. It's Wednesday at September 8 top day. It's a beautiful 00:09:50.590 --> 00:09:54.790 sunny sparkly day here in New York and we want to send our sunshine 00:09:54.790 --> 00:09:58.690 your way. 'cause I know a lot of folks are going through different 00:09:58.690 --> 00:10:02.290 things and this carefree tune we're listening to right now is called. 00:10:02.290 --> 00:10:06.190 Who cares? By Fillmore, I like it, right? Who cares? Let's play that 00:10:06.190 --> 00:10:10.090 every morning, so shut up to our friend Ashley down in Raleigh, NC. 00:10:10.090 --> 00:10:13.690 Enjoy every minute with baby Jack. How cute. Thank you for watching 00:10:13.690 --> 00:10:17.890 and send your videos to Hoda and Jenna comma. I just want to say. 00:10:18.040 --> 00:10:21.439 Congratulations, Jenna dropped an entire coffee on. She had a white 00:10:21.439 --> 00:10:25.147 dress that's borrowed from our friend Savannah and you did the whole 00:10:25.147 --> 00:10:29.164 thing and not one drop on that white dress that's just old makeup 00:10:29.164 --> 00:10:33.181 that so, no, there is sorry. Oh no, that's something. I believe that 00:10:33.181 --> 00:10:36.889 something else today on that. There are two types of people. There 00:10:36.889 --> 00:10:41.215 are people who get a stain and get obsessed. It's like, have you ever 00:10:41.215 --> 00:10:45.232 seen Someone Like You ever staying you? Some will say you have a 00:10:45.232 --> 00:10:48.322 stand your like OK and they're like it's just right. 00:10:48.640 --> 00:10:51.864 Just yeah, and and Hoda and I don't don't care. Couldn't care less, 00:10:51.864 --> 00:10:54.840 but I do feel like I jinxed myself, 'cause this morning Savannah 00:10:54.840 --> 00:10:58.312 brought this to me and I was like great, I could use something. Thank 00:10:58.312 --> 00:11:02.032 you. I'm glad you didn't like it on you. And then she said and Carson 00:11:02.032 --> 00:11:05.504 this morning and the 8:00 o'clock said, well, do you have to give it 00:11:05.504 --> 00:11:09.224 back? Yeah, and I said well, the one way you don't have to give it 00:11:09.224 --> 00:11:12.696 back and this isn't I was kind of kidding, but I've done it before. 00:11:12.696 --> 00:11:15.424 Remember, I spilled red. I spit red wine or white pants. 00:11:17.010 --> 00:11:20.962 Is that you spill on it? And then all this you own at fee and you 00:11:20.962 --> 00:11:23.679 only feel like something is in the environment because this morning 00:11:23.679 --> 00:11:27.137 do you wanna say what happened? You know I just I, I dropped an 00:11:27.137 --> 00:11:30.101 entire vent ET on our brand new set sparkly downstairs and everyone 00:11:30.101 --> 00:11:32.571 looked usually everyone's laughing and it was silent because, you 00:11:32.571 --> 00:11:36.029 know, when you really mess up, yes, then people get silent. But I do 00:11:36.029 --> 00:11:39.487 think there are two types of people for sure. I mean people who will 00:11:39.487 --> 00:11:42.945 immediately after you get a stand there like let me get that and they 00:11:42.945 --> 00:11:46.650 get a tide stick and that they're all on you. And you're like I'm OK. 00:11:46.960 --> 00:11:50.536 Just watch it later and I still remember I'm just remembering this. 00:11:50.536 --> 00:11:54.708 This is so weird. Jill and I were at a restaurant and Joe spilled 00:11:54.708 --> 00:11:58.582 something on him and the lady. The waitress was one of those just 00:11:58.582 --> 00:12:03.350 hold on hold on hold on. She got a napkin and I'm not kidding you. We 00:12:03.350 --> 00:12:07.820 still talk about it. She put it inside his shirt. She took a cup of 00:12:07.820 --> 00:12:10.800 sparkling whatever that is seltzer, seltzer water show seltzer. Works 00:12:10.800 --> 00:12:12.290 like this. I'm not kidding. 00:12:14.080 --> 00:12:17.888 Sitting there, it was like a wet T shirt contest. I was looking at 00:12:17.888 --> 00:12:21.424 Joe and we still everything we talked about. It was like he was 00:12:21.424 --> 00:12:24.960 soaked like through his clothes and he kept saying thank you. I think 00:12:24.960 --> 00:12:28.224 I'm good. She's like no just scrubbing and she kept scrubbing it 00:12:28.224 --> 00:12:32.304 until I think it was out. Have you ever had the person and I've had 00:12:32.304 --> 00:12:36.112 this and I've also been this with my children that spits a little on 00:12:36.112 --> 00:12:39.920 their finger and then rubs like I've had a person to me been like 00:12:39.920 --> 00:12:43.456 wait hold on hold on it's right there and sleep in a little. 00:12:44.150 --> 00:12:47.478 And then rub it on my shirt like that's better than chocolate food. 00:12:47.478 --> 00:12:51.062 Leave it alone. Yeah, just let it go alright. OK, we love this. Tick 00:12:51.062 --> 00:12:54.646 tock you know. Weird Tik T.O.K influencers by the way, we have A big 00:12:54.646 --> 00:12:58.230 tick tock person on our show. Yes, Addison Ray is gonna be with any 00:12:58.230 --> 00:13:01.558 of y'all that have kids that love. Tell them you're gonna be cool. 00:13:01.558 --> 00:13:05.654 Yes they say hey come on in or just tape the show and show him later. 00:13:05.654 --> 00:13:08.982 But anyway there was this viral tick tock from an employee in Silicon 00:13:08.982 --> 00:13:12.310 Valley. So this got him. Kevin really really really wanted to go to 00:13:12.310 --> 00:13:14.358 the Raiders game. OK, preseason game last weekend. 00:13:14.520 --> 00:13:20.036 We called out sick from work. Look there, he said hey Kev. OK, fine, 00:13:20.036 --> 00:13:25.552 better take the day you feeling better I need the day so the bottom 00:13:25.552 --> 00:13:31.068 line is it's hard to see that happened quickly. His boss sees him in 00:13:31.068 --> 00:13:36.190 a cutaway on TV. Thanks man grabs a screenshot. I'm OK Jesse allowing 00:13:36.190 --> 00:13:41.706 Are you sure? Looks like you have a twin caught your ugly. Oh, there 00:13:41.706 --> 00:13:44.070 was some other stuff. OK so. 00:13:44.610 --> 00:13:48.094 Uhm, it this this brings up the question. When you get busted when 00:13:48.094 --> 00:13:52.114 you tell someone you can't go out because dot dot dot and then you go 00:13:52.114 --> 00:13:55.598 all the sudden. Have you ever been busted? Where if you remember the 00:13:55.598 --> 00:14:00.154 bus? Well, I I don't like vividly but I have. I do it often so I do 00:14:00.154 --> 00:14:03.370 remember saying I can't do something and then sitting in a restaurant 00:14:03.370 --> 00:14:07.122 and the person walking by and you're just like this. Oh my God, the 00:14:07.122 --> 00:14:10.070 babysitter called it last minute. She couldn't come. You're like Oh 00:14:10.070 --> 00:14:13.822 my gosh, my hands in the cookie jar I feel so crummy. What happened? 00:14:13.822 --> 00:14:14.894 My biggest bust was? 00:14:15.100 --> 00:14:18.530 When I was fifteen I had a boyfriend that was older and named Blake. 00:14:18.530 --> 00:14:21.470 Gottesman, sorry, Blake and my mom said, well, you're not allowed on 00:14:21.470 --> 00:14:25.145 car dates. Sorry you can't go on car dates. You can go out with them, 00:14:25.145 --> 00:14:29.310 but you cannot drive in the car with him and I said OK, so we went to 00:14:29.310 --> 00:14:32.740 the Austin High Maroons football game. OK, we were at how did you get 00:14:32.740 --> 00:14:36.905 there you want I I my mom dropped me off like the nerd that I was and 00:14:36.905 --> 00:14:40.825 Blake met me there OK and then at some point we had to like. I can't 00:14:40.825 --> 00:14:44.500 remember what but it was honest like we had to like go get his car 00:14:44.500 --> 00:14:45.725 for a minute a minute. 00:14:45.820 --> 00:14:51.005 So we were in his car and I look over and my mom is with her, my 00:14:51.005 --> 00:14:54.970 godmother. No Reagan came in and they just look out the window and 00:14:54.970 --> 00:14:59.545 they go bust. I mean what is the chance to drive up next to your 00:14:59.545 --> 00:15:03.815 mother in the car who busted me? They yelled out busted. I was so 00:15:03.815 --> 00:15:07.475 embarrassed. Yeah I was like where they kind of laughing, busted or 00:15:07.475 --> 00:15:11.745 do they stick like that but kind of laughing but also it was before 00:15:11.745 --> 00:15:16.320 the times of cell phone so there was like I was left with the bus. 00:15:16.820 --> 00:15:20.611 And then you work and I had to Stew in my best and tell my mom picked 00:15:20.611 --> 00:15:22.172 me up when the game was over. 00:15:23.580 --> 00:15:26.388 Did she get punishment or just now? I think like yeah, maybe 00:15:26.388 --> 00:15:29.430 ground doing. I think I was grounded for like a week but my 00:15:29.430 --> 00:15:32.004 parents were pushovers, did you ever called you ever call in 00:15:32.004 --> 00:15:35.046 sick to work and just say you can't make it? Yeah we never 00:15:35.046 --> 00:15:37.854 done that. You have you. Well I've done it like a mental 00:15:37.854 --> 00:15:40.428 health day before 'cause we kind of feel like calling well. 00:15:42.560 --> 00:15:46.438 You calling, well, like you, calling well to go to, uh, you know he 00:15:46.438 --> 00:15:50.316 wasn't Kelvin wasn't sick, he just wanted to go to the game so he 00:15:50.316 --> 00:15:53.917 called him well, I know but you're gonna get most bosses don't let 00:15:53.917 --> 00:15:57.518 you call invested oh so you guys Jenna you always pick great books 00:15:57.518 --> 00:16:01.119 and I know you're good at picking no question. This one though has 00:16:01.119 --> 00:16:04.166 this talking we have not stopped talking about since you introduced 00:16:04.166 --> 00:16:08.044 it at 8:00 o'clock but and and and we introduced it and the piece 00:16:08.044 --> 00:16:11.922 that you're going to see a little later shows you some, but this pic. 00:16:12.070 --> 00:16:16.186 For September, which I just love, is beautiful country. It's by 10 00:16:16.186 --> 00:16:20.302 Julie Wang. It is a powerful memoir about growing up as an 00:16:20.302 --> 00:16:24.418 undocumented immigrant in America, and I sat down with Chen Julie to 00:16:24.418 --> 00:16:28.877 talk about her story, what it means to have the American dream to 00:16:28.877 --> 00:16:34.022 live this life. This story is so full of family love, of of grit, of 00:16:34.022 --> 00:16:38.824 resilience, and it was so meaningful I got to go back to our old 00:16:38.824 --> 00:16:42.254 neighborhood with her and walk around. I mean what she? 00:16:42.330 --> 00:16:45.840 Reveals she puts her heart out to you. It's a beautiful book. I 00:16:45.840 --> 00:16:46.920 literally could not wait. 00:16:48.400 --> 00:16:53.509 John Julie Wang's life forever changed at age 7 when her family moved 00:16:53.509 --> 00:16:58.618 to America from China. You write about landing here in America and I 00:16:58.618 --> 00:17:03.727 love it. So I'm gonna quote it. I ascended to adulthood at cruising 00:17:03.727 --> 00:17:09.229 altitude when we step foot out of JFK was when I realized that my 00:17:09.229 --> 00:17:14.338 life was going to be completely different in China. I was just a 00:17:14.338 --> 00:17:18.268 normal kid running around, screaming, dancing and in makwa America. 00:17:18.750 --> 00:17:22.105 I was to stay quiet and not be noticed at all. 00:17:23.650 --> 00:17:27.440 Meghwal the Chinese word for America translates directly to beautiful 00:17:27.440 --> 00:17:32.367 country. It's the title of her debut book, A powerful and eye opening 00:17:32.367 --> 00:17:36.536 memoir about growing up Undocumented in America back then in China, 00:17:36.536 --> 00:17:41.463 no one had a real understanding of what America was like, my uncle 00:17:41.463 --> 00:17:46.390 said, oh, the streets are paved with gold. You'll be so rich having 00:17:46.390 --> 00:17:47.527 that juxtapose with. 00:17:48.250 --> 00:17:52.423 Going to school hungry and seeing my mother worked for sense at a 00:17:52.423 --> 00:17:56.275 time really gave me a sense and understanding that there were indeed 00:17:56.275 --> 00:17:59.806 to America's out there. Chen, Julie spent her evenings working with 00:17:59.806 --> 00:18:03.658 her mom at a sweatshop snipping thread for pennies. But during the 00:18:03.658 --> 00:18:07.510 day elementary school in New York City's Chinatown proved to be even 00:18:07.510 --> 00:18:10.720 more challenging. Not speaking English felt like I was walking 00:18:10.720 --> 00:18:15.214 through a fog every day of my life. They put you in a classroom 00:18:15.214 --> 00:18:18.745 really all by yourself. In some ways, there wasn't a teacher. 00:18:18.830 --> 00:18:23.234 Who was teaching you being put in that classroom by myself though 00:18:23.234 --> 00:18:28.005 helped me? Because, you know, there were books around and I found my 00:18:28.005 --> 00:18:33.143 friends in those books and found a real refuge in those books and it 00:18:33.143 --> 00:18:36.813 was through those children's books that Chen Julie ultimately taught 00:18:36.813 --> 00:18:40.850 herself English. I loved the scene where you first found Clifford, 00:18:40.850 --> 00:18:45.988 the Big Red Dog, and then it was the girls from the babysitters club 00:18:45.988 --> 00:18:48.924 who became these companions that you didn't have. 00:18:49.050 --> 00:18:53.600 I fully pretended that I was one of the babysitters and it just felt 00:18:53.600 --> 00:18:57.825 so safe. But her family faced a medical crisis when her mom needed 00:18:57.825 --> 00:19:01.400 emergency gallbladder surgery. She made it to the hospital just in 00:19:01.400 --> 00:19:06.275 time but it was a moment in which Chen Julie felt she had nowhere to 00:19:06.275 --> 00:19:10.175 turn as an undocumented child. Your life was filled with fear even 00:19:10.175 --> 00:19:15.050 when your mom was so sick that you had to call 911 or she possibly 00:19:15.050 --> 00:19:18.950 could have died, right? You were scared to pick up that phone. 00:19:19.040 --> 00:19:23.083 Yeah, I didn't think of it. You know consciously, as feared. I just 00:19:23.083 --> 00:19:26.815 learned to be extremely cautious to turn and look over my shoulder. 00:19:27.620 --> 00:19:31.592 If there was someone in uniform, even a sanitation worker, I would 00:19:31.592 --> 00:19:35.895 pivot and walk the other way. It just became ingrained in me that 00:19:35.895 --> 00:19:39.867 caution was number one. Gen Julie kept the stories from our first 00:19:39.867 --> 00:19:43.177 years in America secret for nearly twenty years. Despite the 00:19:43.177 --> 00:19:46.818 incredible challenges she faced, Chen Julie went on to graduate from 00:19:46.818 --> 00:19:52.114 Yale School of Law and is now a managing partner at a law firm in New 00:19:52.114 --> 00:19:56.748 York City. She became a U S citizen and 2016. Most people would think 00:19:56.748 --> 00:20:00.650 that when you. Got those prestigious degrees you were living the 00:20:00.650 --> 00:20:04.790 American dream. I definitely was not. I remember going to work in 00:20:04.790 --> 00:20:08.585 this fancy office and coming home to this fancy apartment in 00:20:08.585 --> 00:20:12.725 Manhattan, looking myself in the mirror and just not knowing who I 00:20:12.725 --> 00:20:15.485 was. I had everything that the American dream. 00:20:16.140 --> 00:20:21.206 Told me that I was to go for and it took me a lot of time to 00:20:21.206 --> 00:20:22.994 understand that real success is not. 00:20:23.690 --> 00:20:27.661 Material wealth which is so easily portrayed as in American culture, 00:20:27.661 --> 00:20:30.910 the American dream that I'm living now is being. 00:20:31.760 --> 00:20:36.068 Really honest about who I am and understanding that my childhood has 00:20:36.068 --> 00:20:40.735 really shaped who I am deep down and continues to guide me. So 00:20:40.735 --> 00:20:45.761 writing this book itself has been for me how I define it. The real 00:20:45.761 --> 00:20:50.069 American dream, wow, and this book is just so powerful. She's an 00:20:50.069 --> 00:20:53.300 incredible writer, so she surely is living her dream. 00:20:55.050 --> 00:20:58.158 Welcome back to detox. In our exclusive content, you can only see 00:20:58.158 --> 00:20:59.453 here on today all day. 00:21:00.360 --> 00:21:04.182 We're eating and breathing or eating a burrito, but we had the most 00:21:04.182 --> 00:21:07.710 fun show today. I love today because we did everything right. OK, 00:21:07.710 --> 00:21:11.532 let's start. Let's begin. So we started with our chat which we love. 00:21:11.532 --> 00:21:15.354 Yeah, we always like to talk and then we had Samantha Boardman and 00:21:15.354 --> 00:21:18.588 she talked about empty nesters which was great. Just about life 00:21:18.588 --> 00:21:22.116 changing how to deal with them? That's important, you know and then 00:21:22.116 --> 00:21:25.350 what happened? She has this great thing about micro stressors that 00:21:25.350 --> 00:21:28.878 like it isn't the traumatic moments are really hard but what really 00:21:28.878 --> 00:21:30.348 can kind of grind you. 00:21:30.430 --> 00:21:33.944 Are the everyday little bits and pieces? Yeah, you let it get to you 00:21:33.944 --> 00:21:37.960 like if if you're like oh I spilled now I did this. If you you have 00:21:37.960 --> 00:21:41.223 to somehow take those micro stresses and sort of put them away like 00:21:41.223 --> 00:21:44.235 you're putting that burrito away right now no. And turn it into 00:21:44.235 --> 00:21:47.749 strengths you know and she I liked her new book. It was really cool. 00:21:47.749 --> 00:21:51.765 How do you do that? Like how do you take if you if you're bugged by 00:21:51.765 --> 00:21:55.279 little things, well you have to. First of all address it like why am 00:21:55.279 --> 00:21:59.546 I bugged by this right? When I get to the root of it and then make a 00:21:59.546 --> 00:22:00.550 switch which she writes? 00:22:00.690 --> 00:22:04.370 All about how to do it, I'm not. I can't tell you, but I think that's 00:22:04.370 --> 00:22:07.590 important. I tried to, I played a head game I had something that was 00:22:07.590 --> 00:22:10.350 scheduled and the person was really late. And you know how that 00:22:10.350 --> 00:22:15.366 grinds me? I did a whole let it go thing. I said, you know what I'm 00:22:15.366 --> 00:22:19.430 going to be here. I'm going to take what can I do in this time I 00:22:19.430 --> 00:22:22.986 filled the time, yeah, with things that I needed to do so it wasn't 00:22:22.986 --> 00:22:26.034 like I was sitting around 'cause nothing makes use to more than 00:22:26.034 --> 00:22:29.336 sitting at Lee and also then when you got together or did whatever 00:22:29.336 --> 00:22:32.384 you were gonna do, you weren't like meeting with anger. You were 00:22:32.384 --> 00:22:35.940 meeting with what you would've had, yes? So we did that which I like 00:22:35.940 --> 00:22:40.004 and then Addison Ray was here and she is a tick tock star. If y'all I 00:22:40.004 --> 00:22:42.036 don't know if you guys know where you. 00:22:42.200 --> 00:22:45.816 I'm sure you do or your kids do if you don't, but she, by the way 00:22:45.816 --> 00:22:48.754 talk about one of the nicest people. Yes, she gave her phone number 00:22:48.754 --> 00:22:51.918 to Donna. I know now Don is gonna be stalking, I know, but that 00:22:51.918 --> 00:22:55.082 that's how nice what? No you're fat but you're fat no, but I'm just 00:22:55.082 --> 00:22:58.246 saying anyone who gives a phone number like how long did it take you 00:22:58.246 --> 00:23:01.636 to get Oprah is how many meetings did you at least one or two? You've 00:23:01.636 --> 00:23:04.800 got it after one? No, I'm just kidding. I'm that's not true. No, a 00:23:04.800 --> 00:23:07.964 long time you had to cultivate it. And then she finally gave it to 00:23:07.964 --> 00:23:11.354 you and she didn't give it to me. It's like she asked for my number 00:23:11.354 --> 00:23:13.840 from somebody and then I got it. Then she texted you. 00:23:14.350 --> 00:23:18.175 Yeah, that was one of the best days of my life. Thank you for taking 00:23:18.175 --> 00:23:22.000 me back, no, but she was so cool and and sweet and humble. And I 00:23:22.000 --> 00:23:25.315 loved how Samantha Boardman was like Oh my God. It's Addison ray. I 00:23:25.315 --> 00:23:28.885 think it's you know what I love. I need a show for that reason 00:23:28.885 --> 00:23:31.690 exactly. And also we haven't had those moments because people haven't 00:23:31.690 --> 00:23:34.750 been here. Yes so to have those kind of intersecting moments where 00:23:34.750 --> 00:23:38.065 things that we probably took for granite before. And now yes, Oh my 00:23:38.065 --> 00:23:41.890 God, we're in our and now we're eating a burrito. Life is just bad. I 00:23:41.890 --> 00:23:44.950 know it was good and now we realize it's all these tiny. 00:23:45.100 --> 00:23:47.938 Things that we never paid much attention to 'cause they happened 00:23:47.938 --> 00:23:51.292 daily. It's like any to appreciate it. Yes, it's like when there's a 00:23:51.292 --> 00:23:54.904 faucet in front of you and it's dripping water just a little bit, you 00:23:54.904 --> 00:23:58.258 put your hands under it. If it's blooding, you're like you back up. 00:23:58.258 --> 00:24:01.612 It's too much like sometimes we just gotta remember just to be so 00:24:01.612 --> 00:24:05.224 lucky. My gosh, I feel like and I'm that burrito. I really can't get 00:24:05.224 --> 00:24:09.352 it out of my mind, but even like we used to take food for granted, we 00:24:09.352 --> 00:24:12.964 would eat it in a town where there's a boudoir like Oh my God, 00:24:12.964 --> 00:24:15.286 there's a breakfast burrito which is my favorite food. 00:24:15.540 --> 00:24:19.089 By the way, Anthony made a killer burrito which is going to be 00:24:19.089 --> 00:24:22.638 on our show and they were saving it for Friday I think, or 00:24:22.638 --> 00:24:25.641 whenever it was, it doesn't matter. But the point is, you're 00:24:25.641 --> 00:24:28.917 gonna want to make the recipe 'cause it was delicious and even 00:24:28.917 --> 00:24:32.193 we can make it alright. That's gonna do it for this episode 00:24:32.193 --> 00:24:35.469 today talks. Keep watching for more up today all day goodbye by 00:24:35.469 --> 00:24:37.653 breed. OK I'll just have fun last night.