this show is going to be off the rails
it could be off the rails
definitely going to be off the rails but
that's how our show always is I mean
that's the thing is that our show is
super irreverent it is very much in the
moment we don't have scriptures right
improv I mean it's completely improv
it's improv conversation it is super
live what's ever on our mind is what we
are discussing for those host chat
segments those first 20 minutes and then
you know and then of course the
interviews will always be they'll always
be great we always have the best
celebrities and the best celebrities
yeah you can say we
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it's a super big deal
it's a big deal I think
um the show has been you know this this
moving train for decades I'm gonna jump
on it as it's moving
the staff is amazing um those producers
have been there for how long oh I'm
still like they still refer to me as new
girl like the new girl you know so and
I've been there 23 years to give you
like a scope of what new girl means you
know I just feel our audience has been
with us for a really long time decades
you know decades and decades and they've
always rooted for us and I think part of
it is because I think that a great deal
of people we meet kids who are now
adults all the time who are named after
our characters from All My Children you
know they'll come up to us and say I was
named after your my name is Haley Vaughn
you know Christensen or I'm just making
up the last name but you know and you
meet how many Mateos that are named
after your character and they're adults
now and and luckily they're not my and
they're not your actual biological kid
but you know and so I think it's that
thing that people have been so kind to
us and now our children who are adults
meet people that will come up to them
and say to that whether they're in a
coffee shop or a Library what have you
they'll say oh I've watched you grow up
I'm so proud of you and that means
something to us and also when you've
been married as long as we have
um we we started talking about like
chapters in our lives you know there's
there's these chapters and this is going
to be a really fun interesting one that
we can look back on
um I know with with great joy and we're
going to laugh a lot about it at some
point oh it's like the world's weirdest
psychological experiment unfolding on
television yeah because you know the
reason all of these reality shows are so
popular is because you know they're real
people having real interactions albeit
sometimes in very uh over dramatized or
overproduced settings we don't have any
of that it's just a married couple
working together and working their
stuff out on live TV and Mark always
says like that's where he
saves his complaints for the live
audience because he feels a sense of
safety there when we had a live audience
I think there would always be like a
spattering of men
and I'd look to them for their support
and they were the wives obviously coming
to the show and so and most of the time
they're like dude you're on your own
don't go there
I would never get remarried first of all
that would never happen no no I've had
all the fun one minute
I think I filled in so many times
um over the past few years that it I
mean but I've done it so many other
times over the past Mark has always been
a great fit for our show it's a very
family oriented show and he's always
been a member of the family obviously
not just our personal family but a
member of the live family they consider
him like one of theirs
it's always just been you know Logistics
really it's been like a series of
logistics over the many years because
he's always been a natural fit for us
he's always been extraordinary when he's
filled in be it you know for somebody's
extended vacation or even if it's a last
minute thing he's always been like
there and game and we always have such a
good time doing it
um and it seems like I usually have zero
preparation so it's it works out just
fine
yeah but I know we have a blast doing it
so I think it was it was as natural as
something could like this could be and
we've always sort of worked together we
started out our careers working together
so it's not like something that we are
afraid of or intimidated by or don't you
know people say oh it's so much these
hours are so much better yeah these
hours once you work on a soap opera
together or a sitcom together you
realize like the live TV hours are a
dream compared to all the others where
it's like 14 hours a day of togetherness
you know but um for a good seven years
seven and a half years I was on the road
a lot
um you know even during the right after
the pandemic when we went back to work I
went back to Vancouver I think I was
home in over 10 months I was home maybe
12 days 13 days maybe
um so we've done the other part we've
done like we've done it we've done we've
we've lived apart a lot and also really
it really worked it really worked well
why what
um call our agents yeah we've decided to
change our mind no I think the good news
is is that we have really very separate
interests outside of work like we have
diverse friend groups our a lot of our
friends don't know each other so we have
like separate worlds that we revolve in
outside of work and outside of our
marriage and then we also have like our
friends and family that are our together
friends and family but we do have like a
lot of outside interests and outside
activities
they are kids get very grossed out by us
in general but especially when we're
eating they are sickened by us this is
my daughter on vacation my
I had no idea that you were considered
we get yelled at all the time and I say
get a job and support yourself and then
we'll stop talking about it you start
knocking on the door
she shuts the door and you hear you just
ruined my birthday yeah it's like once
you have a job and you support yourself
then you will be taken off the
discussion list but until then no
there'll always be in the discussion
yeah yeah I mean listen of course
there's rules and we're not idiots yeah
I mean most of our Lives we don't
discuss yeah and but you know just at a
certain point it's like I'm not asking
you permission because this is my job
and so I have to discuss something
don't make it easy for me
we'll say something that we think is
like very innocuous or like not like
just something that bothers like him
about me and the amount of people that
weigh in during our
um inbox where we take like comments
from the audience
it strikes a nerve in a way and you
realize oh there's a lot of married
people watching this show there's a lot
of like long-term marriage you know
because we've been married a really long
time and so when you know somebody
intimately for as many decades as we
have
we have a real Comfort level and we know
who we are there are no surprises a lot
of trust there's a lot of trust and
we're very comfortable saying whatever
our foibles are and let's face it we're
not like doing like we're not
accountants
sitting in a you know nothing against
the accountants we have very lovely
accountants and I respect them very much
but it's a fun show I mean it's an hour
long and we it's very irreverent great
guests
um and we're done by 11 30 sometimes
earlier than that
well in the grand tradition he'll be
done by 11 30 and my day sends to
stretch on a little bit longer but yeah
it's it's it's it's doable it's a very
doable schedule and we like it a lot and
you know now with our kids being gone
it's like we have this whole other world
of outside activities that we're like we
go on vacations without our kids
well we've gone on a vacation without
our kids and the first one and it was
the best vacation we've ever had right
it was The Time Of Our Lives we're not
even ashamed to admit that and parents
that are like how could you say that how
could you say such a thing shame on you
I say you've never taken a vacation
without your kids well whoever says that
doesn't have kids
or their kids are still little and
they're still in it yeah and they're
they don't even know what's right
they're envious it's not that they're
envious they just don't know any
different we were those people suckers