So Mandy the last time you were here you were talking about climbing Mount Everest, yes, and I advised against it
He said I'm happy to report I did not climb Everest because that is like a two month excursion
But I did Trek into Everest base camp
okay, so I did about a
Quarter of the trip how far it's quarter way up basically, um, it's seventeen thousand six hundred feet. That's pretty high
Twenty-nine thousand something feet. So it's you still have a ways to go once you get to base gap
So you went 1/4 the way up and then went down and then I went down
Did you feel triumphant when I got a quarter of the way up
That was our that was our goal goal was to just do the the trek there at the base camp trek
I like that a nice week
Reasonable goal. Yeah, oh it takes a week takes a week
Yes
you slowly sort of weave your way through the Khumbu Valley and Nepal and you stay at these tea houses along the way I
climbed Mount Kilimanjaro
About a year and a half ago and you tend to stay in tents along the way up to the summit
But with every space camp I guess for environmental reasons, you stay at these tea houses which are essentially like people's homes. Really?
Um and little like quasi bed-and-breakfast. It's very charming. Oh, so when they serve your meals and they have
Like that. Well, it's kind of rustic you sleep in your sleeping bag, but you're sleeping on a on a bed. Uh
They do they have yak milk tea
Yak milk a yak milk tea which I became obsessed with and wanted to like open a yak farm when I got home
I'm like I'm obsessed with yak. Milk. Really? Are you sure you weren't just starving or so?
In eating nothing, but Clif Bar drop, yes. Whoa, yak milk. It's good Oh delicious. Why is it better than cow milk?
I chose milk hurts my stomach but yaks milk was fine. Oh, I don't know. Maybe you get a yak at the house
Maybe yeah, do you have space for yeah in the yard?
So this is when you got to I won't say the top but when you got to base camp
Absolutely. You're full. Yak milk in this photo
Belly full yak. Which one is you in this photo? Your husband didn't come on this trip mom
I'm gonna have to go back and do it again all over with does he want to do it again? I think he would if
He's so lovely to indulge me in these hiking trips. He had no idea what he was marrying into. Yeah
Well, he stayed home for this one
If you do go back with him the whole way up you'd be like, oh, yeah
We saw this last time I know yeah like we do
Go anywhere with someone when it's their second time, you can go like your fifth time, but the second time is no good at all
How long has it been since you?
recorded an album
It's been 10 years since I've released music and now you are you currently recording or have you finished recording?
I am nearly done with a record and I released two singles already two singles already
Used to be you finished the record and then you release the singles, I know how many singles that would be on the record
They're all be probably 10 songs on the record songs. Yes
CDs were the thing about nine years ago, right ten years ago. You you had a compact disc
I don't even have one in my car anymore. I don't know how you play a CD. So yeah, that's it
The music landscape has changed
Exponentially since I've last released music and since I started, I mean it's a completely different world
Your husband is a part of the band Dawes
Is he working with you on this record? We did the whole record together
He's playing all on the album. We're gonna go on tour together. It's pretty cute
Was that the excuse that he is that the excuse he used for not being able to come up on the mountain trip
I'm working on your record man. I
Want this to be perfect. I have a photograph and you posted this on Instagram recently. That was this is from when
1998. Mm-hmm. It was my high school freshman homecoming dance
I don't know who told the hair stylist who did my hair it was a good idea to curl those
It's like a like a bighorn sheep that became depressed or something
It was that like a style at the time
I believe it was and you can even see the little hairs here are crisscross too like
Happening 498 this is problematic when you're eating or whatever. It seems like it might be I think it was it was yeah
I think I took them behind my ears at some point in the evening
Well, and now after this did you start making music?
Professionally six months after six months after that. Yeah, just a baby. It's a little baby
I know I've been doing this for 20 years now. I feel like an old woman. Yeah
Must be the yak milk. That's really great about it slower to fight me
Yes, you taught at that time with the Backstreet Boys and NSYNC
That must have been a wild experience as well everything
I went from watching those guys on TRL to like six months later opening up for them
It was completely but did you love them? What did which band did you really love of the two?
Backstreet Boys Backstreet Boys
And who in the band was your guy because I know like that every I mean I sort of
Oscillated between Nick Carter and AJ like, you know, it was like when I wanted the bad-boy rocker obviously AJ was my dude. Uh-huh
But then when I wanted to like sensitive floppy haired, you know cute one. It was neck and in a way they've reversed roles
Pretty crazy. All right. Well, we're gonna take a break we come back. We'll see a clip from your new movie
It's called Midway. It opens in theaters Friday. Mandy Moore is here. We'll be right back
well
How long have you been married long enough to know my husband's talents why isn't it commanding a squadron I
Don't make those decisions to my country. Yes. I understand before the war when it was about politics. But now I
Told you she was a firecracker
I
have to say I
often wondered what kind of woman would marry dick best
You have not disappointed that is Mandalorian Midway
This is movie opens with Pearl Harbor the attack on Pearl Harbor and ends with the Battle of Midway
Yes, and where did you shoot the movie? We shot the movie in Hawaii the whole thing in Hawaii. Yeah
well most of the movie I only
Sadly was on the movie for about five days. I was in the middle of shooting last season if this is us
oh, I'm a very
To be a part of this this incredible film was an incredible ensemble, but yes, most of the movie was shot in Hawaii how
How old are you on this is us now. Like what at what age are we at right now?
Last season I played 16 to 85
Not even joking I wish I was
This year we focused a lot more on present days. So far this season. I play a 70 year old
Is that or is it it's less time in the makeup chair?
But I love it
It means I get to work with my adult children with sterling and Chrissy and justice and I love that is nice. Yes, you are
Friendly with mayor Pete Budaj. Yeah. How did that happen? How did you become with them? And how long has this been going on?
I am a massive fan and supporter of people to judge. He's my boy
I I went to a campaign event before he actually announced when he was still sort of doing his exploratory committee earlier this year
met him and I happen to be chaste and his husband and
loves what his
I
Don't pay attention. This is a shopton
and
Chasten and I sort of slid into each other's dm's and became friends. I see
And any time he comes to Los Angeles
we try to make time for each other and he's
Wonderful, and I've like ubered him around in my car and like his his chaperone when he's in town
So your point of entry was through chastened? Yes. Yes. That's interesting. Yeah, because I was wondering how how does it go like
Like hey, yeah, here's my phone number. No, no, no, no, not with a candidate. Yeah, they're quite busy but the spouse
Absolutely has slightly more time
although their lives have changed
Exponentially at this point - are you like super interested in the election and all this stuff that's going on. Yeah. Yes
It's top of mind. I think it's essential we all have incredible
Responsibilities coming up in the next year. So it's yeah, it's something I think about all the time
do you is it one of those things where because sometimes when I sit down to dinner I try to
Just wonder how many minutes will elapse before someone says the word Trump?
Yeah, yeah, tricky these days and it's nice when it doesn't happen Wow, but it that never doesn't happen
It always seems to happen indeed. Yeah, mayor Pete your guy mayor Pete's my guy. Yeah, I think he really has a
Reasonable any chance of winning I do you do. Yes
I think you look at the Iowa polls things just keep swinging in the right direction. You know, I'm I'm so impressed with him
I think he's overwhelmingly qualified. I I think he's brilliant and I love his message of unity
I think it's something that we don't have enough up in the world right now is it?
Is there any chance that?
It should mayor Pete go on to win
Is there any chance you will get an ambassadorship or something like that or be put in charge of something?
I'm pretty happy with my day job
Okay, as long as I can get invited to the inauguration, that's all I want, okay, all right
I'm sure I have a feeling that that would happen
Well, it's great to have be here maybe more everybody Midway is it?
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