our first guest is a lovely actress starring in a new Motion Picture entitled igby goes
down it opens in selected cities I just pray to God your city has been selected
on September 13th ladies and gentlemen here is the lovely Amanda Pete everybody how are you doing
very well thank you nice to have you on Michelle I'm very very excited to be here well that's a
very huge family oh no no you don't need to say that no I don't need to it's not I really am well
I feel the same about you we've been trying you don't need to say that no but it's true we've
been we've been trying to get you because we would see you in all of these uh wonderful movies and I
would say well what about her why can't we get her and the answer was always well she's busy
it was starting to hurt my feelings it's no it's no I want your feelings to be heard I
heard I'm your biggest fan I'm a native New Yorker and I well that's very sweet of you
to say you don't need to say that right uh well how was your labor day tell us about your labor
day did you have a DC it was pretty uneventful actually I just um I my sister's getting married
oh that's good October 19th my older sister so um we went bridesmaid dress shopping which
isn't always right the most exciting way to spend your labor day and is it going to be a
large big big wedding it's going to be a really big wedding yeah and um although are you envious
that your sister are you you're not married are you no I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm single laughs
how about that
so now uh now when your sister gets married does that uh make me feel really sort of you know
jealous and and upset with myself and encouraged low self-esteem well I I wouldn't have gone quite
that far but I mean to make me feel like I'll never meet anyone and then I'm getting older
and things aren't going to work out for me yeah kind of that's really what I was hitting at but uh
I'm 30 and how old's your sister 32. now what does she do she's a doctor oh that's good she
specializes in Internal Medicine and she's um it's a good thing she's a doctor because I'm
a hypochondriac is that right and and how does it manifest itself your hypocratical behavior
you know it's kind of everything but are you just kind of nuts or semi-nuts about that [Applause] I
I don't know how you read me so well I'm I'm that I mean that I'm nuts it's like you just hit the
nail on there I'm crazy are you I get a scratch and I page her in the middle of her hospital
and I'm like Neosporin or or what do I put on this hydrogen peroxide and she's like goodbye
because she's really getting it done there she's she works at Temple Hospital
in Philadelphia they get two-thirds of The Gunshot victim wounds in the state
right and she's a very serious busy woman and I'm a big pain and yes you feel like
an idiot I know I'm sympathetic because I also am a hypo can dry hypochondriac
the best thing for hypochondriacal Behavior [Applause] is open heart surgery
everything you just oh boy
now I heard you were worried that you had the West Nile Virus and I almost wasn't
going to come on the show because then I started thinking maybe you were gonna give
it to me and then or the two of us were going to be sitting here like this right
or is it not contagious that way I don't know how you I think mosquitoes are now
the organ donations they think maybe get it that way and and but I wasn't kidding
there was about a half an hour last week where I thought I had West Nile Virus is that is that
I have something about once a day yeah yeah if I have a blister I think it's you know something
very serious like gangrene and you know do you have medical books you look up symptoms sometimes
I do but really I just call my sister and I think that's why maybe that's why you know sometimes
she doesn't return because now uh would you like to be married yourself I mean you're still quite
young but would you like to get married so much really are you available well yeah [Applause]
I'd have to make a call [Applause]
isn't the phone right now let's see what we can put together
uh well I mean you're certainly a lovely woman I I imagine you have boyfriends and stuff like that
don't you probably have a of course you do I don't have a boyfriend no and I've been on some terrible
dates right late yeah I'll tell you what I would love to hear about the terrible dates and we'll
be right back and you can tell us all about it and I don't want to embarrass you but you do tell us
about a a date that he was memorable because it wasn't quite you know right you can't go into it
in too much detail real details and I don't want names or anything but just you know highlights
um I went on a date recently where where someone was talking about their mother way too much and
I can't a Saturday Night Live skit where where someone's sort of like she's just so amazing and
we're so close and um I actually it was so horrible that I tried to dial my girlfriend
under the table I try I dialed her number because I wanted her to be able to witness
which I know is really mean but but I needed to find something to kind of do you know what
kind of provoke this why did the guy feel the need to share all of this with you well Dave I
mean paging Dr Freud I don't know but I tried not to ask too many questions about why he was
so intimate with his mother do you have other friends who find the same dilemma or does this
seem to be yeah no I'm we're my friends were really like cliches were cliches of women in
in our 30s who Watch Sex in the City and and Bemo and the fact that there aren't enough
eligible men and I have one friend who who uh you know went on the internet to to try to hook
up with someone and he seemed lovely they had a good correspondence and then he came to pick
her up for the date and she came downstairs and got in the car and his parents were in the car
what's that all about was he dropping them off or what's the no
they were accompanying them on the date oh my God that's no good and she went ah
did you did you have a chance to have a vacation this summer did you have time I did I had um I had
time off not by choice I don't know what does that mean well it just means you know I I didn't get a
job Dave oh no no don't give people the wrong impression you're in great demand oh yes I am
whoops so you go on vacation I went to Paris to live there for a month I
um sublet an apartment with a girlfriend of mine and so we kind of
um I guess we sort of fancied ourselves to be artsy Left Bank you know expats living in
Paris in the 20s how did that go was it good it was a little bit pathetic we would like
we got like s for drills and wore the striped shirts and the Berets which I I would think
that the French in particular the French men would probably just be I mean you would I
think would be right you know they were exactly what they're looking for don't you think I mean
you have kind of an Audrey Hepburn sort of a deal thing here you know bless you this is really good
for my my self-esteem that I'm talking to you right now so then after Paris where did you go
um we when we we were in Paris we took a trip to Corsica and I think the highlight of my summer was
that I went diving for the first time which for a hypochondriac is not you know I mean they tie
rocks around your waist to make you sink that's right further down are you saying that's right
because you know no because I've done that you have but it was in a pool in New Jersey
if you get the pain in your ears I did and sometimes I got so scared that I was dying
but I went anyway I was really cranky about it I don't like you know it's claustrophobic
it's my vacation and I don't really want to partake in athletics and and there's
all this gear and then you're carrying this oxygen tank but um was it beautiful
so beautiful and I actually felt very peaceful and Serene and I even felt strangely romantic
with my diving instructor because you know everything's sort of undulating under there and
I know it wasn't like that at the pool in New Jersey well
laughs oh my uh well you know you're uh you're a lovely woman I'm so happy
to finally uh meet you because I I've enjoyed your work for years and years
and I hope you come back and I hope things are good for you I would love to come all
right nice meeting you it's a lovely Amanda feed everyone we'll be back with Tom greeson
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