Hi, all you Gigi VIPs, H. Allen here coming at you a little bit early to explain some of the

complexities of today's episode. So as you know, both Carrie and I live in Los Angeles.

And Los Angeles is currently struggling through a horrible, horrible tragedy of these wildfires

and people losing their homes and the air quality and everything is just a mess right now. So we were

not able to record a new episode this week for those reasons. We'll be back very, very soon. Do

not worry, but we wanted to make sure that we brought you something. And so I was texting with

Carrie and I thought about it and I was like, what would be like a fun sort of like audible or video

vacation for the week, if you will? Like what would be a nice thing to have in our little

momentary absence from recording? And I was like, Big Sally. Of course. We need Big Sally. We need Big Sally right now. That's right. We had Brenda Vicarro on the podcast a while back. And if you are a member of our Patreon, you listen to the full chat. So this is coming at you again today. However, if you aren't a part of the Patreon, this is going to be brand new to you. And how exciting is that I would love to go back to the first time I had my chat

with Brenda Vicaro. As you know, I worked hard on securing Brenda Vicaro for this podcast. It was a

goal of mine. Alaska and I texted about this a lot. Carrie and I talked about it a lot. I

openly talked about me wanting to make it happen because I was trying to manifest it into the world, if you will. And, well, it happened. And I'm so excited.

Brenda was everything you can imagine and more. She was just kind of just herself. I mean, she was just kind of Big Sally in a wonderful Hollywood legend

kind of way. So I really think you're going to enjoy today's chat. Because of all the wildfires,

I do want to encourage you. If you are able to help in any ways that you can help, please give to

the American Red Cross. You can give locally to a wonderful organization that I love here in

Los Angeles called Project Angel Food, which is delivering meals and assistance to so many people in the

Los Angeles area. You can also go to GoFundMe and find individual GoFundMees of people here in Los Angeles

who are really struggling. There's a lot of pain happening here in Los Angeles right now.

And we're all feeling it, even if we aren't necessarily directly impacted by it.

But we also, if you live in Los Angeles, you know someone who's lost their home.

And that's a big deal.

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