Melissa McCarthy: Sex, Nuns & Ghosts

We Can Do Hard Things

Glennon Doyle & Audacy

Society & Culture, Relationships, Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

1. What Melissa’s parents said when she told them about her dream – and how those magic words set the course of Melissa’s life. 2. The green and red flags Melissa tells her kids to look for in a relationship. 3. Why Melissa is a shark, and her brilliant strategy to “Run Around the Block” in almost any difficult situation. 4. Melissa’s and Abby’s experiences with ghosts. 5. How Melissa learned about sex – and the way she talks to her kids about it. About Melissa: Melissa McCarthy is an award-winning writer, producer, and actor. Her work includes Bridesmaids, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Ghostbusters,The Heat; Identity Thief; This is 40, The Hangover Part III, The Starling, “Gilmore Girls”, and “Samantha Who?”. She won an Emmy Award and People’s Choice Award for her role in “Mike & Molly” as well as an Emmy for “Saturday Night Live”. Melissa and her husband Ben Falcone founded On the Day Productions and have produced Tammy, The Boss, Life of the Party, “Nobodies,” “Little Big Shots,” Superintelligence , Thunder Force, “God’s Favorite Idiot,” and Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal & Greed. TW: @melissamccarthy IG: @melissamccarthy To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Is where adventure, it's in heart, brings a map.
0:08.5	Hi Pod Squad, welcome back, so we can do hard things.
0:11.0	I can't, we have a treat in a half.
0:12.9	it's like 12 treats.
0:14.8	Johnson treats.
0:16.8	We have boxes of dozen treats.
0:19.0	I've never been called a dozen treats for a while.
0:22.0	Do you hear that voice?
0:23.2	OK, when we heard that this person agreed to be on our podcast, we had a text chain
0:28.8	celebratory moment. We were so freaking excited. Okay, you all Melissa McCarthy. Oh my god.
0:38.9	I'm so excited and I'm weirdly nervous to be here. So why? So excited.
0:46.4	Melissa McCarthy is an award-winning writer, producer and actor. Her work includes
0:51.1	bridesmaids. Can you ever forgive me? Ghostbusters, Gilmore Girls and Samantha Who? She won an Emmy award
0:59.3	and People's Choice Award for her role in Mike and Molly as well as an Emmy for Saturday Night Live.
1:04.8	I'm laughing just thinking about all of her. Melissa and her husband Ben Falcone who
1:10.7	were excited to talk about your relationship is so beautiful. Founded on the day productions and
1:15.5	have produced Tammy the boss, Life of the Party and Bob Ross, Happy Accidents, betrayal and greed.
1:24.1	Melissa McCarthy, welcome to We Can Do Hard Things. Wow. What a, what a, we started off guys.
1:31.9	I must be old. It's weird to hear a list of that because they're all like,
1:36.5	they're such a part of us, but when you hear it in a list, you're like, all right.
1:40.5	It's not bad ass. It's amazing. And I actually want to start with you and I both went to Catholic schools
1:51.0	growing up. Yes. And I wanted to know how your experience was.
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