Andrea Carter, Marketing Maven | Where Hollywood Glamour Meets Midwest Grit and Heart

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PATRICK EVANS, HOST: very much, Howard. We are back here at the Covenant Corner booth of Skip Paige's little Bar.

It's another edition of Big Conversations Little Bar. I'm your host, Patrick Evans and my co-host, Mr. Randy Florence, your spiritual guru. You are my spiritual guru.

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: I, it's almost like I've heard that before

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: at the risk of repeating myself. Yes, you. How are you?

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: I'm good. I, I, I was. Starting to say at a previous conversation you and I were having, uh, last week we had two 13-year-old granddaughters and one of their friends in, and, uh, since it was 180 degrees out all week, it wasn't

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: 180, it was barely 110.

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: You, you don't like my idea about moving to Celsius so we could cool off by 30 degrees instantly?

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: No,

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: that's just a switch, right? No,

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: [: 00:02:00

That's great. That's great. Radio, that's it's, it is, it's, this is, this isn't radio. It's a podcast and it's about learning. We're educating people. So you're not supposed to laugh at that. Oh, I'm sorry.

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: Well, let's see if our guest today ends up educated.

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: I, no, she's here to educate us. Andrea Carter is our guest and I'm

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: sorry you're gonna feel dumber at the end of this.

So

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: wait, before we get to Andrea. Yes. It's very important that we thank the mcCal. Oh, please. Presenting sponsor. Yeah. You know, they're getting ready for their next big season. I just, they have a brand new CEO. Yvonne be, who's been the senior Vice president of development there, has been elevated to the CEO position and, uh, she says that this is gonna be the, the biggest season they've ever had, and they're really looking forward to it.

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RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: I did hear from some people who attended the Liam Michelle. Uh, show there, and they just said it was one of the greatest they'd ever seen in McCallum.

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: So who was better? Leah or Michelle? No.

So today, so today we're delighted to have a, a young lady who's been involved in our podcast before she Yes. Fed us one of our favorite guests, Patrick War Burton. Uh, this is Andrea Carter. And Andrea. Thanks. Welcome for being here.

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: Thanks for having me, guys.

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: And I wanna start right there with your involvement, because you're on the board for the War Burton Golf Tournament.

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: Correct.

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: So. Amidst the partying, you guys still managed to pull off one of the greatest fundraisers in the Coachella Valley?

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: Well, it's actually St. Jude's top fundraiser in the country. Wow. Amazing. To be honest. Yeah. Bravo.

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: Yeah, that is. Congratulations to you and the team.

uh, it's a pretty well-oiled [: 00:04:00

We sell out our golf almost immediately with people who have been there in the past. They know not to miss it. And, uh, we have quite a few, um. You know, return returning guests and celebrities every year and we sell out our, our evening music show, so it's a great event.

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: The songwriter event is one of my favorite things in the desert.

Yeah. Yeah.

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: People don't know what to expect when they go there and they're like, oh wow, this is so cool.

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: You put Alice Cooper in any room and I'm gonna be happy to be there.

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: Okay.

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: Yeah. How much did you raise this year?

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: Uh, over 6 million. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. So we're up to about 35 million since we started. We don't charge

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: our guests for appearances, do we?

No. But they might

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: wanna sponsor. Might wanna be a sponsor. Big

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: conversation. A little. You'd still be well over 5 million.

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: You give us a discount, give you a, give a discount. Gimme a discount. Okay, good. No, we wanna support the charity as well. Of course. You do. Uh, and, uh, so you, you've been there since the inception.

m-hmm. I remember talking to [: 00:05:00

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: It is, yeah. I mean, I remember back in the days when, uh, Patrick Warper and was doing your makeup before going onto television.

We have actual photos of that or No? You were doing his makeup. I was doing You were makeup. Doing his makeup. Yeah. Yes. What You are full service.

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: You were? Yeah. He was coming on eye and uh, then he was like, oh, I, you know how he, I left my powder in the car. Uh, do you have some powder? I'm like, yeah, sure. And so then they got pictures of me putting on makeup.

Wow. Which I put on my resume right away. Makeup artist To Patrick Warburg. Yeah.

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: I've been hearing some of his recent standup stuff.

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: Yeah. His tours. I'm still Catholic.

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: Yeah.

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: Yeah. He's, he leans into that and it's really funny stuff. He's pretty blue on some of it too.

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: Well, so we were just at the taping of his streaming special, which he is producing, and you know, we'll work on selling it to Hulu or Netflix or whatever, once it gets edited.

Portal theater over in, uh, [: 00:06:00

So he's having a blast.

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: That's really cool. Nice to have a new career at that age. Yeah,

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: absolutely. Yeah. Uh, well we appreciated you getting wrangling him here onto the podcast.

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: He had fun. Yeah. Uh,

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: tell me a little bit about what goes on behind the scenes in planning the war burden because it's become this juggernaut and there was sort of a gap.

I mean. The Amex is still the Amex, but the Frank Sinatra tournament went away. Mm-hmm. Uh, you guys really modernized the concept of a, a celebrity golf tournament.

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: That's true. I mean, and one of the things, you know, we do have a lot of returning artists and celebrities, especially if our jam session people be like, oh, we've seen that show.

e people, you know, from our [: 00:07:00

So it's, it's been really, you know, important to say, Hey. People still, it sells out. People still have a great time, but you know, it does have a formula that works and we go with it.

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: Where, what were some of the things early on that you were like, okay, don't do that again. Where did you learn, uh,

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: have Cheech and Chong as your stand out for Saturday night?

All of us on the board were apologizing to everybody who was walking out. It was. So crude and vulgar, it was beyond what you would've seen at any comedy show that you would expect to crude in vulgar. Wow. Yeah. It's kind of gone down in history as you know. One of the worst things that's ever happened was, well, I actually was at, um.

o a comedy show in the early [: 00:08:00

Jude's. So yeah, we did cut that. No, that's

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: probably a good decision. Well, I remember they'll be on the show here next week.

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: Well, not, it was not Tommy John's wife. Not that filthy. That sounds like the one that sounds edgy. So it does not, uh, one year, uh, at the Sinatra. Ron White. I love Ron White. Me too. He's one of my favorite comedians.

And, and, and you know, I've taken my wife to see him and she thinks it's funny. Um, there were a couple of moments where I thought is, is she gonna laugh at this? 'cause I think it's hilarious. But, uh, but he came out and he did not a long set. And he had been told, there were a couple of words he couldn't say.

After about five minutes, he sat him and, and Barbara Sinatra actually got up and left the room. Oh, wow. That's like, that's a, that's a bad sign. I, I remember he was oddly not invited back. No,

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: I, I remember going, uh, when, when I was ushering at the, uh, McCallum, they had the Book of Mormon and a number of people walked out.

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Yeah. Yeah. Well,

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: and does anybody really tell Ron White what to say? I mean, no, you don't. Or she Chong for that. That's true. That's true. So

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: tell me about early on when you, you, you thought. Okay, this is it. This is gonna last. Well, we, we

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: actually didn't have our jam session, um, the first year. And I think it was just the golf tournament.

It was just the golf. Then we added the jam, then we added the songwriters night. So we could see along the way the potential for making it just a big party with a purpose weekend.

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: Yeah.

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: And once. You know, it started to really take off, you know, we were selling more tickets and you know, I had to have some hard conversations with some of my media friends who were like, Hey, can I get on the media list?

of the fire marshal. We can [: 00:10:00

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: that doesn't exclude podcast hosts.

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: Um. It does, unfortunately. Well, we still love you, both of us. Well,

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: this sounds like you're gone.

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: Uh, luckily the TV station's been pretty involved. They've been a huge, huge sponsor. And so there are, look on the Friday. Of the wor and often the Thursday as well. Our newsroom is a ghost town. I hear that all the time.

You can fire a cannon through that joint. Everybody. Everyone takes it off. Yeah, everybody goes. Yeah. I mean, whites there, Karen, dev, divine. Uh. Peter takes. I'm like, we, we, if you wanna anchor the news, that's the weekend. That's your chance. You go to my news director. Seriously, listen, I know no one's available, but I am,

gonna like the stories, but [: 00:11:00

That's, that's,

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: no, you don't get to produce the newscast, but you could sit

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: and anchor it. Uh, there's your shot, there's your champ.

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: Uh, yeah. Everybody loves. No, the last time

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: you were gonna put me on air like a host, you almost got fired. So

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: That is true. But I've recently had you on Eye the desert. I think you should remember that.

Yeah. But but not,

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: not as an

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: interviewer. No. As an interviewee. That's a game

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: you don't want to go into, I don't think. No.

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: No. We were gonna, this is a famous story now. Okay. He did almost get me fired. Uh, he was the chairman of the, uh, chamber of Commerce. And he came on eye in the desert and we were joking around and he's like, oh man, your job is so much so cool and so fun.

I said, yes. So is yours. We should swap jobs. Oh no. Like you do the interviews when you interview me on Eye in the Desert and I'll do a ribbon cutting. It seems innocuous enough. It does, but the. Ribbon cutting he picked was the, the biggest pot retailer on the planet. Oh. And they, you know, I said, uh, okay.

ke a, a thing, uh, you know, [: 00:12:00

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: Oh, okay.

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: And Jerry. Sorry

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: up. I was so high during that episode. You were so

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: high. It was a week beforehand. It was the same, the date. And Jerry Upham got the email blast

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: and he's like, oh.

And he called

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: me right away. He goes, uh, no, you're not doing that ribbon cutting.

JOHN McMULLEN, PRODUCER: And wasn't that at the same facility? Yes, it was old station KS

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: SQ studios. Oh my gosh. Yeah, I thought. It works out perfect because there had been so much pot in that building already. No, I'm kidding. I'm kidding. That is. I wanna get back to Andrea.

Let's do that. Absolutely. So you were born and raised on a farm in Minnesota,

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: small town Minnesota.

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: Just a farm girl from Minnesota. Yeah, I, I mean,

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: I do feel like I've had a pretty interesting life considering that I grew up in the town of 500 people. I had 26 kids in my graduating class. What? No stoplights.

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RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: classes don never been back to a reunion or anything like that.

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: Yeah. Have you, I went to an all school reunion. It wasn't worth it to come back for the 26, but hey, I knew everybody in the school, so if everybody's coming, I'll go.

Yeah. So yeah, I mean, it was a, you know, very small town. Dealt with the winters and all that. And, um, that's, how did, how did the

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: family get there

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: to that town?

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: That small town, that farm basically. Wagon train.

t's that, you know, ancestral: 1923

And their parents before, yeah. Settled.

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: You developed a, a love of singing early on. Mm-hmm. You sang in high school, right? You were in the court? I

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: did. My mom was a music teacher, so she always had me singing. Yeah.

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: And, uh. You eventually got involved with the Fred Waring Singers.

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: I did. The Fred Warings US course.

tually knows who Fred Waring [: 00:14:00

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: you and John Stanley King. That's who I was trying to remember who we had on the Yeah, yeah. John traveled, toured with them for a co for a couple of years. Yeah.

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: Well, what mine was, was a, a special that we recorded for PBS.

So, um, it wasn't the Pennsylvanians, but it was this US course. And so he brought in people from all, all the different states and I represented Minnesota and then we, we were all together. We stayed in the dorms at Penn State. We practiced singing and dancing, you know. Like crazy. And then we did this show and they had an audience and it, it did appear, appear on, on PBS around the country.

So That's very cool. It was really fun.

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: So you've had about 25, 30 careers since you got out here. Was that a point, at that point, were you thinking, this is gonna be it, I'm, I'm gonna be in music and perform the rest of my life? I never,

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: ever wanted to be in music. I always wanted to do it for fun. It's way too much pressure to try to make it, or whatever they call it when you try to.

to do it for fun and that's [: 00:15:00

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: we did. And I, I was reading your notes and you're right. I think it was after the Steve Chase. Yeah. We were at Melvin's Uhhuh. And, uh, that

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: had to be pretty cool. Was Mike playing Michael,

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: Michael Heal was playing, playing piano.

Yes.

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: Yep.

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: Yeah. And it was very memorable. It was very memorable. And, and, and, well, I, you remember it? I vaguely remember. No,

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: no. Hey, I checked it off my bucket list. Are you kidding me? I was like, I got to sing with Patrick Evans.

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: Well, this all culminated last year here in the Valley with you winning a, a pretty important competition in town.

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: I did, I did Singing with the Desert Stars. I. Pulled it off, I guess. I mean, I don't sing a whole lot anymore. I mean, I used to get pulled up with the Nest a lot, but things have changed over there, so, uh,

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: yeah, it's a little different vibe these days. It's

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: a little different, but Yeah. But,

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: uh, talk about singing with the Desert Stars because they did a, that's Desert Ensemble Theater Works was doing that as a fundraiser, and sadly they're closing up shop.

gnature fundraisers. Mm-hmm. [: 00:16:00

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: Oh, cool.

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: Uh, but who was your coach? And tell us about what you sang and, and winning that competition.

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: Um, uh, Barbara was my coach, um, Kerr. Kerr. Barbara Kerr was my coach.

She's lovely. I just, just adore her. Previous

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: guest on the podcast guest. Yes.

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: So I actually chose to sing Home from the Wiz. For a few reasons. One, I won the Talent Competition in a pageant with that song years ago, and two, with the whole resurgence of, now The Wiz is a different show, right? Than Wicked, obviously, but everybody offshoot of that.

You know what? Everything kind of becomes new again, and everybody starts talking about The Wizard of Oz and The Wiz and everything. And so it kind of came full circle and it's a Belty song, and I'm kind of a belty kind of gal, so. That was easy for me to fit. Yeah. How did you

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: feel when the, when the lights went on at the actual performance?

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: Well, to be honest with you, um, the keyboard crashed in the middle of my song.

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: What? Yeah.

t able to attend that. Oh, I [: 00:17:00

And the entire thing goes out. So you

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: were acapella the, the second half of this? Well, everybody

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: kind of stopped from it. It was buzzing. I couldn't have even sang over

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: that. It was like

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: Z and the audience was all like, oh, that

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: wasn't you. It wasn't me.

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: And everyone was like, oh my gosh. So, uh, he had to reboot it and so we're all standing up there going, oh, okay.

Uh, and then I started, not from the beginning, a little ways in, but it made for some drama for the evening.

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: Well, the fact that you survived that and didn't fall off the stage, and I, and I ex was probably saying a lot. It was, it was, I, I'm, I did not need

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: that.

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: I think I probably would've walked off at that point and said, thank you everybody.

Yeah. It doesn't

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: help the nerves at all to have your accompaniment go out.

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: You've performed on that very stage. Randy, I've seen you in a play there,

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: which was that at, uh, Palm Canyon.

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: No, I was at the, uh, the Palm Springs Cultural Center.

think I'd know the one place [: 00:18:00

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: Was it only one place?

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: Uh, I've done two there and then Well, the, you know the huge movie career. Well,

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: that's true. The movie, I mean. You gotta start giving out auto. I was certain, I was certain my

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: part was gonna get cut out of that movie. No, I was just certain

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: of it. No, I'm hearing they're planning a sequel entirely around your character.

That is what I've heard,

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: but not starring me, interestingly enough. No, no, they're not re

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: they can't

JOHN McMULLEN, PRODUCER: recast that. Did he mean that he got cut out of, or just the nose? Hair.

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: Wow. Wow. Nose hair. Oh, well that's because the angle is right up your nose. I told him the first thing I saw when my face showed up on the 40 foot screen was nose hair.

Oh, wow. Wow. You know, funny enough,

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: Patrick Warton, um, he actually, there was a film, one of Seth McFarland's films. It might have been Ted. Where the description of the character was a Patrick Warton type character. So, you know, maybe they're going for Andy Houston type character. I'm, and then you can audition and see if you get it.

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: I've got no more calls,

your phone's gonna ring. Uh, [: 00:19:00

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: Yeah.

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: Congratulations. 25 of those have been spent here in California. But you met, you were a kid. I mean, you were 21.

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: Yep, yep. So yeah, and we both. Like, couldn't wait to get out of Minnesota.

We hated the winners and stuff like that. But yeah, it's uh. 30 years is a long time. Wow.

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: But what made you guys, how did you pick California? What, what drew you out West?

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: So I used to travel quite a bit in some of my previous jobs, and I looked up a childhood friend out here. It was February, and she lives on hold.

She has a great view of the mountain. She put umbrellas in our drinks and I went to visit her and I just called my husband right after and I said, we have to move here. And he is like, well, you don't have to ask me twice. So I, you know, about a year later I started looking for jobs and that's when Scott Kiner hired me.

So. And had you had doesn't, how much

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: time had you spent in a place that. It was slightly different in weather from Minnesota. I don't only visited

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: a few times. Yeah. But that, you know, I sang in my And were

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: you smart enough not to come during the summer?

GUEST: Uh, well, no, I don't [: 00:20:00

Through the winters I've lived through, I would take, uh, summer here before a winter there anytime. But Sure. You know, I, I, the, I was saying, and I was that there was a touring choir with my college that I was able to make. And so we did a west coast tour. We did the eastern block of Europe, and we traveled all around.

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: You have been to Vilnius?

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: Yes. That's how I connected with your wife.

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: That's right.

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: It's really cool. Not a lot of people have been to Vilnius, so

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: No, it's uh, I think it's gaining more traction. Yeah. You mentioned

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: something on the news one day and I was like, oh my gosh. Like somebody I can connect with about Vilnius Lithuania.

So, but we did to do a West Coast tour, and it wasn't until after I moved here that I remembered, we actually had done a stop at the Presbyterian church where, um, Gerald Ford's funeral was or whatever. And so I moved here at all. I had this stage of movement. I was like, oh my gosh. I had been here as part of my college, but I never connected it until after I moved here.

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: And what was the first thing you got involved in when you got here?

ed in the community. I mean, [: 00:21:00

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: When I moved here 23 years ago, Kiner was the The big firm.

It

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: was, yeah. You know? Yeah. I was fortunate to work for him for eight years and he made me cry when I told him I was leaving to start my own business. But we've stayed friends and. Um, he always wished me the best and it was always very supportive. My family, you know, he had let me work from home two days a week at a time when no one did back.

Nobody was working from home. 'cause I had my babies right in a row, bang, bang, 14 months. And so, and some of the staff would go and complain and he'd like, she's my top biller. Get outta my office. I don't care what

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: you, when you're making that much money,

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: come back and talk to me. Yeah. He, he was like, she, she's producing so she can do that.

But it was kind of crazy to think she's

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: producing and reproducing.

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: But,

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: um, thank you. We are here all week. That's the gin. SPRs are talking. Well

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: played.

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: I can't wait for the second one.

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: I'm glad they didn't put the flowers in yours. I don't know what would've

ppened. Well, Randy would be [: 00:22:00

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: were, were you.

As involved, was the family as involved in, in things like philanthropy and working with those kind of organizations back in Minnesota, or did this become something that you just kind of noticed in this town?

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: Yeah. Yeah. I, I really got pulled in, in this community realizing that that's. Such an important part of being involved in giving back here.

I mean, this has a very small town feel. I should say that after I graduated from college, my first five years were spent working in the Twin Cities area in Minneapolis, St. Paul. And so I worked for big companies. Yeah. And I traveled all over the place and I, I did that. So, you know, I was part of like IABC.

I was on their board for a bit, which is like the International Association of Business Communicators, whatever. But then I came here and I was like, this is part of the culture here. And there were so many great nonprofits I was going to their events and learning about, and I was like, this is. This feels good, you know?

Did you

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: get over involved early on? I, I, I know when I moved to town, I signed up for so many things. I finally had the back off. I got involved

didn't really realize at the [: 00:23:00

It was retarded.

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: You wanted to take desert outta there? Yeah, exactly.

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: Retarded was a clinical word, you know, at one point. But yeah, please send your

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: notes, cards and letters to Randy Florence.

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: Well, wait a minute. We had one guest who spent half the episode apologizing and saying the word over and over and over.

Who was that? Probably Bonci. No, it wasn't Danny Bonci. Who was it? I don't know. I'll figure it out. I don't

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: remember. But at the time, um, we had an executive director, Steven Rosebaum. Oh, he found it. He got it. I

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: found it.

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: Um, but yeah, it, it was at the time where there, the executive director was doing some bad things.

We had to let him go. You know, Chris Murphy, you probably remember Christine Murphy. She was Mayor Matt Rancho Mirage for several years. Oh

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: yeah.

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: She was the board chair and, and we actually hired Richard Acko, who was there for many, many years and we changed the name. So. And he

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: just retired?

NDY FLORENCE, HOST: Yeah, he [: 00:24:00

What did his name become? Oh, it wasn't his name. He changed. Yeah. No name changes for Richard, I don't think. But

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: he was so great for the organization, but at the time I was. Very, very young, and I didn't understand, nobody told me about fiduciary responsibility and I mean the executive director, we had to let go, sued us, sued us all.

Personally, I'm sitting in a deposition going, oh my gosh. I'm like, I have babies. So glad I got involved with this at home. And I'm like 33 years old. Like, what did I do? But you know, that which does not kill you makes you stronger. And I fully believe that. So,

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: yeah. And one of the first questions I ask when I'm asked to do board work is, tell me about your.

Board insurance really important, you know? Yes. Directors and officers. Yes. Yeah,

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: totally. Uh,

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: yeah. You know, before we jump into all the celebrities and we, and I know you have stories. We wanna get to those stories, but we have to take a quick break to hear from our good friends at the McCallum Theater, our presenting sponsor.

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PATRICK EVANS, HOST: Uh, we are here with Andrea Carter, speaking of singers. But now you, um, let's see. Now you were, you worked with Sharon Stone?

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: I did. Was that this crazy story?

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: So I'm not allowed to say this, but uh. Someone I might or might not be married to, might or may not be attorney, might or might not have had her as a client.

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: Oh, well. So I happen to know who that is. So he was with her at the time.

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: Oh no. Oh, we're thinking of different people.

Go, okay.

ing at the film festival and [: 00:26:00

'cause all my friends from Minnesota be like, did you get a picture? And I'm like, well no. And that's why they hire me back like, you know, you gotta be professional. Right. So I got, you know, breached out about this gig with Sharon Stone and I was like, oh, I heard she's really difficult. I don't know about this.

So we, we went out to the Bermuda Dunes airport and met her on the tarmac. It was me and her limo driver. And she had, you know, a little bit of an entourage. So the plane comes in and we're like half a football field away from the plane when they come in with the car. And she's the first one with the plane and she saunters out and she's like, could you get any closer?

And me and the limo driver are like, oh. She's like, I'm kidding. And I'm like,

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: oh, thank God.

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: Is this the kind of night I'm about to have? You're like,

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: I'm [: 00:27:00

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: I, so, but actually the rest of the night was pretty good. I mean, there was no real hiccups, but that was a pretty big jolt at the beginning of the night.

I thought, oh boy. But

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: celebrity handlers. Mm-hmm. So, so talk about that. Mm-hmm. What were you doing for Sharon?

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: Making sure that she is where she needs to be. Um, so,

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: and, and I, I, I'm sorry. Just 'cause I don't know how this works. Every town they go into, there's a ce, celebrity handler. It depends

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: on the event.

It depends on a lot of things. Some of them have assistance, but they don't want to pay their assistance to go. And so there'll be like. Somebody from the event needs to just make sure. Got it. Like they're not gonna, she's not gonna come 30 minutes early to make sure she's ready for a cue. Same thing with Joan Rivers.

ter and she's like having to [: 00:28:00

She's like, oh my God, nobody cares. We really need, uh, and then she, and you heard

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: all the checks going away. Well, then

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: she sees her face on the jumbo trauma on each side, and she goes back it up. Back that camera up. No, you're not jumping at me. And we're just all like, oh my gosh, she's so wild. But, um, she, so I actually worked with her.

I was the person who told her that Whitney Houston had died because that was, that was, that happened the night of Steve Chase humanitarian awards. And because everybody was talking about insensitive and everything, I was like, you just need to know this happened. And she was like, oh, drugs. I knew it. I knew it, you know.

But she was lovely in the sense that she would always come. This is why you have handlers. They tell you right when you need to be somewhere, and then they let you go. And so you don't have to think, someone's got me, someone's gonna tell me where to be, and then they're gonna just. Make sure I can go away.

o that's basically what that [: 00:29:00

She's like, that's okay. I wanna be ready. And so she actually was very lovely. Good work ethic. One and a hard worker. Yeah.

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: Yeah. How, how did you start with the film festival? Uh,

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: you know, I think, if I remember, 'cause I was working for Kiner at the time and somebody at the festival came to Kiner and said, do you have any employees?

'cause there were a couple other coworkers of mine at, uh, Kiner Communications that went with me. But, um, they didn't get hired back. But I got hired back and I worked it for 12 years.

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: That's 'cause you knew not to take pictures and ask for autographs and stuff like that. Yeah, it's,

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: it's a, it's one of those jobs where it's just.

he was like, I hate selfies. [: 00:30:00

But the people were trying to hand me their camera. Well, I'd be taking her to the bathroom, right? And they'd be like, here, will you take a picture? No, she needs to be backstage. And I'm working and go away. Now there's a time for that. And that's the red carpet where Patrick's at and where you can take pictures and that kind of thing.

But people would follow them to the bathroom. And just, my wife

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: followed Julianne Moore into the bathroom. But I think that was more because we were sitting at the table next to Harvey, uh, Weinstein and Weinstein. Oh, she just wanted to leave. Oh

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: my gosh. Wow. Yikes. Boy, that's a memory. That is. So who

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: are some of your favorites and what are some of your favorites?

And can you, do you have. Off color stories you could tell us the

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: Well,

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: you know, come on.

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: Yes. Good. Alright. Excellent. Ho, it's been so long now, um, make '

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: em up and I guarantee you I wouldn't make them up that celebrity, whoever it may be. Whoever they, they're not listening to the podcast so you can tell anything.

ese stories. Oh, okay, good. [: 00:31:00

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: worst celebrities that you worked with.

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: Charlene's their own. Really horrible,

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: don't say that.

And two different

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: occasions. She was out here twice

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: and she was terrible both times. She was

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: very rude. And so the second time she was, she was here and I had to go get her for backstage. And so I said, you know, miss their own, they're ready for you backstage. And she's like, I just got my food. I'm not gonna leave until I'm eating.

So I get on the headset, I'm like, okay, so she's not coming. She needs to eat. And if you look at her, you're like, but do you eat? Like, I don't know. That's right. You really want to eat. I had a

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: scallop today. Right. I'm like,

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: and I, so like we, we literally had to go to the orchestra for a bit for a break that was not planned in the show, so she could have a couple bites of her meal and then she was ready to go back.

So both times she was just. Not pleasant. Was that a

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: surprise to you?

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: Well, yeah, she doesn't, I mean, there's certain things you're like, I didn't want to know that.

. Because you know, we often [: 00:32:00

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: Right. Karen Alkin.

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: He did neither of those, so that's my fault. So that my fault. Mostly they know

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: they're, they're there for that. Right, right. So and so and so,

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: yeah, they, but uh, stage

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: managers are peons,

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: so Wow. She was, uh, what else? Give us another good story. Okay,

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: so another cool story I had was, um, there was a time when Helen Hunt was there and Diane Lane, and so I'm backstage and Diane Lane comes up to me and she says.

I see Helen Hunt is here. Do you know that? Do you know where she's sitting? And I said, yeah, I have the table sitting right here. And she's like, okay, just a minute. She like writes her a note and she handed it to me and I got to bring it to Helen Hunt from Diane. Oh, very cool. That was really fun.

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: Did you read it?

ind of went, okay, whatever. [: 00:33:00

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: can't believe you beat me for that part.

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: I know nothing too

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: juicy. I'm sorry. I won't be in the same room with Diane Lane.

Right, right.

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: No, I was impressed though that she just like gave it to me and said, here, go bring this to Helen Hunt. And I was like, okay, I'll do that. Um, you know, John, but she said

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: Go to Helen Hunt, which is a. It's an awkward command, but Oh, there's a lot of

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: that. I know. That's why this works. Yes. Let's be honest.

It's

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: true.

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: Um, John Travolta was the best. Yeah, I mean, he was just my favorite because when I was walking in backstage and I, a lot of times I didn't. I conversed with them. Sometimes I would because if it was a really long walk, it just felt weird. And, but I had said to him, he was there for, um, hairspray.

sincere and from his heart. [: 00:34:00

She and I worked together for years. Her name is Rory. And she did all the, you know, she worked with Mary Hart, she did all the, the stuff backstage and I was telling her about it, and she's like, you know what, John remembers what it was like when the fans weren't there. And he's, he's a different person now.

Like he appreciates everything differently. That's

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: really good to hear. He went through a few years there where. We were kinda worried whether he was losing it or, or not. Yeah. He was gonna have a

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: resurgence or not. Yeah. So my best story though, I've saved that one for you. Um, maybe Patrick's heard about it too, I dunno.

Um, so it was Mariah Carey, the person, everybody loves to eat and she earns every bit of it. So she shows up and she's gonna be recognized for the movie Perfect. That year. And this is her chance to like break through kind of the acting, right? Because she was. Got got a lot of, you know, kudos for that. So she shows up at the red carpet and she's already like smashed.

we have the headsets on, so [: 00:35:00

They want 'em to have a good experience. So like, if they ask for anything and they tell you it doesn't matter what, like, I mean. No one said if they asked for cocaine, go find it for em. Hookers. Hookers. Yeah. No, no one's and cocaine. Not that either, but.

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: And cocaine. Well, they go together. Yeah. Yeah. You really can't have one with either.

Yeah.

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: If Sean Penn, I, I dunno really? Then let's dive into that.

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: Oh, I literally don't know.

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: I'm not sure you're backing off of it.

ght. But I did get married in: 1981

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: I mean, if Sean Pan wants to go to the loading dock, even though no one's allowed back there to have a smoke before he goes on stage, we take him out there.

his security guard pulls me [: 00:36:00

Before he goes up. So you make sure to allow extra time for Jamie to go to the bathroom. Okay. So took him to the bathroom. Got there. He went on stage. He was flying. Oh my gosh. I was like, oh no, I know. He had to go to the bathroom, so he didn't have to use the

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: bathroom. He just needed to go to the bathroom.

He needed to go

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: to the bathroom because he was like just crazy on the fire. But was

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: he funny? Was he Oh,

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: yeah, yeah, yeah. But I mean, he definitely wanted to. Do something that got him over the top and he did. But back to Mariah Carey. So, um, anyway, so she's got, she's got a bigger entourage than anybody I've ever seen there.

uld like to know where Clint [: 00:37:00

I'm like, sure. So I'm like, right here, right next to Morgan Freeman. So she saunters over, she just falls in between the two of 'em talking to him, and I'm like, oh my gosh. I'm like, this is your chance to actually be in more movies. I'm like, oh. So

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: bad, probably not the right person to fall on top of as Clint Easter.

Yeah. Yeah.

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: So then she goes on stage and she cannot get through it like she is. She is mumbling and bumbling and she's like, y'all, I have to, excuse me. I'm a little bit, and somebody else like blitz or something. She's like, yeah. Well, a

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: diabetic.

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: Oh my gosh. Yeah. No, I mean, and so she was, all the talk shows the next day were roasting her and we actually put the film festival on the map.

Nice. They love the publicity, but, so the Globes were a couple days later and she went, she was on her best behavior. There

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: was. Was that the worst? Anybody was up on stage since you've been there?

And then a few years later, [: 00:38:00

Right. So we were all working like the next day for at this event, and I work with a, there are several people they hire that are professional stage managers for that event, like work for Disney and stuff like that. So we were all talking about it. They've all worked with her multiple times and they were so happy.

They're like, couldn't it happened to a better woman? Like truly her, her bad reputation, like it. Excused totally, totally deserved. It is totally deserved. Everywhere she goes, like she burns bridges, she doesn't care. She is the true definition of a deep,

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: deep are, are you still to the point where, um, meeting somebody like that gives you a little bit of a thrill, or have you been doing it long enough that.

ike for example, like when I [: 00:39:00

Spent a lot of time with now Scorpio. I've known him and his wife, and he actually came to a little celebrity fundraiser for my daughter's school, and it was great. But the difference is I grew up with him every single day. Yeah, so it's the people that you feel like kind of, you know, because they were part of your life, like on a regular basis, when you meet them, you're like, oh my gosh, like I literally grew up with you.

You know? That's, that's special. I feel like

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: that way with Patrick. Yeah. Do you look at him that way? I still grew up

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: with him every single day.

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: I wanna talk to you about something very personal.

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: Oh,

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: because should do I need to be here? Yeah. Awkward. You. You don't awkward. Be here. Randy. You can go now. Thank you.

You've been of great service to us today. People.

No, let's talk about you being adopted. Okay. Man, I bring that up because I was,

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: I don't think I know that.

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: I don't think you know that.

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: Oh. Um,

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: uh, oh. Is there a story coming here? Did you run a action? Are open brother? Are you open? Oh my

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: [: 00:40:00

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: It's, no, there's no story about that.

I'm just, it it, so, but you have uh, I have not, uh, I don't know who my birth parents, it was a closed adoption. Yep, that was fine. It was in the sixties. Mm-hmm. Um, but you. Are close with your, you have a very unique I do adoption situation. Your biological parents. Mm-hmm. Gave you up for adoption, but then got married, which that never happens.

Happens. Right,

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: right. And they went

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: on to have three boys. Yeah.

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: So I have three full blooded brothers and they're full

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: blooded brothers. So how did you reconnect with your, with your birth family?

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: Well, they walk us through

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: that experience.

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: Sure. So, 'cause people say, and were their

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: siblings on the adopted, in the adopted family, I

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: did grow up with a sister who's six years younger than me.

me, so I never had a desire [: 00:41:00

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: hundred percent.

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: Yeah. And I, um, never was gonna find them.

So with a close adoption, mine was also closed. And I'm actually a kind of a strong proponent of c close adoptions. 'cause I feel like, you know, you gotta kind of let the child grow up in their situation without like, this is your birth. Like, while they're growing up, like whatever, when they grow up. But I, well I

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: think, you know, especially.

The younger you are, the more confusing that would be. That's

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: what I'm saying. Yeah. So I do like the, I, they, they don't really exist anymore, but I liked the idea of them. So I'm driving to LA for a meeting once about, you know, 15 years ago or 12 years ago, and I get this call and this woman is like, you know.

My name is such and such and I'm with Lutheran Social Services, and I'm like, oh my gosh. There's only one reason this woman would call me and she's like, are you at a place you could talk? I'm like, let me pull over. So she's like, I have a letter here from your birth mom, and she's like, I want to know if I can send it to you.

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So I found one of my brothers on Facebook, like didn't reach out to him, but he popped up when I typed his name in and I was like, wow, that's so weird. And he kind of looked like some of my pictures when I was a kid. So I sh I was like, I was telling my friend, I'm like, you gotta see this. And she's like, this is my friend from Minnesota.

I'm back visiting. And so she's like, well, look him up in my account. Or she, her account or Facebook account was open. She's like, well type his name in so I can see his profile picture. Well, we type his name in and she has a mutual friend with my brother and she's like, my friend Stacy knows him. And I'm like, oh my gosh, this is like a month after I got the letter.

do this. I'm good. This is, [: 00:43:00

So I. So she talked to her friend, she contacted me like a week or two later. Her friend that sat next to my brother at work had done mortgages for all my family. She knew my entire family, so I at least got that third party. They're not ax murderers thing. So I was like, okay. So then we corresponded with letters and we met the following Christmas.

Um, by the way, my birth parents did get divorced, um, so they weren't still together and all that, but so. Met my birth parents. Weird. Um, my brothers. It was like we had known each other our entire life, like loved them so much. I still, I'm super close to them to this day. Birth parents, not so much. My birth mother got a little territorial.

m like, yeah, I got a mom. I [: 00:44:00

They called her by her first name, honestly.

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: Ooh.

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: So we kind of had that bond a little bit, you know what I mean? It wasn't like they were this happy family and I was the missing link and all that type of thing. So now like, you know, my brothers and I are close, but I don't really talk to my birth parents and, and it's good, you know,

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: your adoptive parents.

Knew that you connected with your birth parents then? Yeah.

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: Yeah. It wasn't easy at first. Yeah. I mean, you know, my mom was always like, kind of hoping that that would happen, but they fell in love with my brothers. My brothers fell in love with my parents. My brothers would say to my parents, Hey, John and Owen, can you adopt those two?

So it actually was like, um, it, it turned out as a pretty good situation overall. But yeah, I don't have any contact with the parents anymore.

been a couple of other kids [: 00:45:00

And, and the first one I was, you see

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: we found two of them. Like, there're a lot more.

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: There might be, knows there might be. We've only found two of them. The last thing my dad told me about my mom is she was a wild child, Randy. Uh, and this was in the. Fifties, you know, and her parents were very conservative.

h. But then some years, maybe: 2018

Wow. Uh, who turned out to be. Full-blooded sister of one of my half sisters. I'll put out a graph later. That'd be great. And, uh, a family tree, please. And so I was, she flew in. I was able to [00:46:00] introduce the two of them. One of the most touching moments I've ever seen. Yeah. But it was the same thing. Mm-hmm.

This sister and I, it was like we'd known each other our entire lives. We talk all the time now. Mm-hmm. Yeah. But it was very, very interesting on. The second time I was more open to, yeah, meeting.

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: Well, what I explain to people is if you've ever seen the movie Sliding Doors with Gwyneth Paltrow, so she got to see her life down one way and then she slid the door or the other.

If one decision would've been made in her life, her life was this way. Well, I got to actually see like my, my birth parents' hometown was, you know, was not great. My birth mother was. Uh, to be honest, on a bar stool most of her life, like I would've never had the opportunities that I had. And she kept saying after I met her, like, oh, I should have kept you, whatever.

. And I went, I remember one [: 00:47:00

My entire life. Wow. If she would've kept me. So I actually got to experience that and talk about appreciation even more so of your life. You know, and you probably have a very similar story, Patrick, where like, look at all you've done in your life.

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: I, I have, I have never, you know, I, I don't even know if my birth parents are still alive.

Right. Uh, I have, I have no idea. Uh.

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: But they probably made the best choice for you, there's no doubt

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: about that. Yeah, I mean, I mean, I don't know. Maybe they were super wealthy. Maybe I'm, I don't know. Maybe they're on a yacht somewhere. Uh, typically not the case, but typically people that gave up their kids.

But yeah, this is true, but you never know. Uh,

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: I'm relatively certain mine are on a yacht anywhere, and I know who they are.

but I'm very happy with the [: 00:48:00

Um,

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: how did your family, your daughters, your husband, feel. As this was going on and this was coming in to become a part of your life.

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: My husband was very encouraging. She, he is like, Hey, you have brothers. You should check this out. My daughters were at this really weird age that I had to basically have the birds and the bees conversation with them because of this, because I had to explain.

They were like eight, nine. I had to explain why I had birth parents and. Did know you were adopted at that point. Okay. They didn't, they didn't understand any of that. Yeah. Under, yeah, concept. So you have to like explain what a biological like, okay, so this is how this works. And they're like, oh gosh. Oh, but it was, it was dolls with a forced conversation.

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: My kids just had the birds and bees conversation with me. I was like, wow, that's really,

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: I know you look like you came through it pretty well. Does.

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: It was kind of shocking from their perspective.

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: Was it different than what I had told you, Wayne? Yeah. As your spiritual guru.

e you're finally enlightened.[: 00:49:00

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: Yeah.

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: There was no fifth of anything. And uh, you didn't have to smoke anything. It was like, it was very different than the way you put it.

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: There's always a different way to do things. That's right.

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: That's right. That's right. No, I, I just found that fascinating and I think it's. Terrific. That you, you know, connect with and that they're, it's so rare that you would have, what, three brothers?

Mm-hmm. From both biological pairs. I mean, it's just, it's really a, a unique situation. And

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: how did your brothers grow? How, how did they end up, are they

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: successful? Oh, they're actually very successful. Yeah. They didn't,

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: they didn't end up on that. Tal like youth, they did

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: because, so when my birth parents, uh, separated, my, uh, my birth father was a really hardworking guy.

He was a, a bus driver and a basketball coach, and he was gone a lot 'cause he was working, he was like very, you know, hardworking blue collar. So they kind of raised themselves, but he taught them the right rules and they're all very successful. So,

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: so are they impressed at some of the stuff that you've accomplished here since you've been here?

Yeah. Sure. That's gotta be pretty cool to talk about.

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: Yeah. [: 00:50:00

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: even my hometown too is kind of looks at that like, wow, you know, that's,

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: that's the one thing, like no matter where you leave, if you go to California, it's always the, that's the thing.

People thought, well, you know, he left for California. Yeah. Like, whoa. Yeah. Like how successful they became. Yeah. They get kind of defensive. He's got a podcast and everything. That's what, right. That's what they say about

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: me. So tell us about your, your company. You started your marketing organ and PR organization?

Yeah. Yeah. So I did that in: 2008

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: such a great time to be starting a new business. Yeah, yeah. There was nothing going on economically, nothing going on.

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: But what I had going, for me, the advantage was that, you know, in the valley, if you work hard out here and you make relationships and you do what you say you're gonna do, like coming from Minnesota.

le are like, wow, thanks for [: 00:51:00

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: uh, the, the war Burton is a client, correct?

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: Well, I do the work for it, but it's pro bono.

Yeah. Yeah. It's a pro bono client. Yeah.

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: Uh, so tell us about some of your other clients.

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: Well, I work with, uh, the local transit agency, right. So mine transit agency. She's also

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: worked with one of our previous guests, the Coachella Valley Scorpions.

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: Yeah. I did their launch, the media launch of the team before Vince took over.

They don't need me anymore. I don't know why. Vince has quite a well oiled machine for promotion, but they still need

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: you. I, I suggest that given it's pickleball, they still will need you. Yeah, I

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: think so. The only thing I've seen is my bumper sticker. Yeah,

S Resorts that owns forever, [: 00:52:00

So I got to go through all the fun national press with that.

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: And is it finally, is it where it's going to be?

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: Yeah.

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: Okay.

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: Yeah.

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: It's not as good of a location, unfortunately. No, but

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: no it's not. And they have tall palm trees around her. Yeah. It screws up the photos. There's

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: a lot of people who still can't find her.

People are, they go to where she was like, we hear people. Saying, oh, they, she lost a left. And so we're like, we need a whole camera to be like, she's, yeah, she just walked out one

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: day and

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: yeah, no, she's right, right there. But like, they see that she's gone and they think she's gone. So, um, but it's a great client.

PS Resorts off top. Um, like great, great people. He's the best. He is the best. And, you know, the, the, the current board, like, they're very passionate about, you know, bringing business into Palm Springs, supporting the resorts. I I love all the people I work with there. So hopefully we can stop talking about the Maryland lawsuit and actually just promote the destination, right?

Yes. That would be

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: nice. Absolutely.

, um, but yeah, I, the mall. [: 00:53:00

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: Malls on my corner that that thing was, I call it a faux controversy. I mean, I know it, it was a big controversy because it cost a lot of people, a lot of money.

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: Yeah. But it was really Marilyn or the mall? Maryland. Maryland, okay. The mall is always, yeah.

There's some controversy around the mall. Absolutely. Yeah.

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: Uh, no, I just, you know, it was a small handful, but of, of influential people who made a big stink, and I think they actually hurt their own cause they did at the end of the day.

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: They did. It's just unfortunate that they ended up winning and she's not in as good of a location, but at the end of the day, it cost about a million bucks.

And just between the legal fees and the cost to move her. So at some point, like they could have been continuing this on the road. They weren't stopping Trina and her team was not stopping. They, they apparently had money to burn and they were gonna stick with it. And so at some point it's like, you gotta stop the bleeding.

Right? It's just. Let's just get it over with and move her and be done talking about it.

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: When you're going bout with somebody that's got too much time on their hands. Yeah. And resources. Exactly. But

you're right, it was a very [: 00:54:00

The visitors, the residents, they all think she's amazing. Like it was such a small group of loud people that it was unfortunate, but. So

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: what's coming up for you next? What, what, uh, the same stuff I, I mean, I know you're doing the same stuff every year.

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: Well, yeah. I mean, I would say just doing my thing and, um, I just, we need

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: to do remotes wherever this is, is his a remote?

No, no. Wherever this is remote, we need to travel with her.

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: Oh, gosh. Yeah. Well, I never know what's gonna be in my path, but I have fallen into a lot of really cool things I have to say. Been pretty blessed in my life. Yeah.

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: Well, we're delighted that you stopped to spend some time with us. Yeah. Super fun. And I appreciate you.

Thanks us. Appreciate you, us. Well, I really appreciate you talking, uh, you know, very openly about the, the adoption thing. Sure. You know, some people are very willing to talk about it and some people don't wanna talk about it, but it, it's personal to me and I find it interesting. You get other people's perspectives.

Well, I appreciate

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: you [: 00:55:00

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: And our biggest goal is that. This, in no way will damage your future here in the Valley, being a member or being a participant on this podcast. Oh, I don't

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: think it will. You know, Patty Daley, Caruso, she did a whole big story on my brothers and my family, uh, following me when she had her show.

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: Oh

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: yeah. Miss her so much. Yeah. That she was, she was a friend, phenomen, and she was always, always fascinated by the story and. Well, she did. It's a great story and it's so,

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: I mean, I think it is, it's one of those stories that cannot be duplicated. It's pretty crazy.

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: And the fact, you know, the reason I tell the Facebook part about it, like my friend, kind of finding out somebody who knew my brother is, I don't know if I ever would've written back.

I'm being fully honest, like I was truly like, I don't know if this is something I want, but I kind of got that third party endorsement, which allowed me to open the door. It might've never happened, honestly.

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: Will Sharon Stone play you in the movie?

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: Oh, I hope I can do better than that.

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: Oh no, she's

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: a great actress, but she's not in my age range.

Okay. Just say [: 00:56:00

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: Good point. Plus, she has an issue with, you know, every time she crosses her legs, it's a problem.

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: It is a problem. That's all anybody ever thinks about anywhere. Right?

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: I have been shirt stone, not you. Of course. Thank you for clarifying people. Thank you. Yes, I, that would be a horrible way to get a podcast.

Like, wow. What did Patrick just say about Andrew? That's terrible.

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: Something about her legs.

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: Thanks for being such a fun guest. Thank

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: you.

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: Thanks for having me, guys. This was really fun. Thanks, Andrew. Thanks, Randy. Once again, a phenomenal job in the research department.

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: Yeah. Yeah. I, I had like four pages of notes

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: you did that Andrea sent to you, but I'm not gonna, I don't wanna divulge that secret on the,

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: it was nice not to have to do a lot.

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: John McMullen, thank you very much for your, thank you. Great job producing. Yes. Our thanks to the team and staff here at Skips little bar. They always. Treat us like family because they can't kick us out. And of course, the McCallum Theater, our presenting sponsor, uh, get ready for another incredible season.

's gonna be a lot of fun and [: 00:57:00

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: am really excited about all the future guests that will be coming as a result of being recommended by Andrea.

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: Oh yeah. Oh, she's gonna feed, I'm gonna, I'm feeding you all kinds of stuff.

I promise. Awesome.

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: And Right. We should have Patrick Warton back on now that he's out on tour. Oh, that'd be a lot of fun.

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: Yeah. Yep. I like what he's doing with his career. Yeah.

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: Yeah.

RANDY FLORENCE, HOST: It's, it's an too, and sure. That's important to him that, that I like what he's doing with his career. He's actually a ball. I'm sure he is.

Been wondering. I hope, Randy,

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: with that,

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: what would Randy do? Let's

ANDREA CARTER, GUEST: ww like that. We're gonna start a new hash. Tag. WWRD.

PATRICK EVANS, HOST: Alright. Thank you for listening to this edition of Big Conversations Little Bar. I'm Patrick Evans for Randy Florence and John McMullen. Remember, you can subscribe and get every episode, don't miss one, and we're available on every platform where you get your podcasts.