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[0:01] Robert Bannon: Are you ready? It's The Roundtable with me, Robert Bannon.

[0:09] Robert Bannon: Well, Broadway World, it is a Friday, which means it's a Roundtable exclusive. My name is Robert Bannon. We're already having a party. We could do it again, whatever you want.

[0:17] Robert Bannon: I got excited that it was Friday because we're actually recording on a Wednesday, but I got, I like, I literally just, I jumped a little. I was excited. It's the weekend.

[0:28] Robert Bannon: And it's, you're driving home from work. You had a wonderful, terrible, exhausting, exciting week.

[0:35] Robert Bannon: And now we have this lovely, incredible human being here who you're going to need to hear about their.

[0:40] Robert Bannon: Look, I am an Italian Irish guy from Jersey. Gay as the day is long.

[0:46] Robert Bannon: Well, for me, that's a check, check, check, check, check. You know what I'm saying?

[0:50] Robert Bannon: But I was raised Catholic, so I don't know anything about Klezmer music, but our guest made music and an album that you're going to fall in love with.

[0:59] Robert Bannon: She has many talents. She sings, she acts, she podcasts. She has, she just lives her life out in the world as an artist, as somebody that you need to know, as an album that you need to hear.

[1:11] Robert Bannon: And I'm telling you right now for the month of August, this is the album you need to listen to, share it, send it to somebody, add it to a playlist. The one and only Daniella. Welcome to the show.

[1:18] Daniella Rabbani: Hey, thank you so much for having me, Robert.

[1:24] Daniella Rabbani: I really like your show.

[1:25] Robert Bannon: Well, I really like you and you and your energy and you make me look good because you bring such good energy.

[1:33] Robert Bannon: And as a podcast host, you know, I've never had an interview with someone who's boring.

[1:37] Daniella Rabbani: Yeah, I've actually had a couple of interviews with people who are boring. Sometimes I publish them and sometimes I don't.

[1:43] Robert Bannon: There have been a couple where I'm like, that was so bad. So, I mean, but only a couple.

[1:49] Robert Bannon: And I don't know why I'm starting this conversation with such tea. Why? Why? Why would I do that?

[1:55] Daniella Rabbani: I have tea about it and I'm ready to kiki with you.

[1:58] Daniella Rabbani: Did you, do you have, have you ever not published an episode? And am I in danger?

[2:06] Robert Bannon: But I buried one. One. One. See, I'm not the kind of gay that knows about drag queens.

[2:12] Daniella Rabbani: Oh, that's interesting. But you're a musical theater gay. You don't know about drag queens.

[2:16] Robert Bannon: Well, I know the ones that come on the show, but I don't, like, I don't watch drag. I know I've never.

[2:21] Daniella Rabbani: That's okay. Everyone has their thing. That's fine. I don't know why I was so judgmental about that.

[2:24] Robert Bannon: I take it back to be judgmental with me any time you want. You're just perfect and charming.

[2:30] Daniella Rabbani: So I didn't know that one of the drag queens that one is a very inappropriate, offensive person.

[2:38] Robert Bannon: Oh, and they came on and said lots of offensive, offensive things.

[2:42] Daniella Rabbani: And I kept my cool like I didn't lose my cool. I just did the interview and then I never, I never published it.

[2:48] Robert Bannon: This is a family show. Yeah, we don't, we could curse on here.

[2:51] Daniella Rabbani: Okay, we shouldn't, we shouldn't make racial jokes and inappropriate words. And this queen did.

[2:59] Robert Bannon: Yeah. Well, you gave them a chance and that's all we can hope for.

[3:03] Daniella Rabbani: And then we put it in the garbage.

[3:07] Daniella Rabbani: You know what I feel about creative work. You try your best and sometimes it's trash and sometimes it's fab.

[3:13] Robert Bannon: Well, speaking of amazing work, you act before we get to the show, you know, you're an actor.

[3:18] Daniella Rabbani: Oh, that's what I really am. You're an actor like you.

[3:22] Robert Bannon: Yeah. Ocean's 8 is you like you. That's me.

[3:25] Daniella Rabbani: I could tell that. Can you tell the interwebs that that's me? Because it has been all over TikTok and Instagram for the past almost 10 years.

[3:34] Daniella Rabbani: I have just been checking out Sandra Bullock and getting swindled by her over and over and over again.

[3:41] Daniella Rabbani: The first episode, the first like scene in Ocean's 8 is me.

[3:46] Daniella Rabbani: I'm on the Oscars page and literally they only credit Sandra.

[3:51] Daniella Rabbani: And it's like, guys, guys, everyone knows Sandy. She's great. She actually is a really nice person.

[3:58] Daniella Rabbani: But like maybe just, just tag me or like men. Anyway, when you were on set, now I'm going to get in the tea because now I feel like so much kicking.

[4:07] Robert Bannon: Did she say like, was she allowed to look at her?

[4:10] Daniella Rabbani: Amazing. You want to hear about the Ocean's 8 experience?

[4:13] Daniella Rabbani: Okay, so I was eight weeks pregnant with my first child when I auditioned for it.

[4:20] Daniella Rabbani: Usually you audition for something for TV and film. And the turnaround is like pretty quick, you know, because especially if it's like not a huge role, like they don't need you.

[4:29] Daniella Rabbani: They don't need you for rehearsals. They don't. You know, obviously, if it's a big job, you're going to get a callback.

[4:36] Daniella Rabbani: But like it's not like a big, long time necessarily, except for Ocean's 8 had everyone in it. Anne Hathaway, Rihanna. It was stacked.

[4:48] Daniella Rabbani: And those ladies are busy. So it took them a while to figure out the schedule.

[4:57] Daniella Rabbani: And I had been on hold for about six months.

[5:03] Daniella Rabbani: And in that six months, the baby grew.

[5:08] Daniella Rabbani: And I wasn't sure if they were actually going to use me because, you know, it is a liability.

[5:14] Daniella Rabbani: You know, in some capacity, it was an overnight shoot. And it's a little bit of a liability.

[5:20] Daniella Rabbani: Like, you know, you don't see a lot of pregnant people on film, do you? Claire Danes was pregnant in Homeland, but she was the producer of Homeland. She was the star. It's a whole other thing.

[5:33] Daniella Rabbani: But the casting director and the writer, her name is Olivia Milch. I ended up working for her again on The Better Sister. And she's the most wonderful, incredible person.

[5:46] Daniella Rabbani: They both went to bat for me. And they were like, guys, this is a shop girl. Like, she could be pregnant. Shop girls are pregnant all the time. That's life.

[5:58] Daniella Rabbani: And also, this is Ocean's 8. It's a women's show. Like, it's about a bunch of women. Like, women sometimes get pregnant, you know.

[6:06] Daniella Rabbani: So they booked me. The counter was covering me anyway. But, yeah, they really went to bat for me.

[6:15] Daniella Rabbani: I was eight months pregnant when I shot that. And Sandy, Sandra Bullock, was the nicest, is the nicest.

[6:24] Daniella Rabbani: Every single celebrity I've ever worked with in film and TV has been truly the coolest. I just worked with Emma Stone, and I'm like, this person is so normal and nice and funny and cool.

[6:39] Daniella Rabbani: They're just cool. They are as successful as they are for a reason.

[6:46] Daniella Rabbani: For a reason. It really goes back to show you that, like, when you go to an audition, it's not just tap. People want to work with people who are nice, good, kind. Be a nice, good, kind person.

[6:55] Robert Bannon: I think so. I think so.

[6:56] Daniella Rabbani: You know, I don't know. I don't know about auditions. Like, I'm not 100% sure.

[7:04] Daniella Rabbani: Yes, you can't be crazy.

[7:06] Robert Bannon: You can't.

[7:08] Daniella Rabbani: But I think mostly, like, I think the idea that, like, most celebrities are divas. I mean, I don't know. Maybe it's a little different in the theater world, but most celebrities that I know or have met or worked with are wonderful.

[7:26] Robert Bannon: Absolutely.

[7:27] Daniella Rabbani: I think the celebrities, yeah, I think, yeah. Absolutely. That's the myth I'm debunking.

[7:32] Robert Bannon: We debunked it together. We learned that not all gays like drag queens and not all celebrities are divas.

[7:38] Daniella Rabbani: Oh.

[7:39] Robert Bannon: You sing. Like, you sing-sing, and your album that's coming out, well, firstly, tell us a little bit of how, what, what's it called, when's it coming out, what's on it, what can we get the tea about this album, and why this, I know culturally and historically and what this music means.

[7:59] Daniella Rabbani: Why did you feel like there was a space in place for your take on it, and what is your take on Klezmer music?

[8:05] Daniella Rabbani: Oh, Robert, you're so fun. Okay, it's called Klezmerette.

[8:10] Daniella Rabbani: The album is called Klezmerette. I made up that word.

[8:15] Daniella Rabbani: I like it. I made it up about 15 years ago. I've been wanting to record an album for a long time.

[8:22] Daniella Rabbani: I've been singing in Yiddish, which is the Eastern European Jewish language, for almost 20 years, and I just always wanted to record an album, but it turns out, by the way, to be a recording artist is a different art form.

[8:38] Daniella Rabbani: It is a different process. It is a different thing altogether than performing live, which I've done for a long time, as I said.

[8:46] Daniella Rabbani: Anyway, Klezmerette is, the way you say musician in Yiddish is a klezmer, but there was no real word for a female musician, and so I made it up myself. Klezmerette.

[8:57] Robert Bannon: I like it.

[8:58] Daniella Rabbani: Thank you. I like it. I finally made it happen to get this album going, and the music is hundreds of years old and still slaps.

[9:15] Daniella Rabbani: When something is good, it's going to be good for a long time. Let's think about Shakespeare.

[9:20] Daniella Rabbani: That's my training, really. I'm not a trained singer at all. I trained at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting through NYU, and we did a hell of a lot of Shakespeare, and I feel so happy sharing that with another theater nerd because it was fantastic training, and Shakespeare is still good.

[9:40] Daniella Rabbani: So that's how I feel about Yiddish. It's like this music is still good, and I feel lucky to be a channel for it.

[9:51] Daniella Rabbani: I studied it at the National Yiddish Theater Volksbühne, and they're actually having a really cool concert at Summer Stage.

[10:05] Daniella Rabbani: They had to postpone it because it was raining in the summer, so it's going to happen September 17th at Central Park, and I'm going to sing two songs from my album there.

[10:16] Robert Bannon: Oh, come on!

[10:17] Daniella Rabbani: I got to give them credit because they really have – I'm sorry to move my computer out of the sun – but they have really mentored me and other young performers to continue carrying this legacy forward, this music forward that ought to be heard.

[10:40] Robert Bannon: So how did you pick the songs? Did you grow up singing these songs? And if people are not Jewish or don't know Klezmer music, why should I listen to this?

[10:50] Daniella Rabbani: I don't know any Klezmer music.

[10:52] Robert Bannon: I know, but now you do.

[10:53] Daniella Rabbani: So the thing is about Klezmer music, Klezmer is similar to the Jewish people. It's like I'm American, I'm fully American, and I'm fully Jewish.

[11:03] Daniella Rabbani: So Klezmer music has this really cool blend of deeply cantorial sounds and, of course, Yiddish, which is a Jewish language.

[11:13] Daniella Rabbani: Influences jazz, Roma influences, I mean, tango, that is what is expressed on this particular album, which is like, holy cow, because Jews have lived in the diaspora for so long, we've been able to really absorb our host countries, sounds, flavors, sentiments, and you can hear it in the music, it's so beautiful, and what's cool is because I have lived most of my professional life as an actor, as we've kiki'd about, and as a podcaster, which I'm like, yeah, I have a lot of deep respect for what you do, most of my audience, or at least a lot of my audience is not Jewish, and what's cool is like, I listen to Latin music all the time, and I like it, and I listen to hip hop music all the time, that's what I grew up listening to, and I like it, and that's the beauty of music and art, it's like, oh, if you're like, swaying your hips, or like putting your hand to your heart, if you feel it, who cares what language it's in, who cares what tradition it comes from, I mean, maybe you care, and like, you want to be intellectually stimulated, but it's like a, it's like a sensual, full-body experience to listen to music, so if you like it, then you listen to it, go for it.

Absolutely, I think that's what's so incredible about it, and you taking this culture and history, and moving it to the century, and putting your own spin on it, and making it, it is always relevant, but modernizing it, and making it your own, what was the process about arranging these songs, how did, how many songs did you go through before you found the songs to make the album? So, I sing hundreds of Yiddish songs, and, you know, in like, the Yiddish scene, which there is a Yiddish scene, like a Plesmar scene, the chestnuts, the like, standards, are kind of like, frowned upon, because it's like, ah, we've heard it a million times, well, guess what? Robert hasn't heard it a million times.

[13:20] Robert Bannon: I've heard it none.

[13:21] Daniella Rabbani: Exactly, Patrick, who's on, who's on the call from the team, he hasn't heard it a million times, likely Sarah, and Sam, and Jesse listening to this podcast. Sarah, Sam, and Jesse. What's up, guys? You definitely have not heard the standards before, and they're standards for a reason, so I sort of took this renegade approach from within the Plesmar community, and I'm like, I don't care that we've heard this music for the past 20 years, a jillion times. I am reaching out to, you know, Sarah, Sam, and Jesse, and I want them to know that like, there's really great music that's, that's lasted the test of time. So, I chose a few of these chestnuts, including Yiddishe Mame, and then there's this like, one song called Otazoy Nente Schneider, which is like, that's the way the tailor sews, that was adapted by Cab Calloway himself, and, and, and translated by him, and jazzified by him, and scattered by him.

I mean, if you listen, if you, if you Google his take on this song, he sounds like such a Jew when he is doing these cantorial scats. It's like, so beautiful and so American to know that we have access to so many different cultures at our fingertips that are just, and have, asked to be made our own for so long, you know. And so, I took that and I covered that. There's a song that was written in the Holocaust, oh my god, to a tango beat. It really, it just documents this man's, this man's deep longing and grief for his wife who perishes in the, in the war, and there he is, and the sun is still shining, and the grass is still growing, and it is just so beautiful. And it's to a tango, because tango was so popular at the time, and also that beat still courses through him, longing for her. It's so beautiful, the poetry is unreal.

[15:56] Daniella Rabbani: Yeah, and so it's 10 tracks, and I don't arrange, I don't even read music. And so I, like I said before we hopped on the call, it's like, if I'm gonna, if I'm gonna do this, I gotta do it right. I gotta, I gotta hire the, the right people. And Michael Winograd is the klezmer virtuoso, arranger, producer, who made the music happen. And then once that was said, I had been going through a very hard time. I, I lost my sister about a year ago, and so I, I really, really struggled putting this music out. And I called my friend Joni Leeds, who's a Grammy winner, and I said, how do I put this on Bandcamp? And she listened to the tracks, and she was like, girl, we are not putting this on Bandcamp. No shade to Bandcamp, by the way.

No shade at all. But she was like, this is so beautiful. And I don't understand a word you're saying. Let's go all the way with this. And whatever all the way means in the end. Yeah, I, I feel good about it. I feel good about, you know, about, about trying to bring it to Sarah, Sam, and Jesse. Wouldn't it be cool if there really was a Sarah, Sam, or Jesse? I hope there is a Sarah, Sam, and Jesse. And I, what the end is going to be is that at the end, you have a major release with an actual streaming album that's gorgeous and beautiful, bringing it to people who may never have experienced it and people who have, who are going to feel the tradition and the history and the beautiful music, or new people who will experience it for the first time.

[17:39] Robert Bannon: I have a serious question for you. Amen, amen, amen, amen. Serious, but it's not gonna be serious. It's not gonna be serious. We're wearing pink. This is, this is not, I know it's not. I know you. I know you. No, I, oh, okay. So my question to you is, when you, when you picture people listening to this music?

[17:58] Daniella Rabbani: Oh, it is a serious question. Who do you picture listening to it? Do you think it's for an age, a genre, a gender, a race, a religion? Hmm. Okay, if I'm being honest, I know, you know, just based on like, what happened in my, in my social media account from this past year, I put out a single called Quetzaliparoigus. And, and there's a really fun video, music video that we, we put to it where I like, you know, get a whole bunch of strangers to Hora in Washington Square Park. It's very fun. And it's, it's actually, you can, you can watch it on Apple, on Apple and Spotify and Vivo and all these places and on my Instagram, which I hope you join me on. Follow everybody.

[18:49] Daniella Rabbani: Yeah, there are lots of Jewish people from around the world who feel really excited about this music. Almost 10,000 people followed me in the past month. And that is saying a lot. I've been on this platform on Instagram for a long time, and that's never happened. And, and these are people from all over the world. Many, many people who recognize the classics are older. And I love them. And I want them to know that, that their music still, still tickles us and still moves us. And I know for sure that they're gonna be listening. But I also have a feeling that in this climate, you know, where we're, we're grappling with, with, with like a lot of hate, you know. I think people want to combat that with love. I, I, I actually, I know that I know that to be true.

[19:59] Robert Bannon: You took my, you took my serious question follow up, and you answered it.

[20:02] Daniella Rabbani: I did. I did. We're the same people, Daniela Rabbani. I know. Listen, I'm, I'm a gay musical theater girl who doesn't, I'm not into drag queens, necessarily, either. I love, I mean, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not really. I'm gay, you know, gay enough. Me, I'm, I used to be married to a woman. That's what I could talk about on your podcast. But that's not important. The important thing is I'm married to a man. I'm married to a man, but like, you know, like, whatever. Anyway, we could talk about that on my podcast. You could be on, it'll put your foot in the lady pond whenever you want. If I wanted to, it's a free world. No shade. But I'm happy for other people to do it. I know you tried, you tried your best. You have to try all the flavors of the ice cream, and then you go back for a large. And he's a six foot four beautiful man. So anyway, I'm so happy you're in love.

[20:56] Daniella Rabbani: That's great. I'm so in love. Is there nothing better than love? Love is, and what I love about love is that your album is full of love. It is, it really is. And a world with a lot of antisemitism, with a lot, a lot of antisemitism. Too much. Very controversial. Things that should, are controversial that should not be. And people saying a lot of hateful, horrible things that we thought we've gotten past. You're making something that I've, I've hoped we got past, which we have not. You're making something to combat that with love and acceptance and joy. And that is so important to put in the world today.

[21:32] Daniella Rabbani: You know, it's interesting. It's like, I had tried to combat that, this like wave, this new wave of, you know, of hate. With, you know, with strength and with, and with standing up and letting the world know. And the truth is, there are people, there, there are better people in the world to do that. You know, there, there are real activists in the world and I'm an artist. And it turns out, that what resonates most with people through this instrument of Daniella Rabbani, really is love and joy. And it took me a long time to recognize that. And it really sadly, honestly, took a tragedy, like losing my sister to really understand that, you know, my sister was like,

[22:27] Daniella Rabbani: I really had an epiphany where I recognized how truly loved I had been all this time without even recognizing it, and how much love I have to offer the world through my art and through my love of my own sister and of women. I feel it resonate. I can feel that like, there was a time where I thought activism for me meant being like, guys, this is terrible. This is awful. No, I have a channel to a beautiful legacy. Like, you know, we all have ancestors, mine are Jewish, but guess what? Like the theater ancestors of New York City, babe, they're Stella Adler. They're Jacob P. Adler, who was her father, who brought Yiddish theater to New York from Russia because it was closed down because of antisemitism.

If we really go back and rewind the clock, our ancestors on Broadway were Yiddish speaking Jews, among others, absolutely among others, but we come from greatness. And we can celebrate that. And that can be a form of combat, combating, even though that's like fighting back. But we can combat that with joy and pride and love and truth. And I'm down. I'm down for that. Artists are active. Their art is activism. And that is what you're doing. And it's a noble cause and profession to put out art. It's vulnerable. It's beautiful. It is exciting. And everybody listening is going to listen and stream the single and then listen and stream the whole album. Just tell us, do we know what date when it's coming out?

And tell us the name of the Klezmer? Klezmeret. Yeah, Klezmeret. It's coming out on October 16. And we're gonna follow you and you'll tell us. I stuttered because I'm like, is that really happening? Yeah, it is. It's happening. And October 15, we have an album release concert at the Cutting Room.

[25:00] Robert Bannon: I like that. I'm going to be in New York in October.

[25:03] Daniella Rabbani: Okay. And can your six foot four beau come also?

[25:07] Robert Bannon: He will throw it down.

[25:13] Daniella Rabbani: Yeah, I love that so much. So we can get tickets and we can go see this. Hell, yeah, you could see it. You could feel it. You could hear it. You could be it. Together. Together. Let's do this.

[25:24] Robert Bannon: Okay, I gotta ask you, but we're all going to listen to the music. We're going to follow you. And you've seen, she's sung all over the place from Lincoln Center to, I don't know, an alley on 36th Street to so real from the highest to the lowest to all the realest, the realest of real highest.

[25:42] Daniella Rabbani: We go high low.

[25:42] Robert Bannon: I like my outfits are we wear designer we wear sheen what I want. I want cheap ass shirt.

[25:48] Daniella Rabbani: Oh my god. So fancy, fancy shoes. That's exactly what I want. I want diamonds. And I want basically, like, you know, a plastic, trash, trendy pair of balloon pants. That's what I want.

[26:09] Robert Bannon: See, I get you. I get you. So you have a scrappy.

[26:13] Daniella Rabbani: We scrappy.

[26:15] Robert Bannon: That's my Oh, yes, you have a pop. What is the name of your podcast? What is it about?

[26:19] Daniella Rabbani: My name of the pod. My name of the podcast is Mom Curious. And it's produced by Half Studios.

[26:29] Robert Bannon: Why? Why are you laughing? I told you, Robert, you came from a mother, not mom curious. But you might be mom curious. I don't know. Maybe you and your beau wanna wanna do you want to know about how to raise children or make a baby? You don't know?

[26:46] Daniella Rabbani: I got I'll give you so many dirty. I'll give you stories. I'll give you options.

[26:50] Robert Bannon: I had dirty comebacks, and I kept them on the inside.

[26:57] Daniella Rabbani: Oh, I want all that. Are we gonna say? I'm gonna come on and tell you how we tried to make a baby. I, you know, I'm a licensed foster worker. So I've been a daddy, mommy, daddy. And, and I think what you talking about being having a child. Moms firstly are the greatest gift in the entire universe. And I have an incredible mom. Hello, Mama Rose Bannon. Hi, Mama Rose. I'm walking inside with you because I'm afraid that I want to come to your pool or your deck. Fancy. She's fancy. She's fancy. She's high low. Her house is high.

[27:28] Robert Bannon: Her mood is low.

[27:34] Daniella Rabbani: I want people to listen to this because I think being a mom people don't always tell the truth about how hard it is. They feel lonely. Oh, people say it's the greatest thing in the world. And they don't tell you the sleepless nights, the stress, the anxiety that the trouble people feel like I'm a bad mom. I don't it's hard for me. I doesn't it's not it doesn't come now. You talk about things with people about how to be a mom and jokes about moms and community about motherhood.

[27:57] Daniella Rabbani: Yeah, I do. But also womanhood, you know, first of all, it was very hard to find a foster mom. Because the foster as you know, the foster system is tough. And they couldn't. I just got a message from a woman who ended up adopting her child and now wants to come on the show. But the actually the one man that I had on the show was a foster dad is a foster dad. He's wonderful. His name is Peter Muta Bazzi. And he is foster foster flipper dad. He's wonderful. And I had a drag queen on I don't know why is this show about drag queens? Are we just basically like, you know, are we drag queen curious? Maybe we are.

[28:49] Robert Bannon: I'm a drag queen.

[28:55] Daniella Rabbani: I think mom curious is a good drag name. It is. My drag name is going to be the Dairy Queen. But that's a whole other story. Oh, I need to tell you about Dairy Queen another time.

[29:00] Robert Bannon: Okay, so basically, yeah, I will you see that what's going on with the Lindsay Clancy trial, right? So, so mothers need support. And we need support in a lot of different ways. I happen to have a really very special husband, co-parent, just really, really special. And I don't think that is the case for most people. And it's a learning curve for all of us.

[29:33] Daniella Rabbani: Anyway, I really think I really think my podcast is doing God's work. I really do.

[29:40] Robert Bannon: I think so too. Dead serious. It is doing God's work. People need it. So make sure you find it. Where can we find everywhere podcasts are heard?

[29:44] Daniella Rabbani: Yeah, yeah. And we're on hiatus so that I can really focus on Klezmerette and give this baby my attention in a way that, yeah, that I really wanted to but we have hundreds of episodes that you can, they're evergreen. That's the thing about motherhood. It's never, you know, surrogacy is always going to be an interesting and important topic to talk about. I mean, chosen, chosen single motherhood or, or just like perfectionism, what it is to be a stay at home mother, etc. There are a lot of things that are evergreen that you can listen to.

[30:25] Robert Bannon: I noticed that you have like 1000 episodes of your show, by the way.

[30:33] Daniella Rabbani: Allegedly.

[30:33] Robert Bannon: That's so good. Like you are so prolific. This is a daily show. There's eight episodes a week. That's so impressive.

[30:44] Daniella Rabbani: But I run an English department and I have a husband and we make life work. But what is fascinating is I'm grateful because it's only by the people who come on the show to make 1000 episodes. It's not me. It's all the wonderful people who come on like you, who share your incredible art. And I'm the one that's grateful and lucky that somebody out there, Sam, what's their name? Sarah and Jesse are listening. And only those three people have listened.

[31:08] Robert Bannon: Yeah.

[31:14] Daniella Rabbani: Wait, Sam, Sarah and Jesse, would you do me a favor? If you really are on the other line? Can you DM us and just say, hi, actually, that was for me. Uncle Jesse. Uncle Sam.

[31:31] Robert Bannon: All the uncles. That's fine.

[31:37] Daniella Rabbani: I'm not a big podcast listener either, but I've gotten into it, Daniela. I've gotten into it.

[31:42] Robert Bannon: I love podcasts. I'm going to listen to yours this whole weekend when I mow my lawn.

[31:46] Daniella Rabbani: Are you really? I am. I want to hear what you say. And then I'm going to just pitch myself. I'm coming on.

[31:52] Robert Bannon: I cannot wait. And you're going to talk about being a foster dad.

[31:52] Daniella Rabbani: Yeah.

[31:53] Robert Bannon: And a gay foster dad.

[31:54] Daniella Rabbani: Oh, wow.

[31:55] Robert Bannon: And we went through a good experience, a bad experience and all the experiences. I got divorced because my ex-wife had a baby with a barber while we were married. So that was a sad dad moment.

[32:05] Daniella Rabbani: It was a sad dad moment, even though you were gay the whole time.

[32:10] Robert Bannon: That's interesting. Because it's still a relationship. It's still a betrayal.

[32:14] Daniella Rabbani: I will tell you. I'll answer any questions you've got.

[32:20] Robert Bannon: Wow. See, all this time, that's the interesting thing about being a podcast host. It's like, you have so much to say and share. And actually, I didn't think I was that interesting until I was like, okay, I'm going to pause my podcast and I'm going to be me promoting my work. And I'm like, oh, I guess I have stuff to say.

[32:41] Daniella Rabbani: You have stuff to say.

[32:46] Robert Bannon: That's the interesting thing. I would rather keep that bottled up inside and then just take Xanax.

[32:51] Daniella Rabbani: You come out here and spread your light and love all around the world. That's what's important. Xanax is good. It's important to have in your toolkit. But also, I do think the conversation is extremely healing and very important. You know what else is important and healing? This album that's coming out this October. You've got to follow Daniella Rabbani. You've got to be a part of it. Go see her album release. Stream it. Listen to it. We hope there's more live shows, more projects, more television, more film, more theater, more music, more podcasts. She does everything. And she was here and she's here. And Broadway World family, you're going to absolutely love and fall in love with what she's doing. And we're so grateful we got to spend some time with you. Thank you so much.

[33:21] Daniella Rabbani: Thank you so much. My show is your show. Anytime. Come back and hang out with me.

[33:26] Robert Bannon: I can't wait. And I'll see you on October 15th.

[33:33] Daniella Rabbani: Sings. I don't really sing like that. It doesn't sound like that.