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CHAPTERS:
0:00 - Intro
1:59 - Intangible Moments Discussion
6:21 - Ernie Hudson Ghostbusters Excitement
8:33 - Ernie Hudson Skin Care Secrets
10:41 - Couples Finance Debate
17:38 - Ernie Hudson's Top Ghostbusters Scene
19:50 - Fan Apology Segment
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listen I was there in
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1984 when the first iteration of this
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movie came out I was there I was scared
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then now you fast forward to
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2024 and I got a chance to go to the
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screening the premiere last night have
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the be red carpet big tense the whole
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nine people yelling at you that's
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different from a screening you were at
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the premiere PR okay I get it all
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confused okay all I know it was big and
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it was over there at the AMC in the link
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near the Lincoln Center right around the
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corner from
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where from your second home and I was
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like and DB and torch hit me I was all
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the way in the story of Queens they said
0:38
don't forget the movies tonight and so I
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canel everything I was doing to go see
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this movie I went by myself I sat
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upstairs in the corner all to myself got
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my free popcorn my free slurpee you know
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and I went the gym n man yeah well
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pretty much and it's funny I I saw I saw
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I snuck through the side I didn't the
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red carpet thing and I saw what I like
1:02
to call my buddy he's been on this show
1:05
enough times where I feel like it's
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warranted I could call him my buddy
1:08
we've had a lot of Dee rooted
1:10
conversations we've laughed we almost
1:12
cried together my buddy I saw him
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walking in in the crowd went crazy a the
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crowd went crazy when they saw him wow
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wow I almost just fell in line with his
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family so it just looked like I was a
1:26
member so I could get in soon nobody
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would have said nothing
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hson that's right sway Hudson he's back
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today we're talking about the latest
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iteration in the Ghostbusters series
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Ghostbusters Frozen Empire the one and
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only Ernie Hudson is here give a
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[Music]
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big wow thank you thank you looking
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great yeah well thank you guys it's uh
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it's great it it does feel like family
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and it's great to be home so thank you
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so much Uncle Ernie man we got another
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check I love it um Ernie one of the
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things I commented about when watching
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this movie and I I talked about it this
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morning I was talking to DB is you look
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amazing on screen bro oh thank you you
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like it was very noticeable to me right
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well that means a lot because when
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people see you and they say you know you
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didn't look so good you
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know you know I have heard that from
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time to time but uh so it's it's good to
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know that um you know I mean life is
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good and um you know at this stage in
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life I'm I'm almost 80 years old and uh
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I'm just giving thanks every day goals
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do you look like you in your
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30s well the um was that too much was
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that too much okay my bad my bad all
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right all
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right I want to go with you believe that
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but I'm like I can't even go for the no
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problem no problem I'll take it though
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I'll take it okay okay all right yeah no
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my grandson is 38 so I'm like okay so
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I'm not in my 30s wow grandson 38
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wow yeah that's amazing do you know
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watching this movie um the nostalgic
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moments were great like when all the
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original when original characters would
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show up and they'll have their cameos
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and they'll turn around and you'll see
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who it is and the crowd would respond
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and it was something that was intangible
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about these moments to me you know when
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I can understand that you know when uh
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the different people different original
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cers turn around what was it like when
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it was happening though yeah well we did
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a movie called after life um a couple
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years ago and that was the first time
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after about 20 years that we got
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together yeah and when I saw Bill Murray
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and Dan arroy and the jumpsuits it was
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almost a spiritual moment because this
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has been such a big part of my life for
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40 years yeah wow and uh but now this
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coming together with this
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newcast um everybody on point and it's
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just I just feel like it's a it's a
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blessing because it's you know we live
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long enough to to be a part of this and
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last night was like an event like we
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used to have in the old days
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and uh and I just feel so thankful and
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the fans are kind of like family because
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you know I get people coming up to me
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and telling me stories they Nam their
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kids after my character Winston I've met
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so many dogs named Winston it's
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amazing what the hell is going on look
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at this guy man look
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at you know yeah the jumpsuits and he's
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got his backpack over there come here DB
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come here man can you believe people
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dressing up like that D what the hell
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what the hell is going on here man good
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to see what are you auditioning bro I'm
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a rookie oh you a rookie yeah is that
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the new protown pack we got the tools we
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got the talent okay yes right you got
4:44
the tools you got the T hey can can he
4:46
can he audition for you real quick maybe
4:48
you could do a few lines I just wonder
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sir if I could just be like an honorary
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member uh yeah no you you you you you
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got it you know even though snap this
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dude got the ghost authenticated up in
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uh in Winnipeg and uh there's a a group
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up there Ghostbuster group there was
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about 40 of them but we were in a
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haunted hotel and they wanted to do
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something in this room where that was
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haunted and so we went in the room and
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it was all set up these guys had their
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backpacks and they little stunned fake
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guns and we heard a rumbling in the
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corner and those guys ran out of that
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room so fast I'm like because these
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things don't really do anything you know
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that
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right you know that
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your Ghostbusters you can't just take
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off you know but uh yeah no courage is a
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different thing is there sound coming
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from there is yeah is that man okay to
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the citizens DB got a pro time pack what
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is it pro time have a pack okay got the
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rookie Ghostbusters outfit on and that's
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uh that means a lot man I'm so so
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thankful and proud you got the garles
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on you know he's all the way through man
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damn you you're really
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cool yeah man yeah all right can I
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adjust this you want to adjust your mic
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right there well just keep sliding down
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M I know I don't want to dip too low
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okay hold up DB ghosters to the resue
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Ghostbusters to the rescue yeah no I can
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depend on my Ghostbusters they got your
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back okay Ernie Hudson is here man big
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round of applause Heather you just
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staring at him what are you seeing here
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I well we were having a conversation
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before we went live and I was saying you
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know uh horse my husband and I were just
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complimenting you this morning just at
6:33
the longevity of your career and then
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you mentioned about getting together um
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it felt like this reunion with your cast
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members and I it made me think about you
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know you see these iconic shows like
6:45
Saturday Night Live and sometimes
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they'll try to have a reunion and other
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shows and other TV shows as well and
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sometimes you'll have that cast member
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that maybe doesn't want to get together
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with you know with the cast it doesn't
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sound like you feel that way though like
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you are excited about it what kept your
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excitement enthusiasm for this
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throughout the years well I kept hoping
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for a
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Payday one day they going make a movie
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they gonna pay me
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so I'm like you know but uh but no I I
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love some real [ __ ] right hell yeah yeah
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no I mean I you know I kind of came
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Winston came into the franchise looking
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for a job and uh it was all known that
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the studio was you know they had their
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idea of what it was about so it it's
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taken 40 years from me now to Winston is
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now billionaire he owns the franchise um
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you know and the character has grown and
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I'm very very thankful to Sony for
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finally embracing but uh yeah no it's uh
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it's been it but you know more
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importantly the fans for 40 years people
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I meet who are in their 40s were some
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weren't even born when the movie came
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out and that you know means so much to
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me but me personally I'm going to walk
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away
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I'm hoping there'll be you know a sequel
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someday and I'm hoping that u i can get
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this mortgage paid off so uh so I'm
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thankful in so many not just in terms of
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the money but it just I'm just so
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thankful to have something in my
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filmography I've done probably I know
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over 100 movies I got you know a lot
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I've been around for 60 years um but
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it's nice to have something that people
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can relate to and share with their
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children and their
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grandchildren um that that means uh
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means a lot to me man thank you 60 years
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decades you are not going to meet many
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people who look like this man talk about
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it that's done it for 60 years what is
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your skin regimen Ernie hson everything
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come on man I'm trying to get gang
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internal
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external well I think the the biggest
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thing I think is uh just just feeling
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good about light you know and um you
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know I met a I was married uh when I was
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uh 18 uh that was a difficult period in
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my life um but um I I met a lady who I
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wasn't so concerned about meeting
9:05
someone who loved me as much as I was
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concerned finding someone who liked
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me because that was really you know
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people love you but they just you know
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they love you for what they need and he
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was someone who liked me and and was
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patient enough to let me grow into the
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relationship and uh I think my
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grandmother used to tell me it's about
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Spirit people focus so much on their
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body but if your spirit is up if your
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spirit is lifted if you feel good about
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life then it it reflects in your body it
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reflects in your skin you know and your
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hair it's uh it's true you know but if
9:39
you sing you know fault the first job I
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had it was shoveling dirt in a Foundry I
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mean for eight hours I shovel dirt but I
9:47
never hated the job I just knew I'm not
9:49
going to be here forever and I used to
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kind of I was so good at it there was
9:53
three people doing the job after a while
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they got rid of the other two people
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because I was shoveling enough dirt for
9:58
everybody but but I knew that this was
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not going to be my life so I think
10:03
finding something to feel good about
10:06
that comes through your skin it comes
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through just how you wake up in the
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morning you know how you sleep well at
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night and uh a lot of people kind of
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forget that you know it's uh anyway I'm
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SL going but beautiful man that's
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beautiful damn so he's still trying to
10:21
find somebody that like him that's true
10:24
Ernie you got him stuck over there
10:26
that's why I'm like that's all you got
10:27
to do is find somebody to like you well
10:29
I feel like we should bring Ernie into
10:31
the conversation we was having um before
10:33
you walked in and we can lean on your
10:35
your wisdom your maturity Ernie because
10:38
cardi B if you don't mind cardi B had
10:41
shared that it is her philosophy her
10:44
belief that women and men should go 5050
10:47
on the bills in a relationship and there
10:50
are so many different generational takes
10:52
there are plenty of women who are extra
10:55
vocal right about a man paying for all
10:58
the bills paying for all the dinners etc
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etc what are your thoughts on that well
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you know if you live long enough you
11:04
give up all that stuff that you used to
11:06
believe you know depends on who you're
11:08
with you know what I mean and so making
11:10
that relationship work you know and um I
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realize that my my wife is never going
11:16
to be and do the things that I expect
11:18
her to do and be so I need to give that
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up because that's my stuff you know I
11:23
just you know I I tell her listen I'm
11:25
good so I just want you to be good so
11:27
whatever you need to be good I know I
11:28
ain't going to have a breakfast I'm not
11:30
going to get any lunch now she'll make
11:32
dinner every night but I gave up on the
11:33
breakfast and the lunch you know mean c
11:36
she ain't going to do and ain't no need
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of me stressing over that how she ought
11:40
to be like other women that that ain't
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never going to happen so I just got to
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take what I got and be happy with it and
11:46
so I can get on with but you know with
11:48
what I do and uh and I think but if
11:51
you're thinking and I don't care who has
11:53
the money as long as we have money to do
11:54
what we need to do that's what saying
11:56
food in the fridge whether I bought it
11:58
you bought it the kids eting that's what
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matters and um and beyond that I just
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you know that's what matters we a team
12:05
now and if you hook up with somebody who
12:06
ain't got no money it's just foolish to
12:08
keep thinking that you know he ought to
12:10
be what they ought to be you know cuz
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that's what you got that's what you
12:14
chose so just accept what you chose and
12:17
and love it [ __ ] and like it and like it
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yeah I like that man um man you hanging
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out with us man we're going to take a
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few callers 888 742 334 we going to come
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back with Ernie Hudson if you're a
12:32
Ghostbusters fan now is the time to call
12:37
shade45 the new movie GH Ghostbusters
12:39
Frozen Empire is available the in
12:41
theaters Nationwide Friday March
12:44
22nd uh we got Brandy on the line from
12:47
La Brandy go ahead Brandy talk to usy
12:49
hey everybody sorry I'm kind of sick so
12:52
my voice sounds weird but um it's my
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second time calling so I a co-host you
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are you are a co-host Ernie hey hi um I
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just want to tell you I love you um I'm
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a 70s baby so I'm pretty sure I saw
13:04
Ghostbusters in the theater um as a
13:08
movie fanatic you know kind of person we
13:11
we kind of have a LoveHate relationship
13:13
with reboots and and prequels and
13:16
sequels and all that but we do come out
13:18
to support because it's really about you
13:20
guys we don't care what the director is
13:23
the producer is the what the story lines
13:25
about we're coming to see you guys
13:27
because we we have a connection to the
13:29
actors so we look to see who all over
13:31
there Who coming back and who's going to
13:33
be in the movie so I will support this
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great great well you going to love this
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movie you know it's it's I would say the
13:40
movie is great even if it was bad
13:42
because that's my job to sell the movie
13:44
but I but I can say it now in mean it
13:46
you're going to like this movie it's uh
13:48
it's a lot of fun and uh if you like the
13:50
original movies you're going to love
13:52
this movie and I do want to say family
13:54
business have me in a Choco love that
13:57
series and I also want to give you your
13:58
flow for Han That Rocks the Cradle I'm a
14:01
parent Guardian to two autistic Spectrum
14:03
um adults so I want to thank you for the
14:05
humanity and um empathy and you know
14:09
realness that you brought to that
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character I believe I saw that one in
14:13
the theater too so just want to say
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thank you you love you and I'm gonna
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support and I have a question wait a
14:19
minute wait wait a minute hold up hold
14:21
up she second time call let her let her
14:24
rock let her rock for 10 minut real
14:27
quick Brandy she should have started
14:28
with the question but go ahead Brandy
14:30
heandy I'm sorry um so you you've been
14:33
in the Ghostbuster um um franchise do
14:36
you personally have any type of
14:39
experiences with spiritual paranormal
14:41
realm or anything that you could tell us
14:43
uh your own ghost story uh yeah no I see
14:47
Spirit yeah no I um you know I grew up
14:50
in a family that uh believed in ghosts
14:53
and um I think if anybody thinks you
14:55
know everything is experienced we only
14:57
have five senses and if it's not in the
14:59
five senses you don't know it's there so
15:01
there's a lot going on we're unaware of
15:03
you just have to accept the fact and I'm
15:05
glad that however it's set up it stays
15:07
the hell away from me because I don't
15:08
want to be visited by anybody but uh
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yeah no I I think uh if you see you know
15:15
Spirits you know
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um good luck with that but um you know
15:20
you know you know you should call know
15:22
it's a little scary don't call me you
15:23
know so but yeah no I I definitely do
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Brandy you're a citizen thank you for
15:28
your question Mike m you got a
15:31
question yeah I'm always uh curious
15:34
about sequels and remakes right like
15:36
should be made should it not be made um
15:38
did you have thoughts uh when you got
15:41
approached with the idea of this
15:42
Ghostbuster coming out about actually
15:44
doing it again no and I only because the
15:48
fans have um like we've seen this
15:50
morning they have their jumpsuits and
15:52
their cars and they and they want to see
15:54
it and I've done some movies that I pray
15:56
they'll never ever do it again you know
15:59
I mean it's like you don't need to do
16:00
that one anymore we did that but
16:01
Ghostbuster is one of those movies that
16:03
you know I love it brings people
16:05
together and we're in a time in our
16:07
society in our world where everybody's
16:09
being split up in so many different
16:11
camps and tribes and uh so to have a
16:14
movie that everybody can sit down and
16:16
laugh at and share uh I definitely
16:18
wanted this to continue Ernie Hudson is
16:21
with us we're talking Ghostbusters
16:22
Frozen Empire JD is in Cleveland JD
16:25
what's popping JD what popping JD now
16:28
what's up y'all and I am an ambassador
16:30
just to let y'all know y'all don't
16:31
forget I'm still with y'all he still
16:34
with us JD in our streets
16:36
and so so I got a lot to say but I gotta
16:39
say in in a little bit of time first of
16:40
all Ernie you you know you you the
16:42
epitome of what acting should be um I
16:45
remember you in Sugar Hill how you
16:47
killed it man and um just seeing like
16:50
your evolvement and knowing that you've
16:51
been doing it for 60 years you know that
16:54
longevity is everything because people
16:56
don't understand like you said you came
16:58
from you know shoveling dirt you know
17:01
and then you evolved and that's what
17:02
supposed to happen and where you at
17:04
right now and you they still need you to
17:07
you know perform and and do these movies
17:09
and and show everybody the world your
17:11
talents you know we all applaud you for
17:14
that for being the man you are and then
17:16
especially everything you do like
17:18
outside of that man you just keep up the
17:20
good work we all love you and uh I just
17:22
want to see you you know your success
17:24
and I'm definitely going to support this
17:26
movie cuz you know you my main man and
17:28
you in it and I
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wow JD good man yeah it means a lot I
17:33
appreciate that thank you JD great
17:35
question you're a citizen way in the
17:37
morning all right um
17:38
DB my turn no I'm just kidding uh June
17:42
8th uh this year marks the 40th
17:44
anniversary uh that Ghostbusters was
17:46
released and of course the movie comes
17:47
out next Friday but I wanted to know
17:49
because it's so difficult to ask you
17:50
something that you haven't already
17:51
answered a million times in the 40-year
17:53
career of Ghostbusters in the franchise
17:55
do you have a favorite scene though is
17:57
there a particular scene that stands out
17:58
in your mind that makes you go holy [ __ ]
18:00
I can't believe I actually was a part of
18:02
this um you know there's so many
18:05
especially in the the original movie I
18:07
love maybe the best because I just it
18:09
was so unexpected and it was so off the
18:11
cuff and funny and uh so there are
18:13
scenes people will come up to me they'll
18:15
quote lots of lines from the first movie
18:17
I don't think anything from the second
18:18
movie you know what I mean it's um but
18:21
uh but yeah there are scenes I I flash
18:23
back when we shooting in New York it was
18:24
so amazing how Bill Murray related to
18:27
the public um the when I first came
18:29
aboard you know the big Twinkie scene
18:31
you know I mean the mayor's office where
18:34
I you I've seen [ __ ] that'll turn you
18:36
white in the sh I can say it on the
18:37
radio you know what I mean but um you've
18:39
been doing this 60 years dog say
18:40
whatever you want say what you want so
18:43
you know yeah it was just uh it was kind
18:45
of unique and different and it all kind
18:47
of I come to New York and it all sort of
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rushes back we shot eyes here I've done
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a lot of films here over the years yeah
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but was something about that first time
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in New York uh they put me up at the
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plaza the first time had been on on the
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park and they gave me a little room with
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a
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fireplace and uh and I was like okay
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this is uh this is what it likes to to
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be and that was you know that was a
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while back I haven't had a room with a
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fireplace since but
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uh I'm still looking forward to
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it wow man well listen I want to say man
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it's a absolute honor to have you back
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on this show again brother contined
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success it was it was a joy for me to
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watch people react to you live I was
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like a fly on the wall everywhere you
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went when you walked the C when you came
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in the room when you came in the
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building I saw it all when you walked in
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the theater when before y'all went to
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see I was literally standing right next
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to you and your family as y'all walked
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by and I was like you know but it was uh
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great to see people receive you like
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that congratulations that's indicative
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that's a testament to the work you do
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and how youve impacted if I can also
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apologize to all the the fans out there
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who was standing in the crowds and and
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and asking for time and honestly it was
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a long day and I I couldn't get to
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people I always feel bad about that yeah
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but you know you can only do so much but
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just know that uh you know my heart you
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know I I I would have loved to but there
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was a lot going on so if I didn't get to
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you and you were out there just know
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that um you know I I regret it but you
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know we have to do what we got to do
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that's kind of that's nice I never heard
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nobody apologize like that what for
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snubbing them on the picture you one
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people all the time here you never say
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sorry what all right Ernie thank you man
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we love you brother Ernie hson man s
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morning
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