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this movie orphan first kill is in
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theaters on demand and streaming at
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paramount plus
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august 19th okay
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it's starring i gotta tell this story
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okay
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okay she forgot how close her friends we
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are she might have forgotten she's had
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such a great career a lot of times
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time's passed by i might have
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one of my first gigs i tell her when she
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comes up here okay she doesn't remember
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i remind her that's why i tell the story
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first so she could go oh yeah i remember
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that
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one of my first gigs at mtv one of the
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major themes was a promotion they were
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doing with a movie company for save the
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last dance
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i feel like it was new year's eve and we
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stood on the rooftop and did a dance
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marathon
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and i co-hosted with this young lady
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right here who went on to become a
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golden globe nominee primetime emmy
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nominee
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i mean she's going on we do shows
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overseas where she's become as big as
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she is in the states i watch riviera
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i don't know what sky atlantic is but i
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watched it on the plane
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and was pissed because i couldn't find
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it in the states
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the bourne franchise i was a big fan of
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the boy franchise she killed it on that
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so good in that you like that right oh
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it was so crazy come on man we root for
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her every time we see on the screen
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really and reasons why people often ask
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you a lot of people you met who are some
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of the nicest people yeah has never done
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anything but give us nice energy and
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whenever it's time for her to stand up
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for herself she's not scared matter of
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fact one of the times she came here
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i don't even recall if you remember this
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but we were just talking about anybody
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who got in your way
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you know anybody who tried to stop you
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from
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from succeeding anybody that tried to
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knock you off your path
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if you had anything to say to him this
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is what it would be go ahead sway in the
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morning where even hollywood can get a
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little grimy we got julia styles stars a
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new show
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it's called blue
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bow down that's it that's like
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these little actresses who try to do
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what you do oh you know what you say to
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them
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[Music]
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wow i will say the thank you that is the
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most wonderful introduction i have ever
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had in my career so you thank you it's
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so good to see you and of course i
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remember
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thanks for all the good reminders
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um it's so good to be here thank you for
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that absolutely absolutely nah it's
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great it's interesting because you know
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we're all people at the end of the day
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yeah pursued their passions yours was
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obviously acting mine was
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whatever i could you know wherever i
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could win you know then turned out to be
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this right and after 20 years
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i know well i mean yeah thanks for the
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refresher because that the new year's
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eve yeah when you were at mtv that was
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like five lifetimes ago it was a lot of
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lifetimes yeah yeah and you're still
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here
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still here yeah still working still
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working we had um
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tasha campbell was here the other day
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recently uh you know her from martin
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she's in a new series on netflix
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uncouple which is really funny with neil
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patrick harris and she was explaining it
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to us that act actors you know lifespan
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is only about three to five years
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successful actors
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you know oh yeah
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you you've been here a lot longer than
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that i have you know i mean there's been
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there's been ups and downs and
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and i you know i will say when i started
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out acting i never thought that at 40
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i'd still be working okay and now i feel
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like the roles that i'm getting offered
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are like way more interesting than when
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i was in my 20s because when you're
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young it's like it's the girlfriend or
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the
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you know i don't know uh yeah it's
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usually the girlfriend
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yeah and now i get now there's like a
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whole lot of other stuff going on so
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yeah i'm pretty happy to be here to use
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the house do you then process julia
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differently now that you're a mom like
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the roles that you take in is yes you
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know i just there's a meme out there and
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it was an actress friend of mine gabby
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hoffman who i think said it and it
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turned into a meme but she said um i
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love my job i just don't want to do it
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all the time yeah that's sort of
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that's how i feel now
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especially as a parent i like i you know
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my life is so full and i and and i and i
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love that and so if i'm going to go to
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work um it's got to be if i if i'm going
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to if i'm going to you know be on set 12
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to 16 hours a day every day or go on
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location or whatever it's all very
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exciting but it's got to be for
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something that i think is going to be
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really good you know yeah were you ever
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tempted to leave the industry especially
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seeing like some of your peers like
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cameron diaz or gwyneth paltrow say you
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know what i'm chucking up the deuces to
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hollywood
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no i mean i think what's funny is that
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when i was in college i kind of um
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entertained the idea of like because my
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peers were like what career would i have
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other than acting i couldn't really
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think of anything else i wasn't
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qualified to do anything else everything
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else was probably harder work than being
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an actor anyway but now all my college
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friends are like doctors and lawyers and
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doing really important things with their
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lives and
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as are you are you what are you talking
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about you're doing a part
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they're not on this show being a parent
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is no joke just alone yeah you said
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something for the first time that's fine
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that i've heard usually
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um
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women who get to a later stage of their
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career talk about the challenges of
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getting to later stage of the career and
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the roles that they're offered but you
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actually just to me just change the
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narrative on that is that you get to
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play more characters that have more
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depth we just don't hear that commentary
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in that narrative it's always our role
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is not unlimited or i play the mom yeah
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yeah i'm not excited about it but you
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just reframed it in a very positive
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space thank you yeah thank you i mean
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i i played the mom in this movie orphan
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but it's really interesting
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you know there's a really interesting
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twist to her and um
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and i think uh maybe the industry has
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changed a little bit too
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um so that the stories about women who
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are
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um
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not in their 20s like are different you
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know yeah
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it's really good to hear what didn't you
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know about motherhood once you had the
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baby
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well i just had my second six months ago
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okay i'm first of all i just you don't
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look like you have to
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stop playing that's crazy
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it's crazy what our bodies can do um i
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really hope that i can carry on a
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grown-up conversation right now because
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uh my brain is operating at like
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uh you know between the not sleeping and
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the
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i'm all i do is talk about diapers and
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naps all the time so
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um so good for me that i can talk to you
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guys and carry on a conversation um what
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did i not know
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oh the level of worry that goes with it
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yeah yeah
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yeah you're like your heart is outside
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your body uh-huh walking around
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no matter what you do great you know if
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your kid isn't there it's always a
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little
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space in the back of your head like sits
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on the shelf like where's my kid right
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you could be nominated for an award
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accepting the whole nine as soon as you
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get off stage i hope they're sleep right
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you know right dude
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i mean i just it's the most amazing
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thing i'm gonna get really corny but
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it's like you i never knew that you
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could have
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an infinite amount of love in your in
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your
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in your self like i
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i
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i don't know i just it's so much so much
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love like you're bursting with this uh
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joy and care for
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for this person that's why because i was
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hanging out at my house this weekend and
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one of my friends has kids and he was
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saying to me not only do you have that
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feeling but for the first time you know
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that they love you back
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just as much although my mom is in town
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to help take care of uh the kids while
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i'm doing this promotion stuff and when
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my mom is around i might as i get
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relegated to the b team i'm like yeah oh
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yeah i'm not kind of invisible
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so
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yeah just take she gets first place yeah
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that's dope that's dope you get along
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with the in-laws i do yeah good you know
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they're going to be listening to this
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interview so yeah you had to say that
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right
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you're trying to get in trouble as soon
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as you get off the crush junket
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that's a challenge cause they're lost
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nobody wants somebody to take their son
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it's true yeah they embrace you though
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open their arms they're great they're
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great people good i want to actually no
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more julia you're safe here
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um tell me about this movie why this one
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why this one you know what's funny i
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don't watch horror movies and i'm just
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too much of a wimp i don't have the
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bandwidth for it all i do is watch
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comedies so when they sent me the script
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i was like
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uh i don't know and then i got to the
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twist and i was like damn that's good i
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really it hooked me um and also we made
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this
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in 2020
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before vaccines came out movies were
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starting to get back into production so
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there was even that much more reluctance
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to uh to go back on a set because nobody
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knew how to do it but it was just really
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good and also the girl who plays um
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isabelle furman the actress who played
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the girl in the original film she was 11
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when they made the first one and now
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she's 23
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so playing
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oh wow a convincing little girl and like
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and they didn't do any cgi they did it
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all camera tricks like like i'm in the
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foreground a lot
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she's in the background
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um
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wow yeah and it looks i'm like what she
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looks like a kid
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so she's about to win in the war for
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this horrific i hope so you hope so
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right okay julia styles is hanging out
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with us can you hang with us while we do
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we normally do something we call
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celebrity wire right now okay all right
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tracy tells some fun stories and we just
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kind of riff on it okay and don't forget
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orphan first kill in theaters on demand
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and streaming on paramount plus friday
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august 19. let's get into some celebrity
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wires let's go let's go hello you do
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know that just being a celebrity and
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having a good time is not a real job
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right yeah it is being a famous
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celebrity is the greatest thing in the
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world reporting on the good the bad and
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the what the hell
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it's celebrity wire with tracy g
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on sway in the morning before we start
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uh julia how would you rate celebrity
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being a celebrity on scale 1 through 10
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10 being the highest
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i can't complain so i would say
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i would say i'll i'll say a nine
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nine point seven okay so you embrace no
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no i embrace it you can't put the
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toothpaste back in the tooth there you
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go right um
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yeah i can't complain okay that's good i
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like that take the good with the bad
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they they in your business and you know
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julia's gonna be paparazzi downstairs
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because you're a celebrity you don't
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mind that
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um i try to manage it does that make
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sense i try to see i mean again i can't
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i can't i try to uh
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i try to manage it as much as i can okay
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yeah i do yeah angela don't be offering
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up her business to the public too like a
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lot of your other peers do
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right well i see that yeah i mean i see
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the temptation everybody wants to like
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self-prom it's all about self-promotion
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these days but like at what cost that's
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the way i look at it at what cost is it
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gonna
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um i like to protect my
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uh i've been doing this a long time you
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know and a lot of major life events uh
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it seems i'm always doing like press
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around them and so i i
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i like i'm promoting a movie and talking
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about graduating college or i'm
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promoting a movie and i um i'm pregnant
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or whatever it is getting married having
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you know and so i
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i i guess i've learned like there are
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certain things that you do want to keep
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sacred and protect but at the same time
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this is the position that i'm in that
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has afforded me many many wonderful
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opportunities in life and i've been able
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to work with some great people and make
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a living as an artist and then travel
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the world like
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i can't really complain about it i just
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like to be a little i like to control it
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a little bit if i can as you should it's
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good well i'm interested in hearing what
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your take on this story is julia um
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because sylvester stallone he was not
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too pleased with mgm
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moving forward with a drago spin-off
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film and of course we know sylvester
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stallone from the rocky series
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and the producer that has been for every
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single
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film under the rocky series erin
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wrinkler and his children sylvester
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stallone went on instagram and he said
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another heartbreaker just found this out
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once again erin winkler this pathetic 94
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year old producer
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and his moronic vulture children charles
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and david are once again picking clean
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the bones of another wonderful character
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i created without even telling me he
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said i apologize to the fans i never
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wanted rocky characters to be exploited
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by these parasites and many citizens
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know and i'm talking about you know
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under the rocky series the creed
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spin-offs that also falls under it right
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you know
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and um maybe some folks didn't know but
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a lot of folks know that sylvester
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stallone is one who created
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rocky you know during a very you know
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rocky period in his life no pun intended
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but during that time he sold the rice
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back in 1976 to winkler um and another
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man robert chartoff for 350 000 dollars
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that hurts nothing he can do you sold
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at that time he just had like a hundred
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dollars to his name and his dog yeah he
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sold it for how much 350k yeah
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you ever have somebody uh
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co-op an idea you had
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no i don't have enough good ideas
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[Laughter]
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how do you handle not getting along with
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maybe someone that's a part of the
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behind the scenes or the front of scenes
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in a film you know looking at now we
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have this entanglement between sylvester
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stallone and the producer have you ever
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not gone along with a director or a
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producer or co-star and how do you
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navigate that sure sure i have i
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i look back on some experiences and i'm
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like oh if i were ahead but if i knowing
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what i know now i would have handled
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myself differently like i would have
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stuck up for myself more but this also
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makes me think of instagram and social
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media one of the reasons that i it i
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don't even post that much on instagram
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anymore is not because i'm trying to be
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like private it's because i go i have an
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idea to post something and then i go to
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do it and i think of all the
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the excuse me talking that's gonna
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happen after as a result or like all the
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negative comments that are gonna come
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back at me and i'm like oh never mind
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not worth it not worth it so it's i
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guess that's like sylvester stallone has
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he this is something that must really
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bother him to go yeah and take to social
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media wow i mean i get it rocky for 350
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thousand dollars that hurts that stings
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yeah yeah
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good answer julia's like i'm not dealing
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with this for a minute sweaty
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you think of a funny you think of a fun
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you know cute caption and then all of a
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sudden it's like oh i can get cancelled
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you know just for that yeah they can't
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cancel you julia you've been around two
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decades you good money don't worry about
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it you good what else you got tracy give
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me one more yeah absolutely this is
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really important nichelle nichols um
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legendary nichelle nichols
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who was big-time trailblazer she played
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lieutenant aurora in the original star
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trek series and she passed away
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at the age of 89 and that was a major
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role on television um she was amongst
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one of the first black actors to really
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play such a major role on television
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which was groundbreaking and so her life
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will definitely continue to be honored
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but her passing is heartbreaking as well
14:48
you know who she is that's the black
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queen that was on star trek you never
14:52
watched star trek oh yeah the original
14:53
original star trek that's who passed
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away wow wow she was something to see
14:58
yeah because i'm an original trekkie so
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i started watching as a youth in the 70s
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right like as a kid and to see this
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beautiful gorgeous black woman in a
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position of power
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all the symbolism in that from way back
15:11
then that's how we saw our women right
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and the way they respected her we had
15:15
william shatner on this show yes how
15:17
many times and he had nothing but
15:19
amazing things to say about her he even
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had to kiss her on one episode and he
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talked about that you know william
15:25
shapner captain kirk yes of course julia
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are you a trekkie i'm starting to wonder
15:30
what are you looking at i'm listening to
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you oh
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okay and i'm absorbing what you're
15:33
saying i don't want to cut you off it's
15:34
too fast
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uh he said you know well i asked him
15:44
what was it like because that the
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original iteration of it i think was
15:48
shot in the 60s late 60s oh wow and so
15:51
the whole concept of uh star trek
15:54
having uh what do they call an
15:56
overarching governing body of uh star
15:59
trek uh it'll come any trekkies i'm out
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of trekking okay okay uh the
16:05
community
16:07
it'll come to me the governing body that
16:08
they answered to
16:10
that whole concept of star trek having
16:12
different representatives from different
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galaxies
16:15
it really kind of was the uh
16:18
catalyst to what we now know as united
16:20
nations so when you see the united
16:22
nations how you got these different
16:24
people representation
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character yeah okay and so that kind of
16:28
helped become the catalyst of the
16:30
thought of what is a united nations so
16:32
it was already functioning back then it
16:35
was so many so much undertoned messaging
16:39
in star trek so to have her there
16:42
and can you imagine hollywood thin
16:43
especially for a black woman because you
16:45
can see what hollywood is now for a
16:46
black woman hello you know so imagine
16:48
being then her being in that role yeah
16:51
it was so significant even though they
16:52
only did a few series of star trek we
16:54
still watch it to this day so her
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passing
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and she was beautiful too julia
16:59
i remember her
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beautiful man so anyway
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thank you julia for that commentary
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oh i feel like i've let you down no you
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didn't
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no i mean thank you for listening and
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hearing me out yeah
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julian knows right now
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yeah
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but you think about her bill russell
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like this weekend has been crazy with
17:19
legendary you know people in this
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industry to pass like i think a day
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apart you know he was day apart he said
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she was 89 89 he was 88. that's crazy
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yeah it's crazy thank you tracy for that
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celebrity wire mozzie's on the line real
17:32
quick want to talk to johnny
17:33
mozzie's in canada rise and shine
17:37
what's up everybody
17:38
how's everybody today
17:40
good
17:42
you gotta come julia i seen this uh the
17:45
show on amazon the late that's one of
17:47
the funniest shows me and my wife have
17:48
watched in a long time
17:50
you guys got it next summer coming thank
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you for watching i'm glad you like it
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yes we do i'm about to next weekend go
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uh to go back to canada and uh shoot the
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second season so nice
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any story lines you want me to pitch
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any characters you want to follow
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i just
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no i just got cute i'm curious to know
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where did you guys film that show
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ontario i'm not going to tell you the
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town because it's really a small town i
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don't want people coming to my doorstep
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yeah no that's algonquin park i've seen
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that
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all right hey mozzie thanks for your
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call man all right
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thank you in the morning
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from canada julia thank you for coming
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through it's good to see you good to see
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you guys thank you so much
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congratulations julia rivera made you
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even
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i know that's popular overseas i'm just
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curious to how do people receive you
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overseas is it a different
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i'm so glad you watched that yeah it was
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it was a big show in in the uk and in
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europe and it was a really fun show to
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make um because we got to go to all
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those places but how do they i don't
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know how do they see me that's it yeah i
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don't know is it same here uh the
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fanfare at least oh
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i don't know
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it's been such a long time since i've
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traveled over there because of cobit
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that i don't know but i think uh
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uh
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yeah i don't know you don't know that's
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fine julia you're a mother now
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before you go julia um just because
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jennifer lopez has been in the news so
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much and then i'm remembering that you
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were in hustlers as well how did that
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happen did you get like a call from
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jennifer lopez herself did the script
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just come through through your agent i
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wish no i thought i fought for that part
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i was like i
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had read the article that it was based
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on
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and then knew that they were making it
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into a movie and read the script and i
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was like i love this so much i don't
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care if i have to like
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make coffee and sweep the floors i just
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want to be part of this movie so i wrote
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the director a letter and um
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we spoke on the phone and i just kept
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pursuing it and and then finally they
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came back around and
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wrote a letter that's amazing i mean an
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email whatever okay a modern a modern
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modern day
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but it was a well thought out
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well-crafted email yeah wow yeah yeah
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but i pursued it that's what's up you
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gotta do it
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all right julia thank you for coming
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through give it up for julia styles
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again great to see you guys she's a mom
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julia's looking around like what the
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who are these people
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yeah but you made it you're doing good
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good to have you um
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continue success
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i'm being on this screen and then we'll
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see each other in the years to come and
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tell the same story yes okay so you
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don't have to remember it i'll do it all
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right give it up for julia stiles okay
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