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Kelly Rowland talks New Lifetime Movie ‘Merry Liddle Christmas Baby’ | SWAY’S UNIVERSE
Nov 24, 2021
The Liddles are returning this holiday season! And this time, they have a little bundle of joy to premiere. The Lifetime movie series is set to release the third film in the series this November. This time, it’s called, Merry Liddle Christmas Baby.
Kelly Rowland calls into Sway In The Morning to talk about the movie and how she is spending the holidays.
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oh man and what an amazing move i know
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people hp so i was able to get an early
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copy of the movie so i i've had my
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christmas present a little early but
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ladies and gentlemen we always love when
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we have her on the show this is a sister
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to all of us i think i can speak for the
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crew man and i'm just sitting there
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looking at her accolades she sold over
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40 million records as a solo artist with
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a further 60 million records with
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destiny's child
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her work has earned her several awards
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and nominations including four grammys
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one billboard music award two soul
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trainer music awards she received a star
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on a hollywood walk of fame as a part of
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the group and she has been honored by
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the american society composers authors
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and publishers in
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essence for her contributions to music
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she was ranked one of the 100 most
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award-winning artists of all time ladies
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and gentlemen
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i'm happy i know her kelly rowland give
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it up for kelly
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good morning
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can we please discuss the fact that can
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i just take you everywhere that just
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made me feel so good on this monday
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morning i'm like i can do anything
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yes yes you can kelly you know we call
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our you you know you named our mondays
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we got motivation mondays that's what we
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do man have you said you made that song
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hey kelly let me tell you something when
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i talk about your career
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i feel like i'm making more money as i
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say this stuff it's incredible that's
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how that's how rich your career has been
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and i just i'm proud of you i remember
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the early days when you all used to come
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to the bay area i feel like dwayne
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wiggins used to always talk to me about
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you guys
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yeah from tony tony tony dwayne wiggins
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he was like
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right
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no yes like if you like i think about
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dwayne and i think about um second
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nature on the album and how fun it was
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to do like a bridge on the first album
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with him and us being goofy with him in
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the studio
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oh my gosh some of the best memories
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with d wiggins we love him yes indeed
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and that's my brother and i remember you
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guys coming up on cameo the radio
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station and i was interviewing you on
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and had no idea that i'll be
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however many years later saying all of
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these accolades so congratulations kelly
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congratulations
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and
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congratulate you you'll soon be
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approaching 10 years married right
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uh where is seven seven okay
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seven is the new ten ain't it hp
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[Laughter]
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hey man absolutely
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what's up kelly it's heather how you
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doing how are you here to be it's good
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to hear your voice it's always great to
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hear your voice look sway kelly and
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citizens this way in the mornings kelly
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has the esteemed title of being the very
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first guest on the happy hour it had to
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be radio show
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ever like she was the first
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show with siriusxm fly finally went live
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and made it to the big saddle right here
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kelly i was the very first show on there
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and kelly was the very first guest so
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anytime i don't care if kelly hit me at
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two o'clock in the morning and say
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heather i want to promote gumballs kelly
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got a spot like that's just how it goes
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down
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for her because she just came through
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and rocked and i was so happy so love to
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you and it's so funny that you putting
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out a holiday movie because we've been
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talking about food and holidays since
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last week obviously with the holidays
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coming up but i was curious because i
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never really hear you talk about cooking
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are you cooking this year at your house
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and if so what's your go-to dish kelly
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hell nah i ain't cooking this
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before and yes i'm a southern girl but i
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miss on the really simple dishes so and
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i've i've literally been you know
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cooking is like you got to like actually
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be in the flow of cooking you like gotta
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cook on monday and then gotta cook at
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least on friday in order for everything
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to like you know really start to like
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you know take its own delicious form
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because my stuff tastes like i cook like
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three months ago and then tried again
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like the year before it's not consistent
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at all
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she knows her she knows her strengths
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and weaknesses how about that i do i do
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and it's so funny because my husband
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looked at me like what was that two
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christmases ago where i was like i'm
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gonna cook christmas dinner he goes you
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sure you sure about that
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i look up all these recipes i'm gonna
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have it i promise he was like i don't
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think you should put that kind of
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pressure on yourself that was him
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basically nicely saying man that food
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ain't right you should not
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kelly i do feel like your strength is in
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mixology though as well because i've
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seen you on um instagram posting up like
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your chocolate peanut butter martinis
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you're a girl that knows a good bottle
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of whiskey
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that's where i win boo where are you
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if i'm you know
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concocting the drinks it just kind of
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works me and you know i do that more
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often than cooking
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[Laughter]
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kelly rollins is here with us merry
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little christmas baby uh it's premiering
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saturday
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8 p.m a lifetime one of my favorite
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channels rich you know i watch lifetime
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all the time oh my god all the time
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[Applause]
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man i i want to live in that lifetime
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bubble kelly and you know you know
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lifetime is one of those networks that
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damn it you know i i've read the
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headlines i've been on twitter too long
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i've been looking at all these news
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networks i need to just just kind of
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flush all of that out of my mind and
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i'll turn on lifetime and then you have
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this amazing movie called merry little
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christmas baby one of the things i like
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most about it is the imaging
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i see in it we were just talking about
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our
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christmases or our holidays at our home
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and one of the things that was big in my
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in my family is everyone would go with
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my grandmother and mama elsie's house
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especially when my grandfather was alive
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and people
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traveled from all over the country and
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this was like the center place this was
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the mecca this was the home base and we
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used to set up
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tables in the middle of the living room
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it was damn you like a smorgasbord it's
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the finest southern cuisine you're ever
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going to taste right and we have people
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from different religions whether it's
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rastafarian
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whether it was people who studied europe
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uh islam um christianity catholicism
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anything where everybody was welcome and
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when i when i watched this movie
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um one of the feelings i got which i
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missed because we haven't had that kind
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of gathering in a long time
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is people coming from everywhere the
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siblings are coming the family members
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are coming that whole nine did you have
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that kind of christmas growing up what
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were your christmas celebrations like
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that
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you know what they they were not it was
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like when i was a kid i remember like
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being really really close to my great
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aunts and and uh my aunts of course but
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like if we did it but it was like every
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other christmas and then when my mom and
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i moved to houston and then we met um of
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course tina and bee and every like
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solange and angie like we were
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um celebrating christmas every year
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together and it became a thing you know
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what i mean and from us doing
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christmases every year looking at all
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these christmas movies and all the
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families coming together i'm like well
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we do this and it should be seen on
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television and it should feel you should
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see the food and you should see us
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enjoying each other you should feel the
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love and you know it's um it's just a
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part of our culture our culture that we
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share and i felt like you know i wanted
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to see more of that on lifetime and
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lifetime wanted to see more of it on
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lifetime and lifetime was like you're
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going to make this movie and i said
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perfect then we'll do it and i'll
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executive produce it and it was great
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and um it's it's crazy that it started
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off as one and last year made it two and
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now this year it's like you know
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the character jackie is a tech
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entrepreneur who finds love and gets
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married and now she's having a baby and
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her life is enriched with family and
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love and um but it's the family causes a
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lot of drama but that's what she loves
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about her family so much too because
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that's really family you know what i
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mean that's what family does and that's
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okay because at the end of the day the
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bottom the bottom of it is love like
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everybody just wants to be there to love
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and support each other
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all right
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well done because you accomplished that
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i felt i wasn't i was almost mad that i
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saw it too soon like because it ain't
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even thanksgiving yet
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you're about to put your tree up
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tomorrow yeah man rich nice go for it
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man
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hey kelly how you doing this rich
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knights from track masters we haven't
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seen each other in a long long time we
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haven't but we've made great music
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together
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yes we have we have made some great
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music we definitely have i wanted to ask
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you because as an artist who's always on
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the road and moving around what is your
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best holiday memory on the road
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my best holiday memory on the road
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was
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traveling
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um and i remember i was trying to get
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home like super fast i was coming from
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london
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and um
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what happened and i remember it just
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felt like forever and i'm sitting up
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there and i'm watching these other
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people like you know that this is going
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to get happy quick but i just watched
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all these people like be together with
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their families like pile up on the plane
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and i remember i just felt so
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i missed my family and as soon as i got
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home it was like this big surprise it
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was the warmest
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biggest welcome of love my plate was
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fixed my wine glass was full
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it was just so incredible and i remember
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just hopping
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um to everybody's house that day like i
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love the spirit of family on christmas
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like my christmases are even better
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because my kids are there you know what
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i mean like and now this is gonna be
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noah's first year you know and i don't
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think he knows what the hell is going on
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but he's gonna definitely feel the
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spirit of christmas and i just love
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being with the family man it's the best
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beautiful that's what's up man kelly
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rowland is here i'm opening up the phone
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lines yes citizens you get to speak to
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her 888-742-3345
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let's take them to las vegas we got my
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man thomas on the line graham rises
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thomas
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everybody i just want to graduate from
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all your accolades kelly like you know
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later in my life music
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connected a lot to me more as a young
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man but i just want to thank you and
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everything nothing but love and grace to
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god from my family to yours everybody
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thank you
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oh thank you so much man have a
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beautiful holiday season love to you too
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as well love you my man thomas you all
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right thomas you're a citizen man you're
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a citizen
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yeah i like callers like that we got k
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on the line from um atlanta k grand
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rises how you been kay hey
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i'm going good i'm doing good good
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morning queen good morning kelly
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good morning king
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yo big sway what up sweet what up okay
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what's
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you know what i'm saying all your work
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is appreciated you're beautiful i love
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how you represent for the dark-skinned
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sisters that's my thing you know what
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i'm saying but um i just want to put
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this out there listen i don't care what
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the people say i'm not down with the
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castle culture i'm not down with it all
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kids love the police yo
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my son six he loved the police you know
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what i'm saying he had he's six years
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old he had a police birthday party do
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what you do do what make your kids happy
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and stay blessed you know what i'm
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saying
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oh thank you oh you talking about my
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son's birthday party so there was a
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situation
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i want you to stay blessed and stay in
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power to do whatever you know what i am
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blessed man i am staying blessed and i i
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think that it's it's so funny because
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let me tell you
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i wasn't very keen on doing a police
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thing birthday party by no means
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um but i also wanted to try
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to um just make my kid happy and i was
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like you can't just have a straight
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police party you have to put something
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in front of it
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[Laughter]
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we added lego police and so he had a
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lego police party he was so excited and
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it's so funny because i did have this um
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a concern about him having a policing
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party because trust me i heard it from
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my sisters from like everybody and i
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said you know
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as it is my job to make sure
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that i don't instill a fear in him now
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you know what i mean because everybody
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was like well you know it's all this
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going on i was like he's seven he hasn't
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a clue
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you know what i mean of what is going
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what's really going on you know we do
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talk about like he knows i know that
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there are good cops and i know that
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there are cops who are not so nice i was
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like yeah not so nice that's an
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understatement but it's my job to make
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sure that there is still an innocence
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there for him and when it's time for him
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to understand the next um
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level of what that is
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then i have to explain that to him as
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his parent that is my job um but i also
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you know
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think that it's really important for the
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good cops out there to speak up you know
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what i mean and that they have kids who
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are looking up to them um who who feel
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like they are heroes and quote you know
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what i mean so i i hope that they would
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take responsibility and speak up where
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they see that things aren't right in
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their system
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so it was definitely a big question for
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me when it came to throwing my son a
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police party but i have to preserve his
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innocence right now
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okay uh well thanks for bringing that up
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okay you're a citizen brother you're
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assistant this morning well said kelly
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well said absolutely you raised your kid
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the way you see fit i got a daughter she
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raises me now but at one point i did
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raise her
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boy i saw fit my daughter dropped off
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about uh she popped up at my house two
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days ago and i was so excited oh you
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just visited not even calling this is
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beautiful in three big old bags his line
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of laundry
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wow
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gosh i spent my whole sunday doing her
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laundry but uh and that's so sweet
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though
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yeah she's 23 kelly she should be doing
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her own laundry
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but yeah it is thank you though uh
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dominique's on the line from tennessee
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your last caller dominique how are you
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doing
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hey
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hi dominique how are you
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good how about yourself
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good good i just wanted
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i've always admired you like just coming
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up and you are a phenomenal woman and
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you know you don't so much worry about
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what people have to say you just always
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leave to do the best that you can do for
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yourself and i just want to tell you
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that i'm very proud of all your
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confidence and i wish you
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continued
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thank you so much i really appreciate
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you saying that and i really appreciate
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you calling in that means a lot to me
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thank you very much thank you dominique
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uh seats were so quick she got up time
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for larry larry bring it home larry what
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you want to say larry love you
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you're gonna get two for one i'm in a
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semi with my nephew teaching him how to
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drive i just want to tell you kelly
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you're amazing and i love you i love
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everything you do i can't wait to watch
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your movie here's the here's uh
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thank you thank you larry i appreciate
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you big love to your family
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one of my all-time favorite songs and i
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just think that
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thank you very much larry big love to
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your family today that's the nephew
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nephew
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what's the nephew name nephew what's
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your name oh that's the nephew hey hold
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on nephew
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man
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what's up what's your name nephew
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julian julian kelly
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oh
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wow he added your name to his that's how
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big of a fan he is
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but kelly said why you ain't looking at
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the road nephew
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no i got the phone up to his mouth oh
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okay all right
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all right
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hey well nephew congratulations uh
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you're learning how to draw that semi so
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you that means you're a role warrior
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you're one of us so are you larry both
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of you citizens citizens citizens
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all right
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hey kelly when that new music coming
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again i didn't hear what you said
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oh i didn't say anything yet
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let's get back in the studio okay let's
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get back in the studio
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i know look i'm ready you have no idea
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it's so funny because i keep listening
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to certain things and i'm like wow that
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sounds like that was from like something
17:09
new sounds like it was from something
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that you've done do you know what i mean
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that's because you were ahead of your
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time so that means that that means
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there's a lot of space for you come on
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come on back in kelly we need that music
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too your acting is incredible you're so
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natural now
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um
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you know
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when i'm watching this movie i'm not
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looking at kelly i'm looking at your
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character uh which is pretty incredible
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jackie so uh congratulations on the
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trilogy
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uh
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so mr witherspoon and
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and and and
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fighting and noah
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telling myself please send our love
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kelly can't wait to see you in person
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again soon okay
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me too me too big love had to be in
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everything
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kelly rowland happy holidays merry
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little christmas baby premiering
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saturday 8pm on lifetime
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you
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