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2026 Lead Actor Nominee Eric Braeden · The Daytime Emmys Specials

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  Speaker 1: When folks use the word legend, sometimes it's kind of
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  Speaker 1: like debatable, but in this case, no one debates it
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  Speaker 1: at all. And I mean he's been doing his thing
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  Speaker 1: for you know, for for years and he's been rewarded
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  Speaker 1: again with another Daytime Emmy nomination. And also like to
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  Speaker 1: call him my friend is mister Eric Brayden. Hello Sarah,
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  Speaker 1: so good to hear you and see you.
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  Speaker 2: And you know I started during the American Revolutionary War.
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  Speaker 1: I know, right, it feels like that. It feels that way,
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  Speaker 1: doesn't it, sir?
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  Speaker 2: You know, you know, you know when I was. When
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  Speaker 2: you get older, the days go by show damn quickly, man,
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  Speaker 2: they do they do? I should have Friday again.
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  Speaker 1: Well anyway, yep, and Eric, sir, you've been you've you've
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  Speaker 1: weathered a bunch of storms that the last for three
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  Speaker 1: or four years.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know life, Yes, life a walking shadow, poor
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  Speaker 2: player that struts and frenches are up on the stage
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  Speaker 2: and then there's little more. I like to told bun idiot,
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  Speaker 2: full of sound and fury signifying nothing.
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  Speaker 1: I like that.
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  Speaker 2: I like that it is very pessimistic, but it's life. Life.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Well, I just want to I want to ask you
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  Speaker 1: this to because I don't want to ask you, because
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  Speaker 1: they have had you, your character on front burner storylines
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  Speaker 1: for the last few years. I mean, like you just
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  Speaker 1: you're on. Are you enjoying yourself? Because there's tires that
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  Speaker 1: it looks like you really are enjoying yourself. Are you
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  Speaker 1: enjoying yourself?
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  Speaker 2: You know? I love working, I really do, and uh,
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  Speaker 2: not as much anymore as you shoe, but I still
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  Speaker 2: enjoy it very much. I love I've never lost the
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  Speaker 2: strange desire to make a scene real, I assume. And
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  Speaker 2: you look at the page written by someone who lives
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  Speaker 2: in Chicago or New York or wherever, and they don't
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  Speaker 2: even know you, I don't know them, and they write
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  Speaker 2: something and you try to make it real. That's a
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  Speaker 2: challenge to me. I don't know why it always has been.
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  Speaker 2: So making a scene real is, in a sense, creatively
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  Speaker 2: or whatever, what I live for. But I do a
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  Speaker 2: scene with anyone Melody or Joshua or any of the
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  Speaker 2: familiar and it's real, I said, good. That feels good.
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  Speaker 2: If it's not, I think about it. Interesting?
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  Speaker 1: Is that the is it that whole kind of instant
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  Speaker 1: gratification that when you do make it feel and it works.
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  Speaker 1: Is that here? Oh sorry, here we go? Is it
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  Speaker 1: the we go, we get We're good? Is it the
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  Speaker 1: instant gratification of when you do make it work? Is
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  Speaker 1: that part of the appeal?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah? And the money yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Hello, hello, yep, you have bills, you have things, you
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  Speaker 1: have things to pay.
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  Speaker 2: Eric, No, Jay, you're thinking about that afterwards?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, but I figure, but you're see, I figure you
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  Speaker 1: would not be doing this. We did enjoy it. I decided.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like you'd be like, okay, I'm done, you
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  Speaker 1: would hang it out. But I could tell you're enjoying.
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  Speaker 2: It absolutely, absolutely, you know. And the story NNE lately
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  Speaker 2: have been uh not lately, I mean overall very interesting.
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  Speaker 2: Josh Griffith has done a great job, and I've enjoyed it.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: With Eric, you've been working with just about everybody in
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  Speaker 1: the last like three or four years across across your
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  Speaker 1: team of people of actors, and been given a range
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  Speaker 1: of emotions.
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  Speaker 2: Right exactly recently that with Melody. Obviously, Victor doesn't trust
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  Speaker 2: that she in that night of debauchery in that hotel
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  Speaker 2: room with Jack Abbott, that it was only you know,
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  Speaker 2: his attempt in straightening out her drug habit. I didn't
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  Speaker 2: believe that. I thought, oh they had some had some
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  Speaker 2: whot you could you going on? I didn't believe it, right, So,
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  Speaker 2: and that was obviously the reason for his being very
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  Speaker 2: hostile about Jack Abbott and and not trusting Nikki. And
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  Speaker 2: jealousy is a very very serious emotion. People sort of
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  Speaker 2: you know, be little, nothing can be little. That's a
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  Speaker 2: serious emotion. And that's what has driven victim to not trust,
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  Speaker 2: not trust her really.
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  Speaker 1: But there is some there is some fans who are
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  Speaker 1: on your side going, would you let your wife?
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  Speaker 2: Hello?
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  Speaker 1: Right, go to God? I mean, come on, because I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: fo hell, you know, I.
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  Speaker 2: Want to see the guy. I want to see the
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  Speaker 2: guy who says, oh, honey, go with So you invited
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  Speaker 2: once to him. You might still like him, but I
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  Speaker 2: trust that you simply want to Oh yes, I understand,
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  Speaker 2: please go. We have my blessing, my ass.
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  Speaker 1: Right, So I agree about your side. I was on
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  Speaker 1: your side, like no. And the thing is, oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: there's this one part where you said and it made
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  Speaker 1: me jump. We were watching it when you said you
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  Speaker 1: stood up and you said to her, I loved I
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  Speaker 1: like you said, you know, as long as you know me.
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  Speaker 1: You know that threats are not gonna work on me, right,
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  Speaker 1: Like you looked at her, like you looked there like girl,
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  Speaker 1: you know me, Like this ain't gonna work. And he
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  Speaker 1: said get out, and the way your way, your voice
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  Speaker 1: came Bill. I was like, oh, Victor still has it.
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  Speaker 2: Vic.
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  Speaker 1: We all we all jumped at home. We're like, oh
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  Speaker 1: my god. And she looked at you like what and
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  Speaker 1: You're like, get out, there's the door.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry reading in between, but I'm hungry.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's working today, Fox, he's working.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm kidding, but.
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  Speaker 1: No, but that was but but where we were on
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  Speaker 1: your side, we were someone's He's like going, I get
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  Speaker 1: where he's coming from. You know your you know your husband,
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  Speaker 1: you know his and Jack's whole history, and you still
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  Speaker 1: allow this to happen. So yeah, Victory goes a little far,
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  Speaker 1: but we kind of get where some of some of
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  Speaker 1: us get. Where you came from, you get it.
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  Speaker 2: So and then the Chinee with with Nicholas, Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we'll talk to each other and he reveals to his
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  Speaker 2: father that he is using drugs. Yes, oh that was
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  Speaker 2: a London of a performance by Joshua and and really,
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  Speaker 2: when you imagine that as an actor as we do
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  Speaker 2: that to happen in real life. WHOA, that's a tough one, man,
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  Speaker 2: that's a really tough one.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, Eric, you had some amazing scenes with Joshua and
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  Speaker 1: with also Amelia over the last year. And there was
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  Speaker 1: one scene where she was just like, I'm scared when
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  Speaker 1: you got shot, I'm scared, blah blah. And you looked
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  Speaker 1: at it and you had tears. It's like when Victor cried.
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  Speaker 1: You don't cry it often when Victor cries, I started crying.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, I mean like, you looked into her eyes, right,
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  Speaker 1: So that's that's that's that's the side of to be
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  Speaker 1: proud of your TV, your TV children, you'll be proud
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  Speaker 1: of them.
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  Speaker 2: Mm hmmm mm hmm. I love working with both of them.
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  Speaker 2: And look wonderful coworkers Melody Be, Joshua, Emilia, Mark Grossman, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: Peter Bergman, Michelle Stafford, Christian Leblent, I mean, Jason Thompson,
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  Speaker 2: he goes on, Crystal Khalil, Yeah, wonderful actress Brighton, I
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  Speaker 2: mean that goes on and on. It was a wonderful
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  Speaker 2: actress here, really, you know. Yeah, yeah, boy, to work
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  Speaker 2: with all of them really and you do. You literally
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  Speaker 2: work with all of them. And you had oh my,
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  Speaker 2: you had one scene with Michelle t that was hilarious
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  Speaker 2: because folks at home, Eric Braine's one of the homies.
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  Speaker 2: He's one of the off screens, one of the homies,
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  Speaker 2: and so and so is Michelle. So they had you
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  Speaker 2: have they had you say something, Eric. This is back
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  Speaker 2: when she's about to feed back the company and you're
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  Speaker 2: in you're in your old office and she says my
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  Speaker 2: company just one too many times and they had you
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  Speaker 2: say your company and you started to chuckle. Is that's
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  Speaker 2: my company?
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  Speaker 1: Girl? The way you said it, we all cackled. I
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  Speaker 1: was like, that's the Eric I know right there, that's
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  Speaker 1: Eric right there. It was hilarious. Oh my god.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, oh, he is wonderful to work with.
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  Speaker 2: She is just you know, she is such an inventive actress.
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  Speaker 2: She is just it's a brilliant actress. Period.
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  Speaker 1: So how has that been for you? Because this storyline
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  Speaker 1: was literally not another dude. It was usually it's like Aaric.
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  Speaker 1: It's like it's like Peter or back in the day,
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  Speaker 1: it was brand on it. This was a chick coming
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  Speaker 1: after you took your it was both you guys, right,
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  Speaker 1: I say it with tongue and Chance say it with hilarity.
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  Speaker 1: But it must have been a different kind of And
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  Speaker 1: Michelle is such a you know, such a wild card
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  Speaker 1: person as you know, you know everything. How was that for?
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  Speaker 2: You? Loved every minute of it. I love working with her.
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  Speaker 2: You're just you know, she and I bounce off each other.
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  Speaker 2: What I'm saying, it's it's she's so sensitive and so
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  Speaker 2: in tune. She's an unusual actress.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, in the best way, in the best way. So
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  Speaker 1: this also brings up the the Emmy. I'm gonna be
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  Speaker 1: interviewing mister LeBlanc later next week. I love you some, Christian,
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  Speaker 1: so I have to ask you this before I even
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  Speaker 1: gets the nomination. He people don't understand how funny he
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  Speaker 1: is off camera. It's larious. Whenever we have a conversation,
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  Speaker 1: we're laughing most of the time. How do you work oppositely?
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  Speaker 1: We see the fittest product. It's good, But how do
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  Speaker 1: you get there? Eric? How do you get there?
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  Speaker 2: He and Dougie Davison very difficult to work with because
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  Speaker 2: your laugh all the time, right, you know you you
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  Speaker 2: come on, man, you can turn this downalg into any
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  Speaker 2: which way? Right? Yes, mostly funnyways as well. Yes, so
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  Speaker 2: it's a great schense of humor. It's very bright and uh,
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  Speaker 2: that's a good question. It's sometimes difficult get to a
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  Speaker 2: serious moment. Yes, okay, come on, said.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I love it. He's so but he's so good.
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  Speaker 1: And you both got nominated for your scenes. Uh this
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  Speaker 1: year for lead actor and I for you, Eric? What
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  Speaker 1: is this nomin I mean you've been nominated before. Obviously
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  Speaker 1: you won decades ago. You know you've won, you have one.
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  Speaker 1: But what is this?
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  Speaker 2: What is this kept out of it for decades?
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  Speaker 1: You did? You did? That's right, you did. That's true.
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  Speaker 1: That's very true. You didn't just submit. So what does
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  Speaker 1: this nomination mean for you?
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  Speaker 2: You know why I didn't submit? Right, I can't remember.
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  Speaker 1: You did tell me once. I can't remember. Tell me again.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it's not that, it's it's said. I think the
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  Speaker 2: entire voting process is incestrious, meaning the one hundred and
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  Speaker 2: fifty thousand registered actors in Hollywood, of which many who
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  Speaker 2: are not part of the subworld, would be happy to
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  Speaker 2: vote as actors on scenes done by actors they don't
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  Speaker 2: necessarily know the sub world has always been incestrious, meaning
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  Speaker 2: the souls have worked on days on gh on this,
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  Speaker 2: and that they all know each other and they have
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  Speaker 2: their favorites, and that shouldn't be the reason for voting
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  Speaker 2: for someone. I agree, you should be able to watch
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  Speaker 2: a scene objectively and say that was good, that was
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  Speaker 2: not good? Do you know what I'm saying? They need
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  Speaker 2: to with or due respect, they need to change that
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  Speaker 2: as far as I'm concerned. Nor should directors in work
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  Speaker 2: judge other directors that possible without right how can you
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  Speaker 2: be objective about that? So that has been my beef
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  Speaker 2: with I'm very honored. Obviously one always is nominated, but
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  Speaker 2: I think they need to change that m so that
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  Speaker 2: people outside the business, outside soaps vote on soaps.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, right, an actors and act as an actor. I
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  Speaker 1: don't care what it is, right, Yeah, I agree with that.
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  Speaker 1: I know it's we all because I'm part of the
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  Speaker 1: I'm part of the voting body. And one of the
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  Speaker 1: things that we always talk about is do people just
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  Speaker 1: see a name of their friend, right, go to go
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  Speaker 1: that direction? All right, that's my girl, my girl. Let
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  Speaker 1: me just let me go and do that.
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  Speaker 2: That's it. So that's human, but it is wrong as
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  Speaker 2: well as I'm concerned. No, yeah, my opinion.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, So but with you at Christian, I guess
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  Speaker 1: there always has been this father son dynamic. I mean
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  Speaker 1: I didn't really it didn't hit me until this storyline.
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  Speaker 1: How Christian couldn't quit you start to speak. Everybody jokes
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  Speaker 1: about they could, he just couldn't. But like, but you
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  Speaker 1: trusted him. Also, he was like, a, so you've view
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  Speaker 1: victor the victor view him like I thought.
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  Speaker 2: That's right. Yeah, right, So therefore it was very difficult.
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  Speaker 2: I think that scene is about when I let him go.
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  Speaker 2: I think I fired him. I tell him, you know,
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  Speaker 2: that's it, and obviously with great feelings of you know,
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  Speaker 2: I mean more so at the same time.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so yeah, it's a very good scene. It was
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  Speaker 1: a very good scene. I just I was just like, wow,
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  Speaker 1: that just but it hit me.
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  Speaker 2: Then change the scene between Peter working and Melody in
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  Speaker 2: that whatever. Yes, that's brilliant. Oh yeah, that's a damn
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  Speaker 2: good seat. They should have both won hands down, and
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  Speaker 2: the director Olin Renfrow should have won.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Period. Yeah, I mean I've been around the business long
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  Speaker 2: enough to know when I see something that's really good.
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  Speaker 2: Whoa they were both fantastic in it.
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  Speaker 1: They were well, we agree, we totally agree. And the
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  Speaker 1: pacing of soaps and how this all put together, how
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  Speaker 1: anything goes on screen that's halfway decent. I mean, so
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  Speaker 1: when you see something that's.
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  Speaker 2: Extraordinary, and Melo wasn't even nominated.
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  Speaker 1: The fact that Melody doesn't have a competitive Gemmy, she
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  Speaker 1: has a special one, she doesn't have one, it's a
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  Speaker 1: travesty of justice to me. The travesty. I mean, I know,
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  Speaker 1: I know, it's a lot that don't have them. I
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  Speaker 1: just feel like Melody has And you know this better
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  Speaker 1: than I do. It's had so many great scenes, great years,
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  Speaker 1: great moments that were extraordinary. Share that again, you know,
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  Speaker 1: she says.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I had my doubts about the whole thing,
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  Speaker 2: for one, but Matt Caine, our publishers, talked me into submitting. Yes, okay, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it is a nice, nice feeding to be nominated.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, Yeah there you go.
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  Speaker 1: Are you going?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Okay?
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  Speaker 2: With my granddaughter?
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I'm gonna ask you how she's doing. That's good,
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  Speaker 1: Get a good, get a good, I'll be that'll be fine.
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  Speaker 2: She graduated from Vanderbilt Magna coming out.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, yeah, girl, Okay, very very prop. That's that's really
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  Speaker 1: I'll be that crazy your granddaughter, Yes, I mean, it's
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  Speaker 1: just like that's just that's just it's it's amazing. It's
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  Speaker 1: amazing that family. And I know you do, I know
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  Speaker 1: your door. So that's just that's that's great. And uh
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  Speaker 1: and I'll be a fun and hopefully I'll be there too.
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  Speaker 1: I just I just you know, for you, there's so
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  Speaker 1: much respect for you and and in recent years because
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: of TikTok and all these other places, there's a large
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  Speaker 1: community of course African American. You know, we love you.
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  Speaker 1: You know that, I know you love us back. But
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  Speaker 1: it's just it's you are. The name Victor Newman, the
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  Speaker 1: name Eric Braden's circling around more in the now in
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  Speaker 1: the atmosphere again. Uh, I wouldn't know. I mean it's
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  Speaker 1: when you hear that, now, how does that make you?
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  Speaker 1: How does that make you feel?
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  Speaker 2: Very good? Very good? You know. I mean, look, as
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  Speaker 2: a conscious human being, you think about history. I've lived
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  Speaker 2: now here for all these years, and I kept on
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  Speaker 2: hearing about the dreadful crimes committed by hit during the
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: Second World War a twelve year period, and then I
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: look at American history and see hundreds of years of
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  Speaker 2: dreadful behavior towards African Americans. You have to be deaf
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  Speaker 2: and dumb not to see that, right. And then on
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  Speaker 2: an emotional level, I went boxing in the Hoover through
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  Speaker 2: gym seven year and I know you have. I took
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  Speaker 2: my son then when Christian body gust when he was
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  Speaker 2: eight years old. And I mean all those old names, Cannonball, Green,
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  Speaker 2: Henry Davis, scrap Iron, Johnson, Shotgun, I mean all these names,
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  Speaker 2: Monroe Brooks, Jimmy Jackson, James Jackson. You know, when you
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  Speaker 2: do sports, you grow close to people. And we were
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  Speaker 2: so welcome, and I loved that whole. Later on we
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  Speaker 2: went to huntery the Broadway, you know, and all the
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  Speaker 2: old fighters used to sit up on the on the
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  Speaker 2: top of the chairs and played checkers. And he came
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  Speaker 2: in and say, hey, man, how are you doing well.
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  Speaker 2: It was such a warm atmosphere and always felt so
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  Speaker 2: welcome by uh yeah, yeah, so our dad. Now, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I know, right, I now imagine that life goes on man,
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  Speaker 2: maybe five now so Henry Davis, Cannibal though they're gone
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  Speaker 2: broken and.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but how wonderful you had that experience. Yeah, that
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  Speaker 1: great you had that experience. Yeah, that's the that's.
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  Speaker 2: The people as human beings. And there's nothing more primordial
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  Speaker 2: than in the boxing game. And and and how many
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  Speaker 2: did I meet who you know, all came in with
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  Speaker 2: big dreams I'm gonna be champ, you know, And it's
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  Speaker 2: it's just all It was also so real and so
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  Speaker 2: at the same time tragic and yeah, I mean, how
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  Speaker 2: can you not, as a conscious human being fear of
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  Speaker 2: these issues? You know, it's it's wow, man, um right,
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  Speaker 2: and the ship goes on? Man, does it continues as
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  Speaker 2: we speak? Yep? I know, m hm. And it angers
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  Speaker 2: me enormously, you know, I mean, what think of you?
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: Stephen A. Smithy near the grass Tyson, Tavis Smiley, for
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  Speaker 2: I Haven's sake. I mean, bright people, fast people, bau.
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  Speaker 2: You can see the brain worked bum boom boom. And
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: Yet I told Stephen Ae not long ago, I said, brother,
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  Speaker 2: when I came here in nineteen fifty nine, you and
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  Speaker 2: I will not be sitting at the same table together.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: Nope, you wouldn't.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: No way. Now I could talk to each other exactly
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: how far we have come mm hmmm, And how many
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: people have sacrificed to get there. Yes, I remember the
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: civil rights marches. I remember Martin Luther's speech that Lincoln
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: memoriam one of the most chilling speeches ever. Ever.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree, oh yeah, easily.
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  Speaker 2: Ever, Yeah, I experience, and in that sense, we have
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  Speaker 2: come a long way, you know. Yeah, I had the
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  Speaker 2: pleasure a few days ago, a few weeks ago. Try
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: to Tavis and and Cornell West.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: I know why know those you?
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: Yes, and how that you should not even be recognized acknowledged?
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: It exists, what I mean when you think about it,
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: the progress we have made within the last well sixty years,
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: let's say, yeah, unbelievable, unbelievable. I mean, think of a
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  Speaker 2: rightness of cam Ana Harris, whatever you think of her.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: It goes on and on. Yeah. And the same thing
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: applies to women and women's rights. You know how many
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: extremely bright women there are, but God who had never
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: recognized before? Nope, And now these times want to get
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: back to what that time was. Yes, I know them,
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: I know, I agree, I do.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: I agree that.
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  Speaker 2: Well.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: One thing I want to say to you, Eric is
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: that you know I've known you about eleven years now,
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: and I want to tell you on camera that they
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: thank you so much for seeing me and seeing my
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: my talents as an interviewer. You always support me, you
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: always show up, and I want to thank you. You
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: bet get the man, Get the man. Thanks man, Eric Braydon. Folks, Uh,
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: the Emanies aren't until October, so you get a little
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: bit of time. But hopefully we'll we're seeing him there
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: and I'll be there also doing my interviews, and we'll
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: talk to him some more that night and maybe meet
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: the granddaughter. Goes he comes in, if he comes up
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: by the.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: Red carpet and see me and perhaps my son.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: Oh, Christen, Okay, not know he's busy. I know he's
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: busy a lot.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: Well, you know he did then Dental Thieves one and
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: Thieves two, roaded and directed. He is about to do
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: he's finished now with writing Dental Thieves three. Oh wow,
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: he's just finished. Now.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: They're very successful.
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: And I read this whoa man? And I think, by
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: the way, who I think both O's Jackson and Rod
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: Butler are very good actress.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: They are they.
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: Are, they really are. I must say. I watched some
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: of the films again. They're damn good. And o'sha is
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: very good. He is just whoa And you know the
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: funny thing is when I came onto the set the
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: first time, his uncle Ice Cubes brother recognized music. Amen,
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: of course. No, Hoover Street, Jim Oh, from there. He
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: would come in and Hoover was street gym. There was
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: a little area where you could sit and then you
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: could watch, you know, it goes on in the gym,
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: and he would come there.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, so you do from there from the gym?
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, I remember that. I love that. Yeah, yeah,
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: we can norm when you're cold, man, you're cold as ice,
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: and never forget.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: We love me to do what we do. We love
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: me to do it.
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: I heard we do.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: I love it. I love it. That's great, folks, Eric Brady,
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: guys you follow our social media's out there and doing stuff.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: Thank you Eric, once again, you're my friend. And everybody
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: out there, take care of yourselves.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: And and thank you for all of you for watching.
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: Oh yes, you know it means more to me and
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: do all of us than you realize. Yeah, be cool everyone,
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: Thank you. We shall win.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: Yes, yes,