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Kelli Giddish · On with Mario Interviews

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  Speaker 1: You're on with Mario Lopez's.
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  Speaker 2: Uproll Mario Lopez Ronnie right now, you know where's Detective
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  Speaker 2: Amanda Rollins from Law and Order SVU.
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  Speaker 1: Actress Kelly Giddish. How you doing, Kelly?
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  Speaker 3: I'm good And how are you?
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  Speaker 1: I'm well?
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  Speaker 2: Thank you you star on the show. That's one of
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  Speaker 2: the legendary shows. Really that's been on forever now, what
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  Speaker 2: twenty seven seasons something like that with Marishka Hargate. You
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  Speaker 2: even had a Law and Ordered trend dance that was
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  Speaker 2: that was I did it.
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  Speaker 1: I did it with the whole family. It was fun.
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  Speaker 2: And here's the thing about these Law and Order episodes.
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  Speaker 2: I find myself guilty all the time. You start watching
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  Speaker 2: one and then you get hooked, and then you go
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  Speaker 2: in or another, and before you know it, it's like
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  Speaker 2: a marathon, unintended, so addicting.
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  Speaker 3: And some people are like, well, you know, I'm watching
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  Speaker 3: it with my husband and he's seen it, but I haven't,
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  Speaker 3: so we have to keep watching it. But he's mad
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  Speaker 3: because he knows who the bad guy is, but then
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  Speaker 3: he can't remember that. It's like so when you get
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  Speaker 3: into it with your with your spouse, you're like, I've
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  Speaker 3: seen this one, Can we skip it? And he's like, no,
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  Speaker 3: absolutely not, we're watching. You have to watch the next one,
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  Speaker 3: you know, you do.
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  Speaker 1: What's what's going on with your character during the season, it's.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I mean she came back. Rowlin's had been
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  Speaker 3: bouncing around from from job to job to job, and
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  Speaker 3: then she was like, I think I need to come
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  Speaker 3: back to this for you, and Kelly Giddish was like, yes,
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  Speaker 3: yes you do. Reference. So it's you know, she's married,
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  Speaker 3: she's got three kids, she's got security, she she's grated
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  Speaker 3: her job, and you know, I think just moving through,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I think the audience really loves seeing Olivia
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  Speaker 3: and Rollins like that, that relationship, that friendship, you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's it's there's so few female friendships like that portrayed.
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  Speaker 3: That We've been together for fifteen seasons, you know, and
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  Speaker 3: it wasn't like okay, you guys are best friends, go
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  Speaker 3: it was like earned earned trust on screen off screen,
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  Speaker 3: you know, And I think all that shows up in
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  Speaker 3: each episode, you know, so we can fight and we
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  Speaker 3: can get you know, get back together. We can you know.
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  Speaker 3: It's like it's that whole thing. It's really fun to play.
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  Speaker 3: And I think the audience really responds to it.
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  Speaker 2: It absolutely shows up. And I love that you got
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  Speaker 2: my girl, Melissa McCarthy making a cameo. How much funny
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  Speaker 2: is with her on the set that she's awesome, amazing.
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  Speaker 3: That mullet and she she they came in and they
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  Speaker 3: put a full on mullet in this belt that was
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  Speaker 3: like this big on her. I was just like, yes,
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  Speaker 3: oh my god, this is great. This is great. And
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  Speaker 3: seeing Maroshka's face because she had no idea, Yeah, how
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  Speaker 3: surprised she was was really a joyable moment.
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  Speaker 1: That's awesome. And you met your husband on set.
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  Speaker 3: I did, I did, he was, he was driving me.
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  Speaker 3: He's a teamster here in New York.
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  Speaker 1: It's the best. I love that. It's a real person
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  Speaker 1: full disclosure, Kelly.
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  Speaker 2: And I got to hang in New York not too
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  Speaker 2: uh not too long ago, so it's nice to see you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yet again.
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  Speaker 2: And I love this story because he's a teamster, which
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  Speaker 2: is which is the guys who drive that's in the
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  Speaker 2: part of the team Straws Union.
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  Speaker 1: They drive you everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: And he's he's a civilian, which is uh billion, which
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  Speaker 2: is great.
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  Speaker 1: And you have three boys. Yeah, that's a lot.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it is. It's crazy. And I you know,
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  Speaker 3: I was pregnant with the third one, and my husband
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  Speaker 3: was like, you want a girl, right, And I was
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  Speaker 3: like at first, so I don't care, just as long
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  Speaker 3: as it's you know, you have two healthy children. You
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  Speaker 3: can pray boys a third one, third healthy one. And
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  Speaker 3: I was like, but honestly, I'm good with the boys.
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  Speaker 3: Like I know how they operate. I know, when you're
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  Speaker 3: in the park, they can just find a tree to
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  Speaker 3: pee on. It's a lot easier, you know, Like at
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  Speaker 3: this point, like it's it's I know what I'm doing
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  Speaker 3: with that comfortable. And I very much embrace you know,
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  Speaker 3: being a boy.
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  Speaker 2: Mom and they love their mom my boys love my
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  Speaker 2: wife to death. But yeah, you're hearing all the noises
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  Speaker 2: and all that, and it's probably Wrestlmania there all the time.
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  Speaker 1: And so yeah, wait till they get a little older
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  Speaker 1: and get a little more rambunctious. That's gonna be crazy,
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  Speaker 1: is it true.
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  Speaker 2: One of your first jobs in entertainment was on Broadway
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  Speaker 2: working with Fara Foce.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, Yeah, I was because I.
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  Speaker 3: Always thought that I would do theater. You know, I
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  Speaker 3: studied theater in undergrad and I moved to New York
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  Speaker 3: and I was like, if I can just do theater,
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  Speaker 3: maybe maybe land a commercial every now and then to
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  Speaker 3: actually pay the bills, I'll be so happy. And I
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  Speaker 3: was here for less than a year, and I was
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  Speaker 3: I got on Broadway and I.
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  Speaker 1: Was like, yes, I knew it.
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  Speaker 3: I knew I had it. I knew I could do it.
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  Speaker 3: And then I had to steal fear A Falsett's husband
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  Speaker 3: in the play, and I was like, wait, but she's
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  Speaker 3: so hot, you know. And she was an older lady,
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  Speaker 3: but I mean she's hot. She was so hot and
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  Speaker 3: so cool. And and then the play went into previews
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  Speaker 3: for a week and and then it closed before it
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  Speaker 3: had its official opening, and I was like, oh, I
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  Speaker 3: don't have it. I don't have it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, welcome to Like it was such a rollercoaster, but
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  Speaker 4: it was such an invaluable experience, you know, watching her,
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  Speaker 4: watching her come back and doing a play and seeing
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  Speaker 4: all the press that she had to do for it,
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  Speaker 4: and and all the just all all of the weight
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  Speaker 4: that it took for her to to go, you know what,
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to do a play on Broadway and all
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  Speaker 4: of you guys can just hush them outs and I'm
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  Speaker 4: going to do my thing and do it well and just.
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  Speaker 3: Watching, you know, as a twenty two year old, you know,
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  Speaker 3: seeing a woman like that go maneuver all of that,
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  Speaker 3: it was, it was a really invaluable experience.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's special, very cool. Yeah, I noticed a guitar
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  Speaker 2: behind you.
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  Speaker 3: Do you play? Yeah? Yeah, I play?
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  Speaker 1: Do you Okay?
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  Speaker 2: Not guitar, pillow, drums, and my my daughter plays guitar
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  Speaker 2: and piano. My boys piano and drums.
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  Speaker 1: But okay, you've been playing for a while.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, since I was sixteen.
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  Speaker 1: I played.
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  Speaker 3: Just I play enough to sing and just to kind
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  Speaker 3: of just just sit and play and not think. All right,
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  Speaker 3: I play enough to do that.
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  Speaker 1: You know, who do you jam out to? What do
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  Speaker 1: you like to jam out to?
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  Speaker 3: I mean I just learned different songs, like anything by
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  Speaker 3: Lucinda Williams. I can sit and play, you know, Jason Esball,
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  Speaker 3: I love Zach Bryan. You know, it's just like if
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  Speaker 3: you hear a song on the radio, You're like, I
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  Speaker 3: think I can play this eminem song on guitar. You know,
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  Speaker 3: it doesn't matter, you know, it just whatever hits you,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and changing it into it makes you hear
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  Speaker 3: a song a different way, maybe changing, changing the temple whatever.
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  Speaker 3: But you're a drummer, so you're like the cool guys.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody has to come over to your house to jam, right.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Well it's funny because I just got a new set
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  Speaker 2: too for my son, much to my wife, Sugar, and
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  Speaker 2: it's gonna be nice and loud in there.
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  Speaker 1: But it is fun.
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  Speaker 2: You can kind of jam out to like you can
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  Speaker 2: kind of make the beat or any of your any
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  Speaker 2: of the songs. You can sort of acclam.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. But my brother is seven years younger than me,
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  Speaker 3: and I remember him getting a drum set and they
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  Speaker 3: put in the basement, and I mean our house was,
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  Speaker 3: you know, three stories, but even in the very.
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  Speaker 1: Top you cause you're just like, wow, I'm so proud
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  Speaker 1: of him.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly that you're always relegated to the back or
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  Speaker 2: the bassment or something.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, poor poor drummers.
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  Speaker 3: It's so cool because everybody has to come to your house.
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  Speaker 2: That's true, can't travel with that's cool. Well, it's so
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  Speaker 2: nice to speak with you again and listen everyone. Be
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  Speaker 2: sure to catch up on season twenty seven of Law
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  Speaker 2: and Order SVU right now on Hulu and Peacock Kelly,
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  Speaker 2: thanks for checking in and nice.
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  Speaker 1: To see you again. Nice to see you too, Mario
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  Speaker 1: all right, Take care with Mario Lopez