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Why IS JLJ Media NOT at the Daytime Emmys..Again. · The Daytime Emmys Specials

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Hello. I am James Lott Junior. This is Daytime Today and the Daytime
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Emmy Specials. Here on jail J Media Special Special say that five times fast.
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Uh Here on jail J Media. I'm I'm James A. Lot Jnr.
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And I feel the need to clear the air and answer some questions that
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people are having and talk about in general. Why once again myself and jail
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J Media will not be at the Daytime Emmy's this Friday. I am not
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happy. You probably saw my tweet that I put out, but I'm going
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to talk about everything good bad. I'm going to bring it to the table
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here in this video from you. So you guys have a full understanding at
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least where I'm coming from, where I'm at, and what this experience is
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for me. So I want to start, and I actually have notes,
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folks. So I actually sat down. I said, I want to I'm
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taking this seriously, and I was like, what am I going to say?
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I want to make sure I say these points and say what I want
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to say in here. But holl a, everybody, welcome to everything.
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I want to thank all the fans over the years who have enjoyed all of
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my Emmy related videos. You guys enjoy our show that we do every year
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with my co host Jerry Waggett, Welcome Wagsdale and Kennis Mack. Lucasia Lyon
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was a former co host. Also, you guys enjoyed all of the every
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time you come together and talk about the Emmys stuff. I also want to
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thank you for all the support all year long I do. I do all
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of the so hopes just about daytime American soaps, and I do it every
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do it weekly. I have my co hosts Tammy Ovay and Amanda Russ Frank
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Ran. I appreciate them and I've been doing it for almost ten years now.
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And interviews, all the interviews, all the all the the actors and
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writers and producers and people in this business who have been so kind to me.
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Who who know that I love this industry, that I love the daytime
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world. I've been watching Daytime since I was like ten years old. I'm
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fifty five years old now. It's a long time. And I've been in
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this business almost ten years, this part of business, but in entertainment for
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seventeen. It was eighteen years and I started from scratch and worked very hard
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and to make moves up. I was to buy a TV at one point,
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got nice a leg up there, worked very hard over there, and
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then when the pandemic hit and they closed down, really focused on jail j
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media here and the content for you at home. So when the Emmys are
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a part of that content for me as part of what the fans like,
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I like seeing my fellow actors and colleagues on the red carpet. And so
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when I am denied, which now has happened twice in a row, it
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is very discerning for me because I was always able to go before, and
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so I don't know how the system has changed. We're going to get into
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that. We're going to get into that. I'm also an Emmy voter,
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emy judge, so I did some voting for these were these awards for several
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sets of the awards, like I did last year. I just became a
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voter a couple of years ago. The Emmy is the highest I don't can
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get. Whether it's the daytime Emmy, Regional Ammy prodect doesn't matter. It's
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the highest I don't even get in television in television related projects. I love
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it. My experience with the Emmy so far prior to these two years has
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your fullest culture has been wonderful. First time out eight nine years ago I
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applied and boom now as my soloist. Now we've gone as after a TV
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before, but as a as a as my own company got approved. I
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know many PR people in the business. They're very kindly. Let me have
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whoever whatever artists I would light any, tell it, I want it.
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I got great footage, great and I put it out there for the fans
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seem to love it our style. The first year I did it by myself,
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which is not easy to do because it was just me at the time.
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And then I uh, in twenty twenty two, I like the last
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time I did it, I did it with Tammy Govea. We had a
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great time. What it's like at the I means it's it's not easy work.
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All red carpets are chaos on some level, right Uh. But if
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those who are done red carpets know that. For me, you know,
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you're squished together, everybody's just you know, everybody's in lie. You're squished
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together. You have no idea how long you're going to have somebody. You
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can have them for thirty seconds, for three minutes, you have no idea,
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but you have to just be ready on the fly, be there.
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You have people talking in your ear next to you on both sides, so
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you try to tune them out. Stay focused, make sure you ask the
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right questions. A surely you don't look dumb, makes you you look good.
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Make sure you're not covering. There's a lot going on when you do
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red carpets. It's it's one of the hardest of the hosting gigs. I
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think you can do during this sitting here talking to you or interviewing somebody sitting
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down somewhere, and that one want to view this is this is on the
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fly. You're there. They could be pulled away an eight second. People
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behind you go on like this and like this and wrap it up, and
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it's a lot of work. But to me, but it's it's long.
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It's a long day. And one of the things I appreciate is that when
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a lot of there are many of us who are long timers who have gone
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every year, it's like our chance because we're busy during the year. We're
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when weally talk to you, but we're busy doing our jobs covering the soaps.
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It's fun to get together in person. Are all dressed up. Many
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of us are all next to each other. I look at daytalk convidential,
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like on one side Dan call and said and subs. On the other side.
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Some days is down the street kind of so us to me, like
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we're all, you know, buzzcastling. A bunch of us there there every
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year, and it's so much fun to see them and talk to them and
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just kind of get through it all and cheer each other on and and it
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it really is. It's a lot of fun and likes. It's a long
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day. Your feet hurt. There were years it was outside, of course
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in May and June where it's hot in Los Angeles. Last week it was
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inside, thinking you thank God, who is different? But you're still You're
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standing all day. You're trying to keep the lookout. Who do you want?
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Who do It's just it's a lot of work, but it's fun and
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I've enjoyed it and I appreciate it again. Full disclosure. I've had access
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to everybody. I've never been restricted. There's no one says James can't have
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this person. I've been very fortunate and I try to get I mean I
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get up to like forty or fifty interviews per time I go, and then
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I listed them, I put them, I put them all together, put
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them out and so for me, that's a chunk of like, you know,
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little revenue for me also because it goes on YouTube, and you know,
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you talk monetize on YouTube, so just like you get monetized and they're
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free for you, but when you watch them, I make money off of
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the same with audio. Just they're just on step moodifying stuff. All the
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downloads and spins. You just jeninate some money. So they're they're so they're
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they're nice little money bumps. Also every year for all of us who post
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and are monetized, uh out there. And if you're not monetized, it's
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also great cause the first care years I wasn't. It was great just to
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have the exposure you get. You get new followers, new subscribers, and
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I mean it's like people like, oh who is this I as you know,
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they come for the actor or actress that they like you. They'll stay
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had the channel and it's like cover so many of the soap world in a
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daytime world, you get a wide variety. It's funny to see your friends
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something you know they're nominated. It's good to see them, so you get
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to meet for the first time. Uh So, it's wonderful. Just it's
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like the the I mean, it's like the super Bowl for us. It's
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like it's it's like it's just it's the big, big, big thing,
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you know. Once a year COVID. When COVID hit full disclosure, they
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cut the carpet really small because of COVID protocols. And I remember I inquired.
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I didn't get I didn't make it on there, but I didn't get
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upset. So I'll make sure I'm very clear. I think I'm saying.
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I was like, I kind of understand, and apart of me was a
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little nervous coming back anyway, because I was like I because I think I
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don't think I had gotten COVID yet at that point, and I was trying
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not to get it. I got it later anyway, but I was trying
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not to and I and I and so. But they were so sweet about
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it. The people who are I can't I can't fully remember top of my
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head. I think it is different pr handling it than before. I think
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I'm not sure, but the system was, you know, it was Sorry
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James, you know, we know who you are, We're gonna try to
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get you in next year for sure, which they did. Actually the next
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year I got in. There was no issue whatsoever. But it was just
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like I understood at that time that there was cold protocols, and I wasn't
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super hurt that I didn't go again. I was a little scared still.
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I was like, I was kind of trying to figure this out. But
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they did get back to you in the next year. I was there because
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of our relationship with each other. They knew who I was, I knew
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who I knew who they are. It was very it was very they were
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very good customer service. Now. One of the things because we always ask
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us this every single year, like when do you find out you're going?
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That's to me the flaw and the plan. And I used to I used
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to run events. I did it for twenty years. So I used to
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run events, have big events in all events, getaways, whatever. I
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used to run them, so I know how to run event. I'm also
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professional organizer of fifteen years and how to organized stuff. So when I make
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these comments, they're coming from my experience and just you know, just and
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all that. I feel like there is a disconnect when it comes to press.
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Anybody press watching this will probably agree with me. A lot of times
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we don't find out until like a week out if we're approved or not.
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Now they give us plenty of time to Again, can't count the fiftieth because
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that was a rush job. That was something totally different. We'll talk about
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that in the second two. That's something totally different. It was a time
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on. Timing was off. But for the others and for this, it's
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like usually I don't fight. You don't fight until week or so far if
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you're going or two weeks. And to me, so they say it's two
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weeks, it's still to me. For the press who don't live in Los
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Angeles, you're trying to book flights, hotels. It's expensive, you're trying
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to you know, you're trying to put these budgets together, and you're waiting
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and waiting and waiting and waiting to hear. I think that's not good.
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I think we need more. We need more time, even for us in
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La just I mean it's like, well, do you go get an outfit
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and get kind of have it ready just in case you have your people take
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their time off. Because some folks actually have able their jobs. They don't
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do this full time. Do I have them take off from their job just
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in case? But then ever it doesn't happen like I mean, there's a
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lot. It just it feels like we should know a little before that.
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But that's just one little pet peeve. I don't have mine, and probably
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many others who do this that. I mean, they ask us to apply
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way in advance, so I just feel like, wait, you're body a
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couple of weeks or a week to apply, and then just now the problem
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has been the last couple of years I have not gotten the notification to apply.
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So I don't know if it's a glitch in the system or if they
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have a flawed system. And I'm the only person. There's several of us
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I get who have been actually at the Emmys the year before or have been
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many times are not getting the notifications. What I'm realizing because I'm an Emmy
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judge, I get it's a different department. It looks like so today time,
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So I get I'm on that list for everything, every announcement that has
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to do with the overall stuff for voting, all stuff. I mean,
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it's very comprehensive. I get every thing for that, but from the PR
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people, it's a separate thing for the Emmys that's coming directly from the daytime
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Emmy from maatas this is I think, you know, it's kind of from
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the agency that does this. I think it's a flaw in the system.
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So the last two, so the fiftieth actually the one before that, I
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didn't get any thing. So last I say, three years I didn't get
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I have wonderful colleagues who look out for me, who have forwarded the emails
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to me. But even so, my colleagues didn't get them last year this
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year, and I had to ford to them so they have a chance.
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So I used a flaw and I used to us to do email blasts and
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things. I just feel like it shouldn't be a list like previous attendees and
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just send out to them that the option to apply. I just say,
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I feel like there should be a better a little better system, or something's
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going on there now. And I'll tell you what happened to me last year
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and this year when it came to that. So last year I applied and
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I was applied right away. It comes usually it's really early. I applied
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right away, ye ot the way. And I remember last year I was
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a would apply and also apply for my co hosts and of course I'll let
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you know who could you come or up? This year there was no section
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for co hosts or a crew just it was for yourself. So that was
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kind of weird, but but it was. It looked like a similar sign
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up sheet online. So he so last year it was because it was a
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rush shot. We had those the strikes ended. They're doing the fifty of
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this really quick, like okay, this is happening, is happening. But
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again never got an email, thanks to my colleagues who sent me one.
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I applied this year, same thing, Thanks to my colleagues, I got
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one. I applied early on again early and then set it off. Okay,
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I'm like kind of got some outfits kind of together, like looking at
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some outfits and I do want to do with my hair, and I was
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hair. I talked to them, my co hosts, okay, once I'll
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take the day officer just in case whatever, like whatever. So we're just
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kind of like trying to figure that out, talking to others of course,
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and they're getting their crews together and we're all kind of kind of to well,
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we don't know when we'll be you know, well, we'll know,
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well last week because the EBIs are this week, they're Friday, and asked
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me, Thursday Friday is when people start, I guess finding out. So
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for me, for for that, we'll start with we'll start with last year.
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So I'm talking, I'm trying to keep it keep hopefully you're following your
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following. So we gonna start with last year. I applied, I got
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denied, and I was very shocked because I had never been denied before in
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terms of you know, not kind of that COVID year, but in terms
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of applying, I always got it. I'm a regular. I'm like,
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it's kind of weird. And I found out that other people who have round
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less than I have, who I sent the emails to, they got approved,
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Like they're doing one show. They got approved. They're newer. I
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do I cover everything and I don't get approved, and and so I so
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I first I was upset, if I was really always upset trying to gather
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information from other people who got approved. They're like, you're not improved.
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They were just like excited. They're like James or your approved are you're proved?
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Like no, I'm not approved. Totally upset. I was pissed,
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but I had to put my big boy pants. I say, okay,
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well let's ask them what's going on because this is a sound right. So
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I sent an email, think like a day later or so, and I'm
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like and I say, Hi, I don't maybe maybe you don't know who
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I am, but I'm jailj Media. You know, we cover all the
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soaps. I've been in the namis before. I'm an Emmy judge, you
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know all this stuff because last year were to keep in mind you also,
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they were doing four Emmy shows in a road They're trying to catch up.
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There's Children and Family, Creative Arts, and Daytime. And I literally voted
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for you know in the in the Children and Family Emmys, and and voting
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I'm like, I literally I was like, I'm want to I want to
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go and see who like who what I Let's see what happened. Now people
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will say, well, I should go as a guest. It costs money
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to go as a guest, and the money is not in my budget.
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I don't have. It's a little expensive in my taste, so to go
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as a guest. But I don't want to go as a guest anybody,
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but I want to go as a guest for the creative arts or their children's
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family. But for the daytime, I really want to be there inter viewing
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people. So I get to email that was denied. So then I decided
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to reply to that email and I said all that when I said to you,
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I told you guys, and I was really respect I t me respectful,
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like maybe it's a glitch or something set it in, don't hear anything.
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But then I hear, like the day before before that, I'm approved.
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So no explanation, no I'm sorry or anything. It was just like,
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you are approved. So I took it as obviously they made a mistake
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and it just happened. It happened, I don't know, make mistake and
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they corrected it, of course corrected. They were like, oops, no,
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James, you can go. But at this point I was like,
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but are my is my co hosts? Because I don't want to do it
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again by myself. I did myself on It's a lot of work to work
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the camera and go over it's a lot of work. It's easier when you
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have at least one of the persons with you. Then you can switch back
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and forth, think and keep it. Look, it's just it's a lot
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of work. Trust me, anybody in the red carpert knows exactly what I'm
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talking about, especially if you're doing video and audio. I'm not just doing
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audio. I'm doing video. Since we framed right and get right in there,
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it means this whole thing. So they course corrected it. I was
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like, okay, and then but I asked the question again, asked me
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something. What I said, are my is my crew? And I said
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their names as I applied for them, Are they are? They approved?
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No response, no response. So I made decision that night, the night
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before. I mean, I'm not doing it by myself. I'm about myself.
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That's a lot of work. And I and I and I'm not.
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I have nobody's approved. I I'm not getting any answers if anybody's approved.
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So I can't even bring in someone else because they're very strict as the Emmys.
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You have to go check in, they check your ID. There's a
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whole process. It's not like I just bring some I say, well,
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I'll bring somebody anyway. It's not the old days anymore. You have to
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literally have to like be invited to the Emmys to be at the red carpet.
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It's not you just can't just walk in. So and I didn't want
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to say Tammy, let's go, or a man that goes had to fly.
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But I was like, Tammy was here or Frank, you know,
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let's go. And then they get turned away, they get all dressed up,
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get there, and I'm like, I'm not doing all that. I
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don't live near where they have the awarshawm in Los Angeles, the Travee.
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I live like twenty five miles away. So I was gonna do it.
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So I just said near mind and I sat out, But I appreciated the
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course correct, But I was always kind of curious back in my mind still,
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how did I get denied? But I'm thinking it's a one time thing
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that happens. Totally happens, well, like the next day and day of
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or whatever. Hammy sends me a text, be goes. I got approved,
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I guess, like I mean, but she was on her way to
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her regular job that was outside Los Angeles. She was she thought she was
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told she wasn't faible and they and they, you know, we taped earlier
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for the East Coast broadcast later, so you know, it's like like we
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tape at night and just say, okay, well see you tonight. He's
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daring to get me there and you get to be there acad daytime, morning,
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late morning, he leave afternoon. It was all strewed up. So
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I tried to write it kind of off as it is, Oh, this
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has been this is kind of a quick rest. They're trying to kind of
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put this together, and it's kind of you know, a whole thing.
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Next year'll be normal. So now we're in twenty twenty four. I again
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did not get an email. A colleague sent it to me. I fill
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it out, set it in. No, we wait, so I get
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so, here's what's so funny? So I get an email about publicists walk
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through like a couple of weeks ago. I was like, okay, I'm
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not a publishist, but I'm thinking it could be. I couldn't tell was
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from the the Emmy daytime ammys why not or the Emmy or the or the
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PR people who are running the Emmys. But I thought, oh, it
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was glad they sent out to very sent out to everybody, or sent out
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to me by accent. I mean I need even paid attention. Kind of
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I was like, oh, that's kind of weird. I went by business.
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I lost email from them, so our business, Well that's going to
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figure into I. Now. I wish I didn't know this. I probably
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should have tried to say something that I had no idea this was going to
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happen. Is this is an unprecedented Well, now I get this email last
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week, I'm approved as a publicist. Like, I'm not a publicist.
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There must be some mistake. I didn't apply for be a publicist. I
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applied for press. That's what I've been doing for I feel like, say,
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hundreds of years, but you know, for years. Before I can
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even even begin to respond and say Hi, there's a mix up a few
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hours later because I was I wasn't home, so I was I was doing
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other stuff and I was like, when I get home, I'll handle it.
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If I do that another person. I won't say names right now.
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I'm not going to do that because the name, the names aren't important for
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you guys anyway, Just that someone higher up and the PR part of this
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emails me, not the person who sent out the original one, but emails
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me separately themselves as like Hi, James, nice to meet you. I'm
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sorry, but you are actually un I think you are. You actually are.
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We're denying actually a publicist, uh thing, because we know we know
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who you are. You're jail j media. You're not a publicist. And
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so I'm reading, going, oh, well, yeah, they already caught
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that, so it must be some kind of glitch. They caught that before
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I even saying that, like again, thinking their course career, this is
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great. Then it says and I'm sorry, but we're able to approve you
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for the daytime for the red carpet this year. Hope to see you next
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year, you know, my I or whatever. I'm like, So wait
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a minute, So I'm not approved period. There's like several ceremonies this beginnding.
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I'm not approved for none of it. So now I so I'm hot
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as fish grease. I am pissed because now I'm seeing what it feels like
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a weird pattern. That's twice in a row. I've now been denied.
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I said, yes, day course corrected before, but I never got to
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answer why. But I was denied the first time, and now I'm being
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denied a second time. This is feeling weird. So I start so people
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start to get you know, people are finding out they' approved or like or
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not approved. Couple folks were not approved, and I understand why. Actually
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I get why they weren't approve compared to others because they already told it's a
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space issue. So I don't know what space, how big the spaces or
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whatever. But some folks who do less than I do actually got approved,
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not meaning in work, but just that in coverage, like some of them
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covering one show only or two shows, or they only cover certain things where
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I'm covering all of the day time talk shows, whatever, neighbors everybody,
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and so I stuff like to my colleagues, I'm like, what's going on
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there? And they're like, I got approved And they're like, I got
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approved, and no I didn't. I didn't. So I noticed a pattern
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that that I would talked to every single person who got approved. But for
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the compeople I talk to, there are long timers like me, and they
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got approved. So we're like, well who else? I mean, I
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feel like the souper world isn't that big? Tell you like that people are
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screaming down the door for it. You know, to me, there are
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the usual suspects because they've been there longer than I have. That's like a
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Michael Fairman Michael Fairman TV, and so I would digest. I figured,
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of course they're gonna be there, of course, and so our digest.
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I don't know if they do. I don't think they do video and do
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audio, but I'm not sure. But the whole point is, I figure
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those are two outlets right there that I count a couple others, and I'm
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thinking, after them, it should be me. That's not ego talking,
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It's just thinking. It's share volume and how long I've been in the business
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and what I cover. Then next I think would be me in terms of
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the coverage you know, sub Central of course, and there there. They've
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been longer longer than I have, but cats been longer than I have.
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So I'm like, yeah, so they should be there. But then I
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should be one of the ones too, I'm thinking. And so I'm like,
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okay, I need to ask some questions because I wrote back and I
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was like, Hi, nice to meet you. Yeah, there's some pits.
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I I don't know how did that happen. I didn't apply for publicist.
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I'm not a publicist, I said, I am press, you know,
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I'm just I'm impressed. I'm like so, I'm like surprised, and
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I'm like, you know, and I'm like, yeah, we don't know
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how. We're curious how that happened to you. They're curious. I'm like,
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okay, you guys, so to me, it's telling this organization happening.
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So they don't know, but it's just like we'll see you next year.
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Still, it's kind of like, I'm like, wait a minute,
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no, I need to know what's going on. But I took a beat
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because I was pissed. I was upset, So eventually I did send an
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email basically saying, Hi, you know, I've never been denied before like
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this before except last year I've denied but it was corrected. This year,
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I'm being denied. I just want to know why I'm being denied, because
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you know, I'm an Emmy judge. I cover all I cover all fours,
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so I cover all the shows basically in the categories. We're doing it
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for years here in Los Angeles. I'm just kind of curious because now I'm
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afraid to apply next year, and now I'm connecting last year and this year
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now together. At first, I thought it was a separate incident. Now
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I'm connecting both of them going. But there's something going on where I keep
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getting denied initially, so now I want to know because I don't want to
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keep doing this every year, and I keep being denied like that's not that's
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I mean, there's no answer. Don't want to tell me any answers.
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So I answered, I said, I said, any any questions, any
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answers you can give me would be great. As of this recording, I
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have not gotten a straight answer to why I was. I keep getting denied.
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Just happened to about people who who are going had to downsize their their
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crews. So again their told us judicize, but they haven't even told me
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that. I haven't gotten any confirmation or anything. It's been days now.
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I haven't got anything that says, hey, James, here's the deal.
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You know, I'm still waiting for. I'm like some kind of you know
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thing. But meanwhile I'm not invited, and I and it just it really
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angers me because I don't really know what's going on there, and I'm and
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I'm like, am I not seen as a credible network? Am I not
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being seen as incredible outlet? You know? What's going on? There and
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I'd like to know. I mean, I just just tell me, what
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do you think? I like to know? You know, not like my
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style or I mean, I don't know you think my numbers are not big?
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I mean, I just want to I'm curious to what it is because
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a glitch happens every once in a while, but it can't be glitching every
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single time just to me. I mean, like that's I mean, like
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it's and I'm try not to take it personally, like personalize it so heavily,
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but it is personal on some level. It's like, well, and
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you're not answering me back. You had no problem telling me that I'm denied
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right away and all this stuff, but you're not answering back with an answer
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that is concrete. This is why we this is why you were denied.
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And I'm sorry. I'm not going to buy a space issue. It needs
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it needs to be it's bes to something more than that, because I want
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to know who's going. I want to know who's there that they feel is
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more important than me. Like I just think a few people that I think
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are they have earned their like me, earned their place, and I've been
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doing it longer than I have and and the and there's and there's petch to
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go. But I just kind of want to know other than that, why
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am I not regarded the same. And it goes into this business. It's
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funny in it's so world again. I worked from scratch. I came out
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of nowhere right in my late forties, I don't know. And then I
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got attached with after Bust TV and at a foreigner hoster. There, I
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made a name for myself. I created shows and all the kind of stuff
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there and really worked my way through the soap world. You know, a
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lot of my a lot of my fan base, and people who even are
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casual people who know who I am know that I'm into the soaps. I
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like one of the soap guys. So I just am I'm here in Los
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Angeles, I'm here involved. I do a lot of interviewing, I mean
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year round, not producing interviews and TV shows and recap shows. And I've
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been involved in some really high profile interviews and high proo. And there are
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times when I don't get the recognition I think I feel I deserve. But
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but I've had to learn. I have my fan base, and they're good
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as long as they're happy. Then I have to I will stick with that.
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I've never been a sober and I just I've done some big, huge
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interviews. I've done some big thing, never been featured in there. I've
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once been Industry Awards, never been featured in some of these magazines, but
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I haven't featured in others. I mean, I've been People Magazine, I've
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been Forest been a few of those. But the soap world is not checking
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for me. Other best said, but I have some good friends who are
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colleagues that have been great with me over the years and good time. But
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I just feel like this. I sometimes I feel like I'm pushed down and
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I see and I see people getting interviews that I should be getting. Also
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that I don't seem to get access to either, and that happens that that's
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just not the daytime, that's just in period in the soap world. And
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I'm just trying to figure out what more do I need to do to be
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able to get so I can I can, you know, get on the
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level because I keep doing this to get some of the respects I feel I
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deserve because I did do old fashioned hard work. I know the soaps,
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you know, inside and out. I respect the soaps. I respect the
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actors and some producers and writers. I try to do very good in depth
32:04
interviews. I tried to do fun interviews. I know my style isn't for
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everybody, and that's fine. I mean my style. I'm not here to
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please everybody, but for a lot of people, my style is fine.
32:15
And at the Emmys, I always come. I always win like best dressed,
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I always come. I come dressed down, my hair is together,
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my said, suit jackets are ready. I'm always come to the Emmys ready
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because I respect them, because I, like I said, it's like the
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highest honor you can get, and for me it's a it's an honor to
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be on the red carpet and talk to the stars in their magical moments.
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I was highly disappointed in how things are being handled, and I demand answers.
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Of course, I don't know if I ever get them or not.
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But this, but this, I'm just letting you know, as of this
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recording and as I put this out j Media, myself will not be there
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again, not my choice, will not be there. And you know we're
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still gonna do our special, our Daytime Emmys Winner special. Stay tuned for
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the date. I talked to my co host, Well, we're gonna do
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that, so stay tuned for the date of that. I'll be after the
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Emmies, of course, so it won't be an inside information for me,
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but we'll be talking about just at least the winners and how you feel about
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that on the show. But we're gonna do that because the fans love it
33:20
and we love you, so we're gonna do that. But I have to
33:23
tell you, I'm highly disappointed and how I've been treated the last few years
33:28
at the Emmys, and I you know, I'm trying to keep my head
33:32
up and say it's at the end of the world that you know, life,
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life will go on. Obviously, life's going to go on, but
33:40
it sucks because you do you like you feel like you do. You do
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good work, you try to be a good person, you try to be
33:47
really friendly, and there are things about this part of the TV business.
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I still feel like I'm still fighting after ten to seventeen years, I'm still
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fighting it. And I feel like some others are getting bigger opportunities than I
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am. And I could start saying things like is it race, isn't my
34:06
color is because I'm fat? Is you know what is it? You're like
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my deep voice, I mean what I mean, But you know, I
34:12
can start pulling those things out, but I'm trying not to because I have
34:17
gotten some great opportunities within this business also based on my talent. So I
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but I but it makes you feel all kinds of ways because you know how
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history can work. It's issue is not normal. It's not normal industry.
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It isn't we know that, and that's why we're in it because we're not
34:34
normally either. It's you know, we're we're crazy. Also, I get
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it, but I am very I am deeply sorry for the fans, my
34:40
lotties, the fans who like my shows, who love seeing the interviews,
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and you have to you have to go elsewhere to find the interviews if they
34:51
get them. But I'm I'm sad because I like bringing stuff to you.
34:53
I like to serve my public and that just and it just makes me sad
34:57
that I can't be there on one of the hottest days of the year.
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It means taught me like it's the it's it's the Emmys. So I think
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I'll end it here. My My last thing will be I think that this
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press process needs an overhaul and needs to be seriously looked at. The Veny
35:24
processes be looked at it. He needs to be a little more transparent,
35:28
like what's going on here? And again, I'm ending this up. I'm
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ending this show. At least I explained to you my feelings. I'm just
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I'm not happy at all. So that's the deal. I'm James Lodt Jr.
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And I will see you on the interwebs and I will talk to you
35:47
next time.