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From Broadway to Hallmark - An Exclusive Interview with Daxton Bloomquist · Girls Gone Hallmark | Hallmark Movie Reviews

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  Speaker 1: This is a bramble Jam podcast.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to Girls Gone Hallmark, a Hallmark review podcast. I'm
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  Speaker 2: Megan and I'm a longtime a Hallmark fan.
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  Speaker 3: I'm Wendy. I'm a former Hallmark hater.
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  Speaker 2: Today we are joined by a very special guest, so
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  Speaker 2: I'll introduce in just a second.
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  Speaker 5: our website.
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  Speaker 2: Today, y'all, we are joined by Daxon bloom Quiz from
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  Speaker 2: Finding Mister Christmas Gone Entirely Too Soon spoiler alert. He's
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  Speaker 2: here to talk about his experience on the reality show
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  Speaker 2: that Wendy and I are absolutely loving. Welcome to the show,
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  Speaker 2: dax Dan, Hi, how are you good? Thank you for
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  Speaker 2: being here. We have to start by asking you did
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  Speaker 2: leave the show Entirely too Soon due to an eye injury.
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  Speaker 2: We need to know how you're doing now.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I'm good, I have been. I'm in a
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  Speaker 1: really good place with it. I still have a while
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  Speaker 1: to go with my recovery, which is wild I had
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  Speaker 1: a retina attachment. I don't know if you haven't read,
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  Speaker 1: if the listeners haven't read anything yet, a retina attached.
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  Speaker 1: It happened at a very young It doesn't usually happen
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  Speaker 1: to people in their thirties, But the more I talk
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  Speaker 1: to people that it has been happening, like it's a
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  Speaker 1: weird it's this weird fluke thing that just happened to
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  Speaker 1: my eye. So I had two eye surgeries and know
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  Speaker 1: I have two more to do in twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm just kind of a waiting for my insurance
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  Speaker 1: to renew because I what, my insurance didn't cover surgeries,
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  Speaker 1: which is wild, real wild, And don't get me started
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  Speaker 1: on that. I could do a whole hour on that.
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  Speaker 1: How that because I was covered, but just didn't have
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  Speaker 1: the in surgery coverage, which is weird. And then in
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, I'll be covered under a different insurance
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  Speaker 1: and we'll have the oil in my eye that will
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  Speaker 1: be removed, and then I have to have cataract surgery,
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  Speaker 1: which is just crazy to me because of all the
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  Speaker 1: surgeries caused cataracts, and the eye drops I'm taking cause cataracts.
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  Speaker 1: So it's like here we are, We're in it to
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  Speaker 1: in it. I'm healthy, I'm happy, and I will always
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  Speaker 1: say I have the best support group ever. My family,
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  Speaker 1: my parents have been great, my friends have been great.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm in a really good place emotionally. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm getting through it.
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  Speaker 2: I mean that you're in such good spirits about it.
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  Speaker 2: But it's when you talk about recovery that entails four
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  Speaker 2: total surgery, that's wild.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was. It's you know, some days I look
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  Speaker 1: back at him like, wow, this is crazy. It's frustrating.
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  Speaker 1: I was having a blast on the show, like probably.
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  Speaker 1: I went through the strike, the actors strike here in
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  Speaker 1: LA and I was just kind of really miserable, like
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  Speaker 1: being like, what am I going to do with my life?
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  Speaker 1: Am I going to keep going in the direction of TV?
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  Speaker 1: It just seems like it's everything's really hard. And then
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  Speaker 1: I got on this show and everything got really fun again,
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  Speaker 1: and I fell in love with acting. I fell in
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  Speaker 1: love with TV again. I fell in love. I just
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  Speaker 1: I was just having the best time, and then the
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  Speaker 1: universe was like, you know, you're not ready yet. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what it was doing, but I yeah, So
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  Speaker 1: it was really sad to just not even get to
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  Speaker 1: finish out something that I was enjoying. But there's something,
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  Speaker 1: something better is coming my way. I keep telling myself,
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  Speaker 1: it has to, it has to.
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  Speaker 2: So I love that perspective. I do want to talk
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  Speaker 2: about finding mister Christmas with how you ended up on
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  Speaker 2: the show in the first place.
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  Speaker 1: I kind of alluded to a little bit that Actors
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  Speaker 1: Strike kind of put me out of work for a while,
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  Speaker 1: and I was approached to be on the show and
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  Speaker 1: was like, oh, I've always wanted to do a reality
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  Speaker 1: show and Hallmark is like gonna keep me, and like,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think Hallmark's gonna like try to make anybody
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  Speaker 1: look bad. So I was like, I'll jump in, let's
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  Speaker 1: do it. Let's do it. And you know, I would
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  Speaker 1: always love my own I would always love my own
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  Speaker 1: TV show, I love my own movie. So I was like,
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  Speaker 1: what a what a good opportunity. And I was hoping
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  Speaker 1: and that I was going to be the only gay one,
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  Speaker 1: so I had something different than the other boys, and yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and then I jumped right in. So it was it
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  Speaker 1: was that easy for me. I didn't have to do
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  Speaker 1: I haven't talked to a lot of the other boys'
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  Speaker 1: audition process, but my audition process wasn't too terrible, and
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  Speaker 1: I think it was just meant to be. I was
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  Speaker 1: supposed to be on the show.
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  Speaker 5: Were you like when they presented it to you, like,
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  Speaker 5: were you like Hallmarks do a reality show? Like what
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  Speaker 5: is that all about? And how long ago was that?
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  Speaker 1: Well? How first they didn't present it as Hallmark. It
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  Speaker 1: was just like a major network is doing a reality
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  Speaker 1: show for a for a family, like a family network
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  Speaker 1: is doing a reality show and the and you're and
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  Speaker 1: it's to win a like to win a movie or
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  Speaker 1: like to be the star in a movie, And so
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  Speaker 1: I like looked in that and that I think they
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  Speaker 1: they start vetting or the audition process. Mine was late.
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  Speaker 1: I think I was a late I think I was
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  Speaker 1: one of the last ones they brought in but February March,
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  Speaker 1: and then you have to do a lot of things.
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  Speaker 1: The things that didn't know about reality shows is they
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  Speaker 1: they do they do a heavy, heavy background check just
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  Speaker 1: to make sure you are mentally capable of this. You
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  Speaker 1: go through you know, you've talked to a therapist and
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  Speaker 1: all of that, so they really do make sure that
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  Speaker 1: you are capable to be able to handle the cameras
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  Speaker 1: because you're you're in front of a lot of cameras,
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  Speaker 1: a lot, and you can't handle that, then they don't
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  Speaker 1: want your safety or your mental health to be ruined from.
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  Speaker 5: This, sure rightly? So yeah, I mean that would be terrible.
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  Speaker 5: And and did they film this earlier this year?
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  Speaker 1: I believe they. I believe I can tell you they filmed.
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  Speaker 1: We filmed this, yeah, this year and this summer was
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  Speaker 1: or in Utah.
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  Speaker 2: That was one of my questions because as I'm watching
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  Speaker 2: the show, like we know a lot of Hallmark movies
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  Speaker 2: are filmed in the summer, and obviously people are sweating
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  Speaker 2: in their heavy coats, and so you guys are dressed
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  Speaker 2: like stars of Hallmark Christmas movies throughout, like you're in flannels,
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  Speaker 2: you're in sweaters, and I wore you a little.
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  Speaker 4: Hot outside in some of those scenes.
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  Speaker 1: What was you know? I didn't obviously I didn't get
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  Speaker 1: to do as many scenes as I wanted. The weather
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  Speaker 1: was cool, like it mean, it wasn't hot. I wouldn't.
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't say it was really sweating. I do have
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  Speaker 1: a fun a funny story. I was more hot inside
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  Speaker 1: than I was outside, like every time, like I would TMI,
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  Speaker 1: but like my first shirt in the in this in
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  Speaker 1: in episode one is like orange and you could see
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  Speaker 1: the sweat stains. So between like on lunch, if we
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  Speaker 1: got lunch, or like when they were like setting up
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  Speaker 1: for the next segment or getting ready for the game,
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  Speaker 1: I would take off my orange shirt just because I
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  Speaker 1: was like, I will not have pit stains on. That
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  Speaker 1: is not gonna be my claim to fame. Pit stains
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  Speaker 1: will not. So the house was warm, but I think
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  Speaker 1: just in general, a Christmas house would be warm.
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  Speaker 2: Like sure the buyer and all of that baking.
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  Speaker 1: Cozy inside outside felt felt good. I mean the photo shoot,
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  Speaker 1: we definitely weren't wearing weren't wearing it not much. I
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  Speaker 1: was like, I think I was the most clothed out
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  Speaker 1: of the whole group, and we were. It was fine.
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  Speaker 1: It was like perfect weather. It was like the weather
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  Speaker 1: everybody wants.
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  Speaker 2: So, now, were you a Hallmark watcher before getting this
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  Speaker 2: or were you like I had a cram all these
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  Speaker 2: Hallmark movies before so I know what I'm bringing.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, and no watch we watched a Christmas during like
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  Speaker 1: my family, it's always on. And that's a real answer.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not like giving you like a Hallmark you fake
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  Speaker 1: or we watched with my sisters. My sister's really big
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  Speaker 1: into Christmas and the Hallmark channel is always on during Christmas.
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  Speaker 1: How I like sat down and like watched a ton
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  Speaker 1: of like know which movie I was watching? Not until
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  Speaker 1: I was on the show. And then we had some
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  Speaker 1: days where I crammed. Definitely, I thought there was gonna
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  Speaker 1: be a trivia a trivia like first first episode, I
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  Speaker 1: was like ready for the challenge, but then it happened.
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  Speaker 1: I still don't know, you know, maybe maybe the trivia
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  Speaker 1: challenge will come a little later. Yeah, maybe I don't
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  Speaker 1: know anything. So I'm a little I'm in the dark
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  Speaker 1: withp with it as well.
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  Speaker 3: So I have a question.
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  Speaker 5: In that first episode, we see you in a challenge
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  Speaker 5: with Aaron Cahill, So did you not know who she
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  Speaker 5: was prior to her coming in I'll put You on
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  Speaker 5: the Spot Royalty.
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  Speaker 4: She's only in three movies right now.
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  Speaker 1: She was so fun to be, so fun to do
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  Speaker 1: a scene with. I had the best time with her.
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  Speaker 1: You know what's crazy is that like she was, she
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  Speaker 1: was a superstar. She made you feel really comfortable in
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  Speaker 1: those That's not like what they did to us in
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  Speaker 1: that first thing. A lot of those boys. I kept
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  Speaker 1: my acting. If you watched episode one, I don't talk
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  Speaker 1: about my The audience knows that I've done acting, but
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  Speaker 1: none of the boys knew anything about my history as
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  Speaker 1: an actor. I kept it quiet because I was like,
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  Speaker 1: my strategy was to slowly let them know throughout the series.
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  Speaker 1: But so when I left, none of them still new
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  Speaker 1: that I had any of any of my acting training.
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  Speaker 1: None of them knew I had been on Broadway. I
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  Speaker 1: just had been biting my tongue and so that doesn't
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  Speaker 1: When you met erin, she she was like, she made
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  Speaker 1: it you feel really comfortable. But I was like, this,
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  Speaker 1: I want to be like boys. This is not like
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  Speaker 1: we are. This is hard. Like what we did in
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  Speaker 1: that first challenge was like scary and hard. And they
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  Speaker 1: definitely they're definitely were trying to get some up. They
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  Speaker 1: were trying to get us to react like some of
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  Speaker 1: the reactions. For sure.
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  Speaker 4: I mean it was ray.
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  Speaker 5: This is one of my favorite challenges that we've seen
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  Speaker 5: so far. And hard because you are working with a
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  Speaker 5: seasoned actor and then and then your counterpart, your other
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  Speaker 5: like competitor in the scene, and I imagine, like, I'm
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  Speaker 5: not an actor, I don't know anything, so like I imagine
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  Speaker 5: it's really hard to try to make yourself be noticed
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  Speaker 5: when you're like working with two other people.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and I approached that scene well at first, I
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  Speaker 1: didn't want to be paired with Hayden. And I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if that ever made it on air, because I
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  Speaker 1: was like, I don't, like, I don't want to be
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  Speaker 1: paired with Hayden because we both have blonde hair and
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  Speaker 1: were the only two blondes. And I know he's like
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  Speaker 1: he's very charming and he's really likable, and I'm not
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  Speaker 1: scared about being charming and likable, but like the first
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  Speaker 1: the last person I wanted to be with, Like I
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  Speaker 1: wanted to outshine some of the other guys, Like I
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  Speaker 1: was like competing, like I came off I was I
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  Speaker 1: was trying to be like the villain of the season,
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  Speaker 1: let's be real, and I was ready. I was ready
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  Speaker 1: for that villain edit. And you know, I think the
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  Speaker 1: best thing that happened to me doing this whole thing
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  Speaker 1: was being paired with Hayden. I'm so grateful and I
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  Speaker 1: wanted after it took me like three minutes, and I
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  Speaker 1: think I learned a lesson being like I want us
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  Speaker 1: both to win, and he's so nice and so easy
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  Speaker 1: to work with, and we just connected so well that
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  Speaker 1: I didn't care. You know, I still think that my wrap,
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  Speaker 1: my throw around the bow and pulling her in was
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  Speaker 1: was huter than Hayden's toss behind his shoulder. But Aaron
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  Speaker 1: just was mesmerized by those blue eyes. So I can't
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  Speaker 1: I can't get mad at her, but I still think
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  Speaker 1: why throw around and pull in was way better than
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  Speaker 1: Hayden's toss. So you know, I'll and I even tell
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  Speaker 1: him that in person, so I'll come for you, Hayden.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, in terms of connecting with the actress, yeah, that
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  Speaker 2: challenge is hard because I think it goes against probably
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  Speaker 2: what you're told to do as an actor, because you
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  Speaker 2: were trying to pull focus away from the other actor
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  Speaker 2: instead of like bring everyone into this scene. And so
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  Speaker 2: uh it stressed me out as a like a watcher
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  Speaker 2: and a rule follower. I'm like, well, it's almost like
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  Speaker 2: means the wrong word, right, but it's almost like, well no,
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  Speaker 2: look at me, like forget that other guy over there.
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  Speaker 1: I think our goal going in it because I knew
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  Speaker 1: that the other boys were like me, me, me, I
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  Speaker 1: think our goal once we sat down was how do
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  Speaker 1: we make each other look good? And how do we
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  Speaker 1: make Aaron look good? So how do we look good
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  Speaker 1: as a team, and therefore the scene will look really
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  Speaker 1: good and then you know, one of us has to win.
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  Speaker 1: I swore they were going to have give a double
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  Speaker 1: win the first day, like they should have. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell I think they should have come for a
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  Speaker 1: double win. But because we worked so well as a team,
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  Speaker 1: we were so grounded. I think you can see it,
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  Speaker 1: and we were a clear win and I knew. I
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  Speaker 1: knew it watching the others because they were really nervous,
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  Speaker 1: and Hayden and I just like wanted each other to
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  Speaker 1: do well, and we wanted Aaron to do well. And
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  Speaker 1: she's beautiful and she was so easy in such a
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  Speaker 1: good sport. We also were probably the most seasoned actors
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  Speaker 1: in that at that time on the show, so we
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  Speaker 1: both have had a lot of acting experience and I
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  Speaker 1: think that helped.
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  Speaker 4: A lot well.
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  Speaker 5: Speaking of your experience, you did briefly mentioned a little
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  Speaker 5: bit earlier about your time on Broadway. I mean, we
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  Speaker 5: hear a lot on the show. Elijah has experience in Hamilton,
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  Speaker 5: but you yourself have some experience. You want to tell
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  Speaker 5: our listener, where is what what your resume is like?
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  Speaker 1: So I was in the I was in the Book
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  Speaker 1: of Mormon on Broadway. I booked it when I was
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  Speaker 1: twenty four, and then I worked I think the last
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  Speaker 1: show I did I was thirty. I'm pretty sure it
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  Speaker 1: gets a little melty in there the last couple of years.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, So I booked the as a I booked
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  Speaker 1: with the original cast. I wasn't an original cast member.
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  Speaker 1: I came in about a year later and worked with
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  Speaker 1: nine ninety five percent of the original cast on Broadway.
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  Speaker 1: Then I went on tour and played Elder McKinley, and
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  Speaker 1: then I went back to Broadway to understudy Elder McKinley.
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  Speaker 1: So I went back and forth on the Broadway and
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  Speaker 1: national tour circuit of the show. So I had a
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  Speaker 1: lot of experience in terms of that show and just
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  Speaker 1: a lot of stage time. That was all I did
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  Speaker 1: in my twenties was that show, and so I I
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  Speaker 1: put a lot of like I was started as a
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  Speaker 1: swing So a lot of just being thrown into something
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  Speaker 1: like is like makes you ready for like competition shows galore,
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  Speaker 1: Because just being thrown in and just being like all right,
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  Speaker 1: I got to figure it out and I'll make it work,
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  Speaker 1: and I'll be stressed, but I'll make it work. So
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  Speaker 1: I think Mormon was a big reason why I did
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  Speaker 1: such a good job in like how quickly I could
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  Speaker 1: be thrown into something. And then yeah, and then I
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  Speaker 1: didn't tell the cat. I didn't tell the boys because
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  Speaker 1: I wanted Elijah like it's kind of like he that
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  Speaker 1: was his thing, and I was like, let him have
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  Speaker 1: his thing for a little bit. I'll pop into this.
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  Speaker 4: You were going for that villain edit, I was.
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  Speaker 1: I was trying so hard. I was trying so hard.
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  Speaker 1: I was like I was biting my tongue, you know,
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  Speaker 1: because you hear it and you're like, oh, but I
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  Speaker 1: want to tell everybody I was, and I was like,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna be patient, Ia, be patient. But Hamilton is
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  Speaker 1: a huge feet as well. We both were in really
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  Speaker 1: big shows and really cool and I just I had
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  Speaker 1: my I had my little things I wanted to do,
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  Speaker 1: and I was hold onto my Broadway. I'm very proud
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  Speaker 1: of it, so I'll just like, we'll just hold on
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  Speaker 1: to it for a little bit. I wanted the talent show.
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  Speaker 1: I wanted I had a really fun so.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, well, yeah, it would have been amazing.
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  Speaker 2: You mentioned the villain edit without naming any names. Were
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  Speaker 2: you or were you not surprised by who? We think
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  Speaker 2: they very clearly gave someone a villain edit in the
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  Speaker 2: first several episodes.
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  Speaker 4: Did that surprise you at all?
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  Speaker 2: Watching the way it played out on screen.
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to find my my my hallmark answer. I
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  Speaker 1: think I think he should lean into it. And I
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  Speaker 1: think we always need a villain I think I think
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  Speaker 1: that's you know, like all all press is good press,
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  Speaker 1: and if you're getting if you're getting a villain edit,
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  Speaker 1: lean into it. That would be my advice to him.
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  Speaker 1: And if you were to ever come and ask me
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  Speaker 1: what hey, or if any of the boys came and
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  Speaker 1: asked me, how do I approach my edits or this
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  Speaker 1: or that? Because it's reality TV show, you're gonna get
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  Speaker 1: edited in ways you don't know, like, and that's just
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  Speaker 1: kind of going into it. I watch a lot of
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  Speaker 1: reality shows and I don't think they've done I think
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: I think, yes, sure they have, have they villainized or
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: made him? Sure? But lean into it. That would be
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: what I would want to tell him, or if he
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: asks me how he would do it? I would lean
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: into it because the villain gets a lot of talk.
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: You know, people are.
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: Talking absolutely you hear it.
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: And whether they like you or not, that doesn't matter.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: We always need a villain in every movie. There's got
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: to be a villain. And if you can, absolutely, if
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: you can become that, that's there. You go work that
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: way like working. He's a sweetheart though he is the
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: biggest sweetheart, the biggest heart. But sometimes you just portrayed.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: And I don't think Hallmark's doing on purpose. Is just
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: there's it's it's villain light, yea, but you need every
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: show needs a villain like.
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: It, especially a reality show.
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: And I met these boys and they're also sweet. The
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: first day I met him. We we literally met in
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: the house the first day and and I I start
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: was like, oh my god, they're all so nice. How
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: how can I like be like I'll be the sassy
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: little villain.
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: Okay, it's so funny that that was your intention having
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: seen the show, because you just come off as just
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: like this.
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: Good guy like you. You never good guy at it.
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: It'll never boy at some boy, and it never worked.
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: Speaking of your persona on the show, one of the
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: most touching moments of the very first episode is you
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: come right out you identify as a member of.
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: The LGB two Q community.
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: You and Jonathan have this lovely moment that brought me
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: to tears. How important was it for you to get
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: that out in front early in the show.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: Well, I didn't want to. I didn't want to be
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: the second one to figure come out on care there's
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: my villain side. I just wanted I wanted to be
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: the first one to be like, hey, this is what
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: I am. I didn't want I feel like I feel
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: like my whole life, it's as an actor, you get
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: scared to let somebody know you're gay because you're they
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: you know, your sex appeal might go down, or this
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: might go down, or this might go down, or you
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: might not get work because you're gay. And I was.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: I've lived for thirty some years now fearing that of
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: like I'm out to my friends. I've like, I'm not
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: ashamed of who I am. But there's there's a sense
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: of relief when I finally got to like come out
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: in front of on a camera, where like now you
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: can google me and I'm there's no secret about it,
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: Like I don't have to be like Oh, like, it's
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: just who I am, and if I lose work because
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: of it, that's just the choice I made. And it's scary,
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: and I think that having somebody, like getting to tell
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: somebody the host, also being an out gay guy who
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: plays straight roles as well, telling him that felt safe
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: and it is emotional because it is scary. And then
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: having a group of guys that you don't know. I
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: don't know him that well, but it felt like very
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: supportive group made me feel really good and kind of
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: made that little five year old Daxon who has always
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: just want to be weird and goofy, to just like
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: be okay with it, and it was really freeing, Like
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: that moment was probably one of the most free moments
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: of my life. And I'll remember that forever, truly.
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: That's lovely, really lovely.
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: We're rooting for a second season of Finding Mister Christmas.
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: We think it's such an enjoyable show, and like Megan says,
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: we both watch a lot of reality TV, and when
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: somebody goes home early, like unexpectedly, you're always rooting that
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: they'll get their redemption, that they'll get asked back for
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: the next season. Is that something you would entertain if
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: you were asked back for a second season.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: I'd entertain it. I wanna I entertain it that I
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: would also entertain and like, uh, you know, give give
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: me my own reality series. Yeah, I'm like, give Hayden
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: and I reality series. The Bromance of twenty twenty four.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: I really want to continue. I would do it in
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: a heartbeat. Hallmark has been It's been really fun to
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: be on it. I'm sure there has been no talk
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: of a season two. I don't know anything about a
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: season two. I'm always throwing ideas out there to to
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: to any to Jonavan, anybody, just being like to be
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: like because you know, we become friends with all of
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: these boys and like very close, which is really special.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: And yeah, I would love I would love to be
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: part of a Hallmark situation in twenty twenty five. I
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: don't know what that will be. If that is season two,
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: I'll jump into it. If that comes in as a
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: guest on season two, I jump into it. But yeah,
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: i'd compete again, but I think the boys will come
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: at a little bit more.
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: Oh that's always my biggest criticism about a reality show
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: that does well, because then like you the next season
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: of contestants come.
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: In, they're like prepared.
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: You know, one wants to be the villain, one wants
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: to be this, one wants to be that. So like,
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: the first season is always the best in my opinion.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: Well yeah, and they don't know because none of we
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: had no clue. And I think, you know, the first season,
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: everybody's trying to, like even the the creators are trying
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: to work out things that they're like, oh it works,
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: Oh this works, Let's keep going. And I think that yeah,
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: a season two would it will be more interesting to
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: watch as well, just because everyone will kind of know
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: how to play the game. And I kind of came
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: in watching a lot of reality shows, so I kind
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: of knew how to play the game. And I really
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: want to just try to get my romance with Hayden
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: movement and grooving.
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: The opportunity is there. It's absolutely there. Like we've seen
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: tons of like duo who meet each other on reality
• 23:02
  Speaker 5: TV shows like go Off and do things together.
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: So I mean, yeah, proc I just.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: Believe what I love about this show and what I
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: love about these boys in general, was the straight gay
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: relationships I had, The straight gay relationship I have right now,
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: I think was really important. And I think showing that
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: like straight men and gay men can be best friends
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: and it's not a it's it's not something that's weird
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: or frowned upon or people think this or that. And
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: I felt really weird growing up, like not weird growing up.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: I just sometimes you're like, I don't want them to
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: think I'm hitting on them, or if I am hitting
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: on them, I want them to know it's just a joke,
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: like you know, so it's just And the not feeling
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: comfortable around nine straight guys was really really cool and
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: made me feel even more confident in myself.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: You've mentioned your romance with fellow finding mister Christmas R.
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: Hayden.
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: I love noing that, like we saw you guys forming
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: a friendship on screen, and I love knowing that it's
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: genuine and it extends.
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: Beyond the show.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: You two have started your own podcast, Blondie' Out Loud,
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: which has two episodes out as of the recording of
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: this episode. I was listening to episode two this morning
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: walking the Dog and y'all are a good time. That
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: podcast is high energy. It's fun to see you guys
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: play off of each other. I laughed out loud and
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: you tease Hayden about his blue contact lens.
• 24:32
  Speaker 6: What.
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah, well, we're still we're.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: Still trying to find a voice in it, and we're
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: having fun. And I think what I just talked about,
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: the bromance is really cool and we just want to
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: continue to show that because in the show, that relationship
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: is real. I wish they could show I wish they
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: The edits were kind of short, but I wish they
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: could have showed more of us, of that friendship. But
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: you know, there's nine other guys, but it's real. It's
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: really kind of cool. How the I mean, I'm in
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: a text thread with all of them. Oh, it's called
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: the Bros. So they there's probably ten text messages already today,
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: Like it is NonStop and everyone texts. It's on silent.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: But I love them all.
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: It's so fun.
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: That's so amazing.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: I read Let's go about ten times a day.
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: That's so funny.
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: Because I recently said in a recap episode it might
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: have been episode three after you Were Gone, I was like,
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: the number of times the word bro.
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: Is said in this episode.
• 25:38
  Speaker 5: I was like, it needs to be a drinking games
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: out of control.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: I could probably count over one thousand.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: Today I always we said they need like you're too
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: young for this, but like a pop up style video
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: like bro.
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: Count over the episode in Hallmark Plus, they.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: Truly do no, no, no, they truly need to broken
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: that verbic. I you know, I guess Hayden and I
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: laugh about it because he says my like in the
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: gay community will be like girl, come on girl, like
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: it's like so funny. And I was like, He's like
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: I Hayden's like, I've said girl more than I've ever
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: said in my life to people, and let's go to
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: everybody in my life. It's just like what did we
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: do to each other?
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: I'm like, that is amazing. That is so funny. You
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: guys should make it.
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: You guys should do a YouTube channel like you guys
• 26:32
  Speaker 5: should be making videos of you do you do you guys?
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: Do you guys live together? Like do you had?
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: And I, yeah, no, we don't live together. He lives
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: he lives in La So we yeah, we have a
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: we Our podcast is on YouTube as well, so this's.
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: Oh nice, Okay, we're good.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: We're we're like, we're learning a lot. We It is
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: a as you guys know, podcasting is hot is like
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: not hard, but it's way more difficult than it seems like.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: It seems so simple and easy, but there's a lot
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: that goes into it, and we're we're having fun doing
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: it and we like showing our friendship and that's where
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: we're not here to. We don't talk about the show
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: on it. We want to talk about our friendship and
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: how just something fun and stupid and silly because we
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: both are fun, silly blondies that met on a fun
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: reality show.
• 27:25
  Speaker 5: So well, you both are so likable too, and that's
• 27:27
  Speaker 5: what the draw is. That's what's going to draw on audience,
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: is that you guys are so likable and they want
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: to like know more about you guys and your friendship
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: and like, you know, all the stuff that you guys
• 27:36
  Speaker 5: are into, so like that's so fun, so kind of
• 27:39
  Speaker 5: forget it's something special.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: When we met on set, Like there was days where
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: like I think there's like one morning I was like,
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: we should find new friends. Truly, I think that's one
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: of our funniest jokes. Like I was like, we should
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: probably find new friends because they're gonna get tired of
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: this story.
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, no, oh my gosh.
• 28:03
  Speaker 5: Could you imagine if you stayed and then like, what
• 28:05
  Speaker 5: did you guys had this fringship in and what if
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: it came down to the final two where both of
• 28:09
  Speaker 5: you like that would have been a bonkers of a series.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: You know we I think we were. I don't know
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: if they they might have gone in an edit, but
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: before I left, it didn't probably really matter, but I
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: think we were like I think there's times where we're like,
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: let's be the final two. Let's be like we were.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: I was playing reality I was playing reality show. These
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: scrape boys had no no, they had no chance with
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: me things ahead of time before, like just because I've
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: watched reality shows. They didn't tell me anything. I just
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: was like they were just they always we all laugh
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: about it, being like Dax was like nine steps ahead
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: of all of us.
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: I was like, yeah, like you're out here playing chess.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: I knew the assignment. I was like, yes, are you
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: all trying to make your Christmas gifts? Pretty like let's
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: They're like, what are you doing here?
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: Smart? Do you have a favorite reality show that you
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: love that like inspired you.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: I was getting a lot of RuPaul's drag race with
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: finding Christmas with like this many challenging name challenge. So
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: I kind of was like, somebody likes you know, Rupuls
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: drag Race. I love. I think it's great. I think
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: it represents a community that wasn't didn't have a lot
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: of light on it for a long, long long time,
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: and it's so fun and and really opens your opens
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: the world to a whole new genre of types of people.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: And they're really just human beings like the rest, like
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: we're all human beings, but like they're they're just this
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: like group of LGBTQ plus people that also celebrate life
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: and have fun and it's all about joy and being
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: silly and creative. So I love that show. And then
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: I've fallen in love with Traders. That's yes, I'm trying
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: find me. I want to be a villain. You'd be
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: such a good villain on there because people trust like
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: they trust me. But we all know I said it
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: here first. I can't be that mean, I could ever
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: be that mean. I just want a little villainy.
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: You would be amazing on that show.
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so you've got the podcast. I know you have
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: big dreams for next year. Is there something that's coming
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: up next that you can tell us about.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: I will be doing Jersey Boys again in Phoenix for
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: like three and a half months this winter, so I'm
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: just kind of sitting around chilling until that show. I
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: did Jersey Boys right before I came, right before we
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: did press, so I went from I went from finding
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: Mister Christmas to eye injury to two big surgeries for
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: my summer, and then went into Jersey Boys and into
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: press and then they announced the show. So I've been
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: kind of busy doing stuff for the show.
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: Well, and when you're in a show, I mean you're
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: doing there's no downtime. I mean it's eight shows a
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: week and you're just living that show life full time.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And not to be like dramatic or anything, but
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: this last I hadn't done theater in five years. I
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: was really focusing on developing projects and being in projects
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: on especially for camera, and this audition came around when
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: I was in my first recovery for Bob Gaudio, which
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: was an Italian and I was like, I've turned it
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: down Jersey Boys like nine times, and I was like,
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: you know what, I have nothing to do. I'm in
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: Kansas for like two weeks so with my mom, and
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm just gonna put it on tape, get
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: a callback, and like I'm just like kinda whatever, and
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: then I book it and booked the show the day
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: that I went in for my second surgery. So I
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: think the show is just a gift to have give
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: me something to look forward to for the U for
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: the next recovery, because it's a long recovery. The recovery
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: is not cute. It's that you can't see, you have
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: to keep your head down, you can't exercise. It just yeah,
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: it was just so I think Jersey Boys saved me
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: in terms of like my morale and trying to in
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: getting back on theater, my first love. And it was
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: a really hard role. So it kind of took my
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: not but a very involved role. I wouldn't say it
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: was like difficult, but with a lot of with a
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: lot of lines and a lot of dialogue, and so
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: it took my mind off of like this annoying stuff
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: that I was going through. And then yeah and now
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: and then I did press and here I am. I'm
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: just waiting to have another surgery and do Bob Gaudio again.
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: So I've already done it once. I'm ready to I'm
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: ready to tackle it again. I guess unless a movie
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: comes my way in the next two months, but we'll see.
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're crossing our fingers for that. Well, we have
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: loved talking to you. Tell our listeners where they can
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: find you.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: You can find me on Instagram Dex bloom Quist at
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: Dax Smoomquist or TikTok at Dax smoom Quist. Those are
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: that's my bigger my two biggest things I'm on And
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: that's about it.
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: And as your plan currently to drop the podcast weekly,
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: do you think you'll continue while you're doing Jersey Boys.
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is so fun. We're using riverside. We were
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: trying to figure out we have a really cool space
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: we're recording in that was I have friends that have
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: just have cool spaces to let us record and while
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: I'm away, we'll record on riverside. So this is really cool.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: This is a cool learning experience for me. I can't
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: like call Hayden right after and be like, oh my god,
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: it's so easy. But yeah, so we're going to plan
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: on weekly. We told ourselves let's do eight weeks. Let's
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: see how we feel after eight weeks and if we
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: want to keep going, if we get people that really
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: like it, we still having fun. The goal is to
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: have fun. Like I think, yeah, after dealing with this,
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: this really crazy eye situation, my life perspective is enjoy it.
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: It can go like that so quick, and I with it.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: I zerox Like I had no clue that this was
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: going to happen. And so I'm you know, I'm dealing
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: with medical medical bills that you know that I'm trying
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: to cover, and I'm dealing with all this and I'd
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: rather just enjoy my life. So I'm like, this is
• 34:31
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  Speaker 1: in general is fun. So I'm just trying to focus
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  Speaker 1: on having fun and hopefully the rest of the universe
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  Speaker 1: and trying to keep smiling and keep a good perspective
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  Speaker 1: on everything because you don't know, we don't know how
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  Speaker 1: long we got so we get good. Well.
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  Speaker 2: I do think that's a common threat in what you're
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  Speaker 2: doing here, the idea of joy the person oh and
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  Speaker 6: Goodbye.
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  Speaker 4: Bye