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Bozoma Saint John · On with Mario Interviews

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  Speaker 1: On with Mario Lopez's Up with Mario Lopez joining right
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  Speaker 1: now on Zoom, businesswoman and star of the Real Housewives
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  Speaker 1: of Beverly Hills, and now the new show on Brand
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  Speaker 1: with Jimmy Fallon, Bosama, Saint John.
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  Speaker 2: How you doing, Bozema, Hey, you're so good.
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  Speaker 3: It's a big day, Mario, big big day.
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  Speaker 4: It is a big day. Congratulations on everything. You are
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  Speaker 4: firing up on all cylinders right now. You've got a
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  Speaker 4: new show called On Brand just premiered on NBC. People
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  Speaker 4: have been describing it sort of like Shark Tank meets
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  Speaker 4: The Apprentice with marketing. What is your role in the
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  Speaker 4: series and how would you describe it?
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  Speaker 3: So here's the thing.
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  Speaker 5: Jimmy Fallon had this idea a few years ago, pitched
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  Speaker 5: it to NBC. They passed on it, and then brought
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  Speaker 5: it back when they said, you know what, you kind
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  Speaker 5: of need a marketer who can legitimize the show. And
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  Speaker 5: so his wife was watching The Real Housewives of Beverly
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  Speaker 5: Hills and saw me and was like, have you thought
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  Speaker 5: about bos And of course Jimmy is like, the Housewives
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  Speaker 5: are not the kind of speed I was looking for,
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  Speaker 5: you know what I mean? But he watched the season.
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  Speaker 5: He then called me. We met up, We had a
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  Speaker 5: great time. And really my job on the show, as
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  Speaker 5: he would say, is to legitimize it, you know, put
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  Speaker 5: my twenty five years of marketing in the C suite
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  Speaker 5: to work to help to mentor all of the contestants
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  Speaker 5: and the creatives who are on the show and give
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  Speaker 5: some you know.
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  Speaker 3: Some real meat to what we're talking about. So it's
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  Speaker 3: really good. I love great time because.
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  Speaker 4: These are the kind of shows too, like you can
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  Speaker 4: watch with the family, you learn something, it's inspiring. And
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  Speaker 4: are the contestants people who specialize in marketing already or
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  Speaker 4: they're just every day people would little experience.
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  Speaker 3: Except everyday people. There's a state agent, there's a swim instructor.
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  Speaker 5: There is one marketing professor though, so you're gonna have
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  Speaker 5: to watch and see how he does.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, these are folks who it's so funny.
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  Speaker 5: It feels like it mimics my real life because all
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  Speaker 5: the years that I was in marketing, whether it was
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  Speaker 5: it Apple or Netflix or Uber or Pepsi anywhere, people
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  Speaker 5: would always be like, oh, boss, I have an idea
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  Speaker 5: for whatever company it was on. You know, they had
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  Speaker 5: a new drink idea for PEPSI. They want to pitch
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  Speaker 5: me in film. When I was at Netflix, they wanted
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  Speaker 5: to tell me how to make the rides faster. At
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  Speaker 5: Uber Like, people always had ideas. So this is like
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  Speaker 5: the perfect show to allow for people at home to watch,
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  Speaker 5: you know, hear from the brands erectly like what are
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  Speaker 5: they looking for? And then see the creatives pitch their
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  Speaker 5: creative ideas.
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  Speaker 3: And these are people just like you, you know what
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  Speaker 3: I mean.
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  Speaker 5: Great, So then you can also engage and you can
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  Speaker 5: also like think about ideas because everybody always thinks they
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  Speaker 5: have the perfect marketing idea.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm like, go for it.
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  Speaker 2: Then yeah, hey that's inspiring. No, that is great. And
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  Speaker 2: Jimmy's a great guy. Has been working with him.
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  Speaker 3: He's so great. He's so great. You know Jimmy, First
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  Speaker 3: of all, how do I even say this?
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  Speaker 5: He loved every single idea, and I would have to
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  Speaker 5: be like, Jimmy, that's a terrible idea.
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  Speaker 3: I'd be like, no, that's not going to work.
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  Speaker 5: I mean even on the Party Versus episode, the brand
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  Speaker 5: that we worked with, the Dunkin Donuts, right, and one
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  Speaker 5: of the contestants named Sabrina wonderful woman.
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  Speaker 3: Uh from uh I believe Tennessee.
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  Speaker 5: She's a real estate agent and she came up with
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  Speaker 5: an idea for their new like breakfast combo and she
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  Speaker 5: called it the Munchbox.
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  Speaker 2: I kind of like that.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not gonna lie no, no, no, Mario, no, we
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  Speaker 5: don't like no, no, no.
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  Speaker 2: I'm buying the lunch box. I'll tell you right now,
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  Speaker 2: I'm buying the munch box.
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  Speaker 3: You know what, exactly to a certain demographic.
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  Speaker 5: And but we had to, you know, I was like, hey, mature,
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  Speaker 5: let's stick to the brief.
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  Speaker 3: You know that's right.
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  Speaker 5: When Duncan asked us to give them, Jimmy could not
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  Speaker 5: stop laughing, like he was.
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  Speaker 3: Totally un serious with this whole idea. But it was.
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  Speaker 3: It was very funny, very funny moments. That's hilarious.
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  Speaker 2: That's oh, I bet it's a lot of fun. That's
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  Speaker 2: fun with.
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  Speaker 3: A that's cool. We had a good time.
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  Speaker 2: Now we did all right with all this you got
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  Speaker 2: going on?
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  Speaker 4: Are you going to be back for another season of
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  Speaker 4: Real Housewives Beverly Hills when they start production?
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  Speaker 5: Do you do you want me back on the show?
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  Speaker 5: Because I know you watched you want me back.
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  Speaker 4: I'll be honest, because my wife's an avid watch or
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  Speaker 4: she's a big fan of yours too. But I kind
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  Speaker 4: of like, you know, in passing, be catching a lot
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  Speaker 4: of it. You don't get caught up in all the drama.
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  Speaker 2: You know, just in passing while he's sitting on the
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  Speaker 2: couch with her for an hour. Yeah, right, exactly, exactly, Yes, Yes,
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  Speaker 2: I am back.
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  Speaker 3: I am back. I'm excited about it.
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  Speaker 5: It's so funny because at the last reunion, Andy was like, bo, so,
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  Speaker 5: how was your first season?
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  Speaker 3: And I was like, it was fantastic.
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  Speaker 5: I had a great time, you know, And Kyle Richards
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  Speaker 5: is like looking at me, like, what are you talking about?
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  Speaker 3: Like who nobody says they had a great time on
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  Speaker 3: this show.
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  Speaker 5: I don't understand what the problem is, you know. So
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  Speaker 5: came back for another season, and I still feel good.
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  Speaker 2: Good for you. Yeah, because because you like a tier
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  Speaker 2: above and see you know how to navigate all that.
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  Speaker 3: It's perfect, perfect Mario.
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  Speaker 5: Let me tell you something, after years in the boardroom,
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  Speaker 5: there's nothing any of these women could say or do
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  Speaker 5: it's going to rock me exactly.
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  Speaker 4: You ain't gonna get thrown exactly. And I just saw
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  Speaker 4: you announce your engage. Congratulations, thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Oh I'm trying. I'm trying O married life like you Mario.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, do you know what?
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  Speaker 4: I just think it gets better. It's a compliment right there.
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  Speaker 4: And were you surprised? Did you know what was coming?
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  Speaker 2: Or how do you popped the question?
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  Speaker 3: Well, here's the thing. We had talked about it and I.
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  Speaker 5: Knew that, you know, we both want to get married,
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  Speaker 5: but I didn't know when he would propose or how
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  Speaker 5: he would do it, and so I was very much
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  Speaker 5: surprised when he asked, and it was beautiful. You know,
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  Speaker 5: I have pretty high expectations of all all things, and
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  Speaker 5: he met my expectations and in terms of like how
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  Speaker 5: he asked, and you know how he even acquired the ring.
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  Speaker 3: He went all the way to Movebay to India. Wow
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  Speaker 3: at my ring?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, yes, because I have a special affinity for jewelry
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  Speaker 5: from India and so he went all the way.
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  Speaker 2: Dang, that's that's impressive. That's impressive.
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  Speaker 4: I like him already because you need a certain man,
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  Speaker 4: a confident man, to uh to be with a woman
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  Speaker 4: who is successful her own thing going on, and you
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  Speaker 4: know what I.
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  Speaker 3: Mean exactly, and it's not intimidated by it.
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  Speaker 2: And it's not what I'm saying. I don't even know him,
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  Speaker 2: but I already like him.
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  Speaker 4: One thing I want to talk about, because I know
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  Speaker 4: what's a priority to you, aside from all the businesses
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  Speaker 4: you run, is is our health.
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  Speaker 2: Because without our health, nothing else really matters.
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  Speaker 4: I always say, you should make that your number one priority,
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  Speaker 4: and then everything else can you can kind of spring
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  Speaker 4: board off of that. You and I are both working
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  Speaker 4: with a great company called own Health. Yeah, I'm excited
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  Speaker 4: about next step, Sarah. What what made you want to
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  Speaker 4: get involved?
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  Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, Well you're right.
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  Speaker 5: So here's the thing. And this is like the secret, right,
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  Speaker 5: which is that I was. I mean, I've been pretty
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  Speaker 5: fit my whole life. I ran track as a young
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  Speaker 5: adult and in college and whatnot. But I would say,
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  Speaker 5: for a good like let's call it twenty years, I
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  Speaker 5: didn't work out like I you know, kind of just
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  Speaker 5: like left it be whatever it was.
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  Speaker 3: I hit my forties and my body was like, girl.
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  Speaker 5: Look this is not the way to do it, you
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  Speaker 5: know what I mean, And so I had to get
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  Speaker 5: serious about it.
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  Speaker 3: So I got myself a trainer.
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  Speaker 5: I like work out six days a week, and I've
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  Speaker 5: been doing that for a good solid seven years.
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  Speaker 3: True. Now the other challenge.
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  Speaker 5: Is that you know, you can't just work out, You've
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  Speaker 5: also got to have you know, great nutrition and all
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  Speaker 5: of that. Now, the real, like next level is understanding
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  Speaker 5: what's actually going on in your body, not just that
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  Speaker 5: you're eating salads and like eating lean meats and working
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  Speaker 5: out and doing your cardio, but like what is happening
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  Speaker 5: inside of your body, and so hone Health has really
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  Speaker 5: been a game changer, you know, because they do biomarkers.
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  Speaker 5: It's like you really get into like what's happening inside
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  Speaker 5: of your body. And that's why I really want to
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  Speaker 5: work with them. So I've been enjoying it very much.
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  Speaker 2: I agree. And the same thing.
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  Speaker 4: It's funny, Bozmok because when I got into my first
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  Speaker 4: forties and now I'm on my fifties.
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  Speaker 3: Here's fifties. It's like, girls stop.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I was like at fifty fifteen in the room
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  Speaker 5: with us, cause I.
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  Speaker 2: Don't you're about to be fifty two next week.
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  Speaker 4: But you know, you get older and in my my
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  Speaker 4: health has always been a priority, but you're right to
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  Speaker 4: even be more educated and find out what's going on.
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  Speaker 4: It gives you such a confidence and you can kind
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  Speaker 4: of really take your health to the next level. So yeah,
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  Speaker 4: shout out to hone Health our buddy sad over there,
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  Speaker 4: and I'm glad to hear that. Yeah, I'm glad to
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  Speaker 4: hear you're involved right there. Well, congratulations on everything. I
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  Speaker 4: know your buddies with my girl Kerrie Champion, by the way,
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  Speaker 4: I love you.
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  Speaker 3: Oh that's my homegirl. You know, that's the bestie.
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  Speaker 2: She's a homiees.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, please send her my love if you If
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  Speaker 4: you see her right there, I bet you two are
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  Speaker 4: trouble together.
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  Speaker 2: But congratulations on all your success and everyone.
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  Speaker 4: Please be sure to catch new episodes of on Brand
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  Speaker 4: Tuesday and Friday nights on NBC, and they'll also be
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  Speaker 4: streaming on Peacock. Thank you for checking in the ford
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  Speaker 4: a senior person.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you so much, Mario, such a pleasure. Always a
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  Speaker 5: good time seeing you. Hello to your wife, please centerr
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  Speaker 5: my regards.
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  Speaker 2: All right, you got it, We'll do take care.
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  Speaker 3: See hi. Thank you. Loud with Mario Lopez