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2023 Daytime Emmy Nominee Lead Actress Michelle Stafford · The Daytime Emmys Specials

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Oh, I'm laughing already. Folks. Welcome to the Harmony Spotlight Daytime Emmy
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Special. I'm James Longini here on Jail J Media. I'm the jail J
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Media. Now doctor really yo announced her. I mean, you know who
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she is, but I want to say this anyway, she's my friend for
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him, we go way back, but number two. As of last night,
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she is one of the twenty twenty three Daytime Emmy nominees for a Lead
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Actress in a Drama Series. Miss Michelle Stafford. Hey girl, thank you,
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Hey, how are you? I am fine? Good to see you.
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Um, I want to ask you first week, everybody's gonna know when
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where? How Like, how'd you find out? Who told you? Where'd
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you find out all of that? You'd all that? A friend of mine,
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a friend of mine who's uh in the news business in New York.
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Actually, I was on another call and she sent me a text and all
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I could see in her text was congratulations, so deserved, and she had
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an image with it, but I couldn't see the image, and I was
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just kind of I was on the phone. I was like, huh,
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and I didn't get to it. And then I looked and it had the
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all the names right, and I thought, is this like some a joke,
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like is this some sort of like like that? I didn't know what
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it was. And you know what, And that's so cool because I didn't
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know that nominations were coming out. I didn't. I didn't. I didn't
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pay attention. I don't. I don't like to pay attention to that stuff.
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But I was pretty prepared not to be nominated. I'm just based on
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Yeah. I was just pretty prepared not too and it was okay with me,
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you know. Uh. And and so it was really a really neat
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shock. Well, so here's some record. There's some numbers for you.
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Eleven nominations, two wins back in ninety seven and two thousand and four.
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And it's been ten years. Has you've been nominated? Apparently it has.
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It's been ten years. I don't has. So I know, personally,
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you don't do this for the awards. I know, you know, you
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do it because you love doing this, and it's crazy business you love doing.
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It doesn't hit you after all this time, still the business that people
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are recognizing your work. Oh yes, of course, I mean it's really
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nice. I don't know why people are nominated when they're nominated, and you
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know, because there there were some I feel oversights here and and I don't
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know, you know, like I don't know why. It's sort of a
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lucky thing. It's also lucky to get a storyline that as well, right
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to get, um, you know, something that you can really do something
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with. So I don't but it is an honor. It's really an honor.
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And I'll tell you. Another thing is that the group of women are
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all friends of mine. So um, I mean they're they're they are they're
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usually friends, but like these are I really, um, you're friends with
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like you actually are very good group, right, And I've never been I've
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never even been nominated the same year Vanila has been nominated, and that we're
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in the same category is so cool to me, you know. You know,
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it's funny because just like today I was like texting you know, Ide
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McCoy, I'm texting Christall like, oh we can go, James, your
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friends were all nominated. I'm like, they all were all they were all
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dominated like my actual friends friends you they are. Actually the action is very
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cool. It's very cool. Um. I want to mention less Arga because
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she's had an incredible year of work. Who missing yeah, oh yeah,
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amazing, amazing, amazing story, what she did with it, what she
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was so beautiful. I mean, I love I love Missy so much,
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and she's been nominated a few times. I would like her. I would
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like her to get it. I would you know, I'd like every single
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one of these women. I'd be happy, um if they got it.
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So I said, don't people know that in this business love, we are
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all friends people. It's just like we know how, we know how it
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goes, like whatever reason right, because it's not like it's not like,
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um, you know, it's a Stanley Cup playoff game where you know what
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I mean, like cours ap to throw hockey into this, but you know,
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it's not like whoever gets the most goals. But you know it's it's
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totally subjective and you know, and and really the win is being acknowledged.
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So so it'll it'll be just really fun. You're really fun. And I
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just got to say a lot of your work with Peter Bergman, who's nominated.
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Yeah, beautiful stuff, that mean, beautiful heartbreaking stuff really here ye
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oh not not me and pe No, I'm saying back. I'm saying back
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like that like last year, because because the enemies go for like a calendar
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year or so. So I was saying that, well, I mean he
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had a heartbreaking stuff with the cube stuff, but Peter and I were pretty
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well, not Peter and I, but the Jack I'm sorry, Jack.
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Yeah, I mean they were odds, but we didn't we didn't like that.
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Though we liked Jack and Phillips, we didn't like that as fans.
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We didn't like that. Oh okay, I don't I know, you don't
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pay anything like That's why I know you. So it's like it's kind of
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funny I can tell you stuff sometimes I know, I don't know, I
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know, right, Yeah, but it'll be like that. But it was
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some great and we have to lead into I really want to ask you about
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the fiftieth anniversary scenes. You're a big turtive force performance. We all loved
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it. Great work. Um. I wanted to ask you, firstly,
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how do you do you prepare any differently for big scenes like that than you
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know, I mean you work every day, like basically different. No,
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Um, I mean those scenes are definitely harder. I mean, the whole
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thing has been a real it's a it's a challenging storyline. I mean,
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what we're playing now too is really challenging, and I like it. You
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know, um, Josh, Josh is an intense storyteller, you know,
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and I like that. Uh, I know you do, I know you
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do. Yeah, so um, yeah, I prepared the same way.
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You know. I prepared the same way, but I didn't see those scenes
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a big emotion like that. Sometimes I can't watch it because I'm just too
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critical. So I hope they're all right. We love them, trust me?
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Many cool. If you guys loved them, that's all good. Yeah,
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I loved him well. I would also ask you because you are very
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involved with your kids, my buddies Jamison and Tasha are you are you are
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you learning? How are you learning? Line still? How are you doing
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that? How you involved with your kids? Oh? James, thank you,
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thank you because it's I mean, it's I mean, I'm doing homework
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with them now, and I Talia doesn't want me to do homework with her,
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but you know it's like, okay, then you're on your own.
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But I probably can't do her homework. I know it's hard, but but
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yeah, I'm doing their stuff first and then when they go to sleep,
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you know, I basically know what I'm gonna do for the next day,
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and then and then like during the day, if I'm not working that day,
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I'll run it with um. The girl who helps my assistant, I'll
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run stuff with her. So but I'll go over it mainly like after that
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they go to sleep. But yeah, it's a juggle, like all the
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time. It's a juggle. Mothers know. Parents know. It's you know,
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doing your own thing and then helping your kids. It's it's a it's
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challenging. Yeah, because I mean, I mean a lot of here.
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I love you, like I'm at us I'm at a game right now in
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the car waiting so like I'm at a play, are you right? Yeah?
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Yeah, yeah, thank you, thank you for acknowledging me. Yeah.
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Yeah, it's and their stuff comes first. And if I you know,
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like taking my daughter to her practices for volleyball, you know, I'm
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doing his homework in the car and then I'm learning my lines in the car
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waiting for her. Yeah, that's the deal. What are some things you
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have learned in the last few years in terms of motherhood about yourself? Oh,
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I don't think I could say it out loud. We're some other secondary
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and third things you can say, did you learn about your pretty? I
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mean, if we're being honest, right, it's hard work, you know,
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aren't pretty that you learned about yourself? It's been a hard time,
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man. Yeah, and the last few years are I've been challenging for every
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parent. Um you know it making everything. Yeah, with the pandemic and
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everything. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I was challenging for every parent.
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Yeah, definitely, you know, people who were working and what do they
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do with their kids? And yeah, I know. And you have a
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dog, Oh yeah, we do. You're a lovely dog. Yeah,
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is so cute though, he's so freaking cute. He's like, he's really
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one of the cutest dogs. I've had a lot of dogs. Right,
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he's so freaking cute. It makes up like, you know what, it's
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fine and they're crazy. Oh it's okay, Oh it's Mattie. Um.
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Blood hounds, like they're really they had got their own thing going on.
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So yeah, anybody who has hounds and understands like they're hard to tame,
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really I didn't know that. I really are hard to say. Oh yeah,
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right, they're they're following a scent. He's following me said following it.
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He has a job to do. He has to follow a scent.
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He's not interested in what I have to, you know, say to him,
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Yes, that makes say it makes sense that you said hound. That
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makes sense. Now, yeah, Bloodhouns were by the way, thank you,
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I would say Miss Jesse's haircare products, thank her. I miss I
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know the owner and he gives me products and Nation as we all know.
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You know what I know. I always I saw people my skin Nation or
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my face and stuff. Her products work, folks, It's not a joke.
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And I'm the sole owner. Again, I took my company over.
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I heard that. So what's going on. I remember when you first started.
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I'm like, yeah, I know, you were one of my first
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supporters. I'll never forget that. I'll never forget that. But yeah,
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I took it. I took it over again. So we're kind of going
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back to what we did before, what worked. And uh, there's a
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lot of really cool things in the store this year. And and and my
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customers, my loyal oil customers have been very very kind with me. So
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thank you. Nation Beauty dot com, Nation dot com. Yes, we're
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having a Mother's Day sale or after Mother's Day forget it, you missed it.
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You'll have more love more. Other holidays are coming, other hollides are
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coming. But yeah, nobody. So seriously, as I'm saying you do
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juggle these things, I want to ask you back to why no nor how
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are you feeling about Phillis. You're back a few years now, how are
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you feeling about Phillis? Oh? Good? Yeah, I mean yeah,
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yes, I don't have an opinion of Phillis too much, you know,
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like it's my job. Um, Phillis is hot, very high voltage,
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she's she's tight clowned. Yeah, so I have to laugh a lot at
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work. I have to laugh a lot or else, Um, it wouldn't
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be that fun, you know, like Phillis is at Mons. Then some
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people like, you know that cameo thing. I do that cameo and people
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are like you it is Phillis, And I'm like, what you want me
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to? Like scream like I don't think they even though I don't think they
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want me to, that's actually fun thing. Yeah you do, Like you're
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not You're not like Kathleen Gotta, who has a whole the voice she uses
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on a show. It's like it's you. It's just yeah, I mean
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it's me, but it's yeah, but yeah, yeah, it's good,
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folks. She said it, she said philis is crazy. Yeah, but
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we expect it from Phillis is high strong, and there are many times last
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year we're like, well, you know, Phillis isn't completely wrong, I
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said, I said, she's not completely wrong. Do we say it?
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We say some y oh, I think she's well. You know what the
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hard part is is she has that history with Diane, and Diane aggressively tried
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to, um like destroy her. In this succession of Diane, we don't
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see that so much. We see Diane just being underhanded um and Phillips growing
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insane. But but we used to see it more like when we played it
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before, you'd see Diane talking to herself about how she was going to take
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Diane down. So I think a lot of people are forgetting the history,
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you know, thank so Well, that's why you Askeley, because are reminding
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people at home. Remember she put me into I was in jail. Because
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it's like people are forgetting the whole. It's the audience really, I mean,
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to the credit of Susan asked me, and trend of the writers they've
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accepted it's not. They've accepted Diane on some level. The audience is like,
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oh yeah, she's back, And first they were like, I don't
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know, but I think that's a great thing for you guys to playoff of
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as actors. It's like, Okay, well Diane still be Diane or could
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she not? Yeah, it's fun to watch. It's fun to watch you
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guys. I mean she yeah, yeah, yeah. I know she can't
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say anything else because she's filling your head. She can't say certain things.
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Um, but I do also want to talk about I do want to talk
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about your charity work because we've covered all the other stuff because I are you
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for a short amount of time, but I just want you first personally.
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You will take time with that. I want to talk about that. I
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do because you work with people that work in my literally in my city,
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in my neighborhood in South Ban, Inglewood and all that talk. So talk
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about that, talk about well, I mean, you know Reverend fred Shaw
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because that's his branch of LACP. He's Inglewood and South Ban. Yes,
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yes, and tell people how you got involved because all people don't realize that
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you guys are You're always going to get the toys every years. How'd you
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get involved? Well, I mean I got involved because in twenty twenty when
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we were able to go back to work and everybody that I knew personally,
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most everybody was either getting laid off from their job or they were losing their
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business or uh yeah. So um, I just felt I felt guilty.
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I was working and not everybody was working, and I was going to work,
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and I thought, I gotta with all of this richness, all of
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this that I've been given the ability to go to work with our even with
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our intensive protocols, but I have to do for others, because when you're
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given so much, you must do for others. Is truly what must happen
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and what I believe how it was raised. So um, I just thought,
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who who is the best person to go to? And I'm friends with
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Reverend fred Shaw, and so I called him and I said, can you
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help me with this? He loved it, he jumped on it because he
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said, no, no, I'm going to bring people from the community into
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this, and they will tell you who needs it the most, like who's
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living in their car with their family? Like legit, who really needs Yeah,
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who really needs this? And that's how it came to be great.
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You got your friends on the show. I got, yeah, and I
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got and so I put an email out and everybody jumped at it. And
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like I was telling somebody else the other day, people were saying I wanted
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to do something for others and I just didn't know where to go. Thank
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you for doing this, and they, I mean, I'm telling you,
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they were throwing money at me. Everyone here and so and we started it.
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We went to Big Lots because we just did. I don't know,
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that's what I picked. I had some friends help and Christian helped. And
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that we were still still twenty twenty. I mean you were still you know,
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masks and the hotel. And then the next year we went to big
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Lots and then the lovely um manager at Big Lots in Culver City, California.
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Here, yes, I know that one gave us a discount so we
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were able to get more. And then this year, like it just keeps
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on getting bigger and bigger, and I always think, oh, shoot,
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it's not going to be as great as it was. I bet people aren't
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as charitable, but people are still as charitable. Um, you know,
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people are suffering still, so uh so we're happy to do it, and
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we partnered with the Salvation Army and it's you know, it's it's been,
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it's been amazing. That's why I wanted you to tell people. I sorry,
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because love people don't know want to begin. That's the problem. People
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just kind of sit out going I want to do something. But like you
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literally made a phone call. I you literally just made a phone call.
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Hey, you know yeah, And if anybody's out there thinking I want to
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do something, great, just I mean they're I mean, the Salvation Army,
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they're they're a great avenue to go to. I mean, they're right
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in the community. They know they can set something up. They're very organized
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and in fact, in twenty twenty one, the woman in Culvers in Inglewood
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who runs a Salvation Army said, you know, we didn't have enough toys
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for kids this year and then you guys came through and I just started crying.
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She said, I couldn't believe that my prayers were answered. And so
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there there there are groups that that's their job to to, you know,
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help the community. I mean the people, you know, give all their
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time to do this. So so Salvation Army, NAACP, just you know,
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call Fred Shaw in Inglewood and Dole ACP. Bill they're they're there to
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help. They want to The National Action Network, you know, those two
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groups came together to distribute toys. Yeah, and just filled with great people,
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just phenomenal people they are, and as I think, they just waiting
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for somebody to say, I want to help. Listen, they've been fighting
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the fight for many a year. Yeah, they've been fighting the fight and
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they continue to. I mean, these they're they're phenomenal, phenomenal human beings.
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Reverend Booby, Reverend Moseley at the National Action Network, Reverend Shot like,
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phenomenal humans they are, but they are but just one of those things,
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folks. It just literally if you want to do something, that's a
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place you can start. Just I mean, look at your own communities.
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Wherever you are in your own communities. There are churches, there are there.
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I mean, there's all kind of places, missions, there's people everywhere.
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Just like look it up, maybe make up like Google or something,
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or make it just make a phone call or an email or something like that.
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That's literally is that it's really that simple on some levels. And everybody's
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willing to help, you know, like, and they're willing to bring somebody
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in. So it says I want to do this. I want to help
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you know, uh, you know, it's it's the greatest thing you can
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do a girl scout. But you know what I mean, Oh no,
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I mean here's the thing. I feel the same way. I gave Way
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a lot of stars in the pandemic. I was very blessed. I didn't
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there are things I just didn't need. It's like and I'm like, I
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don't need this stuff. Let me pass it on. And people are just
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like so thankful and so great because it's a hard time out their kids.
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It's not just this is no joke. It's a hard time out their fault
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for a lot of people across the board. Um, we're in La.
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There's a lot of stuff going on here in La. So unfortunately it's a
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big city and it's a lot going on, and there are a lot of
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things. You may not see it, or you may see it and you
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go buy. You don't know what's going on. But it's if we all
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do something, it's a little something. I mean, listen, if we
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all do something, step wouldn't exist. We all do. That's that's you
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too. Um. Well, a couple of last things that I ask you
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about it just a total three it's three sixty eighty or three like that.
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Um, And we always though about this because we always mentioned it when I
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see you about social media? And so, how are you handling social media
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these days? For you? Uh? Uh uh the same way? I
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always have good What do you mean social media? Like? Who posts interactions?
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I don't feel you're you're pretty, you know, like I post my
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stuff. If you want to comment, comment, you never get too comments.
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Oh I don't. Oh, I don't care. Like it doesn't matter
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to me. If somebody says something nasty, it doesn't matter. It really
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doesn't. Like every now and then, I don't sit there and read all
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my comments because I just don't have well, I just don't. But you
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know, every now and then, I want to see what folks are saying,
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you know, I want to I want to see. I want to
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communicate to people, you know, And but I don't go through and and
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if I get something rude, you know, if it's too rude, I
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won't respond. I'll just block. But if I can think of something funny
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to say, then of course I have. Well, you know, you
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have a greater post because last time we talk about this. You had a
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great poach that you're like, You're like me, I like, if I
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could comments, My old thing is you have a right to not like the
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character of Phillips. Yeah, the right's not like so they always like you're
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right not to like it you or like meat in the role or whatever.
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You've always been very good about that. It's like it's it's it's your right.
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You're watching or you're talking. Oh, okay, I know what you're
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talking about. Um, yeah, I don't care if anybody doesn't like Phillis.
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I don't care. I one time on Twitters when they're more exactly on
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Twitter, they're like who yeah. But on Twitter, I think somebody said,
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um, there's Phillis looking like a stripper, and I actually did say
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that's in hey, excuse me, that's an insult to strippers. And then
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everybody started attacking that person. I'm like, oh, it was just you
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know, I'm just joking. You're talking back. But wait, Yes,
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when Phillis um slept with Jack and like throw through in Diane's face, which
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I actually Michelle didn't think that was a big deal. Like I'm like,
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what she was gonna keep on doing it? Anyway, right, that's fine.
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I guess I guess they got. I guess Jack was mad. It's
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all good. But uh, she I got. I got more than um,
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more than I would think people calling me a horror there, Yeah,
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you're such a horror. I'm like, okay, well wait a second,
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right, that's an insult to horse. Exactly right, but up, yeah,
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exactly yes. But but I was just like, just no, I'm
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not Phylliss. Just know you're talking to me. But I always mean it
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as a joke. I think that sometimes. Um, people think I'm I'm
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never mad. I'm never know you are. I know you are. That's
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all right. That's a great attitude, great attude about it. Oh yeah,
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I mean I got. I'm a I got enough going on with my
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crazy kids and all your beautiful crazy kids. Yeah, bray kids. I
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love them. They're so they have such personality. You both have such great
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personalities. I love they have personalities, that's for sure. They're amazing.
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They're amazing. I'm blessed to have children. Yes, I know, I
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know it's what you wanted. I'm glad you have there. They are great
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kids. I've met them both. They are great kids. Um. So
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lastly. I mean, now you gotta find a dress, suit or something.
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You gotta find something for them. I think your um, yeah,
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I gotta find a dress. That's fun. That's a fun part. This
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is fun, like it's such an honor. It's like these these are the
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jewels of life. When you're acknowledged like this and you get to go to
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a party. Ah, these are the jewels of life. Well, I'll
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be there. I'll be on the red carpet one microphone or you will,
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and we'll talk. We'll talk, of course. I'll be so excited.
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I'm picking my suits right now. I have some being sent to me.
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I might decide which. You know my date is Vanila. Oh good,
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Okay, you both have to come over and say yes, yeah, I
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love Oh that'll be great. That was fun. Oh my god, it's
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because you're right. It's a fun night, folks. We get to all
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get together see our other networks. It's gonna be so much fun. And
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a new venue folks at the Biltmore downtown and really, oh my gosh,
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that's so nice down there. Yeah. Yeah. They decides a different location
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on on ju sixteenth, so different locations, tables. I don't know.
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That's the point I don't I don't know. I don't know the inside stuff
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yet, but I know it's gonna be there, so it's not passing the
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convention. That's so beautiful there. I know it's beautiful there. So my
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knowledge that is so neat and not far from you and not far from you.
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It's like it's a good location down to LA. I know, I
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don't I La. We have to think about something like that. Not that
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bad. It's like it's like, right, well, thank you, miss
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Michelle. You know, I love you, I love you, love you,
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love you. Thank you for talking to me of course, always,
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always, always always, and watch around the young and ar wrestless folks,
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and watch out for the yummies. And I'm James Love Junior, and we'll
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see you next time. Hi,