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Joey Graziadei · On with Mario Interviews

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  Speaker 1: You're on with Mario Lopez.
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  Speaker 2: What's up, you're on with Mario Lopez.
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  Speaker 3: Joining me right now, reality TV star and actor, Joey Graziati.
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  Speaker 1: How you doing, Joey? I'm doing good, man. Good to
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  Speaker 1: talk to you today. How have you been?
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  Speaker 2: I'm well, thank you for asking.
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  Speaker 3: Congrats, you got a new holiday movie coming to the
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  Speaker 3: Roku channel called The Holiday Spark.
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  Speaker 2: You're playing a firefighter. Tell me about it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, man, it was such a fun new role to
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  Speaker 4: jump into. It's exactly what you expect. It's your feel-good
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  Speaker 4: holiday movie. There's just something about it that I think
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  Speaker 4: fits the holidays.
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  Speaker 1: It's warm. It's inviting.
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  Speaker 4: But on top of it, too, it just was super,
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  Speaker 4: super fun to get into acting, to try something new.
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  Speaker 4: And I think my fans will like to see me
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  Speaker 4: in this role because there is some familiarity with being
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  Speaker 4: on The Bachelor.
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  Speaker 1: Being in a romance role. So I'm really excited for
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  Speaker 1: everyone to see it.
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  Speaker 2: This is your first foray into acting really on this level, right?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I got lucky enough to get asked to go
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  Speaker 4: and play myself on 9-1-1.
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  Speaker 1: So I had my first scripted experience, but I played.
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  Speaker 4: Joey the Bachelor, which really wasn't anything other than just
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  Speaker 4: hitting lines. This is my first time really jumping into
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  Speaker 4: a role, thinking through.
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  Speaker 1: What Dean would do in his day to day and
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  Speaker 1: how to really attack it. So it was new. It
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  Speaker 1: was exciting. It was honestly just so much fun.
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  Speaker 2: Good for you, man. Good for you.
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  Speaker 3: And you mentioned The Bachelorette, which I believe came before
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  Speaker 3: The Bachelor, right?
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: So The Bachelorette was first, and then you were in
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  Speaker 3: The Bachelor season 28, and you're actually engaged to the
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  Speaker 3: girl you picked on the show, right, Kelsey?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, we are very much together and looking forward to
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  Speaker 4: getting married early next year.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, good.
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  Speaker 2: Well, congratulations. You're still hanging in there. All right.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Going into that show, did you think, you know what,
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  Speaker 3: I really want to find a wife or I'm just
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  Speaker 3: going to have fun with it and kind of see
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  Speaker 3: what happens.
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  Speaker 1: I was in, I'd say somewhere in the happy medium.
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  Speaker 4: I understood that the show was a great opportunity to
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  Speaker 4: meet someone, especially after coming off the bachelorette.
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  Speaker 1: I got to feel and see that it really can work.
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  Speaker 4: But then on top of it, it was something that was,
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  Speaker 4: you know, scary to jump in and know that there
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  Speaker 4: was going to be a show that would bring in
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  Speaker 4: all these different women and you would hope that you
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  Speaker 4: would connect with one of them.
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  Speaker 1: So I think I was in the medium of like, being.
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  Speaker 4: Realistic that I'm going to make sure that if I
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  Speaker 4: do commit to this and get down on one knee
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  Speaker 4: and get engaged with someone, it would be for real.
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  Speaker 4: And it would be someone that could see myself spending
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  Speaker 4: the rest of my life with. Um, but I also
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  Speaker 4: was hopeful that I was going to find someone like
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  Speaker 4: that and truly just, I can't speak enough about how
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  Speaker 4: amazing Kelsey was through that experience and how she shaped
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  Speaker 4: it for me and gave me the opportunity to really
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  Speaker 4: let my guard down and be open to meeting someone.
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  Speaker 4: I felt like I was ready, but looking back on
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  Speaker 4: it now, I don't know how it would have went if.
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  Speaker 1: She wasn't there.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think I would have been able to connect
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  Speaker 4: with anyone in that same way. And I'm just so
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  Speaker 4: lucky that was the way that we got to meet
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  Speaker 4: each other because we wouldn't have known each other otherwise.
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  Speaker 2: That's right. It all worked out. There are no rules
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  Speaker 2: when it comes to love.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 3: You're also in the next season of The Traders, which
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  Speaker 3: is going to premiere in early 2027.
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  Speaker 2: That show trips me out. I don't think I could
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  Speaker 2: do it. How was it trying to figure out who
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  Speaker 2: the traders were?
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  Speaker 4: It is such a really tough experience to go on
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  Speaker 4: that show. I can't let you know if I'm a
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  Speaker 4: traitor or faithful, that's going to have to come with time.
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  Speaker 4: But all I can say is the cast was amazing.
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  Speaker 4: It was such a fun experience to be able to
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  Speaker 4: go on a show like that and see what it's like,
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  Speaker 4: because yeah, it's one of those things you usually watch
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  Speaker 4: from your couch at home.
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  Speaker 1: You're like, Oh, I could do this. Oh, I could
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  Speaker 1: do that. But until you're in that castle, you have
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  Speaker 1: no idea how it's going to go.
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  Speaker 4: And I think it's going to be an amazing season.
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  Speaker 4: I hope people follow along because that's going to be
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  Speaker 4: a really fun journey as well.
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  Speaker 2: All right. We'll have to check you out in that, man.
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  Speaker 2: Good for you. Congrats on everything.
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  Speaker 3: And listen, everyone, be sure to catch Joey in the
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  Speaker 3: Holiday Spark on the Roku channel starting November 2nd.
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  Speaker 2: Joey, thanks for checking in, man.
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  Speaker 1: Good to talk to you, Mario. Appreciate you. All right, brother.
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  Speaker 2: Take care.