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One on One: Hannah Leigh · I Am All In with Scott Patterson

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  Speaker 1: I Am all In.
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  Speaker 2: I Am all In with Scott Patterson an iHeartRadio podcast.
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  Speaker 1: Hey Everybody, Scott Patterson, I Am all In Podcast one
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  Speaker 1: eleven productions, iHeartRadio, I Heart Media, iHeart Podcasts. One on
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  Speaker 1: one Interview, Season seven, Episode three, and we have very
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  Speaker 1: special guest. Hannah Lee appeared as Charlotte Courtwright, the little
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  Speaker 1: girl that answered the door in the very first scene
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  Speaker 1: for one episode. You only did the one episode show.
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  Speaker 1: It was one of the young girls Emily was mentoring
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  Speaker 1: for Katillion. Let's talk about her bio a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: She's an actress's a singer, well, let's get into that too.
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  Speaker 1: Featured on Swat, Body of Proof, mad Men, Bones Lone
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  Speaker 1: Star Without a Tray's Kicking It, and more recent in
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  Speaker 1: the Sex Lives of College Girls. Hannah is also an
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  Speaker 1: indie pomp singer songwriter with music available on all streaming platforms.
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  Speaker 1: That's exciting. So let's talk about Hannah. How you got
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  Speaker 1: the role on Gilmore Girls and welcome to the show.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you. This is like such a treat.
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't believe it when I got the Invice is
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  Speaker 2: so fun. I love reliving the days of Gilmore Girls.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm stoked how I got the role. It was
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  Speaker 2: the classic, Like Jamiwdowsky was the casting director at the
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  Speaker 2: time for my episode, and I think the whole show,
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  Speaker 2: and I just remember it was a really positive experience.
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  Speaker 2: You never know what you're going to get as a
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  Speaker 2: condector in the room, and it was the classic. I
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  Speaker 2: think pre read in two callbacks, and she was such
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  Speaker 2: a light and I remember feeling really comfy and the
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  Speaker 2: casting process was pretty easy. It was nice.
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  Speaker 1: How old were you at the time, ten.
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  Speaker 2: Eleven, ten or eleven?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, what's that like being so young and being involved
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  Speaker 1: in the business at that level?
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  Speaker 2: I could write a thesis on that question. I love
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  Speaker 2: to keep it short for you. I think I started
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  Speaker 2: in the industry at the age of four. My first
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  Speaker 2: was four years old, so I didn't have tangible memory
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  Speaker 2: of not being an actor. So by the time I
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  Speaker 2: got to Gilmore Girls, it had been six years of
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  Speaker 2: my life, of my very developmental life. So it was
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  Speaker 2: just something I was so used to doing that it
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  Speaker 2: didn't feel like anything abnormal, which I think a lot
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  Speaker 2: of other child actors might have a different take or
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  Speaker 2: maybe the same, but to me, it was all I knew,
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  Speaker 2: So it was. It was just kind of like the
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  Speaker 2: life I had.
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  Speaker 1: Right fit like a glove, all natural. There you go,
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  Speaker 1: this is what I do. It's not a big deal.
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  Speaker 1: I've always done it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, exactly and that other things. But yeah, for
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  Speaker 2: me at the time, it was just another another day,
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  Speaker 2: another audition.
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  Speaker 1: Were you a fan of the show before you auditioned?
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  Speaker 2: I didn't watch it. I was I think maybe on
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  Speaker 2: the lower age end as far as like understanding the
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  Speaker 2: amazing intelligent comedy. But my mom and my sister were
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  Speaker 2: like stoked about that girl. My mom was like over
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  Speaker 2: the moon, and I actually recently just started binging gol
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  Speaker 2: my girl's blued or not? And I'm like, where has
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  Speaker 2: this been all my life? I can't believe it took
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  Speaker 2: me so long too. Wow.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so now you're on the set with Kellie
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  Speaker 1: Bishop ed Herman. Did they offer any kind of sage advice?
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  Speaker 1: What would they like?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? I remember feeling so welcomed in a way that
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  Speaker 2: maybe it hadn't clicked before on a set because I
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  Speaker 2: felt included in a professional and kind way, and I
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  Speaker 2: didn't feel like I was treated like a little kid
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  Speaker 2: for maybe the first time. I remember that feeling really special,
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  Speaker 2: like I was just as respected as everybody else on
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  Speaker 2: that set, and Lauren in particular, she gave me a
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  Speaker 2: lot of comfort on those days. I mean, the dialogue
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  Speaker 2: is crazy, the pace is crazy on that show, and
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  Speaker 2: I don't think I had done anything like it. And
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  Speaker 2: I remember that on one of the days, I was
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  Speaker 2: given like a new paragraph of dialogue, like at lunch
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  Speaker 2: or something, and I couldn't It wasn't happening for my brain,
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  Speaker 2: Like it was not happening. It was a big paragraph.
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  Speaker 2: And I remember Lauren pulled me aside and she was
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  Speaker 2: like all of us on set like trip up on
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  Speaker 2: these this dialogue, like it is crazy fast, You're not alone.
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  Speaker 2: And I just remember feeling so comforted by all of
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  Speaker 2: them about the type of show. But it was it
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  Speaker 2: was a positive experience.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, she was great like that with guest stars. She
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  Speaker 1: always made them feel welcome and comfortable help them. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's nice to see because not everybody, not every number
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  Speaker 1: one is like that.
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  Speaker 2: No, not at all, but yeah, she was.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, she was great at that. So did you after
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  Speaker 1: you filmed the episodes? Your parents like you watch it? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: there is some content in there that's a little racing.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I don't think I think even my own
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  Speaker 2: like in my own scenes, Like there's a line where, uh,
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  Speaker 2: I think Laura makes a joke about if I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to have a drink and if I'm driving home that night,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm like, like, Laura, I'm only ten. I don't
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  Speaker 2: even think I understood what I was saying. Like, I
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  Speaker 2: think my parents knew that watching it wasn't going to
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  Speaker 2: be anything because I just there yet. I was like, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I watched it.
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  Speaker 1: It was it was cute, right right right. I thought
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  Speaker 1: it was very funny that that was really funny.
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  Speaker 2: It was a good one. It was fun.
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  Speaker 1: It was such a great scene.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Uh uh So, really, what was it like growing up
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  Speaker 1: as a child actor? How were you different from other kids?
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  Speaker 1: Did you feel different from other kids? Did they treat
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  Speaker 1: you differently?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it was a weird kind of balance
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  Speaker 2: because on one end of the of the stick, you
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  Speaker 2: got like the kids who were so excited to be
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  Speaker 2: your friend because you were on Disney Channel and you
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  Speaker 2: were like someone that they could watch on their television.
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  Speaker 2: And on the other end, there was like that kind
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  Speaker 2: of isolated feeling of nobody is experiencing what I'm experiencing
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  Speaker 2: in my day to day life, but I'm being celebrated
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  Speaker 2: for it, but I don't know where the real aspect
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  Speaker 2: of that comes along. Is like being an outcast and
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  Speaker 2: having friends. I also, like, didn't go to school. I
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  Speaker 2: was homeschool because of acting, so I found a lot
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  Speaker 2: of I found a lot of my friendships, like in dance,
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  Speaker 2: because I grew up dancing as well. And actually, a
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  Speaker 2: very fun fact, a lot of the little extras on
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  Speaker 2: this episode were from my dance studio, and I didn't
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  Speaker 2: know that they were hired as extras until I got
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  Speaker 2: on set that day and we were kind of like,
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  Speaker 2: why are you here? Why are you here?
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  Speaker 1: Like to make you feel comfortable going on?
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  Speaker 2: Sure, But I had actually just started at that dance studio,
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  Speaker 2: so I didn't really know all of them, so it
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  Speaker 2: was kind of this, like why does Hannah have lines?
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  Speaker 2: Like what's going on?
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  Speaker 1: Right? Right right, right right?
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  Speaker 2: But they're some of my best friends to this day.
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  Speaker 3: Still.
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  Speaker 1: That's great, Yeah, that's great. So you're also a singer songwriter? Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's interesting. I'm a songwriter. I wouldn't call myself a
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  Speaker 1: singer by any stretch of the imagination, but I've been
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  Speaker 1: writing songs my whole life. Who are your influencing I.
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  Speaker 2: Would say like current day influences are like the paper Kites,
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  Speaker 2: Passenger Boy, Genius. Older influences I just grew up on
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  Speaker 2: like sixpence on the Richer, Johnny Mitchell Taylor, James Taylor.
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  Speaker 2: But I am definitely driven by the singer songwriter, more
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  Speaker 2: folk side of me. I think I just grew up
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  Speaker 2: that way. As I'm kind of coming into my own
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  Speaker 2: as an adult, I'm definitely exploring pop as a genre
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  Speaker 2: as well. It's fun, it makes me happy at shows
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  Speaker 2: to play, So I'm kind of melding those two worlds.
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  Speaker 1: Right now, are you? Are you writing a lot of
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  Speaker 1: pop songs?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm I'm about to release my second EP this
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  Speaker 2: year really kind of it's le leaning into that more
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  Speaker 2: pop rock. I have a couple of those classic singer
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  Speaker 2: songwriter acoustic things on the EP, just because that's where
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  Speaker 2: I feel so at home. But I'm excited to like
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  Speaker 2: explore the stuff that's like fun to me.
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  Speaker 1: Right right, That's that's great. Are you Are you signed
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  Speaker 1: with anybody or no? Right?
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  Speaker 2: No, I I'm just doing it all on my own
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  Speaker 2: at the moment. I just I just played a show
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  Speaker 2: at the Troubadour last year, which kind of felt like
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  Speaker 2: the biggest moment for my career so far.
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  Speaker 1: And then How to Go. How to Go?
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  Speaker 2: It was great, we sold out. I had the best
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  Speaker 2: side of my life, but I lost my mind.
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  Speaker 1: Did you film it?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: I mean there's videos like it was truly the greatest
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  Speaker 2: night I think of my life. I'll probably say until
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  Speaker 2: maybe my wedding, but yeah, everyone I could have ever
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  Speaker 2: met was there. It was It was truly special, and
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  Speaker 2: so I feel like that was a really big catalyst
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  Speaker 2: for like what's to come for this year's release.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that's good, Good for you. All Right, we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: play a game called rapid Fine, it doesn't mean you
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  Speaker 1: have to answer quickly, but here, how do you like
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  Speaker 1: your coffee?
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  Speaker 2: I like it with three sugars and oat milk?
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  Speaker 1: Okay? Are your team Logan, Team Jess or Team Dean?
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  Speaker 3: Uh?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I'm definitely not Team Jess, but I'm only on
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  Speaker 2: season three?
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  Speaker 1: Mean, why aren't your team Chess?
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  Speaker 2: Sorry? I'm so sorry.
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  Speaker 1: No, No, you don't have to apologize.
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  Speaker 2: I just he hasn't stolen my heart yet. He was
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  Speaker 2: you know, didn't yet screwing up.
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  Speaker 1: He's screwing up a lot. Yeah, who's your favorite Gilmour couple?
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  Speaker 1: Luke and Laura, Emily and Richard.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Luke and Laura, Like there you go.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, the only answer is would you rather work
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  Speaker 1: with Michelle or Kirk? O?
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  Speaker 2: God, I feel like Michelle and I would weirdly get along,
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  Speaker 2: Like I feel like I can find the sweet spot?
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  Speaker 1: Mm hmm, okay, right, yeah, Kirk would be hard to Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's that would be a daily.
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  Speaker 2: Sort of a challenge.
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  Speaker 1: Fun to watch for other people that maybe not being
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  Speaker 1: in the pocket.
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  Speaker 2: With that on a TA think I'd find Kirk.
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  Speaker 1: Who would you rather hang out with? Paris or Lane?
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  Speaker 2: All?
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  Speaker 3: Lane?
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  Speaker 2: But Paris is such a sweet spot in my heart.
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  Speaker 1: She's a tender flowers.
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  Speaker 2: But Lane's cool.
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  Speaker 1: Harvard or Yale? Or drop out and live in the poolhouse?
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  Speaker 2: Mm hmm Harvard O g dream? Why not?
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  Speaker 1: Would you rather attend a D A R Event with
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  Speaker 1: Emily or a town meeting with Taylor?
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  Speaker 2: Town meeting?
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  Speaker 1: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I want to have meeting.
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  Speaker 1: Gilmore. Girl's character that you would want as a roommate?
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  Speaker 2: Mmm. I'm gonna say Emily because I want to live
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  Speaker 2: in that house. And I want the I want to
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  Speaker 2: I want that cool room that they have as kids.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, uh, something in your life you are all in on.
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  Speaker 1: I think I already know what that is.
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  Speaker 2: Oh I I'm going to say A happy answer is
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  Speaker 2: loving my people. I love people and I just want
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  Speaker 2: to be here to spread love and if that's through art,
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  Speaker 2: then that's how I do it. But that's what I'm
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  Speaker 2: all in on all the time.
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  Speaker 1: Well that's fantastic. Listen, it's We're going to talk a
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  Speaker 1: little bit after we're finished here about some things. But
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  Speaker 1: thanks for coming on. It's been a pleasure. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: for sharing with us. Good luck with your singing and
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  Speaker 1: songwriting career. Thank you and all the best to you too.
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  Speaker 3: This is so fun. Thank you, hey
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