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CW's Sullivan's Crossing Plus An Entire Hallmark Expression Actor Marcus Rosner · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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Speaker 1: Good morning, Marcus, how are you doing today?
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Speaker 2: I'm good. I like your name. How you doing?
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Speaker 1: Thank you so much. It's just a radio name. It's
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Speaker 1: one of those and I'm sure you deal with it.
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Speaker 1: Two as an actor, where it's well, actually it's just
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Speaker 1: like nothing more than just a role you play. You
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Speaker 1: become this person and it's like, Okay, what am I
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Speaker 1: going to put into it? And will people believe it?
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Speaker 1: I mean, and how do you do that in your
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Speaker 1: own personal life?
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Speaker 3: I feel like I hide behind the mask of other
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Speaker 3: genius people's great writing.
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Speaker 2: So I don't know if I could do what you do,
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Speaker 2: but I admire it.
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Speaker 1: How do you like that, though, when other people's words
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Speaker 1: become your path? Because that's one of the things that
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Speaker 1: have to do. When I do voiceover work for commercials.
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Speaker 1: I've got to envision myself as the copywriter and then
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Speaker 1: figure out who it is I'm trying to reach. What
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Speaker 1: about you?
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Speaker 3: I mean, that's really interesting topic actually, because yeah, I
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Speaker 3: mean your your kind of audience.
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Speaker 2: First, it sounds like and I imagine you would you.
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Speaker 3: Would need to be I think that for an actor,
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Speaker 3: I think if you start thinking about the audience, you're
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Speaker 3: you're kind of screwed.
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Speaker 2: So I I.
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Speaker 3: Think you really sort of focus on the character and
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Speaker 3: just try to be honest with that characters feelings and
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Speaker 3: perspective and emotion and just yeah, I think honesty is
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Speaker 3: really the biggest thing if you can get in the
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Speaker 3: ahead of that character, because people, I think are smart
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Speaker 3: and they can see through the bs if you're trying
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Speaker 3: to appease them.
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Speaker 1: So that is so true, and boy, they'll call you
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Speaker 1: out in a heartbeat nowadays. I mean in the past,
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Speaker 1: it was like, oh, bless your heart, that's so nice
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Speaker 1: that you did that with your character. But nowadays it's like,
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Speaker 1: you're going.
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Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, I see some actors that I see some
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Speaker 3: actors sort of intentionally angle towards I think what they
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Speaker 3: think the audience wants.
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Speaker 2: And I don't know.
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Speaker 3: I think it works sometimes for some people and other times.
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Speaker 2: Not so well. But I just think it's kind of
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Speaker 2: an icky way to approach the craft.
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Speaker 1: Well, I got to congratulate you guys and everybody at
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Speaker 1: Sullivan's Sullivan's Crossing, And the reason why is because I'm
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Speaker 1: a firm believer that your guys' success and your teamwork
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Speaker 1: and camaraderie is what's inspiring so much real life action
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Speaker 1: out here, whereas these broadcasting religious broadcast companies are buying
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Speaker 1: up every AM and FM radio station they can because
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Speaker 1: people want the word. And number two, I believe that
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Speaker 1: the movie theaters are telling real, honest to God stories
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Speaker 1: like Sullivan's Crossing because you guys set the stage and
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Speaker 1: the standard, and you really are the leaders in this motion.
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Speaker 2: I hope that's true.
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Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, I think that's a fair assessment of
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Speaker 3: the current market.
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Speaker 1: So great, Well, to get into that storyline, it goes
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Speaker 1: all the way back to you know, reading and bringing
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Speaker 1: other people's words to life. I mean, you've got to
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Speaker 1: really get into that storyline and then and then all
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Speaker 1: of a sudden the world is talking about you.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean you know, I've been enjoining
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Speaker 3: this show that sort of has already popped off, and
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Speaker 3: it was going into their fourth season, so they'd already
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Speaker 3: gained so much traction.
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Speaker 2: And to Thomas in a character like the.
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Speaker 3: One I played, Liam Davies, who's this four correspondent, and
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Speaker 3: I found that he was such a different energy, and
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Speaker 3: so I wasn't sure how it would be greated because
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Speaker 3: it was a little different than what they'd already established.
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Speaker 2: But yeah, people seem to be loving it.
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Speaker 1: So do you find yourself getting to talk to him personally?
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Speaker 1: Because I'll do that here in the studio and people
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Speaker 1: think I'm insane because you know, I'll go I'll do Arrow,
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Speaker 1: or I'll do my real name, or I'll do different.
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Speaker 1: But it's like, these characters have got to be real
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Speaker 1: to the person that's that's bringing to life.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I have my own little process. It's
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Speaker 3: called Warner Laughlin, the Winner Laughlin Technique out of la
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Speaker 3: and it's really about like sort of subconsciously infusing artificial
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Speaker 3: memories and so it's it's it's.
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Speaker 2: Very woo woo in a way, but it really works.
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Speaker 3: It's like, and so when I sat down with this
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Speaker 3: character and he had he had been his four correspondent,
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Speaker 3: he had been to h he'd been captured, and he
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Speaker 3: had been tortured. I really sit down and try to
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Speaker 3: talk myself through every detail of those experiences to try
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Speaker 3: to instill this character within myself so I can tap
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Speaker 3: into that again and again when we go to shoot.
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Speaker 3: And so, yeah, it do I talk to the character.
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Speaker 3: I would say that in that way, I certainly do.
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Speaker 1: I love the way that the CW has embraced you guys,
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Speaker 1: because I mean when when you guys first come on,
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Speaker 1: came on, I mean, the CW was still so new
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Speaker 1: to a lot of people, and now it's the go
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Speaker 1: to when people well, how did you get there? And
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Speaker 1: I'll tell them Sullivan's crossing is what led me there.
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Speaker 1: You guys are that team.
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Speaker 2: I love that. That's that's fantastic.
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Speaker 3: I mean the fact that the network is bringing in
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Speaker 3: a new audience because of this show. They don't have
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Speaker 3: a lot of scripted programming, as I'm sure you know,
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Speaker 3: and so that I think that speaks volumes to the
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Speaker 3: show and to what Roma Roth and Chris Perry had created.
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Speaker 1: And yeah, and one of the coolest thing is why
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Speaker 1: is it that I don't feel like that I'm watching
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Speaker 1: a TV show. I mean, you guys have got quality
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Speaker 1: down to a master, to the point to where it's like,
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Speaker 1: oh my god, this is like watching a mini movie.
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Speaker 3: I mean, I think they're going into the fourth season
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Speaker 3: of something that's so successful. The machinery has sort of
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Speaker 3: been well oiled and people have kind of figured out
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Speaker 3: most of the kinks, and you know, the actors kind
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Speaker 3: of know the characters really well and put everything down
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Speaker 3: to the cameramen and the lighting and everything's just get
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Speaker 3: styled in over time.
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Speaker 2: And so maybe that's part.
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Speaker 1: Of it, yeah, because I mean that's what I love
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Speaker 1: about it is there's such a connection to the point
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Speaker 1: to where people I mean, in the old days of
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Speaker 1: radio we called it water cooler conversation. You guys create
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Speaker 1: that in this day where content is everywhere, but yet
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Speaker 1: somebody will say, did you see that episode last night
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Speaker 1: of Sulimon's Crossing? And then and then it starts the
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Speaker 1: conversation because it's one of those what would you have
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Speaker 1: done in you know moment like that.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I remember growing up it was for
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Speaker 3: me it was like friends and Seinfeld and like there
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Speaker 3: was things that would air weekly and then felt like
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Speaker 3: the whole world was watching, and you know, it's sort
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Speaker 3: of that that monoculture that used to exist in our youths.
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Speaker 2: And I think that anything that approaches that.
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Speaker 3: I think a few things actually reached that these days,
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Speaker 3: maybe stranger things and stuff like that. But I think
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Speaker 3: being a part of anything that approaches that is extremely
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Speaker 3: exciting and I'm very grateful to be a small piece
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Speaker 3: of it.
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Speaker 1: Please did not move. There's more with Marcus Rosner coming
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Speaker 1: up next CW's Sullivan's Crossing. We are back with Marcus rosenher.
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Speaker 1: Do you think part of the connection is because we're
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Speaker 1: all falling in love with Nova Scotia. It's at one
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Speaker 1: area It's like, God, I'd love to be there. I
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Speaker 1: just want to feel it. I know it's probably cold
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Speaker 1: in the winter, but I just want to be there.
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Speaker 1: I want to know what it's like to be in
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Speaker 1: the atmosphere.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I hear this a lot from people, and I love
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Speaker 3: Nova Scotia, but honestly, I had never really spent much
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Speaker 3: time in Nova Scotia until we shot and I'd seen
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Speaker 3: the show and thought, oh, yeah, it looks nice.
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Speaker 2: It kind of looks like BC.
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Speaker 3: There's so many parts of Canada that are exceptionally beautiful
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Speaker 3: that I think we get a little used to it
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Speaker 3: and a little spoiled in that sense. And so going
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Speaker 3: out there, I was like, yeah, this is nice too,
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Speaker 3: but it is beautiful, and you know, I think everybody
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Speaker 3: should be encouraged to visit. I know this Nova Scotia
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Speaker 3: tours and board does a lot of advertising while the
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Speaker 3: show's airing, and that's a very smart move.
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Speaker 1: See. I grew up in the state of Montana, so
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Speaker 1: anything Canada was our part of our lifestyle. I mean
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Speaker 1: we would be up in Saskatchewan, Regina, we'd go over
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Speaker 1: there to Vancouver or even Victoria. And so then people go,
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Speaker 1: oh my god, you've been there, and you go, it's
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Speaker 1: my backyard. What are you talking about. I mean, I
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Speaker 1: love Canada, especially the music.
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Speaker 3: And man, I grew up in Alberta, so Montana and
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Speaker 3: Alberta basically the same place, so I can totally relate.
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Speaker 2: I would spend some time down in Montana and.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, like you're saying, everybody that borders all the states
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Speaker 3: that border Canada, it is going to be very familiar
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Speaker 3: with Canada. So I don't think it comes as much
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Speaker 3: of a surprise to those Americans the beauty that we
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Speaker 3: have up here, but it's also quite diverse, kind of
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Speaker 3: like you're saying, like the plains, the prairies in the middle,
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Speaker 3: and then you have BC, which is just possibly one
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Speaker 3: of the most beautiful places in the whole world, and
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Speaker 3: the Nova Scotia on the other end, and the lakes.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: My science teacher back in the seventh grade used to
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Speaker 1: describe Canada to us because we were all so fascinated
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Speaker 1: with being there because you had the hockey players that
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Speaker 1: were coming to our town. And he would sit there
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Speaker 1: and say, Canada was where the glacier always stopped. And
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Speaker 1: you go up into Canada and you see that, it's like,
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Speaker 1: oh my god, that's where all these rocks are from.
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Speaker 1: And I've always been inspired by that because it's like
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Speaker 1: history stopped in Canada. I want to go there.
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Speaker 2: I love that. I love that.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean there's definitely so many places you get
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Speaker 3: and there's glaciers that are still up there that you
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Speaker 3: can go walk on in.
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Speaker 2: The Rockies, and yeah, I think.
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Speaker 3: We're spoiled in that way, like I was saying, in
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Speaker 3: terms of the beauty, and that's why Nova Scotia, well,
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Speaker 3: it is extremely beautiful.
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Speaker 2: Was not much of a surprise to me.
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Speaker 1: Did you get over there to Stanley Park at all,
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Speaker 1: just to go over your scripts or anything? Because that
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Speaker 1: seems to be a place of peace for me every
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Speaker 1: time I go there and say, go to Stanley Park,
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Speaker 1: I just got to go there to write. I just
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Speaker 1: got to do something in Halifax over there in Vancouver, Oh.
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Speaker 2: In Vancouver.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I lived out in Vancouver for ten
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Speaker 3: years and I spent a ton of time in Stanley Park.
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Speaker 3: I lived three blocks away, and my wife would run
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Speaker 3: around the park on the sea wall, and there's a
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Speaker 3: pitch and put course right in the middle of Stanley
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Speaker 3: Park that would go spend afternoons out between auditions, and yeah,
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Speaker 3: I mean, it's a paradise out there.
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Speaker 1: Speaking of your wife, is there any way that we
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Speaker 1: can convince her to do a documentary on Sullivan's Crossing
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Speaker 1: in the way of calling it a day in the life,
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Speaker 1: because I would love to see how you guys transition
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Speaker 1: from everyday people into these characters or is it showing
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Speaker 1: the wizard behind the curtain if we were to do
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Speaker 1: something like that, and.
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Speaker 2: I think people love that kind of stuff now.
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Speaker 3: I like to see that I find myself almost more
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Speaker 3: fascinated in the process of things than the actual product
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Speaker 3: that's creating.
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Speaker 2: And so that would be great, that'd be if she
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Speaker 2: got the access. That would be a very smart move. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: One of the things that happens inside the show is
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Speaker 1: like when Maggie goes back to her hometown. I don't
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Speaker 1: have that button, and I'm relying on this show to
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Speaker 1: give me to that little bit of something that's required
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Speaker 1: to make me go back to Montana to see what
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Speaker 1: I missed and in my younger years, because you make
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Speaker 1: me long for my home, and I'm sure I'm not
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Speaker 1: the only one.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, it's funny my own hometown of Edmonton
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Speaker 3: to move up to Vancouver in my early twenties to
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Speaker 3: try to pursue this crazy dream of being an actor,
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Speaker 3: and as I got towards my thirties, I did long
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Speaker 3: for home. That's why I started a production company there
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Speaker 3: with my partners who lived there full time, Northern Gateway Films.
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Speaker 3: And there is this call to home that I think
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Speaker 3: at least most people I've ever met they get at
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Speaker 3: some point. And I think that's why things like Excelvates
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Speaker 3: crossing are so relatable. Why basically every single Hallmark movie
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Speaker 3: ever made is so relatable because you know, you want
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Speaker 3: to fall in love and you want to have a
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Speaker 3: good relationship with your friends and family and your home,
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Speaker 3: and so I guess that connects.
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Speaker 1: You brought up Hallmark and you have become such a
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Speaker 1: part of that Hallmark legacy. Are we going to see
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Speaker 1: you on any of these Hallmark cruises that they've been,
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Speaker 1: you know, checking into lately, because it seems like there's
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Speaker 1: like everybody's going on a Hallmark cruises. I got dang,
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Speaker 1: I want to be on one of those things.
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Speaker 3: I don't know fall beyond a cruise in an attemption,
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Speaker 3: but I do have a Hallmark Christmas movie coming out
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Speaker 3: in July during their Christmas in July four movie rollout,
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Speaker 3: I think it's like July eighteenth or something like that.
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Speaker 3: I got a new movie coming out, and then I
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Speaker 3: got one coming in Valentine's Day of early next year.
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Speaker 3: And so but I did a cruise, not a Hallmark
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Speaker 3: specific brand to one, but it was me and a
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Speaker 3: couple other Hallmark actors last year with a bunch of
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Speaker 3: the fans on a sort of a private venture and
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Speaker 3: it was great. Yeah, I've never been on a cruise before.
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Speaker 3: Cruises are fascinating. Cruises are maybe the most American thing
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Speaker 3: I've ever experienced. And I say that in mostly good
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Speaker 3: and mostly a good way. It's fascinating.
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Speaker 1: Are we going to see you back on a live
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Speaker 1: stage soon?
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Speaker 2: I'd love to, Yeah, I'd love to. Nothing scheduled right now, though.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, because it just seems like that we are in
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Speaker 1: so many different places as a generation where we want
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Speaker 1: to it's the connection to storytelling. We want to go
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Speaker 1: where you guys are so willing to give us the
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Speaker 1: opportunity to step into your world and that says a
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Speaker 1: lot about your heart.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I mean, I think that we live in a day
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Speaker 3: and age where the resources to make things are so
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Speaker 3: available that I know that for me, it's hard to
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Speaker 3: picture being an actor back in the day when I
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Speaker 3: wouldn't also be able to produce and direct.
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Speaker 2: And I mean, I'm a writer with the WGC and.
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Speaker 3: So I just need to explore my creativity through many
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Speaker 3: mediums and I'm able to do that because of the
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Speaker 3: day and age that I live in. And luckily, you
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Speaker 3: can sort of curate an audience who is a fan
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Speaker 3: of you through social media and other avenues like that.
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Speaker 3: And then they do follow you to various projects, not
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Speaker 3: just Sullivan's Crossing or any Hallmark movie I've done or
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Speaker 3: anything like that. So yeah, I don't know what comes next,
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Speaker 3: but I do feel like the possibilities are endless, and
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Speaker 3: I'm grateful for that.
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Speaker 1: You being that imagination behind and so much creativity. I
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Speaker 1: know that when I use AI technology, I just we're
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Speaker 1: going through this era where I just feel so guilty,
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Speaker 1: and yet that tool is so amazingly powerful and it
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Speaker 1: does help us in saving time. How are you dealing
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Speaker 1: with this change and evolution and how can we as
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Speaker 1: creators go forward without feeling this darn guilt trip of
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Speaker 1: using the tool.
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Speaker 2: I don't know, Just don't feel guilty like that, you know,
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Speaker 2: I don't know. It's funny every.
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Speaker 3: Every era, in every age has this phase of like, well,
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Speaker 3: you're not supposed to do that because that's not what
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Speaker 3: this craft is, that's not what this art is. But
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Speaker 3: it's constantly evolving and every generation has their own version
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Speaker 3: of it. I use AI to organize things, you know,
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Speaker 3: but it doesn't do anything unless you ask it to,
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Speaker 3: and it doesn't. You know, It's it's a great you know,
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Speaker 3: in the past, writing was like, Okay, I got this
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Speaker 3: great idea, but I need I have I'm going to
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Speaker 3: throw out all these ideas and then I got to
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Speaker 3: spend just significant portion of time organizing these thoughts, whereas
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Speaker 3: I find this tool is so good for just you
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Speaker 3: throw them out and then it goes, Okay, this is
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Speaker 3: what you had, and this is probably the order in
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Speaker 3: which you can utilize it, and you actually spend more
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Speaker 3: time on the creative aspect and less on the formatting.
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Speaker 2: And so that's the way I use that tool.
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Speaker 1: Well, where can people go to find out about everything
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Speaker 1: you're doing, because it's more than just Sullivan's crossing.
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Speaker 3: That's a great question, and everybody is always wondering because
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Speaker 3: I'm doing so many different kinds of things. But maybe, honestly,
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Speaker 3: maybe my Instagram page. I put up everything on there
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Speaker 3: because it's the one platform that I feel like is
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Speaker 3: not specific to any one avenue.
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Speaker 2: But yeah, calling on.
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Speaker 3: Instagram at Marcus undersquare roster is probably the best way
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Speaker 3: to figure out what I'm up to.
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Speaker 1: Well, dude, you got to come back to this show
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Speaker 1: anytime in the future. I just love where your heart
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Speaker 1: is and where your creativity is growing.
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Speaker 2: Man, Thank you. Man. I really appreciate that.
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Speaker 1: Will you be brilliant today?
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Speaker 2: Okay, you too, buddy,