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Host Spotlight Gerry Waggett · The Daytime Emmys Specials

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  Hello, Welcome to another edition of the Daytime every Specials. Here on jail
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  J Media. I'm James R. Junior, and it's just a little host
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  spotlight because folks were asking me, Newer folks like we like Jerry Waggett,
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  who is he? Because you've heard of Walker, me Candice, some of
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  you guys like who is he? He's been on since the very beginning five
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  years ago, so I want to tell you a little story about him.
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  So nice, so spot he's even know I'm doing this those Spotlight because people
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  don't know. It's a rainey story and this is something that's actually kind of
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  inspirational also. But check out we're on audio or video, We're everywhere YouTube
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  did them for this year. It's out there now. We go through the
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  nominees and discuss them and also we do the winner circle afterwards. So it's
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  a lot of fun stuff on this episode. Subscribe to this this playlist,
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  Subscribe to this where we founded audio follow follow Follow. So I bought some
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  of our books. I I was a soap fan way before I even got
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  into this business, seventeen years ago, and and I would have had a
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  bunch of books, some of our books that I liked to read them.
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  And two books I had, I mean, I mean, so I'm talking.
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  I got them when that came out, like this one I'm about to
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  tell you about came out and paper back back in nineteen ninety seven, and
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  this the other I'm wassom to you in a second. This one came out
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  and I woul seen this in a while, but with years, they came
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  out in nineteen ninety six, so right after each other. And I had
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  these books in my collection. And after I got established and I was doing
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  interviews and talking to people, I was like, you know, I wanted
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  you some of this soap history. And I started reaching out to people who
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  have been in the business, and I went, I grabbed some of my
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  books literally with grab book, my name, type it in somewhere Facebook wherever,
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  and try and find him. Well. I found him Gerald on Facebook
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  and the two books that I found about that I had of his worm.
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  I'm sure. So if you're watching, you're listening, come to the channel
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  and you see it because the soap opera and encyclopedia like how thick this book
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  is. And he also said he also wrote, which he says on here,
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  the so are book of lists like how thick and juice these books are
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  and pictures everything, and and this was a great this is a great trivia
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  book, great tria book. There's there's some of the less little somethingless and
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  it's so good. I gotta have I have a great condition, like he
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  wrote these. So I looked him up and he answered back, I think,
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  tell who I was. So I'm back and we became friends and I
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  did an interview with him and the rest is our history. So that's just
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  that's how I found Jerald. He was, he was someone in the business.
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  He did freelance work, which he's talking about on the show here and
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  there, so are weekly other publications. He's he's a he's a professor or
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  lecturer at a university and back in Boston doing that now. But it's just
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  he's he's an author. He does short stories and published. But I but
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  for me, he's a soup opera guy just like I am, and I
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  love it and it just goes to show. Sometimes take a chance, find
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  somebody to reach out, and you never know. Sometimes they're closed off,
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  sometimes they're dead, sometimes not interested, change names, and sometimes they're happy
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  to help. The book of lists, Pcyclopedia, good stuff. I have
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  them, and that's how I found Jerry, and that's why he's been one
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  of the original members of this pan all that we're doing for it. Like
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  I said, five years crazy. Thanks Jeff for being on the show of
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  course and always doing it with us, and he enjoins it. We have
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  the art. I love our team, the four of us, and also
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  want to mention Lucretia Lyon who did it for three years. We loved having
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  her also. I just I love I love doing these and I'm glad that
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  you out there enjoy them as much as we'd love doing them. Check out
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  our nominee specialists out now. Talk to you next time.