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Morena Baccarin · On with Mario Interviews

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  Speaker 1: You're on with Mario Lopez. What's up, y'all? Mario Lopez.
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  Speaker 2: Joining me right now, Emmy-nominated actress Morena Vakkarin.
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  Speaker 1: How you doing, Morena?
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  Speaker 3: I'm great. How are you?
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  Speaker 2: I'm well.
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  Speaker 1: Always nice to see you. And congratulations.
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  Speaker 2: You directed a short film called Self-Titled. How'd you like
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  Speaker 2: wearing that director's hat?
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  Speaker 3: I got a little addicted to it. I'm not sure
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  Speaker 3: I can go back to acting.
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  Speaker 2: Uh-oh. Uh-oh.
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  Speaker 1: No, I'm just kidding. I have to. I really loved it.
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  Speaker 3: It's a proof of concept for a feature film that
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  Speaker 3: I want to get made. And I just absolutely loved
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  Speaker 3: making all the decisions and working with actors and making
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  Speaker 3: creative choices and being in control in that way that
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  Speaker 3: you're not as an actor.
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  Speaker 1: It was really rewarding. I do think. Actors make the
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  Speaker 1: best directors and they're so sensitive. I do that. I
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  Speaker 1: have absolutely no desire. I've never had, I like producing,
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  Speaker 1: but directing.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So, so yeah, you got to have that, I guess,
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  Speaker 1: certain personality for it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I think I also am somebody who like operates
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  Speaker 3: well in chaos. And so like when multiple people need
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  Speaker 3: answers from me or need things from me is actually
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  Speaker 3: like when I operate at my highest self, weirdly, I.
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  Speaker 1: Don't know what that means. That's a good trait. Good trait.
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  Speaker 3: As a director, you're wearing many hats.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely. What is the film about?
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  Speaker 3: So it's called Self-Titled. It's about a young female musician,
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  Speaker 3: and she has this one chance in her life to
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  Speaker 3: create her opus, her big... album because she also gets
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  Speaker 3: pregnant and decides to have a baby uh the short
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  Speaker 3: is only the first 14 pages of the story so
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  Speaker 3: it focuses more on her relationship with her dad and
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  Speaker 3: the things that he taught her throughout her life before
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  Speaker 3: he passed away um and the rest of the film
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  Speaker 3: deals with you know being a young woman a new
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  Speaker 3: mom an artist kind of a self coming of age
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  Speaker 3: you know story.
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  Speaker 1: Um based on true events or what's the, I like
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  Speaker 1: the premise.
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  Speaker 3: No, I, you know, a cast PA on my set
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  Speaker 3: on Sheriff Country slipped.
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  Speaker 1: Me the script.
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  Speaker 3: He's like, I really don't want to be this guy.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure you get slipped scripts all the time, but
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  Speaker 3: here's my script. And I think it's really good. And
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  Speaker 3: I was like, all right, I'll take a look. And he's,
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  Speaker 3: you know, we got to be friends over the course
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  Speaker 3: of the season working together. And I read the first
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  Speaker 3: few pages and I was like, this is incredible. And
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  Speaker 3: I just kept reading and and you know, ultimately didn't
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  Speaker 3: think of myself to direct in the first place. I
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  Speaker 3: just thought, how can I help you with this? What
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  Speaker 3: do I do to get this movie made for you?
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  Speaker 3: I was like, maybe I can slip it to a
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  Speaker 3: friend or I can, you know, I was trying to
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  Speaker 3: come up with all these things. And he was like, Hey,
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  Speaker 3: and my husband, they were like, why don't you just
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  Speaker 3: direct it?
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  Speaker 1: And I was like, Oh, that's awesome. And that's how
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  Speaker 1: it came about.
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  Speaker 2: That's how it came.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, that's cool. That's cool. When you get to work
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  Speaker 1: with friends too, it's something you really like.
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  Speaker 2: Nice.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Speaking of a sheriff country, I know it's the second
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  Speaker 2: season that premiered this last week.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, what's going on with, uh, Mickey Fox this season?
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  Speaker 1: It's a little chaotic.
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  Speaker 3: Where we leave off last season, her boyfriend that she's
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  Speaker 3: in love with betrays her. She finds out her mother
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  Speaker 3: is actually alive and not dead and was an undercover
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  Speaker 3: DEA agent when she met her dad. A lot of
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  Speaker 3: chaos in Mickey's life. So when we start season two,
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  Speaker 3: she's in shambles, literally. She's passed out on Sheriff Wade's
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  Speaker 3: couch at the station, who is also played by Ben,
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  Speaker 3: my husband.
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  Speaker 1: So it's very fun.
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  Speaker 3: A little family affair in the first episode.
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  Speaker 1: And this is his first time guest starring on the show? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: first time.
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  Speaker 3: He'll come back towards later on in the season, episode 10,
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  Speaker 3: and then again at the end.
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  Speaker 1: So it was really nice to have him on set, actually.
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  Speaker 3: It was really lovely to, we haven't worked together since Gotham,
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  Speaker 3: which is how we met.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And I like to joke with him that this time
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  Speaker 3: I'm number one.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, there you go. There you go.
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  Speaker 3: So, okay.
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  Speaker 1: So the dynamic you still like?
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  Speaker 3: We loved it we had a good time it was
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  Speaker 3: it was a really nice like weirdly relaxing time at
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  Speaker 3: work because we never get to have a conversation for
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  Speaker 3: longer than two seconds without being interrupted at home and
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  Speaker 3: this time between setups we like sat in our chairs
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  Speaker 3: and like caught up on stuff that's funny went home
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  Speaker 3: together had car rides together and got picked up together
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  Speaker 3: it was it was really nice.
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  Speaker 2: Where do y'all shoot the show uh in toronto in
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  Speaker 2: toronto okay very nice yeah uh you also hold in
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  Speaker 2: the winter yes very cold next level Um, you also
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  Speaker 2: have a film out called everyone is lying to you
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  Speaker 2: for money.
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  Speaker 1: That's a fun title, which, uh, was written and directed
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  Speaker 1: by your husband, correct? Correct.
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  Speaker 3: It's a documentary based on his New York Times bestseller
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  Speaker 3: called Easy Money. He started to have a film crew
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  Speaker 3: follow him around while he was doing research for the
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  Speaker 3: book and turned it into a film.
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  Speaker 1: It's about cryptocurrency and.
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  Speaker 3: Fraud, essentially, but told in a very self-deprecating, digestible way.
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  Speaker 2: Did he have experience with that or was he just
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  Speaker 2: fascinated by that topic?
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  Speaker 3: He became really obsessed with it during the pandemic mostly.
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  Speaker 3: A friend of his told him he should invest because
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  Speaker 3: he had, and this friend of his had given him
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  Speaker 3: the worst financial advice of his life. So he was like,
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  Speaker 3: And he started digging deeper and deeper and started to
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  Speaker 3: realize that it was a very strange landscape and, you know,
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  Speaker 3: wasn't regulated in any way. And lots of people had
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  Speaker 3: lost money, but lots of people had made money. And
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  Speaker 3: so he became kind of fascinated by it and ended
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  Speaker 3: up doing a really good big deep dive into it
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  Speaker 3: and you know it's so uncertain um he does not
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  Speaker 3: support it but uncertain where it will end up but
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  Speaker 3: he was really coming down on especially on celebs that
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  Speaker 3: you know shill it for money because they're not financial advisors.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah i saw i remember now that i saw an
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  Speaker 2: interview uh with him talking about it now it was
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  Speaker 2: fascinating too i want to see it I want to
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  Speaker 2: see it.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah. It's a really good movie.
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  Speaker 3: It's now on Amazon and a few other streamers. So
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  Speaker 3: it should be easy to watch.
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  Speaker 1: I love a documentary too.
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  Speaker 2: And I saw on your IG, you hit up one
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  Speaker 2: of the sold out Harry Styles shows at the garden.
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  Speaker 1: I did. You a fan? How's the show?
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  Speaker 3: I'm a huge fan, but more importantly, my 10 year
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  Speaker 3: old is a fan. So it was a nice bonding
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  Speaker 3: moment for us. I don't get to spend a lot
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  Speaker 3: of time at home during the week. Cause I'm shooting
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  Speaker 3: in Toronto and they're in New York.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Um, so we, we went, it was so much fun.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, great.
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  Speaker 3: He puts on such a great concert and the outfits
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  Speaker 3: and the songs. Like we just had the, I didn't
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  Speaker 3: want the night to end.
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  Speaker 1: It was really fun.
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  Speaker 2: That's good.
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  Speaker 1: Did the 10 year old like.
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  Speaker 3: Loved.
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  Speaker 2: Nice.
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  Speaker 3: Nice.
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  Speaker 1: I did the same thing with my daughter recently.
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  Speaker 2: We did. Well, actually did back to back concerts. We did, um,
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  Speaker 2: Chris Brown and Usher, and then Bruno Mars.
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  Speaker 3: Awesome. Oh, I loved Bruno Mars. We went to that too.
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  Speaker 1: I could not resist. Okay, you've been doing the rounds
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  Speaker 1: right there. I haven't. It's so nice to catch up
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  Speaker 1: with you.
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  Speaker 2: Congratulations on everything, Marina. Listen, everyone, be sure to catch
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  Speaker 2: her in the new season of Sheriff Country, Friday nights
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  Speaker 2: on CBS and streaming on Paramount +.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for checking in. Thank you. That was fun. With
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  Speaker 1: Mario Lopez.