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Daytime Emmy Winner/Nominee Eric Braeden · The Daytime Emmys Specials

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  Hello, welcome to Daytime Emmy Specials. Here on Jilja Media. I'm James
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  lot Junior, and I am here my buddy. He is actually a Daytime
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  Emmy winner, of course, but nearly twenty years later from a nomination,
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  he's nominated again this year for a Lead Actor in a Drama series. He
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  also survived a health issue, and he's just the coolest guy in the room.
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  It's my friend, the legend Eric Braydon allow you. I'm fine,
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  I'm fine. I want to ask you, first of all, how are
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  you doing. I'm doing well. Thank you, Thank you're asking. I
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  am in good hands medically. And yeah, so I had my last what
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  is called BCG infusion for a while. Now they'll do another Sostoska beat.
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  That means they go in the damn thing and then take a look at the
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  bladder, you know, and then we're determined whether I'm to the cancer.
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  All the cancer is gone. Would you say, because you have a good
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  team of doctors, let me tell you other story about please tet, please
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  go ahead. Please, this was discovered I guess my pross had grown and
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  therefore it impinges upon the urethra. Therefore, you get up every fifteen minutes
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  to pee because you can't empty your bladder. I'm being very drastic about it,
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  I mean graphic about this because I think men should know. So I
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  stopped being able to avoid completely. That's very painful and scarce. The data's
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  a yeah, sure. So I went to one place and they relieved it,
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  and there is a subsequent sistoscopy and they said, oh, we all
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  care well. The doctor wasn't too good. About three weeks before. Weeks
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  later, I had the same thing. I went to another place and I
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  said, I've got to do the catheter right now because I can't. It's
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  it's it's a panicy feeding, I tell you. Yeah. So this was
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  an Asian doctor, very capable, obviously, and as he was infusing the
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  catheter, he looks at me. I said, what the hell is you
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  looking at? So he says, are you an actor? I said,
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  yeah, you play the soap. I said yeah, this is your name,
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  Victor, And I said, yeah, where the hell are you asking
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  me that? Now go getting noticed. You're getting noticed in the strangest way.
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  I will never forget it. He said, Oh, he said,
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  He said, I learned English when I came from Vietnam by watching your show.
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  Wow, yep, I mean that's that's the impact of Victor Newman Younger
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  younger wrestle. It's like if the impact well used to answer my question,
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  you found someone who was good, who actually was able to help you out.
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  Because yes, and then then I've ben the seconds you found out that
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  I had a cancer, not a cancer, but unfortunately called it in the
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  early stages. That's why I ask everyone to just go have a colorosca,
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  be have a sistoska, be have your Vain's checked. You know you auto
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  res checked. I mean, and yeah, be proactive about it. Yeah,
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  because as we get older. I'm a little older than you are,
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  a little you know, but you're starting to be at the age fifty five.
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  Better get all of an example. I am, I am, Yeah,
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  I'm a good I have a good doctor. I have a good doctor.
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  Anyway, there you go. No, I'm glad. No, we
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  had a little scare with you last year. I was like, no,
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  not my not my Eric braydon you thought it there, So that was good.
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  Now, my brother, who is eight years older than I mean,
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  he's ninety now, he had bladder cancer, but advanced vater cancer. In
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  other words, the cancer cells have penetrated the muscle walls of the bladder.
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  That requires an entirely different treatment. Yeah, I have what is called BCG.
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  B stands for bouvine CG. The first two letters of two scientists in
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  France just covered this serum in the nineteen forties and in an attempt to fight
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  tuberculosis. They later on found out this also is good as an antidote to
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  bladder cancer. Wow, okay, so there you go. Yeah, yeah,
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  how's he doing right now? They took his bat out? Okay,
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  Well he's a tough guy, but he you know, how's a bag Okay,
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  raphig about it? Yeah yeah, and he's handling it well, except
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  sometimes the dam thing comes loose. Yeah. But the point, the point
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  is, man, we will side, we will check ourselves out. We
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  need to get checked out. I am telling you once a year. Yeah,
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  I agree. I agree. And if another lesson, if your doc
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  you have feelings about your doctor, you didn't know his second opinion, get
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  a second opinion. Ye, very important. It's you. It's your life,
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  literally your life. So you have to do that. I like that.
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  But you were going through all that, but then also you were on
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  television front burner storyline doing your job last year, thank you, and got
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  rewarded for it by an Emmy nomination. So, I mean, it's been
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  a long time, Eric, how's it feel. It feels very good.
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  But the reason for the long time is I didn't submit for about fifteen years
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  or what the Oh, so you didn't submit? I did not submit,
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  okay, because the the way they selected someone is from inside the company,
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  and that becomes a popularity context. Yes, how to give a shit about
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  popularity? Yea. So it's it's it's just intrinsically corrupt. So now they're
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  finally the Academy apparently ask some outsiders to vote as well. That makes it
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  more objective people who have nothing to do with our show in particular. It's
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  it's it was so frocked with well a lot of stuff, Eric, No,
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  I mean, Jude, so I know, I do know a lot
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  of years. Yeah, yeah, stuff. Yeah, they've been trying to
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  fix it. They're not even trying to fix the process. Well, it
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  can't be that difficult. One hundred and fifty thousand unemployed actors right in our
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  union. Hello, Hello, You find a group of actors who come in
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  and say, what do your jobs? This and this and this right?
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  What's so difficult about that? I agree with you, push it, agree
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  with Okay, there you go. I agree with you. But what made
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  you decide to actually this last year? To cemit? We have a wonderful
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  publicist called Matt Kine. Yes we do. Insisted I do it. So
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  it was Matty that shook us again. Well it's different now, so I
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  said, okay, here we go. You got to pick the scenes.
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  I don't know. So there are scenes with wonderful colleague Mark Grossman, who
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  plays Adam. It's a wonderful Yeah. So he's a great actor. I've
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  talked to him. He's a great actor. He really is. I gotta
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  tell you, I'm not just saying it. He is a very good actor.
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  I've seen this guy. You know, they give them, they innundate
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  them with dialogue when they come. I don't know what writers think. You
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  know, they're enough thinking that moment. This is a new actor to the
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  medium, and they give him page after page after page, thirty forty pages
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  a day. There's nuts. Yeah, handle it like your pro so very
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  impressive. Yep, Yeah, your scenes together are great. I mean it's
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  that push and pull that you want to love your son. You want to
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  believe in your son, and he wants to believe that you believe in him.
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  Those scenes are amazing, right, Yeah, And I and I always
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  thought, Eric, there's a there's a I think another seeing the submitted was
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  with Melody, who I love working with. Yes, who, By the
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  way, she'll certainly be nominated next year. Yes, a wonderful job.
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  Man. Oh no, we're no. Us fans are like, why why
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  wasn't she or Mark nominated this year? We both we feel that way both
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  of them should have been nominated. That tells you what I think about the
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  whole thing. Yeah, I don't. I'm with you, Eric, it's
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  when you are nominated is wonderful, very grateful, and it makes me happy.
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  And yes, my granddaughter wanted to come to the Emmys with three,
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  which it would have been absolutely wonderful. I would have loved it, but
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  she is unfortunately not here on that day. Okay, so you are coming
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  this year, You're gonna come to see you better. I'll see you there,
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  I'll see that the red carpet. I'm glad. I'm good. You
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  better? Good? Okay, good, that's that's good, Okay good.
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  I was like I was wandering gonna be there. One of my fellow nominees.
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  Yeah, a lot of actors, you know, Yeah, John McCook
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  and and and it was great, and the others escape me at the moment.
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  Yes, Scott Clifton, Eric Martzov. I mean all you guys are
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  great, great actors, all great actors, right, great, But I's
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  want touch you a little about your scenes with Mark because I think back to
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  your way back in the day where you and George Kennedy and those scenes where
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  you confront him and stuff to full circle today where you are trying to be
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  there for your children. You want your kids to you want that relationship.
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  I just I thought about that, the difference, right, I was like,
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  that's really interesting, Talsh Kennedy, Yes, his soul. That was
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  one of the most remarkable scenes I ever did. Yep. I hired him
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  later on for a film I did. Came back and what of all the
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  perhaps you know you made about three hundred about six or four powerful man man?
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  Why he knew his dialogue cold. I was so impressed with him.
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  Also later on in the film he is old Hollywood, a gentleman, and
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  yeah, and I'm very shad he's gone. So working with him was the
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  draw. Yeah, not most respect for them man. Yeah. Yeah,
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  and also you know you got colleague zinc you're opposite actor acting opposite of these
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  days. Yes, I'd never seen Colleen before, but that's because I don't
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  even watch our show. You don't watch Daytime at all, he and that
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  I do. But I did not know her before. But she became highly
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  recommended obviously, and couldn't couldn't be a nicer person. Mc county, very
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  nice, very very warm, just wonderful conting. Yeah, I agree,
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  and you're back in the same circles it old Jack Victor and Jack. I
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  started laughing. I thought that's hilarious and also history to bring him in quit
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  Nikki. But of course Victor wouldn't like that. He wouldn't like that it's
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  hilarious. Yeah. Well he has been a wonder off a nemesis all these
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  years, and Peter has been wonderful. So it has been very good.
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  Yeah, I'm clear your relationship yeah, the best. Yeah, and over
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  it's over, Nickky so to speak. Yeah, I'm gonna get very pissed
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  off once I find out about that more. What happens Christmas? Yeah,
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  yeah, no, we love it. We love the fans. We love
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  it. We thought, I thought that's very interesting to bring Peter in that
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  way. And then but because because Victor loves Nicky, he wants Nicky to
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  be okay, I mean he wants to you know, you will always try
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  to make serious. He's okay, that's what Victor does. Josh River,
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  there's done a wonerful job. He's done a very good job. And yeah,
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  it's it's it's a nice atmosphere now, you know. Good for a
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  while. Yeah, so come no good good It was with the case.
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  Yeah, for various reasons. Yeah, none of which I want to get
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  into. Yes, I did. We understand. Well, you've been out
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  to me, been you've been you've been through us ups and downs. I
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  mean all shows have ups and downs, and you've seen it all. When
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  you see you've been there, you see it all exactly, you know.
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  So it must be nice to come into work and do work that you're like,
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  I like this, this is good. It's it's Look every morning I
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  drive you work of from look around me and say, my man, I'm
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  lucky, you know, very fortunate. Really. I remember coming to this
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  town when I was nineteen and didn't know so and every day I drive across.
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  That's the other guy. And I remember staying a little Fleeback hotel and
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  Britain Way and Sanma Sani doesn't exist anymore. And I thought, what do
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  I do in this town? What I've been down looking for jobs? And
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  I saw a lot of guys scurrying back and forth, jumping in out of
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  cars in a restaurant restaurant road. Yep, right there, I know where
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  that is. I don't think it is. I introduce myself and I said,
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  do you need you need someone to do this as well? Yeah,
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  we can use someone else. Come back on Monday morning. My first job
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  in la I came back Monday morning, was given a black pair of pants
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  and a yellow jacket, I remember, and this was one of the top
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  restaurants Losena, And I was, I've always been a car guy, right,
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  you have drive? Yeah? Always? Yeah. I saw these guys
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  jump in and out of Ferraris and Porsches and Bentley's myselves. Ship. I
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  don't do that, right. So I got the job. Dollar twenty five
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  an hour, dollar twenty five an hour. You can top it off,
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  you know, didn't even ex even man open the door, bring the car
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  ub and the doorman would keep the tip. I was gonna ask you,
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  so you don't get tips, keep the tip. Okay, you saw what
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  you were getting, Well, come here, keep the tip. Okay.
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  We got a dollar twenty five an hour, right, unbelievable. That's when
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  which kept the tip. Anyway, you got a lesson in Hollywood, didn't
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  You got a lesson? I said. They got to be a place where
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  I make more money. So they worked for beacons, moving furniture. Beacons.
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  I've heard beacons moving furniture. Yes, I was strong that physical work.
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  And yep, I was assigned to a truck with an older American Geezer.
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  And I'll never forget. We loaded pianos and all kinds of stuff.
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  I remember carrying out the refrigerator to nod Ladies home. Someoneurest right, yeah,
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  and you know if French, he's on top, I'm at the bottom
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  holding on. Go upstairs, tricking the stairs, and you're holding on.
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  And she was on top of the landing and Captain saying, now don't touch
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  this and don't touch that, And he said, and I'll never forget.
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  I remember the day, of the time of day, remember the light coming
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  through it. He said, Lady will you shut the fuck up. So
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  I said, that sounds great. I hadn't been in America for too long.
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  I didn't know all this right, I said, he's turning a verb
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  into a noun. I tried to. I will never forget it. I've
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  been that word. They always they always done the bad words first, the
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  bad words first. Well, I'm I'm excited. I'll be there. I'll
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  be at the M's in the red carpet. I'm looking forward to seeing you
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  there and talking to you in person. Congratulations on everything, on everything's everything
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  with you. We're good. You know. Last year was tough. I
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  had some family stuff go on, plus the strikes and all this stuff we
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  have was tough here in our part of the business, the press business.
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  But I'm doing good. This year's rebounding. We're rebounding. Everything is pretty
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  good, and I feel good. Like I said, I had a birthday
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  next week. I feel good. You know. I've been working out and
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  trying to eat better, I would said doctor recently, and the insides are
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  good so far. So yeah. So we're hanging in there. We're hanging
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  there. Except turning fifty five, I got I gotta watch this stuff now.
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  Nothing wrong with the tequila, Jude. No, that's wrong at all,
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  trust me, trust me, not at all. But thank you for
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  asking. I'm I'm doing We're doing good. We're doing good on the side.
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  We're doing good anyway. So a lot of stuff going on in the
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  world, yes, monot, I know talking not coming to stage. Yes,
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  anyway, a lot of stuff going on, you know, Yes,
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  a very important year, some of it, A lot of it is not
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  too pleasant. No, I've always believed in this country. I really believe
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  there's a basic decency in this country, and I know that people will hold
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  on to the democracy. Yes, that's all I'm going to say. I
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  agree with you. For those who want America to become isolationists, they couldn't
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  be more wrong. I grew up in the country that was me free American.
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  Yeah. I come from the continent that was made free by American troops
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  black and white. I know. Let me remind you of all that.
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  And this country has always stood in the end for it's better angels that are
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  part of the American Constitution and the bridd of rights. Yea, all men
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  are created equal. And whether that has always been the reality as we know
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  it has not, but at least is an ideal to strive to talk.
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  I agree, America has given the world that ideal. Really, Europe is
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  essentially free because of America. You must remember that if my country, Germany,
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  and that regime and the Hitler had not been opposed by America, Germany
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  would have beaten the Russians, it had beaten the French in two weeks,
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  and it had driven the Rits out of Dunkirk. All right, right,
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  so don't ever underestimate the enormous sacrifices made by American Yeah, and it's troops,
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  I agree, whites and blacks. Yeah, yeah, you need to
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  remind you of the ten answer black pilots who played a role in the air
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  force of American troops. I mean to sicily and then normally and then up
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  the boot, etc. America has been a lot of good to a lot
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  of people in the world. By defeating Japan, we created democracies in Southeast
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  Asia that didn't exist before. Right, So we can be critical of our
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  country. Vietnam was one of those, the Iraq invasion was one of those.
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  But beyond that, America sounded an enormous amount of good and culturally,
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  you know, my first impression of America. I was thirteen, No many
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  min yeah, thirteen. My father died in nineteen fifty three. This was
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  in nineteen fifty four, and Louis Armstrong came to my hometown. Wo whoa
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  right less welcome? What an impression. I'll never forget it. Yeah,
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  there's what handkerchief in the trumpet? But yeah, oh yeah yeah in the
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  changso to gochinggan. Oh yeah, I tried to imitated about a rough voice.
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  How funny. Yeah, you have that kind of grab that gravelly yeah,
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  gravely voice. Lioneldhampton came later on Elvisespreshley later. Yeah, American culture,
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  I tell you, wow, yep, yeah, my I have my
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  I have my great grandfather's flag and I have my grandfather's flag. So they
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  both they both served, so I got them both. So yes, and
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  you know they were black, so they served, they served, So I
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  do I have their flags. I remember the decency of is you know,
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  like he became president and in nineteen fifty three, I think, yeah,
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  he's a Republican. No time, there were some there's a Republican party that
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  I respected. Oh yeah, it's a different Yeah, it was different back
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  there. Yes, one has metamorphos into now. Yeah, yeah, I
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  agree anyway, love American culture, love American sports. Yes, I wish
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  I come earlier. I won the German youth championship in discus and javelin and
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  shop. Yeah. And I remember our training facilities. It consisted of push
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  ups in prints, you know, yes, good afford ways. Wow.
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  Remember one thing, America will always be leading in sports always, you know
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  why, no country in the world. That's the opportunities that American kids have
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  in every high school, every university. That's true. Right. The German
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  training centers the top training centers. Then West Germany had two or three.
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  We had to join the club. We had to pay to join the club.
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  Oh wow, no showers nothing, wow, we paid to join the
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  club. And East Germany was different anyway. When I came to America in
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  scholarship at the University of Montana in Missouli, in track and field, yeah,
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  the coach showed me around the facilities like, wow, look at this,
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  yes, wage anyway, right, ice baths, massage tables, huge
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  track, football field, soccer fields, tennis, sports, basketball, volleyball.
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  You don't find that anywhere Europe except in saber centers. So I've always
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  said, if Europe ever adopts the American system. Watch out. Now you
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  see in basketball, for example, in Serbia and Creatia they play basketball.
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  Yeah, the Djokovic, Yeah, look for the Warriors, Djokovic for the
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  Nuggets. Ye, trus me. Then you got to watch out. As
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  long as this system prevails here, as long as they don't have that any
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  rest in the world, America will always predominate in sports, always period.
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  There's a simple reason for it. That's it. I grew up playing sports.
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  It was just it was just a four right there, because play of
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  a small child. It was just it was available to me every high school.
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  Yeah yeah, yeah, I find a tennis gode in Germany. That's
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  crazy. Oh, come out to get it. Belong to special club and
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  paid dues and are you kidding? Yeah, but I I knew the win
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  sisters when they were eleven or twelve years old. The old man used to
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  come buy Revera country club update times, Yeah, and just gave from the
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  used balls and all that and had ten astronomers for them. And well even
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  they in Compton had a chance to play on a public court right there we
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  were. That's where you talked to. Yeah, that's one of the amazing
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  stories ever in sports. How we talked those two girls to become the best
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  in the room. I know who you know, the opportunity anyway, that's
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  a side note. We could talk forever. Yes, I know you'd be
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  cool. Yes, you see mister Eric, and I'll see you in a
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  month or so, probably there in the red carpet as as you're there with
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  your colleagues from Young and Wrestless, Folks, watch Young and Restless. It's
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  weekdays on CBS and the day Tami's are on June seventh, so check that
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  out. Then, thanks for watching. We'll see you next time.