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This Isn’t Old Man Music: Mary Lynn Rajskub · I Am All In with Scott Patterson

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  Speaker 1: I am all in, that's you.
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  Speaker 2: This Isn't Old Man Music with Scott Patterson.
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  Speaker 3: Everything You've ever wanted to know.
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  Speaker 1: About the music of Gilmore Girls. He everybody, Scott Patterson.
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  Speaker 1: I am Alden Podcast one eleven Productions. iHeartRadio Media, iHeart podcast.
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  Speaker 1: This Isn't Old Man's Music with Marylynn Rice cub Hello,
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  Speaker 1: mary Lynn? How you doing? You know or your lover?
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  Speaker 1: She's a comedian. She's Chloe on the Fox series twenty four.
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  Speaker 1: She's Gale the Snail and it's always Sonny and Philadelphia
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  Speaker 1: my hometown. Maryland is also starring in the second season
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  Speaker 1: of her Netflix series North of north Man.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, get you go. Thank you for that lovely
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  Speaker 3: intro though, so night and you said my name correctly,
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  Speaker 3: you know.
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  Speaker 1: We we worked on that and we took bets and
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  Speaker 1: I think I just won about fifteen dollars.
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  Speaker 3: It was pretty great. And you have Detroit had on.
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  Speaker 3: I'm from the Detroit area.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I just I can't get enough of this logo.
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  Speaker 1: I just ye, I love it. I love it pretty fantastic.
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  Speaker 1: I was just up there. I love that place. I
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  Speaker 1: love I love Michigan, I love Detroit, I love the
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  Speaker 1: whole I love the whole vibe and Gilmore Girls fan
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  Speaker 1: are gonna remember Marylynn as one of Starr's Hollows memorable
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  Speaker 1: troubadors and as the girlfriend in Kirk's movie, appearing in
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  Speaker 1: two of Kirk's movies.
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  Speaker 3: Double Trouble for Me, I'm the gilm Girls.
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  Speaker 1: It sure is Maryland. How are you doing.
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  Speaker 3: So good?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? So good? Yeah, well we see it in in
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  Speaker 1: SEO episode nineteen Teach Me Tonight Kirk girlfriend, and then
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  Speaker 1: again as a town troupe Do Our Season six, episode
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  Speaker 1: twenty two parties, Yes, how did you? How did you
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  Speaker 1: get these roles?
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  Speaker 3: You know, way back when we're talking about the past
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  Speaker 3: where we've been around for a while. Amy Sherman Palladino
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  Speaker 3: was a huge La comedy fan. I mean, I think
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  Speaker 3: she's a comedy fan in general, and we know when
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  Speaker 3: you can see by her vast incredible work. When she
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  Speaker 3: likes something, she celebrates it. So she used to come
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  Speaker 3: to this local show, what was it called on cabaret
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  Speaker 3: that they used to do in West Hollywood, and I
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  Speaker 3: was fighting to get on a local show that show
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  Speaker 3: as somebody new to La. So yeah, it was sort
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  Speaker 3: of the beginning of my stand up I was coming
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  Speaker 3: from art school. I was like a performance art type
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  Speaker 3: of person, and then a friend of mine at the
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  Speaker 3: time we were learning how to play guitar and we
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  Speaker 3: ended up doing it on stage, and I think that
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  Speaker 3: Amy was just aware of the scene of the comedy
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  Speaker 3: scene and had seen me or us enough and asked
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  Speaker 3: me if I wanted to jump in and be a truerdard. Now.
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  Speaker 3: I was terrified because I probably still to this day
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  Speaker 3: only no three chords on the guitar. And I thought,
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  Speaker 3: I can do this. I can do a song for
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  Speaker 3: thirty seconds. I can hold it down and look like
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it seems silly. But it was a challenge
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  Speaker 3: for me because you know, I wanted to be the part.
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  Speaker 3: But it was terrifying, but just enough so I was like,
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  Speaker 3: come on, you can get through this. They're gonna cut
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  Speaker 3: away from you and got enough of my juicy juicy
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  Speaker 3: song in there. But yeah, that was second, and then
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  Speaker 3: filmed by Kirk was first. But it was because she
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  Speaker 3: saw us. That was a long winded answer of she
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  Speaker 3: saw me in the local LA scene and then.
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  Speaker 1: She finally approached you one night after a show or
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  Speaker 1: she got in touch with your agent. How'd she get it.
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  Speaker 3: I think it was through my agent, and I think
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  Speaker 3: it was. You know, she's a fan of yours, which
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  Speaker 3: is the greatest thing if you ever are lucky enough
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  Speaker 3: to hear that as an actor or a performer. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: those are some of my best jobs. Is when the
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  Speaker 3: person who's in charge has the vision enough to know
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  Speaker 3: what they like and know what they want, and then
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  Speaker 3: also the huge, you know, ego boost that you get
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  Speaker 3: if you're in that vicinity and get to be that.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, I just love her.
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  Speaker 1: Well, a lot of people know you for your comedy
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  Speaker 1: and acting, but what the musical side, Yes, how's that developing?
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  Speaker 1: Are you still incorporating that into your eye?
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  Speaker 3: I sure am not that developed? And that ended. It
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  Speaker 3: started as a comedy band with a friend of mine
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  Speaker 3: who is now very well known for her murder podcast.
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  Speaker 3: I'm such a like old person. I'm like, what's the
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  Speaker 3: name of that murder podcast? It's Karen Kogariff, who back
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  Speaker 3: back then she was learning how to play guitar, and
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  Speaker 3: she recruited me and then we became a club for
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  Speaker 3: girls who want to learn how to play guitar. And
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  Speaker 3: of course because we were both comedians, not knowing what
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  Speaker 3: we were doing on guitar, but still writing songs anyway,
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  Speaker 3: and every time we would screw up, we would just
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  Speaker 3: talk in between, and so we put that on stage
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  Speaker 3: and became the Girl's Guitar Club and we were really
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  Speaker 3: flying high for two three years before we disbanded. And
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  Speaker 3: it was in that period of time that the Troubadour
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  Speaker 3: job happened.
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  Speaker 1: Oh okay, got you? Would you say that you were
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  Speaker 1: fans of the Smothers Brothers.
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  Speaker 3: Sure, tangentially of course.
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  Speaker 1: So who were your big influences in your in your comedy?
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  Speaker 1: Who really fed you?
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  Speaker 2: Who?
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  Speaker 1: Why did you want to become a comedian?
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  Speaker 3: I never really identified with comedians. I just was funny
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  Speaker 3: and I didn't know I was being funny. When I
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  Speaker 3: first started, I would get laughs in between the jokes
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  Speaker 3: because I was doing performance art and art school, and
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  Speaker 3: then I was making fun of performance art. And then
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  Speaker 3: over the years I started steering it towards knowing how
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  Speaker 3: to get the laugh on purpose instead of by accident.
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  Speaker 1: Interesting, the accidental comedian brilliant.
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  Speaker 2: All right?
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  Speaker 1: Well, the song you sang in the show is credited
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  Speaker 1: with many different titles. One is Lost Volfo the other
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  Speaker 1: car Song. The other one is eighty nine Volvo?
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  Speaker 2: What is it?
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  Speaker 1: Who wrote it? What's the title? Who wrote the song?
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  Speaker 3: Whoa?
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  Speaker 2: Whoa?
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  Speaker 3: Whoa? This is a hard hitting question. You started to
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  Speaker 3: get angry there. What's going on here?
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  Speaker 1: That's what people want to know.
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  Speaker 3: Now, all those titles are mine. I'll take credit for
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  Speaker 3: all of them. I think the songs called eighty nine Vovo,
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  Speaker 3: I wrote it about my eighty nine Volvo Scott. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: so in your face with that. I wrote all six
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  Speaker 3: lines of that song. Honestly, I think the song was
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  Speaker 3: probably I got two minutes out of it. I actually
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  Speaker 3: did write the song. But yes, it was in that
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  Speaker 3: time period where I was playing with Karen, so I
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  Speaker 3: was in the mindset of like, I can do this.
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  Speaker 3: I can focus long enough to strum, you know, And
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  Speaker 3: if you would have watched thirty more seconds, I'm sure
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  Speaker 3: my rhythm would have falled apart, fell fun fallen apart.
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  Speaker 1: What kind of guitar do you play?
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  Speaker 3: I don't play anymore, but I think I had a
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  Speaker 3: baby Taylor for a while travel guitar and she and I.
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  Speaker 3: You know, back when we were doing our comedy act,
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  Speaker 3: we actually opened for quite a few people. People really
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  Speaker 3: enjoyed us like we opened for Amy Mann at Largo.
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  Speaker 3: We for the Tubes. Do you remember the band that
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  Speaker 3: cheen Sure? They saw us somewhere and had us open
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  Speaker 3: for them somewhere in West Hollywood. I can't remember the venue,
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  Speaker 3: but we really got around a little bit. It was
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  Speaker 3: really fun and we had you know, originals, and we
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  Speaker 3: did some covers, and you know, we were kind of
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  Speaker 3: good in our in our not goodness, and it was
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  Speaker 3: foolproof because we had that way. We were a club
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  Speaker 3: for girls who wanted to learn how to play guitar.
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  Speaker 3: So if we made mistakes, it was just part of
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  Speaker 3: the act. And if we got caught up and talking
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  Speaker 3: in the middle of a song, if one of us
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  Speaker 3: started monologuing, you know, so be it.
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  Speaker 1: Any is there any video that people can enjoy?
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  Speaker 3: There is a short film by a guy of the
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  Speaker 3: name of Ruben Fleischer who went on to become a
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  Speaker 3: big movie director. He saw us live and we were
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  Speaker 3: actually one of his first things that he made because
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  Speaker 3: he was just starting out, and he said, I want
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  Speaker 3: you guys are great, I want to make a short
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  Speaker 3: film of you. And of course we had attitudes because
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  Speaker 3: we're like, you know, we didn't trust anybody We're like,
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  Speaker 3: what do you what are you trying to get from us?
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  Speaker 3: And he said, no, I love you guys. Let's make
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  Speaker 3: a short film and so you you can google that film.
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  Speaker 3: Really pretty funny. E from the Eels is in it,
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  Speaker 3: and our characters both work at a thrift shop and
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  Speaker 3: we want to be rock stars in comedy and guitar players.
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  Speaker 1: Gotcha? All right, I'm gonna check that out. Did Amy
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  Speaker 1: Sharon Paladino give you any specific guidance on tone or
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  Speaker 1: style or she just let you run with it.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure she did, because that's how she is. She's
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  Speaker 3: going to tell you what's going on and set you
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  Speaker 3: up for success and want you to win. So I'm
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  Speaker 3: sure at the time there was you know, I just
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  Speaker 3: really think she's such a you know, she's a monumental
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  Speaker 3: artist and also a giver a lover of artists, and
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  Speaker 3: so I'm sure she just you know, described where we
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  Speaker 3: were and kind of the premise behind why the troubadours
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  Speaker 3: were there. But as far as what I did, she
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  Speaker 3: was very trusting and just like, we'll see what you
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  Speaker 3: do when you do it. So it was more like
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  Speaker 3: she set the scene for us and the tone and
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  Speaker 3: then kind of trusted. She wasn't too worried about what
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  Speaker 3: I would do. And again, that's what that's such a
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  Speaker 3: testament to somebody who has vision and can see in
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  Speaker 3: other people what they do.
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  Speaker 1: What are your most memorable interactions with cast while filming
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  Speaker 1: your episodes? What was it like working with with Sean Gunn.
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  Speaker 3: I remember him being a little bit like his character,
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  Speaker 3: you know, which I was a full on weirdo as well.
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  Speaker 3: And I remember everybody just being cool, you know. It's
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  Speaker 3: it's always a it's always a good vibe when you're
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  Speaker 3: on something that's good, that people love and you feel
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  Speaker 3: like you're getting to do your craft. Those are usually
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  Speaker 3: really nice sets to be on. And it was and
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  Speaker 3: it was you know, I'm sure it was there a
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  Speaker 3: day or like, not even a whole day, you know,
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  Speaker 3: And for me at that time, I probably was just like, Wow,
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  Speaker 3: this is so cool. Would be so cool to be
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  Speaker 3: a regular on a show like this, you know. For me,
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  Speaker 3: it was like a day imagining what it would be
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  Speaker 3: like to be coming to that set every day. And
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  Speaker 3: I was a little bit you know, the trubidour thing.
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  Speaker 3: Even though it's a stranger conceit made more sense to
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  Speaker 3: me than even being in his short film. I remember
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  Speaker 3: being a little bit nervous about that because I didn't
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  Speaker 3: really grasp how it would play out, which is fine,
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  Speaker 3: you know, stuff like that happens as an actor all
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  Speaker 3: the time. When you sometimes don't you know, sometimes it's
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  Speaker 3: not for you to know you can't. It's not like
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, how is this going to be edited together?
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  Speaker 3: Which sometimes we do think of stuff like that, but
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  Speaker 3: you know, you kind of just have to let it
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  Speaker 3: go and go all right, that's not my job. I'm
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  Speaker 3: just going to the director's happy, the creator's happy. I'm
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  Speaker 3: going to let this one go because I didn't. I
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  Speaker 3: couldn't really understand, and then when I saw it cut together,
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  Speaker 3: it's like, yeah, it's really weird. It doesn't connect to
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  Speaker 3: anything else. Yeah, So that can be scary when you're
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  Speaker 3: you know, a day player, so put into a story.
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  Speaker 3: But now this was like a story outside of a
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  Speaker 3: story that takes place in Kirk's mind. So in a
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  Speaker 3: way that maybe makes it mistake proof because it's sure
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  Speaker 3: because it's out there. But to me in that moment,
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  Speaker 3: I remember going, I don't really understand what Kirk's thing is.
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  Speaker 3: But I didn't have to that comes from the ego
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  Speaker 3: going like I want to get this right right, which
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  Speaker 3: we always have to let go of it when starts anyway.
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  Speaker 1: Right, all right, Let's say there's a Christmas movie, just
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  Speaker 1: hypothetically speaking, Gilmore Christmas movie, and they want you to return.
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  Speaker 3: I'm nervous already to pick up the guitar again.
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  Speaker 1: So there you go.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe do I return as as Kirk's real life girlfriend?
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  Speaker 1: There you go? That would be a character you could create. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: So what happened to Lulu? Because that's his that's his
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  Speaker 1: that's his girlfriend.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what did happen?
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  Speaker 1: That's a that's a storyline right there. Yeah, to be explored.
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  Speaker 3: You know, maybe we get into a fight. Maybe maybe
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  Speaker 3: I just want to be his girlfriend, you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, it's uh, you know, maybe he's maybe he's just
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  Speaker 1: still with Lulu. He's just two timing, you know. Oh no,
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  Speaker 1: can you imagine.
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  Speaker 3: When we learned too much about people?
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  Speaker 1: Well, let's talk a little bit about North of North
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  Speaker 1: You filmed it in the Canadian Arctic. Yes, Lord have mercy?
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  Speaker 3: Uh going back there for season two in January, so, yes,
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  Speaker 3: Lord have mercy.
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  Speaker 1: How cold does it get?
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  Speaker 3: Well? In March it was twenty below. So what's it
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  Speaker 3: going to be in January February, Yikes.
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  Speaker 1: Tell us about the show.
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  Speaker 3: The show is based on on a Lamb plays and
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  Speaker 3: she actually is from there ecollow It and so the
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  Speaker 3: two showrunners are from there, and they wanted to create
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  Speaker 3: a show that was centered around indigenous life that was
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  Speaker 3: not heavy and dark and mysterious. So it's very relatable.
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  Speaker 3: It's a really really good show. In fact, I think
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  Speaker 3: people about are fans of Gilmore Girls. I think anybody
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  Speaker 3: would love this show. But you guys will appreciate it
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  Speaker 3: because it's it's relatable. All the characters are relatable, but
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  Speaker 3: yet you're seeing this world that you've never seen before.
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  Speaker 3: So it centers around her trying to break out of
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  Speaker 3: her small life in a town where everybody knows your business,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, she doesn't want to adhere to the
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  Speaker 3: traditional life. And on top of that, she would like
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  Speaker 3: to be a working woman, not a wife and a
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  Speaker 3: mother and that and I my character is the manager
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  Speaker 3: of the community center and I'm sort of the gatekeeper
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  Speaker 3: slash helper, you know, Karen type white savior who then
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  Speaker 3: does she end up saving me? So we have this
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  Speaker 3: like back and forth. You know, I'm an outsider that's
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  Speaker 3: lived in the community for twenty years. I'm married, I
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  Speaker 3: have an Inuit husband, but so it's it's the dynamic
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  Speaker 3: of that. But but you know, the whole show is
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  Speaker 3: her journey of love and career and motherhood and coming
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  Speaker 3: from a very traditional Inuit family and town. So it's
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  Speaker 3: it's pretty amazing. And it was crazy to film up there.
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  Speaker 3: I'm looking forward to going back.
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  Speaker 1: How long, how many episodes? How long you aup there?
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  Speaker 1: What's the shooting schedule?
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know, this is a streaming show for Netflix,
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  Speaker 3: so we first time around, we did eight and and
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  Speaker 3: it was a lot because when you're doing a pilot
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  Speaker 3: and you're figuring out what the show is, and then
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  Speaker 3: we get eight shows done and it's this great accomplishment.
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  Speaker 3: The show comes out great, and then people binge it
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  Speaker 3: and it's over like that. You know, I haven't seen
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  Speaker 3: any scripts yet and no one said anything. I'm just
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  Speaker 3: making this up. But in my mind, I'm going, I
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  Speaker 3: hope they wrote more than eight episodes, Like I'm completely
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  Speaker 3: making this up, but I'm going, maybe we can do twelve,
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  Speaker 3: just you know, since we're all going to go back
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  Speaker 3: up there again. But I know that it's hard. I'm
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  Speaker 3: the writers to pump it out. Yeah, that quickly gone.
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  Speaker 3: Gone are the days of sitcoms where we're doing twenty
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  Speaker 3: four episodes. It's like these streaming shows and especially shows
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  Speaker 3: like this that you know it contains a lot, there's
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  Speaker 3: a lot, there's a lot of layers to creating this
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  Speaker 3: world and all the characters are really well drawn. So
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  Speaker 3: hopefully I'll see some material soon though.
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  Speaker 1: Any other upcoming projects tours people should keep an eye
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  Speaker 1: off for.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I'm always in and out of touring for
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  Speaker 3: stand up. You know, it's hard because it's if I'm acting,
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  Speaker 3: I'm acting. If I'm being a mom, I'm being a mom.
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  Speaker 3: So I try to carve out touring whenever I can,
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  Speaker 3: but nothing until next year because you know, I'm pretty
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  Speaker 3: much gearing up for the Arctic from here on out
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  Speaker 3: to the end of the year.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Well, all the best with that, and thank
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  Speaker 1: you for your time, Marylyn. Please come back in the
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  Speaker 1: Canadian Arctic think.
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  Speaker 3: About me in January February.
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  Speaker 1: We will we will have a great shoot. And thank
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  Speaker 1: you all for the downloads. Keep the cards and letters coming.
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  Speaker 1: Best fans on the planet, and remember where you lead
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  Speaker 1: we will follow all the best everyone.
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  Speaker 2: Dot Hey, everybody, and talk again.
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  Speaker 1: and email us at Gilmore at iHeartRadio dot com.