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Brenda Song · On with Mario Interviews

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  Speaker 1: You're on with Mario Lopez. Sobro Mario Lopez Jody right
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  Speaker 1: now on Zoom actress Brenda's song. How are you doing, Brenda?
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  Speaker 2: I'm good. How are you?
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  Speaker 1: Nice to see you. I saw you for a brief
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  Speaker 1: moment on the red carpet of the Globes, but you
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  Speaker 1: were rushing in. I believe, Yes, we're so I know
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  Speaker 1: everybody was late. It's good to see you though. In
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  Speaker 1: congrats on this new film. I love the title Operation
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  Speaker 1: Taco Gary's I already want to see it right there.
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  Speaker 1: And I like the way it's being described a sci
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  Speaker 1: fi action comedy. Is that Is that pretty accurate?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? I think it is.
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  Speaker 3: It's I would say like a sci fi absurdist buddy
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  Speaker 3: action comedy because it gives a lot of that nods
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  Speaker 3: like that old school like nineties two thousand's absurdist comedy,
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  Speaker 3: like The Dumb and Dumber, the Dude Wears My Car.
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  Speaker 3: You know, this is the end that sort of like
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  Speaker 3: absurds comedy that I feel like we've sort of been missing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And I remember reading the script and being like
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  Speaker 2: what am I reading? Like this is insane in the
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  Speaker 2: best way possible.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, No, we can all use a lot of comedy
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  Speaker 1: right now. So that's great. And the cast is cool. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: Simon Rex, Jason Biggs, dusted all again. That must have
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  Speaker 1: been a fun set.
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  Speaker 3: I always say like this was such a It was
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  Speaker 3: like summer camp, and I feel like I was making
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  Speaker 3: a movie with a bunch of like annoying older brothers who, like,
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  Speaker 3: you know, we're always like I was always like going
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  Speaker 3: leave me alone.
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  Speaker 2: It was so much fun though, because Mikey King is
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  Speaker 2: our writer director.
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  Speaker 3: He is like one of the mainstays that funnier die
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  Speaker 3: and he's so brilliant, and it was just really fraeing
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  Speaker 3: to sort of walk onto set every single day and
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  Speaker 3: it was like the stupidest, craziest, funniest idea one every day.
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  Speaker 3: And he really pushed me to sort of just be
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  Speaker 3: silly and step out of my comfort zone and just
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  Speaker 3: try it.
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  Speaker 2: He goes, if it doesn't work so much, just do it.
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  Speaker 3: And to me, it was really freeing because this was
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  Speaker 3: also the first project I did after having my second baby.
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  Speaker 3: I think he was only seven months when I started
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  Speaker 3: this movie Wow, And so I was just kind of
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  Speaker 3: feeling so like crazy, like so Adlie, I was like,
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  Speaker 3: who am I? I don't know who I am, and
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  Speaker 3: Mikey just really allowed me to have fun and pushed
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  Speaker 3: through like my crazy insecurities and all of that.
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  Speaker 2: He's like, just do it and it was really liberating.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that's great, that's good to hear. What a cool
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  Speaker 1: guy right there. And congrats to on your other show,
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  Speaker 1: Running Point on Netflix alongside Kate Hudson. Of course, for
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  Speaker 1: those who may not be familiar, tell us what it's about.
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  Speaker 3: So Running Point is a show about basically, it's Genie
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  Speaker 3: buss story. She and her family have owned liquors for
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  Speaker 3: many years. They just sold they just sold it this
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  Speaker 3: past year. But it's basically her story and how she
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  Speaker 3: came to run one of the biggest franchises in the
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  Speaker 3: world and the struggles of being, you know, a female
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  Speaker 3: led franchise in a sort of modern day, and also
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  Speaker 3: the just the inner dynamic dynamics and workings of having
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  Speaker 3: your siblings work with you and how crazy that can be.
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  Speaker 3: And give such a fantastic cast here justin the Roue
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  Speaker 3: Scott MacArthur, Juw Tarvar j Ellis. We have such a
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  Speaker 3: lovely cast that to me, that project is like home,
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  Speaker 3: like it's the best. I truly get to live my
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  Speaker 3: best life because I'm such a sports girl and sometimes
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, oh, I really feel like I am running
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  Speaker 3: a team.
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  Speaker 2: It's like my dream job. Yeah. I love Genie.
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  Speaker 1: She's a sweetheart. And you're also working with another friend
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  Speaker 1: of mine, Eva Longoria. You're doing her new film, Fifth Wheel.
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  Speaker 1: How's you guys are in production already?
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  Speaker 2: Huh Yeah, we're filling it out.
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  Speaker 3: This is my one day off and so we rapped
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  Speaker 3: last night late and I was like, guys, I need
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  Speaker 3: to go to sleep, and.
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  Speaker 2: I have like a press day. They're like, what are
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  Speaker 2: you doing?
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  Speaker 3: I was like, Eva is the last person to tell
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  Speaker 3: me to stop, though, because that woman is like the
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  Speaker 3: most impressive woman I've ever met in my life, Like
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  Speaker 3: the most prepared director ever.
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  Speaker 2: I say, I tell people this all.
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  Speaker 3: The time that she prepped for this movie the same
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  Speaker 3: way a mom preps for vacation.
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  Speaker 2: She is there is.
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  Speaker 3: No scenario that we could ever come to face that
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  Speaker 3: she has not packed something for She is so kind
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  Speaker 3: and generous and funny and such an amazing leader. And
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  Speaker 3: I'm having the best time working on the Fifth Wheel because.
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  Speaker 2: It's like hanging out with my girlfriends. Like every day.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, oh my god, the tea that I got today.
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  Speaker 2: Like I'm coming home.
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  Speaker 3: Every day with like a new like led face mask
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  Speaker 3: or like you know, a new vitamin routine or like
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  Speaker 3: a new lip gloss.
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  Speaker 2: Like it's been so much fun.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that's fun. That's great. Yeah, and it's a random
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  Speaker 1: fun fact. I just want to know if it's true
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  Speaker 1: or not. You're a black belt in taekwondo.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, in a minute. I like I started when
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  Speaker 2: I was really young.
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  Speaker 3: It was like an after school activity that basically, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I wanted.
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  Speaker 2: To do ballet.
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  Speaker 3: My brother wanted to do taekwondo. My mom was like,
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  Speaker 3: I only want to take you to two places. And
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  Speaker 3: now I'm having children, I really understand that, and she's
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  Speaker 3: like the ballet. I was like sister taekwondo. And then
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  Speaker 3: I my brother ended up quitting and I I ended
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  Speaker 3: up getting.
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  Speaker 2: My black belt.
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  Speaker 3: Fell lovely that used to compete and all of that,
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  Speaker 3: and like I started working until sweet life really started,
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  Speaker 3: and they wouldn't allow me to do it anymore because
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  Speaker 3: I first of all, I didn't have the time, and secondly,
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  Speaker 3: they didn't want to meet a like you know, have
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  Speaker 3: a sprained ankle. But because of that, I got to
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  Speaker 3: do fun stuff like Wendy Woo and like, you know,
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  Speaker 3: do fun silly stuff.
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  Speaker 1: That's great. That's cool. And how old are the kids now?
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  Speaker 2: Three and four? Oh?
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  Speaker 1: Wow?
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  Speaker 3: Right in the.
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  Speaker 2: It's crazy, I know. Is how many do you have?
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  Speaker 1: Mario three? Three girl and two boys? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: And they're older though, right.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, fifteen, twelve and six?
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god, oh so you are.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: When I say I'm in it, you're in it a
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  Speaker 2: different kind of way.
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  Speaker 1: May force me with you, thank you and you as well.
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  Speaker 1: It's fun though, right.
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  Speaker 2: It's honestly the best. It's made me look at life
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  Speaker 2: with such.
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  Speaker 3: A like with different eyes because another place that we
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  Speaker 3: ran into each other because we're all in Zutopia together.
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  Speaker 2: I know.
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  Speaker 1: Macaulay showed me pictures when we were there, the kids
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  Speaker 1: so cute. He was quick to whip it out.
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  Speaker 3: And the funny thing is it's like it's like projects
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  Speaker 3: like that that I don't think would have necessarily done
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  Speaker 3: if it wasn't for our kids. Because I came the
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  Speaker 3: first movie and this project came, and it came like
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  Speaker 3: really last minute, and we were like, oh my god,
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  Speaker 3: yes of course. And it's like when we went to
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  Speaker 3: the premiere. It was actually my kid's first time at
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  Speaker 3: an event. That was their first premiere ever. And when
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  Speaker 3: we were because they had us all on like the
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  Speaker 3: crazy stage, like all like one hundred like the entire voice,
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  Speaker 3: like one hundred voice actors on stage, and because our
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  Speaker 3: boys don't really understand what we do, they were like
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  Speaker 3: in the audience crying, like the kids crying out. Those
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  Speaker 3: were our kids going.
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  Speaker 2: And they have no idea, they have no context of
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  Speaker 2: like what we do.
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  Speaker 3: So they were so confused why mom and Papa were
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  Speaker 3: on stage.
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  Speaker 2: And so now when we got to do Topia, they
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  Speaker 2: want us to tell them the story about how we
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  Speaker 2: were on stage. I'm like, whatever it gets you to go.
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  Speaker 1: To sleep exactly, exactly exactly. That's awesome. So you're you're
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  Speaker 1: a fire on all cylinders. Good for you, Brenda. That's awesome. Listen, everyone,
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  Speaker 1: please be sure to check out Brenda's a new movie,
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  Speaker 1: Operation Taco Garys, which is in theaters is Friday, and
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  Speaker 1: be on the lookout for season two of Running Point.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for checking in, Brenda.
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  Speaker 2: Awesome. Thank you, Mario.
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  Speaker 1: I'll see you later on with Mario Lopez