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"Behind the Scenes with Rachel Thurow: Tales from 13 Reasons Why and More" · Yeah Buddy! Podcast

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Music.
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Yes, yes. What's going on, world? It's your man, Buddy Ramik,
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and we are back at each other with another episode, the Yeah, Buddy podcast.
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You know how we do every episode. I like to bring one of my friends from the
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movie business or the comedy world, and we sit down, chop it up,
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talk about our adventures, our journey in the entertainment business.
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And this episode is like no other. So if you're a first-time listener,
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thank you for tuning in. If you're a returning friend, hey, yo, welcome back.
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This episode, we got my good friend. We worked on a bunch of movie sets together,
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but I think our first official introduction to each other was working on a commercial with Kevin Hart
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and Steph Curry and stuff like that, but she's worked on TV shows with Ted Danson,
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13 Reasons Why, a whole bunch of other stuff.
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Jaxi, but she's going to get into it right now, stuff like that,
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y'all. But right now, I want y'all to make it live, make it live for my good friend, Mrs.
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Rachel Thurow in the building, y'all. Thank you, Rachel, for tuning in and sitting
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down with the Yeah, Buddy podcast. How you doing?
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Today oh i'm doing good i'm exhausted
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i listen to it all the time obviously we work together
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and it was kind of have the same sense of humor and
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so i know when i see you on set it's going
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to be a fun time do you
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like get into acting let's start with that for the for the for everybody let's
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say how did your journey into the acting and and the movie business start so
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i wanted to be in movies and TV shows and commercials since I was a gang where,
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you know, my mom was like.
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Ah, you know, we're going to do music, they're older, you can get into acting.
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But I grew up a very musical child. And so I played the violin, that kind of stuff.
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And so I ended up maybe about seven or eight years ago, started to finally take
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acting classes and improv and did all that stuff here in Santa Rosa.
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And one of my mentors was like, you know, you should really check out the casting
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calls for 13 reasons why.
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Because even if you go in as a background, you'll get to know how sets work,
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how the actors work, and it should be a pretty good experience.
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And I know usually people either hate being background or they absolutely love it.
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And so clearly I absolutely love it. And so my first just kind of getting my
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foot wet was basically season three of 13 Reasons Why,
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and my very first scene, which there's kind of a punchline to it,
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but basically I was in Monet's Cafe, and the whole thing was sitting around the table.
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And one of my first moves around was whenever they called background,
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I had to get up and get a cup of coffee.
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And so literally when it came time for premiere night, I was so excited.
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I was telling all my friends with the whole cast, you've got to watch it.
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I'm in it. It's amazing. It's going to be so rad.
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They didn't show me probably because I was like with my cup of coffee walking
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around you know not just like acting and so.
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A piece of me did show up it was my purse
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on the back of the chair so that was
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also my first kind of like foray into you may
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be in this movie but that's not a promise you're going to get shown
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so but it was such a good experience and so
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off and on season three season four like
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at one point the casting agent and also wardrobe
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mama d was like damn you're really in this like whole 13 reasons world like
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world you're just like everywhere so it was it was pretty sick i i miss it times
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i think that's always funny especially like when this your first time like being
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on a movie because i had the same experience like when i first was doing like
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background work you're like,
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my first experience of like oh you're not just because you're in front of the
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camera doesn't mean you you're getting camera time and stuff like that and it's
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always it's always funny it's always embarrassing because you're so happy you're
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so excited and you always like you always You're going to bring,
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like, your friends, your family.
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You go, like, I had a big old watch party for, like, the first movie I was in.
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It was, like, some small independent movie called, like, Left and Loose to the Lot.
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And, like, at the premiere, like, I was in the movie. Yeah. But then when it
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got released on, like, DVD, like, the scene got cut out. So, like, I didn't know.
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And they're like, yeah, we have this big old watch party at my house.
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And, like, the scene that I was supposed to, like, it goes, it skips right over
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where I was supposed to be in. You know, it's just all like, gosh.
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I just left. I just left. Yeah.
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And then so like working on 13 repeats Netflix I'm gonna
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be all over the show yeah yeah yeah
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it's like yeah just switch your
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eyes and shit like that but working on exactly I'm sorry I'll say working on
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13 reasons why that was your first time that's how you became SAG part of and
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partly from Jaxi and And so in the middle of,
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I want to say, season four, starting more SAG vouchers.
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And so I got two from them, and then I ended up getting from me.
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And so once you have four, you have to join SAG. You know, you're a muster. That's what I did.
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Looking back later, or if I had to do it all over, get a non-union just a little
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bit longer, try to act in more, you know, maybe student films or,
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you know, something along those lines just to kind of get my chops up a little bit better.
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But, you know, it is what it is You can't go back,
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You can always do the one thing that people That the union hates that It's still all.
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But you've got a lot of Yeah, I've considered A lot of work though A lot of work,
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Yeah, I've been, you know, after 15 Reasons Why I came to the Bay Area, I was submitting for.
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And it was like, well, I'm kind of afraid to do like other stuff,
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like to actually go to the city and, you know, meet other people and things like that.
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And then, you know, once I was out of my shell, I'm like, what the heck was I waiting for?
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And so my first opportunity was Jaxi, and I found out how cool that was.
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And obviously on Jaxi, we're also from 13. and so
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you're bound
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to know at least one person one actor or you
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know a bunch of crew something like that and so i've
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yet to have like a like a
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bad time on set to be honest and if you do that's what
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your kindle is for or your phone yeah yeah
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yeah there's too much there's too much to do for you to have
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a bad time like on a set and like one thing i was gonna
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say like with like 13 reasons why because like
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i missed that whole 13 reasons like paying
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and stuff like that i don't know why like i just felt like i don't
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know what i was doing at the time i mean i'm still active but i was doing a lot like just
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do a lot of standard work and stuff like that but i noticed there was definitely
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a huge pipeline and just a whole family that kind of like sprung like everybody
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like everybody who you see playing like a major part now like on these film
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sets whether it's crew or even some of the actors and stuff like that,
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they all kind of came from that 13 Reasons Why branch.
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Because even like Devin, when you see Devin out there doing his AD work or whatever
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it is on crew and shit like that, it's crazy. Right.
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It is. It is. And I'm about 13.
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Everything I know about the biz, even the tops of that wardrobe will like what I'm wearing.
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Exactly what expression to have it was literally
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the best teaching set ever because they knew these kids were so
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green and they knew who was coming on in norcal was maybe
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you know a newbie and they didn't know how to act on
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set and so they would give us these emails with almost like a booklet of what
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to expect what to do what to bring and almost how to act not just like how to
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act on screen and like smile or pose or whatever like that but like you know
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you're a professional now You can't talk on set, like,
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you know, while they're rolling and stuff. It was, I kept a few of them.
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Them and i still like to go back and go damn because they
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didn't have to do that but to make
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everybody's lives easier and i think a lot of people that would pay attention
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to those rules they would go and oh my gosh this is so funny i don't know if
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you know marcy she's like a little petite woman i would say she's probably upper
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50s yeah he was one of the main pas on third,
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the first day, I didn't know not to touch anything.
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Not that I was like feeling all the props and stuff, but I, without even thinking,
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since I was seated on set near the door and I saw the crew coming back and forth
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like ladders and stuff, I would open the door for them or I would help them.
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And at the end of the first day, Marcy's like, hey, you know,
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don't, it didn't go unnoticed that you were extremely helpful.
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And I think that's why I kept getting booked and booked and booked and booked
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on that show because, you know, they knew I was either, I was just going to
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be helpful. I was going to pay attention.
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And, you know, whenever a PA would say something, I'd be like the little,
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you know, go for, okay, what do they say? What do they say?
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It's just, I've loved it so much. And I'm, I'm thankful to have that experience.
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Yeah. There's definitely that, that atmosphere of being on, like how you say,
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like, what should you kind of like stay like non-union or,
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you know, stay non-union a little bit longer, but like I said,
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one of the benefits that you get from consistently working on a professional
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set is you do develop that professionalism and you understand,
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you learn what it takes to move up in this business.
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Because you learn very quickly that being talented is the least important thing
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when it comes to being on a movie set.
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Because, I mean, even just being an extra amount, there's 30 of us, all of us are talented.
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You know what I mean? So it's definitely something that Being on a professional
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movie set That you learn What you learn.
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You may even learn that, hey, I don't got what it takes But you're just going
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to learn What it takes To get to that level,
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Absolutely, I was actually on set A couple years ago in Yosemite And they were
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filming a pilot And I actually even got a couple of lines And it was super Super
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cool But besides the point, one woman drive up.
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I think she was at least five hours away. And she decided to drive up. They had booked her.
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She lasted two hours. And she's like, this isn't for me. And she left.
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Frickin' you have sanity. And so...
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You know, it is something you realize. And I've seen people act very,
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very, like some of the extras act very, very badly on set, like back in 13 and
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on a couple of movie sets. And then I never saw them again.
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So people talk like in this business, you know, people talk in every business,
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but especially if you want to get consistent and work in this,
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they aren't going to hire someone who is like on his phone or,
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you know, do something while they're on set.
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Such a type of person keeps talking in all this stuff.
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Yeah, you definitely learned it. Yeah, you definitely learned what it
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takes to be because just just to be on a
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set like i mean like like if i
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if i don't have the business acumen to even like be
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a background extra man what do you think they gonna expect to trust me being
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on like a movie set on like the league the number one on the call sheet number
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two on the call sheet i'm all like come on now bro yeah never gonna happen yeah
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yeah so and And I've heard that there are some, you know,
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to be honest, I've never seen one of the lead actors lose it. I'm sure it happens.
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I'm sure there's been Christian Bale moments. But to this day,
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still, I'm yet to see an A-list actor lose it.
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You know, a couple of people kind of like laughed, just kind of like kept the
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tension, which is completely different. But I've never seen anyone.
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Oh, actually, no, that's not exactly true.
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I did see one But he's like A D-list actor And it was on 13 So I don't know
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If you want me To tell that story I'm not gonna cut it out But you can tell
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me I don't give a fuck It was pretty crazy So.
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Okay. Yeah. Cool. So the mom, I'm like blinking on her name right now,
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but she played Bryce Walker's mom.
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And on Desperate Housewives, she's amazing and just so freaking beautiful.
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So they gave her the option to direct one of the episodes.
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And so what she had to write, the boxing episode, the boxing match between Tony and like some rival.
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And this was in season four, I want to say.
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So anyway so she's directing she's freaking
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amazing everything's going smooth and she was giving
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notes to this one other actor and
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he okay he ended up being tony's boxing
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coat one of the cops he was kind of like sandy blonde hair not not the sheriff
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he's supernatural but this other lesser-known actor and i guess she was just
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like okay let's during the scene or you can try that and she's also an actor
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like she knows what she's talking about i looked at her and he's like
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i know what to do just leave me
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alone like super rude and a bunch of us were just like because we were in the
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first row and we were looking at him like hey you're a dick and it's like she's
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still getting jobs i haven't seen him since you know not a major character but
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he was definitely up there you know part of the show that kind of thing but i always,
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I don't know if he would have done that with anybody else, but just from the
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perception that I saw or the view that I saw, I was like.
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Dude, you're a straight-up asshole. That's so not cool.
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She's used to it. She's been in the business first, so she just kind of let
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it roll off. But I managed to lock eyes with her, and I just kind of shifted it nice.
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She was just like, what are you going to do?
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That was always super nice to everybody on set. yeah
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like so you're gonna run into those few people and stuff like that but you don't really
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get that up here like san francisco i think that's because
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most of our film sets like even if it is like like
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a big production like a marvel or like i said like a netflix show like the crew
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it's still kind of like gives you like that independent like it's like that
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feel of like i'm on an independent film set like it's like okay yeah we're working
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but it's it's a family type of thing or you know a very welcoming atmosphere to realize,
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it's not what you're going to get down in L.A.
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No. I've yet been on a film set in L.A.
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I've been on some really, really big production. Venom 2, Matrix 3,
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was it 3? It was 4. 3 or 4, Matrix 4. It was 4, yeah.
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It was 4, wasn't it? It was 4? Yeah. Or? It was 4.
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I can't remember if you did. Yeah, so that was like super, super rad.
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I just kind of see everyone off there and runners are off there and.
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You're right, in the office building. Yeah, that tall ass, on the 28th floor
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for no reason. They said, like, why are we up on this tall ass fucking building?
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Yes. That's right. We've been in so much stuff together. Yeah.
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I was thinking along those lines, too, because the Chase commercial refers to Fitzley Net. Mm-hmm.
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Yeah. And then, oh, my gosh, that commercial, the Wells Fargo one,
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where you were hit by the drone.
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Yeah, I got hit by the drone. Yeah, I got hit by...
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And I still ain't seen that commercial. It's terrible.
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Yeah. Yeah. That was funny. Yeah. We was going through our whole list of like.
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I haven't either. I was going to ask you. No, I still ain't seen that.
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I'll be trying to look for it. You can do whatever. I still want to see it.
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Yeah. But like, it's funny. Like if we were to go through like.
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We would go back and have like a movie marathon of like all the stuff that we was like.
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Like I'd have like all the movies that I was an extra in. And then you'd have
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all the movies that she was an extra in.
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And probably over like probably over
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50% of the movies we'd probably be in together. we just didn't know it.
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I'm guessing so. Yeah. Yeah, exactly.
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Exactly. I know, because I usually all follow this just so I can look back.
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Yeah. Yeah. And so I'm sure your name is like on most of them.
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Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. And then what were we just talking about before that?
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I lost my train of thought. But if not, we'll just skip over to the next subject.
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Okay, yeah, we'll just skip to the next subject.
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We'll come back to it, though. I don't know if I got my memory.
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But so anyways, like I said, we talked about,
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oh that's right we was talking about the like la work
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and stuff like that yeah like i've never been down to la like for work
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but like you said like working on the matrix and stuff like
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that like they bring like la crew up there
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okay you would just feel like just the type of
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the different type of energy that they bring and stuff like that i'm like
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man it's like that like i was like she's sweet yes yeah
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yeah it's crazy because it's like sometimes they'll use some
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of the norcal cruise and it's nice to see a familiar face but
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like the la cruise they don't know what we're all
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about and they don't yeah so yeah it's that like kind
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of tiny amount of oh gosh yeah yeah like you just walk up to one of the dudes
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you're like hey hello how you doing today yeah they like that the fit still
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like what do you mean how's my day going what do you what do you think how do
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you think my day i'm like oh my bad bro i was just trying to be polite my bad
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i'm gonna just i'm gonna leave you alone and shit, you know?
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But, I mean, the Matrizes have grown up anyway since then. It's like,
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you can't get me alone. Yeah.
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It's like, take that Dodgers count and get the F out.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was like, no, see, Lakers, Lakers, I'm friends with you.
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Lakers fan, Lakers fan, I know. They're like, no, leave us alone.
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Leave me alone. Bye, man.
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I was like, my bad. They going online. 18 hours, 18 hour work days and shit
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like that. Just having to sleep in their cars.
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Yeah, I'd be pissed too. I'm like, leave me alone. Don't let us have my days going.
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They don't even know what the day is. Oh my gosh.
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Yeah, for sure. Yeah, we haven't had any super long days like that for a while.
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They've all kind of been pretty short. I think the longest so far has been about 20 days.
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Which i don't mind at all like i'll be there as long as you want me but i remember
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even on 13 or jacksy or some of the other ones i think the longest days so far
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on record for me is about 17 or 18 hours and that was actually the same boxing
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match on 13 and by the end we're just like,
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this is this is not fun anymore we're tired yeah like this is this has been
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a day yeah this has been a day, like, literally.
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I understand, like, we get paid a day room, but when we're 18,
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I'm like, no, this has been a day.
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And it's going to take up the next day because, boy, you get home,
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the only thing you're about to do is you're about to sleep.
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Depending on how long I've been on that set for, I don't know,
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but I'd be in bed for a while after being on the set.
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I don't know what it is, but I'd be like, damn, I don't do nothing.
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Don't do nothing. Just sit down and be on my tablet and talking to people all
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day. I'd be clutch after that.
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You don't understand yeah so true so true
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and what one thing
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might be kind of like in the first year even though he's kind of sometimes i'm
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still asks what time do you think no i'm
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on set we don't have yeah like punch
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cards like we don't have set time of you know it's just
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gonna be like an eight to five day like that does not exist and
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it's fine you know but it's like it's hard to plan
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stuff and it's so funny because back in the day ago when there was so much work
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like 18 19 and yeah
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not so much but it was the kind of thing where i would
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book like a day to go with friends you know like alex alexandra i would be like
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okay well we're gonna hang out i just got booked oh it's okay i just got booked
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too cool we're gonna get paid to hang out today yeah so that's been happening
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a little bit more now, which is with ice, too.
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Yeah. Hopefully work does start to bomb. Oh,
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yeah. I remember Wallbanger.
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Wallbanger was fun because we could talk about it because it's already filmed
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and stuff all like that, but that was the first time we ditched the movie set. We left.
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So for anybody that listed it right now that doesn't know what Wallbanger is, It's very horrible,
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cheesy Well, it's a novel But it was turned into a movie A rom-com or whatever
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you want to call it And it's produced and directed By Elon Musk's sister.
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Which says enough It was terrible It was terrible,
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Don't support us in this It was horrible You know that family don't get along
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Based on the budget for that movie He didn't want to give her a penny for that
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movie He said, hell no. Oh, my God.
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The food was horrible. It's like, who read that novel? I've never even heard it. It was so terrible.
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But the thing that also kind of is that at the end of the night,
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she wasn't picked up in a Tesla.
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It was something like Escalator or something. I'm like, I see. Yeah.
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She's like the rival or something like that. She's like, I'm driving.
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Matter of fact, she drove just to make sure no self-driving or nothing yet.
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That was it. But that was Yeah.
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That was bad And it's always bad when they make you Have holding outside Because
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it was so cold Yeah Yeah, that was only with you guys But it wasn't, yeah,
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Yeah, bring out the heaters And like Oh, consider it daddy-o Daddy-o,
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yeah And like when people say like we're sitting outside It's not like we're
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sitting outside like we're sitting in a driveway and on the street.
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You know, that was holding. The whole thing was just, they're like,
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it's one o'clock in the morning so I don't think nobody is going to be driving on this road.
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Yeah. No. No. They're like, y'all be fine.
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And then I remember the neighbor came over and he's like, what's going on here?
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And like, normally, you can't just have like any stranger on set,
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you know, no matter where the set is because they're in trouble.
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That they're like, oh, we're just shooting a movie. Come have some pizza.
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What kind of movie said it?
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That's code for.
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We didn't pay for no permits, so don't tell nobody.
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When they start off eating free food, that means we're doing something illegal. Don't tell nobody.
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Don't tell nobody. You're probably right.
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Don't tell no one about this horrible movie. This horrible movie.
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Don't Yeah, we don't have no insurance for this. This is just my friend's house. It's on.
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Yeah i think we're just towards yeah i remember you said you were watching it,
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on amazon and get through it oh how bad could it be maybe it's just one of those typical,
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romance you're not into those and stuff and then i'm like this is fucking terrible
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like this is this is so much worse i just shut it off i saw us and like that
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was it yeah yeah but movies like that is where I'd be is where I would argue
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that I'll be like, alright, Sag,
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like, y'all gotta do something because this shit, like, I know I can do this.
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If they're doing this, I can read this.
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I know I can do this. Oh, yeah.
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Yeah. Yes. Yes.
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I know, that's the thing. I wish there was more opportunity for us to have lines
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in movies and TV shows and commercials and all that.
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Because we don't They bring a lot more people out from LA,
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To do like the real Like all the coloring stuff But we don't get,
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A whole lot of opportunity to actually For much more than like a minor character
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Or like someone Who comes on screen for a couple second table Is ready you know
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that kind of thing So that is the kind of Thing I wish we did before,
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Yeah yeah I wonder well I don't wonder well because I'm ready for Board member
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and that's one of the reasons why I am running for these selections and stuff
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like that, just because, like, I mean, I don't know what I could do as far as, like, um.
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Was it, like, changes, rules, stuff like that, but just to figure out,
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like, why are things the way they are and stuff like that?
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Like, even if I can't change it, at least I understand why it is,
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like, the way it is and stuff like that, you know?
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But, yeah, like I said, I also think that it also has to do with the fact that
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we don't really have, like, all the main components for, like,
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to have, like, a thriving film industry up here.
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Like, we have all the components to make, like, a really good movie and stuff
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like that, you know, and all this other type of stuff.
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But, like, all the stuff, all the components that are happening down in L.A.
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For those actors to get those roles and then, you know, bring it up here.
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I mean, maybe we just don't have that type of access to that information.
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Maybe that's what we're missing as actors is that sort of information.
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And, you know, stop putting so much pressure on ourselves as actors.
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Like, oh, maybe I'm not, you know, is it my talent? Is it me? Is it da-da-da-da-da?
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It's like, no, maybe sometimes that's just the way the business is and shit.
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Yeah, I can totally understand that, too. Sometimes it is frustrating,
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though, to see casting calls on it and then send out emails with the same exact thing.
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And, you know, it's like I know the more the merrier and all that.
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But sometimes I wish because the casting agencies, they know us. They know what we can do.
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And sometimes I wish they would just reach out directly and go,
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hey, I'm being booked on so-and-so date. Yes, please book me.
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You know, sometimes it just gets a little bit like because there's so many right now.
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There's, like, almost 45 castings, I think, for all of us going on, like, right now.
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And so it's like, just pick us.
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Maybe that is the hierarchy. And, you know, maybe that is something that is
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going on to where, like, because people talk about, oh, there's a,
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I see on Facebook group stuff.
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Oh, there's a monopoly with the acting roles and stuff like that.
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Maybe that is something that's going on to where they're like,
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well, we only want, well, just give, you know, these certain amount of actors, you know, roles.
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You know and then you don't just bring up you
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know whoever it is stuff like as long as you make you know your movies
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here but i definitely feel like what we
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should do is like like how you say like like lock
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it up a little bit you know what i mean just that that like the access and information
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that people because people have so much information and access to like the things
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that we have going on like as as the uni like sitting out like just for like
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you know simple auditions or even like if they're doing mixers or, you know,
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networking mixers, oh yeah, let me, you know, invite, you know,
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some non-union people to see what's going on.
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I'm like, no, we gotta, you know, say if you don't want union members doing
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non-union work then we, you gotta cut off their access to like what it is that we do and really like.
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Like, you know, so even I say, hey, I'm pissed, but just like,
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hey, yo, just, just audition these people and then that's it.
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You know, make your choice from this small group of, you know,
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actors and then like I say,
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cut off the access ability to like you know how they
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how they join the union stuff like that like if we don't want if
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you don't want actors you know working off the
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card and stuff like that then you know you have
28:08
to make joining the union that much harder because like if i if i'm getting
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if i get my union status from being the extra you know what i'm saying like
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okay that's well cool and all but like i was getting money all these other types
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of ways before so like why should it stop and not say that i don't I'm not saying
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that I do work off the carpet,
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but this could be the mind state of somebody who does.
28:29
Like, I'm just trying to keep dreaming. I'm just trying to keep the hope alive, this shit.
28:34
That's the thing that's kind of hardest for me, too, is because I see some of
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my friends who have literally working every single freaking day.
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Like one of my friends, Brian, he literally works probably five to six days
28:45
a week, and he's non-union, and he's just making bank.
28:49
And then I'm like, why the heck did I go SAG so early? Because I could have
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been possibly the same thing.
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I mean, obviously, maybe different roles, you know, that kind of thing.
28:58
But it just, to me, it doesn't make sense to go SAG right away.
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If I could do FICOR, Especially during the pandemic I was thinking maybe I should
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go find core Because then you know you can work both But my manager wasn't so keen on the idea,
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I mean To be honest I haven't been through her So Yeah,
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But it's crazy Yeah I think it's also like I mean You got to kind of.
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Take it with both sides Like yeah we work You look at non-union work,
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they're working, they're working, they're working, but sad work, you get that exposure.
29:39
I feel like we just got to educate, as far as the union actors go,
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educate them on the fact that there is a certain type of non-union work that
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you can do. You know what I'm saying?
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I mean, even technically for the aspect of doing this podcast,
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you know what I'm saying? Like, this is, I mean, if you want to be technical,
29:57
this is a non-medium project.
29:58
But it's not like, oh, flagging, you know, or whatever. Like,
30:01
oh, take their card away for doing a fucking podcast interview.
30:05
But, yeah, it's just about educating. It's also about educating and letting
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them know that, hey, yeah, don't be pigeonholed to the fact that,
30:11
like, just because, you know, you're sad means that.
30:14
I mean, there's some non-medium work that you can do, and that does pay.
30:17
So, I mean, shit, I was hand-modeling. You know what I'm saying?
30:21
You got to figure out how to get it somehow. Shit.
30:24
Yeah, for sure. And I know whenever they're filming in Petaluma,
30:27
I believe, or Santa Rosa, because there are, you don't need to be sad.
30:32
Like, if you're sad, you can still work, even if it's a non-union set.
30:36
I'm taking advantage of some of those.
30:39
Unfortunately, there's not a whole lot up here, but, oh yeah,
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I jump on it. So, there's that.
30:45
Yeah, because they're filming outside of the, the SAG zone.
30:48
I have a different opinion on, I mean, I have a different, because I just feel
30:51
like when they do that, because I end up standing work for like two of their
30:56
movies because I know you're talking about like people out of Santa Rosa,
30:59
like they just be doing that just to, you know, just to cut the budget and stuff.
31:02
I mean, I get it, you know what I'm saying? But like I said,
31:04
I think they, as an actor, I'll take it.
31:06
I know that they're, I know that I'm working with them and, you know,
31:10
I'm not getting paid when I should be getting paid, but I mean,
31:13
but I guess I'm getting paid, you know, and that's just the kind of,
31:17
the kind of balance that you got to juggle with being the actor out there.
31:20
So I'm like, okay, okay, We did those little victories, you know what I'm saying?
31:25
Yeah, and I totally get it.
31:28
What were you saying? I haven't had a chance to be a stand-in yet.
31:32
There's not a whole lot of stand-ins. People, like, literally as short as mine.
31:36
Like, you know, there are obviously some realists out there,
31:40
but they're also usually about 90 pounds when they're by height and so work.
31:45
But I know one of my friends, I don't know if you know Mariana.
31:49
She's a lot on 13 Reasons Why. She got to be the, she had it for one of the
31:56
little boys on Matrix 4 and one of the sons.
31:59
And I was like, damn, that would have been so fun to do to eat very slim,
32:02
you know, and it just worked out.
32:06
Yeah, no, if there was an opportunity, obviously being into cars,
32:09
I've also done a lot of precision driving and I love the car bump.
32:13
So that to me is also fun because it's like combining my two loves of cars and acting.
32:19
Yeah let's get to that real quick before we do wrap up the wrap
32:23
up of this episode because you know like a comedian i mean
32:25
actors and stuff like that we should have our own separate side
32:28
hobbies and stuff like that and you are a huge car enthusiast
32:32
how how how does
32:35
that like that those worlds combine and stuff like that with you doing
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the cars and then also being an actor
32:40
i started just absolutely adoring
32:44
cars when i was about five years old
32:47
to pick out every single car like we'd be in you know going on a road trip or
32:51
something with my parents and be like there's a Chevy you know but like actually
32:54
naming what kind of cars they were and I found so when I met my boyfriend now
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a husband he was also very kind of was like a mechanic had his own Mustang shop.
33:07
And so he kind of gave what you do with this is whatever
33:11
you want to do you can run with this you can
33:14
start building that and i'm like okay cool and so i got
33:17
my first import back in
33:20
the list and it was 90 integra and so based model and so i started souping that
33:25
up and grow and grow and so during the pandemic i was like man i really want
33:30
to get back into drag in kind of like the early 2000s a couple times with my
33:34
car at the time but it was a working kind of a split shift at uh i.
33:40
Hewlett Packard. So 2021, when they reopened the track, I was there literally
33:45
every single Wednesday doing drag. I had built up my little Civic hatchback
33:50
that you can see on my Instagram, the blue and yellow one. And it was just, it was so addictive.
33:55
I love drag racing, but you don't get a whole lot. You're literally just for
34:00
the quarter mile and that's it.
34:01
And so I was like, you know what? I really want to start racing,
34:05
like doing Sonoma Raceway, like the entirety thunder hill
34:09
button willow like and from then it
34:12
was just like holy moly this is so
34:15
fun and since i was kind of like detailing all of
34:17
this on instagram i started getting some sponsors and making really really good
34:22
friends in the industry and now every year i'm offered free tires i'm offered
34:28
like this i'm offered that and not as to say like they paid for the whole car
34:34
because they didn't pocket.
34:35
But it's so super nice being noticed and being respected.
34:40
Fortunately, you know, if you're a woman in the auto industry,
34:45
a lot of time at like, oh, she's just like a model next to her car.
34:48
She doesn't actually drive or she doesn't work on her car.
34:51
Work on my car and finally be respected on the track is like the best.
34:57
The first year that I started track racing or doing track events.
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You know, nobody would talk to me, like absolutely no one.
35:05
And I was usually maybe we're for women, if that.
35:09
And I think the last time I went out for Thunder Hill West, I was literally
35:12
the only woman on. Literally the first year, nobody spoke to me.
35:15
The second year I was back out, then people started going, go,
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hey, man, yeah, I remember you from last year.
35:20
And so that ended up being super, super cool. And then I would get the people
35:24
that were putting these events together, like, hey, Rachel, come out here,
35:27
I can give you a discount.
35:29
And so that's like makes it even better because they weren't cheap either.
35:33
Too expensive hobbies, acting and cars. Yeah, yeah.
35:37
But it's been a blast, yeah.
35:40
And then now that, like, you know, with all the commercials and the TV spots
35:44
and the movies, stuff like that, do they treat you different now?
35:47
Or do you tell people that? Do you tell them that? And do you show that to them?
35:52
And do they treat you different?
35:54
Oh, they do. They know. The first time I did Decision Dragon,
35:59
they were impressed that, you know, number one, back up like a normal person,
36:04
you know, that I could parallel park with no issues.
36:07
And I have a couple of good, I call them my shareholders. Like Rick Perotta,
36:11
he's always number one on the set to me.
36:14
He's like, oh, you don't have to worry about Rachel. No, she knows what she's
36:17
doing. She's the best precision driver in NorCal.
36:20
And so he's like my leader.
36:22
I used to show up a lot. Unfortunately, it's about to get sold, but with my FJ Cruiser.
36:27
And, you know, that thing is this giant green lifted truck. And so I would pull
36:30
up to set on that thing and the cruise would go, oh, my God,
36:35
it's a monster truck. That thing is so cool.
36:38
Cool and then they could see i could actually parallel it and all
36:41
this stuff and then they would just like lose their minds all over again but
36:45
yeah when i show up on set if they've never met
36:48
me before they trust me so it's
36:51
a good feeling okay awesome so i'm
36:55
gonna wrap up this episode because the camera keeps on cutting out and stuff
36:57
like that but no worries and stuff like that but before we
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do it out if you want to give people your social medias and let
37:03
people know what do that coming up down the pipeline absolutely so
37:08
my instagram is rachels r-a-c-h
37:12
underscore spoon e-g and
37:16
so that's it's friends acting that kind of thing
37:19
i'm on tiktok gearhead chick and
37:22
so that's when i do like walk arounds of cars maybe something
37:25
cool driving by it's it's kind of like a
37:28
little mishmash of everything but i think between the two you kind of get my
37:33
personality pretty well and then a tube is r and d garage r for rachel d for
37:40
d on my husband and so i like to teach people basically how to work on cars
37:44
and get their hands dirty and it's not scary.
37:48
Dope dope dope and so like yeah it's buddy rammy you follow me send it to watch
37:53
it it says right there, YeahBuddyENT on all of my social medias.
37:57
Like I said, you can go to www.
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YeahBuddyENT if you want to see more of the YeahBuddy podcast,
38:02
my other podcasts, stand-up comedy, sketches, and all that good jazz.
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And I said, Rachel, thank you again for sitting down with the YeahBuddy podcast.
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If this was your first time listening, thank y'all. Hope y'all had a blast.
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And for all my returning friends, thank y'all for tuning back in.
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My name's been Buddy Ramming, Rachel Thurow. I'm out, y'all. Deuces.
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Rachel, give me one second before you head out Okay.
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Music.