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Rachel Bilson · On with Mario Interviews

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  Speaker 1: You're on with Mario Lopez. What's up, you're on Mario Lopez.
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  Speaker 1: Joining me right now, actress Rachel Bilson. How you doing, Rachel?
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  Speaker 2: I'm so good. It's so good to see you.
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  Speaker 1: Very nice to see you.
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  Speaker 2: You look great, as always.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. Congrats, you got a new movie out. I
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  Speaker 1: love this blending of genres, a horror Christmas comedy called
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  Speaker 1: Christmas at the Kringle's.
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  Speaker 2: It looks wild.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's funny because I was at the Halloween
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  Speaker 1: Horror Nights here at Universal where we do the radio show.
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  Speaker 1: And they did a lot of Halloween sort of Christmas
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  Speaker 1: mashups and stuff. Oh, yeah. The mazes and stuff.
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  Speaker 2: It was great.
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  Speaker 1: I took my kids. They loved it. And it was
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  Speaker 1: so much fun. So it's good timing with your film.
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  Speaker 1: What's going on with this one?
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  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.
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  Speaker 3: What isn't going on with this one? I mean, there's
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  Speaker 3: so much happening in this movie. It's so much fun.
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  Speaker 3: It's also hilarious. I've seen it a couple of times
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  Speaker 3: now and I still, I laugh every time because the
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  Speaker 3: comedians we have in this film.
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  Speaker 2: Their improv, it's next level.
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  Speaker 3: It's really, yeah, but you have the horror element, you
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  Speaker 3: have Christmas, but it's just a really fun blending of
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  Speaker 3: all the things and it's a good time.
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  Speaker 1: And it's, Do you lean more towards, are you more
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  Speaker 1: Christmas or more, more Halloween? Like my wife is way
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  Speaker 1: more Halloween.
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  Speaker 3: Really?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. She's big time. The Halloween decorations have been up
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  Speaker 1: for like, uh, over a month now.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, well, my daughter, my daughter's basically a Halloween baby.
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  Speaker 2: Her birthday is October 29th. Oh, that's cool.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so I have a very big affinity for Halloween.
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  Speaker 2: I also love Christmas. You can't really choose. No, you can't.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, no. We go hard on both over at
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  Speaker 1: Casa Lopez.
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  Speaker 2: We go hard. So this is great.
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  Speaker 1: And the cast, very cool. Ron Livingston, Thomas Lennon, Rob Riggle,
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  Speaker 1: Donald Faison, Beverly D'Angelo even. That must have been a
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  Speaker 1: fun set.
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  Speaker 2: Icon. We have a Christmas icon in this film for sure.
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  Speaker 2: Beverly is great.
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  Speaker 3: She's so funny in the movie and such a cool person.
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  Speaker 1: That's fun. Did you shoot it in town or were
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  Speaker 1: you out of town?
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  Speaker 2: We shot it in LA.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Right. Great. It was like a 20 day shoot.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I'm telling you, it was like so quick
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  Speaker 3: and there wasn't a ton of money to make this movie,
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  Speaker 3: but we really just believed in it and we're trying
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  Speaker 3: to get it out there.
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  Speaker 2: And it really turned out like, it's just, it's a
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  Speaker 2: really good time.
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  Speaker 1: That's encouraging to hear that you're, you're shooting here.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 2: You, yeah, absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: You, you said in the past, he grew up celebrating
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  Speaker 1: Chris McCaw. what uh explain that a little bit little
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  Speaker 1: christmas and hanukkah i'm assuming yeah yeah christmas.
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  Speaker 3: And hanukkah and that term sort of became more well
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  Speaker 3: known because of the oc and they had an episode
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  Speaker 3: called you know the christmas episode but um my dad's
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  Speaker 3: jewish and my mom was raised catholic.
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  Speaker 1: Got it how are you raised i'm just curious what
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  Speaker 1: was i raised yeah just curious.
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  Speaker 2: They're not really, my parents aren't really religious. You know
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  Speaker 2: what I mean?
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  Speaker 3: Like my mom definitely went more of like a spiritual
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  Speaker 3: route while I was growing up.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: So, and my dad was Jewish, but like, we just,
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  Speaker 3: we celebrate the holidays and we honor the traditions and things,
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  Speaker 3: but nothing too hardcore.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Got it. Got it.
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  Speaker 1: Sounds like a lot of presents.
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  Speaker 2: Sounds like what?
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  Speaker 1: A lot of presents.
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  Speaker 2: That's all I cared about. I mean, my parents divorced.
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  Speaker 2: My first thing was like, I get two Christmases. Oh, wow.
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  Speaker 3: Okay. Yeah, you did.
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  Speaker 1: There was a lot of presents there. You also have
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  Speaker 1: a podcast with your friend, Olivia Allen called Broad Ideas.
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  Speaker 1: What do y'all get into on there?
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  Speaker 2: Everything.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, we're so transparent. We talk about things that
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  Speaker 3: are taboo. We are not afraid to go there, but
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  Speaker 3: it's like talking to your two best friends, no filters.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Can be problematic at times, but- It's worked out
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  Speaker 2: okay so far.
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  Speaker 1: So just sort of general everyday topics or you hit
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  Speaker 1: pop culture topics and stuff like that. Current events.
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  Speaker 2: We do everything. We talk about everything.
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  Speaker 3: Um, I think that it's important to talk about things
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  Speaker 3: that people think, you know, you shouldn't talk about, especially
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  Speaker 3: with women, mothers.
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  Speaker 2: Nice. You got to.
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  Speaker 1: Have those conversations. Absolutely. You're also in the scrubs revival
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  Speaker 1: over on ABC for, for people who haven't seen it. What's, uh,
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  Speaker 1: what's your character? up to in the series?
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  Speaker 2: I am JD's love interest. That's Zach Braff's character.
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  Speaker 1: He overachieved.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Zach and I have been friends for over 20 years.
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  Speaker 3: So it was so much fun going and working with them.
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  Speaker 2: And Donald Faison, who's on Scrubs is also in Christmas
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  Speaker 2: at the Kringle.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Double Donald, which was awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Nice. Nice. And, and I read you recently teamed up
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  Speaker 1: with Gordon Ramsey for a new project, right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: We're working on a project. That's really cool. It's based
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  Speaker 2: on a book. We're working on the script right now.
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  Speaker 3: So hopefully that comes to fruition sooner rather than later.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, cool.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Cool.
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  Speaker 3: You dressing up for Halloween?
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  Speaker 1: You still do?
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  Speaker 3: You still dress up? My daughter last year, she wanted
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  Speaker 3: to be a Squishmallow and she's like, mom, you have
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  Speaker 3: to be a Squishmallow with me.
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  Speaker 2: Halloween night, she bails. Okay. So I'm left a Squishmallow
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  Speaker 2: and she's a mummy.
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  Speaker 1: She did a little pivot, huh?
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  Speaker 2: She did a pivot. So point being, I'm probably going
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  Speaker 2: to be a Squishmallow again.
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  Speaker 1: That's great.
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  Speaker 2: It's very comfortable. Yeah, it is comfortable.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to stay warm and stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Is L.A.
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  Speaker 3: Home?
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: And where are you from originally? L.A. Born and raised.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, you're one of the rare natives.
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  Speaker 2: I'm one of the rare natives. Oh, wow. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: How in your eyes has it changed dramatically.
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  Speaker 2: Since you were a kid? So much more traffic. Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Even more crazy.
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  Speaker 3: The amount of traffic, but yeah, of course it's changed,
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  Speaker 3: you know, things have changed.
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  Speaker 2: And it's more that, that I noticed more than anything.
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  Speaker 3: Else is just, you can't drive anywhere on the weekend.
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  Speaker 3: It's pretty insane, but it's still home, you know?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. It's still a lot of stuff is a lot
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  Speaker 2: of stuff is still around. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: It's hard when you see things starting to change, you know, or, or,
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  Speaker 3: or things that have been there forever since you were
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  Speaker 3: a kid.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Go away or turn hands or whatever, but yeah. Yeah, it's, it's, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: That's cool.
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  Speaker 1: You're a local girl. I like that.
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  Speaker 2: I like that. Your kids still trick or treat?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they still trick or treat. I got, well, my
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  Speaker 1: daughter just turned 16. My other boy just turned 13
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  Speaker 1: and another one, seven. So the two boys for sure.
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  Speaker 1: I think my daughter, she's having a big party the
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  Speaker 1: day before, um, that's what i worry.
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  Speaker 3: I'm worrying when we get there well.
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  Speaker 1: I'd rather have them at the house so you know
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  Speaker 1: what i mean i can monitor i can see but
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  Speaker 1: all of a sudden there's gonna be like 100 and
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  Speaker 1: something kids at my house and it's like in the
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  Speaker 1: backyard and i'm gonna be on the deck just kind
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  Speaker 1: of seeing if everybody goes off and little yeah my
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  Speaker 1: daughter she's like a club promoter there's all of a
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  Speaker 1: sudden there's themes yeah there's themes it's a whole thing
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  Speaker 1: but yeah i always suggest i'd rather have them at
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  Speaker 1: the house you can kind of monitor it's a it's
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  Speaker 1: a way better move right there um Well, everyone, please
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  Speaker 1: be sure to catch Rachel in the new Christmas horror film,
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  Speaker 1: Christmas at the Kringles. It's in theaters and you can
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  Speaker 1: check her out in the new season of Scrubs as
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  Speaker 1: well over on ABC. Rachel, thanks for checking in.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks so much for having me. You got it. All right.
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  Speaker 2: Take care, sweetie. Bye.