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Mark-Paul Gosselaar on Regrets and Breaking Free from “Zack Morris” · I Choose Me with Jennie Garth

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to I Choose Me with Jenny Garland. Welcome
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  Speaker 1: to I Choose Me. We've grown up together with Mark
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  Speaker 1: Paul Gosselaar as Zach from Saved by the Bell, Detective
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  Speaker 1: Clark in NYPD Blue, and most recently, Hugh Sir Evans
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  Speaker 1: in Found. He brings an ultimate I Choose Me reminder today,
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  Speaker 1: helping us navigate early cancer detection. Mark Paul, welcome. I'm
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  Speaker 1: so happy you're here.
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  Speaker 2: Well, hello.
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  Speaker 1: Hello, Dapper Dan.
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  Speaker 2: Dapper Dan. Do I look dapper today? You do. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: thank you. I wasn't going for the dapper look, but
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  Speaker 2: I'll take it.
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  Speaker 1: I guess it's just the jacket and the glasses. You
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  Speaker 1: got it.
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  Speaker 2: Nailed it. Well, I'm blind and I like to be warm.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, great.
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  Speaker 2: Me too. So those are the reasons why I wear
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  Speaker 2: glasses and wear a jacket.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I put my contacts in for you, so.
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  Speaker 2: I can't wear contacts.
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  Speaker 1: Dude, it's so hard. Me too.
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  Speaker 2: But how do you do it then?
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  Speaker 1: So I have on, because they're so hard for me
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  Speaker 1: to get in and out, I have on ones that
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  Speaker 1: you can wear for a month.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry.
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  Speaker 1: I take them in and out throughout the month, but
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  Speaker 1: they last a month.
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  Speaker 2: When I wear contacts, right, because I have both far, near,
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  Speaker 2: I'm a mess. Yeah, me too. When I wear contacts,
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  Speaker 2: then my far is good, but my near is bad.
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  Speaker 1: You need a trifocal contact lens, Mark.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I'm going to talk to my doctor about this. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: This is good. I'll try to text you or have
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  Speaker 1: someone text you the name of it. Okay?
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Thank you. What about the drops? Have you tried drops? Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: They don't help me.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing? Nope. Yeah. So I have to wear these because
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  Speaker 2: people always said I was scowling. I looked like I was-
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  Speaker 2: Because you were squinting. I was like, I can't see you.
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  Speaker 1: You were squinting.
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  Speaker 2: Now I see you and I have wide, bright eyes
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  Speaker 2: that everyone can look into.
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  Speaker 1: I'm so glad. I am glad that you- Could you
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  Speaker 1: see when we were doing Circus of the Stars together?
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  Speaker 1: That's the question. I was on the trapeze with Mario.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, God. You were on the trapeze with Mario?
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  Speaker 1: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: That was the year before me.
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  Speaker 1: And you saw that we didn't die, so you decided
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  Speaker 1: to do it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I thought, what could go wrong?
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  Speaker 1: You did the trapeze?
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  Speaker 2: No, I did the Russian swing, which they didn't have
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  Speaker 2: the year that you were there.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my gosh.
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  Speaker 2: So they thought, what other way could we possibly injure
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  Speaker 2: a celebrity that shouldn't be up there? Let's do the
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  Speaker 2: Russian swing because that seems more dangerous than the trapeze.
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  Speaker 1: And do I recall something happened to you? Like you
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  Speaker 1: got injured?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I got very injured. I was doing a triple
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  Speaker 2: back somersault. I had lost the trick. I could only
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  Speaker 2: do two the days leading up to it. I had
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  Speaker 2: done triples, but I just wasn't comfortable. And I wanted
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  Speaker 2: to be put in the harness for the triple. And
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  Speaker 2: I remember the guy, the circus guy was like, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 2: This is the producer run through. They don't want to
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  Speaker 2: see you in a harness. I'm like, but I just
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  Speaker 2: don't feel comfortable. So anyway, I got in my head.
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  Speaker 2: I did the triple, but I didn't hear the call out.
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  Speaker 2: And so I stayed in a tuck and I hit the,
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  Speaker 2: I basically hit the mats in a tuck. My head
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  Speaker 2: snapped and my chin broke my sternum. So I fractured
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  Speaker 2: my sternum, tore all the ligaments in my neck, still
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  Speaker 2: walked off the mats away because they didn't want to
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  Speaker 2: make a show in front of me.
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  Speaker 1: You did your final pose, I'm sure.
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  Speaker 2: I did my final, like, I could feel my sternum clacking.
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  Speaker 2: And I did my final thing and walked off. Had
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  Speaker 2: I known this, I think I could have owned part
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  Speaker 2: of whoever was putting that on. But we didn't live
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  Speaker 2: in a litigious time at that point. But I don't
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  Speaker 2: think I'd be sitting here had I been litigious with you, Jenny.
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  Speaker 2: I think I'd be on my mega yacht in Monaco
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  Speaker 2: right now.
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  Speaker 1: Do you have regrets at all? No, none.
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  Speaker 2: No? No. I mean.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's funny. It's like when you think about regrets,
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  Speaker 2: I do regret throwing my body around at such a
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  Speaker 2: young age. Like I just did a lot of dumb things.
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  Speaker 1: Were you into motorcycling too?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I did all that stuff. I was doing motocross
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  Speaker 2: until I was 35.
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  Speaker 1: What?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I've done a lot of bad things with
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  Speaker 2: my body and never thought that it would ever catch up.
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  Speaker 2: And unfortunately, it does catch up.
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  Speaker 1: It does catch up, people. You're hearing it from us.
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  Speaker 1: It definitely, definitely gadgets up.
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  Speaker 2: I wish I had recovered more. I wish I understood.
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  Speaker 1: Given your body that chance.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Given my body time to heal. I mean, I would,
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  Speaker 2: I would sprain something or break something and, and try
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  Speaker 2: to get back as soon as possible. Well, before, you know,
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  Speaker 2: it was completely healed. And that, that's a regret.
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  Speaker 1: Why do you think he did that? Like in a
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  Speaker 1: life meaning kind of way? What does that say about you?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think it's a, it's a, it's a display
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  Speaker 2: of toughness to get back in there. You know, it's, it's, uh,
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  Speaker 2: that it could be as simple as that. It could
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  Speaker 2: also be something like, if I don't get in soon enough,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to lose it. Um, it could also be
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  Speaker 2: something that, you know, you, you find such joy from
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  Speaker 2: doing that activity that you bypass anything else because you're
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  Speaker 2: just so myopic in that view, uh, that you need
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  Speaker 2: to get back. Um, I don't know. I, I think
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  Speaker 2: for me, it came from, that I was invincible and
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  Speaker 2: that things could hurt me at that time. And I
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't take time to feel the hurt because who needs that?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I look back and I'm like, I can't
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  Speaker 1: believe I did that. Like, why did I do that?
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  Speaker 1: What was I thinking? And I think, do I want
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  Speaker 1: my kids doing that?
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  Speaker 2: No. No. No, I don't. No.
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  Speaker 1: So I think we were younger. It was the 90s
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  Speaker 1: and we were just like– You know, we felt invincible.
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  Speaker 1: I think a lot of people did in the 90s.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe it was caused by other things. But you and
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  Speaker 1: I were, you know, playing these characters on pretty significant
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  Speaker 1: shows that have incredibly stood the test of time, keep
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  Speaker 1: coming back. People still want to know us. Do you
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  Speaker 1: get irritated? Or was there ever a point where you
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  Speaker 1: got irritated when someone would be like, oh, my God, Zach.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. Yes. Yeah. I got irritated probably earlier on in
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  Speaker 2: my career when I was trying to, uh, to break
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  Speaker 2: a stereotype that I was like with that. I was
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  Speaker 2: just like, wait, I'm not, I'm not that guy. Like I'm,
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  Speaker 2: I'm this guy. Like my hair was not even that
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  Speaker 2: color or I, you know, my, I didn't come from
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  Speaker 2: a well-to-do family. I came from a very blue collar, uh,
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  Speaker 2: immigrant family. Like I was completely different than that character.
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  Speaker 2: And yet I was labeled as, as that. So, While
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  Speaker 2: I was trying to get jobs and wasn't working, anybody
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  Speaker 2: who would come up to me to be like, Zach, or,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I was trying to get away from that.
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  Speaker 2: It probably took a good decade before I embraced it.
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  Speaker 2: And now it's, I mean, you know, when somebody walks
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  Speaker 2: up to you and expresses their admiration for you or
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  Speaker 2: joy that you've given them from watching the show, it's like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: thank you so much. It's a bucket filler. Yeah. And
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  Speaker 2: I was just on a flight here to New York.
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  Speaker 2: The airline attendant, at the very end, she handed me
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  Speaker 2: a note and she said, my husband's very jealous that
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  Speaker 2: I got to serve Zach. He says hi. So, you know,
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  Speaker 2: maybe three decades ago, that might have bothered me. Right.
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  Speaker 2: Now I was like, oh, here, give Kevin a note
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  Speaker 2: from me.
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  Speaker 1: That's so sweet. I love it when they wait to
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  Speaker 1: the end of the flight. That's very cool.
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  Speaker 2: I wish she hadn't. Because I always feel like I'm
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  Speaker 2: trying to impress a flight attendant. What? I want them
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  Speaker 2: to think that I'm a good passenger.
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  Speaker 1: A good passenger, right.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Yeah. Like, I'm not going to hurt anybody. I
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  Speaker 2: just want to get through this. Every time I stand,
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  Speaker 2: I'm just using the restroom. I don't use one in
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  Speaker 2: the back. Is it okay? Yeah. Is that okay? Like,
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  Speaker 2: thank you so much for serving my food. Can I
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  Speaker 2: have another drink? It's okay if you say no. Like,
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  Speaker 2: I just want them to, you know, like me. So
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  Speaker 2: I would have appreciated her kind of giving me a
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  Speaker 2: nod like earlier. Like, leave me alone. Just a nod
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  Speaker 2: that she was like, hey, my husband loves you. And
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  Speaker 2: so you're good by me.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to take care of you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I'm going to take care of you.
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  Speaker 1: These are the things that you think about. I love it.
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  Speaker 1: So what was it that you think turned that kind
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  Speaker 1: of feeling of feeling trapped in that character or in
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  Speaker 1: people's mind as that character? What was it for you
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  Speaker 1: personally that changed your perspective?
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  Speaker 2: No, Jenny, I... Like, I grew up outside of the business.
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  Speaker 2: Like I said, my parents are immigrants. I really enjoy
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  Speaker 2: being on a set. And I love working with actors
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  Speaker 2: and producers and writers. I love the creative process. I
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  Speaker 2: love it all. I could do away with all the
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  Speaker 2: other stuff. Even when we go to these fan fests
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  Speaker 2: and we meet our fans, it's great. You know, all
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  Speaker 2: of it is great. I can do without it, though.
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  Speaker 2: I don't need that to still enjoy my work and
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  Speaker 2: to feel passionate about what I do. Nothing against anyone.
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  Speaker 2: You need them because they're watching your shows or your
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  Speaker 2: films or whatever. I understand that. But I don't need
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  Speaker 2: all the other things that come with it. So if
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  Speaker 2: I could do what I do on television and film
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  Speaker 2: and still just be a shadow. I'm okay with that.
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  Speaker 2: I'm absolutely okay. Just going home and, and, and going
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  Speaker 2: to my children's schools and no one having any idea
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  Speaker 2: what I do and, and, and leave it at that. Um,
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  Speaker 2: so if I look irritated, it's more comes from a
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  Speaker 2: place of, no, I'm being serious, but if, and I, I,
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  Speaker 2: if it's irritation, I think it's more the uncomfortable, uh,
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  Speaker 2: feeling that I'm having and I don't know how to, uh,
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  Speaker 2: to express it. So I, I kind of, uh, revert
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  Speaker 2: and go inside my And it looks like, um, I, I,
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  Speaker 2: it looks like it's painful because sometimes it is, it's,
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  Speaker 2: I just, I'm not a very extra, I'm not a Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I don't need to be in front of people. I
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  Speaker 2: never was a theater kid. I thought I would be
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  Speaker 2: an athlete, which again, I'm with a team or I'm
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  Speaker 2: hiding behind a sport. And you see where athletes are
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  Speaker 2: very shy when they talk to the press. It's like,
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  Speaker 2: I feel the same way.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm kind of the same. And I've learned to
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  Speaker 1: sort of mask it a little bit more. Or when
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  Speaker 1: I do go like deep into like, what am I
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  Speaker 1: doing here? I don't really want to be here. I'd
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  Speaker 1: rather be at home with my family, whatever it is.
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  Speaker 1: Like I've learned to sort of like, just take a
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  Speaker 1: beat and go back to, you know, I'm, I'm actually
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  Speaker 1: so fucking grateful that I am here.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I mean? Yes. Yeah. And I completely
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  Speaker 2: agree with you. I, I never, I, I never let
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  Speaker 2: that pass over me how absolutely fortunate it is to
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  Speaker 2: be doing something that I, that I'm so, you know,
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  Speaker 2: passionate about. And I love doing, there's never a moment
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  Speaker 2: where I'm on set that I'm not, understanding the absolute
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  Speaker 2: grandness of what we get to do. And so, but
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  Speaker 2: it's just the other things on the side, the other,
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  Speaker 2: like being noticed for things. It's just, it makes me uncomfortable.
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  Speaker 2: I guess it's, it goes to me. Are you, are
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  Speaker 2: you a big gift giver or do you like getting
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  Speaker 2: gifts or both?
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  Speaker 1: I love giving gifts.
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  Speaker 2: Correct. Not so much getting.
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  Speaker 1: I feel a little uncomfortable unless, you know, it's starting.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that that is, along the same lines
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  Speaker 2: of like people giving like i'd much rather give compliments
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  Speaker 2: than get a compliment so when people come up to
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  Speaker 2: me it's almost like oh it's okay don't do it
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  Speaker 2: you may not mean it don't feel like you have
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  Speaker 2: to give me a compliment oh you know you don't
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  Speaker 2: mean it's like those are all the things going on
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  Speaker 2: in my head and that's that's it could be deficiency
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  Speaker 2: i don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Um but do you have a lot you seem like
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  Speaker 1: me a person that has a lot of inner dialogue.
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  Speaker 2: Constantly very much so when's your birthday April. Oh, okay. March. March.
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  Speaker 1: Taurus, yeah?
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  Speaker 2: No, Pisces.
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  Speaker 1: No, Pisces, the one before. Wow. So it's hard, especially
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  Speaker 1: when we have to be in our heads to a
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  Speaker 1: certain degree to figure our lives out.
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  Speaker 2: Sure.
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  Speaker 1: But it's hard when we step outside and think like, wow,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not even feeling this moment because I'm so worried
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  Speaker 1: about what's about to happen.
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  Speaker 2: Correct.
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  Speaker 1: Or what could happen.
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  Speaker 2: Do that all the time. Yeah. Do that all the time.
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  Speaker 1: Or what people think. Oh, my gosh. I'm so sorry
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  Speaker 1: to hear about the death of your castmate, Dennis Haskins, recently. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: great guy.
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  Speaker 2: Great guy.
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  Speaker 1: He was a major scene partner with you. You guys
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  Speaker 1: worked really closely for many years. So I'm really sorry
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  Speaker 1: about that. And you have done it all, it seems like,
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  Speaker 1: on camera. You've played a cop. You've played a baseball player.
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  Speaker 1: You've played a lawyer.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think is the role that you're chasing?
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  Speaker 1: What is the one that you're going to be like, yes?
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  Speaker 1: It might have been something you already did because that
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  Speaker 1: was pretty cool too.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I think the only role that I would love
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  Speaker 2: to play is something where– and I had a taste
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  Speaker 2: of it with Pitch when I played the baseball player
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  Speaker 2: where people were unaware that I was a part of
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  Speaker 2: that show. They didn't realize I played the catcher in
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  Speaker 2: that show. And so my name came across the credits.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that's really cool. Like we can get
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  Speaker 2: lost in a character where, you know, people aren't, they
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  Speaker 2: can't initially point a finger and say, oh, that's Jenny
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  Speaker 2: or that's my fault. It's like, you know, it's so
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  Speaker 2: lost in a character that that'd be fun to do,
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  Speaker 2: whether it's prosthetics or just, you know, whatever, but just
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  Speaker 2: roles that people, people get lost in.
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  Speaker 1: You, you're a professional. That's something I really admire about you,
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  Speaker 1: but you're also somebody that if there's something important to
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  Speaker 1: talk about, you will stand up and talk about it.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: And you're playing that role right now. You're involved in
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  Speaker 1: a super important project called meet your mark, which is
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  Speaker 1: very clever. Now you did that there with the mark.
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  Speaker 2: It gets more clever. It gets even more clever from there.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if you've seen the spot or not.
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  Speaker 1: No, I haven't seen it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So, but, To preface it, I am not a
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  Speaker 2: medical expert. I may play one in the future. It
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  Speaker 2: might be something that my next role. I didn't say
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  Speaker 2: that I wanted to be a medical expert, but I
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  Speaker 2: could be. Maybe if I call up Noah Wiley. Right.
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  Speaker 1: He's a sexiest man alive, apparently.
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  Speaker 2: Is he really?
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  Speaker 1: Yep. I just found out.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my goodness.
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  Speaker 1: On the Today Show.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure he's so comfortable with that title.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure he is. He looks like a guy that
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  Speaker 1: walks around thinking, I am the sexiest man alive.
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  Speaker 2: Good for him. He deserves it. But no, I've partnered
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  Speaker 2: with AstraZeneca, and we are doing this campaign called Meet
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  Speaker 2: Your Mark. And basically, we're spreading the word about biomarkers,
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  Speaker 2: which may help people diagnosed with cancer understand their cancer
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  Speaker 2: a little bit better and may help guide them to
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  Speaker 2: a personalized treatment. And more so, it's just a discussion
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  Speaker 2: about what they can do with their doctors to better
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  Speaker 2: treat their specific cancers. Because even when somebody has the
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  Speaker 2: same type of cancers, their tumors can act very differently.
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  Speaker 2: So having a biomarker test specifically for cancer, which is
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  Speaker 2: done through blood or tissue testing, can help their medical
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  Speaker 2: providers and their caregivers understand what type of cancer they
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  Speaker 2: have and have a more personalized treatment.
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  Speaker 1: I need you to tell me what is a biomarker.
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  Speaker 2: So a biomarker, again, not a medical expert. What I
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  Speaker 2: know about biomarkers, they are health clues or signs in
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  Speaker 2: your body that can, um, that doctors, uh, can get
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  Speaker 2: from blood tests or tissue tests.
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  Speaker 1: And why do you think it's important to have bio,
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  Speaker 1: like it helps detect cancer earlier? Is it something you
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  Speaker 1: use after you've already been diagnosed?
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  Speaker 2: It's what, what, after you've been diagnosed. So a lot
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: of the times, um, sort of to give you an anecdote,
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: and I'll come back to that. But my family, there's
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: someone in my family that's currently going through a diagnosis.
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: It's not a cancer diagnosis, but it is a serious diagnosis.
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: And a lot of the times that patient becomes almost
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: paralyzed in a room when the doctor tries to explain
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: these things or passes along the diagnosis. My wife is
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: a caregiver for this person, has adopted the title of caregiver.
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: So this fall's you know, this is advice for the
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: patient or the caregiver. But a lot of times you
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: can feel like you're in tailspin. You need a direction.
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: What biomarkers do and having this discussion with your doctor
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: is that that can be a direction for you to
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: go in. If nothing else, have the discussion. Is there
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: a biomarker test for my cancer so that they can
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: better understand your unique cancer to help personalize treatment, if
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: that makes sense. It's done after the diagnosis.
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: I see, I see. It sounds pretty important though, as
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: far as your plan to move forward, what your treatment
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: plan needs to look like, how aggressive you need to
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: be in your treatment.
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: Correct, correct. Like, what do I do from here? Like,
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: what direction do I need to go in?
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I have this thing inside of me. I need
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: help getting rid of it. Yeah, any answers.
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: Inside of me. It's my personal, not, you know, it's
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: like you can have lung cancer but someone's tumor is
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: going to act completely differently because it's unique to them. Right.
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: Our bodies are all so different.
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: I didn't, you know what? I just realized I didn't
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: get to explain to you why I thought it was
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: so brilliant. What you said to meet your mark. Yeah.
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: People can go on meetyourmark.com.
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: But I didn't tell you the other reason why I
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: thought it was. No. What was the mark? Because in
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: the commercials that I did for them, the spots, I
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: do a timeout. which is this symbolic gesture of what
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: I did on Saved by the Bell where it freezes time.
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: So they use that as meet your mark, timeout. Timeout.
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: Take a timeout. I know things are bad right now,
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: but please take a timeout, take a breath, have a
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: discussion with your doctor. So I do that in the
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: spots where I freeze the situation and I tell the audience.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: Very clever.
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: Very clever. I thought, and that's one of the reasons
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: I was like, I got to partner with AstraZeneca.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: I'm glad you did. And you're going to save some
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: people's lives or help some people's journeys, if not that.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: Just to help them with their journey. We're just here
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: to spread the word.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: When you can use your voice for something cool that
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: helps other people, I have a lot of admiration for that. Mark,
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: not only is it great to just see your face,
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: but it's also really great to just hang out with
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: you and chat. I mean, I think the last time
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: we ran across each other was in a van.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: It was. Yeah. Yeah. For something, for a fan fest. Yeah.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: Fan fest. We were there and we got put in
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: the same transpo van. Thank you for hanging out with me.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: Thank you for teaching me what the heck a biomarker is.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: And I know that you help some people out there
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: listening to whether it was them or someone in their lives.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: So before I let you go, Mark Paul Gosselaar, what
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: was your last I choose me moment?
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: I choose me moment. Before I took a flight to
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: come out here, I thought it was really important that
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: I wake up early and I go in my gym,
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: move around, move my body, And which is really important
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: to me to sauna. And so I sauna because it
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: kind of brings me back down and grounds me, makes me,
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: it challenges me mentally and physically. But I took a
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: real moment to make sure that I knew I'd had
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: a busy travel day and that was really going to
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: be the only moment that I could do something physically
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: and mentally that for myself. So I, I woke up
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: extra early to be able to do that. Um, so
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: that was, that was my moment. No, good.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: That is good.
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: I like that. I always think if I, if I
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: don't do something for myself, I don't really feel like
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: doing something for anyone. Yeah. It's just, I'm selfish that way,
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: but I think it really, for me, it works.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: You have to fill your cup. You have to fill
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: your tank. You have to take care of yourself.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: I think so. I know there's people out there that
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: I'm amazed that they never need to fill their cup
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: and they get their cup filled by filling other people's cups.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: But for me, what works for me is I really
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: need to fill my own cup and then I can
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: fill others. But to each their own. Everyone's an individual,
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: which goes back to the campaign. See how it all
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: works out.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: Everybody's different. You know what you are? You're a dapper, Dan.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: With my glasses. Yeah.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: I hope that our paths cross again very soon. And
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: my love to your family. Thank you.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: Always the best.
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: See ya.
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: Bye.