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Katey Sagal · On with Mario Interviews

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  Speaker 1: You're on with Mario a little bit. It's up Brown,
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  Speaker 1: Mario Lopez joining me right now.
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  Speaker 2: From legendary shows like Married with Children, futur Rama, Sons
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  Speaker 2: of Anarchy, and many more actors, Katie Saga.
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  Speaker 1: How you doing, Katie?
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  Speaker 3: Really well?
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you so much for taking the time.
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  Speaker 2: Like I was just saying, you truly are legendary actors,
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  Speaker 2: but you're also incredibly accomplished as a singer as well,
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  Speaker 2: so talented, and you've launched this new stage show with
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  Speaker 2: your husband Kurt Setter.
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  Speaker 1: It's called Chorus Harmonia. What inspired this? Tell me about
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  Speaker 1: this all right?
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  Speaker 3: Well, about a year ago March, I was feeling somewhat
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  Speaker 3: despondent about the world and what was happening. And it
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  Speaker 3: was crazy and LA just burnt and things had just
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  Speaker 3: everything felt very chaotic, and so for me, I have
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  Speaker 3: turned to music most of my life to sort of
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  Speaker 3: make me feel better, and I've always had a band
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  Speaker 3: or something, but this time I just thought, oh, I
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  Speaker 3: really want to sing with people. I tried to find
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  Speaker 3: a choir to join, and I couldn't find one, So
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  Speaker 3: I just started one in my living room and I
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  Speaker 3: gathered ten people together, all soloists, hoping it would kind
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  Speaker 3: of all blend and with no endgame insight, you know,
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  Speaker 3: it was just kind of like, let's just get together
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  Speaker 3: and sing. We're all musicians, makes us feel better. So
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  Speaker 3: we did, and we started doing it like once a week,
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  Speaker 3: twice a month, whatever, and I started picking material that
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  Speaker 3: it's contemporary material, it's not like your typical choir music,
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  Speaker 3: you know. And as I was picking these songs, it
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  Speaker 3: sort of took the form of it had like not
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  Speaker 3: a literal arc, but an emotional arc.
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  Speaker 1: And the arc sort of appeared to be.
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  Speaker 3: Like sort of where we are now, like very chaotic
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  Speaker 3: to a point I kept telling to people that kept
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  Speaker 3: saying to me, it's never been this bad. It's never
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  Speaker 3: been this bad, And I don't really believe that. I
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  Speaker 3: think that historically we've gone through lots and lots of things.
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  Speaker 3: So it's sort of the arc of the music started
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  Speaker 3: with like, you know, stuff turned upside down to like
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  Speaker 3: what are we going to do about it? To my
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  Speaker 3: ultimate goal in my life, which is basically stick together,
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  Speaker 3: don't splinter, do not isolate. It just tends to be
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  Speaker 3: the impulse when we're afraid is people just sort of
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  Speaker 3: want to shut down, hunker down, and you know, try
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  Speaker 3: to figure stuff out, but they can't. So to me,
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  Speaker 3: the ultimate connection through music is choir singing. And it
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  Speaker 3: started to really feel like this thing I wanted to share.
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  Speaker 3: I thought, oh, this is lovely, and I didn't know
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  Speaker 3: how to It's not like where you just go to
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  Speaker 3: a church and hear a choir. So my husband came
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  Speaker 3: in and he put together it's a hybrid theatrical piece.
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  Speaker 3: It contains multimedia, sort of like when you're at a
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  Speaker 3: rock concert you have a lot of stuff you're looking at.
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  Speaker 3: And then he wrote some I'm going to call them
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  Speaker 3: prose pieces that I intermittently throw in between these songs.
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  Speaker 3: The whole show is sixty six minutes and it follows
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  Speaker 3: this beautiful arc and I don't it's just very special, Mario.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know exactly how to describe or it's just
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  Speaker 3: doing for me what I wanted it to do and
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  Speaker 3: what I hope it will do for other people. Was
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  Speaker 3: which is just an uplifting moment in time without being
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  Speaker 3: super corny, you know what I mean, Like withours just it.
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  Speaker 3: I've been looking out of our address rehearsals just feeling
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  Speaker 3: exactly how I wanted.
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  Speaker 1: To feel so much fun.
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  Speaker 2: The fact that you got to do with your husband
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  Speaker 2: is just awesome. I love this side of you, and
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  Speaker 2: I think it's just so cool because back in the day,
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  Speaker 2: I know, you sung with people like Bob Dylan, Tanya Tucker, Edda, James,
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  Speaker 2: Olivia Newton, Johnny Man. You even had a band right
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  Speaker 2: in the seventies called the Group with No Name, Oh God, that.
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  Speaker 3: Was on Casablanca Records, and the president of the label
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  Speaker 3: couldn't think of what to call us, so it was
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  Speaker 3: too late the record was coming out. That's just what happened.
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  Speaker 1: I love that so was acting.
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  Speaker 2: Was acting sort of by accident or were you simultaneously
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  Speaker 2: doing it all?
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  Speaker 3: No al. Through my twenties, I just wanted to sing
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  Speaker 3: and play music. I was on a couple of record labels.
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  Speaker 3: I had my own projects, you know that didn't quite happen.
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  Speaker 3: And then I made a living as a background singer.
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  Speaker 3: So I was on and off the road. And then
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  Speaker 3: when I was getting into my late twenties and realizing, man,
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  Speaker 3: I can't pay the rent, you know, things are getting
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  Speaker 3: really it's tough. Yeah, So I did a sort of
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  Speaker 3: a little rock opera thing that my friends had written
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  Speaker 3: and got a scene by an agent, and before I
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  Speaker 3: knew it, I was acting, and I was in another
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  Speaker 3: musical situation at the taper down in the Music Center.
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  Speaker 3: And then before I knew it, I was on a
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  Speaker 3: sitcom which was like wild. It was not at all
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  Speaker 3: what I thought was happening with my life.
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  Speaker 1: Was that s it got married to children.
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  Speaker 3: No, this was a show with Mary Tyler Moore. It
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  Speaker 3: was called The Mary Show, Oh Wow, and it was
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  Speaker 3: on for thirteen episodes, and Danny DeVito was the director.
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  Speaker 1: He gave me the job oh wow.
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  Speaker 3: And it was like and it was really my first
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  Speaker 3: experience in that world, and I just kind of acted
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  Speaker 3: like I knew what I was doing. It was wild.
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  Speaker 3: It was really wild, and it was a great lesson
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  Speaker 3: in not being too attached to the way you think
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  Speaker 3: things should be. Like I was hatched to the idea
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  Speaker 3: of being making a living as a position, and I
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  Speaker 3: was just like, huh, So I finally started to say
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  Speaker 3: yes to other things and and it happened. I'm really
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  Speaker 3: one of these people that has learned on the job.
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  Speaker 3: Right after that job, I got married with children, and
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  Speaker 3: I've just been learning as I go.
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  Speaker 4: That's unbelievable learning, because I go you went from me
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  Speaker 4: an incredibly difficult space and entertainment to another incredibly difficult
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  Speaker 4: space and entertainment, and both where your odds are so
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  Speaker 4: stacked against you and my and then you happen to
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  Speaker 4: be great, which was which was which was awesome? And
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  Speaker 4: that's so funny and I'm so glad I asked that
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  Speaker 4: question because I didn't know you just yeah, you just
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  Speaker 4: kind of segued out into that. I also want to
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  Speaker 4: bring up I need you to do a podcast with
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  Speaker 4: with a Kurt as Well called Pie.
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  Speaker 1: What kind of topics do you guys get into there?
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's really, uh, the point of our podcast is
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  Speaker 3: we do no research and we just have people over
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  Speaker 3: that we've always wanted to meet, and yeah, kind of
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  Speaker 3: like that. So but you come over to our house
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  Speaker 3: and you hang out with us and we just talk
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  Speaker 3: about we like to kind of know where you come from,
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  Speaker 3: what your family background is, what your family is like.
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  Speaker 3: Now we don't talk so much about like what you
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  Speaker 3: do as a famous person, or we don't even have
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  Speaker 3: just well.
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  Speaker 1: Actually we do just have famous.
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  Speaker 3: It's not really what our interest is. It's a little
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  Speaker 3: bit more in how you got to where you are,
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  Speaker 3: So that's what we talk about.
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  Speaker 1: I love that. I love that.
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  Speaker 2: And then I saw in your ig you recently signed
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  Speaker 2: on for a new new sitcom along Jamielee Curtis and
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  Speaker 2: Jane Lynch a cast.
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  Speaker 3: Well it's actually not with Jamie. I mean the way
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  Speaker 3: the ad came out, it looks like that, but really
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  Speaker 3: what it was is two separate shows. Jamie has one
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  Speaker 3: that she's producing, Got It, and then Jane Lynch and
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  Speaker 3: I just shot our pilot for NBC. Love Jane and
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  Speaker 3: Love Jane, Love my Pilot, and we're you know, we're
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  Speaker 3: in that like waiting to see if they're going to
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  Speaker 3: pick it up.
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  Speaker 1: But it was, it was.
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  Speaker 3: It's really funny.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure it is. I'm both hilarious.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the two of us together really seem to be
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  Speaker 3: a good match.
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  Speaker 1: I love that. That's awesome.
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  Speaker 2: It just last thing, I know, you did a quick
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  Speaker 2: stage reunion with the cast I'm married with children at
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  Speaker 2: the Wiltern.
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  Speaker 1: It must have been a couple months back now. That
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  Speaker 1: must have been so much fun seeing everybody again.
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  Speaker 3: So much fun. I mean we just sit up there.
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  Speaker 3: First of all, it got sold out in two days.
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  Speaker 3: This always blows my mind. I mean, because this has
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  Speaker 3: been what thirty years, twenty five years, I don't know,
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  Speaker 3: a really long time, but people are like hardcore fans.
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  Speaker 3: And it was just Ed and Christina and David and
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  Speaker 3: I and we just sat up there with a moderator
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  Speaker 3: love it and talked and answered questions and it was
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  Speaker 3: really so. It wasn't like we did an episode or something.
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  Speaker 3: We just were ourselves and we're about to do another
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  Speaker 3: one on May ninth. Or Netflix is a joke, yea, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I think it's called soh Yeah. It's always great to
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  Speaker 3: see it. I mean we've stayed in touch all these years, so.
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  Speaker 1: The hell of a run, right, Katy. It was like
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  Speaker 1: eleven seasons, is that right?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? Eleven seasons.
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  Speaker 1: Believable. That is awesome. That is awesome. I was watching
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  Speaker 1: it as a nine year old, which I think was inappropriate.
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  Speaker 1: But way, you know, whatever, it holds up. It's told up.
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  Speaker 1: It's funnier than ever. It does great, it does hold up.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh.
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  Speaker 2: Well, congrats on everything, and thank you so much for
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  Speaker 2: taking the time and listen everyone.
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  Speaker 1: If you're in the LA area, make sure to grab
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  Speaker 1: your tickets to see Katie in chorus.
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  Speaker 2: Harmonia starting on April twenty second at the Hudson Theater.
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  Speaker 2: You can get your ticks at Hudsontheater dot com and
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  Speaker 2: all the proceeds are going to be donated to some
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  Speaker 2: great organizations as well, which is really really cool.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, it's Turla and Wounded Warriors. Oh perfect, I really
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  Speaker 3: love those operations.
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  Speaker 1: And no, those are great. Katie.
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  Speaker 2: Congrats again and thank you again. Hope to see you
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  Speaker 2: in person. Take care, Thanks Mario okay with real Lopez