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Tony Danza · On with Mario Interviews

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  Speaker 1: On with Mario Lopez.
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  Speaker 2: Bro Mario Lopez joining me right now, Emmy nominated actor
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  Speaker 2: and excellent cruner.
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  Speaker 3: My man, mister Tony Dan.
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  Speaker 1: How you doing, Tony pretty well? Thank you Mary, thank
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  Speaker 1: you about yourself.
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  Speaker 3: I'm doing well. I'm doing well.
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  Speaker 2: It's funny because I was just telling you off air,
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  Speaker 2: we were just talking about you. Well, I'll get into
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  Speaker 2: that a little bit later. But I had the pleasure
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  Speaker 2: of seeing you perform in La not too long ago.
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  Speaker 2: It was such a fun show, such a great time.
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  Speaker 2: And uh, following you on social media, I know you're
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  Speaker 2: still out doing your thing. What's the next time we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna be out here in La.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, that's a good question. I can't remember. I got
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  Speaker 1: a bunch. I'm doing like seven shows at seven cities,
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  Speaker 1: eighteen shows. Wow. You know, so I've been on a Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I've been doing I've been playing the Carlisle. That's been
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  Speaker 1: a lot of fun. Of course, you know that's always
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  Speaker 1: so great. Yeah, that's so I wrote this show. I
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  Speaker 1: wrote a new show. I wrote a show called you know,
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  Speaker 1: the first one was called Standards and Stories. This one's
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  Speaker 1: called Sinatra in Story because you know, I had a
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  Speaker 1: little I got to be around him.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I know it, and I love that. I love it.
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  Speaker 3: I remember him being on your show back in the
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  Speaker 3: day too.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he actually did my show.
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  Speaker 3: Imagine I remember that. That must have been a wild
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  Speaker 3: Your mom must have crazy for that. Oh that's right,
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  Speaker 3: you got you got a bunch of stuff going on.
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  Speaker 3: But first off, you're in this new movie, re Election.
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  Speaker 3: It's a comedy. Uh looks pretty funny. What's the premise here.
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  Speaker 1: It's about a guy, you know, It's like, I think
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  Speaker 1: it's relatable. It's about a guy who feels like there
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  Speaker 1: was a moment in his life that didn't go his
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  Speaker 1: way and it changed his whole life. And he's sort
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  Speaker 1: of he's been I play his father, and he's been
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  Speaker 1: sitting around Adam Sawnd this terrific kid, he wrote, directed
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  Speaker 1: and starting a picture. So but he he's he's sitting
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  Speaker 1: around doing nothing. He decides he wants to go back
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  Speaker 1: to high school. And it was the incident was he lost.
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  Speaker 1: He was the student body president freshman, sophomore, junior year,
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  Speaker 1: senior year, gets licked and the guy ends up with
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  Speaker 1: his girlfriend and it goes on to be the governor
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  Speaker 1: of the state. So his whole life was that was
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  Speaker 1: the guy took his life and so finally he just
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  Speaker 1: to go back. But you know, going back to high
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  Speaker 1: school when you're forty six or whatever he is, you know,
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  Speaker 1: things have changed. Yeah, yeah, it's and it's it's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of fun. And I think it's you know, I think,
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  Speaker 1: you know one of the things I worry about a
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  Speaker 1: lot is is, you know, young young generation struggling, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, to get out of high college. They did
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  Speaker 1: everything everybody said they were supposed to do. They took
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  Speaker 1: on a lot of debt and a lot of cases too,
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  Speaker 1: and then they can't find a job. They can't find
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  Speaker 1: they don't they can't live up to their own expectations.
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  Speaker 1: And I was just listening to some guy just now
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  Speaker 1: on one of these channels. They're talking about this this
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  Speaker 1: this real thing that they're worried about with young men
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  Speaker 1: with with with boys. There's this thing or you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's it's just it's so different from when even
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  Speaker 1: you grow up. I mean, you know, I'm much older
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  Speaker 1: than you, Marrio, but even when you grow up, it
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  Speaker 1: was so much it's so much different than it is now.
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  Speaker 3: No, you're exactly right.
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  Speaker 2: Is that one of the things that sort of drew
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  Speaker 2: you to this role, Tony. The fact that it was
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  Speaker 2: sort of a father son relationship and yeah, well I
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  Speaker 2: explore that.
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  Speaker 1: The father was in relationship really struck stuck struck me.
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  Speaker 1: And it also, yeah, this, you know, this is this
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  Speaker 1: is one of those little independent movies that had something
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  Speaker 1: to say too, you know. So it's kind of cool. Really,
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  Speaker 1: I'm pleased with it. I'm really pleased with it. So
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  Speaker 1: I hope people will like it.
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  Speaker 3: I love it, I love it.
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  Speaker 2: Look forward to checking that out and again look forward
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  Speaker 2: to doing or checking you out and.
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  Speaker 1: Saying, you know what I'm doing. You know what I'm
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  Speaker 1: doing next Sunday.
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  Speaker 3: Tell me this is so crazy.
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  Speaker 1: So I wrote that show. We've taken it and charted
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  Speaker 1: it for a symphony orchestra.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: In other words, I'm going to do the act, but
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  Speaker 1: it's then having four pieces, you know, my drums, guitar,
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  Speaker 1: a base in a piano. I'm going to have like
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  Speaker 1: sixty nine pieces. Wow. My band's going to be there too.
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  Speaker 1: Of my band's in there. Yeah, but I'm playing with
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  Speaker 1: a symphony which is at the Tillis Center on Long
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  Speaker 1: Island and Old Brookville in Brookville. I mean not old Brookville, Brookville,
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  Speaker 1: So it's kind of cool. I'm excited, you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: it's my stomping ground. So I'm going to see a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people, I think. So that is I got
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  Speaker 1: to get to sing with a symphony.
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  Speaker 3: Is not your first time you get to do that.
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  Speaker 3: I was just gonna ask twice before.
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  Speaker 1: Mary, I've done it twice before. But it's you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's my buggle.
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  Speaker 3: I can't imagine. Oh, that's going to be awesome. Which
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  Speaker 3: that's something you got to see in person right there
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  Speaker 3: for sure. And Tony, you've taken on so many.
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  Speaker 2: Different roles in your life, and you know, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I'm a big fan and in personally and too.
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  Speaker 3: You were a fighter, you're actor, dancer, singer, you were
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  Speaker 3: even a teacher at one point.
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  Speaker 2: Have you clicked off all the creative challenges that you
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  Speaker 2: wanted to tackle you think in life?
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  Speaker 1: Oh no, Mario, I think you know. You know that's
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  Speaker 1: a good thing about the the profession that we were
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  Speaker 1: in is is that you know, you know, if you
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  Speaker 1: if you get lucky, something might really happen. So I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, I'm feeling pretty good. I'm I'm able. I'm
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  Speaker 1: still able. To tap dance a little bit. I'm a
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  Speaker 1: lot closer to the floor than I used to be.
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  Speaker 1: But but you know, I feel like I can. I
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  Speaker 1: can still do it, and maybe who knows, something really
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  Speaker 1: special might come along. You never know.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, I love it. I love it good. That's that's nice.
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  Speaker 3: Sangway for me for later. I'm the family, by the way.
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  Speaker 1: They don't believe, you know, I got a little girl. Anyway.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if you're going to see this, but
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  Speaker 1: we we had a little baby girl.
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  Speaker 3: Congratulations was Rosie.
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  Speaker 1: But she's going to kill you. What when you see her?
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  Speaker 3: See if you can see, Oh my god, I'm cute.
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  Speaker 3: That's the best.
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  Speaker 1: Katie. Katie had a baby. That's the And then the boys.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I got the two grandsons and once now
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  Speaker 1: second year student in college and he got fourteen and
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  Speaker 1: lifting weights. He's ripped. You gotta see him. That's awesome.
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  Speaker 1: It's wild, it's it's wonderful. You know, being a grandplaw
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  Speaker 1: is very different.
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  Speaker 3: I get to give him back and have fun, and
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  Speaker 3: that's it, right.
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  Speaker 1: He's not even that. I was thinking religiously, like if
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  Speaker 1: God said to Abraham, yo, Abraham, that's where God talks.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, you got to you got to sacrifice
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  Speaker 1: your grandson. He just said, enough for nothing. God the
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  Speaker 1: son may be, but not the grandson's exactly right.
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  Speaker 3: My dad, like, my dad's a different person with my kids.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 3: This guy, I mean, this guy was the guy that
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  Speaker 3: raised the son. He is so.
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  Speaker 2: Funny, exactly. Always a pleasure at catching up with you,
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  Speaker 2: sir and everyone. Please be sure to check out Tony
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  Speaker 2: in the new comedy re Election. If you ever get
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  Speaker 2: an opportunity to check him out perform live. Do not
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  Speaker 2: miss that either. Tony, thank you so much for checking
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  Speaker 2: it a.
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  Speaker 1: Man, Thanks a lot, Mary, Mary. Just one other thing, yes, sir,
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  Speaker 1: Well October twenty third, you know I get that kid
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  Speaker 1: acting teen acting program. It's a full now three months,
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  Speaker 1: three years of five and one c three. We're legit, nonprofit,
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  Speaker 1: non tax deductible. Thank you, Uncle Sam. And October twenty third,
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  Speaker 1: we're doing our yearly benefit. We do two, but this
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  Speaker 1: is the big one and we're at the Sheen Center
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  Speaker 1: on Bleaker Street downtown and we just go to the
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  Speaker 1: Stars of Tomorrow dot Org and we need you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's you know, Mario, I really feel like sometimes we
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  Speaker 1: just have totally advocated any responsibility for nurturing our children. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and we just got a we just got
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  Speaker 1: a headquarters. Ya, finally we got a headquarters. And we
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  Speaker 1: had a kid go from the program. Marrio Daniel there
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  Speaker 1: there's from the from the program. Got them at to college,
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  Speaker 1: finished colleague. I have to finish college. And he made
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  Speaker 1: his debut on Broadway in Romeo and Juliet.
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  Speaker 3: Wow, that's incredible, that's right.
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  Speaker 1: Congratulations, we're really we're really doing some good stuff. And
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  Speaker 1: and and you know, it's it's it works, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it just gives something else to think about. And that's
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  Speaker 1: all they you know in Boom, it's it's time. We
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  Speaker 1: had a we had man, let me show you one
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  Speaker 1: more thing on the stupid phone. And now you.
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  Speaker 4: Know we had ah, you know, we got this new
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  Speaker 4: new headquarters that you know, because we always rented space
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  Speaker 4: and and it was a pain in the neck, you know,
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  Speaker 4: because the kids couldn't stay.
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  Speaker 1: Once you're renting space, you gotta lead. This is an
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  Speaker 1: ensemble building class in the new place. And these are
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  Speaker 1: all new kids. These are all new kids. Brian in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of it, my partner. They had their eyes
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  Speaker 1: closed and they're trying to trust each other. It's a building,
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  Speaker 1: you know.
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  Speaker 3: That's awesome. We'll put all the info on our website too, Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, stars at tomorrow dot org. It's time. Me good, great, great.
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  Speaker 1: The kids is so much fun, is unbelievable. That's awesome
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  Speaker 1: for me to get it back, all right, Mary, I
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  Speaker 1: appreciate that. Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: You got it with Mario Lopez