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Classic Moment: Richard Maria Christina, The Drag Queen · Billy & Lisa in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Remember Richard aka Maya Castina Fall's Eyelashes, Nevin kisservin touch
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  Speaker 1: but totally destroyed.
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  Speaker 2: I met him over the summer where he was working
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  Speaker 2: at the mall, and the internet fell in love and
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  Speaker 2: as we quickly learned, Maria Christina False Eyelashes hadn't seen
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  Speaker 2: the drag stage in thirty.
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  Speaker 3: Years for two main reasons.
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  Speaker 2: One Richard's dad disapproved, and two he had to work
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  Speaker 2: three jobs to put his.
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  Speaker 3: Niece and nephew through school.
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  Speaker 4: Do you have a social life? No one in the mall.
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  Speaker 4: First I don't know where, and then second nobody invite me.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, so that video got four million views in its match.
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  Speaker 5: Here our buddy who works right down the hall.
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  Speaker 3: At WBZ News Radio.
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  Speaker 5: That's right.
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  Speaker 3: How did you find Richard Matt? Yeah, so this was
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  Speaker 3: an amazing story.
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  Speaker 2: So I do the series where I show up in
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  Speaker 2: random towns around Massachusetts and try to find something cool,
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  Speaker 2: zero prep. It's sort of people have called.
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  Speaker 3: It unhinged chronicle.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I do. So I show up and and
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  Speaker 2: just find whoever I meet on the street. And I
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  Speaker 2: had met this amazing woman, Trina, who said she was
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  Speaker 2: going to take me shopping at the Mall, we went
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  Speaker 2: to the South Shore Plaza and there at Air Apostle
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  Speaker 2: was this guy Richard, who was cracking jokes and ending
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  Speaker 2: every single joke with joke only that was That's his
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  Speaker 2: catchphrase and and so that was a very small part
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  Speaker 2: of that video, but it took off.
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  Speaker 3: People were watching, like I need more of this guy.
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  Speaker 4: Who is this guy?
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  Speaker 2: So I met with Richard again. We did a whole
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  Speaker 2: profile as you just heard. I found out from that
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  Speaker 2: interview that he had never had a night out since
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  Speaker 2: moving here to the US because he was working three
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  Speaker 2: jobs to put his niece and nephew through school. So
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  Speaker 2: we took him for a night at Jacques Cabaret, the
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  Speaker 2: drag club in Boston, of course, and the drag queens
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  Speaker 2: fell in love with him too, and they said, you
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  Speaker 2: got to come perform for us, because Richard had this
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  Speaker 2: whole drag for sona back in the Philippines that he
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  Speaker 2: had to put behind. His dad wasn't super into the
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  Speaker 2: whole drag thing, so he kind of, you know, left
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  Speaker 2: that bag, but like he wanted to bring that back,
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  Speaker 2: and the queens wanted to make that happen. And so
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  Speaker 2: just last week we had Richard at two drag brunches
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  Speaker 2: and Maynard absolutely packed house at this humongous venue. Hundreds
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  Speaker 2: of people drove all the way from New Hampshire and
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  Speaker 2: Rhode Island to come out and see the return of
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  Speaker 2: Maria Christina false eyelashes and Richard or Maria Christina.
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  Speaker 3: Welcome to the billion Lisa Morning Show Field.
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  Speaker 4: Good morning.
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  Speaker 3: This is your first time ever in a radio studio.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, this is my first time.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I got to tell you something.
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  Speaker 5: So when Matt met you at Arab Hostel, that's only
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  Speaker 5: one of three jobs you currently work, right, Yeah, and
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  Speaker 5: you do it to support your niece and nephew in
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  Speaker 5: the Philippines.
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  Speaker 1: In the Philippines because I fail of them is on
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  Speaker 1: callage and then the other one is high school. So
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  Speaker 1: I need to support them like a monthly for their
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  Speaker 1: tuition fee and sending money and of course uh for
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  Speaker 1: their food, for their you know, for books in everything uniform.
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  Speaker 3: This when was the last time you yourself was in
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  Speaker 3: the Philippines.
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  Speaker 4: So I was like two years ago that was in
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  Speaker 4: the Philippines.
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  Speaker 5: So by way of this video with Matt, who by
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  Speaker 5: the way, you do an incredible job.
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  Speaker 3: Incredible job. I understand you're getting some offers from some
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  Speaker 3: big time.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to blow your cover here.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just saying it doesn't get bigger than billion in
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  Speaker 2: the morning.
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  Speaker 3: So, Richard, how are your niece and nephew doing.
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  Speaker 1: They're doing They're doing good. Actually, the two of them
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  Speaker 1: already graduated last June. One is magna hum laude and
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  Speaker 1: the other one is school laudy. Yeah, and then and
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  Speaker 1: then I have two more. So from from preschool to
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  Speaker 1: elementary to high school and college, I'm the one who
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  Speaker 1: support them for their school wow, because I need to
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  Speaker 1: give them, you know, a better life in the near future.
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  Speaker 5: So, so when you did the drag brunches, so the
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  Speaker 5: two or three drag brunches that were you paid?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Jackson, the mail I'm thinking of in the mail?
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  Speaker 5: So will you continue doing it now or can you?
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  Speaker 5: Because you're working three sometimes four jobs.
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  Speaker 1: I love to and I like it, but the thing is,
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  Speaker 1: first I don't drive, and then I need to produce
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  Speaker 1: all those gowns, dresses, weeks and makeups, which is not cheap.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's not cheap.
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  Speaker 3: So I saw the video of you performing. Where did
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  Speaker 3: all those?
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  Speaker 4: So actually all of those I got sponsored from Matt.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, he's the most connected the way. We got
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  Speaker 3: to give us some credit to is he ready?
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  Speaker 2: She's a local drag performer and icon who brought the
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  Speaker 2: whole wardrobe and did your whole makeup thing all for free.
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  Speaker 2: She woke up like super early in the morning to
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  Speaker 2: come do it too, which was amazing.
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  Speaker 4: But he's the one who talked to them, so too easy.
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  Speaker 4: And Chanel helped me describe Richard.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, if I call you Richard.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, you can call you Richard, Maria whatever.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, Uh, describe what it felt like taking the stage.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, taking the stage first of all, and so nervous.
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  Speaker 1: So that's why the first word I say is welcome
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  Speaker 1: to Walmart.
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  Speaker 4: It's my nervous.
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  Speaker 3: Are you applying to Walmart?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: I'd like to work Walmart before, but they didn't call.
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  Speaker 3: They haven't called yet, okay, So so.
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  Speaker 4: I want to see the faces of you know, the
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  Speaker 4: the audience, like laughing. That is my nervous.
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  Speaker 1: So before I started to sing or make jokes. So
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  Speaker 1: I always say making jokes, even in this in the store,
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  Speaker 1: you know, in all my friends.
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  Speaker 5: But to be clear, if if if people listening would
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  Speaker 5: like to meet you, You've got three jobs in the
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  Speaker 5: same block.
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  Speaker 3: You're in the Southial Mall. Where are the three jobs?
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  Speaker 1: So my first job is in I work from home
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  Speaker 1: from mass General Brighams. I work in the building.
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  Speaker 3: Oh god, and the bill collector. It's really very nice, right, Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: So I worked therefore almost like thirteen years.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And then the second is in Airport, so in south
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  Speaker 4: Shore Mall.
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  Speaker 3: And that's where you met Mac.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. So I met Matt when he asked me, what's
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  Speaker 4: your name by day by night?
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  Speaker 3: Because you work around the clock.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, But that's the thing though, was like I never
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  Speaker 2: heard that before. He's like, by day, I'm Richard Lunar
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  Speaker 2: and by night.
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  Speaker 1: It's Maria Christina falls I actually has never been kissed,
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  Speaker 1: never been touched, but totally destroyed.
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  Speaker 5: Have you really never been never been touched? Never mind
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  Speaker 5: forget that question. But you also work at Express?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I work in Express two days.
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  Speaker 5: So people probably came into these stores walking by you
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  Speaker 5: and didn't know you were a big star.
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  Speaker 4: Now I'm shy.
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  Speaker 1: They're asking, oh, Maria, I saw and then Joe only
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  Speaker 1: that's what they called me sometimes and take pictures and
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  Speaker 1: I'm shy because I'm not used to it. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: very thankful to them because you know, they straight effort
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  Speaker 1: to come to.
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  Speaker 5: The see me so now, Matt. A lot of famous
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  Speaker 5: people reached out after seeing the video.
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  Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, it's kind of insane just watching like Chrissy
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  Speaker 2: Tigue and Kelly Osbourne, Cassie like all these huge names
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  Speaker 2: liking the posts and stuff, and some of them even
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  Speaker 2: following to me too, like half the cast of SNL
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  Speaker 2: from the nineties, like I actually Rachel, Rachel.
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  Speaker 4: For real, I remember, yes, yeah, and so it's cool.
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  Speaker 2: And then a certain big, huge TV talk show host
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  Speaker 2: has also reached out about possibly having Richard on Can
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  Speaker 2: I say who?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, go for it.
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  Speaker 5: Kelly Clarkson show. Yeah, Richard, you don't watch TV, right,
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  Speaker 5: so you're not familiar with Kelly. I'm telling you the
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  Speaker 5: best thing you can do. I wish I could go
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  Speaker 5: on the Kelly Clark's so much fun by far, She's
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  Speaker 5: got the best daytime talk show and she's such a
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  Speaker 5: tremendous talent.
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  Speaker 4: I hope and I pray.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's weirding the way the whole process works, Like
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  Speaker 2: he had to send like an audition tape. They're like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: we like your viral video now film another one and
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  Speaker 2: send it to us.
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  Speaker 4: What did that?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah? I know, I think we should start a drive
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  Speaker 5: a GoFundMe for Richard. Let's send him to the Kelly
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  Speaker 5: Clark