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Hey guys, it's me, just popping

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in here, Eden and I, we're

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just at the beginning of our

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break. I mean, the cucumbers are

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on our eyes, the clay mask

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is on our face, we're sipping

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the lemon mints ball water, but

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we wanted to pop in here

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and give you these little treats,

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these little Amuse bushes, before our

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immaculate return on Wednesday, February 26

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with brand new episodes. So today

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we have our blue bag grab

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Trivia with our amazing casting director, G.

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Charles Wright. This is from

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episode 102, The Cheerleader. I know

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I can speak for Eden

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when I say we both adore

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this man. It's rare, someone

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makes us laugh that hard. He

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is so funny. The questions

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from his blue bag grab, he

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has so many great stories

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that follow. So take a listen,

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come back next week for

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another little tidbit. And again, we'll

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see you in full force on

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Wednesday, February 26th, but until

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then, enjoy this and let's get to

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middling. OK,

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wait, we because I do have to go

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in literally four minutes. Let's do the blue

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bag grab. If you have anything else you

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want to ask, G, after I leave, I

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feel like you should ask. Fab,

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OK, great. We do this thing,

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G, called the blue bag grab

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because the blue bag, obviously the

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running joke from the middle. It's

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just a list of five different

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quiz questions related to casting that

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we have created. So we have

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the blue bag here. Oh,

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and so. Oh, my God, have a blue

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bag. I'm drawing into my

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blue bag real quick. OK,

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so question number one, G.

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A comedy legend played a

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character named Jane Marsh. Who

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was that comedy legend? Jane

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Marsh, well I remember many comedy

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legends on the show. I'm trying

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to remember who Jane Marsh was,

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was that Betty White? No, it's Woodie

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Goldberg. If I said Jane Marsh, the

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guidance counselor, I bet you would have

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gotten it. Yeah, that I would have,

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yeah. Too easy. Yeah, too easy though,

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I got to keep it on your

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toes a little bit. Big Oldford, by

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the way, doesn't fly. So she traveled

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across the country in her tour bus.

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Yeah, didn't she asked to be on the

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be on the show. She's the best.

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No, she didn't just ask

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to be on the show, Brock.

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She asked to be on the

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show featured with Eden because...

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Oh, okay. Was her favorite

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character on the show. Uh-huh.

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If you're just listening

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and not watching this, you

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didn't just see my face,

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but my jaw hit the

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flower. I did not know that.

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I did not know that. Oh

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my God, that's going to take

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me. That's going to lift me

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up for the next two days.

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That's what I'll say. That'll estimate

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two days. Okay, I love this

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question. This next question. The I

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really think we might stump you,

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but who knows? Well, you just

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did. You stop me on Jane Marsh.

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I forget. That's true. Yeah,

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oh for five. All right.

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The cheerleaders of Orson High,

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Debbie and Courtney, were played

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by some of our favorite

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people, Natalie Lander, and Brittany

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Ross. Gee, who played Debbie

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and who played Courtney? I

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have never, I have never

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known. I could see you

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clocked that question before even

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open her mouth. You knew

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exactly what was coming. I

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have, no, I tell this

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to Natalie all the time.

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I still to this day have no idea.

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So I'm going to say, I'm going to

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say that, I'm going to say that

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Brittany was Courtney and Natalie is

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Debbie. That is correct. Yeah, I

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mean, you had a 50-50 shot,

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but... Well, no, I could hear

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that once you said the name,

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if you would ask me to

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tell you what their names were,

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I would never have known the

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character names and notes.

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As soon as you said, Debbie

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and Courtney, I could hear

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Natalie saying, oh, right, court.

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So that's why I was able to hear

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that. If you would ask me to tell

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you what their name for, in a million

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years, I've never, I just always call them

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the cheerleaders. There you go. Well this next

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question that might throw you for

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a loop. Okay, so number three,

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it's a multiple choice question, so

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maybe that helps. So Jack Mabrayer

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played Frankie Hexbos and she became

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a dental hygienist. What was Jack

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Mabrayer's character name? Dr. Tim Goodaker.

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Dr. Ted Goodwin, Dr.

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Todd Goodson, or Dr.

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Tom Goodrich. What was the

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B is, what was B again?

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Dr. Ted Goodwin. Yeah, that's

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it. Okay, there you go.

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Let me backtrack on the

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cheerleaders thing. So, in the

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audition process for the cheerleaders,

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I had all actresses that

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read for me read both

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roles as one part, because they

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are... they were basically the same,

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right? I had to read as

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the whole thing. And then when they

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came in for the producer session,

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each of them would come in

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and read the whole thing. And

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then Eileen and Deanne chose

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the ones that they liked. I

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think I brought in like 10

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actresses because I had two

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rolls to cast. And they saved

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four of them. And then they told

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me, okay. bring in and they said

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you know bring in Brittany and Natalie

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and have Brittany read Courtney and have

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Natalie read Debbie and then I went

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out to the lobby said okay you

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two come on in you're gonna read

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this you're gonna read that like magic

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was happened and it was again it

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was the chemistry that those two had

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together they just met they just met that

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day right there and then they became

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best friends right afterwards yeah in real life

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I never really even Tarquin

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who was my casting associate on the

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show yeah was in he was typed

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up all of their contracts and all

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of the admin stuff he he would

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tell he would know he

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would know that

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okay so Brock I think

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you do have to do these last questions

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unless I want to speak through this last

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one because I have to go but here

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I'm gonna leave you like I'm gonna say

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goodbye right now I'm gonna say gee this

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was so lovely I love you I love

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you thank you for thank you for being

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here and now here's another

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stumper of the

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recurring cast of characters on

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the middle who appeared in

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the most episodes outside of

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the series regulars oh it's

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good one

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right oh oh

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it's because it's

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it's Sean Donahue

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it sure is ding ding ding ding ding ding ding

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ding ding ding ding ding ding

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ding wow okay

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you you go I'll finish this

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last one with G we'll have a

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little key key you know just as

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boys I think that's the perfect way

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to kind of end this but you

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go I love you I love you so much

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G I love you so much Brock I

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will talk to you both in a couple

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weeks I don't want to talk to you

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right now all right I

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love you

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bye honey

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I don't

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but I don't want to talk to you right now I

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talked to you in a couple of weeks I was

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very specific very specific because she goes I've had enough of

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you for you know for a little bit but give me

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a couple weeks time I'll be

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ready for you again okay final question

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gee yeah okay

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if I did my research correctly and

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I was you best believe I

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was on IMDB for about 20 minutes

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yesterday in the middle you cast

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three Academy of nominees or winners. Do

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you know those actors? Marsha

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Mason? Yes. We mentioned

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another one earlier. Oh yeah,

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Whoopi Goldberg, right, of course.

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Whoopi Goldberg. Yeah. And then

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there was a there's a sneaker.

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I don't think she had a

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big part on the middle, but

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she was nominated. Oh, June Squib.

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Well, you know, she wasn't

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a winner. Yes. For Nebraska,

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right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

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yeah. Yeah, I know her part was so small.

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I know and I was I remember watching it

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because I had watched the middle when

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it was dropped on streamers like right

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at the beginning of the pandemic and

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I was like is that and it

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was so like a flash in the

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pan of a role and I was

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like is that June Squib Academy

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award winner? That was in season

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one and our hope, Deb and mine

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because we were still working together at

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the time, our hope was that June

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Squib. would be brought back. That was

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the season where you know we're

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casting a lot of people in

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small parts but you're also establishing

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the community. Right I do remember

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Eileen and Dean saying that like as

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they were building or writing these characters

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and I assume as you're casting these

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it's the idea that yes it's about

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the hex but we're trying to build

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that outside community of Orson that

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surrounds that as well. That's every

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show every show in that first

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season usually is where you start to

9:28

build the world around them and a

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lot of that world comes from

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co-stars and then they and you

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are magnificent at it

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and almost everyone in season

9:39

one was hired as a co-star

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to begin with very few yes

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as a guest star to start

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in season one is that like

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a more of a business decision

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from like a money perspective oh yeah

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yeah yeah yeah it comes to the studio

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because it's a it's a new show and

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there trying to keep the budget really tight.

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It's like that on every... Every

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first year year, every first

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show.