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Speaker 1: Live from the Mercedes Benz Interview Lounge.

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Speaker 2: Bena White right here, it's so don't take this the

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Speaker 2: wrong way. It's just kind of weird and wacky to

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Speaker 2: have you in the same room as us because you

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Speaker 2: you are in our lives, your TV royalty.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's so.

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Speaker 2: Is that embarrassing to hear that?

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Speaker 1: No? Are you kidding? After forty two years? I love

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Speaker 1: hearing that.

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Speaker 2: Two years with eight thousand episodes?

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Speaker 1: Over eight thousand episodes?

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Speaker 2: Wow?

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Speaker 1: Never the same dress? Right? Do you get to keep

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Speaker 1: any of those dresses? No?

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Speaker 3: None of them.

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Speaker 1: Where would I wear them? That's true? Okay, they got

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Speaker 1: a point.

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Speaker 4: You got a point.

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Speaker 2: It'd be funny to be watching Wheel one night and go,

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Speaker 2: I've seen her in that dress before. Oh well, well,

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Speaker 2: welcome to our Showvana, good to be here. I don't

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Speaker 2: know where to start. Eight thousand episodes. You're you're still

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Speaker 2: going strong, You're still signed until twenty twenty six?

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Speaker 4: Right?

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Speaker 1: You did the math, the Masa?

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Speaker 2: What is it you love most about? What you do?

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Speaker 1: Everything? It's a happy show. It's fun. We give away

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Speaker 1: lots of money, We make other people rich, and they

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Speaker 1: fulfill their dreams. What could be better?

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Speaker 2: I almost feel like you being this close to me,

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Speaker 2: I should scream out my questions, just like contestants.

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Speaker 5: Scream very slowly.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so what are those rules if you're contestants, I'm

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Speaker 2: sure they say you got to scream those others out

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Speaker 2: because we got to hear exactly what you're saying.

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Speaker 1: Otherwise, well, they say don't scream, but speak clearly. You

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Speaker 1: don't have to yell. But they do a good job,

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Speaker 1: don't you think. I mean, think about it. They're on TV,

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Speaker 1: there's three hundred people in the audience, there's millions of

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Speaker 1: people at home watching. They don't want to make a

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Speaker 1: fool of themselves, and they're so nervous.

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Speaker 5: There's so many people that make fools of themselves.

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Speaker 1: How do you not laugh at that?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 1: I feel for them, I just I do. I mean,

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Speaker 1: we're we're in the public eye, right, so we know

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Speaker 1: about all that. But they're, you know, from a small

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Speaker 1: town and they've never been to Hollywood, and they're nervous

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Speaker 1: to begin with.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, when those lights go on, you know, on you

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Speaker 4: on the stage, you forget everything.

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Speaker 2: You get miserable.

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Speaker 4: I was on the weakest link and I got voted

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Speaker 4: off first.

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Speaker 1: Link. How'd you feel like a dumb ass.

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Speaker 2: You get nervous when you're on like yes.

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Speaker 5: Yes, yes, but just sometimes there's one just one letter

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Speaker 5: missing and you know what it is, and they get

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Speaker 5: it wrong and I'm just yelling at the TV. I

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Speaker 5: don't know how you're not. It's amazing that you can

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Speaker 5: just keep your composure.

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Speaker 1: Well it's I go darn. I wish they would have

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Speaker 1: gotten it that. That's kind of the way I look

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Speaker 1: at it.

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Speaker 2: This is why everyone loves you, because you're such a

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Speaker 2: lovely person.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well thank you.

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Speaker 2: So who's who's this guy's end of the table over here?

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Speaker 1: That is my son Nico.

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Speaker 2: Hey there, Hey, Nico. I follow you on Instagram, by

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Speaker 2: the way, all because one day I will be able

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Speaker 2: to afford to buy a mansion and bel air, you

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Speaker 2: know who to call? Okay, is it weird having a

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Speaker 2: son who's sort of he's a sex symbol? People call

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Speaker 2: your son sexy? Is that gross?

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Speaker 1: No, it's not. It's not.

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Speaker 2: But you don't think that would be kind of No?

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Speaker 1: No, I mean I've known him his whole life.

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Speaker 2: You have naked, not in a.

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Speaker 1: Long long time.

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Speaker 2: The day is young. What's it like having van A

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Speaker 2: White as a mom? Do you it's just every day.

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Speaker 6: I mean, you see who she is. It's amazing. She's

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Speaker 6: the best. She's super sweet and yeah, really privileged childhood.

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Speaker 6: So it's been amazing.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 5: Is that like a party a party trick when you're

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Speaker 5: having a good time?

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Speaker 6: Hey, by the way, it totally it's like a built

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Speaker 6: in party trick, like from birth.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, for sure.

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Speaker 6: I mean I don't really tell too many people, but

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Speaker 6: when when people find out, it's really interesting because she's

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Speaker 6: an icon.

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Speaker 2: Everybody knows her.

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Speaker 1: When you were a.

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Speaker 4: Kid, were you allowed to run around the set and

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Speaker 4: like spin wheels and everything?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean to, yeah, of course.

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Speaker 6: And then we go to like Hawaii together because they

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Speaker 6: used to shoot like it all over the country, so on,

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Speaker 6: like for the good locations. We would go together and

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Speaker 6: make a family vacation out of it.

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Speaker 2: So it's a good locations. So I guess she never

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Speaker 2: made it to the Cleveland. In Cleveland, they love us,

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Speaker 2: don't renumber one. I'm sorry we're turning this to the

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Speaker 2: Nico interview.

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Speaker 1: That's okay, I don't mind at all, because I want

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Speaker 1: to point out something I listened to you for a

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Speaker 1: long time. My daughter went to school here. She went

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Speaker 1: to NYU for four years, so I listened to you

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Speaker 1: all the time.

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Speaker 2: You know that we get a little crass in this room,

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Speaker 2: but we're on our best behavior with you here.

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Speaker 4: I said dumb ass before and then I went, oh,

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Speaker 4: my gosh, fan of white sitting next to me.

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Speaker 1: I just thought I shouldn't have said that.

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Speaker 2: I met you and Pat Sage years ago at some function.

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Speaker 2: We were doing something I don't know, and my husband

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Speaker 2: Alex had a drink or two because it was a fundraiser,

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Speaker 2: and he invited you guys to our house in Santa Fe.

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Speaker 2: And you can't. You can't invite these people to our house.

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Speaker 2: They don't they don't know us. They think you're stalking them.

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Speaker 2: But now we know you better come on out. How's

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Speaker 2: everything with Ryan, because you know, we've known Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 2: for many years. Yes, the guy owes me and everyone money,

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Speaker 2: I'm sure, but for so many years with Pat and

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Speaker 2: now you know, I'm assuming there's some adjustment, a little

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Speaker 2: bit of adjustment there, of.

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Speaker 1: Course, and not just for me, for everybody who watches.

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Speaker 1: For forty one years, Patt and I have been doing

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Speaker 1: the show, and then Pat decided to retire, and he's

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Speaker 1: very happy. I saw him a couple of weeks ago.

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Speaker 1: He looks great and Ryan took over and he's doing

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Speaker 1: a great job. And he said, look, no one could

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Speaker 1: ever replace Pat. Say Jack, I'm just here to fill in.

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Speaker 4: Okay, I feel like you should be in charge now though,

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Speaker 4: because like you know, you're.

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Speaker 2: A van of white.

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Speaker 1: Like you listen to me, Ryan, maybe I think he

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Speaker 1: would listen to me, But I don't have anything to say.

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Speaker 1: He's doing a fine job.

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Speaker 2: She's from the Bronx. Daniel, You're a friggin white.

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Speaker 1: Come on, you know.

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Speaker 2: Scary of a question for Vana.

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Speaker 3: Wait about a year and a half ago, you got

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Speaker 3: to be a contestant on the show.

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Speaker 1: I just want to know what that experience was like,

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Speaker 1: especially since you were, I believe, playing against Ken Jennings

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Speaker 1: from Jeopardy exactly. I felt like a dumb you know what.

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Speaker 2: The oh the tables turned. Yes, it's got to be

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Speaker 2: a really rough job to be a contestant on that show.

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Speaker 1: I think it is, I really do, because you don't

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Speaker 1: realize what if you're standing there, There's so many things

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Speaker 1: to think about. There's the wheel, there's the puzzle board,

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Speaker 1: there's six cameras everywhere, and there's directors telling you this

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Speaker 1: and that it's just ah, so I understand how they feel,

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Speaker 1: and I felt the same way.

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Speaker 2: A lot of people are going to work right now

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Speaker 2: listening to the show, maybe doing a job they've been

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Speaker 2: doing for eight years, ten years, whatever. You've been doing

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Speaker 2: this for forty two years.

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Speaker 1: I was eleven when I started.

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Speaker 2: Of course, what's your advice for someone out there who

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Speaker 2: wants to feel that same feeling of longevity at what

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Speaker 2: they do?

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Speaker 1: Well? I think if you're happy in your job, stay

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Speaker 1: with it. And if you're not happy in your job

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Speaker 1: and you can't leave your job, make the best of it.

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Speaker 1: There's always something good in everything. That's the way I

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Speaker 1: look at it. That is good.

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Speaker 2: We need to start thinking more like Vana White because

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Speaker 2: we're a bunch of sarcastic New York's.

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Speaker 1: But you guys have fun, don't you know?

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Speaker 6: We we do.

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Speaker 2: Even when we hate each other, we're having a good time.

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Speaker 2: We actually enjoy hating each other sometimes it's part of

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Speaker 2: the part of the day.

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Speaker 5: So how do you guys pick the contestants to go

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Speaker 5: on the show?

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Speaker 1: How would one apply?

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Speaker 5: I need my dad to go on there.

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Speaker 1: He's go to Wheel of Fortune Dot com okay, and

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Speaker 1: how to be a contestant? It will be on there.

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Speaker 1: Of course, I'm not involved in the contestant search, but

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Speaker 1: I think they have to do I'm not really sure.

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Speaker 1: I shouldn't say, because I don't really know how can

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Speaker 1: do it? But go to Wheel of Fortune dot com.

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Speaker 2: It's always better not to know. I try to. I

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Speaker 2: try to stay out of the loop when our job

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Speaker 2: is brought up. Wait, you can't get us on the show.

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Speaker 1: No, you can't be on the show if we know

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Speaker 1: each other. Oh, so all of us are out. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I have a nice day. It is it a live

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Speaker 1: studio audience? Yeah? Yess is so how many people?

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Speaker 4: Because I always feel like when you go to a show,

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Speaker 4: it looks so much bigger on television than when you

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Speaker 4: get there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think there's two hundred and fifty three hundred

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Speaker 1: people in the audience something like that.

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Speaker 2: It does.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it is.

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Speaker 2: What's up, Nate, don't you have?

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Speaker 3: I always thought you guys did this show live every night?

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Speaker 3: When I'm a kid sitting there watching at my parents

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Speaker 3: living roo, I'm like, boy, it looks great tonight. You

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Speaker 3: must had a good day. Come to find out? You

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Speaker 3: feel that like three months ago. Yes, how does that work?

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Speaker 1: We filmed about thirty four days a year.

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Speaker 2: That's it, stop it?

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Speaker 4: Yes, but how many in a day?

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Speaker 1: Six shows a day?

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Speaker 2: Wait, I'm sorry, I do not feel sorry for you.

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Speaker 2: One day. That sounds like a great job.

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Speaker 1: Dresses it is? It is?

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Speaker 2: Wait, you have three hundred he's thirty one days off

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Speaker 2: a year. He was doing the math.

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Speaker 1: Yes, I guess so.

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Speaker 2: You know, and no one deserves it more than you

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Speaker 2: because you're just the best. Okay, I know you get

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Speaker 2: these same stupid questions over and over. So when you

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Speaker 2: went from turning the letters to touching the.

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Speaker 1: Letters, does it?

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Speaker 1: Well, there's two two things happened. First I physically turned

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Speaker 2: Have you ever activated the wrong letter? Yeah, you know

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Speaker 1: I watched Wheel of Fortune? Can you believe that? I

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Speaker 1: I wish you would have saved that letter. It said

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Speaker 1: First I went to a taping of Dance Fever, which

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Speaker 1: He said, you call me on October fifth at ten

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Speaker 1: I was a contestant. Oh my again, didn't win a

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Speaker 2: We were because he lived in West Hollywood, not far

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Speaker 2: Yea, his pets never his pets never gave birth. But

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Speaker 2: I can't be on yours ruined it for us. You

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Speaker 2: Why is Wheel.

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Speaker 2: What has made it last? This long? Very good question?

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Speaker 1: I wish I knew that answer. I honestly don't know.

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Speaker 1: The only thing I can think of. It's a half

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Speaker 2: I think it's all you. But another thing is it's

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Speaker 2: You do have to actively try to figure these puzzles out.

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Speaker 2: There's a lot of games out there that say no whammies.

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Speaker 2: No one is to think about that, right, no offense

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Speaker 2: At least that's one of the things. Also, MERV Griffin

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Speaker 1: And this is this is old fashioned to think about it.

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Speaker 1: This came from Hangman. Remember that show, not show that

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Speaker 6: Yeah, all kinds of stuff, par cheesy and scrabble and.

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Speaker 1: I would not do that because then I would be

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Speaker 2: Okay, okay, wow, good answer, Van, I'm loyal.

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Speaker 1: That is like, I'm not new to this guy.

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Speaker 2: I have an idea with that, and I don't just

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Speaker 2: great and we'll move on. Let's not say it could

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Speaker 1: Yeah, just a thought. Well, speaking of that, I'm hearing

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Speaker 2: What Okay, Well, I renew that. But I was trying

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Speaker 2: to play it off. I was merely active and now

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Speaker 2: you're gonna get us all fire and things. But there

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Speaker 1: Yes, I'm hearing rumors. We shall see all right, right,

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Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, i'd love to you. Guys are so on me.

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Speaker 2: We have we have spoiled nothing. We're just we're just

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Speaker 1: It's such a it's my pleasure. As I said, I

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Speaker 1: I feel like I know you because I've listened to

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Speaker 2: Oh no, it's her. It's our bed. He was going

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Speaker 2: to give us a good price on the house. And you,

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Speaker 2: you truly are a charming, beautiful, wonderful woman. Something tells

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Speaker 2: me when you walk out of here and the mics off,

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Speaker 2: you kick a kitting across the there's got to be

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Speaker 2: some evil evil side when you throw sharp objects, and

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Speaker 2: I'm not seeing it quite yet.

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Speaker 1: A lot of you.

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