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Speaker 1: Hey guys, welcome to I've Never said this before with

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Speaker 1: Me Tommy di Dario. Today's guest is the incredibly talented

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Speaker 1: actress and director Danielle Savory, who stars in the ABC

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Speaker 1: hit drama series Station nineteen.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: Station nineteen is a spin off of the critically acclaimed

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Speaker 1: series Gray's Anatomy. You may have heard of it before,

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Speaker 1: and it revolves around a group of interesting and complex firefighters.

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Speaker 1: But what I love about this series is, Yes, we

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Speaker 1: get to watch these incredibly dramatic rescues in intense, high

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Speaker 1: stake situations, but we also get to watch the personal

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Speaker 1: dramas of these characters unfold, the highs, the low's, and

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Speaker 1: everything in between. Danielle plays the character of Maya Bishop flawlessly,

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Speaker 1: and she quickly became a fan favorite on the show.

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Speaker 1: For good reason. Her character means so much to so

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Speaker 1: many people. As this wildly popular series heads into its

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Speaker 1: set season, Danielle is joining me today to reflect on

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Speaker 1: her journey on the show. But what I love about

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Speaker 1: this interview is how real and vulnerable Danielle is. Now,

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Speaker 1: if you're a big fan of the series, you may

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Speaker 1: know that unfortunately, after this upcoming seventh season, Station nineteen

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Speaker 1: has been canceled by ABC. This ugh, this is beyond

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Speaker 1: shocking to well, the entire world because the show has

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Speaker 1: been so incredibly successful and popular since day one. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: a lot of us are scratching our heads with this news.

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Speaker 1: For one of the first times, Danielle is opening up

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Speaker 1: about this recent news, But the episode is also a

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Speaker 1: celebration of the incredible work that she has done over

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Speaker 1: the years, and of course we are celebrating the amazing

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Speaker 1: fans of Station nineteen as well, because well, y'all rock.

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Speaker 1: So let's see if today we can get Danielle to

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Speaker 1: say something that she's never said before. Danielle, it is

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Speaker 1: so good to see you, my friend. How are you

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Speaker 1: so good?

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Speaker 3: To see you too? I'm good, I'm good.

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Speaker 4: Twenty twenty four is off to a pretty good start.

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Speaker 3: What about you?

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Speaker 1: Good same? I can't believe we're here at the beginning

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Speaker 1: of the new year. I feel like last year everything happened.

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Speaker 4: So fast, right, it happened way too fast, but also too.

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Speaker 4: I think we were talking earlier about we saw each

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Speaker 4: other in twenty twenty one, and I feel like that

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Speaker 4: was yesterday.

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Speaker 1: I know, I know, it's pretty wild. Well, I'm so

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Speaker 1: excited you're here, and today we're going to celebrate you

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Speaker 1: and the show Station nineteen that means so much to

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Speaker 1: so many people, and really just kind of dive into

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Speaker 1: your world and get to know you a little bit

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Speaker 1: more deeper, a little better than people already know.

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Speaker 3: But I'm scared.

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Speaker 1: No it, don't be scared. Don't be scared. It's gonna

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Speaker 1: be fun. Hopefully you'll let me know by the end. Okay, deal,

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Speaker 1: let's just start, Danielle. I have to bring up the

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Speaker 1: news that is everywhere. I mean I feel like every

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Speaker 1: day I open social media and I see a tweet

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Speaker 1: on Instagram, a post somewhere, and that, of course, is

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Speaker 1: that after the seventh season of Station nineteen, which y'all

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Speaker 1: are working on right now, it seems to be that's

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Speaker 1: going to be the last, which is breaking hearts across

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Speaker 1: the world and really deeply impacting people.

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Speaker 2: I don't say that cavalierly. I mean it.

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Speaker 1: I mean people are devastated that the show is coming

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Speaker 1: to an end. So, first of all, before we dive

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Speaker 4: You doing with the news in general? Yeah, it was

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Speaker 4: a shock. I think use the word devastation it was devastating.

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Speaker 4: I think I didn't fully see it coming. I think

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Speaker 4: there were some signs with the time change and things

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Speaker 4: us just completely off guard, as I think the fans,

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Speaker 4: like all of us, were pretty shocked. So I'm devastated

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Speaker 4: and I'm still processing. I'm full of gratitude and grateful

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Speaker 4: for the years we had. I mean, for a show

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Speaker 4: to run seven seasons, that doesn't happen all the time,

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Speaker 4: So I'm grateful that we had the run we had.

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Speaker 4: I'm grateful to play the character I got to play.

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Speaker 4: I'm going to misplane her so much. She's not just

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Speaker 4: had an impact on the fans, which are the best

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Speaker 4: on me and getting to work with Stefani, getting to

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Speaker 4: and being empowered by that, and empowering the fans that

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Speaker 3: It's I'm still processing it.

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Speaker 4: I'm still processing it, and it's going to take a

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Speaker 4: save Station nineteen, and it is a hashtag and it

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Speaker 4: I mean so much to so many, But yeah, I'm devastated.

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Speaker 4: I'm devastated and I'm still processing.

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Speaker 1: And I understand that. I'm sorry you're going through that.

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Speaker 1: I think when people watch art TV films, you know,

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Speaker 1: whatever the media may be, you don't always realize how

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Speaker 1: much the project means to the artist, to the actor,

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Speaker 1: and it's not just a paycheck. And that's very obvious

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Speaker 1: with you and many people in that cast. It's a

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Speaker 1: deeply personal show. Did you find out recently? I mean

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Speaker 4: Recently? About the cancelation or recently about the impact it

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Speaker 2: Now you've known about the impact.

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Speaker 1: I know that because I have all the conventions and

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Speaker 1: how people reach out to you and what they write.

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Speaker 1: But about the cancelation, when did that happen?

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Speaker 4: We wound out the day the day of, so the

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Speaker 4: way it kind of happened was basically, like I think

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Speaker 3: I don't know the exact time.

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Speaker 4: Our bosses were told and then our bosses told production,

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Speaker 4: and then our production told the writers right before they

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Speaker 4: told us, but they had called in the writers to

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Speaker 4: come in. I think at like one, I think I'm

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Speaker 4: getting something like that. We got there at two two thirty.

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Speaker 4: They told us they knew there was going to be

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Speaker 4: a press release around four I think is the time

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Speaker 4: just a mad dash to try to tell everybody. Because

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Speaker 4: I have to applaud both Peter Page and Zoanne Clack

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Speaker 4: for making sure that every single person that played a

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Speaker 4: partner show, including the three hundred person crew, found out

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 4: But it was such a quick rush and just trying

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Speaker 4: It was right after lunch, and we all hugged and

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Speaker 3: Got back to work.

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Speaker 4: It was it was a yeah, it's I think we're

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Speaker 1: Yeah, range well yeah, I was going to ask as

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Speaker 1: the tone kind of changed on set, because now you're

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Speaker 1: with your family that you've built over the last six

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Speaker 1: going on seven years. But has it changed kind of

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Speaker 4: You know, we're still having a great time and still

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Speaker 3: Our dynamics feel the same.

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Speaker 4: It feels like we're excited to come to set and

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Speaker 4: passion we had before. It's not like people are like, oh,

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Speaker 4: one is like that, but there's this air of like

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Speaker 4: the crew into the cast, and to set feature things.

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Speaker 3: Up and do all this kind of stuff.

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Speaker 4: But we also know that it's happening, so you know

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Speaker 4: there's a looming thing that's there, but everyone's still excited

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Speaker 2: Well.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to go as far as to say

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Speaker 1: I am a very intuitive person, and I honestly firmly

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Speaker 1: I'm putting that out in the universe.

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Speaker 4: From your lips to my please, please, please, please please, Yeah,

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Speaker 4: I would love. It's killing me to not get to

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Speaker 4: play my Bishop anymore. I loved playing her for the

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Speaker 4: seven years I've had the opportunity to that. To not

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Speaker 3: So I hope I put it out there. Put it

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Speaker 4: Yes, I hope that your intuition is right.

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Speaker 1: Yes, put it out there, put it out there. And

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Speaker 1: I love that You've said that a few times now.

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Speaker 1: How deeply personal. Playing my a Bishop is for you?

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Speaker 1: Why what has made her so magical for you over

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Speaker 4: There's so many things at first that I related to

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Speaker 4: I didn't know the impact it was going to have

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Speaker 4: strong female characters do you see on television? It's I've

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Speaker 4: been on auditioning since I was seven years old. You

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Speaker 4: happy to dive in. I shared a lot with her.

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Speaker 4: Then when I realized the impact she had on so

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Speaker 4: anxious level too, because I was like, oh my gosh,

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Speaker 4: everything mine now says and does really has an impact

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Speaker 4: Because even the season six playing the storyline of mental

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Speaker 4: health in Maya, I mean, I think we can a

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Speaker 4: I've gotten such amazing feedback of how even that had

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Speaker 4: And discovering who I am myself too, which I you know,

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Speaker 4: Realizing that in order for change to happen, you have

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Speaker 1: how you would answer this, because I'm not playing those characters.

440
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Speaker 1: But I don't know how I would answer this. But

441
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Speaker 1: do you know where you want that relationship to go?

442
00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:41,640
Speaker 1: As it kind of comes to an end in the series, I.

443
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Speaker 3: Just wanted to continue.

444
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Speaker 4: I think there's so much amazing which I've discovered, this

445
00:20:45,760 --> 00:20:49,040
Speaker 4: whole world of fan fiction, like, I want it to

446
00:20:49,119 --> 00:20:51,280
Speaker 4: live on. I want people to still be inspired by it,

447
00:20:51,320 --> 00:20:55,159
Speaker 4: whether they're making up the stories or or we continue.

448
00:20:55,600 --> 00:20:59,359
Speaker 4: But no, I think everyone knows. I mean not everyone.

449
00:20:59,400 --> 00:21:01,720
Speaker 4: I guess people watching us don't know fully. But I'm

450
00:21:01,760 --> 00:21:05,000
Speaker 4: really excited to see them be mothers. I'm excited to

451
00:21:05,040 --> 00:21:07,560
Speaker 4: see them excel in their careers further, but in a

452
00:21:07,600 --> 00:21:10,120
Speaker 4: healthy way. I'm excited for my to eventually maybe one

453
00:21:10,160 --> 00:21:12,960
Speaker 4: day be a captain at some station in Seattle. I'm

454
00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:16,119
Speaker 4: excited to see them. I'm really excited. I think what

455
00:21:16,160 --> 00:21:17,800
Speaker 4: I was getting at was to see them be mothers.

456
00:21:17,920 --> 00:21:21,400
Speaker 4: I think we didn't get enough time to really showcase that,

457
00:21:22,080 --> 00:21:24,639
Speaker 4: you know, we've touched on it. They've been trying, and

458
00:21:24,680 --> 00:21:27,760
Speaker 4: we won't get enough time to really see them be

459
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Speaker 4: mothers to mothers raising a child or children, and so

460
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Speaker 4: I want them to leave on that high note, hopefully

461
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Speaker 4: fingers crossed, because I don't know what the season's going

462
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Speaker 4: to be.

463
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Speaker 3: I don't.

464
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Speaker 4: I don't think anyone fully even the writers are working

465
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Speaker 4: on it. Now you know know where it's going to lead.

466
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Speaker 4: But I just hope that we can leave on this

467
00:21:44,400 --> 00:21:47,640
Speaker 4: note of like they went into the sunset being happy

468
00:21:47,880 --> 00:21:51,000
Speaker 4: mothers who have their ups and downs and funny times

469
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Speaker 4: with their kids, and yet still are these independent, badass,

470
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Speaker 4: empowering women.

471
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Speaker 1: And I think what I heard you say is at

472
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Speaker 1: the very least, we need to spin off with the

473
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Speaker 1: two of you. I believe that's what we just said.

474
00:22:03,600 --> 00:22:06,280
Speaker 4: It was someone pitched this like funny, and I was

475
00:22:06,320 --> 00:22:09,359
Speaker 4: laughing so hard. It was like basically the Maya and

476
00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:12,199
Speaker 4: Crenas spin off or the Marina spinoff. That's a sitcom,

477
00:22:12,600 --> 00:22:16,040
Speaker 4: like a half hour sitcom of just them basically their house,

478
00:22:16,760 --> 00:22:18,720
Speaker 4: their apartment, their house whatever it is at the time,

479
00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:22,639
Speaker 4: and the children and basically they come home from work

480
00:22:22,960 --> 00:22:25,320
Speaker 4: from being a doctor, from being a firefighter and all

481
00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:29,880
Speaker 4: the sitcom takes place in the actual house and all

482
00:22:29,880 --> 00:22:32,040
Speaker 4: that ensues with them being mothers, And I thought, I

483
00:22:32,119 --> 00:22:34,200
Speaker 4: was like, that's actually kind of brilliant and I kind

484
00:22:34,200 --> 00:22:36,000
Speaker 4: of love it. And I love that it would be

485
00:22:36,040 --> 00:22:38,480
Speaker 4: this like kind of sitcom where you kind of get

486
00:22:38,480 --> 00:22:40,560
Speaker 4: to see the humor ensue, but still.

487
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Speaker 3: The love be there.

488
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Speaker 2: That's a genius idea.

489
00:22:43,080 --> 00:22:45,240
Speaker 4: It was such a genius idea to imagine too. I

490
00:22:45,320 --> 00:22:47,120
Speaker 4: was like, huh, we'll put it out in the universal scene.

491
00:22:47,160 --> 00:22:48,760
Speaker 2: That's right, I keep putting things out. I love that.

492
00:22:48,800 --> 00:22:52,360
Speaker 1: You never know that would be so entertaining to watch, Dunielle.

493
00:22:52,359 --> 00:22:55,320
Speaker 1: There's been so many important storylines discussed on the show.

494
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Speaker 1: For you, what was one of the most impactful And also,

495
00:23:01,800 --> 00:23:05,040
Speaker 1: is there a storyline you've always wanted to discover that

496
00:23:05,119 --> 00:23:07,000
Speaker 1: hasn't been touched on yet in this show.

497
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Speaker 4: I think the one last season, the season six, the

498
00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:13,840
Speaker 4: mental health one. For me, I think I really really

499
00:23:13,960 --> 00:23:17,000
Speaker 4: really resonated with that because it's so important. I have

500
00:23:17,040 --> 00:23:20,600
Speaker 4: such a big advocate for therapy. And I don't see

501
00:23:20,640 --> 00:23:22,880
Speaker 4: a lot of again, we'll go back to network television.

502
00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:26,119
Speaker 4: I don't see a lot of network television actors having

503
00:23:26,119 --> 00:23:30,800
Speaker 4: complete meltdowns and hitting rock bottom. And I thought that

504
00:23:30,880 --> 00:23:34,199
Speaker 4: was really important to start the conversation about, like therapy

505
00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:36,560
Speaker 4: is important and it's not something that's taboo or shouldn't

506
00:23:36,560 --> 00:23:38,920
Speaker 4: be talked about, because even that I was naive about.

507
00:23:38,920 --> 00:23:40,280
Speaker 4: I mean, I've grown up so much on the show

508
00:23:40,280 --> 00:23:43,000
Speaker 4: because I think I was so naive, Like I thought,

509
00:23:43,240 --> 00:23:45,600
Speaker 4: therapy is normal, you go to therapy. There's so many

510
00:23:45,640 --> 00:23:48,080
Speaker 4: people that you know, shy away from it, don't believe

511
00:23:48,080 --> 00:23:50,320
Speaker 4: in it, look at it as a weakness, and I didn't

512
00:23:50,320 --> 00:23:53,840
Speaker 4: know that. So that's been the most impactful storyline that

513
00:23:53,880 --> 00:23:57,119
Speaker 4: I got to play, and knowing the impact it had

514
00:23:57,160 --> 00:24:00,320
Speaker 4: on the world, I mean as an individual story, I

515
00:24:00,320 --> 00:24:03,200
Speaker 4: think Maye Krena have had the bigger impact as a whole,

516
00:24:03,760 --> 00:24:06,639
Speaker 4: but that one specifically, and it really mattered to me

517
00:24:06,720 --> 00:24:09,840
Speaker 4: because I think, first and foremost, mental health is the

518
00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:13,200
Speaker 4: most important thing. It's if I'm in a good mental

519
00:24:13,400 --> 00:24:17,720
Speaker 4: place in my life, I'm happier, things fall into place, more,

520
00:24:18,080 --> 00:24:20,560
Speaker 4: I'm willing to live in the moment more. Like I

521
00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:24,000
Speaker 4: learned so much through therapy that, Yeah, that was most impactful.

522
00:24:24,359 --> 00:24:27,960
Speaker 1: On the flip side of that, is there a storyline

523
00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:32,760
Speaker 1: that you think maybe is edgy or controversial or not

524
00:24:32,840 --> 00:24:35,240
Speaker 1: talked about a lot, or something you don't really see

525
00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:38,720
Speaker 1: in various forms of art that you would have liked

526
00:24:38,760 --> 00:24:40,880
Speaker 1: to explore or still hope to explore on the show

527
00:24:40,880 --> 00:24:42,200
Speaker 1: and if not, the show in the future.

528
00:24:42,760 --> 00:24:46,240
Speaker 4: I think the world of sexism in the workplace was

529
00:24:46,280 --> 00:24:51,080
Speaker 4: something that I didn't. We definitely touched on, but we didn't.

530
00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:53,919
Speaker 4: I think we shied away from really getting into it.

531
00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:58,080
Speaker 4: I mean we did with Dixon and a little bit

532
00:24:58,160 --> 00:25:01,199
Speaker 4: with Beckett and this earlier episodes and stuff like that,

533
00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:03,159
Speaker 4: but it always felt that we kind of shied away

534
00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:05,639
Speaker 4: from even with Natasha. You've seen it, You've seen it,

535
00:25:05,680 --> 00:25:08,240
Speaker 4: but I don't think is an accurate depiction of what

536
00:25:08,280 --> 00:25:11,840
Speaker 4: I've seen in real life. Yet I think we kind

537
00:25:11,840 --> 00:25:14,840
Speaker 4: of we always kind of fought it and knitted it

538
00:25:14,840 --> 00:25:17,479
Speaker 4: in the butt before it became a bigger issue. And

539
00:25:17,520 --> 00:25:20,520
Speaker 4: I think it is so prevalent and happens so much,

540
00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:24,199
Speaker 4: even if it's just I mean, just how women are

541
00:25:24,200 --> 00:25:27,080
Speaker 4: treated in a male dominated industry in general, and I

542
00:25:27,080 --> 00:25:30,679
Speaker 4: think that was something that never fully came into fruition.

543
00:25:30,720 --> 00:25:34,119
Speaker 4: We never really told that story versions of it, but

544
00:25:34,160 --> 00:25:36,679
Speaker 4: it never was a dedicated storyline of like this person's

545
00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:39,200
Speaker 4: having to deal with it and someone needs to be

546
00:25:39,240 --> 00:25:41,920
Speaker 4: held accountable or how to fix it. I think maybe

547
00:25:41,920 --> 00:25:43,439
Speaker 4: the answer is no one knows how to fix it.

548
00:25:43,520 --> 00:25:48,040
Speaker 4: Yet he's not sad it is beside showing up every

549
00:25:48,119 --> 00:25:52,520
Speaker 4: day and just proving yourself. It doesn't feel like it's

550
00:25:52,520 --> 00:25:55,360
Speaker 4: ever going to be changed until there's you know, more

551
00:25:55,359 --> 00:26:01,520
Speaker 4: equality and all of those elements and all those professions.

552
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Speaker 1: Danielle, last time we chatted, and one of my favorite

553
00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:09,680
Speaker 1: questions is, of course, what would you tell your younger self?

554
00:26:09,760 --> 00:26:11,720
Speaker 1: But I'm hearing it more and more now as people

555
00:26:11,720 --> 00:26:14,040
Speaker 1: talk more about mental health and being good to yourself,

556
00:26:14,040 --> 00:26:17,239
Speaker 1: which is great, So I want to flip it and

557
00:26:17,359 --> 00:26:19,240
Speaker 1: ask you, what is a piece of advice you will

558
00:26:19,280 --> 00:26:23,399
Speaker 1: give to yourself today. I think sometimes we negate the

559
00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:26,679
Speaker 1: adult versions of ourselves and we think we're supposed to

560
00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:30,080
Speaker 1: have it all figured out, and that's just not true.

561
00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:31,920
Speaker 1: I wake up some days and feel like a total

562
00:26:31,920 --> 00:26:32,480
Speaker 1: shit show.

563
00:26:34,080 --> 00:26:38,760
Speaker 4: Yeah me too, Yes, agreed, Well, what would I tell

564
00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:41,919
Speaker 4: my current self? Just what would I right now, in

565
00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:43,479
Speaker 4: this moment tell my current self?

566
00:26:43,760 --> 00:26:44,600
Speaker 2: Yeah?

567
00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:46,280
Speaker 3: All it keeps coming to my mind is.

568
00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:51,919
Speaker 4: Like it's Okay, everything's going to be Okay, everything is okay.

569
00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:53,639
Speaker 3: That's where you're supposed to be.

570
00:26:56,200 --> 00:26:59,880
Speaker 1: As simple as that sounds, that's an incredibly powerful reminder.

571
00:27:00,480 --> 00:27:02,200
Speaker 4: I don't know how you feel, but sometimes it's that

572
00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:04,439
Speaker 4: I'm not where I'm supposed to be. I should be

573
00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:06,600
Speaker 4: achieving more, I should be accomplishing more. I feel like

574
00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:09,440
Speaker 4: a failure. I'm not enough of a success, which I've

575
00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:11,200
Speaker 4: done a lot of work on, but it still feels

576
00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:14,200
Speaker 4: like it's a daily reminder of like I feel like

577
00:27:14,240 --> 00:27:16,000
Speaker 4: it's just this is where I'm supposed to be, this

578
00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:17,280
Speaker 4: is how it's supposed to be, this is where I'm

579
00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:19,880
Speaker 4: supposed to be, and it's all okay.

580
00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:24,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I think, beautifully said.

581
00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:28,320
Speaker 1: And it's also to piggyback on that trying to remember

582
00:27:28,359 --> 00:27:32,240
Speaker 1: to stay in the present and how hard that often is.

583
00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:34,640
Speaker 1: How do you remind yourself.

584
00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:34,720
Speaker 2: To do that?

585
00:27:35,480 --> 00:27:37,879
Speaker 4: I mean, it's a daily reminder usually when I start

586
00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:40,359
Speaker 4: to get into a headspace. And I love this word

587
00:27:40,359 --> 00:27:43,000
Speaker 4: that I've been throwing around a lot lately with catastrophized,

588
00:27:44,480 --> 00:27:47,320
Speaker 4: like when my brain starts thinking of worst case scenarios,

589
00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:51,000
Speaker 4: which obviously when we got the news, like my brain

590
00:27:51,080 --> 00:27:53,399
Speaker 4: went to worst case scenarios, I'll never work again, my

591
00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:56,800
Speaker 4: career is over. The Show's that like all these horrible

592
00:27:56,840 --> 00:27:59,320
Speaker 4: thoughts came in and even in that moment, and why

593
00:27:59,359 --> 00:28:02,360
Speaker 4: I bring that up, I had to be reminded, like, no,

594
00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:04,840
Speaker 4: you still have four more months on this show. You

595
00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:06,959
Speaker 4: have four months to try to figure out what you

596
00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:09,439
Speaker 4: want your future to be, to manifest it, to do

597
00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:12,240
Speaker 4: a vision board, to figure out, like what do I

598
00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:15,600
Speaker 4: see in my future and start heading towards it, and

599
00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:18,680
Speaker 4: live in like you're saying, be in the moment right now,

600
00:28:19,280 --> 00:28:22,560
Speaker 4: because all we have is now, right, Like I always

601
00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:24,440
Speaker 4: kind of do the same, like we are now, and

602
00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:26,760
Speaker 4: we have now and we have met, Like these moments

603
00:28:26,760 --> 00:28:29,399
Speaker 4: that go through life, that's all you have and then

604
00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:33,119
Speaker 4: they're gone. By being present, I'm able to remember all

605
00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:34,760
Speaker 4: of it, I'm able to feel all of it. I'm

606
00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:36,399
Speaker 4: able to kind of put it in my memory and

607
00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:38,560
Speaker 4: think back of like, oh, that time I had the

608
00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:42,080
Speaker 4: interview with Tommy, you know, like going back to.

609
00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:43,000
Speaker 3: Being in the present.

610
00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:45,120
Speaker 4: If I hadn't been in the present in our first

611
00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:47,200
Speaker 4: interview that in the first interview I did with you,

612
00:28:47,720 --> 00:28:51,000
Speaker 4: I wouldn't have been so in the moment to say

613
00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:51,480
Speaker 4: what I.

614
00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:54,400
Speaker 3: Really felt, which was love yourself for yourself. Don't I

615
00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:54,960
Speaker 3: remember that?

616
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Speaker 2: Do you know? It's everywhere. It's everywhere now, everywhere.

617
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Speaker 4: And I think those little moments or acting performances I

618
00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:04,640
Speaker 4: can go into, but that little moment specifically, if I

619
00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:06,360
Speaker 4: hadn't been able to be in the moment and be present,

620
00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:10,280
Speaker 4: I mean, I don't know where that came from. I

621
00:29:10,320 --> 00:29:13,959
Speaker 4: was just in the moment and authentically hearing you and

622
00:29:14,000 --> 00:29:16,760
Speaker 4: listening to myself, and I said it, and it meant

623
00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:18,560
Speaker 4: so much to so many people. And I think every

624
00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:20,320
Speaker 4: moment in my life that's been special has been a

625
00:29:20,320 --> 00:29:25,040
Speaker 4: moment where I've actually been present, I've actually taken it

626
00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:28,480
Speaker 4: all in and I cherish it and I'm grateful for

627
00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:31,000
Speaker 4: it and I love it. And it's just a good

628
00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:32,760
Speaker 4: thing to kind of instant really remind yourself of.

629
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Speaker 2: Are you proud of you?

630
00:29:37,280 --> 00:29:39,719
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm proud of the person I am today, and

631
00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:41,960
Speaker 4: I'm proud of the person I hope I'm going.

632
00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:46,720
Speaker 1: To be because I still what that's a good feeling.

633
00:29:46,760 --> 00:29:48,120
Speaker 2: I'm sure it is.

634
00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:50,400
Speaker 4: I still have a lot of work to do, obviously,

635
00:29:50,560 --> 00:29:53,640
Speaker 4: we all do. I think that's our life. You're constant

636
00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:58,200
Speaker 4: I'm hoping to constantly evolve and change and grow. But yeah, yeah,

637
00:29:58,480 --> 00:30:00,000
Speaker 4: I'm proud of the person I've become.

638
00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:04,920
Speaker 1: I like hearing that, because again, it's something that, oh,

639
00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:07,200
Speaker 1: I think we all have to remind ourselves of and

640
00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:09,960
Speaker 1: to be gentler with ourselves. And I know you're going

641
00:30:09,960 --> 00:30:14,320
Speaker 1: through so much and I can't even imagine what that's like,

642
00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:17,560
Speaker 1: but I do know you have a whole community of

643
00:30:17,560 --> 00:30:19,520
Speaker 1: people who love you and who support you, and who

644
00:30:19,520 --> 00:30:22,440
Speaker 1: are so excited for the next four months of your

645
00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:25,200
Speaker 1: career and then to watch the series and to see

646
00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:28,440
Speaker 1: what happens after that. And I'm not kidding when I

647
00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:32,560
Speaker 1: tell you, I have been messaged by so many people

648
00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:36,719
Speaker 1: begging to get you on this iHeartRadio show, and they

649
00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:39,560
Speaker 1: remembered our interview from the Pandemic from my Instagram live

650
00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:43,640
Speaker 1: series that manifested into an iHeartRadio show that hit number

651
00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:45,400
Speaker 1: six in the world, And I'm like, how did this

652
00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:47,800
Speaker 1: even happen? It's because I had people like you on

653
00:30:47,840 --> 00:30:51,280
Speaker 1: my original series that people want to hear from.

654
00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:52,320
Speaker 2: So it's amazing.

655
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Speaker 4: Well, congratulations, I had no idea and made it to

656
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Speaker 4: number six. I had no idea that that was kind

657
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Speaker 4: of the trajectory too, like you're saying, I didn't realize that.

658
00:31:01,360 --> 00:31:01,560
Speaker 2: Yeah.

659
00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:04,040
Speaker 1: I started the show during the pandemic because we all

660
00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:05,800
Speaker 1: needed something to do and I wasn't going to a

661
00:31:05,840 --> 00:31:09,360
Speaker 1: studio and I just went Rogan, created it and turned

662
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Speaker 1: into this.

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Speaker 4: That's pretty amazing. Are you proud of the person you

664
00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:13,360
Speaker 4: are today?

665
00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:17,440
Speaker 1: I am proud of the person I am today. I've

666
00:31:17,480 --> 00:31:20,600
Speaker 1: taken some big leaps of faith over the last year

667
00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:23,480
Speaker 1: and returned back to doing some stuff that I've always

668
00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:26,080
Speaker 1: wanted to do, and I'm doing it and I'm proud

669
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Speaker 1: of that professionally, and I'm proud of the husband I am.

670
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Speaker 1: And like you said, I have work to do. I'm

671
00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:34,000
Speaker 1: not perfect. Every day I wake up when I want

672
00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:36,920
Speaker 1: to be better, But overall, I know I lived my

673
00:31:36,960 --> 00:31:39,360
Speaker 1: life with kindness and with my best foot forward, So

674
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Speaker 1: that makes me feel good.

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Speaker 4: It's a beautiful way to put it, that you live

676
00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:45,400
Speaker 4: your life with kindness. I think that's Kindness is such

677
00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:47,320
Speaker 4: an important word that I think I feel like I

678
00:31:47,360 --> 00:31:48,920
Speaker 4: need to put more into my vocabulary.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a good word to put in so very

680
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Speaker 1: important question because I know people are already starting to

681
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Speaker 1: think about this. In your cast and crew from all

682
00:31:58,760 --> 00:32:01,520
Speaker 1: of my friends who work on set. Do you know

683
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Speaker 1: what you're going to be taking from the set? Do

684
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Speaker 1: you have something like if anyone touches this, I will

685
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Speaker 1: cut you.

686
00:32:07,160 --> 00:32:11,560
Speaker 4: I don't yet. Oh my gosh, I think I.

687
00:32:11,520 --> 00:32:12,640
Speaker 3: Know now, though.

688
00:32:13,840 --> 00:32:14,640
Speaker 2: Suspends.

689
00:32:15,760 --> 00:32:17,120
Speaker 3: I think it's Maya's helmet.

690
00:32:19,680 --> 00:32:24,880
Speaker 2: Why, I don't know. It was just it was.

691
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Speaker 4: Just yeah, my gut was like, that's one thing I

692
00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:29,920
Speaker 4: would love to have and cherish put in my house

693
00:32:29,960 --> 00:32:32,880
Speaker 4: and like be a reminder it would be my bishop's helmet.

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Speaker 1: Amazing, solid choice. Well, keep your eye on that closely

695
00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:40,160
Speaker 1: over the next few months. Okay, I'll let her mail.

696
00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:42,880
Speaker 4: No, now, it might go missing. I'll be like, I'll

697
00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:44,080
Speaker 4: give at least a heads up.

698
00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:46,840
Speaker 3: I'm a horrible person at trying to like break the rules.

699
00:32:46,880 --> 00:32:48,880
Speaker 4: I'm such a real follower, so I'll probably be like.

700
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Speaker 3: It might go missing. I'm giving your heads up. If

701
00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:54,760
Speaker 3: it does, maybe I know where it is.

702
00:32:56,520 --> 00:33:00,800
Speaker 1: That's amazing. Yes, keep your eyes on that. And Dane, well, lastly,

703
00:33:00,880 --> 00:33:04,400
Speaker 1: this show is called I've never said this before, and

704
00:33:04,960 --> 00:33:08,840
Speaker 1: you're so open and gracious with what you share with

705
00:33:08,960 --> 00:33:11,840
Speaker 1: all of us, you know, throughout the years, and you

706
00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:14,040
Speaker 1: really are somebody that I think people have connected with

707
00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:17,080
Speaker 1: because you have been such an open book. But I'm wondering,

708
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Speaker 1: is there anything else that comes to mind that you've

709
00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:23,080
Speaker 1: never said before, whether it's deep or silly or whatever.

710
00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:25,040
Speaker 1: Does anything come to mind?

711
00:33:25,840 --> 00:33:28,360
Speaker 3: It's so interesting because this is the name of the show.

712
00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:32,160
Speaker 4: My brain has been like doing somersaults, thinking of like

713
00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:33,560
Speaker 4: what could I say?

714
00:33:33,640 --> 00:33:34,160
Speaker 2: Da da?

715
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Speaker 4: And like we kind of just said I'm someone who

716
00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:37,280
Speaker 4: lives in the present, and I try to just like, okay,

717
00:33:37,320 --> 00:33:37,560
Speaker 4: just go.

718
00:33:37,520 --> 00:33:38,560
Speaker 3: In the moment, what would I say?

719
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Speaker 4: And then I was also in this pattern of like, oh,

720
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Speaker 4: I've got to tap myself.

721
00:33:42,120 --> 00:33:43,160
Speaker 3: I like I said that.

722
00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:45,960
Speaker 4: Amazing thing the first time, like we had this and

723
00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:48,000
Speaker 4: it resonated with so many people, and then I was like, no,

724
00:33:48,280 --> 00:33:51,040
Speaker 4: I can't. I can't plan, I can't prep, but I

725
00:33:51,040 --> 00:33:53,440
Speaker 4: can't like think. And so in the moment, I'm just

726
00:33:53,480 --> 00:33:55,840
Speaker 4: gonna sit here for a second and think, what's the

727
00:33:55,880 --> 00:33:57,640
Speaker 4: one thing I've never said before? Right?

728
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Speaker 2: M hm?

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Speaker 3: Cause like you said, I'm an open book. There's so

730
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Speaker 3: many things I've said. I feel like I've said it all.

731
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Speaker 4: Okay, I guess we'll go funny. The things that are

732
00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:17,920
Speaker 4: coming to my mind are like little weird quirks about

733
00:34:17,960 --> 00:34:23,360
Speaker 4: myself that no one probably knows when I guess this

734
00:34:23,440 --> 00:34:25,440
Speaker 4: is so random too, look at what's coming here. It's

735
00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:29,120
Speaker 4: like when I sleep, most people like I sleep so

736
00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:31,920
Speaker 4: still and so quietly. This is the only thing I

737
00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:33,279
Speaker 4: could think of that like, no one knows about me

738
00:34:33,320 --> 00:34:36,239
Speaker 4: because no one knows me when I sleep. People have

739
00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:37,600
Speaker 4: literally had a check to see if I'm alive at

740
00:34:37,640 --> 00:34:39,840
Speaker 4: times because I'm so still and I'm so quiet and

741
00:34:39,880 --> 00:34:40,560
Speaker 4: I don't move.

742
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Speaker 3: That's one thing that popped my mind.

743
00:34:42,719 --> 00:34:44,920
Speaker 4: And I also sleep in a sweater, sweatpants and socks.

744
00:34:45,520 --> 00:34:46,720
Speaker 2: Ooh, my worst nightmare.

745
00:34:47,360 --> 00:34:50,560
Speaker 4: Everyone the amount of crap I get that I sleep

746
00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:52,399
Speaker 4: and all those things are like, what's wrong with you?

747
00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:55,840
Speaker 4: And I was like, I'm always cold and sometimes all

748
00:34:55,880 --> 00:34:57,640
Speaker 4: wake up in the morning and like there's clothes that

749
00:34:57,680 --> 00:35:00,279
Speaker 4: have been taken off because I got hot. So when

750
00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:02,360
Speaker 4: I go to bed, I'm so cold that I'm always

751
00:35:02,360 --> 00:35:03,920
Speaker 4: in like a sweater and sweatpants and socks.

752
00:35:03,920 --> 00:35:04,680
Speaker 3: And it's the most.

753
00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:07,480
Speaker 4: Unsexy thing, Like it'd be like I sleep in a

754
00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:11,080
Speaker 4: lingerie every night. No, no, I sleep in a sweater

755
00:35:11,120 --> 00:35:14,440
Speaker 4: and sweatfants and socks and it's so unattractive. And then

756
00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:17,759
Speaker 4: I lay there all bungled up in my sheets and

757
00:35:17,920 --> 00:35:21,200
Speaker 4: I don't move and I am very quiet. That's kind

758
00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:24,279
Speaker 4: of a tidbit about myself that I I guess I

759
00:35:24,320 --> 00:35:25,680
Speaker 4: haven't told anyone before.

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Speaker 1: That's amazing and hysterical. And I'm the exact opposite. I

761
00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:32,240
Speaker 1: have air conditioning on in the winter, two fans blowing

762
00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:35,239
Speaker 1: on me like bare bones, nothing like I can't be hot,

763
00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:36,439
Speaker 1: So that's hysterical.

764
00:35:36,760 --> 00:35:40,960
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're basically like little as possible, I'm assuming, Yeah, yeah, no.

765
00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:41,800
Speaker 3: On the exact opposite.

766
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Speaker 4: And I feel like that's such a disappointment of an

767
00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:45,200
Speaker 4: answer because it's not like more insightful.

768
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Speaker 3: But I think, like you said, I've I've said everything.

769
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Speaker 3: I'm not sure what else to say.

770
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Speaker 4: You have.

771
00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:54,080
Speaker 1: You've You've said so much throughout our conversations and throughout

772
00:35:54,080 --> 00:35:55,960
Speaker 1: the years, and even in this interview. There's certain things

773
00:35:55,960 --> 00:35:58,319
Speaker 1: you've said that I didn't ask that question, but you

774
00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:01,600
Speaker 1: then said it in response to what that question's answer

775
00:36:01,640 --> 00:36:03,560
Speaker 1: should be. And I'm like, oh, that could be that moment,

776
00:36:03,680 --> 00:36:05,760
Speaker 1: or that could be that moment. So I think people

777
00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:08,759
Speaker 1: listening to this are going to actually get quite a

778
00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:11,200
Speaker 1: lot that you maybe haven't said before, especially related to

779
00:36:11,239 --> 00:36:13,960
Speaker 1: everything going on in your life right now. So for that,

780
00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:17,680
Speaker 1: I truly thank you. And lastly, I know you've seen

781
00:36:17,719 --> 00:36:21,600
Speaker 1: the fan campaigns and all of the petitions. I even

782
00:36:21,600 --> 00:36:23,120
Speaker 1: tweeted a petition out, so.

783
00:36:23,440 --> 00:36:24,320
Speaker 2: I did my part.

784
00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:25,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you for that.

785
00:36:26,440 --> 00:36:29,040
Speaker 1: Of course, of course, what does all of their support

786
00:36:29,160 --> 00:36:32,440
Speaker 1: mean to you? And how can people continue to support

787
00:36:32,480 --> 00:36:34,359
Speaker 1: because I know that's a big question right now.

788
00:36:34,680 --> 00:36:35,880
Speaker 3: The support means everything.

789
00:36:36,040 --> 00:36:38,399
Speaker 4: It's meant everything the entire time movement on the show,

790
00:36:38,560 --> 00:36:41,080
Speaker 4: and it continues to mean the world to me. To

791
00:36:41,120 --> 00:36:43,040
Speaker 4: be part of a show that's had such an impact

792
00:36:43,160 --> 00:36:44,880
Speaker 4: is really what the big thing is. The whole overall

793
00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:47,600
Speaker 4: message I hear when I see this support is that

794
00:36:47,680 --> 00:36:49,440
Speaker 4: this show has had such a positive impact on the

795
00:36:49,440 --> 00:36:51,680
Speaker 4: world we live in, which we need more shows like that.

796
00:36:52,080 --> 00:36:55,120
Speaker 4: But what people can do is sign the petition. There's

797
00:36:55,120 --> 00:36:58,480
Speaker 4: a GoFundMe to raise money, even a dollar, just to

798
00:36:58,600 --> 00:37:00,360
Speaker 4: get certain things out there that they could do.

799
00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:02,640
Speaker 3: I know there was a billboard. I know there's going

800
00:37:02,680 --> 00:37:04,719
Speaker 3: to be like a flyover by with a play like.

801
00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:06,920
Speaker 4: I know there's things happening too, and I'm trying to

802
00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:09,560
Speaker 4: actually keep on top of everything. But signing the petition,

803
00:37:09,600 --> 00:37:11,560
Speaker 4: I'd say is like the biggest one. Going to fan

804
00:37:11,640 --> 00:37:14,920
Speaker 4: websites or fan sites and voting for the show, is

805
00:37:14,960 --> 00:37:16,719
Speaker 4: your favorite show, your favorite.

806
00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:17,960
Speaker 3: Characters, whoever they may be.

807
00:37:18,719 --> 00:37:20,000
Speaker 4: I'm trying to remember all of them off the top

808
00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:21,359
Speaker 4: of my head, but the biggest one is the save

809
00:37:21,440 --> 00:37:25,080
Speaker 4: Station nineteen hashtag using that and really going and signing

810
00:37:25,080 --> 00:37:26,839
Speaker 4: the petition and getting as many people as you can

811
00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:29,400
Speaker 4: to sign in that petition. I know people are sending

812
00:37:29,520 --> 00:37:33,200
Speaker 4: letters to ABC, and I wish I had a crystal

813
00:37:33,239 --> 00:37:34,840
Speaker 4: balls to like where it would end up, Like is

814
00:37:34,840 --> 00:37:37,400
Speaker 4: it that ABC could possibly save it? Or is it

815
00:37:37,440 --> 00:37:37,719
Speaker 4: that it.

816
00:37:37,640 --> 00:37:38,759
Speaker 3: Would end up somewhere else?

817
00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:40,480
Speaker 4: And if it ends up somewhere else, I mean, how

818
00:37:40,480 --> 00:37:42,600
Speaker 4: do you who and how and where?

819
00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:44,359
Speaker 3: I just I don't know.

820
00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:46,360
Speaker 4: I think I'm really impressed by the fan base and

821
00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:49,520
Speaker 4: how dedicated they are to just getting the word out

822
00:37:49,560 --> 00:37:51,160
Speaker 4: there that this show is an amazing show and it

823
00:37:51,200 --> 00:37:55,000
Speaker 4: deserves to be saved. And I don't know what saving

824
00:37:55,040 --> 00:37:59,120
Speaker 4: it looks like, but I do hope that what they're

825
00:37:59,120 --> 00:38:01,520
Speaker 4: doing and how doing it resonates with the world as

826
00:38:01,520 --> 00:38:03,879
Speaker 4: a whole. But yeah, sign the.

827
00:38:03,800 --> 00:38:07,200
Speaker 1: Petition, Sign the petition, and I would say, keep creating

828
00:38:07,239 --> 00:38:09,320
Speaker 1: as much noise as possible. And I have seen a

829
00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:12,640
Speaker 1: few comments saying I'm canceling my cable and I'm not

830
00:38:13,040 --> 00:38:15,839
Speaker 1: gonna support the final season so they see how mad

831
00:38:15,880 --> 00:38:18,400
Speaker 1: we are. But don't do that, because don't do that,

832
00:38:18,840 --> 00:38:19,840
Speaker 1: we want you to watch.

833
00:38:20,520 --> 00:38:23,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, no, no, that's definitely.

834
00:38:23,600 --> 00:38:24,279
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know.

835
00:38:24,320 --> 00:38:26,920
Speaker 4: I wouldn't be interested to hear what their opinions are

836
00:38:26,920 --> 00:38:30,080
Speaker 4: about that, just so I can understand it more. But no, definitely,

837
00:38:30,160 --> 00:38:31,719
Speaker 4: you have to show how much the show is loved.

838
00:38:31,920 --> 00:38:34,759
Speaker 4: I think that's what you know. Basically, if the show

839
00:38:34,880 --> 00:38:37,120
Speaker 4: was moved to ten pm, which ratings always go down

840
00:38:37,160 --> 00:38:38,719
Speaker 4: when you're at a ten pm slot anyways, we all

841
00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:40,560
Speaker 4: know that in the industry, it's just harder because people

842
00:38:40,560 --> 00:38:43,280
Speaker 4: go to bed, so live ratings always just go down.

843
00:38:43,800 --> 00:38:46,239
Speaker 4: If the ratings stay high as high as they were

844
00:38:46,239 --> 00:38:49,799
Speaker 4: at eight pm, it's hard to ignore that. It's hard

845
00:38:49,840 --> 00:38:53,080
Speaker 4: to ignore that a show at ten PM is maintaining

846
00:38:53,080 --> 00:38:55,960
Speaker 4: the ratings of an eight PM show in the present

847
00:38:56,040 --> 00:38:58,520
Speaker 4: environment we're in, which, as we know, streaming is taken

848
00:38:58,520 --> 00:39:02,319
Speaker 4: over people watching things after they've aired, so to have

849
00:39:02,480 --> 00:39:05,560
Speaker 4: people continue to watch it live at ten pm and

850
00:39:05,560 --> 00:39:08,560
Speaker 4: just show they're watching. It really says a lot about

851
00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:10,240
Speaker 4: the show and I think would get people's attention.

852
00:39:10,640 --> 00:39:11,480
Speaker 3: I think that's what it is, like.

853
00:39:11,520 --> 00:39:13,440
Speaker 4: I think you said it perfectly by saying you got

854
00:39:13,440 --> 00:39:15,600
Speaker 4: to keep making noise. Yeah, And I think I said

855
00:39:15,600 --> 00:39:17,040
Speaker 4: that at first when it happened, I was like, this

856
00:39:17,080 --> 00:39:20,840
Speaker 4: is the marathon, not a sprint. Is it's constantly making

857
00:39:20,880 --> 00:39:23,680
Speaker 4: noise for the next four months plus because it's until

858
00:39:23,719 --> 00:39:27,200
Speaker 4: that show actually stops airing, which I think won't be

859
00:39:27,360 --> 00:39:29,759
Speaker 4: till the beginning of May, I think, or in May

860
00:39:30,640 --> 00:39:33,200
Speaker 4: something like that, And so I think it's basically a.

861
00:39:33,120 --> 00:39:36,960
Speaker 3: Marathon of like making noise until the last episode airs.

862
00:39:37,400 --> 00:39:40,680
Speaker 1: There we go, let's get loud everyone. I am so

863
00:39:40,880 --> 00:39:43,759
Speaker 1: into that. Let's keep doing it. And Danielle, really thank

864
00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:46,640
Speaker 1: you for coming on. I know that while we celebrated

865
00:39:46,680 --> 00:39:48,080
Speaker 1: you in the show and your work and got to

866
00:39:48,080 --> 00:39:51,080
Speaker 1: talk about all sorts of inspirational things, we talked about

867
00:39:51,120 --> 00:39:53,120
Speaker 1: this and that's not an easy topic because it is

868
00:39:53,160 --> 00:39:55,440
Speaker 1: so raw and emotional, but it's one that I know

869
00:39:55,920 --> 00:39:58,359
Speaker 1: the fandom has been wanting to hear more of and

870
00:39:58,440 --> 00:40:01,160
Speaker 1: especially wanting to know how you were doing personally. So

871
00:40:01,200 --> 00:40:03,880
Speaker 1: I think it was really important to have this conversation today,

872
00:40:04,280 --> 00:40:08,520
Speaker 1: and just as a nothing opinion on my end, I

873
00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:12,919
Speaker 1: think and hope you remain so proud of everything you've

874
00:40:12,960 --> 00:40:15,560
Speaker 1: done and the work you've created, and the artist and

875
00:40:15,600 --> 00:40:17,799
Speaker 1: person you've become, and that no matter what happens with

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Speaker 1: the show, because anything can happen, no matter what happens,

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Speaker 1: you finish this season knowing you gave it your all

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Speaker 1: and that you have made a forever impact on so

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Speaker 1: many people's lives and pretty much, I'm going to say,

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Speaker 1: change the world for many people. So don't lose sight

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Speaker 1: of that and try to remember that as you're wrapping.

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Speaker 2: Up this season.

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Speaker 3: Look it, you almost got me at the end some

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Speaker 3: moment where.

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Speaker 2: I mean it.

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Speaker 4: I'm very uh, I'm very proud, and thank you for

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Speaker 4: saying all of that. It's always a joy to talk

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Speaker 4: to you. And it's amazing to just discuss the impact

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Speaker 4: the show has had in the fan base that exists

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Speaker 4: because of it. In the now, I'm gonna lost for

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Speaker 4: words now I can't ramble anymore.

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Speaker 1: Oh well, you don't need to thank you again for

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Speaker 1: coming on and I look forward to many, many, many

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Speaker 1: more conversations in our future.

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Speaker 3: Name and best of luck.

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Speaker 4: I'm so proud of everything you've accomplished too, from our

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Speaker 4: Instagram to now.

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Speaker 3: Congratulations to you as well.

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Speaker 2: Thank you. I will hopefully see you very soon.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yes, absolutely, I've.

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Speaker 1: Never Said This Before is hosted by Me Tommy Dedario.

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Speaker 1: This podcast is executive produced by Andrew Puglisi at iHeartRadio

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Speaker 1: and by me Tommy, with editing by Joshua Colaudney. I've

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Speaker 1: Never Said This Before is part of the Elvis Duran

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Speaker 1: podcast Network on iHeart Podcasts.

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Speaker 2: For more, rate review.

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Speaker 1: And subscribe to our show and if you liked this episode,

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Speaker 1: tell your friends. Until next time, I'm Tommy de Dario

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Speaker 4: Ye