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Speaker 1: I'm Alec Baldwin and you're listening to Here's the Thing,

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Speaker 1: don't tell me not to live, just sitting put up.

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Speaker 1: There really are no words to describe the talent, the career,

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Speaker 1: the woman that is Barbara streisand don't tell me. Streisand

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Speaker 1: burst on the scene in nineteen sixty four with Funny

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Speaker 1: Girl on Broadway, right when it felt like the Suburbs

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Speaker 1: and McCarthy is m might go on forever, the Beatles

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Speaker 1: show up on the Ed Sullivan Show, and on Broadway

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Speaker 1: along comes this phenomenon, this totally new, unusually gorgeous, nakedly

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Speaker 1: they blow out your new color TV weather on the

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Speaker 1: Rose of Ship Affection. She kept her name, she kept

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Speaker 1: her nose, she kept that access it. She could not

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Speaker 1: be more different from what wasp culture told women they

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Speaker 1: should be. New York is just full of unusual and

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Speaker 1: interesting girls who are starting out in show business, but

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Speaker 1: few of them have the style as early as this

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Speaker 1: young lady. She's nineteen years old, her name is Barbara

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Speaker 1: streisand and then she gets on stage. She's grounded, she's powerful,

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Speaker 1: and she's got the greatest voice America has ever heard

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Speaker 1: water than a mile. Over the following years, we also

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Speaker 1: learn she's a great actress. Here she is trying to

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Speaker 1: win Redford's love in the way we were sure. I

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Speaker 1: make waves. I mean, you have to, and I'll keep

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Speaker 1: making them until your every wonderful thing you should be

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Speaker 1: and will be. You'll never find anyone as good for

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Speaker 1: you as I am. To believe in you as much

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Speaker 1: as I do, I love you as much. Well not

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Speaker 1: why striisand develops a reputation for being difficult and for

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Speaker 1: being a bit of a recluse. She gets married, divorced,

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Speaker 1: getting better and more famous until she's this unique character

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Speaker 1: in American culture, a megastar on her own terms. Since

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Speaker 1: we first met in we become friends. We talked at

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Speaker 1: her home in southern California. By the way, Stella, do

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Speaker 1: me a favor. Take the clock and make sure it works,

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Speaker 1: like because it needs batteries or wounder. Okay, thank you

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Speaker 1: so much. You walk around the house and you have

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Speaker 1: you just that just goes. How is this not taken

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Speaker 1: care of? You? See? To work for somebody like you

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Speaker 1: or me? You have to understand the artist's temperament. People

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Speaker 1: don't see that the time is wrong. Well, I wasn't

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Speaker 1: going to start with this, but I'll ask you. But

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Speaker 1: I'll ask you because that instinctive I for detail and

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Speaker 1: just thinking all the time about I want this, I

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Speaker 1: want this, I want this. Is that what naturally propelled

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Speaker 1: you into directing films? Well? That, yes, that And also

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Speaker 1: it was something that happened during the way we were

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Speaker 1: where two scenes were cut out that were intrinsic to

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Speaker 1: the value of the story. And it made me so

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Speaker 1: crazy that they couldn't see that that propelled you into

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Speaker 1: it's hard to carrel with a you know, a hit movie.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if it was a hit at the time.

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Speaker 1: Tell you the truth, it's grown to say it was.

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Speaker 1: Warren Beatty said to me once, is it. Until you

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Speaker 1: take ultimate responsibility and you're willing to direct the movie,

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Speaker 1: Can said that it was so delicious and it's like,

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Speaker 1: you know, when you finally have the power to control

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Speaker 1: people as well. You know, I would say to my standing,

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Speaker 1: but I want you to be able to tell me

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Speaker 1: where to stand. In other words, it's a feeling of

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Speaker 1: angry about anything they weren't listening before. Sometimes well, sometimes

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Speaker 1: when I would say things as just an actress, like

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Speaker 1: directing Ental because I did it in England and in Czechoslovakia.

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Speaker 1: And even the the Czechoslovakian government was wonderful to me

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Speaker 1: always have the most delicious teas that I'd bring in

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Speaker 1: That's one of my prize possessions, I must say, And

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Speaker 1: And I'm best fall and to say the least about

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Speaker 1: I really do think misogyny and well, in four I

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Speaker 1: talk about this celebration of womanhood, that a woman could

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Speaker 1: be something more, do what men do, do what men do?

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Speaker 1: Just equality, you know. So to read a review that

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Speaker 1: she wore a designer amica. Now everything, every piece of

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Speaker 1: was the film directed by Ingmar Bergmann Fanny and Alexander.

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Speaker 1: They wore the same yamica, but nobody attacked that film.

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Speaker 1: talking to scholars studying Talmud, just to bring that, because

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Speaker 1: I do believe that when you study like that and

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Speaker 1: like the camera picks up the truth, even just behind

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Speaker 1: is mine. You know. I had this wonderful shot, I

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Speaker 1: Janet Maslin. Her name was now she could attack my

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Speaker 1: lip syncer. That's true. I'm a terrible lip sinker. I

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Speaker 1: final cut on that movie, I could control those things. UM.

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Speaker 1: We would shoot the close ups first, so where the

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Speaker 1: It's ostensibly about Can and Ryan Gosling. We corner him

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Speaker 1: And that's why I love long takes, because I think

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Speaker 1: They're all in one move practically. In other words, we

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Speaker 1: you see everything. Then the camera moves as we're together,

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Speaker 1: mother never heard nothing about that. My mother's love was

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Speaker 1: shown through food she would bring me when I was

427
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Speaker 1: a young actress, you know. And I moved away from

428
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Speaker 1: home when I was sixteen, from Brooklyn to New York.

429
00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:12,160
Speaker 1: Got an apartment right next to me. I graduated high

430
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Speaker 1: school at uh sixteen erasmus. Yeah, I graduated in three

431
00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:23,520
Speaker 1: and a half years so I could. I doubled my

432
00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:26,240
Speaker 1: science and math, which I loved. I love those subjects.

433
00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:28,560
Speaker 1: Were desperate to get out of Brooklyn. I was desperate

434
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Speaker 1: to be an actress, to get away from real life,

435
00:27:32,600 --> 00:27:37,359
Speaker 1: not a singer and actress, an actress, oh yeah. And

436
00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:40,399
Speaker 1: my my singing was when I was five and six

437
00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:43,920
Speaker 1: and seven on the stoop in Brooklyn with the girls,

438
00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:46,879
Speaker 1: you know, singing and harmonizing. That was my singing. But

439
00:27:47,359 --> 00:27:50,919
Speaker 1: my love was wanting to be an actress. And so

440
00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:54,199
Speaker 1: that's when I went to the library Street Library and

441
00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:57,439
Speaker 1: read the plays of these great actresses, you know, and

442
00:27:57,800 --> 00:28:00,800
Speaker 1: I wanted to be a classical actress. So part of

443
00:28:00,840 --> 00:28:03,679
Speaker 1: me still feels like a failure, you know. When I

444
00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:06,560
Speaker 1: wanted to do I wanted to play after I was

445
00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:10,240
Speaker 1: well known. I wanted to play the two Cleopatra's, the

446
00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:18,119
Speaker 1: one uh Caesar and Cleopatra and Anthony and Cleopatrick. Right,

447
00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:21,520
Speaker 1: so one is a child fourteen years old who I

448
00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:25,200
Speaker 1: thought it should be Orson Wells or Marlon Brando, fat,

449
00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:29,280
Speaker 1: you know, and then I would be even little well fed,

450
00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:36,040
Speaker 1: yes um, and hiding you know from this man, and

451
00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:40,680
Speaker 1: then play the woman Cleopatra. And the television stations I

452
00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:42,680
Speaker 1: wanted to do it on TV, they say, well, is

453
00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:45,680
Speaker 1: it going to be a musical? I mean, you're gonna

454
00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:50,200
Speaker 1: add music. It's like they can't see that you could

455
00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:52,200
Speaker 1: do both I mean, though you have to do the

456
00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:59,720
Speaker 1: music with the you know, absolutely awful feeling. I wanted

457
00:28:59,760 --> 00:29:02,080
Speaker 1: to play Romeo and Juliet, and I got to do

458
00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:07,520
Speaker 1: it finally for Lee Strassburg at the Studio, and it's

459
00:29:07,520 --> 00:29:09,800
Speaker 1: one of my I can't find the letter that they

460
00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:13,680
Speaker 1: wrote me too. Well that's a whole long story, but uh,

461
00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:16,960
Speaker 1: to invite you to join the studio. Yeah. But when

462
00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:19,720
Speaker 1: I first auditioned for the studio, I was fifteen and

463
00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:21,840
Speaker 1: I was doing it with another guy who asked me

464
00:29:21,880 --> 00:29:23,280
Speaker 1: to just be in it. But they wrote me a

465
00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:26,880
Speaker 1: letter to say, do your own audition, and then when

466
00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:29,880
Speaker 1: I did, they found out I was fifteen and they

467
00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:34,400
Speaker 1: said come back when you're you know, eighteen. It's probably

468
00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:38,520
Speaker 1: a nice way of saying no, but um. So that's

469
00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:40,920
Speaker 1: why it was terrible. When I was in on Broadway,

470
00:29:41,920 --> 00:29:44,959
Speaker 1: I wrote on my play bill, I am not a

471
00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:48,680
Speaker 1: member of the Actor's Studio, because all the actors who

472
00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:50,880
Speaker 1: were would say a member of the actors studio, and

473
00:29:50,960 --> 00:29:54,960
Speaker 1: I was piste off at them, you know, um, but

474
00:29:55,120 --> 00:29:58,120
Speaker 1: that was interesting. I did some of my best work

475
00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:01,200
Speaker 1: then when I was fifteen and six and I played media,

476
00:30:01,760 --> 00:30:04,920
Speaker 1: you know, and did that great Aria after she killed

477
00:30:04,920 --> 00:30:07,600
Speaker 1: her kids. And you know, she says a line like

478
00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:12,560
Speaker 1: you know something about this wound in the middle of myself.

479
00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:15,160
Speaker 1: What a brilliant line. I mean, I am a woman

480
00:30:15,840 --> 00:30:19,720
Speaker 1: and I with this wound in the middle of myself. Um.

481
00:30:19,760 --> 00:30:23,280
Speaker 1: I was good then, And do you see what you're saying?

482
00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:26,680
Speaker 1: This wound in the middle of myself? At the actor's studio,

483
00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:30,560
Speaker 1: you know that was that was for um? Just I

484
00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:33,280
Speaker 1: did it in class? That scene from media? Where was

485
00:30:33,280 --> 00:30:35,000
Speaker 1: your class? You know what I would do? Then? I

486
00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:39,360
Speaker 1: would um I had another name, so I wanted I

487
00:30:39,360 --> 00:30:42,000
Speaker 1: didn't want to miss anything. So I went to two

488
00:30:42,080 --> 00:30:44,600
Speaker 1: different acting classes and gave a different name in one,

489
00:30:46,320 --> 00:30:49,400
Speaker 1: and then I used to to make money. You've got

490
00:30:49,400 --> 00:30:52,320
Speaker 1: four dollars and five cents. It was to be an

491
00:30:52,440 --> 00:30:54,320
Speaker 1: usher in the theater. So I would love to go

492
00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:57,360
Speaker 1: see the plays. But in a sense, I didn't have

493
00:30:57,480 --> 00:31:00,280
Speaker 1: enough money to see all the play So I I

494
00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:02,960
Speaker 1: became an usher in the theater so I could see

495
00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:07,400
Speaker 1: the play. But meanwhile, I was sixteen seventeen, that kind

496
00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:10,960
Speaker 1: of age. I knew that I would be famous because

497
00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:14,240
Speaker 1: I would hide my head so they wouldn't see me

498
00:31:14,280 --> 00:31:17,160
Speaker 1: at my face showing them to their seats because I thought,

499
00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:20,320
Speaker 1: you know, when I become famous, they're going to recognize

500
00:31:20,320 --> 00:31:22,080
Speaker 1: me as the girl who showed them to their seats.

501
00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:26,560
Speaker 1: So how do you figure that that? That's something I

502
00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:29,400
Speaker 1: can't explain you. Really, there's a part of you that

503
00:31:29,560 --> 00:31:33,440
Speaker 1: knew you would end up doing what you did. And

504
00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:35,480
Speaker 1: I don't, you know. And my mother didn't believe in me.

505
00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:38,000
Speaker 1: She's she kept telling me, do what your father did.

506
00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:41,000
Speaker 1: Become a teacher. You get you know, you get time off,

507
00:31:41,280 --> 00:31:46,400
Speaker 1: you get vacations, free vacations, summers. Yeah, learn to type.

508
00:31:46,880 --> 00:31:49,880
Speaker 1: And that's when I let my nails grow along, so

509
00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:52,280
Speaker 1: I couldn't type. I believe me. I wish I could type.

510
00:31:52,280 --> 00:31:58,120
Speaker 1: Now I have to dictate everything into it French cooking

511
00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:02,520
Speaker 1: with your mother? Did she eventually come around? I mean,

512
00:32:02,560 --> 00:32:04,920
Speaker 1: how could she not come around with everything you've done.

513
00:32:06,680 --> 00:32:09,080
Speaker 1: I think I was really just trying to prove to

514
00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:12,720
Speaker 1: her that I I could be famous. By the way,

515
00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:16,000
Speaker 1: as soon as I became famous, I didn't like it.

516
00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:21,080
Speaker 1: I don't like fame. I don't like stardom. I only

517
00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:25,800
Speaker 1: like the work, the creative work. That's all I like.

518
00:32:26,280 --> 00:32:31,600
Speaker 1: And you turned at that. So and Lisa didn't fake

519
00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:35,600
Speaker 1: it hat, sir, I guess I didn't make it. With

520
00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:39,040
Speaker 1: no formal voice training and no money to kick start

521
00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:43,040
Speaker 1: a career, streisand relied on raw talent to build herself

522
00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:45,880
Speaker 1: up and the wiles of a man who happened to

523
00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:48,960
Speaker 1: hear her at a small Greenwich village club called the

524
00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:53,840
Speaker 1: bon Soir. Martyrlickman was a music manager and almost as

525
00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:57,800
Speaker 1: young and hungry as Barbara herself. He used his slim

526
00:32:57,920 --> 00:33:02,840
Speaker 1: Rolodex and razors sharp pr instincts to help build Barbara's

527
00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:07,840
Speaker 1: image into what it is today. Drama don't bring around

528
00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:13,240
Speaker 1: a car. I met Marty at the Bonsa when he

529
00:33:13,320 --> 00:33:17,160
Speaker 1: came one night. I was nineteen, and he saw me

530
00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:19,400
Speaker 1: as the first act, the opening act, and said, if

531
00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:22,200
Speaker 1: you ever need me, kid, I was. I was kept

532
00:33:22,240 --> 00:33:25,320
Speaker 1: over at the Bonsa many times, but then I couldn't

533
00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:29,600
Speaker 1: get a job. Finally I got a job, and they

534
00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:32,880
Speaker 1: were paying me something like seventy five dollars a week

535
00:33:34,280 --> 00:33:37,120
Speaker 1: or a hundred dollars a hundred dollars a week. But

536
00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:39,440
Speaker 1: I could eat, you know, so if people wanted me

537
00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:42,440
Speaker 1: to sit down, I would order a baked potato, you know,

538
00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:45,480
Speaker 1: sour cream and chives and the butter, but I couldn't

539
00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:50,360
Speaker 1: make a living. I really needed more. So I called

540
00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:52,240
Speaker 1: Marty and I said, you know, is there any way

541
00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:54,680
Speaker 1: you could get me a hundred and fifty dollars a week?

542
00:33:55,240 --> 00:33:59,720
Speaker 1: Marty told me many years later that he actually paid

543
00:33:59,760 --> 00:34:03,320
Speaker 1: the dollars because they wouldn't go for the the the rays.

544
00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:08,840
Speaker 1: That's why he's such a great person. Invested. He invested

545
00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:11,960
Speaker 1: in me. Yeah, you've been with him now for how long?

546
00:34:12,120 --> 00:34:16,200
Speaker 1: It's like, well, we separated for a while for a

547
00:34:16,239 --> 00:34:21,279
Speaker 1: few years. He didn't get along with. The man in

548
00:34:21,320 --> 00:34:23,640
Speaker 1: my life at the time was John Peters. I've read

549
00:34:23,640 --> 00:34:26,400
Speaker 1: this story before, something like that. But then, believe me,

550
00:34:26,480 --> 00:34:28,879
Speaker 1: we got back as soon as I could. So that

551
00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:32,160
Speaker 1: period is over fifty years. But if you take out them,

552
00:34:32,239 --> 00:34:33,480
Speaker 1: what does he do for you now? What does he

553
00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:35,560
Speaker 1: provide for you? What does he provide for you? Now?

554
00:34:35,680 --> 00:34:39,160
Speaker 1: You trust him everything? He reads scripts, you know, and

555
00:34:41,080 --> 00:34:44,560
Speaker 1: my full on manager. Today is his birthday, by the way,

556
00:34:44,600 --> 00:34:50,200
Speaker 1: he's eight years old. Happy birthday, Martyr. I was watching these,

557
00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:54,480
Speaker 1: um you know, not just old Cabot shows where uh

558
00:34:55,200 --> 00:34:57,279
Speaker 1: famous actors would come on. Is it a spring roll?

559
00:34:58,200 --> 00:35:02,400
Speaker 1: Is it meet? I think this one is a vegetarian

560
00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:05,439
Speaker 1: or are you a vegetarian? Well, I don't. I don't

561
00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:10,360
Speaker 1: need beef. Does there eat the light one? Yeah? I

562
00:35:10,360 --> 00:35:13,600
Speaker 1: think it's chicken? Is it not good? I remember I

563
00:35:13,640 --> 00:35:18,120
Speaker 1: was sitting in your apartment years ago. I've a very

564
00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:23,040
Speaker 1: hungry one work and Sis Corman was there and you

565
00:35:23,080 --> 00:35:24,680
Speaker 1: were going to do Princes of Tis, and I came

566
00:35:24,719 --> 00:35:29,120
Speaker 1: to meet with you. I remember print sometimes and your

567
00:35:29,719 --> 00:35:31,920
Speaker 1: woman who took care of your apartment, came in and

568
00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:33,960
Speaker 1: you said, you said, yeah, I'll eat a little something.

569
00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:35,520
Speaker 1: I could eat a little something. I could eat little something.

570
00:35:35,520 --> 00:35:37,719
Speaker 1: And she would to bring us some crude to tay,

571
00:35:37,840 --> 00:35:41,920
Speaker 1: or crackers or whatever, some spreads. You looked at me

572
00:35:41,920 --> 00:35:44,279
Speaker 1: and you said, oh god, I gotta you know, I'm

573
00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:45,839
Speaker 1: gonna get ready to do a movie and I love

574
00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:47,440
Speaker 1: to eat. And I said to you, I go, if

575
00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:50,279
Speaker 1: we do this movie together, I'm gonna hire us a chef.

576
00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:52,680
Speaker 1: I'll pay for it, and this chef will come down

577
00:35:52,680 --> 00:35:55,080
Speaker 1: and we're gonna eat whatever that we want. That's why

578
00:35:55,080 --> 00:35:57,400
Speaker 1: I loved you. And you look at you look at

579
00:35:57,560 --> 00:35:59,839
Speaker 1: were like, wow, we could be I always just forget about,

580
00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:03,120
Speaker 1: you know, driving ourselves crazy with all that. Let's go

581
00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:04,640
Speaker 1: down and make the movie have a good and we

582
00:36:04,680 --> 00:36:06,600
Speaker 1: feel like eating, we eat, and we don't feel like eating,

583
00:36:06,640 --> 00:36:08,760
Speaker 1: we don't eat. We don't have to go a great idea.

584
00:36:09,160 --> 00:36:12,200
Speaker 1: And the new cast what's his name in the nick

585
00:36:12,280 --> 00:36:15,280
Speaker 1: I'm kidding, yes, because he had to be a white

586
00:36:15,560 --> 00:36:19,600
Speaker 1: looking Southerner. You know what I mean. You're very New York.

587
00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:23,839
Speaker 1: I love that movie, did you now? Watching those old

588
00:36:23,880 --> 00:36:26,400
Speaker 1: you know, cabots, and on comes Brando and on comes

589
00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:28,800
Speaker 1: this one and that one from that generation of Bella

590
00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:32,040
Speaker 1: Fonte when he was young and all that civil rights activism.

591
00:36:32,080 --> 00:36:36,040
Speaker 1: Were you active then as well? I was supporting Bella

592
00:36:36,080 --> 00:36:41,200
Speaker 1: Aps for Congress in like nineteen seventy nine, seventy I

593
00:36:41,239 --> 00:36:44,520
Speaker 1: even supported Mayo Lindsay, who was a Republican, because I

594
00:36:44,560 --> 00:36:47,080
Speaker 1: liked him. I liked the way he spoke. You know,

595
00:36:47,160 --> 00:36:49,600
Speaker 1: I thought he was a leader. He was a leader,

596
00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:52,480
Speaker 1: and he was fair and he was believed in justice,

597
00:36:52,520 --> 00:36:57,800
Speaker 1: and I just liked him. He was also adorable looking. Um.

598
00:36:57,840 --> 00:37:02,440
Speaker 1: So you know, it's like, you know what happened when

599
00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:06,560
Speaker 1: I sang in Houston, by the way before the storm.

600
00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:12,000
Speaker 1: I invited the Bushes President H. W. Bush. I mean,

601
00:37:13,040 --> 00:37:18,360
Speaker 1: um forty one and Barbara Bush to come to my concert.

602
00:37:18,440 --> 00:37:21,799
Speaker 1: And they came and I gave him socks because I

603
00:37:21,840 --> 00:37:25,400
Speaker 1: heard he collect socks. And they came backstage and she

604
00:37:25,520 --> 00:37:27,680
Speaker 1: brought me a pin and I gave her something and

605
00:37:28,360 --> 00:37:31,240
Speaker 1: they were just so lovely. You know, he had dignity.

606
00:37:31,320 --> 00:37:34,680
Speaker 1: He had great dignity, and she was an advocate for

607
00:37:34,760 --> 00:37:39,040
Speaker 1: women's rights. I like good people. That's why I can't

608
00:37:40,719 --> 00:37:44,239
Speaker 1: quite understand what's happened to this country. And it all

609
00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:48,160
Speaker 1: it goes back to women, to women against women. Yesterday

610
00:37:48,160 --> 00:37:53,040
Speaker 1: I was watching Hillary being interviewed by somebody and the

611
00:37:53,160 --> 00:37:57,879
Speaker 1: first question was so rude by the woman. Well, how

612
00:37:57,880 --> 00:38:01,320
Speaker 1: do you know that the Democrat that's even want you around?

613
00:38:02,880 --> 00:38:06,120
Speaker 1: When I when she was running, there were three women

614
00:38:06,120 --> 00:38:10,560
Speaker 1: who interviewed her as well, and they were so the

615
00:38:10,600 --> 00:38:14,920
Speaker 1: faces scrunched up, you know, on television, going well so

616
00:38:15,520 --> 00:38:18,160
Speaker 1: are you trustworthy? Are you not trustworthy? I mean, they

617
00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:26,120
Speaker 1: would like shockingly rude attitudes. And I told her chief

618
00:38:26,160 --> 00:38:28,640
Speaker 1: of staff, you know, I think you should be interviewed

619
00:38:28,640 --> 00:38:31,480
Speaker 1: by men. They're going to be nicer to her than

620
00:38:31,520 --> 00:38:38,399
Speaker 1: the women of white women voted for Donald Trump. Now,

621
00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:40,360
Speaker 1: how do you figure that? I saw her on the

622
00:38:40,480 --> 00:38:43,319
Speaker 1: view this morning, and I think I would have said

623
00:38:43,360 --> 00:38:46,160
Speaker 1: if he was in my space like that. I don't

624
00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:48,360
Speaker 1: think you have to call him a creep, but you

625
00:38:48,400 --> 00:38:51,520
Speaker 1: could say, you know, you're gonna get your own time,

626
00:38:51,600 --> 00:38:54,759
Speaker 1: They're gonna they're going to ask you a question, and

627
00:38:54,760 --> 00:38:57,440
Speaker 1: would you like me to stand behind you in the shot?

628
00:38:58,080 --> 00:39:00,640
Speaker 1: I don't think so. So if if you don't mind,

629
00:39:00,719 --> 00:39:04,200
Speaker 1: can you If she did that to him, I used

630
00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:06,719
Speaker 1: that phrase and appended to a lot of things if

631
00:39:06,719 --> 00:39:08,560
Speaker 1: she had done that to him, if she had said

632
00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:12,399
Speaker 1: that about him. So you sing at Clinton's inauguration, you're

633
00:39:12,440 --> 00:39:15,840
Speaker 1: close to Clinton. The old Clinton years and the nineties

634
00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:18,120
Speaker 1: they were great, and they were great. They were great.

635
00:39:23,120 --> 00:39:26,800
Speaker 1: Coming up Barbara Streisand and I go deep into progressive

636
00:39:26,840 --> 00:39:49,479
Speaker 1: politics and ice cream. This is Alec Baldwin and you're

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Speaker 1: listening to here is the thing. For Barbara Streisand, of

638
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Speaker 1: politics has always been a priority. She spoke out in

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Speaker 1: support of Bella Abzug during abs first congressional campaign in

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Speaker 1: and she has remained politically active since. Streisand was a

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Speaker 1: major supporter of Hillary Clinton, even after Clinton voted for

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Speaker 1: the war in Iraq. You have to remember this because

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Speaker 1: I've discussed this with her and m President Clinton. She

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Speaker 1: at the time thought that Bush would keep his word.

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Speaker 1: Bush and they were supposed to go to the u N.

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Speaker 1: They were supposed to have weapons inspectors um make sure

647
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Speaker 1: that there was you know, nothing there that that wasn't done.

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Speaker 1: We had weapons inspectors because I used to talk to

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Speaker 1: Scott Ritter, who was a weapons inspector there for seven years,

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Speaker 1: and he said, there are no weapons left and if

651
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Speaker 1: there were any chemical weapons, they have a shelf life there.

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Speaker 1: They don't work, That's what we saw. But they weren't

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Speaker 1: even allowed to even complete anything. They certainly never went

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Speaker 1: to the u N. And all of a sudden, you

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Speaker 1: know where there were in a war. Without picking someone

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Speaker 1: in a current menu of candidates, I mean there are

657
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Speaker 1: two women that come to mind, Kamela Harris here from California,

658
00:41:12,080 --> 00:41:15,040
Speaker 1: where a lot of people are talking about her and

659
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Speaker 1: how gleaming she seems right now as a candidate, and

660
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Speaker 1: of course Elizabeth Warren. But without picking anybody individually, what

661
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Speaker 1: do you think we need to run in to be Trump?

662
00:41:28,920 --> 00:41:30,719
Speaker 1: What kind of person you think is going to take

663
00:41:31,600 --> 00:41:33,359
Speaker 1: forget about man or woman, is gonna be a person

664
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Speaker 1: who does water, who says what who says the truth?

665
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Speaker 1: Truth is everything? I mean, that's what kills me. I

666
00:41:42,960 --> 00:41:45,320
Speaker 1: love the truth. I love the power of the truth.

667
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Speaker 1: You have to believe that person, and you have to

668
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Speaker 1: believe they stand for what American values are supposed to mean,

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Speaker 1: not like in the new Gingrich way of whatever that

670
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Speaker 1: is American values, but to be for justice, to be

671
00:42:01,360 --> 00:42:08,480
Speaker 1: for diversity, to be respectful, to accept change, to accept change.

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Speaker 1: That in New York I'll never forget the Daily News.

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Speaker 1: I mean, yes, this is a fact. I suppose when

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Speaker 1: the when the census came out in or two thousand,

675
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Speaker 1: you have ten years of the Daily News put on

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Speaker 1: the cover that white New Yorkers were now the plurality

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Speaker 1: that they were under, that the city had now become

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Speaker 1: fifty one literally black, Asian, Hispanic, and so forth, that

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Speaker 1: white New Yorkers and all five boroughs represented less than

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Speaker 1: And I thought, well, that may be true, but what

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Speaker 1: do you promoting when you write that? And that's going

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Speaker 1: to happen in this country? White privilege as we understand it,

683
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Speaker 1: and white people. I'm not saying we're gonna become Rhodesia,

684
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Speaker 1: but it's I think that people who accept change what

685
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Speaker 1: choice do you have but to accept change that this

686
00:42:58,560 --> 00:43:00,880
Speaker 1: world we live in could become more and more diverse,

687
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Speaker 1: you know, in terms of people's sexual identity and women

688
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Speaker 1: in power and things like that. And I find that

689
00:43:05,800 --> 00:43:08,799
Speaker 1: the Democrats, I mean, I'm very critical of them as well.

690
00:43:08,840 --> 00:43:12,120
Speaker 1: The Democrats will say almost anything to get elected. I

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Speaker 1: don't think so well. I think the Republicans will say

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Speaker 1: anything together, Like there's a difference for Democrats almost anything.

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Speaker 1: And the Republicans will say the Democrats are too nice,

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Speaker 1: that's what, Yeah, they don't. I always wanted to run

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Speaker 1: because I'm not very nice, and I wanted to be

696
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Speaker 1: the you'd probably be a hit. Then I wanted to

697
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Speaker 1: be the more two fisted Democrats. That's what That's what

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Speaker 1: it should be. You have to say it like it

699
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Speaker 1: is yourat You have to be tough. That's actually what

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Speaker 1: I said when I first met Obama, I said, we

701
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Speaker 1: did a fundraiser for him and it raised eleven million

702
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Speaker 1: dollars that night, and um, I sat with him and

703
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Speaker 1: I said, are you tough enough? That was my first

704
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Speaker 1: question to him. Of course I'm tough, you know, but

705
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Speaker 1: I mean, this is a terrible thing to say, but okay,

706
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Speaker 1: and I know it can't be done. But when Russia

707
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Speaker 1: was suspected of invading our democracy, I thought to myself,

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Speaker 1: why aren't they postponing the election? How do you have

709
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Speaker 1: an election now when Russia is hacking us? Don't we

710
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Speaker 1: do it over? Don't we do it over? That's what

711
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Speaker 1: I thought. And whenever I've said it to anybody, they go,

712
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Speaker 1: you can't do that. Why not? It is we it

713
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Speaker 1: is weird, and the result of the election, it is

714
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Speaker 1: entirely false. But let it stand because to change it

715
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Speaker 1: would be really the country couldn't happen. No, I mean,

716
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Speaker 1: look at the difference. I'm going to write an article

717
00:44:44,520 --> 00:44:48,640
Speaker 1: actually about this next week about the difference of America. Yeah,

718
00:44:48,680 --> 00:44:51,000
Speaker 1: the difference in America. What it would be like if

719
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Speaker 1: Hillary were president. Do you realize that women and girls

720
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Speaker 1: could hold their head up high? She and Angela Merkel

721
00:44:58,960 --> 00:45:03,240
Speaker 1: would be running a free world. To see the Woman,

722
00:45:03,320 --> 00:45:07,880
Speaker 1: you know, Wonder Woman movie, it was fantastic because women

723
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Speaker 1: were in charge. Women are nurturing, and women can be

724
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Speaker 1: tough and make decisions that are based on compassion and wisdom.

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Speaker 1: You know, even in the Jewish religion, women the Orthodox

726
00:45:25,760 --> 00:45:28,640
Speaker 1: Jewish religion, which I am not. But men have to

727
00:45:28,680 --> 00:45:31,399
Speaker 1: say certain prayers every day, but women have to say

728
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Speaker 1: less prayers because they are closer to God, because they

729
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Speaker 1: are creative. They they birth babies, they feed those babies,

730
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Speaker 1: they nurtured them after. That makes them different. It does.

731
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Speaker 1: My wife reminds me of that every day. Actually, well

732
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Speaker 1: that's good, different now, but it is true. But I

733
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Speaker 1: think what we're missing with Trump is compassion, kindness, respect

734
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Speaker 1: When I when I like, as you said, is that

735
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Speaker 1: we're missing honestly, and honesty is everything. Could we just

736
00:46:02,520 --> 00:46:05,919
Speaker 1: be honest, We'll get through everything. We can't understand the news.

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00:46:05,920 --> 00:46:09,040
Speaker 1: It was like he was a farce. He was a

738
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Speaker 1: disrespectful woman. But don't you see stress, stress is causing

739
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Speaker 1: me to eat, you know more than I I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: go pull on the side. I'm gonna do something cheese. Yeah, um,

741
00:46:28,000 --> 00:46:30,680
Speaker 1: it's and it's you know. I found out that when

742
00:46:30,680 --> 00:46:37,160
Speaker 1: you're stressed, you cortisol levels raising, and cortisol makes you

743
00:46:37,320 --> 00:46:40,880
Speaker 1: gain weight. Yes, so I was. I was away with

744
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Speaker 1: some friends for a week. I didn't read a book.

745
00:46:43,320 --> 00:46:46,839
Speaker 1: I played games, which I played to fall asleep at

746
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Speaker 1: night because I'm after looking at TV and reading the news,

747
00:46:50,480 --> 00:46:53,360
Speaker 1: I I can't fall asleep, so I have to play backgammon,

748
00:46:53,400 --> 00:46:58,919
Speaker 1: you know, and gin so I mean, it was such

749
00:46:58,960 --> 00:47:02,520
Speaker 1: an interesting thing for you, who's a eater too. Every

750
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Speaker 1: day we had bread and butter, you know, every day

751
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Speaker 1: we ate pasta in Italy. Every day we had desserts

752
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Speaker 1: with sugar. We gained nothing, maybe two hours. We just

753
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Speaker 1: let it go, not having a wallow with her. I'll

754
00:47:19,640 --> 00:47:23,040
Speaker 1: never forget Kathleen Turner and she said this on this show.

755
00:47:23,120 --> 00:47:25,359
Speaker 1: She was one of my first guests. And I said

756
00:47:25,360 --> 00:47:26,800
Speaker 1: to you, you were married to your husband Jay, you

757
00:47:26,840 --> 00:47:29,640
Speaker 1: got divorces and you never got married again. I said,

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00:47:29,680 --> 00:47:31,879
Speaker 1: do you do do you miss that? Do you want

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Speaker 1: to be with somebody? And she said, Alec, I put

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Speaker 1: the key in the door of my apartment, and the

761
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Speaker 1: thing that makes me most happy as I know that

762
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Speaker 1: there's nobody on the other side of that door I

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Speaker 1: walk in, I can do whatever I want to do.

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Speaker 1: I don't have to ask anybody's permission. Ba. And she

765
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Speaker 1: really was happy to be single. And you you don't

766
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Speaker 1: like to be single, but I was for a long time.

767
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Speaker 1: But no, I like looking forward to my husband coming home,

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Speaker 1: and you know, we for him to so we could

769
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Speaker 1: eat together. Yeah. Absolutely, And he enjoys food too. I

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Speaker 1: mean we just take trips up to Santa barber just

771
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Speaker 1: to get an ice cream cone from McConnell's, my favorite

772
00:48:12,960 --> 00:48:16,000
Speaker 1: flavor Brazilian coffee, which they don't sell in points in

773
00:48:16,040 --> 00:48:19,680
Speaker 1: the market. You have to go there or like now,

774
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Speaker 1: I can't have it in my freezer because I'll eat

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Speaker 1: the whole point. I just start with a little and

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Speaker 1: a cone just you know, well it's melting around the

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00:48:27,520 --> 00:48:30,319
Speaker 1: edges and I'll just eat that part and just no,

778
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Speaker 1: it's gone to me. There's that familiar sound. I'll be

779
00:48:33,040 --> 00:48:35,600
Speaker 1: watching the news and it's like ten o'clock at night.

780
00:48:35,640 --> 00:48:38,040
Speaker 1: I'd be eating a late night pint of ice cream,

781
00:48:38,320 --> 00:48:40,000
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, I hear that unmistakable

782
00:48:40,040 --> 00:48:42,840
Speaker 1: sound of the spoon scraping the bottom of the Okay,

783
00:48:42,920 --> 00:48:44,680
Speaker 1: I go, oh my god, how did that happen? But

784
00:48:44,719 --> 00:48:46,560
Speaker 1: how come your thin? How did you lose weight? I

785
00:48:46,600 --> 00:48:51,600
Speaker 1: started sugar. Sugar was my nemesis. I'm pre diabetic and

786
00:48:51,680 --> 00:48:53,759
Speaker 1: my numbers were tragic. And they said to me, you're

787
00:48:53,760 --> 00:48:58,279
Speaker 1: gonna start shooting over and I said, and they said,

788
00:48:58,320 --> 00:49:01,200
Speaker 1: you're gonna start having to shoot insulin. If you don't

789
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Speaker 1: get with this, So I still uh do bad things

790
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Speaker 1: of me now and but nowhere near. I mean, I

791
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Speaker 1: was somebody that ate I was. I was truly I

792
00:49:10,360 --> 00:49:13,080
Speaker 1: can say this without without hesitation. I was an ice

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Speaker 1: cream addict, greaters having greaters ice cream sho. You have

794
00:49:18,160 --> 00:49:21,520
Speaker 1: to look one day when you're cheating, you have to

795
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Speaker 1: try mcconnald's. Do you like coffee, It's the greatest coffee.

796
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Speaker 1: They were so sweet mcconnald's. Because when I did my

797
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Speaker 1: last movie with Seth Rogan, I had to eat ice cream,

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Speaker 1: so I said, I have to have the ice cream

799
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Speaker 1: from Santa Barbara. But I had them try something that

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Speaker 1: Will Writes used to do that went out of business.

801
00:49:45,239 --> 00:49:49,720
Speaker 1: They had chocolate covered chocolate that sounded so Brooklyn. Chocolate

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00:49:49,719 --> 00:49:55,239
Speaker 1: covered chocolate covered almonds in the coffee ice cream. So

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Speaker 1: I asked them to make that flavor. But now people

804
00:49:58,480 --> 00:50:02,440
Speaker 1: develop nut allergies, so they hardly put nuts. You have allergies?

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Speaker 1: What do we care about allergies that we don't have? No,

806
00:50:05,120 --> 00:50:07,400
Speaker 1: we do care about them. But now I just read

807
00:50:07,440 --> 00:50:11,800
Speaker 1: they discovered a drug that will take away nut allergies.

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00:50:12,480 --> 00:50:14,600
Speaker 1: Do you ever read the magazine called the Week. I

809
00:50:14,680 --> 00:50:17,640
Speaker 1: love the Week, and I read an article in there

810
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Speaker 1: that talked about as a drug now to take away

811
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Speaker 1: not allergies. There was something I was going to tell you.

812
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Speaker 1: Let's stop this for a second. I didn't do. I

813
00:50:29,120 --> 00:50:34,239
Speaker 1: didn't do anything about climate change. It's so sad, you know.

814
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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what happened, okay, in nine six that

815
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Speaker 1: Chernobyl melted down in the Ukraine. This is how I

816
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Speaker 1: got started with my foundation. That's why I did the

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Speaker 1: One Voice Um concert in my backyard to raise money

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Speaker 1: for Democratic senators and they won five out of the

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Speaker 1: six of them one and the Senate became Democrat. So

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Speaker 1: we were thrilled, and that money became my foundation. So

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Speaker 1: the first chair I ever gave, you know where the

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Speaker 1: chair is right, designated amount of Mind. Yeah, well, I

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Speaker 1: gave it to study climate change. At that time, it

824
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Speaker 1: was called global warming. But when I heard these stories

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Speaker 1: about the the earth warming, it frightened me. So that

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Speaker 1: that's why I started my foundation. And now you know,

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Speaker 1: the Department of Energy, the State Department, even the EPA,

828
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Speaker 1: the Environmental Protection Agency. This Trump administration don't believe in

829
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Speaker 1: the science, so they've taken off vital information on their websites.

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Speaker 1: Can you imagine this? You saw that and they strip

831
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Speaker 1: all that out of their schools. We're not allowed to

832
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Speaker 1: use the word climate change. They're pretending it doesn't exist. Well,

833
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Speaker 1: we better go to the moon or figure out where

834
00:51:57,520 --> 00:52:00,759
Speaker 1: to live, because you can't live like this as the

835
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Speaker 1: streets I know, but that gives no hope to anybody,

836
00:52:04,080 --> 00:52:06,840
Speaker 1: but the streets in Miami. The water is coming up

837
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Speaker 1: through the sewers. I mean, please, why can't people? That's

838
00:52:11,440 --> 00:52:15,680
Speaker 1: why people can do something about it, because people in

839
00:52:15,800 --> 00:52:20,279
Speaker 1: numbers like these marches are very powerful. Right your congressman,

840
00:52:20,480 --> 00:52:24,360
Speaker 1: Call your congressman right the White House stand outside in

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Speaker 1: the front, you know, march something about doing something about

842
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Speaker 1: climate change. My last question, you fraging into trouble because

843
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Speaker 1: I want to take you to dinner and have the McConnell's.

844
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Speaker 1: Wait if you want to come back now, I will.

845
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Speaker 1: And that is when you sing, you know, people will

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Speaker 1: hear your voice and they melts them. It really gets

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Speaker 1: to them. You know, you're the greatest female vocalist of

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Speaker 1: all time. Oh you're so sweet. I don't know other

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Speaker 1: women who I love. I'm not dismissing them, but you're

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Speaker 1: the greatest female vocalist ever. What a compliment. And when

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Speaker 1: you go into the studio, when you go to record,

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Speaker 1: I'm assuming there's a passion, there's a connection as a soul.

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Speaker 1: I love recording because it's private and there it's just

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Speaker 1: me and the music. You know, I could look like crap.

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Speaker 1: I don't have to dress up. I don't have to

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Speaker 1: put makeup on, and it's just it's just the sound

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Speaker 1: and the musicians, the the the instruments and what I

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Speaker 1: can hear and and say, oh, I could hear a

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Speaker 1: string line here with a sound and I don't read music,

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Speaker 1: but I'll have to go. You know that that note?

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Speaker 1: What is it? I don't know, but it's that chord,

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Speaker 1: that chord, you know. I mean, it's just that's fun.

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Speaker 1: For me. What I like is the way I record

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Speaker 1: as though I can't. I don't stop at all and

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Speaker 1: do anything. I do the song. I like to sing

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Speaker 1: the whole song because to me, I'm doing a part.

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Speaker 1: I'm doing I'm thinking, I'm doing my work as an actress.

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Speaker 1: And you tell them how you want to sing the song. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think for example, like Zenne Bennett, there's that wonderful

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Speaker 1: moment in Zenne Bennett. When Tony's with those two guys

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Speaker 1: and they play the song is that wonderful moment in

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Speaker 1: the film, And he sings the song and Tony goes, no,

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Speaker 1: I want you to do it slower, slow it down,

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Speaker 1: do it slower, and they slow it down. He goes, no, slower,

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Speaker 1: I want you to slow it down and do it slower,

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Speaker 1: really slow, and they slay slow and they're looking at

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Speaker 1: each other like I don't think we should play this song,

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Speaker 1: and so it's like, yeah, I really want you to

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Speaker 1: do it slow, like really slow it down, like you know.

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Speaker 1: Is he knows, of course? How he sign with me

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Speaker 1: here right in this room. We did our duet here together,

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Speaker 1: me and Tony right the singing you make you happy

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Speaker 1: that you can do that? Um, yeah it does. I

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Speaker 1: can hear things that I thought, oh shoot, I should

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Speaker 1: have done that over it's not the right take, I

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Speaker 1: mean whatever, But no, I liked when when we put

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Speaker 1: out a new album in serious radio plays mysel twenty

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Speaker 1: four hours a day and I happened to have the

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Speaker 1: radio on. I think that was good. I want to

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Speaker 1: say I love you, I love you to You're the greatest.

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Speaker 1: More Live, More Lose the more I love, the more

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Speaker 1: I realized, the less I know, each step I take,

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Speaker 1: I to travel the rev the more I have to go.

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Speaker 1: What to go? If you come for so? Why settle

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Speaker 1: for just the I can't hear you, Papa, I can

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Speaker 1: see you well, I can't feed. Here's the Thing is

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Speaker 1: produced by Emily Boutine, Adam Tychultz, Kathy Russo, Casey Baber,

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Speaker 1: is Alec Baldwin and you're listening to hear is the

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Speaker 1: Thing