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Speaker 1: I Am all In.

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Speaker 2: Let's Kiss You, I Am all In with Scott Patterson,

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Speaker 2: an iHeartRadio podcast, Hey.

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Speaker 1: Everybody, Scott Patterson, I Am all In Podcast one eleven productions,

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Speaker 1: iHeart Radio, iHeart Podcast, iHeartMedia. One on one interview with

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Speaker 1: John A. Kippellis. John played the role of orientation leader

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Speaker 1: for one episode in two thousand and five in Fight

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Speaker 1: Face Season six, episode two. As the orientation Leader, his

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Speaker 1: bio is quite extensive. He's best known for his portrayals

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Speaker 1: of Janitor Carl Red in The Breakfast Club and Detective

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Speaker 1: Donald Shank in Forever Night. And alumnus of Second City, Chicago.

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Speaker 1: John theatrical work spans eight years from Second City's touring

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Speaker 1: Company seventy eight to eighty two to six reviews as

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Speaker 1: a member of the famed Resident Company eighty two to

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Speaker 1: eighty six, and finally Second Citi's critically claimed returned to

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Speaker 1: Off Broadway in Orwell That Ends Well in the former

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Speaker 1: Village Gate in New York City. His appearances in three

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Speaker 1: John Hughes film Sixteen Candles, Breakfast Club, and Weird Science

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Speaker 1: earned him fame in the eighties as a character actor.

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Speaker 1: He's at over two hundred film and TV appearances and

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Speaker 1: worked on television shows such as Miami Vice as a

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Speaker 1: corup public Defender, Desperate Housewife, Queer's Folk, The X File, Seinfeld,

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Speaker 1: Home Improvement, Dead Like Me, e R, Boston Legal. The

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Speaker 1: list of the films he appears includes of Shape of Water, Legally,

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Speaker 1: Blonde rocksand Nothing in Common, The Boost, Internal Affairs. I

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Speaker 1: give you, John Cappellis, how are you? Nice to meet you?

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Speaker 1: Nice to meet you too, Thanks for coming on. I'm

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Speaker 1: very very excited because you work your first your first

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Speaker 1: gigs was maybe your first gig was working with Michael Mann.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, way back when. It was for a brief moment.

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Speaker 1: In Thief, one of my He's one of my favorite directors.

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Speaker 1: It's one of my favorite movies.

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Speaker 3: I've got a wonderful movie coming out now right and

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Speaker 3: which I guess I'm going to go to the screening soon.

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Speaker 3: Have you seen it? Have you seen the new film?

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Speaker 3: No is? What is Oh Ferrari? No?

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Speaker 1: I haven't seen it. I have not seen it, but

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Speaker 1: I know there's going to be a heat too. It's

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Speaker 1: like a prequel, so all very exciting stuff.

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Speaker 3: But listen, let's he's a pretty dynamic guy, and obviously

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Speaker 3: you know, with Miami Vice and a lot of stuff.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I'm glad to see him doing something, you know,

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Speaker 3: in twenty twenty three. Right, he's kind of I guess,

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Speaker 3: part of the older guard now right.

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Speaker 1: Right, right, Yeah, he's but he's still you know, intense

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Speaker 3: Nacious. He's a he's a he's a I think he's

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Speaker 3: a a legendary filmmaker. I think he's you know, I

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Speaker 3: think he's pretty darn good. You know, for sure, for

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Speaker 3: sure that he doesn't need my affirmation. But you know, I,

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Speaker 3: you know, I glanced off him. I you know, I

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Speaker 3: honestly don't know whether he'd remember me, but I certainly

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Speaker 3: remember him. You know, these guys work with a lot

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Speaker 3: of people, right, sure, sure, but not to say I mean,

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Speaker 3: my my experience on Thief was not that it was

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Speaker 3: I didn't do really much. I'm sort of barely in

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Speaker 3: the film. But my my real experience, not necessarily with him,

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Speaker 3: although with his his company was Miami Vice per season, right, right,

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Speaker 3: I did. I did an episode in Miami of course.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, exciting series. It really took over television. It was

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Speaker 1: kind of the series on TV when don't we?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, and it was that you know, MTV

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Speaker 3: cops sort of right, you know, slash thing. Right.

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Speaker 1: So when we watched fight Face and saw you playing

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Speaker 1: the orientation leader, we we couldn't wait to have you on.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 1: Were you aware of the series before you were cast

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Speaker 3: Oh? Yeah, oh you were of Gilmore Girls, yes? Oh yeah, Oh.

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Speaker 3: I think I think the show was, you know, especially

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Speaker 3: I also really loved, you know, the performances in it.

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Speaker 3: No, there was a hint of that, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: Right, So you got to work with Alexus. I think

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Speaker 1: You were in two scenes with Alexis tell us her

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Speaker 3: Was it was kind of you know, obviously not an

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Speaker 1: How'd you get started in your acting career.

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Speaker 3: I did a play in high school. I did Guys

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Speaker 3: and Dolls when I was in grade ten as we

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Speaker 3: And I sort of went for a few years thinking

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Speaker 1: Very true, Very true. It is a common experience.

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Speaker 4: But but you know, the Back to the Gilmore Girls,

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Speaker 4: I mean, the the the there was a kineticism on

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Speaker 3: And there are very very few times when you're working

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Speaker 3: because there's an energy when you work on shows that

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Speaker 3: people that you know, I don't know how to say it.

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Speaker 3: It's kind of like, well, I do know how to say.

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Speaker 3: It's kind of like being being in the center of

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Speaker 1: Interesting, that's an interesting observation.

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Speaker 3: My you know again, my memory of it was that

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Speaker 5: of mine and I always want to call her by

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Speaker 3: Is a strange sort of fluidian thing. But Amy Amy

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Speaker 3: is you know one of those people that doesn't let

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Speaker 3: what color jacket it has. You know, she's very, very

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Speaker 3: a to take the fly analogy to turn it around,

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Speaker 3: ability to see everything.

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Speaker 1: Mm hmm.

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Speaker 3: So there, you know, nothing goes unnoticed. Sorry, go ahead,

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Speaker 1: So you have so many TV and film credits, it's

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Speaker 3: Me too, just reading them.

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Speaker 1: Is the breakfast club uh more often the role you

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Speaker 3: You know, it's funny, it depends on the and I'm

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Speaker 3: putting on a roll for Raging Bull or something. People

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Speaker 3: recognize me from Seinfeld too, the sniffing to either Seinfeld

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Speaker 3: my dad, I say that quite often. My dad had

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Speaker 3: you know, it happens. I they're immediately they're in my store, right,

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Speaker 3: It's like that. But again, there are other performers that

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Speaker 3: often I think Breakfast Club or I don't know. I mean,

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Speaker 3: you know, there are lots of people that have never

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Speaker 3: seen the movie. You know, you meet there are fourteen,

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Speaker 1: Man, right, what do you remember about filming that movie?

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Speaker 1: And I was over forty years ago, what do you

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Speaker 3: I remember a lot about that film because it was

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Speaker 3: Shoot.

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Speaker 1: Gilmore Girls characters, gill More Girl characters that you would

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Speaker 1: where Luke says he's all in with Laurel I with

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Speaker 1: the relationship. I'm in. I'm all in, hence the name

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Speaker 3: So what are you all in?

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Speaker 1: It sounds like if you want to live with Laurel I,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I'm all in on that. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: And what am I doing to you so early? That's funny, John,

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Speaker 1: It's been a pleasure. Thank you so much for your time.

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Speaker 6: Bye, dot.

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Speaker 4: Hey, everybody to forget.

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Speaker 1: Follow us on Instagram at I Am All In Podcast

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Speaker 1: and email us at Gilmore at iHeartRadio dot com.