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Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to an all new episode of Saved

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Speaker 1: by the Belmore. It's me your host, Mr Stephen Belmore. Gosh,

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Speaker 1: I'm so happy to be here. And of course I'm

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Speaker 1: back with my gal pal, my best friend, my producer,

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Speaker 1: my cousin. That's friend. Hi, it's me Cindy. Well, I

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Speaker 1: was going to get to it, Cindy, so let's not.

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Speaker 1: Let's not jump guns here, okay, of course, sorry, Steve. Regardless, Cindy,

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Speaker 1: what is new with you? Well, as you know last week,

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Speaker 1: I finally returned to the dating scene. But remember my

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Speaker 1: date did have a klonopin. It is accidental drowning in

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Speaker 1: some New England clam chowder. Yeah it was. Wait, wasn't

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Speaker 1: New England. I thought it was a Manhattan chowder. No, no, no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: it was. It was definitely New England. And see, that's

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Speaker 1: that's why it's dangerous. It's hard to come back after

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Speaker 1: being submerged in such thick chowder. But he's out of

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Speaker 1: the woods, he's out of the coma, Cindy. That is

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Speaker 1: so great. You know, I love chowder, so I put

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Speaker 1: myself and my life on the line all of the time.

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Speaker 1: But I'm just I'm so excited for you. So does

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Speaker 1: this mean that you're going to keep dating? Well, actually,

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Speaker 1: unfortunately no, Yeah, he um woke up and almost instantly

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Speaker 1: told me he wasn't looking for anything serious. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: and he was married as well. Oh, Cindy, that's that's

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Speaker 1: a shame. Yeah, but for time, we really do need

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Speaker 1: to move on to stuff I didn't know, right, No,

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Speaker 1: that's right. I didn't think you'd actually have anything to

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Speaker 1: catch us up on, Um. But there's plenty of fish

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Speaker 1: in the see, you just got to cast a wider net. Okay,

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Speaker 1: so let's get started on me, all right. Absolutely, So,

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Speaker 1: as you know, production on Rent has come to a

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Speaker 1: halt because I refused to allow all of the students

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Speaker 1: to audition. And yes, that is solely based on the

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Speaker 1: fact that their parents have slighted me. If they've slighted me,

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Speaker 1: then they're not welcome. If they haven't, they can get

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Speaker 1: an audition. Well did that affect a lot of the

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Speaker 1: kids about fifty percent? Yeah, But still, I don't need

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Speaker 1: that toxic energy surrounding me when I'm trying to pull

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Speaker 1: literally pull performances out of these dry sponges their parents

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Speaker 1: called children. And I mean, you know how it is.

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Speaker 1: I okay, so that's on Halts. I'll let you know

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Speaker 1: what goes on with that. I'll let everybody know. They'll

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Speaker 1: probably be a go fund me. I'll drop the link

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Speaker 1: when it's out. Um. I do have some good news

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Speaker 1: and some bad news, Cindy. The good news is, after

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Speaker 1: four different failed change dot org petitions, I was able

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Speaker 1: to add stage make up to my syllabus. Wow, congratulation,

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much, Cindy. It was so great. But

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Speaker 1: the bad news is, after an unfortunate accident with Julius

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Speaker 1: Smith's eyeball and a pencil eyeliner, I've had to remove

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Speaker 1: it and re add History of Theater, which I teach

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Speaker 1: by showing a bootleg taping of the fan of the opera.

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Speaker 1: What happened with Julia's I I have no idea. I

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Speaker 1: picked it up, I rented it off, I put it

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Speaker 1: in a zip blog bag and stuck it in her

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Speaker 1: pocket when they were taking her out on the stretcher.

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Speaker 1: But I haven't had time to follow up. Her last

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Speaker 1: name is long to look up in the system. So, Steven,

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Speaker 1: that sounds very serious. I mean, the paperwork, did you

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Speaker 1: at least I didn't do any paperwork that's not I'm

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Speaker 1: a creative person. Her eye felt it popped out. Oh

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Speaker 1: my goodness. Well the thing was, I said, you're doing great,

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Speaker 1: and I gave her a little a little smack on

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Speaker 1: the back, okay, and then she was holding the eyeliner.

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Speaker 1: Oh so it was your fault. Well that was the

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Speaker 1: first and then someone else bumped into her front and

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Speaker 1: double Dutch situation. You know, this reminds me I should

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Speaker 1: reach out to legal. Oh yeah, please reach out to

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Speaker 1: our on staff legal team to make sure that it's

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Speaker 1: okay that we we tell that story. But again, not

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Speaker 1: my fault. She should have known how to use a

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Speaker 1: gel eyeliner. I mean, she's fourteen years old. Grow up.

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Speaker 1: So anyway, now I'm stuck teaching the goddamn history of theater, Sandy,

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Speaker 1: it may as well be a politics class. I just

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Speaker 1: can't seem to care about it. But you know what

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Speaker 1: I do care about inspiring people, and that's why I

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Speaker 1: have come up with a new segment, stories of cutting

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Speaker 1: my teeth. As many of you know, sometimes artists, and

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Speaker 1: I use that term broadly, I have to take jobs

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Speaker 1: they otherwise would not to support themselves in pursuing their

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Speaker 1: whatever it may be. And this is the story of

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Speaker 1: the thirteen years I spent cutting my teeth after my

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Speaker 1: parents cut me off while auditioning for Broadway shows and

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Speaker 1: getting callbacks for Broadway shows. You remember the callback? Yes, yes,

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Speaker 1: the callback. There was the callback for the one plus

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Speaker 1: others and waiting tables at New York's most exclusive restaurants

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Speaker 1: in diners. It's a special segment because not only are

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Speaker 1: Cindy and I best friends, roommates, cousins, we worked together

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Speaker 1: in several different restaurants in New York City, the Big

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Speaker 1: Apple as locals call it, And that's where Cindy met

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Speaker 1: her husband, her ex husband, Yeah, who I actually hooked

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Speaker 1: up with first at a server holiday party, and anyway,

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Speaker 1: he wasn't gay. It was a confusing time for him,

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Speaker 1: but he did meet Cindy soon after, and then he

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Speaker 1: did leave Cindy not too soon after that and is

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Speaker 1: now dating an unnamed real wife of New York who

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Speaker 1: I do still hope to meet some day. Yeah, about that,

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Speaker 1: I'm not comfortable asking him to introduce you to at

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Speaker 1: least not yet. Well time heals all wounds, Cindy. Okay,

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Speaker 1: you'll get there. But now let's get into celebrities who

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Speaker 1: have wronged me. Okay, so you remember when Morgan Freeman

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Speaker 1: actor from Bruce Almighty. He's most well known, Godly got

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Speaker 1: so good. I thought he was so good. He ordered

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Speaker 1: he was a total diva. He was very upset. He

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Speaker 1: me how this iconic actor could be so upset over

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Speaker 1: a simple confusion. Well, actually I remember that day. Wasn't

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Speaker 1: the bowl of tomato soup? Didn't you bring up a

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Speaker 1: But but then there was a part where we started

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Speaker 1: screaming lines from shash Redemption at him, which I don't

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Speaker 1: think he liked. Well that's because he couldn't handle it.

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Speaker 1: God forbid, somebody's a better actor, you know. You know

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Speaker 1: I did not consider that it was upsetting, So needless

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Speaker 1: Redemption too. Uh that that was a joke since thank you?

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Speaker 1: Um remember Diane Keaton, Diane Keaton comes in. Everyone just

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Speaker 1: the big deal on that, and she's not even that great.

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Speaker 1: She wouldn't even let me try on her hat. Do

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Speaker 1: you remember that? I do remember that, but I remember

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Speaker 1: more specifically, more importantly, that that wasn't Diane Keaton. Actually,

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Speaker 1: well that makes it even worse because she's not even original.

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Speaker 1: be honored to let you wear her hat? You would think,

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Speaker 1: you would think Cindy. But speaking of women who don't

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Speaker 1: know when they're being honored, Sarah Michelle Geller, you remember her.

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Speaker 1: She kept saying she wasn't Sarah Michelle Geller. I knew

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Speaker 1: she was Sarah Michelle Geller. We got into an argument.

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Speaker 1: It was over a plot point in Buffy the Vampire Slayer,

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Speaker 1: which there's just a lot that goes on that didn't

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Speaker 1: make sense to me. God for a bid I questioned something,

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Speaker 1: Sorry that I'm not a sheep, but you know, you

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Speaker 1: And then finally, Danny de Vito, when this is actually

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Speaker 1: more of a Cindy story than mine, because we were

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Speaker 1: really doing what I loved at the time. And then

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Speaker 1: Matilda's Danny de Vito. Yes, yes, yeah, he was picking

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Speaker 1: it was just a makeout. It was a makeout, and

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Speaker 1: it was before you were dating. Just the makeout though, right, Yeah, totally,

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Speaker 1: our very special guests, and I'm so excited to have him.

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Speaker 1: Very exciting. Not only is he a Broadway producer bumping

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Speaker 1: When I was on Instagram, as I always do, perusing

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Speaker 1: with Matt. Oh, let me clarifying. What does a producer do?

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Speaker 1: You know? Um? My role is a lot about allocating

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Speaker 1: So it's a lot of you know, contributing funds, myself,

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Speaker 1: finding other people to contribute funds so that, you know,

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Speaker 1: putting up a Broadway shows. It's so expensive, so it's

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Speaker 1: a lot of it's kind of the boring business side,

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Speaker 1: you will, of these really fun special pieces. No such

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Speaker 1: thing as a boring side. I've put on quite a

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Speaker 1: do you know Ben Platt? Oh? Um, you know, we

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Speaker 1: just uh that was it was Gentleman's birthday. Isn't she

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Speaker 1: the best? Isn't she just the best? So sweet? God?

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Speaker 1: I love her so much. Same and yeah, you know,

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