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Speaker 1: Either fan.

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Speaker 2: Rito's welcome to part two of our interview with Judy Savage.

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Speaker 2: She is the talent agent who changed our lives along

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Speaker 2: with so many other actors. So it's truly been an

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Speaker 2: incredible experience to talk to her and see her again. So,

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Speaker 2: without further ado, here's Judy.

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Speaker 1: What was like?

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Speaker 2: Do you remember what were some of these negotiations, like,

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Speaker 2: because you were a tough negotiator, oh, studios? Like, was

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Speaker 2: there particularly tough negotiation or one that you were really

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Speaker 2: proud of that you achieved?

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Speaker 3: The kid the Boys on Tim Taylor's Tool Time.

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I improvement. I remember this.

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Speaker 3: Do you remember this?

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Speaker 1: I remember this because I was good friends with Zach

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Speaker 1: and Jonathan at the time.

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Speaker 3: I represented two of the boys, not all three, and I.

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Speaker 1: Think it was Tarn and Jonathan Harrin.

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Speaker 3: Taron Smith was like six years old when he got it.

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Speaker 3: He'd never done anything, and so when he got on

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Speaker 3: that show an episode, that's all I could get because

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Speaker 3: he'd never done anything. And Zach was Jonathan Taylor Thomas

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Speaker 3: had because he had lots of credits. Got well. It

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Speaker 3: was just customary that in the third season you negotiate.

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Speaker 3: So when the third season came. I tried to get more,

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Speaker 3: and they offered me more tickets to the tapings. I said, no, no, no, no, no, no,

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Speaker 3: that's not going to work. So I called mothers and

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Speaker 3: I said, okay, all going to be sick. They're going

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Speaker 3: to be sick, and they're not going to go in

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Speaker 3: for the callbacks. So I told him they were all sick.

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Speaker 3: And it went on and on and on, and I

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Speaker 3: remember that they didn't show. Remember that they sent a

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Speaker 3: doctor and Karen happened to have a cold and like

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Speaker 3: coughing and sneezing. Uh Zach had a football injury. And

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Speaker 3: I don't know about Jonathan Taylor Thomas because he wasn't

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Speaker 3: mine at the time. But they you've got to be

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Speaker 3: willing to say no in order to get more money.

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Speaker 3: So they came away on the negotiation. And in the meantime,

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Speaker 3: they said they started seeing new kids for the roles,

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Speaker 3: and I sent some of my new kids just because

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Speaker 3: I was you know, I was not going to be

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Speaker 3: bluffed by the way.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 3: And finally Tim came in and he said, okay, enough

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Speaker 3: of this. I want my family back, and I want

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Speaker 3: the same kids, and I don't want anybody else, and

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Speaker 3: they came through with the money and that helped my

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Speaker 3: reputation because I got there. I was the agent that

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Speaker 3: broke the back of Disney.

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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, I remember.

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Speaker 4: I vividly remember this because it was like such because

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Speaker 4: all like kids and parents that you know, were on

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Speaker 1: It was like you did.

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Speaker 4: You were always kind of you got the scraps, you

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Speaker 4: got the like the leftovers. If you asked for something else, yeah,

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Speaker 4: you know, take it to the taping or something that

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Speaker 4: doesn't pay a bill. You know, it doesn't work for anything.

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Speaker 4: And yeah, I remember like everyone particularly all of your

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Speaker 4: was really impressive to watch.

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Speaker 3: Also, I got very friendly with the like the people

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Speaker 3: that you negotiate with, the attorneys. I'd go to lunch

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Speaker 3: when it came time to negotiate, they were my buddies, right,

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Speaker 3: And I'd say, Okay, now how much can I get

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Speaker 1: Right?

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Speaker 3: And they'd tell me, well, we're offering you ten, but

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Speaker 3: and later on it always I started to I learned

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Speaker 3: twenty you sometimes thirty thousand an episode. And also as

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Speaker 3: the years went by, there was more money in the business.

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Speaker 1: You know what I mean, you can get I mean

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Speaker 1: not now it's all been sucked out. But yeah, there

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Speaker 1: was a moment it was peak television. It was great. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: We were doing it. I you were at exactly the

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Speaker 3: right time and it was love.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it was we had We got to really enjoy

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the producers had to have one hundred episodes to

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Speaker 3: sell the syndication. Right, there's no syndication anymore.

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Speaker 1: No, it's yeah, it's changed so much, well, and.

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Speaker 3: It's affected everybody. My son Brad has a production company.

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Speaker 3: He's having a hard time. Yeah, people that are writers, everybody. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a very different business, uh than when like.

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Speaker 3: When the seventy eight records went to forty five and

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Speaker 1: CDs, you know, atrex.

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Speaker 3: CDs and then too little.

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Speaker 1: Right, and then to now it's just in the in

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Speaker 3: Those places where you used to rent movies.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, blockable spell yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It was what

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Speaker 1: was the like sort of speaking about how things have

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Speaker 1: decide to retire.

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Speaker 3: I was seventy six years old, I think, and the

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Speaker 3: business well, I had Stella in there. Yes, it was

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Speaker 3: very good, and the business was starting to change. And

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Speaker 3: when I retired, I mean when I was about to retire,

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Speaker 3: I had thirty six kids on series. So I was

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Speaker 3: going to sell her the business. And I think I'd

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Speaker 3: had one knee replaced. So it was getting harder and

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Speaker 3: harder and hard. Oh, I know what it was, it

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Speaker 3: really did it. I've had a yes, I remember, and

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Speaker 3: every allergist and everything. Anyway, finally I decided I can't

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Speaker 3: just the right time. Although I missed it terribly. I

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Speaker 3: was gonna say, what do you miss about it? The

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Speaker 3: I love the business.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it is.

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Speaker 4: I mean, it's the reason that I think we're still

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Speaker 1: Even in the most grueling of schedules, like use, there's

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Speaker 1: just nothing like it. No, do you remember I remember this?

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Speaker 1: At I believe it was. Was it not the Ivy?

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Speaker 1: What was that little restaurant that you loved the Ivy?

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Speaker 1: Was it the Ivy?

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Speaker 2: No? The little yellow house. Oh that's what you're talking

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Speaker 2: about Off Vine. There we go.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, the Ivy is on Robertson Offline.

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Speaker 3: Yep.

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Speaker 4: Offvine was the most adorable restaurant that was your favorite.

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Speaker 4: It was a few blocks from your office and it

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Speaker 4: And that was always I just always remember being like, oh,

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Speaker 4: we're going with Judy to off.

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Speaker 1: Fine Like that was just always for your West there.

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Speaker 2: I have a picture of you, me and Chad Allen there.

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Speaker 1: Well, what I was going to say is for your

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Speaker 1: anniversary for some i'd there, yep, And we had a

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Speaker 1: I still have it too. We'll put it on our Instagram.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we all wore black and white, and I think

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Speaker 3: Yes, and Andrea's mother had gotten us all together and

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we took out we took out a page in Variety,

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Speaker 2: I think, yes, with the congratulations on your anniversary, whatever

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Speaker 3: At the time. I lasted for forty five years.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that is just.

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Speaker 2: Incredibly impressive, absolutely remarkable, this stay in power that you have,

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Speaker 2: and to go through these through the decades, the eighties

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Speaker 2: did that change for you throughout the years.

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Speaker 3: Well, I just sort of learned as I went along,

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Speaker 3: and her son and one other person. Oh no, on Jennifer.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's right, Yes, I remember Jennifer.

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Speaker 3: Yep, Jennifer. Now does do you remember the person that

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Speaker 3: sent you to me? Jody? She was a person I

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Speaker 3: can't remember, Phyllis, Phyllis Ellis. She was a person that

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and.

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Speaker 3: So there's never been anybody like that since.

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Speaker 1: I remember Phyllis.

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Speaker 4: You know what I remember about Phyllis She would always

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Speaker 4: have pink lemonade at her house.

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Speaker 1: I don't know why I remember this.

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Speaker 4: like I don't know, she did like acting stuff too,

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Speaker 4: like not teaching, but like I just remember remember like

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Speaker 3: Well, I can always thank billis Henson for sending you.

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Speaker 3: I was blown away when you came in because well,

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Speaker 3: both of you kids, you were so young and you

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Speaker 3: were so smart, and I think you were reading Jodie.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I was reading by then. And that was

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Speaker 4: People were like, oh, she's you know, three and a

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Speaker 1: And my mom was like, well she kind of is,

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Speaker 4: Yeah it was four, and I remember you handed me

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Speaker 4: a script, you know, and I was like okay and

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's so impressive.

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Speaker 3: So you were you reading when you came in.

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Speaker 2: I don't I don't well, I was four when I

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Speaker 3: Well, I felt like all of you were my children, and.

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Speaker 1: So thank you for that, Judy. It means a lot.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we love you so much, Judy, like you're just

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Speaker 2: You're so special to us, and I'm so happy that

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Speaker 3: What is the name of your podcast?

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Speaker 1: It is how Rude Tanner Ritos.

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Speaker 2: Yes, it's both of our catchphrases from Full House combined.

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Speaker 2: You can't do that, no favorites. So yeah, I think

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Speaker 1: Exactly, exactly. Well, thank you so much, Judy, we love you.

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Speaker 2: Like doesn't it just fill your heart with just so

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Speaker 4: being you know, fabulous Judy. Yeah, Judy and Diane always

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Speaker 4: had scarves, Yes, always had scarves. And Diane in her

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Speaker 4: she was such an acting and she would flip the

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Speaker 1: Just it was great. I just remember it so vividly. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: what a joy. We gotta get up there.

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Speaker 2: We gotta go see both of them.

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Speaker 1: Let's have lunch, Lets get scars, Let's do lunch. I

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Speaker 1: would love it.

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Speaker 4: Yes, well, you guys, thank you so much for joining

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Speaker 4: us for this really special episode. This was really a

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Speaker 4: lot of fun for us, and I hope you guys

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Speaker 4: enjoyed it too. Getting a little super for us into

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Speaker 4: our childhood.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, what a blast from the past. Seriously, Well,

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Speaker 1: thank you guys for listening. We love you.

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Speaker 1: Like and subscribe. You know the deal and uh and

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Speaker 1: we will see you next time.

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Speaker 4: And remember the world is small, but the house is

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Speaker 4: full of Judy Savage's clients.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of them. There's a lot, so many

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Speaker 1: like that actually is an appropriate thing. That's just so

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Speaker 1: many that is a full house. It's Judy's client list

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Speaker 1: and on that. But I'm cheap, but I'm