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Speaker 1: Every day a week ago, clicks up The Breakfast Club, y'all,

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Speaker 1: mister one, most Dangerous Morning Show, The Breakfast Club, Charlamagne

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Speaker 1: to God just hilarious. DJ Envy is not in today,

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Speaker 1: but Lauren Lerosa is and we got some special guests

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Speaker 1: in the building. The cast of season three of Reasonable Doubt. Yes,

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Speaker 1: how are y'all feeling? Man, fantastic, jose the Car, McKinley,

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Speaker 1: Freeman and I always messed the name up, Emma.

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Speaker 2: He was messing up, you know, he got a little.

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Speaker 3: How you're feeling this morning?

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Speaker 1: We feel a fantastic It's to be here in Season

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Speaker 1: two of A scripted show is a very hard Season

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Speaker 1: three three three a very A scripted show.

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Speaker 3: Is a very hard task. How does it feel? Man?

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Speaker 4: It's good to be working, I'll tell you that, and

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Speaker 4: also be working with such amazing collaborate people like Mayachti

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Speaker 4: and Joseph, Kerry Washington, Larry. It's been a blessing. Hopefully

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Speaker 4: the fans love it because you know what I.

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Speaker 5: Mean, it's been a lot of fun. It's been a

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Speaker 5: lot of fun. And so to get to do it

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Speaker 5: three times, you know, I want to feel that love

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Speaker 5: from the audience and everything, and then you know meet

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Speaker 5: additional just people who come on the show and bring

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Speaker 5: great energy.

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Speaker 2: You know, it's been cool.

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Speaker 3: When have you not worked? When the last time your right,

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Speaker 3: when the last time you've not worked?

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Speaker 6: I've been super lucky, great in the Tommy role. But legitimately,

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Speaker 6: Charlottmane and we were just talking about that that it's

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Speaker 6: like it's I was I started. We started the journey

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Speaker 6: when I was thirty seven. I'm forty nine right now,

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Speaker 6: so it's like twelve years or.

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Speaker 7: Not.

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Speaker 8: Damn that forty nine is old. You just don't look forty. No, Damn,

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Speaker 8: I wouldn't have guessed this year forty nine.

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Speaker 7: Talking about how long you've been working, especially in that

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Speaker 7: role power right, how hard is it when you go

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Speaker 7: into other sets for people not to just see Tommy

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Speaker 7: all the time, Because it's funny.

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Speaker 6: I think that the Power Show is so pigeonholed in

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Speaker 6: a lot of ways that like when I was on Ozark,

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Speaker 6: people had no idea, like the crossover audience wasn't there.

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Speaker 3: However, on this this is going to be the.

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Speaker 6: One where Tommy plays the lawyer, right, which is fine

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Speaker 6: with me too, because it's it's it's so well written

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Speaker 6: that Ramula Muhammad does such an amazing job at making

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Speaker 6: a three hundred and sixty degree character that it's regardless

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Speaker 6: of how you feel about Bill Sterling my character on

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Speaker 6: season three, reasonable doubt, it's a different character and it's

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Speaker 6: a real human being because she writes real human beings

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Speaker 6: in real situations. This is only the second time in

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Speaker 6: my career where I joined a cast where I was

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Speaker 6: a fan of the show. I mean, I came from

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Speaker 6: Michael Ely, I stayed for Amiazi. It's like she's a brilliant.

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Speaker 6: She is everything that a number one on a call

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Speaker 6: she should be.

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Speaker 3: She's ultra prepared, she's ultra.

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Speaker 6: Kind and you can't you can't put anything in front

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Speaker 6: of her. She can't tackle and conquer. So it's been

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Speaker 6: amazing and I learned a lot. But being around her, you.

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Speaker 2: Know what, I wish people at my job would hype

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Speaker 2: me up like that.

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Speaker 3: She's always on set. I'm sure every day.

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Speaker 1: Okay, she doesn't miss him a lot of days, you said, so,

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Speaker 1: I'm interested though you said that. You know when you did,

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Speaker 1: there wasn't a lot of crossed over there, So I wondered,

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Speaker 1: does that hinder you from getting certain roles because they

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Speaker 1: feel like, oh, that's Joseph. People might think this is

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Speaker 1: a you know, power franchise spin off.

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Speaker 6: I don't even think about that. I feel like my

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Speaker 6: job as an actor, I don't think about that. And

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Speaker 6: getting more and more into producing.

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Speaker 3: Those are some of the factors.

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Speaker 6: I mean, I think you're spot on, Charlotte and thinking

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Speaker 6: that people are people love to categorize stuff because it

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Speaker 6: makes it easy. One thing I've learned in this business

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Speaker 3: So I feel like.

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Speaker 6: To break out of the shell, you have to do

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Speaker 6: both of those things. You have to do things that

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Speaker 6: that's all I wanted. All I do is I try

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Speaker 1: There's working on a loss in the show challenge, y' all.

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Speaker 1: View of the legal system.

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Speaker 5: Absolutely absolutely, I mean, because, for one, I've just learned

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Speaker 5: a lot more about law. You know, as each season

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Speaker 5: And again the writing it makes you kind of dive

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Speaker 5: you know, each season brings a new case and with

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Speaker 5: how the law is working with you or against you,

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Speaker 9: It makes people talk.

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Speaker 5: About, you know, the justice system and why it's working

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Speaker 5: or why it's not. And that's again one of the

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Speaker 5: one of the benefits of the show. It's not just

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Speaker 5: this simple legal drama. You know, you have this woman

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Speaker 4: And oddly like over the course of shooting the last

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Speaker 3: World where we're like, oh, come together.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: So season two and season three, so it's it's definitely

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Speaker 7: For surest So, the last season before this one, you

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Speaker 7: end on like a high. You you bring your your

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Speaker 7: opens and it's like you you want more drama, yes,

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Speaker 7: of drama. You know, we don't understand we as women,

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Speaker 2: We want to have it all.

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Speaker 5: I think Jacks as a character, she is the woman

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Speaker 5: She likes the mess of all of that in her

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Speaker 5: professional life, yes, you know, but when it does bleed

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Speaker 5: over into the personal, that's where things get a little tricky.

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Speaker 5: But she's been missing that, you know, from the last season.

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Speaker 5: She likes to be in that courtroom, you know, so

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Speaker 5: I can understand that. You know, at work you want

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Speaker 9: And for Jacks, she's at her.

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Speaker 5: Best when she's in that courtroom, standing right in front

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Speaker 5: She lives in that space.

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Speaker 7: I've had conversations with my friends because of reasonable doubt

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Speaker 7: going into this new season with all this new drama

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Speaker 7: to that like that, I need the mess because I

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Speaker 5: Well, see, I think it's almost the opposite. I don't

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Speaker 5: you know, everyone is pleading out. She's kind of more

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Speaker 5: because again that's why she's a partner. You know, her

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Speaker 5: just you know, helping clients plead out in that kind

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Speaker 1: You know, I always wonder like what parts of Jack's

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Speaker 1: resonate with you personally, and does that change from season

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Speaker 3: Does it feel like you're covering new territory.

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Speaker 5: I discover something new about this woman each year, for sure.

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Speaker 5: You know, every every episode is like, oh Jax, you

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Speaker 2: It makes it.

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Speaker 5: Makes me have those conversations with myself. There are a

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Speaker 5: that's the fun part of being the actors when you

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Speaker 5: this woman. Okay, why does she decide that she gonna

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Speaker 2: Baby?

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Speaker 9: You know, it's it's tough.

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Speaker 5: It's tough, but it happens, and people do that all

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Speaker 6: Well, I mean I was telling me about the research

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Speaker 3: Yeah, baby, group.

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Speaker 2: Chat, they're there.

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Speaker 9: I had to dig I did it. Yeah, yep, Yes, I.

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Speaker 7: Did not have a baby, but I got back with

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Speaker 9: And you do find that there are a lot of

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Speaker 9: women who do it.

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Speaker 7: They don't talk about it because you have to deal

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Speaker 7: with people being like, well, why would you get to

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Speaker 9: But it's a whole community out there, Yes there is.

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Speaker 5: And I had to go because I couldn't make it. It

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Speaker 5: makes sense, but I can't judge this woman.

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Speaker 2: We all you know what I mean.

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Speaker 5: And so when I found it, it made sense and

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Speaker 3: What was the reason?

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Speaker 1: I want to know, Like, what was what did you

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Speaker 1: find in that group chat that you could tap into

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Speaker 1: to say, Okay, this is why I would take them back.

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Speaker 9: Oh well that's easy.

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Speaker 5: I mean you find that outside of their still being loved,

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Speaker 5: things that other people may not understand, you know, they

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Speaker 5: may not understand that I have history with this person

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Speaker 6: The level of intelligence I have to deal with. Don't

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Speaker 1: So the wonder if love really is a deciding factor

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Speaker 3: Little bit further on that she really cheated. What happened.

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Speaker 7: Just because I love Jackson, cheating is cheap.

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Speaker 9: And they were separated. You forgot.

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Speaker 9: What she does allow is room.

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Speaker 3: That's all she allows us.

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Speaker 4: She definitely allows us to settle into a true perspective

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Speaker 6: It's a safe space that I you know, without naming

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Speaker 6: She is so unbelievably open to saying if you have

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Speaker 8: Yeah, she's incredible because you find on sets they don't

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Speaker 2: This is what I wrote, This is what it is.

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Speaker 1: Know, you know, being on Power all these years has

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Speaker 6: Yeah. Again, it's like I don't even think about that.

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Speaker 6: It's endlessly entertaining for me to discover new parts about

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Speaker 5: You know, as an actor, you want to have a

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Speaker 6: You know, there's probably more parts of Tommy that there

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Speaker 4: get the weeds up and that's that.

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Speaker 5: Space was a challenge story wise on the show for

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Speaker 5: Jackson as a character to allow him to have the

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Speaker 5: space to do all of that without her feeling some

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Speaker 5: type of way about well, is he did.

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Speaker 2: He really want to be with her?

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Speaker 5: Is he really you know? All those questions and realize

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Speaker 5: it's not about you with that moment, It's really about

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Speaker 5: him having this opportunity to grieve what happened.

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Speaker 4: Well, it's interesting and that's that's actually how beautiful the

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Speaker 4: story is. It's actually it is about me and it's

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Speaker 4: about us. So it's like sacrificing something for the bigger picture,

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Speaker 4: even if it doesn't yeh, the most sent some papers,

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Speaker 4: you know, because we read we read scripts and it

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Speaker 4: happens just like when y'all see it like wait a minute,

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Speaker 4: what's happening and will be like, wait a minute, what

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Speaker 4: is this?

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Speaker 3: Where is this going? So it's always.

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Speaker 1: Well, listen, it's the Cast a Reasonable Doubt. Season three

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Speaker 1: premiere September eighteenth. Here's eighteenth, Thursday.

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Speaker 2: Tomorrow, And I want to say I did something for reason.

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Speaker 9: I'm here on the radio.

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Speaker 2: Don't paying attention to the case. You know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 2: I'm the voice that pay attention to the case. Yeah, listen,

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Speaker 2: I'm going to carry thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 3: Every day. A week ago, the Breakfast Club.

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Speaker 2: Finished for y'all.

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Speaker 3: Dump