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Speaker 1: It's nine O Genegen with Jenny Garth and Tory Spelling. Today,

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Speaker 1: we are very excited we are being joined by one

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Speaker 1: of our amazing co stars from season five, actor James Victor.

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Speaker 1: He played Peter Tucker on seven episodes. Here's our chat

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Speaker 1: with James. Hi, Hey, how are you great?

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Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, you haven't aged at all.

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Speaker 1: I have it. Oh that's good to know you have

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Speaker 1: the exact same hair do that we're looking at a

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Speaker 1: picture of you on our computers here when you were

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Speaker 1: playing the character on nine O two and I Peter Tucker.

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Speaker 1: You have the same exact hairdo.

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Speaker 3: I'm thankful that I still have it. You can be

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Speaker 3: good hair, good jeans, I guess right.

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Speaker 1: Let me ask you a question. Does your mom have

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Speaker 1: good hair? And your mom's dad?

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Speaker 3: Actually, you know, I never met my mom's dad, but

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Speaker 3: that was the Ironically, I never found out that I

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Speaker 3: was Irish until I was in college. I always wondered

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Speaker 3: because of the hair color. I said, you sure, I'm

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Speaker 3: not Irish? And my grandparents used to tell me that

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Speaker 3: I was Northern Italian because my whole family's Italian. So

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Speaker 3: but yeah, I think Irish.

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Speaker 1: Part, how'd you find out you're Irish.

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Speaker 3: Well, years later I saw a picture. I found a

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Speaker 3: picture of my mom's real dad, and I just I wondered, like,

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Speaker 3: I said, who is this person? And I found out

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Speaker 3: that they kind of, you know, because my grandparents, my

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Speaker 3: grandmother got divorced really early on, when my mother was

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Speaker 3: like two or three years old. They kind of it

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Speaker 3: was kind of shameful to admit that. I guess, so

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Speaker 3: I guess she was very proud, and so you know,

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Speaker 3: when she married, that was the only grandfather that I knew,

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Speaker 3: and I thought, you know, I thought he was my

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Speaker 1: Of Okay, but yeah, that's so fascinating.

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Speaker 3: The hair because my brother and I have are the

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Speaker 3: only ones who have like strawberry blonde hair, and we

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Speaker 3: the entire family. So it always been a weird thing

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Speaker 3: of a joke in high school of like, you know,

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Speaker 3: the milkman did.

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Speaker 1: The milk Man?

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Speaker 3: You guys look amazing as well.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's really good to see you. We've just gotten

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Speaker 1: into the episodes where Peter, that's your character. Uh, you

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Speaker 1: are flirting at the laundromat with Andrea and then you

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Speaker 1: show up as the doctor in the ery she brings her.

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Speaker 3: Baby the doctor med Med is the med student or

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Speaker 1: What is young to be the doctor?

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Speaker 3: But yeah, yeah, but yeah, that was that was so

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Speaker 4: By the way, we just found out what happens we

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Speaker 4: we didn't remember and.

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Speaker 1: Well into that. We haven't gotten to that episode on

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Speaker 1: the podcast rewatch, so we try not to spoil things

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Speaker 1: for our viewers or for me.

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Speaker 3: Hopefully viewers have seen it or the new you know,

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Speaker 3: going out to a whole new audience hopefully. Right. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: So when when you guys invited me to do this,

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Speaker 3: thank you so much. I hadn't seen the episodes in

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Speaker 3: so long. I actually tried to, you know, figure out

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Speaker 3: where I can watch them, and they're on Amazon right now.

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Speaker 1: And good to know.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so I know that, and seasons are on Amazon,

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Speaker 3: and so I was like, oh, you know what, I'm

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Speaker 3: was interesting that which one was it? You have You

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Speaker 3: Got to Have Heart was not? It skipped over it,

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Speaker 3: and I was kind of like on this mission of like,

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Speaker 3: what happened? Why is that one not there? Why are they.

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Speaker 2: Skipping that one on streaming?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they want to save it. They want you to

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Speaker 2: Think it's that.

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Speaker 1: Got more to do with this.

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Speaker 3: Who knows, I don't know, I didn't know.

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Speaker 1: But uh, but is that one? Does that one come

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Speaker 1: after the laundromat and after the hospital? Yeah, when you're referencing, Okay,

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Speaker 3: Sort of start. Yeah, there's the obviously, the flirting that's happening,

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Speaker 1: The little fact of your character being married.

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Speaker 3: Yes, yes, that is uh, well she's married.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, she's married.

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Speaker 3: Too, and you address that in our little telltale wedding

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Speaker 1: So right, I don't think you guys she doesn't wear

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Speaker 1: that Peter purposely took his ring off when he saw

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it was a little deceptive. Yeah, yeah, but

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Speaker 3: I don't know, I don't know how to explain it,

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Speaker 3: auditioned for the show once before what no tell us?

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Speaker 3: Years before I auditioned about two years earlier, I had

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but then you made the bed and not the part.

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Speaker 3: It worked out better, which I don't know if that happens,

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Speaker 3: I didn't. I didn't at the time. Now yeah I didn't.

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Speaker 3: It was just like I think it was the only

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Speaker 3: because usually nobody tells you a thing when you're in

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Speaker 1: And had you watched the show before because it had

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Speaker 3: Four seasons and I had. I had watched the first season,

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Speaker 4: Wait, you, guys, I got to go back to something.

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Speaker 4: I'm so sorry. What when you went to network? I know,

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Speaker 4: sorry you didn't get that role, but so much better

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Speaker 4: this role? Right, the drama school teacher Summer School? Was

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Speaker 3: Well, that's what was so confusing. Confusing he wasn't. I

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Speaker 3: I felt like it was similar to this role of Peter,

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Speaker 2: One number did they put you in when you went

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know what number. But my kid called

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Speaker 3: just like, what happened? You were their first choice and

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Speaker 2: We've all been there. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, because that fa I still look similar. But I

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Speaker 2: So did SAMs get mad at you? Like it's Andrea?

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Speaker 4: Like, I guess I'm thinking so many characters like that,

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Speaker 3: No, I had, no, I never happened, you know, that

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Speaker 3: What's going on? Yeah, I mean this is still like

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Speaker 2: Must have seen each other in the trailer and wardrobe.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Oh my gosh, what would have happened if they

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Speaker 3: Who knows? They could have gone a million different ways

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Speaker 3: What if? Yeah? I know that's true. What if? But

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Speaker 3: how long have you guys been doing this podcast? Is it?

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Speaker 1: Five seasons?

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Speaker 2: Five?

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Speaker 1: Five seasons, five and a half seasons? Now? It's really fun.

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Speaker 1: We're having a lot of fun and loving going back

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Speaker 1: and talking to some of the pivotal guests star is

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Speaker 1: like yourself, Yes, thank you, and just reconnecting and touch

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Speaker 3: Yeah, no, it was. It was really wonderful. So thank

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Speaker 3: and watch myself and I was like, is that me? Holy?

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Speaker 1: Yeah right, yeah, give yourself a little pat on the back.

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Speaker 1: You're awesome.

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Speaker 2: Definitely met you.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you. She's still on it, she's.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, you know, it's been a while and uh,

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Speaker 4: No, I know, I have a photographic memory, so I

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Speaker 4: definitely am remembering you right now.

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Speaker 2: I'll figure it out. And that's right.

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Speaker 4: I'll slide into your dam to let you know we

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Speaker 4: are you on Instagram.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, uh huh, I am that's right.

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Speaker 1: Tell everybody it's your handle. What's your handle there?

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Speaker 3: It sounds weird at James C. Victor one, At James C.

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Speaker 1: Victor one. We will look for you, yes, okay, Thank

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Speaker 1: you all the best. To your parents, thank you, We'll

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Speaker 1: see you out there.

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Speaker 2: To your scripts coming to Fruition.

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Speaker 3: The Mind, thank you so much. It was really great

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Speaker 3: to see you guys, and thanks

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