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Speaker 1: It's nine Genee with Jenny Garth and Tori Spelling. Today

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Speaker 1: we have the pleasure of talking with a woman, Valerie Wildman,

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Speaker 1: who is an actress. She's been in tons of things.

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Speaker 1: Uh probably seen her on soaps, She's been on TV

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Speaker 1: all over the place. But she was also Christine Pettit

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Speaker 1: in Beverly Hills nine o two on OH, who played

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Speaker 1: the girlfriend of Jack McKay. Didn't we have a writer

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Speaker 1: named Christine Pettitt? We did? We had a writer. Is

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Speaker 1: that why they made her character that name? Okay? I thought,

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Speaker 1: my goodness, you guys, we also had a writer on

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Speaker 1: the writing staff that was named Christine Pettit. And it

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Speaker 1: makes perfect sense now that they named this character after her.

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Speaker 1: I wonder if if our writer was really an FBI agent.

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Speaker 1: Oh to cover the Vanni stages next to the porn

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Speaker 1: Hub of America, writing our episodes a good story and

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Speaker 1: without further ado, Valerie Wildman, Hi, without further ado, that's

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Speaker 1: so formal, Hill. We're very serious. This is yeah, this

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Speaker 1: is a hard hitting podcast. I don't know if you know.

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Speaker 1: I'm listening and laughing last night, So thank you all

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Speaker 1: so much for having me. It's weird. I feel like

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Speaker 1: I still know you, and I feel like it's not

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Speaker 1: that long ago. And I know I spent more time

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Speaker 1: with Jenny on the set, but towards you were always

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Speaker 1: so kind and welcoming and thank you for that and

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Speaker 1: we're so happy to have you. We just watched we

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Speaker 1: watched your first episode. Okay, I was wondering which one

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Speaker 1: this is? Is that the Thanksgiving one in the blue dress? Yes? Yes,

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Speaker 1: and the and the and the the big dairy air

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Speaker 1: that's what I see? What are you talking about? Oh

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Speaker 1: my god? We were saying how hot you are? Now

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Speaker 1: you guys are my god, thank you so much. Um,

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Speaker 1: you guys look as beautiful as ever. It blows my mind.

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Speaker 1: So I'm so. I was enjoying how real you are

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Speaker 1: and funny you are and and uh, just I can

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Speaker 1: see why everybody loves us so much. When I was

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Speaker 1: listening to the podcast, it made me feel at home already.

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Speaker 1: I was listening last night. Thank you. Sorry to interrupt, Valerie.

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Speaker 1: Could you tune on your video please? It's off. We

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Speaker 1: want to see you. Sorry, Okay, how's that? Sorry, I'm

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Speaker 1: in front of this. Um it probably looks like a

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Speaker 1: strange thing in the background, but it's a painting, and um,

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Speaker 1: it's a painting that my husband painted, my now deceased husband, who,

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Speaker 1: by the way, it feels very much around and I

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Speaker 1: like it not only because it's my favorite secret place

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Speaker 1: in the jungle somewhere, but the clouds to me look

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Speaker 1: like angels, and I, oh, my god, what a beautiful

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Speaker 1: I used to be embarrassed to admit this, but I'm

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Speaker 1: just gonna admit it. I'm really into angels, both human

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Speaker 1: and beyond human. And um, I even have a website

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Speaker 1: called Angels among Us dot tv. But I'm hoping to

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Speaker 1: turn into a podcast. So so I don't know if

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Speaker 1: you guys believe in angels, Uh, we believe what you do.

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Speaker 1: Maybe that'll be part of the conversation. I have no idea. Actually,

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Speaker 1: that logo kind of looks like an angel with arts.

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Speaker 1: I love it the I Heart Radio logo. You are

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Speaker 1: kind of an angel to Jack in the show, Oh wow,

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Speaker 1: that was a good segue by the bay. Yes, and

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Speaker 1: you know, there's some things that you probably know or

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Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know. I'm first of all, we

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Speaker 1: felt like we knew each other really well and we

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Speaker 1: think maybe it was the DP said, wow, you guys

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Speaker 1: have known each other for years, haven't you, And it

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Speaker 1: wasn't that way, but um, that was a thing came

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Speaker 1: to mind. One is I did not know Christine's story

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Speaker 1: until driving to the set one day and Chuck Rosen

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Speaker 1: about this one their podcast, And um. The other thing

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Speaker 1: that's interesting in addition to that show is then Josh

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Speaker 1: on Days of our Lives, which, by the way, I

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Speaker 1: noticed some of you watching when we were doing the

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Speaker 1: hotel scenes. I remember that. And then next thing, you know,

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Speaker 1: thought I just made up this whole other storyline for

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Speaker 1: FBI agent. Almost dropped off slide right like nobody saw

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Speaker 1: But this is so I tell I learned all this

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Speaker 1: came onto it or how? I didn't know about the show,

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Speaker 1: Did you have to bring in your own wardrobe? Um?

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Speaker 1: I probably was asked to, but that I remember thinking,

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Speaker 1: I don't remember owning that blue dress. That really dress

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