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Speaker 1: Mercedes Ben's interview Lounge. All right.

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Speaker 2: You know, usually when we have our friends come up

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Speaker 2: to be interviewed, straight, Nate will go down and have

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Speaker 2: a conversation with them to find out like what they're

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Speaker 2: all about, what's going on today, what's on their mind today.

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Speaker 2: Nate went down and talked to Tommy and didn't come

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Speaker 2: back with one thing.

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Speaker 3: I gotta tell you, is he so interesting? I was

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Speaker 3: wrapped up in the conversation we were just he was

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Speaker 3: talking about interviewing people, and you know, talking about Robert

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Speaker 3: de Niro for instance.

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Speaker 1: Yes, like the one time, I guess you could say

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Speaker 1: that you were.

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Speaker 4: Kind of like, yeah, it's Robert de Niro. Come on,

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Speaker 4: So we were talking all about that.

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Speaker 2: Why But then you're supposed to come in and tell me, yeah,

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Speaker 2: this is it's a pre interview, Tommy. I haven't even

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Speaker 2: formally announced who's By the way, Danielle is here, but

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Speaker 2: she's in Seattle.

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Speaker 1: Hey, Danielle.

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Speaker 2: Froggy Jacksonville. But he's not in the studio. This place

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Speaker 2: is just the wheels are falling off.

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Speaker 1: It's falling apart.

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Speaker 2: So did you learn anything I would make our interview?

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Speaker 2: What makes it sound like an what I'm talking about.

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Speaker 1: Just did Tommy interview you? No, no, no, no.

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Speaker 2: He wants me to turn the table. Let's get all

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Speaker 2: the dirt on you. Oh god, that would take all day.

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Speaker 2: So I have two questions right off the back, go

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Speaker 2: right ahead. Who's your favorite to interview? And who is

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Speaker 2: the worst? Come on?

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Speaker 1: Let's Oh my god, my favorite. That is so hard.

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Speaker 4: I was just telling Nate, I actually am such a

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Speaker 4: geek for movies that I got to interview Christopher Nolan,

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Speaker 4: the director. And listen, I've interviewed the biggest stars in

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Speaker 4: the world, j Lo, Ryan Reynolds, Mark Ruffalo, the list

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Speaker 4: goes on and on. But for me, as a movie lover,

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Speaker 4: Christopher Nolan was amazing. So I'm gonna go with him. Okay,

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Speaker 4: and don't don't hate me for this, but I gotta

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Speaker 4: tell you I haven't had a bad interview.

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Speaker 1: I really haven't.

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Speaker 4: No one's been rude hang out with us, Listen, no

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Speaker 4: one's been rude, No one's been mean, I mean everybody.

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Speaker 4: When I interviewed de Niro was like, hey, just so

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Speaker 4: you know, he's very tough. He doesn't give you much.

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Speaker 4: We had a great conversation. I'm an Italian from Jersey.

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Speaker 4: We bonded right away. So you know, I've been I've

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Speaker 4: been lucky. No one bad yet.

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Speaker 2: Well, the day is young. So Tommy der Dario has

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Speaker 2: a new cat called I've never said this before. It's

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Speaker 2: out now and it's part of the Elvis s Tren

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Speaker 2: podcast thing.

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Speaker 1: Family. Is there a name? Is a network?

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Speaker 5: Is?

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Speaker 1: Do we have a name for it yet? Do we

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Speaker 1: tell me? I don't know. We're David. What's the name

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Speaker 1: of our thing? Our thing? Anyway?

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Speaker 2: So we have we have internal friends who have podcasts.

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Speaker 2: We have the Serial Killers, which is you know, do

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Speaker 2: you know about that phone podkay? Do we have Brooklyn Boys.

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Speaker 2: We have a lot of stuff. But you're Tommy. You're

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Speaker 2: our first, You're our first, new new member of the family.

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Speaker 1: I feel very honored.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's we're honored to have you, especially if someone

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Speaker 2: of your your caliber, because I mean Tommy, as he said,

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Speaker 2: he has interviewed everyone, Danielle Ye and you've seen him

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Speaker 2: on Extra TV and Good to New York. And you

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Speaker 2: were with Rachel Ray a long time five years. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: And uh so what is it about interviewing?

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Speaker 1: Why?

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Speaker 2: Why is this something that you're so passionate about?

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Speaker 4: Ah Man I'm fascinated with people. I years ago was

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Speaker 4: sinto acting and was pursuing acting and thought that's what

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Speaker 4: I wanted to do because I love I just love

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Speaker 4: human beings.

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Speaker 1: I love connection.

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Speaker 4: I love knowing where you're from, what you do, why

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Speaker 4: you do it, what's going on inside that brain of yours. Elvis,

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Speaker 4: I want to know everything. And I also I'm a

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Speaker 4: huge fan of the arts, movies, music, TV, anything you

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Speaker 4: name it, I love it in the arts. So I

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Speaker 4: wanted to combine my love for the business in the

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Speaker 4: the work that they love and talk about it in

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Speaker 4: an interesting way. I'm not interviewing people to be silactious.

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Speaker 4: It's not my style. I respect everyone's style. I don't

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Speaker 4: care who you're sleeping with. I don't care what you

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Speaker 4: did last night with your friends. I want to know

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Speaker 4: about the work you do and what you're doing to

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Speaker 4: help and inspire other people in this world to feel

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Speaker 4: better about their own lives.

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Speaker 1: So that's my style. There's a very good point. I'll

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Speaker 1: tell you why.

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Speaker 2: When we've had interviews with big celebrities, they have passionate fans. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: they don't want to hear us being selatious with them.

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Speaker 2: They don't they already know the rumors about who they're

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Speaker 2: sleeping with or they got the job or whatever. They

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Speaker 2: want to hear us being respectful. And you know what,

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Speaker 2: And there were so many times where artists representatives would

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Speaker 2: call him and say, Okay, we're gonna be there tomorrow

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Speaker 2: with j Lo whatever, but here's a list of things

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Speaker 2: we don't want you to talk about. They don't give

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Speaker 2: there right until now.

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Speaker 1: No, No, I'm kidding. So I think he's right.

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Speaker 5: That's so important because you want these artists and these

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Speaker 5: celebrities to come back and feel comfortable. I feel like

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Speaker 5: maybe they have a home with you. Like Rihanna is

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Speaker 5: an example for us, because sometimes Rihanna will not do

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Speaker 5: anyone else except for Elvis, and she'll say I will

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Speaker 5: only do Elvis because she knows he is going to

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Speaker 5: respect her.

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 4: I believe that. And I have a quick story about

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Speaker 4: j Loo. Actually we were on the carpet and it

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Speaker 4: was all the different outlets and everybody wanted a SoundBite

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Speaker 4: about ben Affleck right, And I also have a job

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Speaker 4: to do. I work at Extra They want their soundbites,

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Speaker 4: But I said, how am I going to bring up

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Speaker 4: dating again. We were there to promote her documentary, so

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Speaker 4: I listened to the other outlets on either side of

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Speaker 4: me asking a question about Ben. She shut it down,

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Speaker 4: didn't like it, was not happy or publicist was pissed.

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Speaker 4: So it's my turn talk about the documentary. Do another

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Speaker 4: and I said, you and I both love love, and

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Speaker 4: you recently said in an interview, you're so excited to

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Speaker 4: have a second chance at true love.

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Speaker 1: What are you most looking forward to?

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Speaker 4: I didn't say his name once, didn't need to, and

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Speaker 4: she smiled and she said, you know what, Tommy, I'm

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Speaker 4: just excited to be present this time around. I want

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Speaker 4: to be present. Guess what extra's headline? Jen opens up

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Speaker 4: I try to do. Thank you, thank you, thank you,

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Speaker 4: wou oh, I like hanging out around you.

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Speaker 1: Now you know.

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Speaker 2: Now you know this sleazy, swimmy way I get them

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Speaker 2: to answer the question. It's the same way I mean,

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Speaker 2: because you know that I don't want to make anyone

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Speaker 2: uncomfortable ever, because it makes me uncomfortable. It's really a

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Speaker 2: selfish thing to be honest, but to be able to

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Speaker 2: bring up something. Okay, let me go, let me, let

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Speaker 2: me back up. I'm gonna go back to something you said.

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Speaker 2: When you do an interview for let's say, Entertainment Tonight,

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Speaker 2: ET or Extra whatever, they do give you a hot

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Speaker 2: list of things they want you to get out of

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Speaker 2: And if I don't know if you read my book

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Speaker 2: or not, but I did. I actually talked about when

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Speaker 2: at that point, I would never ever put myself in

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Speaker 2: a position as an interviewer to ask someone else's questions

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Speaker 1: Again, I love them. They're always nice to me.

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Speaker 2: But you' that's the secret of being a great interviewer's

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Speaker 2: tell you how many times I see people on these carpets,

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry, did you say something. Tommy Dedario is here

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Speaker 2: if you're wondering what's going on his new podcast is

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Speaker 2: I've never said this before. Now here's what's great about this.

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Speaker 2: This is you. This is your podcast. You have no

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Speaker 2: you're in total control of the conversation.

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Speaker 1: What does you love about doing this?

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Speaker 4: I love that it's not a sound bite conversation, right,

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Speaker 4: And in a lot of the interviews I do you

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Speaker 4: get two minutes, three minutes, You have a publicist breathing

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Speaker 4: down your net, you have cameras everywhere. I mean, it's

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Speaker 4: Advice to younger self. I had Hunter duhon on as

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Speaker 4: my first guest. He stars in Wednesday on Netflix. He's

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Speaker 4: the male lead. We talked about being gay in this industry.

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Speaker 4: We talked about how he struggles with his body image.

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Speaker 4: That's something he's never said before. You will look at

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Speaker 4: this kid and say, Oh my god, he has a

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Speaker 4: perfect life. He's beautiful, he's in shape, he has no problems.

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Speaker 4: He's talking about how we can't stand how we used

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Speaker 4: his body. I mean, so we get into real conversations

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Speaker 4: as well as talking about the projects that the fans love,

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Speaker 4: and I love that we can have that dichotomy and

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I didn't say that as a barbed wire around

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Speaker 2: what's so interesting about this conversation with you, Tommy, is

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Speaker 2: You're already great in interviews, and you're so comfortable interviewing people.

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Speaker 2: Well, and that brings up a good point, Tommy is, uh,

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Speaker 2: You're up to date. What is this twenty twenty three?

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Speaker 1: I thank you. I think you're you're in You're in

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Speaker 1: the right year. Me I'm living in the past and

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Speaker 2: Look, it's all about interviews and if you want to

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Speaker 2: I've Never Said This before is out.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 2: Wherever you get your podcast, we prefer you get them

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Speaker 2: from iHeart. But we're not stupid.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 2: You get podcasts everywhere, but ten extra points of view.

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Speaker 2: Do it from my Heart, Tommy to Dariel, thank you

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Speaker 2: for coming on. Congratulations on the new podcast.

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Speaker 4: Thank you, Thank you all for having me. I love

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Speaker 1: We are.

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Speaker 2: We're a family, my god, functional by a family. All Right,

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Speaker 2: we got to take a break. You know, we've got

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Speaker 2: more on the way. What do we having on the way?

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Speaker 1: Okay?

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Speaker 2: John Roberts from Bob's Burger's, he's got a new song out.

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Speaker 1: He's here. It's a great day. We'll be back right

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Speaker 1: after this.

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Speaker 2: Here is the one, the only, the one, the only.

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Speaker 5: It's Greta Gerwigs. Barbie, starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Goslin

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Speaker 5: as Barbie and Ken, alongside America Ferrera, Kate McKinnon, Issa

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Speaker 5: PG thirteen,