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Speaker 1: you know what I'm talking about. I'm talking to Judge

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Speaker 1: rand Since it has a new show, Uh, there's gonna

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Speaker 1: be eight percent of the country again, congratulations, that's a

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Speaker 1: high number for a new show. A lot of people

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Speaker 1: and you know you're pre presiding over the show through

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Speaker 1: they say, your show compassion and tough love resolved literans

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Speaker 1: legal disputes, but to work towards, like you said, bringing

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Speaker 1: families back together in the process. We all know that

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Speaker 1: that that that's the end goal. But have I know

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Speaker 1: has anything shocked you? Yet you go, I can't believe

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Speaker 1: so like every day something. But I tell you the

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Speaker 1: in every day because every day is different. Are some

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Speaker 1: days where with some cases, I'm laughing so hard that

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Speaker 1: just so sad, I'm crying. I'm almost crying. Everybody in

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Speaker 1: the audience is crying, the litigans are crying. And then

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Speaker 1: there are other cases where people do something that's so wrong,

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Speaker 1: have to actually go in on them. So every single

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Speaker 1: day is different. We have experts that come in, we

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Speaker 1: have demonstrations. Okay, so one we have we have a

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Speaker 1: And you don't want to miss the episode with the dancer,

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Speaker 1: Like my mouth was, Paul, dancer is out there. You

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Speaker 1: just watching your energy, You're amazing. I'm gonna compliment you

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Speaker 1: And hopefully my story and my interview and this and

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Speaker 1: the way I was just walking you through the process

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Speaker 1: you are smart, you are I'm going to watch the

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Speaker 1: I can post them on my social media. Your Texas girl,

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Speaker 1: I'm a Texas ball. I gotta support you no matter what. Girl. Okay,

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Speaker 1: thank you, Thank you so much, and good luck with

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Speaker 1: your show. All right, Judge one, appreciate you. Good luck

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Speaker 1: with Rashaan McDonald. My next guest is Roxy Diaz. She

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Speaker 1: has interviewed everyone from Lady Gaga to former President Barack Obama.

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Speaker 1: has always been known for setting the tone for what's

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Speaker 1: series Alter Ego. You've seen it's it's been heavily promoted

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Speaker 1: on TV all the time. Well, behind all that, who's

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Speaker 1: gonna be the show runner? As they said, it's gonna

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be her, which is really a blessing because

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Speaker 1: I've known it for a long time. If you don't

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Speaker 1: know anything about Alter Ego, let me explain to you

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Speaker 1: what it is. Alter Ego is an all new, original

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Speaker 1: chances are reignited when singers from all walks of life

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Speaker 1: become the stars. They've always wanted to be. However, these

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Speaker 1: contestants won't perform as themselves. That's the that's the beautiful catchup.

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Speaker 1: This is its animation. Rather, they are given they'll be

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Speaker 1: creating their own dream avatar alter ego is to reinvent

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Speaker 1: themselves and performed like they never before. Please welcome to

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Speaker 1: long time mentor her. We've done it all radio, We've

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Speaker 1: main conversation, Roxy d is how are you doing? Roxy?

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Speaker 1: It's so good to see you when you're fantastic. It

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Speaker 1: really has been a long career for us. I was just,

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Speaker 1: you know, youth is really scary and anything you do

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Speaker 1: because when you have success early, you know, you still

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Speaker 1: How does that work when people think about because your

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Speaker 1: success is in the public's eye. Yeah, it's scary. It's

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Speaker 1: it's scary, like you said, you know, to be completely

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Speaker 1: honest and and and forthcoming. Uh, I started wondering when

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Speaker 1: was I washed up? I was like, I've done so

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Speaker 1: much already, what else is there left for me to

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Speaker 1: do on a TV? Uh? And it was It was

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Speaker 1: cause I was like, I'm trying everything that I can

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Speaker 1: And this opportunity, thank god, came and opened the door

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Speaker 1: and now I manifested this. Uh. I had it on

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Speaker 1: my vision board to host a huge competition show like

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Speaker 1: that Fox gave you know, somebody that wasn't traditional as

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Speaker 1: me this opportunity. Robert, I bring it up because, like

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Speaker 1: I said, uh, it really is interesting when we look

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Speaker 1: at our lives, look at your lives. You know, last

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Speaker 1: the Disney Dreamers. Yeah, there had to be like in twyfteen,

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Speaker 1: last time I saw you, and you're looking fantastic like

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Speaker 1: you're looking now. But again it's a journey. It's a

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Speaker 1: journey when we look at when you, like said, you're

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Speaker 1: If your company is doing well, you know, you can

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Speaker 1: But when you're an entertainment when you're in it, entrepreneur,

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Speaker 1: that's what she is. She's an entrepreneur. She's self employed.

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Speaker 1: She had to go out there and she has people

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Speaker 1: media people, she has management, she had agencies. How does

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Speaker 1: one put that in perspective roxy when you're talking about

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Speaker 1: job too. Um yeah, I have an agent, I have

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Speaker 1: So it's something very important to consider and think about

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Speaker 1: You're constantly reinventing and thinking, and they're just a branch

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Speaker 1: But there are a branch of you. Um but you

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Speaker 1: still have to stay strong and continue striving and surviving

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Speaker 1: in this in this world. So um so, yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: it could be challenging, but I'm an amazing team and

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Speaker 1: we worked together. We come up with ideas you know,

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Speaker 1: I create, they make it bigger for me, bigger than

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Speaker 1: I would ever imagine. And and so it's a great

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Speaker 1: synergy that I have with my team. We're on Fox

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Speaker 1: Alter ego is big. It's big. It's huge, okay because

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Speaker 1: it comes with the imagination too, because I like said,

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Speaker 1: you know, short hasn't premiered yet. I'm just talking to

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Speaker 1: my listeners who in this world out there, my viewers

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Speaker 1: and all this in the world because I'm on syndicated radio,

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Speaker 1: I'm on podcasts, I'm on video and YouTube, so it's

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Speaker 1: so many different lanes I'm talking to. But how much

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Speaker 1: it can you reveal as the because we're seeing people

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Speaker 1: because I'm hearing I just read what the show is

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Speaker 1: about and so do you what do you see on stage?

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Speaker 1: Because we're gonna see the avatar performing what do you

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Speaker 1: see on stage? And then we're gonna talk about the judges.

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Speaker 1: You know what's awesome is that what I see and

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Speaker 1: what I know everybody else at home gets to see

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Speaker 1: and no, so you get to know the true people

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Speaker 1: and you get to learn the true stories behind the avatars,

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Speaker 1: the people that are controlling the avatars um or alter

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Speaker 1: egos I like to say our alter egos um. You

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Speaker 1: really get invested into the story. Are judges Will I Am,

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Speaker 1: nick La, Shay Atlantis, Morrisette and Grimes. They have no

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Speaker 1: clue whatsoever who these people are, so they're discovering each

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Speaker 1: and every week as the show progresses and goes on.

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Speaker 1: And neither of those our live studio audience as well,

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Speaker 1: they have no clue either. So it's it's a fun,

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Speaker 1: fun reveal when they do happen. Um. But you know,

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Speaker 1: it's all about second chances and and new opportunity for people.

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Speaker 1: Everybody's like, well, what's different from this singing competition show

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Speaker 1: than singing competition shows? The story? You know, you have

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Speaker 1: people uh like, let's just say Jennifer Hudson didn't fit

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Speaker 1: the American idol mold. Remember she didn't win because they

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Speaker 1: told her she didn't have a full package. Why did

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Speaker 1: she have a full package? You know? We have contestants

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Speaker 1: that have been told their entire life, some way, somehow

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Speaker 1: that they weren't the full package. So we're judging people

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Speaker 1: completely on their talent and their voice, and that's what matters.

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Speaker 1: The alter ego and and a lot of senses has

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Speaker 1: been liberating for a lot of our contestants as well,

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Speaker 1: because they may have a mental disability or a physical

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Speaker 1: disability that really prohibits them from being on stage. So

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Speaker 1: with this modernty i G technology, they're able to fulfill

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Speaker 1: their lifelong dream of being a musician or being a

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Speaker 1: singer and getting on that stage age through these alter egos.

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Speaker 1: It's quite liberating to not be judged through a disability

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Speaker 1: or or a gender and be binary or and just

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Speaker 1: be free, you know. Um. So that's what I love

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Speaker 1: about the show, and that's what the show, that's what

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Speaker 1: makes us different than this show. And we're literally stepping

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Speaker 1: into a new wave of how music is going to

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Speaker 1: be done and how music, how music artists are going

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Speaker 1: to be you know, portrayed as well. This is this

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Speaker 1: is next level technology, next level stuff. Seriously, I don't

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Speaker 1: know if the world is ready yet. Well, I think

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Speaker 1: that when you hit, you struck a nerve. When we

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Speaker 1: are positive there, when we were talking about the disability,

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Speaker 1: I never thought about that. That's not being promoted in

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Speaker 1: the commercials that you just you know, they're promoting the

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Speaker 1: fact that, you know, the whole alter ego, the avatar,

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Speaker 1: somebody doesn't look like they will normally look in real life.

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Speaker 1: But it immediately struck me. Somebody in the wheelchair and

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Speaker 1: I'm saying, somebody in the wheelchairs performing, or somebody on crutches,

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Speaker 1: leg and so like that didn't go out there, but

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Speaker 1: you wouldn't see that in the performance, and they may

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Speaker 1: be less aware of that from a standpoint of how

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Speaker 1: people might respond to them, and they can give knowing

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Speaker 1: that's not the person that they see. They see this

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Speaker 1: avatar or this alter ego, which is kind of brilliant

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Speaker 1: when I think about it. Well, we're saying you think

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Speaker 1: also on the mental standpoint too, we have great fighters

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Speaker 1: Michael J. Fox just just for a perfect example that

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Speaker 1: when they're doing their art and their craft, you would

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Speaker 1: into the background. Right. So we have the same situation

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Speaker 1: with some of our contestants where they have a mental

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Speaker 1: disability that may prohibit them to be in the industry,

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Speaker 1: but when they're on stage, you would never ever know

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Speaker 1: that they suffer from illness or or or This block

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Speaker 1: alter ego is definitely giving people opportunity to not be

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Speaker 1: judged in this judgmental world that we live in. That's powerful,

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Speaker 1: That's that's very very powerful. And then now that's your

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Speaker 1: premieres twenty two, which is a William Stay and Thursday

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Speaker 1: You're gonna see two different episodes, right. And so the

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Speaker 1: You you you You're in a good way. When I

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Speaker 1: say that, as far as on television Prime Time, this

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Speaker 1: is Fox. This is another level of millions of people

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Speaker 1: coming to your life. You know, how do you take

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Speaker 1: it all in? Because you you're very popular on social media.

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Speaker 1: Believe you have a million Instagram followers. You know, that's

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Speaker 1: one of the places that win. Because I did my

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Speaker 1: little research. We're gonna talk about this booty thing in

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Speaker 1: a minute. But let's stick with alter ego. Now, how

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Speaker 1: does that? How do you deal with that? You know,

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Speaker 1: because of the fact that it's so many athletes and

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Speaker 1: to put this or being traumatized by negative responses, are

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Speaker 1: being traumatized by the whole aspect of success. Like you

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Speaker 1: said earlier, You know, Rashan, I really was down in

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Speaker 1: the dumps about where I was at in my life

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Speaker 1: and then this opportunity that came to me and it

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Speaker 1: put me back out there in the forefront. How do

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Speaker 1: you deal with that? Because this is big for you,

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Speaker 1: but it also means that there are other opportunities you

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Speaker 1: have to be seeking to keep that emotional high. So

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Speaker 1: you're premiering on the twenty second and two separate episodes

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Speaker 1: back to back. Episode they take twelve of them talk

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Speaker 1: about this roller coaster ride leading up to you because

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Speaker 1: you're doing a lot of media, You're looking fantastic and

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Speaker 1: you're the one right now, you're the host. It's it's

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Speaker 1: been again. It's been a dream come true. Uh. It

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Speaker 1: literally was my vision board and it was my manifestation

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Speaker 1: and like dreamt of this show and I've dreamt of

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Speaker 1: this day. So I'm super excited for everybody to check

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Speaker 1: out Alter egoal Fox. Uh, it's just next level and fun.

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Speaker 1: Like I love every opportunity that I've had my career

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Speaker 1: to be fun. Um and this is by far the

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Speaker 1: most very long time. So um. Yeah, I don't know

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Speaker 1: what else to say about it because it's it's I

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Speaker 1: do I do because we kind of glossed over these

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Speaker 1: judges and you mentioned them, and I think I need

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Speaker 1: to go back and take Nick to Shade Grabs, where

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Speaker 1: I am alone is more set these Uh. You know, really,

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Speaker 1: we've just seen this industry where and I'm not saying

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Speaker 1: anything negative, where these people are touring professionals. These people

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Speaker 1: are successful in their fields and now they're on the

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Speaker 1: show like this together one time. How did you create

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Speaker 1: your relationships and how do you communicate with them? Because,

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Speaker 1: like you said, they're looking at animation as we're looking

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Speaker 1: Where do they put their judgment hats on? I guess

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Speaker 1: I should say, or can you reveal that everybody was

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Speaker 1: then everybody was authentically themselves I'll say that, and and

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Speaker 1: know there. I'll say this Fox had the best of

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Speaker 1: to music director Adam black Stone. Who if you don't

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Speaker 1: They live in this futuristic technology world. You know, this

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Speaker 1: So there was no better way or better judges to

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Speaker 1: he knows technology. And Grimes she's an innovator, She's into technology.

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Speaker 1: She's an amazing artist and producer as well. The young

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Speaker 1: She knows music, she knows vocals, she knows tones, she

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Speaker 1: And nick La Shay he knows what it is to

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Speaker 1: the interaction between our judges and and the humanity that

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Speaker 1: our alter egos were able to bring out of our

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Speaker 1: judges too. There's a lot of crying, not crying because

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Speaker 1: it's like a SOB story because more ask you because

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Speaker 1: because you know, Madd Singer is much more of a party,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's much more of a you know. But

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Speaker 1: this when I'm here in these great stories that you're telling,

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Speaker 1: and these reveals have to be like positively stunning. That's

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Speaker 1: where the crime comes from. That's where the uplift comes from.

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Speaker 1: That's where I'm gonna to tell you. I didn't know

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Speaker 1: anything about this show, Roxy until I reviewed you, because

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Speaker 1: they wouldn't send me a screen and I respect that,

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Speaker 1: but you have made me a fan of this show.

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Speaker 1: I want to see it. I want to see the backstory.

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Speaker 1: Send you something too. I don't be sure they send

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Speaker 1: you something. This is I'm gonna I'm gonna wait because

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you the only reason I was just

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm gonna be Roseanne and I think I

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Speaker 1: run the world anyway. And so but in the hearing

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Speaker 1: your story, your pitch, your this interview, I want to

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Speaker 1: see the show because of the fact that it's something

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Speaker 1: about you know you you see the Paralympics. You know,

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Speaker 1: everybody wants to be treated normal. That's why you do

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Speaker 1: these differently. And to have a show that kind of

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Speaker 1: like levels the playing field of entertainment, I think it's

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Speaker 1: really special. I think it's really really unique and using

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Speaker 1: technology and having a show like alter ego. Like I

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Speaker 1: said earlier, it's almost brilliant. Socially, it's it kind of

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Speaker 1: borderlines on brilliant because of the fact that everybody has

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Speaker 1: this dream, even if you even though you know, everybody

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Speaker 1: dreams to be younger, everybody dreams to be sexier, everybody

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Speaker 1: dreams that they can sing in the shower and to

881
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Speaker 1: actually come on the show where they can take some

882
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Speaker 1: talents that God gave them, but they have not been

883
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Speaker 1: able to utilize and because of some mental of physical

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Speaker 1: uh that they different than from what we call normalcy.

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Speaker 1: It's pretty special and so but you were brought into

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Speaker 1: this and when did it really hit you what they

887
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Speaker 1: was giving you an opportunity to the host? When did

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Speaker 1: they really hit you? Uh? Hit me? The first time

889
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Speaker 1: I got on set, they hit me like I was like, Okay,

890
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Speaker 1: I know what I'm about to do. I know what's

891
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Speaker 1: to do. But our set is freaking next level right

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Speaker 1: right right right right, It's so big. I mean, like

893
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Speaker 1: you've been there with like the big set y you walk,

894
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Speaker 1: you get that that anxiety and it's like, oh, this

895
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Speaker 1: is next this is amazingly. You know when they put

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Speaker 1: money behest absolutely absolutely absolutely this big money behind this show,

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Speaker 1: Gazilian life here control. So like we already know, you know,

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Speaker 1: the Fox put the bag and when it came to

899
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Speaker 1: this show and it's it's so cool to watch it. Uh.

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Speaker 1: So that was the first time I got off set.

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Speaker 1: I knew that we were dealing with something that was

902
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Speaker 1: next level and really really special and something that America

903
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Speaker 1: is gonna love and families are gonna love because it's

904
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Speaker 1: something that's never been seen or done on TV. People

905
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Speaker 1: try to compare us to a different, different music show

906
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Speaker 1: or competition show. We're just not that, and you're gonna

907
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Speaker 1: see it. I see the people falling in love with

908
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Speaker 1: the with the performers for the first time. Really, the

909
00:48:52,760 --> 00:48:55,880
Speaker 1: backstory is beautiful. But then you do you still shot

910
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Speaker 1: this and tape this in this COVID time frame. You know,

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Speaker 1: I just did Jim and came up with stephen A,

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Speaker 1: and I had to get the COVID tests on the Friday.

913
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Speaker 1: I had to get the COVID test twenty four hours

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Speaker 1: before I came on set the next day, well, just

915
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Speaker 1: that Monday, so Sunday I had to get another COVID test.

916
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Speaker 1: How was it able to I wasn't working in that environment,

917
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Speaker 1: because we have to work in that environment. We have

918
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Speaker 1: to realize that unfortunately, COVID is going to be with us,

919
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Speaker 1: and if you don't take the shot, you may consider

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Speaker 1: taking a shot. I've been double vaccinated because I want

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Speaker 1: to be able to go through life somewhat normal. How

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Speaker 1: did the I was production handled with the COVID and

923
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Speaker 1: how did you feel about the whole process? Um you know,

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Speaker 1: I was one of those during the quarantine that I

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Speaker 1: didn't go nowhere. I was completely completely paranoid and stared

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Speaker 1: to go anywhere, even the grocery store. So Instacart was

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Speaker 1: my best friend. Um, I you know took my vaccination

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Speaker 1: and everything. UM. I'll say this, never have I felt

929
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Speaker 1: so comfortable and safe in a production, especially during these times.

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Speaker 1: Right now then doing the show, we were come poletely,

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Speaker 1: completely COVID aware and woke. I guess you said you

932
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Speaker 1: could say to where everybody was tested regularly. Um, there

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Speaker 1: was no slip up during our production. Fox was very

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Speaker 1: very strict when it come came to our safety and

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Speaker 1: the safety of our audience as well, and we were

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Speaker 1: very conscious about that wild taping. UM. So yes, they were, uh,

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Speaker 1: they were tests regularly, and nobody had a problem with it,

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Speaker 1: you know, because we're all trying to keep each other safe.

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Speaker 1: And not only that, but even during production, you know

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Speaker 1: those weeks that were you were taping, we quarantined when

941
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Speaker 1: we weren't on set, and we were mindful of everybody

942
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Speaker 1: because it's not just us and in our contestants, it's

943
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Speaker 1: you know, the stage handlers, it's your it's your stage producer.

944
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Speaker 1: It's your camera, guys. You know, you got to be

945
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Speaker 1: mindful of everybody. So you know, we we They played

946
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Speaker 1: it very very strict and and and kept us very

947
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Speaker 1: very safe, which I'm very great full for and then

948
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Speaker 1: there was no hiccups. We're friend. You know, I want

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Speaker 1: you to talk about this recipes here, but I want

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Speaker 1: this this show, I want to just focus on. I

951
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Speaker 1: want to bring you back if you have time to

952
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Speaker 1: talk about, you know, the cooking side, because I'm a

953
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Speaker 1: foodie nut, but I want to be respectful for this show.

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Speaker 1: This show I feel this very special alter ego which

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Speaker 1: Arizon Fox UH premier September twenty second and twenty two

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Speaker 1: separate episodes, NAPM Sentral, NAPM Eastern West Coast, a PM Central. UH.

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Speaker 1: There's a Wednesday and Thursday, and they have a fantastic

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Speaker 1: coast not a marvelous host, a fantastic host for a

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Speaker 1: long time. And you you please stay. It's twelve episodes,

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Speaker 1: and stay blessed, and please thank you for allowing me

961
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Speaker 1: to share your story with my fan base. And there's

962
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Speaker 1: a lot of them. There's a lot of them, by

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Speaker 1: the way, it's a lot of millions of them. And

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Speaker 1: I feel fortunate to be able to share your story.

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Speaker 1: This part of your story. I want to bring you

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Speaker 1: back and share the other story that the person that

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Speaker 1: I know outside the camera that makes you so special

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Speaker 1: rocks that you are special to me. By the way,

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Speaker 1: I really do Apprecator or Sean. I'll never forget all

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Speaker 1: the talks, and I never forget all the guy itence

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Speaker 1: and and you definitely were there for me and many

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Speaker 1: times with confusion. So I really appreciate the support and love,

973
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Speaker 1: and please please tell your audience alter Ego Syptember twenty second,

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Speaker 1: right after the mass in your own Fox. It's gonna

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Speaker 1: be huge, and you know, support us. Hey, there's not many,

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Speaker 1: there's not many of us leading things and watch you

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Speaker 1: some videos. I'll dropped it in every week leading up

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Speaker 1: to that. But again, thank you Roxy for coming on

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Speaker 1: Money Making Conversation. You are so special and I definitely

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Speaker 1: side of roxy to cooker because you know I'm a

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Speaker 1: cooker too, so I gotta have that conversation. Thank you

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