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Speaker 1: Okay from one of three FIVEFM is Bella and I

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Speaker 1: have the lovely Lisa Ann Walters here.

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Speaker 2: How are you doing?

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Speaker 3: Doing great? How are you my dear?

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Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, I am so excited to have like

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Speaker 2: you speaking with you. You're one of my favorite people.

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Speaker 1: I started watching you when I was just a little

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Speaker 2: As an adult.

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Speaker 3: How wild is that I've had two great characters in

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Speaker 2: I know you're quite iconic.

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Speaker 3: That's what the kids say. You know, all the young

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Speaker 3: And my twins who are twenty five, are like, they

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Speaker 3: But when they do, it's to tell me that they

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Speaker 3: I get no love you.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'll give you all the love.

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Speaker 1: So I'm a big Abbot fan, as I was saying,

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Speaker 1: And I know that season five is just around the corner.

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Speaker 2: Can you tell me how being a part.

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Speaker 1: Of Abbot Elementary School or Abbot Elementary I can talk,

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Speaker 3: Well, I mean change my life. I think that those

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Speaker 3: we all have been lucky enough to be around in

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Speaker 3: You know, people ask me, like, you know, is that

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Speaker 3: and you're like nothing. I mean yeah, I like to

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Speaker 3: say that I've gone from being a cautionary tale to

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Speaker 2: I've loved the new like transcendent of your career.

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Speaker 1: It's just been amazing to watch, especially since, like I've

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Speaker 2: I loved you. That was my favorite movie ever, was

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Speaker 3: So we're just really lucky that it continues and that

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Speaker 1: It's totally different. So since I am very nosy and

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Speaker 1: I'm very excited for next season, what can I expect?

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Speaker 3: Thank you, my brain one sideways, I speak your language.

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Speaker 1: paras and MISCHUMENTI. Of course, who are you more like

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Speaker 3: So let you go. You know, I have four kids

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Speaker 3: And that's so cute. I love that and we love

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Speaker 1: Fun question for you, Lisa. Sure, both Italians. So as

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Speaker 3: You'll figure it out the whole day. The whole day

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Speaker 1: Let it breathe, let it air out. Oh, Lisa, you've

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Speaker 1: been a joy. Thank you so much for hanging out

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Speaker 3: Come on out, baby, come on, we have a good time.

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