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Speaker 1: Live from the Mercedes Fenz Interview Loud.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Hi.

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Speaker 3: Eric, Hi, how are you doing? Never better? I don't

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Speaker 3: know what time it is. I don't know how you

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Speaker 3: people do this.

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Speaker 4: Okay, So Daniell's had something very disparaging about you. I'm

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Speaker 4: going to tell him because sometimes like sometimes you'll get

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Speaker 4: like days and times of interviews confused.

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Speaker 1: Yes and uh to me, me or people in general.

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Speaker 4: Oh you so Danielle Daniel says, no, he knows exactly

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Speaker 4: what time and what day's supposed to be.

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Speaker 5: Someplace you want to make a grand entrance, you diva.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I mean I.

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Speaker 3: Did the thing that you know Marilyn Monroe always did,

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Speaker 3: which is that she was going to an event. She

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Speaker 3: got out of the car a block early, and then

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Speaker 3: she just ran the rest of the block so that

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Speaker 3: she when she got there she had this like thing

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Speaker 1: But you smell like a train. No, I just got

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Speaker 1: in a subway because I was running late.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yes, exactly, that's what I'm more.

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Speaker 1: Od rat, that's right.

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Speaker 4: Eric Bergan is here, of course, starring in Boop the

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Speaker 4: musical on broad Way and many other things in our

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Speaker 4: lives that we love. And I don't care what time

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Speaker 4: you get here. As long as you get here.

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Speaker 1: I'm here. You can reach me. But the thing.

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Speaker 4: Like a carpet man, what does that?

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Speaker 1: That's it. Let's go with that.

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Speaker 5: That was good, Like a carpet man, for sure.

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Speaker 4: No, no, no.

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Speaker 3: The guy who wrote the carpet was across the desert

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Speaker 3: like an arab Ban.

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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, something like that.

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Speaker 5: The guy who rode the carpet was a laddin.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's right, like.

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Speaker 4: A ladin man. Hey, so yeah, Boop is doing very well.

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Speaker 4: We love the Boop on the Broadway.

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Speaker 5: You're fantastic in the Boop on the Broadway.

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Speaker 4: I like you better than Boop.

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Speaker 1: Well, thank you.

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Speaker 3: It's it's so fun. I mean I didn't. I never

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Speaker 3: thought in a million years that I would be in

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Speaker 3: a Betty Boop musical on Broadway. That was like not

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Speaker 3: on my bingo card. I mean I made the same

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Speaker 3: sound when they said do you want to do this

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Speaker 3: Betty boot musical? I was like, are you kidding? And

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Speaker 3: that was just my allergies. It was it was really like,

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Speaker 3: I didn't. I didn't think this would be as good

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Speaker 3: as it is. It is so much fun. It is

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Speaker 3: our our leading lady, Jasmine Amy Rodgers who's up for

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Speaker 3: a tony on on Sunday Night. It's she's giving an

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Speaker 3: unbelievable kind of Lucille ball esque performance and we have

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Speaker 3: the most fun. The music was written by David Foster,

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Speaker 3: who you know, of course, is David Foster and has

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Speaker 3: written every produced, every hit in the world.

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Speaker 1: And it's just, uh, it's just stupid, goofy.

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Speaker 5: You saw it, You play it, You play an ass, yes,

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Speaker 5: a bit of a sleeve.

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Speaker 3: Well, I play a guy who is the sanitation guy

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Speaker 3: here in New York City who is deciding to run

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Speaker 3: of a corrupt politician. I mean, where do they get

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Speaker 3: these stories. I don't know corrupt politicians would ever happen

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Speaker 3: only in a musical. So you know, it's uh, it's

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Speaker 3: just kind of a wild, zany story that has a

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Speaker 3: lot of heart. I mean, for me, the best part

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Speaker 3: year olds, I see ninety year olds and everyone in between,

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Speaker 3: and everyone leaves with this kind of goofy, silly smile

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Speaker 1: It's it's just incredible.

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Speaker 4: Let's talk about the the awards Sunday Night. Yeah, we're

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Speaker 4: talking about to Tony's. Yes, Danielle has always wanted to

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Speaker 4: and now she has been invited to be on the

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Speaker 4: Red Car.

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Speaker 5: Oh my god, I'm so excited for iHeart Broadway. We're

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Speaker 5: going to be already a Broadway. We're going to be

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Speaker 5: there with Deanna on my camera. And are you going

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Speaker 5: to be there?

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to be there.

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Speaker 5: If you don't stop, I'm going to be pissed.

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Speaker 4: Why are you not going to the Tonys because because

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Speaker 4: I didn't go right.

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Speaker 3: Exactly, no normally got you know this year, I mean

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Speaker 3: we Boop was not nominated for Best Musical. And the

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Speaker 3: rule is the well, the kind of rule. They say

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Speaker 3: it's a rule, then they break the rule. The rule

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Speaker 3: is unless you are nominated for Best Musical, then you

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Speaker 3: don't get to perform on the Tonys, right, And they

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Speaker 3: say that's the rule, And then I guess they break

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Speaker 3: the rule. And there's other shows that are not nominated

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Speaker 3: for Best Musical that are performing.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that is true. There's a lot of musicals that

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Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, hold on a second, A bunch of drama queens. Literally,

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Speaker 4: I mean I do believe. I mean, there's always drama

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Speaker 4: in the background at the Oscars totally, and the Grammys definitely.

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Speaker 4: Tonys have them tenfold. Well, it's because it really is

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Speaker 4: that the biggest commercial Broadway has. So every show is

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Speaker 4: you know, every Broadway show is dying to get on

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Speaker 4: the show. And the thing is you have to pay

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Speaker 4: to perform on the Tonys. That's not a scandal.

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Speaker 3: That's just there's production costs that the shows have to

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Speaker 4: Is it the same for the Grammys and stuff like that.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how it works. Those are expensive productions.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but I think I don't know. I really I

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Speaker 3: don't know how those work. I just know that the Tonys,

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Speaker 3: the shows have to pay a fee to perform. Once

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Speaker 3: they're invited to perform, they have to pay.

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Speaker 5: Can I ask another question?

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Speaker 1: Please?

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Speaker 5: Why is it?

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Speaker 1: That was a question?

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Speaker 5: Sorry? Okay, there there's a petition for you guys to

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Speaker 5: actually perform if the show is already set. Yeah, how

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Speaker 5: could they even do that? How can they even fit

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Speaker 5: you guys in like that?

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Speaker 3: Listen, there are genius producers on the Tony Words. Their

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Speaker 3: longtime frien of mine, and they they look they have

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Speaker 3: the hard job. They have to they have to follow

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Speaker 3: these quote unquote rules, but they also have to make

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Speaker 3: a great television special at the end of the day.

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Speaker 3: And that's what's you know that. I know that they

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Speaker 3: have that job. So I don't know how they do it.

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Speaker 3: I would love that they put us on, but you know,

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Speaker 3: it is what it is. It's part of it's part

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Speaker 3: of uh, it's part of the gig. I suppose the

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Speaker 3: fans are very sweet and the fans are doing this

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Speaker 3: petition to get us to perform, But I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I think if we were to perform, it wouldn't be

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Speaker 3: you don't be watching from home. You're gonna hang.

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Speaker 1: Out with There's there's the party afterwards.

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Speaker 3: There's like the late night after party going to I'll

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Speaker 3: probably take a nap because we have a matinee that day,

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Speaker 3: so we I'll probably go home, take a nap, and

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Speaker 3: then put on the Tucks, but like the Tucks half undone.

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Speaker 1: Because it's the after party. I'll just pretend that I

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Speaker 1: want So you put on and then destroyed the look.

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Speaker 4: Yeah exactly. I have a list of things Eric wanted

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Speaker 4: to talk about to.

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Speaker 1: Oh no, that's I just was. That was just things

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Speaker 1: that you know, was.

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Speaker 4: No, we're going to the list.

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Speaker 1: It is there a shopping list. I got to go groceries.

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Speaker 4: Okay. The Cast album, produced by David Foster, I mean

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Speaker 4: on Friday, comes out this Friday. Yes, I think you

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Speaker 4: guys were sent my song from the album. I don't

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Speaker 4: think we got that.

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Speaker 1: You didn't get that? Well, didn't I just sing it? Sure? No,

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Speaker 1: it's before nine.

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Speaker 3: I don't sing before Oh it's literally nine exactly nine

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Speaker 3: am right now.

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Speaker 4: Great stories about working with David Foster in the studio. Oh,

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Speaker 4: I do wait, I gotta tell you a nice guy.

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Speaker 4: He seems very evil to me. No, he's the great.

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Speaker 4: Go ahead, He's the greatest. Here's the best thing about

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Speaker 4: David Foster. He does This is my favorite story to tell.

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Speaker 4: So I was in the studio recording my song, and

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Speaker 4: of course he produced the Cast album and I get

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Speaker 4: in there and he's really encouraging and he's like you

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Speaker 4: you notice immediately why he has sixteen Grammy Awards. He

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Speaker 4: is like a master at getting a vocal performance out

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Speaker 4: of you.

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Speaker 1: He's so genius. Give us an example.

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Speaker 3: He would just say, I would finish a vocal take

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Speaker 3: and he would go, man, that is that is fire.

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Speaker 1: That is that is one of the best vocals.

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Speaker 3: I've heard it, and I've been there like really, oh my god,

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Speaker 3: because I did not feel confident in the in the

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Speaker 3: vocal booth, especially with David Foster. But he makes you

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Speaker 3: feel brilliant. And then I did one vocal line. He's like,

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Speaker 3: and I did it.

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Speaker 1: That's not no.

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Speaker 3: One more time I tried it. He's like, yeah, you know,

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Speaker 3: play the demo and uh, it's like really good and

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Speaker 3: it kind of sounds like a like a Michael Boublay voice,

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Speaker 3: which is fitting considering that David discovered Michael Boubley. And

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Speaker 3: I was like, well, that's really good. Who did you

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Speaker 3: get to sound like booble And he goes Boobla The

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Speaker 3: the other way around. So so I just copied Michael

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Speaker 3: for for this. Not a bad person to copy, not

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Speaker 3: a bad person to copy at all. Okay, what else

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Speaker 3: is on your list?

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Speaker 1: Were going to talk about the Jones Rivers.

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Speaker 4: Thing that's not quite yet list.

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Speaker 1: I didn't have demands. I was just giving you ideas.

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Speaker 4: Oh you sell boo the boop tonya words controversy that

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Speaker 4: you kind.

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Speaker 6: Of did that.

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Speaker 1: I did that. Yes, we've gone through the thing.

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Speaker 4: Okay, let's talk about the Joan Rivers tribute. Yes, I

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Speaker 4: want to see that. It's on Peacock Box, on Peacocky

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Speaker 4: of course, huge fan of Joan Rivers.

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Speaker 1: Yes, I.

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Speaker 5: Had a fight with her.

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Speaker 1: Oh boy.

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Speaker 5: She was on the phone and HAROLDO. Rivera was in

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Speaker 5: the studio, wow, and I was on the God Rest

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Speaker 5: her soul. And I said to her, Hey, we're running

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Speaker 5: a little bit late, so you have a choice. You

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Speaker 5: can either be on with Heraldo or you can just

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Speaker 5: wait a little bit and we'll put you on. After

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Speaker 5: she starts yelling at me, you can't put me on

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Speaker 5: with Heraldo. He's so serious blah blah blah blah, I'm

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Speaker 5: funny blah blah. So you know what I said. Oh,

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Speaker 5: and then I guess we just don't have time for you.

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Speaker 6: Click.

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Speaker 1: She hung up. She was the queen of everything.

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Speaker 4: Joan was rumbered to have a temper from time to time, okay,

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Speaker 4: and tell you how it was. And she did it.

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Speaker 2: Are they getting paid tons of money because you sort

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Speaker 3: Washington, Denzel's doing very well. But Denzel is paid appropriately

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Speaker 3: Everyone benefits as as this city is still rebuilding.

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Speaker 3: When when Denzel and George and all those people come

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Speaker 5: But I got Wait. Doesn't it piss you off?

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Speaker 5: When they say things like the George Clooney Show or

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Speaker 4: Let's talk about you.

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Speaker 4: Don't worry. I'll get till them. We're going. We're going

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Speaker 4: How many seasons?

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Speaker 4: You love doing Madame Secretary?

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Speaker 1: The greatest, greatest job of my life. Change my life.

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Speaker 4: And if you've ever wondered who this guy is, Eric Bergen,

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Speaker 4: But Broadway was really where you started. That was your

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Speaker 4: Eric was calling me and like, we want to do

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Speaker 3: I learned everything from I have no formal training. I

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Speaker 1: And I would just absorb it all. And I had

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Speaker 1: Yeah boy, thank you, thank you. This is how you

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Speaker 4: lie about it. Yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 1: I always forget that.

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Speaker 3: No, no, no, in this particular case, I'm not kidding. It's

446
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Speaker 3: so much fun. It's just the greatest teneration. Oh my god,

447
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Speaker 3: it's just did you say the S word?

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Speaker 1: No?

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Speaker 5: He almost did, but I don't think he did.

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Speaker 1: He didn't show show.

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Speaker 5: And I don't believe what you said because the Aladdin

452
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Speaker 5: cast they are fabulous.

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Speaker 1: That's not what they said about you.

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Speaker 3: I believe it.

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Speaker 7: I'm getting kind of a questionaire saw you You were fantastic.

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Speaker 3: Yes, you stole and you waited outside the stage door

457
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Speaker 3: for an hour from my autograph the homes, that was weird.

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Speaker 7: You've been doing this for years. Do you have a

459
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Speaker 7: standard warm up routine before every show? Do you me

460
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Speaker 7: me me, me, me, me me or.

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: But yeah, I kind of, I mean yes and no.

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Speaker 3: I always forget in this show because I have eleven

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Speaker 3: minutes on stage and it's nothing that requires any kind

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Speaker 3: of you know, like I said, formal training. I mean,

466
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Speaker 3: I'm just making a complete fool out of myself. So

467
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Speaker 3: this show, what happens is I think today's the day

468
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Speaker 3: I'm gonna start to warm up, and then I forget

469
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Speaker 3: too and I get on stage and everything hurts. I

470
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Speaker 3: mean everything, everything hurts. It's there's a great line that

471
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Speaker 3: Eline Stretch always said when she opened her One woman show.

472
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Speaker 3: She walked on stage dragging a chair, and she says,

473
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Speaker 3: she takes a big breath, big sigh, and she goes,

474
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Speaker 3: it's like the prostitute said, It's not the work, it's

475
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Speaker 3: the stairs.

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Speaker 1: And that's how.

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Speaker 3: And that's how I feel climbing up to my my.

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Speaker 1: My dressing room every every day.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, let's see where this is going to go.

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Speaker 4: Hello Marcus, Oh my god, so you you and Eric

481
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Speaker 4: Bergen were childhood friends.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, we went to like the same like off Broadway

483
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Speaker 6: musical workshops and to summer camp.

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Speaker 4: Marcus Richardson, Yes, oh my god, Oh god, Okay, Marcus,

485
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Speaker 4: go ahead, spill the tea.

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Speaker 6: Oh no, no, Eric, Eric was destined for where he

487
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Speaker 6: is now. He was like, oh, this is what he

488
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Speaker 6: is meant to be doing. And I'm listening to the

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Speaker 6: Morning Show as I always do on my way to work,

490
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Speaker 6: and here Eric. So I just sexted. I was like, oh,

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Speaker 6: my god, hi to Eric, you know, it's the years.

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Speaker 1: It's been a long time.

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Speaker 3: Marcus and I were in an off Broadway theater company

494
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Speaker 3: together with incredible group of actors, one of whom was

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Speaker 3: Sebastian Stan who's now you know, yes, and we had

496
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Speaker 3: a great time.

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Speaker 1: And it's true. We used to listen to Elvis Durant

498
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Speaker 1: in the morning Ze Morning Zoo. That was it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Oh my god, and my god, we were obsessed

500
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Speaker 3: with like Iifful sixty five, Blue Dabad that was our

501
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Speaker 3: that was our era and maya case of the X

502
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Speaker 3: I'm trying to think of, like all of our songs.

503
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Speaker 3: We would listen every morning as we you, as we

504
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Speaker 3: went to school, but that was like our r so

505
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Speaker 3: we would like listen to that stuff and then we

506
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Speaker 3: would do show tunes at night in the afternoon. So Marcus, yeah,

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Speaker 3: Marcus and I go back a long time to Applause,

508
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Speaker 3: a great theater company here in the city. So if

509
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Speaker 3: you have kids who want to do theater, Applause is

510
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Speaker 3: a great place to go.

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Speaker 4: Hey, Marcus, what are you doing now? Did you stay

512
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Speaker 4: in the business or did you make an exit?

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Speaker 1: Where are you now?

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Speaker 6: No, So, like my parents were very supportive of being

515
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Speaker 6: in the arts, but my parents were like, you have

516
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Speaker 6: to go to college and get it, you know, a degree,

517
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Speaker 6: so right out of college, instead of going back and

518
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Speaker 6: trying to make it in the business, I stayed and

519
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Speaker 6: hire it. So I've been working in higher education. I

520
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Speaker 6: worked for K and A for over almost twenty years.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 4: Wow, well, I'm so glad that you you called in.

523
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Speaker 4: That's excellent and you should have seen Eric's face when

524
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Speaker 4: he saw it was you. He almost ran out of

525
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Speaker 4: the room because I'm sure there's some embarrassing story you're

526
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Speaker 4: not telling. And look how fast Marcus just hung up. Yes, gods,

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Speaker 4: we lost the line there, so sorry. Okay, hear you, Marcus.

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Speaker 4: Thank you so much for listening. Thanks for calling in.

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Speaker 4: That was awesome.

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Speaker 6: Bye, love you go.

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Speaker 5: Thanks my friend who's online next for him, this is

532
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Speaker 5: your life.

533
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Speaker 1: It's my mother.

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Speaker 4: Text message. It's so good to hear that Boop tickets

535
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Speaker 4: are affordable. I used to be able to go to

536
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Speaker 4: multiple shows a year when I was in high school

537
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Speaker 4: because I would use student rush money whatever. Now as

538
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Speaker 4: an adult, I can't do that. It's so much. They

539
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Speaker 4: are expensive.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, come to the boot Box office.

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Speaker 3: We have tickets as as love as forty dollars sometimes

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Speaker 3: and you can sit up front. We have these rush tickets,

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Speaker 3: but even the non rush tickets are affordable. It's a

544
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Speaker 3: small theater. Every seat is great, and there's you know,

545
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Speaker 3: go to the half price booth at TKTS Booth and

546
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Speaker 3: Times Square. Broadway is more affordable than you think it is.

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Speaker 3: It's still more expensive than it should be, but it's

548
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Speaker 3: more affordable than you think it is.

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Speaker 5: Okay, if you can go the same day to get

550
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Speaker 5: tickets to Sometimes people cancel like last minute, or they

551
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Speaker 5: have last minute tickets, and if you can go by yourself,

552
00:22:10,119 --> 00:22:12,600
Speaker 5: sometimes you can get an even cheaper ticket. That's right yourself.

553
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Speaker 4: So let's say someone's listening to us in Miami right

554
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Speaker 4: now and like, I want to go to New York.

555
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Speaker 4: I'm gonna go see your show. But I've never been

556
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Speaker 4: seeing a Broadway show in my life. What is, in

557
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Speaker 4: your opinion, just no more than three titles the starter

558
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Speaker 4: kit where you have to start your very first shows. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: musicals in New York City. We'll give you three.

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Speaker 3: And I don't mean this as a plug for own show,

561
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Speaker 3: my own show, but Boop is an old fashioned Broadway

562
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Speaker 3: tap dance spectacular with all of these three D effects

563
00:22:38,760 --> 00:22:42,439
Speaker 3: and comedy and great songs. So start there because it

564
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Speaker 3: really is the very definition of Broadway. You want the

565
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Speaker 3: modern definition of Broadway and the kind of the the

566
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Speaker 3: boundary pushing stuff. Obviously Hamilton, and then I don't know,

567
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Speaker 3: go see a great play. I don't even I don't even.

568
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Speaker 3: You know, plays come and go so quickly. I saw

569
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Speaker 3: good Night, good Luck. That was fantastic. God, I don't

570
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Speaker 3: even know what to say. Okay, then Glengarry Glenn, Oh,

571
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Speaker 3: you know what? In Chicago. Chicago is still on Broadway,

572
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Speaker 3: and it's incredible.

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Speaker 4: I did think that the quintessential Broadway musicals with lots

574
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Speaker 4: of lights and movement, like you, I think that's a

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Speaker 4: my opinion, a great way to start.

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Speaker 3: It's a great way to start. It's the it's the

577
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Speaker 3: what is it, the gateway drug to Broadways. Definitely Boom.

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Speaker 3: Chicago is still great after all these years. And Hamilton,

579
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Speaker 3: they're all fantastic.

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Speaker 4: Death becomes her Best.

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Speaker 3: Oh, and you know what, this maybe happy ending that

582
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Speaker 3: that Darren is doing is just so gorgeous.

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Speaker 1: We had a good time watching.

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Speaker 4: It was so weird seeing Darren on stage because I've

585
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Speaker 4: known him for so many a year, right, and I

586
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Speaker 4: totally forgot it was him. I guess that's yeah, that's

587
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Speaker 4: the compliment. Did you see that outlaw off Broadway? And

588
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Speaker 4: it's so it's great.

589
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Speaker 3: It's weird, it's kind of a bizarre story, but it's great.

590
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Speaker 3: And Andrew Durand is a friend and he's not up

591
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Speaker 3: for Tony on Sunday Night as well.

592
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Speaker 1: It's so great.

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Speaker 5: And Operation Mincemeat and Juliet love them got a.

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Speaker 1: Wrap on Danielle shout out, Oh.

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Speaker 4: You see. Though you think you've seen a lot of shows,

596
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Speaker 4: Danielle has seen three times been show and you and

597
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Speaker 4: you've been in Aladdin. I know I recognized you from somewhere.

598
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Speaker 4: They hate us, one loves no one loves Broadway more

599
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Speaker 4: than Danielle. And that's why the fact that she's going

600
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Speaker 4: to be on the red carpet at the Tony's is

601
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Speaker 4: just like, oh my god, this is who's going to.

602
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Speaker 1: Call security first?

603
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Speaker 5: You'll be quiet.

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Speaker 4: Eric Bergan of course starring in Boop all eleven minutes

605
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Speaker 4: of it. It's a very good eleven minute but then

606
00:24:32,880 --> 00:24:35,560
Speaker 4: tells you it's those eleven minutes are so powerful.

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Speaker 1: That's right. You think it lasts forever. It's true.

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Speaker 3: Well, I get to do it twice today, so I

609
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Speaker 3: actually am going to have twenty two minutes until.

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Speaker 4: All right before you leave. Yes, you can make an

611
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Speaker 4: instant request. You can hear any song you want to hear.

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Speaker 4: What what do you want to hear? All right, let's

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Speaker 4: go back to Let's go back to uh where we started.

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Speaker 1: Let's do the right ky,