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Speaker 1: Jum Mission with Joins and Amanda Well.

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Speaker 2: It's been sixteen years since the cast of one of

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Speaker 2: the world's most popular series of all time. Friends went

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Speaker 2: their separate ways, but the show can always be seen

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Speaker 2: on Binge. It's available to watch right now, and to celebrate,

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Speaker 2: we're going to catch up.

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Speaker 3: Oh my god.

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Speaker 4: Mine.

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Speaker 2: One of the most iconic characters, Chandler's girlfriend, Janice aka

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Speaker 2: Maggie Wheeler. Maggie, Hello, Hello, how are you?

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Speaker 3: It's so good to be with you today.

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Speaker 4: It's so great to watch the show.

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Speaker 1: And last Saturday, I was over at my son and

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Speaker 1: his girlfriend's place and they didn't really watch Friends because

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Speaker 1: it was predated them by a lot. So we just

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Speaker 1: sat there and just watched it, and they were just

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Speaker 1: into it. And I've forgot how warm a blanket frenzy story.

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Speaker 2: Isn't it?

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Speaker 3: It really is. I hear it from people all over

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Speaker 3: the world all the time.

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Speaker 2: With your character, were you given cart blanc to come

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Speaker 2: up with the way you spoke? How did you find

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Speaker 2: the voice?

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Speaker 3: You know? I brought it into the audition because I'm

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Speaker 3: a native New Yorker. I was living in Los Angeles

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Speaker 3: and I saw the audition sides at the top it

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Speaker 3: said fast talking New Yorker, and it was that great

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Speaker 3: scene where she goes to Chandler and she brings him

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Speaker 3: socks and she says, I got in you know, Bullwinkle socks,

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Speaker 3: mix and match moves and squirrel, and I could just

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Speaker 3: hear her. I looked at it, I read the words

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Speaker 3: off the page, and she jumped into my head. So

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Speaker 3: I thought, what the hell, I'll just go I'll bring

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Speaker 3: this woman into the room. And it turned out to

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Speaker 3: be the right thing.

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Speaker 2: To do, and she just went off in the stratosphere.

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Speaker 2: I was reading that on the nights when you were

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Speaker 2: on the show, when you were doing your you know,

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Speaker 2: the recording of the show, they'd have to keep you

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Speaker 2: hidden from the audience so that when you came out,

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Speaker 2: the people would just go off.

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Speaker 3: It's true. It was my rock star moment. Every Janis

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Speaker 3: entrance like anything else I've ever done.

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Speaker 2: What was it like recording that show? Were there many retakes?

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Speaker 2: Was it all done as live? How did it work?

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Speaker 3: I think, you know, most sitcoms work the same way,

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Speaker 3: in that you run through it in front of the audience,

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Speaker 3: you film it, then you stop, then the writers make

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Speaker 3: some changes and we go and do it again. We

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Speaker 3: put in a new joke, a new ending, and you know,

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Speaker 3: you just sort of run through it a couple of

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Speaker 3: times each scene, with the audience having a chance to

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Speaker 3: react to some things they've already seen before and some

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Speaker 3: things they'll be seeing for the first time that are

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Speaker 3: getting thrown in behind the scenes. It's really a wonderful

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Speaker 3: experience in terms of doing television. Just to have that

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Speaker 3: live audience and all of that laughter, it's a fantastic ride.

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Speaker 4: Well, doing that character. Was it a blessing or a

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Speaker 4: curse for you? After Friends? Oh?

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Speaker 3: A blessing all the way. People ask me a lot

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Speaker 3: whether or not I was worried about being typecast in

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Speaker 3: the aftermath, But I don't think it ever crossed my

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Speaker 3: mind at the time, you know. I just I was

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Speaker 3: so excited to be able to bring that person to

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Speaker 3: life at that time with those people. You know. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I just took it from there and it's opened up

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Speaker 3: a lot of wonderful doors for me.

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Speaker 2: Was there any talk of a Jenna's spinoff? Oh?

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Speaker 3: Well, you know, I don't know if anybody ever talked

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Speaker 3: about it. Behind the scenes. People ask me all the time,

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Speaker 3: and I certainly pitched that that it would have been

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Speaker 3: a good idea to bring me on Joey's spin off,

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Speaker 3: because I would have loved to have shown up there

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Speaker 3: and driven him a little crazy. But you know, who knows,

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Speaker 3: maybe someday, it's.

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Speaker 4: Never too loud. Have you featured in the Friends reunion

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Speaker 4: that was coming up.

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Speaker 3: I don't know what's happening with the Friends reunion, obviously,

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Speaker 3: so many things have have been postponed because of the

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Speaker 3: COVID and and there have been some dates thrown out,

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Speaker 3: and then things have changed, and so I don't really

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Speaker 3: know what's going on with it.

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Speaker 1: So the good thing is you're on Zoom and I

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Speaker 1: just saw you touch your face, and that's a tale

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Speaker 1: that you will be in it.

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Speaker 4: I can see it. It's happening. That's happening. I have

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Speaker 4: an itch on your face. I don't know. Am I

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Speaker 4: gonna be?

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Speaker 1: You've got because she's gonna be and it's gonna happen.

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Speaker 1: Of course, it's so great to talk to you, Maggie.

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Speaker 1: Stream every episode of Friends from today, plus the world's

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Speaker 1: best shows on Binge. Maggie Wheeler, I'm walking here all right, Oh.

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Speaker 3: My god, watch Friends on Binge.

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Speaker 4: You're wonderful. Thank you, Maggie, thank you so much, Thank

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Speaker 4: you

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Speaker 1: With joins and Amanda