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All right, it's celebrity access with
one of my favorite actresses. I mean,

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from Done to The Walking Dead,
all the Hallmark movies and all the

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incredible stuff she's done, and of
course music. Alicia Witt, it's so

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nice to have you on our show
today. Hey, thank you for having

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me. Renee, it's good to
be here. Yeah. You know,

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I've been following you for a long
time, and of course your journey through

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cancer and everything you've gone through,
and of course you know, I know

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you've had some you know, as
with life, we've had some tragedies,

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but you always seem to prevail with
such positivity. So I just want to

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start by asking you how are you? How are you doing today? Oh,

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I'm fantastic. Yeah, I think
you know, as you said,

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so many of us have come through
you so many challenges. This life is

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tricky, and I think if there's
one thing that's a blessing of how you

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know, any small platform, is
just that perhaps through being a positive light

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and helping to show people that I've
come through this and you can too,

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Maybe maybe that's some little little way
that I can help. It's been wonderful

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to just to just have that form
of connection. And reminds me a little

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bit as well as what we all
went through in the pandemic and the kind

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of community that we're all formed drew
a lot of us closer together, and

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I think music has just that any
way to get you through everything. I

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can't think of a time in my
life where music hasn't connected to every single

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moment I've been and obviously that is
something that is so important to you.

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So tell me about music in your
life, and of course Witness. I

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cannot even imagine my life without not
only music that I listened to, but

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also connecting to people through creating music
and performing it. I started doing this.

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I mean I started playing music when
I was seven, studying classical piano

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and competing, and about fifteen years
ago the lifelong pull to write my own

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songs and perform them for people,
whether that was going to be ten people

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or a lot more than that,
I just knew it was something I had

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to do, and it's become as
big a part of my life as the

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acting, and especially now given what
I went through two years ago. It

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really the music that appears on this
new EP, Witness. The six songs

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on it were almost all written within
the last few months, right before the

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EP was even recorded, And they
are all different facets of my experience at

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this very moment being a witness or
getting to have people be witnessed to me.

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But most of all, I can't
wait to hear what it means to

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the listeners and how it hopefully helps
bring people together even more. Yeah,

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you've created a nice little community with
your followers, your fans, the music

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community that seemed to support you.
I mean, you have people that like

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you for all different reasons, so
you have this great outreach and it seems

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like from an outsider looking in that
all people want to do is lift you

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up and enjoy your music and your
spirit, which I think also comes through

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on what I've been sent anyways,
which I think is lovely. And I'm

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going to put a link up for
everybody to get into contact with you,

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well not you know what I mean, to get your album or to listen

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to that. That sounded as a
little creepy and I didn't mean for it

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the way he came out, but
you know what I mean, like to

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get connected with everything you do.
I don't have a lot of time with

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you, as we all have to
share you today, but I wanted to

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just bull and point a couple of
little things. I know you love animals

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and animal advocacy and pups and stuff, So I know music is important,

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acting is important, your health too, But how important are animals in your

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world? Crucially important? For the
last twenty, well the last thirty years,

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I've had a rescue animal brunt and
center in my life, starting with

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my rescue cat Jesse, who was
found wandering down the street by a friend

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of mine. And right now I
have my beloved Earn is to standing you're

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looking at me working. He's a
rescue from the West La shelter. He

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had a rusco of it kind of
shuttled all over the place not wanted,

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which is unbelievable to me, for
the first year of his life. So

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he was an adult dog that I've
rescued nine and a half years ago,

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and he just I cannot imagine my
life without him. He traveled almost everywhere

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with me, and he really he's
actually started making debuts on stage, coming

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out for encores when I play a
show, because he truly helps me to

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just feel centered. And he was
right there with me on the Masked Singer

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that on the episode where I ended
up getting on mask. They did a

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little piece on earnest and might personallydia
blew up because it was like that was

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the final clue giveaway. If you
know me, you probably know where it.

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Yes, yes, we do.
That's why I had to bring it

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up. Because I'm known as the
dog Lady of Connecticut. I do segments

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on both radio and TV Lost and
Found. I've got my puppets turning one

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this Sunday proud mom moment. He's
on the cover of Connecticut Dog Magazine for

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the fall issue. But anyways,
you know how to throw it in there.

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And his name is Wolfe Wolfgang.
But I also need to tell you

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one last quick thing as we wrap
up. So I'm from Connecticut and the

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town that you filmed one of your
movies in was an old weathersfield where I

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grew up on in the street,
and you went into one of the houses

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that I grew up playing in and
my one of the it was just so

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cool and I remember seeing you there
and I didn't say hello because I don't.

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I never like to be, you
know, insinuate myself into someone.

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But I had my poor Luke,
who's not with us anymore. But he's

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a black shepherd. I dressed him
up in a scarf, and I'm like,

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oh, he's totally getting discovered.
And so he did the whole casting,

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not cast, I should say,
the whole crew of your movie took

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like photos with him, and I
put them up there and I thought for

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sure, and I was like so
devastated. I was actually weirdly angry at

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Hallmark. I'm like, how dare
you not notice my son, my black

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German shepherd to be in one of
your night But I was he didn't get

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discovered. It was very upsetting to
me. I think I get discovered.

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Dang it, it's not okay.
It wasn't okay. I remember so fondly

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filming that movie, and most particularly
of all the I can't I can't really

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talk about movies because of my strike
right right right, and just telling you

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how much I loved filming in old
Weathersfield. And it's because of the people.

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I remember distinctly all the different experiences
I had, and they came out.

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The folks who lived there just came
out and lined the streets and really

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us feel like superstars, and we
invited us into their homes. I remember,

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I was still drinking at the time, and on a Sunday we had

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to film something and a very nice
group of neighbors made some bloody marries and

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so just so kind. I loved
it there. I loved it. I

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hope, I hope I'll get to
work there again. Well, I wish

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you nothing but continued success. I
love the dynamics of your personality, your

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love of animals, the movies you
make, the music you make, and

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the fact that you love the Walking
Dead and Dune and You've got that part

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of you that I love as well. So I'm a huge fian girl here

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in Connecticut. I wish you just
love and success and great vibes for all

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your tours, all your music,
and give an extra treat to Ernest from

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me and Wolfie today. I sure
will. Thanks for Rene. Have a

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great day. By Alisha