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How you doing out there. It's
me Tigger and Dark Wayne Duck. It's

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me Bunkers Deep Bobcat. All right, y'all, did it rate your favorite

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firefly you desire? Hold the old
knock guy. My name is Jim Cummings

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and welcome to tuned In. Welcome
back, everybody to another episode of Tuned

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In with Jim Cummings. Today we're
sitting down with Kylie Vernoff. Thank you

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very much for joining us. Oh
my gosh, I'm so excited thrill,

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the beat and the crowd right while. Yes, thank you very very much

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for being here. Yeah, and
I know you're out there keeping busy and

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looking fabulous, by the way,
much thank you so much. We're literally

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in the pink. I am see
that. That's for the occasion. What's

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the occasion. The occasion is sitting
down with you. The occasion is with

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you and meeting some more beautiful fans
and yeah, you know, it's a

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great place to be. Yeah.
Here we are on the muddy Mississippi on

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our way. No, uh,
I actually don't know what river is it.

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It's not the Thames? Is it
the Thames? It's the war without

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and boats, thank you. It's
the barge with all the cranes on it.

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Oh gosh, I love a good
crane anyway. So yeah, nice

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to see you, really nice to
see you. Is it hard being the

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queen of the video game circuit?
Oh my gosh, thank you for saying

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that. The queen. You know
what's fun is Uh? Yeah, So

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my character in Red Dead Redemption is
she's not a queen, but she would

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like to think she is. But
she is maybe the camp mama, the

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camp matriarch. Okay, I was
good that kind of mama. It's a

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good kind of mama, the good
kind of Well, everyone would rotten their

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own filth if it weren't for me. Wow. Yeah, I keep everyone

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in line. So you've been a
lot of hosing down then, oh yeah,

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there's a lot of there. There's
a lot of forcing. Well,

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there's one one scene. Notice she
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of forcing forcing. Uh, there's
there's actually one great scene in our in

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our game where if you're playing as
Arthur Morgan, who is Roger Roger Clark,

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who you've I think you've met at
some of these conventions, he comes

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back to camp and he's filthy,
and my character forces him to wash,

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to bathe and and yeah, and
then I the odd thing is that I

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force him to watch and then depending
on how dirty he is or what you

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know, certain things that can happen
in the game prior There are different endings,

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and one of them is I slap
him hard across the face and then

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he pays me, and we're still
not sure what exactly is happening there as

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a happy ending apparently not. It
was big give a slap and then he's

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like, well, thank you for
your trouble. Yeah, it's like,

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okay, it's going way between grim
Shaw and Arthur. But yeah, it's

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a very popular scene in the games. All I'm saying, yes it is.

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It truly is. And is it
true that you did something in uh,

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Grand Theft Auto? Yeah, but
I was going to say in a

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shop is it no, it's a
gun shop anyway? Yes, yes,

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So I play Miranda Cowen in Grand
Theft Auto. Who is she's in like

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the Paparazzi mission And it's so fun
so that I was in the middle of

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shooting Red Dead when I got just
a regular booking from my agent saying you

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going to Rockstar, and so I
figured it was Red dead and although my

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call was a little later, so
I should have maybe put something together that

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maybe we weren't going out to the
big studio. But I got there and

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I'm walking in Soho about to head
to rock Star offices and I see one

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of my main producers and he says, hey, what are you doing in

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this neighborhood. I said, I'm
coming to work and he said, no,

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you're not. I said, I
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booked. And he looked at a
little iPad and he said, oh,

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yeah, yeah, you're on GTA
five today. And I had no idea.

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My agents hadn't. I don't think
anyone knew, because you know,

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they are tight with their information.
So I got there and I found out

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that I was playing this character sort
of loosely based on like a Chris Kardashian,

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like a aging party girl. Sorry, Chris Kardashian. If anyone is

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friends with her, Yeah, you
had a couple of bucks. Yeah,

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nothing wrong with that. I know, nothing wrong with that. Who likes

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so she's like, likes to be
in limos, likes to be in the

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club, likes to get her swerve
on, and says things to work her

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swerve on and basically all they said
are here are the lines, can't sound

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anything like your character from from Red
Dead, and so come up with something

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quick. And so we found this
kind of like can you believe the paparazzi

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thinks I'm forty, I don't party
with anyone older than twenty five? Like

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this kind of like, oh,
I'm going to meet my special friend at

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the club. Do you want anything
that he's selling? Like that kind of

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stuff, which was really fun.
It was just so fun to be put

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on. Was there a soundtrack in
the background, why you would Oh,

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yeah, yes, yes. Well
first it's a car because we're in the

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limo. So first we're in the
car and there's like screeching tires, and

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then we got oh you can't be
a good screech. So good, it's

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so good. I swear that's one
of the best missions in the game.

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Like that's such a fun thank you. Yeah, it's a really fun time.

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Oh my gosh, it was so
fun. It's like so unique because

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like you're using like the aiming mechanism, but you're taking pictures or trying to

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target the oh, target the limo
with the what you'd normally like, Oh,

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yeah, I used the same mechanics
to shoot people. Oh you're shooting

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in a different way. Well,
you are shooting people, however, and

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then go like this at the end
of it, right, yeah, you've

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been shot before. I have been
shown. I have been shot. I

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have been shot. Have you played
Red Dead? I have? Yeah?

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That to me is one where Susan
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know her last name, but I
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here? Because I don't want to. I can people that have played the

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game. So when Susan Grimshaw meets
her, shall we just say her demise

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the end of her road. I
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games don't shoot in order, we
shoot out of order. And I got

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my lines for the scenes the night
before and I was like, oh my

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gosh, she's going to get shot. And I had no idea. And

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then it's this very she she believes
that she is really instrumental to the gang's

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success, that she is she has
made herself, transformed herself from being kind

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of just like this younger, sexy
girlfriend type to this old are invaluable member

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of the gang. And I think
that's how she has kept herself feeling like

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except yes, keeping herself useful.
Then when this big standoff happens and she

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gets shot by a trader we shall
not be named. The traitor is rated.

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Yes, she gets shot, and
because there is a big standoff happening,

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no one even checks on her.
So she's lying there, bleeding out

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and no one comes to check on
her. And here she's dedicated her life

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to these people. And then our
incredible director Rod Edge is behind me.

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I'm on a mat where I fell, and he's saying, like, one

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more moan, so I'm like in
the death rows and he'd whisper and I'd

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be like, oh, and it
goes when you see the scene, it

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goes on like throughout the dialogue and
still nobody checks. So oh, it's

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so sad. Wait, I'm intrigued. You said falling a matt. Is

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that just to get the authenticity or
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we did full Oh ask you that. It sounds like this is a very

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physical Red Dead is full performance capture, absolutely everything, Susan Grimshaw did.

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I did, Oh wow, I
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any buildings, right, No,
No, she just fell where she's How

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far do you have to you know, that's earning overtime. Yeah, yeah,

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yeah, so you were your own
stunt person. Yeah. So like,

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for example, if Susan is riding
a horse, which she does quite

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a bit, they have a structure
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of a horse, but it's a
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Maybe the actress kind of run off, might need a little step to step

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onto, but yeah, you swing
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hmm, like urban cowboy, yeah, but sort of sort of like an

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urban cowboy, but you're in this
big studio. And the cool thing about

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it is it's like theater in the
round because the player could enter from anywhere,

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so they have to capture it from
every angle. But they also want

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film acting, so you have a
camera right on your face and then everything

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like if I smoke, it's a
cigarette because the animators will that's a straw

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or a cigarette, and so the
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So it's like the best of all
our world's right, it's theater in the

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round, it's film on your face, and it's play pretend like when you're

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a kid. Wow, that's amazing. I had no idea. It was

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that bodacious. Oh my god,
what a word. It was. Bodacious.

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Yeah, it does. It sounds
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the way that sitting here with you
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bodacious. It's a bodacious thrill,
like a bodacious poster thrill. Ride right,

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Wow. Yeah, I was just
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you been told that before? No, it's been ours. I mean,

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you're just so incredible at what you
do and getting to talk to you a

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little bit while I've been here,
the kindness and the support that you show

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other performers, I'm getting a little
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part of them. A beautiful lineage. Yeah, gosh, that is lovely.

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Oh my gosh, good night everybody. I'm gonna go grab a cleanex.

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I mean, it's a privilege.
Thank you, thank you. Well,

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the privilege is all mine, and
that's it's a beautiful sentiment that is

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wonderful to hear. Thank you.
I feel great. Thank you. Now

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I can go back to being a
jerk and I'll even out. No one

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will know. I will know.
Just the scales are now balanced. And

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if someone ever says, you're mean, you just play them this clip.

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That's right, not according to miss
Grimshaw. Yeah, that's right, that's

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right. Before getting your roles and
working with Rockstar, what was your what

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was your disposure to video games in
like the video game world zero zero?

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I had no idea. So how
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a video game where you kind of
like confound just really disoriented because I didn't

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understand what it was. I didn't
know it was performance captured. They are

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so tight lips. So I did
my audition and I hope they don't hear

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this, but I got the material
and it was one of the worst scenes

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I'd ever read. And they had
said it's for a video game and it

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was violence. She was sheep,
but they didn't want it to leak that

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they were doing a sequel to Red
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was like, it was a prequel. Wow, that's pretty cool. It's

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a prequel. So that's when you
know something successful. Yeah, not only

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do sequels, they go late.
We should we do one? So you

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were on the right track. I
was on the right track, but I

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didn't know because I didn't know that's
what I was auditioning for. I knew

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nothing about Rockstar, and so it
was like this scene of this mom of

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a teenager who's really mean to her
daughter and calling her horrible names, and

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I was like, what was that? Except I really liked the casting director

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and I loved the woman I was
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it went really well. But then
I didn't hear anything for months, and

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so when they called and said you
worked, yeah, yeah, I forgot

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about it. I just forgot about
it because I didn't even know what it

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was I was auditioning for. I
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weird, and I don't like it, But then I really like these people.

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But of course the casting director had
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because they didn't want any material to
come out, and they just needed to

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see if I could be bossy and
vicious and cruel, and I could clearly.

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And when I got the job,
yeah, they told me when I

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got the job to report to the
van pickup wearing comfortable undergarments. God you

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get that too, huh. That
was all they told me, wearing comfortable

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undergarments. And I thought, what, what what are we going to be

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doing with my undergarments. First of
all, what's happening here? Well,

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the good news is you got the
job. I got the job. Yes,

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So you show up and you've got
to have like comfortable undergarments because they're

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putting you in this like re suit
with you know, computer balls all over

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it. Yeah, you have to
have something comfortable to wear under your motion

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capture suit. Wow. And yeah, and then that's where the journey started.

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And Rob Watoff was there my first
day and he plays John Marston,

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who was the star of the first
game. Sure, and maybe one of

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the kindest gentlemen I've ever worked with. Yeah. Yeah, we went to

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dinner with him that too long ago. He's just, you know, the

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kindest, loveliest, you know,
really supportive because I had no idea what

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he was doing, what I was
doing, and he said, well,

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you know, you'll pick it up. You'll pick it up. You've got

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this and I know we look weird
in these like scuba suits, but you

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won't even notice it after a while. And in fact that was true.

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Wow, that's amazing. Yeah.
I don't I don't have much experience with

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that at all, except Tom Kenny
and I we were cat dog and we

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had we had to. But you
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on a game show of all things
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a live game show, so we
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we were covered in all those little
motion sensors whatever they were. Yeah,

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I don't know what to call them. They're like little bellcrow balls, computer

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catches, which I usually only do
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interesting. But it was a live
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and thinking this is the damnedest thing
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by the time they got to you, they had it perfected. Yeah,

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well that was so cool. You
know, I shot Red Dead for four

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and a half years and yeah,
and the technology would advance, so sometimes,

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wow, you'd have to reshoot a
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you know, or our characters had
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they're they're writing based on what this
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Rockstar was that our characters evolved sort
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Isn't that cool? So that's very
little changes to early scenes based on

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how now like how we know her
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up so we now know this this
relationships, like to harken back to that

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scene with the slap right, like
that that one we did later where we

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sort of understood how that Susan Arthur
relationship is. And I remember the director

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was like, she is the only
person that could slap our and not get

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shot. Okay, So that's where
you got juice. That's so it's almost

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like not like a mother's son,
not like a brother's sister, but maybe

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like your best friend's mother who you're
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also tell you what to do,
Like are really specific and getting it right

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was so important to us. Yeah, so those types of things tightened up

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and changed as the relationships, you
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that's amazing. Yeah, yeah,
that's very cool. That's kind of interesting

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to hear that. The evolution.
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the characters in these games. It's
really something. Yeah, you must get

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a lot of fans that come up
and I don't know what to do well

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because I never played a video game
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meeting the fans is some of the
most rewarding stuff. Oh yeah. If

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com. Slash Gymcommings podcast and the
first convention I did was maybe six months

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after the release. I was actually
here in London, and I remember there

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was a long line of people coming
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them were women, which I was
not expecting hmmm. And I remember this

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woman came up to me and she
said, you know, I've got three

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kids and at the end of the
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what I want to do is play
this game, and that's how I

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disappear. And seeing a woman who
is a female character in middle age,

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who is not hyper sexualized, and
who gets to be bossy and gets to

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be kind of annoying and gets to
be you know, like mean, and

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still gets to have full agency within
this gang. She said, I don't

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see a lot of that, and
I really you know, identify and I

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thought, oh, we're storytellers because
at the end of the day, we're

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storytellers and representation. Right. So
she's you know, she's played a lot

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of video games and a lot of
you know, there are a lot of

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amazing female characters, but they're evolving, and so get to disappear into a

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first person shooter game, but get
to meet characters like me who are whole

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people. Yea, you know,
whole people and get to be you know,

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yeah, annoying and bossy and mean
and still and still be welcome into

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still the demise. You're still touching
people. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

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yeah, that's a really good point. I feel like you really hit the

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nail on the head that like,
female characters, especially in video games,

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are evolving, because I think traditionally
they were very over sexualized in video games,

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Like specifically in that world, it's
you know, absolutely characters like chun

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Lee and you know, just like
wearing pretty much nothing, but they're supposed

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to have like a full suit of
armor on or you know, oh yeah

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yeah. And even the brilliant protagonists
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a certain way, you know,
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initially until they sort of realized that
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lot of women playing. Yeah,
yeah, yeah, now you get games.

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what's the demographic at this point,
because it sounds like it evolves. Yeah,

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I have not. I have not
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all. That's good. So last
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Arizona, where our whole well not
our whole, but there were like fifteen

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of us there, the Vanderlinck Gang. We're pretty cool. It was pretty

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cool. Yeah, And they had
no idea how many attendees there would be

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because there weren't ticket sales. It
was confusing anyway. There were so many

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people there that the town ran out
of like food and water. And what

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amazed me was how people came from
everywhere. So I met like a brother

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and sister who had never been off
their Navajo reservation. Wow, you know,

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and this was like their connect I
mean it was incredible. A lot

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of mothers who brought their children who
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who had trouble making friends because of
that, who had then made a

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whole community through playing our game.
Yeah, I really, it's a nice

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contribution. It's a nice contribution,
my goodness. Yeah, So parents thanking

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me for, you know, for
giving their children something to do while they

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were locked down and not social and
really and really every kind of person,

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every kind of person. So that
to me is like you put the work

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out there and then I mean we
this game was released in twenty eighteen.

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I have not worked a day on
this game since twenty eighteen, and so

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to still be having people come up
it, you know, it's I don't

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know, it's really it's got to
be graying, it's got to be right,

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got to be very gratifying. Well, it's so nice to know that,

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you know, you can touch people, because you know, I get

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some of that too, And and
it's you helped people get through fill in

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the blank and clearly COVID absolutely you
know, sitting there and I could take

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this bloody mask off and thank God
for the you know, yeah up on

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the screen and yes, and making
finding a community that way. Yeah.

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So a lot of people that came
to Tombstone I'm sure you have this too,

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had never met in real life and
then they say, let's go to

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this convention. Yes, yeah,
that's awesome, you know, like meet

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each other and yeah, that was
really wow, really cool. That is

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Sona. Have you ever has anybody
ever come up to you cosplaying oh all

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the time? Why did I know? I kind of thought, so,

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I mean, yeah, I mean
that was amazing in Tombstone too, because

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it was record breaking Arizona heat and
they were all in their leathers and their

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hats and waiting all day and not
one person complain by the time they got

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in that room. There was no
indoor line. They were outside and there

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was no air fun in Tombstone.
In Tombstone, and they were in full

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costplay so corsets, and I mean, and they would get to the front

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of the line, and you know, I hugged more sweaty people because I

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felt like, A they earned it, you know, and and B because

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you know, I was sweaty too. But it really felt like we're doing

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this thing together. You know,
we're doing well. I'm sure there were

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a few men in courses as well, so that was that had to be

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just fun. Yeah, I mean
I sort of love that too. Gender

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is really good when it comes out
that there's anything wrong with that. No,

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there's nothing wrong. It's awesome.
Okay, I'm wearing one. Fine,

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are you? Let me say no? Let me say no. Maybe

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later. So what's your favorite part
about meeting the fans? Do you have

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a I hate the word favorite,
but maybe maybe a few things. Well,

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for me, it's it's nice to
know that you because well, just

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like you, you know, we're
in uh, we're in rooms. We're

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literally in padded cells that we speak
to have to speak into a microphone to

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talk to someone on. So it's
got a little you know, you know,

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not insane asylum. Okay, insane
asylum, but feeling to it.

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But it's it's nice to know that
what you're doing in a room with many

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many times nine times out of ten, you're alone. You know, the

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other actors aren't even there. That
it goes out. They put it together

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and they take your performance and next
thing you know, you're touching thousands,

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maybe millions of people and that,
and it's gratifying. And I've had people

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say that, you know, oh, Winn of the Pooh has gotten me

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through. You know, I had
this tragedy in my family. It was

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a horrible this, a horrible that. And and I remember one particular fellow

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years ago. He was probably twenty
years old, and he was a twin,

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but his sister was very sick.
She couldn't come to the convention.

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He you know, fraternal twins,
I guess, And he said that the

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Disney Afternoon helped him get through everything, period, because they lived in a

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very very very very tough part of
town. So they would get off the

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bus and run into the house,
lock the door, and they had a

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video cassette. We all remember those
video cassette recorder, and his mom every

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morning, when she had to go
to work, she would set the timer

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and record the Disney Afternoon. Well, I was literally on every show by

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Hooker by Croak, Thank you Jesus, and I pruly am grateful for that.

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But he, you know, he
said, eventually we started reading the

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credits and oh my gosh, he
was Monterey Jack. He was bonkers,

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he was dark wing, he was
and so they and it was very touching,

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and he was just so sad that
his sister couldn't be there. But

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he said, basically, he said, thank you for babysitting us, making

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sure we were safe, and you
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And I was like, oh man, thanks, I just thought I

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was going to work. Yeah,
you know. Yeah, so you don't

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you don't know, you don't have
a sense of it. Yeah, you

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tell these stories and you put your
whole heart into it and you do your

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best and you hear something like that, Yeah, I mean you you know,

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the impact you made on their lives
is something they will never forget.

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And to get a chance to be
told about it. Yeah, that's that's

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the benefit of this kind of thing, you know. That's it's so beautiful,

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so true. Well, I'm glad
you're a part of that world too,

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and I'm a part of yours now. Yeah, so thank you so

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much for having me. But before
we finish, Yeah, we got to

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do one thing really quickly. Oh
yeah, I love I love a one

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more thing. Tell me what we
like to do, like a voice swap

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on this show. So Jim will
do a line of one of his famous

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characters and then if you could repeat
it in a line of your famous characters

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and vice versas, that makes sense. Wait, am I doing it in

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my own voice? Or I'm trying
to imitate his voice? No, and

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you're like character in my character.
I'm going to do one of your lines.

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Okay, okay, okay, here's
asking a big favorite. Will you

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please pass the honey? Beautiful?
I hate to make it mean, but

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Arthur, will you please pass the
honey? I'm passing something. I'm passing

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that. Okay, Okay, Now
it's your time. So let's see what's

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a good one for me. Well, I don't want to be too gnarly.

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How about I don't care how you
feel, girl, get to work.

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Let's see who should that be?
Pooor tigger? Do you think tiger?

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I don't care, you Field girl? Good to boont In. I

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might have messed up the quote,
but thank you for it was so great.

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Oh my gosh, what an honor. Thank you for being here,

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fun, Thank you for having me
and Chris. Can you take us sure?

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Thanks a lot for watching everybody that
was a nut? Yes, it

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was sure was. Thanks a lot
for watching everybody that was Another episode of

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much for watching another episode of Tuned
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in the next one. Thank you, Thank you, buddy. That's terrific.

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You were dose mucho