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I Am all In.

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I Am all In with Scott Patterson

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an iHeartRadio podcast.

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Hey Everybody, Scott Patterson, I Am all In Podcast

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one eleven productions, iHeartRadio, I Heart

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Media, iHeart Podcasts. One

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on one Interview, Season seven,

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Episode three, and we

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have very special guest. Hannah Lee appeared

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as Charlotte Courtwright, the little girl that

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answered the door in the very first scene for

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one episode. You only did the one episode show.

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It was one of the young girls Emily was

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mentoring for Katillion. Let's

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talk about her bio a little bit. She's

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an actress's a singer, well,

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let's get into that too. Featured on Swat,

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Body of Proof, mad Men, Bones Lone Star

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Without a Tray's Kicking It, and more

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recent in the Sex Lives

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of College Girls. Hannah is also

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an indie pomp singer songwriter

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with music available on all streaming

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platforms. That's exciting. So

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let's talk about Hannah.

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How you got the role on

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Gilmore Girls and welcome to the show.

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Thank you, thank you. This is like such

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a treat. I couldn't believe it when I got the Invice

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is so fun. I love reliving the

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days of Gilmore Girls. So I'm stoked

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how I got the role. It

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was the classic, Like Jamiwdowsky

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was the casting director at the time for my

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episode, and I think the whole show, and

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I just remember it was a really positive experience.

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You never know what you're going to get as a condector in the room,

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and it was the classic. I think

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pre read in two callbacks, and she

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was such a light and I remember feeling

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really comfy and the casting process

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was pretty easy. It was nice.

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How old were you at the time, ten.

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Eleven, ten or eleven?

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Yeah, what's

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that like being so young and

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being involved in the business at that

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level?

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I could write a thesis on that question.

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I love to keep it short for you. I

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think I started in the industry

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at the age of four. My first was

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four years old, so I didn't have tangible

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memory of not being an actor.

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So by the time I got to Gilmore Girls,

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it had been six years of my life,

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of my very developmental life. So

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it was just something I was so used to

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doing that it didn't feel

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like anything abnormal, which I think a lot of other

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child actors might have a different take

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or maybe the same, but to me, it was all

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I knew, So it was. It was

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just kind of like the life

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I had.

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Right fit like a glove, all natural.

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There you go, this is what I do. It's not a

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big deal. I've always done it.

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Yeah, yeah, exactly and that other

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things. But yeah, for me at the time,

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it was just another another day,

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another audition.

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Were you a fan of the show before you auditioned?

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I didn't watch it. I was I

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think maybe on the lower age

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end as far as like understanding the amazing

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intelligent comedy. But

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my mom and my sister were like stoked

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about that girl. My

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mom was like over the moon, and I

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actually recently

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just started binging gol my girl's blued or

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not? And I'm like,

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where has this been all my life? I can't believe it took me so

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long too. Wow.

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All right, so now you're on the set with Kellie Bishop

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ed Herman. Did they offer any kind of sage advice?

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What would they like?

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Yeah? I remember feeling

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so welcomed in a way that

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maybe it hadn't clicked before on a set

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because I felt included

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in a professional and kind

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way, and I didn't feel like I was treated like a

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little kid for maybe the first

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time. I remember that feeling really

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special, like I was just as respected

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as everybody else on that set, and

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Lauren in particular, she gave

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me a lot of comfort on those days. I mean,

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the dialogue is crazy, the

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pace is crazy on that show,

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and I don't think I had done anything like it.

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And I remember that on one of the days,

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I was given like a new paragraph

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of dialogue, like at lunch or something,

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and I couldn't It

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wasn't happening for my brain, Like it was

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not happening. It was a big paragraph.

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And I remember Lauren pulled me aside and she was like

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all of us on set like trip up

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on these this dialogue, like it is crazy

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fast, You're not alone. And I just remember

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feeling so comforted by all

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of them about the type

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of show. But it was it was a positive experience.

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Yeah, she was great like that with guest stars. She always

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made them feel welcome and comfortable help

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them. Yeah, it's

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nice to see because not everybody, not

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every number one is like that.

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No, not at all, but yeah, she was.

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Yeah, she was great at that. So

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did you after you filmed the episodes? Your parents

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like you watch it? Yeah, there is

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some content in there that's a little racing.

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You know, I don't think I think even my own

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like in my own scenes, Like there's a line where,

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uh, I think Laura makes a joke about

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if I'm going to have a drink and if I'm driving home that

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night, and I'm like, like, Laura, I'm only

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ten. I don't even think I understood what I

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was saying. Like, I think my parents knew that

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watching it wasn't going to be anything because

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I just there yet. I

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was like, yeah, I watched it.

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It was it was cute, right

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right right. I thought

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it was very funny that that was really funny.

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It was a good one. It was fun.

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It was such a great scene.

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Thank you.

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Uh

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uh So, really, what was

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it like growing up as a child actor?

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How were you different from other kids?

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Did you feel different from other

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kids? Did they treat you differently?

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Yeah, I mean it was a weird kind

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of balance because on one end of

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the of the

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stick, you got like the kids who were so

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excited to be your friend because you were on Disney Channel

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and you were like someone that they could

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watch on their television. And on the other

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end, there was like that kind of isolated

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feeling of nobody is experiencing what I'm

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experiencing in my day to day life, but

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I'm being celebrated for it, but I don't

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know where the real aspect

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of that comes along. Is like being an outcast

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and having friends. I also, like, didn't

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go to school. I was homeschool because of acting,

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so I found a lot of I found

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a lot of my friendships, like in dance,

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because I grew up dancing as well. And

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actually, a very fun fact, a lot of the little

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extras on this episode

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were from my dance studio, and I

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didn't know that they were hired as

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extras until I got on set that day and

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we were kind of like, why are you here? Why are you here?

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Like to make you feel comfortable going on?

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Sure, But I had actually just started at

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that dance studio, so I didn't really know

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all of them, so it was kind

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of this, like why does Hannah have lines?

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Like what's going on?

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Right? Right right, right right?

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But they're some of my best friends to this day.

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Still.

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That's great, Yeah, that's

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great. So you're also a

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singer songwriter? Yeah, yeah,

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that's interesting. I'm a

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songwriter. I wouldn't call myself a singer

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by any stretch of the imagination, but I've been writing songs

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my whole life. Who

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are your influencing I.

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Would say like current day influences

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are like the paper Kites, Passenger

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Boy, Genius. Older

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influences I just grew up on like sixpence on

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the Richer, Johnny Mitchell Taylor,

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James Taylor. But

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I am definitely driven by the singer songwriter,

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more folk side of me. I

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think I just grew up that way. As

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I'm kind of coming into my

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own as an adult, I'm definitely exploring

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pop as a genre as well. It's fun,

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it makes me happy at shows to play,

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So I'm kind of melding those two worlds.

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Right now, are you? Are you writing a lot

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of pop songs?

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Yeah, I'm I'm about to release my

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second EP this year really

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kind of it's le leaning into that

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more pop rock. I have a

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couple of those classic singer songwriter

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acoustic things on the EP, just because

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that's where I feel so at home.

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But I'm excited to like explore the

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stuff that's like fun to me.

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Right right, That's that's great. Are

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you Are you signed with anybody

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or no? Right?

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No, I I'm just

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doing it all on my own at the moment. I

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just I just played a show at the Troubadour

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last year, which kind of felt

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like the biggest moment for

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my career so far.

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And then How to Go. How to Go?

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It was great, we sold out. I had the best

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side of my life, but I

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lost my mind.

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Did you film it?

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Yeah?

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I mean there's videos like it

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was truly the greatest night I think of

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my life. I'll probably say until maybe my wedding,

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but yeah, everyone

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I could have ever met was there. It was It

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was truly special, and so I feel

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like that was a really big catalyst for

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like what's to come for this year's release.

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Oh that's good, Good for you. All

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Right, we're gonna play a game called rapid

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Fine, it doesn't mean

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you have to answer quickly, but here, how

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do you like your coffee?

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I like it with three sugars and oat

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milk?

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Okay? Are your team Logan, Team Jess

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or Team Dean?

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Uh?

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Okay, I'm definitely not Team

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Jess, but I'm only on season

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three?

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Mean, why aren't your

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team Chess?

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Sorry? I'm so sorry.

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No, No, you don't have to apologize.

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I just he hasn't stolen

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my heart yet. He was you

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know, didn't yet screwing

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up.

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He's screwing up a lot. Yeah,

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who's your favorite Gilmour couple? Luke and

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Laura, Emily and Richard.

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Oh, Luke and Laura, Like there

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you go.

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Of course, the only answer is would

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you rather work with Michelle or Kirk?

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O?

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God, I feel like Michelle

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and I would weirdly get along, Like I feel like I can find

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the sweet spot?

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Mm hmm, okay, right,

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yeah, Kirk would be hard to Yeah, that's

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that would be a daily.

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Sort of a challenge.

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Fun to watch for other people

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that maybe not being in the pocket.

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With that on a TA think I'd find Kirk.

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Who would you rather hang out with? Paris

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or Lane?

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All?

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Lane?

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But Paris is such a sweet spot

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in my heart.

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She's a tender flowers.

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But Lane's cool.

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Harvard or Yale? Or drop out and

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live in the poolhouse?

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Mm hmm Harvard O g

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dream? Why not?

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Would you rather attend a D A R Event with

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Emily or a town meeting with Taylor?

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Town meeting?

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Oh?

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Yeah, I want to have meeting.

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Gilmore. Girl's character that you would

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want as a roommate?

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Mmm. I'm

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gonna say Emily because I want to live in that house.

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And I want the I want to I want that

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cool room that they have as

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kids.

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Okay, uh, something in your

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life you are all in on. I

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think I already know what that is.

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Oh I

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I'm going to say A happy answer is loving

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my people. I love people

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and I just want to be here to spread

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love and if that's through art, then that's

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how I do it. But that's what I'm all in on all

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the time.

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Well that's fantastic. Listen,

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it's We're going to talk a

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little bit after we're finished

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here about some things. But thanks

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for coming on. It's been a pleasure.

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Thank you for sharing with us. Good luck with your singing

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and songwriting career. Thank you and

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all the best to you too.

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This is so fun. Thank you,

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