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You're on with Mario Lopez. It's

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Mario Lopez joining now in studio

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from the Netflix show Selling Sunset.

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Actress Chris Shell Hardley. How are you welcome

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to the show. Thanks for having me. I'm good.

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So, Okay, a couple of things I want

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to talk about first, because I

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I love real estate and I've

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always been sort of fascinating. My mom actually

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got me really into it at a young

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age. She was like, Mi, whole um,

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they're not making any more of it, so

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you might as well try to get a little

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something. And it's very conservative, right, it's

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very sort of conservative investing. And

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so I I really like these shows and

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it's fascinating how they've been able to kind of

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make so many and yet they're all still successful.

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So for those not familiar, tell

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me about this show, Selling Sunset. Okay.

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So, Adam Devello is our creator and

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the show if you check it out, it might seem a little familiar

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because he created Laguna Beach in the Hills,

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and so I would say it's kind of a mix of

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that meets million dollar listing. So

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you've got does

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the drama come from

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the purchases or the inquiries

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or it's just sort of like a little like Vanderpump Rules,

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Like there's the restaurant and then you get

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to know the people and then their drama outside

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of the deal. It's a little bit of that. And then it's

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also you know, it's a competitive market

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and we all work in the same office, so there's some

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competition within agents

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and clients. So there's that, but then there's also

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some personal drama that comes in. I

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it all gives me anxiety. I'd much rather like

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deal with the real estate. But of course, you

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know this stuff that really does happen.

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It's very competitive in the office and it's

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kind of cut throughout in the luxury real estate

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market, so it kind of gives you

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a look into you know, this

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high end world. And I'm the newbie

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joining the office. That's kind of the show follows

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me joining this tight knit group. So

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it is, um, there is some

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drama that happens, just as it would but

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it's definitely UM. I'm

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not the vestal because it literally the draw my part

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gives me. But

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um, but it's hard. I mean is that we deal with

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a lot of this, a lot of like competition

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and stuff, so it's tough. I

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was gonna say, is it like prison on the first day you just go

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in and attack someone? Yeah?

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You really the soap

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and you you bring your ship? How

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did how did it come about for you? So?

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Actually, I when I I've

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been doing soap operas for almost my

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whole adult life, which um, I loved.

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But sometimes you're not working and the phone doesn't ring,

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you're between jobs, and so I

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kind of, um was investing on my own

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and so it's just kind of something that naturally I

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was interested in, kind of like what you were saying.

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But then so I was like, Okay, this is actually

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something I can turn into a side career when I'm not

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working on a soap Barbara, and so

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it kind of started that way, and I just,

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you know, slowly started helping like different friends

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that needed to buy a house or whatever.

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And then lo and behold, I got

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approached to do the show, which was kind

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of nice because it didn't conflict

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they worked, they were happy to work around

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my Days of Our Lives schedule, so it was

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a little crazy but fun. Yeah, and

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so now I I feel like I I do both,

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which is nice. So you kind of got the best of both

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the world. So smart too, because so many people just sort of

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kind of sit around either wait for the phone

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to ring or get stressed. Good for you to

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have that sort of hustle mentality and to do

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something that you like and then it ends up kind of

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working out, uh, and you get to kind

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of service both things ironically, right. I know,

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it definitely didn't. I didn't start out with that

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in mind, but it's kind of been a little Christmas

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So it's it's good. Yeah, And uh,

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what's this about your first name? It doesn't have to do with the

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day you were born or what's going

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on there. Okay, so um,

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okay, So my mom, this is back when

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the Shell stations had like a where you could

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get your car serviced, and so she

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was getting her car worked on and she actually

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went into labor at the Shell station and

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the guy that was helping her, he was holding her hand. He called

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the ambulance. I wasn't born at a Shell station. But

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he was just so lovely with her and calmed

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her down. And his name was Chris. She wanted

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to kind of name me something with Chris and it,

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and so she literally just stuck the two together,

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Chris and Shell. That's

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awesome. That's the best story

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I ever heard for her name right there. While Yeah,

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that happens to be so flattered. I

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guess I need to meet him. I actually haven't met

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him as an adult. Wow. Good thing she wasn't

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at like a union seventy six. That's

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my dad likes to say. Id thing it wasn't a Texico.

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You'd beat Chris Texica.

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That's his Thanksgiving joke. Every day, much

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better life. Um So, getting back

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to the show for for a second. I've had

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a couple of friends out of have binge watched and they

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really like it and stuff. What's been the reaction from

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most people? Actually, it's

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so funny because we took you know, we filmed this over

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the course of well over three months, and it's

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just so funny to get the feedback. People are watching it

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in one day and they're like, okay, one season two.

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So that's good. I mean, the feedback has been incredible

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and so supportive and nice. Um.

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I feel like it's been encouraging,

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and I feel like that's what Netflix wants. I think their

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whole model is that they want you to bene it. So I

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think it's doing really well. So that's exciting. People

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are I'm a little surprised. I mean, they're

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literally watching it one day, so it's been

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great. Would you be interested in doing another

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season? I would be, I. I

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I would be. I definitely, you

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know, like you said, I would rather

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focus a little more on real estate side

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of it. But um, you know, this drama

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really does happen even when the cameras aren't there, so I

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guess it really is part of it. So um

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that part stresses me out, but you know what, I'm a team

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player. I think it's uh. I would definitely

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be on board for season two. Yeah. Yeah,

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once you kind of get the hang out, you kind of navigate

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and you can kind of see and they get

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clever with that editing though, because

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I do feel that's true. I feel like the first time I

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didn't really know what I was doing because I'm so used to scripted

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and I was like, wait, what is she doing? But now

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I feel like I would have a little bit more of um

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my sea legs under me. But um, just

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like you said, you never know because with the editing, you're

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still putting it out there and just hoping for the

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best. Add that music and forget about you

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did return the two days of our lives. After

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taking some time off and stuff. What was it like going

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back to the show. It's fun. I

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have to say, Um, they kind

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of brought me on totally different. The first time I was on,

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my character was really sweet and nice and

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and a little timid, and this time

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she's full blown crazy. So I feel like, if you're

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ever going to come back to a soap, this

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is I mean, it's I'm injecting people

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with barbiturates and I'm

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kidnapping kidnapping babies. It's

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it's a lot of fun. Awesome. That's

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a fun character to bring some of that

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on to the Selling Sunset, to

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the Selling Sunset. Gonna take notes

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from Jordan's Are they still

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shooting that right here in Burbank at

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the yea? Yeah,

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I interviewed. I remember there was a couple

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forget their names, that they were like nineties

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something, ninety. They're like ninety.

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They've been on the show for like sixty years

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exactly, and they live right here in to Luca Lake. It

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was such an idea, you know what I'm talking about? Do I

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do? They're so lovely?

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They are, Yeah, they are. It's so funny.

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Do that a lot with you know, there's certain matriarchs

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and stuff where like Susan Lucci

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was like that did your Hall. You know

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you've got um Victor Newman

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with Eric Braden, So I feel like they

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it's kind of cool. I feel like that is what makes

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people, makes people latch

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onto them and feel like it's like home because they watch

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it with their grandma and maybe their grandma isn't

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here anymore, so it's nice. It becomes generational.

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Yeah, Um, and your husband,

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Justin Harley, very nice guy. I

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got to do a fun little scene with him on

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the on the show I Know You're this is

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a star boy.

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His character in particular has reference

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to me like three times. I know. Do

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you know? Do you get that? Because that's one of my wife

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and I we have are She has her shows

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that she watches her Housewives and whatever by

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herself, and then I have my show I watched, like

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my Narcos and you know, and then

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we have our couples watch shows. Those

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are important. I'm not allowed to DVR cheat on

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her with the couples watch you can't do that. So

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this is us is at the top of our list and our couples

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watch shows, so we're only I think

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we're only like an episode behind right

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now, so we didn't see the finale,

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and so obviously I gotta wait. So I think we're trying.

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We're trying to get to that tonight. But anyway, and

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watching the show, and I think, as a matter of fact, the very

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first episode, I gotta shout out and

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he's referenced me like a couple of times that it's

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so funny. And then finally I got to

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be on the show. But then I ended up on the phone. That

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was a kind of a weird kind of

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this was such a big deal. They were so excited

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he was going to be on This is Us. And then when it came out,

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he's like, now

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see that editing. It

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was the editing that was a total shady move,

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right, But no, I uh it was it was.

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It was really cool and it was a lot of fun. He's he's a super

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super nice guy. So the finale happened,

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Uh last week? Did you does he

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fill you in? Does he get to know what

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happens throughout the season or they get

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the scripts just one week at a time? Right, Well,

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normally the creator will include them in so they

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know where the story is going, right, But I

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you know, I really try and stay spoiler free. The scripts

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will literally be laying on our kitchen

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counter. Yeah,

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even last night, Like you know, obviously

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in l A, we get to watch the show a few hours

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after everybody else is on Twitter tweeting about

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it from New York. So I I even

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like go dark on the internet. I'm like, I

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do not want it to be spoiled. If I went this long

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with those scripts sitting around, I don't want it to be

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spoiled the last few hours on Twitter.

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So I really every

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once in a while run scenes with him, but only if,

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um, it's something that doesn't spoil a huge story.

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He'll be like, because sometimes we'll go to run a scene

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for lines and he'll be like, you know what, never mind,

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it'll give too much away. Yeah,

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yeah, I know. He's really good and he has to play buzz

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drunk a lot, which is difficult, and it does a

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really good job. And the last

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one we saw we might be too behind

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because the last one we saw is when he was he

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was acting like it was drinking water was actually vodka in the hospital

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And what are the pressing episode? By the way, you

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don't know what's good the baby and the whole. I'm

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like, oh my god. But it

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is very interesting how they go back and forth. And

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he's got a cool younger version of himself too, the

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younger versions of itself, the real

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younger one or in the middle ones kind of brady rightly,

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but the other one. Yeah, but no, the show

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is definitely on our DVR as far

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as the couple's watch right there. I feel like you guys

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are like the finale. I feel like, you know, it definitely

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has happier. That was a

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heavy episode, but just stick it out,

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stick it out. But I like Kevin. I

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don't have to have everything, so you know,

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happy all the time, So I like it, which is cool. All

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right. I want to put you on the spot right here. Quick questions, quick

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answers. Okay, okay, go to karaoke

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song? Oh um, you know a classic

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you ought to know? Lantis MORI set Okay,

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it's aggressive. Yeah, I didn't get that answer

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to figure last movie you saw

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in theaters? Um

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it was, Oh isn't it romantic? I took

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Bella. She's fourteen, so that's right down her

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alley. That's the one. Which

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one is that with um Rebel

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Wilson? Right? Yes, yes, because

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I was like vaguely familiar with it. Yes, yes, celebrity

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crush growing up. Um,

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Jonathan Taylor Thomas J

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T. T. We've had j A. T. T. It's a certain

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era shout outs. Where

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are you from? Originally Kentucky, Kentucky?

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Well, part western Kentucky. It's really

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small. It's called draft Inville. Okay,

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Ville, Okay, where's your

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accent? Well? If this you

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know what, if this was vodka moments,

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I would start talking like that. There's certain or there's

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certain words that you say that it comes out all

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I have to. I have to underline them in scripts, like brother.

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I try. It's really hard for me not to I

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say brother instead of like I have to

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lift my mouth almost my whole head

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when I say brother. Otherwise

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I want to go brother. Yeah yeah, How

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far are you from? Louisville? Three hours?

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Okay? Yeah? Yeah, I was supposed

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to go to the Derby. Uh this year so

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much fun? I know, I you know, I been a couple

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of years in both times it rained. Oh I was

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once rain too, which is kind

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of yeah, but it's is someone and those men julips are good.

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Um. Plus you already had the hat picked out. I

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had the whole common looking

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like a boss man. Okay,

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I'm gona have to say it for next year. Uh nickname

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growing up? Mm hm, Smiley,

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it was just our Twinkie. I I

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can't remember, but I don't even remember the way

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that came about. I think, well, Smiley's

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a little bit. I don't remember how Twinkie came

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about. And then my uncle had They're

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all bad. I don't know. I don't

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even what. I don't want when

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you got such a great history of your real name,

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you know what I mean? Right there? Time travel

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destination? Sorry what time

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travel destination? Um,

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let's see. How about the eighties? Just

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fun? Just go back to the yeah,

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why not any particular uh

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point in the eighties. Um,

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let's see, it was a big like

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that's when new kids on the block came out, and

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I was like teasing my hair, trying to be cool.

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But I was little, um

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not specific, I mean stayed by the bell.

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But that's that's more nineties. That's more nineties,

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that's right, yeah,

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style right, right, that's not always kind

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of like the fashion was like

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transitioning from nineties.

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Yeah, exactly. Um, the coolest

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person you sold the house too. It was the nicest

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person dis Justin Harley

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count Really

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yeah, of course he's got a great agent. Very

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cool, very cool. Well.

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Meanwhile, if you haven't seen it, check it out. Selling

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Sunset is available now on Netflix.

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You can follow her on Instagram at Chris

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shell Hardly. Thanks so much, stuff by, thank you for

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having me on with Mario

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Lopez