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With Mario Littpez Mario

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Lopez join me now on zoom from the new Save

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by the Bell actor Mitchell ho Welcome

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to the show Man. How you doing, hog, I'm

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doing good man. How are you? I'm doing well?

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You look like you are in the festive spirit right

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there with a serious Christmas sweater. Some

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time you have to come on? Where are you at the moment?

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I'm in l A. I'm my my place.

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Okay, so you got your own place out here now? Nice?

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I do? Yeah, I go back. I'm gonna go home for

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for a little bit and see the fam and catch up

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with them and home. Um, correct

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me if I'm wrong? Is Colorado correct? Correct?

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Yep, yep? Where exactly? So?

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I grew up Fort Collins until I

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was like thirteen, and then moved to Steamboat,

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which is a little ski town, and then did

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Breckon Ridge, which is another little ski town.

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So I kind of hopped around. Oh dude,

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you are a ski Would a guy be a ski

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bunny? What do you call guys? Ski?

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Bay? Hogy?

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You know what, I've never been skiing in my

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life. I've never been. Am

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I too old to learn? Can you give a brother lesson or

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what's up. I don't snowboard,

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so I can give you some snowboarding lessons. Well, I can

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serve I might that might exactly

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the same. You don't need to learn anything. Well no, but I'm

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saying I got pretty good balanced. So you know,

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if you take me down a little a little bunny one is that

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they're called. Look, if you can box the

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way you do, you can snowboard. I promise you

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that. Thank you, brother. I'm athletic. I'm gonna trust

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you. Don't don't send me down a bad hill. I see a

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surgeon, I see I'm

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seeing multiple in. These guys are haters. Don't listen

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to Look, I've been to Breckon Ridge.

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It's amazing. The name dropper, Yeah,

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talents it uh it

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know it sounds beautiful. And I have another but incredible

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things. And I didn't know you were like a competitive

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snowboarder. Is that true? Yeah?

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I was a pro am up until up

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until about sixteen seventeen.

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That's on them. Concussions came

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into play and I had stopped. Oh so you

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had some whiteouts? Huh, yeah, it

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was it do We would break We would break

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two to three helmets a year. We're

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were you hitting in the middle, We

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just the tree. What were you hitting? So

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the way? Because I did slopes out so jumps

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and rails. So when you're

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going off a seventy ft jump, you're going

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fifty miles an hour. And then when you land

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how hard they packed the snows you can get

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speed concrete.

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Oh yeah, I can imagine all your I

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mean, my legs would be bruised every single

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week from falling. Oh man, oh yeah, I got

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a whole new respect for you player. I didn't know you were you

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were a serious athlete. That's awesome, man, because

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you're a great actor. You're doing a great job

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on the show. But how did you? How

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did you? I don't think I've ever asked you. How was the audition

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process? And um, I could never

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make any of the castings, but they did a great job.

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I would see the tapes. I said, I like that kid,

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Elizabeth is there, I think on a few of them. Yeah, I

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know I was supposed to be, but I'm a little busier

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than her. Yeah.

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I kind of looked to the like original I

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guess you'd call like the classic auditioning process.

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Like I got the original breakdown

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from my Atlanta agent and l A UM

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and then I got callbacks on both and

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so then my whole team kind of combined and

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said, okay, you know, let's go in UM

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in l A and do the callback. So I went

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into the callback and then we did I

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want to say, we did two screen tests, and

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I went straight from the screen tests to

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the airport to go to

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another job in New Mexico. And

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so right before I was about to get on the flight, my

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agent called name is like, Yo, like you

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got it of

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the moments where I was kind of like like

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I want to celebrate and I have to go go do another

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job. You got a little pepping your

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step going to the next job. Man, Well it

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was well deserved. Like I said, you're you're killing

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it and a lot of fun to work with right there. You of course

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played Mac Morris uh in the

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news say by the bell son of Zack Morris.

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Uh, be honest, did you ever watch the show growing

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up? Because you're a little young. I didn't.

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That's okay, I wouldn't either know

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you did it? So did you? So did

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you once you got the role? Did you do a big, a

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big binge deal? It

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was funny, So I actually didn't. I

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did not want. You just said it, I'm gonna co

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show up pretty

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much like pretty much was like, you know, due

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to you know, how Tracy Wigfield

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or show runner wrote it. It's like it's not even

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really a reboot. It's almost kind of like a reimagined

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Bay Side. It's exactly like I wanna, you

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know, I didn't want to copy anything that that Mark

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did because he did such a good job back then, so I kind

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of wanted how would you know you didn't see it? Okay,

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the one thing that I did want was that it was Zack

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Morris's trash.

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You saw like a cliff note. You saw like a cliff

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Note version. I love that. Like, hey, I'm not gonna

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prepare that's gonna I'm just gonna

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watch like one episode. I'll be fine. I'll watch

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the spoof. I love

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it, which is so perfect for your character. It's, uh,

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it's hilarious. Man. How would you describe

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Mac? I think Mac

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is the number one. I

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think he's the epitome of what white privilege

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would be, and I think he abuses

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that to get anything he wants. But it's not

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out of you know, a

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a need for trying to actually

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get revenge it people, or actually get it people.

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I think it's just to cure this luxurious

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boredom that privilege does bring. Um

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he capitalizes on it. Yeah,

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exactly. Yeah, he's a player, king

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of the school, and I get everything

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I want at the end of the day. Yeah. Hey, man,

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that's a fun. That's a fun If you would watched the original series,

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you know, it's just like Zach, like

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father, like son. Um also in

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the works, man, the conjuring, the Devil

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made me do it? What can you tell me about that? Um?

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Actually can't say a ton about that. I

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play young Ed UM. So there's

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Edin Lorraine Um within

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the storyline. If you've seen have you seen the first two?

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I like him so you know they are

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kind of the main log line that carries

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throughout of the investigation. UM,

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and I'm I'm the young them of the flashbacks.

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Can you at least answer, did the Devil make you

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do it? I

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can't answer? Who

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is it? Patrick Wilson? Who's the actor? Patrick Wilson,

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Patrick Wilson, Yeah, yeah, I was right in Vera. Yeah,

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so you're young Patrick Wilson, Young Patrick Wilson.

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I got it. Nice casting right there, And I'm just making

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a career on playing young people of Well,

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that's true. I didn't think about that. Hey that's a good thing

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though, that's a good thing. Um, Hey,

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how did you try? I should have asked you this

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before. How did you transition from snowboarding

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to acting? My whole family is

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in the arts. So my sisters in theater. She was

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pepper on for musical theater. Um.

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And then my brother is a tattoo artist,

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and then he's the lead singer in a band. And

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he did singing or singing and theater

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back in high school. So I feel like I

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was always exposed to it, but kind

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of consciously, I feel like I knew

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that was a road that I can always go down due

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to constantly going to plays and all of

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that got it. So once the time came,

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I found a little studio and called a E

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C which is Brown, Niccoley and John Crockett

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with them for two years and

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then I just film Bok got the acting bug.

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I guess you could say, yeah, well well it worked

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out right there. Um you can you're gonna be

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home for the holidays or what you're doing? I

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am, yeah. We have we have

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between this and then I have aftermasks, which

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is another film that's coming out, um,

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which I produced, wrote and

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I like it. Thank you, thank you, thank

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you. So I'm doing press on that too. So yeah. But home

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for the holidays but also kind of a working

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holiday. Happy for you real quick, because

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I follow you on social media. You're one of the few,

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um young people that you

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kind of rarely post. Is

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that by design or um?

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I think it's how it was raised. Like I wasn't

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raised even like video games. A lot of people

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played video games when they were younger. I never we

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had a we I think, but we

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never like I never had Xbox for any

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of that. Um, it's just never really

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been this thing in my life that I

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put a lot of energy into. Some when social

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media came along, I kind of took

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the same conception of it and was kind of like, you know, all posts

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when I need to because of our industry and because of work,

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but I'm not going to egg on people to spend

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hours a day on it. Yeah. No, I respect

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that, respect that you still follow me though. Right. Oh

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yeah, you know, dude, I'm hell of funny.

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You should keep up all

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your kids and their TikTok dances. Come on, thanks

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my mansy okay, cool, all right. Look,

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before I let you go, I'm gonna put you on the spot, HOGI

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quick questions, quick answers. All right, favorite

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show you've binge during Quarantine? Um

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the Wire m N. Favorite

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Christmas song? Um?

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Sam is coming to Town? Is that is that? Yeah?

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Sam Claus coming down? Yeah. Celebrity

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crush growing up? Um,

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Zoey Kravitz, What

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are you like? Six? It's

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got good taste. So all time favorite

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Christmas gift. I'm

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more recycle. You

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write a lot still I do. Yeah.

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Me and Mark bonded on that because his Oh

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yeah, yeah, yeah, he used to it. Yeah, that's right. I

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raced for seven

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years. What was that right along with you?

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It's the best part of the nineties. Oh

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the Flair jeans. The

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Flair jeans. Hey,

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I just don't know a low to do that. Rock those right there?

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I still rock them? He

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respect I love it. Hey man, good catching up

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with you. Congratulations on everything,

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proud do you hope to see you in person soon?

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And everyone listen watch did

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you say by the bell on Peacock?

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HOGI, thanks for checking in, buddy,

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all right, Later with Mario a little

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bit