Dane DeHaan (The Stranger); Chris O'Dowd & The Cast of The Big Door Prize

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In this episode of Pop Culture Weekly, it's all about The Stranger. I

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talk to Dane Dehn from there,
and the cast of Apple TV plus Is

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the Big Door Prize. Let's go
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pop Culture Weekly with Kyle McMahon.
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thank you so much for hanging out
with me and talking and discussing and hanging

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out all about pop culture. So
this episode we've got some great interviews.

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I talk with Dane Dehn once again, this time about The Stranger, which

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is really good. We have a
pretty lengthy discussion about that. I also

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talk with the cast of Apple TV
plus is the Big Door Prize season TI

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who is out? And I talked
to the cast once again, including Chris

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O Dowd, Gabrielle Dennis, Josh
Segara, Ali Machi, and David west

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Reid. So it is a full
episode with a lot of great interviews.

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So let's hop right into it.
First up, let's talk with Dane.

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So the film The Stranger. This
was originally on Quibi. You remember,

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you may remember back when Quibi debuted. I did a lot of work with

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them, and that was an interesting
experiment that didn't necessarily work, but I

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liked it, and you know,
they ended up shutting down, but that's

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our right. A lot of the
content went to other places, and The

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Stranger is one of them. So
The Stranger now is available exclusively on Hulu.

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It's a great series. It's a
crime thriller, you know, one

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of those kind of things where the
premise is that a ride share drive is

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thrown into her worst nightmare when a
mysterious passenger enters her car, and her

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terrifying, heart stopping ride with the
Stranger unfolds over twelve hours as she navigates

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la in a chilling game of cat
and mouse. Dane plays Carl and does

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an incredible job. You may know
Dane as Billy the Kid in The Kid.

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He was in Oppenheimer as Kenneth Nichols
Valerian and Valerian and a City of

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Thousand Planets, Lockhart in a Cure
for Wellness, Harry Osborne and Green Goblin

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in the amazing Spider Man two and
so many other great projects. I talked

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to him back in twenty twenty one
for Stephen King's Lisses Story, which was

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really great as well. So let's
just get right into my talk about The

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Stranger on Hulu with Dane Dihan.
Well, first of all, Dane,

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thank you for speaking to me about
The Stranger. I really appreciate it.

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Yeah, no problem, So tell
me a bit. You know this it

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has an interesting journey, this project, where originally it was on Quibi as

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kind of these you know, chopped
up into many episodes. Now it is,

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uh, you know, you're seeing
it as a full film. What

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is that like for you as an
actor? You know, to see a

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project kind of take on two different
lives. Uh. Yeah, I mean,

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look, it's it's surprising, you
know, But I'm really I'm really

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happy for Viena the director. I
mean, you know, I think she

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she put a lot of time and
energy into this project, and so the

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fact that and she obviously continues to
and it's something she's passionate about. So

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I'm really happy that, you know, mostly for her, I'm happy that

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it's it's getting a second or third
life. Or whatever, and people are

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gonna finally get the chance to maybe
more eyes on it than has been in

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the past. And when you originally
you know, back in I guess it

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was what like twenty twenty or something
that it debuted on Quibi and obviously you

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had filmed it before that. What
originally drew you to the Stranger? Well,

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first of all, you know the
director. I think Viena has made

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incredible things before, like the Killing, and you know, I think that

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talking to her, I really trusted
her. She seemed to have a really

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strong sense of story and character.
And so when I read the script,

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it seemed like it seemed like this
character that was just gonna be like a

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lot of fun. You know,
I've played bad guys in the past,

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but there was something just purely evil
about this character that seemed like something I

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can indulge in. And you know, it seemed like, yeah, it

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just seemed like it was gonna be
a lot of fun. Like, sure,

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it's it's a thriller, but I
think it was something that made me

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laugh along the way, and I
think there's there's laugh moments in there anyway.

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And to have that freedom to just
like indulge in something and let it

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fly, like I knew we were
gonna have a fun time. And for

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the actual filming, you know a
lot of it. You know, there's

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a great chunk that takes place in
a car. How is that as an

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actor? Like, you know,
I feel like it's kind of I mean,

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I don't know, I'm not an
actor, but like, is that

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a challenge to kind of like be
sitting and filming that whole time? Like

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is it different than or is it
just like another day in the life of

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an actor? I mean, I
don't know. I feel like most TV

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shows or movies have something that takes
place in a car. So you know,

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there's an impressive set of rigs that
you can have on cars. You

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know that that is some of the
most interesting part of being on a set

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and filming in it. But you
know, every scene takes place in takes

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place somewhere, So if it's in
a car, that's fine. I wouldn't

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say it presents a different kind of
challenge. It's just it's just the place

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you're in that day, Okay,
And you know as you're reading the script,

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I mean, I know watching it
both times that I'm like on the

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edge of my seat. You know, are you drawn to that as well?

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So? And what I mean by
that is like, do you see

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it as you're reading? Are you
reading it like with like fresh eyes or

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are you reading it as an actor? In other words, can you enjoy

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like how I get like that edge
of your street, like oh I can't

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wait till the next you know,
the next part? Or are you seeing

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it more methodically as you read it? No? I think I think this

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one, especially read as an incredibly
enjoyable and compelling and edge of the seat

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kind of ride. You know.
I think the stories, the story in

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it is strong, and it's a
lot of fun. It was fun to

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read and it's fun to watch.
And I think that that came through you

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know. I mean, when I
read a script, I'm I'm sure the

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character that I'm playing is incredibly important. The director is incredibly important, but

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the story is important too, Like
you want to make something that that people

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are going to see and people are
going to enjoy for whatever reason. And

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the reasons people are going to enjoy
this, you know, they came through

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crystal clear from the first read.
When you're done rapping, you know,

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obviously, oftentimes there's promo tours and
you know, you're doing all kinds of

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interviews and premieres and that sort of
thing. Did you ever think, you

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know, when when you wrap this
and originally like okay, like in other

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words, when you were done with
that chapter and you move gone to the

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next project, did you ever think, Okay, this could take on a

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whole new life at another time.
Or are you just kind of you're done

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that part of your work, that
part of your h you know, journey

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as an actor and I'm on seventeen
other different projects at this point, you

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know, or like, was it
a surprise for you when you when you

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got the call that, oh,
this is getting a whole new life now.

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I was surprised when I found out
that it was gonna like be on

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Hulu. I think it's exciting.
I think it's cool. But yeah,

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we made it in twenty nineteen,
you know, and it was it was

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on Quibi, which no one really
knew what was going to happen to Quibi.

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I think one of the questions a
lot of people had, which I

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think was a smart question to have
at the time, was well, if

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Quibi doesn't work, what's going to
happen to all this content? You know?

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And because they had like a billion
dollars or something. I mean,

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they were making a ton of stuff, and I'm sure there's still a ton

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of stuff out there that you know, could have a second life. I

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think I think we're at a time
in our business where like I'm all about

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creating like new content, Like let's
make new stories like in this post strike

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world, Like it feels like things
are slow to get going. So I

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understand why you would want to like
have material that's already been made and can

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be re released as a movie.
And that's cool and exciting. But I'm

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all about creating new content. You
know. But that question back then and

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when we made it in twenty nineteen, like that question of what's going to

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happen to all this stuff if Quibi
doesn't work? It's a it is a

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question we all had, and I'm
super excited for Vin know that that this

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one's getting another go out. Yeah, it's so. It's so you know,

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when I originally I worked with with
Quibi, when when they launched to

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you know, hype it up and
talk about it, and I loved the

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content and actually this was one of
the ones that I was really drawn to,

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uh, you know, with the
launch of Quibi because it's just such

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a compelling project and I loved it, and you know, and I love

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it and it's such an edge of
your seat and it's so twisty and layered

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and there's just so much good stuff
to it that when I saw that,

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you know, Venus, that this
project was coming to Hulu, I was

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just like, that is so cool
because, as you said, you know,

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now it gets a wider release,
more opportunity for more people to see

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such a cool project. You know, yeah, totally, I'm stoked about

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it, you know, I know
it's it's Vina has never lost her passion

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for it. She's always tried to
keep it going after Quibi went away.

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I know it's been to like horror
film festivals and I think it had like

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it may have been on like TV
or something. So it's something that she's

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still passionate about, she still believes
in, and it was her passionate about

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the project that was like most appealing
about it to me from the start.

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So you know, I hope I
hope billions of people watch it, you

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know, I hope people love it. I hope people fall in love with

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it all over again. I mean
that would be like a wild scenario.

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That's something I made like five or
six years ago. All of a sudden

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people are watching and it's like,
I it hasn't been a part of my

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life for so long, but like, sure have at it, you know,

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go watch it? Yeah real,
yeah, absolutely. It reminds me

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when I was a kid of you
know, a lot of these movies would

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find maybe they got crowded out at
the box office, but then like when

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the DVD or the Blu ray hit
or whatever, it would find like this

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whole new life, you know,
And it kind of reminds me of that,

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like, you know, another version
of that where you know, Quibi

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didn't necessarily as a as a whole
work. I love the idea, but

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but now you have a project like
this that's so great that can find a

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whole new audience, and and it
really reminds me of that like kind of

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exciting time where no art really ever
dies, you know what I mean.

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Yeah? I hope so, man, Yeah, I hope people just like

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gobble it up, you know.
Dane, thank you so much for speaking

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with me. I can't wait for
everybody to see The Stranger exclusively now on

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Hulu. Thanks for speaking with me
again. Thanks man, of course,

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Dandy Hahn. It's always great talking
with Dane. He's such a talented actor.

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I love how he puts himself into
his roles. He's so intense and

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just a really, really great guy
as well. So thanks Dane once again

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for chatting with me. And The
Stranger is available right now on Hulu.

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Make sure you watch it and hit
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you guys are the best. So
up next The Big Door Prize on Apple

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TV Plus, which if you haven't
seen the first season, I highly highly

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recommend it. It's based on the
book The Big Door Prize and it's got

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a pretty kind of interesting premise where
it revolves around this grocery store of a

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small town where this kind of machine
just magically appears and it seems to be

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able to predict the life potential of
those who use the machine. Chris O'Dowd

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stars as Dusty. He is amazing
and everything he does, including Bride'smaids and

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the clover Field Paradox Miss Peregrine's Home
for Peculiar Children. He is a Emmy

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Award winner for his role in State
of the Union and so I'm excited to

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talk to him once again. Up
first, we talked with David west Reid,

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who is the executive producer and he
developed the Big Door Prize for the

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television screen. David was the executive
producer on Shit's Creek, which is an

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amazing series if you haven't watched that, and he won an Emmy Award for

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it for Outstanding Comedy Series. So
let's talk with David about the Big Door

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Prize. Here he is David WestEd. Thank you so much for joining me.

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David, I really appreciate it.
Thank you so. First of all,

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congratulations on season two. I have
really enjoyed it. What was it

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like for you? You know,
got the second season go knowing that you

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could expand the story. Yeah,
that was a really fun opportunity because obviously

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the series is based on a book
by M. O. Walsh. But

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the book has this ending, and
our series could not have an ending season

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one, so we had to really
open it up and go off roading with

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the story and find what was the
next stage for all of these characters and

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also the next stage for this mysterious
machine. And how did you and you

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know, I was thinking as I
was putting, I was thinking, as

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you know, the cast that and
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I do this without being, you
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So I know that as I try
to talk to you with this bouncing over

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bombs, you know, how did
you decide, you know, staying true

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to the original source work, how
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go in right? Well, we
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so great about the original book is
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town being confronted by the idea of
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machine that gives them cards that tells
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brain and your body, this is
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to continue to ask those questions,
what does it mean to be happy?

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What does it mean to achieve your
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just have more cards that would feel
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things and really make the second season
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that's where we came up with this
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next level that would give people these
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tell them something about their lives and
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could be that are a little less
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not everyone necessarily likes what they see
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which is where we get not only
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the comedy in the second season.
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Would you want to know and would
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you stay away from it? What
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resist for a while like Dusty,
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eventually, because even if you think
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be doing and having fun as I
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Thank you so much. Congratulations on
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And thanks for speaking with me.
David. Thank you. It's a

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pleasure. David West read awesome guy, extremely talented. I love Shit's Creek

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and I love the Big Door Prize
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too. Season two really, as
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book because you know, the book
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with those deviations. I think you
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let's talk with Gabrielle Dennis and Ali
Mackie. How are you both?

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Thank you both so much for joining
me. I appreciate it. Hi,

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I'm doing well. Thank you.
Congratulations on season two. I love the

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show and I can't wait for everybody
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for you both? You know,
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I'm trying to be as spoiler free
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You know, the source material is
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was kind of new territory. What
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venture into new territory like that?
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new sandbox. I think what's great
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left off in season one at the
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of us get to take is different. We get to play with different individual

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actors and different scenarios and relationships and
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those those different, you know,
different avenues, right. I think from

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my character, it's always been new
source material in a sense, because I

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think I was almost deliberately but also
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character discovers, and there's a lot
I still don't know about Hannah, so

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it's always been fun to kind of
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what's happening? Wait, what this
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kind of twist and turn and that
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you're reading the script, do you
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hyper focused on your role or how
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for me, I tried, Especially
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like to watch it as a viewer, I try to honestly avoid as much

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as I can because it's such a
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it was like, oh, like
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viewer and like not either just don't
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wasn't their present in the presence of
it being filmed to like really be dialed

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into it. But like, and
even the stuff with myself, like by

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the time you add music and you
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it feels different than just you know, the three D version of us

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being on set and like doing our
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to see the culmination of all the
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important, you know, sound,
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that is what I think as audiences. I think as an actor, maybe

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I probably wouldn't compute like how important
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you know what I mean? And
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I think it just really speaks to
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at creating these rich, beautiful characters. And I think we're all fans of

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each other. And I remember at
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table read, so many of the
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that Hannah had anything to do,
and I loved, you know, kind

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of keeping that secret. And I
know Dave did too of just like that

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reveal. I think even you were
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we're all fans of each other's characters
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I love that. And finally,
if you had a morpho machine, what

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do you think it would reveal about
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I just would want something to end
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printed on the card is one thing, and it may not be like an

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exact, you know, interpretation of
the word. So for me, it's

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really the ultimate journey of where it
lands. You right, and for me,

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I would want that. I would
want to just feel fulfilled and happy

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at the end of that role,
whatever that is. And I would hope

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my journey, my vision wouldn't be
as dark as my characters this season,

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like because you know, this season, instead of just the car, we're

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also getting these visions from the Morpho
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you know vision, that ultimately I
would be smart enough and passionate enough and

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adventurous enough to go on the journey
to figure it out. Yeah. I

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think maybe i'd be like Hannah and
just not have a card. I'd be

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like, I opt out of this
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Thank you both so much. I
can't wait for everybody to see season two

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exclusively on Apple TV Plus. Thanks, Thank you bye. Have a great

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day you Gabrielle Dennis and Allie Mackey. They're so great in the Big Door

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Prize and I can't wait for you
to see it again. Once you watch

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it, hit me up on socials, Let's talk about it, Reddit,

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Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, wherever
it is you are, I am too.

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Just find me all right, last
but not least Josh Sigara and Chris

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Doubt. Of course, I already
gave Chris his intro earlier in the show.

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Josh Sigara, if you don't know, originated the role of Melio Estefan

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in the Broadway show On Your Feet, which of course was based on the

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lives of music of twenty six time
Grammy Award winning husband and wife team Gloria

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and Emilio Estefan. Of course I've
interviewed Gloria a couple of times here on

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this show. Josh also played Danny
in Scream six. He was amazing in

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Thatanovic and Orange is the New Black. He was Pug Augustus Pug Pug Leezy

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in Sheehall Attorney at Law, and
of course he's Giorgio in The Big Door

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Prize. So let's talk with Josh
Sagea and Chris O'Dell. Josh and Chris,

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thank you so much for joining me. Appreciate it, like for having

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us. Of course, First of
all, congratulations on season two. I

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love it, and it takes the
series in exciting new directions. And I'm

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trying to be this as hard because
I'm trying to be as spoiler free as

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possible. Don't tell him about your
Earth quick, Josh. For both of

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you. You know, what is
it like when you have amazing source material?

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Season one was incredible? How does
it feel as an actor when you're

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kind of going into uncharted waters?
In some ways, it's exciting. That's

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one of the best things about what
we get to do is reading those scripts,

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getting that email that says your name
and tells you what title of the

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episode it is, and you just
fly through it. You start getting some

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questions answered. And that's what's been
so good about season two is that we

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left some big questions unanswered at the
end of season one. So season two,

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I think you're starting to get some
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yearning for. Are you kidding me? I was sitting there with Dave and

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with Sarah just being like, what
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And how about for you, Chris? I mean, it's always fun

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sitting down to read the new episodes
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happen, and it's kind of interesting. It's obviously you're curious as to what

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you're going to do yourself, but
also what all of these are the characters

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is going to be ash because it's
so much kind of mystery in the show,

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increasingly in terms of where did this
thing come from? Is there an

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end thing here? And we find
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two. It gives us another little
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and it's kind of fun watching that
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machine, you know, and I've
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both of you have as well.
If you had your own Morphaux machine,

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would you would you want to know? Would you would you go to it?

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I wonder what I feel like.

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I will add a caveat though.
I just hope that it doesn't make me

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nervous. I hope it only solidifies
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like if I got like theme park
designer, I'd be stoked about that.

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I grew up in Orlando. I
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the churros getting cooked. I like
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on the way to the roller coaster. Are you kidding me? I'd be

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stoked if I knew that. And
how about for you, Chris, I

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would say chocolate machine maintenance man.
I want to see it fits on the

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card right, always curious as to
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Absolutely, and also I feel like
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lot of will you Wanka fantasies and
I'd like to see them play out.

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I you know, I did that
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like the career aptitude thing, and
it said that I would either be janitorial

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services or a clergy, which I
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mark from what I do. But
that's nothing like you know, a morpho

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machine. But I you know,
I find it interesting to that both of

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you are your choices, you know, your hopeful choices are both in the

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creative kind of fields. You know, a theme park designer and you know,

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working with like a chocolate fountain machine
machine maintenance man. Yeah, I

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mean there's an art to that though
there's also delicious you know food like I'll

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be your tester if you need.
But thank you both very much. Congrats

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on season two and I can't wait
for everybody to see it. Thank you

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very much. Josh Shagara and Chris
so Dowd love those guys. Love the

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Big Door Prize season two, which
is out right now on Apple tv Plus.

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Probably my favorite streaming service. Just
everything they do is like top top,

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top notch. Let me know what
you think about The Big Door Price

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season two on Apple tv Plus and
The Stranger on Hulu with Dane Dehan.

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That's it for this week. We
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week and in the next month or
so that I'm excited to share with you.

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