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Hello everybody, and welcome back to the lace episode of
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the Jake's Take with Jacob Aishur podcast. I'm your host,
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Jacob Alishar, now celebrating our my fifteenth anniversary with my
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brand Jake's Take with Jacob Aliashar, but also more importantly,
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the blog Jake Sashi dot com is celebrating fifteen years.
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So thank you so much for watching, thank you so
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much for listening, and before we get started, please if
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And if you're listening to us on our audio platform,
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please download this episode and more episode. It's an honor
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to welcome back for my fifteenth anniversary one of my
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all time favorite guests. He is a two Emmy winning actor.
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You probably must know him from as Bradley Smithy Smith
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on Beyond the Gates, where you can catch him on
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CBS and Paramount Plus. He's also the founder of Manifest Productions.
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But more importantly, he recently was dominated. He's a twenty
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twenty six Emmy nominee for Outstanding Supporting Performance in a
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Daytime Drama Series Actor. So please let me welcome back
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the fabulous Mike Manning back to the podcast.
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Thank you so much for having me, Mike.
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It's an honor to have you. You are one of my
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all time favorite guests. And when I was jumping for
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joy when I learned that you got that nomination.
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Honestly, it's crazy. I did not expect it.
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I am so incredibly grateful to everybody that voted and
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to be recognized for the show and also for the
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show itself being nominated for fifteen Daytime Emmys. It is
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the most ever that any show in the history of
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the Emmys, which started in I think nineteen seventy two,
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seventy four, but it's the most ever that any brand
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new show in its first year has ever been nominated.
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So it's incredible, it's and it's such a great It
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sends such a great message because you know, the daytime
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genre is the oldest genre of television that we have.
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They started out in the thirties forties has radio shows,
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and then the fifties sixties they became television shows and
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they were hugely popular, and I think primetime shows modern
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television as we know it started out in soap operas.
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And the fact that this show Beyond the Gates is
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now creating the type of representation and breaking stereotypes and
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everything in the ways that it is For a show
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that you know was released in twenty twenty five and
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now we're in twenty twenty six, it just feels amazing.
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It feels amazing to be a part of the journey
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and to be a part of the show like we are,
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and then on top of that, to have that show
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recognized with fifteen Daytime Emmy nominations is just insane.
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And I gotta say this, there are three soaps that
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pay attention to all my children who I dearly miss.
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I'm so happy that it's coming back with the movie.
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I'm really missed seeing Erica Kaye and the others. Jennifer Hospital,
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I've been celebrating twenty years watching GH and also Beyond
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the Gates, which I keep in keep tabs. So those
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three soaps, I think I played a big role, and
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I think of all of all the soaps, those three
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to me mean a lot.
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Well, thank you for including our soap in your lineup.
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Thank you so much. So Mike, before we get we
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got to put a pin on Beyond the Gates because
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I want to talk to you about last year, because
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last time we spoke it's been a year, So how
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have you grown as a content creator? Am a farmer
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since we last spoke.
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So over the last year, I've been on Beyond the Gates.
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So I moved to Atlanta for the show. I was
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in Los Angeles for fifteen years and was very fortunate
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and got to jump around doing a bunch of different
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movies and television shows and everything else. And then I
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made a decision once I was offered the role and
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Beyond the Gates to play Bradley Smith Smithy, I made
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the decision to move to Atlanta. So my life has
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changed in a.
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Very significant way.
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I live in Atlanta now May basically ninety percent of
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the time, and then you know, I make it back
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to Los Angeles whenever I can. But yeah, it's it's
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been great. The people that I'm working with are amazing.
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I get to work with legends like Tomorrow Toney and
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Clifton Davis and so many others. And I also just
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enjoy playing Smitty. He's a nice guy. And prior to
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Smitty on Days of Our Lives, I was a bad guy,
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and then in a bunch of other projects, I was
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always the villain.
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And so it does feel good to play a nice guy.
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And the show also allows me enough freedom to continue producing.
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So there are some films that some scripts that I've
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written and films that I'm producing on the side that
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I have the freedom to do because I know this
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show's schedule months and months in advance.
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that opportunity because Atlanta is one of the rising, rising
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entertainment hubs in the United States when it comes to producing.
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also have Los Antley, New York to your north, LA
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to your west, and Vancouver somewhere in northwest as well,
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you have a lot of different home bases to choose
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choose from in North America.
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hope that a lot of film and television comes back
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to Los Angeles because I know a lot of my
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friends and fellow creators are hurting and they want to work,
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and I think that there are certain measures being taken
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to sort of bring film back and television back to Hollywood.
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the United States that have great tax credits, great infrastructure,
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and also great filming communities, whether it's you know, with
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the crew or and boots on the ground film crew
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to tell these stories or actors, you know, in front
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of the camera. I think that there are a lot
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of film communities in the United States, in these states
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that have great tax credits that are also seeing sort
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of an explosion of business in their communities, which I
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think is fantastic. I mean, in my mind, the more
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successful that the film industry can be.
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Absolutely. And speaking of California, we got to talk about
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another stuff that's based in California. One of the longest
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running soaps on CBS, The Young and the Restless and Maurice.
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Earlier this year, jan Ni Gay's sister soap visited Baarir
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Mont Crest. So what did it mean to have several
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soap icons? I know, I saw Peter Bergman there, I
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saw Eric Raiden there, I saw Michelle Stanford there. So
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what did it mean to have those guys there? Because
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I think everyone had to step up their a Gay
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because these are Emmy winners and soap world.
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It was great to have, like you said, like Eric
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Braden and Peter Bergman and all these other legends. It
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was great to have them visit and their reactions to
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our set and to our scenes and too because we
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it's not a spoiler now because you know it happened
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several weeks ago, but it was a tornado episode. So
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Brandon Clayban plays Martin Richardson, a congressman who I'm married
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to on the show Smith. He is uh and he's
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having a political fundraiser and then a tornado comes in
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and drops a tree through the roof of the of
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the building, and obviously, you know, people are scared and frightened,
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and people get injured and everything else. And I remember
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Peter Bergman specifically saying, wow, he said, this set because
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they actually built a tree. They took they built a tree,
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rigged up, and then they dropped it down and let
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it crash onto the set.
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It was a practical effect. And Peter was was there
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and he was like, wow, this is great.
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He goes, it's really nice to see a network putting
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so many resources.
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Behind and a soap like this. And you know, with
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our with our new sets and our new wardrobe and
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and everything else, I think CBS has been very supportive
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of the show, and so to have several young and
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the restless legends come to our set and be impressed
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with the operation that we have was was really really cool.
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I think I think it was Melissa Ordway.
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She said, she says, wait a second, you guys, she
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plays Abby Newman, and she says, wait a second, you
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guys have real flowers, Like we don't get real flowers,
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and we actually have a florist on set, so a
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lot of the flowers that you'll see on the show
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are real flowers. You can smell them, they're they're real
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and uh, and so it's just it's it's great. It
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was It was really nice to be welcomed into the
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soap community by such legends like that, and the way
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that they put it. I think it was again Peter,
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I think he said he said, look, we're all rooting
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for you. All the other soaps are rooting for Beyond
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the Gates because if Beyond the Gates does well and
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it shows the world that the soap genre isn't dead
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and that there is still a big audience for soaps,
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it's good for all the soaps. It's good for all
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the daytime shows. And having longevity and making sure everybody
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keeps their jobs. So he was very positive and he's like, look,
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we hope that we hope that Beyond the Gates, you know,
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is successful, because it's good for the rest of the
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daytime community.
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Absolutely it is. And I'm still waiting for today for
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Disney to break open the thing and say one time deal.
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I still want to see some of the Poor Charles
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and Pine Valley gang in Fairmunt Crest, to see Erica
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Kane go up against Tomorrow Tyrney, and to see you
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guys and see see your character interact with Eden Regals
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Beyonica Montgomery, and to see if Sunny Carinthos could just
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do some kind of shady deal something.
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Clifton Davis against some of these other titans, like you're saying,
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because when they're sharing a scene with them is so
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magical and so special and they just have such a
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they just take up space and they take up presence
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and they're just wonderful. So to see them, like you said,
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go up against some of these other legends, and fun fact,
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not many people know this, but Michael Mieler visited and
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he plays Kyle Abbot on The Young and the Restless.
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Years ago, I actually auditioned and was close to being
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booking Kyle Abbot on The Young and the Restless. So
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it was kind of a full circle moment when I
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saw him on set and got to act with him
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as the character.
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That's incredible. I think that's amazing that you have that
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full sort of moment. Mike. Alrighty, so how did you
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hear that you received your nomination? So what where were
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you when they announced news?
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So they had announced tomorrow Toney and Carla Mosley the
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lead Actress category the day before, so we already knew
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about them.
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And then the next day, I think it was a Tuesday.
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I'm going into work and the announcement was just made
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and a friend of mine text me congratulations as soon
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as I'm walking downstairs to go into the hair and
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makeup room, and the hair and makeup department for Beyond
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the Gates was also nominated for a Daytime Emmy. So
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and then a couple of the actors amber was in there,
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and I think, well, there's a couple of the actors
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in the room but I'm walking through the hallway and
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all of a sudden, I hear screaming, you know, jumping
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for joy, and everybody's whoa. And I walk into the
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hair and makeup room and everybody's clapping and they're like, Mike, congratulations.
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I say congratulations to you guys, and I hug Amber
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and I hug everybody else, and it was it was
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very much like a party. I remember that because the
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hair and makeup rooms kind of it's downstairs. It's like
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right when you walk into the building.
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with the producers is right next door, and there we're
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still working. We're still filming a TV show, so we
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were trying to be as quiet as possible. But everybody's
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cheering and dancing around. And I remember walking in and
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the hair and makeup room was like twenty degrees warmer
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than the.
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everybody's dancing around and jumping and hugging and everything else.
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It was everybody was so excited that it was that
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we were heating the room up by celebrating so much,
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and it was just such a great, great experience.
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I'm so happy for that and then yes, and then
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I'm because from I've always loved to learn what happened.
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So how long did it take you to pick your reel? H?
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Yeah?
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everybody was invited and asked if they wanted to submit
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for the Daytime Emmys or not, and a lot of
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us said yes.
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And because I was on days of.
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Our lives and I've gone to the Emmys before and
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or win a Supporting Actor Emmy, I was a bit
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more familiar. So I already had the ideas for the
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scenes that I wanted to use in my mind.
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From the previous year. So I kind of went.
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what I wanted to start with. I knew the story
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I wanted to tell, and then I knew how long
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I wanted the reel to be. And then I just
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went in and sent everything to the editor, and then
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they set me back the reel and then we trimmed
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it down a little bit and then that was it.
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which is what I is. What I was told, and
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clearly something works because I got the nomination. You want
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to start with something really emotionally captivating, so something that
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really shows your acting abilities, something really powerful, and then
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you also want to tell a story with your reel.
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the scene that I started with, was Smitty in the
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police station being a reporter. You know, he has his
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glasses on, he has his notepad, and so I wanted
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to establish because that's something very specific about Smitty. He's
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a reporter, an investigative journalist, and he cares about his job,
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and he sort of gets on. He's so passionate and
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full of energy when he's cracking the case.
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So I wanted to start with that.
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Smitty and Martin, and it was Smitty.
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With tears in his.
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Eyes, like begging Martin to be honest with him and
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tell him this big secret that he had been hiding
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because it's tearing their marriage apart. And and so I
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basically picked a few scenes that sort of told that story.
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Because I was always told that not everybody that that
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is voting on your show watches the show or watches
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every single episode, so you want them to at least
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know what's going on when they're judging your acting ability.
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So those were the scenes that I chose.
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I think you picked that amazing And then how and
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is this your overall your sixth nomination.
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For acting? This would be my for acting?
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Yeah, for acting, well, because I won I won one
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as a producer, but then I for acting. I think
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this will be my fourth nomination, I believe, which is incredible.
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It's either fourth or fifth.
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a lot of actors in our generation have that kind
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of category. There's one of the few that has multiple nominations.
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Thank you. Yeah. I mean, I just love telling stories.
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I love playing characters.
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I love putting things into the world that people can
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relate to and you know, make people laugh, maing people cry.
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I love what I do and I'm so incredibly grateful
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I get to to do that day in and day out,
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and then on top of that, to be recognized by
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my peers for that work is it doesn't get any
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better than that, even whether I win or lose, I'm just.
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Grateful to have a seat at the table.
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Honestly, absolutely, and Besides, based on the celebration, it meant
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a lot to have those fifteen nominations and for Beyond
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the Gates, So what does that mean?
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Now?
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Does this officially mean that Beyond the Gates has the future?
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We're going to be seeing it like that have like
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ten or fifteen years down the road, or what do
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you think or what do you think that these fifteen
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Emmys mean?
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I hope that.
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Biondi Gates has longevity of another ten to fifteen twenty years.
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That'd be great and it would mean job security for
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a lot of people. So let's make that happen. We
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just found out a couple months ago that we are
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renewed for seasons three and four, so at least for
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the next two years, thank you, at least for the
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next I'm currently on hiatus right now, so I'm in
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Los Angeles on break, and then I go back to Atlanta.
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Later next month to start year three.
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I say season three, but you know, because it's a soap,
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it's really year three, So I'll start year three.
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In next month.
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Well, that's fantastic to be one of the original twenty
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characters on a show and to be moving into year
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three is another on to itself.
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Thank you.
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Alrighty, So we gotta we are finished with our time
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at Frmont Crasser, you gotta start talk about some of
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the some of your other projects. So recently you are
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you recently have another project called The Wolf and the Lamb.
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Can you describe this film to my audience?
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So The Wolf in the Lamb is a horror western,
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place in a small town where a mother is confronted
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with when her child becomes a vampire, and she has
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to it sort of answers the question like how far
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is love? Will love take you when you're trying to
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prevent your child essentially from killing other people?
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And how powerful is a mother's love? And this woman.
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Is played by Cassie Scerbo, a friend of mine who's
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a wonderful actress, and she, you know, goes on this
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journey and has to basically, well I don't want to
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give anything away, but she has to confront the fact
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that her kid is a vampire and that a lot
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of these little these children are going missing from this
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small town.
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So it's not just her being affected, it's other people.
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But I got to work with a handful of other
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amazing actors, and we shot it in Montana and I
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got to wear.
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A beard and my characters only in the movie.
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I produced the movie, so that's why that was my
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main I helped produce and work with the director and
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the writer and everybody else.
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So that was my main involvement. And then I had
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a fun little cameo where I had a beard. And
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I've never had a beard in a movie before because
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I'm pretty I don't really grow much.
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I grow like a little stash and like a little
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bit right here. I don't grow a full beard at all.
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She has an oscar from working on the original Beetlejuice
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with Michael Keaton. She is the one her in her
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department put this really cool beard on me. And so
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you'll see me in the beginning of the movie with
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my wife and my daughter on the planes as a homesteader.
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That's pretty cool to have a lot of different roles.
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I bet it must have been like a chiallenge. You do,
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not just work with the writers, but the producers, and
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then to bank that gammiout.
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Yeah, it's just fun.
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I love helping people tell their stories, and I love
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giving creative individuals the resources.
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To make the type of movies that they want to make.
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I've had some people over the last eighteen years helped
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me with producing my own movies and telling my own stories,
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and so if I can do that for other people
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and help them, of course I want to do that.
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And I gotta say this as we are, as we
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are having my call, background school and university are starting
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to So what are your advice to students who are
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want to get interested in the film industry or television
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industry like and getting ready to produce these reports for
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school media or for a movie. So what advice do
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you have for them?
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Yeah, I would say that there are so many different
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ways that you can be evolved with the film and
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television industry, both in front of the camera and behind
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the camera. There is no experience like on set experience.
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You can go to film school, you can do any
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type of training that you are you're able to do.
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But I would say get on set as quickly as possible.
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Ask to if you if you want to be an actor,
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you know, maybe get a job as a background actor
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one day just to see how everything works, and really
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pay attention.
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I'm not saying make that your full time job, but.
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Maybe visit set or if you know somebody in the industry,
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ask to visit set and shadow them, because you know,
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it's a tough industry to break into, so you really
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want to make sure you know what you're getting into
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before you commit so much of your life to this craft.
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whether you're working on you know a cinematographer or a director,
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or a writer or a grip or you know sound
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or there are so many hair, makeup, wardrobe, so many
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different ways to be a part of these movies. So
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definitely reach out to people and ask if you can
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shadow them one day, or ask if you can work
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in their office for free for a week, or you
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know whatever that looks like. But I think that the
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more time you can spend on set, the better. I
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would also say that if you want to be an actor,
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get into a class that gives you a solid foundation
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with acting. You don't you don't want to book a
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job before you're ready and then you show up on
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set and you don't know what to do. I think
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you really have to have a respect for the craft
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and really digging deep and really telling stories with these characters.
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I've seen actors that I think are thrown into positions
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that they and some of them thrive and they do
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such a great job, and you know, and it's the
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start of you know, especially kid actors, like young actors,
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they're just the natural ones are just so good and
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so free and great. And then there's other actors that
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they work so hard and then they go to set
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and they're like, wait a second, this is not what
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I expected. I don't really like this anymore, and they
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waste it all that time. So it's a tough industry
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and it has to be something that you really really
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want to do. I would say, do it for the
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right reasons. You you cannot be happy. In my opinion,
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let me rephrase that. It is much more challenging to
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be happy in the entertainment industry if you your goal
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is fame, if your goal is storytelling, and if you know, look,
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I might be in this big blockbuster movie and have
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a billboard, or I might be performing in a small
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theater on Willcox Avenue and there's a as long as
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there's a dozen people in the theater and I'm performing
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and people care about my art like I'm happy. You know,
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if you're going at it for the reasons of performing
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and storytelling, then those are the right reasons and that will.
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Set you up for success.
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If you are trying to be in the entertainment industry
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specifically just to be famous, there are other ways to
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be famous, and I would not prescribe yourself to the
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challenges of the entertainment industry.
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Those got Mike you did at masterclass when it comes
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to you advice. So guys, if you're listening to that
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and you still want back to after this interviews over
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and listen to what my cast is say, because he
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dropped a lot of knowledge that I kind of wish
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some people have told me while I was in throughout
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my fifteen years when I first started my journey in
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content creation and everything, So it might that's really I
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really hope people listen to that. Now, before we wind
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down our conversation, I got to say this, I love
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your social media and your Instagram because your posts are incredible.
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I remember looking at back to your set. Back to
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the set areas far back press, you said, Dick Grayson
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suit like a spy suit and not only that you
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also mentioned you were channeling your inner Spider Man when
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you were in New York City. But also one of
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my favorite things that I found out was you reveal
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that you were working you work as a cast member
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for one of my all time favorite places while at
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disney World. So what were some of the lessons that
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you learned through your time at Walt disney World and
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as a cast member to help you grow as a performer.
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So Disney World was there have been times in my
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life where I feel like the universe is putting me
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back on track with what I need to be doing.
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And I was going to school in Colorado. I was
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going to college for business. I had done theater when
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I was much younger. I did theater in high school
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and I did a dozen plays and musicals and I
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loved it. But it didn't dawn on me that I
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didn't know how to pursue a career in acting. So
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I was like, you know what, I don't know how
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to go about this. So I'm going to go to
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school for business because that sounds like a good idea.
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get out of my business classes and I was not
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on the right path and not doing what I wanted
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to be doing. So I found out about the Disney
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College Program. So for anybody listening, you basically can get
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receive college credit from your school, especially if it's in business, hospitality,
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that sort of thing, by going to Disney World and
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working in a number of jobs and also taking classes
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at Disney World. Disney, because of course they do, they're Disney.
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They have Disney University in Orlando, Florida, so you'll live
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on campus, you'll go to work like you would any
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other job. So it's going to teach you on the
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job training and then you're also going to take classes,
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and then you get college credit for it. For me,
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I auditioned and I was lucky enough to be cast
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as buzz light Ear and Pluto and Ere and Rafiki
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and all these other fun Disney characters.
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So it was in line with entertainment.
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Plus I was at Disney, you know, learning and having
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a blast.
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So it was one of those things where the universe
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was like, Mike, you need you're not happy in Colorado,
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Let's pick you up and put you in Orlando, Florida
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for a semester.
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And that's amazing.
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Mike.
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I just loved hearing that story because when I was
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looking at your Instagram and saying, then, I'm like, really,
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I did not know that. And I think it does
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a lot of a lot of things because I was
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really interested in Disney College program when I was in Boulder.
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But at the same time, I was like Jacob Lendon
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was calling me or like CADE, MGA and ABC. But like,
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the thing is, both of us were meant to be
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on our paths.
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Yeah, yeah, And who's to say what's what's right and
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what's wrong. I feel like you just have to do
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what's right for you. Everybody has a different path and
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a different way of getting up, you know, accomplishing what
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they want to accomplish. My friend Jared once he said
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he said everybody has their mountain. Everybody has the top
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of the mountain that they're trying to get to, and
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everybody has their own way up. And who's to say
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that my way's right and your way's right or whatever.
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Everybody sort of has their own journey, and for me, yeah, Disney.
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Disney was definitely part of that part of that journey.
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And I still love Disney. I mean Disney.
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When I booked my first Disney Show Crash in Bernstein.
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I was.
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It felt like a three sixty moment. It felt like
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I was coming back to working on a Disney show
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as an actor in front of the camera. And then
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again when I booked Disney's Cloud nine and at that
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point that it's a for anybody that hasn't seen it,
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it's a Disney Movie of the Week, snowboarding movie. And
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at that point it was one of the biggest projects
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I had done. And so that also felt like Disney
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having my back and you know, helping me climb the
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ladder as an actor.
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So Disney's always had a special place in my heart.
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Awesome, Mike, So last question, are you ready ready? We're
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our speed This is our speed round folks. So, Mike,
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where can they find watching you and you spin these
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adventures on Beyond the Gates? Two? Where can they find
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where can they connect with you on social media? Three?
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Where can they watch The Wolf? The Wolf and a Lamb?
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And finally, where can they find out more information about
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working with you and Manifest Productions?
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Okay, so Beyond the Gates plays most every weekday at
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either one or two pm Eastern or Pacific on CBS,
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so you can catch me as Smitty and the rest
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of fairmunt Crest on CBS in the afternoons on the weekdays.
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My social media handles are Mike Underscore Manning and that's
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on Instagram, that's on x that's on what else is
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there TikTok Facebook.
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You just type in Mike Manning and I have a
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public page on there. Manifest Productions is my production company.
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So the website is Manifestproductions dot com and it has
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more information on our projects and what we're doing and
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our mantra and I'll keep updating that website with as
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we you know, produce more. My also personal website is
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Mike Manning dot info and it has sort of the
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same thing on their info about me and the Wolf
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and the Lamb. You just type in I believe it's
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on Amazon and a bunch of the other streamers, So
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just type in the Wolf and the Lamb and you
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can watch it.
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Awesome. So, guys, if you miss an episode of The
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Jakes Sake with Jacob Elisha podcast, visit our channels on
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Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, iHeart Radio, Spotify and Speaker Jake
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Stake with Jackbli, shar j A c O. B E.
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O y A c h A R. Now are you
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on social media? Because I'm on social media to Facebook, Instagram, TikTok,
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Twitter and YouTube Jacob la sha j A c O
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b e O y A c h A R. And guys,
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if you miss my original chat with Mike, want to
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see my interviews with the likes of Matt Cohen or
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Sydney MICHAELA. Will head to the blog that started it all.
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That the reason why I'm selevating fifteen years as a
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content creator at Jake's nash chick dot com. What's in
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Jake's nash shack dot com? And I gotta say a
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big shot out to my friends open the Greater king
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City Chamber of Commerce for making jakestak dot com a
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small business superstar for twenty twenty six. It means the
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world to me to be recognized by my hometown. Mike,
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congratulations on an Emmy nomination. I'm so proud of all
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that you've achieved. You are one of ours brightest stars
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when it comes to on camera and off camera. It
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means the world to me that we've been building this
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friendship and I cannot wait and I'm gonna have my
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fingers and to Pross for you this October.
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Thank you so much, Jacob, and congratulations to you on
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fifteen successful years. I know that it's not always easy,
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and so for you to build this channel and have
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completed the interviews and putting out the content that you've
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been putting out for fifteen years is a huge accomplishment,
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So congratulations to you as well.
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Thanks Mike, I really appreciate it. And guys, this is
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not would have happened without all of you, So thank
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you all so much for watching, Thank you for all
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for listening. Until next time, have a good one, everybody Good.
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Bob
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Hello everybody, and welcome back to the lace episode of
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the Jake's Take with Jacob Aishur podcast. I'm your host,
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Jacob Alishar, now celebrating our my fifteenth anniversary with my
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brand Jake's Take with Jacob Aliashar, but also more importantly,
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the blog Jake Sashi dot com is celebrating fifteen years.
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So thank you so much for watching, thank you so
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much for listening, and before we get started, please if
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you're watching this on YouTube, please give us thumbs up.
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And if you're listening to us on our audio platform,
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please download this episode and more episode. It's an honor
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to welcome back for my fifteenth anniversary one of my
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all time favorite guests. He is a two Emmy winning actor.
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You probably must know him from as Bradley Smithy Smith
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on Beyond the Gates, where you can catch him on
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CBS and Paramount Plus. He's also the founder of Manifest Productions.
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But more importantly, he recently was dominated. He's a twenty
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twenty six Emmy nominee for Outstanding Supporting Performance in a
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Daytime Drama Series Actor. So please let me welcome back
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the fabulous Mike Manning back to the podcast.
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Thank you so much for having me, Mike.
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It's an honor to have you. You are one of my
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all time favorite guests. And when I was jumping for
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joy when I learned that you got that nomination.
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Honestly, it's crazy. I did not expect it.
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I am so incredibly grateful to everybody that voted and
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to be recognized for the show and also for the
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show itself being nominated for fifteen Daytime Emmys. It is
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the most ever that any show in the history of
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the Emmys, which started in I think nineteen seventy two,
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seventy four, but it's the most ever that any brand
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new show in its first year has ever been nominated.
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So it's incredible, it's and it's such a great It
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sends such a great message because you know, the daytime
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genre is the oldest genre of television that we have.
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They started out in the thirties forties has radio shows,
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and then the fifties sixties they became television shows and
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they were hugely popular, and I think primetime shows modern
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television as we know it started out in soap operas.
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And the fact that this show Beyond the Gates is
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now creating the type of representation and breaking stereotypes and
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everything in the ways that it is For a show
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that you know was released in twenty twenty five and
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now we're in twenty twenty six, it just feels amazing.
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It feels amazing to be a part of the journey
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and to be a part of the show like we are,
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and then on top of that, to have that show
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recognized with fifteen Daytime Emmy nominations is just insane.
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And I gotta say this, there are three soaps that
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pay attention to all my children who I dearly miss.
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I'm so happy that it's coming back with the movie.
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I'm really missed seeing Erica Kaye and the others. Jennifer Hospital,
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I've been celebrating twenty years watching GH and also Beyond
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the Gates, which I keep in keep tabs. So those
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three soaps, I think I played a big role, and
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to me mean a lot.
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Thank you so much. So Mike, before we get we
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got to put a pin on Beyond the Gates because
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I want to talk to you about last year, because
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last time we spoke it's been a year, So how
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have you grown as a content creator? Am a farmer
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since we last spoke.
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So over the last year, I've been on Beyond the Gates.
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in Los Angeles for fifteen years and was very fortunate
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and got to jump around doing a bunch of different
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movies and television shows and everything else. And then I
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made a decision once I was offered the role and
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Beyond the Gates to play Bradley Smith Smithy, I made
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the decision to move to Atlanta. So my life has
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changed in a.
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Very significant way.
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to Los Angeles whenever I can. But yeah, it's it's
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been great. The people that I'm working with are amazing.
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I get to work with legends like Tomorrow Toney and
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Clifton Davis and so many others. And I also just
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enjoy playing Smitty. He's a nice guy. And prior to
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Smitty on Days of Our Lives, I was a bad guy,
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always the villain.
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written and films that I'm producing on the side that
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I have the freedom to do because I know this
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show's schedule months and months in advance.
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that opportunity because Atlanta is one of the rising, rising
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entertainment hubs in the United States when it comes to producing.
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also have Los Antley, New York to your north, LA
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to your west, and Vancouver somewhere in northwest as well,
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you have a lot of different home bases to choose
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choose from in North America.
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hope that a lot of film and television comes back
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to Los Angeles because I know a lot of my
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friends and fellow creators are hurting and they want to work,
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and I think that there are certain measures being taken
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to sort of bring film back and television back to Hollywood.
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the United States that have great tax credits, great infrastructure,
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and also great filming communities, whether it's you know, with
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the crew or and boots on the ground film crew
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to tell these stories or actors, you know, in front
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of the camera. I think that there are a lot
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of film communities in the United States, in these states
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that have great tax credits that are also seeing sort
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of an explosion of business in their communities, which I
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think is fantastic. I mean, in my mind, the more
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successful that the film industry can be.
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The better.
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Absolutely. And speaking of California, we got to talk about
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another stuff that's based in California. One of the longest
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running soaps on CBS, The Young and the Restless and Maurice.
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Earlier this year, jan Ni Gay's sister soap visited Baarir
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Mont Crest. So what did it mean to have several
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soap icons? I know, I saw Peter Bergman there, I
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saw Eric Raiden there, I saw Michelle Stanford there. So
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several weeks ago, but it was a tornado episode. So
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to on the show Smith. He is uh and he's
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having a political fundraiser and then a tornado comes in
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of the show, and so to have several young and
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the restless legends come to our set and be impressed
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with the operation that we have was was really really cool.
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plays Abby Newman, and she says, wait a second, you
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guys have real flowers, Like we don't get real flowers,
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lot of the flowers that you'll see on the show
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are real flowers. You can smell them, they're they're real
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and uh, and so it's just it's it's great. It
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was It was really nice to be welcomed into the
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soap community by such legends like that, and the way
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that they put it. I think it was again Peter,
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I think he said he said, look, we're all rooting
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for you. All the other soaps are rooting for Beyond
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the Gates because if Beyond the Gates does well and
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it shows the world that the soap genre isn't dead
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and that there is still a big audience for soaps,
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it's good for all the soaps. It's good for all
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the daytime shows. And having longevity and making sure everybody
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keeps their jobs. So he was very positive and he's like, look,
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we hope that we hope that Beyond the Gates, you know,
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is successful, because it's good for the rest of the
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Absolutely it is. And I'm still waiting for today for
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Disney to break open the thing and say one time deal.
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I still want to see some of the Poor Charles
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and Pine Valley gang in Fairmunt Crest, to see Erica
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Kane go up against Tomorrow Tyrney, and to see you
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guys and see see your character interact with Eden Regals
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Beyonica Montgomery, and to see if Sunny Carinthos could just
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Clifton Davis against some of these other titans, like you're saying,
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because when they're sharing a scene with them is so
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magical and so special and they just have such a
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they just take up space and they take up presence
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and they're just wonderful. So to see them, like you said,
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go up against some of these other legends, and fun fact,
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not many people know this, but Michael Mieler visited and
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he plays Kyle Abbot on The Young and the Restless.
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booking Kyle Abbot on The Young and the Restless. So
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it was kind of a full circle moment when I
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saw him on set and got to act with him
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as the character.
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full sort of moment. Mike. Alrighty, so how did you
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hear that you received your nomination? So what where were
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you when they announced news?
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lead Actress category the day before, so we already knew
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about them.
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as I'm walking downstairs to go into the hair and
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makeup room, and the hair and makeup department for Beyond
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the Gates was also nominated for a Daytime Emmy. So
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and I think, well, there's a couple of the actors
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in the room but I'm walking through the hallway and
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all of a sudden, I hear screaming, you know, jumping
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for joy, and everybody's whoa. And I walk into the
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hair and makeup room and everybody's clapping and they're like, Mike, congratulations.
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I say congratulations to you guys, and I hug Amber
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and I hug everybody else, and it was it was
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very much like a party. I remember that because the
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hair and makeup rooms kind of it's downstairs. It's like
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right when you walk into the building.
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with the producers is right next door, and there we're
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still working. We're still filming a TV show, so we
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were trying to be as quiet as possible. But everybody's
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cheering and dancing around. And I remember walking in and
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everybody's dancing around and jumping and hugging and everything else.
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we were heating the room up by celebrating so much,
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I'm so happy for that and then yes, and then
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everybody was invited and asked if they wanted to submit
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for the Daytime Emmys or not, and a lot of
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us said yes.
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or win a Supporting Actor Emmy, I was a bit
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more familiar. So I already had the ideas for the
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scenes that I wanted to use in my mind.
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what I wanted to start with. I knew the story
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I wanted the reel to be. And then I just
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went in and sent everything to the editor, and then
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they set me back the reel and then we trimmed
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it down a little bit and then that was it.
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which is what I is. What I was told, and
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clearly something works because I got the nomination. You want
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to start with something really emotionally captivating, so something that
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really shows your acting abilities, something really powerful, and then
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you also want to tell a story with your reel.
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the scene that I started with, was Smitty in the
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police station being a reporter. You know, he has his
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glasses on, he has his notepad, and so I wanted
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to establish because that's something very specific about Smitty. He's
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a reporter, an investigative journalist, and he cares about his job,
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and he sort of gets on. He's so passionate and
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full of energy when he's cracking the case.
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Smitty and Martin, and it was Smitty.
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tell him this big secret that he had been hiding
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because it's tearing their marriage apart. And and so I
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basically picked a few scenes that sort of told that story.
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is voting on your show watches the show or watches
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every single episode, so you want them to at least
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know what's going on when they're judging your acting ability.
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I think you picked that amazing And then how and
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is this your overall your sixth nomination.
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For acting? This would be my for acting?
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as a producer, but then I for acting. I think
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this will be my fourth nomination, I believe, which is incredible.
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a lot of actors in our generation have that kind
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of category. There's one of the few that has multiple nominations.
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Thank you. Yeah. I mean, I just love telling stories.
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I love playing characters.
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I love putting things into the world that people can
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relate to and you know, make people laugh, maing people cry.
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I love what I do and I'm so incredibly grateful
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I get to to do that day in and day out,
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and then on top of that, to be recognized by
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my peers for that work is it doesn't get any
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better than that, even whether I win or lose, I'm just.
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Grateful to have a seat at the table.
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Honestly, absolutely, and Besides, based on the celebration, it meant
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a lot to have those fifteen nominations and for Beyond
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the Gates, So what does that mean?
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Now?
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Does this officially mean that Beyond the Gates has the future?
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We're going to be seeing it like that have like
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ten or fifteen years down the road, or what do
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you think or what do you think that these fifteen
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Emmys mean?
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I hope that.
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Biondi Gates has longevity of another ten to fifteen twenty years.
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That'd be great and it would mean job security for
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a lot of people. So let's make that happen. We
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just found out a couple months ago that we are
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renewed for seasons three and four, so at least for
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the next two years, thank you, at least for the
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next I'm currently on hiatus right now, so I'm in
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Los Angeles on break, and then I go back to Atlanta.
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Later next month to start year three.
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I say season three, but you know, because it's a soap,
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it's really year three, So I'll start year three.
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Well, that's fantastic to be one of the original twenty
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characters on a show and to be moving into year
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three is another on to itself.
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Alrighty, So we gotta we are finished with our time
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at Frmont Crasser, you gotta start talk about some of
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the some of your other projects. So recently you are
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you recently have another project called The Wolf and the Lamb.
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Can you describe this film to my audience?
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So The Wolf in the Lamb is a horror western,
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place in a small town where a mother is confronted
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with when her child becomes a vampire, and she has
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to it sort of answers the question like how far
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is love? Will love take you when you're trying to
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prevent your child essentially from killing other people?
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Is played by Cassie Scerbo, a friend of mine who's
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a wonderful actress, and she, you know, goes on this
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journey and has to basically, well I don't want to
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give anything away, but she has to confront the fact
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that her kid is a vampire and that a lot
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of these little these children are going missing from this
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small town.
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amazing actors, and we shot it in Montana and I
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main I helped produce and work with the director and
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the writer and everybody else.
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a fun little cameo where I had a beard. And
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bit right here. I don't grow a full beard at all.
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with Michael Keaton. She is the one her in her
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department put this really cool beard on me. And so
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you'll see me in the beginning of the movie with
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my wife and my daughter on the planes as a homesteader.
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That's pretty cool to have a lot of different roles.
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I bet it must have been like a chiallenge. You do,
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not just work with the writers, but the producers, and
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then to bank that gammiout.
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Yeah, it's just fun.
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I love helping people tell their stories, and I love
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giving creative individuals the resources.
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To make the type of movies that they want to make.
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I've had some people over the last eighteen years helped
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me with producing my own movies and telling my own stories,
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and so if I can do that for other people
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and help them, of course I want to do that.
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And I gotta say this as we are, as we
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are having my call, background school and university are starting
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to So what are your advice to students who are
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want to get interested in the film industry or television
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industry like and getting ready to produce these reports for
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school media or for a movie. So what advice do
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you have for them?
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Yeah, I would say that there are so many different
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ways that you can be evolved with the film and
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television industry, both in front of the camera and behind
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the camera. There is no experience like on set experience.
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You can go to film school, you can do any
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type of training that you are you're able to do.
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But I would say get on set as quickly as possible.
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Ask to if you if you want to be an actor,
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you know, maybe get a job as a background actor
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one day just to see how everything works, and really
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pay attention.
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I'm not saying make that your full time job, but.
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Maybe visit set or if you know somebody in the industry,
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ask to visit set and shadow them, because you know,
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it's a tough industry to break into, so you really
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want to make sure you know what you're getting into
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before you commit so much of your life to this craft.
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And then same thing, you know, being behind the camera,
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whether you're working on you know a cinematographer or a director,
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or a writer or a grip or you know sound
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or there are so many hair, makeup, wardrobe, so many
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different ways to be a part of these movies. So
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definitely reach out to people and ask if you can
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shadow them one day, or ask if you can work
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in their office for free for a week, or you
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know whatever that looks like. But I think that the
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more time you can spend on set, the better. I
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would also say that if you want to be an actor,
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get into a class that gives you a solid foundation
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with acting. You don't you don't want to book a
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job before you're ready and then you show up on
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set and you don't know what to do. I think
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you really have to have a respect for the craft
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and really digging deep and really telling stories with these characters.
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I've seen actors that I think are thrown into positions
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that they and some of them thrive and they do
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such a great job, and you know, and it's the
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start of you know, especially kid actors, like young actors,
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they're just the natural ones are just so good and
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so free and great. And then there's other actors that
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they work so hard and then they go to set
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and they're like, wait a second, this is not what
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I expected. I don't really like this anymore, and they
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waste it all that time. So it's a tough industry
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and it has to be something that you really really
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want to do. I would say, do it for the
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right reasons. You you cannot be happy. In my opinion,
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let me rephrase that. It is much more challenging to
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be happy in the entertainment industry if you your goal
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is fame, if your goal is storytelling, and if you know, look,
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I might be in this big blockbuster movie and have
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a billboard, or I might be performing in a small
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theater on Willcox Avenue and there's a as long as
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there's a dozen people in the theater and I'm performing
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and people care about my art like I'm happy. You know,
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if you're going at it for the reasons of performing
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and storytelling, then those are the right reasons and that will.
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Set you up for success.
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If you are trying to be in the entertainment industry
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specifically just to be famous, there are other ways to
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be famous, and I would not prescribe yourself to the
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challenges of the entertainment industry.
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Those got Mike you did at masterclass when it comes
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to you advice. So guys, if you're listening to that
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and you still want back to after this interviews over
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and listen to what my cast is say, because he
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dropped a lot of knowledge that I kind of wish
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some people have told me while I was in throughout
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my fifteen years when I first started my journey in
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content creation and everything, So it might that's really I
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really hope people listen to that. Now, before we wind
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down our conversation, I got to say this, I love
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your social media and your Instagram because your posts are incredible.
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I remember looking at back to your set. Back to
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the set areas far back press, you said, Dick Grayson
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suit like a spy suit and not only that you
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also mentioned you were channeling your inner Spider Man when
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you were in New York City. But also one of
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my favorite things that I found out was you reveal
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that you were working you work as a cast member
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for one of my all time favorite places while at
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disney World. So what were some of the lessons that
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you learned through your time at Walt disney World and
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as a cast member to help you grow as a performer.
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So Disney World was there have been times in my
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life where I feel like the universe is putting me
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back on track with what I need to be doing.
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And I was going to school in Colorado. I was
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going to college for business. I had done theater when
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I was much younger. I did theater in high school
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and I did a dozen plays and musicals and I
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loved it. But it didn't dawn on me that I
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didn't know how to pursue a career in acting. So
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I was like, you know what, I don't know how
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to go about this. So I'm going to go to
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school for business because that sounds like a good idea.
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And I was claustrophobic. I felt like I needed to
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get out of my business classes and I was not
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on the right path and not doing what I wanted
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to be doing. So I found out about the Disney
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College Program. So for anybody listening, you basically can get
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receive college credit from your school, especially if it's in business, hospitality,
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that sort of thing, by going to Disney World and
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working in a number of jobs and also taking classes
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at Disney World. Disney, because of course they do, they're Disney.
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They have Disney University in Orlando, Florida, so you'll live
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on campus, you'll go to work like you would any
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other job. So it's going to teach you on the
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job training and then you're also going to take classes,
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and then you get college credit for it. For me,
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I auditioned and I was lucky enough to be cast
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as buzz light Ear and Pluto and Ere and Rafiki
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and all these other fun Disney characters.
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So it was in line with entertainment.
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Plus I was at Disney, you know, learning and having
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a blast.
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So it was one of those things where the universe
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was like, Mike, you need you're not happy in Colorado,
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Let's pick you up and put you in Orlando, Florida
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for a semester.
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And that's amazing.
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Mike.
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I just loved hearing that story because when I was
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looking at your Instagram and saying, then, I'm like, really,
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I did not know that. And I think it does
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a lot of a lot of things because I was
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really interested in Disney College program when I was in Boulder.
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But at the same time, I was like Jacob Lendon
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was calling me or like CADE, MGA and ABC. But like,
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the thing is, both of us were meant to be
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on our paths.
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Yeah, yeah, And who's to say what's what's right and
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what's wrong. I feel like you just have to do
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what's right for you. Everybody has a different path and
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a different way of getting up, you know, accomplishing what
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they want to accomplish. My friend Jared once he said
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he said everybody has their mountain. Everybody has the top
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of the mountain that they're trying to get to, and
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everybody has their own way up. And who's to say
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that my way's right and your way's right or whatever.
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Everybody sort of has their own journey, and for me, yeah, Disney.
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Disney was definitely part of that part of that journey.
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And I still love Disney. I mean Disney.
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When I booked my first Disney Show Crash in Bernstein.
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I was.
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It felt like a three sixty moment. It felt like
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I was coming back to working on a Disney show
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as an actor in front of the camera. And then
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again when I booked Disney's Cloud nine and at that
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point that it's a for anybody that hasn't seen it,
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it's a Disney Movie of the Week, snowboarding movie. And
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at that point it was one of the biggest projects
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I had done. And so that also felt like Disney
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having my back and you know, helping me climb the
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ladder as an actor.
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So Disney's always had a special place in my heart.
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Awesome, Mike, So last question, are you ready ready? We're
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our speed This is our speed round folks. So, Mike,
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where can they find watching you and you spin these
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adventures on Beyond the Gates? Two? Where can they find
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where can they connect with you on social media? Three?
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Where can they watch The Wolf? The Wolf and a Lamb?
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And finally, where can they find out more information about
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working with you and Manifest Productions?
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Okay, so Beyond the Gates plays most every weekday at
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either one or two pm Eastern or Pacific on CBS,
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so you can catch me as Smitty and the rest
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of fairmunt Crest on CBS in the afternoons on the weekdays.
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My social media handles are Mike Underscore Manning and that's
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on Instagram, that's on x that's on what else is
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there TikTok Facebook.
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You just type in Mike Manning and I have a
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public page on there. Manifest Productions is my production company.
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So the website is Manifestproductions dot com and it has
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more information on our projects and what we're doing and
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our mantra and I'll keep updating that website with as
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we you know, produce more. My also personal website is
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Mike Manning dot info and it has sort of the
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same thing on their info about me and the Wolf
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and the Lamb. You just type in I believe it's
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on Amazon and a bunch of the other streamers, So
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just type in the Wolf and the Lamb and you
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can watch it.
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Awesome. So, guys, if you miss an episode of The
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Jakes Sake with Jacob Elisha podcast, visit our channels on
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Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts, iHeart Radio, Spotify and Speaker Jake
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Stake with Jackbli, shar j A c O. B E.
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O y A c h A R. Now are you
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on social media? Because I'm on social media to Facebook, Instagram, TikTok,
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Twitter and YouTube Jacob la sha j A c O
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b e O y A c h A R. And guys,
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if you miss my original chat with Mike, want to
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see my interviews with the likes of Matt Cohen or
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Sydney MICHAELA. Will head to the blog that started it all.
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That the reason why I'm selevating fifteen years as a
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content creator at Jake's nash chick dot com. What's in
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Jake's nash shack dot com? And I gotta say a
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big shot out to my friends open the Greater king
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City Chamber of Commerce for making jakestak dot com a
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small business superstar for twenty twenty six. It means the
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world to me to be recognized by my hometown. Mike,
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congratulations on an Emmy nomination. I'm so proud of all
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that you've achieved. You are one of ours brightest stars
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when it comes to on camera and off camera. It
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means the world to me that we've been building this
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friendship and I cannot wait and I'm gonna have my
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fingers and to Pross for you this October.
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Thank you so much, Jacob, and congratulations to you on
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fifteen successful years. I know that it's not always easy,
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and so for you to build this channel and have
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completed the interviews and putting out the content that you've
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been putting out for fifteen years is a huge accomplishment,
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So congratulations to you as well.
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Thanks Mike, I really appreciate it. And guys, this is
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not would have happened without all of you, So thank
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you all so much for watching, Thank you for all
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for listening. Until next time, have a good one, everybody Good.
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Bob
