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I would love to pick Lisa.
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Okay.
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Lisa, very cool.
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It's not about because she she's famous.
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It's not b because of her music or anything.
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I think it's because I want to understand like a younger make a very hard decision.
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Like have to fly all the way to Korea at a young age to start a new dream.
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But I'm sure that at that moment she don't she didn't have any guarantee about what's going to happen to her.
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So I really love to understand that courage.
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And how she, you know, she for sure she she have like she has to face a lot of like toast the toxic things.
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Right.
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But how could she, you know, goes through all of that one?
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Courage is powerful.
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And I think that people don't realize what it takes to be courageous.
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Courageous doesn't always mean giant things.
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Sometimes it means just waking up and showing up for your day.
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And you know, and I think that like, you're right.
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When Lisa, we know of Lisa as the famous superstar.
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So pretty.
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Right.
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But when she started out, she was a kid with a dream.
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Yeah.
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A kid with a dream.
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Welcome everybody back to Sean's Learning Adventure.
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I have an awesome guest with me today.
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Can you tell people who you are and a little bit about what you do?
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For sure, my pleasure.
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Okay, hi Saul.
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Long time we see.
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Long time we see.
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Okay.
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Hello, everybody.
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My name's uh Emily, and people also know me as uh Watapio Mali.
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That's my real name.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, and uh for the last 14 years, yeah, I'm a singer.
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Cool, it's awesome, but now like I'm uh like I'm entering a pageant competition.
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That's awesome.
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Now you've done so many cool things, but like let's take it back a little bit.
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Where did you start?
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You know, you started, you st you grew up in Canada.
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Talk to me a bit a little bit about your background.
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So I was born and raised in Vietnam.
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Yeah, yeah, and like uh I've I've spent almost of my life here.
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Yeah.
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And when I was in Grade 10, I think, so I uh went to Canada and lived with my father for two years.
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Cool.
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And after that, I decided to go back here to be an artist.
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Very cool.
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Yeah.
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Now, what was it about the arts that really inspired you?
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The arts?
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I think because um somehow I feel the arts connect with my emotion.
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Yeah, and it helps me to express who I am, and it helps me to connect with people too, and like uh to you know write my story without telling a word, like just through music.
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Yesterday I was at the park and I was there with my wife, and we saw something really cool.
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We saw all these people and they were painting.
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Painting.
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Just painting at the park.
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And it was just like because I love it that you have a portrait.
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Yeah.
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Oh.
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And so they were the idea of being able to express themselves through art is such a beautiful thing.
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Agree, totally agree.
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Uh to me, so art has many ways to express themselves.
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Like for me, it's music, and for them, probably the painting.
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Right.
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Sometimes you you feel so much emotion, but you don't know how to share what you're feeling.
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Absolutely, yeah.
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But art allows you to do that.
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Yeah.
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What what do you like to do to just if you feel too much stress, how do you share your art, your emotion?
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I think if like I'm so stressed out, yeah, yeah.
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I think I would love to dance.
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Nice.
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Because I think through dancing, like it releases my uh energy more.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Uh and sometimes I put it in my song.
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I wrote it down.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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And you know, but like mostly I keep it for myself because about music, I just want to share the good feeling to inspire people.
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Yeah.
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And to me, somehow, the stress and the artist story underneath, I want to keep it for myself.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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And you use it, you know.
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It's like one of the things for me is like when I have those strong emotions, I use them as fuel.
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They give me strength, they help me do other things.
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But, you know, I I I have a question for you because we are in Vietnam.
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Yeah.
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And, you know, you are going up for this amazing contest here in Vietnam.
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If you had to, you suddenly disappeared.
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You were on an island in the middle of an ocean, right?
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Okay.
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But you can only get three things from Vietnam.
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You're on the island in the middle of the ocean, but only three things from Vietnam.
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What are you trying to bring with you to the island?
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Oh my god, it's so hard to pick.
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Right?
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Three things only to bring to the island.
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Oh my god, it's so hard.
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Impossible.
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Okay.
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Number one.
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Number one, coffee.
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Right?
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Right?
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I'm the coffee person.
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Really?
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I really love coffee and I feel like in Vietnam, coffee somehow isn't just about a drink.
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Yeah.
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It's a culture.
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100%.
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Yeah, so I would love to like um sit down with a cup of coffee to start my new day, or I want to spend time with my friends.
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Yeah.
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Like just have coffee and have small talk to share everything.
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It would be a very lovely feelings and conversations.
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That's the thing.
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Coffee is not about the coffee, it's about the experience.
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Like you are there, it's not just the cup of coffee, it's the fact that you're having coffee with someone.
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What is your coffee order?
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Are you cafe suana or cafe suena?
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Oh my god, you know me so well.
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You know, I'm very predictable when it comes to coffee.
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Really?
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So I've tried so many types of uh different coffee in the world.
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But my number one joy is traditional Vietnamese milk coffee with crust ice.
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Have you ever tried that?
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With crushed ice, I haven't.
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Sounds delicious.
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It's really good to me.
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You know, it's simple, it's strong, it's sweet.
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And of course, I love the crushed eyes.
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And to me, you know, it's the best way to start my day.
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I love it.
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You know, and I think that like when you have something you love, just stick with it, you know.
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For me, I and it you grow up with certain things.
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Um, one of the things that I grow up with is that I grew up with lattes.
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I so I am a I am a latte person.
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I love them a latte.
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That was a really bad joke.
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But like what you mostly lie about a latte, like the the taste of the milk or the taste of coffee.
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I love the taste of the coffee.
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Oh the coffee.
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It has to be like, and this is the thing I love about Vietnam.
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Vietnam has the best coffee beans.
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Like, I go back to America and I I love my home.
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I love where I'm from.
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But the coffee beans are nowhere near as good as what I'm getting in Vietnam.
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I go to Vietnam and like the coffee beans are just like, hello, good morning, welcome to Vietnam.
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You know?
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Yeah, that's right.
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So yeah, I just can't live without coffee.
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All right.
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So you're we're gonna go first.
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Back to the question.
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Back to the island.
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Back to the island.
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We got two more things.
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So we got coffee, two more things.
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The food, you need the food to survive, right?
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The the food.
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Uh so to me, my favorite Vietnamese dishes are pet quite.
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Okay.
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Is it uh how do you call it Vietnam, caramel lime, sprays, pork?
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That's actually correct.
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Right, right.
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I didn't know that's correct.
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It's so long, it's so long with uh with butt, especially with the quail X.
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The small one.
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So good.
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Tastes so good.
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And the sweet and sour soup.
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Okay.
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Oh my god, I just love to dish is so much.
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This is one of the things that I wish the world understood more about Vietnam.
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When you go around the world, you go to like people know Fa.
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Yeah.
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And they know Ban Mei.
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But there are so much good food here that people just don't know about.
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Yeah, and I wish don't know yet.
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We're gonna show you guys.
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Yes, we need to show you guys, and like that's one of my favorites.
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No, what my favorite is.
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I'm super simple, but I love Gamtam.
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Oh my god, that one too.
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Gamtam is just like where it's at for me.
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It's so it's so good.
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Well, you answered my next question.
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I was gonna ask what's your favorite food, but like we got the two things on the island.
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We are going to the third thing on the island that you would want to bring.
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You know, this one is really hard to bring, but this one I want to keep inside is the sense of the family and community.
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Right?
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Yeah, because I don't know why, but I feel like Vietnamese people have a very natural way to take care of uh each other, right?
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Sometimes I understand it's a little too much, you know.
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But I um I just miss that feeling because I'm away from my family.
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So I just miss those days when my parents just like remind me to eat, to wash, to clean my clothes, and study.
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I just love those feelings so much.
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There is something like I think that's one of the things that in Vietnam I love the most and also makes me the most crazy, is like my family is always involved, you know?
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Always involved.
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But yeah, at the same time, if you ever have a problem, they'll be there for you.
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And I think that's a beautiful thing about Vietnam it's the family community.
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And so you got but you're gonna bring your whole family to a desert island.
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No, hopefully, it has a beautiful beach and a resort on the desert island.
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No, I'll bring that feeling.
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Yeah, it keeps it keeps me warm.
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That's good.
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That's good.
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All right, I got some more.
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Let's see.
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All right, fun one.
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Let's imagine that you're a coffee shop.
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This is a surprise.
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I didn't tell her about this question, but it's cool.
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Okay.
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You're at the coffee shop drinking your favorite coffee, okay, and you can invite one person in all of history to come and have coffee with you.
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Who would it be?
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My strangers.
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Anyone, famous person, someone in the past, anyone around the world.
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Oh my god.
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It's you know, because I really love having a good conversation.
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Yes.
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It's really hard for me to pick one.
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Okay, let me think.
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I would love to pick Lisa.
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Okay, Lisa, very cool.
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It's not about because she she's famous.
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It's not because of her music or anything.
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I think it's because I want to understand like uh younger, yeah, uh, make a very hard decision, like have to fly all the way to Korea at a young age to start a new dream.
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But I'm sure that at that moment she don't she didn't have any guarantee about what's going to happen to her.
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So I really love to understand that courage and how she, you know, she for sure she she have like she has to face a lot of like toxic things, right?
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But how could she, you know, goes through all of that one?
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Courage is powerful, and I think that people don't realize what it takes to be courageous.
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Courageous doesn't always mean giant things, sometimes it means just waking up and showing up for your day, and you know, and I think that like you're right, when Lisa, we know of Lisa as the famous superstar, so pretty, right?
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But when she started out, she was a kid with a dream.
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Yeah, a kid with a dream.
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What are some of your dreams?
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My dreams, um, of course, uh, when I was really young, I wanted to become an artist.
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I want to pursue my dream as a like performer or music uh or singer.
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But uh along the way, I think I have a bigger dream.
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Not only about pursuing my dreams, but like to do something beyond my career.
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Like I want to represent a voice or represent Vietnam in like uh the bigger stage outside of Vietnam.
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I want to do something more than myself.
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I love that.
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Yeah.
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You know, we all can be part of something bigger, and I think that's so powerful when we we do that.
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But you know, when you moved away from Vietnam, what did you miss the most about being here?
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Oh I actually it was a very hard time for me because like I the when I went to Canada, I still very young.
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Yeah, yeah.
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So I have to uh adapt to the new culture and the language and you know, everything.
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And I think I miss all the little things like the Vietnamese out, the food, right, you know, all like um sometimes just a uh a conversation with friends uh at the coffee shop or you know, crazy like traffic chain.
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Sometimes I just miss all that simple things to me because all of that makes me feel like home.
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Yeah, yeah.
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One of the things I think that people inside Vietnam don't realize about other places, especially cold places, is like in Vietnam everything's outside.
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So you go outside and it's festive, you see people, but in cold countries, everything's inside in a home.
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And so you go to America and you're like outside, and it's like there's no one else outside.
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Like you have to go into a restaurant or go into someone's house.
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And like that's one of the things like when I take my wife to America, she gets there and she's like, it's so quiet.
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It's so like, you know, at nighttime everyone goes to bed, but like in Vietnam, it's always alive, it's always bright, it's always like something awesome's happening.
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Yeah, probably you just have a call that's a let's uh go out, have some coffee, or let's go out, play some tennis.
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We can do it immediately, but it's really hard to do it when you like I travel to Canada.
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It's really hard.
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Speaking about tennis, and are you playing tennis now, or is it are you playing pickleball?
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What do you play?
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Uh I'm playing tennis right now.
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I I don't know why, I just so in love with tennis.
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Talk to me about that.
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What is it about tennis that you enjoy?
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I enjoy tennis the most because like uh the energy I put into it.
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Yeah.
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And um while uh when I learn to play it, I think that's the time I can spend for myself.
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Yeah.
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And I just enjoy have like a moment to to live for me.
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Yeah, yeah.
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It's beautiful.
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You know, sometimes we have to have those things that we really enjoy.
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Yeah.
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You want to play tennis?
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I would I'm really bad at tennis.
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I took tennis classes when I was a kid.
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I like tennis, it's fun, but I there were sports.
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One summer when I was a little boy, my mom did a cool thing.
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She put me into like 20 different sports classes.
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Like 20.
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I played 20.
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Do you have not to try?
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We tried all of these sports.
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I tried football.
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I'm very bad at football.
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I tried basketball, not coordinated with basketball.
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I tried tennis.
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I like tennis, but I would go, and the ball like that way.
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It takes time, it takes time, you know.
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Like for me, I I've learned uh for more than eight months.
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Yeah, but I just get the the forehand and backhand, that's it, for eight months to get it right.
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Takes time.
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Yeah, but I think it teach me how to be patient to that's important.
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Yeah, you know, sometimes when you know the things that we put our energy into take time, you know, and putting time into something, you only get good at anything by practice.
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Practicing, you know, it's like I remember with Aylani, my daughter, we had she does boxing, but the the biggest challenge was piano.
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Uh we have a couple teachers we've been through because she's not easy.
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We kind of lose teachers.
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I think because she can't stay focused for a long time.
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She is super ADD, but she loves it.
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She loves it.
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But it was something that like we had her in piano classes for like two years.
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Two years.
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And it was like, Mary had a little lamb.
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And I'm sitting there after like two years, I was like, I don't know.
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I don't know if this is gonna happen.
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I don't know if piano.
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And then one day, thank goodness my wife came downstairs and said, Let me try.
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And I'm glad my life had Eilani is like a little miniature V.
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For people who don't know, they are like, she's like mini, mini V.
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Okay.
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And so V came down and said, Let me show you some piano.
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And V started playing the piano, and it was like um Ave Maria, and it was just very simple.
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And Eilani just was like, I like this.
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And then she started playing and started copying it.
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And that passion came out, and it what what I noticed like overnight is that she went from like, it was just like it turned on.
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And then suddenly it was there.
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Like for me, when I started learning Vietnamese, uh the first six months, I understood nothing.
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All of the tones sounded the same.
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All the teachers might like the sound is oh, and I was just like, oh.
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I know I know.
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I'm just like, I didn't get it.
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I didn't get it.
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But then like six months in, suddenly I could hear it.
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And I was just like, oh, oh, oh, oh, that's that sound, you know.
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Made many, many, many, many mistakes.
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I've said many bad things.
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But when you stick with something, you get good at it.
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For sure, yeah.
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And yeah, you have to put a lot of like uh your energy in there, right?
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This industry that you're in is really tough at times.
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Have you ever felt the pressure to be someone different than who you are?
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Art is fun sometimes, but you know you know, choose art as a career is really very scary sometimes, right?
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Yeah, because there is no guarantee about how uh things will work out.
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Yeah.
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So of course, to me, uh I had to face a lot of uh obstacles during my life.
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Like my managers, my teams want something because they think that it will be uh suitable for uh the entertainment industry, but it's not me.
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Yeah, you know, but somehow like I listened to my inner voice, I listen to myself and say, No, I think I believe in me.
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I I want to do it.
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So most of my competitions before, my team didn't really want me to go there because like it's um you know, big stars, uh big artists there.
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So they are very afraid that I'm not gonna do well and it will like affect my emotions or something.
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But I say, please trust me, let me do it.
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So fortunately to me, I I feel like I'm very lucky because I always make two top five every competition, every every competition, and I think I would love to, of course, thank my team because at the end they will support me anyway, and I will want to like thanks to my past self that she tries so hard, every gender she had.
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Right.
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Yeah, well, let's let's play.
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I got a little thing right here.
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The movie, a movie 11.
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Yes, we get to make a wish.
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Now we get one wish.
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So we are gonna rub the lamp.
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You go ahead, rub the lamp.
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Oh my god, this new!
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Yeah, rub the lamp and put the genie pops out.
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Oh, you will do it later, right?
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Yes, I'll do little like effects of the genie popping out.
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Okay.
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Poof.
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Now, what are you going to wish for?
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What I want to wish for.
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For yourself.
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For myself?
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Yes.
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I think I will wish that uh for Miley.
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We'll always have strength to like uh to love and to be loved, to have hope, no matter what is gonna happen.
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Yes, the only wish I want.
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You know, because sometimes there's uh the time that I feel like I want to give up on myself, and that feeling very terrible, it's very scary.
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And I I don't want it like takes control of me.
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I want to like have the strength enough to get through everything.
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That's beautiful.
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So beautiful.
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When she holds this, she does something good.
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I'm wishing for a billion dollars.
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No, but sometimes money solve a lot of problems.
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So you have families too.
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Billion dollars.
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And she has inner strength.
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I feel so bad right now.
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No, no, no.
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No, no, no, no, no, no.
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Good answer.
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Evil answer.
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Bad answer.
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All right, well, we're It's not a bad answer.
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Come on.
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I know you had to take care of the whole family.
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I have a family.
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Yeah.
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Alright, well, ladies and gentlemen, we are moving on to our next step in the interview.
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We have the we the wheel of uh pageant chaos here.
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Oh my god, chaos!
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And we have all of these different versions of Emlade.
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Oh my god, look at me.
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Look at me.
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I would love this one.
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I would love it.
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So we got this.
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Child, you know me so well.
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You know me so well.
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Right?
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We've got her here.
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So here we have some different challenges and some good things and bad things.
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Now, we have broken heels, slip on stage.
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Mostly bad things.
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Yes, but we have some good things all it has to.
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Now, because you talk about being strong, these are challenges that can happen.
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And a strong person, even when they have a challenge, can bounce back.
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Can you spin the wheel?
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And we're gonna kind of get one of these as a as a uh uh uh uh see what you would do.
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Okay.
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Three, two, one, go.
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And we've got oh no! She is getting ready to sing and the wrong music comes on.
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What would you do?
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Pageant stage, right?
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Pageant stage.
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And I've seen this.
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This happened to my wife before.
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It has happened to V.
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Is she a singer?
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She she did it, but she was on stage and she's like the look, the look for singer, I don't know, but for pageants, yes, if I have wrong music, you know, I'm a singer.
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I have a bit inside of me.
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Yes, I will go with the flow.
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Oh my god, because passion, mostly about like your energy, how you walk, how you connect to the audience.
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So music, yeah, it could help to bring up your mood and how you help you to express yourself better.
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But you know, you have to control when you're on stage, your spotlight there.
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You have to own it.
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Yes, you know.
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So I don't care, I just like take my walk, and yeah, people have to look at me with my own beat.
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Yes, your own bit.
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Where do we go?
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We just dropped it.
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See?
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See, it happens.
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Things happen all the time.
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Wrong music, losing a spitter.
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That's my guy.
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You know, so so I guess if G V, she has wrong music, she will sing with my uh no, no, she just stared at them and she's like, Yeah, Anoy.
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No, I don't come, Anai, come fi.
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Can I, can't, come Kai, goche.
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Yeah, she's like, Anaye, come by.
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And she just smiles.
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And then she's so pretty.
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Inside, inside, if it was me, I would die.
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She's like, Yeah, stay calm.
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Yeah, stay calm.
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That's it.
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You gotta stay calm.
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Yeah.
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Did you ever see that like when Michael they did the wrong music on stage for Michael Jackson?
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And he fired the guy.
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He kept singing.
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He's like, Eddie, get a new job.
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You're gonna get a new job.
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It's pretty funny.
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Go and find that clip.
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Okay.
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Yeah.
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All right, spinning again, we have another one.
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Three, two.
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Here we go, and it is what is that?
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Your crown falls off.
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What would you do?
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Oh my god, no, not that one, not that that's my moment.
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Okay.
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No, no, it's okay.
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No, it's okay.
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It's okay, it's okay, it's okay.
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It's okay.
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Oh, it's okay.
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All right.
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If my crowd falls off, I think I still try to stay calm, smile, be pretty, and slowly pick up the crowd, put it in again.
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You know, because you know I work so hard for the crown.
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I have to keep it at.
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Yes.
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Probably I I'm gonna do like I'm tapping it and say, hey, we still have work to do together.
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We still have work to do.
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Yes, you have to stay there with me.
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Yes, we have work to do.
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Yeah, crown.
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You are not taking a break.
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We have work to do.
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I love that.
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All right, we got one more, give it a spin, and we are gonna see where we go from here.
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Hey.
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And we have a broken heel, ladies and gentlemen.
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It happened happens a lot.
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So two.
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This actually happened to me, not a broken heel.
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One time V invited me to sing with her, and the bottom of my shoe fell off.
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On stage, the bottom of my shoe fell off, and it was like thop, thop, thop.
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Actually happened.
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What would you do?
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Okay, so uh I think if I have a broken heel on stage, uh fell off again.
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Fell off again! Broken heel on stage, what would you do?
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You know, first of all, because when I walk with heel, I usually walk with this part of the feet.
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How you say this?
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This part of the feet.
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The ball, the ball of your ball of your foot.
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Yeah, the foot.
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Uh so the heel doesn't touch the crown.
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Yeah.
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But I think I will take both of it off and walk with my my bare foot.
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That's awesome.
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Confidence.
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Yeah.
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Take it off and see it.
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Because to me, people will like look at my face, look at my energy, you know, look at my dress, and the heels just a part of it.
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So I'm not allowed the heels to take away my confidence on stage.
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Yeah, so I just like slowly take it off and continue through the catwalk.
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I was terrified when my shoe fell off.
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I didn't know what to do, so you can't know the better than me.
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I'm walking along, so, and I'm just like, oh no, man.
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And my wife is looking at me like, your shoes just broke on stage.
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What do I do?
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But I mean, I got to experience or wearing heels for a day once when my wife had a show and I went in drag as Vivian.
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It was you were there, weren't you?
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Yeah, she was there.
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I didn't I didn't see your heels broke.
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They were no, the heels didn't break, but it was so hard to walk in heels.
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So in that respect, I cannot walk in heels.
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It's amazing.
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But we have one final question.
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Okay.
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Why you?
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No, why why you?
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You know this question's gonna be one of a question probably gonna happen on stage or with the church, so I had to keep it secret.
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Because you know, all the can contestants probably know, so I have to keep it before myself.
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But if you want to know the reason the uh unofficial reasons, let me think, you know, because I'm pretty good and uh keep myself calm under pressure.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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I love it.
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Um you know, I have um a pretty different look.
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Probably it helps me to stand out on stage because I can do multiple tasks.
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Nice, I can smile, I can walk, and wave while inside like shaking.
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I cannot.
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I cannot.
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Oh, okay, just joking, but I think um this question pretty pretty important to me.
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So if you guys want to know the real reason, please follow my journey to Miss Universe Vietnam 2026, and you will know the answer.
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Awesome.
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Well, I want to thank you for coming on today.
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This is for you.
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You get to keep this one.
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Of course, I love to.
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You guys have to take a look.
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She he likes a different version of me.
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Oh, Emily, she did not see this, she did not know that I made one with all of her pictures on here, and there's a lot of fun ones.
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Sing the crown is not falling off.
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It's gonna stay.
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If you guys want to follow Emily's journey on Miss Universe 2026, be sure to stay tuned and follow her on all of her socials.
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See you guys soon.
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Bye bye.
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Bye bye.
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I would love to pick Lisa.
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Okay.
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Lisa, very cool.
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It's not about because she she's famous.
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It's not b because of her music or anything.
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I think it's because I want to understand like a younger make a very hard decision.
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Like have to fly all the way to Korea at a young age to start a new dream.
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But I'm sure that at that moment she don't she didn't have any guarantee about what's going to happen to her.
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So I really love to understand that courage.
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And how she, you know, she for sure she she have like she has to face a lot of like toast the toxic things.
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Right.
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But how could she, you know, goes through all of that one?
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Courage is powerful.
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And I think that people don't realize what it takes to be courageous.
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Courageous doesn't always mean giant things.
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Sometimes it means just waking up and showing up for your day.
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And you know, and I think that like, you're right.
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When Lisa, we know of Lisa as the famous superstar.
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So pretty.
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Right.
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But when she started out, she was a kid with a dream.
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Yeah.
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A kid with a dream.
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Welcome everybody back to Sean's Learning Adventure.
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I have an awesome guest with me today.
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Can you tell people who you are and a little bit about what you do?
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For sure, my pleasure.
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Okay, hi Saul.
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Long time we see.
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Long time we see.
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Okay.
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Hello, everybody.
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My name's uh Emily, and people also know me as uh Watapio Mali.
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That's my real name.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, and uh for the last 14 years, yeah, I'm a singer.
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Cool, it's awesome, but now like I'm uh like I'm entering a pageant competition.
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That's awesome.
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Now you've done so many cool things, but like let's take it back a little bit.
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Where did you start?
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You know, you started, you st you grew up in Canada.
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Talk to me a bit a little bit about your background.
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So I was born and raised in Vietnam.
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Yeah, yeah, and like uh I've I've spent almost of my life here.
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Yeah.
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And when I was in Grade 10, I think, so I uh went to Canada and lived with my father for two years.
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Cool.
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And after that, I decided to go back here to be an artist.
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Very cool.
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Yeah.
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Now, what was it about the arts that really inspired you?
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The arts?
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I think because um somehow I feel the arts connect with my emotion.
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Yeah, and it helps me to express who I am, and it helps me to connect with people too, and like uh to you know write my story without telling a word, like just through music.
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Yesterday I was at the park and I was there with my wife, and we saw something really cool.
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We saw all these people and they were painting.
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Painting.
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Just painting at the park.
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And it was just like because I love it that you have a portrait.
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Yeah.
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Oh.
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And so they were the idea of being able to express themselves through art is such a beautiful thing.
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Agree, totally agree.
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Uh to me, so art has many ways to express themselves.
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Like for me, it's music, and for them, probably the painting.
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Right.
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Sometimes you you feel so much emotion, but you don't know how to share what you're feeling.
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Absolutely, yeah.
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But art allows you to do that.
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Yeah.
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What what do you like to do to just if you feel too much stress, how do you share your art, your emotion?
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I think if like I'm so stressed out, yeah, yeah.
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I think I would love to dance.
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Nice.
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Because I think through dancing, like it releases my uh energy more.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Uh and sometimes I put it in my song.
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I wrote it down.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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And you know, but like mostly I keep it for myself because about music, I just want to share the good feeling to inspire people.
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Yeah.
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And to me, somehow, the stress and the artist story underneath, I want to keep it for myself.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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And you use it, you know.
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It's like one of the things for me is like when I have those strong emotions, I use them as fuel.
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They give me strength, they help me do other things.
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But, you know, I I I have a question for you because we are in Vietnam.
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Yeah.
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And, you know, you are going up for this amazing contest here in Vietnam.
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If you had to, you suddenly disappeared.
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You were on an island in the middle of an ocean, right?
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Okay.
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But you can only get three things from Vietnam.
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You're on the island in the middle of the ocean, but only three things from Vietnam.
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What are you trying to bring with you to the island?
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Oh my god, it's so hard to pick.
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Right?
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Three things only to bring to the island.
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Oh my god, it's so hard.
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Impossible.
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Okay.
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Number one.
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Number one, coffee.
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Right?
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Right?
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I'm the coffee person.
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Really?
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I really love coffee and I feel like in Vietnam, coffee somehow isn't just about a drink.
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Yeah.
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It's a culture.
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100%.
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Yeah, so I would love to like um sit down with a cup of coffee to start my new day, or I want to spend time with my friends.
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Yeah.
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Like just have coffee and have small talk to share everything.
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It would be a very lovely feelings and conversations.
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That's the thing.
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Coffee is not about the coffee, it's about the experience.
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Like you are there, it's not just the cup of coffee, it's the fact that you're having coffee with someone.
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What is your coffee order?
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Are you cafe suana or cafe suena?
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Oh my god, you know me so well.
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You know, I'm very predictable when it comes to coffee.
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Really?
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So I've tried so many types of uh different coffee in the world.
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But my number one joy is traditional Vietnamese milk coffee with crust ice.
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Have you ever tried that?
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With crushed ice, I haven't.
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Sounds delicious.
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It's really good to me.
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You know, it's simple, it's strong, it's sweet.
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And of course, I love the crushed eyes.
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And to me, you know, it's the best way to start my day.
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I love it.
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You know, and I think that like when you have something you love, just stick with it, you know.
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For me, I and it you grow up with certain things.
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Um, one of the things that I grow up with is that I grew up with lattes.
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I so I am a I am a latte person.
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I love them a latte.
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That was a really bad joke.
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But like what you mostly lie about a latte, like the the taste of the milk or the taste of coffee.
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I love the taste of the coffee.
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Oh the coffee.
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It has to be like, and this is the thing I love about Vietnam.
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Vietnam has the best coffee beans.
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Like, I go back to America and I I love my home.
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I love where I'm from.
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But the coffee beans are nowhere near as good as what I'm getting in Vietnam.
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I go to Vietnam and like the coffee beans are just like, hello, good morning, welcome to Vietnam.
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You know?
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Yeah, that's right.
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So yeah, I just can't live without coffee.
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All right.
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So you're we're gonna go first.
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Back to the question.
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Back to the island.
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Back to the island.
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We got two more things.
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So we got coffee, two more things.
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The food, you need the food to survive, right?
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The the food.
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Uh so to me, my favorite Vietnamese dishes are pet quite.
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Okay.
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Is it uh how do you call it Vietnam, caramel lime, sprays, pork?
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That's actually correct.
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Right, right.
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I didn't know that's correct.
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It's so long, it's so long with uh with butt, especially with the quail X.
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The small one.
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So good.
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Tastes so good.
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And the sweet and sour soup.
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Okay.
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Oh my god, I just love to dish is so much.
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This is one of the things that I wish the world understood more about Vietnam.
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When you go around the world, you go to like people know Fa.
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Yeah.
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And they know Ban Mei.
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But there are so much good food here that people just don't know about.
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Yeah, and I wish don't know yet.
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We're gonna show you guys.
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Yes, we need to show you guys, and like that's one of my favorites.
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No, what my favorite is.
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I'm super simple, but I love Gamtam.
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Oh my god, that one too.
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Gamtam is just like where it's at for me.
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It's so it's so good.
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Well, you answered my next question.
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I was gonna ask what's your favorite food, but like we got the two things on the island.
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We are going to the third thing on the island that you would want to bring.
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You know, this one is really hard to bring, but this one I want to keep inside is the sense of the family and community.
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Right?
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Yeah, because I don't know why, but I feel like Vietnamese people have a very natural way to take care of uh each other, right?
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Sometimes I understand it's a little too much, you know.
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But I um I just miss that feeling because I'm away from my family.
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So I just miss those days when my parents just like remind me to eat, to wash, to clean my clothes, and study.
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I just love those feelings so much.
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There is something like I think that's one of the things that in Vietnam I love the most and also makes me the most crazy, is like my family is always involved, you know?
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Always involved.
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But yeah, at the same time, if you ever have a problem, they'll be there for you.
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And I think that's a beautiful thing about Vietnam it's the family community.
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And so you got but you're gonna bring your whole family to a desert island.
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No, hopefully, it has a beautiful beach and a resort on the desert island.
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No, I'll bring that feeling.
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Yeah, it keeps it keeps me warm.
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That's good.
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That's good.
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All right, I got some more.
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Let's see.
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All right, fun one.
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Let's imagine that you're a coffee shop.
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This is a surprise.
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I didn't tell her about this question, but it's cool.
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Okay.
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You're at the coffee shop drinking your favorite coffee, okay, and you can invite one person in all of history to come and have coffee with you.
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Who would it be?
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My strangers.
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Anyone, famous person, someone in the past, anyone around the world.
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Oh my god.
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It's you know, because I really love having a good conversation.
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Yes.
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It's really hard for me to pick one.
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Okay, let me think.
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I would love to pick Lisa.
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Okay, Lisa, very cool.
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It's not about because she she's famous.
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It's not because of her music or anything.
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I think it's because I want to understand like uh younger, yeah, uh, make a very hard decision, like have to fly all the way to Korea at a young age to start a new dream.
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But I'm sure that at that moment she don't she didn't have any guarantee about what's going to happen to her.
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So I really love to understand that courage and how she, you know, she for sure she she have like she has to face a lot of like toxic things, right?
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But how could she, you know, goes through all of that one?
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Courage is powerful, and I think that people don't realize what it takes to be courageous.
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Courageous doesn't always mean giant things, sometimes it means just waking up and showing up for your day, and you know, and I think that like you're right, when Lisa, we know of Lisa as the famous superstar, so pretty, right?
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But when she started out, she was a kid with a dream.
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Yeah, a kid with a dream.
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What are some of your dreams?
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My dreams, um, of course, uh, when I was really young, I wanted to become an artist.
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I want to pursue my dream as a like performer or music uh or singer.
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But uh along the way, I think I have a bigger dream.
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Not only about pursuing my dreams, but like to do something beyond my career.
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Like I want to represent a voice or represent Vietnam in like uh the bigger stage outside of Vietnam.
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I want to do something more than myself.
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I love that.
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Yeah.
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You know, we all can be part of something bigger, and I think that's so powerful when we we do that.
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But you know, when you moved away from Vietnam, what did you miss the most about being here?
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Oh I actually it was a very hard time for me because like I the when I went to Canada, I still very young.
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Yeah, yeah.
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So I have to uh adapt to the new culture and the language and you know, everything.
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And I think I miss all the little things like the Vietnamese out, the food, right, you know, all like um sometimes just a uh a conversation with friends uh at the coffee shop or you know, crazy like traffic chain.
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Sometimes I just miss all that simple things to me because all of that makes me feel like home.
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Yeah, yeah.
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One of the things I think that people inside Vietnam don't realize about other places, especially cold places, is like in Vietnam everything's outside.
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So you go outside and it's festive, you see people, but in cold countries, everything's inside in a home.
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And so you go to America and you're like outside, and it's like there's no one else outside.
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Like you have to go into a restaurant or go into someone's house.
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And like that's one of the things like when I take my wife to America, she gets there and she's like, it's so quiet.
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It's so like, you know, at nighttime everyone goes to bed, but like in Vietnam, it's always alive, it's always bright, it's always like something awesome's happening.
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Yeah, probably you just have a call that's a let's uh go out, have some coffee, or let's go out, play some tennis.
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We can do it immediately, but it's really hard to do it when you like I travel to Canada.
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It's really hard.
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Speaking about tennis, and are you playing tennis now, or is it are you playing pickleball?
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What do you play?
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Uh I'm playing tennis right now.
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I I don't know why, I just so in love with tennis.
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Talk to me about that.
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What is it about tennis that you enjoy?
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I enjoy tennis the most because like uh the energy I put into it.
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Yeah.
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And um while uh when I learn to play it, I think that's the time I can spend for myself.
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Yeah.
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And I just enjoy have like a moment to to live for me.
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Yeah, yeah.
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It's beautiful.
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You know, sometimes we have to have those things that we really enjoy.
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Yeah.
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You want to play tennis?
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I would I'm really bad at tennis.
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I took tennis classes when I was a kid.
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I like tennis, it's fun, but I there were sports.
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One summer when I was a little boy, my mom did a cool thing.
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She put me into like 20 different sports classes.
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Like 20.
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I played 20.
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Do you have not to try?
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We tried all of these sports.
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I tried football.
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I'm very bad at football.
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I tried basketball, not coordinated with basketball.
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I tried tennis.
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I like tennis, but I would go, and the ball like that way.
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It takes time, it takes time, you know.
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Like for me, I I've learned uh for more than eight months.
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Yeah, but I just get the the forehand and backhand, that's it, for eight months to get it right.
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Takes time.
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Yeah, but I think it teach me how to be patient to that's important.
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Yeah, you know, sometimes when you know the things that we put our energy into take time, you know, and putting time into something, you only get good at anything by practice.
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Practicing, you know, it's like I remember with Aylani, my daughter, we had she does boxing, but the the biggest challenge was piano.
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Uh we have a couple teachers we've been through because she's not easy.
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We kind of lose teachers.
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I think because she can't stay focused for a long time.
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She is super ADD, but she loves it.
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She loves it.
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But it was something that like we had her in piano classes for like two years.
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Two years.
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And it was like, Mary had a little lamb.
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And I'm sitting there after like two years, I was like, I don't know.
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I don't know if this is gonna happen.
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I don't know if piano.
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And then one day, thank goodness my wife came downstairs and said, Let me try.
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And I'm glad my life had Eilani is like a little miniature V.
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For people who don't know, they are like, she's like mini, mini V.
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Okay.
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And so V came down and said, Let me show you some piano.
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And V started playing the piano, and it was like um Ave Maria, and it was just very simple.
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And Eilani just was like, I like this.
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And then she started playing and started copying it.
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And that passion came out, and it what what I noticed like overnight is that she went from like, it was just like it turned on.
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And then suddenly it was there.
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Like for me, when I started learning Vietnamese, uh the first six months, I understood nothing.
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All of the tones sounded the same.
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All the teachers might like the sound is oh, and I was just like, oh.
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I know I know.
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I'm just like, I didn't get it.
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I didn't get it.
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But then like six months in, suddenly I could hear it.
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And I was just like, oh, oh, oh, oh, that's that sound, you know.
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Made many, many, many, many mistakes.
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I've said many bad things.
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But when you stick with something, you get good at it.
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For sure, yeah.
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And yeah, you have to put a lot of like uh your energy in there, right?
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This industry that you're in is really tough at times.
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Have you ever felt the pressure to be someone different than who you are?
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Art is fun sometimes, but you know you know, choose art as a career is really very scary sometimes, right?
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Yeah, because there is no guarantee about how uh things will work out.
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Yeah.
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So of course, to me, uh I had to face a lot of uh obstacles during my life.
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Like my managers, my teams want something because they think that it will be uh suitable for uh the entertainment industry, but it's not me.
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Yeah, you know, but somehow like I listened to my inner voice, I listen to myself and say, No, I think I believe in me.
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I I want to do it.
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So most of my competitions before, my team didn't really want me to go there because like it's um you know, big stars, uh big artists there.
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So they are very afraid that I'm not gonna do well and it will like affect my emotions or something.
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But I say, please trust me, let me do it.
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So fortunately to me, I I feel like I'm very lucky because I always make two top five every competition, every every competition, and I think I would love to, of course, thank my team because at the end they will support me anyway, and I will want to like thanks to my past self that she tries so hard, every gender she had.
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Right.
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Yeah, well, let's let's play.
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I got a little thing right here.
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The movie, a movie 11.
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Yes, we get to make a wish.
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Now we get one wish.
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So we are gonna rub the lamp.
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You go ahead, rub the lamp.
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Oh my god, this new!
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Yeah, rub the lamp and put the genie pops out.
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Oh, you will do it later, right?
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Yes, I'll do little like effects of the genie popping out.
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Okay.
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Poof.
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Now, what are you going to wish for?
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What I want to wish for.
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For yourself.
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For myself?
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Yes.
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I think I will wish that uh for Miley.
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We'll always have strength to like uh to love and to be loved, to have hope, no matter what is gonna happen.
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Yes, the only wish I want.
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You know, because sometimes there's uh the time that I feel like I want to give up on myself, and that feeling very terrible, it's very scary.
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And I I don't want it like takes control of me.
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I want to like have the strength enough to get through everything.
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That's beautiful.
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So beautiful.
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When she holds this, she does something good.
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I'm wishing for a billion dollars.
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No, but sometimes money solve a lot of problems.
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So you have families too.
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Billion dollars.
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And she has inner strength.
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I feel so bad right now.
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No, no, no.
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No, no, no, no, no, no.
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Good answer.
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Evil answer.
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Bad answer.
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All right, well, we're It's not a bad answer.
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Come on.
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I know you had to take care of the whole family.
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I have a family.
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Yeah.
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Alright, well, ladies and gentlemen, we are moving on to our next step in the interview.
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We have the we the wheel of uh pageant chaos here.
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Oh my god, chaos!
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And we have all of these different versions of Emlade.
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Oh my god, look at me.
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Look at me.
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I would love this one.
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I would love it.
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So we got this.
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Child, you know me so well.
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You know me so well.
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Right?
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We've got her here.
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So here we have some different challenges and some good things and bad things.
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Now, we have broken heels, slip on stage.
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Mostly bad things.
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Yes, but we have some good things all it has to.
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Now, because you talk about being strong, these are challenges that can happen.
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And a strong person, even when they have a challenge, can bounce back.
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Can you spin the wheel?
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And we're gonna kind of get one of these as a as a uh uh uh uh see what you would do.
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Okay.
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Three, two, one, go.
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And we've got oh no! She is getting ready to sing and the wrong music comes on.
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What would you do?
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Pageant stage, right?
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Pageant stage.
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And I've seen this.
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This happened to my wife before.
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It has happened to V.
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Is she a singer?
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She she did it, but she was on stage and she's like the look, the look for singer, I don't know, but for pageants, yes, if I have wrong music, you know, I'm a singer.
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I have a bit inside of me.
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Yes, I will go with the flow.
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Oh my god, because passion, mostly about like your energy, how you walk, how you connect to the audience.
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So music, yeah, it could help to bring up your mood and how you help you to express yourself better.
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But you know, you have to control when you're on stage, your spotlight there.
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You have to own it.
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Yes, you know.
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So I don't care, I just like take my walk, and yeah, people have to look at me with my own beat.
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Yes, your own bit.
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Where do we go?
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We just dropped it.
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See?
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See, it happens.
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Things happen all the time.
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Wrong music, losing a spitter.
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That's my guy.
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You know, so so I guess if G V, she has wrong music, she will sing with my uh no, no, she just stared at them and she's like, Yeah, Anoy.
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No, I don't come, Anai, come fi.
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Can I, can't, come Kai, goche.
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Yeah, she's like, Anaye, come by.
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And she just smiles.
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And then she's so pretty.
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Inside, inside, if it was me, I would die.
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She's like, Yeah, stay calm.
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Yeah, stay calm.
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That's it.
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You gotta stay calm.
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Yeah.
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Did you ever see that like when Michael they did the wrong music on stage for Michael Jackson?
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And he fired the guy.
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He kept singing.
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He's like, Eddie, get a new job.
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You're gonna get a new job.
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It's pretty funny.
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Go and find that clip.
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Okay.
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Yeah.
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All right, spinning again, we have another one.
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Three, two.
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Here we go, and it is what is that?
00:25:23.519 --> 00:25:24.480
Your crown falls off.
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What would you do?
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Oh my god, no, not that one, not that that's my moment.
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Okay.
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No, no, it's okay.
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No, it's okay.
00:25:30.880 --> 00:25:32.079
It's okay, it's okay, it's okay.
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It's okay.
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Oh, it's okay.
00:25:35.359 --> 00:25:35.920
All right.
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If my crowd falls off, I think I still try to stay calm, smile, be pretty, and slowly pick up the crowd, put it in again.
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You know, because you know I work so hard for the crown.
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I have to keep it at.
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Yes.
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Probably I I'm gonna do like I'm tapping it and say, hey, we still have work to do together.
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We still have work to do.
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Yes, you have to stay there with me.
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Yes, we have work to do.
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Yeah, crown.
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You are not taking a break.
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We have work to do.
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I love that.
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All right, we got one more, give it a spin, and we are gonna see where we go from here.
00:26:19.440 --> 00:26:19.920
Hey.
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And we have a broken heel, ladies and gentlemen.
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It happened happens a lot.
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So two.
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This actually happened to me, not a broken heel.
00:26:30.720 --> 00:26:35.440
One time V invited me to sing with her, and the bottom of my shoe fell off.
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On stage, the bottom of my shoe fell off, and it was like thop, thop, thop.
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Actually happened.
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What would you do?
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Okay, so uh I think if I have a broken heel on stage, uh fell off again.
00:26:54.880 --> 00:26:58.240
Fell off again! Broken heel on stage, what would you do?
00:26:58.400 --> 00:27:05.039
You know, first of all, because when I walk with heel, I usually walk with this part of the feet.
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How you say this?
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This part of the feet.
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The ball, the ball of your ball of your foot.
00:27:10.000 --> 00:27:11.039
Yeah, the foot.
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Uh so the heel doesn't touch the crown.
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Yeah.
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But I think I will take both of it off and walk with my my bare foot.
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That's awesome.
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Confidence.
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Yeah.
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Take it off and see it.
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Because to me, people will like look at my face, look at my energy, you know, look at my dress, and the heels just a part of it.
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So I'm not allowed the heels to take away my confidence on stage.
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Yeah, so I just like slowly take it off and continue through the catwalk.
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I was terrified when my shoe fell off.
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I didn't know what to do, so you can't know the better than me.
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I'm walking along, so, and I'm just like, oh no, man.
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And my wife is looking at me like, your shoes just broke on stage.
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What do I do?
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But I mean, I got to experience or wearing heels for a day once when my wife had a show and I went in drag as Vivian.
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It was you were there, weren't you?
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Yeah, she was there.
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I didn't I didn't see your heels broke.
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They were no, the heels didn't break, but it was so hard to walk in heels.
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So in that respect, I cannot walk in heels.
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It's amazing.
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But we have one final question.
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Okay.
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Why you?
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No, why why you?
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You know this question's gonna be one of a question probably gonna happen on stage or with the church, so I had to keep it secret.
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Because you know, all the can contestants probably know, so I have to keep it before myself.
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But if you want to know the reason the uh unofficial reasons, let me think, you know, because I'm pretty good and uh keep myself calm under pressure.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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I love it.
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Um you know, I have um a pretty different look.
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Probably it helps me to stand out on stage because I can do multiple tasks.
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Nice, I can smile, I can walk, and wave while inside like shaking.
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I cannot.
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I cannot.
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Oh, okay, just joking, but I think um this question pretty pretty important to me.
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So if you guys want to know the real reason, please follow my journey to Miss Universe Vietnam 2026, and you will know the answer.
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Awesome.
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Well, I want to thank you for coming on today.
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This is for you.
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You get to keep this one.
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Of course, I love to.
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You guys have to take a look.
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She he likes a different version of me.
00:29:56.559 --> 00:30:02.640
Oh, Emily, she did not see this, she did not know that I made one with all of her pictures on here, and there's a lot of fun ones.
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Sing the crown is not falling off.
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It's gonna stay.
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If you guys want to follow Emily's journey on Miss Universe 2026, be sure to stay tuned and follow her on all of her socials.
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See you guys soon.
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Bye bye.
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Bye bye.
