KCAA: Get Balanced with Dr. Marissa (Thu, 22 Oct, 2026)

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We're an AM radio station, and AM refers to more
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than just the time of day.
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Jump off that exhausting hamster wheel and into balanced living
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with Dr.
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Marissa.
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I promise you joy in the mist.
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Dr. Marisa, also known as the Asian Oprah. Her mission,
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to be a beneficial presence on the planet. Her purpose,
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to be your personal advocate to live, laugh, love, learn.
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Her life motto, don't die wondering. Take back your life
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with Dr. Marisa Pei.
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Woo!
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And welcome. You're tuned in to Take My Advice. I'm
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not using it. Get balanced with Dr. Marissa, the morning
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show here on.
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KCAA, NBC News, CNBC News, and NBC Sports Radio Station,
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AM 1050, FM 106.5, home to the Asian Oprah, number
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one talk in the IE.
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Thank you very much. And streaming everywhere, iHeartRadio, Spotify.
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ITunes, TuneIn, Audible, Amazon Music, Tiki Live, Rumble, Podchaser, Streaker Speaker,
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and more. Why so many places? I want to maximize
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my splatter zone for more hope and happiness. So there's
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no gossip here, no scandal, and no K-words, no Kardashian
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talk at all, and no headlines, no current events.
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Why?
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Because if you start your day listening to the news,
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if it bleeds, it leads, and it will lead you
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to a case of the four A's.
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Angry, anxious, afraid, and I don't want you... wait, aggravated.
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I don't want you waking up that way. I don't
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want you driving that way.
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Therefore, this show has been on now for 753.
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Consecutive weeks, I believe.
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And they said it wouldn't last a year because I
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don't talk about the news. But look, 14 and a
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half years later, I'm still here bringing you the best
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that life has to offer instead of the worst, which
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is the news.
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And today is absolutely no exception. As you can see,
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I have two gentlemen in my studio today.
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And let me just give you a little bit about them.
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I have one is a director. of an upcoming fabulous
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80th longest-running definitive Hollywood production of Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol.
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And it's by the FPCH, an actor's co-op. And you
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know I love the number eight because it's Chinese homophone
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for good fortune.
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So it's going to be a good fortune for them
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this year.
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Also, I have the guy playing Scrooge.
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Who is also here, actor Tim Farmer. So please welcome
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to my studio.
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Jesse and Tim.
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Good morning.
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Good morning.
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It's so good to see you both. Tim, your mic. Oh,
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there it is. Perfect.
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Tim's just joined us and I'm just going to adjust
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you just a bit. If you could Actually, maybe, Jesse,
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if you could move your head down just a bit
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so we're kind of aligned, that would be, you know,
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make your head as big as mine, which is not easy.
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But there we go.
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Perfect.
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Just for the optics. But I'm so glad to have
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you in studio. I start every show, and I didn't.
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Tell Roger this because I like to keep it fresh,
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but we start with breakfast. And sorry, no Uber Eats
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to your door, but we take a bite. of my
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gratitude sandwich. So top of the bun is what am
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I grateful for outside of myself? Bottom of the bun
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is tonight, before I go to bed, what am I
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grateful for inside of myself? What do I like about myself?
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So let's start with the top. I am grateful for
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being able to spend 12 days in Europe, just arrived
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two nights ago in Brussels, Belgium, Antwerp, Belgium and Frankfurt
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and Wiesbaden, Germany. So I am so grateful that despite
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the fact that I have blood clots and they said
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I shouldn't fly, you can't do much telling me what
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I can't do. I think you guys know a little
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bit about that about yourselves. So I'm in good company,
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but everything's fine. I'm alive and I'm so grateful that
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I got to go.
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So, Jesse, what are you grateful for?
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Yes, ma'am.
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Well, first of all, I just want to say I
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love that intro because we're not going to be talking
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about the news. You know, that's so true. That's so true.
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I love that intro, and I'm glad that you have
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the show.
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Thank you.
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And I'm glad to be here to talk a little
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bit about things that are, I think, vital and important
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in life, period, because it's all about telling stories. And,
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you know, You tell stories. You talk about things. You
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just told a little story about your health and that
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you went on this trip.
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I loved it. I learned stuff about you that I
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didn't know.
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But anyway, any questions that you may have or whatever,
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I'm glad to answer anything you want me to say
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or talk about because I am here to talk about
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Christmas Carol.
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Absolutely. Absolutely.
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So.
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What are you grateful for besides the Christmas Carol?
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Okay, you know what? I'm grateful for my wife.
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Oh.
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You know? What's her name?
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Her name is Julieta Corti, and she has been with
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me since we met on Broadway. We were doing Broadway shows.
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She was doing Cats. I was doing The Miserable, original company.
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And we met, and we just hit it off, and
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it's been great. I have two wonderful, great kids. And
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they're kids.
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They're in their 30s.
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But I am so grateful for her.
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So every day I wake up in the morning and
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I pinch myself. I say, whoa, I'm married to her? Hello.
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So I am grateful for that.
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Hashtag relationship goals. I guess I should keep swiping, right?
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All right.
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Tim Farmer, what are you grateful for?
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Well, first off, I'm grateful to be here. I'm grateful
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I have a good friend named Jesse Cordy. And I'm
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grateful that the good Lord has provided me with a
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full and full, you know, a wonderful life.
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And it continued.
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And one of my greatest pleasures these days is every
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year we get to do a Christmas party.
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And it's a beautiful thing. That's fabulous. It's very short.
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Unfortunately, my wife is no longer with us. But I'm
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grateful that I know where she is because she's in heaven.
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She's just waiting for me.
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So the Lord will provide me with what I need
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until I get it. So I'm grateful for that.
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That's beautiful. That's beautiful.
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Let's go to the bottom of the bun, which is
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weightlifting for something I call good mental health. I think
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that it's great. My honorable moniker, Oprah, by the way,
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I didn't call myself that. I was actually introduced to
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her as this is the Asian Oprah, which was very nice.
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Except when she looked at me, looked down and said,
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nice pants. It took everything for me not to say,
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do you want them?
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You know, I.
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Didn't know if I.
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Was commando that day or not. So I just kept
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my mouth shut, which was very good. But I credit
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her with bringing the whole discussion and the okayness of
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talking about mental health.
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That's the good news.
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The bad news, I think, is a lot of people
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go looking for acceptance and approval and love outside of
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themselves and sometimes in all the wrong places. So this exercise,
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I love doing this because sometimes... I don't know what actors,
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a lot of actors actually are very perfectionistic. I'm making
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a stereotype here, but it makes them really good because
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they're very, very hard on themselves. But the bad news
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is they're hard on themselves. And I know I'm hard
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on myself as well. I'm a recovering perfectionist. But when
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we talk about how we like ourselves or what's good
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about us and turn from being our own worst enemy
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to our own best friend, You get a.
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Good night's sleep. And that's why we do this in
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the morning.
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So you were modeling for those listening now or later
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tonight when you go to bed. What do you like
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about yourself? I'll let you ponder that for a second.
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I'll start and give you some thinking time.
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I like.
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That I still, even with the blood clots, have my
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middle name is No Fear. And I'm really grateful that
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I live my life like that because I have so
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many beautiful experiences.
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In the past. I love my present and I look
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forward to my future.
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And to have that as my sort of marching orders
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for my life wasn't always this way. I'm so grateful
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and I like that about myself. So, Tim, let me
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have you go first this time. What do you like
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about yourself? Tim oh are you frozen a bit.
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Wow this is weight lifting for sure for me honestly
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what I like about myself.
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Is that when I have a task ahead of me
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and I'm perhaps asked to help out.
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Is my favorite thing.
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Forgive me, because it's taken me a little bit to
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verbalize what I mean.
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I have a servant heart. I can feel that.
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It gives me my greatest joy when I can help
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someone else out. When I could whether it's a hello,
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whether it's opening a door for someone, whether it's doing
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something major, whether it's a fix.
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For someone's house.
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I'm also a finished carpenter and I've earned my living
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quite often as a builder. And so it makes, it
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gives me, this is difficult. Because I don't always like
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talking about myself. But whenever I can be of service
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to someone, whether it's major or minor, it gives me pleasure.
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Beautiful.
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And I can see the joy in someone else's eyes
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when they appreciate it, you know. Yeah.
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And so, truly, that is the best thing that I like.
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Beautiful. And you corroborated what I said. It's not easy
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to talk positively. Sometimes we have well-meaning parents, more mean
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than well.
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You're not all that. Don't toot your own horn.
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In Chinese, I know you thought I was Swedish, but
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in Chinese, there's a saying, the nail that stands up
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is hammered down.
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That's not real.
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Incentive to sort of stand out. But I'm going to
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give you a new middle name. It's called you are
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a set... builder.
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On and off stage you are a set builder on
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and off stage how's that.
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I i'm drinking my creative juice this morning.
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All right jesse what do you like about yourself cheers um.
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Let's see well i what i do like is that
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i try outside of myself i understand that it's not
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about me It's not just me. So I understand that
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there is a greater force, a purpose for everyone. And
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God has seen me as a person who tells stories
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through direction.
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Obviously, I act as well in film and television.
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But my goal is to tell a story. And not
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just any story, but the story that is a redemptive story.
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The reason that we fall in love with characters is
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because there's redemption at the end, usually. When a movie
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doesn't have that, when a theater play doesn't have that,
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it kind of falls short.
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People go, did you like that? Yeah, there were some
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nice scenes in it. But we're all looking for redemption.
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We're all looking for love. We're all looking for forgiveness.
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Because none of us are perfect.
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I tend sometimes to be, like you said, that actors
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tend to be specific and focused in what they want
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to do. And I.
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I have been gifted or I have the talent, I'm
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not embarrassed to say it, that when I see something,
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I know the best way to tell that story and
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to use the talent that God has given those people.
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And the one that I have to do what I do. So,
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everybody tells a story. They may go, how you doing?
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I'm doing great. Oh, I just parked my car and
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I got... You're telling a story. You get up. There
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is a storytelling.
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So, Um, I am, that's one thing that I do
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have and I do have an ability for that.
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That's beautiful.
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You're a, you're a mattress landing for stories.
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Not as good as set builder, but I had to
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come up with something. Or a trampoline. Maybe that's better
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than mattress.
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But anyways, um, Thank you for joining me for breakfast, gentlemen.
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I'm still ready to keep eating.
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I know. It's a great exercise and I'm known for it.
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Proud that I'm backing up my hope and happiness by
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actual eating. And I'm so glad you were able to
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join me with it today. Those of you listening now
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or later, make sure you're doing this first thing in
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the morning.
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You don't have to do it with me. I'm here
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every weekday.
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Morning live on the YouTube TV channel, which just passed 5.2
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million impressions, by the way.
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I'm going to give myself a little love on that.
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And I know it's because you all appreciate the way
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you feel. about yourselves after listening to the show. Because frankly,
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my dear, if.
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You can't approve of yourself, how the fork do you
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expect anybody else to? Thanks for joining us for breakfast
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this morning.
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And now for the topic of the day.
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It's Talent Thursday.
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And I have two gentlemen in front of you on screen,
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and they are going to, before we talk about the production,
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we'll have plenty of time, and I have a feeling
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that it's going to be sold out quite soon, because
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the good news about all the craziness going on, and
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that's how I will sum it up, is that the
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normal and good-feeling production people that we all are, are
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looking for things that make us feel like the good people.
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That we are. And certainly your production is one of them.
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But before that, did you know when you were a
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kid that this is what you would be doing? So
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that's the question. Who wants to go first? On the
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count of three, point to the one you want to
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go first.
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One, two.
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I'll go first. As a kid, you know, my dad
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used to direct me. Sometimes he'd write poems. Sometimes he'd
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write a play. And even from the age of four
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or five, I was already doing things. So I learned
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a lot from him. But I never thought, you know,
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I went to college. I was a pre-med major.
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Oh, I was too.
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There you go. And you know what? It was too hard.
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It was too hard.
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But I eventually went to the things that came easily
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to me, and that was performing. And I don't have
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the regular story that everybody has. I took class.
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I did this.
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I just auditioned, had some people that really believed in me,
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and I just looked.
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From early on. So I always knew that I had
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an eye for that. It never... challenged me, oh man,
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how am I going to direct this? Or how am
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I going to do this?
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I know exactly how to tell that. And that, again,
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is a gift and it's a talent that I am
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very grateful for. And that I knew at a young
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age that I was built for this. And fortunately, that's
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all I've ever done. So I've been blessed to have
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done that.
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Yeah, yeah. You were on Les Mis.
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You mentioned that you met your wife on set there.
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What did you play on Les Mis?
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On Les Mis, I played Kofrak, understudy to Nadia, and ultimately,
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but I did not do it. I was set to
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come to California because I lived in New York. That's
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where I met my wife and everything from New York.
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I came out here, but I was going to come
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out to do.
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Jean Valjean. Wow.
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But we had some problems with contracts, and I decided
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to do a film instead, and that's where we went.
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My wife still says, man, you should have done that.
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I said, well, that's not, you know, that's not the
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way it went. And I was okay with it.
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I was okay. I did Les Mis from the.
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Beginning till, I only did two years of it. I
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left Broadway after two years. And I was fine with it.
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I was fine with it.
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Yeah, it was a chapter in your book of life.
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Yes.
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Yeah, I love that. I say that about my book
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of romance, too. Some long chapters, some very short chapters.
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Oh, yeah. Oh, yes.
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All right, Tim, did you.
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Know that you were going to be doing what you're
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doing when you were a kid?
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No.
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I didn't realize it until my sister came.
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To me.
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She's a year and two weeks older than I am.
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And she came to me between my sophomore and junior
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year in high school and said, Tim, your grade point.
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Average is terrible.
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I think you need to take a drama class because
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you're him and.
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I think it'll raise your grade point average. I said,
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you're crazy. I don't like being in front of people.
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But as it worked out, I took her advice. And
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after two weeks, I was hooked. I was hooked.
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A brilliant high school drama teacher wanted us to know
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everything about the theater. Not just about acting, but about
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the technical side. Costume, makeup, lighting, set building. And because
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I was interested in building, that's why I ultimately... became
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a set builder and a set designer. I moved to
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New York in 1972. I had garnered a scholarship to
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San Jose State to go into the drama department. My
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drama teacher arranged that audition for me, but I passed
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it by. In 1972, I moved to New York. I
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was advised to seek out Uta Hagen as a teacher. Ultimately,
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after a couple of years, I did study with her.
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I became the technical director of the HP Playwrights Foundation Theater,
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which is not part of.
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The school, but associated with the school.
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I did over 40 original productions as stage managing, acting,
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designing lights, designing costumes. I got to work with the
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best of Broadway in that small venue.
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Herbert Bergdorf found a Czechoslovakian play called Poor Murderer and
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he took me with him to Broadway.
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I was the assistant stage.
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Manager and I played a role as a hospital attendant
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in a psychiatric facility.
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That lasted for three months.
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get cast as an understudy and assistant state manager in
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a wonderful review called What's a Nice Country Like You?
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Doing an Estate Like This, which was all about the
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Watergate scandal.
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It lasted for several years.
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in that at one point or another and I met
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a future friend in that musical named Gary Beach who
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was this is.
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You're going to find this difficult to believe I.
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Love challenges.
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But he was not only was I upset with him
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because I didn't get to move into the role he
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took over in What's a Nice Country.
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I was more useful as the understudy as opposed.
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To doing one part. But Gary went on to garner
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in the L.A. production of Les Miserables, to Nardia, the
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role that Jesse understudied on Broadway.
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I happened to be at.
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That moment married to a theatrical publicist named Ann Abrams
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And she was beloved in New York. She worked for
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a man named Fred Nathan. Well, we planned to move
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to L.A. And he asked to be the publicist for
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the L.A.
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Production. I moved also.
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But I was asked to interview as one of the
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stage managers for the Los Angeles production of Les Mis.
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And I didn't.
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So Jesse and I had that Les Mis connection, even
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though he was not in the show.
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So it was only.
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Years later that we met at Hollywood Presbyterian Church.
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And we have now and have had.
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The opportunity to work together for these last six years
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on a Christmas.
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That's great. So that is brief history.
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And, but I will say that probably at 11 years old,
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and I've told this story before, after watching Alistair Sims
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in his 1951, uh, film of Christmas Carol, I really
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had the inkling that someday I might be able to
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do this book. Ah, answer to, um, and I have
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had opportunities over the years to do it, but, um, um,
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This is the joy of.
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My life right now that I get to do this
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every single year. It's amazing.
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Yeah, that's great. Yeah, Jesse, I guess you didn't know
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that either. It looked like you were surprised. Yeah, that's cool.
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I love when that happens. Now, can I ask how
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young you are, Tim?
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On November 22nd, I will be 76 years old.
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Wow.
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That's awesome. That's awesome.
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Yeah. I only ask because I know it's not polite
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to ask a woman their age, but men, you're like,
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it's free reign.
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I'm just kidding. But my bonus dad is 96. So
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that's why I'm asking. Yeah.
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And he's definitely sunsetting now, which is sad, but there's
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so many things that I have done with him. Like
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we wrote articles together cause he loves idioms. We did
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a music video. He wrote a song, you know, I
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did the lyrics on, I love you Siri. So, you know,
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it's just, uh, I, I, I asked that because I,
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I don't think there's a shelf life on creativity. I
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think that you can enjoy and continue, um, all of that, um,
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you know, at any age. Hello, Monk Khan. Welcome to
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the show. We have a, he's now the captain of
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my cashew gallery. If you're listening right now and I
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see the eyeballs rolling in, please do.
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If you have any.
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Questions for these gentlemen to put it in the chat,
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except if you're driving, if you're listening on the AM
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FM side, please wait till you are somewhere safe before
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you start asking questions on text.
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All right.
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Let's see.
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So you've been doing this production for quite some time.
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I read if I pull up Rogers, you've got a
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star studded cast, starting with Tim Farmer, uh, playing.
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The lead of Scrooge.
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You want to tell me about the other folks that are, uh,
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going to be on stage with you, Jesse.
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Who did you pick? Did you do the casting? Did
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you handpick?
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Yes.
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Yes. Um, um, I, Well, we have it at our
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First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood. What we have there is
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an incredible venue that you don't even have at the Amundsen,
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at the Tabor, at any of the theaters that we
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have here.
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Even the Vantageous. The Vantageous I love, by the way.
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We have a Gothic.
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That they started breaking stone in 1903.
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We have a Gothic church. And when you go inside
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of that church, it's all wood. And it's all stained glass.
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And it looks like 1843. So when they asked me
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to do this, I said, boy, this would be a
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great venue. It would be great if we could do it.
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And we turned that sanctuary into 1843. But we did
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open it up because our church.
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The grounds, besides they shoot a lot of film there,
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we also have two professional theaters there.
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The Crosley Theater and the David Shaw Theater. And these
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are 99-seat theaters.
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So we have actors in Hollywood that attend our church
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and have performed in our church.
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We have won awards, over 130 awards at the Actors' Co-op.
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So Getting actors was not a difficult thing that was
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going to happen because, obviously, I know a lot of
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actors and everything.
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So we were able to cast it immediately. And one
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of the things that we do, Marissa, if I may
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call you Marissa instead of Dr., Dr. Marissa, Doc Marissa.
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I love that name, by the way. Thank you. My
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name is Doc Marissa. You know, I'm from Venezuela. I
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speak Spanish perfectly. It's a beautiful name. I love it.
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But anyway, in fact, I'll speak in English for those
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who talk English.
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So one of the things that we do have equity
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actors that are.
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Wow. I just pulled up the picture. Can you see it?
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Yes. And you see how beautiful that is. And that
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whole thing.
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There at the bottom, if you look at the bottom
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straight ahead, That turns into 1843. It doesn't look anything
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00:29:39.240 --> 00:29:42.319
like that. And this is a shot, which I love,
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from the balcony. So it seats about 1,800 people. So
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it's a little bigger than the other two professional theaters
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that we have that.
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Only seat 99. Most of the theaters in L.A. are
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99-seat theaters. It's a beautiful theater. You're close.
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00:29:56.849 --> 00:30:04.910
But this has a feeling of it that it's really phenomenal. So, yes,
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the actors are all pros.
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They've done Broadway. They've done other things.
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And then we have one of the things that we
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do in our show, Marissa, is that we actually have
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young kids who look like Tiny Tim, young kids who
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00:30:19.119 --> 00:30:24.170
have the family in the Cratchit. Most productions are scared
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to do that because they have to deal with parents.
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And when you have kids in the show, it is hard. But,
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you know, it's better to see the show the way
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Dickens intended it to be. Because it is a true story.
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All the stories around it are stories that he lived.
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And those characters that he brought to life were real
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characters in that time. And we're very blessed to have,
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you know, there's the Bible and then there's a Christmas carol.
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00:30:57.029 --> 00:31:01.650
One of the most produced in all the different languages.
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And there's a production of A Christmas Carol going on
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00:31:05.589 --> 00:31:09.299
throughout the world all the time, every day, 365. And
533
00:31:09.579 --> 00:31:11.619
you go, what are they doing in the summer? Why
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00:31:11.759 --> 00:31:16.220
are they playing that? They do do it. So this production,
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I feel having, you know, being a professional actor that
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this is, probably the best one. And we have like
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00:31:24.480 --> 00:31:26.640
five of them going on at the same time all
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around Hollywood. But this one has things that is in
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00:31:32.299 --> 00:31:36.569
the novel that they usually don't do in the production
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00:31:36.700 --> 00:31:40.630
because it is very difficult. So anyway, that's why I'm
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very proud of this, of this production. I can't wait
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till you come.
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Yes, I can't wait too.
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00:31:45.710 --> 00:31:48.490
I need to get that date on the calendar.
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Okay.
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And I just, yes.
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I'm sorry to interrupt before I forget, because sometimes I
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00:31:53.809 --> 00:31:57.029
forget to say, not only after we do the play,
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00:31:57.710 --> 00:32:01.119
we have another venue that people go to where they dance.
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They have, you know, coffee. They have apple cider. They
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have cookies. They have things.
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And there is a dance that we all do and
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00:32:12.880 --> 00:32:16.279
people come in costume and stuff. So it's a whole difference.
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00:32:16.319 --> 00:32:19.150
So there's a party of the play. But then there's
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another party.
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Wow.
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So it's really nobody does that.
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No.
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Nobody does that. And we do.
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Yeah, I will definitely be there. Do you think it's
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better for you? Well, think about this.
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We have to take a quick break for news, weather, traffic,
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should I come opening?
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Should I come closing? You think about that. We'll be
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right back with more. Take my advice. I'm not using it.
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Get balanced with Dr.
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Marissa.
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The Morning Show and today's special. Hashtag Thursday Talent Series.
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We have the director and the main actor of The
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Christmas Carol, Hollywood's 80th anniversary of.
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This fabulous production. Don't go away.
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We'll be right back in two and two. Chuck Woolery
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used to.
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Say, I say peace in and peace out. Don't go away.
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We'll be right back.
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Well, she has been dubbed the Asian Oprah, and she
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just wants all of us to be happy.
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Marissa, a.k.a.
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The Asian Oprah, says the most important thing you can
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I'm not using it.
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Get balanced with Dr.
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Marissa.
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That's the idea for Dr.
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And my response to that is, stop it.
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Why are you doing that to yourself?
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You have to be your biggest fan because if you
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can't at the end of the day say, I did
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a good job, who is? We don't have to constantly
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be angry at the things that are wrong. Why don't
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we choose to be happy about things that are right?
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We have the choice.
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I'm not using it. Get balanced with Dr.
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The morning show here on KCAA NBC News Radio, home
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we do not talk about headlines because I don't want
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you in a bad mood by the time you're done
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this show.
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I want you in a good mood.
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So I bring topics and guests to this show that
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help you with that. And today is absolutely no exception.
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We have here the esteemed director and the lead of
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Hollywood's 80th anniversary production, of the Christmas Carol. And it
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is going to be sold out, so you might as
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well get your tickets now. You can just go directly
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to acristmascarol.com, right?
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Yes.
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A Christmas Carol Hollywood.com.
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Okay.
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A Christmas Carol Hollywood.com. Let me just, here it is.
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I'm going to pull up the, uh, the website so
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you can recognize this is the wonders of technology that
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I love.
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Um, here we go. It's back for another year.
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It's got video clips and it's got that great, uh,
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The Way Dickens Meant It To Be. Join us in
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First Presbyterian, what's CH? Church?
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Church of Hollywood.
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Church of Hollywood.
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Hundred-year-old sanctuary to discover the true meaning of Christmas in
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the faithful adaptation of Charles Dickens' book. beloved classic witness
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the transformation transformation of ebenezer scrooge in this timeless story
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the perfect christmas tradition for audiences of all ages god
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bless us everyone oh that's from that's from that huh
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because people use that as a sign out now i
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know i didn't know that so and and i have
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to say the tickets are very affordable i was kind
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of um I mean a happy, I'm Chinese, you know,
645
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but yeah, VIP is only $ 35.
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00:37:43.889 --> 00:37:46.909
So tell me what a VIP gets you.
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Well, one of the things.
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That is, uh, is wonderful about our thing is that
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we want as many people in LA to come to
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see it.
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And I know that tickets are expensive. And one of
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the things that.
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Our church, um, has been, we've never changed the prices
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for the last six years because we want as many
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people to come as many families to come. But 35,
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it gives you not only prime seating, let's say, in
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the first three rows, but anywhere you sit in this theater,
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this venue, is a great seat. And then after, you
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also have, when you go to the other venue, you have,
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it's another, it's.
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A room filled with tables, filled with food.
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Snacks, drinks, and you have your own table because it'll
663
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get packed and you won't be able to sit sometimes.
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But that's okay.
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People stand and they talk and they dance to the
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music of that time, the 1843. And so that gets
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you a table that's reserved for you and you get
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to go there and do that. So that's what the
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35 does. But, I mean, we're like a third and
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we're I have people that come and say, I've seen
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the show, and this is a Christmas carol. That is
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not a Christmas carol. Obviously, they love the way we
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do it, but our church, to their credit, has always
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maintained the prices at a level that anyone can go
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see it.
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That's great. Tim, you're all over that.
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Website, which is so cool. And it does look very authentic.
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The there's no version of it.
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It looks like.
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The real thing because you never know, you know, adaptations
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or whatever. But definitely the the costume and all of that.
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And I understand there's a bit of a family affair.
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The choreographer is your wife or sister.
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She's my wife. She's your wife.
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She's my wife.
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Because I was going to ask you what she was
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doing on the set of Les Mis when you met her.
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So she wasn't an actress.
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No, no. Here's the thing.
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She was a ballerina, dancer, juilliard, San Francisco ballet.
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She was a dancer. And then she went to New
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York and she was doing that. So I met her
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when I was doing Les Mis.
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But I wasn't clear on that she was doing that.
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And when I saw her, I said, that one. And
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we started dating.
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How old were you?
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I was 13.
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No.
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No, I was 28, 29. And she was, I love stories.
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She was 22 years old. Not a cradle. She was
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out of the cradle.
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Yeah.
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So she was young, but she's choreographed all over the place.
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She has an incredible resume and she's done other productions.
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So she is a professional. And then, you know, we
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started having kids and she says, you got to make
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the money. Now, you know, she took a step back
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from it for a while, but she is wonderful.
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And yes, she's in it. And my daughter. Oh, how
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cool is that? This has been such a gift.
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To me that I got to work with my daughter
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who has performed at the Globe in London who is
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00:41:36.619 --> 00:41:41.179
an actress she has an incredible resume as well and
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00:41:41.269 --> 00:41:44.949
she plays three different roles in the show and she's
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incredible because you know when you see a Christmas Carol
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00:41:50.190 --> 00:41:55.650
there's like 46 different characters we have 20 and we
718
00:41:55.670 --> 00:41:59.130
do different roles and stuff and we try to do
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it within one act meaning meaning that one an hour
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00:42:04.469 --> 00:42:08.219
and a half it's over there's no intermission there's none
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00:42:08.239 --> 00:42:12.119
of that so you see it it is uh intense
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and of course there's redemption and happiness through it so we.
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Play different roles and stuff but sometimes you would never
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know the people don't even know and she goes where's
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that person i go you're talking to her that's the
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that's the that's the one so Oh, that's great. You
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get to work with your family in this business. It's
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really good.
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00:42:35.579 --> 00:42:38.480
By the way, I saw that you had Travolta in
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one of the quick things that I was seeing. And,
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00:42:41.409 --> 00:42:43.570
you know, the six degrees of separation. I just finished
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doing a film with Mr.
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Travolta. I don't call him buddy. And we were in Mississippi.
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And my wife, because he's doing a musical. It's a musical.
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It will be out in a year. It's a musical.
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He dances and sings. And my wife choreographed the film.
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00:43:04.030 --> 00:43:08.070
So she choreographed it. And I got to be Uncle Dom,
738
00:43:08.639 --> 00:43:11.199
who is his uncle, believe it or not.
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00:43:12.119 --> 00:43:13.900
That is so cool.
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00:43:14.380 --> 00:43:16.460
Yes, I go, oh, my gosh.
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Yeah.
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He was so cool. Like, obviously, yeah. I was a little, ah, because,
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you know, I grew up in, you know, his thing.
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00:43:29.500 --> 00:43:33.960
And so I just said, it's such a pleasure to
745
00:43:34.380 --> 00:43:38.559
meet you. And, you know, after we're done, I'd like
746
00:43:38.619 --> 00:43:41.360
a hug. And he goes, oh, you can have two hugs.
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00:43:41.480 --> 00:43:43.550
And he goes in and gives me a hug.
748
00:43:43.619 --> 00:43:47.550
I was like, ah. But I don't get starstruck easily,
749
00:43:48.110 --> 00:43:48.730
for sure.
750
00:43:48.750 --> 00:43:50.429
But most of the time, I don't even know who
751
00:43:50.449 --> 00:43:50.909
they are, Maya.
752
00:43:51.590 --> 00:43:54.489
My cameramen always joke, you're not going to interview her?
753
00:43:55.099 --> 00:43:58.860
And I'm like, who's that? And Lisa Vanderpump, who's that?
754
00:43:58.880 --> 00:44:01.980
You know, housewives, what's that? You know, I'm really, I love.
755
00:44:05.130 --> 00:44:08.289
And the thing with my show that distinguishes, you know,
756
00:44:08.429 --> 00:44:10.889
Fran Drescher didn't come on to talk about the nanny
757
00:44:11.449 --> 00:44:16.650
or to talk about SAG presidency, but her Preventing Cancer program,
758
00:44:16.869 --> 00:44:20.849
Cancer Schmancer, shout out to her and all of that
759
00:44:20.909 --> 00:44:24.449
great work that she does because that's the kind of
760
00:44:25.420 --> 00:44:29.239
star are those that use their limelight to shine it
761
00:44:29.360 --> 00:44:32.340
on areas of temporary darkness.
762
00:44:32.360 --> 00:44:32.539
Right.
763
00:44:32.880 --> 00:44:35.300
And those are the ones that make it on the show.
764
00:44:35.530 --> 00:44:38.360
Oh, that's great. That's wonderful.
765
00:44:38.860 --> 00:44:39.139
Yeah.
766
00:44:39.159 --> 00:44:41.920
The possibility in this show. I mean, I haven't seen
767
00:44:41.960 --> 00:44:42.659
anything like it.
768
00:44:43.199 --> 00:44:43.579
Thank you.
769
00:44:43.659 --> 00:44:46.519
And the thing about the eating, batting hair, and then
770
00:44:46.559 --> 00:44:46.920
we're buying.
771
00:44:47.260 --> 00:44:49.719
I mean, all of that is great. I've never been.
772
00:44:49.739 --> 00:44:52.860
And I've done a lot of different, you know. Interviews.
773
00:44:52.900 --> 00:44:56.679
Interviews and things. But this is very unique. Thank you.
774
00:44:56.719 --> 00:44:57.320
Very unique.
775
00:44:57.880 --> 00:44:58.199
Yeah.
776
00:44:58.280 --> 00:45:00.820
That's why I got picked. Although.
777
00:45:01.639 --> 00:45:09.090
Ryan Seacrest Foundation chose hosts for the top host competition.
778
00:45:09.110 --> 00:45:11.679
So if you want to vote for me, you just
779
00:45:11.719 --> 00:45:14.469
go to the top host.
780
00:45:14.610 --> 00:45:15.070
I will.
781
00:45:15.550 --> 00:45:19.489
I'm so grateful that this is what I'm known for.
782
00:45:19.510 --> 00:45:24.710
And there's nothing better than to be known for something positive.
783
00:45:25.489 --> 00:45:27.809
And that's life affirming.
784
00:45:28.130 --> 00:45:28.710
Yeah.
785
00:45:28.929 --> 00:45:29.230
Yeah.
786
00:45:29.570 --> 00:45:31.070
So which show should I go to?
787
00:45:32.860 --> 00:45:38.190
Opening, closing? Well, you know, Tim is great.
788
00:45:38.429 --> 00:45:42.530
Opening show is always an incredible show because you have
789
00:45:42.570 --> 00:45:47.050
celebrities there. People like seeing them and there's a red
790
00:45:47.130 --> 00:45:50.469
carpet and you get interviewed. You would probably, for sure, Marissa,
791
00:45:50.530 --> 00:45:55.670
you would get interviewed before the show and after the show, maybe.
792
00:45:55.869 --> 00:46:01.340
So opening is great. But the closing is always fun
793
00:46:01.440 --> 00:46:06.440
as well because We have learned and grown from opening
794
00:46:07.119 --> 00:46:11.420
to the end. And, you know, it's interesting because we
795
00:46:11.460 --> 00:46:14.019
only do the show in the month of December, and
796
00:46:14.059 --> 00:46:16.519
we try to leave Christmas and all those holidays so
797
00:46:16.559 --> 00:46:19.119
that people can go and do their thing. So most
798
00:46:19.480 --> 00:46:22.500
shows end on January 6th when they do a Christmas Carol.
799
00:46:22.539 --> 00:46:28.360
We end on the 19th. But there is growth. When
800
00:46:28.389 --> 00:46:30.429
you do a show in New York, Tim will tell you,
801
00:46:30.530 --> 00:46:33.849
you do previews. I mean, we previewed The Miz at
802
00:46:34.230 --> 00:46:36.489
the Lincoln Center in Washington for three months.
803
00:46:36.550 --> 00:46:39.750
And then we previewed it on Broadway for six weeks.
804
00:46:39.809 --> 00:46:43.340
And you go, wait a minute. I think we get it.
805
00:46:43.739 --> 00:46:47.079
But when we're done with our last show, I go,
806
00:46:47.380 --> 00:46:51.119
we're ready to do the show now because we don't
807
00:46:51.179 --> 00:46:54.800
have previews like that. We don't do it. So it's
808
00:46:54.840 --> 00:46:57.719
always fun. And I like working with young kids. We
809
00:46:57.739 --> 00:46:59.460
have kids as young as seven years old.
810
00:47:00.480 --> 00:47:01.260
That's so cool.
811
00:47:01.829 --> 00:47:04.250
And I and I forgot to mention, you know, you
812
00:47:04.269 --> 00:47:08.610
directing your daughter is kind of like the it's the
813
00:47:08.670 --> 00:47:13.039
legacy because your father directed you. And I think that's
814
00:47:13.079 --> 00:47:17.320
so cool. So, Tim, do you what show do you
815
00:47:17.380 --> 00:47:26.110
think I should go to? Tim. Oh, I don't know
816
00:47:26.130 --> 00:47:28.449
if you heard me, Tim. What show do you think
817
00:47:28.530 --> 00:47:32.860
I should go to? Oh, I guess there's something with
818
00:47:32.900 --> 00:47:33.380
the sound.
819
00:47:33.800 --> 00:47:35.019
Can you hear me, Tim?
820
00:47:37.059 --> 00:47:42.530
Okay, something went off there. But, Tim, if you can
821
00:47:42.570 --> 00:47:47.630
hear me, nod your head. Okay, he cannot hear me. Tim,
822
00:47:47.750 --> 00:47:49.909
I'm going to kick you out and come back in
823
00:47:50.670 --> 00:47:52.690
because something's up with your sound.
824
00:47:53.110 --> 00:47:53.670
Can you hear me?
825
00:47:53.690 --> 00:47:53.750
No.
826
00:47:55.130 --> 00:47:56.230
No, he can't.
827
00:47:56.309 --> 00:47:56.530
Yeah.
828
00:47:56.590 --> 00:47:56.869
Yeah.
829
00:47:57.349 --> 00:47:59.429
I'm going to kick him out and have him come
830
00:47:59.489 --> 00:48:02.989
back in. Can you text him while we're doing this
831
00:48:03.070 --> 00:48:05.429
just so he knows I'm not kicking him off of the.
832
00:48:05.989 --> 00:48:10.369
Yeah. Kick him out. I was just going to talk
833
00:48:10.409 --> 00:48:11.880
to him. Can you hear me, Tim?
834
00:48:12.860 --> 00:48:12.989
No.
835
00:48:13.449 --> 00:48:15.900
Okay. You're going off and then you're going to come
836
00:48:15.920 --> 00:48:16.239
back on.
837
00:48:18.019 --> 00:48:18.460
Perfect.
838
00:48:19.420 --> 00:48:26.250
I just told him. Okay. He would probably say that opening....
839
00:48:27.019 --> 00:48:29.940
I mean, opening is always, you know, a fun thing
840
00:48:29.960 --> 00:48:30.110
to do.
841
00:48:30.860 --> 00:48:34.429
So I've got a good question for you. As a director,
842
00:48:35.230 --> 00:48:42.409
what are you looking for? Because when I had Marian Ross, Mrs.
843
00:48:42.449 --> 00:48:45.230
Cunningham, on my show... Oh, yeah.
844
00:48:45.650 --> 00:48:46.050
Yeah.
845
00:48:46.530 --> 00:48:49.949
She was shocked that I was not an actress.
846
00:48:50.320 --> 00:48:54.940
Like, she was genuinely like, you know, why haven't you
847
00:48:55.000 --> 00:49:02.119
tried that? Yeah. There's a difference between being on camera
848
00:49:02.219 --> 00:49:05.429
as a host, obviously, and being on camera as an actress.
849
00:49:06.630 --> 00:49:11.170
What skill or what do you look for when you
850
00:49:11.530 --> 00:49:14.909
separate out? Because, I mean, everybody I know wants to
851
00:49:14.949 --> 00:49:17.590
be an actor and actress, which is good.
852
00:49:17.690 --> 00:49:19.829
I mean, I think you should try everything.
853
00:49:20.550 --> 00:49:24.170
In life at least once but what is that thing
854
00:49:24.369 --> 00:49:27.010
is it it can you teach it in like leadership
855
00:49:27.260 --> 00:49:29.940
or is it is it you're born with it what
856
00:49:29.980 --> 00:49:33.940
are you looking for as a director when you are
857
00:49:34.380 --> 00:49:35.820
looking for good acting.
858
00:49:37.119 --> 00:49:41.369
Well um first of all It doesn't just happen. You
859
00:49:41.409 --> 00:49:44.610
have to train for it. I would never want somebody
860
00:49:44.639 --> 00:49:46.760
doing bypass.
861
00:49:46.300 --> 00:49:48.420
On me who's, you know, I'm going to try this.
862
00:49:50.500 --> 00:49:54.679
And it's about being able to communicate.
863
00:49:55.460 --> 00:49:58.900
A feeling or a moment.
864
00:50:00.320 --> 00:50:06.570
That the person who's watching it gets caught up and
865
00:50:06.789 --> 00:50:08.250
is saying, what are they.
866
00:50:08.210 --> 00:50:08.570
Going to do?
867
00:50:10.420 --> 00:50:14.219
And that happens in life all the time. And, you know,
868
00:50:14.239 --> 00:50:16.260
Marlon Brando used to say, we're acting all the time.
869
00:50:16.929 --> 00:50:20.909
Right now, you're acting. So that's why she probably said
870
00:50:20.929 --> 00:50:24.530
you're an actress. You're very happy. You're vivacious. You're very,
871
00:50:25.190 --> 00:50:29.610
you know, you communicate well. You're a communicator. And communicating
872
00:50:29.690 --> 00:50:32.260
is a very important thing because you don't want somebody
873
00:50:32.300 --> 00:50:34.860
who can't communicate.
874
00:50:34.920 --> 00:50:35.739
You're inside.
875
00:50:36.619 --> 00:50:40.570
So those special skills... You know, there's a thing in
876
00:50:40.670 --> 00:50:46.389
acting that we talk about. You're in first person, second person,
877
00:50:46.409 --> 00:50:50.630
third person. And you're in, at what level are you
878
00:50:50.989 --> 00:50:55.090
when you're in a first, when you're in this first
879
00:50:55.840 --> 00:51:00.659
stage that you're internalizing everything. So the camera's here and
880
00:51:00.719 --> 00:51:03.800
you're internalizing, you're going like this. And then there's that
881
00:51:03.900 --> 00:51:07.139
second stage where you're talking the way we're talking. And
882
00:51:07.179 --> 00:51:11.929
then you have that third stage where you're hey bring
883
00:51:11.949 --> 00:51:15.920
that over here okay you know and so you have
884
00:51:15.980 --> 00:51:19.400
those levels and normally we work from that second level
885
00:51:20.340 --> 00:51:24.420
that we're communicating one-on-one like this so when i when
886
00:51:24.460 --> 00:51:26.559
i look one of the hardest things you know everybody
887
00:51:26.579 --> 00:51:28.980
goes why do people do improv you know why do
888
00:51:29.000 --> 00:51:32.829
people do improv because an improv you're improv it's.
889
00:51:32.719 --> 00:51:36.590
Not a learned you're not you learn lines you're just
890
00:51:36.650 --> 00:51:38.449
going hey can you pick that up pick one up
891
00:51:38.889 --> 00:51:40.190
You know, and you make it look.
892
00:51:40.750 --> 00:51:43.820
So the reason people do improvs a lot is to,
893
00:51:44.679 --> 00:51:47.800
when you do a show, whether it's Shakespeare, Hamlet, or
894
00:51:47.820 --> 00:51:53.739
a musical, you want the audience who's there, Marissa, to
895
00:51:53.820 --> 00:51:55.590
have heard it for the first time.
896
00:51:56.469 --> 00:51:58.860
In the play, they come up to you and they say,
897
00:51:59.110 --> 00:52:02.349
good morning, what time is it? And you go like this, right?
898
00:52:02.909 --> 00:52:05.769
How many people actually look at the time? They go
899
00:52:05.820 --> 00:52:06.239
like this.
900
00:52:06.750 --> 00:52:09.489
And how many people actually look at the time to go, oh,
901
00:52:09.530 --> 00:52:15.130
it's two o'clock. So every moment you want to make
902
00:52:15.190 --> 00:52:18.949
it like it's the first time every night when you're
903
00:52:18.989 --> 00:52:20.269
repeating something.
904
00:52:19.969 --> 00:52:21.360
Or when you're on camera, you know.
905
00:52:21.800 --> 00:52:24.550
And the thing with theater, I have to tell you,
906
00:52:24.989 --> 00:52:28.019
when you mess up, you only have that.
907
00:52:28.480 --> 00:52:29.900
You're done. You mess up.
908
00:52:30.260 --> 00:52:34.579
You got to wait till tomorrow to get it right.
909
00:52:35.079 --> 00:52:37.059
But in film, you go cut.
910
00:52:38.119 --> 00:52:38.480
Right.
911
00:52:39.059 --> 00:52:41.519
And we do it. And everybody's great. Can we just
912
00:52:41.559 --> 00:52:44.139
get that drop? Can you put that drop in her eye? Okay,
913
00:52:44.179 --> 00:52:45.139
go start shooting.
914
00:52:46.519 --> 00:52:49.440
And the drop comes and they go like this. You
915
00:52:49.460 --> 00:52:50.500
can't do that in theater.
916
00:52:50.900 --> 00:52:51.159
Yeah.
917
00:52:52.019 --> 00:52:55.420
But the same acting tools you bring to film as
918
00:52:55.460 --> 00:52:58.550
you do in theater. Uh-huh.
919
00:52:59.050 --> 00:52:59.179
Uh-huh.
920
00:52:59.349 --> 00:53:03.230
Interesting. Thanks for coming back, Tim. We lost your sound.
921
00:53:03.250 --> 00:53:03.320
Wow.
922
00:53:04.510 --> 00:53:07.510
I was assuming that if I kicked you out and
923
00:53:07.550 --> 00:53:09.389
came back in, we'd get your sound again.
924
00:53:10.190 --> 00:53:10.909
Can you hear me now?
925
00:53:12.090 --> 00:53:12.449
Yes, I can.
926
00:53:12.530 --> 00:53:14.630
Fantastic. Fantastic.
927
00:53:15.289 --> 00:53:15.590
Yeah.
928
00:53:15.909 --> 00:53:16.150
Yeah.
929
00:53:16.550 --> 00:53:19.690
So Jesse just gave me a lesson in acting. And
930
00:53:19.750 --> 00:53:22.889
it sounds like it's that three stages, like the near,
931
00:53:23.150 --> 00:53:27.269
the mid, and the far, if I were to extrapolate
932
00:53:27.309 --> 00:53:27.769
from what.
933
00:53:27.679 --> 00:53:28.389
You were saying.
934
00:53:29.079 --> 00:53:34.440
And yeah, that's interesting. I try everything once. I made
935
00:53:34.480 --> 00:53:38.360
an intention to do stand-up comedy. So I've been doing
936
00:53:38.400 --> 00:53:42.150
that for a year now. And it's been a very
937
00:53:42.250 --> 00:53:45.530
favorable reaction to it.
938
00:53:45.849 --> 00:53:46.670
So you never know.
939
00:53:46.710 --> 00:53:52.789
Marissa, that is nothing harder. than stand-up comedy. And there's
940
00:53:52.849 --> 00:53:57.389
nothing harder than comedy. Everybody thinks it's drama. Anybody can
941
00:53:57.409 --> 00:54:02.960
play anger. But comedy is so hard. So I give
942
00:54:03.000 --> 00:54:05.019
it up to you that you're doing stand-up.
943
00:54:05.199 --> 00:54:09.440
Right, Tim? Tim is our Scrooge. He's funny and mean.
944
00:54:11.429 --> 00:54:14.329
So, Tim, you get the rest of the time, which
945
00:54:14.409 --> 00:54:20.289
unfortunately is two minutes. So, Tim, what would you like
946
00:54:20.369 --> 00:54:21.389
to leave.
947
00:54:23.130 --> 00:54:24.329
My audience with?
948
00:54:24.429 --> 00:54:30.619
What is it something that... If you have one message
949
00:54:30.780 --> 00:54:36.670
to give everyone who's listening now or later, what is
950
00:54:36.730 --> 00:54:40.590
a legacy that you would like people to either remember
951
00:54:40.650 --> 00:54:44.409
you by or to think about in life for themselves?
952
00:54:50.889 --> 00:54:53.829
Anyone can be redeemed.
953
00:54:55.630 --> 00:54:56.510
Anyone can what?
954
00:54:56.610 --> 00:54:57.550
For the most part.
955
00:54:57.809 --> 00:55:03.539
No, here's a great example of Ebenezer Scrooge is that.
956
00:55:03.420 --> 00:55:08.079
He is lost. He is lost in himself. He is bitter.
957
00:55:08.679 --> 00:55:12.039
He is angry. And he takes it out on everyone
958
00:55:12.739 --> 00:55:13.170
around him.
959
00:55:14.829 --> 00:55:15.869
Sounds familiar.
960
00:55:17.170 --> 00:55:22.750
A man like this can be visited by the ghost.
961
00:55:24.099 --> 00:55:24.659
Of his.
962
00:55:26.019 --> 00:55:33.039
Partner, Jacob Marlowe, who, with his present experience of dealing
963
00:55:33.599 --> 00:55:41.800
with his failure as a man, chooses to visit his
964
00:55:42.039 --> 00:55:48.989
even more corrupt partner to help him realize the mistakes
965
00:55:49.070 --> 00:55:53.380
they made in their lives and can be led through
966
00:55:53.440 --> 00:56:00.360
the most painful experiences of his life, once again, in
967
00:56:00.380 --> 00:56:07.139
this dream or this nightmare. And yet, the evilness, he
968
00:56:07.239 --> 00:56:11.869
recognizes in himself and finally comes to his senses.
969
00:56:14.190 --> 00:56:15.090
And he is saved.
970
00:56:15.789 --> 00:56:20.750
He is redeemed. He is, for want of a better word, resurrected.
971
00:56:21.630 --> 00:56:26.949
This man has done 180 degree turns. He sees the
972
00:56:26.989 --> 00:56:31.480
mistakes of his life. Literally, he confesses them.
973
00:56:32.059 --> 00:56:33.719
He says, I will live.
974
00:56:33.739 --> 00:56:38.320
He said, I will honor Christmas in my heart and
975
00:56:38.400 --> 00:56:40.360
try to keep it spirit all the year.
976
00:56:41.159 --> 00:56:44.079
I will live in the past, the present, and the future.
977
00:56:45.880 --> 00:56:48.639
And I will... Oh, Jesse, finish this for me.
978
00:56:50.739 --> 00:56:54.280
And I will honor Christmas in my heart for the
979
00:56:54.340 --> 00:57:00.260
rest of my life. But this is Christmas. The title
980
00:57:00.320 --> 00:57:06.599
of this is A Christmas Carol. The Lord calls us
981
00:57:06.619 --> 00:57:11.400
to sing his praises. A Christmas Carol is a song
982
00:57:11.420 --> 00:57:13.010
to our creator.
983
00:57:14.820 --> 00:57:17.969
You can be redeemed.
984
00:57:19.329 --> 00:57:20.210
And that is the hope.
985
00:57:21.050 --> 00:57:24.650
That is the hope of the message of A Christmas Carol.
986
00:57:25.909 --> 00:57:27.070
That's beautiful.
987
00:57:28.550 --> 00:57:32.840
Anyway, that's the point of this play. And that's the
988
00:57:32.880 --> 00:57:35.659
point that he's wanted to make to all of us.
989
00:57:36.699 --> 00:57:42.409
So it's an amazing experience for an actor to be
990
00:57:42.429 --> 00:57:45.449
able to go through this in just a few minutes
991
00:57:45.650 --> 00:57:46.250
of the play.
992
00:57:46.889 --> 00:57:51.369
And it cannot help but move. It moves me every.
993
00:57:51.230 --> 00:57:56.789
Night, and I've been told by many others that they've
994
00:57:56.849 --> 00:58:00.920
never seen it like this before. So I praise God
995
00:58:00.960 --> 00:58:03.079
for the opportunity to be able to do it.
996
00:58:04.860 --> 00:58:06.099
That's fantastic.
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So go get your tickets at acristmascarolhollywood.com, and I will
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see you most likely opening night.
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Because I just love Christmas.
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I love dancing on red carpets, for sure. It brings
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out my hashtag, Dancing Queen.
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Thank you so much to Jessica Cordy and Tim Farmer
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for coming to my stage.
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And sharing your creativity. And I just know it's going
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to be fabulous. If you could do this with me.
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This is how I close out every show.
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Thank you. It's all about balance.
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Peace in. Peace out.
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World peace. Through inner peace.
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Amen.
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Thank you so much everyone.
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Thank you.
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Christmas Carol Hollywood. I'll see you there on opening night.
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And now go and have the best. day ever I'll
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see you tomorrow it's a great talk with co-host Ricky
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Rebel nine live Pacific time thanks again Tim and Jesse.
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All righty thank you.
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Great welcome my blessing my blessing bye.
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Bad decisions limit future options. Stop adversity from becoming stress.
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11 a.m. on KCAA. Learn problem-solving devices built on God's
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Word for inspiration, education, all without manipulation. The Flatline, Sundays
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at 11 a.m. on KCAA.
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