
Ana Navarro Is A Drag Queen Stan
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Navarro sits down with executive producer Brian Teta and reflects on her birthday celebration on “The View” featuring queens from her favorite drag brunch in Miami. She also shares her thoughts on today’s interview with Münchausen syndrome by proxy victim Gypsy Rose Blanchard and she tells us why she's not a fan of New Year’s resolutions.
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I'm Brian Teta, executive producer of The View.
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It's Friday, and I'm here with Anna Navarro,
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and we just finished up a birthday show.
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This is Behind the Table.
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[HAPPY BIRTHDAY]
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All right, happy birthday, Anna Navarro.
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- Thank you. - Belated, belated birthday.
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It's always belated.
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You know, that happens to all Christmas babies.
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So my birthday is actually December 28th,
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which falls right in between Christmas and New Year's.
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So basically, you always get one gift if that.
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Everybody forgets.
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Everybody's busy thinking, first of all,
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everybody's bankrupt because they've spent all their money
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on Christmas gifts.
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Everybody's wondering, or hangover, or on vacation,
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wondering what they're doing on New Year's.
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So frankly, it's very, very nice of you to celebrate it
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when we come back.
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I have a friend.
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And the only worst thing I think having your birthday
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right around Christmas is being married to someone who does.
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So I have a friend who has a wife who's got a birthday
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on January 2nd.
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And he just, every year, he's like,
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I used up every idea I had for Christmas.
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I got nothing left.
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It calls me an panic two days beforehand.
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- Well, my husband is January 3rd.
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- Okay, so you know that.
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- So on December 28th, and he's January 3rd,
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which makes us both Capricorns,
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but makes us both kind of like a little bit feeling like,
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okay, nobody's paying attention to us
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because everybody's skiing, or on vacation,
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or dealing with their children who are not in school.
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It's a lot.
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- I saw a great meme with the wise men coming up
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to Baby Jesus and the caption said,
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just so we're clear, this is for both Christmas
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and your birthday.
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(laughing)
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Which I'm pretty good.
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I have a late August birthday, August 30th,
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which means we're not back at work yet.
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Always, and I get no one notices my birthday.
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The staff was very good to me,
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but you guys don't even know when I get a birthday.
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I will tell you though, the older I get the more,
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the happier I am for not to be noticed on my birthday.
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- Yeah, and then I get that, I get that.
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I'm sure I'm coming up on a big one in a couple of years,
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and I won't want that one noticed.
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All right, well, let's talk about this birthday celebration
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because we had some of your favorite drag queens,
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I know you have many,
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but some of your favorite drag queens
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from the our house in Miami,
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flew in for a special birthday celebration.
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Why was it cool and important that they were here today?
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- Well, you know, I think we all know the attacks
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on the LGBTQ community, the attacks on the drag queen community
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in particular that we've seen in the last couple of years.
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Folks have used drag queens,
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have used LGBTQ as a political pawn
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to get people riled up and outraged,
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and the our house in particular is very close to my heart,
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is in Miami, it's in Winwood.
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And it's the drag place, it's the drag brunch
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that the DeSantis administration has tried to close down.
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They have been under attack and they've been targeted
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by the DeSantis administration for over a year.
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It costs them hundreds of thousands of dollars
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to defend themselves.
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They finally ended up settling.
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And I just think, you know, it's something
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that was very calculated by DeSantis
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to try to make himself more appealing to folks
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in places like Iowa, to the right wing
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as he was preparing to run for president.
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It hasn't worked, it hasn't worked because it's stupid.
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And people want to talk about foreign policy
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and they want to talk about the environment
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and they want to talk about immigration
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and they want to talk about the economy
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and they want to talk about issues that we all care about.
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And going after drag queens doesn't solve any of our issues.
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- No, definitely does not.
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But it was great for them to be here today
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and you were made the godmother of the our house.
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That's pretty good.
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- They call me, they call me Tia Anna, auntie Anna.
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- I go there a lot, I take folks when they're in town,
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I take them there, I took Sarah.
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- I remember that.
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- And would you be there too with one point?
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- No, we face time.
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- Oh, we face time, that's what it was.
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- I took Billy Porter, who of course,
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means so much to the community.
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He was there one weekend to do a book event.
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I went just a couple of weeks ago with Eva Longoria
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when she was there and, you know,
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and I just think it's important to show support.
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I had my bridal shower there.
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- Oh, that's awesome.
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- And it was, you know, it's just, it's fun.
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I try to support that community because I can't stand it
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when people are used for political purposes
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and attacked for political purposes.
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And the LGBTQ community has been such a target
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for decades.
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Just leave them the hell alone.
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Honestly, they don't want to groom your children.
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Most of them don't even like children.
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They don't want children to be in the drag shows.
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Children don't tip.
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Children don't drink.
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Children don't make good drag show clients.
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So just leave them alone.
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Let's all, you know, just go ahead and be happy.
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And they're very incredibly talented.
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- Very talented.
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- Also.
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- Yeah, they had a great performance at the end of the show
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and they brought some great food.
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So it was a good day.
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And then the other part of the show today--
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- Thank you, thank you to you and to Jamie Hammer
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for making that happen.
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- No, Jamie Hammer and her team are a birthday squad
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and they do a tremendous job and work really hard on it,
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but it was great.
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The other thing that happened on the show today,
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it was a bit of a sharp turn,
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but we had Gypsy Rose Blanchard here.
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And that was really a compelling conversation
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and a little bit different than the kind we usually,
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the interviews we're usually doing here.
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What did you take away from that?
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Do you feel sympathy?
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I mean, she's very compelling.
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- I don't know what I feel.
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I feel like, you know, I feel like I'm riveted by the story.
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I feel shocked that that could happen for so many years
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to someone in America and just go completely unnoticed, right?
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That it just, it was allowed to happen for what?
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24 years, she said that to me is shocking.
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I wasn't prepared to feel sympathy for her
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because I mean, she was frankly complicit
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in the murder of her mother, she planned it.
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So on one hand, you kind of feel, my God,
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here I am having sympathy for somebody
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that murdered their mom, but her mother was a monster.
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- Right.
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- Her mother was a psychopath, her mother was sick,
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her mother was torturing her, held her captive,
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didn't feed her, change her to a bed, lied about her.
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I mean, it is insane.
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You know, I had, I had read about pronounced it for me.
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I know, this is hard for my Latino tongue to pronounce.
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- My cat is in my proxy.
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My proxy, I had read about it.
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I don't think I'd ever actually heard it
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from somebody who suffered it that way.
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And it's, it's very sad and again,
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I think it's an indictment on our society in a way
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that medical people, you know, teachers
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that everybody was just fooled by this woman.
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I do think that it aided her act, the mother's act,
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the fact that she was, she had medical training,
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she had a nursing training.
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- Yes.
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- So she was able to make up all these stories
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and all these symptoms and all these things.
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- And have a little bit of,
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- How did you feel about booking her?
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- I was conflicted about it.
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I have to be honest with you.
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We talked about it before the week.
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I certainly would have avoided having her
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on the show for your birthday.
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If I could have helped, it was an odd combination.
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But the bottom line is it's so compelling.
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I knew you guys would have the kind of conversations
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that people at home would want to have with the story.
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That you guys ask questions that are different
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and other people would ask.
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And for that reason, I made the decision to do it.
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There were conversations that I had with people.
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Is it appropriate to have someone on like this
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and give them a platform?
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And it seems like it's a generational conversation
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in a lot of ways because there are people here.
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I feel like the older staff felt very conflicted about it
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in a way that the younger staff didn't.
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The younger staff completely sympathized.
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The younger staff wants to know every aspect
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of these lives and wants to know all about it.
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And some of the older people said like,
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oh no, she's involved in a murder.
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So it was, and when I say older, younger,
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I'm talking about like 35 being the cut off.
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And younger than 35, they were all in older than 35.
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It was like, is this a good idea?
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In retrospect, I'm very glad we did it.
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You know, if she had been, let's say, an abuse spouse,
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being beaten up by an abusive husband
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or whatever and killed the husband,
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what she have gone to jail.
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Would that have been somehow justified?
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So I mean, this woman was tortured, tortured for years.
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And I think there's so much evidence of that.
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She's a physical evidence.
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She had, you know, she was sitting next to me.
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She's missing most of her teeth.
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Because her mother made her take out the salivary glands.
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It rotted her teeth.
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She has no teeth.
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I mean, she was made to have a feeding tube.
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The mother shaved her head, pretended she had cancer.
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The things this poor girl underwent are,
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I think that if we wrote it as a Hollywood script,
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nobody would believe it.
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For me, she's clearly a victim,
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but that doesn't mean she's a hero for what she did.
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I think she still did something wrong.
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I mean, the biggest thing and I had to,
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it was an uncomfortable laugh, but I had to laugh.
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Joy, who I think was completely sympathetic to her
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after hearing her, I don't think she started the interview
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that way, but after hearing her,
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what found her so compelling that she felt
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the need to reassure her, oh no, you didn't do something wrong.
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And then Gypsy had to turn to her and say, oh no, I did.
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And Joy said, oh, the murder.
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Yes, of course.
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Yeah, let's clarify that.
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Joy Bayhart does not advocate for murder.
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We need a legal note.
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But you know what I was surprised by is how articulate she is.
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And how--
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She's smart, she's clearly smart.
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For what she's gone through, she seems to have processed it.
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I mean, we just sat down with her for whatever.
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She was a jail, we could go.
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Yeah, she actually was released the day of my birthday.
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So I think it was actually very outproposed.
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There you go, it worked out.
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December 28th, but I, I mean, I've got to think that her,
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the emotional scars and the physical scars
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are going to be with her for the rest of her life.
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Yeah, I think that's certain.
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You know what struck me?
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Literally, I almost started, it really hit me.
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When she said that the day of her mom's death anniversary,
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she plays her mom's favorite song, I do that, too.
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I do that, too, because it's still her mom.
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It's still her mom.
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She was a monster, but it was still her mom.
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- Speaking of your birthday again.
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- Again.
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- You were on holiday for your birthday.
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We talked about it on the show.
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It was an incredible holiday.
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Tell us a little bit more about it.
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So you went without South Africa.
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And tell me more about some of the things you did.
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Why did you choose to go there?
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- Because I love Africa.
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This is my second time in Africa.
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And I have to say that the first time I went
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was for my honeymoon.
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And I thought for me, the idea of going to Africa
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was completely kind of like how to reach
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and just overwhelming.
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And it seemed like something that was incredibly exotic
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and just too hard to do.
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It's very far from Miami.
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There's no direct flight.
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So it's an effort to get there.
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But when I went to Africa in 2019, I fell in love.
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There is nothing that compares to seeing sebras and giraffes
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and elephants in the wild.
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The sun sets in Africa.
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I cannot even begin to describe the people of Africa,
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the history.
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I think it really helps you understand some of what's happened,
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what happens here in our history,
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when you go to some of the places where Africans were
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plucked out of their homes and their villages
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and their tribes and brought to the colonies
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and brought to America and brought to Central America
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as slaves.
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It is incredibly significant for me to go to South Africa
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where in our lifetime, in our lifetime,
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I was in 1994 that apartheid was banned in South Africa.
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It used to be that blacks and whites could not be
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in the same places, could not frequent the same restaurants.
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Blacks had to have a card, carry a dumb card
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to allow them to go into certain neighborhoods.
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I mean, it was truly horrifying.
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And so to see South Africa now integrated the way that it is.
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And I'm not gonna tell you that they don't have
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a host of problems.
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They've got corruption, they've got financial issues,
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they've got all sorts of issues.
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But it's thriving, the tourism industry is thriving.
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I was at the waterfront in Cape Town on the last day.
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And you can't help, I said to Elle, my God, do you realize?
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'Cause there's blacks and whites
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and people from all over the place in the restaurants
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that said, you realize that just a few decades ago,
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this would not be happening.
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There would be no black people sitting at this restaurant.
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There would be no black people going on the screws.
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There would be.
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So, and it made me think of what's happening
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in this country of trying to whitewash history
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and not adequately address history,
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not wanna talk about slavery, not wanna talk about the scars
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that that's left in our country.
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We must talk about it.
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We must teach it to our children.
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The people in South Africa cannot take for granted
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what happened there.
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You know, Nelson Mandela declared the Desmond Tutu,
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the Archbishop, all those things.
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So it brings that home for me.
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And as I said on the show today,
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I was in South Africa when Nikki Haley got asked the question,
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what was the cause of the Civil War?
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And it just hits differently.
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When you are in a, the cause of the Civil War was slavery.
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And it hit me differently
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'cause I was in the continent where slaves were taken free.
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So it's, you know, it really is infuriating
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to see Republicans, Republicans who should know better,
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Republican and Nikki Haley should know better,
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Rhonda Santa should know better, tiptoe around
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the issue of slavery for fear of offending,
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I guess, part of the base.
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- Now, I followed a lot of your trip on social media
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and you were prolifically posting
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and it was really terrific to read.
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There was a little bit of a controversy
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about you posting on social media
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because one or two people said like, you know,
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you're having such a great time,
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don't throw it in our face or something like that.
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And I thought your response to this was interesting.
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Tell me about this.
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- Well, first of all, I mean, how petty and hateful can you be?
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I got, I look at people posting about their vacations
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and their lives all the time.
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Some of the things I can afford to do,
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some of them I can and it doesn't make me angry.
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You know, I just think, oh, you know, how fun is that?
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Maybe I'll try to go there.
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Look, first of all, for me,
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travel is a huge part of my life.
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It expands my horizons.
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It teaches me so much.
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And I think people sometimes think
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that travel is more inaccessible than it is.
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There's different possibilities
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in different ways to travel.
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So I was on this cruise.
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And I met a woman there, Brian,
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who was retired, young but retired.
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And she was on the cruise for something like,
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this is a 13, 15 day cruise or something.
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And she had paid less than a thousand bucks
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and I said, how'd you do that?
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She said to me, listen, I'm not a bougie traveler.
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I wait for last minute deals and I don't care what room I'm in
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as long as I'm on the ship.
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I met in my last cruise, I met an older gentleman,
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elderly gentleman, who's children wanted him to sell his house
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and move into a retirement community,
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move into an old folks home.
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And he said to me, listen, and I know folks home,
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I'll be living in a small room.
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The food will be crap.
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They'll treat me like an invalid old man, patient.
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Here, okay, I'm in a small room, but the food is great.
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I get to meet new people.
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They call me Sir.
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I get to see the world and it costs me less than it would
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to be in a retirement community.
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I bet you being on a cruise cost less
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than going to Disney World.
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You had me being called Sir.
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Honestly, I'll pay a lot for that.
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All right, well, it's your birthday.
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So of course, I have to bring up the golden bachelor.
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The wedding was last night.
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It's your favorite topic.
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And one thing that shocked people
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was that a former bachelor at contestant
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proposed to his girlfriend at the wedding.
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Now, how do you feel about this?
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Is it bad wedding etiquette?
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'Cause we talked about it in the Hot Topics meeting.
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We didn't get to it on the show,
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but you had a different opinion than most of the room.
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I thought it was my birthday gift.
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Not to have to talk about the golden bachelor.
00:18:35
Oh, you really didn't do it on the show.
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So there we go.
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At your wedding, if someone had proposed to someone else,
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would you have been happy with them?
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Would you have been annoyed?
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How would you have felt?
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I think, listen, I think it was Nikki,
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the social media here.
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The social media and who just got engaged.
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Not anybody's wedding, she got engaged.
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But properly, it was her engagement.
00:18:56
Yeah, we talked better on the show, yeah.
00:18:57
Okay, so I asked Nikki how she would feel about it
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if it happened at her wedding.
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She said she thought it would be, it was weird,
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but she also told me that these people,
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whose names I don't know and I don't know who the hell they are,
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who got engaged at this other wedding
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of these people whose names I don't know either,
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the golden bachelor, whomever he married,
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that the people who got engaged called,
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the people who were getting married and said,
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is it okay if we do this at your wedding
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and that they said, yes, look, this is televised.
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It's obviously part of the show.
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It makes people, gives people something to talk about.
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So I'm not sure if it would have happened,
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had it not been televised, but if you had the courtesy,
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the good manners to call the people getting married
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and said, is this okay?
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And they said, yes, then go ahead and do it.
00:19:47
All right, you know, I mean, don't people throw bouquets
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and garter bells or things?
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- Sure, that means like you're next up.
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It doesn't mean like, you know,
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I'm taking the center of attention away from you.
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- So actually, when I was on the ship on December 31st,
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so it's new years and it's that celebration,
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this elderly gentleman who must have been in his mid late 80s,
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got on one knee right at midnight and proposed to his girlfriend
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who was also an elderly lady.
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So it was very sweet.
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So I think if you can piggyback one celebration
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and another celebration,
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take advantage of the fireworks and the music
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and the photographer and the flowers, oh yes, you know.
00:20:28
- That makes sense.
00:20:29
All right, I like it.
00:20:30
- I'm all into repurposing celebrations.
00:20:33
- Yeah, like your birthday and Christmas.
00:20:34
- Right.
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- It all goes together.
00:20:36
Get it all, knock it all out in one day.
00:20:37
- Right, like drag queens and murderers.
00:20:38
- Exactly.
00:20:39
- Let's do it all in one day.
00:20:41
- Exactly.
00:20:42
- All right, well now, and do you make new years resolutions?
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- Never, ever, ever.
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I mean, it takes more time to make them
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than it does to break them.
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And certainly not making any this year.
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It's an election year.
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I have no time to be making resolutions.
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Doesn't mean that I don't think I have things
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that I could change and should change and want to change.
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It means I'm realistic and I know that I'm not going to.
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I did try, I did think I read an article
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before New Year's about how some people were trying,
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you know, thought that maybe dry January
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was too much to ask for.
00:21:21
So they were trying for damp January.
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So I thought, you know, I might give this a shot.
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- Damp January.
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- Damp January.
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But then, like, I forgot.
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And so, and I was on the cruise.
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- Oh, okay.
00:21:32
- And, uh, where drinks are included.
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- Yeah, I was going to say that.
00:21:35
- It was really good.
00:21:36
Yeah, it's not a good place for damp January.
00:21:38
- No.
00:21:39
- So I'm kind of wondering how many levels
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of humidity and moisture they are
00:21:44
before I got to completely drunk January.
00:21:47
- So they're humid, humid January?
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- Have you ever tried dry January?
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- You know, I'm not the biggest social drinker in the world.
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I drink, I go out with my wife, probably--
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- What do you do with drink alone?
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- You're not a social drinker?
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- I mean, I'm a anti-social drinker?
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- No, I'm sorry, I said that wrong.
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I am a social drinker.
00:22:02
I'm not a come home and have a glass of wine
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at the end of the day kind of drinker.
00:22:05
So if I go to dinner with my wife or I go out with some friends,
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I'll have a drink or two.
00:22:10
But it's, if I don't do it for a while,
00:22:13
I don't notice it so much.
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So it's not that big a deal for me.
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- I actually never drink alone, it feels a little,
00:22:20
like that to me is like the demarcation line.
00:22:22
- Yes, that's right, you've crossed something.
00:22:24
- You've crossed a line that's very dangerous.
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So I never drink alone.
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I always drink when I'm out and when I'm with my friends,
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the problem is I'm out a lot.
00:22:32
- You're more than anybody I know.
00:22:33
That's the difference, yeah.
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The only time I'm drink alone is if I'm watching football
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on Sunday, I'll have a beer.
00:22:38
- Oh my God, bro, you know, I don't watch football.
00:22:41
Thank God, 'cause if I was rooting for the dolphins,
00:22:43
I probably would not be drinking.
00:22:45
Well, you know, actually they played on New Year's.
00:22:48
- Yes.
00:22:49
- And Owl is a huge dolphins fan.
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He's like a long-suffering dolphins fan
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and he was following the game.
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He was so excited about it, 'cause I don't know,
00:22:59
he kept talking about it.
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So it was a rough start of the New Year for him
00:23:03
with the dolphins. - Everybody got hurt, yeah.
00:23:04
- I have no idea what happened,
00:23:05
but he was in a state.
00:23:07
- All right, well, given that you've given me the window,
00:23:08
I'd like to announce that I won
00:23:09
my celebrity fantasy football league.
00:23:11
- No. - I beat John Legend.
00:23:13
I beat Darius Rucker.
00:23:14
I beat 18 people, I'm a champion
00:23:16
of Matthew Berry's guillotine league.
00:23:19
And how about that?
00:23:20
- Are you doing a Golden Globes thing?
00:23:24
- I'd like to.
00:23:24
I put out on the text chat that I'd like to do a victory tour
00:23:27
and maybe they could walk me out at John Legend's concert
00:23:29
and David Spade stand up gigs
00:23:31
and I can just kind of wave to the audience,
00:23:32
but nobody's taking it on me. - You know, John Legend
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has the same birthday I do.
00:23:36
December 28th, as does Gayle King.
00:23:38
So it's a lot of suffering Christmas babies.
00:23:42
- Exactly, all right, well, I defeated them all.
00:23:45
All right, well-- - Well, thank you for today again.
00:23:46
- Yes, thank you, of course.
00:23:47
Happy birthday, Anna.
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On Monday, Sunny, you'll be joining me
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and you'll be back on the show and it'll be a lot of fun.
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Thank you all for listening and have a great weekend.
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