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Emmy Award-winning TV Personality Rocsi Diaz talks Hosting of FOX series “Alter Ego” · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: is Roxy Diaz. She has interviewed everyone from Lady Gaga,
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Speaker 1: the former President Barack Obama, as co host of Bats,
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Speaker 1: one of six, and Park and co hosting Daily Correspondent
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Speaker 1: on Entertainment Tonight. Roxy has always been known for setting
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Speaker 1: the tone for what's happening in music and movies and entertainment.
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Speaker 1: She's always on the red carpet. She's Emmy Award winning
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Speaker 1: TV personality influence and on the social media. Because I've
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Speaker 1: been following that, we're gonna talk about that and host
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Speaker 1: a new Fox series, Alter Ego. You've seen it's it's
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Speaker 1: been heavily promoted on TV all the time. Well, behind
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Speaker 1: all that, who's gonna be the show runner? As they said,
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Speaker 1: it's gonna be directing the people on stage and talking
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Speaker 1: to the judges. It's gonna be her, which is really
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Speaker 1: a blessing because I've known it for a long time.
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Speaker 1: If you don't know think about Alter Ego, let me
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Speaker 1: explain to you what it is. Alter Ego is an
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Speaker 1: all new, original singing competition show whereas they say, lost
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Speaker 1: dreams and second chances are reignited when singers from all
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Speaker 1: walks of life become the stars. They've always wanted to be. However,
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Speaker 1: these contestants won't perform as themselves. That's the that's the
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Speaker 1: beautiful catch up. This is its animation. Rather they are
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Speaker 1: given They'll be giving a chance to show how they
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Speaker 1: would be seen creating their own dream Avatar Altar Eagle
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Speaker 1: is to reinvent themselves and perform like they never before.
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Speaker 1: Please welcome to Money Making Conversation. The host and long
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Speaker 1: time frame A long time mentored her. We've done it
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Speaker 1: all radio, we done TV, We've done show a ward
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Speaker 1: shows together. I'm even crying with this young lady. Please
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Speaker 1: working to Money Making Conversations. Roxy d Is, how are
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Speaker 1: you doing? Roxy? It's so good to see you when
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Speaker 1: you're fantastic. It really has been a long career for us.
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Speaker 1: I was just, you know, I was you know, rock,
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Speaker 1: I was sitting up to just think about me and
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Speaker 1: I would say, and you know, youth is really scary
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Speaker 1: in anything you do, because when you have success early,
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Speaker 1: you know you still got to get you the thirties.
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Speaker 1: You gotta get you the parties in the fifties. And
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Speaker 1: you know, I've gotten passed my thirties, farties and fifties.
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Speaker 1: That's the journey you still have to make. But still
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Speaker 1: you can have so much success early and you're still
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Speaker 1: having success now in your mind. How does that work
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Speaker 1: when people think about because your success is in the
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Speaker 1: public's eye. Yeah, it's scary. It's it's scary. Like you said,
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Speaker 1: you know, to be completely honest and and and forthcoming. Uh,
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Speaker 1: I started wondering when was I washed up? I was like,
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Speaker 1: I've done so much already, what else is there left
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Speaker 1: for me to do on a TV? Uh? And it was.
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Speaker 1: It was a very scary moment. It was a very
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Speaker 1: scary moment cause I was like, I'm trying everything that
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Speaker 1: I can possibly think of to reinvent myself to stay
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Speaker 1: relevant in this opportunity. Thank God came and opened the
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Speaker 1: door and I manifested this. Uh. I had it on
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Speaker 1: my vision board to host a huge competition show like
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Speaker 1: like Alter Ego UM. And I'm so grateful to the
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Speaker 1: people at Fox and the producers who did not go
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Speaker 1: the traditional route for a host and chose this little
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Speaker 1: brown girl to her dream and and host this humongous
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Speaker 1: opportunity UM show. And not only that, to come off
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Speaker 1: of behind Nick Cannon, who's you know, the mass singer
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Speaker 1: and and another huge show and another huge opportunity that
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Speaker 1: Fox gave you know, somebody that wasn't traditional as a host.
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Speaker 1: So I really, I really thank them and I applaud
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Speaker 1: them for for opening the door and giving me this opportunity. Robert,
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Speaker 1: I bring it up because, like I said, uh, it
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Speaker 1: really is interesting when we look at our lives, look
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Speaker 1: at your lives. You know, last time we saw each
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Speaker 1: other physical I think was in the Disney Dreamers ago. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: this had to be like in twenty six in the
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Speaker 1: fifteen last time I saw you, and you're looking fantastic
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Speaker 1: like you're looking now. But again it's a journey. It's
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Speaker 1: a journey when we look at when you, like said,
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Speaker 1: you're a bank teller, you can go to work eight
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Speaker 1: to five. You if your company is doing well, you know,
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Speaker 1: you can probably have a life, maybe even a pension,
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Speaker 1: maybe maybe even health benefits, and you can raise it
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Speaker 1: and live your life. But when you're an entertainment when
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Speaker 1: you're in it, entrepreneur, that's what she is. She's an entrepreneur.
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Speaker 1: She's self imployed. She has to go out there and
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Speaker 1: she has people who represented her. She has PR people,
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Speaker 1: she has social media people, she has management, she has agencies.
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Speaker 1: How does one put that in perspective? Roxton? When you're
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Speaker 1: talking about your career, because it's your career and a
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Speaker 1: lot of people have to have a lot of ideas
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Speaker 1: of where they want to push it, how do you
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Speaker 1: do you push back? Or you said this is the
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Speaker 1: direction I want to go, or if you take people
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Speaker 1: advice it doesn't go that way, or you're disappointed it
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Speaker 1: yourself all you say, hey, that's the way it just goes.
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Speaker 1: You know. I think I think you just said the
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Speaker 1: key thing. It's your career. So yeah, you gotta have
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Speaker 1: a whole team if you're not working with that team
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Speaker 1: or for that team, because they work for you, but
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Speaker 1: you have to work for them also. You have to
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Speaker 1: come up with ideas and creatives and when they make
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Speaker 1: a meeting and and set something up, you have to
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Speaker 1: deliver and show up in that room. It's it's part
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Speaker 1: of your job too. Um yeah, I have an agent,
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Speaker 1: I have an attorney, and I have all of that stuff.
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Speaker 1: But if I don't make money for them, then why
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Speaker 1: would they keep me as a client? You know? And
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Speaker 1: vice versa. So it's something very important to consider and
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Speaker 1: think about when you're going into this career and just
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Speaker 1: as an entrepreneur, at the end of the day, it's
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Speaker 1: like you're constantly creating, You're constantly reinventing and thinking, and
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Speaker 1: they're just a branch to your trunk because you're the
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Speaker 1: trunk of the tree. But there are a branch of you.
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Speaker 1: Um but you still have to stay strong and continue
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Speaker 1: striving and surviving in this in this world. So um
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Speaker 1: so yeah, it's it could be challenging, but I'm an
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Speaker 1: amazing team and we work together. We come up with ideas.
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Speaker 1: You know, I create, they make it bigger for me,
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Speaker 1: bigger than I would ever imagine. And and so it's
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Speaker 1: a great synergy that I have with my team. We're
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Speaker 1: on Fox. Alter ego is big. It's big, It's uge, okay,
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Speaker 1: because it comes with the imagination too, because I like said,
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Speaker 1: you know, short hasn't premiered yet. I'm just talking to
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Speaker 1: my listeners who in this world out there, my viewers
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Speaker 1: and all this in our world because I'm on syndicated radio,
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Speaker 1: I'm on podcasts, I'm on video and YouTube, so it's
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Speaker 1: so many different lanes I'm talking to. But how much
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Speaker 1: it can you reveal as the host because we're seeing
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Speaker 1: people because I'm hearing I just read what the show
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Speaker 1: is about, and so do you what do you see
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Speaker 1: on stage? Because we're gonna see the avatar performing what
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Speaker 1: do you see on stage? And then we're gonna talk
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Speaker 1: about the judges. You know what's awesome is that what
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Speaker 1: I see and what I know everybody else at home
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Speaker 1: gets to see and no, so you get to know
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Speaker 1: the true people and you get to learn the true
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Speaker 1: stories behind the avatars, the that are controlling the avatars
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Speaker 1: um or alter egos I like to say our alter
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Speaker 1: egos um. You really get invested into the story. Are
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Speaker 1: judges Will i Am, Nick Lashay, Atlantis, Morrisette and Grimes.
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Speaker 1: They have no clue whatsoever who these people are. So
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Speaker 1: they're discovering each and every week as the show progresses
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Speaker 1: and goes on. And neither of those our live studio
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Speaker 1: audience as well, they have no clue either. So it's
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Speaker 1: it's a fun, fun reveal when they do happen. Um.
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Speaker 1: But you know, it's all about second chances and and
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Speaker 1: new opportunity for people. Uh, Everybody's like, well, what's different
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Speaker 1: from this singing competition show than singing competition shows? The story?
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Speaker 1: You know, you have people, uh like, let's just say
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Speaker 1: didn't win because they told her she didn't have the
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Speaker 1: full package. Why did she have a full package? You know?
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Speaker 1: We have contestants that have been told their entire life
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Speaker 1: some a somehow that they weren't the full package. So
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Speaker 1: we're judging people completely on their talent and their voice,
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Speaker 1: and that's what matters. The alter ego and and a
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Speaker 1: lot of senses has been liberating for a lot of
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Speaker 1: our contestants as well, because they may have a mental
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Speaker 1: musician or being a singer and getting on that stage
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Speaker 1: through these alter egos. It's quite liberating to not be
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Speaker 1: judged through a disability or or a gender and be
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Speaker 1: binary or and just be free, you know. Um So
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Speaker 1: that's what I love about the show, and that's what
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Speaker 1: I never thought about that. That's not being promoted in
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Speaker 1: the commercials that you're just you know, they're promoting the
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Speaker 1: fact that you know, the whole alter ego, the avatar.
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Speaker 1: Somebody doesn't look like they will normally look in real life,
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Speaker 1: but it's immediately struck me. Somebody in the wheelchair and
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Speaker 1: I'm saying, somebody in the wheelchairs performing, or somebody on crutches,
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Speaker 1: how people might respond to them, and they can give
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Speaker 1: one knowing that's not the person that they see. They
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Speaker 1: see this avatar or this alter ego, which is kind
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Speaker 1: of brilliant when I think about it. Well, we're saying
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Speaker 1: you think about it. I mean, definitely on the physical standpoint,
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Speaker 1: but also on the mental standpoint too. We have great
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Speaker 1: fighters and great artists. I would say Muhammad Ali and
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Speaker 1: that when they're doing their art and their craft, you
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Speaker 1: would never ever know that they had some type of
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Speaker 1: disability into the background. Right, So we have the same
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Speaker 1: situation with some of our contestants where they have a
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Speaker 1: mental disability that may prohibit them to be in the industry,
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Speaker 1: but when they're on stage, you would never ever know
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Speaker 1: that they suffer from an illness or or or This
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Speaker 1: block alter ego is definitely giving people the opportunity to
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Speaker 1: not be judged in this judgmental world that we live in. Oh,
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Speaker 1: that's powerful. That's that's very, very powerful. And then now
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Speaker 1: in third and back to back. It's back to back.
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Speaker 1: September twenty two is our first episode. In September twenty
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Speaker 1: say two different episodes, right, And so the reason I
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Speaker 1: step back because you've been out there. You you you
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Speaker 1: you're in a good way when I say that. As
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Speaker 1: far as own television, prime time, this is Fox. This
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Speaker 1: is another level of millions of people coming to your life.
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Speaker 1: You know, how do you take it all in? Because
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Speaker 1: you you're very popular and social media believe you have
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Speaker 1: a million Instagram followers. You know, that's one of the
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Speaker 1: places that went because I did my little research. We're
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Speaker 1: gonna talk about this booty thing in a minute, but
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Speaker 1: let's stick with alter ego? Now, how does that? How
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Speaker 1: do you deal with that? You know, because of the
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Speaker 1: fact that it's so many athletes and I have to
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Speaker 1: put this being traumatized by negative responses, are being traumatized
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Speaker 1: by the whole aspect of success. Like you said earlier,
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Speaker 1: you know, Rashwan, I really was down in the adults
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Speaker 1: about where I was at in my life and then
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Speaker 1: this opportunity that came to me and it put me
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Speaker 1: back out there in the forefront. How do you deal
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Speaker 1: with that? Because this is big for you, but it
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Speaker 1: also means that there are other opportunities you have to
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Speaker 1: be seeking to keep that emotional high. So you're premiering
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Speaker 1: on the twenty second and three, two separate episodes, back
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Speaker 1: to back episode they take twelve of them talk about
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Speaker 1: this roller coaster ride leading up to you. Because you're
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Speaker 1: doing a lot of media, You're looking fantastic and you're
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Speaker 1: the one right now, you're the host. It's it's been again.
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Speaker 1: It's been a dream come true. Uh. It literally was
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Speaker 1: my vision board and it was my manifestation and I
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Speaker 1: like dreamt of this show and I've dreamt of this day.
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Speaker 1: So I'm super excited for everybody to check out alter
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Speaker 1: egoal Fox. Uh, it's just next level and fun. Like
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Speaker 1: I love every opportunity that I've had my career to
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Speaker 1: be fun. Um and this is by far the most
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Speaker 1: very long time. So um. Yeah. I don't know what
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Speaker 1: else to say about it because it's it's what I do.
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Speaker 1: I do. Because we kind of glossed over these judges
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Speaker 1: and you mentioned them, and I think I need to
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Speaker 1: go back and take Nick to Shade Grabs where I
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Speaker 1: am Alan's more set. These are you know, really, we've
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Speaker 1: just seen this industry where and I'm not saying anything negative,
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Speaker 1: where these people are are touring professionals. These people are
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Speaker 1: successful in their fields and now they're on the show
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Speaker 1: like this together one time. How did you create your
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Speaker 1: relationships and how do you communicate with them? Because, like
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Speaker 1: you said, they're looking at animation as we're looking at animation,
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Speaker 1: and then they got to react to that. Where do
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Speaker 1: they put their judgment hats on? I guess I should say,
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Speaker 1: or can you reveal that everybody was everybody was authentically themselves.
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Speaker 1: I'll say that, and and there was a mutual level
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Speaker 1: of respect across the board, you know there. I'll say
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Speaker 1: this Fox had the best of the best when it
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Speaker 1: came to this absolute from from producers to music director
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Speaker 1: Adam black Stone, who if you don't know who Adam
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Speaker 1: black Stone is, you just think of you know, uh,
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Speaker 1: Quest Love Times. Okay, he's like up there with Quests
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Speaker 1: and Um, Will I Am and Rhymes. They live in
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Speaker 1: this futuristic technology world. You know, this is their house,
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Speaker 1: this is their forefront wal house. Like sometimes I didn't
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Speaker 1: think I was intellectually capable of having conversations with them,
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Speaker 1: but this is what they live breathe by. So there
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Speaker 1: was no better way or better judges to have on
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Speaker 1: the panel than Will I Am. With his musical background,
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Speaker 1: he's iconic, the black Eyed Peas. He knows music, he
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Speaker 1: knows technology and Grimes She's an innovator. She's into technology.
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Speaker 1: She's an amazing artist and producer as well. The young
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Speaker 1: people love her. She's a gamer. Um Atlantis Moore said, iconic.
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Speaker 1: She knows music. She knows vocals, she knows tones, she
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Speaker 1: knows sounds, she knows lyrics, she knows all of that.
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Speaker 1: And nick La Shay he knows what it is to
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Speaker 1: have a big production of big band, a big stage.
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Speaker 1: You know you're part of a boy band, your your
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Speaker 1: legendary in that sense as well being part of such
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Speaker 1: an iconic boy band and and working together with people
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Speaker 1: and technology, so to be completely honest. For Sean, I
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Speaker 1: don't think I've ever seen a panel who didn't even
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Speaker 1: have to do a chemistry test because we all got
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Speaker 1: along and we all respected each other's space and opinion,
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Speaker 1: and there were different opinions a lot of times, but
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Speaker 1: it was still respectable. And you're gonna like to see
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Speaker 1: the interaction between our judges and and the humanity that
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Speaker 1: our alter egos were able to bring out of our
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Speaker 1: judges too. There's a lot of crying, not crying because
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Speaker 1: it's like a soft story, because that's what I wanted
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Speaker 1: to ask you, because because you know, madd Singer, it's
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Speaker 1: much more of a party, you know, it's much more
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Speaker 1: of a you know. But this, when I'm hearing all
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Speaker 1: these great stories that you're telling and these reveals have
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Speaker 1: to be like positively stunning, that's where the crying comes from.
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Speaker 1: That's where the uplif comes from. That's where I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: just tell you, I didn't know anything about this show,
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Speaker 1: Roxy until I reviewed you, because they wouldn't see me
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Speaker 1: a screen and I respect that, but you have made
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Speaker 1: It's pretty special and so but you were brought into
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20:48
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Speaker 1: and I had to get the COVID tests on Friday.
23:34
Speaker 1: I had to get the COVID tests twenty four hours
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Speaker 1: before I came on set the next day. When just
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Speaker 1: that Monday, so Sunday had to get another COVID test.
23:41
Speaker 1: How was it able to I wasn't working in that
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Speaker 1: environment because we have to work in that environment. We
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23:56
Speaker 1: How did the I was production handle with the COVID
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Speaker 1: and how did you feel about the whole process? Um?
24:03
Speaker 1: You know, I was one of those during the quarantine
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Speaker 1: my vaccination and everything. UM, I'll say this never have
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Speaker 1: I felt so comfortable and safe in a production, especially
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24:29
Speaker 1: we were completely completely COVID aware and woke. I guess
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Speaker 1: there was no slip up during our production. Fox was
24:44
Speaker 1: very very strict when it come came to our safety
24:47
Speaker 1: and the safety of our audience as well, and we
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24:53
Speaker 1: there were uh, they were test regularly and nobody had
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Speaker 1: a p with it, you know, because we're all trying
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Speaker 1: to keep each other safe. And not only that, but
25:04
Speaker 1: even during production, you know those weeks that were you
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Speaker 1: were taping, we quarantines when we weren't on set, and
25:10
Speaker 1: we were mindful of everybody because it's not just us
25:13
Speaker 1: and in our contestants, it's you know, the stage handlers,
25:16
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25:21
Speaker 1: You know, you gotta be mindful of everybody. So you know,
25:24
Speaker 1: we we they played it very very strict and and
25:28
Speaker 1: and kept us very very safe, which I'm very grateful for.
25:30
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25:33
Speaker 1: You know, I want you to talk about this recipes here,
25:37
Speaker 1: but I wanted this this show. I want to just
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Speaker 1: focus on I want to bring you back if you
25:40
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25:43
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Speaker 1: respectful for this show. This show I feel this very
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Speaker 1: please thank you for allowing me to share your story
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Speaker 1: with my fan base. And it's a lot of them.
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Speaker 1: There's a lot of them, by the way, it's a
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26:28
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26:37
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