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Uh, when I found out that I was gonna
be a judge, uh, I was offered this role.

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I was ecstatic, but I immediately held
myself back and I asked two questions.

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I said, why me? And what is my job?

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And so I needed to hear those
two questions answered. Uh,

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I got my answers. It
was great. And, uh, uh,

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it's still a pinch me moment,

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even though we're already close
to wrapping the production.

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I thought it was gonna be a
very sort of low key production.

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Let's see how it works. Let's do
bare minimum and then if it works,

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we'll do other stuff. No,
it's a full-on production,

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sleepless nights for most of the crew
because I see them and we speak all the

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time.

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It's a responsibility from people that
I know for a better part of almost 20

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years,

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and I've seen their rise and how they
take it on themselves from ep executive

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producer,

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all the way down to camera operators.
Everyone is extremely involved in

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making this a success.

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And I'm getting goosebumps
when I'm speaking about
this because I'm like, I am.

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I found myself in an incredible
position at an amazing time

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with surrounded by some of the
best people in the industry.

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John Travolta was without a doubt,

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when I was just caught
off guard and I was like,

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this is John freaking
Travolta. So, you know,

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I had an incredible time meeting him,
and it was in privacy of, you know,

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obviously, uh, uh, Ali's house. So it
was a very different type of meeting.

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It wasn't in the street. And, uh, yeah,

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I was super fangirling my
Go-to karaoke song. Uh,

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this is from the days of touring
and having, uh, what is it,

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rock band on PlayStation
or Xbox, and I remember,

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I don't remember the name. <laugh>.
Oh yeah. Like Cam Mis Negra.

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It's a Spanish song and it's in Spanish.
I don't even speak Spanish, you know,

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you know me, Baxter? Uh, no, I
actually don't speak Spanish,

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but somehow I would find myself on
the mic. Val used to play guitar, uh,

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used to play violin, so
he's nasty on guitar.

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We had a boy friend that was on drums
and I was just belting out a song in

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Spanish,

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like a Negra 97 percentile on Medium.

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So, you know, it was amazing.
Mm-Hmm. <affirmative>.