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M hmm. What's up everybody? This is another addition to
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Bulldog Oncensored. Today's a special edition episode of Valentine's Day,
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and I've got a hell a privilege today of sitting
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down with my all time favorite playmate back in the
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day and multi talented woman, director, actor, you name it,
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she's done it. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome Brandy Roderick. Hello, Brandy,
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thanks for getting back to me and making all this happen.
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Absolutely, I'm excited that we were able.
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To do it.
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Yeah, definitely. No. I have been a big fan for
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a long time. You know, I spent a lot of
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time in the late nineties watching baby Watch and being
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a teenagers guy and whatnot at the time. Yeah, yeah, No,
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definitely appreciate you know, everything that you've done so far,
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and thank you. Curious you know, you've been on TV
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quite a bit, movies and whatnot. What's backtrack even way
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further beyond before that, Yeah, what what got you into
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like the entertainment business in general? Was that something that
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you always kind of strive for or it just kind
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of happenstance?
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I mean, it's something I've always wanted to act as
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far back as I can remember, you know, putting on
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neighborhood shows, you know, for my for my neighbors in
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my living room, you know, setting up chairs and putting
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plays together with all the neighborhood kids, and.
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Selling tickets and having people come.
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It's you know, and then of course, and then in
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junior high in high school, you know, taking the drama
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classes and you know, and I come from a very
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artistic family. My great grandfather was an artist, a poet.
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My mom is an artist like I just it's I
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come from that bloodline, I think. But acting something I
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just I've always wanted to do.
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Yeah, I've done very little, but I've done a little bit. Yeah,
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you know, just out here in Massachusetts. But you know,
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you have to bug huh, Yeah, I really do. I
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started off, as you know, a musician, and I've been
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in and out of bands since probably that was like
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eighteen thirty six now, so it's been quite a while.
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So yeah, I play guitar and that kind of stuff.
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But in the music business, you know, you have a
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tendency to a branch off and meet people in your network
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you don't expect. And that one of the things that
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happened with me. So I enjoyed that very much. And
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you know, any chance I get to do anything again,
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I've definitely taken it for sure.
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Yeah.
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So yeah, what was you know you mentioned putting on
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shows for neighbors and whatnot. Growing up as a kid.
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What was school like for you? Did you get picked
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on or pretty normal? Well?
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I think for growing up in the eighties, it was
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I had a pretty normal childhood because back then it
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was like normal to get picked on, right.
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It was like.
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Yeah, I mean, you know, it's like I was shopping
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at you know, Kmart, you know, for my clothes and whatnot,
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and started out, you know, in a trailer park and
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you know all the things. So, you know, a at
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a young age, you get to start dreaming big right
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when you're young, when you have like kind of a
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little bit of a life, kind of starting out like that,
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you know. I even remember like being eleven years old
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and getting teased for whatever. I probably wore like the
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same dirty jeans like over again. I don't remember why
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I was getting teased, but I went to my mom like, Mom.
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I have to have these special pants.
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Or whatever, and she is like, well, those are freaking expensive.
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She's like, okay, if you want these special clothes or
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whatever you need to get a job, and I you
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pay for half and I'll pay for the other half.
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And that kind of started a lot of my drive
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and what I wanted to do. And oh, if I
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just worked this hard, then I can get what I want.
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So I started babysitting eleven years old, and I was,
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you know, started working at that age and paying for
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a lot of things that I wanted, and I thought
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that was a very fair, you know, way to go
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about things. If you want a certain.
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Thing and you know, then you have to work for it.
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But my childhood I think was pretty normal as far
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as you know, getting you know, a little teas for
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things here and there. And even when I was young,
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one thing I always wanted to be was a playmate
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because my I was named after a model, a playboy
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model that my mom had saw in the magazine with me,
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and she's like, I want my daughter to be that beautiful.
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I'man to name her the same name as this woman,
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everything with an E and you know, the whole thing.
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And so I, you know, that's something I always wanted
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to do. And so my fifth grade teacher said, you know, what.
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Does everybody want to be and I want to be
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a playmate.
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So at that point I was branded as the slut
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from all the teachers, you know, but I didn't know.
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I was in fifth grade. What are you you know,
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like nine ten, I mean whatever I was. But then
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you you know, it kind of starts a precedence, right,
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but you know it did. But then.
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I still had I had.
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Great times too. I really enjoyed, you know, high school
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and all the things. But I didn't have your typical
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exciting like happy you know, like being the president of
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the school or you know, I don't know all those
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kinds of right. I was a cheerleader for Pop Warner,
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which is when you're young, not for the high school.
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So when I was in my younger years, I definitely
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got to experience that, which where I grew up it
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was a little bit i think, different than where it
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is what you know, how it is in other places
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or even today, right, you know, nowadays kids everything's just
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so simple and easy and handed to them.
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Get a trophy even if you don't really win, and you.
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Know, times were different back then. You know, you lost
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your lost and you get over it, you know.
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Yeah, it's funny how much that kind of thing has changed.
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It's so crazy. And I try to with my kids.
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I try to be, you know, as much like I
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can as it was for my childhood, because I don't
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want to raise them in a way where they think
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life is going to be easy. Right, life is not easy,
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and I want them to know and learn how to
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deal with struggles and adversity.
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And when parents are constantly.
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Doing everything for their kids and oh your poor thing,
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you know, that kind of mentality, they're not going to
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know how to live in the real world and deal
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with the truth, the real shit, you know, absolutely well,
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I try to, you know, teach them, you know that way.
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Yeah. Well, there's not enough parents out there doing that,
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might opinion, brother you Yeah, I mean it's it's funny
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the difference in the dynamic of families now, and you've
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got a pretty interesting dynamic obviously. You know, it's not
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uncommon for women nowadays to be single mothers. But having
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two young boys the way you do, Yeah, how has
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that been like considering you know, where things started out
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for you. Has that been a complicated journey with them
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to try to right?
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Well, I kind of I took a break from the
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entertainment world a little bit right when they were younger,
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Like when they were I was still I was even
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working when I was six months pregnant, and I was
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still working to going doing autograph signings things like that.
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I couldn't like go off and do a movie for
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a month, right, However, I say that, and I did
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went and did the Celebrity Apprentice. I was there for
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I don't know how many weeks, but they got to
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come visit. But it's the thing. The thing that's funny
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about it is that's been always been my kind of
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end goal and dream is to be a mom like
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I have. Like for me, that's the best thing ever
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happened to me. And then my career is just the
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icing on the cake. Right. So now that I get
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to have, you know, both of them, for me, it's
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it's amazing. I love that I get to do to
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do both now that they're older. They're thirteen and fourteen now,
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so I can, you know, leave the whole day and
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go to LA and do things I need to do
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and come back, or they can go with their dad
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if I need to leave for a couple of weeks,
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you know, or whatever it might be. Now they're old enough,
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they ride their bikes to school, So no, don't worry
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about oh my god, I got to be here to
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take them to school, you know, all that kind of stuff.
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So it's definitely helps they're older.
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Yeah, there's sure. The independent takes a lot of pressure
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off for sure. Yeah.
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And I'm one of those again, like I treat them
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like I was when I was in school, Like you know,
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parents nowadays, only you know, they drive their kids to school.
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You only live a mile or two down the street.
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Put them on a freaking bike.
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They can ride their bikes.
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Yet. I love that.
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Yeah, yeah, so no, but it's been good. It's actually
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been fine. I mean, I enjoy and then I don't
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know if you know or not, but my son, my
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oldest son, was in Wineville with me and played my
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son in the movie.
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So I also get yeah, but I'm looking for you.
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Yeah, so I get to, you know, work with them
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too sometimes, So that's kind of fun.
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No, it's really cool that you can kind of have
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that shared experience like that. It's pretty neat.
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It seems like, you know, from from what you're telling me,
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like you you've lived several different lifetimes in the short.
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I feel like that.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely get.
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Different experiences, and yeah.
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Definitely, So I guess we'll try to get through and
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get rid to the Naty're ready. Since we're on topic,
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So how did playboys start for you?
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Well, again, I think with you know, the desire at
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such a young age to want to live up to
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my mom's fantasy, right right. And so when I had
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moved to LA for acting, I was twenty two twenty three,
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and I was, you know, doing everything I could in
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northern California, San Francisco area, you know where its independent
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films and extras and big blockbuster movies and doing little
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TV shows like Nash Bridges.
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Very underrated show, by the way, I love that.
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But yeah, it was a good show. And so I realized,
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you know what, the ripe old age of twenty two
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twenty three, I'm not getting any younger. If I want
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to really do this, I got to move to Hollywood,
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And so I did it. I made the move. I
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got in a U haul, got a U haul, sold
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my car, moved there, lived on a friend's couch for
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about a month. I had to borrow my roommates car
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to go to auditions, and just really started from scratch,
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got right off the boat and just you know, went
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went running. And part of it was, you know, trying
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out for Playboy. That was also one of my goals,
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so so yeah, tried out for that. And then while
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I was you know, my first job was nine O
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two one zero. Then I did like a couple of ups,
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was a love boat, and did a bunch of different things,
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and then got the bay Watch opportunity and my Playmate
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of the Month issue and going to do Baywatch came.
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Out at the exact same time.
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They both were April. I left to Hawaii to do
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Baywatch in April and my issue was April two thousand.
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Yeah, so the timing was just perfect.
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They happened simultaneously. It was crazy. I guess timing is everything.
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But so that happened, you know, kind of at the
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at the same time, and that's what really started and
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catapulted everything.
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Nice. Now, you know, obviously, like you said, you had
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the inspiration at from a young age, and you know,
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your mother respected the business enough to say, hey, I
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want my daughter to be that elegant and beautiful. Yeah.
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What was that like for your mother when you finally
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got to that stage in life.
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I mean I think she she was you know, not
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as excited as me, but she was just I feel
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like she was excited. Even my grandma was excited. They all,
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you know, came to the mansion. And yeah, I think
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that she's excited. She saw, you know, her daughter starting
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to live out her dreams, and I think she was
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living vicariously through me and you know, and loved seeing
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all that.
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That journey.