From Ghosts, Special Guest Rebecca Wisocky!

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Oh, it's good to hear you. Oh, and that woman's still

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with you. This meeting is being recorded. That's good. Oh, yeah.

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Okay. I have. Well, let's

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I appreciate that. I appreciate that. I don't

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want to, I'm the kind of person that, you know, believes in

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a proper exchange of energy. So

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Oh, that's nice. But I mean, you only have the one, you can have whatever

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you need this month. I'm, you know, I'm not worried about it. And

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Me too, me too. It was scary. I thought at

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one point I was gonna make the news as the person that brought

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Yeah, it was a virus I came back

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from London with that nearly took

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Oh my God, it's horrible. I'm sorry to hear it. All right, hang on,

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I wanna hear more, but I have to, I'm doing three tours today. So

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her name is Wisaki, Rebecca Wisaki. And

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Yeah. Yeah. Until 30. That's cool. If

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I come to you on time. All right. Hang on. All right. AJ,

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Oh, my gosh. I am delighted that

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I get to talk with you. This is Rebecca

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Wazowski, and she is with the show that I am always

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telling you all you need to be watching, Ghosts. So

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welcome to the KJ Today Show, where we bring you the positive vibes

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of pop culture, people to know, and pets. And let's get into

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Come on, KJ. Listen to KJ, people. Tune into Ghost.

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Let's start with, because I was, you know, I

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jumped on this show right away, Rebecca. And

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so I'm curious for you, it does

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feel like, you know, to me as a fan, that

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there is just some really, really big buzz,

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some great momentum going. Do you feel like it's,

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you know, like a new level for ghosts or

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Well, you know so many things need

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to go right for a show to be a hit and it seems like they kind

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of all have and for us to get all this

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new interest and attention. In our

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4th season. It is just it's amazing. It's really

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thrilling for us the fans that have been so loyal to us from the beginning are

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still with us and we're we're just growing we're now on

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netflix internationally and are in the top 10 all over the world and we

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just got renewed for two more seasons so we're i'm i

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count my lucky stars i feel really really grateful yeah i

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mean to to work in the the world that you do and

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and and know that this show has been renewed like through through 2027 right

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you just dropped out a second but i think you Renewed through 2027, yes. We

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were renewed for our fifth and sixth season simultaneously,

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which is a really rare thing. So we're

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so grateful to CBS for giving us such a lovely home

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and continuing to support us. And we get to keep doing the

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show and frankly having a job for the next two years. It sounds pretty

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And you don't even have to worry about what you're wearing for the next three

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It's uncomfortable, but it's beautiful, and

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I never have to have a costume fitting, so I'm all on board for that.

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Is it? I mean, do you ever have days where you

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are like, oh my gosh, I've been in this corset all day, and

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life when when it comes to costumes on the show, but yeah, I have it pretty rough.

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Although I'll confess to you, I have various different corsets so

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that I can decide just how tortured I wish to feel on any given day.

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Oh good! I'm glad you get some freedom

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So I know that we've got a ton of fans who

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are with us this morning, and we've got some new

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people that are joining us. I got a great

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question from Vicky, who is listening. She said,

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with as witty and fun and ridiculous as

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this show is, did you know when you first started

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making it that it was also going to be a show that would punch

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Oh, wow, what a great question, Vicky. Thank you for

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asking it. Yeah, I kind of, I had a suspicion. I

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don't think I've ever read a pilot script and felt so immediately like, oh,

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wow, this is it. This kind of, this,

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the premise is, allows us, we have thousands of

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years, literally, of history to explore. There's no end

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to the kind of storylines that we can get into. The

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group of actors on the show are really incredibly talented, really all

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love playing with one another and working as an ensemble. And

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let's be honest, it's a comedy about death. So

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I'm not at all surprised that they got into some darker themes and more challenging themes.

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And I think it's one of the things that's really resonated with our

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audience, that they can sit down together as a family and laugh out

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loud many times in the half hour, but also kind of

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learn something unexpected and maybe have a conversation with a relative that

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they, might've felt uncomfortable having prior to

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But I think one of those shows, one of those specific episodes that

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really made us realize like, hey, this is so much

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more than the laughs that we're getting out of this was

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when we found out how Hedy died. Was

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that, when you got that script, was that as

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It was shocking. It was really shocking.

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But the showrunners, Joe Port and Joe Wiseman, are really

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smart and incredibly collaborative. And they came to

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me with that idea that they would take that character in that direction a month

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or two before we actually shot it. And they involved me in conversations about,

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and we also spoke with mental health professionals about

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how to best handle that

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turn of events and that revelation without sensationalizing it

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and managing to still bring some levity to

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it amazingly. It makes perfect sense to me in retrospect that

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this was part of my character's story, part of, you

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know, yeah, what happened to her

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in her life and what she went through and that she would hold on to that secret for 150 years.

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So, yeah, I'm really proud with the way we handled it.

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And if you had told me that, you know, a lighthearted comedy on network television

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could handle that material and still bring hope and

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light to it. And I would have been doubtful, but I really

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Absolutely. It really was. It was so beautiful. My

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husband and I, after the episode, were like, whoosh. It

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was just so amazing. And

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now we're getting to another big part of Hedy's storyline.

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Hattie's one of the most powerful ghosts as well. Does

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Well, the power that she has, you mean? Yes. Yeah, well,

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what I loved was, I mean, she certainly considers herself

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to be the highest status ghost in the house. But

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for all these years, for 150 years, she didn't know

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whether or not she even had a power. We thought she's one that her parents might

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be sending people to hell, that of course turned out not to be true. But I

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kind of love that she had to, you know, suffer with this knowledge that

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she might be, you know, profoundly powerless. So

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there's part of me that was a little disappointed that we actually found out that she had a power, but

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it's a good one. And it's a really fun episode. Asif Ali

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comes to guest star, he plays Jay's cousin. And I

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don't want to spoil anything for you. But there's a special connection between him

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and Hedy. that is a side of her that you haven't seen

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I can't wait. Before we let you go, because

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a big part of this show is also talking about pets,

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I'm the kitty correspondent for Pet Pals TV. I know that you are

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a dog lover, so I want to give you an opportunity to

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maybe share a little bit about your pups and what it's like after

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a long day of shooting to go home to a house full of fur

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Oh, it's my everything. Thank you for asking. Yeah,

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we've rescued quite a few dogs over the years. Right now we

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have Tank and Primrose who we rescued at the beginning of the pandemic. I'm

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an advocate for, you know, adopting and not shopping and they're

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my everything. They travel with us. We drive them from Los

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Angeles to Montreal and back every year. So that's a great big

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production. But coming home to them at the end of a long day and

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and to my husband, the father of my dogs, it kind of

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makes it all worthwhile. So yay, I'm glad that you're a pet advocate too.

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Well, thank you for being here with us, Rebecca. It's been just an

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absolute joy to talk with you and I'm excited for what's ahead