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I just want to clear something out of the way real quick,
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just to let you know.
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I have danced to the song, "Don't Cha," by the Pussycat
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Dolls, an embarrassing amount of times.
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Awe.
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Thank you.
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I just wanted to clear the air, now that you're here.
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OK?
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I just needed to know that.
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And then, do you think that the Pussycat
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Dolls are going to get back together for a reunion tour?
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I'm just asking for a friend.
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What you think?
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Kalen wants to know.
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They want to know.
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I can't confirm anything.
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But I will say that I do miss my girls a lot.
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And I miss being on the road.
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I was born to be on the stage.
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So I miss every day that I'm not.
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So I wouldn't rule it out.
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Wouldn't rule it out.
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We all crossing our fingers.
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We're all crossing our fingers.
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I just love the "ooh'ers."
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Oooh.
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Oooh, I know.
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You were born in Hawaii, but you grew up in the South,
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like me right?
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I'm from Alabama.
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Where are you from?
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I grew up in Louisville, Kentucky.
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In Louisville, Kentucky.
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Do you get home often?
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I do.
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Not as much as I do--
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well, ever since my G'ma passed, like,
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she's the one who always brought us together.
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But I do miss it.
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I always love, for me, we always went home for the holidays,
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for Thanksgiving and Christmas.
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And you have a big family right?
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I have a ginormous family.
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Now, what is ginormous?
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What's these numbers looking like?
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So this isn't even on my dad's side.
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On my mom's side, only in Hawaii, my tutu,
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which means grandma in Hawaiian, she
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has 75 grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
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That's only on my mom's side, my tutu's side.
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That's just some of us.
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But we're just professional baby-makers.
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Wai'anae in the house.
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Anybody from the west side in Hawaii, hello.
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What's it like?
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I've got to know.
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What's it like when you go home, because obviously, I mean,
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you're a superstar, Nicole.
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But when you get back around the fam,
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are they just, like, it's just Nicole.
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Or are they trying to do your choreography?
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Like, you know?
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They just keep it real.
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You know?
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Like, family, that's the best thing about going home.
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Like, especially when I go back to Hawaii, and I'm just--
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my family's is going to be like, wow, you picked that picture.
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I mean, that's so many people though.
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So cute!
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Now, you're also into working out.
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And this is something that I find funny,
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because we have this in common.
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You're into working out, but then every now and then,
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you've got to stop and take a little dance
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break from the workout right?
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Now do people in the gym just stop
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and be, like, that's Nicole Scherzinger
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twerking in the corner?
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Oh, my God, no.
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Wow.
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I think, because-- I think I'm actually
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cheating, to take a breather and a break
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from doing the weights and everything.
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You got to keep yourself entertained.
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When you, like, sweating it out, you got to have fun with it.
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Absolutely.
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And also, because I'm sure you're listen to music
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as this is happening.
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That's what I was gonna say.
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I was about to say, yeah.
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That's me listening to Lizzo right there.
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There we go.
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Every time.
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Shout-out to Lizzo.
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I've been listening to Lizzo before Lizzo was Lizzo.
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I was, like, her die-hard fan in the beginning.
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All her songs, like, "Come Water Me" and "Coconut Oil"
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and "Worship Me."
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OK?
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All these songs, that's me.
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And fitness-- that's me.
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Absolutely.
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Now look, we've got to talk about The Masked Singer,
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because this is--
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I mean, it's a smash.
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You're in the second season.
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It's been picked up for a third.
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Now, when you read about what this show was going
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to be about, were you, like, I don't
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know if that's going to work.
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How did you feel about that?
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Yes, exactly.
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That's exactly how I felt--
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That's how you felt?
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People were just, like, The Masked Singer!
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And I'm, like, who knew?
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No, obviously, when you sign on, you only
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pray for it to be successful.
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But we were, like, which way is this going to go?
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This show is so trippy.
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It's unlike anything else out there.
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And it's just great to see how well-received it is.
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And families are now coming together,
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and kids are getting off the phone.
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And it's just good fun.
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It's really heartwarming as well.
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I know everybody sees the spectacle of the costumes.
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But then when you really pay attention
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to some of these stories, you realize-- you know what?
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We are all way more connected and all more
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alike than we really seem, than we realize.
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You know what I mean?
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We're, like, dang, we all go through the same struggles
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together.
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Absolutely.
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Well, I love that.
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And I know you're loving that.
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Because, again, it has become a family show.
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I know, like, my kids love it.
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And it's, again, one of those shows
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that we can watch as a family.
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And I know that's awesome.
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Awe, thank you.
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The Masked Singer airs on Wednesday at 8:00 on Fox.
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And look, y'all stick around because we're going to play
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our own version of The Masked Singer after the break.
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We'll be right back.