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Welcome to the show.

Today is Tuesday, September 26, otherwise known as

the Premier Night for Dancing with the Stars,

which I'll be at. I am so so excited I'm going with a few girlfriends

I'm going with three other girlfriends shout out Jenna Valerie and Allison and we are

going there we have to get there pretty early you know the way that these live taping's work, so you guys know I used to be in this business as a casting director and I used to work my first show that I was a casting assistant was that So Raven, the original Raven Simone show.

And for Disney.

And it was 2003 to 2005 or four when I worked on it and Friday night was the live taping and it was so

exciting the live taping is the best part of those week-long sitcoms those

Monday through Friday sitcoms and just so you guys know this is the way it works.

Monday morning is the tape this is like after the the cast is set and the

script is done whatever Monday morning is the table read at this this is how it worked on this show the table read and this is how it worked on this show the table read and that

means all the cast and crew sit around a table a really big conference table and

they they read the script out loud with the director, you know, giving his stage direction.

And then they go straight to rehearsal and the writers start changing certain things.

Tuesday is the first run through just for the producers and the writers and we go to that, right?

We would go downstairs to the set and but it would be pretty empty.

Wednesday was the run through with the network and the studio so Disney peeps would come on over and it would be a bigger deal.

And then Thursday they would start shooting early in the morning, they would shoot half the

scenes and without a live audience and then Friday evening after they would shoot all day Friday too Friday

Friday evening they would save a few scenes for live audience night and

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