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I'm Amanda Knox, and you're listening to Hard Knocks.

I'm Amanda Knox, and you're listening to Hard Knocks.

Monica!

Amanda!

I'm so excited to finally have you here, and we just had a baby.

Yeah, we did.

Exactly.

In fact, I just saw it for the first time on Vine and Sunset. The beginning,

the beginning, I was like the beginning evidence, but no, we'll not go with evidence.

Yeah, well, it's an Italian, so we can, we can play with the words, because it doesn't have quite the same bad connotations. But yeah, yeah, it's a, this is a journey we've been on.

Yeah.

Where to even begin?

I think that, well, how about this question?

Like, one of the things that I noticed, as I've just been going out there, doing some initial promotion of the things that I noticed as I've just been going out there doing some initial promotion of the series is that people have the question of whether or not I had anything creative to do with it.

Like I got the question, oh, have you even seen the episodes yet? And I was like, I co-wrote the final episode.

Like, yeah, of course I have. And but then it occurred to me that this thing that we're doing

is really unique and new for the industry. Yeah. Well, I think that that's where, you know, I think

for me, it was part of why I wanted to help tell this story was,

it was very unique for me to have been a producer on impeachment. And I think that there's, Hollywood is very

adept at people maybe being consulted on their story. you're never really going to get approval.

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