dude what a great day what a great day it's an amazing day yes first day back on air oh shoot i

forgot about that yes what a day the 16th thousandth episode of the show wow and a lead i mean a lead

leading actor nomination.

Amazing. Amazing. So grateful. So crazy.

Dude. Like, well, and so that you found out maybe a little bit earlier than like the rollout of this, the rollout of this is confused me a little bit.

Yes. Yeah. Yeah yeah so like extra did extra

did leading man and something else and then entertainment tonight was doing show and actress

yes so so how i found out was know, we got an email from the

academy saying, saying that, you know, the lead actor and whatever show is going to be announced

on entertainment tonight. And the next one is going to be the next two are going to be this.

And then so Michelle was trying to figure it out like okay how can we catch it and then it said seven p.m. East Coast

right and seven p.m. here right and then it said it said that it might not be the same in all markets

and then we started looking up markets and it said, oh, it airs at

4 p.m. in Texas and here and there. So we were just going throughout the day, going through

the day. And then I just Googled it. And it came up. And it came on. I go, there's no way.

There's no way the announcement happened. Somebody would have said something. Sure. And like when you're Googling daytime Emmys, like you never know what you're going to pop up. Like, do you know what I mean? So, yeah. And then so I'm sitting on the couch with Michelle and she was doing something and I'm like oh okay and then I'm reading

it I didn't really see my name at first and then I saw it I'm like oh my gosh Michelle she's like what's wrong

I go here so she was she was awesome man so it's you Eric Braden Scott Clifton Torsten and Christian

you and a bunch of CBS guys pretty much yeah well I. Well, I guess that would make sense. No, no, no. There could be NBC people or. Yeah, yeah. Last year was, you know, there was some days people last year, G.H. Right. And CBS, obviously. But right. Yeah, man, it's just, it just never gets old.

Yeah.

You know, and it's, I know it's such a cliche to say, oh, I'm just so honored to be nominated, but truly, I'm so grateful to be nominated, so grateful, you know, to the show, to just be on the show off and on for 30 plus years and to be nominated with the guys in my category like just to get the opportunity you know frank texted me right away you know and i was

just like thank you for the opportunity to get to do what i do you know and it's just it's just

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