Star Wars' Katie Sackhoff Answers: What's the proper way to pronounce Bo-Katan?

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Hello, Art. AJ, I have Katie here. Oh, hi,

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Katie. Hi, how are you? Oh, my gosh. OK,

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listen, Katie, I sometimes have people on

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my show and I'm like, be a professional,

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keep it together, be cool. I mean, Battlestar

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Galactica, Star Wars, and everything you

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are doing, putting so much positivity into

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the world with your podcast, The Sackhoff

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Show. I am such a fangirl. Thank you for

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being here today.

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Oh, thank you so much. I appreciate that.

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I, you know, I I try to lead with joy.

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Yes, yes, yes. So let me do my little bit

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here. This is the KJ Today Show. We bring

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the positive vibes of pop culture, people

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to know, and pets. And today, Katie Sackhoff

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is here, and she is doing the same thing.

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How does it feel for you at this point with

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so many episodes out and the response being

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overwhelmingly, just so positive and loving

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that you are an amazing podcaster.

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Oh, thank you. You know, I, I, I think that

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this sort of was born out of my desire to

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have authentic conversations with my friends

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again. You know, I, I had this moment where,

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you know, Tricia Helfer is one of my best

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friends. I've known her for 25 years and

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I had this moment where I thought I was actually

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participating in a moment of her life because

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I'd seen it on social media. And I had a

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memory as if I was there and was like, oh,

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this is not good. This is not good. I need

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to talk to my friends more. This is crazy.

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And that sort of is where the podcast came

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from. It was a bit of that and a bit of The

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YouTube channel started like five years before.

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I had so much fun doing it, but life got

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too busy. And that's where the SACOF show

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sort of came from.

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And new episodes every Tuesday. That's not

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an easy feat as someone who does this. You're

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making it happen. Are there challenges that

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came along with podcasting that certainly

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would be different from the other work that

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you've done in acting?

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Yeah, for sure. Oh, God, for sure. There's

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so many. I think the biggest one is that

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I don't think people realize how much money

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it actually takes to create a podcast. And,

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you know, I think that that was the biggest

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shock for me is that, you know, you hear

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about all these podcasts making so much money

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and they blah, blah, blah. That takes time

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and it takes consistency. And that was something

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that I had to be very committed to. And I

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also think, you know, it's really hard to

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lock people down, like even my own friends.

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I'm like, give me an hour. It's not that

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hard.

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Oh, you're speaking to my soul, Katie. People

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think like, oh, you just, you know, you order

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a microphone on Amazon and you just start

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doing a podcast, right? That's all you do.

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I know. Of course, that's all you do. And

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you know what? You're going to have millions

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of listeners. Yeah. Oh, my Lord.

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Well, listen, I've got some people listening.

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I always like to go to the fans because they

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come up with such interesting questions.

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And this show is really about, you know,

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keeping people positive. So the first question,

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and I loved that Stacia brought this up.

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She said, I've got the Star Wars question

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you need to ask, Katie, because it drives

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me crazy watching the show. Is it Bo-Katan

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or Bo-Katan?

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You know, it's funny, drives me nuts, too.

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What a great question. You know, it's a book

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of tan, you know, people try to class her

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up. It's sort of it is the difference. You

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know what, this is the perfect example of

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Brianna's and Brianna's. And I've got, I

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have got friends who are Brianna and friends

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who are Brianna, spelled the same way. And

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it drives me crazy. because I get so screwed

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up and I don't want to screw up their name.

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It's their name for heaven's sake. But I

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think that you can't classy her up. It's

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Boca Tan. She may be royalty, but she's identifiable

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royalty.

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How has it been for you? Obviously, with

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Battlestar Galactica, you had the experience

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of this major sci-fi show with a very passionate

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fan base. How has it been for you? Did that

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prepare you for the Star Wars universe, or

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was it a different experience?

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I think it prepared me a little bit. Sci-fi

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audiences are incredibly loyal, and they've

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been very good to me over the years. the

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passion of the Star Wars audience, the fandom,

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if you will, was not something I was prepared

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for. And, you know, at the end of the day,

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and I always say this, you're never going

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to win everyone. You have to take the good

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with the bad. And now I have been luckier

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than some, you know, we all know when the

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negativity of the fandom takes hold because

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it's in the news, you know, we read about

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it. And that is unfortunate. I personally,

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Have I had negativity? Of course I have,

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but I, and it is louder. It's always the

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negativity is seemingly always louder, but

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it's not the majority that you have to focus

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on the positivity. And you have to focus

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on the people that, that, that appreciate

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what you're doing. Cause there's always going

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to be someone somewhere that wants to tell

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you how much they hate you. And, and, and

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I just don't have time for that shit. Excuse

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my language.

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No, use whatever language you want. We're

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good here. This is a safe space for language.

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Next question, it comes from Kara and she

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reminded me I saw this too. So I'm also the

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kitty correspondent for Pet Pals TV and a

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huge advocate for animals and she was like,

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remember she did that video with Trisha where

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you were talking about the importance of

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adoption. So can you talk a little bit about

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your passion for pets and maybe that moment

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that made you go, I need to use my platform

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to make people understand how important this

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is.

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I mean, it's super important. I've been an

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animal lover my entire life. You know, from

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the moment my mom let me bring home my first

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stray cat. Or rather the stray cat found

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us and my mom let us keep it. So I've always

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had animals as far as I can remember, as

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long as I can remember. And I think that

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what I have seen in shelters is that our

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shelter system is overburdened. There are

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so many animals that need homes and so many

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animals are being euthanized because we don't

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have enough homes because people want cute,

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shiny, young, you know, whatever they want.

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And I get that. I had a pug. I get it. I

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understand when you, when there's a breed

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out there that you want, that you don't think

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you can find, I promise you, you can find

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it in a shelter. If you look long enough

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and it doesn't even have to be that long

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where the internet has connected everyone.

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on such a simplistic level, you could find

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the animal that you want in probably a couple

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weeks, and it would be a rescue. I promise

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you. And it is incredibly important to, I

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don't know, I think it's important. I think

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that kindness is important. And I'm not even

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talking about, you know, like, we don't even

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need to get into, you know, people who eat

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meat and people who don't eat meat. That's

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not what this is about. We don't even need

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to focus on that. Let's not talk about what

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divides us. Let's talk about what brings

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us together, which is that if there's an

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animal in a shelter in need, we need to find

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it a home.

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Thank you, Katie. Thank you so much. Thank

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you for everything that you are doing, seriously.

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It's such a joy to, yeah, I found your podcast

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because I follow you on Instagram and I was

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immediately like, we need this in our world.

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We need you in our world and in our lives

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doing what you're doing. So thank you so

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much for being here with us. Anything you

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want us to know about new episodes coming

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out with the Sackhoff Show before we let

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you go?

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Oh my god, we've got some good ones. Like

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you said, every Tuesday, this week's guest

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is my friend Jay Ellis. He's got a book out

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right now that's awesome. Next week's guest

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is Edward James Olmos. We've got some really,

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really good ones in the can. And the good

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thing about podcasts is you can go back and

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you can listen to all of them. So you've

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got a lot of episodes. If you don't know

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about the Sackhoff Show, there's a lot of

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episodes to catch up on. And enjoy the ride.

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It's so fun.

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All right, Katie Sackhoff, thanks for being

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here on the KJ Today Show and for all that

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you do to put good in the world. Thanks.

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All right, take care.