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Everybody please say hello to Ariana.

Hello Ariana.

Hi.

How are you sweetheart?

I'm good.

Good to see you again.

Good to see you again too.

You look awful nice today.

Thank you.

You're handsome too.

I'm handsome.

Yes.

Thank you so much.

Wow, what you been doing since I last saw you?

Well you see Mr. Harvey, I've been working on my third book.

I launched my online store, and I also wrote a song for my mommy, Butterfly.

You launched, you launched an online store?

Yes.

What you selling?

Well the books and a charm line, which you see right there.

A charm line?

You say you wrote a song for your mommy?

Yes.

Why won't you sing it for me?

From the day I was born, I looked in your eyes and felt your sweet love.

I knew you were the one when I opened my eyes and heard from above.

I'll be there when you fly and I'll be there in new lands.

I'll be there always.

My butterfly, one day you'll fly.

I'm a butterfly.

Any of y'all feeling like you failed your children somewhere?

You're really bright for a six year old.

What grade you in?

Well I'm in third grade so you see...

Huh?

In the third grade?

Yeah.

You see when I was two I was in kindergarten.

My favorite subject is science, because I really want to be a scientist inventor.

It invents a machine that I call my EST.

It stands for emotional sensory toy, because it has a sensor in the eye and it uses AI, so it thinks like a human, so it understands what it sees.

And then it'll use that sensor to look at the child's face and notice feeling.

And then it'll do something to try and calm it down, like when a child was lonely and might play a game with it.

It's just like a buddy inside a toy.

Ariana, let me ask you, so they told me that you put me in one of your new books. Did you?

Well, you see, Mr. Harvey, you're the keeper of the key.

And your mustache is pretty handsome.

I just had to give it its own character, which is Mr. Mustachio.

And the reason I put you in the book is because you're smart, hilarious, and a good businessman.

Because the last time I saw you, we were gonna talk those terms about the business deal, and we never got to do that.

And I thought, since I'm writing the books and illustrating the pictures, and you brought your name into the book, we're gonna have a lot of sales on that one, we're gonna need a good publisher.

I was thinking maybe you could bring your publisher to the table.

That's really nice of you to put me in the book.

I can introduce you all to my publisher.

They could do a big deal.

Let me- Great, let's set up a meeting. Of course.

Meeting in Las Vegas.

Have a meeting in Las Vegas?

Do you know how to count cards?

Playing cards?

Um, I know how to play go fish.

Okay, let me ask you this question because I heard this about you.

I heard you walked on your first red carpet the other day.

You're right, it was amazing.

I even got to do a campaign for Red Nose Day.

It's where everyone comes together to get rid of child poverty.

One red nose at a time.

I feel very lucky to be a part of this because I think it's very important we help the children in need.

Folks, give it up for Ariana.

Most eight-year-old kids like running around outside with their friends, playing sports and video games in their free time.

But my next guest has more intellectual interests.

At the age of eight, he's already a published author with the best-selling book on Amazon.

His book is called Kayla and Kyle, The Walking Dictionary's Election Day.

And it was also recently accepted into the Library of Congress.

Everybody, please welcome Nicholas Buama.

Hey, Nicholas, how you doing, man?

I'm doing great.

How are you?

Wonderful.

I've never talked to an eight-year-old intellectual before, so...

I'm gonna have to pull myself together, because I've been a 62-year-old fool for...

a lot of years now.

So let me ask you this, Nicholas.

What made you write this book?

I wrote this book because my mom started to teach me big words.

So when I was at school and I asked to collaborate, my teacher messaged my mom.

So when I got home, my mom asked me, do I want to write a book?

And I said yes, and that's where it all began.

Tell me a little bit, you know, about your book.

What is it about?

My book is about helping kids expand their vocabularies, and Kayla and Kyle are having an election,

and throughout the way, Kayla and Kyle are using big words.

Kayla and Kyle, who is, oh they the dictionaries.

Oh they the two books.

You mean the two characters?

Oh they're two, yeah the two characters.

That's what I was trying.

Yeah the two characters that I thought was books

but obviously since I ain't read a lot of them how would I know what a book look like?

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So let me ask some, and they walk around and they just use big words.

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They're having an election and throughout the way they're using big words.

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Have you ever talked to an adult that didn't know what you was talking about?

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Plenty of times.

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You don't know what it feels like to be a grown man to be talking to a child

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and you don't know how to talk to him cause, you scared he might say something with a big word in you, you don't know what it is.

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Can I do it right now?

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Yeah, go ahead, let me try it.

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Okay, exacerbate.

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Exa-cer-what?

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Exa-cer-bait.

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Exa-cer-bait, just take one guess of what it means.

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I'll tell you what it means.

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It means to make a situation worse.

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Yeah, that's what it'll do.

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Say it again.

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Exa-cer-bait.

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Okay, but who you hollering at though?

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What do you mean like who I'm hollering at?

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I like you, man.

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So you could probably spell good too, huh?

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Man, you ever enter spelling bees and stuff?

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You ain't got time for that.

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You writing books, you on Amazon, bestseller lists and everything.

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You, now you recently had a book signing, didn't you?

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Mm-hmm.

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Yeah, how did that go?

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It went well.

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It was at Barnes and Nobles, and I sold out of books in less than an hour.

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I hear that you've been receiving some letters from some kids who bought your book.

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What have some of the kids been saying?

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They say I inspire them, and they wanna write books too.

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Man, you a good kid, you know that?

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Mm-hmm.

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You're pretty fly too.

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Thanks.

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Being smart is a great gift to have.

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I know.

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I didn't get that gift when I was growing up.

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But you are smart.

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Well, I appreciate you saying that, man, yeah.

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I'm smart about a couple things, you know, like, like big words, I'm not really good at big words.

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I never, I didn't have this book.

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See, if I'd have had this book when I was a kid, I'd have knew some big words, like watch this right here.

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Standing in front of the mirror with it.

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Innate.

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You ain't even read the, how you know that?

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I can't remember how it's a book.

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Okay, let me ask you this.

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I heard you got a pretty big goal for yourself.

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What is that?

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My goal is to get my book into every elementary school library in the United States.

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Let's go work.

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Let's go work.

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I have some more goals.

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Huh?

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I have two more goals.

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Oh, you got two more goals.

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And another one is to donate some books to take to Ghana to get to their schools and libraries.

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And another one is to get enough subscribers for my YouTube channel, because I'm doing a 30 second word.

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It's where I'll teach you a word in 30 seconds or less.

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Okay, let me tell you what I'm gonna do.

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How many of these books do you wanna put in Ghana?

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555. Since you such a smart kid and you trying real hard,

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I'm gonna buy 555 books and we gonna put them in the screen of Ghana. about that.

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All right?

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Deal.

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Yeah.

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That's one of your goals, baby.

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And we're gonna make the rest of them come true too, okay?

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Okay.

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I enjoy talking with you, man.

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You're a smart young fella.

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Keep up the good work, man.

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Thank you.

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Please welcome five-year-old baller Trent Fuller.

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What's up, man?

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Hi.

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Nice to meet you again, Steve Harvey.

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That's nice, man.

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I like talking to you.

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You're such a big basketball fan that you were actually invited to the NBA Finals to interview the players.

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What was your favorite part?

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Running around the court, meeting the players, Coach Q, Zaza, Def Curry.

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I also heard that you got a girlfriend who is gonna be the guest of honor at your birthday party.

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Whoa, whoa, whoa.

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It's not a girlfriend, it's a friend.

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Who is she?

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Riley.

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Her name is Riley and she's Steph Curry's daughter.

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She's coming to your birthday party?

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Yes, but she's just not my girlfriend.

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But you're friends, right?

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Right, we're friends.

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Yeah, what's the difference between a friend and a girlfriend?

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The difference is that you have a crush on her, but when you're just a friend, you don't have a crush on her, you just like her.

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Well, but she...

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You don't have a crush on her right now, right?

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Right, I will never have a crush on her.

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Never.

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Never.

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Just never.

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All right Trent, so you're not only a fan of basketball, are you a pretty good basketball player?

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Yes.

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Okay, well come on over here and show me some stuff you can do.

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All right, so the first move I'm gonna do is hire this.

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The higher it goes, so good.

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The lower it goes, the faster it goes.

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Stop moving your head.

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Then I'm going to move in and out.

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Like, around the same time, I go in and switch.

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The last thing I'm going to do is switch.

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It's like, one right and the other way.

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Oh, switching.

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Yeah.

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Now I'm done now you try.

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Boy you like huh?

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Now I'm done now you try now.

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I try to do the stretches.

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Like try to do the what?

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I'll just show you with these two balls.

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I've never tried that.

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Just try it.

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Just try it.

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Just try it.

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Turn around.

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Turn around.

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Yeah.

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Ladies and gentlemen, give it up for Trent.

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Little Big Shot airs Sunday nights at 8 p.m on NBC.

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We'll be right back.

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My next guest may only be 10 years old, but she has already taken the internet by storm with over 10 million views.

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Take a look.

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Hey, everybody, please welcome 10-year-old Sky Turner.

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Hey!

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Hey, how was that style?

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Girl, you better look at you.

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Girl, you better be fabulous.

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Boy, look at you, little sky you doing.

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Good.

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Girl, you just as pretty as you wanna be.

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Thank you.

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Listen to me, stay away from boys.

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They poison.

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When you 21, we'll look into it.

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But right now, avoid them at all costs.

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Okay. Where you from?

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Well, I'm from Dallas, Texas.

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Now you look pretty professional in that video.

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How often do you get asked to sing at weddings?

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Well, I don't just sing at weddings.

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I sing at funerals and more.

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You're saying if only you knew at the funeral?

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Well, no. I sang take me to the king at one wedding.

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Oh, okay, I was finna say.

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You lay in there dead and somebody starts singing.

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Um, I like to be.

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If only you knew.

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I'm sorry.

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I like to be there during people's times of sorrow and times of joy.

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Oh, well that's good though.

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Well then, that's a gift.

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If you're that type of person, that's a gift.

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What type of music do you typically like to sing?

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I like old school music.

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People who sing about love and gospel and more.

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I love artists like Tina Marie, Prince.

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Anita Baker.

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And especially Miss Patti LaBelle.

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Yeah, especially Miss Patti LaBelle.

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What do you want to be when you're older?

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I don't want to wait until I'm older to become what I want to be.

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And I want to be a diva and an entertainer.

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And an entertainer is somebody who acts, sings, dances, and more.

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I make music and publish it.

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I want it to last for generations and generations generation Just like miss fatty labelle it looks like you're doing really well.

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We'll be right back

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She's a bug loving little girl who has always teased by her peers for her insect fascination

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But after this hashtag bugs are for girls went viral she became one of the coolest girls in school So right now,

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here, with her very own book, show and tell, please welcome nine-year-old Sophia.

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Hi Sophia.

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Hi.

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How are you?

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Where are you from, darling?

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Canada.

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Canada?

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Yeah, it took a while to get here.

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Took a while to get here?

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Yeah.

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What a...

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So Sophia, what made you interested in bugs?

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Well once, when I was three, I went to a butterfly conservatory, which is a zoo, but only for butterflies.

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And as soon as I walked in, a blue butterfly landed on my shoulder and it wouldn't get off.

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And ever since then, I fell in love with insects.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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So, let me ask you something.

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Why do you think insects are scary to some people?

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Some insects, like a tarantula, look scary.

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But some tarantulas won't hurt you.

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Some won't hurt you.

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Yeah, some.

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And some bugs you just don't want to hold because they have territorial offense, which means they'll bite you, sting you, pinch you.

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Great, yeah, well.

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So you gonna teach us about some bugs today.

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Yeah.

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That's pretty much why I ain't into bugs, I think.

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So go ahead, what's with the first bug, what is it?

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The first bug is a stick bug.

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The stick bug is called a stick bug because it looks just like a stick.

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And the stick bug, the stick bug can reproduce its own eggs

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but only the female can reproduce its own eggs without a male.

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So basically it can reproduce its own eggs, but it will only make female eggs.

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But when it's reproducing eggs with a male, it'll make male and female eggs.

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And it's not turn, which means it only, it's only awake at night and it's motionless at, in the daytime.

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Yeah.

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So does that ever come out the cage? Do you?

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Yeah.

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I don't, that's...

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Come on bud.

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This is the stick bug.

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Do you have a name for it?

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Um, oh I didn't name it but I'm gonna call it sticky.

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Sticky?

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Yeah, sticky.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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Does it have one of those defense mechanisms you were talking about?

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No, this one doesn't bite.

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All of these bugs don't bite.

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Oh, no bite or nothing.

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No, they don't fly, they don't bite, they're really calm.

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Good.

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