General Hospital ‘s Maurice Benard didn’t anticipate the reaction that his latest podcast episode would generate. But news that legendary actor Anthony Geary (Luke Spencer) tuned in to State of Mind from Amsterdam to watch Benard’s interview with Genie Francis (Laura Collins) left him genuinely moved.

It all began when Geary’s husband, Claudio Gama, posted a video of the eight-time Daytime Emmy winner watching the episode, and the

Although Benard and Geary haven’t stayed

That enduring respect makes a future reunion easy to imagine, and Benard would welcome it without hesitation. “Oh, I would work with him in three seconds,” he said. “Like I said in the post, I saw him in a one-man play, and I thought, ‘You can’t be better than this.’ It was just amazing.”

Benard has had h

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