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Jeannette Bayardelle Full Interview · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: My next guest. She's on the phone. I'm very happy.
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  Speaker 1: We joked around a little bit before we got on
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  Speaker 1: the air. She's from the Bronx to Broadway beyond. She's
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  Speaker 1: traveled to over fifty countries throughout Africa, Asia, Europe, North
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  Speaker 1: America and the Caribbean, sharing her amazing singing gift. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gona tell you right now, I can't sing, so
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  Speaker 1: you know right there, you know we won't be sharing
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  Speaker 1: any duets on this show. I can tell you right now.
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  Speaker 1: Her success has landed her in the national media by
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  Speaker 1: a lot, with television appearances on Oprah, TBN and anymore.
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  Speaker 1: She would co star and highly anticipated Broadway musical Girl
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  Speaker 1: from the North Country, which is inspired by and features
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  Speaker 1: the music of my man Bob Dylan. The play begins
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  Speaker 1: previews on February seven at the Belasco Theater in New
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  Speaker 1: York City. Please welcome to Money Making Conversation, Jeannette Byrdal. Hello,
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  Speaker 1: how will you thank you so much for happening me today?
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  Speaker 1: First of all, did my intro hit your status? Did?
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  Speaker 1: Did I get you there? Jeanette? Did I hit? Did
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  Speaker 1: I lay you out right? Why? I need to make right?
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  Speaker 1: Thank you? I appreciate this well, you know, because first
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  Speaker 1: of all, you know I'm going through your bio, and
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  Speaker 1: first of all, you know all my guests, uh, I
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  Speaker 1: consider you a neglected guest because of the fact that
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  Speaker 1: your world like you know, you know, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: can't pigeonhold you. You know, you your singer. You travel
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  Speaker 1: around the world. You performed for dignitaries like the Obama's
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  Speaker 1: you know, ministers like Bishop T. D. Jake's and so
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  Speaker 1: you know, you know, interviewed and performed in front of Oprah.
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  Speaker 1: This is a high level of of a entertainment and
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  Speaker 1: performance level. What drives you? That would be my first
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  Speaker 1: question just start off interviews. What drives you at this
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  Speaker 1: point in your lives. It's two level, it's two level.
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  Speaker 1: Let me let me, let me step back because I've
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  Speaker 1: never asked that question before. What drove you too in
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  Speaker 1: the beginning? And what drives you now? Okay? UM, what
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  Speaker 1: you old me in the beginning is I had a
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  Speaker 1: passion um, a passion for singing, and UM a passion
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  Speaker 1: to the entertain So at a young age I started singing.
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  Speaker 1: I grew up in the Bronx, and UM I went
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  Speaker 1: to high school performing arts. Now ironically. You know, I
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  Speaker 1: could sing, I could always sing, but when I was
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  Speaker 1: coming up, I wanted to like wrap. I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: be a rapper. That was my thing. The first of all.
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  Speaker 1: I can you wrap though, maybe rap? Maybe because you
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  Speaker 1: could wrap put you back to singing. No, I could
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  Speaker 1: definitely wrap. Definitely. I thought I was gonna be like
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  Speaker 1: the next empty light, you know, the next clean light
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  Speaker 1: to you for away to me. I might be aging myself.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, because I was young when I was
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  Speaker 1: listening to them, and I felt like, you know, that's
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  Speaker 1: that's what I wanted to do. So through in high
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  Speaker 1: school I was rapping. And when I got to the
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  Speaker 1: mcguarity has to the Performing Arts, I was still wrapping.
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  Speaker 1: But then I was surrounded by a bunch of people
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  Speaker 1: who were just really talented. They could sing, they could dance,
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  Speaker 1: they can act. And it's there that I caught the
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  Speaker 1: Broadway bugs because Broadway wasn't even in my mind at all.
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  Speaker 1: It's not something that I grew up with or anything
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  Speaker 1: but class audition crap at the body. It was an
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  Speaker 1: the left of Um spoke night. Once I took that class,
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  Speaker 1: they showed us how to get chars and we had
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  Speaker 1: to like one of our assignments was to go on
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  Speaker 1: the audition. We they say, showed us how to use
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  Speaker 1: this magazine. It was Backstage magazine. It was like the
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  Speaker 1: Hall copy at the time, and they were like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: find an audition going on it and I did it,
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  Speaker 1: and I actually booked what I went on, and after
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  Speaker 1: that it was like, oh goad, I just loved theater, right,
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  Speaker 1: So that's how I started. Then I just I stayed
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  Speaker 1: um passionate and I just pursued it. I mean, well,
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  Speaker 1: there's a story in between that fence. I said, the
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  Speaker 1: backlists and health science because it was like that was
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  Speaker 1: my backup plan, just in case things didn't work out.
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  Speaker 1: And thank god, I never needed my backup plan because
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  Speaker 1: after I graduated, I worked in corporate America for like
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  Speaker 1: six months and then I ended up thing and singing
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  Speaker 1: full time, you know, because you know, my backup plan
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  Speaker 1: was I got a degree in mathematics, worked for IBM,
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  Speaker 1: and no, you know, so I don't even think it's
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  Speaker 1: a backup player. I think that that's you know, people
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  Speaker 1: in life till they kind of like push you in
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  Speaker 1: the direction where they understand, you know, so you don't
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  Speaker 1: understand singers then't understand actors, they understand comedians, they understand Hey,
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  Speaker 1: you know, go eight to five for the hours a week,
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  Speaker 1: you go to college, you get a job, and that's
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  Speaker 1: what you did. That's what I like, But that wasn't
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  Speaker 1: your passion, that wasn't what you excited you that. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you go to work and you see people really kind
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  Speaker 1: of like going through the motions and most of them
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  Speaker 1: complaining about where they're at and not really excited about
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  Speaker 1: the next step. And I always felt that if I
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  Speaker 1: could see what's gonna happen tomorrow in my life, then
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  Speaker 1: that's not the job I wanted to do. And so
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  Speaker 1: when I would go to work and there's nothing negative
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  Speaker 1: where I work, great people, but I knew what I
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  Speaker 1: was gonna do tomorrow, I knew what I was gonna
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  Speaker 1: do next week. That was not the future for me.
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  Speaker 1: I needed that. I needed to work in an environment
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  Speaker 1: career where I didn't know. I didn't I knew there
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  Speaker 1: was a great opportunity to that, but I didn't know
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  Speaker 1: to the mean I had to work real hard. And
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  Speaker 1: I think the same drive that's inside you as well. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: It's it's funny because one thing I'm happy about. I
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  Speaker 1: feel like my college experience definitely prepared me for the
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  Speaker 1: industry because I would tell you, as an actress, you're
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  Speaker 1: always in school. Guess you know why you have to
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  Speaker 1: be so disciplined because you're always learning lines, you're always
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  Speaker 1: doing the research. It's like college never ended. But I'm
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  Speaker 1: happy that I had to. I have that discipline because
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  Speaker 1: it's not it's not easy. My family and friends are
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  Speaker 1: always like, how do you even metalize this stuff? Like
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  Speaker 1: how are you doing this research? And like, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: also a writer. I wrote a um um, I wrote
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  Speaker 1: a musical in Tide with Sheetah that ran off Broadway.
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  Speaker 1: We traveled about the world. We just got back on
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  Speaker 1: London a month ago. We were there for five weeks.
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  Speaker 1: We did thirty nine shows. But um, even with my
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  Speaker 1: process in writing that musical, people are always like, how
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  Speaker 1: did you do with the research and the And I'm like, oh, yeah, well,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I feel like if you went to college,
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  Speaker 1: you can you can do this stuff. It's research, take time,
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  Speaker 1: and take discipline, and I have all those things and
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  Speaker 1: that definitely helps us my competitions. Janette, you really, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you really because you're gifted. Let's go first, of all,
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  Speaker 1: say that true enough, and do your discipline. Let's say
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  Speaker 1: that too, because I always tell people that in order
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  Speaker 1: to be successful, you have to be consistent, you have
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  Speaker 1: to be disciplined, and you have to be fearless. You
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  Speaker 1: just casually win. You know. It started off Broadway and
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  Speaker 1: then they went to London. Okay, come stop, you know, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: people just try to get off Broadway. Now you're in
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  Speaker 1: London at the same time, ran five weeks over there. Congratulations, congratulations,
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  Speaker 1: thank you, And it was it was it was pretty amazing.
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  Speaker 1: And the reception that we got in London. And the
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  Speaker 1: other thing is that our producers the um we did
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  Speaker 1: something that was very smart. We did well, they did
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  Speaker 1: something that was very smart. Um. We actually recorded it
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  Speaker 1: for film for TV and it's amazing and it's just
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  Speaker 1: it's it's there's nothing like it. And I were really
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  Speaker 1: excited about it. And I'm just excited that it was captured.
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  Speaker 1: What we did in London was captives and not the
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  Speaker 1: world can see it and have aspects to it. It's
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  Speaker 1: only be a matter of time. You have Prime out there, Amazon,
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  Speaker 1: you know all these days. Oh yeah, yeah, I'm so
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  Speaker 1: excited for the future of that show. Um, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: also excited about what's happening to with Girl from the
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  Speaker 1: North Country. You. I got a chance to spend forty
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  Speaker 1: minutes with I'm Dealing and it was amazing. He was
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  Speaker 1: so he was so um appreciative of the work that
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  Speaker 1: we've done on stage, um of the work that I
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  Speaker 1: did in my character. In the song that I saying,
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  Speaker 1: he complimented the song and I was like, he's like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I think the song for true Love. He's like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, true Love is that song is really good.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm like, yeah, you know, that's the song I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: He's like, yes, I know, I know. But he's just
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  Speaker 1: so wonderful. And it's sometimes you hear about these legends
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  Speaker 1: and you think that like, oh, they're not gonna be
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  Speaker 1: sunnily if they're gonna be strange. He was just just
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  Speaker 1: just great, amazing down the earth, and I felt like
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  Speaker 1: I could talk to him all day. Well, it's really
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  Speaker 1: interesting because it's you know, well you first of all,
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  Speaker 1: you you're talking to history. That's that's that's the amazing
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  Speaker 1: part of the conversation. I know when I met Elton
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  Speaker 1: John and then just just being in the presence of
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  Speaker 1: Muhammad ali Uh. You know you want to you want
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  Speaker 1: to be able to ask so many questions because they've
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  Speaker 1: been through so many different steps and the courageous steps
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  Speaker 1: in their lives, you know, because you know every journey,
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  Speaker 1: I would say, every decade holds a different journey for
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  Speaker 1: each individual. And so they've lived so many decades. And
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  Speaker 1: so when you meet the person like Bob Dylan, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you know, wow talking about the sixties, Okay, come you know,
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  Speaker 1: and and and and go through that. Did you ask
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  Speaker 1: him any question or just just experienced the moment with
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  Speaker 1: him and accepted the compliment? How was it? It was
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  Speaker 1: so interesting. It was at his concert and and Um
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  Speaker 1: one of the other stars of Girl from the North
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  Speaker 1: Country man winning him, who is amazing in the show.
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  Speaker 1: It was the two of us that were with him
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  Speaker 1: in his dressing room. And I have to tell you
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  Speaker 1: first it was it was for real, and I was
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  Speaker 1: trying to take in every moment. And it's funny because
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  Speaker 1: I felt like everything that came out of my mom
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  Speaker 1: is just like insignificant, because I was just so like
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  Speaker 1: I was trying to take in every moment. What's the moment?
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  Speaker 1: Like what he was saying, you know, and I did.
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  Speaker 1: I asked a couple of questions about um, about the
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  Speaker 1: songs that he wrote, like, um, there's a song that
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  Speaker 1: I've seen called um um um Gypsy. I mean asked
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  Speaker 1: to see the Gypsy. Okay, I can't think of the
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  Speaker 1: song right now, but February seven the previous start, so
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  Speaker 1: you will be on phorm by that not just tell
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  Speaker 1: us basically girl from the North Country. What exactly is
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  Speaker 1: that Girl from the North Country. Well, that's one of
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  Speaker 1: the songs that he wrote the musicals and titled Girl
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  Speaker 1: from the Norther Country. So this me this music, guest,
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  Speaker 1: the music is based on Bob Dylan. Um, the music
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  Speaker 1: is from Bob Dylan, but the story is not Bob
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  Speaker 1: Dylan's story. It takes place in his hometown. But it
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  Speaker 1: was written by one of the best play rights, um
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  Speaker 1: e Conomic Fearsen. And what he did was he wrote
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  Speaker 1: a play and the music compliments the play. The music
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  Speaker 1: is like a soundtrack to the play. So it's almost
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  Speaker 1: like watching the movie. So the music is not driving,
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  Speaker 1: it's not it's not moving before the stories forwards, but
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  Speaker 1: it's given you the emotions of the character. You know.
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  Speaker 1: It's different in that sense, like most Juice Box musicals
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  Speaker 1: the songs. They try to make the songs part of
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  Speaker 1: the story and have the songs tell the story. But
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  Speaker 1: that's not the case here. It's it's it's like watching
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  Speaker 1: the movie and then you hear the songs that come
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  Speaker 1: on that compliment the scenes and the um emotions of
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  Speaker 1: the character. Amazing. I'm talking to Jeannette by a dell correct,
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  Speaker 1: by your dell right, I'm still rolling with I'm still
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  Speaker 1: rocking with that name. So she is. She's co starring
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  Speaker 1: in highly anticipated Broadway musical Girl from the North Country,
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  Speaker 1: which is inspired by and features the music of Bob Dylan.
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  Speaker 1: To play begins previews February seventh. February is my birthday.
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  Speaker 1: Months or you may see me Jette and not not
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  Speaker 1: made you know, be at the Bilasco Theater in New
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  Speaker 1: York City. It's amazing, Uh, continuous interview because guess what
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  Speaker 1: your your story? You have a relatable I guess a
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  Speaker 1: physical tragedy that you were able to have come. I
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  Speaker 1: have one that happened in my life. It kind of
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  Speaker 1: like changed my whole perspective. Happened to me in nineteen
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  Speaker 1: ninety with my long collapse and I wanna talk about
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  Speaker 1: your experience that you had in two thousand and eight,
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  Speaker 1: because I know it calls me to set the date
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  Speaker 1: in my life October nine, nineteen one. Decided I was
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  Speaker 1: gonna take advantage of all the talents that God gave
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  Speaker 1: me and pursue it. And it's not failed me that mandate.
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  Speaker 1: We when will be back with more from Jeanette, the
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  Speaker 1: star of the new series a new Broadway musical, Girl
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  Speaker 1: from the North Country. Yes, this with Sean McDonald speaking
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  Speaker 1: to Jeanette. By your doul by your del uh. She's
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  Speaker 1: co starring in the Broadway musical Girl from the North Country.
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  Speaker 1: It's a musical that she told us it's not so
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  Speaker 1: much tied to the life of Bob Dealer, but the
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  Speaker 1: music of Bob Dealer, which I think is important. So
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  Speaker 1: you know what you're walking into. Um, Jeanette, thank you
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  Speaker 1: for coming on my show, Money Making Conversation. How are
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  Speaker 1: you doing? I'm doing good. Thank you so much for
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  Speaker 1: having me. This has been wonderful. Well. First of all,
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  Speaker 1: your your double ACP Image Award winning. Whenever you're an award,
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  Speaker 1: it really is as a as a testament to be
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  Speaker 1: recognized by your peers. How does that does it impact you?
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  Speaker 1: How did you do? Do you do? You do? You
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  Speaker 1: take that moment? So here I got it, put it
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  Speaker 1: on the shelf. Now I need more? Or how does
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  Speaker 1: that know? How do you as? First of all, it
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  Speaker 1: was an honor for me to play the role of
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  Speaker 1: Steely on Broadway. I got the CP Theater Award for that.
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  Speaker 1: Um well, I did Brawway and then I did the
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  Speaker 1: tour that was a color purple right, the color purple. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, playing a role like that, it's just
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  Speaker 1: it's just an honor and it's so iconic, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: just happy to follow the Whoopie Goldberg and just thick
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  Speaker 1: the fingers out that just thick the fingers out there,
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  Speaker 1: you know, do you know what you can do for me?
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  Speaker 1: You know? We just like it was one of you know,
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  Speaker 1: it was one of my favorite movies. So to the
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  Speaker 1: honor and to be recognized for the work that I've done,
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  Speaker 1: it's just and by my people, it's very special to me.
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  Speaker 1: It's a very special because you're when I'm looking at
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  Speaker 1: these these Broadway shows are very the very general market
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  Speaker 1: and not not urban in tone. So to go do
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  Speaker 1: the color purple get recognized that really really hits home
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  Speaker 1: to you because you do want everybody wants that you.
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  Speaker 1: You don't want to be pigeonholed that you only do urban.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you only do this pop or R and B.
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  Speaker 1: That you have the ability and you've shown reading your
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  Speaker 1: bio that you have the ability to perform at so
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  Speaker 1: many of different levels. Plus the fact you've traveled all
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  Speaker 1: over this world singing. Yes, it's an honor. And I'll
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  Speaker 1: tell you it's interesting because because I do a lot
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  Speaker 1: of like Broadway shows, theatrical productions, it's really not the
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  Speaker 1: demographic is not. It has a specific demographic, let's just sex.
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  Speaker 1: So to be able to be recognized and to be
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  Speaker 1: seen in front of my people, it's as honor because
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  Speaker 1: that's my dream, is just to bring more theater and
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  Speaker 1: and and talk about subjects that that are relatable, you
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  Speaker 1: know what I mean, because a lot of times these
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  Speaker 1: subjects are just like we can't necessarily relate to them,
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  Speaker 1: and it's not it's just not our face. And you
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  Speaker 1: know the thought of us buying the ticket mawenty times
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  Speaker 1: to see something that we've seen already, we're like, that's
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  Speaker 1: a third. But that's kind of how Broadway goes. You know,
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  Speaker 1: people come from all around the world and they see
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  Speaker 1: these shows over and over and over and over again.
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  Speaker 1: But we're like I saw that one time. I don't
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  Speaker 1: need to see that again because they're not our stories.
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  Speaker 1: Let me ask you this because we're talking about we
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  Speaker 1: talked about scripts a little bit earlier, talking about memorizing.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I see people like Samuel Jackson, this guy's
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  Speaker 1: on the movies. You know, one year coming, you know,
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  Speaker 1: so no, in each in, each character is different and
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  Speaker 1: just the this is an original question to me in
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  Speaker 1: hearing you and you you travel the world, so you
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  Speaker 1: you know, your articulation has to be at a certain level,
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  Speaker 1: so it can be so it could be communicated to
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  Speaker 1: so many different people and understanding and being able to
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  Speaker 1: how do you go about memorizing the scripts that that
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  Speaker 1: you are auditioning for and also the roles that you
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  Speaker 1: have secured. Okay, so memorizing memorizing seems hard, but when
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  Speaker 1: you have a system that can be easy. Um, there's
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  Speaker 1: always a When you learn that system, you on the role. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Represition is important and and also writing stuff down. So
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  Speaker 1: like if you write something down, like I say, say,
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  Speaker 1: I have to memorize like six pages. I'm gonna write
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  Speaker 1: out those six pages three times. Don't don't remember, right,
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  Speaker 1: We'll read through the script. And then I started writing
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  Speaker 1: out my lines like a once, a little just three times.
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  Speaker 1: And then once I do that, for whatever reason, it
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  Speaker 1: kind of gets inside of you and then it makes
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  Speaker 1: trying to memorize it easier. But it's all about repetition
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  Speaker 1: and just do and it has to be concentrated work.
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  Speaker 1: Like literally, when it's when I'm really like getting down
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  Speaker 1: to memorize in I'm like, okay, let me give my
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  Speaker 1: stuff at least one hour of concentrated work, which means
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  Speaker 1: no phone, no distractions, and you just focus on That
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: Definitely happens because your boy be struggling, you know. I
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: get I get copy to do a commercial. I feel like, man,
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: I don't feel like memorizing this. How do you remember?
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: I watched the technique? So really I need to just
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: go and just hand write everything down, hand write it
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  Speaker 1: down three times, hand writing lines down three times, three times,
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  Speaker 1: and then start to memorize or start you know, just
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  Speaker 1: started it, started the process and start taking over and
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: meask you this, how about how about reading it to somebody?
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: You know, you know, going through the scene line by
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  Speaker 1: line and does that help too. You can definitely do that,
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: but there's some there's some work that you need to
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: do on your own. You stop, start with stop work
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: on your own first and then invite others that. Okay
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: before I just make that bang with my my laziness.
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: So that's really really really like you. It's gonna be
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: honest because you know, to be as successful as you
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: are that has you have the album back you said,
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: once you get a system of Sean you lay into
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: and you do it and you build on it. But
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: somebody comes over, don't have a system. Don't let them
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: mess up your day trying to trying to memorize some
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: stuff they don't even know how to, how to get started,
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: just walking in the room, walking in the room cold. Now,
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: before we finish this interview, definitely remind everybody. February seven,
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: at the Blasco Theater, Belaska's would it be E l A.
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  Speaker 1: S c O Theater in New York City, the previews
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  Speaker 1: for A Girl from the North Country will start and
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking to Janet Jeannette excuse me. She's an inn
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  Speaker 1: w C Image Award winner and in two thousand and eight.
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  Speaker 1: I'm telling in eighteen by lung collapse collapse when I
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  Speaker 1: was watching the basketball game, and I stayed in hospital
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  Speaker 1: for thirty days. Thirty days, and uh, you know it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't I didn't plan to stand there. I checked out.
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  Speaker 1: I checked. I was so weird because I attempted to
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: check out the hospital three times, and every time I
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: checked out, I could tell if something wasn't right, and
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: I went back in there the long recollapsed. And so
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: so when you're staying there for thirty days, it really
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: I was at the time, I was thirty two, so
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: I was still, you know, invincible. I still wasn't mortal.
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  Speaker 1: I feel that, you know, you could, I could do
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  Speaker 1: no wrong. And so and I was one of those
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: guys that you know at that age, you know, you know,
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: if if I got the cold, I just go play
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: basket ball, sweat it out of me. And so this
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  Speaker 1: was the first time in my life where I couldn't
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  Speaker 1: do that. I couldn't just go play basketball, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't just just I just couldn't just run a
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  Speaker 1: jog or whatever just to just to just to be
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  Speaker 1: healthy again. I couldn't wheel myself back and it really
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  Speaker 1: calls me to uh pause about death, about you know,
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: uh that window that we're giving and what are you
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: gonna do in that window? And it really calls me
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: the focus because of ninteen ainty one a year later
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: because after you know, after I got out of the hospital,
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: you know, I still have this long scar because they
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: take my long out, fixed the sins and then put
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  Speaker 1: it back in, and so I had to I had
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: this big fear that you know, when I would do weights,
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: that I would tear the scar tissue and so the
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: scars and so so it was a real about a year.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: I was just really pairing up physically about what I
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: could do. And so in ninteen ainty one, it was
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: August ninth, Octal ninth, ninteen anyone. And I made a
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  Speaker 1: conscious effort that I was I wasn't gonna be afraid
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: of my life. I wasn't gonna be afraid of failure,
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: I was gonna be afraid of death. I wasn't gonna
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: be afraid period. But I was going to see opportunity
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: and I would can pursue any opportunity that I was
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: given to me. Max effort, max effort, And I've never
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: changed that those values in my life since. And in
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: two thousand and eight, you had a pulmonary pulmonary imbalance. Okay,
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: explain to us what that is, and then explained the
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: impact that had in your life. Basically, I had blood
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: slots in both of my lungs. So I was flying
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: on the plane and it was a long flight. I
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: had been I was on tour with the color problet time,
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: and I had been taking long flights. And my thing
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: was don't sleep at night and sleep all sleep the
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: entire time on the plane. Right. But I'm not thinking, like, no,
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: you have to get up and walk around. That's not
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: in my head. Um, I'm on this slight. My legs
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: and hurting me extremely bad, and I don't know why,
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: and I'm so tired. I'm like, man, I'm so so tired.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: I get off the plane. I stand up to when
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: we were to do both the plan, I stand up,
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: and I just I couldn't really breathe all of a sudden,
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: It's like I could not breathe, and then I then
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: I could breathe again, and then my leg when I
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: couldn't breathe, my legs stopped hurting me. And so when
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: I got off the plant. I just felt I felt
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  Speaker 1: off and dizzy, and so I was like, you know,
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: I need to get help. So I just went to
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: like a security guard and I was like, you know,
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: I don't feel good, and so they had to um um,
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: they called the ambulance and they came and checked me
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: out and they were like, wow, all my levels were elevated.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: They ended up taking me to the hospital. And when
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: I went to the hospital, they did a cash skin
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: and they did everything they needed to do and they're like, listen,
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: you have stuff at a severe pulmonary embolism um and
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: and you have it if you have crossed them both
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: of your lungs, and we gotta punch on IC to you.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: And at this point I felt fine, like what And
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: the long story short, I ended up standing in the
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: hospital for about five days. My family had to flywers
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: in Portland, so they had to come out of Portland
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: me get me and and I had to and I
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: had to stop working for like nine months. Well they
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: told me I could return back to work sooner, but um,
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: I had to be on bluffiness for nine months and
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: that and people, I mean the doctors and the nurses,
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: they were just like, we're so happy you came because
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: they understood the severity of it. I didn't. I was like, okay,
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: but I'm feel fine right now. They're like like, you don't.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: You're a miracle right now, right right right right, you know.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: And so really I'm just so relatable to me because
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: when I arrived at the hospital, they went, you know,
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: some you're about to die. You know, if we don't
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: operate immediately, you're about to die. So this story is
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: just so cool. So matches some of the some of
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: the instincts that I felt. I thought I was fine.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: I drove myself to the hospital with a collapsed long Okay,
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: that's how I thought everything was cool. Let me just
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: go over here and just check it out. So how
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: did that? How did that change your life? Man? I
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: tell you if I wasn't dreaming before, when you go
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: through as you know, when you go through a situation
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: like that, you understand light is so precious and you
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: could be here fine one day and just go on
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: the next. So I felt like, listen, I need to
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: accomplish everything. I need to I need to I need
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: to die. I need to die empty, meaning that the
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: world has received everything that God has put inside of me,
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: and I have nothing left to give, then I'm ready
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: to go, but I don't want to. I don't want
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: to die with all my talents and ideas and dreams
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: and purpose inside of me, Like I need to fulfill
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: those things so that the next generation can benefit from
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: the things that were given to me. So when you
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: have that attitude, man, you're feel this and you're you're
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: motivated and you understand that you you're you're walking in purpose.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: So when you meet people is purposeful, when you speak
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: is purposeful. Everything that you do there's a purpose. You're
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: not doing it just to do it. But you're like, listen,
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: I have to set time on this earth. I was
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: just I was just my time was just extended. So
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: I'm going to um, I'm gonna use that time wisely. Wow,
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: Definitely the focus changes. You know. Let's say if I
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: who was on a peloton bike, I'll be looking at
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: you and ask me. Right there, she's saying everything that
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: I believe in. That's my girl right there. Let's keep peeling,
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: let's keep pelling success. Let's let everybody know it's just
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: twenty four hours in the day. Let's take advantage of
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: every hour. Let's do it. Let's don't stop. Let's not
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: be afraid. The success will come your way if you
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: work hard for understand and and and it was important
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: to me to UM to live that, but also UM
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: encourage others to live that way as well who have
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: not experienced that. Appreciate you, you know, and just let
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: people know. Listen, you have one life. Let's go. Let's
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: do it. You have ideas, Let's go. I'll help you.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: Let's go. You know, I'm telling you, I'm talking to you.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: By your devil, by your dead, by your she will
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  Speaker 1: be your starring. I tell you, I'm interviewing, so I'm
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: gonna say starring. I know they have co starring, but
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: be an interviewed on money Making Conversation by Rashad McDonald.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: You'll be starring in the highly anticipated Broadway musical Girl
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: from the North Country, which is far cannot wait for
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: people to come and see it. And when you come,
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: just realize that this is art. It's something different, and
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: you'll be able to appreciate the music of Bob Dylan.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: For those of you who don't know Bob Dylan, or
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: who have heard a Bob Dylan but didn't really pay attention.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: Tend to pay attention because we're singing those songs and
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: arrangements by Simon Hell are amazing. Absolutely absolutely. February seventh
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  Speaker 1: preview start. That's my birthday, Martinette, so you may see
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  Speaker 1: my first two I will be there. I got a
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: couple of friends up there, Dawn Lewis and another play,
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: so I'll be busy in the month of February up there.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: I'm so happy you came on my show. Money Making
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