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Xosha Roquemore & Alano Miller Full Interview · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: now the new anthology drama Cherished the Day. Cherish Today
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Speaker 1: airs every Tuesday at ten pm Eastern and West Coast
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Speaker 1: and Central and IPM Central on their own network, which
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Speaker 1: is the Oprah Win for network. The show chronicles a
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Speaker 1: couple who met and fall in love in Los Angeles,
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Speaker 1: with the full season spanning five years and eight episodes.
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Speaker 1: Please welcome to Money Making Conversation Zoe Show, Rockemore and
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Speaker 1: Alano Miller. Come on, now, come on now, how y'all doing? Now? Good?
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Speaker 1: First of all, you first first time on the show? Um,
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Speaker 1: you know, you know, I saw the show from the
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Speaker 1: beginning and when it came out. You know, I'm a
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Speaker 1: big fan of Ava, and uh, just just to get
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Speaker 1: people a little background, Uh so show you were on
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Speaker 1: the Mendy Project, correct, Yes, I was seasons So tell
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Speaker 1: us a little bit about that. That experience before we
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Speaker 1: break down everything. And I'm gonna ask you the same question,
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Speaker 1: Alano about Underground. Oh, the mini project was so fun
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Speaker 1: and amazing. I love everybody over there. Um. Mindy Kaling
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Speaker 1: is an amazing woman and artistic mogul and brilliant writer.
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Speaker 1: So to get to work with her was super cool
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Speaker 1: and we just had a good time. It was a
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Speaker 1: half hour comedy, a lot of improvising. Will be on
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Speaker 1: set Roland just like dying and it is having a
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Speaker 1: great time pretty much every day. So that was super fun. Okay,
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Speaker 1: you can't get to that's a sitcom basically. And then
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Speaker 1: all of a sudden we got my man, Alana Miller
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Speaker 1: the Underground Way different, way different there. He's out there
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Speaker 1: in this in the sun, my friend. Yeah, I was
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Speaker 1: up there and that sun. Um, it was you know,
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Speaker 1: it was a tough show. It's a challenging show. Um,
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Speaker 1: but I was really honored to have a chance to
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Speaker 1: continue to change the narrative of slavery um and uh,
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Speaker 1: you know, really promote the fact that they are these
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Speaker 1: superheroes that that lived and breathe here on this planet,
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Speaker 1: and that there were real people and that they really
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Speaker 1: paved the way for us to be where we are today.
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Speaker 1: So um, to be a part of that journey was amazing.
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Speaker 1: Of course, you know Misha Green, she is like one
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Speaker 1: of my favorite human beings of the creator of Underground
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Speaker 1: and uh, you know, I walked away with a lot
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Speaker 1: of friends from that set, so sad that it's gone,
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Speaker 1: but I'm glad to be a part of the move.
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Speaker 1: The movement absolutely there. It's really important when I hear
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Speaker 1: both of you guys talking, I hear the word relationships,
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Speaker 1: you know, being a key conversation and also the environment
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Speaker 1: you that you worked on in those previous relationships. And
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Speaker 1: I always tell people in my in my business, I've
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Speaker 1: been very successful in entertainment and the way from entertainment,
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Speaker 1: and I find the relationships are really the key and
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Speaker 1: how you maintain them is the key for longevity. Correct. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I think that's definitely one of the keys. Yeah, it's
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Speaker 1: about being able to um, you know, investing yourself, but
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Speaker 1: also investing relationships. I mean you never know, um, you
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Speaker 1: don't do it for the fact of you know where
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Speaker 1: you what you're gonna get from them, but you you
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Speaker 1: invest in relationships because you want to be challenged, you
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Speaker 1: want to be sharpened, and uh, you wanna you want
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Speaker 1: to learn more and become a better person, better artists,
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Speaker 1: whatever it is. And so you just do just stay
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Speaker 1: open and be a sponge. Cool. Okay, we're talking. I'm
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Speaker 1: talking to those Rockemore and Alono Miller, stars of the
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Speaker 1: own a television series Cherished Today. Now, they gave me
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Speaker 1: a quick description. This is the narrative will unfold to
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Speaker 1: reveal significant moments in a relationship that compail us the whole,
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Speaker 1: true to the ones we love, from the extraordinary to
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Speaker 1: the every day. Now, that's what they sit over to me.
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Speaker 1: This is my takeaway from this series. When I watch
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Speaker 1: I watched so far. It's a show about trust. It's
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Speaker 1: a show about follow your passion. Don't live your life
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Speaker 1: through other people's dreams. Don't judge based on your perception.
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Speaker 1: It's all right to be different. It's all right to
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Speaker 1: dress different, it's all right to talk different, it's all
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Speaker 1: right to dream different. And more importantly, a real relationship
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Speaker 1: is more than good sex. Yeah. And and the reason
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Speaker 1: the reason I pull those things out of because that
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Speaker 1: really is what my main conversation is all about. I
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Speaker 1: always talking about follow your passion. I always say lead
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Speaker 1: with your gifts and that that that tone keeps ringing
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Speaker 1: over and over because you guys are a very distinctive personality.
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Speaker 1: So starting with you, Josha, explain to everybody your character,
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Speaker 1: and then a Lana follow up with yours, so we
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Speaker 1: can just started developing this show concept of the people
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Speaker 1: who may have never heard of the show that we
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Speaker 1: want to drive them to the show and realized they
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Speaker 1: have missing something special and they should they should go
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Speaker 1: to the backlogs and and catch up because it's because
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Speaker 1: it's one of them, because it's one of them serious
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Speaker 1: where you just can't stop in. You just can't drop
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Speaker 1: in this series. You can't dropping episode five, you know
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Speaker 1: you because you gotta go to that one and and
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Speaker 1: and and just build that information of love because because
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Speaker 1: because Zoh got some some character flaws in there, and uh,
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Speaker 1: my man Alana character, he got some character flaws. But
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Speaker 1: that's what makes a beautiful couple, that's what makes this
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Speaker 1: serious so perfect. So so should tell us about your
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Speaker 1: character gently Okay, my character gently games she's a free spirit.
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Speaker 1: She's from South Los Angeles. He threw up, why is that?
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Speaker 1: Because I've lived in Los Angeles fifteen years. I knew
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Speaker 1: exactly what South Los Angeles? What's Los Angeles? Yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: she's from South delay from the West Adams area specifically. Um,
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Speaker 1: she wasn't her background with a little it wasn't traditional.
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Speaker 1: She didn't really have her parents. Um, but she has
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Speaker 1: this network of people who uncles were like her parents
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Speaker 1: for her, and those are like her loved ones. So
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Speaker 1: she kind of have like a maid family. Um, she's
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Speaker 1: a world traveler and she's just a woman kind of
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Speaker 1: like taking life as it comes and doing things on
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Speaker 1: her own time, in her own way, with her own flavor.
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Speaker 1: And then she meets this guy who kind of challenges
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Speaker 1: everything that she thought she was about. And hold hold on,
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Speaker 1: let me stay on for a minute, because I don't
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Speaker 1: want to be now so watching your character, you know,
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Speaker 1: I I sised a large amount of fear. That's why
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Speaker 1: I talked by trust and yeah, and I don't want
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Speaker 1: to give away too much of the character lay out
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Speaker 1: of why you have those trust issues. And while you
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Speaker 1: while you are traveling, while you, like I said, you know,
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Speaker 1: you're a frog without a pad to stay on. You know,
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Speaker 1: you just keep hopping. But I think I think Vientley's background,
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Speaker 1: UM have some trauma in it, and I think the
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Speaker 1: trauma led her to not trust people as well. Um
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Speaker 1: or Yeah, She's like she got traumatized pretty early in
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Speaker 1: her youth and she's kind of carried that with her
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Speaker 1: and it manifested a lot of one way that it
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Speaker 1: manifests her not being able to trust easily. It manifests
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Speaker 1: her wanting to get as far away from where she
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Speaker 1: came from as possible and kind of just see the
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Speaker 1: whole world and become a more worldly person who's not
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Speaker 1: just you know, in South l A for her own
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Speaker 1: entire life. Because I think she saw very early on
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Speaker 1: that like if she stayed there and got into that world,
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Speaker 1: maybe you know, she wouldn't and that where she really
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Speaker 1: be right, because your personality drives that character, that that
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Speaker 1: that worldliness, you know, that ability to you know, like
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Speaker 1: I said, you know, go from Germany to go from
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Speaker 1: some different places that allowed you to like either be
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Speaker 1: a waitress here or just anything work gonna work work
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Speaker 1: at a park or a lifeguard or whatever this location
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Speaker 1: just to earn money for the experience, like you said
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Speaker 1: in the in the in the show, one place, she
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Speaker 1: was only there for one day. Then you hopped out
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Speaker 1: because the earthquake, you can jump up, and it was
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Speaker 1: just I just I just really loved the writing and
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Speaker 1: in the style of it that with your character, because
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Speaker 1: it's important that you bought into the character. So talk
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Speaker 1: about how that's a whole process as an actress, getting
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Speaker 1: the script and you're making that character yours. Um. Well,
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Speaker 1: when I first got the script and the looking at
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Speaker 1: the character, she was just very relatable to me. So
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Speaker 1: I had a really a pretty easy end too. Generally,
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Speaker 1: I didn't have to, like I did a lot of work,
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Speaker 1: but are understands her because I kind of innately did.
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Speaker 1: I didn't have a traumatic background like she did in
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Speaker 1: that way, Um, I have my own trauma in other ways.
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Speaker 1: To everyone that I'm from South l A. My own self,
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Speaker 1: I'm from I grew up in the Crunshaw area. My
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Speaker 1: mom and them are from Compton, so I knew what
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Speaker 1: it meant to be from Compton, but not like not
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Speaker 1: up Compton, whatever people think that means. I feel like
11:26
Speaker 1: whenever we see these areas like represented and media as
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Speaker 1: always about gang bang and or like about folks not
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Speaker 1: having enough money for food and things like that. But
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Speaker 1: I was like, I'm from Compton and we always have food.
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Speaker 1: And I was private school and I went to n
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Speaker 1: y U. So I felt like I got to bring
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Speaker 1: a lot of that gently the fact that she was
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Speaker 1: from you know, West Adams, but she's like then to
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Speaker 1: Greece multiple times, like done all these things. I felt
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Speaker 1: like I was just really realistic. She was a whole
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Speaker 1: person um and a black girl, and we don't see
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Speaker 1: that often, a whole black woman, And I thought that
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Speaker 1: was important too in that character. I said, being that
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Speaker 1: I lived in l A for fifteen years, every neighborhood
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Speaker 1: that you're talking about, and I did radio in l A,
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Speaker 1: so I knew how people perception of during life or
12:10
Speaker 1: you know, being in Compton drive bys, you know, being
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Speaker 1: in South l A or whatever, you know, crunch your area.
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Speaker 1: You know, we don't go over there at night, don't
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Speaker 1: go over there, and even black people would even question
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Speaker 1: the community. And so you have to deal with that.
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Speaker 1: And then I'm gonna shift over to the reason I
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Speaker 1: wanted to set your character up a little bit more
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Speaker 1: because a lot of those those values you talk about,
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Speaker 1: those perceptions were built into Orlano's character. And that's what
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Speaker 1: I loved about it, because he really played that character
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Speaker 1: through the form and that's what I loved the body.
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Speaker 1: Talk to us about your character, which is Evan. Well, yeah,
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Speaker 1: so Evan Fisher is um, I mean completely the opposite. Um.
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Speaker 1: You know, he has a tech background. He is uh
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Speaker 1: uh you know mom dad very successful, still very successful,
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Speaker 1: uh for class background, went to Stanford. You know. It
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Speaker 1: feels like a guy who's done everything right, at least
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Speaker 1: what he thinks is right. You know. So he has
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Speaker 1: a he lives within a box. He's confined, and he's
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Speaker 1: uh been conditioned to look at the world from a
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Speaker 1: specific point of view. And um doesn't live you know,
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Speaker 1: isn't from South um l A. But he is from Torrance, California,
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Speaker 1: which is you know, a place that is that has culture,
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Speaker 1: but it is not you know, known for its people
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Speaker 1: of color. Let's say like this, and you know, he
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Speaker 1: is again a person who when he bumps into gently
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Speaker 1: is knocked off his off his feet because he sees
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Speaker 1: how she is independent and she owns her you know,
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Speaker 1: her space. He wants yes, but the library. Yes, at
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Speaker 1: the library, and but he wants to do the same
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Speaker 1: thing he you know, he's he feels like he needs
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Speaker 1: to be broken out of his mindset and so he
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Speaker 1: looks at this woman with all these notions of who
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Speaker 1: she probably is, and then she breaks that stereotype and
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Speaker 1: she's you know, well traveled and cultured, and she's educated,
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Speaker 1: and she's she just has all these other things. And
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Speaker 1: so for him it's like, Wow, she's yes, And you
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Speaker 1: don't have to look a certain way or present yourself
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Speaker 1: to the world a certain way. You can be all
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Speaker 1: of those things. You can have the culture and the
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Speaker 1: class and h and also still be from West Adams
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Speaker 1: and you know, and and breaking uh, those those notions
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Speaker 1: that we have that we look at each other like.
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Speaker 1: So I think that for him he is excited to
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Speaker 1: meet someone like her who is challenging the way that
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Speaker 1: he sees the world and sees people. Right, you know,
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Speaker 1: this and played out separately by the two League characters,
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Speaker 1: and it's involved sex. But but that I think that
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Speaker 1: was important to set it up because let you know,
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Speaker 1: where their life was at that point. It wasn't emotionally driven.
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Speaker 1: It was just physically driven these previous relationships and so
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Speaker 1: and I thought that was really interesting that that got
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Speaker 1: set up because it happened at the same time. And
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Speaker 1: never know who we're going to meet and when we're
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Speaker 1: supposed to meet them when we meet. Because the thing
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Speaker 1: about it, when when you first saw her at the library,
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Speaker 1: it was physicality that attracted you to it because the
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Speaker 1: guy pointed it out to you. And it wasn't when
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Speaker 1: you until you got to talk to her, when you
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Speaker 1: when you were trying to get her to move away,
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Speaker 1: that you realize, Okay, she's more than just a physical presence.
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Speaker 1: She's a she's funny, she's quick with it. She didn't
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Speaker 1: about your dreams and put some plans into action. Hi,
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Speaker 1: you're listening to Rushan mcdonaland this is money making conversation.
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Speaker 1: Thing I love about money making conversations. I bring individuals
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Speaker 1: who are living their craft, who are who challenging themselves
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Speaker 1: to do what they want to do with their dreams
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Speaker 1: and not being guided in a different direction. The reason
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Speaker 1: I love this series Cherished today. It plays out a
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Speaker 1: lot of those values. The lead character UH played uh
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Speaker 1: Evan played by my man Alano Miller. His character is
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Speaker 1: divided by he went to school, he did all the
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Speaker 1: right things, kind of type of life I left. You know,
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Speaker 1: I went to college, got my math degree, I went
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Speaker 1: to work for IBM, and everybody told me that's what
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Speaker 1: I was supposed to do, and I didn't want to
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Speaker 1: do that in the end, And when I started to
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Speaker 1: deviate from that, then people started questioning my beliefs, my integrity.
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Speaker 1: Uh started saying I was making dumb decisions. And that
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Speaker 1: played out in a very important scene for you with
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Speaker 1: your with your sister in the kitchen. Correct Evan, I
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Speaker 1: wanted to follow a different dream or a different path,
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Speaker 1: and she saw that as a problem because she felt
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Speaker 1: like I should just stay where I'm at and and
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Speaker 1: kind of continue on that journey. When she said that money,
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Speaker 1: she said about money, though she brought that money, she
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Speaker 1: sees that money. I mean he's about to be you know,
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Speaker 1: he just got the promotion to vice president vice president. Yes,
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Speaker 1: and then, you know, but at the same time, he doesn't.
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Speaker 1: That's not really his dream. His dream is to to
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Speaker 1: have start his own company and venture out and start
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Speaker 1: his app Ziberi that he has been talking about for years.
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Speaker 1: And uh gently inspires him and encourages him to to
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Speaker 1: actually take that leap. And that's really important. Let's go
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Speaker 1: to your character, gently, the character. You start out this
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Speaker 1: show with an incredible actress, Cecily Tyson. Missy come on,
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Speaker 1: then I apologize, Miss Tyson, Miss Tyson. Gotta do it right,
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Speaker 1: gotta do it right. And you know, I'm gonna tell
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Speaker 1: you some when you you know, um watching. She's funny.
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Speaker 1: She even shares a little dance with a man Evan character.
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Speaker 1: You know, she's defiant, she's opinionated. You know, they just
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Speaker 1: threw her some lives. She's acting. She's acting and she's
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Speaker 1: dressing up. And you know, recently she was in the
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Speaker 1: new Tyler period movement Fall from Grace, which she doesn't
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Speaker 1: that character like oh because she plays beat up, homeless
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Speaker 1: type looking lady and a Fall from Grace. Talk to
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Speaker 1: about that relationship and what did you learn and working
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Speaker 1: with a young lady, you know, Miss Tyson like that,
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Speaker 1: Miss rock and more. Well, the relationship between Gently and
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Speaker 1: Miss Luma, which is Miss Tyson's character name, is just
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Speaker 1: amazing and beautiful. Um. Miss Luma is an actress UH
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Speaker 1: and singer of the stage and film, but she never
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Speaker 1: really got the big break that UM know she deserves
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Speaker 1: because of timing, essentially because of the time it was
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Speaker 1: and black women weren't getting breaks like that, and especially
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Speaker 1: chocolate black women. So she went on to be a
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Speaker 1: teacher in l a unified school district, and then when
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Speaker 1: her and Gently are together, Gently as her caregiver and
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Speaker 1: like lives there with her, and she's almost like a
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Speaker 1: mother figure for Gently because Gently doesn't have a mother,
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Speaker 1: so it's a dope bymbiotic relationship UM. And working with
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Speaker 1: Miss Tyson was absolutely amazing. She's so good, she's so beautiful,
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Speaker 1: she's so present, UM, and she's a brilliant actress and
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Speaker 1: such a legend and a queen and so it was
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Speaker 1: just really a loster class each day and just getting
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Speaker 1: to be around here and just ask her casual questions
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Speaker 1: and like she would she likes to eat and see
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Speaker 1: what her process is in terms of approaching a scene.
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Speaker 1: Like it was just cool to just be there and
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Speaker 1: observed she's super sleep Um. So yeah, it was definitely
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Speaker 1: a cool bucket list type moment. It really was interesting
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Speaker 1: watching you every time you was in the scene where
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Speaker 1: it was almost felt like it was a genuine relationship.
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Speaker 1: That's what I would just tell you both, you know,
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Speaker 1: I'm just tell you both. What what sold me so
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Speaker 1: much on this series was the chemistry was the I
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Speaker 1: felt it was a genuine relationship struggle between the two
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Speaker 1: of you. I felt that you both of you truly
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Speaker 1: came from different worlds and I understood the differences. And
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Speaker 1: when I when I say that a lot of your
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Speaker 1: character played you played the character even on the on
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Speaker 1: the Serious Chairish today when you first came by and
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Speaker 1: met met Michael Beach, you really played that character correctly.
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Speaker 1: About you had your little Tesla parked out front. You
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Speaker 1: was worried about it. Talk about doctor walk through that
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Speaker 1: little moment because I felt I was telling a brother,
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Speaker 1: I've done that. I've done that when I went in
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Speaker 1: the cringe show. So I know, right, I mean, you know,
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Speaker 1: there are are very powerful when they're created by media. Um,
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Speaker 1: and so you know that's what he has an idea
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Speaker 1: of walking into this situation where these brothers look like,
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Speaker 1: you know, like they're about to you know what you're behind. Absolutely,
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Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean I think, you know, he's
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Speaker 1: a very uh he wants to present this lup a
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Speaker 1: certain way and he isn't those things and he gets,
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Speaker 1: you know, confronted with a fear of his so um,
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Speaker 1: I thought in that space, you know, this is outside
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Speaker 1: of his his circle, and he wasn't expecting that. I
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Speaker 1: think he was expecting there to you know, not bump
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Speaker 1: into her you know, her uncle and and uh and
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Speaker 1: all his his friends and no, no, all the all
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Speaker 1: the member In the end, they were all awkol. They
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Speaker 1: let's gonna be let's say the terminology, right, you thought
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Speaker 1: they the you know, your character thought, yeah, I think
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Speaker 1: my character definitely think of him that way, like he
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Speaker 1: doesn't think that he's in a safe environment. I'll just
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Speaker 1: say that. Yeah, because you kept looking back at your
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Speaker 1: car and then Michael Beach Jackson, I got this, I
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Speaker 1: got this, don't worry about this. I got absolutely absolutely.
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Speaker 1: I mean, you know he's believes in the seeotypes. You
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Speaker 1: know he does it. He didn't leave any room for
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Speaker 1: them to show their character at all. And you know,
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Speaker 1: the interesting thing about it. And that's the great the
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Speaker 1: beauty of how ever do wing they put together this series?
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Speaker 1: She she peels back little pieces right there because because
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Speaker 1: Gently's character played by its Rockemore, she noticed that, and
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Speaker 1: and and and it plays out in the scene later
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Speaker 1: on when they get the Carson, you know, because the
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Speaker 1: thing about it is that because of his character has
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Speaker 1: always been successful. I'm talking about Evan's character, It's always
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Speaker 1: been successful. You know. He feels that he can intellectually
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Speaker 1: understand you can do it this way. And then you
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Speaker 1: have Gently's character saying why should I do it that way?
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Speaker 1: I have in no opinion. I but why why do
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Speaker 1: we have to go and buy a new refrigerator? Why
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Speaker 1: I have to? Why can't I use this? What's wrong
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Speaker 1: with this? So you see people having different values being
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Speaker 1: played out before you. And at times I thought you
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Speaker 1: guys were improv Was there any improv going along with
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Speaker 1: you guys just stuck straight to the script, to the script.
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Speaker 1: There was there was a little improved here and there. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: for sure. I mean our vibe was very much uh
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Speaker 1: because those and I've known each other, there's a trust there.
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Speaker 1: So we wanted to come to play and and um,
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Speaker 1: Eva wanted the collaboration as well, so we we definitely
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Speaker 1: did that. It's it's showed, and I thought that it
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Speaker 1: had to be there because there was certain lines, and
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Speaker 1: there's certain movements, and there was certain extra you know,
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Speaker 1: some street language thrown in. They go, I know they
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Speaker 1: didn't write that line. I know they didn't, which which
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Speaker 1: I know is good because but but I know it
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Speaker 1: was good. This is really really tight. This is really
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Speaker 1: really clean, you know. And like I said, and I'm
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Speaker 1: just talking in generic character, I want people to tune
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Speaker 1: in and seed this show. I don't want to tell
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Speaker 1: everybody the actual show because it was There are certain
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Speaker 1: moments and I'm talking about that if I reveal, it
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Speaker 1: would take away the path and you should have that
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Speaker 1: moment that I had when I watched the series, when
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Speaker 1: I went from episode one, the episode two, the episode three,
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Speaker 1: the episode four, and next Tuesday coming up in the
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Speaker 1: episode five. Remember there are only eight episodes in this anthology.
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Speaker 1: And uh, the guy Michael Beach if you're not familiar
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Speaker 1: with him, he recently starred in the Awkwa Man series
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Speaker 1: and made over one point two billion dollars worldwide. And
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Speaker 1: let's go to my favorite girl. I have many times
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Speaker 1: as a writer and producer. I got an opportunity to
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Speaker 1: work with her and she showed her colors as your mom,
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Speaker 1: Evan and Marie Johnson, and it was an honor to
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Speaker 1: work with her. She's an amazing and again of course
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Speaker 1: going up watching her like a living color, and I mean,
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Speaker 1: she's just she's a beast, a beast, brother, I would
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Speaker 1: tell you something, man, this is I hope I'm not
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Speaker 1: gushing too much. Team Uh, you know, you know when
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Speaker 1: I say that, I mean that when you see something special,
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Speaker 1: and I've seen I've been fortunate to see a lot
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Speaker 1: of work in movies and television and the stage, and
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Speaker 1: when you see a show like this, it's played out
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Speaker 1: and the chemistry between the two of you, and then
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Speaker 1: the actors that I added to the cast, like I mentioned,
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Speaker 1: you know miss Tyson, which is miss Cecily Tyson. I
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Speaker 1: mentioned Michael Beach, Now I met Amory Johnson. And then
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Speaker 1: you had my boy who I was I work with
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Speaker 1: on The Parkers, Dorian Wilson, who played your dad. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: Professor Ogleby, Is I like that's right, The Parkers, that's
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Speaker 1: the Yeah, yeah, okay, So no, he's just I mean,
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Speaker 1: look everybody that uh ever brought in to play and too,
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Speaker 1: they were just dedicated. They all had stakes, and they
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Speaker 1: all stood understood what we were trying to do, the
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Speaker 1: story that we were trying to tell, and they, um,
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Speaker 1: they all stepped up to the plate and it was
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Speaker 1: just an honor to work with all of them the
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Speaker 1: ocean and I had a blast from Queen of a
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Speaker 1: you know, Cecily Tyson, uh, to you know, to Dorian
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Speaker 1: and to you know, to Michael Beach of course, who
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Speaker 1: I called Pop. Now we all, you know, we built
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Speaker 1: relationships on the set and we came to you know,
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Speaker 1: to to really highlight you know, love and all the
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Speaker 1: things that you said that were to bring this story
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Speaker 1: to life. And you know, so we understand you're gushing.
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Speaker 1: We love that you're gushing. You know. We think Ava
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Speaker 1: for this opportunity as well as owned um for having
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Speaker 1: us and and really just breaking it down that love
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Speaker 1: is still possible and that it's out there in the
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Speaker 1: world and that um, we gotta just keep our eyes
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Speaker 1: open to the possibilities and to stay the course and
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Speaker 1: to follow your journey, follow your dreams, follow your desires,
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Speaker 1: and you know, uh, and but also do the work
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Speaker 1: you know, it's it's not enough to just say it.
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Speaker 1: That's that's That's what I'm saying is that, you know,
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Speaker 1: I hear so many people in this show. When I
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Speaker 1: watched this show. This is where I really really like
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Speaker 1: the show. I'm talking to Zosia Rockamore and I'm talking
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Speaker 1: to Alana Miller and Um. They're the stars of Chairs Today.
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Speaker 1: Please watch it every Tuesday on own as ten pm
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Speaker 1: Eastern and West Coast and not PM Central. Guys, enjoy yourself.
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Speaker 1: I appreciate you coming on my show. Thank you so much,
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Speaker 1: Thank you so much. Hi. And this is If you
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Speaker 1: want to hear more episodes of Money Making Conversations, you
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Speaker 1: can always go to Money Making Conversation dot com. I'm
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Speaker 1: Rushan McDonald um, your host. But let me tell you
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Speaker 1: a couple of more things about the show before we leave.
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Speaker 1: About Chairish Today. And this was always going to and
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Speaker 1: I really appreciate um the two cast members coming on
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Speaker 1: the show. Lauren lot plays her girlfriend and her ride
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Speaker 1: of die girlfriend on the show. When I say that
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Speaker 1: on the Xocia Rocket Moors characters Gentley James and Laura,
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Speaker 1: Lauren Lott plays her friend in the show. She's from
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Speaker 1: an American Idol, So they took they took talent and
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Speaker 1: uh and if you know Lauren Lotch, she's a singer
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Speaker 1: and she was on like the State of the earlier
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Speaker 1: American Idol, plays a great character. All the characters went together,
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Speaker 1: they all communicated, they all carried their role accordingly. But
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Speaker 1: again at the early part of my interview, I talked
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Speaker 1: about what it was my takeaway from the show. It's
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Speaker 1: a show about trust, and we know how important trust is.
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Speaker 1: We always talked about trust. We always talked about either
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Speaker 1: trust a friend, trust you your loved one, trust the
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Speaker 1: situation didn't trust you, believe, trust your gifts. This series
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Speaker 1: talks about that is sure about follow your passion. I
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Speaker 1: always talk about that on this show. I always talk
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Speaker 1: about leave with your gifts. I always talk about it's
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Speaker 1: it's time to start reading other people's success stories and
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Speaker 1: start writing your own. That's what these characters are about.
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Speaker 1: They're just playing out in different roles, but they're coming
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Speaker 1: together as a couple. And as a couple, you will
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Speaker 1: have problems. You will you have to accept responsibility what
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Speaker 1: it takes to make a couple coexist. Don't live your
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Speaker 1: life through other people's dreams. I lived that. I did
31:36
Speaker 1: that in my personal life. A lot of people doing
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Speaker 1: that every day right now, and they need to stop it.
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Speaker 1: That's what one of the major takeaways I took from
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Speaker 1: chairs today. People always question your decision, ride or die.
31:47
Speaker 1: With your decision here that turn ride or down a lot,
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Speaker 1: ride or die on you for a change, and stop
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Speaker 1: riding to that with somebody helping you ride to die.
31:54
Speaker 1: Believe in your dreams. Don't judge, don't be judged based
31:57
Speaker 1: on your perceptions or people option of you. That's what
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Speaker 1: this show plays out like. She said, you know there
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Speaker 1: are no light complexion characters that the legs in. Here
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Speaker 1: is a dark complexion young lady, or a chocolate complexion
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Speaker 1: young lady. Not the typical lead character that you was
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Speaker 1: expecting to serious as as important as this and it
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Speaker 1: plays well. Those should played that character to a t.
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Speaker 1: I thought she was around the way girl for real.
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Speaker 1: And Alano played his character to a t. I thought
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Speaker 1: he was a nerd guy who had never been around
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Speaker 1: black people in the hood. I thought that for real.
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Speaker 1: And it's all right to be different. It's already to
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Speaker 1: dress different, it's already to talk different, it's all right
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