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Dawnn Lewis is raising $1 million for Voorhees College Stream-a-Thon · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: very very important role of that. She's an actress, awarding
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Speaker 1: winning singer, songwriter, philanthropist, producer. Her name is Don Lewis.
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Speaker 1: We'll be talking about her career. She's an n double
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Speaker 1: a CP Image Award winner, Trumpet Award, Grammy Award winning singer,
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Speaker 1: multiple b M I and Asked CAP award winning songwriter,
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Speaker 1: Film television stage actor, and he's series tra TV creator
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Speaker 1: and producer. Last time she was on the show, she
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Speaker 1: was starting in a Broadway musical called Tina, about the
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Speaker 1: legendary Tina Turner herself. She played Tina Thomas, Tina Tanner's mom,
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Speaker 1: Zelma in the Broadway musical I recently saw. In the
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Speaker 1: episode of the Boys I saw were part of a
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Speaker 1: fund raiser like I stated for Vorhese College. Vorhes is
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Speaker 1: a private historical Black college in Denmark, South Carolina. My
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Speaker 1: boy uh the Cary Sellers. His family is now from
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Speaker 1: the Denmark, South Carolina area, is affiliated with the Ephistical Church,
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Speaker 1: is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges in School.
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Speaker 1: Please welcome to money making conversations and I'm gonna up,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna get on her because I was supposed to
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Speaker 1: make a donation to her fundraiser, to her charity and
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Speaker 1: she never contacted me. Please welcome money making conversations. Don Lewis, Hey,
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Speaker 1: good morning with Sean. How are you how good? Just
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Speaker 1: in my own defense, we did reach out and we
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Speaker 1: were told something was coming and we filled out the
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Speaker 1: W two. So must have got okay, cool, Okay, that
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Speaker 1: would be fixed today because because I was like I said, well,
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Speaker 1: you know something, because I tried to be on top
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Speaker 1: of my game. You know when I say up here,
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Speaker 1: I'm not. Things happen. And the fact that you remember
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Speaker 1: and you brought it up is that blesses more than
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Speaker 1: you know. So we will make this work. We will
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Speaker 1: make it. Something must have gotten cross in. We will
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Speaker 1: get that straight. This week is the end of the year,
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Speaker 1: so you know, the end of the year then when
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Speaker 1: I'm always looking for nice tax right off? Okay, so
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Speaker 1: you we hit time again because you was this time
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Speaker 1: of year when we talked last year, like about it
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Speaker 1: when you were starting on the broad in the Broadway
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Speaker 1: show Tina and you're playing Tina Termins mom and we
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Speaker 1: see what has happened in New York City right now,
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Speaker 1: Broadway has been completely shut down. Movie theaters have been
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Speaker 1: completely shut down. How has the pandemic before we get
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Speaker 1: into the Vorhees, Uh, stream of thron impacted your life?
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Speaker 1: And also while we're doing a charity fund raiser because
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Speaker 1: it's as in fact that HBCU schools and Vorhees is
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Speaker 1: an HBCU school. Yes, of course, of course, it is
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Speaker 1: so wonderful. Let me first of all say to be
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Speaker 1: able to speak with you again, and this time face
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Speaker 1: to face because the last time it's just the phone
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Speaker 1: conversation radio show. Uh. And it's my honor, my privilege
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Speaker 1: to be here in support of where he's. It's a
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Speaker 1: fabulous campus. I got to visit there. But as you said,
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Speaker 1: we're gonna get to that. But flip back, it's hard
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Speaker 1: to believe it's been a year already since we were
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Speaker 1: talking about Tina. Tina Turner, our musical opened actually a
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Speaker 1: year ago this past past Friday. It's hard to believe
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Speaker 1: it's been a year. We've been shut down for longer
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Speaker 1: than we were open. We were I had just finished
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Speaker 1: doing Quest Love Show, the Quest Love Love Supreme Shows
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Speaker 1: we were in the studio, turned my phone back on.
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Speaker 1: When I left the studio. It was on a Thursday,
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Speaker 1: March twelve. I will never forget it. I scheduled the
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Speaker 1: interview just in time to leave their grand a bite
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Speaker 1: to eat, head to the theater, which was like a
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Speaker 1: less than a mile away, and do my show and
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Speaker 1: keep it moving. My phone lights up with all these
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Speaker 1: bells and whistles. There is no show tonight. Don't come
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Speaker 1: to the theater. We will be closed for a month.
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Speaker 1: The theater will be open till five o'clock if you
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Speaker 1: need something out of your dressing room. And there it began.
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Speaker 1: So I quickly took a quick flight back to l A.
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Speaker 1: I thought I was gonna check on my house, you know,
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Speaker 1: I hadn't been here more than eight months because of
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Speaker 1: rehearsals and the show, and then fly right back to
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Speaker 1: keep working, only to find out that those three weeks
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Speaker 1: turned into third days, which turns into sixty days. Ninety days,
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Speaker 1: five months is what they were projecting. Then they were projecting, Okay,
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Speaker 1: Broadway is not going to reopen until sometime in March
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Speaker 1: at the earliest. Now they're projecting that the earliest that
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Speaker 1: will reopen is June, possibly even September. So we're talking
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Speaker 1: about making money. We're talking about how realities and life
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Speaker 1: just happens and impact your life. And remember we were
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Speaker 1: talking about that when we did our radio spot about
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Speaker 1: how do you spend your money? How do you invest,
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Speaker 1: how do you save? How do you how do you
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Speaker 1: maximize what you have and piecemeal it and budget it
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Speaker 1: so that you were prepared because life will happen. So
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Speaker 1: for all of us who their primary income is live
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Speaker 1: performance theater, or you play in an orchestra or symphony,
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Speaker 1: or concerts or recording artists who are make their money
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Speaker 1: doing concert venues and things like that, from most of
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Speaker 1: those people, they will be without a job for one
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Speaker 1: and a half years at the end of the day.
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Speaker 1: So unless you have opportunities or other revenue streams, this
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Speaker 1: is a very challenging time right now, an incredibly challenging
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Speaker 1: time for so so many people, and we must lift
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Speaker 1: them up in prayer. We lift ourselves up in in
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Speaker 1: hope and anticipation, you know, with this news of a
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Speaker 1: new vaccine and the possibilities of things, you know, getting
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Speaker 1: on a better track near the beginning or spring of
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Speaker 1: next year. Praise God for that, uh, in regard to
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Speaker 1: how it impacted me, Yeah, right there, right right along
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Speaker 1: with everyone you know, for a number of months because
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Speaker 1: everything is shut down because, as you know, the entertainment industry,
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Speaker 1: UH is based on people coming together, whether you're in
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Speaker 1: the theater. And in our show, there were a cast
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Speaker 1: of thirty three people in just the cast itself, the
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Speaker 1: performers on on stage, and only four of us had
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Speaker 1: our own dressing rooms. Okay, so everyone else is three
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Speaker 1: to five people in a dressing room. So there's no
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Speaker 1: way to socially distance. There's no way socially distance on stage.
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Speaker 1: We can't sing with our masks on. We can't, you know.
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Speaker 1: I mean the audience might be able to sit with
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Speaker 1: a mask on, or skip a seat or two, or
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Speaker 1: wear gloves and et cetera, which is helpful for them,
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Speaker 1: but it doesn't really do much for those of us
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Speaker 1: on stage. The band was fourteen people in one room.
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Speaker 1: Those are old theaters. Most theaters can't accommodate everybody. Hap
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Speaker 1: Broadway doesn't change old exactly. And you go on a
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Speaker 1: film set, you're up in people's faces on camera, people
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Speaker 1: are touching you in between shots. All of that, uh slowly,
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Speaker 1: but surely the film and television industry is finding a
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Speaker 1: way to make its way back. We have very very
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Speaker 1: extensive COVID protocols on sets. We get tested anywhere from
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Speaker 1: every twenty four to every seventy two hours on our sets,
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Speaker 1: um with all kinds of ppe and people who don't
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Speaker 1: have to be near you are not near you, meaning
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Speaker 1: if you're the one on camera that has to take
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Speaker 1: your mask off from time to time, all those kinds
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Speaker 1: of things to ensure everybody is safe. Um. You know,
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Speaker 1: different people have been able to create bubbles, just like
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Speaker 1: the NBA, just like some of the sports leagues, where
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Speaker 1: once you're in and we're working on this project, you're
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Speaker 1: not going anywhere else. You're not going to a party,
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Speaker 1: You're not going to a restaurant, You're not going anywhere.
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Speaker 1: We're keeping you right here, and we can keep you
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Speaker 1: in eye on. You will bring you your food, you
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Speaker 1: stay healthy, you will go home and see your family
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Speaker 1: when this is over. Absolutely absolutely, and I'm all for it.
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Speaker 1: I am all for it, um and gratefully. I also
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Speaker 1: do voiceovers animation, so sometimes when this all first happened,
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Speaker 1: I was able to every now and then do some
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Speaker 1: recording from right here at home. You know, those were
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Speaker 1: kind of few and far between, and then slowly in
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Speaker 1: the summer, you know, a couple of more opportunities came
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Speaker 1: up where they started sanitizing recording students. Just me in
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Speaker 1: the booth, the engineer at the board, and the producers
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Speaker 1: and directors direct me via zoom from wherever they are.
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Speaker 1: So again, no two people in the studio at the
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Speaker 1: same time. Everything is sanitized before and after every performer.
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Speaker 1: So again, fortunately that and my songwriting has enabled me
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Speaker 1: to you know, slowly but surely be able to maintain income.
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Speaker 1: So let measine this Don. I'm talking to Don Louis
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Speaker 1: of course, um, you know we're talking. We're doing a
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Speaker 1: stream of thought with for his college, HBCU College in Denmark,
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Speaker 1: South Carolina. That's why we were broadcasting the day because
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Speaker 1: we're trying to raise funds, you know, as all things.
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Speaker 1: Like she said, COVID has shutting down the Broadway for
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Speaker 1: roughly eighteen months there. Yes, and we can get excited
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Speaker 1: about the fact that fires that has come up with
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Speaker 1: any percent accuracy of vaccine, but that's not gonna be
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Speaker 1: distributed right away. You know, they said they weren't even
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Speaker 1: giving them the more testing to in the December maybe,
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Speaker 1: and so then they were saying that vaccinations for the
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Speaker 1: general population were probably hitting the second quarter. But again,
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Speaker 1: the city of New York has shut down Broadway has
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Speaker 1: shut down movie theaters. The state of California has shut
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Speaker 1: down movie theaters. Right now, the major litigation with Disney
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Speaker 1: about trying to open up the Disney Park because of
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Speaker 1: the fact that they're trying to generate revenue. Major corporations
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Speaker 1: are laying all people, and so that's why we're trying
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Speaker 1: to ask people, you know, to see past some of
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Speaker 1: these hard times and helper college like Vorheeses. Now, how
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Speaker 1: did your relationship developed with them over the years. Uh,
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Speaker 1: you know you you're so curiosmatic and you and as
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Speaker 1: they say, uh black don't crack. You're doing a great
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Speaker 1: job of carrying that slogan to the end. There, don
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Speaker 1: very very kind. One of the administrators at Forest R
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Speaker 1: Herman Mason, I called Skip, Skip, give me if I
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Speaker 1: put you on blast, which but I've known Skip for
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Speaker 1: a decade and when he got brought onto Vorhees, Skipper
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Speaker 1: was aware that I do master classes and workshops for
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Speaker 1: colleges and corporations all across the country and abroad. I've
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Speaker 1: been doing that for decades. Which when we last talked,
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Speaker 1: we were talking about my foundation, a New Day Foundation, right,
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Speaker 1: So Skip asked me if I would please come and
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Speaker 1: do one of my workshops at Vorhees and I said, man,
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Speaker 1: of course I will. I'd be happy to and I'm
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Speaker 1: so glad that I did. It's a beautiful campus. It
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Speaker 1: feels like a little intimate home, it really does. And
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Speaker 1: all of those students are so accomplished, and they're so personable,
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Speaker 1: and they're so enthusiastic about their possibilities and their possibilities
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Speaker 1: through education. So I got to do a large assembly
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Speaker 1: and it blessed my heart. As soon as I walked
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Speaker 1: out on stage, everybody's it up and they started singing
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Speaker 1: the different World these so we were sitting there jam
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Speaker 1: and it was it was great. It was absolutely great, Um,
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Speaker 1: which is such an honor to me that those words, um,
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Speaker 1: you know, talking about taking what you've learned and what's
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Speaker 1: been deposited in you to give you the foundation and
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Speaker 1: the courage to step out and like you said, be
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Speaker 1: your best self. Encourage people to be their best self
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Speaker 1: based on the lessons that they learned. Before they went
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Speaker 1: in a position to step out for themselves, which is
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Speaker 1: every student at every HBCU, at every institute for higher
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Speaker 1: learning is doing So whatever it was you didn't know
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Speaker 1: or didn't know before you got there, you got a
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Speaker 1: big responsibility right now. So coming before he's it was,
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Speaker 1: it was fantastic. And RESI is donating and donating and
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Speaker 1: contributing to you know, because you had these big announcements
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Speaker 1: by the major corporations like Netflix they made a donation.
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Speaker 1: Uh uh, you know, Bloom made a donation and so
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Speaker 1: and so. But that that that's a trickle down donation
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Speaker 1: because of the fact that you have a hundred and
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Speaker 1: four HBCUs. And with that said, that means that you
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Speaker 1: need to we have students who need scholarships, we need
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Speaker 1: to books, we need to be able to pay the instructors.
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Speaker 1: We have Athletic programs are not operating, not just an
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Speaker 1: HBCU schools but across the country being shut down because
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Speaker 1: of the fact that they are not in a position
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Speaker 1: to participate. And so with that being said, a school
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Speaker 1: like Vorhees which is in Denmark, South Carolina, and uh,
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Speaker 1: it's like said my bark card sellers. You know, CNN.
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Speaker 1: One of the youngest um congressmen elected officials in the
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Speaker 1: state of South Carolina was on the show. We talked
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Speaker 1: about it and the fact that the show, my show,
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Speaker 1: My Show broadcast money making conversation has been. One of
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Speaker 1: the first schools that picked me up for consideration was
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Speaker 1: was Vorhees, which is an HBCU school. And so when
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Speaker 1: I when I talked to someone like you done, You're
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Speaker 1: so award look and you're so articulate. The fact that
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Speaker 1: you was able to you know, you mentioned it, singer actress,
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Speaker 1: How did the voiceover come about in your career? You know?
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Speaker 1: I was one of those kids was always I loved
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Speaker 1: imitating people. I loved singing along with the programs I
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Speaker 1: saw on television or just just having a good time.
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Speaker 1: And I was one of those kids where my grandmother
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Speaker 1: used to say, you need to stop doing that because
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Speaker 1: one day your voice is gonna get stuck. And if
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Speaker 1: Grandmama could see me now to say, see Granny, I'm
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Speaker 1: getting paid to come up with all these crazy voices
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Speaker 1: and act the fool and be people that visually you
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Speaker 1: would never hire me to be. You would never hire
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Speaker 1: me to be a seven year old boy. You and
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Speaker 1: you were hired me to be a ninety year old grandmother.
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Speaker 1: You know what I mean all of that. So, but
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Speaker 1: animation came about. I don't know if the name Suzanne
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Speaker 1: to Pass come on, Suzanne to Pass sisters. Tradition was
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Speaker 1: that she hired me to be a writer for the
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Speaker 1: Maori Twins Tina and then she okay, well that was
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Speaker 1: how she and I met. She saw me sing at
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Speaker 1: an event and said, who's working with you? I want
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Speaker 1: to work with you. She wanted to manage me. That
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Speaker 1: was when she was thinking about doing management. And she
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Speaker 1: was hired to do this new Kid in Play cartoon.
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Speaker 1: Remember that she brought me in and I played the
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Speaker 1: little sister, the little annoying little sister in the Kid
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Speaker 1: and Play cartoon. And the voiceover community is a very
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Speaker 1: tight knit community. So once you're in, and by the
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Speaker 1: grace of God, if you're able to get a good
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Speaker 1: reputation either for your personality or for your ability to
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Speaker 1: be flexible with your voice, word gets around. So when
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Speaker 1: I got hired to do that, people like, but wait,
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Speaker 1: who is who is that? I've not heard her voice
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Speaker 1: before and she's black. Oh we need to get her.
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Speaker 1: So word of mouth got me from one job to
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Speaker 1: the next job to the next job. And uh I
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Speaker 1: worked for almost three years like that before I got
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Speaker 1: an agent, and then got an agent, and my career
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Speaker 1: has been going just this roll and now another one.
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Speaker 1: You're acting made from different world, I think with Cree Summers.
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Speaker 1: Cree Summer. Cree Summer also does voice over, and uh,
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Speaker 1: I honestly knew. You know that the field existed because
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Speaker 1: you grow up on cartoons, whether it's the flint Stones
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Speaker 1: or Jetsons, you know, whatever it was, so you knew
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Speaker 1: somebody did the voices. But then then you heard things
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Speaker 1: like Hannah barb Barbara where it's like one person doing
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Speaker 1: eight or not, like, oh my gosh, just like bugs
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Speaker 1: Bunny is Donald Duck is is what is Yosemite saying?
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Speaker 1: But called the same person. Oh my gosh. So when
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Speaker 1: I got my opportunity. So right now I'm on about
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Speaker 1: ten different animated series. Congratulations, thank you. The newest one
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Speaker 1: that just aired is CBS didn't animated Star Trek series
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Speaker 1: called Star Trek Love absolutely the voice of Captain Freeman
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Speaker 1: on that show. In Futurama, Um La Barbara in um
17:06
Speaker 1: We're in the World, is Carmen San Diego. I'm the
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Speaker 1: chief in Apple and Onion, I miss Miss Patty, and
17:14
Speaker 1: I mean the list just goes on in spirit. I'm
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Speaker 1: Franny and Doc mix stuffins. I'm granting mixed stuff ins
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Speaker 1: and it's I consider myself very fortunate. And I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: say something, you know, I I love watching television buyed.
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Speaker 1: People always say trying, how do you do what you do?
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Speaker 1: And you seem seem to be able to watch TV,
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Speaker 1: read books, go to movies and stay abreast of everything
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Speaker 1: that's happening. And so one of my favorite, uh sci
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Speaker 1: fi series, a super superhero series is The Boys and
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Speaker 1: so on Amazon. And so I'm watching Amazon. I'm going
17:47
Speaker 1: Don said Don Luis and the beauty of Amazon. You know,
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Speaker 1: you can put it on pause and they'll show you
17:53
Speaker 1: who who's in that scene? So how did that? How
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Speaker 1: did that opportunity to come about? Wow, I am so
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Speaker 1: your fan of the show. It's crazy. It's a crazy show. Honesty,
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Speaker 1: I'm such a fan of the show. It is so wacky,
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Speaker 1: it is so irreverent, it is so many things. It's
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Speaker 1: hilarious to me and thought provoking at the same time,
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Speaker 1: because some of that stuff is like, you know, what
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Speaker 1: that kind of stuff, specially this season is going on.
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Speaker 1: This season felt don't kind of like kind of like
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Speaker 1: a little bit about reality, you know, racism and not
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Speaker 1: people between racism, experimentation with genetic augmentation. I mean, all
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Speaker 1: kinds of things, all kinds of things. Um. So I'm
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Speaker 1: actually packing to head to New York to start repousals
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Speaker 1: for Tina, and I get a call It's like, would
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Speaker 1: you be interested, you know, and coming to play with
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Speaker 1: us in this in this episode of the Boys, And
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Speaker 1: you could have called said will you be interested? That's
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Speaker 1: that's the call, No, Audi, will you be interested? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's awesome. That's all. So when you get when you
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Speaker 1: get those calls like that, which is a blessing because
19:02
Speaker 1: I know how to entertain how this industry is. Sometimes
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Speaker 1: some of the things that drains a performer is always auditioning,
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Speaker 1: always auditioning, and always getting rejected. We still do that too,
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Speaker 1: We still It's a whole new game right now, since
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Speaker 1: no one's going in in person for auditions, you now
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Speaker 1: have to become your own producer, your own cinematographer, your
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Speaker 1: own sound person, lighting person who you have enough friends
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Speaker 1: to come and read sides with your like, I need
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Speaker 1: a wall to do this audition? What in the world?
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Speaker 1: So now you're your own director, your own lighting designer,
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Speaker 1: sound person's like, Okay, this is way too much, but
19:42
Speaker 1: that's now becoming the norm. And I gotta tell you,
19:45
Speaker 1: while it may be practical, it's really not good for
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Speaker 1: us actors. It's very stressful. It really is. It's very
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Speaker 1: stress You call are you busy? Are you get just
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Speaker 1: called for the bars? Are you being see? Are you free? Man?
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Speaker 1: I was packing. I was packing to head to New
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Speaker 1: York for a year and a half to start doing Tina,
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Speaker 1: and he said we need to appear for like a
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Speaker 1: week or so. I was like, I can come for
20:10
Speaker 1: three days because I'm sitting here. I'll be leaving suitcases.
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Speaker 1: So I flew from l A to Toronto. I worked
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Speaker 1: my my three days back to l A, finished packing,
20:22
Speaker 1: then flew back to New York, all within a week
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Speaker 1: to start rehearsals for Tina. Now, let's let's always admire
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Speaker 1: individuals who are so casual about their talents, Okay, because
20:35
Speaker 1: you know Tina is a musical, Okay, and you're about
20:38
Speaker 1: to go into a very intense sci fi series called
20:42
Speaker 1: The Boys. There's Arizona, Amazon, and you plan a character
20:45
Speaker 1: is kind of a low key character, but a character
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Speaker 1: who is reluctant to be a participant in sharing information.
20:54
Speaker 1: So how so you get the script? How do you
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Speaker 1: how do you build that character structure in the credibility
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Speaker 1: even though you know you're limited on the amount of
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Speaker 1: time that they wanted you and you have to deliver,
21:06
Speaker 1: like basically one take opportunities. You know, Um, there are
21:11
Speaker 1: certain stories that resonate for different reasons, that particular story
21:17
Speaker 1: coming from a community being a person of color that
21:20
Speaker 1: witnesses uh crime by a white person onto a black person.
21:25
Speaker 1: There are generations where you as much as it's the
21:28
Speaker 1: right thing you do, people constantly are warning you don't talk,
21:32
Speaker 1: don't tell, because it's gonna be bad for you. They're
21:34
Speaker 1: gonna come down on you. Uh, this could blow back
21:37
Speaker 1: on your family. And which is the things that a
21:40
Speaker 1: lot of communities still deal with today. When you see
21:43
Speaker 1: things happening in your community and you know what's wrong,
21:47
Speaker 1: and part of you really want to speak up because
21:50
Speaker 1: you know that's the right thing to do or the
21:52
Speaker 1: wrong is only going to increase and ultimately overtake your community,
21:59
Speaker 1: and you want to do the right thing. But for
22:01
Speaker 1: different reasons. You get beat down, you get told not
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Speaker 1: to be a squealer, you get told if you say anything,
22:06
Speaker 1: I'm coming for you. But this woman sees the science
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Speaker 1: and sees the better part of like, you know what,
22:13
Speaker 1: I've been holding onto this long enough. Absolutely I got
22:16
Speaker 1: to tell the truth and it gen It then shifts
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Speaker 1: the entire rest of the season, you know, And I'm
22:24
Speaker 1: not gonna be a spoiler. I think I think we've
22:27
Speaker 1: done a good job here Don with the boys, shaping
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Speaker 1: your character, not telling anybody how you came into the
22:34
Speaker 1: how that episode was developed. But the fun part about
22:37
Speaker 1: it for me was to be watching television, deeply engrossed
22:42
Speaker 1: in the series, and then one of my favorite people
22:44
Speaker 1: pops on the screen and they deliver in a role
22:47
Speaker 1: that I would not have expected, you know, because you're
22:50
Speaker 1: not made up. You know, I will give that away.
22:52
Speaker 1: She's not looking vivacious, you know, she's looking very ordinary
22:55
Speaker 1: and this character that she's playing for the boys, but
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Speaker 1: she delivers a magnificent to sequence. Because my man lives
23:02
Speaker 1: a long aso, which I think that episode really featured him,
23:05
Speaker 1: and he did an amazing job for that particular Epilode.
23:09
Speaker 1: He's a good guy. I've known laws for a long time.
23:12
Speaker 1: And Jack Quaid who plays Hue, actually he is in
23:16
Speaker 1: the cast of Star Trek Lower Decks, so he and
23:19
Speaker 1: I work a lot together. So U yeah, so that
23:22
Speaker 1: was that was very very cool that episode lives. I
23:26
Speaker 1: was so proud of him because he carried that whole episode,
23:30
Speaker 1: the whole drive down. We found out about his father
23:34
Speaker 1: and they've got of background information and that's what makes
23:37
Speaker 1: a really good serious and that what makes it when
23:38
Speaker 1: I when I look at you, don you know, you know,
23:41
Speaker 1: just out of respect, you're fantastic. You are an uplift.
23:46
Speaker 1: Just in our conversation that I'm having with you right now,
23:49
Speaker 1: you know, there is a ray of not only just
23:52
Speaker 1: natural beauty, but a ray of uplift. And that's that's
23:56
Speaker 1: that's that's that's something just just natural within you. Like
23:59
Speaker 1: I wouldn't use to work probably, but you're just energized
24:02
Speaker 1: to make people feel good. Oh that's a That's probably
24:07
Speaker 1: one of the kindest things anyone could say to me.
24:09
Speaker 1: And I absolutely appreciate that and receive that. And uh,
24:13
Speaker 1: I gotta give our glory to God. I really do,
24:16
Speaker 1: I really do, because we're living in a very scary place. Uh,
24:19
Speaker 1: and for generations it's been a very very scary place
24:23
Speaker 1: and the irony that it's still meaning the America is
24:27
Speaker 1: one of the best places to live on the planet
24:30
Speaker 1: to let you know what the realities are most likely
24:34
Speaker 1: in other places. And we are now living through such
24:40
Speaker 1: a shift in what the world's reality is, what our
24:44
Speaker 1: country's reality and potential is with this recent election and
24:50
Speaker 1: veil being pulled off and people showing you very clearly
24:54
Speaker 1: who they are, very clearly who they are. So for
25:00
Speaker 1: myself and other people who UM identify themselves as sons
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Speaker 1: and daughters of Christ, of Jesus, of God, UM, it's
25:09
Speaker 1: our job to reflect this is how it can be.
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Speaker 1: This is how weak as individuals can be. God stands
25:16
Speaker 1: for love, forgiveness, grace, unity, community, UM, servants of your
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Speaker 1: fellow man, and and a stewardship of those who are
25:26
Speaker 1: less fortunate than you. So if you're in a position
25:29
Speaker 1: with the mindset that you have to have what it
25:32
Speaker 1: is you want and are accustomed to in your life
25:36
Speaker 1: at the expense of someone else, you call yourself a
25:39
Speaker 1: child of God, you need to go back and read
25:41
Speaker 1: the book. And I'm not saying you know whoever you are,
25:44
Speaker 1: you know who you are. If you believe that violence
25:47
Speaker 1: and killing and fighting and burning and obstructing justice is
25:53
Speaker 1: the way to make sure that what you believe is insured,
25:57
Speaker 1: then you're not talking about democracy. You're not talking about
26:01
Speaker 1: being christ Like. This is what's coming out of people's mouths.
26:05
Speaker 1: They're doing what they're doing in the name of democracy,
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Speaker 1: not caring who lives or dies, not not caring whose
26:13
Speaker 1: voices are listened to. And the it's mind boggling when
26:17
Speaker 1: you see the the contradictory statements were just four years ago,
26:23
Speaker 1: these same people were accusing the Democrats of exactly what
26:26
Speaker 1: they're doing now. Absolutely, I don't even have to say anything.
26:32
Speaker 1: Let's just play the tape of what you said just
26:34
Speaker 1: two years ago now, and y'all have a conversation. Let
26:39
Speaker 1: that person and the person you're seeing you are never
26:41
Speaker 1: have a conversation. And I'm gonna step over here and
26:43
Speaker 1: do my job. So for me, whatever light, whatever grace,
26:47
Speaker 1: whatever joy you see is because um, I don't know
26:52
Speaker 1: any other way to get through. And I'm telling you something.
26:55
Speaker 1: We need more of that today. As you know, what
26:58
Speaker 1: you just said was Fortunately it was the truth. We
27:01
Speaker 1: have contradictory people who say one thing but actually show
27:04
Speaker 1: their colors to me and another but more, but more more,
27:09
Speaker 1: you know them that's correct. And so you know this
27:11
Speaker 1: is like our PPS moment. You know, you've been watching
27:14
Speaker 1: PBS and you you see a great uh singing moments
27:19
Speaker 1: and then they cut away and they have these two
27:21
Speaker 1: nice looking people I could call us Don and Rashan.
27:24
Speaker 1: We're two nice looking people who come back and tell you,
27:27
Speaker 1: I'm sure you enjoyed that. Well, the only way you
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Speaker 1: can continue to enjoy such great entertainment is by donating.
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Speaker 1: to donate to voorhees Is. That's how that was a
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Speaker 1: pretty good pitch. There was that phenomenal seen. I've been
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Speaker 1: watchings absolutely right. What we're talking about, what we are
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Speaker 1: talking about, protecting democracy, protecting positivity, protecting potential is we
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Speaker 1: have to invest in it and for a lot of goal.
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Speaker 1: Right now is probably one of the worst times you
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Speaker 1: can ask them. Can you spare a dollar? Can you
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Speaker 1: spare five dollars, can you spare fifty, a hundred, whatever
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Speaker 1: you can spare? Think about it this way, if at
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Speaker 1: Talk to your boss, talk to your philanthropic arm of
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Speaker 1: please consider this college. It's gonna make a huge difference
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Speaker 1: to each and every one of these students. Done. Wow,
29:19
Speaker 1: Thank you for coming back on money making conversations. Thank
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Speaker 1: you for being part of stream than for Vorhees. More importantly,
29:26
Speaker 1: you know, like you said, this was annual year. Because
29:28
Speaker 1: remember I was supposed to be in New York watching
29:30
Speaker 1: you on Tina and that didn't happen. So when this
29:33
Speaker 1: pandemic slows down. In fact, I'll be in l A tomorrow.
29:36
Speaker 1: I got some meetings in flying from Atlanta, but I'm
29:38
Speaker 1: only there for one day. But more importantly, you're part
29:41
Speaker 1: of my life and you're part of what I believe in.
29:44
Speaker 1: Your part of the the approach that I have of
29:46
Speaker 1: trying to give people free advice, free uplift and uh
29:50
Speaker 1: making them feel good about themselves doing doing downtimes don't change.
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Speaker 1: I really appreciate you. Don thank you, thank you so much,
29:58
Speaker 1: and thank you Rashan, Thank you boy, he's thank you
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Speaker 1: to everyone who is watching. The fact that you're here
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Speaker 1: I means you're already on the same page and you're
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Speaker 1: already hitting in the right direction. Thank you for everything
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Speaker 1: you've already. This is what we're gonna do. This is
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Speaker 1: what we're gonna do done next year, because the next
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Speaker 1: year I want we're gonna talk to them, we should
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Speaker 1: look at what we need to do. A live you
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Speaker 1: and I because I'm enjoying it because you you you're
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Speaker 1: something special. You you're special. And then I want to
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Speaker 1: do something just like they do with PPS. We're gonna
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Speaker 1: just we're gonna just uh because I got a lot
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Speaker 1: of friends in the business, and You've got a lot
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Speaker 1: of friends in the business, and we're gonna host I'm
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Speaker 1: telling what he's I'm volunteering right now. And my girl
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Speaker 1: down she's on the same page with me. And when
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Speaker 1: we're gonna do, we're gonna do a streamer thon and
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Speaker 1: we're gonna invite different friends that we know in the
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Speaker 1: business to call in via stream and then we'll get
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Speaker 1: to generate this get these donations and flying. Because I
30:51
Speaker 1: just found out about this recently, I would have been
30:53
Speaker 1: much more engaged. But the most I can give it
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Speaker 1: is what we're doing right now. This great interview I'm
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Speaker 1: delivered with you that will air on that wild air
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Speaker 1: doing the stream of thro But let's here, let's let's
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Speaker 1: have them contact my people. They can contact your people
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Speaker 1: if you feel great about this idea, but let's host
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Speaker 1: something to use our resources in this industry to really
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Speaker 1: make next year's three month, three mo thon to be
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Speaker 1: an amazing uh uh financial endowment for the school. Your thoughts, yep,
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Speaker 1: I'm in with you. Remember remember lou rossolutely it was fantastic.
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Speaker 1: I did that telethon uh several several times, but were
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Speaker 1: in then my friend, thank you for coming on the
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Speaker 1: Oh girls, you know I'm writing to check today. What
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Speaker 1: you're not gonna do is me talk to you again
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Speaker 1: without knowing that it was on me that the check
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Speaker 1: was not delivered. You're sending all you from and it
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Speaker 1: was a Rashawn mcdalf. Well, I'm gonna fix all that
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