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DLHS Hour 3 | Talking All That Jazz with Musical Director Kim Burse · The D.L. Hughley Show

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  Speaker 1: It is the DL Hughley Show, your 2026 edition. If
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  Speaker 1: you are going to be in Detroit, I will be
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  Speaker 1: there this Friday. And, of course, Saturday I'll be in
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  Speaker 1: the Big Easy, New Orleans.
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  Speaker 2: Woo-hoo! Me and Don Lemon for DL and DL. Uh-oh,
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  Speaker 2: Don going to be down in Greasy. Big Easy. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: He does his New Year's Eve thing. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Last time I went, he was so drunk, he had
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  Speaker 1: his microphone upside down.
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  Speaker 2: I remember that.
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  Speaker 3: Again.
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  Speaker 4: He was interviewing Big Freedia, and the microphone.
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  Speaker 2: Was upside down. That's a big ride right there.
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  Speaker 4: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Can you hear anything? You think Don wouldn't know how
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  Speaker 2: to handle? No, never mind. Go ahead.
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  Speaker 1: Man, I'm telling you, I don't know who went between
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  Speaker 1: EJ and Big Freedia. I don't know. That's a big
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  Speaker 1: cage match right there.
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  Speaker 2: Big Freedia from New Orleans. I'm going to give it
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  Speaker 2: to him. Yeah, big 6'5 boy.
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  Speaker 1: I'd like to split this. So, yeah, if you're going
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  Speaker 1: to be there, we'll be there. And also my book,
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  Speaker 1: Charlie's Boy, you can get it at Amazon Books or
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  Speaker 1: Barnes & Noble, wherever you get your books.
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  Speaker 2: Charlie! So, we have an election tomorrow. Yes, we do.
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  Speaker 2: I think that the tea.
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  Speaker 1: Leaves, you can't ever know because they're not definitive, but
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  Speaker 1: we do know that early voting for black people and
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  Speaker 1: for Latins and young people is way up.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. And I think Texas shattered the early voting record.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, man.
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  Speaker 2: Killed it.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: All over.
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  Speaker 1: So I think I think they did you know in Texas,
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  Speaker 1: all they're doing is running transgender commercial.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And you see.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: That's all they're focused on.
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  Speaker 4: Paxton filed a suit and want to try to sue
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  Speaker 4: because they're encouraging black and brown people to vote.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 4: So he tried.
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  Speaker 2: What the hell is wrong with you? There it is.
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  Speaker 2: There it is. You know what's so interesting?
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  Speaker 1: If they are saying that you can get surgeries in
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  Speaker 1: school in Texas, they're trying to avoid that. You guys
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  Speaker 1: have been in charge for 30 years. So if that
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  Speaker 1: is in case, you guys did it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, correct. You did it. You have state legislature.
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  Speaker 1: So what could they have done?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, but I'll tell you what you ought
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  Speaker 2: to get in school, education. Yeah, they're 47.
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  Speaker 4: Focus on that.
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  Speaker 2: Mississippi is like, we don't want to be Texas. Well,
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  Speaker 2: if they had a spell, it'd be everybody.
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  Speaker 4: Everybody.
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  Speaker 1: It's just so stupid. You're talking about transgender in school.
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  Speaker 1: That's the only thing. No commercials about affordability. So affordability
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  Speaker 1: is a hoax, but not a dude getting surgery and
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  Speaker 1: science class at school and coming home.
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  Speaker 2: None of that. But that's interesting.
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  Speaker 1: Affordability is a hoax, but not an imaginary d * * * placer.
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  Speaker 2: That's not a hoax. DL. Slow down.
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  Speaker 5: How are you?
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  Speaker 4: I'm doing pretty good. I hear you are the creative
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  Speaker 4: director to the stars.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, I'm definitely blessed and I thank God
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  Speaker 5: for his favor. And it is a great thing to
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  Speaker 5: say that you're able to do what you love. That
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  Speaker 5: is truly a blessing.
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  Speaker 2: And how did you get into this?
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  Speaker 4: I know you you're they were dubbed a musical prodigy.
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  Speaker 4: But how did you turn that into what you do now?
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  Speaker 5: You know, the thing is, is that, you know, I'm
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  Speaker 5: from a small town called Roswell, Georgia, right outside of Atlanta. And,
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  Speaker 5: you know, growing up here, of course, a church kid,
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  Speaker 5: my parents are very religious and and I played piano
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  Speaker 5: at an early age. And so then I started playing
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  Speaker 5: for church actually when I was 11. And then I
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  Speaker 5: was playing for the choirs by the time I was 13.
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  Speaker 5: And then got into several different churches and choirs by
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  Speaker 5: the time I was 15. So it's like I understood
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  Speaker 5: just the whole thing of how even just choir being
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  Speaker 5: my blueprint, you know, we had to know what songs
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  Speaker 5: we were doing. The songs had to definitely, you know,
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  Speaker 5: get the spirit and move the crowd to be ready
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  Speaker 5: for the preacher and, you know, what we were wearing
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  Speaker 5: and which way were we rocking. And it kind of
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  Speaker 5: was like my blueprint to, I feel like, everything. And
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  Speaker 5: when I was asked to do a show for Destiny's
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  Speaker 5: Child for the Grammys, Matthew Knowles said, you know, the
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  Speaker 5: girls are going to do a show for the Grammys.
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  Speaker 5: Do you think you can do that show with them?
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  Speaker 5: And I said, yes. Now, at the time. I hadn't
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  Speaker 5: done TV or anything yet. But the thing is, is
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  Speaker 5: that I use my blueprint from a kid. Like, OK,
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  Speaker 5: what are we wearing? What songs are we singing? How
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  Speaker 5: long do they have to be? And that's basically how
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  Speaker 5: I set the blueprint up for that. And my first
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  Speaker 5: performance in TV ever as a musical director and creative
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  Speaker 5: person was. the Destiny's Child Grammy performance in 2001. And
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  Speaker 5: I'll be honest, it never stopped since that day. It's
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  Speaker 5: still going on today.
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  Speaker 2: That's amazing.
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  Speaker 4: A lot of people can't ever say anything like that,
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  Speaker 4: that you started that big, which I would imagine then
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  Speaker 4: raises the bar for everything else, though, right? Because I'm
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  Speaker 4: sure your phone didn't stop ringing after that because everybody
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  Speaker 4: remembers that performance.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and it was a thing at that time. I
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  Speaker 5: was exclusive just with them. And with Matthew. So I
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  Speaker 5: was under Music World. And in 2004 is when I
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  Speaker 5: broke away and became an independent contractor.
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  Speaker 4: Got your freedom, girl.
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  Speaker 5: And the thing is, I definitely pay homage to that because,
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  Speaker 5: you know, Beyonce and the girls and Matthew and Tina
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  Speaker 5: and the whole family. It's like it was that became
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  Speaker 5: my new blueprint. And then the people were able to
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  Speaker 5: come to me and say, I'd like for you to
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  Speaker 5: work with me. And I could at that time say, great,
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  Speaker 5: let's do it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that takes a lot of courage, though, you know,
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  Speaker 4: knowing that you're already doing well, but then kind of
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  Speaker 4: have that confidence in your own abilities to say, you know,
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  Speaker 4: I could actually do this on my own. Like, I'm
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  Speaker 4: going to step out on faith and do this on
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  Speaker 4: my own.
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  Speaker 2: But let me ask you this.
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  Speaker 4: You know, a lot of people have a lot of
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  Speaker 4: things to say about the way music is today. I
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  Speaker 4: know I have my own opinion of, you know, listen,
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  Speaker 4: we become our parents, you know, who became their parents.
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  Speaker 4: And so music changes and maybe it's not totally for us.
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  Speaker 4: Gen Z is, you know, running things now, I guess,
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  Speaker 4: when it comes to music. But, you know, the performance
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  Speaker 4: for me, because I'm, you know, I'm from the old
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  Speaker 4: school of I want to see a good show. And
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  Speaker 4: now I feel like, you know, the new artists, not
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  Speaker 4: all of them. Their show consists of coming out and
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  Speaker 4: walking back and forth. And that drives me insane. I'm like,
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  Speaker 4: you got to do something.
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  Speaker 5: Because audience participation. how you engage with the audience, grabbing them.
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  Speaker 5: Because the thing is, is that the main thing with audiences,
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  Speaker 5: they want to come and they want to I call
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  Speaker 5: it they want to sing loud, strong and sometimes wrong
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  Speaker 5: because it's not always the right key, but they're going
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  Speaker 5: to sing it.
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  Speaker 4: Don't talk about me while I'm talking to you, Kim.
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  Speaker 4: Don't talk about me while I'm talking to you. Because
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  Speaker 4: that's me. Wrong lyrics and wrong key. And I'm still
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  Speaker 4: going to sing.
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  Speaker 5: But you're feeling good.
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  Speaker 2: I'm feeling great.
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  Speaker 5: And that's my accomplishment every single time. I currently am
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  Speaker 5: the music director from... for money long and it's like
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  Speaker 5: we want to capture something that kind of gets everybody
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  Speaker 5: like you said you know I'm kind of like the
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  Speaker 5: old school I want to see a show I don't
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  Speaker 5: want to see the walking back and forth because there's
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  Speaker 5: a time for the walking back and forth there's a
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  Speaker 5: time for dancers there's a time when you sit on
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  Speaker 5: a chair And you just let the audience sing to you,
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  Speaker 5: you know, and it's knowing exactly when those moments are
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  Speaker 5: in creating a show.
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  Speaker 2: It's no secret. Everybody who knows me knows I.
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  Speaker 4: Want to perform. So me and you are going to
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  Speaker 4: get together and we're going to work on my set list.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to work on my moves.
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to get my show together so I can
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  Speaker 4: go on a world tour.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you so much for joining me. I'm talking all
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  Speaker 4: that jazz. I really appreciate it. You take care, girl.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 2: You take care. Now it's time for what you need
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