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More Than a Rom-Com: Why You, Me & Tuscany Is Being Watched So Closely · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 2: we are back fresh week. I've been in Italy for
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  Speaker 2: the last five to six days and uh okay, let's
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  Speaker 2: check in behind the scenes of the ground because I'm
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  Speaker 2: so excited to tell you guys just a little bit
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  Speaker 2: about my trip. If you're listening to this and you
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  Speaker 2: want to see my trip, I posted a blog to
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  Speaker 2: my YouTube channel showing you.
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  Speaker 3: Guys every where I went. Everything I ate. It was beautiful.
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  Speaker 3: We did the Amafi coast and we did the coast.
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  Speaker 2: So when I arrived to Italy, we arrived in Napolei
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  Speaker 2: or Naples, which is where the big airport is, which
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  Speaker 2: is like the city definitely looked a lot different than
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  Speaker 2: I expected it to look. Okay, it just wasn't like
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  Speaker 2: what you see like on Instagram and TikTok and you
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  Speaker 2: know YouTube of the Amafi Coast and how pretty and vibrant.
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  Speaker 3: It looks Naples Napole.
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  Speaker 2: Is not really that at all, and it's very much
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  Speaker 2: the city a lot of graffiti.
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  Speaker 3: It's like the difference between.
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  Speaker 2: New York or downtown Los Angeles and Napa Valley where
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  Speaker 2: you go for all the wine tasting.
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  Speaker 3: Like just very different.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of places we went to in Naples because
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  Speaker 2: we stayed there for the first day or two of
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  Speaker 2: our trip with my brief friend for his birthday. It
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  Speaker 2: was his birthday gift, and then we stayed there the
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  Speaker 2: last day of the trip. People were like, uh huh,
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  Speaker 2: take y'all, watches off your jewelry, anything valuable, put it
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  Speaker 2: up if you want to be in Naples. And this
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  Speaker 2: is like not tourist people like this is like, we
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  Speaker 2: went to a really famous pizza spot. I'm gonna get
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  Speaker 2: the name of the pizza spot. We went to a
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  Speaker 2: really famous pizza spot. The pizza spot was called Pizzarea
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  Speaker 2: de Michelle. So this pizza spot, like people wait in
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  Speaker 2: line for hours to try their pizza. We were lucky
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  Speaker 2: we got there kind of early and we didn't wait
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  Speaker 2: for hour. We waited for about twenty minutes and then
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  Speaker 2: we went in tried the pizza. The pizza was amazing.
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  Speaker 2: But as we were leaving this pizza spot, there was
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  Speaker 2: like this street that was like playing music and you know,
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  Speaker 2: all these things on. This is in Naples, this is
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  Speaker 2: our last day there. Just to kind of give you
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  Speaker 2: an example of what I'm talking about, So we walked
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  Speaker 2: up the street. We're in like this small it's like
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  Speaker 2: an like a like side street like a hill, but
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  Speaker 2: there's like a smaller restaurant and they're seating outside, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, there's a bunch.
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  Speaker 3: Of people out there. Everyone's doing the sprits, the Aperol sprits.
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  Speaker 2: That's like the signature drink there, of course, so we
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  Speaker 2: sit down to just have a drink and just enjoyed
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  Speaker 2: the last night. We'd been chilling like that last like
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  Speaker 2: twenty four to forty eight hours because we had done
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  Speaker 2: so much by that point.
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  Speaker 3: And when we went inside.
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  Speaker 2: Of the store to pay for our stuff before we left,
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  Speaker 2: just to go back to our hotel, to just relax
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  Speaker 2: and get ready for a flight. Literally, everybody in the store,
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  Speaker 2: like the owner of the store or the restaurant, got
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  Speaker 2: up closed the door. It was like three to four people.
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  Speaker 2: They were like uh uh. Like they were telling my boyfriend,
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  Speaker 2: like take your watch off. They were like I'd had
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  Speaker 2: like a small bag, or like keep your back on you,
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  Speaker 2: you know, anything in your pockets, take it out of
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  Speaker 2: your pockets. Our taxi drivers were also telling us that
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  Speaker 2: when we were in Naples in the train station. So
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  Speaker 2: Naples was just a lot different than what we expected.
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  Speaker 2: But we still had a great time there. Nothing that
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  Speaker 2: nothing bad happened to us. Thank God, had a great time.
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  Speaker 2: But we leave Naples the first day that we stayed there,
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  Speaker 2: like I said, and we ended up there the last
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  Speaker 2: couple nights. First day we stayed there, we leave, we
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  Speaker 2: head on over to Capri. Now Capri beautiful, but Capria
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  Speaker 2: is a bit like it. You know, there's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of the luxury shopping there, and there's like all these
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  Speaker 2: like boutiques, Like you know, I clothing is my thing.
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  Speaker 2: I love fashion, but I really love to see like
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  Speaker 2: handmade pieces.
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  Speaker 3: So there were a lot of like small boutiques and
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  Speaker 3: local boutiques and local leather shops and oh my god,
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  Speaker 3: it was.
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  Speaker 2: Just amazing to see all of the like artistry through
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  Speaker 2: like you know, the different like moo moos and jackets
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  Speaker 2: and you know, just all of the different designs that
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  Speaker 2: we saw, and they were everywhere. Everywhere you walked in
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  Speaker 2: Capri was another beautiful shop, a ceramic shop, a jewelry shop,
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  Speaker 2: and of course they had all of the luxury stares
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  Speaker 2: as well too. We ate in Capri at another really
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  Speaker 2: popular restaurant. We had a travel guide. We had two
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  Speaker 2: travel guides, you know, one of my friends her name
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  Speaker 2: on Instagram or her traveling Instagram name, like she travels
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  Speaker 2: all throughout various countries, the Traveling Chucks, and she put
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  Speaker 2: together a lot about our itinerary, and then I also
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  Speaker 2: had a secondary itinerary done by like a luxury travel
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  Speaker 2: planner that I met. So they hooked us up with
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  Speaker 2: a restaurant reservation in Capri and also helped set up
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  Speaker 2: like some of the shopping that we did.
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  Speaker 3: So that was the first day. It was beautiful.
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  Speaker 2: We also did like a taxi like you know, rooftop
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  Speaker 2: car ride you know, throughout the coast of Capri, which
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  Speaker 2: was so beautiful.
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  Speaker 3: We got to see the water.
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  Speaker 2: The weather there was not as warm as you would
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  Speaker 2: think that it is. The weather was very much like
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  Speaker 2: New York. It's like springtime like but just getting into
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  Speaker 2: it right. So it's like warm a bit during the day.
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  Speaker 2: You definitely need like a hoodie or something on your
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  Speaker 2: arms cooler at night. But from what I was told,
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  Speaker 2: this is like the beginning of their season, like you know,
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  Speaker 2: as it gets warmer, people beginning to travel, things open up.
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  Speaker 3: There's a lot more to do on the coast. We
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  Speaker 3: left Capri and then we went to Rome. Rome was amazing.
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  Speaker 2: In Rome, we got to see the Colisseum, we got
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  Speaker 2: to see we were trying to make it over to
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  Speaker 2: what we did. We rode throughout the bat We rode
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  Speaker 2: throughout Vatican City. We did like a big bus tour,
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  Speaker 2: so we got to see a lot of uh, like
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  Speaker 2: just various artifacts throughout room and just Rome itself. The
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  Speaker 2: city of Rome was also very beautiful. One of the
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  Speaker 2: things that I noticed the most about Rome was all
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  Speaker 2: of the like the graffiti there was like so political,
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  Speaker 2: like there were a lot of like because you know
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  Speaker 2: there's you know, there's places where like you know, the
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  Speaker 2: Pope you know, various things went down with the pope
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  Speaker 2: and just very religious grounds and cathedrals and different places
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  Speaker 2: that we would stop at, and every time I would
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  Speaker 2: look around, I would see these political messages on the walls,
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  Speaker 2: like you know, harmed people deserve to harm people, or
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  Speaker 2: I would see.
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  Speaker 3: Free gods that I would see free Palestine everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: Like that was one of the things that stood out
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  Speaker 2: most to me about Rome, but also the architecture of
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  Speaker 2: the buildings and just I don't know, like everywhere we went,
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  Speaker 2: I was trying to get a feel for the people
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  Speaker 2: and just like you know, like how they were different
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  Speaker 2: than people in other cities that we were experiencing.
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  Speaker 3: But all in all, Rome was beautiful as well.
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  Speaker 2: We actually decided last minute to spend a night in
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  Speaker 2: Rome and then woke back up, got back on the
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  Speaker 2: train and went back to nables Uh to then take
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  Speaker 2: a car ride up the coast of a Mafi to
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  Speaker 2: a Mafi. So on the Amafi coast, there is a
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  Speaker 2: small town called a Mafi. We stayed there and we
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  Speaker 2: actually stayed on like a countryside, like we drove for
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  Speaker 2: about an hour into the mountains, which was so beautiful
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  Speaker 2: and it was very different than any city we had
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  Speaker 2: been into, because it wasn't a city.
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  Speaker 3: It was literally like countryside.
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  Speaker 2: So we were at this little like I would almost call
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  Speaker 2: it not a bed and breakfast, but I would call
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  Speaker 2: it that.
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  Speaker 3: But it was it was like luxury like it was
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  Speaker 3: very homey, small staff.
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  Speaker 2: The rooms were made literally like made up for you
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  Speaker 2: as they know that you were coming.
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  Speaker 3: Small balcony that overlooked the place.
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  Speaker 2: In this place where we stayed, they specialized in like
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  Speaker 2: ceramic making, so the floor is, the ceilings, the towel
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  Speaker 2: in the bathroom. Everything was just so beautiful, like everywhere
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  Speaker 2: we went, I don't care if.
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  Speaker 3: It was Naples, if it was Rome.
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  Speaker 2: Everywhere we went there was so much attention to detail
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  Speaker 2: and all of the architecture and you know the way
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  Speaker 2: things will put together and the decorations and the flooring
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  Speaker 2: and the walls and the ceilings, even the shapes of
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  Speaker 2: the windows at the restaurants in the hotels that we
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  Speaker 2: were saying like, oh my god. It was just it
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  Speaker 2: was like something out of like a picture book, like
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  Speaker 2: everything just didn't look real. Everything looked like it does
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  Speaker 2: when you see like pictures of Rome on like a
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  Speaker 2: computer or you know, like in a history book or
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  Speaker 2: something like that, or Rome, Naples, Capri, like they just
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  Speaker 2: it just didn't look real. It was so beautiful to experience,
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  Speaker 2: and so we spent evening there, which was so relaxing,
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  Speaker 2: and it was just very different than anything else we've
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  Speaker 2: ever experienced.
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  Speaker 3: But it was so fire because.
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  Speaker 2: I think it was good to see the city life,
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  Speaker 2: the various entities of the city life Rome, which you know,
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  Speaker 2: there was so much history there that we got to
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  Speaker 2: learn and see in real life. And then now we're
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  Speaker 2: on the countryside where like literally they grow everything themselves,
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  Speaker 2: so all of the food that we were eating, the
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  Speaker 2: vegetables there was like a lemon farm, you know right there,
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  Speaker 2: like when you walked out your balcony, there was a
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  Speaker 2: limon farm as well too.
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  Speaker 3: Everything was just fresh and everything was amazing.
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  Speaker 2: And then we got up headed back to Naples where
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  Speaker 2: we ended our trip. One of the biggest feelings while
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  Speaker 2: in Italy is the feeling of love, Like it was
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  Speaker 2: just so positive.
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  Speaker 3: And a lot of times we were the only.
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  Speaker 2: Black people the majority of the places where we were going,
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  Speaker 2: and I was I was asking, I'm like, where is
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  Speaker 2: black culture here?
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  Speaker 3: Like this is that? Like where where are we here?
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  Speaker 2: In this atmosphere of like, you know, all these different cities,
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  Speaker 2: especially when we were on the tour and I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: I'm seeing on this beautiful architect Show'm like, I know,
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  Speaker 2: we come in to mix them here because this.
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  Speaker 3: Is what we do.
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  Speaker 2: But even though we were the only black people, it
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  Speaker 2: didn't not that it didn't feel like it, but we
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  Speaker 2: weren't treated that way. And when I went to Paris,
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  Speaker 2: it was a completely different experience.
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  Speaker 3: Just in general, just the.
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  Speaker 2: Way that we were received, you know, how nice people
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  Speaker 2: were or lack thereof, and lack they're of more than
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  Speaker 2: how nice they were. It was just a completely different experience.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, the trip was amazing, and I was so
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  Speaker 2: excited while in Italy because I knew that I wanted
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  Speaker 2: to go see You, Me and Tuscany, which came out
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  Speaker 2: in theaters on April tenth, and I knew that the
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  Speaker 2: background of the movie was Italy. Even though it's Tuscany
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  Speaker 2: a different part of Italy, I just knew that it
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  Speaker 2: was Italy. So I was excited to actually get the
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  Speaker 2: experience Italy and then go and watch this film. So
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  Speaker 2: we're going to get on into the latest because I
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  Speaker 2: want to have a conversation about the movie You MEI
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  Speaker 2: and Tuscany, a black led rom com featuring Halle Bailey
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  Speaker 2: and reggae Jean Page. And you guys know, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you know Holle Bailey because I mean, she is an
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  Speaker 2: amazing singer. She also played the Little Mertmaide and the
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  Speaker 2: Disney recreation recently, you know her and Chloe Bailey all
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  Speaker 2: over the place.
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  Speaker 3: And then Reggae yarn Page, you guys know him Bridgerton.
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  Speaker 2: Now, these two as actors are not without a little
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  Speaker 2: diversity pushback. You know, Haley went through it when it
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  Speaker 2: was announced that she would be the new Little Mermaid
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  Speaker 2: and there were tons of people who felt like the Little.
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  Speaker 3: Mermaids shouldn't be black.
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  Speaker 2: And Reggae yarn Page went through it because he played
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  Speaker 2: a male lead in Bridgerton, and there was conversation around,
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  Speaker 2: you know, just him in that role and how historically
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  Speaker 2: that wasn't a thing. But Shonda Rhymes, you know, she
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  Speaker 2: Shinda Rhymes is gonna make it do what to do
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  Speaker 2: for us?
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  Speaker 3: And she does a Melting Pot and all of her shows.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, I wouldn't say that there is pushback
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  Speaker 2: when it comes to the movie You Me and Tuscany,
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  Speaker 2: and I did go and see it. But there is
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  Speaker 2: conversation that happened, and this conversation, to be honest with
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  Speaker 2: you guys.
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  Speaker 3: Wasn't even purpose. But it's one of those.
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  Speaker 2: Things that like, even if the you know, even if
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  Speaker 2: the conversation had not happened the way that it went down,
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  Speaker 2: and we're going to talk about it, it was being
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  Speaker 2: had anyway. Like it was literally being had anyway or
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  Speaker 2: going to be had anyway. So Variety did an article
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  Speaker 2: and the article is titled why the box office for
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  Speaker 2: you Meet and Tuscany matters. It says audiences have the
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  Speaker 2: power to dictate what gets made in Hollywood, says producer
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  Speaker 2: Will Packer. Will Packer, who was on The Girls Trip
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  Speaker 2: and a ton of other amazing movies along with his
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  Speaker 2: team and Sheila Cohen and all of the brilliant minds
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  Speaker 2: over there, will power Will Packer Productions, you know, or
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  Speaker 2: something of the driving forces behind this movie.
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  Speaker 3: Now, I went and saw the movie.
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  Speaker 2: The movie was amazing, you know, Like I said, I
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  Speaker 2: actually was excited to experience the film because being fresh
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  Speaker 2: out of an Italy trip, you really understand the essence
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  Speaker 2: of the culture there, you know, the feeling, the people,
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  Speaker 2: the food, a lot of the things you'll visually see,
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  Speaker 2: like the sunsets and sun rises in the countryside. It's
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  Speaker 2: just like I said, Italy is just it's literally it
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  Speaker 2: looks like something from out of a book, like something
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't even look real, and the film captured that even.
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  Speaker 3: In the film.
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  Speaker 2: I went to go see it with a friend who
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  Speaker 2: had never been to Italy and just some of the
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  Speaker 2: shots in the film and the way that it was colored,
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  Speaker 2: you know. His first question to me was, oh, my god,
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  Speaker 2: this looks like something out of a book.
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  Speaker 3: Is that how it is?
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  Speaker 2: And I'm like, yes, in real life. But it was
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  Speaker 2: amazing that he was feeling that through a movie screen,
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  Speaker 2: because a lot of times movies don't capture the real
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  Speaker 2: essence of the actual place and culture where they're being shot.
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  Speaker 3: So they did an amazing job at that.
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  Speaker 2: But the storyline is basically Holly Hayley Belly's character goes
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  Speaker 2: through some hard times in life and family. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: going to get the movie away just the log line,
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  Speaker 2: and ends up squatting in this house in Italy after
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  Speaker 2: meeting this guy who is from Italy, and the love,
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  Speaker 2: the romance and the funny unfolds from there, and it
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  Speaker 2: was just that you fell in love with Hallie Bailly
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  Speaker 2: in her role. You fell in love with who she
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  Speaker 2: fell in love with. You know, you went on the
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  Speaker 2: twisting turns of oh my god, what's going to happen next?
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  Speaker 2: You went on the twisting turns of oh my god,
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  Speaker 2: is it's all about to be over for them? And
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  Speaker 2: then the feeling of wow, I'm so happy. It is
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  Speaker 2: the essence of a rom common. It was such a
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  Speaker 2: warm storyline, but also too, it was just good to
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  Speaker 2: see her and Reggae Jon like to see them just
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  Speaker 2: glowing and happy in this family.
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  Speaker 3: Even through like the ups and downs that they took
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  Speaker 3: you through.
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  Speaker 2: They were it was like watching them experience life and
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  Speaker 2: experience the things that and it's so hard to talk
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  Speaker 2: about about I'll giving a film away. And the way
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  Speaker 2: that they do it is so jovial. It's it's it's
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  Speaker 2: so a beat. It's just it's just a feel good film.
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  Speaker 2: Like it just makes you feel good to go see it.
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  Speaker 2: From the setting of Italy to the food to the cooking.
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: You know, family was a big element, Grief was a
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: big element, and you still felt good throughout all of
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: that you felt the film did what it needed to do.
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: Y'all need to go see this now.
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: The conversation that is, you know, has been sparked by
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: this is how important this film is in the box
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: office for other black creators. Now there was a director,
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: her name is Nina Lee, and there was a tweet
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: that was posted by another person, uh Jazz Jasmine Sainclair,
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: and she tweeted, the studios are going to watch us
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: during the opening weekend of You Me and Tuscany. They
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: want to see if an original screenplay does well. They
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: want to see if a black rom com does well.
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: I know we can show up and support this movie.
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: This is the movie that we have been waiting for.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: So Nina Lee retweeted, please go see this film on
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: March twenty fifth, right, so last week, sometimes a few
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: weeks ago. She then tweeted and said, Nina Lee, she says,
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: number one, I met with a studio about my already
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: shot rom com and they won't buy it until they
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: see You Me and Tuscany on a rom com that
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: she is referring to as a rom com that she
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: had already shot, that she had already been pitching, and
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: it features Coco Jones, music artists Coco Jones, and comedian
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: Country Wayne. And she says, you know that it was
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: already shot, that it was stuck in limbo of post production,
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: and they told her that they won't buy it until
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: they see You, Me and Tuscany and see how it does.
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: Then she says number two, she met when an exec
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: about a romance script that she has. They won't buy
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: it until they see how You, Me and Tuscany does.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: And number three she reminds people to go see this film.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: The irony of this is that Nina, who is a filmmaker,
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: was actually about to go and speak to a room
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: for a high school students in Atlanta, and she was
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: going to be advising them on how to navigate Hollywood.
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: And this is the this is like the thing that
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: gets it for me.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: It's like the duality that we have to have as
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: black people, right because it's like we always have to
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: be not careful how we speak about things, because like
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: I feel like you should be honest, but it's like
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: you don't wanna, you don't want to speak to your
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: people in a way that's going to discourage someone from
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: maybe becoming the next Spike Lee or be coming the
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: next Nina le right, But at the same time, you
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: were sitting in this world that is like, Okay, your
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: art is good some days sometimes but not right now.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: Well maybe tomorrow once we see all something similar to
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: it does because oh, all of you guys are the same,
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: and in one movie and one storyline and one feel
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: good hugged movie does well, all the rest of yous
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: are gonna be okay, which is not realistic. Even when
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: you me and Tuscimunity does well that movie, it doesn't
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: speak for every black person and how every black person
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: wants to be shown on a big screen.
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: But if you're needing the league, you're.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: Now stuck in this position where you're headed to go
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: speak to these students. You want to inspire them because
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: we I mean, look, the world needs storytellers, good ones,
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: you know, because we need plumbers, electricians and doctors and
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: all that too, But the good storytellers, the world does
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: need them, especially in times like this where a lot
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: of us are being taken out of these positions. A
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: lot of our black you know, editors in chiefs or
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: writers or arms of these big magazines that focus directly
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: on black things are being taken out of here. So
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: as the new era of creators arise, and you know,
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: we are going to start seeing that happen without the majors,
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: without the platforms, and people doing it on their own.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: Somebody got inspired to people. So you're headed out to
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: go speak to these kids. But internally you're in this
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: limbo because the same industry that you've always wanted to
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: be a part of that you've had success in because
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: she has had success with other things. Right, it's telling
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: you not right now, I don't care about the bills
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: you got to pay. I don't care about the fact
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: that you know, black people are in a mona are
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: in a monolith.
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: Just not right now.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: Now, you me and Tuscany is projected to do more
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: than ten million dollars to start, which is a solid
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: start for them because coming in with the eighteen million
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: dollar budget according to Variety. But at the same time,
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: I mean, if the conversation that happens, because this conversation
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: happens every single time something black is headed to the theater,
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: but especially a romcoon because in recent years studios have
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: kind of like got away from ram right, but especially
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: black lead ones.
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: But there have been studies that have kind of pointed at.
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: The fact that, like Hollywood is not really paying attention
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: to their own information. So there was a study that
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: was done that a lot of you know, these articles
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: that are having this discussion are pointing to. And I
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: went and took a look at the study, and I'm like,
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: it's so crazy because basically, what this study is saying
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: is that the goalpost keeps moving, which we already know.
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: But until you have numbers, nothing matters.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: Like even Will Packer he was speaking to Variety, he
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: had no issue in any of these tweets. He said,
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: what they're going to do for you with You, Me
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: and Tuscany and what they need to do is going
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: to help creators like her. Right. So Will Packer spoke
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: to Variety about the tweet and he says, and about
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: the movie You, Me and Tuscany, and he says, when
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: it comes to You, Me and Tuscany predicting the future
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: for films like it, if the dollars don't make sense,
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: If the dollars make sense, then you'll see more of it.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: And if Hollywood in Hollywood would change and adjust. So
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: I'm trying to do my part to be successful in
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: a language that Hollywood understands, which is really not the
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: language of social justice. It's the language of economics, the numbers.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: And that's so I'm like, it's crazy to me that,
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: you know, Hollywood is such a numbers business. And I
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: get it because it's all about give and tick. It's
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: all about the investment in the return. But there was
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: a report done in twenty twenty five by a university
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: but I'm sorry, by doctor Anna Christina Raman. She's one
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: of the co authors of UCLA Hollywood's Diversity Report. Now,
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: in this report from twenty twenty five, they point out
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: the fact that it's not the issue of if black
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: movie goalers will go support a black led movie, because
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: numbers show that we do, and this has.
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: Been proven time and time and time and time again. Right.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: So, according to her report, I pick men and unambiguously
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: made up the largest audience share for ten of these films.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: So they're looking at a list of twenty theatrical films
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: from twenty twenty four.
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: So twenty theatrical films from twenty twenty four is the
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: list of those twenty films. Ten of these films, right,
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: So that's half of the.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: List Black, indigenous or people of color.
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: US okay us, some of us.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: Men made up the largest audience share for ten of
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: those films, right, and then by pick women black indigenous
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: people of color women accounted for the largest audience shares for.
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: Another six of the films. So that's sixteen.
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: That's the majority of the lists that we show up for.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: White women and white men each made up the largest
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: audience share for just one of these top twenty films.
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: According to the study.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: If audiences are aware that a black led movie exists,
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: they will go see it, which presents the first hurdle
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: for black led films to overcome.
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: Which is why as much as people want to say, well.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: You could put things straight to streaming, or you can
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: put things straight to Amazon, or you know, I mean
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: Amazon are streaming, but you can put things straight to wherever.
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: Right. The reason why people like these.
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: Filmmakers want to get studios behind them because when you
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: get studios.
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: Behind them, you get budgets, you get dollars. In order
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: for you to really see your return, people have to
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: know the want to come out.
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: Budgets and dollars go into production colls, marketing, costs, distribution density,
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: all of these things that help to push a movie,
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: and the more that people know about it, the more
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: that people.
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: Will come out listen.
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: We want to stay locked in and see how the
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: numbers work with Umi and Tuscany, to see.
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: The impact that it has.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: But if I were a studio, after seeing what Sinners
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: just did with getting people back to the box office,
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: I'm betting on Everything Black if I'm a studio.
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: But again again, s even when the numbers make.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: Sense, the goalposts moves, I hope that you, Me and
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: Tuscany does exactly what it's supposed to do and it
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: and it is a great film. I'm not just saying
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: that because of this conversation. It is actually a great film.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: I suggest everyone goes out and see it. But when
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: it does what it's supposed to do, what I hope
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: we see is other people getting a shot. But we
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: always hope this Easter Ray said this year is ago.
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: I vote.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: I'm rooting for everybody black, and a lot of us
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: have always been rooting for all everybody black. Some of
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: us are new, you know what I mean to to
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: the so coming on over here, And I huffing puff
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: when I say that, cause it's sad to have to
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: say that. But all skin folk and kin folk, and
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: we know that, but some of us are new over here.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: But when you see what movies like Sinners just did
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: this last year, if I'm a studio, I am itching
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: for not just the the the next Black Sinners and
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: even that, We're gonna see if that happens again. Because
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: in this conversation I saw there were some tweets from
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: one of the there was a director who had you know,
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: shot his shot for like an Asian like rom com
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: type of.
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: Movie, and he was responding to me, Neil.
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: Because basically when Nina Lee that director tweeted that tweet
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: and put her phone away and went and spoke to
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: that class, she went so viral because like movie fan
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: sites like pop Crave and stuff picked it up. So
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: people started having conversations about you know, directors and producers about.
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: What they were experiencing.
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: Fans commentators like it went crazy viral, right, So there
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: was a a Asian director who basically said that he
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: had shot his shot for a film and was told
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: kind of the same thing, but the Asian version like, oh, well,
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: you know this was some years ago, Like oh, we
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: want to see how crazy rich Asian does.
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: And then world circle.
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: Back and then when it did well, he went back
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: to the studio and the studio was like, oh well
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: that was basically a nonomaly, like that won't happen again.
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: And I feel like that's what they're going to try
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: and do and say about Sinners as well too, Like
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: the more we push because with Jordan Peele and a
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: lot of the things that Jordan Peele was doing and
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: how well you know those movies were doing no matter
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: where you went and saw them, I feel like they
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: still try to make it seem like it was like
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: a one off and couldn't be done. And then I mean,
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: even even with Ryan Coogler, like I think what Ryan
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: Coogler did with Black Panther, you would have thought that
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: studio is really understood where and how we should be
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: positioned from that, and then you know, he comes back
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: and does what he does with Sinners, and there are
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: people still having conversations about how amazing this is and
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: it's like, d he.
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: Ain't new it is.
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: Hallie Bailey actually commented on Nina Lee's Sweet as well
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: and talked about how unfair all of this pressure on
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: black films in theaters is.
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: That's take a listen.
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: There was this writer director named Nina Lee, who basically
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: shared online that she had this rom com already shot
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: and went to go like pitch it in Hollywood to
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: its sex and they basically told her that they were
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: gonna wait on it until they saw the performance of
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: Uni and Tuscany.
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: Did you see this news?
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: I did see this.
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: How did that make you feel? Being the star of
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: this film?
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: I think it's amazing to be a black creator, and
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: I think Nina is doing something so wonderful in the
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: art that she's creating. And I feel like it almost
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: isn't fair for us to have to like, you know,
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: oh well, we're gonna watch how this one does and
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: then will greenlight you Like it shouldn't be like that
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: at all. But I do think that we are known
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: for breaking barriers and not letting anything stop us as
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: a community.
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: And I think that even when the.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: Goalposts may be moved every single time, we still we
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: will persevere no matter.
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: So we'll see what happens. I'll keep you guys posted
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: for sure.
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: I know that the talent from the movie had been
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: out doing a bunch of interviews, so what's their breast
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: of that as well too? Please go see the film.
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: Let me know how you guys feel about the film.
• 29:57
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