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Rooting For Everyone Black ( Oscar Wins and SXSW real conversations with Ciara) · The Breakfast Club

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Speaker 1: I'm a homegrowl that knows a little bit about everything
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Speaker 1: and everybody.
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Speaker 2: You know, if you don't worry about that.
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Speaker 1: Hey, y'all, what's up. It's Laura le Rosa and this
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Speaker 1: is the latest with Laura Rosa. This is your Deadly
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Speaker 1: did with all things pop culture, entertainment, news and all
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Speaker 1: of the conversations that shake the room.
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Speaker 3: Baby.
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Speaker 1: Oh go morning, guys. I mean, we'd honestly checking it
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Speaker 1: behind the scenes of the Grind. It's just excitement. The
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Speaker 1: oscars are going down, have happened, and there is a
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Speaker 1: lot to celebrate. Our girl, Tiana Taylor did not go
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Speaker 1: home with the oscar. But if I'm being honest, Tiana
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Speaker 1: Taylor won this award season. Okay, jumping right on into
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Speaker 1: the latest because yes, like let's let's let's just go
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Speaker 1: on over there, and I got a conversation that is
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Speaker 1: going to shake this room for sure today, let's get
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Speaker 1: into it. So Tianna Taylor did not win because she
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Speaker 1: was up for Best Supporting Actress and it was a
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Speaker 1: very tough category. She was nominated alongside a few other
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Speaker 1: amazing women, including womani A Masaku from Sinners and Amy
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Speaker 1: Magden for Weapons and Amy Magden actually took the award home,
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Speaker 1: and I mean she shouted out Tiana Taylor in her
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Speaker 1: awards speech and then also Tiana Taylor like when they announced,
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Speaker 1: because you know how people are always watching to see
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Speaker 1: like how people feel about like, Okay, that person won,
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Speaker 1: let's pay to them and let's see how they feel
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Speaker 1: the way Tiana Taylor was so energetic, so excited all
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Speaker 1: night long, like all night long, like it.
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Speaker 3: Honestly, it's like her energy gives she knows.
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Speaker 1: Even though she did not take home that trophy for
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Speaker 1: this particular ward, because one battle or another did win
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Speaker 1: several awards that evening. Since already won, she understood the assignment.
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Speaker 1: She did award season very fashionably, very clean. You know,
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Speaker 1: she has everybody talking about how she is, you know,
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Speaker 1: Hollywood's new girl, even though she's been around.
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Speaker 3: But it's it's just amazing to see.
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Speaker 1: And I mean, I don't know about you guys, but
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Speaker 1: if you've been following, just even the Oscar predictions and
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Speaker 1: all the things, it was slated that she was going
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Speaker 1: to have an amazing award season, Like just to be
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Speaker 1: in the conversation alone is just so amazing for Tiana Taylor.
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Speaker 3: So I'm so proud of her. Michael B.
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Speaker 1: Jordan took home the award for Best Actor, which was
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Speaker 1: his first nomination. Ryan Coogler is officially an OSCAR winner
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Speaker 1: of winning Original Screenplay.
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Speaker 3: I mean, there's just so much excitement here.
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Speaker 1: I want you guys to like, you know, as you're
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Speaker 1: watching these award shows, you know, the Oscars, if you
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Speaker 1: haven't watched it or anything moving forward, Like a lot
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Speaker 1: of times when I'm watching them, it's like, Okay, I
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Speaker 1: want certain people to want I want certain things to happen,
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Speaker 1: But I always think about, like just what causing the
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Speaker 1: conversation means? Dad asked Michael B. Jordan after the Oscars.
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Speaker 1: How does he feel? What's his message to people who
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Speaker 1: tell black actors to not care about the awards because
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Speaker 1: a lot of times we get shut out of them, right,
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Speaker 1: And here's what he had to say.
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Speaker 2: As someone who just wanted tonight.
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Speaker 4: What does this recognition mean to you and to other
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Speaker 4: writers coming up?
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Speaker 2: Man? I feel like it feels timely, you know.
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Speaker 4: I feel like, like I said before, I'm I'm here
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Speaker 4: because of the people that came before me.
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Speaker 2: You know, Sydney and Denzel and.
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Speaker 4: You know Halle Berry and forrest and you know, all
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Speaker 4: those actors who grace the stage and and and not
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Speaker 4: looking for awards and not looking for acknowledgment that their artists,
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Speaker 4: they want to do the work, you know. And that's
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Speaker 4: something I've always focused on trying to do the work.
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Speaker 4: My father always told me, don't expect anything to be
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Speaker 4: handed to you. You know, you do the work, you know,
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Speaker 4: and everything else is going to figure itself out. And
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Speaker 4: you know, there is a there is a selfishness and
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Speaker 4: in understanding that in your craft, in your industry, this
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Speaker 4: is a pinnacle and this is this is what you know,
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Speaker 4: our industry standard is what we put value on in
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Speaker 4: a big way. That that competitiveness. You do want that,
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Speaker 4: you know. But at the same time, there's a you know,
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Speaker 4: what's for you is for you, and you can't take
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Speaker 4: anybody's blessings away from anybody else. So I'm just like
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Speaker 4: walking my path, man, and just trying to be locked in.
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Speaker 4: So I would encourage other actors and other you know, artists,
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Speaker 4: no matter what they're you know, their their medium is
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Speaker 4: is to try to keep that in mind and be
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Speaker 4: honest and truthful and just you know, do do you
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Speaker 4: know dream big man?
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Speaker 2: You know, dream big and and uh and be kind
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Speaker 2: bro be honest.
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Speaker 4: I'm really I'm really big on like pouring into the universe,
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Speaker 4: and the universe is gonna pour it back into you.
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Speaker 2: And that's that's how I try to live.
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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Because if you think about it,
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Speaker 1: like I mean, as much as people say this stuff
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Speaker 1: doesn't matter, I feel like this stuff matters. It puts
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Speaker 1: your work amongst the greats and hangs them in great places.
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Speaker 3: And even though Sinners is great.
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Speaker 1: And what it did for box office is legendary regardless
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Speaker 1: of an Oscar, you gotta, like, I mean, think about
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Speaker 1: the fact that so if Michael be Jordan, I'm sorry,
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Speaker 1: if Ryan Kugler had won Best Director, he would have
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Speaker 1: been the first black man to win Best Director in
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Speaker 1: ninety eight years of the Oscars. As sad as that
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Speaker 1: stat is, think about how groundbreaking that is for another director.
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Speaker 1: But even though he didn't win, think about what seeing
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Speaker 1: Ryan Kugler in all of the Center's cast there how
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Speaker 1: groundbreaking it is for other creators, entertainers, directors. So shout
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Speaker 1: out to everybody, Shout out to all the winners, Shout
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Speaker 1: out to everybody that just made it in the conversation
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Speaker 1: in the room on the stage.
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Speaker 3: Okay, how about that. But speaking of stages in rooms.
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Speaker 1: I did a live conversation over the weekend at south
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Speaker 1: By Southwest for iHeart with see Era.
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Speaker 3: She is a not just an artist, I mean iconic.
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Speaker 1: My goodies, it is twenty one years of you know,
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Speaker 1: just that era of good feeling music, and now see
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Speaker 1: Heer is using her song one two Step to help
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Speaker 1: people understand why they should be doing everything they can
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Speaker 1: to prevent HIV.
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Speaker 3: In today's time.
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Speaker 1: I think these conversations are still very taboo, even my
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Speaker 1: decision to get involved in the conversation. You know, when
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Speaker 1: my team came to me, they're like, are you sure
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Speaker 1: you want to do like? And I'm like yes. Like
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Speaker 1: in my household, I grew up where my mom like
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Speaker 1: we talked about this stuff. She made us get tested.
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Speaker 1: We knew what being tested meant. We knew, you know,
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Speaker 1: the windows you were supposed to testing, the amount of
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Speaker 1: months in between you were supposed to testing. I was
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Speaker 1: doing that since like eighth grade, just because she wanted
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Speaker 1: to make it not taboo. And I didn't know that
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Speaker 1: that was not normal to other people until I got older.
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Speaker 1: So what Sierra is doing is pairing music and culture
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Speaker 1: and her influence with telling people, hey, especially black women, y'all. Look,
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Speaker 1: I learned in this conversation that of new HIV cases,
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Speaker 1: fifty percent.
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Speaker 3: Of them are black women.
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Speaker 1: And out of that fifty percent, there is you know,
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Speaker 1: only two percent that are doing preventative things like utilizing
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Speaker 1: an immune boosting drug like a prep or you know,
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Speaker 1: just even being tested properly. Having conversations with your partners
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Speaker 1: like this conversation is why I think pop culture and.
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Speaker 3: The movement of it is so important. So please take
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Speaker 3: a listen.
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Speaker 5: Most brilliant idea it was to say we're going to
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Speaker 5: take one two steps and say one two breath.
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Speaker 6: I'm just saying they might need a little right, because
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Speaker 6: it's so.
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Speaker 5: Very great idea, and it made it fun. You know,
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Speaker 5: it really made it fun. And I'm excited to be
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Speaker 5: here today. Now we're going to talk about some good stuff.
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Speaker 5: But this is the power of music. You know, music
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Speaker 5: has the ability to connect us all, you know, beyond
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Speaker 5: the color of our skin, our ethnicities, social economic backgrounds,
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Speaker 5: different languages. Like music defies all barriers and it really
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Speaker 5: is a I mean, I feel so blessed this is
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Speaker 5: my day, my daytime, just's my job I do every day.
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Speaker 7: Well, what do you think about Sarah's music mak feature.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I think it's genius. I think I was
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Speaker 1: when she was walking up and the song was playing.
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Speaker 1: I just remember like how old I was and going skating,
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Speaker 1: just everything I was doing with my friends, you know,
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Speaker 1: when the song was like like this is our song.
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Speaker 7: It just feels like it belongs to us.
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Speaker 1: But so I think to use it to have a
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Speaker 1: conversation that should belong to everybody as well.
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Speaker 7: I think it was a great correlation and it's catchy, so
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Speaker 7: that works, that's right. And of course after more, what
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Speaker 7: did you think about our spot? Yeah?
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Speaker 2: I love it.
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Speaker 7: I love it, and I mean.
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Speaker 8: I agree with Sierra that whoever came up with one
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Speaker 8: two prep should receive range.
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Speaker 1: But when you think back to like just any movement
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Speaker 1: that we've ever had, like especially if you're trying to
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Speaker 1: talk to black people, music has always been like a
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Speaker 1: part literally used as language to guide and to you know,
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Speaker 1: you know, just.
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Speaker 7: Get people from one place to another.
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Speaker 1: I just I don't know, I think on all our
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Speaker 1: platforms nowadays, like if you're having conversations the right way
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Speaker 1: and you're utilizing pop.
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Speaker 7: Culture the right way.
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Speaker 1: You talk about like impacting people, you can literally change
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Speaker 1: somebody's life, you.
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Speaker 7: Know, depending on what you're talking about.
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Speaker 1: So, you know, I think these are these are the
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Speaker 1: ways that you should be using pop culture and music
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Speaker 1: and influence your voices and figures like see her in
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Speaker 1: her song to having these conversations like it's it's almost
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Speaker 1: like a I would say, like a rite of passage,
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Speaker 1: almost like until your song becomes a part of a movement,
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Speaker 1: it ain't a song.
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Speaker 7: But yeah, it's just one of those things that should
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Speaker 7: be happening.
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Speaker 1: Like we talk about everything else, and pop culture is
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Speaker 1: what's popular, and these conversations should be popular with the
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Speaker 1: other hard at right, Cierra, what do you think about that?
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Speaker 5: You know, I say that there's I've always said there's
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Speaker 5: the three ms of the most powerful forces on Earth, Music, money,
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Speaker 5: and medicine. And I said that music gives you a
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Speaker 5: feeling that money can't buy sometimes and music can be
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Speaker 5: a heal source for those that maybe suffer from terminal
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Speaker 5: illnesses that medicine can't even cure.
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Speaker 6: So that's why I know the power of music.
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Speaker 5: And I just feel so blessed that this is literally
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Speaker 5: I can just express my voice through the platform of music.
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Speaker 6: And I do agree with Lauren.
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Speaker 5: You know, there is something about the power of urban
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Speaker 5: pop culture. Pop cultures, they would say, sometimes a message
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Speaker 5: just travels faster through music, right, And that's the beauty
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Speaker 5: of it.
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Speaker 6: That's what music is supposed to do.
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Speaker 5: Right. It's music is it's supposed to you know, feed
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Speaker 5: the soul in all kinds of ways, whether it's a
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Speaker 5: spiritual desire, whether it's an emotional need, like I said,
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Speaker 5: if someone's healing. I mean that is a beautiful gift
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Speaker 5: and power of music. So you know, I added a
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Speaker 5: fourth end today on this journey. I said, I'm going
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Speaker 5: to add media, right, because when you bring music and
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Speaker 5: media together, it's incredibly powerful and potent.
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Speaker 6: Right, So I agree with Lauren.
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Speaker 5: You know, I think back today's you know, there was
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Speaker 5: a platform called teen Summit. Is anyone remember that, right,
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Speaker 5: And you think about how heighten the conversation was surrounding
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Speaker 5: things like HIV and STIs. Get all my acronyms dound,
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Speaker 5: but you know, if you think about how present, how.
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Speaker 6: Prevalent those conversations.
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Speaker 5: Were, and it was heightened at one point in time,
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Speaker 5: and then it just kind of became chill, kind of
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Speaker 5: silent in the background.
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Speaker 9: Any thoughts around being able to the power of music
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Speaker 9: and pop culture and making changes within the healthcare spits.
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Speaker 1: I think anything you can do to make change within
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Speaker 1: the health care space, do it. So if it's music,
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Speaker 1: and I think music is I mean, you know, it's
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Speaker 1: like cliche when people are like music is a universal language.
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Speaker 1: But like if you think about it, like when you
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Speaker 1: are going through the toughest for the best of times,
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Speaker 1: you know you're about crecaming, want to turn out with
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Speaker 1: your friends, or you know you remember somebody that you love,
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Speaker 1: or a moment like I was telling you guys about
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Speaker 1: when I was watching.
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Speaker 7: Year Walk up Here.
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Speaker 1: It's music that like makes you get there, right, So
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Speaker 1: if that's the entry way into somebody's thoughts, minds, behavior patterns,
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Speaker 1: I say, do it. Like there are so many things,
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Speaker 1: like I'm a caretaker for my mom and my grandmother
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Speaker 1: and they're good, but they're older and things are changing,
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Speaker 1: and you know, so being close to the home has
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Speaker 1: been so helpful for me and for them.
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Speaker 7: And I was having a conversation with my grandmother Friday.
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Speaker 1: She called me and was like, well, I have this
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Speaker 1: like bubble thing on the back of my leg and
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Speaker 1: it's been bothering me for two months.
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Speaker 7: I didn't want to tell you, but I think I
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Speaker 7: should go to the doctor now. And I'm like, Mama, what.
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Speaker 1: But when she gets in the car and she's on
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Speaker 1: her way to the doctors, she's listening to the radio
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Speaker 1: and she calls me. She's like, Oh, I'm listening to
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Speaker 1: you on the radio. What's the song they're playing? After
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Speaker 1: the And I'm like, okay. Even if something as easy
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Speaker 1: as her turning on the radio on her way to
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Speaker 1: the doctor's office makes her ask questions about something she
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Speaker 1: should be doing, Please make it happen, because she won't
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Speaker 1: go any other way, you know what I mean.
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Speaker 7: Like help us all out.
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Speaker 1: So I think that it's kind of like it's like,
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Speaker 1: you know, if you can oh in that great way
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Speaker 1: and in ease going into it, and sometimes you.
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Speaker 7: Have to do that, you know, unfortunately. And doctor Moore,
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Speaker 7: do you agree with that?
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Speaker 5: Yeah?
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Speaker 7: I totally agree with that.
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Speaker 8: And I think music transcends, you know, and in a
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Speaker 8: lot of ways for many of us. When I think
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Speaker 8: about you, for example, Sierra, You've been like in our ears,
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Speaker 8: in our hearts and our minds for you, right with
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Speaker 8: your music.
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Speaker 5: And the impact you've made, because if we don't talk
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Speaker 5: about things like we don't know and then it's I
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Speaker 5: wish I could have yeah wish.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, you know you think about like that's real. So
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Speaker 6: we have to do more of that in.
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Speaker 9: The normalize conversations, especially when it comes to you know,
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Speaker 9: topics like HIV prevention prep where it's not top of
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Speaker 9: mind for a lot of people and it is to stigmatized,
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Speaker 9: and discussions like this can help to bring the conversation.
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Speaker 7: Into the mainstream. And you know, you should be proud.
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Speaker 9: Of taking care of your health, right, yeah, yeah, after
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Speaker 9: there are any doubts on that.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, I love what you said about making health keeping
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Speaker 8: staying healthy cool.
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Speaker 2: I love that.
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Speaker 8: I also I'm just thinking about like longevity and having
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Speaker 8: us think about HIV testing and press all of these
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Speaker 8: as an overall health and wellness goals, right thinking about
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Speaker 8: them in the same way we think about getting love
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Speaker 8: pressure screenings that you know that we think about getting
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Speaker 8: diabeting screenings, et cetera.
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Speaker 7: That this is all just a part of staying healthy.
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Speaker 5: Yeah it feels yeah, it feels good though, it really does.
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Speaker 5: When you can walk in your confidence as I kind
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Speaker 5: of was, you know, seeing all things that come to
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Speaker 5: my mind a second ago.
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Speaker 6: But it is a good feeling.
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Speaker 5: Though, when you you know, can walk out confidently knowing
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Speaker 5: where you stand.
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Speaker 3: Right, you know.
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Speaker 6: Like so for me, like I said, I would begin
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Speaker 6: to get excited.
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Speaker 5: I'm going to do my blood panel, going do my
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Speaker 5: EKG And the thing is is so freaking fast, Like
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Speaker 5: the process is not long. Now you don't have a
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Speaker 5: wait for your panels to come back, you know, and
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Speaker 5: you're checking your level and making sure everything is right.
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Speaker 5: But you know, it's it's a good feeling to like
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Speaker 5: check off all those important boxes in your life. Right.
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Speaker 5: So it's like you want to be you know, from
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Speaker 5: my perspective, my legacy is like you know, in my mind,
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Speaker 5: I want to be one of hopefully you know, be
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Speaker 5: the best artist that I can be and hopefully leave
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Speaker 5: a good legacy there. And then well, the most important
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Speaker 5: one is the wife and the mom part of it.
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Speaker 5: I want to leave the legacy there. But the thread
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Speaker 5: through is my health. If I don't have my health right,
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Speaker 5: then I can't be great in all those areas, right,
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Speaker 5: so you know, making it a cool thing?
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Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, I love that it just makes it more relatable, right, right,
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Speaker 10: and that's what we want to get more people into
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Speaker 10: the conversations, right, Yeah, learn any thoughts around that.
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Speaker 1: And I just was thinking about all the conversations we
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Speaker 1: were having just before we came up here, and just
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Speaker 1: everything I didn't know, Like, and I'm I'm not like young,
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Speaker 1: like I'm older, I'm in the world, I'm around, I'm
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Speaker 1: learning things. I'm you know, I think I'm a little educated,
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Speaker 1: but like it doesn't none of that matters because like
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Speaker 1: literally today there were things that I was fucking and
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Speaker 1: I was like, I didn't know that, and it was
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Speaker 1: like kind of scary. And then I started thinking about
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Speaker 1: like you know, like you have group chats with your
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Speaker 1: friends or like you know, wherever y'all talk or there's Facebook,
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Speaker 1: text message or whatever. And I started thinking, I'm like
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Speaker 1: we we and my friends we ask each other a
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Speaker 1: lot of things and we check up on each other,
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Speaker 1: and you know, the mental health conversations are such a
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Speaker 1: big thing now and all of that, but I'm like,
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Speaker 1: we've never had a conversation about like, yo, are y'all
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Speaker 1: getting tested for anything? Honestly, Like I think we just
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Speaker 1: all assumed that it's not happening, and you know, we
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Speaker 1: all assume that everybody knows how often they should be
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Speaker 1: doing things or what are preventative measures like PREP and like,
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Speaker 1: you know, like I didn't even know that PREP wasn't
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Speaker 1: just for ment, Like I had no idea about that
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Speaker 1: because of the way that I've always heard it talked about, right,
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Speaker 1: So just I don't know, Like you're I don't think
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Speaker 1: any question is a dumb question. I also don't think
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Speaker 1: that you're ever too, Like you don't know anything enough
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Speaker 1: to not know something like You're always going to be
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Speaker 1: finding out new things and it's okay and coming to
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Speaker 1: spaces like this and having conversations like this. That's the
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Speaker 1: only way to really educate yourself, like in real time,
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Speaker 1: because what I don't know at any point if I
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Speaker 1: would have just sat down and been like, let me
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Speaker 1: look into PREP, like to be honest, like, and you're
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Speaker 1: busy day to day, like if we're being realistic, like
17:22
Speaker 1: you don't take as much time to just like randomly
17:25
Speaker 1: do things like that unless something's wrong, really right, or
17:28
Speaker 1: unless it's brought to you. So just being here today,
17:30
Speaker 1: I was finding out so much stuff. So I'm like, yo,
17:32
Speaker 1: like if I don't know this. How many people do
17:35
Speaker 1: I know that don't know this? And Doc was when
17:37
Speaker 1: he was talking to us back there, he was like,
17:39
Speaker 1: you know, one thing I just challenged you guys to do.
17:41
Speaker 7: Please tell a friend about what we're talking about.
17:43
Speaker 1: Today, Like and that's the easy ask, Like, that's the
17:45
Speaker 1: easiest home work I've ever got.
17:47
Speaker 5: So.
17:49
Speaker 7: Yeah, the fear of knowing, right, the fear of knowing
17:52
Speaker 7: your HIV.
17:54
Speaker 8: Status, and that that fear can sometimes keep people from
17:58
Speaker 8: even getting tested.
18:00
Speaker 7: I think it's really important for people.
18:01
Speaker 8: To know that, you know, knowing is the most important
18:05
Speaker 8: thing once you know, we have treatment, we have prevention available,
18:09
Speaker 8: that HIV is not a death sentence, right.
18:12
Speaker 7: You know, like those things that people still think.
18:15
Speaker 8: We have to make sure that we're dispelling those myths
18:18
Speaker 8: so that more people will come in and get tested
18:20
Speaker 8: and have those conversations with their doctors.
18:22
Speaker 5: Yeah, Doc, can you please share some of the amazing
18:25
Speaker 5: things you're sharing with us backstage.
18:27
Speaker 6: On that piece?
18:28
Speaker 2: Yes?
18:28
Speaker 8: Yes, So one sobering statistic that I'll share is that.
18:35
Speaker 7: Among women, women who are.
18:39
Speaker 8: Black account for fifty percent of new HIV diagnosis in
18:43
Speaker 8: twenty twenty three. So that's the most recent surveillance data
18:47
Speaker 8: that we have fifty percent.
18:49
Speaker 7: We also have data that shows that less than two.
18:53
Speaker 8: Percent of women PREP users or excuse me, less than
18:57
Speaker 8: two percent of PREP users are black women.
19:06
Speaker 5: And that's why I'm using my platforms.
19:09
Speaker 7: Right, That's good, that's w yeah.
19:18
Speaker 9: Yes, And obviously this is why you know, we were
19:23
Speaker 9: able to leverage your song and making sure that we're
19:25
Speaker 9: getting the word out there and you know, people are
19:28
Speaker 9: going to pay attention to you when that song comes on.
19:31
Speaker 5: I like. But also too was also big for me
19:38
Speaker 5: being the blessing and that I am. The Latino community
19:42
Speaker 5: as well has also been significantly impacted by the HIV
19:46
Speaker 5: virus as well, So it's not just you know, one
19:50
Speaker 5: particular you know part or community of the world. It's
19:53
Speaker 5: you know, you see how it's pouring throughout everywhere, but
19:57
Speaker 5: again in these other specific spaces was very enlightening for me, right,
20:02
Speaker 5: and we got to just get for me from my perspective,
20:06
Speaker 5: you know, being a woman of color, I want my
20:08
Speaker 5: girls to get out. Let's let's go like, have no fear, like,
20:12
Speaker 5: let's know our health status, you know, let's be confident
20:16
Speaker 5: in that. And then I think, to your point, doctor Morow,
20:18
Speaker 5: which has to be reassured for people is that you
20:21
Speaker 5: still can thrive. You still can you know, go and
20:24
Speaker 5: live a full, robust, happy, healthy life even if you
20:28
Speaker 5: are impacted by it. Right, So, I think that's very
20:31
Speaker 5: encouraging for those that need to hear that as well.
20:35
Speaker 8: Curious what you think the next kind of year looks
20:38
Speaker 8: like as we have introduced culture of music into this conversation.
20:42
Speaker 7: I'm both thanks for the question.
20:44
Speaker 1: I mean, definitely it's going to take longer than the year,
20:48
Speaker 1: but just within this like upcoming time and the time
20:51
Speaker 1: that we're in right now, I mean, I think the
20:53
Speaker 1: biggest thing in you to do is provide information for
20:55
Speaker 1: people because like, okay, whatever I heard, even healthcomversations right
21:01
Speaker 1: about who doesn't go get checked out? I've always heard
21:04
Speaker 1: the conversation men, men, men go get this. Like That's
21:08
Speaker 1: literally been the conversation and the stigma that I've heard.
21:12
Speaker 1: And today when I was talking and he was telling
21:14
Speaker 1: me about you know that fifty percent and then then two,
21:17
Speaker 1: I was like, wait, I thought, you know, women, we
21:20
Speaker 1: were doing.
21:21
Speaker 7: Good and I want everybody to do well.
21:23
Speaker 1: But like it just blew my mind that I'm hearing
21:26
Speaker 1: the conversation one way all the time everywhere when nothing
21:31
Speaker 1: like it's these numbers are are so different or here
21:35
Speaker 1: on this side right. So I think that is a
21:38
Speaker 1: big part of it, is just putting correct information out there.
21:40
Speaker 7: And I think for everybody is anybody in here media.
21:43
Speaker 1: Yeah, so anybody that's media, even if you I mean
21:46
Speaker 1: you want X, you want threads, you know, TikTok, whatever
21:49
Speaker 1: you're doing, even if you're not working for a platform.
21:51
Speaker 7: I think that that's like the where we are right now,
21:54
Speaker 7: that's the way.
21:55
Speaker 1: Then, that's where we say is people want things that
21:57
Speaker 1: are factual, and they want to under seeing things. They
22:00
Speaker 1: want clarity, And I think if you have a platform,
22:03
Speaker 1: that is the best thing that you could do for
22:04
Speaker 1: people because there's so much of the noise out there,
22:07
Speaker 1: and do it around things like this, like me being
22:10
Speaker 1: here today. It wasn't like a hard to answer. It
22:12
Speaker 1: was like, yes, I want to go and be a
22:14
Speaker 1: part of it. But I don't know a lot of
22:17
Speaker 1: people who'll be like, yeah, sign me up, like you know,
22:19
Speaker 1: because people don't want to have this conversation of like yo,
22:22
Speaker 1: this is really happening. I don't know everything I want
22:25
Speaker 1: to know. More So I think to answer your question.
22:27
Speaker 1: I hope that I'm answering it. It's just putting out
22:30
Speaker 1: information that is factual. I also think too, we share
22:34
Speaker 1: a lot in this era.
22:36
Speaker 7: Right now when what was her name again? They need
22:40
Speaker 7: that beast Idea.
22:42
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I was talking too glad to their platform
22:45
Speaker 1: today and I can't remember her name, but I remember
22:48
Speaker 1: going and watching a young woman in Idia speak about
22:52
Speaker 1: her journey being HIV positive, and she was talking about
22:55
Speaker 1: like being young and dating, and there was just so
22:58
Speaker 1: many things that I had never thought when it came
23:00
Speaker 1: to a person who was living HIV positive and how
23:03
Speaker 1: they live their life, and it changed my whole perspective.
23:07
Speaker 7: Of what that looks like. Right, stop sharing your story
23:11
Speaker 7: and I know certain things at first, I'm not telling
23:13
Speaker 7: everybody even on Lune just whatever.
23:15
Speaker 1: But if you are okay with that, I think that
23:17
Speaker 1: that's a part of it as well too, Like people
23:19
Speaker 1: don't know because they just don't know, or because they
23:22
Speaker 1: don't know someone that's talking about it, like me, getting
23:24
Speaker 1: to go and watch her talk about her life and
23:26
Speaker 1: her journey. God Rest her soul changed my whole world
23:30
Speaker 1: of how I think about everything when it comes to
23:32
Speaker 1: people who live HIV positive and the fact that you
23:35
Speaker 1: can live a life, right, But I would have known
23:37
Speaker 1: that if she wasn't sharing her story. So I think
23:39
Speaker 1: putting factual information out there, statistics, you know, platforming people
23:44
Speaker 1: who really know what they're talking about, and then you know,
23:47
Speaker 1: sharing your journeys and your stories, and that could even
23:49
Speaker 1: be as simple as like talking about being here today
23:51
Speaker 1: and what you learn, Like you don't got to put
23:53
Speaker 1: all your business out there, but like just being literally
23:55
Speaker 1: being like, yo, all went to this panel today and
23:58
Speaker 1: here's everything I learned, and then somebody's going to watch
24:01
Speaker 1: that and be like, oh wait, okay, So you know,
24:04
Speaker 1: I think that that's a big part of it.
24:05
Speaker 7: Like we've got it. This week is on us now,
24:08
Speaker 7: we've just got to do it.
24:10
Speaker 11: Thank you for this in cardinal conversation, A very important conversation.
24:15
Speaker 12: In a time like now when so many people don't
24:19
Speaker 12: know about prep and access to this type of prepetitive care.
24:24
Speaker 12: But also at the same time, we have legislation being
24:28
Speaker 12: passed to actually now this month, twenty states or more
24:34
Speaker 12: are now scaling back their access to HIV care, which
24:39
Speaker 12: will ultimately also impact people on a global scale.
24:43
Speaker 7: So how do we use a pop culture and also.
24:48
Speaker 11: Health professionals to combat this scaling back of these things,
24:54
Speaker 11: the rollouts of these policies, while also getting people more
24:58
Speaker 11: informed that the these medications do exist.
25:02
Speaker 5: But now there's a hurdle to get there. You just
25:05
Speaker 5: can't stop on the message, right.
25:07
Speaker 7: We can't stop right.
25:09
Speaker 5: It's they can try to, you know, put all these
25:11
Speaker 5: things in place, but I think we have to go
25:13
Speaker 5: harder on getting the message out right. And that's why
25:17
Speaker 5: I'm really pumped again to use my platform.
25:20
Speaker 6: We have to go hard here. And I think it's
25:22
Speaker 6: also about doctor where.
25:24
Speaker 5: I'm going to toss it to you, but I think
25:26
Speaker 5: it's also about people just simply knowing where you can
25:28
Speaker 5: go and it might have to be a little drive,
25:31
Speaker 5: but you know, to get to the place if they're
25:33
Speaker 5: starting to shut down certain locations that are making it complicated.
25:35
Speaker 6: But I'm going to toss it to you on that piece.
25:39
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'll add to that.
25:40
Speaker 8: I think this is one of those times where we
25:42
Speaker 8: we have to really double down on advocacy, honestly, and
25:46
Speaker 8: I think having conversations like this and having platforms that
25:51
Speaker 8: is yours, where you talk about these issues that you
25:53
Speaker 8: just mentioned of those twenty three states pulling back like
25:56
Speaker 8: we essentially have to make noise.
25:58
Speaker 7: We have to make.
25:58
Speaker 8: Ourselves big enough to be seen and be heard and
26:01
Speaker 8: for that impact to be built at that level.
26:04
Speaker 7: And so I think that's why I really love your answer, Lauren, around.
26:08
Speaker 8: You know, using your platform in order to share about
26:12
Speaker 8: this and in the same way, using your platform to
26:14
Speaker 8: share about how access is being limited during this time,
26:17
Speaker 8: I think is key because otherwise there are a lot
26:20
Speaker 8: of people.
26:20
Speaker 7: Who won't know about it.
26:22
Speaker 8: And what I find is a lot of HIV messages
26:24
Speaker 8: just aren't permeating well, like they're not making it to people.
26:29
Speaker 8: And a big part of that is like kind of
26:31
Speaker 8: the limited reach of the platform of the health department
26:33
Speaker 8: or the limited reach of you know, certain platforms. So
26:36
Speaker 8: it's like when there is responsible use of a platform
26:39
Speaker 8: that's bigger than ours than it allows for those messages
26:43
Speaker 8: to really reach people who need them the most.
26:46
Speaker 5: Look, Lauren, we got this baby got well, we can
26:52
Speaker 5: have voices just here being you.
26:54
Speaker 7: Know, to answer your questions too.
26:58
Speaker 1: That's why I think platforms like Club like, we have
27:00
Speaker 1: a lot of fun there, but every day I just
27:03
Speaker 1: I like watch some of the conversations that we have
27:06
Speaker 1: and I'm like, it's so powerful certain platforms that like
27:09
Speaker 1: you're on. Like if you guys are hearing you work
27:13
Speaker 1: for a platform, I really do implore you to enjole
27:16
Speaker 1: Man Wi crazy to hearing me say this, because he's
27:18
Speaker 1: literally screams it at me every day to like really
27:21
Speaker 1: think about the why, because like it's fun and we
27:25
Speaker 1: get to have fun, and like if you think about it,
27:27
Speaker 1: like culture makes things cool for real.
27:30
Speaker 7: But like we're having.
27:32
Speaker 1: Conversations there about like going and getting certain things checked
27:36
Speaker 1: up on and you know, like in our front page
27:39
Speaker 1: news Mimi Brown, she talks so much about like what's
27:42
Speaker 1: happening with the administration and gives a call to action
27:44
Speaker 1: of where you can go, what websites, who you can call.
27:47
Speaker 1: Like that is so important because it's all it's all
27:51
Speaker 1: we kind of can do to a certain extent.
27:52
Speaker 7: Unless you're you know, working in government. We're out were voting,
27:55
Speaker 7: we're doing those things.
27:56
Speaker 1: But sometimes that's all you got and it matters a lot.
28:00
Speaker 1: Like people really like culture and media is like our
28:04
Speaker 1: like love language amongst all of us. Like you don't
28:07
Speaker 1: have to love or like a person at all, but
28:09
Speaker 1: y'all might be this into the same radio show every morning,
28:11
Speaker 1: essex them and maybe it's a purpose club.
28:14
Speaker 7: But like you get what I'm saying.
28:15
Speaker 1: So it's like, you know, you have all these people
28:17
Speaker 1: that attached to like what you're saying on a daily
28:19
Speaker 1: you become a part of their routine.
28:20
Speaker 7: So if you're on these platforms like tell people like.
28:24
Speaker 1: You know, talking about all the stories are cute, but
28:26
Speaker 1: it's like what's the why, Like what are you really
28:28
Speaker 1: providing for people? And if you think about it that way,
28:31
Speaker 1: you know, that can start to solve problems because they
28:34
Speaker 1: now the resources are there and it's in a place
28:36
Speaker 1: that they think is cool, so they're listening and then
28:38
Speaker 1: action comes.
28:39
Speaker 3: Find I'm one of the Rosa.
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Speaker 1: This has been another episode of the Latest with Lona
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Speaker 1: Rosa got you guys every single episode.
28:45
Speaker 3: Look, y'all could be anywhere with any old body talking
28:48
Speaker 3: about all of the things that.
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Speaker 1: You guys, choose to be right here with me every
28:52
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