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Play It Forward Missed Opportunity With Filmmaker Michele Stephenson · Arroe Collins Like It's Live

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  Speaker 1: It's an amazing place to hang out. Aero dot net
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  Speaker 1: dot net. Enjoy your exploration missed Opportunity. I love sharing conversations.
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  Speaker 1: Hosting them, though requires a lot of show prep. My
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  Speaker 1: podcasting platform features thousands of guests. What you don't have
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  Speaker 1: access to are my missed opportunities. The show prep was
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  Speaker 1: one hundred percent done. The conversation it didn't happen. I
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  Speaker 1: keep all of my notes because I believe paths will
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  Speaker 1: one day cross again. Let me explain missed opportunity. It's
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  Speaker 1: my questions and statements without their answers. I'm leaving open
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  Speaker 1: enough space at the end of every single question, hoping
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  Speaker 1: they'll download the talk and insert their answers. Missed opportunity
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  Speaker 1: is seen as a lost piece of history. It is
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  Speaker 1: a message in a bottle that's been tossed out to see.
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  Speaker 1: I hope to locate a destination. This week, we're putting
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  Speaker 1: focus on my missed opportunity with Michelle Stevenson. Okay, so,
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  Speaker 1: who is Michelle Stevenson? A filmmaker, artist, author who openly
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  Speaker 1: admits to pulling their vision from within their Haitian and
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  Speaker 1: Panamanian roots. Her experiences include being nominated for three Emmys
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  Speaker 1: and winning the Jury Prize at Sundance. So we're talking
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  Speaker 1: big stuff here. ESPN was backing up the short film
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  Speaker 1: Black Girls Play, which by the way, won Best of
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  Speaker 1: the Show at Tribeca. The short film puts focus on
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  Speaker 1: all the handgames that young girls play with their hands.
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  Speaker 1: It's influence music and dance across America and around the world,
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  Speaker 1: and the goal is to trace the entire story of
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  Speaker 1: those handgames dating back to the slave era. Wow. The
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  Speaker 1: invitation to share a conversation with Michelle Stevenson came on
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  Speaker 1: January eighteenth, twenty twenty four. They needed a reserve date,
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  Speaker 1: which was going to be the twenty fifth Thursday, which,
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  Speaker 1: according to everything that I've ever experienced in all my
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  Speaker 1: years of podcasting, that is the most sought after day
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  Speaker 1: for conversations. My reply, as always, was yeah, let's do this,
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  Speaker 1: and they said, okay, how about nine to twenty Eastern time?
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  Speaker 1: And I gave them my answer, which is always in fact,
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  Speaker 1: it's an aroism. It's perfect, nothing else, just perfect. Two
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  Speaker 1: days before the nine to twenty arrival of that conversation,
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  Speaker 1: I received an email that said, Hey, look, don't want
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  Speaker 1: to inconvenience you, but we need to move Michelle's conversation.
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  Speaker 1: Can you please do February second, twenty twenty four? And
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  Speaker 1: I said absolutely, and we'll still do nine twenty correct, correct, Well,
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  Speaker 1: the conversation didn't happen. Coming up next, my questions my
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  Speaker 1: statements with Michelle Stevenson without her answers. Hey, welcome back
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  Speaker 1: to Missed Opportunity. This week, our focus is on filmmaker
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  Speaker 1: Michelle Stevenson. ESPN gave her the opportunity to create this
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  Speaker 1: unbelievable documentary called Black Girls Play. This is such a
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  Speaker 1: true connection to history in the modern world. It's like,
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  Speaker 1: we know what we're doing with dance moves, we just
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  Speaker 1: don't know the story. And you dove into that. What
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  Speaker 1: was that experience? Like how important is TikTok in keeping
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  Speaker 1: this journey growing forward. I gotta ask you, do hand
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  Speaker 1: games change between the different regions of this country and
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  Speaker 1: around the world. So how many people are featured in
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  Speaker 1: this story? I mean you went all out, I mean
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  Speaker 1: you went everywhere with this. We've got to learn how
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  Speaker 1: to preserve these amazing connections. Does this inspire you to
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  Speaker 1: want to grow in other areas so that we can
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  Speaker 1: really get to the root of who we are today. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: I live in the South. I have fallen witness to
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  Speaker 1: a lot of these games. I know this story all
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  Speaker 1: too well. Handgames. Generations have played these handgames, not only
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  Speaker 1: here in the States, but around the world. What is
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  Speaker 1: the actual reaction as you travel and just listen to
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  Speaker 1: their stories. I think one of the things that inspires
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  Speaker 1: me the most about handgames is the style of individualism.
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  Speaker 1: Could it be that this was a connection to outreach
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  Speaker 1: in the way of saying, this is us, this is
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  Speaker 1: how we do it. Let's grow together, bring your style
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  Speaker 1: and our style, and let's have some sort of big
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  Speaker 1: connection here with fighting. Why don't we know this story
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  Speaker 1: and exploration? Why has it taken a documentary to kind
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  Speaker 1: of remind us? But then again, I'm not knocking you.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just saying why aren't we speaking it on the
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  Speaker 1: everyday street. This has helped shape so many genres of music.
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  Speaker 1: Can you imagine if we didn't have these handgames? And
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  Speaker 1: there you have it, another missed opportunity. It is a
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  Speaker 1: lost piece of history. You now know the questions, so
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  Speaker 1: let's locate the answers. The door is always going to
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  Speaker 1: be open. If you know Michelle Stevenson, please reach out
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  Speaker 1: to me at ARROWC at gmail dot com. That's a R.
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  Speaker 1: R Oe C at gmail dot com. As always, be brilliant,