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INTERVIEW: Garcelle Beauvais Talks 'Taken At A Truck Stop: A Black Girl Missing,' RHWOBH, Jamie Foxx + More · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 3: Vy just insulted her for that. Was so disrespectful.
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  Speaker 4: goddamn reasons.
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  Speaker 1: That's a mind of good. How is yours? She said?
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  Speaker 1: The boys at eighteen?
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  Speaker 2: I said, you know, you know I met the boys.
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  Speaker 1: I was talking about the boys. Okay, I believe you
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  Speaker 1: time and you are fine?
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  Speaker 3: Wine.
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  Speaker 1: How you feeling.
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  Speaker 6: I'm feeling really good. I'm really in a great place.
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  Speaker 6: Work is you know, popping. I have this great new
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  Speaker 6: movie that's coming out and I'm producing.
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  Speaker 5: It's been really, really fun.
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  Speaker 1: Do you miss Housewives at all?
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  Speaker 5: No?
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  Speaker 1: So you're not coming back at all, not anytime soon? Wow.
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  Speaker 5: No, I mean it was great.
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  Speaker 6: It was great in terms of like I got a
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  Speaker 6: new audience and they were really.
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  Speaker 5: Wonderful things that happened because of the show. But I
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  Speaker 5: think my time was up.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so why did you leave because your time was up?
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  Speaker 1: Or was it contracts?
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  Speaker 3: Was it?
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  Speaker 5: No, nothing like that. I just couldn't do it anymore.
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  Speaker 5: It was really hurting my spirit. I just couldn't do it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: that was really it.
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  Speaker 2: People try to put you and pit you and Bose
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  Speaker 2: against each other and they thought that.
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  Speaker 3: We don't know why.
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  Speaker 5: No, not at all, not at all.
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  Speaker 6: I mean I met with Bose prior to her coming
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  Speaker 6: onto the show for lunch.
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  Speaker 5: We got along great. So No, it wasn't anything like that.
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  Speaker 6: It was just I couldn't physically, mentally spiritually do it anymore.
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  Speaker 3: I'm big on discernment.
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  Speaker 4: How do you know, especially in this business, and something
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  Speaker 4: does not agree with your spirit?
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  Speaker 6: You know what, I've been really great about choosing me
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  Speaker 6: when when I'm when I'm faced with something, I've done
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  Speaker 6: it with you know, relationships. I've done it in other
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  Speaker 6: places where I felt like, you know what, if I
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  Speaker 6: don't choose me, it will probably not work out for me.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, So yeah, I have faith and I just knew
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  Speaker 5: it was time. Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Now, what is seton gonna do without you?
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  Speaker 5: Girl? I don't know that's on her.
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  Speaker 8: Support of way, but you now, sudden when we had
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  Speaker 8: Bows up here. I'd asked her about the unfollowing on Instagram,
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  Speaker 8: because that became a whole thing.
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  Speaker 9: You followed some of the ladies, all the.
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  Speaker 5: Ladies when I left yea, yeah, yeah, yeah, when I left.
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  Speaker 8: And I mean people, the fans were commenting why they
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  Speaker 8: thought it happened, and she said, and she thought, maybe
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  Speaker 8: it was just like you know, you go through a breakup,
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  Speaker 8: you just want to get rid of anything. That's exactly
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  Speaker 8: the reason I just needed space. I just didn't, you know,
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  Speaker 8: if you're I follow people who.
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  Speaker 6: I want to see what they're doing and I want
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  Speaker 6: to support, and if you know, I don't see why
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  Speaker 6: I need to follow you.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to see what they're doing.
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  Speaker 7: No, there's no need for it.
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  Speaker 8: There was also the thing too of when Erica Jane
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  Speaker 8: and when Erica Jane and Bows were on Watch What
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  Speaker 8: Happens Live and and he asks about you not returning
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  Speaker 8: to the show.
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  Speaker 9: Did you see that clip?
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  Speaker 5: I saw the clip? Yeah?
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  Speaker 9: How did you feel about the answers?
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  Speaker 5: Mean girls? M hmm, that's all.
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  Speaker 1: What was the clip? Because me and l look at each.
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  Speaker 8: Other, So basically he asked about how they felt about
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  Speaker 8: Garsel and not returned to the show, and they were
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  Speaker 8: silent and it was like nobody wanted to say anything.
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  Speaker 8: And then when someone when Erica said something that was
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  Speaker 8: like won't he do it? Like you know it was
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  Speaker 8: it was like a there was a weird pause and
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  Speaker 8: we were trying to figure out what that meant and
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  Speaker 8: the fans hopped in the comments. When Bose was here
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  Speaker 8: and sand And said that, uh, it was that there
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  Speaker 8: was no support from her to you. She said that
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  Speaker 8: that wasn't true, but did do you feel like she
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  Speaker 8: supported you through that season?
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  Speaker 6: You really don't want to go back there, honestly, I'm
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  Speaker 6: here from my movie. I love that I'm selling shows.
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  Speaker 6: I just would like to stay on a positive note.
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  Speaker 4: One of them called you old, No, I don't know
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  Speaker 4: what's going on.
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  Speaker 8: People, and we were like we I think we attached
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  Speaker 8: to you so much on the show because we're in
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  Speaker 8: your life, and that's.
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  Speaker 9: Because we're fans of you and we miss you on
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  Speaker 9: the show.
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  Speaker 6: I appreciate that I understand what you're doing, what you're
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  Speaker 6: you know, I said, it's also your job that ain't me.
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  Speaker 10: I'm still attached to Fancy and I know that I
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  Speaker 10: know that you probably like look I ain't fancy no
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  Speaker 10: more either, but.
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  Speaker 5: I loved I loved that character.
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  Speaker 6: I love that job, like I had never really done
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  Speaker 6: comedy and meeting Jamie and you know, us having instant chemistry,
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  Speaker 6: and we thought if we did thirteen episodes we would
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  Speaker 6: have been golden.
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  Speaker 5: We ended up doing a hundred episodes. Like, I mean,
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  Speaker 5: it's unbelievable. I can't go anywhere.
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  Speaker 6: Without someone saying fancy. He says when he's out there,
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  Speaker 6: like where's fancy? So it's like people connected with that
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  Speaker 6: and that it's a great thing.
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  Speaker 5: That's how it was.
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  Speaker 9: When you walked in a room.
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  Speaker 8: I don't know if you heard me, I was like,
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  Speaker 8: oh shit, right, yes, when you walk on my damn.
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  Speaker 4: I can't wait to housewives questions.
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  Speaker 1: He's not gonna let it go.
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  Speaker 10: But God did it and God is doing it because
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  Speaker 10: you have not only one movie, you have two films,
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  Speaker 10: but you're up here for taking that which also your
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  Speaker 10: production company actually shot that as Yes, that's amazing.
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  Speaker 5: Congra, thank you so much.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, doing this franchise, Black Girl Missing franchise has
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  Speaker 6: been an amazing thing.
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  Speaker 5: And that's what I'm so grateful.
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  Speaker 6: For, for getting the platform to be able to put
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  Speaker 6: out things that I think will help our community, help us,
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  Speaker 6: And I was sick and tired of seeing the disparity
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  Speaker 6: of when black and brown people go missing, that we
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  Speaker 6: weren't getting the same coverage, we weren't getting the same
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  Speaker 6: urgency or validation.
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  Speaker 5: And we put out this.
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  Speaker 6: Movie the first one, thinking that, Okay, if we can
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  Speaker 6: get people to talk about it, that's a good thing.
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  Speaker 6: And then the numbers went through the roof and it
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  Speaker 6: was trending on Twitter at the time, and now we're.
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  Speaker 5: Onto, you know, movie three. So it's been.
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  Speaker 6: Really amazing and meeting amazing journalists who say, you know what,
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  Speaker 6: we take accountability too because we can tell you who
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  Speaker 6: the Jambonnets are, the Gabby Potito's, you know, the Natalie Holloways,
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  Speaker 6: but we can't tell you the names of the black
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  Speaker 6: girls because we're not featured like that.
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  Speaker 5: And that's what we.
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  Speaker 6: Want people to do, is to know who we are
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  Speaker 6: when we go missing.
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  Speaker 4: Girl missing movie subtitle is very intentional, Yeah, yes, very intentional.
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  Speaker 5: Absolutely absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure I'm sure you did a deep dive into
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  Speaker 2: a lot of the young black girls that are missing.
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  Speaker 2: If you can't break it down, because you know, I'm
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  Speaker 2: a father of four girls. Yes, where is the biggest
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  Speaker 2: place that these girls are taken for?
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  Speaker 1: And what reason is it? The mall? Is it bus stops?
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  Speaker 1: Is it coming from school?
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  Speaker 3: Like?
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  Speaker 1: What is the biggest so I can.
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  Speaker 5: Be on actually everywhere, it's actually everywhere.
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  Speaker 6: The second movie we did was called Abducted at in HBCU,
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  Speaker 6: and we're really trying to teach the you know, not
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  Speaker 6: only girls, but boys too, Like when you're in college, build.
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  Speaker 5: A community, you know, so that if you.
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  Speaker 6: Don't show up for classes for three days, somebody's gonna
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  Speaker 6: go work, so and so like it's about having a community,
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  Speaker 6: but it's also ringing the bell. And my niece has
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  Speaker 6: girls in college, and she was like, you're scaring me
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  Speaker 6: with your movies, and I go, I'm trying to scare you,
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  Speaker 6: you know, just so that we're all aware, so it
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  Speaker 6: can happen anywhere.
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  Speaker 5: The malls. There are guys that groom the girls.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, there's all kinds of ways of these girls
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  Speaker 6: going missing. I mean I was just in Vegas at
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  Speaker 6: the airport and I went to the bathroom and went
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  Speaker 6: the minute I closed the stall. There's a whole sign
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  Speaker 6: about if you're being abducted, if you're being travel so
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  Speaker 6: it's everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Oh the week I took a picture because I just
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  Speaker 4: thought it was it wasn't strange. But one of them
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  Speaker 4: was like, if you're with somebody who wants to offer
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  Speaker 4: you money, I was like what, yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, And they also target girls who you know, sometimes
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  Speaker 6: are more vulnerable and maybe there's you know, people at
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  Speaker 6: home are working so she's alone.
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  Speaker 5: A lot, or there's you know, all types of ways.
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  Speaker 3: So I just took that.
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  Speaker 5: How about that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they said you said, didn't ask you one time
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  Speaker 2: when you was with your daughter, didn't ask you?
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I was on the plane and uh when somebody came
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  Speaker 4: on to the plane, is like if that's your daughter?
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  Speaker 3: And I'm like, I hope so.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, but I'm actually glad they're asking, right, Yeah, just
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  Speaker 5: because it's so prevalent when we're you know, not everyone's
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  Speaker 5: aware of that. Yeah.
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  Speaker 9: In this movie, you talk about community.
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  Speaker 8: In this movie, your community, your truck community shows up
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  Speaker 8: for you in a big way, and it's through like
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  Speaker 8: not that I don't want to give it away, but
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  Speaker 8: they show for you in a big way.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: What's the importance of not finding community but knowing how
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  Speaker 8: to utilize it best in a high stake situation, like
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  Speaker 8: once someone goes missing and the cops won't help.
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  Speaker 6: You, right, and that okay, that's one of the things
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  Speaker 6: I will answer your question. But like a lot of
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  Speaker 6: families have to take it upon themselves to look for
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  Speaker 6: their family members because they're not getting the support they need.
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  Speaker 6: So with the trucking community, by the way, there's a
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  Speaker 6: there's a group of female truckers that are like badasses.
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  Speaker 6: And we take it for granted. These people are on
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  Speaker 6: the road a lot, they're alone, they're missing out on
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  Speaker 6: you know, birthdays and anniversaries and what they and their
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  Speaker 6: job is dangerous. So we wanted to showcase that there's
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  Speaker 6: a community in every sector of life, no matter what
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  Speaker 6: you do and no matter what your profession is.
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  Speaker 5: It's like, let people know, you know that you're around.
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  Speaker 4: One of the female truckers called him men they pick
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  Speaker 4: up lizards.
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  Speaker 5: There there is that, Yes, yes, yes, yes, that is
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  Speaker 5: the thing.
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  Speaker 6: But you know what, I learned a lot like these
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  Speaker 6: truckers when they go driver.
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  Speaker 1: That's why like that he.
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  Speaker 7: Is so okay, narrow minded.
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  Speaker 5: Have you all been together across No?
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  Speaker 7: No, no, but yes, no, I was not a lot
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  Speaker 7: know all the zs they.
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  Speaker 3: Were before me.
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  Speaker 7: Thank you, go ahead, I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 5: Tell me about your husband. Know how long has he
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  Speaker 5: been doing it?
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  Speaker 8: So he's been in the business for five years okay
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  Speaker 8: or whatever. But like I met him three years ago,
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  Speaker 8: so I was he was like two years into it
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  Speaker 8: when I met him, and yeah, you know, we had
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  Speaker 8: a couple of little lot of Liszt's hand there, you know,
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  Speaker 8: but when I came in, they laughed.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, yeah, just one.
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  Speaker 4: To know what female truck drivers called the men that
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  Speaker 4: they pick up, that's all.
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  Speaker 8: You know what.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know if they have a name for him.
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  Speaker 7: I'm pretty sure she didn't do that research to do
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  Speaker 7: this movie.
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  Speaker 9: That's not it.
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  Speaker 5: Why how do you deal with him being on the road.
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  Speaker 10: I'm still trying to deal with it, okay, you know
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  Speaker 10: because the schedule, with my schedule and his schedule, we
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  Speaker 10: we're trying to figure out like how.
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  Speaker 7: We can balance and then we have a one year old.
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  Speaker 10: Oh so we're still trying to balance that and still
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  Speaker 10: trying to be full time lovers.
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  Speaker 7: That's very hard, very hard.
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  Speaker 4: You should's Mexicans, so you know what everything going on
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  Speaker 4: in the world.
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  Speaker 2: Face It's like, why did I come this morning?
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  Speaker 5: Are you talking about us? Yes, that's scary for everybody.
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  Speaker 5: It's scary for everyone.
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  Speaker 9: Is not really from ice R.
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  Speaker 5: No, he's not.
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  Speaker 3: The profile.
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  Speaker 5: It's really sad. Yeah, it's a horrible place to be.
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  Speaker 5: But that's another topic.
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  Speaker 4: Why was it important to add the element of dealing
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  Speaker 4: with an autistic family member?
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  Speaker 5: We really wanted to.
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  Speaker 6: There's so much misconceptions about autism and what that looks
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  Speaker 6: like and what that is, and obviously there's different you know,
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  Speaker 6: there's different stages of autism. So we really wanted to
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  Speaker 6: showcase a character that is functioning. But that doesn't mean
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  Speaker 6: that just because she has autism that she's irresponsible. And
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  Speaker 6: but what happened was because she's autistic, she's dealing with
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  Speaker 6: somebody online and you know, we all share too much,
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  Speaker 6: and she shared too much and so then she gets
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  Speaker 6: taken kidnapped.
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  Speaker 10: So yeah, it was first and then you are the
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  Speaker 10: cool badass. Okay, you know what was Okay? So this
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  Speaker 10: is the first time I've ever seen.
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  Speaker 7: A role like this.
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  Speaker 10: I've never played a role like this, so preparing for
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  Speaker 10: something so different, yeah you are you know what was
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  Speaker 10: that preparation? It was really really fun because we got
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  Speaker 10: to talk to a couple of professional female truck drivers
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  Speaker 10: and what she taught us was really great. And one
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  Speaker 10: of the actress who plays my my sister comes from
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  Speaker 10: a trucking community too. But it was just all about
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  Speaker 10: like safety and how to drive and how to get
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  Speaker 10: in and out of the truck, which, by the way.
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  Speaker 5: The trucks are so tall. By the end of shooting,
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  Speaker 5: the back of my thighs were kneeling just from jumping
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  Speaker 5: up and down.
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  Speaker 6: But it was just a fun role because it was
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  Speaker 6: like something different from me.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I really enjoyed it.
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  Speaker 10: Even the fighting choreography, even listen, I loved it.
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  Speaker 7: Okay, that was good.
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  Speaker 2: How does this affect you as a parent as a
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  Speaker 2: mom now because you have young men, Yeah, that out
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  Speaker 2: and about in college, in school, dating, How.
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  Speaker 5: Does that af It affects me? And I'm much more aware.
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  Speaker 6: But I've always had conversations with my kids. One because
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  Speaker 6: I have black kids, even those sometimes they look like
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  Speaker 6: they could be you know, But I've always talked to
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  Speaker 6: my kids, especially Oliver, about being respectful if you're the cops.
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  Speaker 5: Come to you, or just being out in the world.
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  Speaker 6: You know, how to navigate being a black young man
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  Speaker 6: and being respectful and because people will have misconceptions of you,
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  Speaker 6: just because I remember I was in a supermarket with
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  Speaker 6: my son, Oliver, and he went to go get something
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  Speaker 6: and I was in another lane, and as he's coming around,
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  Speaker 6: I was at the end of the aisle, and so
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  Speaker 6: in between us was this older white woman and the
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  Speaker 6: minute she saw Oliver, she clutched her purse and she
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  Speaker 6: got You could tell she got tense.
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  Speaker 5: And I thought to myself, if anything happened.
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  Speaker 6: To you, he would be the first one to come
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  Speaker 6: and help, you know.
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  Speaker 5: But it's just the It's just how we're seeing sometimes,
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  Speaker 5: you know.
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  Speaker 3: How do I think we should have told people when
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  Speaker 3: they do that, be like, I don't want it this fake?
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  Speaker 10: But how did he feel about that? Did he share
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  Speaker 10: it with you? How he felt about that?
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  Speaker 5: Or did he Yeah, he just kind of like brushed
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  Speaker 5: it off, like, you know, I don't even know if
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  Speaker 5: he realized it. But I saw it because I saw
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  Speaker 5: him coming, you know. Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: Why was it important for you guys to include the
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  Speaker 8: domestic violence element in the movie in align with the
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  Speaker 8: trucking world? Was there like research that you saw that
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  Speaker 8: parallel to time?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah? No, not at all.
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  Speaker 6: I think the writers just you know, got you wanted
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  Speaker 6: to put that in. There wasn't any It wasn't intentional
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  Speaker 6: in terms of like we had to do that. I
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  Speaker 6: think it was just to show like where Kai came
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  Speaker 6: from and why she was so connected to her niece
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  Speaker 6: because she didn't have children of her own, and so
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  Speaker 6: that was really a way of setting that up.
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  Speaker 8: And I like the way, like as the big sister,
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  Speaker 8: it's like the world is on your shoulders, but yeah,
• 14:49
  Speaker 8: you know what I mean, but you're handling it. And
• 14:51
  Speaker 8: then when you reveal certain things about yourself in the movie,
• 14:53
  Speaker 8: it shows you as human too.
• 14:55
  Speaker 5: Oh thank you. Yeah.
• 14:56
  Speaker 6: I mean I love the fact that we had like
• 14:59
  Speaker 6: that sister complicated complex relationship. We loved each other, but
• 15:03
  Speaker 6: there was still friction like in real life. And then
• 15:06
  Speaker 6: I also loved my relationship with my niece too. I
• 15:09
  Speaker 6: think there's a sweet side of how she looked up
• 15:12
  Speaker 6: to her and their bond, which I thought, you know,
• 15:15
  Speaker 6: was nice.
• 15:16
  Speaker 4: When you and the producers get around, y'all, E was say, man,
• 15:18
  Speaker 4: we're tackling a lot of themes, right you. Yeah, pratic violence, stalking,
• 15:23
  Speaker 4: and the lack of honorability in black women, like do
• 15:26
  Speaker 4: you ever think yourself, Okay, maybe this film that too
• 15:29
  Speaker 4: many nuanced.
• 15:30
  Speaker 5: No, we didn't think of like because I think life
• 15:32
  Speaker 5: is complex.
• 15:32
  Speaker 6: I think I don't think everything is just streamline and
• 15:34
  Speaker 6: everything's perfect. So in telling this story, we felt like
• 15:39
  Speaker 6: that was okay and it worked without being heavy handed
• 15:42
  Speaker 6: or you know, hitting.
• 15:43
  Speaker 5: You over the head. It just it felt like it
• 15:45
  Speaker 5: it could be real. Yeah.
• 15:48
  Speaker 10: What does it mean to you to have a legacy
• 15:50
  Speaker 10: network like Lifetime amplify these black stories?
• 15:53
  Speaker 6: Yeah, No, it means everything. I mean when we brought
• 15:55
  Speaker 6: them the first Black girl missing, they.
• 15:57
  Speaker 5: Got it right away.
• 15:59
  Speaker 6: They were like, how soon can we can we show
• 16:01
  Speaker 6: this and can we you know, get behind it.
• 16:04
  Speaker 5: It was really great because a lot.
• 16:05
  Speaker 6: Of times people don't want to deal with the heavy stuff,
• 16:07
  Speaker 6: you know, but obviously Lifetime deals with, you know a
• 16:10
  Speaker 6: lot of things. But they they understood the assignment and
• 16:14
  Speaker 6: I'm grateful for that.
• 16:16
  Speaker 5: And now we're on movie three, so it's a good thing.
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: Do you like do you enjoy the acting part? Do
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: you enjoy reality part? Do you enjoy the EP part?
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: What's your favorite?
• 16:24
  Speaker 5: Oh?
• 16:25
  Speaker 6: My favorite is being a talk show host because I
• 16:27
  Speaker 6: did the real for I did the reel and before
• 16:30
  Speaker 6: the reel, I was up for the view and I
• 16:32
  Speaker 6: did Hollywood Today Live. I mean, that's my that's my wheelhouse.
• 16:36
  Speaker 6: But I love I mean, I'm a Sagittarius.
• 16:38
  Speaker 5: We get bored easy.
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: So I'm getting up and doing the same thing every
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: day and all that every day that that doesn't.
• 16:45
  Speaker 5: Like doing different things, you know what I mean.
• 16:47
  Speaker 6: I enjoyed the reality for EVERYBODJ.
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry that's happening.
• 16:54
  Speaker 9: It looks so good. You're setting things off.
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: I don't know what to make you feel good. I
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: don't know what's happening.
• 17:00
  Speaker 5: But anyways, I like doing.
• 17:02
  Speaker 6: I like doing, challenging myself and doing all kinds of things.
• 17:06
  Speaker 6: But you know, producing now I'm really enjoying and going
• 17:09
  Speaker 6: into a room and pitching to networks.
• 17:11
  Speaker 5: I mean, it's a new side of me that if
• 17:14
  Speaker 5: somebody told me when I first started this industry that
• 17:17
  Speaker 5: I would be doing that, I'd be like, there's no way,
• 17:19
  Speaker 5: But yeah, I really enjoy it. Yeah, because I didn't
• 17:22
  Speaker 5: see that because we weren't really allowed back then. If
• 17:24
  Speaker 5: you were an actor, you were in that lane, you know,
• 17:27
  Speaker 5: and things are different now, so it's been really cool
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: to just you know, so.
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: Even when you saw black producers, black writers, black directors
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: back then, you never thought it was no wow, No.
• 17:40
  Speaker 6: I never I mean I thought, Okay, I'm acting and
• 17:42
  Speaker 6: I'll continue doing that. But I didn't see another road
• 17:45
  Speaker 6: after that. In terms of producing. I don't want to direct,
• 17:48
  Speaker 6: that's not my thing, but producing I really like.
• 17:51
  Speaker 8: Do you deal with an element of like imposter syndrome
• 17:53
  Speaker 8: sometimes when you're walking into those drums because you never
• 17:55
  Speaker 8: kind of saw it for you.
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: I just said that to a girlfriend of mine.
• 17:58
  Speaker 6: You know, I walk into like, you know, going into
• 18:00
  Speaker 6: Netflix and Hulu and ABC and pitching shows, and I
• 18:03
  Speaker 6: walk it out and I'm.
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: Like, who the fuck do I think?
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: I guess right?
• 18:10
  Speaker 6: But I think sometimes you like, I couldn't. I couldn't
• 18:12
  Speaker 6: have dreamt this big, you know, coming from Haiti, not
• 18:15
  Speaker 6: knowing the language, you know, learning English, watching Sesame Street, Like,
• 18:20
  Speaker 6: I didn't know that all these things were possible.
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: So I think that's the beauty of it is. Uh
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: Now I'm like, Wow, that's incredible. And my kids can
• 18:30
  Speaker 5: see that. You know, I can be a mom, but
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: I can also be all.
• 18:34
  Speaker 6: These other things too, Yeah, which I think it's important
• 18:36
  Speaker 6: for your kids to see absolutely what was it stressful
• 18:39
  Speaker 6: for you at any moment because you didn't only start
• 18:41
  Speaker 6: in the movie, so you had learn lines and everything,
• 18:43
  Speaker 6: but like you produced it and then your production company
• 18:45
  Speaker 6: had so you had to wear so many different heads.
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: Yeah, for sure. I mean we tried to make all.
• 18:50
  Speaker 6: The important decisions obviously before we started production, and then
• 18:54
  Speaker 6: once I was on set, I was strictly an actor
• 18:56
  Speaker 6: because that was important for me to just stay there.
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, especially since it's a role that I
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: haven't done before. But but yeah, it's been really fun.
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: It's been really kind of cool.
• 19:07
  Speaker 7: Are you casting for any upcoming projects? Do you want
• 19:11
  Speaker 7: to absolutely? I want great absolutely to tell you look
• 19:15
  Speaker 7: like and that's about Taylor to a girl.
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: Yes, it's amazing.
• 19:28
  Speaker 7: And my father and your father.
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: That's good, he is the father.
• 19:35
  Speaker 7: Yes, but I would love to audition.
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: I love that absolutely.
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: What's your favorite form of storyteller?
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: Out of all out of the reality, I mean, out
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: of the talk shows, reality TV, the.
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: Movies, my favorite. I mean, I think again it goes
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: back to, you know, hosting and talking to people because
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: I love, I'm curious about people, and so that's I
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: guess my top thing. But after that, I you know acting.
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: Also, Yeah, do you feel pressure to as a producer
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: that one day have to tell a story from Haiti?
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: You know, I've wanted to. I've done.
• 20:12
  Speaker 6: My first producing job was a short that I did
• 20:15
  Speaker 6: about sex trafficking, and it wasn't so much about Haiti,
• 20:18
  Speaker 6: but we shot part of it in Haiti. And I
• 20:22
  Speaker 6: would love to. I would really love to. I feel
• 20:24
  Speaker 6: like we can't get a break.
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: So much rich history in that country, a lot of misconceptions, so.
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: Much, so much.
• 20:31
  Speaker 5: I mean, I feel like.
• 20:34
  Speaker 6: It's been decades centuries since we've had hardship, and every
• 20:38
  Speaker 6: time we think we're gonna get to a better place,
• 20:40
  Speaker 6: we're knocked down.
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: So it's it's really discouraging and hard to watch.
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: I didn't know you could speak English when no.
• 20:48
  Speaker 6: I couldn't speak a lick ofst I moved in January,
• 20:51
  Speaker 6: didn't speak a word of English, never seen white people,
• 20:54
  Speaker 6: and we moved to Massachusetts in January.
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: You are starting, Yeah.
• 21:01
  Speaker 6: So I watched, Yeah, I watched Sesame Street and learned
• 21:04
  Speaker 6: a apple b banana and yeah, I was seven.
• 21:10
  Speaker 9: When did you discover the arts? And we're processing?
• 21:13
  Speaker 6: You know, I always wanted I've always like would put
• 21:16
  Speaker 6: on little shows for my family.
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: So I always had it in me.
• 21:19
  Speaker 6: Yeah, but I didn't discover I was discovered as a model.
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: When I was seventeen.
• 21:26
  Speaker 6: We moved to Miami because my mom couldn't take the
• 21:29
  Speaker 6: weather anymore in Boston. So I a friend of mine said,
• 21:32
  Speaker 6: do you want to be an extra in a commercial?
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: And I was like, what's an extra? And he goes
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: it pays seventy five dollars a day for two days.
• 21:39
  Speaker 6: I was like, count me in. That was like big
• 21:41
  Speaker 6: money back then. And I was in this commercial by
• 21:44
  Speaker 6: the second day. There was a black, pretty black girl
• 21:47
  Speaker 6: that was a principal talent, and I went up to
• 21:50
  Speaker 6: her and I go, how do I do what you're doing? Like,
• 21:51
  Speaker 6: I don't want to be an extra? How do I
• 21:53
  Speaker 6: do that? She wasn't having it, so I found out
• 21:56
  Speaker 6: she was with this agency in Fort Lauderdale. I asked
• 21:58
  Speaker 6: my mom to borrow her car. I drove up to
• 22:01
  Speaker 6: Fort Lauderdale. I didn't have pictures, I didn't have an appointment.
• 22:04
  Speaker 6: I didn't know anything, but I thought somebody's gonna tell
• 22:06
  Speaker 6: me something. So I'm in Fort Lauderdale. I stop at
• 22:09
  Speaker 6: a red light. I poked my head out to chet
• 22:12
  Speaker 6: check my makeup in the mirror. So I do that,
• 22:15
  Speaker 6: and then I'm reaching for my lip gloss in my
• 22:18
  Speaker 6: bag on the passenger seat and a hand.
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: Comes in the car and scares a shit out of me.
• 22:22
  Speaker 6: And it was the woman behind me. She got out
• 22:24
  Speaker 6: of her car at the red light. She gives me
• 22:27
  Speaker 6: a card and she goes, you should be a model.
• 22:29
  Speaker 6: And it was the agency I was going to without
• 22:31
  Speaker 6: an appointment, without oh wow, okay, look at you couldn't
• 22:36
  Speaker 6: have scripted it.
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: So now I show up and I got a car.
• 22:39
  Speaker 6: And so now I'm like and they tested me, they
• 22:43
  Speaker 6: got pictures. I did test shoots with photographers, and about
• 22:47
  Speaker 6: nine months later Iileen Ford of the Ford Modeling Agency
• 22:50
  Speaker 6: was scouting all over the country and they asked ten
• 22:52
  Speaker 6: of us to come and meet with her. And I
• 22:54
  Speaker 6: met with Eileen Ford and she said, you should come
• 22:56
  Speaker 6: to New York.
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: And I moved to New York at seventeen.
• 22:59
  Speaker 6: The models apartment was full, so I lived with Eileen
• 23:03
  Speaker 6: Ford and her husband Jerry on seventy first in Madison.
• 23:06
  Speaker 6: Didn't know anything, And that's how my modeling career started.
• 23:12
  Speaker 7: And how crazy you become fancy and Jane faction.
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: Well, I started.
• 23:20
  Speaker 6: I moved to LA by then, and they were auditioning
• 23:24
  Speaker 6: girls and every time I had a modeling gig that
• 23:27
  Speaker 6: I had to do, so I kept on canceling the
• 23:28
  Speaker 6: audition and finally they were like, you've got to come in.
• 23:32
  Speaker 6: So I go in. And at the time that was
• 23:36
  Speaker 6: when the R. Kelly Downlow video was out right with
• 23:41
  Speaker 6: mister Biggs and myself. Yeah, and Jamie came up to me. Well,
• 23:48
  Speaker 6: I was waiting in the lobby. He goes, you know
• 23:49
  Speaker 6: how much I requested that video because that's when you
• 23:53
  Speaker 6: had the request videos.
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: And so I went in.
• 23:56
  Speaker 6: We read and I thought, you know, there were other
• 23:57
  Speaker 6: girls that were by far know acting, had more acting
• 24:01
  Speaker 6: ability than me, and.
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: So I left thinking, Okay, at least I did it.
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: And then when I got the job, I was like, wow, yeah,
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: that's crazy.
• 24:10
  Speaker 6: And we hit it off and we've been friends ever since.
• 24:13
  Speaker 6: I was at Karen's wedding recently.
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: And he's a good man.
• 24:18
  Speaker 7: So even big then, right, you don't never have like
• 24:19
  Speaker 7: a little crush on Jamie.
• 24:21
  Speaker 6: Oh yeah, we both had a crush on each other,
• 24:22
  Speaker 6: but we said we weren't going to do anything, and
• 24:25
  Speaker 6: I got engaged two weeks before we wrapped, and he goes,
• 24:29
  Speaker 6: you couldn't wait.
• 24:33
  Speaker 7: I did ask that Chi would question.
• 24:35
  Speaker 10: I don't know, because chemistry was yeah, we did.
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: I want to talk about the power community real quick,
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: because you said you moved from Massachusetts to Miami.
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: I didn't move into Miami.
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: And being around more people that look like you, and
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: I'm sure more Haitians give you give you a confidence book.
• 24:50
  Speaker 5: It was everything.
• 24:51
  Speaker 6: It was everything because one my mom wanted to be
• 24:54
  Speaker 6: closer to Haiti so she could visit family. But going
• 24:56
  Speaker 6: to school with kids that had hair like me, that
• 24:58
  Speaker 6: look like me, I mean, it just changed everything. But
• 25:02
  Speaker 6: when I first went to school, they were like, oh,
• 25:04
  Speaker 6: she thinks she's white.
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: But that's because I.
• 25:06
  Speaker 6: Learned English, you know, in Massachusetts. Right, So, but it
• 25:11
  Speaker 6: was everything. It changed, It changed everything. I felt like
• 25:14
  Speaker 6: I finally belonged, you know, because when I first went
• 25:17
  Speaker 6: to school in Massachusetts, I was the only black girl.
• 25:19
  Speaker 6: They would touch my hair, they would, you know, grab
• 25:22
  Speaker 6: my hair. They didn't they had never seen someone like me.
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: Did you shrink in Massachusetts?
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: I don't know if I shrink because I was so young.
• 25:30
  Speaker 6: I don't know if I knew that, if that was happening,
• 25:33
  Speaker 6: you know, but I still flourished, you know, I was cheerleading,
• 25:38
  Speaker 6: I was dancing, so my mom made sure to keep
• 25:40
  Speaker 6: me busy.
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: How do your kids deal with it now, because it's
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: kind of the same as when you were in Massachusetts.
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: Right, Well, it's different now.
• 25:46
  Speaker 6: I mean, you know, they would go to school with
• 25:49
  Speaker 6: black kids, you know there, Yeah, it's not a their
• 25:53
  Speaker 6: dad took my ex husband took one of my sons
• 25:57
  Speaker 6: to a hairdresser and he was like, only a black man's.
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: Got my hair.
• 26:00
  Speaker 6: Now.
• 26:03
  Speaker 5: I was like, I hear you, I get it, I
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: get it.
• 26:06
  Speaker 8: What do you want people the family members and the
• 26:09
  Speaker 8: friends of people who may have been abducted and you know,
• 26:13
  Speaker 8: have went through these experiences, they're family members and friends.
• 26:15
  Speaker 8: There's a level of like guilt that can happen sometimes
• 26:18
  Speaker 8: in those situations. What do you want them to the
• 26:20
  Speaker 8: message for them to take from the movie.
• 26:23
  Speaker 6: The message is really is that we want them to
• 26:26
  Speaker 6: be seen, we want them to get help.
• 26:28
  Speaker 5: And I think, you know, things happen. You can't feel guilty.
• 26:31
  Speaker 6: For that, you know, I think no matter how well
• 26:34
  Speaker 6: you watch your kids, I mean, things are going to
• 26:37
  Speaker 6: happen in life, right, But it's really about this movie
• 26:40
  Speaker 6: is starting a conversation making sure the families that have
• 26:44
  Speaker 6: missing family members know that they're being seen and that.
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: They should be helped, just like everybody else. And I'm
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: not saying we don't need to help other people.
• 26:52
  Speaker 6: I'm just saying I want us to have the same emergency,
• 26:55
  Speaker 6: the same compassion. Don't say, let's wait for two days
• 26:58
  Speaker 6: they'll come back, because we all know the first forty
• 27:00
  Speaker 6: eight hours the most crucial. Don't say all they're on drugs,
• 27:03
  Speaker 6: they're runaways, Like, give us the benefit of the doubt
• 27:06
  Speaker 6: as well.
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: That's important to me.
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: And one of the worst places that I've witnessed it
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: was LA.
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: If there's a missing person, it seems like they will
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: wait till the last minute. It got to the point
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: where my wife's friend she actually passed, but we were
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: calling and calling.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: Please go by the house, check the house, this, that,
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: and the other. They were like, we're too busy, We're
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: too busy, We're too busy.
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: I'm sitting there like there's a possibility that you could
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: save somebody, right, and it was just like now we're
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: too busy, too busy. Well, we had to get a
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: family member to actually go out there and actually check.
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: But I mean, I'm sure you experienced that a lot
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: when doing that home run.
• 27:39
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's opened my eyes a lot, which is why
• 27:42
  Speaker 6: we need to keep doing this.
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: We need to keep talking about it and hopefully one
• 27:46
  Speaker 5: day we won't have to.
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Kevin Hart and I put out a project called
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: Finding Tamika, and it was about a younger named Tamika
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: Houston who went missing in the early two thousands of Spartanburg.
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: And you know, you learn that black girls.
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: And women get less media attention when abducted, had the
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: white victims like this is actual data staff they call.
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: It missing white woman syndrome. Yeah, actually, yeah.
• 28:06
  Speaker 6: There was a big publication that just did a ten
• 28:09
  Speaker 6: page spread on John Bennet Ramsey, who's been dead twenty years,
• 28:13
  Speaker 6: and we've never had anything like that.
• 28:16
  Speaker 8: I don't know if you've been seeing the news amount
• 28:18
  Speaker 8: of Kata Scott, the young girl who was found dead
• 28:21
  Speaker 8: in Philly. I remember when her story first broke. It
• 28:24
  Speaker 8: was only I was watching it on like the local
• 28:26
  Speaker 8: and my grandmother called me about it, and then I
• 28:28
  Speaker 8: remember I started seeing other outlets pick it up slowly,
• 28:31
  Speaker 8: but it was just you know, just seeing when I
• 28:33
  Speaker 8: was watching the movie yesterday, I thought about her story
• 28:36
  Speaker 8: because it was it took some time for people to
• 28:38
  Speaker 8: even know what was happening with her, and they were
• 28:40
  Speaker 8: begging for the public to help and they needed help
• 28:43
  Speaker 8: to find.
• 28:43
  Speaker 10: Her, or even the documentary I just watched not too
• 28:47
  Speaker 10: long ago of Where's Amy Bradley. Amy Bradley, Yes, been
• 28:50
  Speaker 10: missing for what it would be now, for like twenty years,
• 28:54
  Speaker 10: you know, and but not no slight to her and
• 28:58
  Speaker 10: her family or anything like that. But it's like, we
• 29:00
  Speaker 10: don't get documentary. People don't look for us that long,
• 29:05
  Speaker 10: you know, if they ever do, they just move on.
• 29:08
  Speaker 10: So yeah, that's definitely.
• 29:10
  Speaker 6: Thank you for giving me the time because you guys
• 29:11
  Speaker 6: have a great platform and we want everybody to watch
• 29:14
  Speaker 6: this movie and let's keep talking about it.
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: So I need to get the out of here.
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: Wrapped.
• 29:22
  Speaker 8: This Why you didn't end up on the view, Oh
• 29:31
  Speaker 8: well they just went another way, okay.
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 29:34
  Speaker 10: When it's Tempted to Love coming out January thirty first, Yeah,
• 29:39
  Speaker 10: the reason went out. I'm like, okay, when it's waits
• 29:42
  Speaker 10: coming on board, Okay, Okay, I like my job.
• 29:46
  Speaker 7: I know that's right. How about if I come on but.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: I try to jump in my film like enough. We
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: appreciate you.
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: You definitely check out Taken at a truck Stop comes
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: on the twenty fifth of this month.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: That's what Saturday, Saturday Saturday. Definitely check it out. Thank
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: you so much, thank you. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: Hold on every day a week ago.
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: Pick up the Breakfast Club. Y'all finish for y'all. Done,