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The U.S. Lost Jobs in July, Dr. Aisha Nyandoro on Making Joy Possible Again Poll and Lionsgate Confirms Michael Jackson Biopic Sequel · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: The US economy is flashing new warning signs. Twenty three
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  Speaker 1: thousand jobs lost in July, wages are slowing, and more
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  Speaker 1: than two million Americans leaving the workforce.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, it looks like we lost jobs, and then
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  Speaker 2: we learned that the previous two months, which had looked
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  Speaker 2: pretty good, actually that was a statistical illusion.
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  Speaker 1: And doctor Aisha Nyandoro joins me to talk about what
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  Speaker 1: black women say they need right now and how her
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  Speaker 1: organization is stepping in to help families.
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  Speaker 3: Recognizing that we make when we make conditions better for
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  Speaker 3: black women, specifically black women in Mississippi, we are making
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  Speaker 3: conditions better for all of us.
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  Speaker 1: And Lionsgate confirms Michael two is officially happening and the
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  Speaker 1: story behind the sequel may surprise you. It's Monday, August tenth,
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  Speaker 1: from the Black Effects Podcast Network, Imimi Brown. This is
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  Speaker 1: front page and here are the day's biggest stories. Stay
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  Speaker 1: with me. There are new signs that the job market
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  Speaker 1: is slowing down the US economy last twenty three thousand
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  Speaker 1: jobs in July. Economists were expecting about eighty three thousand
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  Speaker 1: jobs to be added, and the previous two months were
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  Speaker 1: weaker than for US reported May and June were revised
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  Speaker 1: down by a combined one hundred and three thousand jobs.
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  Speaker 2: This is a very bad set of outcomes. The US
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  Speaker 2: economy had been creating roughly one hundred thousand jobs per month,
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  Speaker 2: or at least that's what we thought. We learned two
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  Speaker 2: really big things today. One we learned that in July,
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  Speaker 2: in fact, it looks like we lost jobs. Then we
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  Speaker 2: learned that the previous two months, which had looked pretty good,
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  Speaker 2: actually that was a statistical illusion. And when we got
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  Speaker 2: better data about what the economy has been doing over
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  Speaker 2: the past couple of months, it turns out it was
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  Speaker 2: nowhere near that good. So right now it would be
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  Speaker 2: really lucky if we could say we were treading water.
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  Speaker 1: More than two million people have left workforce since November,
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  Speaker 1: meaning they are no longer working or actively looking for work.
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  Speaker 1: Wages barely moved in July, and over the past year,
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  Speaker 1: pay is up three point two percent, while inflation is
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  Speaker 1: running about three point five percent, So even for people
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  Speaker 1: who are getting raises, their money is still not going
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  Speaker 1: very far. And with gas averaging about four dollars and
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  Speaker 1: four cents the gallon, families are still feeling pressure. And
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  Speaker 1: the weak jobs report could also change what the Federal
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  Speaker 1: Reserve does next. With the chances of another interest rate
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  Speaker 1: hike in September now falling. Now, let's talk about what
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  Speaker 1: those economic numbers actually look like for families trying to
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  Speaker 1: make ends meet. Doctor Ayisha Nayandaro is the founder and
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  Speaker 1: CEO of Springboard to Opportunities in Jackson, Mississippi. Her organization
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  Speaker 1: works with families living in affordable housing, and her new pole,
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  Speaker 1: Making Joy Possible Again, looks at what black women say
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  Speaker 1: they need to feel financially secure, not just get by,
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  Speaker 1: and the timing couldn't be more important. For the third
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  Speaker 1: year in a row, Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves has decided
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  Speaker 1: not to participate in the federal sun Bucks program. The
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  Speaker 1: program could have given eligible families one hundred and twenty
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  Speaker 1: dollars per child to help buy groceries during the summer
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  Speaker 1: when children are out of school and no longer receiving
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  Speaker 1: free meals. About three hundred and twenty thousand Mississippi children
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  Speaker 1: could have benefited, but by opting out, the state turned
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  Speaker 1: away roughly thirty eight million dollars in federal food assistance.
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  Speaker 1: In response, Springboard to Opportunities created its own summer cash
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  Speaker 1: program to help some of the families it serves by
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  Speaker 1: food while continuing to push the state to join the
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  Speaker 1: federal program. Doctor Aisha Nayandaro joins me.
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  Speaker 3: Now, so, in the Making Joy Possible polling that we
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  Speaker 3: just did, where we went and we talked to black
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  Speaker 3: women voters in Mississippi about the economy, about jewelry, about
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  Speaker 3: the dreams that they have for their lives. Unfortunately, I
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  Speaker 3: was not surprised. And the reason that I was not
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  Speaker 3: surprised is because I sit and live and breathe community
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  Speaker 3: every day, and so I am in constant relationship with
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  Speaker 3: families and I know that the economy is not working
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  Speaker 3: for them, which is what the polling showed. That ninety
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  Speaker 3: percent of individuals say the economy is not working, that
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  Speaker 3: ninety percent are dissatisfied with the country's direction, that forty
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  Speaker 3: four percent experience racism, and so all of those pieces
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  Speaker 3: were not surprising. But the pieces that I walked away
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  Speaker 3: with is okay. We actually now have the data. It's
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  Speaker 3: no longer rhetoric, it's no longer hyperbole. We have the data.
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  Speaker 3: What are we going to do with it now? What
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  Speaker 3: is the responsibility not just for elected officials but what
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  Speaker 3: is the responsibility for all of us to really sit
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  Speaker 3: with and figure out how we make conditions better for
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  Speaker 3: black women. Recognize it that we make when we make
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  Speaker 3: conditions better for black women, specifically black women in Mississippi,
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  Speaker 3: we are making conditions better for all of us.
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  Speaker 1: So absolutely, you know, one of the biggest findings was
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  Speaker 1: that women feel the economy is stacked against them. Do
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  Speaker 1: you believe that hard work alone is enough from where
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  Speaker 1: we are right now, because you know, from what I've
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  Speaker 1: been doing and from what I've been hearing is a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people are, like you know, working, working, taking
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  Speaker 1: on extra jobs and still barely making it.
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  Speaker 3: That's exactly right, and Mimi and thank you for naming that.
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  Speaker 3: And the idea that hard work alone is enough to
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  Speaker 3: move yourself out of poverty is rhetoric and it is
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  Speaker 3: a lie, and we need to stop. The reality is
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  Speaker 3: that the majority of folks are working, and like you said,
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  Speaker 3: working one, two, three jobs. The reality is that the
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  Speaker 3: wages have not kept up with the cost of living
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  Speaker 3: here in Mississippi. The minimum wage is still seven dollars
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  Speaker 3: and twenty five cents an hour, nor affordability is going up.
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  Speaker 3: The couse of everything is going up. So when you
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  Speaker 3: talk about should people be working more? How much more
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  Speaker 3: are we supposed to work? How many more jobs are
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  Speaker 3: we supposed to ask people to have? And we're not
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  Speaker 3: meeting people halfway. We're not saying, Okay, work more and
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  Speaker 3: we'll give you access to free child care. We're not
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  Speaker 3: saying work more and will give you access to free healthcare.
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  Speaker 3: We're not saying work more and we will make sure
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  Speaker 3: that the conditions are there to actually meet you where
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  Speaker 3: you are and accomplishing the dreams that you have for
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  Speaker 3: yourselves and your family. We are just saying work more,
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  Speaker 3: just because we are just saying work more to make
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  Speaker 3: our lives easier. So I don't know how much more
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  Speaker 3: we are asking of individuals, and individuals get that they
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  Speaker 3: know there it's nothing more that they can do. They
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  Speaker 3: know that their conditions are not their fault. Nine out
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  Speaker 3: of ten individuals polled recognized that the conditions that they
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  Speaker 3: are experiencing as it relates to the economy are system failures,
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  Speaker 3: individual failures. They acknowledge that they are working in it.
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  Speaker 3: They are having issues with childcare, access, with affordability, access
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  Speaker 3: with the crisses happened when happening within this country. So
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what more we can ask for people to.
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  Speaker 1: Do out of everything that we spoke about. What's the
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  Speaker 1: one thing that you hope that people can take away
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  Speaker 1: from this conversation?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, Mammy, you would all the good questions, you know.
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  Speaker 3: The one thing that I hope people take away from
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  Speaker 3: this conversation is that we have to make space for
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  Speaker 3: joy and we have to stop questioning why joy is important.
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  Speaker 3: The same way in which we talk about financial stability
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  Speaker 3: and the need to have a living wage, it's the
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  Speaker 3: same way that we should talk about joy.
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  Speaker 1: We love that and tell us how we can find you.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so you can find me at www dot springboard
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  Speaker 3: two dot org. The organization and that lead is Springboard
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  Speaker 3: two Opportunities and we that's our website, on Instagram, on LinkedIn, TikTok,
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  Speaker 3: all the spaces.
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  Speaker 1: So and lastly, Michael fans, there is good news. Lionsgate
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  Speaker 1: has officially confirmed Michael two is happening. And here's the surprise.
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  Speaker 1: About twenty five to thirty percent of the movie has
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  Speaker 1: already been filmed. Those are the big musical performances that
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  Speaker 1: were originally shot for the first movie but never made
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  Speaker 1: the final cut, and the extra footage exists because the
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  Speaker 1: first film had to be rewritten after attorneys discovered a
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  Speaker 1: legal issue involving one of Michael Jackson's accusers. According to Deadline,
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  Speaker 1: attorneys for Michael Jackson's estate discovered that an earlier settlement
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  Speaker 1: involving one of Jackson's accusers included language that prevented that
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  Speaker 1: person from being portrayed in a movie. The problem was
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  Speaker 1: much of the film had already been shot. That reportedly
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  Speaker 1: led to about fifty million dollars in reshoots paid by
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  Speaker 1: the Jackson estate and forced filmmakers to rewrite the final
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  Speaker 1: part of the movie. The film ends in nineteen eighty
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  Speaker 1: seven during Michael's bad error, and closes with the words
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  Speaker 1: his story continues, So the sequel has plenty of Michael
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  Speaker 1: Jackson's life left to cover. Lionsgate says the next movie
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  Speaker 1: could move both forward and backwards, potentially covering so many
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  Speaker 1: different areas of his life, from Neverland to other major
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  Speaker 1: moments later in his career. The first Michael movie became
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  Speaker 1: a massive hit, earning more than one billion dollars worldwide,
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  Speaker 1: Lionsgate's first billion dollar movie and the highest grossing biopic ever.
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  Speaker 1: That's Your Front Page. I Mimi Brown. This podcast was
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