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Catch Up| Patrice Grimball’s Engaging Interview w/Elysee Antionette, Author of "The Juke Daughters"! · DA CREW Podcast

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Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, May I have your attention please. The
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Speaker 2: Hey everyone, it is Tuesday night and it is your
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Speaker 2: girl sc book yall eight four three. And I am
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Speaker 2: here on another book. So you guys know that I
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Speaker 2: love that fast, tight street lit, but sometimes you gotta
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Speaker 2: slow it down. Okay, So now we're gonna take it back,
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Speaker 2: and I'm getting looking at this cover. I'm getting a
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Speaker 2: little bit of historical fiction. But I might be wrong. Okay,
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Speaker 2: you got it, But I am loving the cover with
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Speaker 2: the cover of this is so innocent, and it's in
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Speaker 2: my favorite color brown. Y'all already know love the tones
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Speaker 2: of brown. So I have an author who book is
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Speaker 2: soon to be released. That is such an honor to
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Speaker 2: have her here before it even drops, so y'all get
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Speaker 2: to get all the information about her book. So tonight
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Speaker 2: I'm going to bring up author missus Antwinette. If we're
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Speaker 2: gonna be talking about the juke joints daughter. Now you
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Speaker 2: from the South, y'all know about that youth joint. So
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Speaker 2: we're gonna bring her up so she could talk about
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Speaker 2: her book. Come on up, girly, Hello, how are you today?
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Speaker 3: I'm doing quite well, quite well, Ransom Errands, nothing exciting.
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Speaker 3: I did some editing too today for the book, but
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Speaker 3: other than that, it's just been a smooth, easy day.
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Speaker 2: Awesome, awesome. So we're looking at this beautiful cover that
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Speaker 2: two joints daughter. Before we get into the cover, tell
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Speaker 2: us a little bit about the author, you.
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Speaker 3: Man, Well, my name is Elis into Anette. I am
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Speaker 3: just a young writer who still finding my way in
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Speaker 3: this industry, honestly, but I just I love to create.
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Speaker 3: I love to tell stories. I love to tell stories
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Speaker 3: that I felk aren't being told enough right now in
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Speaker 3: this industry, including more historical fictions. So I personally love
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Speaker 3: reading his historical fiction as well. So that's what made
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Speaker 3: me want to write. Now.
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Speaker 2: You know, that's crazy because that is one genre that
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Speaker 2: is like very much non existent when it comes to
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Speaker 2: African American writers. And I work at a library, y'all,
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Speaker 2: I can maybe count on my hand possibly three to
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Speaker 2: four African American historical fiction.
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Speaker 3: Wow.
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Speaker 2: And it's crazy because yeah, and I'm looking, I'm kind
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Speaker 2: of painting the shells. I really have not seen much now.
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Speaker 2: I've worked at a library for twenty years now, and
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Speaker 2: I have not seen that historical African American fiction blow up.
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Speaker 2: Now when it does come to African American historical we
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Speaker 2: got all the books about who is who, and have
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Speaker 2: the books about the flight and everything we've gone through.
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Speaker 2: But to bring fiction into it, not much. So I'm
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Speaker 2: gonna ask you why historical.
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Speaker 3: Fiction honestly, just tell what you just did, just piggyback
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Speaker 3: and from that, you know, then my love for our
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Speaker 3: reading historical fiction. A lot of the stories were either
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Speaker 3: rooted in you know, slavery or during slavery times, or
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Speaker 3: even if it wasn't necessarily about slavery in general, we
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Speaker 3: were just still so oppressive or in the oppressive state,
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Speaker 3: which you know, yes those things exist at that time,
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Speaker 3: but people still had so much life to get without
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Speaker 3: always just showing how pressed they were or how you know,
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Speaker 3: that things were. Like, yes, we will never forget that,
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Speaker 3: we can never forget, you know, forget that part of
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Speaker 3: our history. But that shouldn't be all that we see
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Speaker 3: or that we read. There were people, you know, only
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Speaker 3: their own moans in the late forties running businesses, juke joints.
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Speaker 3: You know, there are doctors, nurses, So I mean, and
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Speaker 3: I just wanted to really tell that side of our history,
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Speaker 3: you know, of our story, and not just the same
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Speaker 3: stories that are rooted in our oppression.
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Speaker 2: Makes a lot of sense because I'm thinking now and
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Speaker 2: I'm thinking about entertainment all together. There are a lot
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Speaker 2: of movies now that are coming up with that historical
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Speaker 2: fiction and American historical fiction. Y'all know. The biggest one
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Speaker 2: that's out there that I finally watch. My co workers
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Speaker 2: made me sit down there and watch Centers.
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Speaker 3: That's my.
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Speaker 2: It was boring up to like maybe forty five millions,
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Speaker 2: and I was like, what is this? And the laughing
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Speaker 2: at me like you gotta go through you gotta go
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Speaker 2: through it. I said, this is boring. When everything started happening,
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Speaker 2: she so yes, when it comes to history fiction, I
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Speaker 2: think when it comes to film and media, we have
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Speaker 2: a decent amount. I won't say a great amount, but
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Speaker 2: I will say a decent amount. But when it comes
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Speaker 2: to literature, we don't. So I think you've taken on this.
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Speaker 2: I really thank you. So tell us a little bit
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Speaker 2: about the juke joints daughter.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, so where do I start, Well, the Clover. A
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Speaker 3: lot of my stuff starts here. Like most creators, you know,
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Speaker 3: we don't really have a playbook of how most of
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Speaker 3: our stuff is bought to life. It just starts in
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Speaker 3: my mind first. So since I'm a filmmaker, the this
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Speaker 3: book actually started out as a film idea, and it
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Speaker 3: just it was just the seat that was planted about,
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Speaker 3: you know, having a coming of age story about a
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Speaker 3: go from Arkansas. She has a dad that she you know,
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Speaker 3: that was abandoned or that abandoned her, but she wants
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Speaker 3: to start liking going and finding. So there were different
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Speaker 3: scenes that would just come to me. I personally loved
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Speaker 3: the movie East Vodu and their odds are watching God,
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Speaker 3: and so I just you know, wanted to have a
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Speaker 3: character kind of resembles a little bit of Jamie author
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Speaker 3: als are watching God, like she just kind of favors
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Speaker 3: her a little bit. But I didn't want to create
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Speaker 3: another Jane or another you know, from East Value. So
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Speaker 3: I just wanted to have you know, my own strong
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Speaker 3: as an American girl coming of age story and it
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Speaker 3: just just have different scenes, scenes, and eventually I landed,
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Speaker 3: you know, with the juke joint because I love music.
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Speaker 3: I love, you know, a little jazz and blues music,
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Speaker 3: and I personally hadn't even stepped foot into a juke joint.
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Speaker 3: I'm just from the Deep South. I'm from Pine Booth, Arkansas,
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Speaker 3: so blues has always been in my wife since I
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Speaker 3: was a child. With the blues on the river. My grandfather,
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Speaker 3: you know, played the guitar. So I just wanted to
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Speaker 3: create a type of story that was wounded in you know,
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Speaker 3: blues in music, but also a woman, you know, binding
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Speaker 3: herself in the South. And so lets tell me about
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Speaker 3: the juke's going started.
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Speaker 2: Now that's crazy because I've been in a juke joint
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Speaker 2: one time, you like literally they were in there frying
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Speaker 2: fish and stuff like this, and it was crazy.
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Speaker 4: It was.
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Speaker 2: In South Carolina. We have these little Adam runs Buca Hall,
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Speaker 2: and I think I went to tib One Bill Okay, Yeah,
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Speaker 2: a little city, tib.
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Speaker 3: One Bill Okay okay, in the city.
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Speaker 2: Bink twice you are you are been through the city
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Speaker 2: and come out of the city. And I've been to
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Speaker 2: a joint and it is one of the coolest spots
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Speaker 2: in America. Is like everybody laid back and it was like, Okay,
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Speaker 2: I'm somebody granddaddy, go try to holler at me on here.
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Speaker 2: But it was a great atmosphere, so I truly do
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Speaker 2: understand that. So yeah, so let's talk about this cover.
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Speaker 2: I am a cover girl. If your books are great,
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Speaker 2: cover it goes on the list. And if you only
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Speaker 2: know how long my list is, how did you get
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Speaker 2: the inspiration for this cover. It's it's beautiful, it's very
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Speaker 2: thank you.
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Speaker 3: Well, so Ruthie, she's holding a journal. I know it
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Speaker 3: kind of looks like a bible, but it's actually a journal.
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Speaker 3: And so yeah, it's a journal. And so when Ruthie
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Speaker 3: with the child away for her to kind of stay
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Speaker 3: close to her dad, whose name is Titus, she would
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Speaker 3: write these letters, you know, journal entries, and she would
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Speaker 3: say dear Titus, and she would just like talk about
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Speaker 3: her day, talk about how her mom pissed her off
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Speaker 3: from matter upset, and so she goes there to find
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Speaker 3: him with nothing but her suitcase, you know, in this journal,
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Speaker 3: because it's just kind of a way. This journal is
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Speaker 3: her way of keeping her dad close throughout these whole years.
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Speaker 3: And you know, the duke joint in the back is
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Speaker 3: obviously I the Duke Joint will eventually kind of raise
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Speaker 3: Ruthie when she gets there. So what I didn't, what
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Speaker 3: I forgot to mention, is that so Ruthie, you know,
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Speaker 3: she leaves her home, ends up in this town, and
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Speaker 3: she didn't know that her father owned a juke joint.
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Speaker 3: She just knew that he left to run some business
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Speaker 3: in Louisiana, but she didn't know what the Jukes doing.
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Speaker 3: And so when she gets there, her goal is to
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Speaker 3: you know, tell Titus who she is right the way
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Speaker 3: so she could get her money and go on her way.
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Speaker 3: She wants to go to Spelman, but instead of her,
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Speaker 3: instead of a truth coming out right away, Titus mistakenly
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Speaker 3: thinks that she's the news server and so Ruthie's like, yeah,
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Speaker 3: new sybar So she ends up working for him instead
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Speaker 3: of telling him the truth. And so most of the
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Speaker 3: story is just her working there trying to figure out
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Speaker 3: when to tell him. Well, there's so many things happening
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Speaker 3: around the Jukes Joint and the Duke Joint, and she
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Speaker 3: just learns so much about herself, so much about life
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Speaker 3: within this Duke Joint, and so again, in a way,
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Speaker 3: the Duke Joint has a way of raising her while
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Speaker 3: she is, you know, working there and living in this
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Speaker 3: small Yzon town.
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Speaker 2: Okay, okay, so let me ask you what made you
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Speaker 2: want to start writing?
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Speaker 3: So I actually my childhood is complicated. I feel like
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Speaker 3: most you know, writers, we just kind of always have
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Speaker 3: that that question that we get asked, but like we
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Speaker 3: don't really know how to answer, at least I don't.
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Speaker 3: Because I started writing after my mother died when I
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Speaker 3: was a very young child, and so writing became a
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Speaker 3: way for me to heal by her passing. And so
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Speaker 3: I would start out writing stories for characters who either
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Speaker 3: lost a parent like their mom or their dad, but
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Speaker 3: it was always a single you know, family household and
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Speaker 3: or two kids that didn't have you know, both their parents.
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Speaker 3: So I kind of started out to me writing the
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Speaker 3: dark short stories and for me to be only eleven
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Speaker 3: or twelve with black girls, what was you going through?
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Speaker 3: In my case a lot? But writing was just a
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Speaker 3: safe way for me to let my feelings, you know,
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Speaker 3: just be put on paper basically. And my first story
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Speaker 3: that I ever wrote was called The Boy with Water
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Speaker 3: and Love in his Body and it follows a young
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Speaker 3: boy he moves to a new town after he lost
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Speaker 3: his dad, and basically his next door neighbor helps him
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Speaker 3: regain his passion for swimming because he lost him with
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Speaker 3: his died. And I have this story to this day,
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Speaker 3: like I should have bought it with me for this interview,
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Speaker 3: but it's just a written now like beginning to end
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Speaker 3: book that my child self wrote it. And that's so
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Speaker 3: cool to just have that physical evidence of where it
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Speaker 3: all started. I thought not many authors are blessed, you know,
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Speaker 3: to have their first piece of work. So that's why
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Speaker 3: I am so honored and blessed to have physical evidence that. Listen,
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Speaker 3: I've been doing this for a very long time, and
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Speaker 3: you know, it is kind of hard for me to
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Speaker 3: not get discouraged sometimes because I'm not published. I don't
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Speaker 3: have a fancy publisher, but none that matters. When you
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Speaker 3: see that you've been doing this before, you you know,
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Speaker 3: you really knew what writing was, you know what being
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Speaker 3: an author was, so.
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Speaker 2: You're listening. You do not need the backing up those
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Speaker 2: big publishing house. You can do it on your on
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Speaker 2: your own. And I see that you are in the
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Speaker 2: process of doing it, and you're doing it way way
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Speaker 2: more than people who should have already done it, and
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Speaker 2: people who want to do it, but have not chosen
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Speaker 2: to do it. But you have wanted to do it,
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Speaker 2: You're chosen to do it. You're in the process to
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Speaker 2: do it. And how I tell one often, now you're
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Speaker 2: about to make birth, you're about to have you're about
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Speaker 2: to go to birthing, and you're about to bring that
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Speaker 2: book out. So let me ask you a question. How
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Speaker 2: do you think it's going to feel to have that
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Speaker 2: book into your hands.
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Speaker 5: Oh, it's like a a chocolate milkshake on a hot,
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Speaker 5: hot summer South day.
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Speaker 3: Okay, just cool you off, like it's so good. It's honestly,
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Speaker 3: I'm probably gonna cry. I'm an emotional little girl, so
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Speaker 3: I'm definitely going to cry because it just feels like,
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Speaker 3: you know, I'm making my childhood dreams come true basically,
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Speaker 3: so I ought to be crying for my adult filf,
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Speaker 3: you know, putting the work, but also for my child
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Speaker 3: to being like, hey girl, we did it. You kept
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Speaker 3: going after just so much in life, you kept going.
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Speaker 3: And I'm just personally ready to read the book over
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Speaker 3: as a reader and not the author, if that makes sense,
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Speaker 3: because you know, obviously as authors we always have to
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Speaker 3: go back and read our work. But I'll just be
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Speaker 3: glad when you know I'm not reading for edits or
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Speaker 3: read it reading for you know, formatting grammar, Like I'm
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Speaker 3: just reading to enjoy the story, which I really haven't
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Speaker 3: gone back to read it other than you know, just
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Speaker 3: going over edits. What I can say there were some
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Speaker 3: scenes that I would write they would just leave me
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Speaker 3: in tears and I would have to take breaks just
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Speaker 3: because it gave me that emotional So if I get
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Speaker 3: that emotional just by writing scenes out and then like Kavanaugh,
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Speaker 3: like move on to the next one, I can just
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Speaker 3: only imagine being able to read it straight through. So
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Speaker 3: I'm excited.
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Speaker 2: Oh that is awesome. So what is your target audience
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Speaker 2: for the Joints daughter? Who who would you say should
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Speaker 2: read your book?
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Speaker 3: Well, then I mean eighteen plus, you know, twenty plus.
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Speaker 3: The character is eighteen, but I know most you know,
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Speaker 3: some teenagers don't really read that much these days. So
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Speaker 3: just to safely assume, I would say at least starting
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Speaker 3: out at like twenty plus, I think you know young women,
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Speaker 3: women my age, like thirty plugs, but also women who
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Speaker 3: are like fifty up to would enjoy this because there
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Speaker 3: is a time that you know they can relate to
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Speaker 3: the music. They can relate to, you know, being a
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Speaker 3: Southern woman and being you know, Jim pro oppressive, stout
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Speaker 3: and again, even though the story doesn't really cover I mean,
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Speaker 3: if there is some racism in the book, but it's
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Speaker 3: not in your face. So I just know that you know,
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Speaker 3: older generational, you know, black women will be able to
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Speaker 3: relate to my character story as well.
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Speaker 2: Awesome. So when you are not writing, what are you
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Speaker 2: doing just to enjoy yourself? Pass the time away? What
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Speaker 2: are you doing just to after reading such an tense scene?
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Speaker 2: What do you do?
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Speaker 3: I am watching a scary movie. I love. I love movies.
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Speaker 3: I love corn movies, romance movies. Yeah, I like watching movies.
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Speaker 3: I also love horses. So I'll find a local barn
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Speaker 3: or a horse farm, and I'll go and pets some horses,
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Speaker 3: read to them, talk to them. Horses ground me. They're
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Speaker 3: my spirit animals. And so yeah, I love being out nature, pikes, walks.
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Speaker 4: Okay, so you are really down, down down, Listen, I
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Speaker 4: got my country boots by the porch, Like, so, what.
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Speaker 2: Is the last the last movie you've looked at?
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Speaker 3: Last movie?
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Speaker 2: Oh?
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Speaker 3: I don't know, because I'm really stuck on watching a
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Speaker 3: Different World right now, that's not the last thing I've watched. Yes,
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Speaker 3: that's my show. We near show.
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Speaker 2: So okay, so let me ask you a question. What
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Speaker 2: do you think about this reboot? When you bringing.
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Speaker 3: So, I'm concerned because, you know, with a different just
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Speaker 3: when they ret anything, it's just like, okay, like are
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Speaker 3: you sure should we really do this? But it's just
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Speaker 3: like A Different World was more than just you know,
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Speaker 3: a show about you know HBCU, Like, yes it was,
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Speaker 3: but at that time, they covered so much that was happening,
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Speaker 3: and they had so many legends on that show, and
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Speaker 3: it's just like they cannot do that now because you
23:13
Speaker 3: know a lot of people have you know, passed on,
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Speaker 3: and so it's just like I don't think that I mean,
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Speaker 3: I support anybody's artistic you know, journey, but I wish
23:27
Speaker 3: that they would just instead of calling get a Different World,
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Speaker 3: just make another HBCU show and just call it something else.
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Speaker 3: Like why do you have to go back and try
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Speaker 3: to change what was already you know great would already
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Speaker 3: work at that time. I feel like when you go
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Speaker 3: back and have to reboot something, it it's just never
23:49
Speaker 3: going to be the same. So while I don't necessarily
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Speaker 3: agree with it. It doesn't mean that I'm not going
23:54
Speaker 3: to support it or watch it, because I mean, I
23:58
Speaker 3: try to support my people. But I mean, if it's
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Speaker 3: not you know, if it ain't Kiden, I'm definitely gonna
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Speaker 3: give my review on it.
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Speaker 2: It's like when we needed this Freshmans of bel Air
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Speaker 2: Room reboot. I thought for sure it was going to
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Speaker 2: meet comedy, but it was dark. Yeah, like man, but
24:22
Speaker 2: times in life, you know, but how are you gonna
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Speaker 2: take me down this dark alley? I ain't never know
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Speaker 2: none of this was going on, but.
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Speaker 3: That reboot, Now I will be guilty with that. Like
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Speaker 3: I don't hate, but I do understand what you feel, Like,
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Speaker 3: why did we have to take something that was, you know,
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Speaker 3: light hearted and a good comedic relief to have something
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Speaker 3: that has crying or triggered after some episodes like.
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Speaker 2: Like Dad Hillary keep doing that. So I I understand.
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Speaker 2: I am for this reboot. I am kind of free
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Speaker 2: because now we talk about Whitney daughters. So first of all,
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Speaker 2: who y'all gonna get to play her? Second of all,
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Speaker 2: what are we going at with this? You know, are
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Speaker 2: we're gonna have Dwayne Whitney Like a lot of the
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Speaker 2: core group is there, but those supporting characters like mister Gaines,
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Speaker 2: you know, he's gone. So I'm like, who we're gonna have,
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Speaker 2: But I'm gonna give it a chance. I'm gonna give
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Speaker 2: it a chance. I'm gonna give it a chance.
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Speaker 3: It's like, not only who are we going to have?
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Speaker 3: But those people are not replaceable, like they're just even
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Speaker 3: if they know they you can't do it because you
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Speaker 3: can't replace great.
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Speaker 2: There you go. You can't bring back mister Gaines as
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Speaker 2: Samuel L. Jackson. That just just does not work. So
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Speaker 2: you know, so I told you behind the scenes that
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Speaker 2: we have this session that's called fun questions. Okay, so
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Speaker 2: fun questions. Fun question number one, who would clear your
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Speaker 2: main character in the two joints daughter and why? And
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Speaker 2: you can only pick someone in the nineties television era.
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Speaker 3: Oh m hmmm.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that was kind of hard. That made it hard
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Speaker 2: on myself.
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Speaker 3: So like, are we saying like they are at that
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Speaker 3: same age in the nineties or like they like weren't
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Speaker 3: we said.
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Speaker 2: They would be an actor or I'm sorry, actress who
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Speaker 2: was very oh okay defined in the nineties.
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Speaker 4: Okay, Oh my god, that's hard.
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Speaker 2: Oh I made that one hard.
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Speaker 3: I'm sorry, maybe maybe cross given I know that she
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Speaker 3: like the younger version of her because she she could
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Speaker 3: totally play someone's like, you know, eighteen nineteen. It's a
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Speaker 3: very mature because although she you know, as a child,
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Speaker 3: she goes through a lot of mature things. And this
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Speaker 3: is only part one of the series, so Ruthie is
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Speaker 3: gonna grow up. So but I had a character that
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Speaker 3: I would want to see her in you know, every
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Speaker 3: you know movie like one, two, and three, I think gives.
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Speaker 2: Okay, okay, so fine question too. You just have Lifetime
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Speaker 2: call and they say they want to make the two
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Speaker 2: joints daughter into a movie. Who would you want to
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Speaker 2: cold direct with you? And why did you choose that person?
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Speaker 3: Spike Lee?
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Speaker 2: Oh why Spike Lee?
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Speaker 3: I mean Malcolm X. That one that was a great movie.
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Speaker 3: Uh yeah. Lee has at an amazing way of capturing
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Speaker 3: the African American you know, uh experience through different time periods.
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Speaker 3: So that's why I'm totally she would help me bring
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Speaker 3: that time period to life through cinema.
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Speaker 2: He does because he did a great job and did
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Speaker 2: the right thing. And we have Malcolm X. Didn't he do?
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Speaker 2: Oh set a bad hair? I cannot remember the title
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Speaker 2: of that one. What's the fraternity movie?
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Speaker 3: Teres school Days, School Days?
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Speaker 2: Yes, I can see that. I can see that well.
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Speaker 2: Lifetime enjoyed to Duke Joint's daughter. And then they call
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Speaker 2: back and they say, you know what, we love that
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Speaker 2: movie so much. We want to make a film about you.
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Speaker 2: Who are we going to cast for you? And why
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Speaker 2: did you give that person that honor?
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Speaker 1: M hmmm.
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Speaker 3: Would I'll be pity if I said me.
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Speaker 2: No, you would be on point if you said you
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Speaker 2: that means nobody can come or touch you that you
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Speaker 2: know you. So Lifetime is saying you want to do it? Well,
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Speaker 2: why not somebody else? Why why do you want to
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Speaker 2: do it yourself?
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Speaker 3: Because, like I said, no one else can play me,
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Speaker 3: and I just feel like I've been through so much
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Speaker 3: that it wouldn't matter if I told you know that
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Speaker 3: actures X y D, that wouldn't be able to capture
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Speaker 3: the raw emotion of me of living my life. So
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Speaker 3: only I did do that, right.
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Speaker 2: So we are coming down to the last week and
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Speaker 2: I'll Summer reading Challenge. Okay, I am going to say
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Speaker 2: a word, and you guys know that if you send
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Speaker 2: me the word, make sure you love your reading you
30:35
Speaker 2: get extra points. What I've been doing is have my
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Speaker 2: my authors who are being interviewed tell us what this
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Speaker 2: word means to them, or something funny or just anything
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Speaker 2: about that word. Okay, so are you guys ready for
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Speaker 2: our secret code word of the week. You guys, this
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Speaker 2: word is very special to me. So I'm going to
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Speaker 2: tell you why first, and then I'll ask my author.
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Speaker 2: The word is school. I am so honored that my
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Speaker 2: baby girl is going to be graduating this year. Tomorrow
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Speaker 2: is going to be her first day of fifth grade.
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Speaker 2: I don't know who's more nervous, her on me, but
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Speaker 2: I know I'm gonna be balling my little eyes out.
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Speaker 2: I can't help it. But nobody tell her. Ready for
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Speaker 2: her to cool because this summer stomach is working on
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Speaker 2: my winter wallet. If you understand what I'm saying.
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Speaker 3: Okay, so.
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Speaker 2: What does the word school mean to you?
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Speaker 3: I asked, you mean school? The first word that comes
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Speaker 3: to my mind? Uh ragid.
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Speaker 2: Ooh ooh why.
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Speaker 3: I think that there was so I put so much
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Speaker 3: pressure on myself to personally fit into the school where
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Speaker 3: I was, and so I feel like, you know, gone
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Speaker 3: back now I would be able to focus more on
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Speaker 3: the education was. Yes, that I got that graduated school
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Speaker 3: was it was great, But I felt I just put
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Speaker 3: too much pressure on myself to fit into the social
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Speaker 3: forms of school, and I would have focused more my
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Speaker 3: writing to I stopped writing when I was in high school,
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Speaker 3: so I would have, you know, continued my writing journey
32:42
Speaker 3: and probably would have been published by now. But you
32:46
Speaker 3: know that's okay. But I definitely would have just put
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Speaker 3: more focus on building a lease up as a person
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Speaker 3: instead of believing what you posing schools.
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Speaker 2: Understandable, understandable. So we are getting down to the wire.
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Speaker 2: But you're gonna tell us how we can follow you
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Speaker 2: get ready for this book? Just give us the rundown.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, so you can definitely follow me on most of
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Speaker 3: media platforms. On Facebook, it's under its love, she wrote.
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Speaker 3: Or it can follow my personal page in Las into it,
33:25
Speaker 3: or I think it's Brittany in La. And then on
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Speaker 3: Instagram it's it's XL XO L it's my personal page.
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Speaker 3: And then writing pages it's left, she wrote. And then
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Speaker 3: I actually have a TikTok page just for the juke
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Speaker 3: Joints daughter. It's at the juke Joints Daughter. And while
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Speaker 3: I don't have any events you know, coming up right
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Speaker 3: now because we're not released yet. I have partnered with
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Speaker 3: some local juke joints that there's like four that's left
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Speaker 3: in the South, and I already got one in missus
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Speaker 3: be that agreed to let me do a live book
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Speaker 3: reading there to just make sure that you're following me,
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Speaker 3: so you can you know when I have that event there,
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Speaker 3: because I'm going to have a live reading at one
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Speaker 3: of the last standing duke joints in America. That's huge
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Speaker 3: and I want all of y'all there, so just next
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Speaker 3: year you're following me.
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Speaker 2: Oh now, I love that. That is so creative. I
34:24
Speaker 2: love that. That is awesome. We would like to thank
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Speaker 2: you for being with us tonight on this Tuesday night.
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Speaker 2: You guys follow her right down at the bottom you
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Speaker 2: see all of our social media links to make sure
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Speaker 2: that you grab your copy of The Duke Joints Daughter
34:43
Speaker 2: once it is released. Thank you for being with us tonight.
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Speaker 3: Thank you guys.
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Speaker 2: I will be here Tuesday. Well know today is Tuesday,
34:54
Speaker 2: so I'll be here Thursday. I have another author and
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Speaker 2: y'all this book. Oh that's all. Like I said, y'all
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Speaker 2: see the cover all the on the cover, but Thank
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Speaker 2: you guys. It's another Tuesday. Nights in the books, and
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Speaker 2: I will see y'all Thursday. To all the babies who
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Speaker 2: are going back to school, that have started school, going
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Speaker 2: back tomorrow or going back to the nice couple of weeks,
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Speaker 2: you guys, go ahead and make it.
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Speaker 1: Do what it do.
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Speaker 2: Be good, be blessed, be strong, y'all, have the backing
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Speaker 2: of your community. And remember you got this you guys.
35:32
Speaker 2: There's no such thing as an old book because now
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Speaker 2: everybody has read every book. Good night, everyone, Bye,