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Still Standing: Jason Weaver on Resilience, ATL, and What's Next · The Breakfast Club

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Speaker 1: George.
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Speaker 2: I'm a homegrowl that knows a little bit about everything
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Speaker 2: and everybody. You know, if you don't lie about that, right,
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Speaker 2: Lauren came in. Hey, y'all, what's up. It's Laura l.
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Speaker 2: Rosa and this is another episode of the Latest with
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Speaker 2: Laura L. Rosa. This is your daily dig on all
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Speaker 2: things pop culture, entertainment, news and all of the conversations
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Speaker 2: that shake the room. Baby now joining me today, and
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Speaker 2: a conversation that I know is going to shake the
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Speaker 2: room a bit. We have a mister Jason Weaver. Some
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Speaker 2: of you guys may know him to Shy. It depends
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Speaker 2: on where you're watching him at and what sentiment you're
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Speaker 2: watching him, because you may know his voice as well
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Speaker 2: from the Lion King Still to this day, there's been
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Speaker 2: so many iconic moments in our history of storytelling that
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Speaker 2: you've been a part of. So you know, we are
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Speaker 2: thankful to have you here at the Latest with Laurna Rosa.
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Speaker 2: How you feel in today?
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Speaker 1: What's up? Lauren A. I'm so pleased and honor to
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Speaker 1: be here. Thank you for having me on as a guest.
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Speaker 1: Big fan of you and a big fan of the
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Speaker 1: work that you do, especially on the Breakfast Club as well.
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Speaker 1: So definitely happy to be here on the Latest. This
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Speaker 1: is done well.
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Speaker 2: That means a lot because you've been in the show
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Speaker 2: business since you could blink ever, so oh.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but I'll pay attention though, I always I always
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Speaker 1: pay attention to, you know, people that I see that
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Speaker 1: are that are ascending and that are rising stars and
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Speaker 1: really standing out, and you know that matter to the
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Speaker 1: culture and and have something positive to provide and to share.
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Speaker 1: And so I definitely respect you, know, your commentary and
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Speaker 1: your perspective, especially related to current events where there's social
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Speaker 1: political You always have a very intelligent perspective in the
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Speaker 1: way that you articulate and express your thoughts, especially to
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Speaker 1: that audience. I just really respect it. I think you
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Speaker 1: do a fantastic job, so.
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Speaker 2: So lead to you now. I appreciate it. But but
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Speaker 2: I'm used to everything being about you, not about me. Now,
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Speaker 2: y'all know, here at the Latest with Laura Roza, we
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Speaker 2: always check in behind the scenes of the Grind, and
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Speaker 2: it is no different when we have our very special
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Speaker 2: guests in the room. So, Jason, how are you feeling today?
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Speaker 2: And when I ask you that you have to like
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Speaker 2: really answer it, like think about it a little bit
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Speaker 2: like how argued, because a lot of times when you
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Speaker 2: out here hustling and figuring it out, we don't stop
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Speaker 2: the check in on ourselves, for sure, but especially not
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Speaker 2: each other. So I built this in so I could
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Speaker 2: daily check in with myself.
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Speaker 1: You know what I love. I love this segment, and
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Speaker 1: I love that question. I'll be honest with you. You know,
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Speaker 1: I feel good. I recognize that I'm very blessed and
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Speaker 1: that my family is very blessed. I would be lying
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Speaker 1: to you if I said I didn't feel a little
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Speaker 1: uneasy at times, especially with the current climate. Everything is
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Speaker 1: going on in the country. You know, the state of
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Speaker 1: the economy, and you know, I'm a father and I'm
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Speaker 1: the head of my household, and I take care of
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Speaker 1: my mother, and you know, as a provider, and the
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Speaker 1: things that are going on right now, and even just
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Speaker 1: the the tone the tension that currently exists in the
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Speaker 1: country right now, I do feel a little uneasy, But
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Speaker 1: I also, in a weird way, feel hopeful because I'm
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Speaker 1: seeing so many people day in and day out use
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Speaker 1: their voice and their platforms to speak out and resistance
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Speaker 1: of all of that stuff. And I see people even
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Speaker 1: you know, dealing with financial aspects and the uncertainly surrounding
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Speaker 1: the economy. I'm seeing more people come to others' aid
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Speaker 1: and be willing to help one another and come together.
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Speaker 1: So it's it's weird. It's weird, but overall I feel
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Speaker 1: good though.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, they shout you working, you got some things moving.
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Speaker 2: It's like you never want to complain because you always
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Speaker 2: want to be grateful because of the climate, things could
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Speaker 2: be so much different. But like there's always this, like
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Speaker 2: it's so weird that you have that. Do you have that?
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Speaker 2: Like what if I wake up tomorrow and like this
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Speaker 2: is this is a complete three sixty Sometimes.
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's literally in your career.
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Speaker 2: I feel like that now, and I feel like it's
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Speaker 2: like a trauma of like because I'm oldest. I'm the
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Speaker 2: oldest kid in my house, oldest girl, so I'm always
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Speaker 2: figuring things out for everybody in myself and right now
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Speaker 2: things are moving and moving so fast. I literally get
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Speaker 2: so nervous sometimes because I'm like, yo, what if I
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Speaker 2: wake up tomorrow everything's over or I make a decision
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Speaker 2: that like messes up everything and I'm providing for mad
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Speaker 2: people right now.
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Speaker 1: You know what, That's a very normal feeling, especially those
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Speaker 1: of us who you know are in this business and
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Speaker 1: so to speak, blazing our own trail. You know, there
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Speaker 1: are times where you may not have steady or gainful
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Speaker 1: employment in this industry, and there are a lot of
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Speaker 1: times where what you generate as far as revenue is
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Speaker 1: literally based on your hustle and depending upon where you
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Speaker 1: can be at any given time. And then with the
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Speaker 1: landscape of our business constantly changing through the advancement of
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Speaker 1: modern technology, and then finding having to always navigate and
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Speaker 1: find different ways to reach and stay tapped in with
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Speaker 1: your audience. Yeah, the feelings that you have are very normal,
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Speaker 1: even those of us who people view as like veteran
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Speaker 1: players in the game or you know, seasoned members of
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Speaker 1: the industry. You know, all of us feel that way.
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Speaker 1: It's just it's just a it's uncertain times. But also,
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Speaker 1: I think during uncertain times is when you know some
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Speaker 1: of the greatest ideas and some of the greatest occurrences
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Speaker 1: can happen, where innovation, you know, takes place and creativity.
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Speaker 1: So you know, again, as uneasy as I think so
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Speaker 1: many of us feel right now, I think there are
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Speaker 1: a lot of us who still realize that we have
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Speaker 1: to keep going, and we have to keep pressing forward.
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Speaker 1: And in that willingness to keep going, it shows the
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Speaker 1: universe and it shows God, hey, I'm ready for it.
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Speaker 1: And then before you know it, opportunities and new things
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Speaker 1: enter into your life and you know, and new ways
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Speaker 1: are being made where you didn't see one at first.
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Speaker 1: You did what I'm saying, Oh.
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Speaker 2: I get you, I get you, because then when you
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Speaker 2: get to the other side, you're like, oh, I see
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Speaker 2: why I had to boom boom boom. Like if you
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Speaker 2: understand the sticking move, you understand absolutely.
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Speaker 1: And I've been and I've been there a couple of
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Speaker 1: times in my life, you know, whether you know, I
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Speaker 1: know people have this perception of me. It's like, oh, yeah,
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Speaker 1: he's been on TV since he's a kid, and he's
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Speaker 1: done the Lion King and yeah, and all that's true,
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Speaker 1: and all that's good, and I have been very blessed,
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Speaker 1: but that doesn't mean that I haven't encountered my fair
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Speaker 1: share of obstacles and ups and downs. You know, I've
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Speaker 1: had lulls in my career as well, where I've had
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Speaker 1: to you know, restart, rekickstart, and find different ways to
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Speaker 1: keep myself out there while at the same time maintaining
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Speaker 1: my integrity and staying within the moral boundaries that you know,
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Speaker 1: I've set for myself. So no, I mean we're we're
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Speaker 1: all challenged with that on the day to day. So
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Speaker 1: anybody out there as well that's feeling the same things
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Speaker 1: that we're feeling, like, just know that you're not alone,
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Speaker 1: and don't be too hard on yourself, and you know,
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Speaker 1: take each day, you know, one day at a time,
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Speaker 1: and one foot before the other, and you know, just
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Speaker 1: keep pressing forward because everybody's feeling.
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Speaker 2: It, you know what I mean, one happy hour at
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Speaker 2: a time. That's how we get through, you know what
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Speaker 2: I mean.
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Speaker 1: You know, get you a glass and I'm a bourbon
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Speaker 1: drinker and say, you know, if you have one of
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Speaker 1: those days you just need a light sip and you
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Speaker 1: need to look at sports Center, you know, to clear
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Speaker 1: your mind. That's what I do. You know, do whatever
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Speaker 1: it is, even if you read it, take do what
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Speaker 1: works for you, you know, but find that inner piece because
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Speaker 1: you know all of this is temporary anyhow, not to
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Speaker 1: sound so morbid, but it's true. It's life, you know,
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Speaker 1: this is this is an opportunity just for you to
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Speaker 1: experience life and to learn from it and to grow
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Speaker 1: and evolve. And it's not based all around how much
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Speaker 1: money you have, what new bag you have, you know
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Speaker 1: what I'm saying, what new house, a new car? Like
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Speaker 1: all the material stuff, especially in America, that people play
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Speaker 1: such so so much importance on the surface level is
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Speaker 1: superficial aspects of life and the material man, it ain't
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Speaker 1: about that, man, you know you can you can feel
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Speaker 1: down one minute and maybe sit down next to somebody
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Speaker 1: at a barbershop or sit next to somebody at a
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Speaker 1: bar and have a conversation that will lift your spirit.
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Speaker 1: So just be open to all good things and positive things,
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Speaker 1: and even confronted with the negative, understand that that's just
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Speaker 1: part of the experience. But you will get through it
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Speaker 1: and come back out on the other side of it
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Speaker 1: a different and stronger person. That's what I just try
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Speaker 1: to do. But we all deal with it, you know
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Speaker 1: what I mean.
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Speaker 2: That's the way you do it. See, that's why we
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Speaker 2: check in. That's literally why we check because you sometimes
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Speaker 2: you need that reminder for yourself. Somebody listening may need it.
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Speaker 2: We are community here. It's called the Lowriders and it's
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Speaker 2: over eight million plus of them. So I try to
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Speaker 2: make sure that, like I know, right, it is so crazy.
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Speaker 2: Podcast is a little over a year old. The Black
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Speaker 2: Effect Podcast Network is they're very powerful. They and they're
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Speaker 2: really they're really good at understanding what they have talent wise,
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Speaker 2: because to be honest with you, all I do is
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Speaker 2: press for cords sometimes from my car, from my bed,
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Speaker 2: I might be I mean, i'd be over it wherever
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Speaker 2: I'm at. I'm taking the podcast with me, and I
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Speaker 2: pride myself on that, and it's just been working out.
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Speaker 2: But a lot of it is ups and downs whatever.
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Speaker 2: I'm very honest about what I'm going through, especially during
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Speaker 2: this segment right here, it's like my almost like my
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Speaker 2: ministry or my testimony because people are watching me grow
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Speaker 2: and watching the podcast grow on real time. So we
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Speaker 2: appreciate you for checking in with us today.
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Speaker 1: No, and thank you for asking that. I appreciate because
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Speaker 1: those those questions are important, and you presenting those questions
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Speaker 1: and make it and normalizing that to where even your
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Speaker 1: guests probably when they do that with their friends. I
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Speaker 1: respect you and appreciate you for doing that. That's dope,
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Speaker 1: of course.
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Speaker 2: Now let's get on into the latest because we got
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Speaker 2: Jason here y'all and y'all know we gotta get into
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Speaker 2: the questions. Let's do it. I saw you guys link
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Speaker 2: up for that ATL reunion.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Unfortunately I wasn't able to make it for that.
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Speaker 1: I was actually in New York.
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Speaker 2: You listen, when you was in New York, you didn't
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Speaker 2: come by and see us at the breakfast club and
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Speaker 2: then you and then when they when they when the nostalgic,
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Speaker 2: it was seeing that photo and voted videos of them together.
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Speaker 2: It was an That's another thing where I'm like, we
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Speaker 2: needed that, we a needmore.
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Speaker 1: Why what happened? And this is what happened because I
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Speaker 1: was trying to make it to the ATL premiere, I
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Speaker 1: mean to the ATL reunion because Tip and Hannah shout
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Speaker 1: out to Tip and Hannah, they had planned that like
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Speaker 1: a month and a half maybe two months prior to
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Speaker 1: the actual events. So I was locked in to come.
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Speaker 1: But right as we were wrapping, the Shy Paramount had
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Speaker 1: made us aware that we were immediately gonna start premiere
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Speaker 1: in the new season, and so we had to go
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Speaker 1: on the press junket to do that. So I had
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Speaker 1: to go to New York. And I'll be honest with you,
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Speaker 1: Breakfast Club was definitely one of my destinations that I
10:44
Speaker 1: wanted to hit, but I had to take orders from
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Speaker 1: the network. Like you know, they put things with like
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Speaker 1: the age groups and the generations, and so I think
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Speaker 1: they wanted the younger class to be able to come
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Speaker 1: on and hang with y'all. But when I'm back in
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Speaker 1: the city, I'm coming up there for sure.
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Speaker 2: So well, maybe you can come when you guys are
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Speaker 2: telling us when we're gonna get the next ATL because
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Speaker 2: I know that it was it was greenlit, like a
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Speaker 2: studio has said yes to you guys, right, Like for
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Speaker 2: a second, there was some interest.
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Speaker 1: I know that there were some conversations that were happening.
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Speaker 1: I know that Tip and Chris Robinson had gone to
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Speaker 1: Warner Brothers and there were some discussions that were being had,
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Speaker 1: but I don't know if anything ever really materialized.
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Speaker 2: I thought I saw something that said you guys were
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Speaker 2: in development, but I don't know at what stage of
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Speaker 2: development that because that could just simply be conversations, right.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, the development pretty much means that is that there's
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Speaker 1: conversations revolving around it. But until you get a script
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Speaker 1: and until there's a budget set in place and you know,
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Speaker 1: and you've brought the actors back in contracts, a signed
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Speaker 1: you know, it's not real until then book. But what
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Speaker 1: I will say is is that if there ever is
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Speaker 1: a time where we can get an opportunity to do
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Speaker 1: a sequel, to carry on that story, you know, I
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Speaker 1: would love to be a part of it. I don't
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Speaker 1: know how that story would be constructed. Maybe it would
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Speaker 1: even be a new generation like our children or whatever
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Speaker 1: that are that are into it now. But either which way,
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Speaker 1: I would just jump at the chance of being a
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Speaker 1: part of it because I love all my cast members,
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Speaker 1: you know, Tip, Lauren out Be, Jackie, Evan, the twins Man, everybody.
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Speaker 1: I mean, we we literally grew into our own little
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Speaker 1: family and even prior to the to the reunion, you know,
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Speaker 1: we correspond with each other on a family group text,
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Speaker 1: like we'll tap in with each other like every three months,
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Speaker 1: just checking in with one another. So there are real
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Speaker 1: friendships there. There's a real uh atl family bond as they.
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Speaker 2: Y'all do stuff like I remember there was that video
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Speaker 2: that y'all posted and y'all were like, what it was
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Speaker 2: a video? Y'all was like walking down the street. It
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Speaker 2: was it was you Lauren like tiye and people. Yes,
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Speaker 2: but we thought that that was like, okay, filming is
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Speaker 2: about to start, like y'all be playing with our heartstrings
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Speaker 2: a little bit.
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Speaker 1: No, here's what it was. I'm gonna keep it real,
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Speaker 1: and I hope, I hope Tip doesn't mind me sharing
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Speaker 1: this at Divulgingists. But that was used as a strategy
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Speaker 1: for the longest, Tip and Chris Robinson and all of
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Speaker 1: us have been encouraging Warner Brothers to do a sequel
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Speaker 1: for the film. Right, Okay, here's here's the problem, and
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Speaker 1: here's how Hollywood sees it, just so everybody knows. Now,
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Speaker 1: we as a culture, we look at atl as an
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Speaker 1: iconic or classic film that we all enjoyed with our
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Speaker 1: families and that resonates with us and it sits in
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Speaker 1: our hearts. To the average Hollywood executive, they're like, Okay,
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Speaker 1: it performed well domestically in the theater, it performed slightly,
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Speaker 1: it performed moderately well in the foreign market, But does
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Speaker 1: it did it perform that well overall globally to where
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Speaker 1: you know it's worthy of me investing thirty or forty
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Speaker 1: million dollars to get in this film done and I
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Speaker 1: may possibly make anywhere from eighty to maybe ninety of
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Speaker 1: it back or maybe not. If that that's how these
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Speaker 1: executives look at it, that's how they tabulated.
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Speaker 2: That's crazy to me though, because even if they culturally
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Speaker 2: don't understand, you guys made what like twenty one million
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Speaker 2: dollars by the end of the movie's run from what
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Speaker 2: I'm saying reported right, Yeah, but think about it. That
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Speaker 2: was at the time where like there was social media,
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Speaker 2: but like not for refer real you guys know what,
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Speaker 2: y'all are way more season than your career now you
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Speaker 2: know what to do. Ti is even bigger, bigger, bigger
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Speaker 2: King of the South, even though he say he ain'ting
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Speaker 2: up King, and all of y'all are huge now it's different.
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Speaker 1: No, let me point this out too as well, based
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Speaker 1: on the performance that was on a limited amount of
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Speaker 1: screens were we weren't released likely full amount of screens.
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Speaker 1: So like to give you an example and people can
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Speaker 1: probably look this up as well, and the analytics and
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Speaker 1: the data. I think every theater because Ice Age, it
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Speaker 1: was either Ice Age or Ice Age two came out
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Speaker 1: the same weekend, right every theater that we performed in.
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Speaker 1: Along with that Ice Age, we like surpassed or we
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Speaker 1: had we had numbers that were equal to theirs as
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Speaker 1: far as like revenue that was generated at the box office,
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Speaker 1: but the theaters that ice Age was at that we
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Speaker 1: weren't at because we we had limited amount of screens
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Speaker 1: that we were on. Of course, that's how they were
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Speaker 1: able to get the numbers to where they won the weekend.
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Speaker 1: But we came in I think initially at either a
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Speaker 1: strong second or possibly a third, but we came.
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Speaker 2: There was third. You guys came in at third, but
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Speaker 2: you came in at third. But be fair. I just
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Speaker 2: want to I want to, I want to make this
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Speaker 2: clear for people who don't understand what you're saying. So
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Speaker 2: when ice Age came out, ice Age grossed about uh six,
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Speaker 2: six hundred and sixty million dollars worldwide. You guys came
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Speaker 2: in in number three. You're telling me you were up
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Speaker 2: against you were limited in theaters, right, And if I'm
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Speaker 2: hearing you correctly, if you're limited in theaters, that mean
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Speaker 2: the marketing behind you guys wasn't the same as like
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Speaker 2: an ice Age. So that's what I mean. So I
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Speaker 2: don't understand why Hollywood Studio wouldn't understand the easy genius
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Speaker 2: math there like the fact that y'all had to put
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Speaker 2: out that video to basically say, hey, look the people
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Speaker 2: want it.
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Speaker 1: Right, people want yeah basically, And I mean still it
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Speaker 1: was it was met with a little bit of, like
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Speaker 1: not skepticism, because they know that they can be successful.
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Speaker 1: I mean, Tip is a successful brand, right. They were
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Speaker 1: just add it like, well, what is it just worth
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Speaker 1: the investment at the end of the day, just to
16:21
Speaker 1: make a little bit of coin back. And that's how
16:23
Speaker 1: these executives, unfortunately look at it, particularly when it comes
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Speaker 1: to telling our stories. You know, we always get hit
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Speaker 1: with that. I mean even when Centers first came out,
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Speaker 1: and I remember there was an article in Variety where
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Speaker 1: they were more or less downplaying the performance that Centers
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Speaker 1: had at the box office, although it performed well, performed
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Speaker 1: better I think the most things it was competing against
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Speaker 1: in the marketplace of that time, but they still tried
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Speaker 1: to put a little bit of shade on the initial results,
16:54
Speaker 1: you know, of the numbers that came back, and you
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Speaker 1: know that unfortunately, that's just how it how it was,
17:01
Speaker 1: how to some degree it still is. But again that
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Speaker 1: goes back to my initial point of I feel optimistic
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Speaker 1: about the future. You know, when I see when I
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Speaker 1: see people like Byron Allen stepping up and stepping forward,
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Speaker 1: putting their putting their money on the line, putting their
17:17
Speaker 1: money where their mouth is, then buying up these companies
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Speaker 1: or acquiring these companies that will allow us to really
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Speaker 1: have skin in the game and to have ownership and
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Speaker 1: what it is that we're doing and empowering us as
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Speaker 1: black creatives to where we don't have to hear those
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Speaker 1: rejections anymore and those no's. You know, that's what I
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Speaker 1: feel encouraged about, so that you know, maybe maybe even
17:41
Speaker 1: atl at some point, you know, maybe Warner Brothers would
17:45
Speaker 1: be willing to you know, merge with the Stars or
17:48
Speaker 1: something on or co produce it with the Stars, and
17:50
Speaker 1: maybe we'll get a sequel then. But you know, until
17:53
Speaker 1: things like that happen where we have control full control
17:57
Speaker 1: over these intellectual properties, you know, you're going to run
18:01
Speaker 1: into that kind of opposition from time to time. For sure.
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Speaker 2: It's just insane or to imagine that because it is
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Speaker 2: such a callt classic to us, we put this out there,
18:10
Speaker 2: we hope that it sparks the conversation as supposed to,
18:12
Speaker 2: and you know that's what that's I in. One of
18:16
Speaker 2: the things that I like about this job is that
18:18
Speaker 2: we can start conversations that actually like can turn into
18:21
Speaker 2: real things that matter here at the late and I'm
18:24
Speaker 2: hoping that this does. It's not even just for atl
18:26
Speaker 2: because I want to see it, but also for like
18:28
Speaker 2: the Shy and seeing more things that you know, Lena
18:32
Speaker 2: Waite is able to do the other cast of the shot,
18:34
Speaker 2: which y'all are about to go and do, because I
18:36
Speaker 2: know that there's only going to be more after that.
18:37
Speaker 2: Y'all stay working, okay, especially.
18:39
Speaker 1: You No, I mean you know what, I try to
18:41
Speaker 1: keep it moving. Let me also say this too, I'm
18:43
Speaker 1: glad that you mentioned that, and I want to compliment
18:46
Speaker 1: you on that as well. With this show the latest.
18:49
Speaker 1: Thank you for the questions that you're asking, because all
18:52
Speaker 1: they're going to do is just spark up more conversation
18:55
Speaker 1: and more ideas amongst one another. And that's what we
18:58
Speaker 1: really have to do. We have to be able to
19:00
Speaker 1: have these kind of open forum discussions to where we
19:02
Speaker 1: can start talking about the future and where we see
19:05
Speaker 1: ourselves in it and looking at how we can empower
19:08
Speaker 1: one another versus looking outside and asking how can you
19:12
Speaker 1: empower us. So I commend you for having this kind
19:14
Speaker 1: of platform to where we can have those kinds of
19:17
Speaker 1: conversations because it's it's so so important, and you know,
19:21
Speaker 1: that's something that you as you're saying, continuing the work,
19:24
Speaker 1: that's something that I'm looking to do as well. I'm
19:27
Speaker 1: actually this summer, I'm launching a late night talk show
19:32
Speaker 1: with my guys at eighty five South called Leave It
19:35
Speaker 1: to Weaver.
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Speaker 2: Eighty five South. You know they're black effect as well.
19:38
Speaker 2: We're on the say network. Oh okay, yep, yetwork.
19:43
Speaker 1: Yep. So no, I reached out to those guys because
19:47
Speaker 1: I've been fans at eighty five for the longest and
19:50
Speaker 1: been on the show a couple of times. But I
19:52
Speaker 1: pitched this late night talk show, leave It to Weaver,
19:55
Speaker 1: to them back in October, and now we're about to
19:59
Speaker 1: shoot it this summing and it's basically we're bringing you know,
20:02
Speaker 1: late night talk show back to or to this new generation,
20:07
Speaker 1: introducing it to the new generation. So you know, back
20:10
Speaker 1: in the day in the nineties, we have the Arsenio
20:12
Speaker 1: Hall Show, right, and we don't really have shows like
20:15
Speaker 1: that anymore now. And when you're seeing voices being now suppressed,
20:20
Speaker 1: like you know, the Colberts and the Kimmels and and
20:24
Speaker 1: and you know, as far as black people are concerned
20:29
Speaker 1: in the black voice and the black perspective, you just
20:32
Speaker 1: don't see it out there like that. So I want
20:34
Speaker 1: to bring that back. So Leave It to Weaver is
20:36
Speaker 1: essentially going to be a hybrid between the old arcinio
20:40
Speaker 1: hall show format and one O six in part where
20:43
Speaker 1: we'll have a live band, live studio audience, live performances,
20:47
Speaker 1: but we'll also have thought provoking, you know, conversations, extended conversations.
20:52
Speaker 2: Host it one of the guys from eighty five South, like.
20:54
Speaker 1: Who knows I'm gonna host it?
20:55
Speaker 2: Oh, you're gonna host it too, Okay, it's leave it
20:57
Speaker 2: to left that part out.
20:59
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm host. So I'm stepping more into you know,
21:04
Speaker 1: kind of the arena of being a personality and helping
21:08
Speaker 1: to raise awareness around things and people and everyday topics
21:13
Speaker 1: that matter to me that I want to share with
21:15
Speaker 1: the audience and not only entertain them, but inform them
21:19
Speaker 1: and enlighten them. So you're not just gonna get your
21:22
Speaker 1: standard like actor and singer. You know, I may bring on,
21:25
Speaker 1: you know, a politician who's running for office and who
21:29
Speaker 1: needs our vote and who I genuinely feel, you know,
21:32
Speaker 1: has our best interests, especially as black people at heart,
21:35
Speaker 1: you know, and representing us in government, I may have
21:38
Speaker 1: that personal to be able to kind of discuss or
21:40
Speaker 1: share what their agenda is and what their policies are
21:43
Speaker 1: so that younger voters are informed. So, you know, I
21:47
Speaker 1: think there's a there's a space for it, I think
21:50
Speaker 1: in the way that that we want to do it,
21:52
Speaker 1: and helping to create a launch pad, if you will,
21:55
Speaker 1: for you know, black talent, whether they're emerging or whether
22:00
Speaker 1: their legacy talents, for them to have a stage and
22:02
Speaker 1: a home to come to and perform and have something
22:05
Speaker 1: to say, and to be able to do it right
22:07
Speaker 1: here in the black of the African American mecca of Atlanta. Uh.
22:11
Speaker 1: I think it's I think it's gonna be a beautiful thing.
22:14
Speaker 1: So now eighty five South, the guys have gotten gotten
22:18
Speaker 1: totally behind me pause with this. Uh they've gotten totally
22:22
Speaker 1: behind me with this and uh and and helping me
22:24
Speaker 1: to put this out. So I'm very excited moving forward
22:27
Speaker 1: about the future.
22:29
Speaker 2: Well, congratulations, let me knowing that it's coming. Definitely, you
22:32
Speaker 2: got to be a guest, I'm down. Just let me know,
22:35
Speaker 2: just hit me out. I'm down. I'm always down for
22:37
Speaker 2: a little trip to Atlanta.
22:39
Speaker 1: You know.
22:39
Speaker 2: Get that's right, that's get some okay exactly. Then you
22:44
Speaker 2: get that at the car wash in Atlanta. That was
22:46
Speaker 2: part one of my interview with Jason Weaver. Stay tuned
22:49
Speaker 2: for part two, where we get into his role on
22:52
Speaker 2: The Shy y'all know, y'all love shot from the Shy
22:54
Speaker 2: uh storyline development, and a bunch of other stuff because
22:57
Speaker 2: I mean, he has a lot to talk about theirs
22:59
Speaker 2: when a lot of roles, a lot of careers, and
23:00
Speaker 2: a lot of episodes of The Shy. Stay tuned.