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From HBCU Classrooms to the Marvel Universe · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: I'm a homegirl that knows a little bit about everything
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  Speaker 1: and everybody.
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  Speaker 2: You know, if you don't lie about that, right Lauren, Hey, y'all,
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  Speaker 2: what's up.
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  Speaker 1: It's Lauren lo Roza and this is the latest with
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  Speaker 1: Lauren lo Roza. This is your Deli dig on all
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  Speaker 1: things pop culture, entertainment, news, and all of the conversations
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  Speaker 1: that shake the room.
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  Speaker 3: Baby.
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  Speaker 1: So today I'm gonna take you guys right into a
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  Speaker 1: conversation that is shaking the room right now because currently
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  Speaker 1: trending everywhere. I'm seeing it across Google trends in the
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  Speaker 1: US X. The conversations are happening because Marvel's new TV
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  Speaker 1: show about actors trying to make it in Hollywood and
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  Speaker 1: you know, just all of the things that happen and
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  Speaker 1: don't happen lack thereof, especially when you're a black actor
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  Speaker 1: in Hollywood.
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  Speaker 3: Wonder Man, it's trending.
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  Speaker 1: So wonder Man stars yah y'all, abduah matein the second
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  Speaker 1: and it's hitting the comic book world by joining Marvel.
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  Speaker 1: And he's joining Marvel after his Aquaman and Watchmen roles
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  Speaker 1: to place Simon Williams, who is another return it Jess hilarious.
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  Speaker 3: Come on, that we are report recording the podcast.
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  Speaker 4: Say hi, hey y'all, I'm on my way to go
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  Speaker 4: get a fucking a Jay show because these in crows
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  Speaker 4: is killing a bitch.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my god. So what is one demand?
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  Speaker 1: So wonder Man is this like series and it's set
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  Speaker 1: in the Marvel universe. And basically yah Ya Abdullah the
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  Speaker 1: team who plays Simon is trying to get on in
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  Speaker 1: the acting world, but because he has these superpowers, he's
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  Speaker 1: trying to suppress them because the last time Hollywood let
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  Speaker 1: actors in I mean like superpower actors into the to
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  Speaker 1: the the universe or to the world, they had a little.
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  Speaker 3: Issue that was the X Men when they did that.
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  Speaker 3: So they So what I'm.
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  Speaker 1: Learning because I'm new to the Marvel universes that all
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  Speaker 1: these shows and characters connect.
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  Speaker 3: So wonder Man is of Marvel, Yes, yes, yes, see
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  Speaker 3: they be making.
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  Speaker 4: People to fuck up. Oh my god, can I cuss
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  Speaker 4: on here? Bitch, Dyve be making people.
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  Speaker 3: To fuck up? You ain't gonna fucking wondermand what that? Okay? No,
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  Speaker 3: So wonder Man is a part of the Marvel series already.
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  Speaker 1: And then Serban Kingsley, who's also in this wonder Man series, uh.
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  Speaker 1: He reprises his role as the as Marvel University's Trevor
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  Speaker 1: Trevor Slattery and that I had to do.
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  Speaker 3: All this research for this, and I'm like, this goes
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  Speaker 3: so deep.
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  Speaker 1: This is like Real Housewives, but when they all come
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  Speaker 1: together for like the reunions and like the travel show
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  Speaker 1: here and they're like, okay.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, so so do you have to do a read
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  Speaker 3: for this?
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  Speaker 5: No?
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  Speaker 1: I did an interview. I said, I talked to y'all, y'all,
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  Speaker 1: abdua mateen.
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  Speaker 3: So you talked to wonder man.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, some HBCU students from Norfolk State University, Hampton University.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they were miniature.
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  Speaker 4: What is his super bowel? He wonder He thinks a lot.
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  Speaker 3: Girl, I'm out here. That hilarious. Is crazy. No, no,
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  Speaker 3: y'all have to watch this series.
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  Speaker 1: But let's get into the conversation so you guys can
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  Speaker 1: hear straight from yall, y'all abduing mateen.
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  Speaker 3: This was so cool because the students got a chance
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  Speaker 3: to ask questions.
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  Speaker 1: And these are students with like journalism backackgrounds and radio
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  Speaker 1: backgrounds and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Let's get into it right now.
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  Speaker 2: What's up everybody, and welcome.
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  Speaker 1: This is a very special wonder Man Virtual HBCU Roundtable Conversation.
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  Speaker 1: I am Lauren de Rosa, the Latest with Laura de
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  Speaker 1: Rosa via Black Podcast Network and The Breakfast Club, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm really excited to be here. I graduated from a
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  Speaker 1: HBCU myself, Delaware State University, and I was telling some
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  Speaker 1: of the students I've never experienced anything like this when
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  Speaker 1: I was a student, so I'm so happy for them
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  Speaker 1: to be here, to be having this conversation. I'm joined
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  Speaker 1: by five incredible students joining from HBCUs all over the country,
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  Speaker 1: and I love what I'm seeing already. Everyone is so
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  Speaker 1: proud they're uping their schools. If you went to hbc
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  Speaker 1: you understand the pride, You see the merch. So everything
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  Speaker 1: is on full display today and this conversation is gonna
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  Speaker 1: be super interactive.
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  Speaker 2: We also want to send a big.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you to watch the Yard for all of their
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  Speaker 1: continued support and partnership as they uplift HBCU voices and culture.
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  Speaker 1: And of course, we are honored to be joined by
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  Speaker 1: today's special guest, actor, producer, and star of Marvel Studios
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  Speaker 1: new series wonder Man, premier in January twenty seventh on
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  Speaker 1: Disney Plus.
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  Speaker 2: Yah Ya abdul Matine the second welcome, Thank you very much.
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  Speaker 4: What's going on?
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  Speaker 6: How y'all doing?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, soll thank you for joining us today. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we really are excited to have you here. How are
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  Speaker 1: you feeling today?
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  Speaker 2: I'm chilling.
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  Speaker 6: I'm doing even better right now. I'm glad to be
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  Speaker 6: with you all.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah right, isn't this so cool of an experience For this,
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  Speaker 1: I'm more excited for the.
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  Speaker 2: Students than anything.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah, me too. I mean, I'm excited for myself.
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  Speaker 6: You know, I'm excited for y'all too, but I'm I'm
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  Speaker 6: excited for myself too, you know, being being with you all.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, well, okay, so we got we all got a
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  Speaker 1: chance to take a look at, you know, at the
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  Speaker 1: iconic work that you did on screen.
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  Speaker 2: So you definitely should be excited for yourself.
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  Speaker 1: You're stepping into a whole new universe, and we're excited
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  Speaker 1: today to talk about the creativity, the purpose, and the
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  Speaker 1: journey that goes into this. So to kick off this
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  Speaker 1: HBCU around Table discussion that we have happening, We're going
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  Speaker 1: to bring up Trinity Pender from Dealer University.
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  Speaker 3: Hi Ya, y'all, what's going on to be here.
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  Speaker 2: My name is Trinity Pender.
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  Speaker 7: I'm a graduating senior at the Illustrious Dealer University.
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  Speaker 2: My major is mass Communication and.
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  Speaker 7: I have a concentration.
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  Speaker 2: In multimedia journalism. And my question for you.
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  Speaker 7: Today is, after living inside this character for months, what
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  Speaker 7: do you think the biggest difference is between the Simon
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  Speaker 7: Williams on the page and the one the audiences will meet.
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  Speaker 6: M oh Man, you're taking me back a couple years,
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  Speaker 6: a couple of years now with the question about being
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  Speaker 6: on the page. I mean, hopefully you know to me,
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  Speaker 6: the Simon Williams that you'll see, the Simon Williams that
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  Speaker 6: you'll see that you'll see, is the Simon Williams that
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  Speaker 6: I saw on the page. So it's it's it's it's
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  Speaker 6: it's the interpretation of what it was that I saw
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  Speaker 6: on the page, which is a guy with a big heart,
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  Speaker 6: a guy who really cares about acting, a guy who
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  Speaker 6: can be selfish and a bit manipulative in order to
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  Speaker 6: get what he wants. A dude who's insecure, who's very
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  Speaker 6: very passionate. Sometimes he's a bit of a nervous wreck,
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  Speaker 6: but I think his intentions are good and and he
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  Speaker 6: cares a lot and also someone who's willing to learn too.
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  Speaker 6: I hope, I hope that they see all of all
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  Speaker 6: of those things. But I think if you do see those,
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  Speaker 6: then you will only see those because that's what I
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  Speaker 6: saw on the page. So hopefully it's it's actually the same.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much for that. Thank you for that question, Trinity.
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  Speaker 2: You heard the the Illustrious on this car.
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  Speaker 6: Represent exactly.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So up next, we have Kendle Parks from Prairie View,
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  Speaker 1: A and M University.
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  Speaker 2: Hi ya ya to meet you.
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  Speaker 8: I am coming from the Prairie View, Texas the Illustrious University,
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  Speaker 8: the PR and marketing coordinator for our student run television production.
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  Speaker 8: I wouldn't say club because we're more than that, but
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  Speaker 8: definitely heading into marketing. And I'm so glad to have
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  Speaker 8: been able to have this conversation with you because my
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  Speaker 8: question is, what would you say was your most memorable
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  Speaker 8: moment being on set?
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  Speaker 2: Oh?
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  Speaker 6: Man, I have I have so many. I had so
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  Speaker 6: many fun moments on set, so many memorable moments. You know.
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  Speaker 6: Sir Ben Kingsley just left and uh, he plays a
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  Speaker 6: he plays a character. He plays it as as Trevor Schlatterer.
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  Speaker 6: He plays a car to call the Mandarin and he's
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  Speaker 6: He's I think that was from the first Iron Man movie.
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  Speaker 6: And there was a day I wasn't working this day,
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  Speaker 6: or I had already finished my work, but I got
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  Speaker 6: to watch him put on that character. So I sort
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  Speaker 6: of got to be a fan, you know, as a
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  Speaker 6: Marvel fan, I got to be a fan of Sir
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  Speaker 6: beIN as the Mandarin, and I sort of snuck in
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  Speaker 6: the back and watched watched him work, and that was
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  Speaker 6: that was cool because most days, you know, when I
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  Speaker 6: went to work, it was about me working and a
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  Speaker 6: camera on me. That was a cool moment because I
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  Speaker 6: got to step aside and just have a moment for
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  Speaker 6: myself and be a fan of what it was that
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  Speaker 6: we were that we were creating, and to work with
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  Speaker 6: Sir beIN. You know, that was a that was a
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  Speaker 6: really good moment watching him, watching him recreate that.
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  Speaker 8: Well, thank you for that.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you, I appreciate you.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 5: Ken.
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  Speaker 2: Do I have a question yah yah?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, when I think about like.
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  Speaker 1: Sci fi and animation, just television and entertainment in general,
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  Speaker 1: I think about the way it's kind of like a
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  Speaker 1: form of escapism, like we could watch it in our
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  Speaker 1: households to get away from so many different things, or
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  Speaker 1: just to see things that we might not have gotten.
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  Speaker 2: To experience, or whatever the case may be.
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  Speaker 1: Right, And when I'm watching you on screen, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of the story that I'm watching you tell is about
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  Speaker 1: this character that you're dreaming to be forever, right, because
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  Speaker 1: it takes you into this place that just makes you
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  Speaker 1: feel whole. What part of your real life did you
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  Speaker 1: pull from to execute.
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  Speaker 2: That so well on character?
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  Speaker 6: Well, I think the part of myself that that's that
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  Speaker 6: still has a dream, you know, the part of myself
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  Speaker 6: that is still on the journey. You know, when I
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  Speaker 6: film this, I had been out of school for I
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  Speaker 6: think out of I had been out of out of
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  Speaker 6: college for eight years, nine years or something like that.
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  Speaker 6: And so you know, I remember being and graduate school
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  Speaker 6: feeling like I had something to offer, knowing that I
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  Speaker 6: had something to offer, but also knowing that nobody knew
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  Speaker 6: that I was here. I felt like I'm in this
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  Speaker 6: tiny room in this big, big world, knowing that what
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  Speaker 6: I have to offer. Can feel the can can feel
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  Speaker 6: the globe, you know what I mean. And that's where
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  Speaker 6: that's where we meet Simon. You know, Simon has this dream.
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  Speaker 6: He knows that he has something special inside of him
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  Speaker 6: that he has to offer, and he feels like nobody knows.
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  Speaker 6: And you know, in the first episode, I think he said,
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  Speaker 6: I just need you to I just need you to
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  Speaker 6: believe in me, you know, And that's sometimes that's what
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  Speaker 6: it's like as a as a creative, you know, as
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  Speaker 6: a student, as somebody with ambition. You know, no one
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  Speaker 6: does it on their own, you know, and we all
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  Speaker 6: need someone to just take a take a chance. And
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  Speaker 6: so I know what it's like. I know what it's
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  Speaker 6: like at some point to be in Simon Williams, Simon
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  Speaker 6: Williams's shoes, and I think that that'll be something that's
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  Speaker 6: really uh to a lot of artists that are you
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  Speaker 6: going to tune in to watch this show?
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  Speaker 2: Definitely relatable to get out of your own head thing.
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  Speaker 3: I was like, yeah, yeah, yeah, it was so.
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  Speaker 2: On point yeah and over yeah.
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  Speaker 6: The the overthinking, the over analyzing, the the anxiety, but
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  Speaker 6: then the ability to persevere through that. You know, sometimes
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  Speaker 6: even in the acting scenes, I've got the internal motive that's,
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  Speaker 6: you know, do do do do do But to know
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  Speaker 6: that I've done the work, so nobody can see what's
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  Speaker 6: actually going on, you know, nobody can actually tell. So yeah,
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  Speaker 6: there there are definitely times where uh, sort of the
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  Speaker 6: fiction blends over into reality.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I appreciate that. All right, So now
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  Speaker 2: we're going to go back to another studio question.
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  Speaker 1: Let's continue with Malie Davis from Norfolk Norfolk State univers
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  Speaker 1: say that right, yeah, right, your folks State University.
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  Speaker 6: Most definitely, Hey, y'all, y'all, what's going on? Davis, also
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  Speaker 6: known athlete app in the building with ninety.
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  Speaker 2: One of the solo via NOCA State University's radio.
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  Speaker 6: The series highlights what it means to be an actor
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  Speaker 6: in the early stages of their career. Can you talk
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  Speaker 6: about your character's journey and how it parallels to your
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  Speaker 6: own start in the industry. Uh, it doesn't really, you know,
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  Speaker 6: I had I had a you know, my character uh
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  Speaker 6: didn't go to school. You know, my character has been
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  Speaker 6: you know, it's just sort of plugging away doing smaller jobs,
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  Speaker 6: coming in and doing a little bit of background work here,
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  Speaker 6: you know, coming in and having you know, two lines
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  Speaker 6: two lines here, one line there, maybe a guest spot
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  Speaker 6: on television. My personal journey was I was. It was different.
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  Speaker 6: You know. I had an opportunity, you know, to to
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  Speaker 6: to to play a larger role in my very first job,
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  Speaker 6: and I sort of hit the ground, hit the ground running.
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  Speaker 6: Still had those moments of doubt and the nerves and
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  Speaker 6: things like that. But you know, my story is not
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  Speaker 6: Simon Williams' story. My story is my story is my story.
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  Speaker 6: Simon williams story is Simon williams story. But we did
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  Speaker 6: both start off with a big dream and a small trailer,
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  Speaker 6: you know what I'm saying. And when Simon Williams got
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  Speaker 6: his big trailer, he's still in there doing the work.
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  Speaker 6: And when I got my big trailer, I'm still in
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  Speaker 6: there doing the work. I think that the commonalty is
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  Speaker 6: the passion, the real, true passion for the craft, although
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  Speaker 6: our paths are markedly different.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much, and you know, behold the green
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  Speaker 2: and goold. Thank y'all. Thafinitely.
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  Speaker 1: All right, now we're gonna hop on over to Sidney. Frank,
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  Speaker 1: she's here from Himpton University.
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  Speaker 4: Hi.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Hey, Hey, I.
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  Speaker 9: Am a city Frank. I am a second year JOURNALISTM
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  Speaker 9: major with a minor in film. Losingtos, California, on campus.
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  Speaker 9: I'm an active member of the National Council of Newgirl
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  Speaker 9: Woman and an active member of our student organization. And
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  Speaker 9: today I'm asking you how have your past roles in
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  Speaker 9: superhero movies contributed to your portrayal of Simon Williams and Winnerman.
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  Speaker 6: You know, it'll, it'll that's a great question, I think
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  Speaker 6: it'll it'll probably take me a little while to really
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  Speaker 6: answer that, to really understand that question and its totality.
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  Speaker 6: But like, I was really fortunate to be able to
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  Speaker 6: put all of the superhero things aside and just play
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  Speaker 6: a dude, you know, and Watchman and Aquaman, you know,
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  Speaker 6: I was very much involved with the supernatural elements of
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  Speaker 6: those characters and inside of those worlds. With this one,
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  Speaker 6: you know, I just got a chance to be a
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  Speaker 6: dude with a dream, you know. And he had he
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  Speaker 6: had powers, but they sort of look like anger management,
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  Speaker 6: you know what I'm saying. It sort of looks like anxiety,
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  Speaker 6: you know, the things that he's dealing with. He sees
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  Speaker 6: his powers not necessarily as a as an asset, but
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  Speaker 6: more so as a liability. And so I really got
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  Speaker 6: to play a guy with anger issues, with with with anxiety,
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  Speaker 6: a guy with a big heart, a guy with a dream,
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  Speaker 6: and to let the Marvel people do all of the
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  Speaker 6: superhero stuff around me, so you know that that's that's
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  Speaker 6: really the setting for the story that we're telling. And
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  Speaker 6: my job was just to go out and to just
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  Speaker 6: portray an actor in pursuit of a dream. And so
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  Speaker 6: it's really the best of both worlds because I do
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  Speaker 6: get the superhero stuff, because Simon gets some of that,
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  Speaker 6: and then at the other end, I get the heart
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  Speaker 6: and the soul, you know, of a story about a
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  Speaker 6: guy with a dream. So I sort of got the
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  Speaker 6: best of both for us.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Now, last but not least, our final student. We
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  Speaker 1: have watched the Yards Lucky giveaway winner. Her name is
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  Speaker 1: Kaylyn John Louis and she is from Florida A and
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  Speaker 1: M University. What's your question for yah y'all?
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 5: Hello, yah y'ah, As she said, my name is Kaylin
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  Speaker 5: John Louise. I am a graduating senior journalism student at
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  Speaker 5: Florida A and M University. Also is firing k on w
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  Speaker 5: A and m F F ninety point five, the Flavor
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  Speaker 5: Station and a member of Zae to Phi Beta Sorority.
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  Speaker 2: Incorporate.
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  Speaker 5: I love watching your performance and wonder man, it reminded
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  Speaker 5: me about the bigger impact of storytelling, and with us
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  Speaker 5: both being in Greek letter organizations, we understand what it
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  Speaker 5: means to represent something bigger than ourselves. So my question is,
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  Speaker 5: how does that understanding influence the kind of stories you're
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  Speaker 5: drawn to tell.
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  Speaker 6: It's a good question, it's a great question.
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  Speaker 3: Hmm.
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  Speaker 6: You know, I'm gonna be honest. I I don't think
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  Speaker 6: much about representation, right. It's not to say that I
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  Speaker 6: don't value it, because I absolutely do, but this is
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  Speaker 6: sort of the way that I approach it, right. I
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  Speaker 6: know who I am, I know where I'm from. I'm
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  Speaker 6: a black man, I'm American, I'm from New Orleans. I
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  Speaker 6: grew up in West Oakland, and my path is my path.
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  Speaker 6: I believe that if I make work that for an
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  Speaker 6: audience of one first, right, and that audience is me.
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  Speaker 6: I really believe that if I make work for myself,
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  Speaker 6: then the people who I want to respond to it
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  Speaker 6: will respond to it. That allows me to do is
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  Speaker 6: to always be considering first my truth, my personal appetite,
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  Speaker 6: and to not be swayed by other people's opinions, to
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  Speaker 6: not let my art and my creativity be swayed by
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  Speaker 6: other people's opinions or the desires of what other people
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  Speaker 6: want to see me do. Now, I do hope at
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  Speaker 6: the end of the day that when I make, when
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  Speaker 6: I do my work, that the people who I've met
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  Speaker 6: along the way, that they respond to my work, because
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  Speaker 6: if I'm making it for myself, then I'm making it
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  Speaker 6: for the extensions of myself. But that's really the extent
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  Speaker 6: of how I think about representation. At the same time,
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  Speaker 6: I do, you know, even in my production company, I
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  Speaker 6: do think that it's important to open doors and to
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  Speaker 6: make sure that, you know, people who come from where
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  Speaker 6: I come from have the same type of education and
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  Speaker 6: opportunortunities to do what it is that I'm able to do,
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  Speaker 6: so that they can go and tell stories and represent
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  Speaker 6: in the ways that they want to represent as well.
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  Speaker 6: So I sort of realized that I represent something, I
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  Speaker 6: represent something that is bigger than myself. But I do
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  Speaker 6: that by by first representing myself and then I let
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  Speaker 6: what I represent speak for I let what it is
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  Speaker 6: that I represent hopefully be seeing in the work, you know,
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  Speaker 6: in the work that I do, and for the opportunities
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  Speaker 6: that I didn't create, So I hope that I hope
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  Speaker 6: that answers that question.
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  Speaker 2: I did. Thank you so much. Yeah, y'all your Greek.
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  Speaker 6: I'm in Alpha.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, okay, she said, both of us. I'm like, I
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  Speaker 2: didn't know he was Greek.
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  Speaker 1: So this is the close of the conversation. It's been
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  Speaker 1: an incredible conversation. Thank you to our students for all
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  Speaker 1: of the thoughtful questions and representing yours your school so
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  Speaker 1: well today. You guys are such a great job. Huge
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  Speaker 1: thank you to watch your yard for their partnership and
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  Speaker 1: their support. And of course, yah y'all, thank you so
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  Speaker 1: much for joining us, joining us, sharing your time, all
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  Speaker 1: your insight and your energy. I don't know if you
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  Speaker 1: have any advice encouragement you'd like to say for anybody
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  Speaker 1: that's watching, But if so, now's the time.
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  Speaker 6: Oh yeah, look, keep on going like the world is
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  Speaker 6: wide open right now. So you know, make your stuff
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  Speaker 6: for yourself. And it's a long it's a long road.
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  Speaker 6: But find friends, that's what I would say. Find friends
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  Speaker 6: who believe in you. But you gotta believe in yourself first,
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  Speaker 6: So you know, keep going. And if I'm still around,
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  Speaker 6: then I'll see y'all. When y'all get here.
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  Speaker 1: We appreciate it. So guys, make sure you go and
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  Speaker 1: check out Marvel Studios. Wonder Man, you'll see yah y'all,
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: and you know all the other amazing casts in the storyline.
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  Speaker 1: It premieres January twenty seven, streaming exclusively on Disney Plus.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you guys so much, all of you for joining us.
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  Speaker 6: I'll watch y'all take it.
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  Speaker 3: Ye all right, guys.
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  Speaker 1: So that has been another exclusive conversation here at the
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  Speaker 1: Latest with Lauren de Rosa the podcast. The people have
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  Speaker 1: been telling me we need to do more of these conversations.
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  Speaker 1: I know this week alone, if you missed it, go
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  Speaker 1: back and check it out. We had Tacar Jones of
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  Speaker 1: America's ext Top Model talking about that new Next Top
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  Speaker 1: Model docu Sriies that is coming. We hear Derrick Johnson,
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  Speaker 1: the president of the NAACP, talking about Kanye West and
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  Speaker 1: his apology, and now here we are we didn't talk
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  Speaker 1: to wonder Man.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you guys for tuning in.
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  Speaker 1: I tell you every single episode my Low Riders, y'all
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