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Monday Mini: Crow: The Legend · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha and welcome to stuff
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  Speaker 1: I've never told your production of I Heart Radio. So
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  Speaker 1: we are continuing on with our celebrating a Native American
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  Speaker 1: Heritage Month, which is November. For those of you who
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  Speaker 1: may be listening at a completely different time, you're like,
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  Speaker 1: what and we wanted to do a quick our review
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  Speaker 1: and a watch review on Crow the Legend, which we
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  Speaker 1: mentioned when we talked about Sarah Eagle Heart, who was
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  Speaker 1: one of the main consultants for the movie with the
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  Speaker 1: Native Americans in Philanthropy, along with Randy Edmonds, who is
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  Speaker 1: an elder of the Kiowa Kado tribe and founder of
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  Speaker 1: National Urban Indian Council UH. And by the way, he's
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  Speaker 1: also the narrator for the animation. If you can do
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  Speaker 1: get a chance to watch, and y'all, uh it's a
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  Speaker 1: beautiful animation and it is the telling of a classic
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  Speaker 1: Native America I can tell of the Crow and the Fire,
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  Speaker 1: which is I believe the name of the actual story
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  Speaker 1: and as a lesson in selflessness and sacrifice. The film,
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  Speaker 1: if you're interested in watching it is actually available on
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  Speaker 1: YouTube right now, so if you would like to go
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  Speaker 1: and watch it, maybe with your kids, beautiful. If you've
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  Speaker 1: got an Oculus VR set, it actually is and was
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  Speaker 1: created for VR. So I actually got to watch this
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  Speaker 1: last night and we'll talk about it a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: and yeah, it's a really interesting experience. If you have
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  Speaker 1: a chance to do it that way, you should for sure.
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  Speaker 1: And if you would like to watch it before we
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  Speaker 1: get into it, because we're gonna talk all about it,
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  Speaker 1: you may want to pause. Now go watch for yourself.
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  Speaker 1: It's about eighteen minutes long, so not really long, but
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  Speaker 1: it's really beautiful to watch, so pause and then come
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  Speaker 1: back to us. Yes, yes, it's it's absolutely lovely. The
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  Speaker 1: film has a star stetdcast featuring John Legend as Crow,
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  Speaker 1: who also wrote a song specifically for the film, Constance
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  Speaker 1: Woo as the Skunk, Diego Luna as the Moth, Lisa
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  Speaker 1: Coshy as the Owl, Tie Sheridan as the Turtle, Oprah
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  Speaker 1: as the one who creates everything by thinking, and of
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  Speaker 1: course Sarah eagle Heart voicing Luna um as we discussed
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  Speaker 1: in our Women Around the World episode about her. And
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  Speaker 1: it is directed by Eric Darnell through Bao Bab Studios.
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  Speaker 1: The story begins with a beautiful song of the Crow
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  Speaker 1: who we see as this really colorful luminescent bird, really
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  Speaker 1: popular and well liked. As he prepares for an upcoming
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  Speaker 1: performance at the pond, we meet the others, Skunk, who
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  Speaker 1: has a bit of a crush on Crow and Moth.
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  Speaker 1: Later we see that winter has hit this idyllic forest
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  Speaker 1: and they are not at all prepared. As they try
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  Speaker 1: to figure out how to survive the cold, they talk Crow,
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  Speaker 1: after a bit of shaming, to go and talk with
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  Speaker 1: the one who creates everything by thinking, who lives beyond
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  Speaker 1: the moon and the sun. Right, So the interaction is
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  Speaker 1: really fun. And again, if you're sing this in VR,
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  Speaker 1: the forest lights up and you can walk around and
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  Speaker 1: it's like you're right there. It's pretty interesting. So, after
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  Speaker 1: finally being convinced, Crow makes his way past the moon,
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  Speaker 1: the sun, the stars, and the endless space to where
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  Speaker 1: the one who creates everything by thinking is and apparently
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  Speaker 1: it's in a small glass container with a coffee couch
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  Speaker 1: or a chair. Who was asleep, I mean, I think
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  Speaker 1: that's this marshmall is a treadmill. They wake up and
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  Speaker 1: it's like I need to walk it off, and they
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  Speaker 1: pop up on the treadmill, pop up like a washing
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  Speaker 1: machine fantastic. Yes, Oprah is amazing in it. So after
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  Speaker 1: his long colorful journey, and I say colorful because the
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  Speaker 1: viewing and the color and animation is gorgeous, we see
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to reference this character now as the one.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe that's the spricful over with the one and they
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  Speaker 1: talk about what to do as Crow requests for help,
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  Speaker 1: and though the One can't as they say, I think
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  Speaker 1: what was sunk, they do give the gift of fire,
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  Speaker 1: and after receiving this gift, the Crow starts his journey back.
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  Speaker 1: But as Crow is getting the gift from the One,
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  Speaker 1: Moth attempts to go and find Crow. Oh mo. But
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  Speaker 1: then we have the sun, which is too much for
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  Speaker 1: the moth to resist, though the Sun tries to get
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  Speaker 1: him to turn around. Yeah, and just before moth the
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  Speaker 1: moth is engulfed by the sun, Crow rescues moth. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 1: this puts out the fire during that rescue, so in
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  Speaker 1: a moment of sacrifice, Crow dives into the sun and
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  Speaker 1: then we see the warmth and swring returned to the forest. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: and as the rest of the creatures are enjoying the
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  Speaker 1: sun again, Crow comes around, now coughing and he no
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  Speaker 1: longer has his colorful feathers. He's now covered with black
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  Speaker 1: feathers after flying into the sun, and though he seems
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  Speaker 1: dejected and sad, we see that his sacrifice has saved
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  Speaker 1: the earth and he has given a luminescent glue and
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  Speaker 1: continues to sing with a little more raspy voice, but
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  Speaker 1: it's still a beautiful song. And Skunk and him have
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  Speaker 1: a moment where he's like, I like your smell. It's earthy,
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  Speaker 1: and she's like, I like your new voice, its earthy.
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  Speaker 1: And that being the tale of how we got fire,
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  Speaker 1: that's how it ends. So the way the story goes,
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  Speaker 1: it goes from the fact that comes from different tribes
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  Speaker 1: and and kind of there was a little debate of
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  Speaker 1: which tribe it came from, but it was as we
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  Speaker 1: talked about something very important to Sarah Eagle Hard and
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure Randy Edmonds as well, and making sure that
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  Speaker 1: the story was told by the voices of the native
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  Speaker 1: indigenous community, and they did, and it was a really
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  Speaker 1: beautiful thing to see, as well as the fact that
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  Speaker 1: the director, who really loved the story was like trying
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  Speaker 1: to figure out how to best present it. Knew from
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  Speaker 1: jump that he needed to consult the Native American communities
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  Speaker 1: and that's what he did, which I did. Yes, kudos um,
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  Speaker 1: And I think not only do the actors and those
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  Speaker 1: who were part of the production talk about how important
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  Speaker 1: it was, so do the people who from the Native
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  Speaker 1: American community. They talked about how important it was for
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  Speaker 1: them to be a part of this UM and we
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  Speaker 1: talked about the fact that Sarah Eaglehart actually won an
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  Speaker 1: award h an Emmy for it. And that's not the
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  Speaker 1: only awards that they won, uh. They won several others
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  Speaker 1: including they won the Any Award, which for the best
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  Speaker 1: Virtual Reality Production. And again Annie, I think you said
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  Speaker 1: you have gotten it ready to go on your set. Yes, really.
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  Speaker 1: And the audio was interesting too because the way they
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  Speaker 1: do it within the headsets like it sounds like, uh,
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  Speaker 1: the one who creates everything is actually inside the glass
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  Speaker 1: and it's very like pingy like as if she's in
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  Speaker 1: the glass. So it's super cool. And the again, the
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  Speaker 1: colors are so beautiful. It's kind of mesmerizing. I love
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  Speaker 1: anything space related anyway, but it's so mes remising. But
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  Speaker 1: they did get an award, not surprising. Uh, they want
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  Speaker 1: several I think four Daytime Emmy Awards as well as
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  Speaker 1: being nominated for two others. Uh. They won some Kids
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  Speaker 1: Screen Awards, They won the rain Dance Film Festival, they
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  Speaker 1: won the Webby Awards. We still have won the web
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, all of those things, and it's a gorgeous production.
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  Speaker 1: And I think it's in a testament as to what
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  Speaker 1: they were trying to do and making sure they are
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  Speaker 1: respectful of the culture and the storytelling. Um as we
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  Speaker 1: talked about how that is really really important because again,
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  Speaker 1: I know I harp on it a lot, but the
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  Speaker 1: fact that there's so much a rature when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to Indigenous voices and when it comes to the Black
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  Speaker 1: community that we we need to be really careful and
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  Speaker 1: try to make amends for that. And I think we're
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  Speaker 1: coming somewhat into it. But Annie, what did you think
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  Speaker 1: about the movie or the animation rather? Oh, I thought
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  Speaker 1: it was really beautiful. Um I am someone who actually
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  Speaker 1: actually I don't like surprise anybody, but I love stories
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  Speaker 1: like this. I love these kind of folklore legends almost
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  Speaker 1: of how something came to be. And I just thought
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  Speaker 1: it was so lovely and delightful in the animation, and
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  Speaker 1: I can't so I did watch it, just be clear,
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  Speaker 1: but I did. I haven't watched it in VR yet,
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  Speaker 1: I have it ready because I do want to do it.
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  Speaker 1: I think it will be really lovely. But yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: thought that the acting was great. I thought that they
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  Speaker 1: accomplished a lot in eighteen minutes right where you've got
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  Speaker 1: to really concrete like arc of these characters. And I
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  Speaker 1: really loved their coach journey from being this kind of
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  Speaker 1: like self centered, very beautiful, very lovely voice, but kind
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  Speaker 1: of self centered creature and then going on this journey
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  Speaker 1: and like seemed sad, and seeing the mood and seeing
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  Speaker 1: you know, the one who thinks everything and then coming
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  Speaker 1: back and feeling kind of low about his new appearance. Um,
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  Speaker 1: and the black feathers and the raspier voice, then't getting
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  Speaker 1: this pep talk from Skunk, and then the one who
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  Speaker 1: thinks everything is like no, I've got a dory looking
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  Speaker 1: for you as well. Um. Yeah, I just thought it
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  Speaker 1: was really beautiful. And it's one of those things where like,
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  Speaker 1: as you're watching it, everything just felt so exciting and pretty,
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  Speaker 1: like it just felt so like alive almost. So I
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  Speaker 1: can't wait for you to watch it in VR so
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  Speaker 1: you can come in and tell me what you think.
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  Speaker 1: About it because one advice do a swivel chair so
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  Speaker 1: that you can see everywhere. So because if you look
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  Speaker 1: behind you during these little adventures, you'll see like the
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  Speaker 1: remnants of whatever is behind you. So I think at
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  Speaker 1: one point in the scene there as a constellation of
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  Speaker 1: Crow as he's flying past to get to the one
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  Speaker 1: who creates everything just by thinking. And if you look
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  Speaker 1: behind you, you see like the remnants of it as
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  Speaker 1: you're passing it, and it glows beautifully. You see all
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  Speaker 1: of the flying star shooting stars. I guess uh in
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  Speaker 1: the atmosphere the weird rocks that was. That was funny
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  Speaker 1: because you're going through all the asteroids to get to
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  Speaker 1: it and they're singing. But when you turn around there's
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  Speaker 1: facing you still singing. So just why I um, But
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  Speaker 1: it's fantastic. Again, the audio they did was a great job.
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  Speaker 1: And this is a newer thing I know, um with
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  Speaker 1: the VR, but this was specifically made for VR for
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  Speaker 1: you to have that. But again they allowed it to
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  Speaker 1: be on YouTube free free, So if you want to
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  Speaker 1: have just a beautiful animation with lovely storytelling, you really
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  Speaker 1: should go and click on to this one. Again, it's
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  Speaker 1: Crow the Legend, not the crow. Yes, different thing, two
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  Speaker 1: different things. And yeah, I hope that we are able
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  Speaker 1: to discover more and more storytelling like this where actually
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  Speaker 1: gets all of the kudos and the accolades that it
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  Speaker 1: deserves and then it does get star studded treatment like
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  Speaker 1: with inclusive voices of the indigenous community. I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: continue to be this way and this was about the
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  Speaker 1: like several million dollars I want to say eighteen million.
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  Speaker 1: I can't remember um for the production of it, but
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  Speaker 1: it deserves that, Like I want to know that that's
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  Speaker 1: money will spent. And I think we need to be
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  Speaker 1: able to see continue to highlighting of grand treatment for
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  Speaker 1: these legends that should have been around for so long
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  Speaker 1: and that should be credited to uh the Indigenous people
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  Speaker 1: who bring out such beautiful storytelling and kind of originators
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  Speaker 1: to the storytelling in itself. So yeah, yes, And as always, listeners,
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