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Phone Tap PODCAST: Dark Aladdin · Brooke and Jeffrey: Phone Taps

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  Speaker 1: the twenties. I'm moving. Hello? Hi? Is this Terra co?
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  Speaker 1: Is she Tara? Hi? My name is Ethan stump Ley,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm a teacher here at an elementary. I'm directing
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  Speaker 1: the upcoming school play that your son has been cast in.
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  Speaker 1: Oh hi, James is so excited. He told me he
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  Speaker 1: was cast as Aladdin. Yes, yes, well he earned it.
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  Speaker 1: Oh thank you. He's at least got a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of acting. Chops. You should have seen the other children's auditions.
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  Speaker 1: Just horrible. I felt like I needed a tennis shot
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  Speaker 1: after waiting through all that trash. Oh well, um, I'm
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  Speaker 1: glad that James rose to the occasion. Yes he worked
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  Speaker 1: really hard, Yes he did. He worked hard. But now
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  Speaker 1: that's why I'm calling you, because the real work begins,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm hoping that James is committed to this role.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want another little Red Riding Hood fiasco on
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  Speaker 1: my hands. I don't really know what that means, but
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  Speaker 1: I'll help in any way I can. Wonderful, wonderful. So
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  Speaker 1: we'll be starting rehearsals next week and those will run
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  Speaker 1: from four pm to nine pm Monday through Saturday, four tonight.
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  Speaker 1: That seems a little excessive. Well, curtain's up in two months.
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  Speaker 1: He's got a lot of lines to learn. This is
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  Speaker 1: just like a school play. Let me correct you there.
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  Speaker 1: This is not just a school play. This is theater.
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  Speaker 1: It's art. No, I understand, yes, And if my name
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  Speaker 1: is going to be attached to this, this will be
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  Speaker 1: the greatest performance to school has ever seen. I understand
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  Speaker 1: that you come from the theater. But these kids are
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  Speaker 1: in fourth grade, right, and I have taken into account
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  Speaker 1: that they're fourth graders. That's why I'm only asking James
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  Speaker 1: to lose fifteen pounds for the part. I'm sorry what
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  Speaker 1: he'll need to lose fifteen pounds? Are you insinuating that
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  Speaker 1: my son is overweight? No? No, he's in great shape.
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  Speaker 1: But I need him to look the part. He needs
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  Speaker 1: to look like he's been living on the streets of
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  Speaker 1: Agriba for years, like a real street rat, hungry and
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  Speaker 1: wild eyed. James way sixty five pounds. There is no way, Fine,
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  Speaker 1: moving fine, I hear you. With the right makeup, he
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  Speaker 1: can lose ten pounds, but he's really going to have
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  Speaker 1: to sell the desperation. Are you hearing what I'm telling
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  Speaker 1: you right now? He's not losing any weight. Wow? Are
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  Speaker 1: you trying to sabotage your son's career? Already sabotage his career.
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  Speaker 1: It's Aladdin, Okay, all you need is a lamp and
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  Speaker 1: a genie and a little Now she's a director. I
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  Speaker 1: thought James told you this is an adaptation of Aladdin,
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  Speaker 1: a darker, more realistic interpretation of the original. That's what
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  Speaker 1: we're going for here. He never mentioned that to me.
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  Speaker 1: What does that even mean? Well, great question. You know
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  Speaker 1: how there's a trend in Hollywood right now with more
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  Speaker 1: authentic storytelling, a more realistic view. We're taking the same approach,
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  Speaker 1: but with them Oh my god, no, no, yes, yes, yes.
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  Speaker 1: In the Disney version, Aladdin is a poor beggar who
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  Speaker 1: falls in love with a princess and needs the help
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  Speaker 1: of a genie to win her heart. To fall in love.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure you've seen. Yes, that is what is appropriate
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  Speaker 1: to a fourth grader. We're going with a much darker
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  Speaker 1: version in our version. Aladdin is a homeless man on
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  Speaker 1: the streets of New York City who has become addicted
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  Speaker 1: to social media, and he falls in love with an
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  Speaker 1: Instagram influencer named Yasmine, and then he has to come
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  Speaker 1: to grips with the fact that there is no genie
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  Speaker 1: and no magic answers to fix your problems, just despair
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  Speaker 1: and heartbreak. That is theater. That is art. Jane, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know who hired you. You are a lunatic. These
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  Speaker 1: kids are. I figured I figured that I might have
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  Speaker 1: to deal with this a little bit because I am
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  Speaker 1: an artist. No, I'm calling the principle right now. Go
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  Speaker 1: ahead and learn the principle if you want to. But
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  Speaker 1: he's already approved my idea hire. I know I might
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  Speaker 1: get blowback on this one, but on a scale of
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  Speaker 1: one to ten, how opposed are you to having James
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  Speaker 1: live behind a gas station four a month? Are you furious?
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  Speaker 1: You know? For research? No, no way, James is done.
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  Speaker 1: I am pulling him out of this play. I am
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  Speaker 1: going to get you fired. I'm going to call the
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  Speaker 1: school board, I'm gonna called the parent, I'm gonna put
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  Speaker 1: it up on Facebook. You're going to be fired, buddy.
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  Speaker 1: Oh it's gonna be hard to fire me because I'm
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  Speaker 1: not even a teacher. Yeah, I know you're non teacher.
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  Speaker 1: You're a runed man. No, this is actually Jewel from
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  Speaker 1: Brook and Jewel in the Morning doing a phone tap
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  Speaker 1: on you and your husband set you up. It's a joke.
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  Speaker 1: What's a joke? This whole thing? Your husband told me
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  Speaker 1: that your son was just cast as a Laddin in
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  Speaker 1: the school play, and he wanted me to prank you. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: don't worry, you were serious. I thought you honestly wanted
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  Speaker 1: my kid to lose like fifteen pounds. Well, if he's
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  Speaker 1: going to really sell the part, I mean he'd have
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  Speaker 1: to lose at least forty five my part. I was
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  Speaker 1: so upset. Do you like my adaptation of Aladdin? Though? No,
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  Speaker 1: that's an awful idea. Nobody will ever get my art.