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Wicked: For Good w/ Moni Odeyepo and Tessa Claire Hersh (Teaser) · Black Men Can't Jump [In Hollywood]

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  [SPEAKER_00]: And the black man can't jump on Patreon.
• 0:10
  [SPEAKER_02]: It can't.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: It can't get it.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Get it.
• 0:12
  [SPEAKER_02]: Get it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: James sometimes does lines from the movie, but I guess what's more important is to do like a little bit of a song and I'll just, I mean, I'll just do it one little line.
• 0:31
  [SPEAKER_01]: You're gonna you're gonna sing I'm gonna sing I'm a serenade for us.
• 0:34
  [SPEAKER_01]: I love people on this podcast right now Yeah, I'm gonna.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's gonna decide.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That's right.
• 0:39
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, exactly.
• 0:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: Mm-hmm.
• 0:41
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, no, you go for it Yeah, everybody's excited about this.
• 0:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: Here we go.
• 0:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: Here we go.
• 0:49
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, we're we're excited.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We're ready.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We're really.
• 0:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah Because I
• 0:59
  [SPEAKER_03]: more, more, more, more, all the lines.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I have been changed.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: For good.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Oh my god, you should go to Broadway.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Wow.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So good.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: All right.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: All right.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Wow.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Now that everybody's melting.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Don't you think we should all sing it?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, please.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Monny, why are you pimped?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You just picked me to go for it.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: What?
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Ha ha ha.
• 1:32
  [SPEAKER_03]: Wait, am I like really trying to sing her?
• 1:34
  [SPEAKER_03]: I just like jokes.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: No, no, you're really trying.
• 1:37
  [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah.
• 1:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's clear.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Because the words are, because I knew you.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I've been changed for good.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: OK.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Correct.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I'm nervous.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I don't like singing unless I'm tipsy.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I carry out.
• 1:48
  [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, yeah.
• 1:53
  [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, my gosh, it's too new.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I have been changed for a girl, what a little voice in there.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, it's a little voice in here.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And the voice, the music is powerful.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Like, you guys.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Also, not test a talking to all of us, and then not singing herself.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: How did you want me to sing?
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  [SPEAKER_03]: You have to go.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: You have to do.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I don't have to do it.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I don't have to.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: We want serenades.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I actually really don't know this song, but yeah, I really don't, I really don't, I don't know the second act of wicked.
• 2:31
  [SPEAKER_01]: Um, okay, man, we started high A because I knew you, I have been changed for good.
• 2:48
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's amazing.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: We should go to Broadway, you guys.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I love this.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Wow.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: All of us, let's go together.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Right, you'll see.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: Yes.
• 2:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: Uh, let's follow the yellow book road.
• 2:58
  [SPEAKER_01]: I feel like we're signing up for this is like, I don't want stinging.
• 3:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: Where's James and draw?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
• 3:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: And they're not here.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, those of you who listen to our podcast, you know, this is a film review podcast.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We review the films of leading black actors.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We talk about them in the context of race and diversity in Hollywood.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Today we are reviewing Wicked for Good.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They changed it up on us, not part two.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Wicked for Good.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And, yeah, James and Gerard are in here, because honestly, what do they have to contribute to this conversation?
• 3:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: Nothing.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Complaints.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Complaints.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We've got nothing to say.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So instead we have two incredible guests with us today.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: A first is returning guests.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This is, she's been on this show several times.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: She is gracing our microphones.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Again, she is an incredible actress.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Also a writer, you know, a poet.
• 4:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: You see, he gets a little nervous when he has to introduce some kind of things.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: If he doesn't do it, right?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I'll be like a complaining after.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: She also happens to be my wife.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's just a clear her.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The best part of my bio is that I get to be the wife of Jonathan Braylock.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It is the best part of my bio, best part of my life.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: And I just rub your love in our face as well.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I know.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I will.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Black love needs to be rubbed in everybody's faces because it exists.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's real.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And we are here to say, it's what's up.
• 4:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: And then we have, and this is your first time on the podcast.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, second.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: What was I was like?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This is, uh, yeah, we would.
• 4:51
  [SPEAKER_03]: Do you remember is, is open some movie?
• 4:54
  [SPEAKER_03]: Was that a movie?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, with them.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I am.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, mm-hmm.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: With that.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: OK, I was like, I don't remember.
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  [SPEAKER_03]: I think it was that I was like, yeah.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: OK, returning, two-time.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Also, incredible actress and a writer and improviser comedian, Moni Ritipo.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Welcome.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Hi, gang.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Hi, family.
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  [SPEAKER_02]: Hi, friends.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Hot out the gates.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Hot out the gates.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, we are reviewing wicked for good before we say what we thought.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Let me just give you guys the breakdown here.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It did open number one of the box office this weekend.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: 150 million dollars on the domestic box office, another 76 international so a 226 worldwide gross for opening weekend, the reported budget of this movie is a $150 million.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So it's already
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  [SPEAKER_00]: gross more than that.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So it's, it's doing pretty well, run tomatoes right now.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We have a 70% critic score, but a 95% audience score.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And this of course is the second part, uh, act two of the musical wicked starring Cynthia Rivo and Ariana Grande as well as Jonathan Bailey,
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  [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, can't jump.