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Speaker 4: today we have a very legendary moment. We're speaking to

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Speaker 4: the incomparable Alicia Keys. Hey, thank you for joining us.

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Speaker 9: I'm glad to be here in the chop House with y'all.

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Speaker 9: For sure, What should I order if I was to

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Speaker 3: The crab rice is incredible. And there's a plethora of

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Speaker 2: I heard that they will put some one time down.

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Speaker 3: Did you hear that?

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Speaker 8: This is this is a moment. This is dope. This

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Speaker 8: Congratulations first, big congratulations. Yes, so you your career, You've

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Speaker 9: Come on, this is the one you need to go

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Speaker 8: And I think it was really tastefully done and really

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Speaker 9: Loosely based statements that's want everybody to know the most

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Speaker 8: But the music ties it all in, which makes it

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Speaker 4: We should put this piece in let's give New Yorker

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Speaker 3: Because this is this is different, right.

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Speaker 9: Form the art form when it's a new art form.

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Speaker 2: And then we put Ali who's the lead, seventeen.

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Speaker 9: That's such a huge point in being able to being

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Speaker 9: Another thing Hell's Kitchen has done is we created a

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Speaker 2: So were having a little earn your leisure moment, you know,

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Speaker 9: So I was talking about the fellowship that Hell's Kitchen

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Speaker 4: All those pieces that you spoke about are so unknown

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Speaker 3: But you also have to start off Broadway. Yes, So

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Speaker 4: Like from a creative standpoint, do you have to scale down?

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Speaker 4: Because when we saw it, I'm like, visually, this is incredible.

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Speaker 9: No, when you start, you start in a room. You

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Speaker 9: That's just going to end hands it. But it doesn't

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Speaker 9: And then so we did years of workshopping, you know,

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Speaker 2: The community has to be behind you.

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Speaker 9: They have to know that you took these processes, that

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Speaker 9: So you kind of do see the full circle moment

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Speaker 3: So the public theater, are they the ones the sponsor theater? Matter?

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Speaker 3: Now there's a difference.

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Speaker 9: They become partners in the production for sure, So they do.

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Speaker 1: An illegal alien from Guatemala charged with raping a child

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Speaker 1: filming and selling child pornography in Michigan. These are just

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Speaker 1: some of the heinous migrant criminals caught because of President

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Speaker 1: Donald J.

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Speaker 2: Trump's leadership.

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450
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Speaker 1: Under President Trump, attempted illegal border crossings are at the

451
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Speaker 1: lowest levels ever recorded, and over one hundred thousand illegal

452
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Speaker 1: aliens have been arrested. If you are here illegally, your

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Speaker 1: next you will be fine nearly one thousand dollars a day,

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Speaker 1: imprisoned and deported.

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Speaker 1: But if you register using our CBP home app and

457
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Speaker 1: leave now, you could be allowed to return legally. Do

458
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Speaker 1: what's right.

459
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Speaker 2: Leave now.

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Speaker 1: Under President Trump, America's laws, border and families will be protected.

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Speaker 8: Sponsored by the United States Department of Homeland Security NaNs

462
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Speaker 8: and you have to pay act theres and then you

463
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Speaker 8: would hopefully get the money back on the back in

464
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Speaker 8: through ticket sales. But movies you can actually you know,

465
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Speaker 8: streaming and stuff like that. You can't really stream a play, right, Well, it.

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Speaker 2: Depends how you want to do it.

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Speaker 9: I think there's no limit now to what's possible, and

468
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Speaker 9: there are so many ways to have access to it.

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Speaker 9: So on the theater side is much more niche I'm

470
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Speaker 9: learning obviously, I'm also learning a new space and a

471
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Speaker 9: new industry, which is amazing. I think that it's something

472
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Speaker 9: really wonderful about it.

473
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Speaker 2: It's new for me.

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Speaker 9: But intentionally we made sure that there were veterans around

475
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Speaker 9: the process because we want to bring all that new energy,

476
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Speaker 9: we want to bring that new thought patterns and all

477
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Speaker 9: of those things. At the same time, there's a tried

478
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Speaker 9: and true way that things work that you can miss

479
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Speaker 9: if you don't, and so there's a nice balance between

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Speaker 9: kind of the veterans of the business and also these

481
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Speaker 9: up and comers, which I consider myself in the world,

482
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Speaker 9: you know what I mean. And so yeah, so there's definitely,

483
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Speaker 9: you know, the financial model, just like with any creative endeavor.

484
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Speaker 9: You know, ninety percent of the things you know are

485
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Speaker 9: not always going to work, you know what I mean,

486
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Speaker 9: there's a small amount of things that really do cut through,

487
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Speaker 9: and there's not going to be six thousand Rihanna's just

488
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Speaker 9: doesn't go like that. You know, so special things take

489
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Speaker 9: special time and it just kind of is what it is.

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Speaker 9: So but yes, there's also there's also there there is

491
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Speaker 9: definitely the flow between the business of it, the rays

492
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Speaker 9: of it, and then how all of you know, the

493
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Speaker 9: way that that all comes back around and obviously depending

494
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Speaker 9: on the length of time and also ancillery things like

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Speaker 9: touring when these musicals tour, that's also a big thing,

496
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Speaker 9: and certain musicals are just ready for that.

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Speaker 2: That's a big part of it.

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Speaker 9: There's there's other worlds where you might want to do offshoots,

499
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Speaker 9: like series or films based on you can do kind

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Speaker 9: of streaming moments it all.

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Speaker 2: You can kind of like make all of it come together,

502
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Speaker 2: and it all depends on.

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Speaker 8: It's like it's like Hamilton, I was just gonna say

504
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Speaker 8: that when they went on tour, they go on to

505
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Speaker 8: London and like even the line can they on cruise

506
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Speaker 8: ships and the merch.

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Speaker 4: Right merch Hamilton is blasting through my house right now,

508
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Speaker 4: so it's on Disney Plus that's what they have this

509
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Speaker 4: So like my daughter listens to that in the shower.

510
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Speaker 4: I'm like, this is like the eighth song. Now be

511
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Speaker 4: conscious about the water.

512
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Speaker 2: You got to bring your daughter to help to see it.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, absolutely, I mean it's incredible to watch, right because

514
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Speaker 4: I'm thinking to myself, You've done amazing things in your career,

515
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Speaker 4: right from the creative process. Obviously tons of awards, and

516
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Speaker 4: it goes back to the tickets.

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Speaker 3: What would measure success for this?

518
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Speaker 4: Right? I feel like this is not a passion project.

519
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Speaker 4: It feels more like a project.

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Speaker 3: Right.

521
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Speaker 4: So we were able to preview it and we're like,

522
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Speaker 4: this is incredible. I can't wait for the world to

523
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Speaker 4: see it. I know you just dated Beautiful last week, right,

524
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Speaker 4: is there pressure to see the audience's reaction?

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Speaker 9: Well, listen, you know, first, I think for anything we create,

526
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Speaker 9: you know, first you do have to have the reason

527
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Speaker 9: why why are you doing it? Like? What about it

528
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Speaker 9: is special for you? What about it is meaningful? What

529
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Speaker 9: about it is missing in the world? You know? And

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Speaker 9: I think, no matter what that is, if you're creating

531
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Speaker 9: a technology or if you're creating, if you're creating art,

532
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Speaker 9: there's that connection to it because it's meaningful to you.

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Speaker 9: And I think that is the most important thing, and

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Speaker 9: that's what we've honored the whole time.

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Speaker 2: How do we tell this story? How do we create

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Speaker 2: a story of diversity?

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Speaker 9: So many unique people that are in this world, especially

538
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Speaker 9: in New York City, how do we see more of

539
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Speaker 9: them reflected in the pure true way and a complex

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Speaker 9: true way, because we're all complex.

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Speaker 2: We're not just one way. There's so many different things.

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Speaker 2: So that was the passion for it.

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Speaker 9: And also how do we invite people to a space

544
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Speaker 9: that maybe they don't normally feel like they belong in.

545
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Speaker 2: That's also a big passion of it.

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Speaker 9: You know, oftentimes I tell people that actually created this

547
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Speaker 9: musical for my husband, the people like my husband who

548
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Speaker 9: he's not actually a musical person, that's not his first inclination,

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Speaker 9: or he hasn't been exposed to it in a way

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Speaker 9: that it feels like it reflects what he understands or

551
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Speaker 9: what he wants to feel. And so a show like

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Speaker 9: Hell's Kitchen is it's something that it does that it

553
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Speaker 9: has that emotional foundation, plus it has the modernness of

554
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Speaker 9: the way that the music and the storyline is communicated.

555
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Speaker 9: You feel like you understand it, you want to get

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Speaker 9: into it. You know people like that you reflect like yo, whatever,

557
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Speaker 9: you know, you it's personal.

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Speaker 2: It's personal comes personal.

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Speaker 9: So you know, be it the theater goer who loves

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Speaker 9: musical for the past twenty five years or my husband

561
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Speaker 9: who probably would be like, yeah, babe, let's not go

562
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Speaker 9: see one of these other things. You know, it's opening

563
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Speaker 9: the minds and saying this Broadway space is a place

564
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Speaker 9: where we belong, where we can create our stories, where

565
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Speaker 9: we can create unique stories, diverse stories, and we can

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Speaker 9: be here. And so that's what makes it successful. What

567
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Speaker 9: makes it successful is that people feel it. You want

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Speaker 9: to create something artistic because you want people to be

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Speaker 9: emotionally touched and affected, you know what I mean. I

570
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Speaker 9: love that this show makes people laugh, makes people cry,

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Speaker 9: makes people like make funny faces because they can't believe

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Speaker 9: the voices that they're hear. I love that you're not

573
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Speaker 9: going to leave here and not feeling something. And I

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Speaker 9: think that that's the success. And then on top of that,

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Speaker 9: to be able to be the lead producer of this

576
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Speaker 9: endeavor is a big success. I think again that opens

577
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Speaker 9: the door and shows that we belong in all these positions.

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Speaker 9: You know, we belong also as the owners of our

579
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Speaker 9: ips and the owners of our creativity. We don't it

580
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Speaker 9: shouldn't just belong to everybody else, you know.

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Speaker 2: So I think.

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Speaker 9: That's a big version of success, and obviously for generations

583
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Speaker 9: to feel connected.

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Speaker 2: I think another big part of this.

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Speaker 9: You can be nine, you can be fourteen, you can

586
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Speaker 9: be twenty five, you can be forty five, you can

587
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Speaker 9: be sixty five, you can be ninety, and you can

588
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Speaker 9: come see this show and you're gonna get it. So

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Speaker 9: that's a big success too. Like that intergenerational energy is rare,

590
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Speaker 9: you know, it's rare. So all of that, to me

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Speaker 9: is successive.

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Speaker 4: I was gonna add in broa etiquette, Like we're walking in,

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Speaker 4: they're like, you can't go back to your CEO.

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Speaker 3: You gotta wait, oh wait, how does that work?

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Speaker 8: I think that's part of the education because it's like country.

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Speaker 8: I don't want to generalize this because there are a

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Speaker 8: lot of people that do go to place.

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Speaker 6: Of course, my circle of people might.

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Speaker 8: Have not traditionally gone to Broadway play. So even it's

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Speaker 8: like you can't be late or you're not going to

601
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Speaker 8: get in.

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Speaker 9: This is true, will you get in, but you have

603
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Speaker 9: to wait till the first number is done, like the

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Speaker 9: first song, because obviously you don't want to walk in.

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Speaker 9: These people are like killing it, giving it, and you're

606
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Speaker 9: like distracting everybody.

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Speaker 2: So they wait until it's an appropriate time.

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Speaker 9: So sometimes you miss that opening and then you.

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Speaker 3: Time not a thing to be fashionably late, don't They

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Speaker 3: don't even wait for me.

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Speaker 6: When it When it stops, it's not over. It's just.

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Speaker 3: Get your your refreshments. Now here's another.

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Speaker 4: I wanted to sing out loud, but I was recognizing

614
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Speaker 4: the talent on stage, and I know it's the show.

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Speaker 4: Some people were some people were singing out is that?

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Speaker 4: What's the etiquette on that? Because like, these songs mean

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Speaker 4: something to us.

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Speaker 2: Well, we're changing the face of the energy.

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Speaker 9: So the vibe is you definitely, I think what people

620
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Speaker 9: are feeling. There's an electric energy. You know, there's moments

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Speaker 9: where people say a line and the whole audience.

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Speaker 2: Is like what you know?

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Speaker 9: And there's that, So there is definitely that interaction. It

624
00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:11,480
Speaker 9: does have that you can totally sing. You should sing.

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Speaker 2: I sing. I'm in there singing.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I saw people getting up I'm like, this is

627
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Speaker 3: what I'm familiar with.

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Speaker 2: I can vibe. So everybody experiences the difference.

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Speaker 9: Some people are like much more internal and feel a

630
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Speaker 9: little bit more shy. Some people are more a little

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Speaker 9: bit more traditional. But we're definitely you know, creating that energy.

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Speaker 9: You can stand up, you're shouting at people, you can sing,

633
00:31:34,920 --> 00:31:37,840
Speaker 9: you can sit, you can you can feel however you're

634
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Speaker 9: gonna feel.

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Speaker 6: So you write music, obviously you did. You write this?

636
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Speaker 2: I wrote.

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Speaker 9: I composed the music, so all of the compositions I wrote.

638
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Speaker 9: I also created new songs for this as well, which

639
00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:53,080
Speaker 9: was really fun.

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Speaker 2: That was the first time.

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Speaker 9: And I also created the story, so I'm the creator

642
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Speaker 9: of it and also the lead producer. So are all

643
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Speaker 9: the hats that I'm wearing and.

644
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Speaker 8: Working with a writing team. And you're like, you're telling

645
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Speaker 8: them your vision and that they're actually writing it. Because

646
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Speaker 8: when we interviewed ice Cube, I was asking him about

647
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Speaker 8: writing a movie, right, and he said that for him,

648
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Speaker 8: it was easier to write a movie than it is

649
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Speaker 8: to write an album. I found that hard to below,

650
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Speaker 8: like a movie is like this, but he was just

651
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Speaker 8: like he explained, like you know, the beginning, the middle,

652
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Speaker 8: the end, and he was like, you know, he could

653
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Speaker 8: write a movie in a week, the album might take

654
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Speaker 8: him a year.

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Speaker 2: That's crazy and he's talented. I really like you a lot.

656
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Speaker 9: Yeah, So there is a book writer, is an official

657
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Speaker 9: book writer who's responsible for all the words that are

658
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Speaker 9: on the page that are being recited. But he and

659
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Speaker 9: I work together to create the arc of the story

660
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Speaker 9: and to create the characters and who's important and who's

661
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Speaker 9: special and why and what's it grounded in and what

662
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Speaker 9: are we really feeling? And Michael Greif, who's the director,

663
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Speaker 9: is a big part of that too. He's kind of

664
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Speaker 9: like directing kind of emotionally the arc. How we have

665
00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:05,120
Speaker 9: to get them to buy into this kind of emotions

666
00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:08,880
Speaker 9: that when we when we come around later, we see Ali,

667
00:33:09,120 --> 00:33:12,120
Speaker 9: she's quite agitated. She's irritated at her mother. She can't

668
00:33:12,440 --> 00:33:15,280
Speaker 9: she feels like she's holding her back, and ultimately at

669
00:33:15,280 --> 00:33:18,520
Speaker 9: the end we see that this love story between them

670
00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:23,000
Speaker 9: is what's what's what's the most dependable of all things

671
00:33:23,040 --> 00:33:24,720
Speaker 9: and you have to kind of go through this rocky

672
00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:28,360
Speaker 9: part to discover who's there for you, you know. So so

673
00:33:28,960 --> 00:33:32,360
Speaker 9: he Michael was also really good at storytelling and how

674
00:33:32,360 --> 00:33:34,760
Speaker 9: do we really bring that emotion out. So that's it's

675
00:33:34,800 --> 00:33:36,800
Speaker 9: really a team a team effort. But that's kind of

676
00:33:36,800 --> 00:33:38,680
Speaker 9: how it all flows together.

677
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Speaker 4: I'm happy you said that one of the one that

678
00:33:41,320 --> 00:33:43,920
Speaker 4: story ended, and this is how you know it's a

679
00:33:43,960 --> 00:33:44,440
Speaker 4: great show.

680
00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:46,600
Speaker 3: I'm like, we need more.

681
00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:49,000
Speaker 2: Right, I'm ready. I'm like, what's next?

682
00:33:49,040 --> 00:33:51,120
Speaker 3: We need more? Like Disney, is there another actor this

683
00:33:51,200 --> 00:33:52,880
Speaker 3: part too? It's incredible. I want.

684
00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:55,240
Speaker 4: I talked about the music a little bit because Kaleidoscope

685
00:33:55,400 --> 00:33:57,920
Speaker 4: is one of the pieces in the in the play.

686
00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:00,800
Speaker 3: I'm like, this is a great record. Then I watched it. Yes,

687
00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:02,520
Speaker 3: I'm like I had to ask him, like, this is

688
00:34:02,640 --> 00:34:04,960
Speaker 3: that's Hell's because I've met the Hell's Kitchen grow up

689
00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:06,320
Speaker 3: in the nineties. Like the only time I ever heard

690
00:34:06,320 --> 00:34:09,719
Speaker 3: of Hell's Kitchen was in the movie Sleepers. Wow, and

691
00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:11,759
Speaker 3: I was like, remember that.

692
00:34:11,719 --> 00:34:14,120
Speaker 2: Movie That's I didn't really put that together.

693
00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:16,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, So I'm like and then you came and was like, oh,

694
00:34:16,719 --> 00:34:17,640
Speaker 3: she's from Hell's Kitchen.

695
00:34:17,680 --> 00:34:18,440
Speaker 6: He is like, Okay.

696
00:34:18,640 --> 00:34:21,200
Speaker 4: I talked about the nostalgia of being back there, being

697
00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:22,480
Speaker 4: back with the talented cast.

698
00:34:22,520 --> 00:34:23,840
Speaker 3: I know, like I told you that. I mean, the

699
00:34:23,920 --> 00:34:26,560
Speaker 3: cast is incredible. Please you gotta go see this but.

700
00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:28,920
Speaker 4: What was that feeling? Like I'm looking in the hallways,

701
00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:30,279
Speaker 4: I'm like, is that the room?

702
00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:31,960
Speaker 3: Does she played the piano? No?

703
00:34:32,120 --> 00:34:33,400
Speaker 2: Is that like pretty incredible?

704
00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:35,279
Speaker 9: I mean the building has been a big part of

705
00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:38,120
Speaker 9: my foundation obviously in my life, like we discussed and

706
00:34:38,160 --> 00:34:42,640
Speaker 9: those opportunities, but also as my son, Egypt he was

707
00:34:42,680 --> 00:34:45,840
Speaker 9: first starting to play piano. I actually called my original

708
00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:48,920
Speaker 9: piano teacher, the woman who taught me, and I said, would.

709
00:34:48,719 --> 00:34:49,759
Speaker 2: You work with my son?

710
00:34:49,920 --> 00:34:52,960
Speaker 9: He's only four, but like he has he has something

711
00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:55,880
Speaker 9: that it feels like he's gravitating towards this. She's like,

712
00:34:55,920 --> 00:34:58,120
Speaker 9: I don't usually do it, but let's see, and she

713
00:34:58,200 --> 00:35:00,839
Speaker 9: ends up working with him. So for years from since

714
00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:03,680
Speaker 9: he was four, so probably about eight or nine, he

715
00:35:03,880 --> 00:35:05,960
Speaker 9: was with the same piano teacher that taught me. So

716
00:35:06,000 --> 00:35:09,040
Speaker 9: I would take him to the building, that building, and

717
00:35:09,080 --> 00:35:11,399
Speaker 9: we would go and do his piano lessons. And when

718
00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:13,920
Speaker 9: I was there, you know, all the people tell your

719
00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:16,080
Speaker 9: mama said, oh my god, it's so excited.

720
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Speaker 2: No, I haven't seen you in so long.

721
00:35:19,120 --> 00:35:21,560
Speaker 9: Like you know, so it would be this beautiful like

722
00:35:21,640 --> 00:35:24,200
Speaker 9: homecoming all the time, which feels so great. So I

723
00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:27,080
Speaker 9: feel like I have a beautiful connection there, but obviously

724
00:35:27,440 --> 00:35:31,560
Speaker 9: this this being based in Manhattan Plaza, I mean, it's

725
00:35:31,600 --> 00:35:34,080
Speaker 9: incredible to go back. So we felt like doing a

726
00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:36,840
Speaker 9: video for Kaleidoscope, which is one of the new songs

727
00:35:36,840 --> 00:35:40,840
Speaker 9: written specifically for Hell's Kitchen. It felt right to be

728
00:35:40,920 --> 00:35:43,960
Speaker 9: there because we talk about the Ellington Room, which is

729
00:35:43,960 --> 00:35:47,120
Speaker 9: a place where Ali meets Miss Eliza Jane, who's the

730
00:35:47,160 --> 00:35:50,080
Speaker 9: woman who teaches her about the piano and the craft

731
00:35:50,120 --> 00:35:53,000
Speaker 9: of it and how she can like grow through it,

732
00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:55,840
Speaker 9: and it's in the Ellington Room. So going to the

733
00:35:55,920 --> 00:35:59,640
Speaker 9: real one was really amazing. Also for the Cavs too,

734
00:35:59,640 --> 00:36:01,440
Speaker 9: because they like live in this world, we.

735
00:36:01,480 --> 00:36:03,879
Speaker 2: Create it, and so to see it like.

736
00:36:03,840 --> 00:36:04,480
Speaker 7: There is.

737
00:36:06,280 --> 00:36:07,960
Speaker 2: Real special, real special.

738
00:36:08,040 --> 00:36:12,000
Speaker 8: Well, if anybody has not seen it, I highly would recommend.

739
00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:14,360
Speaker 8: And it's being played like it's like an everyday thing.

740
00:36:14,280 --> 00:36:15,560
Speaker 2: Right every day.

741
00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:19,120
Speaker 9: We got Matinee and Matinee on Wednesdays, so there's two

742
00:36:19,120 --> 00:36:22,000
Speaker 9: shows on Wednesdays, so these guys are doing eight shows

743
00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:26,000
Speaker 9: a week. They are killing it. The vocals are constantly

744
00:36:26,080 --> 00:36:28,520
Speaker 9: on point. I can't even believe it. This singing runs

745
00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:33,480
Speaker 9: that I ain't even never saying. I'm like they're destructive.

746
00:36:33,600 --> 00:36:36,600
Speaker 9: So it's it's every day it just opened. It's so

747
00:36:36,760 --> 00:36:40,840
Speaker 9: exciting to see it. It's thrilling, and bring the whole family,

748
00:36:40,880 --> 00:36:43,760
Speaker 9: because there's nobody that doesn't belong in Hell's kitchen.

749
00:36:44,080 --> 00:36:46,040
Speaker 8: We appreciate you, and like I said, I think it's

750
00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:49,759
Speaker 8: dope that you did it because even though it's not

751
00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:51,960
Speaker 8: like totally based on your life story, how you're tying

752
00:36:51,960 --> 00:36:56,400
Speaker 8: in the music, it's just interesting to see. I wonder

753
00:36:56,640 --> 00:36:58,759
Speaker 8: even at what point did you know? Like you even

754
00:36:58,800 --> 00:37:01,000
Speaker 8: because I'm thinking of Nas That's the first person I

755
00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:03,920
Speaker 8: thought about, did you When I'm thinking like I'm when

756
00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:06,680
Speaker 8: I'm watching it, I'm like, I want to see the

757
00:37:06,719 --> 00:37:10,480
Speaker 8: story that's based upon you know, illmatic, then going to

758
00:37:10,640 --> 00:37:14,839
Speaker 8: it was written, then going to I am than still mad,

759
00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:17,359
Speaker 8: like and it's all tying in. It's a story, right,

760
00:37:17,440 --> 00:37:19,200
Speaker 8: It's like I could see a kid in the project

761
00:37:19,239 --> 00:37:21,440
Speaker 8: all way and then he gives money and now he's

762
00:37:21,440 --> 00:37:23,279
Speaker 8: in a mansion, he's doing fly and then he's like

763
00:37:23,680 --> 00:37:27,200
Speaker 8: everything like kind of he has like an awakening, Like

764
00:37:27,320 --> 00:37:30,160
Speaker 8: I'm just kind of I actually.

765
00:37:29,800 --> 00:37:34,200
Speaker 9: Love this because I love NOAs too and as an artist,

766
00:37:34,239 --> 00:37:38,960
Speaker 9: and I feel like what I love about this particular

767
00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:41,680
Speaker 9: perspective of Hell's kitchen. And how I can see how

768
00:37:41,719 --> 00:37:46,319
Speaker 9: that would apply is that you really are seeing how

769
00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:52,840
Speaker 9: a person kind of develops before anything of any significance

770
00:37:52,920 --> 00:37:55,960
Speaker 9: happens to them, before anything of any significance happens to

771
00:37:56,040 --> 00:37:59,080
Speaker 9: any of us. There's all these years, all these years

772
00:37:59,120 --> 00:38:02,160
Speaker 9: of like growth and the hard parts, And I feel

773
00:38:02,200 --> 00:38:04,799
Speaker 9: like that's what you're expressing. Like even if it was

774
00:38:04,840 --> 00:38:07,240
Speaker 9: an artist like a nas or an artist like an

775
00:38:07,360 --> 00:38:10,719
Speaker 9: ex even like I think about that sometimes too, like

776
00:38:11,360 --> 00:38:14,520
Speaker 9: what was it when he was you know, six.

777
00:38:14,280 --> 00:38:18,440
Speaker 2: And eight and ten and twelve? And so I hear

778
00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:18,960
Speaker 2: what you mean?

779
00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:22,600
Speaker 9: Why that's so interesting to get into what forms are

780
00:38:22,640 --> 00:38:23,040
Speaker 9: the person?

781
00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:25,640
Speaker 3: I got the title for looking at my project window.

782
00:38:25,640 --> 00:38:27,320
Speaker 3: We're going to use this song, good one. That's a

783
00:38:27,360 --> 00:38:27,640
Speaker 3: good one.

784
00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:30,319
Speaker 4: It can start when he watches rock Sane Chantell Mali

785
00:38:30,360 --> 00:38:31,400
Speaker 4: mal Hey.

786
00:38:31,480 --> 00:38:32,160
Speaker 3: So that point.

787
00:38:32,520 --> 00:38:35,160
Speaker 6: Yeah, well, and how can the people get tickets? How

788
00:38:35,160 --> 00:38:36,719
Speaker 6: can they? Yeah?

789
00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:39,680
Speaker 9: Yes, well you go to Hell's Kitchen dot com for sure,

790
00:38:41,200 --> 00:38:42,880
Speaker 9: you know, so excited for you to be able to

791
00:38:42,920 --> 00:38:47,280
Speaker 9: tune into the audience. Hell's Kitchen Broadway is our handle,

792
00:38:47,520 --> 00:38:50,880
Speaker 9: so you can get into like the storyline and introducing

793
00:38:50,920 --> 00:38:53,799
Speaker 9: yourself to the characters and falling in love with Nick

794
00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:57,239
Speaker 9: and Davis and Jersey and Ali and miss Eliza Chain

795
00:38:57,360 --> 00:38:59,920
Speaker 9: and all of these people from you know, from the show.

796
00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:01,279
Speaker 2: So that's the listen.

797
00:39:01,360 --> 00:39:03,520
Speaker 9: I'm so glad. I feel like I wish I could

798
00:39:03,520 --> 00:39:05,960
Speaker 9: talk to you for at least for sure, you know,

799
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:08,239
Speaker 9: at lista another thirty minutes. It feels like we got

800
00:39:08,719 --> 00:39:11,839
Speaker 9: layers to go, but I guess that means you got

801
00:39:11,880 --> 00:39:12,479
Speaker 9: to do it again.

802
00:39:12,560 --> 00:39:14,279
Speaker 6: You gave us the wrap so well.

803
00:39:14,360 --> 00:39:15,759
Speaker 3: I appreciate you for being here with.

804
00:39:15,760 --> 00:39:19,160
Speaker 8: Us, and it's a great date night. It's definitely gready

805
00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:22,440
Speaker 8: to go to the Broadway. You're gonna add this shop house.

806
00:39:22,840 --> 00:39:26,359
Speaker 8: You guys told me you go to the play then

807
00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:27,920
Speaker 8: it's literally block away.

808
00:39:28,120 --> 00:39:30,319
Speaker 9: Oh the chop houses here right here. Oh my gosh,

809
00:39:30,400 --> 00:39:32,080
Speaker 9: matter of fact, why happened. I need to come here

810
00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:32,560
Speaker 9: next time.

811
00:39:32,520 --> 00:39:35,760
Speaker 8: Before I'm gonna take my niece. She's actually an actress.

812
00:39:35,760 --> 00:39:38,759
Speaker 8: She does plays, so she's nine years old, so I'm

813
00:39:38,760 --> 00:39:41,680
Speaker 8: gonna take her to see it because appreciate.

814
00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:43,759
Speaker 4: I have to congratulate you before we go on the

815
00:39:44,280 --> 00:39:45,400
Speaker 4: exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum.

816
00:39:45,440 --> 00:39:47,880
Speaker 2: Oh my god, and god, quote.

817
00:39:47,719 --> 00:39:50,560
Speaker 4: You said that you wanted to help people normalize the

818
00:39:50,600 --> 00:39:53,120
Speaker 4: love affair of art, and I feel like you've done

819
00:39:53,160 --> 00:39:55,920
Speaker 4: it in music. You've done it obviously with the book museum,

820
00:39:56,040 --> 00:39:58,359
Speaker 4: but you've done it again with this. So I want

821
00:39:58,400 --> 00:39:59,160
Speaker 4: to congratulations.

822
00:39:59,200 --> 00:40:01,840
Speaker 2: Wow, thank you, thank you so much for bringing up giants.

823
00:40:01,840 --> 00:40:04,200
Speaker 2: Giants is a big deal for all of us.

824
00:40:04,200 --> 00:40:07,440
Speaker 9: I'm so excited that we get to be able to

825
00:40:07,560 --> 00:40:11,000
Speaker 9: have this exhibition of the Dean collection in the Brooklyn

826
00:40:11,080 --> 00:40:14,560
Speaker 9: Museum first place it will be. It'll definitely tour as well.

827
00:40:14,600 --> 00:40:17,840
Speaker 9: But again, we get to see ourselves on these walls,

828
00:40:17,880 --> 00:40:24,040
Speaker 9: these massive, huge walls, and it feels different. It feels different.

829
00:40:24,080 --> 00:40:25,479
Speaker 9: I don't know if y'all got to see it yet,

830
00:40:25,760 --> 00:40:29,480
Speaker 9: but it's also a perfect weekend. You do Help's Kitchen,

831
00:40:30,080 --> 00:40:33,719
Speaker 9: you do giants, and you about to like you good

832
00:40:33,880 --> 00:40:35,040
Speaker 9: for and you.

833
00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:36,840
Speaker 6: Use the skincare line to make.

834
00:40:36,719 --> 00:40:40,560
Speaker 9: Sure before your glow is get your glow popping with

835
00:40:40,719 --> 00:40:43,120
Speaker 9: Key Soul Care and make sure your soul is intact.

836
00:40:43,840 --> 00:40:44,919
Speaker 3: All the above.

837
00:40:46,960 --> 00:40:49,160
Speaker 6: You have. It sounds like a good weekend to me.

838
00:40:49,400 --> 00:40:52,360
Speaker 4: Yes, you're good for at least a year, at least

839
00:40:52,719 --> 00:40:56,560
Speaker 4: at least until are for sure.

840
00:40:55,840 --> 00:40:56,720
Speaker 2: Y'all are going to ring.

841
00:41:03,080 --> 00:41:05,120
Speaker 6: Oh man? All right? God, thank you for Rocko US.

842
00:41:05,160 --> 00:41:06,680
Speaker 6: We'll see you next week. Peace please.

843
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