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Speaker 1: Brooklyn's own.

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Speaker 2: Let's never forget.

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Speaker 3: It's Brooklyn Bedstide, Do or Die.

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Speaker 2: Right, because I live in Best Die right now.

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Speaker 1: I love when we can celebrate the tremendous talent from Brooklyn,

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Speaker 1: like yourself, who's been doing this forever forever. Yeah, literally

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Speaker 2: And you know what, I'm so excited that you are

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Speaker 1: Like I said when I saw you, welcome home, and

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Speaker 1: welcome home, it's not just welcome back to New York,

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Speaker 3: No after. I mean, it'd be fifty years next year

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Speaker 3: and do Hadestown and in a show that's won eight,

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Speaker 3: show and the and playing Miss Hermes is such a

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Speaker 2: They should give you some amez bad too, just to

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Speaker 3: Harry, can we make that happen? And yeah, Kendall'll call

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Speaker 1: Now, I do notice that with this play, as you

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Speaker 3: The entire time. Once I hit that stage, I don't

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Speaker 3: And it's an opera. I never did an opera before,

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Speaker 1: So talk to me about behind the scenes when they

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Speaker 3: I was shocked because you know, sometimes people say, oh,

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Speaker 3: you know, you know, my my social media is very

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Speaker 3: when I got in rehearsal, I was like, oh, wait

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Speaker 1: That's interesting, you say, because when you look at your

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Speaker 2: Call it when you were starring in The Wiz.

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Speaker 1: So do you feel like now that you're back here

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Speaker 2: Kendle, She's like she might be politically correct her.

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Speaker 3: Could I be politically corrected? No? I think I think

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Speaker 1: I will say though, I definitely if everybody who listens

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Speaker 3: It's a whole different beast you have to be on

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Speaker 2: Yeah it's a beast. Yeah, it's a beast.

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Speaker 1: And I think there's no way that people cannot Sometimes

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Speaker 3: I want to be positive. I think we are beautiful people.

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Speaker 1: Because some people are going to shy away from certain topics, yes,

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Speaker 2: Right? You know, what is there left for you to have?

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Speaker 1: Another thing that I feel like you've really led the

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Speaker 2: You know, I love him.

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Speaker 2: We all know you.

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Speaker 1: We did the whole vision board when I Yes, we

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Speaker 3: certain things that you shouldn't do that I've learned over

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Speaker 2: Like, give me an example of something you shouldn't do

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Speaker 3: I don't think you should do anything and everything that

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Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying. I don't think that you

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Speaker 3: I was like forty.

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Speaker 3: When I turned forty, I began to be like, cause

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Speaker 3: I just thought that was so wrong. There's just certain

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Speaker 3: Well, I think that if you invite Donald Trump, first

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Speaker 2: Disrespectful and lies.

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Speaker 1: That's also as crazy. All of the lies that he tells.

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Speaker 3: Didn't even know that he was president of Puerto Rico.

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Speaker 1: Come on, It is kind of embarrassing that he isn't

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Speaker 2: But the fact that you can run for president, you.

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Speaker 3: Can run prisoners can't even vote when they come out

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Speaker 1: I am excited that we could potentially have and you know,

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Speaker 3: Oh man, I just think that men are so penny,

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Speaker 3: Come on, the women were so strong, women are so

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Speaker 1: So, you know, Kamla, it's not something we thought we

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Speaker 3: So thrilled, you know. But I think it's going to be.

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Speaker 3: She said, what does she say, Trump, you have anything

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Speaker 1: Vibe already, She's gonna tear him up. And you see

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Speaker 3: Then they start hackling. She was like, I'm speaking, I'm talking.

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Speaker 2: And if you want to go support Trump, go do it.

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Speaker 3: You don't have to be here. When they come on

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Speaker 3: I don't get into. I don't get into I love

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Speaker 1: I want to go back to Hadestown. I'm talking about

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Speaker 2: Do we know Dan?

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Speaker 1: They haven't have they given us. I think they're trying

442
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Speaker 1: to coordinate everything. Okay, this is what I like to

443
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Speaker 1: do up here. Like, part of what they know about

444
00:19:45,400 --> 00:19:47,760
Speaker 1: me is that when it comes to these Broadway plays,

445
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Speaker 1: ask Angela, because she'll try to put together a whole

446
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Speaker 1: situation for everybody to go. But when I found out

447
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Speaker 1: you were coming, I was like, we have to make

448
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Speaker 1: sure we're in there, yes, you know, for this, because

449
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Speaker 1: that is what will make me go see a play

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Speaker 1: when somebody that I love, like you, is stirring in it.

451
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Speaker 1: So I can't I can't even imagine what that's done

452
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Speaker 1: for ticket sales. Also, I mean it's already, like you said,

453
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Speaker 1: one multiple Tony Awards, eight eight eight Tony Awards.

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Speaker 2: Yes, but now you're added to the mix.

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Speaker 3: Yes. And Yolo. There's three of us that went in Maya,

456
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Speaker 3: Yolo and myself. Yolo plays persephone A, Maya plays Youridicy,

457
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Speaker 3: and I'm Hermes. And this is all Greek mythology all

458
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Speaker 3: Greek mythology in the Toun opera.

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Speaker 1: Okay, yes, So do they tell you who's coming, like

460
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Speaker 1: if they're like tonight, such and such is coming.

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Speaker 3: I don't like to know because you find yourself performing

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Speaker 3: for that person. I just like to know that there's

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Speaker 3: an audience out there, and I don't like to know

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Speaker 3: who's coming.

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Speaker 2: Does Does Stephanie Mill still get nervous?

466
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Speaker 3: Oh? Absolutely. I never take it for granted. Then I'm

467
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Speaker 3: gonna go out there and you're just gonna love me.

468
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Speaker 3: I never take that for granted. I always get nervous. Always.

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Speaker 2: They say nerves are a good thing.

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Speaker 3: Though, if you don't get nervous, then you should get

471
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Speaker 3: out of the business, right, you know, if it's not

472
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Speaker 3: making you nervous, if you're not feeling like, oh my god,

473
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Speaker 3: you should get out of the business.

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Speaker 2: And I told you earlier before we started. Your hair

475
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Speaker 2: looks amazing.

476
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Speaker 1: So you're doing your natural hair thing the colorless y'all.

477
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Speaker 1: Y'all's my face and Johnny is my hair and carries

478
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Speaker 1: my press and kindles my press.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm having a good time. We had a good

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Speaker 3: day today. We had a really good press day today.

481
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Speaker 3: I had fun, all right.

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Speaker 2: Good are it's missing out on not being because we're

483
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Speaker 2: used to him being with you too.

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Speaker 3: I was going to bring him, but I knew I

485
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Speaker 3: had to do He would be like, mom, look, you know,

486
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Speaker 3: so I didn't bring him because I knew we had

487
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Speaker 3: to do a lot of things. So he's home on

488
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Speaker 3: his computer on his phone.

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Speaker 2: Fine, what does he think of the new song jam?

490
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Speaker 2: Because you're on a new oh yea which I like?

491
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Speaker 1: You like it?

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Speaker 2: I like the vibe?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Right, you called me, he said, I want to

494
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Speaker 3: send you a song. I said okay, and I said,

495
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Speaker 3: oh ray, I really like this song. I said, who

496
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Speaker 3: are you going to get to sing it? He said you.

497
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Speaker 3: I said, okay, I'm here. I sent it right, I'm there.

498
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Speaker 3: So we went in the studio and did it with

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Speaker 3: the Kick Capri, Dougie Fresh and MC light.

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Speaker 2: It's amazing too.

501
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Speaker 3: I like it.

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Speaker 1: I like the vibes. MC Light was just up here

503
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Speaker 1: the other day. Yes, and you know I see Dougie

504
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Speaker 1: Fresh all the time.

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Speaker 3: Please tell him, I said, Hi, I have Dougie.

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Speaker 2: Fresh and kid Capri. Yes, it's a whole vibe like

507
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Speaker 2: to see.

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Speaker 1: Stephanie mails you have not missed a beat just with

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Speaker 1: everything that you have going on your consistency, I don't

510
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Speaker 1: think so.

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Speaker 3: Well, I'm happy. I'm happy. I'm happy you feel that

512
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Speaker 3: way because sometimes when I'm home and I'm not really

513
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Speaker 3: doing anything, I'm like, I wonder because sometimes people will say, oh, well,

514
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Speaker 3: you've been out of the business so long, because I

515
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Speaker 3: did take a break when I had my son and

516
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Speaker 3: then coming back. But I feel like you need that

517
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Speaker 3: time to redo what you want to do. And I

518
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Speaker 3: didn't want to record all the time. I didn't want

519
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Speaker 3: to keep doing the same thing. So that's why I

520
00:23:01,119 --> 00:23:04,040
Speaker 3: would lay back and just wait till what I wanted

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Speaker 3: to do.

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Speaker 1: You know a lot of people are sampling songs now

523
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Speaker 1: from songs that we grew up on. How do you

524
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Speaker 1: feel about artists sampling your music? Oh?

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Speaker 3: I love it. Okay, check for me. Just keep it coming.

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Speaker 3: That's that's I always call it mailbox money, so that

527
00:23:19,880 --> 00:23:22,919
Speaker 3: that I love it. Sample all you want, take it right,

528
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Speaker 3: make it, yeah, you got this. Just handle the business

529
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Speaker 3: and make sure I get my money exactly. Well.

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Speaker 1: Listen, I always appreciate you. I love seeing you every

531
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Speaker 1: single time you're in town. I'm coming to Hadestown. I'm

532
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Speaker 1: gonna let all of our letters.

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Speaker 3: Let me know so that when you come and text

534
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Speaker 3: me you have my phone number. I tell you, I

535
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Speaker 3: get excited.

536
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Speaker 1: And Stephanie Mills like the first time Stephanie Mills ever

537
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Speaker 1: texted me, I said, I know because I was like,

538
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Speaker 1: have a good day, be careful. Yeah, And I was like,

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Speaker 1: I can't believe Stephanie Mills. And I had to like

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Speaker 1: tell my you know, and you even said stuff that's

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Speaker 1: exciting to me.

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Speaker 3: You said, I can't believe you're texting me. I'm just like,

543
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Speaker 3: you're my friend, You're my little baby.

544
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Speaker 1: Now, you know how exact Like other things don't matter

545
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Speaker 1: so much, but when you get a text from these

546
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Speaker 1: Stephanie Mills, you know, it feels exciting. Do you feel

547
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Speaker 1: more inspired now to do more music? Now that I

548
00:24:11,080 --> 00:24:15,440
Speaker 1: feel inspired to do more theater music is I could

549
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Speaker 1: do that in my sleep.

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Speaker 3: And I do want to do something. I think away

551
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Speaker 3: and I going to do another song because there's another

552
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Speaker 3: song that I want to cover.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so and he's the perfect producer for that, because

554
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Speaker 1: he's the value you want to cover.

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Speaker 3: I want to cover someone else's song.

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Speaker 1: I cannot wait to find out what this is and

557
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Speaker 1: I can't wait to hear, and I know that's gonna

558
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Speaker 1: be an honor for whoever it is.

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Speaker 3: Oh and she's huge.

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Speaker 1: Ooh okay, all right, well I can't wait to see this.

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Speaker 1: And also in Haiti Sound, are there new songs that

562
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Speaker 1: you're or is it still just the same.

563
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Speaker 3: No, it's the same songs. But you know, it's so

564
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Speaker 3: funny because people come and they see the show and

565
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Speaker 3: they're like, well, when are you gonna sing the big song?

566
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Speaker 3: I said, I will not be singing the big song

567
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Speaker 3: in the show. I said, this is an opera, its

568
00:24:59,040 --> 00:25:01,800
Speaker 3: a love song, squeak mythology, but we want to hear

569
00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:04,680
Speaker 3: you sing home. This is not the whiz, this is

570
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Speaker 3: hades down. You know, there's no big song. I don't

571
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Speaker 3: sing the big song. I think Maya sings a big song,

572
00:25:11,960 --> 00:25:15,360
Speaker 3: and but Stephanie sings more of the big songs. I'm

573
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Speaker 3: glad because I'm in my lower register. Okay, so I

574
00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:20,680
Speaker 3: can eat sweets and still go on and sing.

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Speaker 2: Oh wow things.

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Speaker 1: You have to take it to consideration. All right, all right, well,

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Speaker 1: Stephanie mails the legend. Thank you so much for joining me. Everybody,

578
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Speaker 1: make sure y'all go see Haiti Town.

579
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Speaker 2: Make sure y'all.

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Speaker 1: Follow her so you can stay up to date on

581
00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:35,719
Speaker 1: everything that she has going on, but also just your

582
00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:37,800
Speaker 1: opinions and thoughts on things, which I think is so

583
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Speaker 1: important and crucial.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, all right, it's way up well,