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Speaker 1: play Duke and Roya and jay Ellis. You are starring

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Speaker 1: your first ever Broadway play off. I call it Broadway whatever,

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Speaker 1: and you are the star of this production. You're a duke,

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Speaker 1: and then Roya who does an amazing job too. But

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Speaker 1: I just want to give your koudous. I went to

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Speaker 2: So no, it's amazing. It's been a lot of fun.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you know, I was terrified to do it,

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Speaker 2: You just gotta keep pushing.

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Speaker 3: Somebody gonna call if somebody phone go go off, somebody

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Speaker 3: I'll marry you, Jay.

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Speaker 2: Like.

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Speaker 4: Somebody actually do that. I'll marry you. Are you serious? Story?

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Speaker 3: There's our last preview before opening, and it's the scene

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Speaker 2: Yeah, probably not. Yeah, I just realized that I just

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Speaker 5: Mean crazy, but no you he kills it. And for me,

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Speaker 5: So I was like, how does this even work? But

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Speaker 1: And there's only four characters in this plant does not

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Speaker 3: It feels to me like it's two people who are

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Speaker 5: It's kind of like even in love Jones, they go

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Speaker 3: Always, audience, I walk off stage before that scene happens,

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Speaker 1: How did this even happen for you? Where you decided

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Speaker 1: Stage because I feel like you're such a natural entertainer

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Speaker 5: If you don't know how to bounce back, you'll be stuck.

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Speaker 1: I just from a week off. I don't know.

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Speaker 3: We're gonna be here for eleven, thirteen, sixteen, twenty, however long,

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Speaker 1: And I have seen people who look like us on

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Speaker 4: Costas.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's really dope to be able to do something

440
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Speaker 2: like that.

441
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Speaker 1: And the production team.

442
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Speaker 4: Woman from Jersey.

443
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Speaker 3: Our producers are as, our co producers are amazing, like

444
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Speaker 3: like Nay gave us all her energy and then we

445
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Speaker 3: also got John Legend in and we got Kerry Washington

446
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Speaker 3: and like the three of them as co producers have

447
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Speaker 3: meant the world to this show.

448
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Speaker 1: Do you feel like it's been getting the attention that

449
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Speaker 1: it deserves to get, because I know sometimes it's hard

450
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Speaker 1: to break through in this particular space because I don't

451
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Speaker 1: feel like a lot of us are going to the

452
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Speaker 1: theaters like we need to be. And so what's been

453
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Speaker 1: the challenges there and like what can we do?

454
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Speaker 4: Oh my god?

455
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Speaker 1: Because I love solutions like things that you see that works.

456
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Speaker 4: Thank you, Angela. This is why see this is why

457
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Speaker 4: I love her.

458
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Speaker 5: No, it's true, it's hard to get people out to the theater,

459
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Speaker 5: especially in the summer, like Jay said, because it's just

460
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Speaker 5: an off season for the theater world, particularly off brow.

461
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Speaker 5: So if you're not a musical it can be challenging

462
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Speaker 5: if you don't have like you know, I don't know,

463
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Speaker 5: it's not spectical exactly. We're not doing you know anyway.

464
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Speaker 5: But the point is it's hard. But I do feel

465
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Speaker 5: like we're breaking through. Yeah, and I think that we're

466
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Speaker 5: getting you know, reviews, coverage, and some people, you know.

467
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Speaker 4: Whether the reviews are good or bad.

468
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Speaker 5: If you don't like it, if you thought we should

469
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Speaker 5: focus more in the war than you didn't get the

470
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Speaker 5: point of the play. So I'm like, okay, whatever, But

471
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Speaker 5: I think that we are piercing through and this the

472
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Speaker 5: audiences that are it's the people who go on social

473
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Speaker 5: media and post like, oh my gosh, just change my life,

474
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Speaker 5: or people who are telling their families to come.

475
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Speaker 4: They're coming in groups. But what you can do?

476
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Speaker 5: I think that you know and that's why we have

477
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Speaker 5: a discount code because we know you know people are

478
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Speaker 5: on budgets. Please go to Lortel dot org and purchase

479
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Speaker 5: tickets with our discount code, which is Radio seventy nine,

480
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Speaker 5: which especially for this audience. We want to get people

481
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Speaker 5: out to the theater. We need your support. We need

482
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Speaker 5: people to talk about it tag at Duke and Roya

483
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Speaker 5: on social media because you never know, somebody might see

484
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Speaker 5: that tag and be like, oh, I'll go see a

485
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Speaker 5: play or a date night with this.

486
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Speaker 1: It's a great date night.

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Speaker 4: That's a good date Now. I want to say that's

488
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Speaker 4: that's what we should. We should do like a theater.

489
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Speaker 1: I think amazing. I remember being like a lot younger,

490
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Speaker 1: like twenty years old, and this guy took me to

491
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Speaker 1: go see a play and I were like, that's really dope.

492
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Speaker 4: He took me to I was gonna say how'd you

493
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Speaker 4: feel about? Oh good?

494
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Speaker 1: I forget the play wasn't that great, but I think

495
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Speaker 1: but it was a nice outing like to be able to.

496
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Speaker 5: You know, and it's not just like, oh, we went

497
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Speaker 5: to the It is very thoughtful because you will be

498
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Speaker 5: influenced by seeing a play.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think, you know, I think awareness is the

500
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Speaker 3: biggest thing, right, I think, you know, to a notorious point.

501
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Speaker 3: It's summer, you know, we just had a lot for

502
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Speaker 3: you know, people out of town, people are traveling, and

503
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Speaker 3: I think awareness is the biggest thing. I think, you know,

504
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Speaker 3: it's how do you make sure that people know we're here,

505
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Speaker 3: but also like that our audience knows that we're here

506
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Speaker 3: and that this is that this play and this space

507
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Speaker 3: is for them, right men, This is not we're not

508
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Speaker 3: asking them to come to something that we're not going

509
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Speaker 3: to see themselves.

510
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Speaker 2: Like this is specifically for.

511
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Speaker 3: You and we want you here and we want to

512
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Speaker 3: experience this with you. And so I think that it's

513
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Speaker 3: it's really about you know, we've had really amazing There's

514
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Speaker 3: nothing like standing on stage and having all three hundred

515
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Speaker 3: people in that theater standing on their fin clapping and

516
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Speaker 3: crying and screaming back at you. And you know what

517
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Speaker 3: Notri said is like very true. Like we constantly area

518
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Speaker 3: I'm tagged like so much every single night with people

519
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Speaker 3: who are sharing it with their friends.

520
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Speaker 2: And you realize that, like, oh, even if we didn't have.

521
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Speaker 3: All the marketing in the world, the fact that, like

522
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Speaker 3: the word of mouth, which is what our community ultimately

523
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Speaker 3: is and has always been, like, the word of mouth

524
00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:30,040
Speaker 3: is what has made this show and what will keep

525
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Speaker 3: this show going.

526
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Speaker 4: So and we're there at the Lucill Hotel. You know

527
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Speaker 4: we opened was.

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Speaker 2: It June two weeks ago?

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Speaker 5: Now it's been about two weeks and we'll be there

530
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Speaker 5: till August twenty third. But we do need people in

531
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Speaker 5: the seats to keep the show going. So definitely go

532
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Speaker 5: to Duken roya hashtag, shout us out, get your friends.

533
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Speaker 1: It could be a sponsored right date night for somebody

534
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Speaker 1: who's listening to this right now, if you'll be up

535
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Speaker 1: in my DM and I'll get your date nickets to go.

536
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Speaker 1: I ain't going bay to the popcorn and nothing. I

537
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Speaker 1: would do that, all right, I have no.

538
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Speaker 4: Get yourself, eat before and after, get your drinks.

539
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Speaker 1: You need a moment of honesty from you. Did you

540
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Speaker 1: think about doing a rap album after this.

541
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Speaker 2: Four times, I'm still thinking about it. Every single day.

542
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Speaker 2: I will say, yeah, yeah, I'm.

543
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Speaker 1: Not gonna die. I seen you up there and I

544
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Speaker 1: was like, he really think he's a rapper?

545
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Speaker 4: Did you see the swag?

546
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Speaker 2: You should have seen me in the studio.

547
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Speaker 3: So we actually pre recorded all the songs and I

548
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Speaker 3: do them live now.

549
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Speaker 2: But originally we pre recorded them because we.

550
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Speaker 3: Were like, oh, if my if my mic were to

551
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Speaker 3: ever go out or for any reason, if something would happen,

552
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Speaker 3: we would always at least have a track going under it.

553
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Speaker 3: And we realized that in the rehearsal process, we realized

554
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Speaker 3: that that didn't work.

555
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Speaker 2: So I do them all live now. And in the

556
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Speaker 2: studio though, I was like I could do.

557
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Speaker 4: This, yeah, hear yourself like that, I.

558
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Speaker 2: Could go back. I could go back and do that

559
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Speaker 2: like yeah, and it was. It was dope. It was

560
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Speaker 2: really really fun. Uh yeah. I think I've always dreamed to.

561
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Speaker 3: Have music involved in my life and in my career

562
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Speaker 3: in my career, and I've never done that professionally before,

563
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Speaker 3: and so I think for me, this was again it

564
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Speaker 3: was a huge reason why I was attracted to this

565
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Speaker 3: role because I was like, I'm about to go up

566
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Speaker 3: there and show nobody dropping. Everybody who walks in there

567
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Speaker 3: is like, wait, he's doing that. That's crazy, Like nobody

568
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Speaker 3: expects me.

569
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Speaker 4: Well, they don't expect that.

570
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Speaker 5: And this is again the actor choosing things that are unexpected.

571
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Speaker 4: And unique every role that you've played.

572
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Speaker 5: I mean, you're charming, You're all that, and you are

573
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Speaker 5: that in Duke, but you also have this edginess but suave.

574
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Speaker 5: Like when I first saw him, like rhyme, I I

575
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Speaker 5: came up to him and her so I was.

576
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Speaker 4: Like, okay, okay, I said much respect.

577
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Speaker 5: I dapped him up because it's not easy the breath

578
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Speaker 5: control the billy like I I know, I was like

579
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Speaker 5: playing a rapper I had. I thought I was going

580
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Speaker 5: to put out a whole after a little Kim I

581
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Speaker 5: swore in my heart. I was like, you know, I'm

582
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Speaker 5: gonna just switch it up and show him what I

583
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Speaker 5: could do. And then I was like, oh, yeah, no,

584
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Speaker 5: I'm going to just lay back and but it is

585
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Speaker 5: nice to see you step into the musicality of you.

586
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Speaker 5: And it's nice because I didn't know Jay plays piano,

587
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Speaker 5: you know, I didn't know that he had any musical

588
00:26:17,520 --> 00:26:20,439
Speaker 5: so I think it's refreshing as actors, even amongst our

589
00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:22,920
Speaker 5: peers to be like, oh, I know you could do that.

590
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Speaker 4: Surprise them.

591
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Speaker 1: Maybe you guys, but John Legend would like do something.

592
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Speaker 5: You know, come on, John, write is a song that

593
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Speaker 5: would that would be incredible.

594
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Speaker 1: You could do the hook?

595
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Speaker 4: Yes, I can say the hook, just a quick verse, Kendrick.

596
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Speaker 2: Lamar and then and then we just you run it.

597
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Speaker 2: We got the summer song.

598
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Speaker 1: What were you going to say?

599
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Speaker 2: Nothing?

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Speaker 1: Okay? And so now listen. Now, of course we saw

601
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Speaker 1: the bally Belly story that you had. Does does that

602
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Speaker 1: make you think about what you eat before you get

603
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Speaker 1: on stage?

604
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Speaker 2: I don't eat.

605
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Speaker 3: I can't eat my last meal, my last bill. Yeah,

606
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Speaker 3: I need to get out of here actually because.

607
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Speaker 2: My last meal is at He's like, I'm sorry, my

608
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Speaker 2: last meal is at like three thirty. Yeah, I don't.

609
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Speaker 2: And then I won't eatuntil the next morning because what

610
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Speaker 2: I realized is I just it could go left. You

611
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Speaker 2: know what I'm saying. I just don't experience. You know

612
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Speaker 2: what I'm saying.

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Speaker 3: I just don't want I don't want to end up

614
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Speaker 3: in that situation at work, you know, because I can't.

615
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Speaker 2: Run off.

616
00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:22,040
Speaker 4: Because I'm out the loop.

617
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Speaker 2: I went to BALI a few years back. Okay, and

618
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Speaker 2: I was going to go.

619
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Speaker 3: It's New Year's It's amazing. Just spent a month there,

620
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Speaker 3: she did. It's amazing. It's an absolutely amazing place to

621
00:27:33,520 --> 00:27:37,480
Speaker 3: go bounce around, very very affordable. Getting there is expensive.

622
00:27:37,840 --> 00:27:39,360
Speaker 3: Getting there is expensive. Once you're there.

623
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Speaker 2: It's crazy for me, crazy crazy affordable. But it was

624
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Speaker 2: my idea to promote to propose on New Year's. Oh

625
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Speaker 2: but everybody.

626
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Speaker 3: We were in the house with a bunch of friends

627
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Speaker 3: and everybody got sick.

628
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Speaker 2: We all got bali belly on.

629
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Speaker 3: Basically whatever we ate, whatever we ate, whatever we ate,

630
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Speaker 3: whatever we ate on the thirtieth, had all of us

631
00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:07,720
Speaker 3: sick on the thirty first, So the entire house was

632
00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:12,120
Speaker 3: basicallyte in out the bathroom.

633
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Speaker 4: I don't think it's hot.

634
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Speaker 3: It's hot, it's humid, sticky. It wasn't It wasn't a

635
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Speaker 3: good situation.

636
00:28:19,280 --> 00:28:19,719
Speaker 4: I got it.

637
00:28:19,760 --> 00:28:22,200
Speaker 3: So what I've realized is in doing this from a

638
00:28:22,280 --> 00:28:24,520
Speaker 3: lightnings standpoint too, just because like when I do get

639
00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:28,760
Speaker 3: into those performances, like like I had a burger at

640
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Speaker 3: the spot around the corner that was like on aacha

641
00:28:31,240 --> 00:28:33,760
Speaker 3: shoutout to Bouvet, but it was like a facacha bun

642
00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:36,640
Speaker 3: and a blue cheese burger and it was absolutely amazing.

643
00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:39,560
Speaker 3: But it was so heavy that when I went into

644
00:28:39,560 --> 00:28:42,320
Speaker 3: the show that night, I felt super sluggish, and I

645
00:28:42,360 --> 00:28:43,520
Speaker 3: was like, oh, I can't make this mistake.

646
00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:45,840
Speaker 2: So I just realized that, like, oh, I have to be.

647
00:28:45,880 --> 00:28:49,040
Speaker 3: Very vigilant about what I eat and when I eat.

648
00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:51,880
Speaker 3: But I also had a cookie for breakfast every day

649
00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:52,360
Speaker 3: last week.

650
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Speaker 1: Oh okay, well that's breakfast.

651
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Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, I'm trying to get well.

652
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Speaker 4: I don't want by bed I go, but I get it.

653
00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:00,920
Speaker 4: You do have to be of those things.

654
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Speaker 3: I'm work a lot of liquids. I drink a lot

655
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Speaker 3: of liquids, a lot of tea, a lot of water.

656
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Speaker 1: You got to keep your voice and yeah, yeah, that's

657
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Speaker 1: a lot. That's a lot on your voice every single day.

658
00:29:10,320 --> 00:29:12,240
Speaker 1: It is, you know, well listen, I don't I don't

659
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Speaker 1: want to stop you from going to eat, but I

660
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Speaker 1: did want to make sure you guys had a chance

661
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Speaker 1: to come in.

662
00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:17,120
Speaker 2: So many more things that.

663
00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:18,720
Speaker 1: I would love to talk to both of you about,

664
00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:21,600
Speaker 1: so hopefully you guys come back as individuals, just because

665
00:29:21,640 --> 00:29:24,200
Speaker 1: there's so many projects and I gotta, you know, commend

666
00:29:24,240 --> 00:29:26,480
Speaker 1: you I mean, Jay, you've I think you've done a

667
00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:29,280
Speaker 1: great job with having like a variety of different roles

668
00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:31,440
Speaker 1: that people would not expect to see you in.

669
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Speaker 5: You know, Yeah, try to keep on talking about body work,

670
00:29:35,320 --> 00:29:38,640
Speaker 5: you know, stay on him for a moment, like you've

671
00:29:38,640 --> 00:29:41,520
Speaker 5: been out here killing it in every role has been unique.

672
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Speaker 2: I appreciate that.

673
00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:46,520
Speaker 3: I think for me, the gift of getting to do

674
00:29:46,560 --> 00:29:49,520
Speaker 3: what we do is that we get to challenge ourselves

675
00:29:49,520 --> 00:29:51,280
Speaker 3: and go live in someone else's shoes and someone else's

676
00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:54,920
Speaker 3: experience with every single project. And so you know, at

677
00:29:54,960 --> 00:29:58,400
Speaker 3: any time, I can push myself, anytime I can feel

678
00:29:58,400 --> 00:30:00,000
Speaker 3: a little afraid to be honest with you, Yeah, that's

679
00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:01,920
Speaker 3: and I can kind of be and I can kind

680
00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:03,800
Speaker 3: of be like, oh, but can I do that? Then

681
00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:05,840
Speaker 3: I go, oh, I have that means I have to

682
00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:07,720
Speaker 3: do it anytime. I go now, I know I would

683
00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:09,880
Speaker 3: kill that. Then I go, that means I've already done it,

684
00:30:10,320 --> 00:30:11,840
Speaker 3: you know what I'm saying, And like, I have to

685
00:30:11,880 --> 00:30:14,160
Speaker 3: find if I'm doing it it's for another reason because

686
00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:16,720
Speaker 3: I've already done that work. And I like the idea

687
00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:19,360
Speaker 3: of constantly being afraid and challenge myself and having variety

688
00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:20,120
Speaker 3: of work because.

689
00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:22,600
Speaker 2: I think it's also like for me, it's also about like.

690
00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:25,320
Speaker 3: My why right, which is like to break the idea

691
00:30:25,360 --> 00:30:27,920
Speaker 3: of a monolith of what black men can do right.

692
00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:30,280
Speaker 3: And so in every character I play, if they're different,

693
00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:32,600
Speaker 3: then I am showing you a different version of of

694
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Speaker 3: someone who looks like me.

695
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Speaker 2: In this world, Come.

696
00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:40,880
Speaker 5: On, multi dimensional black man in here, y'all better get educated.

697
00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:41,760
Speaker 4: This man is too smart?

698
00:30:42,760 --> 00:30:46,360
Speaker 1: Is not? And last we heard, you gotten slapped twice

699
00:30:46,480 --> 00:30:48,520
Speaker 1: As Lawrence, I be.

700
00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:51,160
Speaker 2: Dodging these New York City streets. You know who's real hot?

701
00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:53,960
Speaker 2: These New York is hot. I got slapped twice. I

702
00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:55,360
Speaker 2: got slapped at JFK once.

703
00:30:55,720 --> 00:30:56,640
Speaker 4: Are you serious?

704
00:30:56,920 --> 00:30:59,240
Speaker 3: And then what's crazy is I got slapped a year

705
00:30:59,320 --> 00:31:00,680
Speaker 3: after the show was over.

706
00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:02,560
Speaker 2: It's all I feel.

707
00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:05,120
Speaker 1: Like you redeemed yourself kind of people.

708
00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:08,640
Speaker 2: Still And also, what do you mean redeemed himself? She's

709
00:31:08,680 --> 00:31:10,280
Speaker 2: the one who Angela, don't do this.

710
00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:13,640
Speaker 1: She's on a couch. I just want to say, you

711
00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:16,520
Speaker 1: were like, but he did make I mean he did turn.

712
00:31:16,320 --> 00:31:21,600
Speaker 4: It around, turned it around, because she turned around.

713
00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:24,520
Speaker 2: She turned around, She turned around all the way around.

714
00:31:24,840 --> 00:31:27,200
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Because it's unattractive for somebody

715
00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:29,040
Speaker 1: that I'm working throughing all this, I come home, you

716
00:31:29,080 --> 00:31:30,800
Speaker 1: on a couch. That is you know what I'm saying,

717
00:31:30,840 --> 00:31:33,640
Speaker 1: You're not even trying. That is not appealing. And so

718
00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:36,600
Speaker 1: it ain't even about necessarily what you have. It's about

719
00:31:36,600 --> 00:31:38,880
Speaker 1: like ambition, Like I don't want to come home and

720
00:31:38,880 --> 00:31:40,920
Speaker 1: you just on a couch and I done worked you

721
00:31:40,920 --> 00:31:41,640
Speaker 1: know all day?

722
00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:43,240
Speaker 4: Right, Yes, that's true.

723
00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:46,680
Speaker 1: So the redeeming yourself is like, yes, I don't mean

724
00:31:46,680 --> 00:31:50,000
Speaker 1: that in a negative way. I just mean I deserve

725
00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:50,480
Speaker 1: to get.

726
00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:52,720
Speaker 4: Slam yelling at me to I mean they do the same.

727
00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:55,280
Speaker 3: But but you know what I say, here's what I

728
00:31:55,320 --> 00:31:58,000
Speaker 3: here's my thing to that. If you don't have a response,

729
00:31:58,040 --> 00:32:01,000
Speaker 3: then I didn't do my job or the material wasn't

730
00:32:01,040 --> 00:32:01,320
Speaker 3: what I.

731
00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:01,960
Speaker 2: Should have been doing.

732
00:32:02,040 --> 00:32:02,480
Speaker 4: That's true.

733
00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:04,560
Speaker 3: Whether you hate it or whether you love it, I'd

734
00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:06,680
Speaker 3: rather you be fully polar opposites.

735
00:32:06,760 --> 00:32:08,160
Speaker 2: Can you either hate it or you love it. I'm

736
00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:11,000
Speaker 2: good with either of those. If you down the middle,

737
00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:12,360
Speaker 2: you can leave my job.

738
00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:15,720
Speaker 1: Maybe that's what and even for you behind the scenes,

739
00:32:15,760 --> 00:32:17,960
Speaker 1: also because I always listen. You know how I feel

740
00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:20,280
Speaker 1: you belong always in front of that camera. But I

741
00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:22,280
Speaker 1: love to see the moves that you're making behind the scenes.

742
00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:24,520
Speaker 1: But it also shows me how the way that you

743
00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:27,320
Speaker 1: and your husband two work together to do things. I

744
00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:30,520
Speaker 1: love that too, because y'all genuinely like each other too.

745
00:32:30,680 --> 00:32:32,040
Speaker 1: I just love each other. You can love each other.

746
00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:34,120
Speaker 1: I like each other, but you don't like each other.

747
00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:36,640
Speaker 5: Well, we actually enjoy each other's company. Like you said,

748
00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:38,720
Speaker 5: like each other. We do date nights every Friday. Sometimes

749
00:32:38,760 --> 00:32:41,200
Speaker 5: people see us out like y'all really do stick to

750
00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:43,880
Speaker 5: every Friday night, and we try to you know, have

751
00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:47,960
Speaker 5: fun while working obviously, you know, producing projects, doing the

752
00:32:47,960 --> 00:32:51,360
Speaker 5: movie I did three three three, Duke and Roy, producing

753
00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:55,440
Speaker 5: that different things, that color book. We're we're trying to build,

754
00:32:55,640 --> 00:32:58,040
Speaker 5: you know, take to entertainment and at the same time

755
00:32:58,120 --> 00:33:02,080
Speaker 5: we're building our legacy. So even as we're family building,

756
00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:04,120
Speaker 5: we have a two year old. We got my my

757
00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:10,320
Speaker 5: daughter here Hazer they hide to the people, and.

758
00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:11,240
Speaker 4: Zuri turns eight.

759
00:33:11,360 --> 00:33:13,000
Speaker 5: So we have a two year old and eight year old,

760
00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:16,160
Speaker 5: and it's just also about Okay, we build the business,

761
00:33:16,440 --> 00:33:18,200
Speaker 5: but we got to take care of family and home.

762
00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:21,080
Speaker 5: So I think our friendship is what keeps us grounded.

763
00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:24,160
Speaker 5: And I love my husband for allowing me to be

764
00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:26,640
Speaker 5: different versions of myself, like, yes, he met me.

765
00:33:26,760 --> 00:33:27,560
Speaker 4: I was on power.

766
00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:29,680
Speaker 5: I mean, you know, I was at the height of

767
00:33:29,760 --> 00:33:32,880
Speaker 5: like the power world. But I think he always allowed me.

768
00:33:33,080 --> 00:33:34,720
Speaker 5: I would be like, I want to direct something, and

769
00:33:34,760 --> 00:33:37,040
Speaker 5: he would always affirm that. Or I'll be like, what

770
00:33:37,080 --> 00:33:39,120
Speaker 5: if we did this, Like I'm always the person that

771
00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:41,840
Speaker 5: has ideas, and he'd be like, just do it, and

772
00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:44,680
Speaker 5: I'd be like he's the executor. But I'd be like,

773
00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:47,080
Speaker 5: but how, and then he'd be like, just do it,

774
00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:48,560
Speaker 5: Like this is what we're gonna do. We're gonna call

775
00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:51,680
Speaker 5: this person, We're gonna use your resources. And I never

776
00:33:51,760 --> 00:33:55,040
Speaker 5: realized how many resources I had. You know, in this business,

777
00:33:55,240 --> 00:33:57,480
Speaker 5: we often are we don't ask, We don't ask.

778
00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:01,120
Speaker 1: I don't want to do about I don't like to

779
00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:02,400
Speaker 1: ask anybody for anything.

780
00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:05,840
Speaker 5: Really, girl, you can't ask me for anything anytime seriously, Like.

781
00:34:07,480 --> 00:34:10,160
Speaker 4: I was like, well, it depends on how much because

782
00:34:10,600 --> 00:34:12,319
Speaker 4: I'm in between jobs right now.

783
00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:15,240
Speaker 5: But it is true, though, we have to be willing,

784
00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:18,040
Speaker 5: like as actors, as people in this business, we don't

785
00:34:18,080 --> 00:34:20,399
Speaker 5: know how to ask for help. And if we could

786
00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:24,400
Speaker 5: do more of that, we would collaboratively, collaboratively be bigger

787
00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:27,240
Speaker 5: and more successful. I think the more we come together,

788
00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:28,440
Speaker 5: the more success we can have.

789
00:34:28,840 --> 00:34:30,320
Speaker 1: All right, And I got a new restaurant for you

790
00:34:30,360 --> 00:34:32,480
Speaker 1: guys to try for date night, because you know I'm always.

791
00:34:32,160 --> 00:34:34,400
Speaker 4: Oh I feel like you did so Yeah is a

792
00:34:34,480 --> 00:34:38,320
Speaker 4: Caribbean Yeah? Oh yeah, tell me too, Yeah, come through.

793
00:34:39,520 --> 00:34:40,399
Speaker 1: I'm the restaurant person.

794
00:34:40,440 --> 00:34:43,000
Speaker 2: We should all haven't found a Caribbean spot here yet.

795
00:34:43,239 --> 00:34:46,400
Speaker 4: Oh what come to? I keep trying to get to

796
00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:47,880
Speaker 4: invite you to Brooklyn.

797
00:34:47,560 --> 00:34:52,680
Speaker 1: And right to Jasmine's Caribbean in the city, or that

798
00:34:52,880 --> 00:34:57,480
Speaker 1: there Lavender room in Brooklyn. That's my mister. Okay, period,

799
00:34:57,600 --> 00:34:58,040
Speaker 1: we gotta go.

800
00:34:58,280 --> 00:35:01,239
Speaker 4: We'll bring Jay, we gotta we gotta get you outside.

801
00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:02,839
Speaker 1: The Simpson by the question, the street, from the back lades.

802
00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:06,520
Speaker 1: We got you. We're gonna make you go everywhere the

803
00:35:06,560 --> 00:35:07,600
Speaker 1: Simpson Oh.

804
00:35:07,600 --> 00:35:10,200
Speaker 4: Yeah Simpsons, you've been there, right, Okay.

805
00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:12,000
Speaker 1: I over got it. We got a list for you.

806
00:35:12,239 --> 00:35:14,000
Speaker 4: Yes, she's good with the food.

807
00:35:14,000 --> 00:35:15,759
Speaker 1: All right, Well, listen you guys, Thank you so much.

808
00:35:15,840 --> 00:35:18,280
Speaker 1: Duke and Royo again, how can people get tickets? Besides

809
00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:20,319
Speaker 1: who's gonna DM me? And I'm gonna give away too,

810
00:35:20,360 --> 00:35:22,759
Speaker 1: that's it. But there's a code right for people to

811
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Speaker 1: get discounts.

812
00:35:23,560 --> 00:35:26,160
Speaker 5: Yes, there is a code. First off, go to Lord

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Speaker 5: Tel that's l O R T E l dot org

814
00:35:29,920 --> 00:35:31,959
Speaker 5: and put in how many tickets you want, but use

815
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Speaker 5: our discount code, which is Radio seventy nine. Just story

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Speaker 5: Radio seventy.

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Speaker 4: Nine, and you'll get a discount.

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Speaker 5: You can get seventy nine dollars tickets, and you can

819
00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:43,920
Speaker 5: actually get even a better discount depending on what seats

820
00:35:44,040 --> 00:35:45,799
Speaker 5: because they start from like fifty.

821
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Speaker 4: Dollars and up.

822
00:35:46,440 --> 00:35:48,360
Speaker 5: All the seats are good too, and they're all I

823
00:35:48,440 --> 00:35:50,640
Speaker 5: was gonna say. You can sit it's mezzanine, you can

824
00:35:50,680 --> 00:35:53,120
Speaker 5: sit in an orchestra. There's no bad seats. So whatever

825
00:35:53,160 --> 00:35:56,160
Speaker 5: seat you get, come on through. Support us and make

826
00:35:56,200 --> 00:35:58,400
Speaker 5: sure you shout us out after the show.

827
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Speaker 4: At Duke and roya Caps Radio.

828
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Speaker 5: All Caps Radio seventy nine, r A d I oh,

829
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Speaker 5: all Caps seventy nine.

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Speaker 4: Come check us out that right.

831
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Speaker 5: Well, thank you for having us and just this experience

832
00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:15,200
Speaker 5: helps us in so many ways, and I appreciate you

833
00:36:15,239 --> 00:36:17,879
Speaker 5: for coming to Opening Night but also taking a step

834
00:36:17,920 --> 00:36:18,960
Speaker 5: further by bringing us.

835
00:36:20,040 --> 00:36:23,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, absolutely, it was amazing. So I'm excited for

836
00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:26,160
Speaker 1: Late Night. Whoever's going on a date night on Angela

837
00:36:26,520 --> 00:36:27,080
Speaker 1: alone too.

838
00:36:27,320 --> 00:36:32,400
Speaker 2: By the way we want you to.

839
00:36:32,560 --> 00:36:37,439
Speaker 3: We walk was like we want so bring your too, girls,

840
00:36:37,680 --> 00:36:40,040
Speaker 3: bring your whole relationship.

841
00:36:44,520 --> 00:36:44,759
Speaker 4: Child.

842
00:36:45,239 --> 00:36:47,680
Speaker 5: Ask me, I've been listening to your asses, and I'm

843
00:36:47,760 --> 00:36:50,520
Speaker 5: like these people crazy, Like I'm never leaving my man,

844
00:36:50,640 --> 00:36:52,800
Speaker 5: I'll never be out on the I don't want to

845
00:36:52,840 --> 00:36:53,240
Speaker 5: be single.

846
00:36:53,400 --> 00:36:54,879
Speaker 1: Put me back outside, all right,