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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha and welcome to stuff

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Speaker 1: I've never told your production of I Heart Radio. So

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Speaker 1: we are continuing on with our celebrating a Native American

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Speaker 1: Heritage Month, which is November. For those of you who

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Speaker 1: may be listening at a completely different time, you're like,

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Speaker 1: what and we wanted to do a quick our review

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Speaker 1: and a watch review on Crow the Legend, which we

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Speaker 1: mentioned when we talked about Sarah Eagle Heart, who was

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Speaker 1: one of the main consultants for the movie with the

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Speaker 1: Native Americans in Philanthropy, along with Randy Edmonds, who is

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Speaker 1: an elder of the Kiowa Kado tribe and founder of

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Speaker 1: National Urban Indian Council UH. And by the way, he's

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Speaker 1: also the narrator for the animation. If you can do

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Speaker 1: get a chance to watch, and y'all, uh it's a

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Speaker 1: beautiful animation and it is the telling of a classic

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Speaker 1: Native America I can tell of the Crow and the Fire,

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Speaker 1: which is I believe the name of the actual story

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Speaker 1: and as a lesson in selflessness and sacrifice. The film,

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Speaker 1: if you're interested in watching it is actually available on

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Speaker 1: YouTube right now, so if you would like to go

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Speaker 1: and watch it, maybe with your kids, beautiful. If you've

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Speaker 1: got an Oculus VR set, it actually is and was

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Speaker 1: created for VR. So I actually got to watch this

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Speaker 1: last night and we'll talk about it a little bit,

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Speaker 1: and yeah, it's a really interesting experience. If you have

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Speaker 1: a chance to do it that way, you should for sure.

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Speaker 1: And if you would like to watch it before we

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Speaker 1: get into it, because we're gonna talk all about it,

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Speaker 1: you may want to pause. Now go watch for yourself.

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Speaker 1: It's about eighteen minutes long, so not really long, but

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Speaker 1: it's really beautiful to watch, so pause and then come

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Speaker 1: back to us. Yes, yes, it's it's absolutely lovely. The

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Speaker 1: film has a star stetdcast featuring John Legend as Crow,

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Speaker 1: who also wrote a song specifically for the film, Constance

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Speaker 1: Woo as the Skunk, Diego Luna as the Moth, Lisa

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Speaker 1: Coshy as the Owl, Tie Sheridan as the Turtle, Oprah

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Speaker 1: as the one who creates everything by thinking, and of

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Speaker 1: course Sarah eagle Heart voicing Luna um as we discussed

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Speaker 1: it is directed by Eric Darnell through Bao Bab Studios.

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Speaker 1: The story begins with a beautiful song of the Crow

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Speaker 1: who we see as this really colorful luminescent bird, really

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Speaker 1: Later we see that winter has hit this idyllic forest

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Speaker 1: the one who creates everything by thinking, who lives beyond

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Speaker 1: really fun. And again, if you're sing this in VR,

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Speaker 1: finally being convinced, Crow makes his way past the moon,

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Speaker 1: and after receiving this gift, the Crow starts his journey back.

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