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Speaker 1: Hey fam, Hello Sunshine. Today on the bright Side, we're

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Speaker 1: going country singer, songwriter and the princess of Outlaw Country,

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Speaker 1: Raina Roberts joins us to talk about her career and

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Speaker 1: two features on Beyonce's new album, Cowboy Carter.

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Speaker 2: And Later, We're gonna keep the Cowboy Carter vibes going

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Speaker 2: with a game of Beyonce themed this or that. It's Thursday,

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Speaker 2: April fourth, I'm Simone Boye, I'm.

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Speaker 1: Danielle Robey and this is the bright side from Hello Sunshine.

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Speaker 1: Here's what's popping on our feeds today. Taylor Swift is

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Speaker 1: officially a billionaire Forres just released its annual list of

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Speaker 1: the world's richest people, and she joins musicians like Jay

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Speaker 1: Z and Rihanna. But here's the difference. She's the first

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Speaker 1: musician to become a billionaire solely based on her songs

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Speaker 1: and her performances like just artistry.

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Speaker 2: You go, Taylor, You go girl. Okay, Danielle listen, listen.

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Speaker 2: It's an exciting time to be alive. Taylor Swift is

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Speaker 2: a billionaire, and we might be able to offload our

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Speaker 2: birth control burdens soon.

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: This is big news, Okay, according to The Atlantic, BC

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Speaker 2: for men could actually be available on the market in

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Speaker 2: the next few years. And we have options, all right,

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Speaker 2: So we're talking a pill, maybe even a gel that

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Speaker 2: men would apply to their shoulders daily. We can't even

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Speaker 2: get them to apply sunscreen, so we'll see.

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Speaker 3: How that goes.

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Speaker 2: But the deal with this birth control is that it

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Speaker 2: would just cause temporary infertility and supposedly it would have

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Speaker 2: zero effect on mood or libido.

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Speaker 3: Wow, what a concept. Birth control that has zero effect

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Speaker 3: on mood or libido.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna have to talk about this more at a

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Speaker 1: later date because men have trouble following routines anything that

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Speaker 1: has to do with their penises. They're not interested in.

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Speaker 3: You'd like, you know what I mean, any penis.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I'm moving on, okay, because I'm still stuck on

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Speaker 1: that college basketball player Flage passionately defending her teammate Angel

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Speaker 1: Reese at their press conference. That is shine theory and

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Speaker 1: sisterhood at its best. I cannot get that video out

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Speaker 1: of my mind.

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Speaker 2: I know it was really impactful. I love the way

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Speaker 2: that she was talking about how Angel makes her a

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Speaker 2: better player, I mean, true leadership, sisterhood in real time.

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Speaker 1: She was just like sticking up for her teammate.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's nice.

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Speaker 1: What's that phrase, like the trumpet blows or sounds louder

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Speaker 1: when someone else rings it or blows it. What's that?

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Speaker 3: I don't know, but that sounds great. It's true somewhat.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes you need your neighbor, your sister, your friend to

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Speaker 1: say something for you. It just is like received differently.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna blow my trumpet for you, Danielle.

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Speaker 1: Daily, I'm gonna blow my trumpet for you too. Simon.

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Speaker 3: That's not a thing. It's definitely not a thing.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna make it a thing.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I have a topic that might be a little

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Speaker 2: bit debatable for us.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I like that. Okay, I'm gonna get into it.

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Speaker 2: So Shakira has a pretty hot take on the Barbie movie.

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Speaker 2: She told Allure magazine that her two sons quote absolutely

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Speaker 2: hated the Barbie movie and that she kind of agrees

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Speaker 2: with them. She said her boys, who were nine and

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Speaker 2: eleven years old, felt like it was emasculating and that

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Speaker 2: she wants her sons to quote feel powerful too while

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Speaker 2: still respecting women.

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Speaker 1: Okay, this is a hot take.

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Speaker 3: It is a hot take.

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Speaker 1: I kind of agree with her. Woo. I know, Oh,

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Speaker 1: I liked the Barbie movie. I thought it was like

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Speaker 1: really well done, cool cultural commentary, but as women, we

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Speaker 1: didn't like when femininity or womanhood was thought of as

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Speaker 1: like this surface, pink, glittery thing. I think the way

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Speaker 1: men were portrayed in the Barbie movie was really monolithic,

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Speaker 1: like it was. It made them look a little stupid, basic, unintelligent,

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Speaker 1: not curious. And I think like the whole point of

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Speaker 1: feminism is that both sexes can live their fullest potential,

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Speaker 1: both sexes can have the same opportunities and responsibilities. And

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Speaker 1: so while it was funny, and because women have been

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Speaker 1: the minority for so long, I think everybody was able

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Speaker 1: to laugh at it, I did think it kind of

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Speaker 2: So I think that men don't often feel comfortable talking

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Speaker 2: But I have heard men say for a long time

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Speaker 2: that they're tired of the like dumb dad trope and commercials,

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Speaker 2: or like the dufust husband you know who can't get

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Speaker 2: anything right. And I do get that. I am sympathetic

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Speaker 2: to that I'm a boy mom, so yeah, you have

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Speaker 2: how men feel. However, I think it's okay to just

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Speaker 2: have a movie that brings us entertainment value and laughter.

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Speaker 2: And I don't know, I don't know that we have

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Speaker 2: to take it so seriously, Like I don't think that

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Speaker 2: Barbie is going to cause a spike in hate crimes

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Speaker 2: against men totally, you know what I mean? Well said,

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Speaker 2: so like, let's just not take it so seriously. And also,

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Speaker 2: can we just have one. We had to sit through

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Speaker 2: all these movies that didn't pass the Bechdel test, and

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Speaker 2: I'm just saying, like, can we just get this one, y'all.

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Speaker 1: I agree with you, But I think about what an

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Speaker 1: impact those movies, those like Disney princess movies or even

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Speaker 1: the rom coms had more of an impact on me

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Speaker 1: growing up. All these women, how they acted like so

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Speaker 1: man to call, like those definitely impacted how I perceived

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Speaker 1: womanhood and what it meant to be a girlfriend or

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Speaker 1: what it meant to be sexy and I'm like, kids

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Speaker 1: really take movies seriously, and so I almost think that

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Speaker 1: Barbie movie was more for adults. Like, if that's what

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Speaker 1: kids are watching, that's not really how I want masculinity represented.

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Speaker 3: Listen, Barbie is not a kid.

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Speaker 2: When I saw people taking their kids, their little girls

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Speaker 2: and I don't know, maybe little boys too, to the movie,

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Speaker 2: I was like, I don't think this is appropriate for kids.

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Speaker 2: Maybe there are a lot of jokes that will go

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Speaker 2: over their head, but I just I feel like this

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Speaker 2: is one movie, and how many other movies are there

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Speaker 2: like Barbie where this sort of messaging that you feel

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Speaker 2: and Shakira feels is.

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Speaker 1: Okay, not lotteryny and with Shakira, please.

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Speaker 3: I am I'm lumping you in.

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Speaker 2: No, but how many other movies are there that have

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Speaker 2: this portrayal of men in it? Is it a lot?

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Speaker 2: Then maybe if it's a lot, we need to talk

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Speaker 2: about that. But I don't know that there are a

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Speaker 2: lot of movies that are that have this portrayal of

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Speaker 2: mene where they're you know, more subservient or maybe not

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Speaker 2: as intelligent.

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Speaker 1: That's actually a good point, like the Cultural conversation doesn't

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Speaker 1: double down on that, so it's okay to have one film.

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Speaker 3: We can have one. Yeah, let's have one. Okay.

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Speaker 1: I think you convinced me.

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Speaker 3: Well that was easy.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe not as debatable as we thought.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna blow my trumpet for you, Danielle.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Simon, there's this trend on TikTok that has taken over.

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Speaker 1: It's called the hear me out trend. Okay. So it's

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Speaker 1: like an unconventional crush. So when you share it with someone,

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Speaker 1: you share it and you're just like, oh wait, hear

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Speaker 1: me out okay, because you gotta kind of explain it

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Speaker 1: a little bit.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: It's not like a Lenny Kravitz or a Channing Tatum

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Speaker 1: where we can all agree they're hot, right, It's just

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Speaker 1: like a little bit more obscure.

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Speaker 3: Do you have any of these First of all.

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Speaker 2: That Lenny Kravitz moment on stage where like didn't his

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Speaker 2: pants come off or something?

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Speaker 3: That's my Roman Empire.

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's the hottest short king in all of

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Speaker 1: the land.

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Speaker 3: He will forever be hot forever.

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Speaker 1: I turn that way about Idris Elba, Like this is

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Speaker 1: not a hear me out crush, Okay, hear me out

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Speaker 1: is like I gotta explain a few things.

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Speaker 3: I want to hear yours first before I say mine.

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Speaker 3: You have to go.

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Speaker 1: Here's that hear me out? I don't know, Okay, I

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Speaker 1: have a few. First of all, is Drake considered to

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Speaker 1: hear me out? Crush?

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Speaker 2: Oh my god? He's that man is so corny. I

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Speaker 2: think I like a little corny. I'm starting to learn

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Speaker 2: that about myself, Danielle.

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Speaker 3: Are you serious? This is your hear me out? Crush?

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Speaker 3: Have you seen his?

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Speaker 1: Horribly?

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Speaker 3: I've lost so much respect for you, Jim.

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Speaker 1: He's literally, I think, sort of like my dream man.

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Speaker 1: He asks a lot of questions, Danielle. He's black and Jewish.

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Speaker 1: He's literally he's.

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Speaker 3: For me, Danielle.

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Speaker 1: Simone's backing away from the microphone.

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Speaker 3: I gotta go, I gotta go.

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Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, okay, you gotta match me.

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Speaker 3: What's your hear me out?

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Speaker 1: Crush?

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Speaker 3: Wow?

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Speaker 1: Do I need to explain a little more?

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Speaker 3: Need to hear me out?

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Speaker 4: No?

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Speaker 3: No, no, Yours is way worse than mine.

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Speaker 1: Simon won't even hear me out.

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Speaker 3: I won't hear you out. I can't, wow. Mine is

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Speaker 3: hear me out?

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Speaker 1: Okay, Adam driver, that's okay.

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Speaker 2: I'm getting I'm getting thumbs up from our producers.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if that's hearing me out? What makes

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Speaker 1: him unconventional?

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Speaker 3: He's hot? You think, so he's a little weird.

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Speaker 2: I think, okay, So I think it's it's also the

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Speaker 2: people who the characters that he's played, I feel like,

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Speaker 2: shape the public's perception of him. So maybe that's why

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Speaker 2: I feel like it's like a little bit of a

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Speaker 2: hear me out. But yeah, I think listen, I think

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Speaker 2: he is objectively hot.

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Speaker 1: Here's the thing. One thing I have learned about you

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Speaker 1: is you love talent like you love somebody who is

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Speaker 3: At what day Dale psychoanalyzing me right now?

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Speaker 1: It's true. I think that's part of the reason you

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Speaker 1: love your husband. You really respect how he is as

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Speaker 1: a writer and director.

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Speaker 3: I'm a sabio sexual.

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Speaker 1: There you go, and I think you look at Adham

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Speaker 1: Driver and you're like, he's a really good actor. He

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Speaker 1: chooses interesting roles. So hear me out. I have one

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Speaker 1: more here, Okay, what is it? Jeff Goldbloom? Oh oh yes, yes,

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Speaker 1: this A man's charisma is off the charts. He was

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Speaker 1: in more Super Bowl commercials this year than any other

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Speaker 1: person I've ever seen, and it's because he's the most

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Speaker 1: likable human.

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Speaker 2: I think my favorite video or image of him from

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Speaker 2: the Super Bowl time was actually just one of those

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Speaker 2: cameras at the game when he was like in his

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Speaker 2: box and he was just like vibing with the camera

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Speaker 2: like the JumboTron was on him.

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Speaker 3: He's everything I love Jeff Goldbloom.

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Speaker 1: All right, I think we have to move on.

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Speaker 2: I think it's over. It's it's times up. You said

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Speaker 2: Drake is your dream man. Wow, folks a lot We're

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Speaker 1: Hello at the bright Side podcast dot com.

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Speaker 3: Please support me and be honest.

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Speaker 2: After the break, we're joined by rising country star Raina Roberts.

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Speaker 2: We're back, y'all, and we've got royalty on the line today.

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Speaker 1: That's right. Today's guest, Raina Roberts, is known as the

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Speaker 1: Raina, We're so excited to talk with you. We're trying

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Speaker 1: But first, this is your first feature and it's with

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Speaker 5: I can't tell you anything at all, but but what

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Speaker 4: So to be on her project and for her to

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Speaker 1: Well, we're excited for you. And I have to tell you,

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Speaker 2: Okay, so I know that you said that Beyonce has

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Speaker 7: I will say that if she has a vision, she's

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Speaker 7: And I've always kept that with me throughout my career

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Speaker 4: And nothing is impossible.

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Speaker 7: If you want it to happen, it can happen, and

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Speaker 4: I'm like, if she can do it, I can do it.

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Speaker 7: And actually even if somebody hasn't done it, I can

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Speaker 4: Like That's what I've learned from her.

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Speaker 1: That's the lesson exactly. You know, so much of the

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Speaker 1: I think in theory we all know what that means,

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Speaker 7: It's looking like six of us are charting right now

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Speaker 4: I think it's phenomenal. I'm so grateful and I'm so excited.

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Speaker 4: Also, I think it's such a blessing, like this.

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Speaker 4: And that's what's happening now, and I think it's fantastic.

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Speaker 7: I feel like I didn't have the resources or the

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Speaker 7: And my intention has always been not to be like

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Speaker 7: By her giving me this opportunity, it's give me the

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Speaker 1: I feel like you're bringing a whole new swag to

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Speaker 2: The superstar thing is already happening, by the way, like

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Speaker 1: Where did the red hair come from?

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Speaker 7: Man, you know what, I've had red hair for probably

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Speaker 7: And then from that blonde, I started trying different colors.

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Speaker 1: I love your song Raised Right. It's about how your

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Speaker 4: And to keep my dreams always in the warfront.

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Speaker 7: They knew that I was going to be a superstar,

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Speaker 1: How involved is your mom and your career at this moment?

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Speaker 7: All three of them are my mom, my dad, and

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Speaker 4: Is it too much?

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Speaker 7: So all three of My parents are a part of

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Speaker 2: Is there a little bit of a Tina Knowles thing

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Speaker 7: Well, they actually did come up with the rain of

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Speaker 1: I think you have to put that out on Instagram.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we got to see the behind the scenes process.

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Speaker 2: Your debut album, Bad Girl Bible, Volume one came out

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Speaker 7: I feel like I've been doing like my own music

445
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Speaker 7: videos and my own creative expression, like as long as

446
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Speaker 7: I can remember, and I'm proud of that artist and

447
00:20:37,480 --> 00:20:40,480
Speaker 7: who I am now and what's taken to get me here.

448
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Speaker 7: But like the music videos that I've done, and just

449
00:20:43,280 --> 00:20:46,359
Speaker 7: like the storytelling and the album itself. I'm proud of

450
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Speaker 7: what I accomplished there because I wanted to have like

451
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Speaker 7: visuals for every single song, have a story for every

452
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Speaker 7: single song, and everything means something to me, and I

453
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Speaker 7: feel like I was able to actually.

454
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Speaker 4: Make that dream become reality. When I went through and

455
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Speaker 4: listened to the album from the to end and sall

456
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Speaker 4: the visuals, I was really proud of that work.

457
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Speaker 7: But those are some of the defining moments that I

458
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Speaker 7: was really proud of myself and my artistry. Definitely with

459
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Speaker 7: Bad Girl Bible Volume one, and then yeah, some of

460
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Speaker 7: the other visuals and other things that I've done.

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Speaker 2: You strike me as someone who is always confident. I

462
00:21:17,160 --> 00:21:18,840
Speaker 2: don't know if that's right, but I feel like I

463
00:21:18,840 --> 00:21:21,600
Speaker 2: can learn a lot from you about confidence. What do

464
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Speaker 2: you do on the days when you don't feel confident?

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Speaker 7: I listened to Beyonce, I listened to Rihanna, I listen

466
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Speaker 7: to sermons, and I pray about it, especially because the

467
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Speaker 7: majority of my life I've not been confident, and I

468
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Speaker 7: feel like it's only been really within the past probably

469
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Speaker 7: half a year, that I really feel confident in myself,

470
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Speaker 7: my vision, who I am as a person.

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Speaker 4: I feel like I didn't really have that in its

472
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Speaker 4: entirety before.

473
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Speaker 7: I've always been very like shy and nervous and kept

474
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Speaker 7: to myself, even though people see me on stage as

475
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Speaker 7: like a big personality. I had to learn to be confident.

476
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Speaker 7: I had to learn to talk to people. I had

477
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Speaker 7: to learn to be personable.

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Speaker 2: I bet you got a confidence boof when you got

479
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Speaker 2: the call from Riba to open up for her.

480
00:22:02,960 --> 00:22:03,879
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I was.

481
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Speaker 7: And I'll say it this way, like, I've always been

482
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Speaker 7: confident in my career and my aspirations in life. I've

483
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Speaker 7: always known that I would work with my favorite artists

484
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Speaker 7: like Beyonce and In et cetera. I've always known that

485
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Speaker 7: in my heart and in my spirit. It's really the

486
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Speaker 7: things outside of music that I had to kind of

487
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Speaker 7: be more confident about. Like the way that I view

488
00:22:22,880 --> 00:22:25,560
Speaker 7: myself outside of music is really where I had to

489
00:22:25,640 --> 00:22:28,640
Speaker 7: learn and grow and trust in my vision for myself

490
00:22:28,680 --> 00:22:30,840
Speaker 7: and my own voice. And I feel like that's how

491
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Speaker 7: I learned how to grow in terms of confidence.

492
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Speaker 4: When Reva called me, I was like, I'm ready for this.

493
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Speaker 7: I've been waiting for y'all to call me, like in

494
00:22:38,720 --> 00:22:40,600
Speaker 7: a positive way, in a positive way, not not a

495
00:22:40,600 --> 00:22:42,880
Speaker 7: confet way, but like I've been practicing my whole life,

496
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Speaker 7: like I'm ready.

497
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you had that Grammy speech. Ready, That's what I'm hearing.

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Speaker 4: That's kind of exactly.

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Speaker 1: Yes.

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Speaker 2: You've gone from over one hundred thousand monthly streams to

501
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Speaker 2: five million plus on Spotify. Just in the last few

502
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Speaker 2: days you talked about gaining hundreds of thousands of news.

503
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Speaker 3: This has been a really good year for you, girl.

504
00:23:02,920 --> 00:23:04,800
Speaker 4: It's been a fantastic.

505
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Speaker 3: What is it like to be Rayna Roberts right now?

506
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Speaker 7: Oh?

507
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Speaker 4: Man?

508
00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:11,320
Speaker 7: This is a part of everything that I've always envisioned

509
00:23:11,359 --> 00:23:13,800
Speaker 7: for myself, and I'm really just still blessed. Like I

510
00:23:13,840 --> 00:23:15,240
Speaker 7: really prayed about it. I was like, God, can you

511
00:23:15,280 --> 00:23:17,399
Speaker 7: please put me on a song with Beyonce? Can you

512
00:23:17,440 --> 00:23:18,879
Speaker 7: please put me in front of a lot of people?

513
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Speaker 7: Can you please help my vision and the desires of

514
00:23:21,520 --> 00:23:24,040
Speaker 7: my heart have so much joy because it's not just

515
00:23:24,080 --> 00:23:26,639
Speaker 7: about me winning, or it's not just about me and

516
00:23:26,680 --> 00:23:29,040
Speaker 7: what I'm doing, but it's everything that my parents have done,

517
00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:31,879
Speaker 7: it's everything my team's done, and it's everything that all

518
00:23:31,920 --> 00:23:35,920
Speaker 7: of us have done collectively together. So I'm celebrating this

519
00:23:36,040 --> 00:23:38,520
Speaker 7: moment because it's not just about me. But it's everything

520
00:23:38,560 --> 00:23:40,840
Speaker 7: that we've done together as a unit that I'm really

521
00:23:40,920 --> 00:23:41,600
Speaker 7: proud about.

522
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Speaker 1: Raina. I heard you say in a past interview that

523
00:23:43,920 --> 00:23:46,920
Speaker 1: you moved to Nashville to make history as an artist.

524
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Speaker 1: Do you feel like you're doing that?

525
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Speaker 4: Oh, it's done. Now I'm on a song with Beyonce

526
00:23:52,160 --> 00:23:56,520
Speaker 4: and some of my friends that shit. Yes, I've done it.

527
00:23:56,640 --> 00:23:58,920
Speaker 4: I've been did it. It's been happened.

528
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Speaker 7: I definitely feel like that's happened, and I'm so excited

529
00:24:04,040 --> 00:24:05,960
Speaker 7: about it and so grateful because I would tell people,

530
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Speaker 7: I mean, anybody that I meet and I have conversations

531
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Speaker 7: with that want to know about me and my aspirations.

532
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Speaker 4: That's like one of the first things I say. I'm

533
00:24:13,480 --> 00:24:14,640
Speaker 4: here to make history.

534
00:24:14,359 --> 00:24:17,200
Speaker 7: And to create music that outlivets me, and that's what's

535
00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:17,960
Speaker 7: happening now.

536
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Speaker 1: You mentioned the Blackbird tattoos. Paul McCartney has been clear

537
00:24:22,720 --> 00:24:26,280
Speaker 1: about what that song, Blackbird meant to him. Originally, it

538
00:24:26,320 --> 00:24:28,760
Speaker 1: was inspired by the Civil rights movement. Is there a

539
00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:30,520
Speaker 1: tie between that and the tattoos?

540
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Speaker 7: I will say, for me, this represents all the history

541
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Speaker 7: that the song is and all that it is about

542
00:24:37,040 --> 00:24:37,720
Speaker 7: to be as well.

543
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Speaker 4: So for me, it's both things. It's everything that.

544
00:24:41,119 --> 00:24:45,639
Speaker 7: He created the song for, and also what's happening right

545
00:24:45,680 --> 00:24:50,520
Speaker 7: now with us me, Beyonce, Brittany Tanner and Tiara making

546
00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:52,359
Speaker 7: history and what our legacy is.

547
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Speaker 4: So it's all those things.

548
00:24:53,440 --> 00:24:56,840
Speaker 7: Wrapped up in one and I can't wait to get it.

549
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Speaker 4: I'm also a little nervous, but I'm also really excited

550
00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:00,160
Speaker 4: about it.

551
00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:01,440
Speaker 3: Wait, why are you nervous?

552
00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:03,560
Speaker 7: I'm nervous because I want to get it in the

553
00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:05,560
Speaker 7: back of my neck and I'm like, how's that gonna feel?

554
00:25:06,359 --> 00:25:08,920
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, probably till a little tingley, just.

555
00:25:09,320 --> 00:25:09,800
Speaker 4: Like a little bit.

556
00:25:09,840 --> 00:25:12,040
Speaker 7: But it's more excitement, and I love the fact that

557
00:25:12,080 --> 00:25:13,880
Speaker 7: we're all about to do this together, Like we're just.

558
00:25:13,800 --> 00:25:15,600
Speaker 4: Really about to go and get tattoos right here. You're like,

559
00:25:16,280 --> 00:25:17,080
Speaker 4: I love it for us.

560
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Speaker 2: I can't think of a better occasion. It's God's favorite, y'all.

561
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Speaker 7: All.

562
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Speaker 2: Right, after the break, we're gonna play a Beyonce themed

563
00:25:24,240 --> 00:25:25,560
Speaker 2: game of this or that.

564
00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:36,120
Speaker 3: We'll be right back. We're back with Raina Roberts.

565
00:25:36,240 --> 00:25:38,880
Speaker 2: We love a good game on this show, so that's

566
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Speaker 2: why we're gonna play a Beyonce themed round of this

567
00:25:41,840 --> 00:25:45,119
Speaker 2: or that, and we're using her songs as inspiration Reina

568
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Speaker 2: you ready?

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Speaker 3: Yes, hot sauce in my bag? Swag? Are you a

570
00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:51,880
Speaker 3: Tabasco girl or Frank's red hot? All the way?

571
00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:56,560
Speaker 4: Crazy because I don't have either. I don't eat hot sauce.

572
00:25:56,880 --> 00:25:58,919
Speaker 3: No hot sauce, no hot sauce.

573
00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:00,439
Speaker 4: I don't got hot sauce and.

574
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Speaker 6: Bed.

575
00:26:02,840 --> 00:26:05,040
Speaker 3: It's okay, We'll forgive it because you got swag for days.

576
00:26:05,200 --> 00:26:08,639
Speaker 1: Yeah, you have enough swag to cover up. Don't worry, okay.

577
00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:12,080
Speaker 1: Beyonce says, to release your anger, release your mind. Are

578
00:26:12,119 --> 00:26:15,800
Speaker 1: you going with a meditation practice or a massage.

579
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Speaker 4: Meditation?

580
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Speaker 1: I feel like we have to add a third. I

581
00:26:19,119 --> 00:26:20,280
Speaker 1: feel like you're a prayer girl.

582
00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:23,080
Speaker 7: I was gonna say honestly, when you said meditation, I

583
00:26:23,080 --> 00:26:23,960
Speaker 7: was like, I'm just gonna.

584
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Speaker 3: Pray about it.

585
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Speaker 2: I love how she's rewriting the rules of this game

586
00:26:26,320 --> 00:26:28,959
Speaker 2: as you should. No, no, do it?

587
00:26:29,040 --> 00:26:30,119
Speaker 3: Do it? Okay?

588
00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:34,320
Speaker 2: Telephone or video phone? Do we like phone calls or facetimes?

589
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Speaker 4: Face times?

590
00:26:35,720 --> 00:26:35,920
Speaker 2: Yes?

591
00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:37,040
Speaker 6: All the way.

592
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Speaker 1: It's officially April. We're heading into spring and summer. So

593
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Speaker 1: are we single ladies or on a cuffet mentality?

594
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Speaker 3: Aka?

595
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Speaker 1: Are you single or taken?

596
00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:47,240
Speaker 4: Single?

597
00:26:47,320 --> 00:26:47,600
Speaker 7: Ladies?

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Speaker 1: Thanks to do yeah, that's why your dms are flooded.

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00:26:53,800 --> 00:26:55,200
Speaker 4: I was gonna say.

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Speaker 2: This one's a little bit self explanatory. But naughty girl

601
00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:02,680
Speaker 2: or church girl?

602
00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:06,080
Speaker 4: Oh well wait, wait wait, oh man, I'm reforming.

603
00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:08,440
Speaker 1: I don't know you're a naughty church girl.

604
00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:10,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's okay.

605
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Speaker 4: Exist, I like that. I'm reforming this game.

606
00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:15,320
Speaker 1: We're both.

607
00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:19,399
Speaker 2: Yeah, we need to take up space. Yeah, that naughty

608
00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:20,560
Speaker 2: church girl representation.

609
00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:24,439
Speaker 1: Okay. On Cowboy Carter, Queen Bee has two songs, Texas

610
00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:28,120
Speaker 1: hold Them and O Louisiana. Which state are you booking

611
00:27:28,160 --> 00:27:29,280
Speaker 1: flights to first?

612
00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:33,360
Speaker 4: Oh? I'm actually going to Texas this weekend. So Texas.

613
00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:36,080
Speaker 7: Oh, but my songs called Louisiana and if I oh,

614
00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:38,359
Speaker 7: we don't say Louisiana Louisiana.

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Speaker 1: I'm glad you didn't disappoint me. I thought you were

616
00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:41,840
Speaker 1: gonna say that.

617
00:27:42,119 --> 00:27:43,840
Speaker 4: I almost messed up. I'm so close.

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00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:47,480
Speaker 2: Okay, six inch heels or Levi Jean's six inchles.

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Speaker 3: I see, I can't. I can't go with you on

620
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Speaker 3: that one.

621
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Speaker 2: That's what's a journey. You're gonna have to go alone.

622
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna Levi's Jez Girl too.

623
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Speaker 1: That's the only one we we differ on.

624
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Speaker 4: I do not like to wear jeans whatsoever. Any time

625
00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:03,040
Speaker 4: I'm like, no people trying to put me in due salt.

626
00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:05,359
Speaker 1: Tom, that's because you're dancing on stage. I think that's fair.

627
00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:06,840
Speaker 4: Thank you.

628
00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:10,120
Speaker 1: Okay, here's another one from Cowboy Carter. Are you going

629
00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:12,359
Speaker 1: off like a tyrant? Or do you need someone to

630
00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:14,000
Speaker 1: hold you back like a protector?

631
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Speaker 4: Tyrant? No, tyrant? I love that song. I listened to

632
00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:17,359
Speaker 4: that daily.

633
00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:22,360
Speaker 2: If you had to describe yourself, are you a me myself,

634
00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:24,520
Speaker 2: an I person or a party person?

635
00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:26,919
Speaker 3: Basically? Are you an introvert or an extrovert?

636
00:28:27,320 --> 00:28:30,680
Speaker 4: Introvert? Me myself and I. I'm in my old little

637
00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:32,919
Speaker 4: imagination and in my ol little world.

638
00:28:33,119 --> 00:28:35,800
Speaker 1: Okay, this is the last one, Reina. I'm sad that

639
00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:38,040
Speaker 1: we have to let you go. Okay, As we inch

640
00:28:38,080 --> 00:28:41,720
Speaker 1: closer to the weekend, energy or plastic on the sofa?

641
00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:43,320
Speaker 1: Are you staying in or are you going out?

642
00:28:44,080 --> 00:28:46,320
Speaker 4: I'm going out this weekend. I gotta celebrate.

643
00:28:46,480 --> 00:28:47,640
Speaker 1: What does that look like for you?

644
00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:49,760
Speaker 4: Funny enough, I'm going to do karaoke.

645
00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:51,920
Speaker 3: I love Karry not there.

646
00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:56,600
Speaker 1: Professional singers are not allowed to do karaoke. True, I

647
00:28:56,600 --> 00:28:59,960
Speaker 1: can do songs that I'm not good at whatever doesn't exist.

648
00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:01,720
Speaker 3: What's your go to karaoke song?

649
00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:03,480
Speaker 4: Lady Marmalade?

650
00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:06,680
Speaker 1: Oh wow, wait, tell that story.

651
00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:10,800
Speaker 7: Honestly, I've been seening him a whole life. So the

652
00:29:10,800 --> 00:29:12,240
Speaker 7: first time I ever sang in front of like a

653
00:29:12,280 --> 00:29:14,560
Speaker 7: whole bunch of people, I was three years old. My

654
00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:16,360
Speaker 7: mom said me to a bar in Alaska and she

655
00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:19,360
Speaker 7: had me singing Lady Marmalade. But I just I love

656
00:29:19,400 --> 00:29:21,920
Speaker 7: that song. I've always loved that song. So anytime it's

657
00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:23,360
Speaker 7: karaoke time, that's my song.

658
00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:26,280
Speaker 1: You know, I heard you say that Christina was one

659
00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:29,560
Speaker 1: of your inspirations, and so I hear that girl and

660
00:29:29,640 --> 00:29:30,600
Speaker 1: your voice. I love that.

661
00:29:30,840 --> 00:29:32,800
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, it's so interesting too.

662
00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:35,160
Speaker 7: Like when people will be like, oh, you remind me,

663
00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:37,560
Speaker 7: like your voice reminds me of these artists, I'll be like,

664
00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:39,600
Speaker 7: it's so interesting because they're a completely different artists.

665
00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:42,280
Speaker 1: But I'm like, I love that we're rooting for you, Reina.

666
00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:43,760
Speaker 1: You have two fans over here.

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Speaker 4: Thank you guys for having me. I appreciate you so much.

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Speaker 1: Check out Raina Roberts' debut album, Bad Girl Bible Volume one,

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Speaker 1: streaming wherever you get your music.

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Speaker 3: I am such a huge fan of hers. I can

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Speaker 3: hardly put it into words, can tell. I just love her.

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Speaker 2: I love anyone who has that freedom to be different,

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Speaker 2: to be a maverick in their field.

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Speaker 3: She just she's different, you know.

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Speaker 1: I loved her belief in herself. It's so it's contagious

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Speaker 1: to be around. Right Like, I think there are a

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Speaker 1: lot of gems in the conversation. But if there's one

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Speaker 1: idea that you and I keep talking about, yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: that confidence. And confidence isn't about being perfect. It's about

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Speaker 1: having confidence because of all those imperfections and they're part

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Speaker 1: of what makes you you.

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Speaker 3: Naughty church girls, stand up.

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Speaker 1: We will be back tomorrow and we'll get up to

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Speaker 1: speed on all things March madness and why this year

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Speaker 1: is a historic moment for women athletes.

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Speaker 2: Listen and follow The bright Side on the iHeartRadio app,

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Speaker 2: and read every single message. So email the show at

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Speaker 2: Hello at the brightsidepodcast dot com or hit me up

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Speaker 2: at someone Voice on Instagram and TikTok.

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Speaker 1: I'm Danielle Robe and I'm at Danielle Robe on Instagram

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Speaker 1: and TikTok and all the socials. That's ro o b

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Speaker 3: We'll be back tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: Until then, keep looking on the bright side.