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Speaker 4: Little baby should be performing like you know what, little Dirk,

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Speaker 5: I know they're the most popular guys, but did the

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Speaker 4: Of course that I mean, it doesn't that's no excuse.

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Speaker 4: All right, guys, welcome back, e y L. This is

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Speaker 4: a dope episode, something that is out of the norm

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Speaker 7: It's only time already there.

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Speaker 4: That's a fact. So when you think of Hollywood, of course,

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Speaker 4: with that being said, Sean Finney is the executive vice

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Speaker 7: Membership and awards.

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Speaker 4: Membership and awards. Ye, So we'll get the full explanation

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Speaker 4: the Oscar situation. Yeah, that's the uneducated way to expect.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, so ninety four years this organ stations been around,

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Speaker 7: who cares. I was very supported by my COO, Christine Simmons.

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Speaker 7: Women have always just really shown up for me.

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Speaker 3: And shout out to Christine we actually met.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, shout out to Christine Simmons, our CEO Don Hudson,

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Speaker 7: and our head of HR, Yolanda, who really on their own,

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Speaker 7: you know, kind of thought it through on their own

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Speaker 7: and we're like this we want you to do. And

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Speaker 7: I was like yeah. And then Christine was the one

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Speaker 7: I had, you know, real conversations with where she was like,

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Speaker 7: first of all, you're already doing it. You're already doing it.

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Speaker 7: She's a black woman, so there's just a different type

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Speaker 7: of you know, relationship, you know, not that it's better

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Speaker 7: or worse, it's just different. And she understood, I think

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Speaker 7: the fact that I was feeling like I wasn't enough

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Speaker 7: and that it was too big for me, and she

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Speaker 7: was like, no, it's the right size and it makes sense.

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Speaker 7: And so nothing we do is alone, you know, everything

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Speaker 7: we have to surround ourselves with those people, but those

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Speaker 7: amongst many, but those and their positions were able to actually,

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Speaker 7: you know, CEOs, it's not bad when you're CEO, your

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Speaker 7: COO and your head of HR are recommending you, you know,

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Speaker 7: for something that they think that you could excel at.

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Speaker 4: So as far as putting the oscars together, like, can

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Speaker 4: you give us an overview of because people think that

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Speaker 4: it happens on a weekend. They might plan like a

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Speaker 4: week before, a month before, But it's a year long

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Speaker 4: process and there's there's other events that's attached to it, Like.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, there's other events that there's events throughout just the

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Speaker 7: entire year. I think that, you know, when you think

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Speaker 7: about the Academy and the oscars that culminate towards the oscars.

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Speaker 7: You know, so if we're starting in, let's start where

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Speaker 7: we are right now. We're starting in like the new

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Speaker 7: membership cycle. So in a few weeks, all those different

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Speaker 7: kind of committees that I spoke about are going to

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Speaker 7: be meeting to talk about the different people that are

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Speaker 7: proposed for membership. All these meetings happen, we go into

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Speaker 7: that meeting, the board then decides on the membership aspect

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Speaker 7: of it. We have that. Now we are itching towards

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Speaker 7: the fall. The fall happens, we have all the festivals,

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Speaker 7: we have the bigger films that are coming out, all

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Speaker 7: that kind of stuff. Now we're an award season, right,

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Speaker 7: So we have typically we have our Governor's Awards that

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Speaker 7: leads into there where those fifty four people. You know,

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Speaker 7: you may have saw Spike Lee when he received his award.

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Speaker 7: Just recently Sam Jackson and mister Glover received their awards.

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Speaker 7: So there's the Governor's Awards. Those are honorary oscars given

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Speaker 7: to those individuals.

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Speaker 3: That happens like the weekend of the actual ochet.

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Speaker 7: It did this past year, but it typically happens in

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Speaker 7: the fall. It's honorary, yes, So there's three different types

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Speaker 7: of awards. So like mister Danik Glover received like the

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Speaker 7: Humanitarian Award. So they they're they're they're oscars. They're not,

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Speaker 7: but they're just not oscars tied to a film performance.

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Speaker 4: It's like a lifelong chance.

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Speaker 7: Yes, they're tied to their legacy. So like when miss

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Speaker 7: Tyson received hers. Yeah, and so that happens. We have

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Speaker 7: our events in the fall. So now those members who

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Speaker 7: were brought in about June or July, now we have

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Speaker 7: our new member of receptions in London, New York, LA.

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Speaker 7: So all the members that are in London or UK

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Speaker 7: or surrounding areas. All the members that are in New

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Speaker 7: York or Tri State Areas or LA. Now we have

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Speaker 7: a reception, actual party to bring them in, to celebrate them,

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Speaker 7: to bring them into the fold. Then we're going into

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Speaker 7: kind of like submissions. So actually the studio is sending

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Speaker 7: in their submissions of which films the category is all

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Speaker 7: that kind of great stuff to be considered for membership,

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Speaker 7: and then you roll into January and February. Now you're

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Speaker 7: rolling into voting. So just real quick, because I love it.

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Speaker 5: I'm trying to think like a lot of films, like

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Speaker 5: I said that we grew up watching and we throw

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Speaker 5: it classics. Yeah, never got nominated, But it's up to

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Speaker 5: the actual studio to even say, hey, can you put

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Speaker 5: this in consideration to be nominated.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, studios are submitting.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, studio doesn't submit then obviously yeah, yeah, gotcha.

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Speaker 4: So the studio only submits films that they think are

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Speaker 4: worthy obviously.

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Speaker 7: Yeah. The studios have their own thing that I can't

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Speaker 7: speak to, but they have their own awards kind of campaign.

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Speaker 7: So same thing with music, Right, you have some artists

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Speaker 7: you're like Adele when she puts out an album, it's

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Speaker 7: that's I'm making this up, equating that to Bond, right,

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Speaker 7: and so it's a bit you see it everywhere it happens.

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Speaker 7: But then when said rapper or maybe said person that

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Speaker 7: you made out, nobody like I didn't even know who

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Speaker 7: that person is. I don't know. So it's all about

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Speaker 7: what they decide to center their marketing around and what

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Speaker 7: they want to push as their big out or big

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Speaker 7: film of the year.

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Speaker 4: So and the same thing works for like actors, and

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Speaker 4: like the studio determined this is the actor that we

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Speaker 4: want to for this supporting role.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, so the studio, the studio has it's a little

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Speaker 7: bit more complicated, but in none of that show, Yes,

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Speaker 7: the studio would be submitting the actors attached to that

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Speaker 7: film for consideration lead supporting so male, female actor, actress.

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Speaker 4: So like the Grammys we talked about off when Maclamore

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Speaker 4: won the Best Album. Yeah, he's an independent artist. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: can an independent film ever be considered for an oscar?

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Speaker 7: An independent film that is submitted. So he's an independent artist,

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Speaker 7: but his team submitted him for so if Maclamore wouldn't

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Speaker 7: have got that if he was didn't wasn't submitted into

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Speaker 7: the actual system. So you can be independent or with

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Speaker 7: the label or not. But it's your submission. Were you

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Speaker 7: even here to even be considered for?

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Speaker 4: Okay? Yeah, So an independent filmmaker can submit his film.

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Speaker 7: Yep, independent filmmaker. There's a lot of people that submit

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Speaker 7: their films. You may not have it just doesn't get considered, yeah,

545
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Speaker 7: or it may not have the traction or yeah, it

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Speaker 7: may not be nominated or just may not. It's not

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Speaker 7: a Dell's album, okay, Right, but they have other artists

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Speaker 7: that they're putting out.

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Speaker 4: Okay, that makes sense. So let's talk about the importance

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Speaker 4: of the Grammys of the Oscars because a lot of

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Speaker 4: times people don't really fully understand like why it even

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Speaker 4: is important. But it is important, right. It gives a

553
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Speaker 4: lot of credibility, It helps y'all your career. So can

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Speaker 4: you talk about that. I feel like the average person

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Speaker 4: they might not even understand, like why it's important.

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Speaker 7: I think it's I think it's about what you personally

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Speaker 7: attach it too. You know, when you think of an

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Speaker 7: artist who's amazing, like Ryan Coogler, who in the music

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Speaker 7: world might be Kendrick, Kendrick may not be as pressed

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Speaker 7: for awards, right, So I think we're seeing a shift

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Speaker 7: the artist I think artists before if we're talking about

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Speaker 7: nineteen ninety five, right, it was all about your Grammy nomination.

563
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Speaker 7: It was all about y'all. And not to say it's

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Speaker 7: still not about your Oscar nomination, but using that analogy

565
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Speaker 7: where now we have artists who are like, I'm kind

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Speaker 7: of almost bigger than this thing. If Jay Z and

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Speaker 7: Beyonce show up at the Grammys, it's ratings for the Grammys.

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Speaker 4: Kanye. You think Kanye started that but not showing just

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Speaker 4: on some like I'm like, he was just smacking people.

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Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, yes, no, no, no, when he ran up on stage,

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Speaker 4: oh for Tailor multiple times he ran up on stage

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Speaker 4: the Europe No, the Europe thing. That wasn't a joke

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Speaker 4: MTV Europe Awards when he ran up on stage and

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Speaker 4: was like, y'all got this, like it's the whole thing.

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Speaker 4: You can google it. I don't want to go Yeah

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Speaker 4: you know, yeah, yeah, that was crazy. Kanye got a

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Speaker 4: couple of moments. It's not just the Taylor Smith thing,

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Speaker 4: but I think that Kanye was one of the first

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Speaker 4: people that pioneered that I'm bigger than this award, than

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Speaker 4: this award. That's like they lose credibility by not giving

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Speaker 4: me an a.

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Speaker 7: War I think it's Kanye. Whether he started or establish

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Speaker 7: it or didn't, I think people have been doing it

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Speaker 7: in different ways. But I think now we're at an

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Speaker 7: interesting crossfold technology that allows Kanye.

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Speaker 3: To do that.

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Speaker 7: Right, So Kanye now has a phone right where before,

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Speaker 7: you know, if you're thinking, even like two thousand and one,

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Speaker 7: you weren't. There was no Twitter, like, there was no

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Speaker 7: like metric to where you could look at something and say,

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Speaker 7: I can go live on my phone right now and

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Speaker 7: get one hundred thousand views where you can quantify it.

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Speaker 7: You were dependent upon a label to put your album out,

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Speaker 7: you know, and so now you know, even when you're

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Speaker 7: looking at like the history of how filmmakers used to

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Speaker 7: be with studios, where the studios is kind of I

597
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Speaker 7: wouldn't say owned you, but the studio that was your studio,

598
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Speaker 7: that was all you made films with. So we're I

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Speaker 7: think we're seeing we're in an interesting place where artists

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Speaker 7: are understanding their independence and their freedom. And just like

601
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Speaker 7: there was that big break with like Napster and iTunes

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Speaker 7: and then like going from the CD and then the

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Speaker 7: cassette to the seat, like there's all these different iterations

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Speaker 7: that I think have allowed artists to understand numerically what

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Speaker 7: their impact is on their own right. And I think

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Speaker 7: from there, yes, then you have someone with kind of

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Speaker 7: like the understanding that maybe Kanye has using him as

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Speaker 7: an example, only that like he well, I can actually

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Speaker 7: do this. I think I saw that Jake Cole actually

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Speaker 7: performed the night of the Grammys, and so he had

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Speaker 7: like a slap in the face to the Grammys. I

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Speaker 7: don't know if it was a slapping. I don't know

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Speaker 7: if it's slap in the face, but I think let's

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Speaker 7: not say slap. I think.

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Speaker 3: Not to slap. But he was actually trying to put

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Speaker 3: on a concert at the same night.

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Speaker 7: But when you think about that, when you think about that, yeah,

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Speaker 7: and when you think about that, whether that's even a

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Speaker 7: boycot or not? Right, if you have three or four

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Speaker 7: of the top and it's easy to relate this in

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Speaker 7: music because crowds are going to show up for a

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Speaker 7: music artist, right, It's different, Right, So I'm just using music.

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Speaker 7: So if for example, playing the part Kanye, Nikki, j Cole,

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Speaker 7: Drake Drake on the night of the Grammys, where to

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Speaker 7: say we're performing and we're doing this in partnership Netflix,

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Speaker 7: I don't know who right, we're doing this in partnership

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Speaker 7: with a streaming service Amazon does it? Whoever? And what

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Speaker 7: would that be? Because then now who has the juice?

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Speaker 3: Right?

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Speaker 7: And so like, hip hop is one of the most

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Speaker 7: or if not the most, the most the most genre

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Speaker 7: in the world. So if you so, I'm saying that

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Speaker 7: to say word twenty years ago.

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Speaker 7: You wouldn't eve even conceptualize this idea that I would

686
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Speaker 7: do something because I need this award. We're now we're

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Speaker 7: seeing people not necessarily need the award to for the credibility,

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Speaker 7: because I clearly have people that want to follow me,

689
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Speaker 7: and I can see where I can now have brand

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Speaker 7: shop deals, perfume, hair and makeup, whatever the case may be.

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Speaker 7: And so I think we're the interesting crossroads talent period.

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Speaker 5: I think, and we covered as like one of our

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Speaker 5: first episodes when you're talking about the power of the

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Speaker 5: Grammy and has it lost power? Right when we were

695
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Speaker 5: talking about how much the financial ramifications of having the

696
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Speaker 5: film or even like the marketing and technology has changed,

697
00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:50,440
Speaker 5: right when you used to when we grew up, it

698
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Speaker 5: was the VHS and it was the end and the

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Speaker 5: first thing if you were nominated was like Oscar nominated

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Speaker 5: films and that was branded on it. Whereas now it's

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Speaker 5: like where do you put that branding? It doesn't have

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Speaker 5: the same appeal to it. So it's like the financial

703
00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:06,480
Speaker 5: ramifications aren't the same, right, Like if you are Supporting

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Speaker 5: Actor or you won the Lead Actor Award, it was

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Speaker 5: a certain amount of money that you were probably gonna

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Speaker 5: get for your next film, Whereas like that might not

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Speaker 5: be true anymore, right Like I might go to Marvel

708
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Speaker 5: and they might just say, hey, you're the next superhero and.

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Speaker 3: I didn't really need it.

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Speaker 5: So it's like, is the importance of the actual physical

711
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Speaker 5: awards still there, do you think? Or are we announceeing

712
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Speaker 5: like there's a drastic change that's happening, and it's so

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Speaker 5: how are we going to combat.

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Speaker 7: I think that there is a we're talking about relevancy,

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00:34:34,480 --> 00:34:36,200
Speaker 7: it sort of sounds like, right, I think that you know,

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Speaker 7: when you're computing a show, any show, to the actual

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00:34:40,960 --> 00:34:44,080
Speaker 7: what the award means, it's very subjective, you know. So

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Speaker 7: for ex artists, for Kendrick Ryan Coogler, for example, right,

719
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Speaker 7: he may not be as pressed about awards. He may

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Speaker 7: not attend any awards or not just the Oscar, just

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Speaker 7: any award show. But then you have some people who

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Speaker 7: they get up on stage and they melt and cry

723
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Speaker 7: and break down, and so it's like, I think it's

724
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Speaker 7: really subjective, but I think for the business it's still

725
00:35:03,360 --> 00:35:06,480
Speaker 7: kind of It's not kind of. It is a very

726
00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:09,840
Speaker 7: holds very much weight as it relates to film and music,

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Speaker 7: and I think that that is how award shows have

728
00:35:12,960 --> 00:35:16,920
Speaker 7: continued to continue because it is representative and embodiment of

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Speaker 7: the industry. So when we're talking about the membership even

730
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Speaker 7: at the Academy, and you're talking about the industry, well,

731
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Speaker 7: it is the film industry because it's everyone from agents

732
00:35:23,960 --> 00:35:26,480
Speaker 7: to marketing and pr to sound to visual effects, to

733
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Speaker 7: all of the elements that it takes in front of

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Speaker 7: and behind the camera. To actually put on a show,

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Speaker 7: sorry to put on a movie in a film. And

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Speaker 7: so I think that there's still definitely the Oscar nominated forever,

737
00:35:37,360 --> 00:35:41,839
Speaker 7: you know, Grammy nominated forever. Yeah, yeah, you know. And

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Speaker 7: I feel like, you know, I think it's subjective as

739
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Speaker 7: it relates to it's important. We could the three of

740
00:35:47,719 --> 00:35:50,759
Speaker 7: us can have three different varying opinions about whether it

741
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Speaker 7: works for us or doesn't, and we'd all be right

742
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Speaker 7: based on our subjections.

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Speaker 4: So is how a broader conversation Black Hollywood?

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Speaker 7: Hm? What is black?

745
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Speaker 4: Holly? Well?

746
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Speaker 7: Shout out to Uta. We got invited to the Macro.

747
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Speaker 7: That was a I love Macro. I love Crowds King

748
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Speaker 7: and Stacey Stacy Walker King. They're doing an amazing job.

749
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Speaker 7: They're incredible.

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Speaker 4: But all right, what is black, Holly? We hear this

751
00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:19,840
Speaker 4: all the time. It's like all these black things, black Twitter,

752
00:36:20,280 --> 00:36:25,920
Speaker 4: black Hollywood. I don't know how we feel about that

753
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:31,120
Speaker 4: because I'm like, there's never like any other It's not

754
00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:35,560
Speaker 4: like a Mexican Hollywood or Italian Hollywood. Like it's just Hollywood.

755
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Speaker 4: Then you just find your place and you find your world.

756
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Speaker 4: But it's always like and we always got to be

757
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Speaker 4: a black or something. I understand it in concept, but

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Speaker 4: I feel like that's a way to kind of always

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Speaker 4: keep us like on a lower level, this is sure

760
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Speaker 4: little thing. Be happy with it, Like, what's your thoughts

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Speaker 4: about that?

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Speaker 7: Interesting? My personal opinion not out of the account of me,

763
00:37:01,160 --> 00:37:03,520
Speaker 7: and I can't speak on all things Black Hollywood, but

764
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Speaker 7: I feel like what we do is I think it's interesting.

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Speaker 7: I think I would like to see who gives Black Hollywood.

766
00:37:09,520 --> 00:37:11,920
Speaker 7: Is it us as black people creating Black Hollywood, or

767
00:37:11,960 --> 00:37:16,239
Speaker 7: is it as you mentioned, Hollywood proper subjecting us to

768
00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:18,680
Speaker 7: because I feel like black Twitter and again I don't

769
00:37:18,719 --> 00:37:21,239
Speaker 7: actually know. This is a question. I'm not to dodge

770
00:37:21,280 --> 00:37:23,879
Speaker 7: the question, but simply because I don't understand, like, did

771
00:37:23,920 --> 00:37:26,560
Speaker 7: we create black Twitter as a space of advocacy and

772
00:37:26,600 --> 00:37:29,279
Speaker 7: as a place where we could have conversations that make

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00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:32,520
Speaker 7: sense for us. Did we create Black Hollywood to say

774
00:37:33,080 --> 00:37:35,560
Speaker 7: we're going to do what we've seen others do is

775
00:37:35,680 --> 00:37:40,279
Speaker 7: create space and work together and collaborate, Like, I don't know.

776
00:37:40,360 --> 00:37:44,520
Speaker 7: I don't know if Black Hollywood was created from if

777
00:37:44,560 --> 00:37:47,319
Speaker 7: we have been From what I've gathered is a lot

778
00:37:47,360 --> 00:37:50,600
Speaker 7: of individuals have been a part of Black Hollywood, and

779
00:37:50,640 --> 00:37:53,160
Speaker 7: I'm in Hollywood. So I don't fully know what black

780
00:37:53,160 --> 00:37:56,360
Speaker 7: Hollywood is. It's unless it's just black people gathering together

781
00:37:56,560 --> 00:37:59,000
Speaker 7: what we do all the time. But I feel like

782
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Speaker 7: I personally am in Hollywood, which doesn't make me this

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00:38:06,239 --> 00:38:09,040
Speaker 7: or that. I feel like I don't. We've been othered

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00:38:09,080 --> 00:38:12,360
Speaker 7: for so long, we have been put in situations for

785
00:38:12,440 --> 00:38:14,880
Speaker 7: so long. Like you said, that could feel othered, but

786
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Speaker 7: it's easy to say that, But then I'm like, did

787
00:38:16,480 --> 00:38:20,040
Speaker 7: we create that so that we could feel protected? And

788
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Speaker 7: so I feel like I want to be able to

789
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Speaker 7: have the same opportunity in the same balanced system as

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00:38:27,239 --> 00:38:31,280
Speaker 7: we have seen them do and have, And I don't

791
00:38:31,280 --> 00:38:34,680
Speaker 7: want to be fit in only one space. I am

792
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Speaker 7: of that space by me walking in the room and

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Speaker 7: the melanin in my skin. But just if I'm in

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Speaker 7: Black Hollywood, is I mean, I can't participate. How many

795
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Speaker 7: people have we seen, how many white producers, how many

796
00:38:45,360 --> 00:38:50,280
Speaker 7: you know, white songwriters have we seen giving writing Iggy's lyrics?

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00:38:50,320 --> 00:38:51,000
Speaker 3: You know, or write?

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Speaker 7: And so it's like, I feel like, I'm actually not

799
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Speaker 7: sure what black Hollywood is. But I feel like there's

800
00:38:56,600 --> 00:38:58,640
Speaker 7: two lenses. One could be a lens that we have

801
00:38:58,760 --> 00:39:01,680
Speaker 7: created to feel very detective and to build our own

802
00:39:01,680 --> 00:39:04,280
Speaker 7: advocacy and to have the conversations that are needed from

803
00:39:04,600 --> 00:39:07,279
Speaker 7: the healing that needs to happen. And or was it

804
00:39:07,320 --> 00:39:10,360
Speaker 7: created because someone was like let them have this, because

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00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:11,320
Speaker 7: that doesn't really.

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Speaker 4: Because even in music they do it. It's not label

807
00:39:15,280 --> 00:39:18,480
Speaker 4: black music what it is label black music, but more

808
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Speaker 4: so it's just hip hop. Like even though hip hop

809
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Speaker 4: is music, like hip hop is the majority of music

810
00:39:24,040 --> 00:39:26,359
Speaker 4: that people listen to, yeah, but they kind of like

811
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Speaker 4: it's a stigma, like, yeah, hip hop, hip hop and

812
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Speaker 4: then music.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 4: Rap it's its own section and then we're gonna have

815
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Speaker 4: just music.

816
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Speaker 3: It should be pop music, right.

817
00:39:37,320 --> 00:39:38,440
Speaker 4: But it should just be music.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Well she's saying it if it was put in

819
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Speaker 3: a category.

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Speaker 5: If it obviously and it's been that way for the

821
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Speaker 5: past twenty twenty five years, the most popular genre of music,

822
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Speaker 5: then by category, it should be popular music.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but it's not. It's just like you said, it's

824
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Speaker 3: hip hop.

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Speaker 4: But even like the stigma, I don't even have a

826
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Speaker 4: problem with it being called hip hop, but it's like

827
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Speaker 4: the stigma of it is like rap, hip hop is

828
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Speaker 4: in this bucket and everything else is just music.

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Speaker 3: We have afrobeats, the other genres of music.

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Speaker 4: That's what I'm saying. But it's music, and it's like

831
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Speaker 4: it's a safe space. And then it's like this is

832
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Speaker 4: like scary and dark, like I.

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Speaker 3: Think the stigma might be right, but like you have

834
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Speaker 3: country music.

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Speaker 4: Even look, let's let's look at the Grammys. I watched

836
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Speaker 4: that whole show. They had two musical performances of rap.

837
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Speaker 3: Who was it?

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Speaker 4: It was nas X and nas for the next dialling.

839
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Speaker 4: I don't think.

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Speaker 3: I'm thinking.

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Speaker 4: So what I'm saying is that you have rap. Music

842
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Speaker 4: is the biggest genre of music period throughout the world, right.

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Speaker 5: A.

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Speaker 4: There should be more musical performances from rappers and be

845
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Speaker 4: no disrespect to either one of them. Because obviously Nah

846
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Speaker 4: is one of my favorite rappers of all time. That's

847
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Speaker 4: a safe play. You got og legendary person. Nas X

848
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Speaker 4: is another safer.

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Speaker 3: Play, I think.

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Speaker 4: But these are all safer plays, like Little Baby should

851
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Speaker 4: be performing like Little Dirk, So we should be performing

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Speaker 4: like were they That's who keep That's what's really happening.

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Speaker 5: I know they're the most popular guys, but did the

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Speaker 5: label submit them to even be nominated in that space?

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Speaker 4: Of course, that. I mean, it doesn't that's no excuse.

856
00:41:28,840 --> 00:41:31,520
Speaker 4: You should have the people that's really moving the culture,

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00:41:32,400 --> 00:41:34,000
Speaker 4: not but as artificial.

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Speaker 7: I think what's happening is so it's multi layered. It's

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Speaker 7: the did the record label submit? Are the voters of

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00:41:42,680 --> 00:41:45,120
Speaker 7: those different communities that can say, oh, this is why

861
00:41:45,160 --> 00:41:47,719
Speaker 7: you should know so and so. And then going back

862
00:41:47,760 --> 00:41:50,400
Speaker 7: to we need us everywhere. We're sending there looking at

863
00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:54,080
Speaker 7: those executive spaces, right, whether whatever show it is, but like,

864
00:41:54,160 --> 00:41:56,600
Speaker 7: so we need us here talking about it. It was

865
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Speaker 7: like when the riots were happening, and I'm like, we

866
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Speaker 7: need that energy. Go riot. I'm not supporting looting, but

867
00:42:02,560 --> 00:42:05,200
Speaker 7: go riot, but I need that same energy go into

868
00:42:05,239 --> 00:42:07,680
Speaker 7: the voting polls, right, and so like I need the

869
00:42:07,719 --> 00:42:10,560
Speaker 7: same energy, start in the Twitter hashtags like so, we

870
00:42:10,640 --> 00:42:13,640
Speaker 7: need us everywhere. And then so then the question is

871
00:42:14,360 --> 00:42:17,719
Speaker 7: we're consuming the content that's up there. And then it's like, huh,

872
00:42:17,719 --> 00:42:21,839
Speaker 7: interesting who there is on that side who's booking? When

873
00:42:21,880 --> 00:42:23,640
Speaker 7: you think about it, it's a television show. So I

874
00:42:23,680 --> 00:42:25,200
Speaker 7: just want us to keep that in mind, Right, there's

875
00:42:25,280 --> 00:42:30,279
Speaker 7: an appeal for television, and so that means there is

876
00:42:30,280 --> 00:42:33,000
Speaker 7: someone booking, and I say that person needs to be black.

877
00:42:33,280 --> 00:42:35,399
Speaker 7: I'm gonna say that person needs to be. But it's

878
00:42:35,520 --> 00:42:38,799
Speaker 7: looking at all of that and in a way that

879
00:42:38,960 --> 00:42:41,640
Speaker 7: is having those kind of like real lenses to the

880
00:42:41,680 --> 00:42:45,120
Speaker 7: culture and not just the US as consumers, but us

881
00:42:45,120 --> 00:42:48,839
Speaker 7: in executive spaces, us in all spaces, because that is,

882
00:42:49,280 --> 00:42:51,720
Speaker 7: in my opinion, more important. I would love to see

883
00:42:52,120 --> 00:42:56,759
Speaker 7: more men that look like myself in Hollywood proper or

884
00:42:56,800 --> 00:43:00,920
Speaker 7: black Hollywood, whatever, whatever the thing is. And I'm like, app,

885
00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:03,120
Speaker 7: how do we work on that?

886
00:43:03,520 --> 00:43:04,239
Speaker 3: And that's what that was.

887
00:43:04,280 --> 00:43:06,359
Speaker 5: My next question was like, as in your role now,

888
00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:11,120
Speaker 5: one of the functions is ensuring diversity, So like, how

889
00:43:11,160 --> 00:43:12,880
Speaker 5: do we do this and not even just in the

890
00:43:12,960 --> 00:43:17,080
Speaker 5: acting field, but production, like all these different categories that

891
00:43:17,120 --> 00:43:21,240
Speaker 5: you just spend costume engineering, right, how do we advocate

892
00:43:21,280 --> 00:43:23,759
Speaker 5: and get more people aware that these are things that

893
00:43:23,760 --> 00:43:24,880
Speaker 5: they can actually.

894
00:43:24,760 --> 00:43:27,120
Speaker 7: I think it's I think it's all multi layered. I

895
00:43:27,120 --> 00:43:29,640
Speaker 7: think you know, I spoke about our CEO, Christine Simmons

896
00:43:29,880 --> 00:43:32,839
Speaker 7: and our VP of Impact Operations janew English, so they're

897
00:43:32,880 --> 00:43:35,440
Speaker 7: on the ground on Janelle Overseers, our Officer of Representation,

898
00:43:35,520 --> 00:43:37,680
Speaker 7: Inclusion and Equity, so they do a lot of things

899
00:43:37,680 --> 00:43:39,799
Speaker 7: of working with our vendor suppliers are the vendors that

900
00:43:39,800 --> 00:43:42,680
Speaker 7: we're hiring, you know, representative of you know, so we're

901
00:43:42,760 --> 00:43:45,719
Speaker 7: hiring you for catering. Why have we been hiring you

902
00:43:45,760 --> 00:43:47,960
Speaker 7: for catering for thirty years? Why aren't we looking at

903
00:43:48,040 --> 00:43:49,960
Speaker 7: him for catering? And you could be diverse in many

904
00:43:50,000 --> 00:43:53,080
Speaker 7: different facets, right, So there's the who you're hiring, how

905
00:43:53,120 --> 00:43:56,200
Speaker 7: that aspect works, and then there's like the continuing to

906
00:43:56,320 --> 00:43:59,400
Speaker 7: ensure with the team and diversifying the membership. And then

907
00:43:59,400 --> 00:44:01,399
Speaker 7: so when you look at what that looks like, it's like, okay,

908
00:44:01,440 --> 00:44:04,160
Speaker 7: from twenty sixteen to now, it's completely vast. When you're

909
00:44:04,200 --> 00:44:05,799
Speaker 7: looking at the board now there's more women than there

910
00:44:05,800 --> 00:44:09,040
Speaker 7: what ever was before, And so it's a it's we're

911
00:44:09,040 --> 00:44:12,560
Speaker 7: talking ninety four years and so that's just the academy,

912
00:44:12,600 --> 00:44:14,520
Speaker 7: but the industry has lived on even before that, and

913
00:44:14,560 --> 00:44:16,279
Speaker 7: so I think it's the changing hearts and minds. I

914
00:44:16,280 --> 00:44:19,399
Speaker 7: think it's about, you know, understanding that we may, out

915
00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:23,080
Speaker 7: of all had the opportunities that Zach may have had

916
00:44:23,760 --> 00:44:25,360
Speaker 7: through his childhood, and so it's going to be a

917
00:44:25,360 --> 00:44:27,400
Speaker 7: little bit of grace. But I think it's about ensuring

918
00:44:27,680 --> 00:44:30,800
Speaker 7: what I'm passionate about is ensuring that while I'm there,

919
00:44:31,560 --> 00:44:33,480
Speaker 7: that we're looking at the lens who we're creating different things.

920
00:44:33,520 --> 00:44:33,640
Speaker 3: You know.

921
00:44:33,680 --> 00:44:34,920
Speaker 7: One of the things I did when I got there

922
00:44:34,880 --> 00:44:36,840
Speaker 7: and working with Janelle and Casinos I was talking about

923
00:44:36,880 --> 00:44:39,120
Speaker 7: was creating the affinity groups, So making sure that those

924
00:44:39,160 --> 00:44:44,440
Speaker 7: individual voices who represent our seven different communities for now LGBTQIA, Asian,

925
00:44:45,239 --> 00:44:49,440
Speaker 7: Middle Eastern, North African, Indigenous Latin, all of that have

926
00:44:49,520 --> 00:44:51,440
Speaker 7: a space where we can start to build programming out

927
00:44:51,480 --> 00:44:54,320
Speaker 7: specifically with and for them, so they have a lane

928
00:44:54,440 --> 00:44:58,719
Speaker 7: as a community within this overarching membership to start to

929
00:44:58,840 --> 00:45:01,239
Speaker 7: work on content, to kind of work on kind of

930
00:45:01,239 --> 00:45:03,400
Speaker 7: like having and rebuilding and repairing and who are the

931
00:45:03,400 --> 00:45:05,959
Speaker 7: allies here who we can continue to work with along

932
00:45:06,040 --> 00:45:08,840
Speaker 7: the way creating content. I did this with Merril Johnson

933
00:45:09,320 --> 00:45:12,520
Speaker 7: creating Academy Dialogues, which was a conversation that was birthed

934
00:45:12,560 --> 00:45:15,640
Speaker 7: in summer of twenty twenty and that was me. I

935
00:45:15,680 --> 00:45:17,759
Speaker 7: was a director at the time, and it was one

936
00:45:17,800 --> 00:45:21,399
Speaker 7: of the first times that I think I really was like, wait,

937
00:45:21,440 --> 00:45:23,960
Speaker 7: I have a responsibility, you know, and so and I

938
00:45:24,000 --> 00:45:29,600
Speaker 7: didn't quite always understand that, you know, a'maud Aubrey, mister

939
00:45:29,600 --> 00:45:32,839
Speaker 7: George Floyd, Miss Breonna Taylor. We were all sitting at

940
00:45:32,840 --> 00:45:33,680
Speaker 7: home watching that.

941
00:45:33,840 --> 00:45:34,040
Speaker 3: You know.

942
00:45:34,360 --> 00:45:37,239
Speaker 7: I lived in Los Angeles downtown at the time, and

943
00:45:37,280 --> 00:45:39,080
Speaker 7: so the riots and everything were happening near me. And

944
00:45:39,160 --> 00:45:41,879
Speaker 7: I remember when all the companies were changing their avatars

945
00:45:41,960 --> 00:45:44,040
Speaker 7: and like we stand in solidarity. And I was like,

946
00:45:44,080 --> 00:45:45,680
Speaker 7: but what does this mean? And I was like, oh,

947
00:45:45,760 --> 00:45:48,560
Speaker 7: let me look and talk to Oh, it's me, Like

948
00:45:48,640 --> 00:45:51,160
Speaker 7: there wasn't another black man there to kind of share

949
00:45:51,200 --> 00:45:54,120
Speaker 7: that space with of like I'm supposed to do something,

950
00:45:54,160 --> 00:45:56,880
Speaker 7: what does that mean? And then so at that point,

951
00:45:56,920 --> 00:45:58,520
Speaker 7: I wasn't in the position that I'm in now, but

952
00:45:58,560 --> 00:46:00,360
Speaker 7: I did have the relationship with the member where we

953
00:46:00,400 --> 00:46:03,239
Speaker 7: kind of started having conversations and Lorenzo, who used to

954
00:46:03,280 --> 00:46:05,359
Speaker 7: be at the academy, about like, how do we start

955
00:46:05,360 --> 00:46:07,880
Speaker 7: to have honest conversations? So how are we leveraging this

956
00:46:08,120 --> 00:46:10,960
Speaker 7: amazing brand that is but partnering it with real stories.

957
00:46:11,000 --> 00:46:14,279
Speaker 7: We're known for celebrating and telling fake stories, you know,

958
00:46:14,760 --> 00:46:17,960
Speaker 7: and so doing that with Merrill and working very closely

959
00:46:18,000 --> 00:46:21,920
Speaker 7: with her, we were able to pinpoint conversations called Academy dialogues,

960
00:46:21,920 --> 00:46:24,440
Speaker 7: and we had everybody from Brian Stevenson and Whoopie Goldberg

961
00:46:24,520 --> 00:46:26,839
Speaker 7: talking about the prevarrior of racism and how Hollywood has

962
00:46:26,840 --> 00:46:29,160
Speaker 7: played an intricate part in it. You don't look at

963
00:46:29,160 --> 00:46:32,680
Speaker 7: the academy to have conversations about racism, but we started it,

964
00:46:32,920 --> 00:46:35,840
Speaker 7: you know, having conversations about the erasure of Latinos, having

965
00:46:35,840 --> 00:46:39,160
Speaker 7: conversations about so many different communities within. So leveraging and

966
00:46:39,200 --> 00:46:42,280
Speaker 7: partnering with our own members inside, creating a safe space

967
00:46:42,320 --> 00:46:45,480
Speaker 7: and using that as content now pushing out into the world,

968
00:46:45,600 --> 00:46:47,719
Speaker 7: but signals to our other members who may or may

969
00:46:47,760 --> 00:46:49,439
Speaker 7: not be on the fence about us, like, oh, they're

970
00:46:49,440 --> 00:46:52,080
Speaker 7: really about this space, even opening up this space to

971
00:46:52,120 --> 00:46:54,840
Speaker 7: be a space to have these conversations. So then working

972
00:46:54,840 --> 00:46:57,759
Speaker 7: with the affinity groups across the board now figuring out

973
00:46:57,800 --> 00:46:59,759
Speaker 7: how I can continue to work with them and with

974
00:47:00,040 --> 00:47:03,600
Speaker 7: Maryland to now extain and like how we're positioning them

975
00:47:03,600 --> 00:47:06,439
Speaker 7: for success, for them to understand what this even means,

976
00:47:06,440 --> 00:47:08,160
Speaker 7: what the membership means, what can I do with it?

977
00:47:08,400 --> 00:47:10,359
Speaker 7: And then how we can continue to broaden out, because

978
00:47:10,360 --> 00:47:12,799
Speaker 7: it's not to isolate forever. It's now how we're all

979
00:47:12,800 --> 00:47:16,120
Speaker 7: of the allies and now leaning into now how are

980
00:47:16,120 --> 00:47:18,480
Speaker 7: we all a part of this movement, and so I

981
00:47:18,480 --> 00:47:22,040
Speaker 7: think it's a multi layered thing. Right. There's the staff

982
00:47:22,080 --> 00:47:24,680
Speaker 7: aspect that that's not me, you know, And then there's

983
00:47:24,680 --> 00:47:26,880
Speaker 7: the aspect of like, well, when the Academy is partnering,

984
00:47:26,880 --> 00:47:29,080
Speaker 7: what kind of partnerships are we doing, who are we

985
00:47:29,120 --> 00:47:31,480
Speaker 7: doing those partnerships with? If we use a flower company

986
00:47:31,480 --> 00:47:34,400
Speaker 7: that we've used before, why haven't we ever used him?

987
00:47:34,719 --> 00:47:34,920
Speaker 3: You know?

988
00:47:34,960 --> 00:47:37,760
Speaker 7: And so it's many different things that might seem small

989
00:47:38,640 --> 00:47:40,480
Speaker 7: but that are large when you all put them together.

990
00:47:40,960 --> 00:47:43,640
Speaker 7: And I think that part of that is my own

991
00:47:43,640 --> 00:47:48,399
Speaker 7: individual experience. I have been pulled over on my way

992
00:47:48,440 --> 00:47:50,560
Speaker 7: to work several times. I ask to get out of

993
00:47:50,600 --> 00:47:55,040
Speaker 7: my car. And I can't tell you that shift of mindset,

994
00:47:55,160 --> 00:47:56,920
Speaker 7: you know, going into a place where you're still you

995
00:47:56,960 --> 00:47:59,759
Speaker 7: are really the only one there. Anyway, you're on your

996
00:47:59,760 --> 00:48:02,560
Speaker 7: way driving, you get pulled over. I'm not driving a

997
00:48:02,719 --> 00:48:05,239
Speaker 7: g WAG, I'm driving a jeep. It's nice, you know,

998
00:48:05,400 --> 00:48:07,640
Speaker 7: but it's like, where do you work or I work

999
00:48:07,640 --> 00:48:12,000
Speaker 7: at the Academy motion pictures? Hmmm? That the things you

1000
00:48:12,040 --> 00:48:15,520
Speaker 7: can't quite ever call, but you feel good. And so

1001
00:48:15,600 --> 00:48:18,640
Speaker 7: I move differently. I move I have a different incentive.

1002
00:48:19,120 --> 00:48:22,279
Speaker 7: It's my own experience that I'm still experiencing, Like if

1003
00:48:22,280 --> 00:48:24,920
Speaker 7: I'm pulled over, I might be killed. That's not actually

1004
00:48:25,120 --> 00:48:28,320
Speaker 7: dramatic anymore, that's actual and factual. So how do I

1005
00:48:28,400 --> 00:48:31,680
Speaker 7: leverage my own experience being there and bring that voice

1006
00:48:31,680 --> 00:48:34,640
Speaker 7: to the table because my other senior team may not

1007
00:48:34,719 --> 00:48:37,080
Speaker 7: have that experience, And then how do I continue to

1008
00:48:37,200 --> 00:48:39,840
Speaker 7: leverage that? And then that becomes my incentive is community,

1009
00:48:39,840 --> 00:48:42,160
Speaker 7: culture and connectivity, and then how we can all work

1010
00:48:42,200 --> 00:48:43,600
Speaker 7: together in that aspect.

1011
00:48:43,880 --> 00:48:47,319
Speaker 3: Oh, it's a lot, it's exhaust So you've been called

1012
00:48:47,320 --> 00:48:47,719
Speaker 3: with the tach.

1013
00:48:48,960 --> 00:48:51,960
Speaker 4: What's next on your plate? What's your your ten year

1014
00:48:52,640 --> 00:48:53,280
Speaker 4: vision board?

1015
00:48:53,360 --> 00:48:55,680
Speaker 7: Looking like you know, what's funny? I used to feel

1016
00:48:55,760 --> 00:48:59,000
Speaker 7: so much pressure having the answer to that question. I'm

1017
00:48:59,000 --> 00:49:02,759
Speaker 7: not sure. I'm open. I think that when I was

1018
00:49:02,800 --> 00:49:07,759
Speaker 7: trying to control my destiny it was harder. I think

1019
00:49:07,760 --> 00:49:09,640
Speaker 7: that I'm going to continue to operate from a place

1020
00:49:09,680 --> 00:49:11,480
Speaker 7: of service. I'm going to continue to ask what I

1021
00:49:11,480 --> 00:49:12,240
Speaker 7: can do to elevate.

1022
00:49:12,239 --> 00:49:12,719
Speaker 4: I'm going to.

1023
00:49:12,640 --> 00:49:15,200
Speaker 7: Continue to speak. I want to continue to wrap my

1024
00:49:15,320 --> 00:49:17,920
Speaker 7: arms around the community that I represent in any community

1025
00:49:17,920 --> 00:49:19,839
Speaker 7: that feels like we're close enough, you know, to have

1026
00:49:19,840 --> 00:49:22,399
Speaker 7: these conversations. I want to continue to talk to people

1027
00:49:22,480 --> 00:49:25,719
Speaker 7: about being the artist, but being the manager. I want

1028
00:49:25,719 --> 00:49:28,640
Speaker 7: to talk to athletes about being the athlete, but also

1029
00:49:28,640 --> 00:49:30,360
Speaker 7: why don't you You can be the coach too, you

1030
00:49:30,360 --> 00:49:32,040
Speaker 7: can be the owner. And so I want us to

1031
00:49:32,080 --> 00:49:34,560
Speaker 7: just understand our individual and collective power. I want us

1032
00:49:34,560 --> 00:49:36,640
Speaker 7: to stand in that. I want us to not apologize

1033
00:49:36,680 --> 00:49:38,399
Speaker 7: for it. I want us to come as we are,

1034
00:49:38,440 --> 00:49:40,359
Speaker 7: and I want to be a vessel for that. I

1035
00:49:40,400 --> 00:49:43,320
Speaker 7: also understand that I'm only human, and it is exhausting,

1036
00:49:43,560 --> 00:49:46,279
Speaker 7: and you do have to take the time because my

1037
00:49:46,400 --> 00:49:48,319
Speaker 7: fight is very different than maybe some of my other

1038
00:49:48,400 --> 00:49:51,680
Speaker 7: counterparts fights, because my fight is my own experience driving

1039
00:49:51,680 --> 00:49:54,200
Speaker 7: to work and being stopped here and having to immediately

1040
00:49:54,280 --> 00:49:56,880
Speaker 7: ratify what just happened and go into a meeting and

1041
00:49:56,920 --> 00:50:00,200
Speaker 7: be like, hey, it's very different. And I don't ask

1042
00:50:00,280 --> 00:50:02,080
Speaker 7: for any special privileges for it, but I do ask

1043
00:50:02,080 --> 00:50:05,000
Speaker 7: for grace, and I want to continue to learn. So

1044
00:50:05,080 --> 00:50:07,120
Speaker 7: I think that I'm going to continue to elevate and

1045
00:50:07,160 --> 00:50:10,719
Speaker 7: amplify what I'm doing. But it looks like I'm doing it,

1046
00:50:10,760 --> 00:50:13,799
Speaker 7: but I'm just a vessel for other people, and I

1047
00:50:13,800 --> 00:50:17,080
Speaker 7: think I want to continue speaking. I want to continue

1048
00:50:17,120 --> 00:50:19,359
Speaker 7: speaking life. I want to continue showing and sharing that

1049
00:50:19,440 --> 00:50:22,160
Speaker 7: we need us everywhere and I can only share that

1050
00:50:22,160 --> 00:50:24,400
Speaker 7: by being that, and so it is exhausting.

1051
00:50:24,480 --> 00:50:24,640
Speaker 3: Man.

1052
00:50:24,719 --> 00:50:26,640
Speaker 7: We don't talk about how exhausting is. We don't talk

1053
00:50:26,680 --> 00:50:28,720
Speaker 7: about what it takes from you. I'm only a human.

1054
00:50:28,800 --> 00:50:32,040
Speaker 7: I'm also this executive now in Hollywood, but I am

1055
00:50:32,040 --> 00:50:34,840
Speaker 7: a son. I you know, I want to have a family,

1056
00:50:34,880 --> 00:50:36,839
Speaker 7: I want to have all these other different things, and

1057
00:50:36,880 --> 00:50:40,000
Speaker 7: so I am My tenured plan is to continue to

1058
00:50:40,000 --> 00:50:42,000
Speaker 7: be myself because that's the one thing I've been able

1059
00:50:42,040 --> 00:50:44,800
Speaker 7: to bet on, and it's taking me places higher, further,

1060
00:50:44,960 --> 00:50:48,880
Speaker 7: and more expansive than my own limitations did.

1061
00:50:48,680 --> 00:50:51,720
Speaker 5: So this year's ask us, obviously, you know, we watched

1062
00:50:52,239 --> 00:50:55,919
Speaker 5: a lot of America watch yep, incineratings, yep. We saw

1063
00:50:56,000 --> 00:50:59,759
Speaker 5: people from multiple multiple cultures win awards. Yeah, obviously there

1064
00:50:59,840 --> 00:51:02,799
Speaker 5: was an accident that happened. Yeah, glorify on that. But

1065
00:51:02,880 --> 00:51:05,120
Speaker 5: I wonder what you take from it. I know, seeing

1066
00:51:05,120 --> 00:51:07,360
Speaker 5: you the day before and looking at your face like, man, this,

1067
00:51:07,920 --> 00:51:09,680
Speaker 5: I can see the tax that it's taken on you.

1068
00:51:09,760 --> 00:51:12,200
Speaker 5: But how much solace did you take in knowing that

1069
00:51:12,280 --> 00:51:15,320
Speaker 5: these things had happened? And you know, not the incident itself,

1070
00:51:15,320 --> 00:51:19,080
Speaker 5: but all the increasing and the people that are watching,

1071
00:51:19,400 --> 00:51:21,239
Speaker 5: everybody's being celebrated, all the performances.

1072
00:51:21,280 --> 00:51:22,759
Speaker 3: The show was great, The whole thing was great.

1073
00:51:23,640 --> 00:51:26,400
Speaker 5: After it was there a moment of solace to say like, yo,

1074
00:51:26,440 --> 00:51:27,839
Speaker 5: we really did this, or we're like, you know what,

1075
00:51:27,880 --> 00:51:30,080
Speaker 5: this is kind of cloudy, like what was it like

1076
00:51:30,120 --> 00:51:32,799
Speaker 5: for you at that moment? And going forward as far

1077
00:51:32,840 --> 00:51:34,680
Speaker 5: as oskars are, we looking at it like, you know what,

1078
00:51:36,280 --> 00:51:39,120
Speaker 5: we got handed the ball in the sense and look

1079
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Speaker 5: what we did. Look at the numbers like it's a

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00:51:41,480 --> 00:51:43,239
Speaker 5: committee looking at like, you know what, we put in

1081
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Speaker 5: a good hands.

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Speaker 3: Let's do this again.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: I think I think there is the afterwards. But then

1085
00:51:49,080 --> 00:51:50,760
Speaker 7: I think we also have to talk about the before,

1086
00:51:51,160 --> 00:51:54,719
Speaker 7: you know, so regardless of how taxing it might be,

1087
00:51:54,800 --> 00:51:56,319
Speaker 7: as to have a team that I need to lead,

1088
00:51:56,480 --> 00:52:00,000
Speaker 7: you know, into inspiring for them to feel like it's

1089
00:52:00,400 --> 00:52:02,320
Speaker 7: we could push through. And so I think that anytime

1090
00:52:02,320 --> 00:52:04,440
Speaker 7: that we're pushing the bounds, we're doing our job, you

1091
00:52:04,480 --> 00:52:06,840
Speaker 7: know what I mean. I think that you know, the

1092
00:52:08,360 --> 00:52:11,120
Speaker 7: board and the CEO and president have their own different perspective,

1093
00:52:11,200 --> 00:52:13,520
Speaker 7: but just being what I oversee and just relates to

1094
00:52:13,520 --> 00:52:16,040
Speaker 7: the membership, and awards, and so thinking about it again,

1095
00:52:16,080 --> 00:52:17,360
Speaker 7: it's the day of But when you bring it all

1096
00:52:17,400 --> 00:52:19,200
Speaker 7: the way back, it's like I work with the team

1097
00:52:19,320 --> 00:52:21,880
Speaker 7: and oversee the team that is really making sure that

1098
00:52:21,960 --> 00:52:24,040
Speaker 7: your submission is even in there on time for you

1099
00:52:24,080 --> 00:52:27,160
Speaker 7: to even be considered and nominated later. That team is

1100
00:52:27,200 --> 00:52:29,319
Speaker 7: working really closely to make sure that the people are

1101
00:52:29,320 --> 00:52:31,560
Speaker 7: even voting. We had the highest voting ever in ninety

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Speaker 7: four years this year ever, you know, And.

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Speaker 3: So looking for more people in the categories.

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00:52:36,840 --> 00:52:39,839
Speaker 7: Yeah, and that's with also looking at maybe expanding how

1105
00:52:39,880 --> 00:52:43,040
Speaker 7: are we doing. I'm of this person. I need communication

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00:52:43,120 --> 00:52:45,000
Speaker 7: and contact. So everything that I do is like, how

1107
00:52:45,000 --> 00:52:46,920
Speaker 7: are we connecting with other humans. I don't really talk

1108
00:52:46,920 --> 00:52:49,200
Speaker 7: to the title of people. I talk to the human right.

1109
00:52:49,400 --> 00:52:51,400
Speaker 7: I mean, I've been doing that since I was an assistant.

1110
00:52:51,960 --> 00:52:53,719
Speaker 7: So I didn't speak to you differently than I spoke

1111
00:52:53,760 --> 00:52:55,200
Speaker 7: to you because you were in a higher position. I

1112
00:52:55,239 --> 00:52:56,560
Speaker 7: just spoke to you, what do you need? How can

1113
00:52:56,600 --> 00:52:58,640
Speaker 7: I add value? What can I do? And then so

1114
00:52:58,719 --> 00:53:00,440
Speaker 7: even looking at that this year, we were like, how

1115
00:53:00,480 --> 00:53:02,000
Speaker 7: do we partner with the industry. So one of the

1116
00:53:02,080 --> 00:53:04,280
Speaker 7: things that I did when I started was like industry relations,

1117
00:53:04,800 --> 00:53:07,319
Speaker 7: what is the Academy doing all year round? How are

1118
00:53:07,320 --> 00:53:10,280
Speaker 7: we partnering with our agencies, our management companies, our pr houses,

1119
00:53:10,320 --> 00:53:13,080
Speaker 7: working with our studios. What are we doing throughout the

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00:53:13,200 --> 00:53:16,000
Speaker 7: year So that it is a very symbiotic relationship when

1121
00:53:16,040 --> 00:53:19,719
Speaker 7: it comes and culminates towards the oscars, and I think

1122
00:53:19,760 --> 00:53:22,080
Speaker 7: that it's an effort led on so many different fronts.

1123
00:53:22,160 --> 00:53:24,040
Speaker 7: But I was very passionate about, like I'm talking to

1124
00:53:24,040 --> 00:53:26,320
Speaker 7: the agencies. I want to sit down with you, Uta,

1125
00:53:26,440 --> 00:53:28,759
Speaker 7: I want to hear from you directly. What are the

1126
00:53:28,800 --> 00:53:30,640
Speaker 7: issues with voting? Have you tried voting? Why haven't you

1127
00:53:30,680 --> 00:53:32,600
Speaker 7: tried voting? It's just something we can do with your members.

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Speaker 7: There are a class is there any so like all

1129
00:53:34,560 --> 00:53:37,200
Speaker 7: of those things that human component, and wanting to learn

1130
00:53:37,400 --> 00:53:38,920
Speaker 7: how I could even be better for you as a

1131
00:53:38,960 --> 00:53:42,320
Speaker 7: very different mindset from an organization that's been really established

1132
00:53:42,360 --> 00:53:44,640
Speaker 7: for ninety four years, and so again, moving in that

1133
00:53:44,640 --> 00:53:46,359
Speaker 7: space of service, moving in that space of how can

1134
00:53:46,400 --> 00:53:49,279
Speaker 7: I help has been very instrumental for me specifically, So

1135
00:53:49,480 --> 00:53:52,040
Speaker 7: before it's all of that and then you said taxing,

1136
00:53:52,360 --> 00:53:55,440
Speaker 7: you know, leading up into the show, there's that, but

1137
00:53:55,640 --> 00:54:00,000
Speaker 7: it's the emotional energy that needs to be given again,

1138
00:54:00,000 --> 00:54:01,919
Speaker 7: and it's not just me, it's a team. I'm working

1139
00:54:02,000 --> 00:54:04,520
Speaker 7: on leading and to keep inspired. And then afterwards, I

1140
00:54:04,520 --> 00:54:08,759
Speaker 7: think you kind of feel some sort of like a

1141
00:54:08,840 --> 00:54:12,240
Speaker 7: blur almost, because it's everything going up to this moment

1142
00:54:12,719 --> 00:54:13,399
Speaker 7: and then it's over.

1143
00:54:13,960 --> 00:54:14,760
Speaker 4: Right.

1144
00:54:15,239 --> 00:54:17,680
Speaker 7: I think that you know, there's no denying that the

1145
00:54:17,719 --> 00:54:19,759
Speaker 7: numbers were up. I think there's no denying that there's

1146
00:54:19,800 --> 00:54:22,240
Speaker 7: the most social show ever, which is led by another

1147
00:54:22,239 --> 00:54:27,359
Speaker 7: black woman, Meril Johnson. And I think that I can't

1148
00:54:27,400 --> 00:54:29,560
Speaker 7: really speak on what the committee is thinking about, but

1149
00:54:29,640 --> 00:54:33,160
Speaker 7: I think personally I'm proud because I know what it takes.

1150
00:54:33,800 --> 00:54:36,239
Speaker 7: I know what it takes to put that on. I

1151
00:54:36,280 --> 00:54:38,120
Speaker 7: know what it took last year when we were at

1152
00:54:38,120 --> 00:54:41,400
Speaker 7: a train station to put on a show in the

1153
00:54:41,480 --> 00:54:44,319
Speaker 7: middle of COVID when no other show was happening live

1154
00:54:44,360 --> 00:54:47,439
Speaker 7: and in person. Two hundred and twenty one nominees, eighty

1155
00:54:47,480 --> 00:54:50,080
Speaker 7: of them international, in twenty three different countries, seventeen of

1156
00:54:50,120 --> 00:54:52,560
Speaker 7: which can't travel to the States, and where we had

1157
00:54:52,560 --> 00:54:54,560
Speaker 7: to work with the embassies and working with the state

1158
00:54:54,600 --> 00:54:56,440
Speaker 7: officials to get people to fly in. So when I

1159
00:54:56,480 --> 00:54:58,440
Speaker 7: hear people and they're like, oh, the show at the

1160
00:54:58,480 --> 00:55:01,040
Speaker 7: train station is and I'm like, that's fine, but it's

1161
00:55:01,080 --> 00:55:04,520
Speaker 7: a miracle. It even happened with not when positive COVID

1162
00:55:04,560 --> 00:55:08,759
Speaker 7: taste test or case, and then the County then built

1163
00:55:08,760 --> 00:55:12,840
Speaker 7: Appendix Jay off of our template that we use to

1164
00:55:12,920 --> 00:55:15,560
Speaker 7: allow other shows to now then be able to exist,

1165
00:55:15,640 --> 00:55:18,480
Speaker 7: and so like that's like the I can nerd out

1166
00:55:18,520 --> 00:55:20,880
Speaker 7: about all of that stuff, but for me, it's what

1167
00:55:20,960 --> 00:55:23,279
Speaker 7: you see on TV. Yes, but I think I'm most

1168
00:55:23,320 --> 00:55:25,480
Speaker 7: proud of the stuff that you don't see. I'm most

1169
00:55:25,520 --> 00:55:28,200
Speaker 7: proud of the fires that you're not knowing that are happening.

1170
00:55:30,200 --> 00:55:34,400
Speaker 7: And I'm proud to say that I play an instrumental

1171
00:55:34,440 --> 00:55:39,600
Speaker 7: part in the actual day of and beforehand and overseeing

1172
00:55:39,600 --> 00:55:43,600
Speaker 7: a team that does stuff unimaginably to be able to execute.

1173
00:55:43,640 --> 00:55:48,239
Speaker 7: So it's like a release of some sort. And I

1174
00:55:48,280 --> 00:55:53,120
Speaker 7: think that it only gives permission to continue to push

1175
00:55:53,200 --> 00:55:56,200
Speaker 7: the bounds, to continue to make sure representations at the forefront,

1176
00:55:56,400 --> 00:55:58,240
Speaker 7: and to continue to make sure that we can create

1177
00:55:58,239 --> 00:56:01,279
Speaker 7: a show that adds value, that has entertainment value, that

1178
00:56:01,400 --> 00:56:04,360
Speaker 7: recognizes some of the most influential people in the world

1179
00:56:04,400 --> 00:56:07,000
Speaker 7: as we continue to challenge what is excellence. You mentioned

1180
00:56:07,000 --> 00:56:09,640
Speaker 7: earlier about like films that you love like loving basketball.

1181
00:56:09,680 --> 00:56:12,080
Speaker 7: You know, who's the arbiter of excellence? Who gets to

1182
00:56:12,120 --> 00:56:14,440
Speaker 7: say what's excellent? You know, Boys in the Hood was

1183
00:56:14,480 --> 00:56:16,560
Speaker 7: excellent to me, but so was Yaws, you know what

1184
00:56:16,600 --> 00:56:18,640
Speaker 7: I mean saying, And so like, I think as we

1185
00:56:18,680 --> 00:56:22,239
Speaker 7: continue to just change the narrative of who gets to

1186
00:56:22,239 --> 00:56:24,360
Speaker 7: say what excellence is, I think they were creating a

1187
00:56:24,360 --> 00:56:27,040
Speaker 7: more equal playing ground and then from there we can

1188
00:56:27,040 --> 00:56:29,680
Speaker 7: build a new foundation to have a new conversation that

1189
00:56:29,719 --> 00:56:31,799
Speaker 7: really is representative of the world that we actually live in.

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Speaker 4: Can you have it before we wrap one to actually?

1191
00:56:36,120 --> 00:56:39,279
Speaker 4: Are there any like mentorship programs or any incubators for

1192
00:56:39,320 --> 00:56:42,040
Speaker 4: people that maybe want to get into Hollywood but on

1193
00:56:42,040 --> 00:56:45,319
Speaker 4: the behind the scenes as far as like directors or

1194
00:56:46,000 --> 00:56:49,120
Speaker 4: what you do or you know, just a lot there's

1195
00:56:49,160 --> 00:56:54,320
Speaker 4: so many different roles in sound, makeup and so much stuff.

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00:56:54,360 --> 00:56:55,759
Speaker 4: I feel like a lot of time people a might

1197
00:56:55,760 --> 00:56:57,879
Speaker 4: not even be aware of it, and then be even

1198
00:56:57,880 --> 00:56:59,319
Speaker 4: if they are aware of but they might not know

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Speaker 4: how to actually get into. Is there any type of program?

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00:57:03,600 --> 00:57:06,120
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think going to oscars dot org we'll give

1201
00:57:06,160 --> 00:57:08,160
Speaker 7: a lot of context in general context as to what

1202
00:57:08,200 --> 00:57:10,279
Speaker 7: we're doing. But there's the academy goal program, which is

1203
00:57:10,320 --> 00:57:14,439
Speaker 7: really focused on more of the college space and leaving

1204
00:57:14,440 --> 00:57:17,360
Speaker 7: them from there in an internship within the industry in Hollywood.

1205
00:57:18,080 --> 00:57:20,200
Speaker 7: And then there's this program that we're working on that

1206
00:57:20,240 --> 00:57:21,800
Speaker 7: I'll hold on telling you all the name of because

1207
00:57:21,800 --> 00:57:23,960
Speaker 7: we're still in the midst of getting it completely finalized,

1208
00:57:23,960 --> 00:57:26,640
Speaker 7: but it's the focus is really going to be about

1209
00:57:27,920 --> 00:57:32,760
Speaker 7: creating the knowledge needed to sustain in the industry. And

1210
00:57:32,840 --> 00:57:34,800
Speaker 7: so you are a writer, and so we want to

1211
00:57:34,840 --> 00:57:37,320
Speaker 7: create something around you in partnership with some of our

1212
00:57:37,320 --> 00:57:39,520
Speaker 7: members and in partnership with some of the different industry

1213
00:57:39,560 --> 00:57:42,240
Speaker 7: leaders so that you understand how to pitch a film

1214
00:57:42,600 --> 00:57:44,800
Speaker 7: with their meaning when they're talking about the international and

1215
00:57:45,120 --> 00:57:48,120
Speaker 7: domestic distribution, what they mean when they're talking about your

1216
00:57:48,200 --> 00:57:50,840
Speaker 7: legal contracts, bringing attorneys in to be able to show

1217
00:57:50,880 --> 00:57:53,400
Speaker 7: and share with you as you're continuing and starting this interview,

1218
00:57:53,400 --> 00:57:55,560
Speaker 7: because we focus on we got the meeting. We got

1219
00:57:55,560 --> 00:57:58,880
Speaker 7: the meeting, but do you understand what they're talking about

1220
00:57:58,880 --> 00:58:00,480
Speaker 7: in the meeting? Do you understand what to ask for?

1221
00:58:00,960 --> 00:58:03,400
Speaker 7: Do you understand how to best equipped and prepare yourself?

1222
00:58:03,440 --> 00:58:05,920
Speaker 7: Because I think and I challenge us to continue to

1223
00:58:06,000 --> 00:58:07,960
Speaker 7: want to be the artist we need to be the artist.

1224
00:58:08,040 --> 00:58:11,000
Speaker 7: We represent artistry and some and have dominated and we'll

1225
00:58:11,040 --> 00:58:14,080
Speaker 7: continue to dominate in all aspects sports, music, film, TV.

1226
00:58:14,960 --> 00:58:16,920
Speaker 7: But I think that it's an opportunity for us to

1227
00:58:16,960 --> 00:58:19,000
Speaker 7: continue to also expand our minds in our thinking on

1228
00:58:19,080 --> 00:58:24,360
Speaker 7: the business. So that is going to be coming very

1229
00:58:24,400 --> 00:58:26,240
Speaker 7: soon in a couple of weeks, which I would love

1230
00:58:26,280 --> 00:58:27,880
Speaker 7: to talk to you all about when it's actually out

1231
00:58:28,280 --> 00:58:29,720
Speaker 7: and where I can get a little bit more on

1232
00:58:29,760 --> 00:58:31,840
Speaker 7: the name. But that's the concept of it. And so

1233
00:58:31,840 --> 00:58:35,040
Speaker 7: then how do we use and harness the energy that

1234
00:58:35,120 --> 00:58:37,760
Speaker 7: is the Academy and that gold statue that still holds

1235
00:58:37,800 --> 00:58:41,560
Speaker 7: weight to be able to do great things and amazing things,

1236
00:58:41,600 --> 00:58:44,240
Speaker 7: but being very intentional and specific about reaching out to

1237
00:58:44,240 --> 00:58:47,120
Speaker 7: those communities who typically might not feel that this is attainable.

1238
00:58:47,400 --> 00:58:49,640
Speaker 7: So it's continuing to change the narrative from this is

1239
00:58:49,680 --> 00:58:52,480
Speaker 7: the Academy to this is our academy, and then how

1240
00:58:52,480 --> 00:58:54,320
Speaker 7: do we continue to make that a little bit more

1241
00:58:54,320 --> 00:58:58,360
Speaker 7: accessible in a real way. We have a Nickel Fellowship program,

1242
00:58:58,840 --> 00:59:01,240
Speaker 7: there's many different assets of things, and now with our

1243
00:59:01,280 --> 00:59:05,320
Speaker 7: museum that's now on Wilshare and Fairfax, which is very

1244
00:59:05,320 --> 00:59:09,320
Speaker 7: close the incident with Biggie, so really close right there,

1245
00:59:09,360 --> 00:59:11,640
Speaker 7: Wilshare and Fairfax. I think it's just another opportunity. They

1246
00:59:11,640 --> 00:59:14,920
Speaker 7: have amazing different programs initiatives. We have a chief curator

1247
00:59:14,960 --> 00:59:17,760
Speaker 7: there named jack Lyn Stewart, black woman, amazing black woman

1248
00:59:17,800 --> 00:59:20,200
Speaker 7: Bill Kramer, who are really leading that initiative and being

1249
00:59:20,280 --> 00:59:23,200
Speaker 7: very intentional and on purpose about kind of like community

1250
00:59:23,960 --> 00:59:28,840
Speaker 7: focused and continuing to explore all avenues of excellence. I

1251
00:59:28,840 --> 00:59:31,960
Speaker 7: think excellence looked one way for a long time, and

1252
00:59:32,000 --> 00:59:34,160
Speaker 7: now I think it's just about the expansion of that.

1253
00:59:34,480 --> 00:59:36,560
Speaker 7: So OSCARS dot Org, I think is a great way

1254
00:59:36,960 --> 00:59:38,640
Speaker 7: to be able to go in there and understand kind

1255
00:59:38,680 --> 00:59:40,240
Speaker 7: of some of the initiatives and things that we're looking

1256
00:59:40,320 --> 00:59:42,880
Speaker 7: to do specifically in a lot of the different communities

1257
00:59:42,920 --> 00:59:45,440
Speaker 7: and a lot of the different spaces where we typically

1258
00:59:45,520 --> 00:59:50,920
Speaker 7: or may not have felt as accessible before, and continuing

1259
00:59:50,920 --> 00:59:54,160
Speaker 7: to extend grace. Everybody's figuring it out. I don't. I'm

1260
00:59:54,200 --> 00:59:56,800
Speaker 7: not an expert in my field. I'm an expert at

1261
00:59:56,840 --> 00:59:59,440
Speaker 7: wanting to be better. I'm an expert at wanting to learn.

1262
01:00:00,160 --> 01:00:02,400
Speaker 7: But I don't have it all together. I'm still figuring

1263
01:00:02,400 --> 01:00:03,840
Speaker 7: it all out, and I think that's the beautiful part.

1264
01:00:03,880 --> 01:00:05,720
Speaker 7: That's what gives me hope.

1265
01:00:06,240 --> 01:00:08,480
Speaker 4: I appreciate it. Brother. Before we leave, you want to

1266
01:00:08,480 --> 01:00:11,360
Speaker 4: tell the people anything social media or anything or you

1267
01:00:11,360 --> 01:00:12,520
Speaker 4: got any less words?

1268
01:00:12,720 --> 01:00:18,120
Speaker 7: Yeah? My Instagram is Sean Finnybee flourishing because duh. And

1269
01:00:18,160 --> 01:00:20,640
Speaker 7: most importantly, I just want to continue to speak to

1270
01:00:20,680 --> 01:00:22,480
Speaker 7: the people and to continue to remind you that who

1271
01:00:22,520 --> 01:00:24,240
Speaker 7: you are is enough. You've always been enough, you will

1272
01:00:24,280 --> 01:00:27,040
Speaker 7: never not enough. And sometimes the things and the limitations

1273
01:00:27,040 --> 01:00:29,560
Speaker 7: that are kind of created around you are for you

1274
01:00:29,640 --> 01:00:31,640
Speaker 7: to not recognize and live and flourish in your own

1275
01:00:31,960 --> 01:00:34,280
Speaker 7: beauty and marveling all of that. So I challenge you

1276
01:00:34,320 --> 01:00:36,440
Speaker 7: to continue to go beyond your limitations. Go to the

1277
01:00:36,480 --> 01:00:38,040
Speaker 7: thing that hurts, go to the thing that makes you

1278
01:00:38,080 --> 01:00:41,360
Speaker 7: feel scared, Lean into that, don't look back. And I

1279
01:00:41,400 --> 01:00:43,840
Speaker 7: continue to just want you to explore other ways of

1280
01:00:43,880 --> 01:00:49,000
Speaker 7: exploring your talent and your art. Be the amazing artists

1281
01:00:49,000 --> 01:00:53,040
Speaker 7: that you are, be the amazing athlete, be the amazing

1282
01:00:53,400 --> 01:00:59,280
Speaker 7: all this that you are. And understand business and understand

1283
01:00:59,280 --> 01:01:05,120
Speaker 7: how your specific platform adds dimensions to other people. And

1284
01:01:05,160 --> 01:01:05,560
Speaker 7: that's it.

1285
01:01:06,520 --> 01:01:08,880
Speaker 4: There you have it. There's no business like show business.

1286
01:01:09,320 --> 01:01:13,880
Speaker 8: Fact that's south allys would we all Oh, actually I

1287
01:01:14,080 --> 01:01:17,440
Speaker 8: put this out there, e y L will beginning and

1288
01:01:18,240 --> 01:01:21,080
Speaker 8: an oscar probably for a documentary.

1289
01:01:21,320 --> 01:01:25,560
Speaker 7: But soay, I mean, well, look, put the bro putting

1290
01:01:25,560 --> 01:01:28,280
Speaker 7: the good grip out here right now, pound it up.

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Speaker 8: Let's do it.

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Speaker 4: Let's do it. Yeah we need that. Yeah when that

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Speaker 4: when when the documentary drops? Yeah, legendary status.

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Speaker 5: Up there, either we're going to be receiving it or

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Speaker 5: perhaps hosting. Not even just the Oscars, but you know

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Speaker 5: a couple of film festivals, you know.

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Speaker 4: The film festival light Work. Light Work has to have

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Speaker 4: some people in our spare time we might know. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: you know, yes, Troy house Keeping, I don't.

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Speaker 5: Get shout everybody on patreon dot com. Shout out to

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Speaker 5: all our earners on EYL University the number one place

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Speaker 5: for business and everything in entrepreneurship.

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Speaker 3: We love y'all.

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Speaker 5: Keep supporting, keep telling a friend to tell a friend.

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Speaker 5: The community is growing and so we greatly appreciate.

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Speaker 3: You all for that.

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Speaker 5: And I shout to everybody that it's supporting our merch.

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Speaker 5: We got a new summer spring collection out there, and

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Speaker 5: make sure y'all go support that way.

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Speaker 3: I ain't get it. Oh that's gonna.

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Speaker 7: I would have rolled up in it.

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Speaker 4: Got a care pack all right, guys, I see you

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Speaker 4: next week. Peace is.

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Speaker 6: My graduates from my school being forced bad drop bag drop, Mike,

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Speaker 6: drop bad drop drop.

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Speaker 7: Thanks for selling your car to Karvana.

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Speaker 2: Here's your check.

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Speaker 3: WHOA, When did I get here?

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Speaker 2: What do you mean?

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Speaker 1: I swear it was just moments ago that I accepted

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Speaker 1: a great offer from Carvana online.

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Speaker 2: I must have time traveled to the future. It was

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Speaker 2: just moments ago.

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Speaker 7: We do same day pick up.

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Speaker 2: Here's your check for that great offer.

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Speaker 6: It is the future, it's it's the present and just

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Speaker 6: the convenience of Carvana.

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Speaker 2: Sorry to blow your mind.

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Speaker 3: It's all good. Happens all the time.

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Speaker 5: Sell your car the convenient way to Caravana.

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Speaker 7: Pickup times may vary and fees may apply.