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Speaker 1: Every day a week ago up the Breakfast Club, y'all

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Speaker 1: done morning.

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Speaker 2: Everybody is d j Envy just hilarious. Charlamagne the gud

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Speaker 2: we are the breakfast Club.

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Speaker 3: He got some special guests.

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Speaker 4: In the building this morning.

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Speaker 2: Indeed, Von Franklin, Soria and Tyler Lepley welcome.

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Speaker 3: If you call.

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Speaker 5: Her Soriat.

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Speaker 4: Soarriety something like something.

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Speaker 6: I gotta go to CV.

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Speaker 4: To get something for the sorit.

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Speaker 1: Can you just.

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Speaker 4: About because I got a lot better. Don't do film

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Speaker 4: to the family.

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Speaker 1: They have a movie on Netflix called Ruth and bow As, right,

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Speaker 1: and you know, if you know anything about Ruth and bos.

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Speaker 7: A biblical story.

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Speaker 1: So so what elements of the original biblical story of

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Speaker 1: Ruth and bow As did y'all preserve for this film?

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Speaker 8: Man, We preserve the a lot of the elements. When

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Speaker 8: you go and you read the Book of Ruth and

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Speaker 8: then you look at the movie. You know, everything that

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Speaker 8: we did in the film was basically rooted in the word.

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Speaker 8: You know, her journey, you know with Naomi, her how

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Speaker 8: she finds Boaz, And we really wanted to say, okay,

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Speaker 8: this is what the scripture says, but then how do

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Speaker 8: we make it modern and so everything you see in

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Speaker 8: the film, it's I think we did a pretty good job,

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Speaker 8: you know, of making sure that anything that you see

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Speaker 8: in that film you can go back to a verse

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Speaker 8: and say this is where we got it from.

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Speaker 5: Was it difficult modernizing the story though, I.

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Speaker 8: Mean, there's no rule book on how to modernize a

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Speaker 8: Bible story, so it was challenging. But then there were

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Speaker 8: certain things that were pretty easy because the story itself

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Speaker 8: lays out like a movie, you know, And that's one

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Speaker 8: of the reasons why I wanted to produce it. This

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Speaker 8: is why I wanted to make it is because when

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Speaker 8: you see how Ruth and Boas come together, they're not

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Speaker 8: looking for love.

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Speaker 3: They're actually looking to be.

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Speaker 8: Of service, and as part of that commitment, they find

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Speaker 8: each other. And so when you see it, it was like, okay,

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Speaker 8: you know, well, what would Moab look like? Well, maybe

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Speaker 8: that's like the Atlanta music scene. And what would you know,

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Speaker 8: Bethlehem look like. Okay, well maybe that's like Pegrim, Tennessee.

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Speaker 8: So it was difficult, but ultimately we just had to

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Speaker 8: kind of take those creative license and hopefully the audience

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Speaker 8: will enjoy it.

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Speaker 2: Now you have a deal with Tyler Perry how did

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Speaker 2: that come about?

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Speaker 4: Man?

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Speaker 3: So listen.

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Speaker 8: So about a couple of years ago, after I did

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Speaker 8: my film Flaming Hot, I'm sitting at home and I

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Speaker 8: didn't have a production deal. So if you know anything

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Speaker 8: about Hollywood, in order to have a production company, you

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Speaker 8: have to have a production deal with the studio because

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Speaker 8: that's how you have employees and that's how you make

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Speaker 8: your films. So even though Flaming Hot did very well,

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Speaker 8: I did not have a deal. And so I was

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Speaker 8: sitting at home and I was like, Okay, God, what

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Speaker 8: my phone rings and it's Tyler Perry and he said, hey, man,

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Speaker 8: I hear you're making a deal with Netflix.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 8: I had a meeting at Netflix a few months before,

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Speaker 8: but I didn't know. There wasn't really a whole lot

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Speaker 8: of follow ups, so I wasn't sure what was going on.

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Speaker 8: But he called me and said, yo, I hear you

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Speaker 8: you're making a deal with Netflix. Let's partner up and

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Speaker 8: do it together. And I was like, Yes, let's do it.

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Speaker 8: And so we negotiated a three picture deal with Netflix.

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Speaker 8: This is the first of its kind. You've never seen,

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Speaker 8: you know, two black men of faith coming to together

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Speaker 8: to make content and faith, you know, with the biggest

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Speaker 8: streamer in the world. And that to me, like when

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Speaker 8: you look at Tyler like, I don't know why God

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Speaker 8: put that on his mind, but here I am trying

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Speaker 8: to figure it out. Boom, and there was the answer.

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Speaker 8: And to be able to make Ruth and Boaz, I mean,

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Speaker 8: to be able to make it the way we wanted

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Speaker 8: to make it, to have the creative, creative autonomy and

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Speaker 8: you know, with such an incredible cast. It all came

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Speaker 9: How did it feel Because when the screen opens for

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Speaker 9: the movie, it's your name, It's.

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Speaker 10: Tyler Perry Studios. And I was like, that is so cool.

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Speaker 9: How did it feel for you the first time you

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Speaker 9: saw that?

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Speaker 3: Listen, this is what faith works. That's how it felt.

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Speaker 3: It felt gratified. You know.

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Speaker 8: As a kid, I always had the dream of making

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Speaker 8: my own films. That's why I came to Hollywood. I

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Speaker 8: wanted to have my own production company. And to see

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Speaker 8: that on screen Devon Franklin Entertainment, Tyler Perry Studios and

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Speaker 8: Ruth and Boaz, It's like, Wow, dreams do come true

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Speaker 8: and faith works.

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Speaker 3: So it felt good.

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Speaker 1: So sayan Tyler, did y'all know the story of Ruth

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Speaker 4: I do that.

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Speaker 7: And Tyler, did y'all know the story of Ruth and Boys?

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Speaker 10: I did, like roughly, you know, just growing up in church,

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Speaker 10: you here of Ruth and Boaz. But I never really

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Speaker 10: explicitly read the book of Ruth and until doing this

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Speaker 10: this story getting more information on it.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean, not to sound like a heathen, but

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Speaker 11: I didn't grow up in the church or nothing like that.

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Speaker 11: But I have heard about you know, I have heard

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Speaker 11: about the story of Ruth and Bois a little bit.

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Speaker 11: So when it was time to actually dive into it once,

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Speaker 11: you know, just at least have to have some type

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Speaker 11: and how we're gonna figure it out.

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Speaker 7: But after you read aster, how much of Ruth's story could.

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Speaker 10: You relate to personally? I mean, she went through so much.

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Speaker 10: She has a lot of a lot of baggage and

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Speaker 10: trauma there, deep deep traumas. But I do resonate with

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Speaker 10: her on having like an instinct to reroute and change

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Speaker 10: on things that I'm not necessarily sure is going to

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Speaker 10: work out. But hey, I want to be an actress.

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Speaker 10: That sounds pretty far fetched to a lot of the world.

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Speaker 10: So I can. I can get where her fire and

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Speaker 10: her passion is coming from us.

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Speaker 7: Oh go ahead, how are you? How are you?

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Speaker 10: Baby? Well? Thank you? Thank you as well.

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Speaker 5: Thank you as your mental everything is good. I mean

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Speaker 5: because you're working, you had that baby working out, you know,

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Speaker 5: How does that all fit?

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Speaker 10: It's it's actually one day at a time.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know.

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Speaker 10: And just having that grace for myself that I don't

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Speaker 10: have to have all together has been the biggest I

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Speaker 10: guess lesson for me throughout all of this. But it's

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Speaker 10: been great, Thank god. I mean, you know after that

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Speaker 10: first month where I was like, yeah, you know, now

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Speaker 10: it's just like I could use some sleep. But that's

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Speaker 10: about it. I'm good. I'm good.

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Speaker 2: I want to ask, you know, when doing a faith

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Speaker 2: based movie, right, growing up as a kid, when you

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Speaker 2: hear anything faith based, you thinking it's gonna be nothing

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Speaker 2: but Christian singing. It's not it's gonna be that type

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Speaker 2: maybe I don't want to do it because it's faith based,

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Speaker 10: Personally?

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Speaker 4: No?

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Speaker 10: I mean I feel like God has always been very

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Speaker 10: also a faith faith based and I really feel like

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Speaker 10: sometimes God is funny in the way of presenting me

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Speaker 10: with characters that I kind of like in life for

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Speaker 10: a little bit, mirroring as far as like their relationship

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Speaker 10: to have played Rebel and Kingdom Business and now Ruth

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Speaker 10: and Ruth and Boaz. Right, So that's why I left.

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Speaker 10: But no, it really did not deter me at all.

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Speaker 10: If anything determined me was the music, because I played

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Speaker 10: so many music characters, so that that was the part.

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Speaker 4: She took a little convincing.

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Speaker 3: I was like, come on, she said no at first, Well, she.

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Speaker 8: Didn't want to come in to audition because it was

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Speaker 3: I was like, Yo, trust me, you're gonna want to

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Speaker 7: So what was it mirroring in your life? Surreal?

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Speaker 1: Because you know this this is like this story is

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Speaker 1: about God's timing and divine orchestration. So what was what

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Speaker 4: Oh?

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Speaker 10: My goodness so much. But I could say that love

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Speaker 10: lot of things kind of with Ruth that I was

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Speaker 5: What about you?

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Speaker 7: What you.

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Speaker 11: I think I think for me, you know when I

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Speaker 11: when I got the call, I was just in a

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Speaker 11: space last year, I mean even before last year. Uh,

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Speaker 11: the church, but it was something that I was always seeking.

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Speaker 11: What I'm saying, it was sought after for me, and

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Speaker 11: you know it started spiritually. But then I you know,

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Speaker 6: The place of worship, not just to kind of feel

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Speaker 11: So I think for me outside of the artistry and

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Speaker 11: me wanting to be able to tackle roll like this,

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Speaker 11: I've never done a uh, you know, a love story before.

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Speaker 11: You know, the aspect of it being a faith based

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Speaker 11: film is actually something that was kind of right on

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Speaker 11: time for me. You know, I just I just proposed

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Speaker 11: to at the time, you know, my girlfriend, we were

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Speaker 11: obviously my fiance now so even just thank you, I

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Speaker 11: appreciate that, but but even miracle, but even you know,

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Speaker 11: make making a choice to go ahead and and and

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Speaker 11: honor our union under God, and you know, making that

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Speaker 11: choice and walking forward in it or uh, you know,

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Speaker 11: I've just I've had I've had some issues in life

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Speaker 11: where you know, choosing to handle it with with with

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Speaker 11: grace is something that's continuing to be on the forefront

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Speaker 11: of my mind and whatnot.

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Speaker 6: So it was just it was just perfect time.

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Speaker 11: And so I actually actually love diving into the to

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Speaker 11: the faith based aspect of it.

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Speaker 9: In the movie, both of you guys spent the Soria

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Speaker 9: and tyler y'all spent a lot of time learning to

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Speaker 8: I don't get imposter syndrome. I mean because you know,

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Speaker 8: the studios and say this is what it is. And

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Speaker 8: a lot of times they're like, well, you got to

442
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Speaker 8: have insurance and said no, me and Katori a brother

443
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Speaker 8: and a sister, we worked it out as he needs

444
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Speaker 8: to be able to do bowl. So whatever is for you,

445
00:18:57,680 --> 00:19:00,000
Speaker 8: just stay in it and keep fighting for it because

446
00:19:00,200 --> 00:19:01,600
Speaker 8: when it's meant to be, it'll.

447
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Speaker 6: Be No that.

448
00:19:07,840 --> 00:19:10,240
Speaker 9: It's important to be working with people that understand you

449
00:19:10,359 --> 00:19:13,280
Speaker 9: look like you two because y'all advocated that's so big.

450
00:19:13,320 --> 00:19:14,840
Speaker 9: Having a person that will advocate.

451
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Speaker 3: For you one thousand person.

452
00:19:16,000 --> 00:19:19,760
Speaker 1: It's critical, you know, the secular ambitions that that roof

453
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Speaker 1: has right with the spiritual calling she's dealing with. To

454
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Speaker 1: have any of y'all ever had the deal with that

455
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Speaker 1: in the industry, and if so.

456
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Speaker 7: How did you resolve?

457
00:19:30,200 --> 00:19:31,600
Speaker 6: I'm sorry, what was it again?

458
00:19:31,960 --> 00:19:35,440
Speaker 1: Secular ambitions that roof has also the spiritual calling she's

459
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Speaker 1: dealing with. Have you any have y'all ever had that

460
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Speaker 1: battle with y'all personal experiences in the industry.

461
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Speaker 11: It's been a long week breaking down a seculars what's that?

462
00:19:44,160 --> 00:19:44,560
Speaker 7: Secular?

463
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Speaker 4: Worldly not non religious?

464
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Speaker 7: No, I don't I want you to be over here?

465
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Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, for sure, I would say. I would say

466
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Speaker 6: for me.

467
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Speaker 11: When I was coming out of uh now, I'm from

468
00:20:05,080 --> 00:20:08,000
Speaker 11: right outside of Philly, and I was, uh, you know,

469
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Speaker 11: on my own levels.

470
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Speaker 6: You know, I was making a little bit of money.

471
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Speaker 11: I was, I was kind of doing my thing, you know,

472
00:20:11,880 --> 00:20:15,879
Speaker 11: at least so I thought. But nothing made sense for

473
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Speaker 11: me to go out to l A. You know, but

474
00:20:18,040 --> 00:20:20,040
Speaker 11: something was, something was calling me. I felt like God was,

475
00:20:20,720 --> 00:20:22,719
Speaker 11: you know, God was pushed me in that direction, and

476
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Speaker 11: it was you know, it was a battle too, to

477
00:20:26,320 --> 00:20:29,280
Speaker 11: leave everything that I've ever known, you know, to chase

478
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Speaker 11: something that I've never seen, you know, I feel it,

479
00:20:31,760 --> 00:20:34,200
Speaker 11: and so so I do feel like I can connect

480
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Speaker 11: with Ruth on that because I forget what the actual

481
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Speaker 11: line is, but like it's it's one of those lines

482
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Speaker 11: one of those memorable lines where she talks about, you know,

483
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Speaker 11: God is leading me somewhere else, and it's nothing that

484
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Speaker 11: anybody else around me can may really be able to understand,

485
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Speaker 11: but it's something that I feel, and it's something that

486
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Speaker 11: I'm gonna honor, you know. So I really connected with

487
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Speaker 11: with Ruth on on that aspect for sure.

488
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Speaker 7: What about you, Sarah, I.

489
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Speaker 10: Don't know if I've ever felt like I was being

490
00:21:02,680 --> 00:21:09,399
Speaker 10: pulled away from what God wanted for me or what

491
00:21:09,480 --> 00:21:13,360
Speaker 10: I felt like innately inside of me, but I could

492
00:21:13,440 --> 00:21:16,160
Speaker 10: say that it is hard to navigate when you do

493
00:21:16,240 --> 00:21:19,280
Speaker 10: have that voice inside of you because there is a

494
00:21:19,280 --> 00:21:23,160
Speaker 10: lot to there's a lot to be involved with when

495
00:21:23,200 --> 00:21:27,840
Speaker 10: it comes to our industry. So when thinking about it

496
00:21:27,840 --> 00:21:30,119
Speaker 10: from that aspect, I can say I said no to

497
00:21:30,200 --> 00:21:33,560
Speaker 10: a lot of hangouts and dealings with people, and thank

498
00:21:33,560 --> 00:21:37,800
Speaker 10: god I did, because I didn't really know why I

499
00:21:37,920 --> 00:21:39,680
Speaker 10: was saying no, but I just knew I didn't feel

500
00:21:39,720 --> 00:21:44,159
Speaker 10: necessarily comfortable or I felt like a weird vibe. So

501
00:21:44,200 --> 00:21:47,200
Speaker 10: I just decided not to be out and about and

502
00:21:47,320 --> 00:21:50,679
Speaker 10: doing different things. And now looking back on that, I

503
00:21:50,720 --> 00:21:53,640
Speaker 10: am grateful that I kind of followed that voice because

504
00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:56,960
Speaker 10: there are a lot of situations I realized that, oh yeah,

505
00:21:57,000 --> 00:21:59,600
Speaker 10: that person was definitely up to no good asking me

506
00:21:59,640 --> 00:22:01,960
Speaker 10: to do it, you know what I mean. So I

507
00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:04,600
Speaker 10: think that there's there's definitely a lot of that while

508
00:22:04,680 --> 00:22:06,800
Speaker 10: navigating this industry.

509
00:22:06,800 --> 00:22:07,120
Speaker 6: For sure.

510
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Speaker 1: What about you, because you have answered your calling spiritual calling, Yeah,

511
00:22:10,760 --> 00:22:12,880
Speaker 1: but you still have you still want to be successful

512
00:22:12,880 --> 00:22:13,520
Speaker 1: in this business?

513
00:22:13,560 --> 00:22:13,800
Speaker 3: Sure?

514
00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:16,879
Speaker 8: Sure, I mean for me, it was like the ambition

515
00:22:17,720 --> 00:22:20,359
Speaker 8: always has been to go to a secular environment. Right

516
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Speaker 8: when you look at Hollywood and you know, some may

517
00:22:22,240 --> 00:22:25,040
Speaker 8: argue it's one of the most secular environments on the planet.

518
00:22:25,240 --> 00:22:27,720
Speaker 8: But for me, you know, when I first started, I

519
00:22:27,720 --> 00:22:29,480
Speaker 8: didn't know I was going to be making content that

520
00:22:29,520 --> 00:22:32,480
Speaker 8: would be inspirational or faith based at all. But I

521
00:22:32,560 --> 00:22:35,119
Speaker 8: did have a sense of I don't want to compromise

522
00:22:35,240 --> 00:22:38,000
Speaker 8: my soul to open the.

523
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Speaker 3: Door of this business.

524
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Speaker 8: So like at eighteen years old, you know, first internship interview,

525
00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:44,879
Speaker 8: they asked me, you know, this is what it was

526
00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:47,080
Speaker 8: for the company that managed will Smith, and they said,

527
00:22:47,119 --> 00:22:48,719
Speaker 8: is there anything else you want us to know? And

528
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Speaker 8: I said, well, you know, I observe sabbath. So if

529
00:22:51,119 --> 00:22:53,600
Speaker 8: taking this internship would require me to work on the Sabbath.

530
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Speaker 3: I won't take it.

531
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Speaker 8: So at that point in time, I wasn't really doing

532
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Speaker 8: it consciously. I was just saying, this is my conviction,

533
00:22:58,840 --> 00:23:01,199
Speaker 8: you know, like I don't want to compromise who I

534
00:23:01,240 --> 00:23:04,119
Speaker 8: am in my identity for this business. And then what

535
00:23:04,200 --> 00:23:06,720
Speaker 8: happened was they said, sure, no problem, and I got

536
00:23:06,720 --> 00:23:09,240
Speaker 8: the internship and every job that I've ever had goes

537
00:23:09,280 --> 00:23:11,399
Speaker 8: back to that internship. And so what that showed me

538
00:23:11,520 --> 00:23:13,959
Speaker 8: is that you can be in a secular environment and

539
00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:17,240
Speaker 8: still maintain your spirituality because I don't believe that God

540
00:23:17,280 --> 00:23:20,040
Speaker 8: would ordain success for any of us that requires us

541
00:23:20,040 --> 00:23:23,240
Speaker 8: to compromise who we are. Because if it's like wait,

542
00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:25,840
Speaker 8: if it's God, no honor who you He always created

543
00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:26,159
Speaker 8: you to be.

544
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Speaker 3: And if that door opens, walk through it.

545
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Speaker 8: But if it doesn't, do not conform yourself to get that,

546
00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:34,320
Speaker 8: because what's on the other side of that door is

547
00:23:34,440 --> 00:23:36,080
Speaker 8: you're going to need the faith that you left in

548
00:23:36,160 --> 00:23:38,440
Speaker 8: the identity you left outside the door to be successful.

549
00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:43,440
Speaker 10: Yeah, so that's the part, yeah.

550
00:23:42,640 --> 00:23:44,320
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, So for me, it was it was just

551
00:23:44,359 --> 00:23:46,879
Speaker 8: about incorporating the essence of who I am and the

552
00:23:46,920 --> 00:23:50,040
Speaker 8: identity and in the spirituality and being a Christian and

553
00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:52,720
Speaker 8: allowing God to navigate my path in this you know,

554
00:23:52,760 --> 00:23:53,680
Speaker 8: secular environment.

555
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Speaker 9: Earlier, Siria, when you guys are talking about you almost

556
00:23:57,160 --> 00:23:58,920
Speaker 9: not answering a call to do the role, did you

557
00:23:58,920 --> 00:24:02,040
Speaker 9: say it was because music will involved, So you don't

558
00:24:02,119 --> 00:24:05,520
Speaker 9: that was something you didn't want to do anymore? Well, yes,

559
00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:09,240
Speaker 9: and no, I think that there are Like I think

560
00:24:09,359 --> 00:24:11,720
Speaker 9: because of the last few roles that I have done

561
00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:15,280
Speaker 9: or been a part of, had that female who was

562
00:24:16,240 --> 00:24:19,880
Speaker 9: you know, navigating but also had a music element, and

563
00:24:20,960 --> 00:24:23,160
Speaker 9: I am also like putting out music, and so.

564
00:24:23,119 --> 00:24:26,120
Speaker 10: I wanted to just be mindful of gotcha just where

565
00:24:26,119 --> 00:24:30,080
Speaker 10: that was placing me. But honestly, like Devon said, this,

566
00:24:30,080 --> 00:24:34,240
Speaker 10: this film is a lot more than the music. It's

567
00:24:34,280 --> 00:24:37,720
Speaker 10: not just the music. And I hadn't I didn't know

568
00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:39,840
Speaker 10: it at the time, but I got to work with Babyface,

569
00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:44,200
Speaker 10: so so that was amazing. So but yeah, that was

570
00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:46,639
Speaker 10: kind of like my reasoning behind behind it. Just wanting

571
00:24:46,680 --> 00:24:47,960
Speaker 10: to you know.

572
00:24:48,400 --> 00:24:49,400
Speaker 7: Play different characters.

573
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Speaker 10: That's that's really all it is, and expanding my creativity

574
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Speaker 10: and things like that.

575
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Speaker 9: There's such a connection in the film between you mentioned

576
00:24:55,880 --> 00:24:58,200
Speaker 9: Atlanta and Tennessee. But like I feel like the way

577
00:24:58,200 --> 00:25:00,760
Speaker 9: that we watch you go from being in the group

578
00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:03,119
Speaker 9: that you were into, then getting into country music to

579
00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:05,000
Speaker 9: then go in the gospel. It tells a story about

580
00:25:05,040 --> 00:25:08,080
Speaker 9: like how all the music genres are intertwined. Can y'all

581
00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:10,440
Speaker 9: talk about like, you know, displaying that but also putting

582
00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:11,960
Speaker 9: that in the film and why that was important?

583
00:25:12,400 --> 00:25:13,600
Speaker 10: Was it always country music?

584
00:25:13,840 --> 00:25:14,040
Speaker 3: Yeah?

585
00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:14,760
Speaker 4: Oh it was?

586
00:25:14,840 --> 00:25:15,199
Speaker 10: Okay.

587
00:25:15,280 --> 00:25:15,920
Speaker 4: I was so sure.

588
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Speaker 10: Well because when I got the records to sing and

589
00:25:20,560 --> 00:25:23,040
Speaker 10: and you know, here here are the records of file

590
00:25:23,080 --> 00:25:25,280
Speaker 10: of records, I'm listening to him, like, Okay, they are

591
00:25:25,320 --> 00:25:28,199
Speaker 10: like very country, and I've never seen country. Although I

592
00:25:28,280 --> 00:25:32,200
Speaker 10: love country, I've just never recorded a country record. So

593
00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:34,879
Speaker 10: when I started to record them, and then when I

594
00:25:34,920 --> 00:25:37,200
Speaker 10: got in with Babyface, I was like, why I really

595
00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:39,600
Speaker 10: love this on my voice because you're able to really

596
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Speaker 10: like show a certain level of emotion in those records

597
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Speaker 10: that I really enjoyed.

598
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Speaker 6: Yeah.

599
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Speaker 8: I mean it was our writer Mike Elliott, who was

600
00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:53,560
Speaker 8: inspired by Cowboy Cark and you know the renaissance you

601
00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:57,439
Speaker 8: know of black music and country, and he was the

602
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Speaker 8: one that said, you know, let's put her on a

603
00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:02,320
Speaker 8: journey where even though she's going back to tennessee what

604
00:26:02,440 --> 00:26:04,960
Speaker 8: she's discovering is her voice and this kind of you

605
00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:07,600
Speaker 8: know country music, you know, really becomes the vehicle.

606
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Speaker 3: So that was that was his idea, and I was like, oh,

607
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Speaker 3: that's brilliant.

608
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Speaker 8: And then when you see you know, Soria sing these

609
00:26:12,480 --> 00:26:15,080
Speaker 8: different records in the film, it feels very authentic. And

610
00:26:15,080 --> 00:26:17,640
Speaker 8: then when you talk about Babyface, you know coming in

611
00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:21,040
Speaker 8: and not only playing himself, but he actually produced the

612
00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:24,080
Speaker 8: song at the piano, his version of it, the Goodness

613
00:26:24,119 --> 00:26:26,320
Speaker 8: of God. And then the song that Ruth sings to

614
00:26:26,359 --> 00:26:28,520
Speaker 8: express her love to bo As is an original baby

615
00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:30,560
Speaker 8: Face song and he wrote and produced for the film,

616
00:26:30,600 --> 00:26:31,560
Speaker 8: which is pretty amazing.

617
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Speaker 5: Wow, has somebody crying and one of us uh produces

618
00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:38,760
Speaker 5: sim She was crying that you were singing one of

619
00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:41,560
Speaker 5: the songs. It was like one of so it always

620
00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:43,000
Speaker 5: makes our cry. But she was like, her voice is

621
00:26:43,040 --> 00:26:45,200
Speaker 5: so beautiful, So she was actually crying. She was watching

622
00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:45,480
Speaker 5: a movie.

623
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Speaker 4: You were singing that.

624
00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:49,680
Speaker 3: Wow, I wonder if that was the Goodness of God's song.

625
00:26:52,160 --> 00:26:54,200
Speaker 5: And not coming there and talking about something about sexy

626
00:26:54,280 --> 00:26:59,040
Speaker 5: ring and she turned around crying. I was like, oh, wow,

627
00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:01,359
Speaker 5: time I didn't know what's secular.

628
00:27:01,440 --> 00:27:02,200
Speaker 3: Many of them.

629
00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:06,440
Speaker 7: Don't go to church and don't know what secular meaning.

630
00:27:08,520 --> 00:27:12,119
Speaker 5: That he didn't grow up the church I did, and

631
00:27:12,119 --> 00:27:13,879
Speaker 5: ain none of my old folks, I would say, the

632
00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:16,280
Speaker 5: secular stuff, No, they did it.

633
00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:20,200
Speaker 1: What does it mean for you to retell a Bible

634
00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:23,000
Speaker 1: story because I know the church full did you get

635
00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:23,280
Speaker 1: it wrong?

636
00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:27,320
Speaker 8: I know, I know, and they might, you know, but

637
00:27:27,600 --> 00:27:30,159
Speaker 8: you know, for me, it's like when I think about,

638
00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:32,600
Speaker 8: you know, Tyler and I, Tyler Perry and I having

639
00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:35,719
Speaker 8: this deal. You know, the the genesis of this story

640
00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:39,680
Speaker 8: was very organic. I had been doing a sermon series

641
00:27:39,720 --> 00:27:41,399
Speaker 8: on you know, what it means to being what it

642
00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:44,159
Speaker 8: meant to be single? As I was navigating you know,

643
00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:47,200
Speaker 8: my single my serious season of singleness, and and in

644
00:27:47,240 --> 00:27:49,160
Speaker 8: the sermon series, I started studying the Book of Ruth.

645
00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:51,959
Speaker 8: And in the Book of Ruth, you know, as we

646
00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:54,639
Speaker 8: were talking about earlier, it's very interesting, you know, neither

647
00:27:54,680 --> 00:27:57,520
Speaker 8: of them are looking for love at all. You know,

648
00:27:57,520 --> 00:27:59,240
Speaker 8: as a matter of fact, when Ruth makes a commitment

649
00:27:59,280 --> 00:28:01,480
Speaker 8: to go serve now, Naomi says.

650
00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:05,600
Speaker 3: Go back. You're not going to find love where I'm going.

651
00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:08,720
Speaker 8: And Ruth says, it ain't about love, It's about you

652
00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:11,800
Speaker 8: and where you go. I go and that idea of

653
00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:16,400
Speaker 8: committing to something greater than ourselves, our purpose, our calling,

654
00:28:16,960 --> 00:28:19,600
Speaker 8: and then as a reward of that, as part of

655
00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:22,639
Speaker 8: the journey, then we receive love. That really spoke to me. So,

656
00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:24,359
Speaker 8: you know, I was like, I think we need to

657
00:28:24,359 --> 00:28:26,200
Speaker 8: make this a movie. I said, this has never been

658
00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:27,840
Speaker 8: done before, and then I did my research and there

659
00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:29,960
Speaker 8: had never been a modern version of this story that

660
00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:32,480
Speaker 8: had ever been told, and definitely not a modern version

661
00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:33,760
Speaker 8: you know, with people of colors. So I think this

662
00:28:33,840 --> 00:28:37,960
Speaker 8: is the first Bible, you know, inspired movie that has ever.

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Speaker 3: Been done this way.

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Speaker 8: And so what it meant to me was like being

665
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Speaker 8: able to start our deal rooted in the word was

666
00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:49,120
Speaker 8: really you know, strong and very significant. And again there

667
00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:51,480
Speaker 8: is no rule book on how to do it. So

668
00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:53,880
Speaker 8: everything that we did in this film and the creative

669
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Speaker 8: license that we took to interpret scripture for a modern time,

670
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Speaker 8: other filmakers would do something different, you know, but everything.

671
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Speaker 8: I feel very confident. When people see this film and

672
00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:05,640
Speaker 8: they read the word, they'll they'll say, oh, okay, you

673
00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:07,200
Speaker 8: know this is cool. And then there will be some

674
00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:08,560
Speaker 8: be like, well you left this part.

675
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Speaker 3: Well, you're right. We had to make a ninety minute

676
00:29:10,520 --> 00:29:11,640
Speaker 3: film you know, so.

677
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Speaker 6: It's found on that.

678
00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:13,560
Speaker 7: What does it mean to tell this story thro a

679
00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:14,120
Speaker 7: black lens?

680
00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:14,320
Speaker 6: Then?

681
00:29:14,640 --> 00:29:18,560
Speaker 8: Oh, my goodness, it's everything because I feel like, especially

682
00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:21,680
Speaker 8: when you look at faith based content, faith based content,

683
00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:24,920
Speaker 8: the majority of it tends to be white evangelical content,

684
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Speaker 8: and there have rarely been you know, movies of faith

685
00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:34,400
Speaker 8: that feature you know, diversity that are made by you know, producers, directors,

686
00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:36,160
Speaker 8: writers of color like that.

687
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Speaker 3: This is almost like a brand new thing.

688
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Speaker 8: I mean, the last movie that I was involved with

689
00:29:40,080 --> 00:29:42,360
Speaker 8: that did that was Jumping the Broom and that was

690
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Speaker 8: when I was an executive at Sony and oversaw that

691
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Speaker 8: film and that was.

692
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Speaker 3: You know what, twenty eleven.

693
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Speaker 8: Yeah, so, you know, it's very significant to show that,

694
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Speaker 8: you know, people of color are people of faith and

695
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Speaker 8: not just that we want great content too, you know,

696
00:29:57,360 --> 00:29:59,480
Speaker 8: and that this segment you know, of the faith based

697
00:29:59,520 --> 00:30:02,840
Speaker 8: audience and the general market who you know, want content

698
00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:06,000
Speaker 8: that is diverse and that does celebrate that. This is

699
00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:08,120
Speaker 8: a type of movie to let people know like, we're

700
00:30:08,120 --> 00:30:10,959
Speaker 8: here and we want more. And so that was very

701
00:30:11,120 --> 00:30:13,719
Speaker 8: very important for me to make sure that that was represented.

702
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Speaker 4: Now, the.

703
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Speaker 5: It's a three picture deal, your picture deal, so the

704
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Speaker 5: other two are going to be rooted in the world

705
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Speaker 5: as well. Are you gonna do other biblical stories?

706
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Speaker 8: No, you know, well I don't know what the third

707
00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:26,120
Speaker 8: one's gonna be. But the second one is actually going

708
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Speaker 8: to be a true story. I can't speak about it

709
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Speaker 8: yet because they go.

710
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Speaker 3: If I speak about they gonna get me. But you're

711
00:30:31,040 --> 00:30:33,000
Speaker 3: gonna hear about it very soon. It's a true story.

712
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Speaker 8: It's an amazing, uplifting story. We have one of Hollywood's

713
00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:40,000
Speaker 8: biggest stars that's gonna star in the film, and I'm.

714
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Speaker 3: Really excited about it.

715
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Speaker 8: So for me, like I'm excited to see what stories

716
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Speaker 8: come together, you know, and what story So I don't

717
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Speaker 8: go into it saying, okay, I want one, two, and

718
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Speaker 8: three to be this. You know, I pray, I stay

719
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Speaker 8: open to God and he just you know, aligns me

720
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Speaker 8: with the right stories to tell at the right time.

721
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Speaker 5: And you know, the craziest thing is right because I've

722
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Speaker 5: been dealing with a lot, so I wasn't even gonna

723
00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:03,720
Speaker 5: come in to work today, but God and told me, like,

724
00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:05,440
Speaker 5: you know what, I gotta roll for you.

725
00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:08,080
Speaker 7: So just so I was like, you know, I'm just coming.

726
00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:15,880
Speaker 4: I got you, And you know, if you I got you.

727
00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:18,840
Speaker 3: For real.

728
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Speaker 8: In the new movie, there is a very significant part

729
00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:25,080
Speaker 8: that you would be like, you're like the prototype.

730
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Speaker 7: Thank you, And I grew up in the church. It

731
00:31:28,080 --> 00:31:29,080
Speaker 7: would be easier for me.

732
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Speaker 4: Saving and.

733
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Speaker 7: Exactly take me away.

734
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Speaker 6: I got a very pacific role.

735
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Speaker 4: Ain't no crack, I know that, shut up.

736
00:31:54,320 --> 00:31:56,640
Speaker 7: But you know one of the themes I love it.

737
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Speaker 1: One of the themes about Rufe and Bow as his

738
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Speaker 1: faith in providence. Right y'all know what providence means, okay,

739
00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:06,120
Speaker 1: but but it talks about how God works through ordinary

740
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Speaker 1: people the shape history. And I wanted to ask you.

741
00:32:08,120 --> 00:32:10,200
Speaker 1: As a minister, we always hear about the Bible. In

742
00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:13,520
Speaker 1: the Bible talks about God working through ordinary people. What's

743
00:32:13,520 --> 00:32:14,880
Speaker 1: considered an extraordinary person?

744
00:32:15,560 --> 00:32:15,760
Speaker 3: You know?

745
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Speaker 8: I think that when you think of extraordinary, you think

746
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Speaker 8: of someone you don't feel you can become, right, you know,

747
00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:25,920
Speaker 8: so you look at the greatest of the greats and

748
00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:28,400
Speaker 8: you say, oh, well, I could never be that. And

749
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Speaker 8: when you look at the word God's like no, look

750
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Speaker 8: at David, look at Joseph. You know, these were people

751
00:32:34,160 --> 00:32:37,000
Speaker 8: that that nobody thought would be anything, but I use them.

752
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Speaker 3: So I think that's what it means.

753
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Speaker 8: I think when people think like, oh, someone who's extraordinary

754
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Speaker 8: is someone that I can't touch.

755
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Speaker 1: Well, so are the examples of that in the Bible?

756
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Speaker 1: And the Bible is it's all full of just all

757
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Speaker 1: of us are just ordinary people?

758
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Speaker 7: Well, this is true, this is very no.

759
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Speaker 3: I agree with that. I mean, when you look at

760
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Speaker 3: the Bible, the.

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Speaker 8: Bible is, and I think people highlight that as a

762
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Speaker 8: way to make sure that anyone reading the Bible reads

763
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Speaker 8: it from a lens of relatability, because sometimes you know,

764
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Speaker 8: when you're looking at these biblical stories and the amazing

765
00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:11,840
Speaker 8: things that happen, you can say, well, God, I don't

766
00:33:11,840 --> 00:33:14,200
Speaker 8: see you doing that in my life. So I think

767
00:33:14,240 --> 00:33:17,200
Speaker 8: it's more about relatability to understand that, you know, the

768
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Speaker 8: book is not about extraordinary people. It's about ordinary people

769
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Speaker 8: serving an extraordinary God. And if you can then relate

770
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Speaker 8: to that, then you can believe that that extraordinary God

771
00:33:26,720 --> 00:33:29,480
Speaker 8: can do something extraordinary and what you may perceive is

772
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Speaker 8: your ordinary life.

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Speaker 2: You don't just want to know with all three of

774
00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:35,480
Speaker 2: you guys, all yeah, your relationships are all public, right,

775
00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:38,160
Speaker 2: how do you turn it off to say? You know, what?

776
00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:40,120
Speaker 2: F what's going on on social media? I got to

777
00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:42,520
Speaker 2: dive into a character. I gotta make sure I'm present

778
00:33:42,560 --> 00:33:44,520
Speaker 2: every time. I got to make sure that I'm the

779
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Speaker 2: best me. So Tyler is the best tile and that.

780
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Speaker 2: You know, how do y'all do that?

781
00:33:53,240 --> 00:33:54,360
Speaker 3: Or do you maybe you don't?

782
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Speaker 11: I mean, yeah, you know, I got a unique way

783
00:33:58,080 --> 00:33:59,920
Speaker 11: of thinking about it. I feel like it's a bit

784
00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:01,760
Speaker 11: it's a bit harsh, but it just, you know, it's

785
00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:04,000
Speaker 11: just my reality. It just is what it is. And

786
00:34:04,040 --> 00:34:06,320
Speaker 11: I've been like this since before I was in a relationship,

787
00:34:06,320 --> 00:34:08,080
Speaker 11: before I had kids. You know, it's kind of just

788
00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:09,440
Speaker 11: who I am.

789
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Speaker 6: You know.

790
00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:12,839
Speaker 11: I feel like I came from a life of excuse me,

791
00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:15,440
Speaker 11: of like mediocrity. I feel like I've done that. I

792
00:34:15,480 --> 00:34:18,160
Speaker 11: feel like I've settled, you know. It's what made me

793
00:34:18,360 --> 00:34:21,879
Speaker 11: kind of leave being from right outside of Philly. And

794
00:34:21,960 --> 00:34:23,600
Speaker 11: I think for me, the way I look at it

795
00:34:23,640 --> 00:34:26,960
Speaker 11: is like either either I'm gonna either I'm gonna be

796
00:34:27,040 --> 00:34:28,560
Speaker 11: that what I see when I close my eyes and

797
00:34:28,560 --> 00:34:30,640
Speaker 11: I think about like everything that I'm trying to be,

798
00:34:30,680 --> 00:34:33,040
Speaker 11: I'm be on the top of that mountain or or

799
00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:35,839
Speaker 11: I'm going to be you know, in a box. So

800
00:34:35,880 --> 00:34:38,560
Speaker 11: there is no in between really for me. So if

801
00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:40,799
Speaker 11: I'm really gonna go ahead and take that shot. You know,

802
00:34:41,960 --> 00:34:44,560
Speaker 11: what is it that you have to do in order

803
00:34:44,560 --> 00:34:46,360
Speaker 11: to get that? You're gonna have to really lock in

804
00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:48,600
Speaker 11: and be focused and really have like a you know,

805
00:34:48,640 --> 00:34:50,040
Speaker 11: an unwavering sense of it.

806
00:34:50,480 --> 00:34:51,600
Speaker 6: So when it comes down to.

807
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Speaker 11: That and I gotta you know, honest, they may be

808
00:34:53,920 --> 00:34:55,600
Speaker 11: calm me about this, so my parents may be calling

809
00:34:55,640 --> 00:34:57,920
Speaker 11: me about that, and you know, we're all humans outside

810
00:34:57,920 --> 00:35:00,239
Speaker 11: of our professional life. And when that feel was like

811
00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:01,960
Speaker 11: it's really starting to weigh on me, that's when I

812
00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:04,319
Speaker 11: know I'm right where I'm supposed to be. Even though

813
00:35:04,320 --> 00:35:05,920
Speaker 11: it's tough and it kind of sounds like it's a

814
00:35:05,960 --> 00:35:08,840
Speaker 11: little harsh to think about it like that. You know,

815
00:35:08,880 --> 00:35:11,480
Speaker 11: you you you uh, you know, no no one, no

816
00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:14,200
Speaker 11: one that leaves the storm. Uh, you know, the one

817
00:35:14,200 --> 00:35:16,080
Speaker 11: that leaves the storm isn't the one that walks into it.

818
00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:17,759
Speaker 11: That's what the storm is really about. No one likes

819
00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:20,120
Speaker 11: to get rained on. But you know, when you're in

820
00:35:20,200 --> 00:35:22,800
Speaker 11: those things, when you're in those storms, you got to

821
00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:24,920
Speaker 11: understand that God is really just sharpening your source that

822
00:35:24,960 --> 00:35:26,480
Speaker 11: you so that you can get to the top of

823
00:35:26,480 --> 00:35:26,840
Speaker 11: that mountain.

824
00:35:28,360 --> 00:35:30,000
Speaker 7: What you said when you said, when you feel it

825
00:35:30,080 --> 00:35:30,719
Speaker 7: weighing on you.

826
00:35:30,880 --> 00:35:32,920
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know you. I feel like that's that's the

827
00:35:32,920 --> 00:35:33,759
Speaker 6: fight now we're in it.

828
00:35:34,560 --> 00:35:35,480
Speaker 7: Yeah, I can.

829
00:35:35,640 --> 00:35:39,960
Speaker 10: I can definitely relate to that. I feel like for me, Yeah,

830
00:35:40,080 --> 00:35:43,200
Speaker 10: I just I've always had this kind of like work ethic,

831
00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:47,160
Speaker 10: that kind of just it's just it's in every fiber

832
00:35:47,320 --> 00:35:51,640
Speaker 10: of me. I think that that's something that the people

833
00:35:51,719 --> 00:35:55,480
Speaker 10: around me know and they accept and they appreciate and respect,

834
00:35:56,680 --> 00:35:58,960
Speaker 10: even my best friends, Like I've had to miss so

835
00:35:59,040 --> 00:36:02,040
Speaker 10: many things over the past ten years. You've known with

836
00:36:02,080 --> 00:36:04,680
Speaker 10: my best friends, with my family and just different things.

837
00:36:04,680 --> 00:36:08,960
Speaker 10: So I think that also choosing a partner that I

838
00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:13,240
Speaker 10: have understand he understands right because he has a similar

839
00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:18,040
Speaker 10: licensy right, also it helps a lot. But when, like

840
00:36:18,080 --> 00:36:21,400
Speaker 10: you said, when things do get overwhelming, I think that

841
00:36:21,520 --> 00:36:26,479
Speaker 10: for me it became very important this in this past

842
00:36:26,560 --> 00:36:30,719
Speaker 10: year to advocate for myself and to express that, hey,

843
00:36:30,719 --> 00:36:33,000
Speaker 10: this is excuse me, this is what's going on for me,

844
00:36:33,600 --> 00:36:36,600
Speaker 10: and today looks like this for me, and can we

845
00:36:37,160 --> 00:36:42,880
Speaker 10: talk about this you know later, Because sometimes everyone makes

846
00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:47,680
Speaker 10: their emergency like their emergency like your urgency, do you

847
00:36:47,719 --> 00:36:50,400
Speaker 10: know what I mean? And I'm such a person that

848
00:36:50,520 --> 00:36:55,480
Speaker 10: wants to satisfy everyone that I love so much, where

849
00:36:55,560 --> 00:36:58,040
Speaker 10: it can be to a fault sometimes. So I've really

850
00:36:58,080 --> 00:37:00,680
Speaker 10: had to learn how to just communicate what it is

851
00:37:00,719 --> 00:37:03,879
Speaker 10: I actually need and that, and it tends to work

852
00:37:03,920 --> 00:37:07,399
Speaker 10: because oh, you're right, my bad, I forgot. You may

853
00:37:07,440 --> 00:37:10,600
Speaker 10: be been at work since four thirty this morning, you know,

854
00:37:11,120 --> 00:37:13,080
Speaker 10: just different things. Sometimes you just have to kind of

855
00:37:13,120 --> 00:37:15,759
Speaker 10: like throw that out there so that they can be like,

856
00:37:15,760 --> 00:37:18,640
Speaker 10: all right, cool, we're gonna talk about this later, whatever

857
00:37:18,680 --> 00:37:19,279
Speaker 10: the case may be.

858
00:37:19,480 --> 00:37:22,359
Speaker 9: Did you learn that? Did you learn that from new

859
00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:24,359
Speaker 9: motherhood or prepareing for other hood or did you I

860
00:37:24,360 --> 00:37:26,000
Speaker 9: know you said you took a lot away from leaving

861
00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:28,719
Speaker 9: the last relationship and having a transition into your happy place.

862
00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:30,399
Speaker 9: Now what did you learn that from?

863
00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:32,640
Speaker 10: Yeah, you know what. To be honest, I give credit

864
00:37:32,719 --> 00:37:37,920
Speaker 10: to my partner, to Joey. He's an amazing communicator. Yeah,

865
00:37:37,960 --> 00:37:40,920
Speaker 10: and he also does the work on himself. He does,

866
00:37:41,200 --> 00:37:44,359
Speaker 10: and he really does. I'm there every day, he really does.

867
00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:47,319
Speaker 10: He's really reading all the books, he's doing, he's doing

868
00:37:47,360 --> 00:37:52,759
Speaker 10: it all. So I've really have learned how to communicate

869
00:37:52,840 --> 00:37:55,640
Speaker 10: better just from him kind of like just showing that

870
00:37:55,840 --> 00:37:59,680
Speaker 10: because sometimes I would feel before that community. Some people

871
00:37:59,680 --> 00:38:03,000
Speaker 10: can make you feel like communication is too much, so

872
00:38:03,480 --> 00:38:06,160
Speaker 10: you kind of learn how to hold you back what

873
00:38:06,239 --> 00:38:09,279
Speaker 10: you need to express so that you make them comfortable.

874
00:38:10,239 --> 00:38:12,359
Speaker 10: And I feel like in this relationship, I've really learned

875
00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:14,600
Speaker 10: to open up that communication and be like, hey, I'm

876
00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:17,120
Speaker 10: feeling like this today, just so you know. You know,

877
00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:22,200
Speaker 10: it's a lot, I'm tired, right, and then we can

878
00:38:22,239 --> 00:38:24,719
Speaker 10: go from there because everyone's not it's not always going

879
00:38:24,760 --> 00:38:27,560
Speaker 10: to be one hundred. Sometimes you only have thirty percent,

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Speaker 10: you know, But let me tell you today is my

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Speaker 10: thirty percent, So that you can have empathy and understand

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Speaker 10: where I'm coming from. And I think that that's just

883
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Speaker 10: how I navigate now, and I can't. I have to

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Speaker 10: express that for myself.

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Speaker 1: And when you have that level of communication and you're

886
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Speaker 1: able to express those feelings, you enable each other to

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Speaker 1: not take things personal.

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Speaker 10: Correct correct, Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Guys, they have to go. Oh I can so much longer.

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Speaker 7: There's one more question I want to ask.

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Speaker 12: You.

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Speaker 1: Ever try to help a person and then you realize

893
00:38:58,680 --> 00:39:02,839
Speaker 1: they are the reason they have problems, nothing it them.

894
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Speaker 7: How do you convey that?

895
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Speaker 6: Well? It's funny.

896
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Speaker 3: Charlotte made is.

897
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Speaker 1: Hilarious I'm to say you haven't tried to help a

898
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Speaker 1: person and then to realize they are the reason they

899
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Speaker 1: have problems.

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Speaker 7: Ain't nothing external, Yes, it's you.

901
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Speaker 8: Yes, Yes, I have been in that situation. And the

902
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Speaker 8: thing is to be compassionate, you know, compassion because a

903
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Speaker 8: lot of times it's very easy to well, let me

904
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Speaker 8: put it this way, it's very hard for all of

905
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Speaker 8: us to look in the mirror and actually hold and

906
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Speaker 8: look at what we see because we don't like to

907
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Speaker 8: look at the parts of ourselves that we want to change,

908
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Speaker 8: that we're not happy with. And so in those situations

909
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Speaker 8: it's like, Okay, before I'm just like trying to call

910
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Speaker 8: the person out or anything, I say, Okay, let's just

911
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Speaker 8: have compassion, you know, and like, hey, the problem you're

912
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Speaker 8: trying to solve, it may be because of the perspective

913
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Speaker 8: that you have.

914
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Speaker 3: Okay, well, well why do you have that perspective? Well,

915
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Speaker 3: let's talk about it.

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Speaker 8: Because I think just creating an environment where there's no

917
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Speaker 8: judgment and there's acceptance and that there can be communication

918
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Speaker 8: because trying to unpack something, whether it's trauma or tragedy

919
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Speaker 8: or disappointments or things that you may have gone through

920
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Speaker 8: years ago. Trying to unpack that takes time, and I

921
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Speaker 8: think sometimes we get so mad at people for not

922
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Speaker 8: being where we want them to be. And we're all

923
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Speaker 8: on a journey in this thing called life, and we're

924
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Speaker 8: at different stages. So I just try to approach it

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Speaker 8: with compassion and still clarity. You know, if someone comes

926
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Speaker 8: to me for help and they're asking my opinion, then

927
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Speaker 8: I will give it. I will say, hey, you know,

928
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Speaker 8: I think the reason why you know you may have

929
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Speaker 8: been going through different relationships is because you know, you

930
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Speaker 8: keep bringing that mentality to each relationship instead of being

931
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Speaker 8: the love you want to receive. You're looking for this

932
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Speaker 8: person to provide you with what you're not doing for yourself.

933
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Speaker 8: So you know, I'm still going to be honest, but

934
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Speaker 8: I'm going to do it hopefully in a compassionate and

935
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Speaker 8: loving way, so that then that they can actually take

936
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Speaker 8: it in. Because if I come with a sledgehammer, you know,

937
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Speaker 8: and I come with why aren't you doing this? Then

938
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Speaker 8: the help that I could have provided them I missed

939
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Speaker 8: the opportunity because I'm trying to impose my process on

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Speaker 8: them instead of being compassionate, loving.

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Speaker 3: Hey, here's some things you could look.

942
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Speaker 8: At and then everyone then has to make a committee

943
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Speaker 8: of one to make the decision. You know what, Okay,

944
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Speaker 8: I'm going to make some changes and I'm going to

945
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Speaker 8: do the work because I want the reflection of my

946
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Speaker 8: life to change.

947
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Speaker 7: So be compassionate. Boldie, you say, you know what, you

948
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Speaker 7: got to figure this out on your own.

949
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Speaker 8: Well, you know, again, I think every situation is different.

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Speaker 8: I mean, I think everyone always has to figure out

951
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Speaker 8: on their own, so you know, it's never that. But

952
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Speaker 8: if someone is coming to me, like specifically wanting me

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Speaker 8: to fix their problem, you know, at a certain point

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Speaker 8: I would be like, hey, you know, it's not my

955
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Speaker 8: responsibility to fix the problem, but I can give you information.

956
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Speaker 8: I can give you strategy, I can give you a

957
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Speaker 8: point of view that if you use it, given my experience,

958
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Speaker 8: I believe it'll work. But ultimately, if you're relying on

959
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Speaker 8: me to do your work, then you want me to

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Speaker 8: provide a subsidy to the work that you're not willing

961
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Speaker 8: to do. And if I do that for you, it's

962
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Speaker 8: not going to help you, and it's certainly not going

963
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Speaker 8: to help me. So it really it's a it's a process,

964
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Speaker 8: you know, but it's not I try not to like

965
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Speaker 8: cut people off, you know, even if they want me

966
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Speaker 8: to do something. Okay, I get that, but that's not

967
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Speaker 8: my responsibility. My responsibility is to be a support system,

968
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Speaker 8: and it's your responsibility to take on the charge to

969
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Speaker 8: do the work.

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Speaker 12: Baptisms actually checking out, manmpathy, don't cut me, I said you.

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Speaker 3: Well, we appreciate you guys for this.

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Speaker 6: Thank you so much.

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Speaker 2: Make sure you check it out. It's on Netflix now

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Speaker 3: Thank you so much.

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