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1:02:51 particularly black jazz musicians. 01:17 like it's like the best energy in terms of how 16:28 record label is the best thing to have, and you've

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00:53 our best performer is in the conservation category? 01:02 Who's our best performer in the conservation category? I think 15:41 for the best fly fishing Parks in America Yellowstones, Yellowstone

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16:00 the best place to fry fish. 33:53 But I'll do the best I can. 1:11:29 beans from scratch, how to do refried black beans, camp

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41:42 Right. So I I knew I wanted to do, like, a show that focused on black women. And because for a very long time sorry, I should not say a very long time for some time. I had been feeling that Black women are not loved the way they should be loved. And I'm saying that to you, Black people, to the Black congregation, that I don't even think that you even love Black women the way you should love Black women. 14:42 My grandmother would like, would hand piece things as well. And so those are really my biggest influences, you know, like, and, and, and I can't even talk about like all of my, my uncles who were like the civil rights, like activists who were all talking about, you know, Black is Beautiful and Black Power and being Black and what that looks like. Like I knew from the age of like 2 years old, I was black. Right? Like there was no getting around it. 03:27 And so, the Black congregations, what I call all of us black people, you know, the work is really, I got to be an artist because it's the language I feel most comfortable in. It's the way that I can articulate my perspective and my point of view like no other. And so I'm just this, this little Black boy from Baltimore, that's now living in New York, making work about healing Black people and bringing, a sense of purpose and joy to the community. Yeah. So, you know, middle son of 3 boys, really influenced by living in Baltimore.

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01:54 just discuss a couple of things with black people in various, ways. 33:39 That, oh, that black people don't do that. Right. It's like black people don't like wrestling? Like wrestling. Like the thing with okay cool the sports thing. 00:33 His work focuses on portraying the splendor and the strength of black people while emphasizing the importance of black representation in mainstream pop culture. Please welcome Maurice James junior. Welcome to the podcast.

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21:10 And they were a vehicle that a lot of people found very easy to watch and experience and come up with back with information. So I decided that I'm gonna show movies. So I showed a lot of black movies. And I had some I created something out of nothing called the Black Film Institute. And we showed got movies. 03:20 One was the black middle class that was here. And I I only in hindsight do I sort of recognize that. But it was, my parents were working class. My mother was a maid. My father was a mechanic. 39:58 You know, I I don't I'm not trying to, be dishonest, you know, in this enjoyment in a lot of these things. The people around the film festival world, tend to be you know, they tend to be smart people and not too many. There are some some a holes around, but, you know, you stay away from them and and you do the best you can and try to survive. Everybody's they they are like a couple of 1,000. Somebody told me there were, like, 4000 film festivals around the world.

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48:22 Black. Gallerist, it's gotta be black. Oh, I grew up with a mom who were all black in Arizona, and she got teased about it mercilessly. And I was lucky enough that I moved to a big city where everyone else wore black, but, yeah, always black. 40:25 Yes. And, I I think you're you're you're there. And, you know, what I've what I've what I've heard, you know, in the in the sort of, like, time we'd be been talking is, you know, just it's always process improvements, always innovative, always, like, being aware of the scene you're in and, you know, trying to just make the best of what you have going on and really refining it. That's that's important. That's what I'm hearing. 31:07 You you were mentioning, you know, maybe, artists that weren't the most, you know, tech savvy or having the best sort of way to position their stuff online. Speak on the importance of of marketing because I even encountered that in doing this like it may be great interviews and so on, but somehow it might not meet the folks that it's supposed to meet. But then other times, it somehow gets me connected to you, and I'm like, oh, wow. How did that happen? So so speak a bit about that.