Speaker 1: So the stage play Super Freak The Rick James Story
Speaker 1: is set to open this summer in Atlanta. Super Freak
Speaker 1: was written and produced by iconic playwright you know him
Speaker 1: very well, Tommy to carry Us Johnson, Uh huh. And
Speaker 1: we'll explore Rick James life and legacy with all the
Speaker 1: music and drama that it was filled with. Stokely from
Speaker 1: Mick Condition will play Rick James and reportedly he comes
Speaker 1: very very close to macing to matching Rick James powerhouse
Speaker 1: vocals and stage show. Super Freak goes beyond Rick James's
Speaker 1: fame and shows how he overcame adversity and addiction to
Speaker 1: become a legendary artist. So, Steve, I know you don't
Speaker 1: like musicals, that's a known fact. But would you go
Speaker 1: see Super Freak The Rick James Story, the stage play
Speaker 1: starring Stokely?
Speaker 2: Do you want to go?
Speaker 3: I don't know why y'all asked him miss all the time.
Speaker 3: You know, he not go.
Speaker 2: I'm not going down like like this. I don't mean.
Speaker 2: We just keep saying, where is this story going? Let's
Speaker 2: let's get up out of here? Intermission?
Speaker 3: We heard eight song what we're doing?
Speaker 1: But you love music?
Speaker 2: I love music? On the radio. I love music on
Speaker 2: my phone. I love live concerts.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's kind of like that. Yeah, it's kind of
Speaker 1: like that.
Speaker 3: Rick don't have the music that fits into a musical.
Speaker 3: That's what I wanted.
Speaker 1: That's going, especially because.
Speaker 3: They can.
Speaker 2: But it's like going to you know, all them you
Speaker 2: know church plays they used to have. You know, it's
Speaker 2: just not for me. I'm hey, it's all right.
Speaker 1: We're gonna move on now to CBS and the NAACP
Speaker 1: because they've announced a new Black daytime soap opera. It's
Speaker 1: called The Gates.
Speaker 3: The Gates is.
Speaker 1: The first black daytime soap opera in thirty five years
Speaker 1: and will feature a predominantly black cast. The focus will
Speaker 1: be on an affluent black family and an exclusive gated community.
Speaker 1: The Gates promises multi dimensional characters, juicy storylines in black
Speaker 1: culture front and center. Tommy, I think you should go
Speaker 1: audition for The Gates. The Gates, Uh huh soap opera, CBS.
Speaker 3: I'm looking to The Gates, and I hope I don't
Speaker 3: know you. Okay, I got that should be good.
Speaker 1: An affluent black family and an exclusive Who would.
Speaker 3: You be good at playing? Tommy? Like, what type of
Speaker 3: can I'm gonna.
Speaker 2: Be a militant dude in the gates that don't get
Speaker 2: along with nobody.
Speaker 3: That's gonna be me. I'm gonna be that guy in
Speaker 3: the gates.
Speaker 1: Well, let me ask you this. Do you still want
Speaker 1: to play? Because you said this before a while ago,
Speaker 1: the Bobby Brown story. I mean, who a gonna be?
Speaker 1: Can you say you wanted to be?
Speaker 3: Tell me?
Speaker 1: Tell me you did say.
Speaker 3: Want to be Bobby Brown?
Speaker 2: Here, you're gonna be Bobby Brown? Could I play Bobby Woman?
Speaker 2: Bobby Blue? You ain't fitna be Bobby Womack. Yeah, I
Speaker 2: mean you ain't fitna be Bobby Brown. That's a damn sure.
Speaker 2: All that dance and his ass used to.
Speaker 3: Do dance though, huh, Bobby don't dances no more. No,
Speaker 3: all right with the rest of the group. Bobby standing
Speaker 3: to the side, he jump a little bit. You gonna
Speaker 3: get off the king right shoe?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 3: Oh yes he will.
Speaker 1: Finally, Oprah will explore the growing trend of people using
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Speaker 1: new TV show is called oprah Special, Shame, Blame and
Speaker 1: the Weight Loss Revolution. The special there next Tuesday, March eighteenth,
Speaker 1: Oprah recorded a special with a live audience, and she
Speaker 1: speaks with medical experts and people who have taken ozimpic,
Speaker 1: people who have taken Manjaro Wagovie and other prescription diabetes
Speaker 1: and weight loss medications. So you know, I'm sure each
Speaker 1: one of us knows someone that is taking one of
Speaker 1: these weight loss drugs. Would you to lose weight the
Speaker 1: old fashioned way or the fast or fast tracks your
Speaker 1: weight loss with one of these methods.
Speaker 3: I mean, I understand people doing it.
Speaker 1: If it's safe.
Speaker 3: I mean they should have been did something because tomorrow. Yes, see, especially.
Speaker 2: In America, man, because this is a hard country to
Speaker 2: stay in shape, and because of our food in the
Speaker 2: way it's processed and made. And I mean, we we
Speaker 2: do a pretty bad job with preservatives and chemicals in food.
Speaker 2: We do a really bad job as a nation. That's
Speaker 2: illegal and the you know, pholic acid does not exist in.
Speaker 3: Other parts of the world.
Speaker 2: Preservatives are not allowed in other parts of the world.
Speaker 3: GM does not exist.
Speaker 2: We were in Africa one time and uh and we
Speaker 2: were ordered some watermelon. One of the Americans that was
Speaker 2: with us said, man, y'all ain't got no watermelon without
Speaker 2: no seeds in it. The Africans were so confused. How
Speaker 2: you think it's growing with Broun, They would, that's not
Speaker 2: a thing over there that cannot happen. And that's that's
Speaker 2: when I realized that a lot of times we're doing
Speaker 2: a bad job with food.
Speaker 3: So all right, I'm okay with all that stuff.
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