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Hi, it's Les Roe Hanley. It is Monday and it's
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the Kitchen Roll Effect update. So, hi, good afternoon America
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and welcome. It has been a very, I don't know,
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bizarre weekend, 24 hours. Let's start with the bad news.
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And it's a shocking story. Benjamin Satterley, a.k.a. Pac, a.k.a. Neville,
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or Adrian Neville in WWE, has passed away. The wrestler
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who wrestled on Saturday's All Out pay-per-view in Chicago passed
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away aged 40 over the weekend after his last wrestling match.
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Not much information on how he passed. I'm not going
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to speculate. Not really going to do a big eulogy.
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I really like Pac actually. He's from Newcastle. He began
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his career in 2004. He worked all over the world.
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And he joined All Elite Wrestling in 2019. And condolences
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to I think his wife's called Natalie. And rest in peace,
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Benjamin Satterley. No doubt, in the days and weeks, we'll
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find out the cause of death. But that's a sad
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piece of news. I was shocked. And my friend texted
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me early hours of Monday morning. Rest in peace, Benjamin Satterley.
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This is the kitchen roll effect. And we've got another
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death to talk about, which affects the black music and
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black clips of the community. Come on. this one hits
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home my one of my mum's favorite probably favorite reggae
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artists or calypso the king of calypso and soca the
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mighty sparrow has died age 91 uh uh what can
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i say uh Oh dear, let me read the press release, sorry.
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It is with great sadness that we announce the passing
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of Trinidad and Tobago's Calypso icon, Slinger Francisco, known to
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the world as the Mighty Sparrow. He was born in
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Grand Roy, Grenada in 1935 and was raised in Trinidad
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and Tobago. He became one of the most influential figures
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in Calypso, with a career spanning more than seven decades.
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He produced hundreds of recordings and became one of the
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most recognised names in Caribbean music. Rest in peace, King.
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Truly a legend. Yeah, my favourite Mighty Sparrow song is Saltfish.
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It's sweeter than meat when you want to eat. Oh, Saltfish,
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sweet Saltfish. Sparrow is its greatest lover. Anyway, I'll stop singing.
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But yeah, My mum loved Sparrow. And. Growing up. I
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wasn't a big fan of Soka. Everybody knows. Oh well.
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You don't know. I wasn't a big fan of Soka.
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I just thought it sounded repetitive. With it's horns and whatever.
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I never appreciated it. When I was a kid. But.
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I loved Sparrow. Saltfish was my tune. My mum used
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to just blast Sparrow all day long. At the weekends.
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Bless her. God rest her soul. She's been past a
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long time now. And. Uh. Yeah. Not a big Sparrow fan.
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But yeah. Sparrow. King of Calypso. Rest in power. I'll
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give you one of these. A true Caribbean and black
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music icon. And I don't say that often. An absolute
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legend in Caribbean music. Whitey Sparrow. It's strange. I've never
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known any music without hearing Sparrow. He's always been ever present.
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And I remember my mum's early records. Final records. Seven
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inch records with Sparrow's name on. He had a seven
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decade body of work. There is. Oh. If you're in
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the UK, there is a BBC Sounds, one extra, tribute,
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not a tribute, well, a tribute to Sparrow, but it
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was made a few months ago. So that is on
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the BBC Sounds. I'm going to play that probably this afternoon. So, yeah,
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listen to that after I finish recording. Oh, not this.
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I've still got Project Hostile. We are a double threat
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today because we've got lots of stuff up and coming
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i'll be back in a moment this is the kitchen
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roll effect the big launch last week was for the
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black young adult show a different world and uh it
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is currently in america so i'm told It is the
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number one show on Netflix in the US. Well where
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you are my good listener. Most of my listeners are
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in America. In the UK it's only number 7 in
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our top 10. Because being a black show. I won't
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run it down and say it won't get a big
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audience here. It won't be as watched. It might be
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over time. But it's one of those where. I don't know.
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I'm not saying it's niche. because it's the number one
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show on Netflix in the US. It's just that we
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have a smaller island, I suppose. But yeah, all 144
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episodes of the original 1987 A Different World are on
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Netflix UK and US, so go out and check those out.
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I'm going to go and watch them, because I only
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think I watched two... I think I only watched a
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couple of seasons of A Different World. I don't remember... Well,
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we are going back 40 years. don't remember if I watched,
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I don't think I watched all six seasons of A
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Different World, I think I watched the first two seasons
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out of six, so I'm going to go back and
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re-watch them at some point. It's a busy week for
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the media, and I'm just going to get some more
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stuff up, so I'm doing this in real time, this
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is the kitchen roll effect, I'm Les Roy Hanley, it's Monday,
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we don't usually do a show on Monday, we were
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going to talk about But after the death of Pac,
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I wouldn't say it doesn't feel appropriate. It's just not
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where we're going today. So we're just going to stick
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with showbiz news and what's been up and about recently.
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Let's go back to a different world. I started watching it.
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But what put me off was the British character. I
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don't know if the actor's British or not. His accent
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was a bit dodgy, but he's kind of settled down now,
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so I'm assuming he is English. But it's just a
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bit pronounced. And I love the way when they have
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a British actor or somebody doing a British accent, it's
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always very pronounced for the American audience. But anyway, I
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got past that because I wasn't going to watch it
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based on that. When I saw the clip of the
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British character, I cringed and I thought, we don't talk
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like that. But I have changed my mind. And I
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have been watching it. I'm halfway through the first season
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of the reboot. It's ten episodes. I think I'm on
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episode five. So I'm halfway. I'm at halfway point. Am
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I enjoying it? It's alright. I quite like it. It
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passes the half an hour. I'm going to read something
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from it actually. Hold on. Let's go behind the scenes
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of A Different World. And let's give you an insight.
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On what I was talking about. Did I save it?
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Or did I... Let me get... It might be in
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my bookmarks. Hold on. So, I'm doing everything in real time. So,
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here we go. Yes. So, let's talk about a different
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world in depth here. Felicia Pride. She... put together the
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different world sequel and it stands as a clear record
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of what intentional production can look like this is Felicia
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Pride who's in charge of a different world's reboot we
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had an all black directing team that were all female
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and queer we had a black DP we had a
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black production designer and a black costume designer a black
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head of makeup a black head of hair We had
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a black gaffer, we had black teamsters, which I've never
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seen in LA before in my life. we also created
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a HBCU council of current students HBCU would be a
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historical black college union I had to look that up
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because I'm not from America obviously acted as an advisory
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board of sorts by the writers room We replicated that
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model on set, so we had current students on set
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who acted as an advisory board to our writer-producers. I
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partnered with Netflix on their Next 13 programme to have
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current students work as PAs across departments. 59% of our
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background were HBCU students and alumni. We were able to
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film at the AUC at Spelman. Morehouse and Clark. So
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I'm really proud of like, pride of like those things
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that we did that were intentional in the creation of
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this show. They were not incidental hires or last minute inclusions.
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They were structural choices and all black writers room and
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all female and queer directing team, black department heads and
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key creative and technical roles and a sustained partnership with
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current HBCU students, as advisors, production assistants and on-screen talent.
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Filming at the Atlanta University Center further rooted the series
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in the campuses it sought to represent. Pride and her
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team treated representation as practice rather than talking points. As
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it says, they built pipelines while they built the show.
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In an industry where those outcomes remain rare, her statement
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is both a celebration of what was achieved and a
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reminder of what becomes possible. When those decisions are made
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from the start, the result is a production that does
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more than depict a different world, it helped construct one.
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This is the kitchen roll effect. So, there you go.
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Slinger Francisco. Mighty Sparrow. The Calypso icon. So. Not today.
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But soon. Probably Wednesday. Because we're about Wednesday aren't we.
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Because Wednesday is Kitchen Roll Effect Day. I think we're
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going to talk black books. We're going to kind of shift. Because.
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We have reached the blackness. I've not spoken about this before.
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We launched quietly. We did a soft launch. Uh. Not
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really a soft launch. It was more about the white
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supremacist HMRC in the UK stealing our money. We're not
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going to be heavily political with the Black News. We
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are going to talk about Black News more. That's on Substack.
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So go and look for it. I will be promoting
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that this week. So that's what I'll be doing most
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of the week. Is the blackness. It's a spin off
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from Project Hostile. So it's a sibling shall we say.
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It's like an offspring. From the Project Hostile project. And yeah.
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We've started kicking it in. I've got to clean down
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this room after we go off air. I've been saying
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that for months. But yeah. I'm currently cleaning and sorting
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out my mics and stuff. So yeah. Welcome to. The Blackness.
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We'll be talking about that more in the weeks to come.
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But yeah, The Blackness is here. I think we're going
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to do our first Blackness podcast Wednesday. Which will obviously
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air Wednesday. It'll probably be recorded tomorrow. It's going to
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be a busy, busy week for Black Hand Media in
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more ways than one. So we're finally awake and hitting
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the floor running. So there you go. So... We're going
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to check out at 15 minutes. I don't want to
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do a 30 minute thing. This was going to be
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a Monday update. And it will remain so. Next up
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for me. In about an hour's time. Because this will air.
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4pm Eastern. For you guys. Which is 9pm in the
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evening for the UK. And Project Hostile airs an hour later.
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Wherever you get your podcasts, 5pm Eastern. So there you go.
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There's a lot on social media of a different world.
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I think it's been positive and negative. I think a
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lot of black people on social media need to get
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it out of their heads to stop being overly critical
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about black produced shows. I mean, you've got a show,
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it's okay, it's good. But the way they attack black shows.
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You don't attack white produced shows like that. It's just
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mystifying to me. We could talk about it a lot more.
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We will do at the weekend. When we have our
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30 minute jobby job. Or. We might talk about it
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Wednesday in the blackness. So. This is the kitchen roll effect.
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This has been. A backhand TV production. I'm out. I'll
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catch you. I'll catch you well. If you're hanging with me.
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I'll catch you in an hour or 45 minutes, obviously.
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Stay safe, people. Have a good week. See you, well,
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hear you Wednesday or see me Wednesday. I don't know
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what we say for that. Peace.
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Hi, it's Les Roe Hanley. It is Monday and it's
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the Kitchen Roll Effect update. So, hi, good afternoon America
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and welcome. It has been a very, I don't know,
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bizarre weekend, 24 hours. Let's start with the bad news.
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And it's a shocking story. Benjamin Satterley, a.k.a. Pac, a.k.a. Neville,
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or Adrian Neville in WWE, has passed away. The wrestler
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who wrestled on Saturday's All Out pay-per-view in Chicago passed
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away aged 40 over the weekend after his last wrestling match.
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Not much information on how he passed. I'm not going
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to speculate. Not really going to do a big eulogy.
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I really like Pac actually. He's from Newcastle. He began
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his career in 2004. He worked all over the world.
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And he joined All Elite Wrestling in 2019. And condolences
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to I think his wife's called Natalie. And rest in peace,
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Benjamin Satterley. No doubt, in the days and weeks, we'll
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find out the cause of death. But that's a sad
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piece of news. I was shocked. And my friend texted
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me early hours of Monday morning. Rest in peace, Benjamin Satterley.
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This is the kitchen roll effect. And we've got another
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death to talk about, which affects the black music and
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black clips of the community. Come on. this one hits
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home my one of my mum's favorite probably favorite reggae
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artists or calypso the king of calypso and soca the
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mighty sparrow has died age 91 uh uh what can
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i say uh Oh dear, let me read the press release, sorry.
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It is with great sadness that we announce the passing
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of Trinidad and Tobago's Calypso icon, Slinger Francisco, known to
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the world as the Mighty Sparrow. He was born in
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Grand Roy, Grenada in 1935 and was raised in Trinidad
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and Tobago. He became one of the most influential figures
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in Calypso, with a career spanning more than seven decades.
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He produced hundreds of recordings and became one of the
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most recognised names in Caribbean music. Rest in peace, King.
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Truly a legend. Yeah, my favourite Mighty Sparrow song is Saltfish.
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It's sweeter than meat when you want to eat. Oh, Saltfish,
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sweet Saltfish. Sparrow is its greatest lover. Anyway, I'll stop singing.
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But yeah, My mum loved Sparrow. And. Growing up. I
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wasn't a big fan of Soka. Everybody knows. Oh well.
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You don't know. I wasn't a big fan of Soka.
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I just thought it sounded repetitive. With it's horns and whatever.
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I loved Sparrow. Saltfish was my tune. My mum used
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to just blast Sparrow all day long. At the weekends.
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Bless her. God rest her soul. She's been past a
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long time now. And. Uh. Yeah. Not a big Sparrow fan.
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But yeah. Sparrow. King of Calypso. Rest in power. I'll
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give you one of these. A true Caribbean and black
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music icon. And I don't say that often. An absolute
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legend in Caribbean music. Whitey Sparrow. It's strange. I've never
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known any music without hearing Sparrow. He's always been ever present.
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And I remember my mum's early records. Final records. Seven
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inch records with Sparrow's name on. He had a seven
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decade body of work. There is. Oh. If you're in
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the UK, there is a BBC Sounds, one extra, tribute,
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not a tribute, well, a tribute to Sparrow, but it
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was made a few months ago. So that is on
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the BBC Sounds. I'm going to play that probably this afternoon. So, yeah,
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listen to that after I finish recording. Oh, not this.
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I've still got Project Hostile. We are a double threat
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today because we've got lots of stuff up and coming
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i'll be back in a moment this is the kitchen
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roll effect the big launch last week was for the
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black young adult show a different world and uh it
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is currently in america so i'm told It is the
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number one show on Netflix in the US. Well where
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you are my good listener. Most of my listeners are
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in America. In the UK it's only number 7 in
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our top 10. Because being a black show. I won't
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run it down and say it won't get a big
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audience here. It won't be as watched. It might be
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over time. But it's one of those where. I don't know.
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show on Netflix in the US. It's just that we
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have a smaller island, I suppose. But yeah, all 144
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episodes of the original 1987 A Different World are on
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Netflix UK and US, so go out and check those out.
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I'm going to go and watch them, because I only
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think I watched two... I think I only watched a
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couple of seasons of A Different World. I don't remember... Well,
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we are going back 40 years. don't remember if I watched,
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Different World, I think I watched the first two seasons
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out of six, so I'm going to go back and
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re-watch them at some point. It's a busy week for
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the media, and I'm just going to get some more
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stuff up, so I'm doing this in real time, this
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is the kitchen roll effect, I'm Les Roy Hanley, it's Monday,
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we don't usually do a show on Monday, we were
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going to talk about But after the death of Pac,
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I wouldn't say it doesn't feel appropriate. It's just not
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where we're going today. So we're just going to stick
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with showbiz news and what's been up and about recently.
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Let's go back to a different world. I started watching it.
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But what put me off was the British character. I
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don't know if the actor's British or not. His accent
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was a bit dodgy, but he's kind of settled down now,
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so I'm assuming he is English. But it's just a
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bit pronounced. And I love the way when they have
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a British actor or somebody doing a British accent, it's
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always very pronounced for the American audience. But anyway, I
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got past that because I wasn't going to watch it
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based on that. When I saw the clip of the
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British character, I cringed and I thought, we don't talk
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like that. But I have changed my mind. And I
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have been watching it. I'm halfway through the first season
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of the reboot. It's ten episodes. I think I'm on
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episode five. So I'm halfway. I'm at halfway point. Am
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I enjoying it? It's alright. I quite like it. It
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passes the half an hour. I'm going to read something
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from it actually. Hold on. Let's go behind the scenes
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of A Different World. And let's give you an insight.
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On what I was talking about. Did I save it?
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Or did I... Let me get... It might be in
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my bookmarks. Hold on. So, I'm doing everything in real time. So,
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here we go. Yes. So, let's talk about a different
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world in depth here. Felicia Pride. She... put together the
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different world sequel and it stands as a clear record
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of what intentional production can look like this is Felicia
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Pride who's in charge of a different world's reboot we
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had an all black directing team that were all female
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and queer we had a black DP we had a
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black production designer and a black costume designer a black
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head of makeup a black head of hair We had
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a black gaffer, we had black teamsters, which I've never
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seen in LA before in my life. we also created
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a HBCU council of current students HBCU would be a
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historical black college union I had to look that up
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because I'm not from America obviously acted as an advisory
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board of sorts by the writers room We replicated that
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model on set, so we had current students on set
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who acted as an advisory board to our writer-producers. I
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partnered with Netflix on their Next 13 programme to have
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current students work as PAs across departments. 59% of our
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background were HBCU students and alumni. We were able to
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film at the AUC at Spelman. Morehouse and Clark. So
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I'm really proud of like, pride of like those things
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that we did that were intentional in the creation of
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this show. They were not incidental hires or last minute inclusions.
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They were structural choices and all black writers room and
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all female and queer directing team, black department heads and
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key creative and technical roles and a sustained partnership with
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current HBCU students, as advisors, production assistants and on-screen talent.
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Filming at the Atlanta University Center further rooted the series
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in the campuses it sought to represent. Pride and her
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team treated representation as practice rather than talking points. As
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it says, they built pipelines while they built the show.
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In an industry where those outcomes remain rare, her statement
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is both a celebration of what was achieved and a
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reminder of what becomes possible. When those decisions are made
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from the start, the result is a production that does
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more than depict a different world, it helped construct one.
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This is the kitchen roll effect. So, there you go.
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Slinger Francisco. Mighty Sparrow. The Calypso icon. So. Not today.
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But soon. Probably Wednesday. Because we're about Wednesday aren't we.
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Because Wednesday is Kitchen Roll Effect Day. I think we're
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going to talk black books. We're going to kind of shift. Because.
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We have reached the blackness. I've not spoken about this before.
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We launched quietly. We did a soft launch. Uh. Not
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really a soft launch. It was more about the white
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supremacist HMRC in the UK stealing our money. We're not
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going to be heavily political with the Black News. We
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are going to talk about Black News more. That's on Substack.
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So go and look for it. I will be promoting
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that this week. So that's what I'll be doing most
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of the week. Is the blackness. It's a spin off
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from Project Hostile. So it's a sibling shall we say.
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It's like an offspring. From the Project Hostile project. And yeah.
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We've started kicking it in. I've got to clean down
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this room after we go off air. I've been saying
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that for months. But yeah. I'm currently cleaning and sorting
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out my mics and stuff. So yeah. Welcome to. The Blackness.
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We'll be talking about that more in the weeks to come.
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But yeah, The Blackness is here. I think we're going
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to do our first Blackness podcast Wednesday. Which will obviously
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air Wednesday. It'll probably be recorded tomorrow. It's going to
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be a busy, busy week for Black Hand Media in
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more ways than one. So we're finally awake and hitting
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the floor running. So there you go. So... We're going
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to check out at 15 minutes. I don't want to
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do a 30 minute thing. This was going to be
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a Monday update. And it will remain so. Next up
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for me. In about an hour's time. Because this will air.
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4pm Eastern. For you guys. Which is 9pm in the
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evening for the UK. And Project Hostile airs an hour later.
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Wherever you get your podcasts, 5pm Eastern. So there you go.
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There's a lot on social media of a different world.
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I think it's been positive and negative. I think a
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lot of black people on social media need to get
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it out of their heads to stop being overly critical
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about black produced shows. I mean, you've got a show,
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it's okay, it's good. But the way they attack black shows.
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You don't attack white produced shows like that. It's just
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mystifying to me. We could talk about it a lot more.
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We will do at the weekend. When we have our
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30 minute jobby job. Or. We might talk about it
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Wednesday in the blackness. So. This is the kitchen roll effect.
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This has been. A backhand TV production. I'm out. I'll
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catch you. I'll catch you well. If you're hanging with me.
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I'll catch you in an hour or 45 minutes, obviously.
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Stay safe, people. Have a good week. See you, well,
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hear you Wednesday or see me Wednesday. I don't know
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what we say for that. Peace.
