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Matthew macconaughey, Brad Gilmore, Mark Rohlberg, Hey, how are you.
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Jimmy Fallon joins us this morning.
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Jimmy, how you doing My good morning?
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I appreciate this. Bud Kelly Ripperd, thank you for having
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me comedy.
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Jay Leno joins us, Jay, how you doing?
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Chris Tucker is in the bill and Chris Tucker, good
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morning to you.
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Hey g good morning to you.
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How are you? George Lopez joins us right now, George,
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Good morning music?
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Lola man Ro, thank you, thank you for having me
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the legendary front man of A C D C. Brian
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Johnson joins us right now, Brian, how you doing?
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Good morning?
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Brock?
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What look Peter talk?
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Give me funny lit?
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Megan Trainer.
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Chloe Bailey joins us. I appreciate the
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And more and more. This is the collection. Now you're
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host of the boat Brett.
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Yoga, CW thirty nine in Houston. Not Ile Davis, thank
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you so much for talking. Congratulations on the film.
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Thanks, thank you so much.
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I want to start really with a question for both
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of you, but Nile, if you could kick us off. Obviously,
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the story is important, That's why you felt the need
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need to tell him. But what was it specifically that
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made you say let's sit down and show this in
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a documentary form to really, you know, shine the light
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on this particular subject.
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Yeah, a great question. It's funny. Actually this project didn't
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start as a documentary, but instead as a script scripted project.
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We hired a couple of writers to put together a script.
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And you know, Deaf President Now wasn't just a simple
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protest to appoints a deaf president. It contained so much
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nuance and layers of oppressive dynamics that had existed for years.
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You know, it speaks to discrimination and paternalism that had
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really run this campus for one hundred and twenty four years.
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So when I was talking to you, Davis about what
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I felt a scripted version really lacked, he said, this
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absolutely has to be a doc and the rest is
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really history.
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You know.
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I think doing this as a doc, we were able
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to break the rules that you would typically have to
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abide by in a scripted space. We were able to
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incorporate so much more of the deaf experience into the film.
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Yeah, I mean, Davis, just what was that point there
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where you said, you know what a documentary is the
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route to go not scripted?
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Well, we're here in galad At University today and in Washington,
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d C. Where I grew up, and I hadn't heard
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of this story, and I just couldn't believe that the
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world had sort of forgotten or neglected the story. It's
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it's an if your viewers want to watch it, it's
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it's an incredible story of how collective action works young
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students when they see uh, something that they could they
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came through leadership and communication actually get something done. It's
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it's a refreshing story. Given all the tumult right now
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and so many protests that feel kind of super negative,
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this is an incredible story of hope and optimism and change.
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So I said, well, if we have to tell a story,
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and the truth of it is so much better than fiction.
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These actual characters are so amazing.
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And I think what's great about documentaries, especially one such
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as yours. I think that people might have heard of
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the of the of the Protest, maybe they have some
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recollection of it, maybe they don't know anything about it.
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And as directors and documentary filmmakers, you kind of acted
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as archaeologists in the way, right, here's what we knew
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about this thing, but let's actually dig in deep and
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maybe even discover some new information. Nile, was there anything
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during the process of putting together the doc that surprised
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you even maybe new information.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, Actually, as we were going through the archives, we
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were so lucky when we reached out to Galadat to
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find that they had a very very rich archive. And
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I had always seen the same clips growing up, replayed
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again and again, so I was excited to see, you know,
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if there was a clip of Spilman saying deaf people
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are not ready to function in the hearing world, because
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that quote is legendary in our community. So we went
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digging for the evidence of it. And even though with
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all of the footage we had we didn't have any
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of that, you could tell by her actions that the
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attitude matched the quote in every way. You know, her
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behavior is just it's amazing.
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You know.
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The Deaf President now for actually
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never seen so many of these clips and when they
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first saw the film, they were like, oh wow, she
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really did act like that. So that was a great impact.
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And David, you know you put together you talk about
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the start as a script. When you have a script
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in front of you first peel for a scripted content,
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obviously it's the beginning, middle, and end.
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It's all there on the page.
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You know, where the characters are going to go and
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what have you or the documentary when you find these
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new archival footage or find new information while you're shooting it,
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I feel like, does a lot of it have to
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come together in the edit after you get everything?
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Yeah, that's right, it really is. And it was a
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true collaboration with me and Nile, like what do we
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have for archive? What are we missing? How do we
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get that through the interviews with these four characters. People,
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everyone they watch this movie, they say, Wow, these four
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characters are amazing. They're hilarious. They don't always get along.
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They're kind of like the breakfast club in a documentary
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because they're kind of like at each other's throats at
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the beginning, but they come together at the end. And
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so yeah, it's all it's all a combination of all
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that material. But you know, Nile really insisted that it
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be told from a deaf perspective, and we have this
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thing in our movie called deaf POV deaf point of view,
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And I think that's that's what's unique about the movie
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is that not only Calculate encapsulates all the things you're
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talking about, but insists that we really experience and experience it,
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not from a hearing person telling a deaf story. This
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is different.
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Well, it's an incredible film and an incredible story. I
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thank you both for bringing this to the masses and
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sharing the story and everything y'all share the title of
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me today.
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Thank you