Oct. 18, 2024

Pipeman Interviews Jacqueline Bisset Wes Ramsey C Jay Cox About Latter Days & Back to the Drive 2

Jacqueline Bisset is here, along with Wes Ramsey, who both star in Latter Days, C. Jay Cox, the writer/director, and Kirkland Tibbels, the producer.

About Back to Drive 2: Back to the Drive 2 is a night full of stars, music, and celebrating LGBTQ+...

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Jacqueline Bisset is here, along with Wes Ramsey, who both star in Latter Days, C. Jay Cox, the writer/director, and Kirkland Tibbels, the producer.

About Back to Drive 2: Back to the Drive 2 is a night full of stars, music, and celebrating LGBTQ+ equality. Proceeds from the evening support all Stonewall local and national education programs. There will be a special tribute to bars and safe spaces (Raising the Bars) that have long provided our community with refuge in trying times.

The 2nd Annual Back to the Drive 2 Celebration will be held:
• October 17th, 2024
• 6:00 PM EST
• The VENUE | 2345 Wilton Drive, Wilton Manors

Hollywood legend Jacqueline Bisset (The Sweet Ride, Murder on the Orient Express)and screen-stealing hottie Wes Ramsey (General Hospital, Venice the Series) in Fort Lauderdale, FL (the Marriott Courtyard Downtown/Oct. 16th In-person Interviews) on October 17- they are headed to town to support Stonewall National Museum, Archives & Library’s Back to the Drive 2 fundraiser while also celebrating the 20th anniversary of their trailblazing, gay rom-com, “Latter Days.”

Film writer/director C. Jay Cox (Sweet Home Alabama, Kiss the Bride) and producer Kirkland Tibbels (Cloud 9, Adam & Steve) are also flying in for Stonewall’s second annual Back to the Drive 2 and available for interviews.

Latter Days tackled the dramatic love story between a Los Angeles party boy and a closeted Mormon missionary and the changes they brought to one another’s lives. Initially released in 2003 at the Philadelphia International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival and OutFest, it quickly gained groundbreaking acclaim from viewers across the U.S. and around the world. Stonewall National Museum, Archives & Library’s Executive Director Robert Kesten said, “It is an honor to have the fearless and iconic Jacqueline Bisset, Wes Ramsey, C. Jay Cox and Kirkland Tibbels break down barriers 20 years ago, and come to celebrate diversity, bravery and all shades of love today. ”

While C. Jay Cox and Kirkland remain mum on future projects, there are whispers….

“With a new film studio under construction in Fort Lauderdale and the county's tax breaks for filmmakers it will be interesting to hear what C. Jay and Kirkland say about the possibility of making movies here in Florida,” added Kesten. “The nation's cultural views of LGBT+ rights have changed over the past 20 years, and it will be interesting to hear if there are plans to once again push the envelope in a meaningful and significant way.”

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This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures of

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some very special guests here for a very special event

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right here in our local area that is so important.

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So let's welcome to show that. Casson, director of Latter Days,

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How are you doing very well?

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Thank you very good, wonderful Thanks for having us today.

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here in South Florida and we're going to talk about that. First,

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let's all, uh, you could all introduce yourselves to the listeners.

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This is CJ. Cox, the writer director of Latter Days.

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And this is West Ramsey, the star of Latter Days

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and the incomparable Jacqueline.

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Visit Nice Play's Lilah in the movie.

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So so let's start first with telling and talking a

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little bit about the movie to give a little bit

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of back info for all the listeners of why we're

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here today.

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Sure, so for.

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Those who haven't seen Latter Days, it's the story of

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a very closeted gay Mormon missionary who winds up in

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Los Angeles and encounters the very sort of stereotypical West

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Hollywood gay party boy who's played by by the gorgeous

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West Ramsey, and it's causes sort of repercussions throughout both

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of their lives that that caused them to question not

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but the very nature of love and relationships.

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Very cool, and.

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It's a funny romantic comedy too.

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Well that helps too. And if I'm correct, this is

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like the twentieth anniversary, Is that right?

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Plow your mind? Like twenty years? Who would think? Right?

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I know that feels like you broke up.

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the director was great. It was really very close and

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close knit and just loving.

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to be able to to relive that some of those memories,

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because just talking about it it brings it back so much.

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of film festivals.

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it was great. It was just great.

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you're also having fun doing it, because that's that's the key, right, Oh, absolutely, Yeah.

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Well, but it's a group of good people, and you

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also believe in the work you've done in a project

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like this, and you've had fun together, and then it

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feels like like you've gone off to camp together and

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then you get to like come back together and celebrate

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camp all over again.

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Enthusiastic audiences. I mean, it's just mind boggling, just absolute.

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People just rapped looking at at the screen, you know,

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really attentive, really moved, very beautiful.

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See that's amazing. And you know, how would you say

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in the past twenty years would you say that Latter

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Days would have an impact now compared to twenty years ago.

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years later we would sort of look at that film

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as something of a novelty and say that, oh, yeah,

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it's great, it's great that we're past all.

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You have sort of moved past that as a society,

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lot of the issues that were presented in the movie

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about oppression and judgment and sort of I mean religious oppression.

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realm of politics too, that a lot of those issues

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are still really prevalent, and maybe even even more so

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than they might have been twenty years ago.

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for sure, I think it's way more polarized now than

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we have to come twenty years later to be even

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more polarized and try to go back to a time

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that we should have never lived to begin with.

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Exactly exactly, yeah, well said, So.

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You're down here in Fort laurnew for this amazing event.

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Back to drive to tell us about the event.

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Well, the event.

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We were invited by the Stonewall Field Archive down here

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to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of this.

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To be able to revisit the movie with you know,

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these fabulous people, but also within a group that I

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think is is really important because especially when you look

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at you know, not to bring it, to make it

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it's too political, but bringing it back to the political

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scene in Florida right now, I think making our voices

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and our stories heard is more important than ever.

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Oh no doubt about it. As somebody who lives here,

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who has you know, children here, grandchildren here, I think

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what's been happening in the past few years politically with

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the powers that be in this state is absolutely ridiculous.

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When it comes to the education system and like I

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think kind of like hiding it more than it was

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ever being hidden, and to take books out of school,

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know that is as well as it's not something bad,

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but exposed to all kinds of things so that they

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can be well developed instead of preaching to be blunt hatred.

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of different opinions and people. And and I think the

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more the more that people growing up are exposed to

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those things, the less judgmental and the more just society becomes.

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we can play a small part in that. I was

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talking to somebody today that that on some level what

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we might be doing here because essentially what we're doing

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is promoting gay film and gay stories. That my understanding

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is that that might even that's technically illegal in Florida

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right now.

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That isn't that the most ridiculous thing ever. I don't

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care who you are, what your preferences are. That is

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just the stupidest thing I ever heard. It reminds me

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of going back to like, you know, the Holocaust.

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are still present and still very much active twenty years

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after we made the movie in which I was I

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naively like, oh that that far in the future. It's

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it's just going to seem like a like such a throwback,

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because well, we'll laugh about the fact that, oh yeah,

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remember back when those were that was the issue.

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acceptance are universal themes, and that's about opening up your

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mind and not closing it off, not afraid of each other,

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I mean, and especially in the name of you know, religion,

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where there seems to still be fear and oppression taking place,

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not just in different ways across this country, but around

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this world, where you can be you can be hung

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or stone to death if they find out you're let alone.

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The fact that some women you know can't even let

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themselves be seen literally physically seen in public, I mean,

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and in the name of faith and belief. And I

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think it's important to remember that having conversations with each

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other about these things is part of how we love

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and accept each other, to open our mind, to not

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continue dividing, but to believe that we can still all

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come together and get along and evolve collect around the world.

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oldest trick in the book, divide and conquer and I

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have this philosophy. They're all on the same team and

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it's not mine, Like we just need to be one

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people together. I don't care what anybody is as you

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know what. People spend so much time, especially here in Florida,

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worrying about things that don't affect their life in any way,

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shape or form. Like I don't even understand how it

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would bother somebody what somebody else does in their love life.

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Exactly exactly.

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Yeah, I mean everything's about land, really, isn't it.

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M H, I don't know.

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But first about land ownership, that's mine, that's mine. I mean,

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we have to be taught that it's children not to

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be so greedy.

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Exactly.

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Such a great thing going on. It's disgusting.

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remember are very strongly this conversation I had while I

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was in Denmark. One time. I was with like eight

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other people, all different political beliefs, different religious beliefs, different

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cultural beliefs, and nobody was arguing, nobody was attacking. We

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were all having discussions about these hard subjects, and then

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they live in Denmark that we complain about over here,

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to have it the way we do because the taxes

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are so high. And I don't mind paying the higher

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taxes if it means sharing with my fellow country person.

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You know, why should I have two cars and my

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neighbor have none? And that that attitude, like the whole

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world could learn from that attitude of like, why can't

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we just help each other? You know, it doesn't mean

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we need They make it like we're getting stuff take

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in a way now I think we're having stuff taken

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away by being divided.

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Yeah, And tolerance isn't about you know.

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I think tolerance is about uh, less about fear and

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more about love, and it's and it shows strength. I

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think to learn to tolerate each other's differences is something

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that shows strength. I don't think it's a weakness. I

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don't think it's about I think oppression. I think oppression

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is weak. I think because it comes to fear.

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to piggyback on that and just say that I think

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that's that's one of the brilliant things about Wes's portrayal

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of Christian is that it's a The progress is learning

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to become vulnerable enough to.

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To be really hurt.

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But that's a position of strength and not weakness, right, Yeah,

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And he finds his strength through the movie. And and

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that is it that the strength is being willing enough

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to admit that that you know that love is much

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more powerful than than you know, fear no doubt.

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And you know, the thing is, I'm a firm believer

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that you know, you can't learn if you're only listening

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to one side or your own side of things. We

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learn by encountering other people and what they go through

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in life and what they have learned, and what they

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believe and how they feel. And if we could just

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have those conversations together, I think we could understand people

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a lot better and then learn to love each other

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no matter who we are. Well said, So let's talk

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more about Back to Drive to tell us more about

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the event, and it's obviously you know it's going on

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tonight six pm in will In Manners. What else do

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we want to know about it?

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Well, first of all, I'm not sure whether there are

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still where there's still tickets available to but I would

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encourage anybody to, you know, hopefully, hopefully if you're interested

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in attending, check out the website. And I know that

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we are going to be screening scenes from the movie

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and then we will be doing a panel discussion about

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that along with our producer Kirkland Tipples, who couldn't be

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on the interview.

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Very nice And is there anything that you want to

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cover about latter days about the event, about any of you,

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or anything we talked about that we haven't covered already.

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Think that one of the things that we've been talking

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about is the fact that they I think the movie

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still holds up and we are still I mean I

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know that I am still intensely proud of it.

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And so if you haven't seen it, actually you should

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because these universal themes. That's the reason we're talking about

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it twenty years later is like all great films, it

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has held up well because it still is affecting young

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people today that have never seen it before, people that

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are rewatching it and sharing it with their family members

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that had never heard about it twenty years ago, and

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when it came out very successful, Yeah in that sense,

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and so it's it's almost like the slow burn success

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that's never gone.

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Away, and that's really the test of true art in

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my opinion. You know, it's unfortunate that's still so relevant

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and irrelevant today, but thank God that we have it

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that other people can maybe see today that maybe twenty

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Again, exactly because it's almost like you can't have these

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conversations anymore. And I'm thankful for the three of you

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and anybody else involved that we can have these conversations

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for no matter what it is, you know.

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Which a contations that you see or you can't have anymore.

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I feel that a lot. I think the polarizing, especially

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here in Florida, you can't really have conversations about pretty

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much anything politics, LGBTQ. You know, even the fact of

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when we grew up, you know, a vote was your

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own personal choice, and I remember my parents tell me

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you don't have to tell anybody who you're voting for.

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It's your personal choice, and you know it's okay for

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somebody else to do what they do. And don't you know,

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don't you don't have to be like I feel like,

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now somebody's like you have to tell them who you

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vote for, and if you don't, like, you're you're eliminated,

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if you're out on the same page. It's like, you know,

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I think that we just need all to all connect

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together and stop allowing the powers that be around the

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world divide us and promote more hatred and attacking.

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very empowering to focus on the you know, the negativity

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of power in control. I mean, obviously, no one wants

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to be told who they should or shouldn't vote for.

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No one wants to be told who they should or

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shouldn't love be in love with. No one wants to

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be told what they should or shouldn't be doing with

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their body, whether it's their health, own freedom, you know.

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is it's such a great gift to be in this

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country and to be born in this country where we

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do have freedoms that aren't that aren't you know, expressed

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or celebrated in any capacity in other parts of the

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world outside of this country. Is a gift, and it's

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important for us to exercise our freedoms with each other

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to find get along and find and find balance and.

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Equality in spite of all the division.

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a wonderful ability to do as a little movie, is

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remind people that there's power and transcendence in love and

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acceptance one exactly.

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Well, you guys are amazing. I'm very thankful that we

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have your movie for you know, people today and all

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through the years and and even twenty years from now,

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and thankful that you're down here in South Florida to

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kind of create some unity, some love from an event

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that I think is very important.

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Well, thank you.

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It's a pleasure to be here, and it is also

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just a great opportunity for us to sort of relive

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just this this fantastic adventure that that that they were

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wonderful enough to come along on the.

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Ride with me.

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Well, it's amazing that you guys, you seem so connected

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to so that that's the artist and all of you

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that you created this great piece of art because you

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work together, and that's the case. Well said, thank you

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for being on the Adventures of Pipe Man.

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We thank you so much for having us.

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Thank you for listening to the adventures of pipe man

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on w for cui Adel