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Myles Frost on Winning a TONY and Playing Michael Jackson on Broadway in 'MJ The Musical'
Jul 11, 2022
TONY Award winning actor Myles Frost stops in on Sway In The Morning to talk about his role as Michael Jackson on Broadway.
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Myles Frost on Winning a TONY and Playing Michael Jackson on Broadway in 'MJ The Musical'
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god bless you for speaking out to your
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mom and your family members and those
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who stood by your side on your journey
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because this journey ain't been the fast
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one have the beatles man been put in
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work for quite some time yes and i had a
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chance to see miles frost perform i had
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no idea what i was walking into
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uh i think this is before it even
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opened to the public i might have saw
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shout out to jeff brett jeff redd our
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good friend jeff red from the music
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business dm me and just kept pushing me
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kim just saying man you got to go see
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this
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if anything go see this and i i've
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stayed away from
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these kind of michael jackson
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redemptions or these uh redemptions or
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these revivals all these different i
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went to one and it just made me i went
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to one in vegas and god bless all the
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people who
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perform on that stage they did an
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excellent job but
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i walked away and i still had a
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emptiness right i saw this that it was a
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cirque du soleil michael jackson thing
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they did it yeah yeah
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thank you kim
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and uh and it didn't but when i saw mj
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the musical
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oh man i i go to broadway with heather
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and i get the best sleep yeah he sleeps
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kim he sleeps miles during i'm not gonna
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mention the shows that he took naps and
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i had to tap him
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but he didn't go to sleep during this
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one i want to say and i know your
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management
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and we've been communicating since then
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i know people around you
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my sister onika lives on 40 something i
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guess you live in the same building i
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won't say the number um and she she hit
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me and said yo you know the guy that
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plays michael jackson miles frost yeah
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i'm supposed to have him up on the show
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he i just saw him walk by
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miles
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you tapped into a frequency
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that really is untappable um
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say that it's untappable that's why as
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many michael jackson things as we see we
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leave with a little void i left that
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performance
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with closure
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wow
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i left with closure i felt like that's
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what i've been wanting to feel yes since
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2009 was it 2009 i've been waiting to
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fill that when michael passed i'll share
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this quick personal story that day i was
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working at mtv for mtv news
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and i'm in office and my daughter at
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that time who was eight
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was on the computer and like daddy
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told me that he passed away and i went
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and told the higher-ups at mtv and they
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was like nah we can't touch that we got
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to make sure it's true
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and then tmz this was their uprising
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were the first to kind of break that
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story farrah fawcett passed i believe
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the same day remember that yeah
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i remember that and that guy and i had
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to go live on mtv
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and curate this
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unprogrammed unscripted
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tribute to michael jackson right and a
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lot of people called in from the family
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to other rock stars and it just left me
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so
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raw you know and open
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i haven't felt closure from that moment
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since i saw you perform wow that means a
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lot oh miles frost you're incredible i
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just wanted to have you up here so i
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could tell you how much i like you and
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admire you you know and i know your
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management i know you got music coming i
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know you got music on itunes but
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kim you said something you saw him you
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knew michael yes you met michael plenty
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of times yes you and janet were great
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friends yes yeah
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yeah
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i saw mj on my birthday actually last
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month and uh
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i understand every word that you're
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saying that's why i i hear you
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implicitly um and for me
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um i didn't realize it was going to
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affect me in such a personal way
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with my personal history to
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some of those songs or some of those
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moments
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i was actually there with janet and
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mindy cohen from facts of life and
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latoya and some others when they
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recorded the background vocals for pyt
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and so i was there yeah and james ingram
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was there quincy was there quincy jones
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there's a photo of all of us
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at that session um what my very first
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trip to disneyland
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when i was about seven or eight years
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old
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was michael taking me and jan to
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disneyland
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yeah wow oh my gosh way before you know
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the cell phones and all of that so uh uh
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there's there's no other than the great
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memories that you know that we have from
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it and that she and i share
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um other memories you know going to the
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house and swimming and
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you know when he got the the whiz and
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that whole oh man all right diana ross
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your show
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and remember seeing the the mold of his
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face in the costume on the kitchen table
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at their house when the movie was done
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going to the la premiere and sharing the
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seat with janet of the wiz and so i mean
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there's just these these moments where
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you know i remember sitting next to him
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in the the tiki what is it the tiki
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tavern whatever at disneyland and how
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much he loved that show yeah um and so
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so all of those little moments that i
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didn't you know you remember them but
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just how crazy they came like flooding
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back to me as certain moments were were
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kind of you know explored in in the show
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um
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i did not have the great honor and
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privilege of seeing
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this young man perform
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um but what time is the show tonight
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because
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it's positive because you're you're
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you're understood had gone on and he was
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wonderful yeah and and i know jason uh
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wow um so it was again phenomenal show
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but again i say what what time is the
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show and where in my ticket
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i don't take up a lot of room first of
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all
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tonight but the rest of the week i'll
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definitely be honest okay so what time
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is it tomorrow night
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so tomorrow's two shows is uh 2 p.m and
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8 p.m okay well we'll have that
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conversation
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but thank you for letting me stay and
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have this absolutely this time
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beautiful it's full circle
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you needed to tell that though you know
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that needed to come out and it came out
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in the right and proper way yeah yeah
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because of you miles frost
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please don't you write about that
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closure you write about that closure and
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that impact because it's not an
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impersonation family
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if you you have to see it you have to
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see
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um the the embodiment okay i'm coming
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i'm coming
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but ain't no way you were supposed to
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wake up today and think this was gonna
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happen like this had to happen today
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just now absolutely absolutely
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absolutely i mean just leveled up my day
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to a whole nother beautiful i mean
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because i was excited just to see y'all
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yes and no shade part in the pond i
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still am but this is right here
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oh bro hey it's okay i get it
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love you give it up for kim phil
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wow miles
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wow you you have an iconic figure
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right there in kim's phil's that is just
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really thank you giving you miles frost
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welcome miles frosty yes yes yes this
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man
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he didn't make it on the voice
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i don't know
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he didn't make it on the voice does it
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matter
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nah
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that was part of his
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his destiny god was looking further down
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the road
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it's actually very funny because i had a
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moment with so with jennifer hudson
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because you know we both won tony's so
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we found each other on the red carpet
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and um
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jennifer
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was one of the judges on the voice
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during the time that i went on for
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season 13. wow and she was the only
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person that was about to press her
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button
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and she gave me the advice of like you
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know she was like i could hear that
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you're a little nervous you know you're
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still young and not saying my shirt read
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more about stevie wonder so that's a
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hard song for a 17 year old who at the
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time didn't know how to
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deliver the song
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you know and she said when you're
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soaring notes when they were up there
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they were good you know but the the the
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journey of how you were singing it
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you know mixed with the nerves just need
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a little bit more work and she said work
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on your craft and come on back not
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thinking that when she said come on back
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it meant meeting her on the red carpet
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at the tony awards okay god look at god
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one second
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yeah yo miles only got 10 minutes so
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let's let's hit him up with all of it
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all right let's do it okay uh
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michael jackson obviously you were a fan
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growing up yeah right
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uh
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how did i watch the show
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and
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i know you're not michael but you gave
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us michael and stage yourself
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what was your plan of approach to this
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role
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i did not want to
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impersonate michael you know
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you know i
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have a lot of respect for the
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impersonators you know they work really
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hard and do you know some that's their
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bread and butter some of them and that's
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how they make their living but
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when i came into this i told christopher
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wilton the director i said
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i'm not
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that's not the approach i want to take i
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don't want to take an impersonation
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approach i want to take i want people to
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see me you know to see miles but i want
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to tell
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the story of michael through the lens of
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miles
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you know so it's authentic that way so
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it's authentic for you watching it and
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it's authentic for me being it
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was what was practice like right i feel
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like rehearsals like yeah like for
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himself though like even be outside of
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rehearsals you had to practice right
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yeah so i mean
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i had six months to learn everything
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that i learned before we really got into
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the process of like you know tech in and
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doing all that type of stuff
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for for the show
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and
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i was you know i was a little nervous
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because i'm like you know this is
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michael jackson and it's not like i've
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been doing this all my life i'm not a
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trained dancer i'm self-taught wow you
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know i didn't really start taking vocal
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lessons until this show
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you know so i came into this with a lot
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of raw talent you know even my audition
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process was unique
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you know not like a traditional broadway
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um audition
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and um
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you know
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i have to really give my my love and
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shout out to chadwick bozeman because
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he learned james brown in six months
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and when i found that out i said there's
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no excuse
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miles frost is here he just um won the
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2022 tony award for best actor in a
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musical
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that's crazy what does fame feel like to
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you now because um we joke all the time
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up here sway and i prior to well at
10:49
least me doing radio full time and and
10:52
him as well we both were recording
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artists 24 7. and you know you have
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these dreams as a kid you know you start
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practicing your autograph you holding
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different things in the mirror make sure
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your mic is right all the things and
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then when you get into it
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it's kind of what you thought but then
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it's so much not like what you thought
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how
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how are you taking this all in yeah i
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mean i'm i'm really letting god lead the
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way because if you were to ask me how
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like what my big break was going to be
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like a year and a half ago
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i'd have been like oh yeah i'm gonna
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drop a fire song you know and
11:28
you know that's i'm be discovered that
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way you know my music because you know
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i'm also a recording artist
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and god was like
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you're funny
11:37
think bigger you thought you could plan
11:38
this out right right and he he dropped
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this in my lap and
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it was a really
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interesting moment for me because
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i've never ever felt
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myself mature in real time before
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[Music]
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and
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the moment that i was told i got the
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roll i was like oh my god you know like
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i went random my scissors around like
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morgan i got it i got it
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five minutes later i
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found myself sitting on the couch really
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thinking like okay i'm 21.
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i'm playing
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who to me is the biggest icon to ever
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live
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especially who has influenced me so much
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in so many people in in the world of
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music and beyond you know just humanity
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in general
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and like i said i'm 21 i said can i am i
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mature enough
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to handle the positives and negatives
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that come with this
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you know am i ready for because and this
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is the beginning of my career so this is
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either going to make or break my career
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and
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i don't know it's just i felt this
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silence i felt this calmness and i said
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you know what god's not gonna dangle
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something in front of my face and just
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tease me with it right it ain't set up
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it's not a setup so i said you know what
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i'm gonna just put all the i'm gonna put
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all of these
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all of this impostor syndrome on the
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side yeah and i'm gonna do what i got to
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do
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and i'm but i'm gonna do it as miles
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first of all
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and i'm gonna do it
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with a hundred and ten percent and
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beyond amen tony award winner
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i'm sorry i didn't
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[Applause]
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it's the honor is for me and this is not
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to downsize the accolade but you know
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the honor for me is making history as a
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black man yeah you know because i'm the
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youngest to ever win that category crazy
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wow the history of the tony crazy so
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you know you're the youngest in the
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history of the tonys yeah the youngest
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solo in the history of the timeless game
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so
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come on man wow but what i have to say
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though
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is that you know
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broadway was never my
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you know my goal yeah so to have that
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that accolade on my shoulders and to you
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know to be a part of that history is
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really humbling
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so then why did you audition or how did
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the audition come about if it was like
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not on your radar if somebody called you
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to say hey
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or you saw an ad somewhere yeah so
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uh i was in college
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and
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back in 2016
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i was i was in high school 2016. back in
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2016 i
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did a talent show at my school
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and the previous year i'd done chris
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brown i did fine china and i was like
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you know what this year i'm gonna do
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michael i'm gonna take it all the way
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back i'm gonna do mike i'm gonna do
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billy jean so i did billy jean and my
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mom was always out there in the audience
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on with her ipad with the flash on
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recorded everything
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you know just just for safe safekeeping
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and she would post it on youtube not
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necessarily to have a youtube channel
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but just for you know just to have it
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and
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may
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the morning of my sister's birthday may
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27th of last year okay i get a call from
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my acting coach leland thompson who i
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really just met re that you know around
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that time
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and he goes
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man i got to tell you
14:48
i woke up this morning with something on
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my heart and something just told me to
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look your name up on youtube and the
14:52
first thing that popped up was miles
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frost doing billie jean
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what yeah and he said which is crazy
14:57
because i have this opportunity
15:00
that i think you'd be perfect for he
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said can you still do that you know can
15:03
you still dance and sing like that but
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you know better since you're older now
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and i was like
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yeah
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light work i was lying because i hadn't
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done anything like that since 2016. so
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i'll figure it out i was like i'm
15:16
my junior i'm about to go into my senior
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year college and
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you know i hadn't danced or did anything
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like that since my junior year of high
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school
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but i was like
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i'm not going to
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deprive my future self of an opportunity
15:30
based on how i feel right now there it
15:31
is come on tony award-winning mile frost
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so he turned so the video is what did it
15:37
the video shout out to your mom yeah but
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you said the audition process itself was
15:42
very unique yeah so what was that so
15:45
uh because you know during cover so
15:46
everything was you know virtual oh um
15:50
but they were like i think they kind of
15:51
broke the rules a little bit um and they
15:53
say they want well i sent in like a you
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know a few tapes
15:57
of things that they sent like they said
15:58
they wanted me to learn stranger in
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moscow
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uh don't don't stop till you get enough
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and they don't care about us which i pre
16:05
you know i personally appreciate it
16:07
because it shows different uh versions
16:10
of michael's vocal ability you know you
16:12
got the grit in one song you got the
16:13
falsetto in another song and then you
16:15
got michael really singing singing and
16:16
stranger moscow where you get that you
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get kind of all of the elements and all
16:19
the colors of his voice
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and i did that they also wanted me to do
16:24
another
16:25
um sending another a more current video
16:27
of me doing billie jean
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like so i
16:30
went to this so when he told me that
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he's like yeah can we get it by tomorrow
16:34
and mind you i'm thinking like i haven't
16:35
done this
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since
16:37
six years i'm like tomorrow i was like
16:39
yeah and i was like yo e i needed like a
16:42
studio like yesterday he's like bet i
16:43
got you he said okay well
16:46
tomorrow morning is the best we can do
16:48
i said what time he said eight o'clock i
16:50
said bet i'm there i was in the studio
16:51
from eight o'clock to six o'clock p.m
16:54
straight just working on material and
16:56
watching videos studio uh watching uh um
16:58
um motown
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motown 25 watching watching over and
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over and over and over again watching my
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video to see what things i can pull from
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i don't think i ate that day trying to
17:08
focus on just
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getting that vocabulary back in my body
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and yeah the rest is history man he was
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able to pull it
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which one of michael's songs do you you
17:20
feel like you sing strongest
17:24
that's an interesting question
17:26
because each song has a unique
17:30
feeling to it yeah you know and
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when you are going through because i go
17:34
through so many different emotions
17:37
you know through through the through the
17:38
story so it's different from singing a
17:40
cover yeah that's not a cover i'm
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singing it as as if i'm experiencing
17:45
that song in that moment
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yeah so it's like when i feel when i'm
17:49
singing stranger in moscow i'm
17:51
feeling all of that
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you know and it's hard to explain
17:54
because it's different than you feeling
17:56
the song while you're singing a cover of
17:57
of that song it's like i'm living this
18:00
right now
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and this is the only way these are the
18:04
only words i can sing to express to you
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all
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how i'm feeling right now
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that's what it feels like so you take a
18:12
song like that and then you you got a
18:14
song like thriller and it's like okay
18:15
well during that part of the
18:17
during that part of this show it's it's
18:19
an incredible part of the show too thank
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you thank you
18:22
you know it was you know it's very heavy
18:24
it's very dark it's very
18:26
detail-oriented like i you know i could
18:28
tell you some things you know later
18:30
because i don't want to spoil it for
18:31
nobody but you probably didn't even
18:32
notice about thriller that is is so is
18:35
so deep when you talk about you know the
18:37
demons that are you know kind of
18:39
affecting him and things that things of
18:40
that nature it's a it's a
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it was put together beautifully
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my tony award-winning
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youngest ever in his category miles
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frost is here and he has to go yeah um
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but real quick slim in chicago saw the
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show you want to say something slam real
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quick go ahead hey slim
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wow i'm on the air hey good morning guys
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we're in the morning team hey
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what's up king what's up
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what's up baby what's going on guys hey
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slim yo
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miles frost bro so real quick y'all i
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don't want to keep you so i was just
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there may 14th um i proposed to my being
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girlfriend so we're getting engaged my
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first time in new york congratulations
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right there
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proposed right there in times square
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right there where abc you know uh where
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they do the good morning america so
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anyway we're get we get there we go
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there only because way i remember uh
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back then
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maybe when this first debuted and i
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remember how you really was talking
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about
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this
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this performance and how you were just
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like if you've never been to see michael
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jackson
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you might want to see this so me and my
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girls like this can't be
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so anyway we get there me and my best
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friends i pay about 600 650 700 we're
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front row miles
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and we don't know what to expect from
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you
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and let me tell you sir
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it was like
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you must have injected
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you must have been injected with mj's
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dna for some reason
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and it was so natural bro it was so
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natural like the mannerisms the way you
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talk it was just it was just awesome man
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and i just want to say like man if
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anything if you're familiar with
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christopher reeve man like i just feel
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like you might be blessed with that
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curse man because we can't unsee it like
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you know how you see christopher eva
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superman
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right well we see we
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[Music]
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thank you bro appreciate you no thank
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you thank you
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hey man i gotta ask you to sing song
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before you go is that possible man
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man in the mirror something let me see
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um i don't think i can sing something
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from the show but i'll do um girl
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close your eyes let the rhythm get into
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you
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don't try to fight it
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there ain't nothing that you
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can do
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relax your mind
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you sound amazing man god bless you
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we've got more work to do miles this is
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a prelude to us a bigger sit down where
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we could go through your music yeah yeah
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talking a little more in depth oh yeah
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but thank you from the on behalf of the
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world
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it's a pleasure it's my pleasure i want
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to thank you and congratulations i'm
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looking forward to hearing the music you
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got an amazing career
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in the now and in front of you thank you
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all right and even the journey behind
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you all led up to what it what you're
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doing today brother and i'm proud of you
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miles frost
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thank you thank you so much
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oh yeah oh first of all when i come back
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i can tell you the deeper story of um
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like the rest of my audition because i
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actually had an allergic reaction
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before
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what happened so because i'm allergic to
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i used to be like just a whole bunch of
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stuff so i still have some lingering you
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know allergies
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and um the day before my audition i had
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a workshop that i did learning actual
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choreo for billie jean that i was
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supposed to then perform the next day
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so i'm
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you know practicing with michael
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balderrama he's he was teaching me and
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everything oh and shout out to rich and
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tone telewiggle who danced with michael
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from the history tour all the way up
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until he passed and taught me everything
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that i know wow i'll tell you a rich and
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tony's story after this yeah
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and um
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i was dancing and it's about an hour
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session
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like 35 minutes in i'm like
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i'm getting hot
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you know and then i'm like i'm like
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itching in certain places i look in the
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mirror i said i think i'm having an
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allergic reaction so i
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run downstairs and i say easy yo i need
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to like go to cvs like right now i need
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like a benadryl and some zyrtec so we go
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to the cvs um we get the benadryl get
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dessert attack we book it back to the
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hotel i'm in the shower for like three
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hours trying to calm my body down
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and i took two benjamin and zyrtec you
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know that's the benadryl is gonna knock
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you out
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so
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i went to sleep
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wake up 12 the next day
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my um
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my audition's at like 2 30.
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and i'm like okay i'm super tired i'm
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exhausted my body's exhausted from the
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from the reaction and from the benadryl
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on top of that so i'm like okay i need
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to reassess i need to get my my stuff
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together try to get my energy up you
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know work you know bouncing around
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whatever
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it's like two o'clock we're heading over
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to the uh to the audition room
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it hits me i'm like i never practice
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wow
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and i never recorded it
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so you don't know what you looking like
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doing what you're doing
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you don't even know what you're doing i
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don't even know what i'm doing so i walk
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in and uh i'm like uh hi my name is
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miles frost and i'll be auditioning for
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michael jackson and chris looked at me
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like yeah we know that yeah you're the
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only one
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we know that so he said uh so like do
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you have a preference what do you want
24:32
to start with and i'm like oh i don't
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care like i don't know why i wasn't
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thinking i was like i don't care and i
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didn't know anybody on the panel i
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didn't know lynn nottage i didn't know
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christopher would i didn't know anybody
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so i didn't know that christopher wilden
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is a like a ballet
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extraordinaire yeah
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so of course chris says oh let's start
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with the dancing then i'll go okay
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you know so
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so i had like a little white fedora with
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me
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and um
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i get into this mode and you know i'm
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trying to get into character and
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apparently the story goes that there was
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like this loud music that was the wrong
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music and i just stood there i didn't
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even hear it i was trying to i was
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focusing so hard i didn't even hear it
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so he says are you ready i said yeah so
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the the words that leads into the song
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just give me the smooth groove
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so i say give me this move groove and
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then i put the hat on and i do all the
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choreography
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like
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on point from how i learned it the
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previous day no messages no mess and i
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said that's god that's god yeah that's
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divine intervention
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i was like and i was like god you can't
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put me through no allergic reaction the
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day before my audition tonight give me
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this role i've been through a lot now
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and you know he just has a way of of
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of making it happen making it happen
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you got to walk with faith and that's
25:47
what you did and look where you are man
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oh yeah i'm blessed brown's tony awards
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mario's frost if you ever hey listen if
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you can see mj the musical if you can
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get a ticket yeah go ahead and get a
25:58
ticket i got a plug i'm not even sharing
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it
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you know what i mean i'm not even
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sharing i tried to share it with tracy
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and then they wasn't listening
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you did the same plug from
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i didn't know i was the same player same
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person that was different i usually
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don't live my plugs
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miles i can't wait to talk again i would
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love to have you come up here perform
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your music that's what we talked about
26:22
you know because it's important that you
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let people know what else you're doing
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yes okay and um i think it's great
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because you can
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um
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become this person on stage but
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you're you when you're off stage yeah
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you're not michael you're you i don't
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try to be yeah and you gotta get that
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that's separate just let you know how
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deep that goes
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i don't wear my like makeup anywhere
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outside of the theater because i'm like
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i don't wear my makeup when i walk in so
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i'm not gonna wear my makeup walking out
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there it is i'll leave all of that stuff
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on the stage on the stage you got to
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figure it out man tony award winner
26:57
thank you thank you miles frost citizens
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we want to thank kim fields for coming
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by the show as well today give it up for
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the one and only kim
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gotta give it up for dj showtime for
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making an appearance on the show today
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we'll be back tomorrow have the beacon
27:10
be reached at the happy hour with whb
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yes citizens hit me up at it's tracy g i
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t s t r a c g and reach miles frost at
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miles dot frost right yep and with a
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miles of the y miles with a y
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frost thank you for coming by brother
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more work to do all right uh thank you
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to the team here at siriusxm shave45
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pandora sway in the morning and on that
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