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Here's The Story: Voices of the People: The Introduction
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Classic man-on-the-street interviews, Jersey style!
In this debut episode of "Here's The Story: Voices of the People", filmmaker Steve Rogers hits the streets of New Jersey—cities to shore—asking timeless questions about life, love, and meaning. This refreshingly old-school, man-on-the-street series connects strangers through shared stories of the human experience. Music for this episode of "Voices of the People" was performed by Ryan Gregg.
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Here's the Story
Here's The Story: Voices of the People: The Introduction
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In this debut episode of "Here's The Story: Voices of the People", filmmaker Steve Rogers hits the streets of New Jersey—cities to shore—asking timeless questions about life, love, and meaning. This refreshingly old-school, man-on-the-street series connects strangers through shared stories of the human experience. Music for this episode of "Voices of the People" was performed by Ryan Gregg.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship[ Music ] >> Can you hear me?
>> Yes, I can.
>> All right.
[ Music ] >> Tell us your name and where you're from.
>> My name is Tysha.
>> I'm Dr. Peter James Smith.
>> My name is John.
I'm from East Brunswick.
>> My name is Stanley Myers, Sayreville, New Jersey.
>> My name is Willow Brown, and I'm from Red Bank, New Jersey.
[ Music ] >> How would you describe yourself?
>> An average guy.
>> A bit quirky.
>> Artistic.
>> Sensitive person.
>> I'm a hick.
I like playing in the mud.
>> Okay.
Wow.
[ Laughter ] >> And that is not how you raise children to be good at what they're good at.
>> What makes you happy?
>> The women in Jersey.
>> Thank you.
>> How PG does this have to be?
>> PBS.
>> The original TikTok.
Thank you.
>> I'm so in love with you right now.
>> I can't stand it.
I love you so much.
We're going to run away and get married.
[ Music ] >> What's wrong with people these days?
>> Me.
>> What are you known for?
>> Doing a lot of dumb stuff.
>> Look, I'm a Brazilian woman from Jersey, but I sound like I'm from New York because I watched PBS growing up.
>> I am a joy.
>> I am a sparkly delight of effervescence, but don't piss me off.
>> Every decision I made led me to this, and I like what this is.
>> The good old days are right now.
>> This is the best day of my life.
[ Music ] >> What up, Shawnee?
[ Music ] >> Hey, what are you doing here?
You're not from Asbury Park.
>> Be kind to your neighbors, all your neighbors, even if they don't look like you.
>> I love these questions, by the way.
Thank you.
>> Call him.
He's the mastermind.
>> You are fabulous.
You are fabulous.
>> And they light up.
>> Stop it.
>> Even better.
>> Light them up.
[ Laughter ] >> The best advice my mother ever gave me was don't say anything behind someone's back that you wouldn't say to their face.
>> The first time I fell in love, I was a kid.
I was 16, so I thought it was the end of the world.
I have faith that anything is possible.
>> And everything that you see is going to disappear, but what's coming through you will never disappear.
The connection between all life, everything is connected, everything, so when you understand that and you understand that you are infinite potential, all possibilities reside in you.
You are God.
[ Music ] >> There's no state more vocal about how it fits.
It's how it feels, remembers, loves, or lives, like New Jersey.
Ask a question and like it or not, agree or not, you'll always get an answer.
>> Look at all these people that have everything and they're so miserable.
>> New Jersey, you see, is a place for people with plain spoken, often profound, and always point blank points of view.
>> That's a complicated question.
Can I get some context?
>> Benny in the Jets.
>> You know, everybody's got something to hide except for me and my monkey.
>> Yeah, dude.
>> Okay.
>> That's why I grabbed you.
>> That's my curls blowing the winds.
>> Any last words you have for America?
>> Don't give up.
>> That's my story.
>> This is Here's the Story, "The Voices of the People."
>> Are we done?
>> Yeah.
>> Where's this video going to be?
>> Are you going to take the microphone because I will keep it.
>> Okay.
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