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a . hi, anthony ok, welcome to the string. this episode is all about black cowboys and black calgon of america. if you will, during a double take right now, i don't blame you. the history of african american cowboys and cowgirls. you have to dig a really deep, tough find it, i'm why is that? that's one question. what the, asking on today's show. but there is a new movie out right now that looks at the up and city cowboys of philadelphia, african american cowboys and cowgirls. that film is cold, concrete, cowboy, you can take a look at it right now. have a look. oh, all. tell us what even a lower it lower is really

a lead. wow. with i know you have with your daddy guy rules that you that abide by oh, no way you do your rub street. you might want to welcome back. welcome back to what i got your home in your church and own home with your mom money. and i'm a get a body here you, when you know there's to some major mental the night before. i mean you will follow everyone else on a me hello ricky. hello, greg. hello, aaron o connected to concrete,

cowboy in one way or another that tell you what that connection is. ricky, introduce yourself to our international audience. get to have you. yes, i'm ricky star, writer, director, county, cowboy. and i greg get to see introduce yourself. what's your connection? my name is greg mary. i am the author of the young adult novel, gentle cowboy, on which the film was based on. nice to have you. hello, aaron, a welcome to the stream. i think this may be a 1st, aaron. tell everybody who you are, what you do and you connection to the movie. i am aaron brown. i am the director of philadelphia ragging academy and also one of the original fletcher sheet writers. i'd say nice to have you. that is aaron, a whole conversation that this movie started about black cowboys and black coll goals. and i feel is an issue that if you know, you know, but if you don't, and you want to talk to erin and greg m ricky,

the best thing to do is jump into youtube comment section. and you too can be part of today's show. so, and if you know, you know, if you don't how do you start that conversation? eric stern conversation about black cowboys and black cow girls is something that has been not mainstreamed. so i guess you have to see it. and the conversation began there. i'm just looking at. yeah, you really have to see it. leave it. i think a lot of people have that same reaction. you know, even little kids. i see in those neighborhoods when they see a cow or a cowgirl riding by on a horse, they just had this look on the face like, you know, him, you know, a common thing. i heard even people i know who live in philadelphia the whole lives . maybe even 2 miles away from that neighborhood, never knew about this whole world because there's

a certain perception about strawberry mansion. and it's not, this story ransom is an area in fall and that's where this film takes place. but great before i move on to ricky, who tells the story in a movie, you also told the story in a young adult book that was incredibly popular. and this picture, this is a picture that a spy, a j. i mean, to show it to everybody, you tell everybody what you saw and what about like, you saw it? yeah, i mean i, i came across this photo us in life magazine. and, you know, one of the 1st images inside was a young, black boy standing on top of a horse in clearly what was the inner city. can you know, you have the same reaction that those kids have, which is like, what is this, you know? and you start flipping through these photos, you see black cowboys in philadelphia, what is going on in to me? that's where story lies because you know why they're black cowboys and horses in

north philly. you know that why is the story? i mean, things talk has happened, i accident, there's a reason and i wanted to know what it was. and so i just started again. and at the time, you know, put it into google and like nothing came out, nobody had written about it. there were no articles, no documentaries, nothing, no books. and so to me that is something, you know, as i started to slowly find out, make my way into that world. like this is something people need to know about. because not only was surprising, but i thought it was, you know, you know, full and heroic and, you know, these are voices that needed to be heard. little guy had tell us that your journey, your discovery of the how boys and black, how else i'm. i was very similar. i mean there's actually a scene in the movie, it's in the trailer as well that i feel like really articulate my own experiences.

what greg is talking about, where there's the young little boy and his mom on a bus and they see the riders coming by. and i really wanted to paint even particularly where it is in the movie this beauty, but also this locksmith that they're facing. like what if this community wasn't here and what if they want the little boys that could see these cowboys writing? but for me is i had a very similar experience where my 1st introduction to the cowboys in north philly was a gentleman riding in a truck, out buggy outside my office, which is less than a mile from fletcher street. and yeah, i had speakers in these huge tires of ran. fascinating, let alone that a horse was pulling it. yeah. and use the one they told me about fletcher 3 and then a google search. yeah. like what grade that. i didn't buy much, but i did find at that time greg book, which correct me if i'm wrong, greg. i think it was published in 2011 because i remember and 2012. when i read the

book. yeah. and i hear marketing man one day, that would be amazing movie when i'm ready to make movies and sell. yeah, it wasn't then until 2017 actually when i met eric miller was the 1st cowboy i met in court, actually my company, my production company, hired adults returning home from incarceration. eric had been home a week and told the judge that he had already purchased a horse, which i can quite fascinating here that every day in court. and aaron is one of eric's best friends, and i met her shortly after, and we talked about what can we do even then in 2017, knowing the perils that fletcher street were facing. you know, what can we do to create a permanent for these cowboys and cowgirls all over philadelphia who have been displaced. i know when we shows that that little boy with a horse and an aaron i could as a vocal admiration when you saw that paid to that, that life magazine paycheck. i want to play. you get that picture now. sorry,

i get the head. hey jerry, he that is a young guy named red. he was one of my original kids. he was a follow up mariam is able and he took care my horses. he and i watch them grow out . he's 2425. now i call them my son. on this i want to play to you and, and when we sort of tap dancing around the edge, if they did. but why do we not know, why do you have to what so hot to find out about a piece of american history? i don't say contemporary american life that we should know about his jennifer, his hassles, stuffiness and really enjoyed concrete cowboys. i grew up in houston, texas of black cowboys and rodeo of and c by folks my horses on city streets that also hold cars is nothing new to me. but this was my 1st introduction to that rich

tradition in philadelphia's black community. what i've been sitting with some fire father who am yesterday is the cruelty that has to be involved to take what little bit of that tradition is left there in philadelphia. and i think it's another example of how our place that rich history continues to be. whitewash. right. what i erin lang. greg every, everyone's got a jumping on this one avenue stop. greg. thing you finish. once upon a time. i mean, she's absolutely right. there were maybe about 3540 backyard stables where the urban black have we kept their horses and we never owned these facilities and they are, you know, with re development gentrification we had no control but to migrate to different

stables. and it's a piece of our history being washed away every time it happens and i've experienced it myself or fletcher street. and you know, these a lot of these flatter street horseman riders are family, you know, want to stable, closes down. we open up the doors and they've all migrated there, and these voices are a horseman. they are what make up our community. they are, you know, there's, there's nothing to bring them together like a club or anything there were just, you know, holding on in. we need something that's really ours to keep. you know, they can't be taken away from us because it is important history in philadelphia, we would arrive to different stables just to meet up and that's not happening any more records, there is barely any less. i mean, i think for cable color is just like

a history of hidden figures that have never been recognized across the board. and what i tell, you know, i worked with a young people and what i tell them, so you can't blame people for not knowing what they don't know, because they're only given a certain narrative. so it's up to us to you, to change that narrative, to use your voice, to tell your own stories, get your, those voices out there and represented. so, you know, it's just like there's so many cultures like this one, all these people who live within a couple my house never know about it. and the reason is like, you know, this perception on the news. this is the most dangerous neighborhood in north philly. you're not going to go there, you can avoid it, and structurally it's built. so you don't never have to interact with it even if you live, you know, within a couple miles of it, it's easy to avoid. and so therefore, you know, there's no ways to interact with this culture unless you find out about it,

unless those stories start to get told and start to penetrate deeper and people want to actually go there because it's like, oh, what is it? i like that out. i felt ricky after kind of a people are going to be hanging out. they just can't. this is way it is how low was and how yeah, i feel like it's kind of like we always like a movie place where everyone goes to, to check out the locations that aren't going to be tatting people away. i love it on my laptop, concrete, cowboy hit number one on netflix, on easter, just this past weekend. number one. fam ricky, what did you set out to do in the telling of this film with many people watching the show right now is rainy is watching. this on youtube, she says, i have never heard of black cowboys and cowgirls that going to be a lot of people who are going to be blowing them millions right now, including americans. right. so what did you set out to?

now i mean, this is to be honest, what we do is what we have accomplished, which was, you know, when i met eric, one of the things he told me was that when he was growing up, he loved westerns and he loved to be found. but there were no black cowboys represented in those stories. and so what he wanted to be able to leave for the youth that he was teaching and his own kids was to have a movie that showed black cowboys to give kid something to look for. and so to be able to see that representation happened in the film as a huge source of joy for me, you know, also he was well aware 4 years ago that fletcher street was facing gentrification issues. i mean, even to hear you say that, like currently right now the corral, the beautiful field where all the horses grays and the film is completely fenced off and dug up. the city is currently building affordable housing units. and so, you know, something that we've done with erin is actually originally we established a nonprofit with eric called the philadelphia urban riding academy. eric,

unfortunately, was killed a week before we went into practice on the film, tragically and his legacy it now living on through and through all the cowboys and cowgirls in that film to help find a home for, you know, all the cowboys and cowgirls across philadelphia that no longer have to be displaced permanently. it's important that they own the land. they own the barn because every time the city get them something, it's taken away. it's only a matter of time. and so, you know, i'm proud of them for seeing this through with us. we've been, you know, a 4 year journey at this point. it's going to continue. and thankfully, we're on this beautiful side of it. i was thrilled to wake up on sunday morning to see that it was number one. what did you, what do you, what did you face when you, when you saw your phone? she did that. the chef i was actually, i mean, everyone was texted me. i didn't i blew out. all right,

so it's on netflix right now. you can watch on netflix a little bit of the story line. so it's a fictional story. it's based on greg's book. but it is based on real life and cowboys, not just ones in philadelphia, but one thing brooklyn were around the united states where people don't realize that they're still there. so there's a question here really? yeah, yeah. go ahead with ricky. yeah. why don't you ok? yeah, really cool to see like i was trying to like respond to people on instagram and there's the cowboy and burbank, a black cowboy of community black and they actually all gathered at their barn to watch the film on opening night. you sending me pictures and a call to the, you know, other cowboys and cowgirls around fairly, but yeah, the community do exist across the country and do the same parallels that what

you're street. ready a thing and so i don't know when the came out. yeah. you know, and i traveled around the country, what i thought was this little subculture that exist really, you know, black riders came out to see me everywhere from new york to l. a. seattle, tampa, chicago, st. louis like every corner of the united states. they would come out to see me on their horses, you know, majors and it was a really beautiful thing. it's like, ok, this is a real thing. yeah. and then you start to find out about, you know, this incredibly rich history of like how boys in the old west, you know, and where, you know, one and 4 cowboys are black and, and batteries have been the basis for the lone ranger and all the stories are pretty remarkable. a lot of people and a slave. and greg, aaron and rickie at the end of this show because they going to be going off of that

cowboys and black. how goes this? is kate a, she is a school teacher, greg, and she has a question precisely for you. have a listen and then also one of the back of have a comment. so little bit of a back story. my students and i are the past few years have read again. ok, william book lives and my sins are actually scheduled to have an author visit with mr. neary last year by due to unforeseen circumstances he was unable to attend. so this exciting, i forget to pose one of their questions, some ascending, i says i'd like to know what was the hardest part about changing your book into a film. a lot of times others are very close to their work. and now when you have a found that you're going to make you have other people who give their input. so what was the most challenging part during that whole process? well luckily for ricky, i started off as a filmmaker, so i knew the difference between a book and a movie. and that anyone who literally translate book is not gonna end up with

a good movie. probably i'm. so to me the most important thing is to if you say yes to a filmmaker that you let them do their job and try not to bug them too much. wow . and so for me was mostly like, he is production company was in the area. he knew the community, he understood the issues, you know, the most important thing that, you know, he wanted to honestly represent this community and it's people and the issues they deal with it. you know, he had an interest in social justice, all these things and i was interested in. and so to me like i could see you have the same instincts in the same drive and reasons to tell the story. so, you know, once i heard that then aside, yes, go ahead. you know, of course i'll say some things, but you know, i didn't ever expect him to actually do any of the suggestions as long as i just

said owns ok. so talk about, i think it is obvious when we, when we look off all 3 of the in the you that your coaching, your background is going to be some quacks going to be different, some errands. i knew it also on youtube. people should be telling their own history, then have to wait for someone to tell the world your history. the way that you worked. ricky was really interesting. the way that you got into the community. there was a phrase in the states about is, is this person going to be invited to the cookout? you went to mexico and i feel took out cod is good for the rest of basically a wait for the rest of the work is you will have a family gathering a would you invite someone from outside of your family outside of your culture to come to that family gathering, that is the sort say, how did you get your lifetime invitation to the cookout ricky, what did you do?

well, it really was, you know, as eric it was aaron. it was male who plays paris and the film. and it was all these folks about one by one, you know, to give eric credit. you know, he was the 1st one that said if you're going to come around, you got to stay around, you know? and so i remember the 1st time i went down to fletcher street, he made me get up on a horse. so that's the 1st thing you do. you got to prove that they up on a or which that was my 1st time on a horse ever hand. i'm watching or you are cars, terrifying, but i definitely did it. and then he, you know, you'd invite me to the barbecue. hang out. but i was well aware of what it meant to be entrusted to be telling that story and why, you know, when i approached greg, i said collectively we love your book. i loved a lot of thing about the book one. i love the characters the way that there was an in the story, but i think it was going to be most helpful for the community that it was

a fictionalized tale that, that way we can incorporate a fuller body like the legacy, a pleasure street, all the cowboys and cowgirls, it was helpful for them to have this framework where we weren't trying to do like a documentary about clint day. and so the process became really beautiful because all of these voices became additive. and the more that they influenced the adaptation, the more i felt like it was going to be true and authentic in my delivery of it. because i said that the eric and mil, where my closest collaborators, that you know, i know i can direct, i know it can, right? i know i have the talent, but i have not lived your stories. so you need to, i need to be a conduit for those for all the tail the now. so it's from sitting around a barbecue to, you know, aaron took me to the auction. i mean, literally introducing me to anyone and everyone who i could sit and lend them here to and that part of it was, was like 2 or 3 years of that was so beautiful. you did

a lot of law getting in silva to yeah, i was like, oh, when did you like what it was like from you having other people come in trying to tell you stories? oh, we're pretty, pretty much used to what you see. people come through all of the time and they get their little, ah, product or how this little short story, you know, they give you a check. they don't really, you know, care. so you know, when i met ricky, i'm like, ok, here we go. again. i was like, you know, getting to know him in and what they were a bow and you could tell who they were really genuine with everything they were doing. and they really care to even try to help take the next step because you these, you know, writers and everything that the community fees, you know,

we don't have a voice sell him telling her story. and putting us out there means the world to us . and because it is and i'm forgotten culture that's in the process of being wiped away as we speak. so ricky, dan, the whole neighborhood family, they always have a cookout card and i opened up their personal doors to ask their their offices, their homes. so if you bear an amazing group, a gas threat, you got to tell me this matter. yeah. narry is watching the show right now. i am guessing is a relative such a great movie, especially right now say congrats, ricky, and of course, my bro. here, brother, business is aaron aaron, can you talk about how many kids are involved in writing and talk about the funding needed? i would, i'm just going to put up this here, raising money for

a permanent stable. he watched the movie your see the cowboys and the cowboys. they lose their home, but they say we never lose our family like we are family. but if you look here, where posted as well on, i ha, streams, twitter page raising money for a permanent stable. so that you can support the real life cowboys and cowgirls of philadelphia. ricky, greg aaron, it's been fun writing with the to day. thank you so much. you to was. thank you for the questions. ah, the number one hit film on netflix right here on my laptop, concrete, cowboy, thanks for watching everybody. i see you next time. ah .

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