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Toure Show

Nick Jones Jr.–I Am Obama's Friend

Toure Show

DCP Entertainment

Society & Culture, Arts, Performing Arts

4.8880 Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2021

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

To hear this awesome conversation go to http://patreon.com/toureshow and subscribe. For just $5 a month you get 4 Friday Patreon exclusives and the full version of our Wednesday shows and you get to help us keep making this show! Nick Jones Jr. was a Marine for many years but he left to become a Hollywood screenwriter and is now working on Yasuke on Netflix. We talk about the Marines, getting to know Barack Obama and the life-changing advice he got from him, and his life as a screenwriter. Toure Show Episode 258 Host & Writer: Touré Senior Producer: Jackie Garofano Assistant Producer: Adell Coleman Editor: Ryan Woodhall Photographers: Chuck Marcus and Shanta Covington Booker: Claudia Jean The House: DCP Entertainment Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Good Tour racial, okay though, good tour race show, okay though. It's not every day I get to interview a marine and talk about what was it like to be in the

0:25.7

Marines but then you're talking to this marine who's become a screenwriter and he's

0:30.7

like yeah well you know it was Obama who told me I should go be a screenwriter.

0:36.3

And I was like, wait, wait, wait, what?

0:38.4

You're friends with Obama?

0:41.0

Nick Jones explains. Explades.

0:43.0

Influencer, it's a word that gets tossed around a lot these days.

0:48.0

There is a woman who went the distance, who broke ground as the first true influencer by living a remarkable life.

0:56.0

Her name Elizabeth Taylor.

0:59.0

I'm Katie Perry.

1:01.0

This is the story of the original influencer. This is Elizabeth the first.

1:09.2

Elizabeth the first, the podcast, wherever you listen.

1:13.8

You went to the New York Film Academy,

1:15.6

and I think that's really interesting.

1:16.7

I think a lot of people, including myself,

1:19.0

have looked at that and said,

1:21.4

is that really how it could be done? You know I went there because

1:27.2

President Obama told me to go. Hold on hold on hold on. What did you I love like the

1:32.4

name drop.

1:33.0

You mean like, specifically he told you to go there?

1:36.5

What that mean?

1:37.8

So this is after my first deployment.

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