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🗓️ 15 December 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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0:00.0 | What makes an icon? A superstar? A runaway success? It's something we've been thinking |
0:06.3 | about a lot this season of making. Every week we've looked at an influential figure, talking |
0:12.0 | with their family, their closest friends and collaborators, and there's one thing that's |
0:16.6 | really stuck with us. For every one of these figures, it's not just a matter of how, |
0:22.4 | I just a matter of what, but when? Like Robin, Rihanna, Fenty, when did her story change |
0:30.6 | from Island Girl with a Dream to Island Girl with a Chance? Or Jesse Jackson, whose childhood |
0:37.2 | pierced he's to him, called him a bastard child, when did the schoolyard taunts turn |
0:42.5 | from discouragement to ammunition? Or Frederick Douglass, enslaved and exploited, when did |
0:50.3 | he alter the course of his own future? From WB Easy Chicago, this is Making. I'm Brandon |
0:58.8 | Pope. And today we're looking back at some of the key moments from this season of making, |
1:04.1 | the super critical win moments, the maker break moments, the put up or shut up moments |
1:10.0 | that change the course of a life and oftentimes the course of history. The fight was everything. |
1:17.8 | You want to come up and take a shot at this. He respectfully told her, call me what you |
1:23.0 | want. You'll be proud to note this bastard. It was that moment where everybody had |
1:27.3 | saw the video. They went, who is that? Yeah, I just turned to one of my assistant coaches |
1:33.3 | and I said, this kid's going to be a pro. That's coming up on Making in just a minute. |
1:40.8 | Whether you're a wanderer or a homebody, you're always going places with WB Easy. As long |
1:52.1 | as you have your phone, we can go everywhere together. Listen on the WB Easy mobile app |
1:56.7 | every day. |
2:02.2 | Over this season of making, there's been something that's really stuck with us. For every iconic |
2:07.3 | figure we profiled, there's usually one defining moment, often early on in their lives when |
2:14.2 | everything changed. Today on the show, we're looking at a few of those moments. And first |
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