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Broke box officers records when it came out. 0:01:41.560 --> 0:01:43.959 It's a new year. She's back in a Tyler Perry's 0:01:44.760 --> 0:01:47.319 but DIA's Family Reunion, which is the eleventh movie I 0:01:47.360 --> 0:01:50.000 believe in this series of Tyler Perry movies, which opens 0:01:50.080 --> 0:01:54.440 nationwide on Watch. First. Please welcome to money Making Conversations 0:01:54.440 --> 0:02:00.440 for the very first time. Cassie Davis at that here 0:02:01.440 --> 0:02:04.840 head clamps and uh, no, I tell we don't do 0:02:04.920 --> 0:02:07.320 music on this show, and we don't do special effects. 0:02:07.360 --> 0:02:11.399 We'll do that, we'll do that. What that's you all 0:02:11.639 --> 0:02:19.919 special sick? And you said, you know, you go way back. 0:02:20.080 --> 0:02:23.240 You can say whatever, but you know, just no, no, no, 0:02:22.800 --> 0:02:25.320 no words that give me, give me, give me a 0:02:25.320 --> 0:02:27.680 little show taken off there. But what I can't tell 0:02:27.680 --> 0:02:30.160 you this now. We can't cuss on the you know, 0:02:30.200 --> 0:02:34.120 we don't serious exam but were on publicly, we're on 0:02:34.160 --> 0:02:41.040 free radio, free radio. Amen. Let's we go way back. 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:44.600 We go way back to Steve Harvy, way back Dallas, 0:02:44.639 --> 0:02:50.760 Steve Harvey, way back, one back, all the way back 0:02:50.800 --> 0:02:54.400 there and I and I always saw a talented young 0:02:54.560 --> 0:02:58.000 lady and you're still a talented young lady. And then 0:02:58.240 --> 0:03:02.200 and then uh, because she's just got singing, Rasha, you 0:03:02.320 --> 0:03:06.720 were so encouraging back there. I was, um, I was 0:03:06.760 --> 0:03:11.880 a personal assistant, and I just watched your expertise and 0:03:11.919 --> 0:03:15.320 just watched how you handled all of the business or 0:03:15.400 --> 0:03:18.640 handled the business. And I was inspired. And I knew 0:03:18.639 --> 0:03:21.640 that I, you know, had an inkling for acting, but 0:03:21.720 --> 0:03:24.239 I had had been burnt so much and I just 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:26.120 got out of the business and I just said, you 0:03:26.480 --> 0:03:28.080 know what, this is not for me. Let me just 0:03:28.440 --> 0:03:31.080 assist some people. And that's that I went over there. 0:03:31.080 --> 0:03:34.240 I started working at Wendy rock Hill's school, Amazing Grace 0:03:34.280 --> 0:03:38.760 Conservatory in California, and and I was a personal assistant 0:03:38.760 --> 0:03:42.880 for Mr Harvey and Mrs Harvey and um, and I 0:03:42.960 --> 0:03:45.520 just had a great time doing that. I was the 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:47.720 minister of music at my church and I just said, 0:03:47.800 --> 0:03:49.480 this is where I'm going to be for the rest. 0:03:50.080 --> 0:03:55.240 And then I went to Winston Salem, North Carolina, and 0:03:55.240 --> 0:03:57.160 and I was doing a favor for somebody. I was 0:03:57.240 --> 0:03:59.400 in a place for about ten minutes and Mr Perry 0:03:59.520 --> 0:04:02.120 was there, and that man came through and I was 0:04:02.160 --> 0:04:05.000 just like, what a man is a dress? Now I'm good. 0:04:05.120 --> 0:04:06.960 I'm just gonna stay all over here with Steve. Now 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:09.960 I'm good. Thank you though Mr Perry, and he was like, no, 0:04:10.160 --> 0:04:11.560 I really want you to be a partner of it. 0:04:11.600 --> 0:04:14.080 I enjoyed your performance. And I said okay. And then 0:04:14.080 --> 0:04:16.920 one of my preacher friends intervened and said, a food, 0:04:17.120 --> 0:04:19.320 that man is calling you and you're not gonna go out. 0:04:19.400 --> 0:04:21.960 I was like, no, no, I'm good. She said, hey, 0:04:22.000 --> 0:04:24.400 you're for a miss God. I called Mr Perry in 0:04:24.440 --> 0:04:27.120 two thousand four, Rashawn, and I've been rolling with that 0:04:27.160 --> 0:04:30.480 man ever since. When I tell you he is a quickening, 0:04:30.560 --> 0:04:33.080 That's what I referred to him. Man, He's a quickening. 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:36.360 And that is just simply when you are dead and lying, 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:39.560 dormant and you need something to just jolt you and 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:42.080 bring you back to life. That is what Tyler Parry 0:04:42.160 --> 0:04:46.360 did for me. And he just really reinfirmed and reinstated 0:04:46.480 --> 0:04:51.200 my whole belief in acting and performing and being before people. 0:04:51.320 --> 0:04:54.080 And I knew I had a gift, you know, to 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:58.919 be before people only because I didn't need, uh, the accolades, 0:04:59.000 --> 0:05:01.320 and I don't I don't need and want to glorify me. 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:03.800 I just really like doing what I'm doing and I 0:05:03.960 --> 0:05:07.320 like making people laugh and I love having fun. And 0:05:07.520 --> 0:05:10.320 Mr Parry just came in right on time because just 0:05:10.480 --> 0:05:12.960 he's just awesome and so I had a great time. 0:05:13.480 --> 0:05:15.200 And uh, I went out with him in two thousand 0:05:15.240 --> 0:05:16.839 and four, and I've been working with him ever since. 0:05:17.240 --> 0:05:20.680 And I heard you say my DIA's Family's funeral family reunion, 0:05:20.680 --> 0:05:24.839 but it's really my DIA's Family's Funeral's family funeral. A 0:05:24.960 --> 0:05:29.200 hunt that's coming out March one, and um it is hilarious. 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:32.560 And uh, my whole ride with Mr Parry has just 0:05:33.000 --> 0:05:36.320 been beautiful. I mean my ride with with with with 0:05:36.560 --> 0:05:40.600 Mr with Steve was great. And Michelle and you has 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:44.360 just taught me so much and so I just appreciate 0:05:44.440 --> 0:05:46.359 all of you. Let me let me ask you this, 0:05:46.440 --> 0:05:49.360 Cassie on the phone with Cassie David's winning incredible talents. 0:05:49.400 --> 0:05:52.080 You've seen her face, Yester David's pattern, Rashwan, you don't 0:05:52.120 --> 0:05:54.839 know that I'm married. I'm married my high school sweetheart. 0:05:56.680 --> 0:06:01.560 That ain't that. Ain't into that by your points? You 0:06:01.600 --> 0:06:04.440 need a you know what I'm saying, and put that first. 0:06:04.560 --> 0:06:06.840 You know the little patterns right there, ain't nothing that 0:06:07.960 --> 0:06:12.080 and nothing. It wasn't on my portal or nothing. Happily marriage, Yes, 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:15.280 that's happily. Then the last name was it B A 0:06:15.400 --> 0:06:20.280 D T O N any baby? Yeah, and looked I've 0:06:20.279 --> 0:06:23.159 known him since third grade. He was reaching to the 0:06:23.200 --> 0:06:27.359 class in first grade, Yes, sir, the booming metropolis of 0:06:27.400 --> 0:06:32.400 Holly Spring. Yes, got your Holly Spring daddy. Oh yeah, 0:06:32.440 --> 0:06:35.440 I have versus this solid as a rock. I love, 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:38.240 I mean love, been in love. Let me just cast 0:06:38.839 --> 0:06:41.120 because because I know her, I know her, you know 0:06:41.240 --> 0:06:44.000 she she she was content when she's talking about being 0:06:44.000 --> 0:06:47.719 his sister minister of music. She thought that was her life. 0:06:48.080 --> 0:06:52.520 But now as that you are famous, you know that, Emma, Yeah, 0:06:52.520 --> 0:06:55.360 you know you're famous people. I need to get her Instagram, 0:06:55.440 --> 0:06:57.240 I need to get Facebook, I need to get some 0:06:57.560 --> 0:06:59.760 I need some young people around me teach me back 0:06:59.760 --> 0:07:02.760 and that they need to go bout typewriter. I got them. 0:07:02.880 --> 0:07:05.279 I can tell you about typewriter. Keys don't know about typewriter. 0:07:05.680 --> 0:07:08.279 But I need help with all this Instagram and social 0:07:08.320 --> 0:07:11.400 media group that's new for me, you know. But I 0:07:11.440 --> 0:07:14.880 tell you, um, I'm not on it, and that's not 0:07:15.040 --> 0:07:19.320 really active in the social but um these young people 0:07:19.520 --> 0:07:22.720 that but but I but I still reach lots of people. 0:07:22.800 --> 0:07:25.960 And I'm in an airport right now because we're on 0:07:26.040 --> 0:07:30.920 tour with Tyler's Farewell but Dia played tour and I'm 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:34.080 going from Columbia, South Carolina to Memphis, Tennessee. And you 0:07:34.120 --> 0:07:37.520 know about Memphis, that's like ab I'm a suburb of 0:07:37.920 --> 0:07:43.320 suburb of how He's a suburb suburb of Memphis, Tennessee, 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:47.360 The booming metropolis of Holly Springs Mississippi until I'm on 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:50.160 my way home to be with my people, and I'm 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:54.920 excited with Sean. It's just good. Yeah, because of the 0:07:54.920 --> 0:07:58.200 fact that when you when you talk about live stage, 0:07:58.200 --> 0:08:00.840 that's what you're on, a live stage tour. And then 0:08:00.880 --> 0:08:04.080 you've done television and you've done many films. What you 0:08:04.480 --> 0:08:06.560 like the most because you're a comedian. You're a comedian 0:08:06.640 --> 0:08:10.160 now d and at hard you are a singing comedian. 0:08:11.880 --> 0:08:14.920 Thank you give me a definition of this thing called life. 0:08:14.960 --> 0:08:17.160 I don't know, Rachel. I'll let me tell you. I 0:08:17.480 --> 0:08:22.240 enjoy each medium. I really do. Live theater, there's nothing 0:08:22.320 --> 0:08:25.080 better than just you know. You know what's amazing to 0:08:25.120 --> 0:08:29.000 me is that these theaters, ten thousand people in one setting, 0:08:29.360 --> 0:08:32.640 all strangers, not knowing each other, but they're laughing at 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:36.880 the same time, um, crying at the same time, and 0:08:37.000 --> 0:08:41.280 they're enjoying Medea, they enjoyed Tyliperia. They're coming out because 0:08:41.320 --> 0:08:44.640 of Tylip Area. Now my job to me is its 0:08:44.760 --> 0:08:47.920 Mr Perious pleased, and I've done my job. But when 0:08:47.920 --> 0:08:50.079 those people come out and I have to come out 0:08:50.120 --> 0:08:53.560 for a curtain call, and they're they're rooting and cheering 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:58.160 and screaming and clapping for me, it is just um 0:08:58.280 --> 0:09:01.920 unbelievable because you know, Sean, you know, I don't have 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:04.920 any acting classes. I've never had it, and you know, 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:07.240 and I don't have that agent and manager. So I 0:09:07.400 --> 0:09:11.680 sometimes I feel like I'm an illegitimate actress or actor. 0:09:12.040 --> 0:09:15.120 But I still serve the same God that that just 0:09:15.160 --> 0:09:18.480 surpasses all of the norms and all of the things 0:09:18.480 --> 0:09:21.480 that are natural or supposed to be done. But he 0:09:21.679 --> 0:09:28.160 I like my testimony, so um, it's to be eased 0:09:28.200 --> 0:09:32.040 to is it really really really is? And you say 0:09:32.040 --> 0:09:35.440 I'm famous, and and sometimes I sometimes I believe it 0:09:35.600 --> 0:09:40.080 because um, just because of all the people that that 0:09:40.240 --> 0:09:42.200 greet me, you know, and they're just like, is that 0:09:42.400 --> 0:09:45.120 you do? You know who you are? And I'm just like, no, 0:09:45.600 --> 0:09:48.240 well you know what I do, but I don't think 0:09:48.280 --> 0:09:51.320 you do. Sometimes. The funny point about about you is 0:09:51.360 --> 0:09:55.760 that because she's so humble, she really really is so humble, 0:09:56.040 --> 0:09:59.120 and so if she so when she walks in a 0:09:59.240 --> 0:10:01.560 certain people, for I'll tell you, when you start talking 0:10:01.559 --> 0:10:04.679 about her resume, let's start power tied to it, that's 0:10:04.720 --> 0:10:07.559 recognition tied to it. So what happens is when people 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:11.080 walk up to her she's so humble. You question, that's 0:10:11.160 --> 0:10:14.679 the star. You go, nah, now she'd be acting a 0:10:14.679 --> 0:10:18.160 little bit different. What the what the bodyguards all? That 0:10:18.280 --> 0:10:21.280 can't be herd sitting over there in that chair by herself, 0:10:21.320 --> 0:10:23.960 that can't be her. A chick filate. I can't believe 0:10:24.120 --> 0:10:28.079 that's her. And so that's what that's what people are. 0:10:28.160 --> 0:10:30.280 Because of the fact that so they come over to it, 0:10:30.320 --> 0:10:32.920 they go, are you? They always they would lean to 0:10:32.960 --> 0:10:35.679 the right, Are you who you do? You know who 0:10:35.679 --> 0:10:38.199 you remind me of? And I just said to I 0:10:38.360 --> 0:10:43.320 really do you like her? Yeah? We love her? Oh well, 0:10:43.360 --> 0:10:47.360 then this is a compliment here you know that's me. 0:10:47.679 --> 0:10:50.080 You don't out of here, you know that's me. And 0:10:50.120 --> 0:10:53.600 so it's really a beautiful, beautiful writing. I get to meet. 0:10:53.600 --> 0:10:57.959 Oh but with television and movies, um, you know, those 0:10:58.000 --> 0:11:01.360 things go way way way across the seeds. And to 0:11:01.440 --> 0:11:04.439 be in Jamaica somewhere trying to have a vacation and 0:11:04.440 --> 0:11:07.240 and there are people with those beautiful accents saying, oh 0:11:07.280 --> 0:11:09.560 they good. I don't make me. I can't do the 0:11:09.600 --> 0:11:13.679 access right. How about to mess up you know from 0:11:13.679 --> 0:11:18.719 missing so but they but they're so excited. Rashan and 0:11:18.720 --> 0:11:22.599 and their their messages that Mr Perry um gives it 0:11:22.800 --> 0:11:27.120 that that blesses people's lives and continues to motivate people 0:11:27.160 --> 0:11:30.200 and keep them dreaming and you know, keep them full 0:11:30.240 --> 0:11:32.440 of life. And you know sometimes people come up and say, 0:11:32.559 --> 0:11:36.760 my grandmother used to watch you and um and I 0:11:36.880 --> 0:11:39.280 just watched how much joy you guys brought her. And 0:11:39.320 --> 0:11:41.440 some of them have passed away. And then it's just 0:11:41.520 --> 0:11:43.280 I mean, like we had to make a wish. Young 0:11:43.360 --> 0:11:45.839 lady come out and she knew all of our lives. 0:11:45.880 --> 0:11:49.000 She couldn't really talk very well, but you know, she 0:11:49.120 --> 0:11:51.840 was standing there in front of me and talking and saying, 0:11:51.880 --> 0:11:54.000 I'm bamn, I know your lives and I know this 0:11:54.160 --> 0:11:56.960 and that, and they're repeating those things and that stuff. Man, 0:11:58.040 --> 0:12:01.319 you can't buy that. It's just a beautiful moment. It's 0:12:01.360 --> 0:12:03.920 a wonderful, wonderful thing to be a part of. And 0:12:03.960 --> 0:12:08.160 I'm just I'm great, I'm grateful, gracious to for everything 0:12:08.160 --> 0:12:11.079 that for the whole journey. Well, we got on the phone. 0:12:11.080 --> 0:12:14.360 Here's Cassie Davis Patton. You know I got to get 0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:17.880 that in now because she made a change, because you 0:12:17.920 --> 0:12:21.200 don't have certain because she don't have social media, so 0:12:21.240 --> 0:12:24.800 she can't make announcements like everybody else social media. Everybody 0:12:24.840 --> 0:12:27.000 would have known, but we should have to find out 0:12:27.040 --> 0:12:29.640 on his show live and in person. We're gonna be 0:12:29.679 --> 0:12:32.040 right back because I really want to break down. Uh, 0:12:32.080 --> 0:12:35.480 this is the fining stallmon of Tyler Perry's madea family 0:12:35.640 --> 0:12:42.360 Funeral coming out March first shot right here in Georgia. Ah, 0:12:42.440 --> 0:12:47.640 I guess, uh, Cassie Davis's Patton in seventeen. She changed 0:12:47.640 --> 0:12:51.560 her name for good reason. She's married. She's married to 0:12:51.640 --> 0:12:57.680 a young man's childhood because childhood friend. And somebody said, 0:12:58.200 --> 0:13:00.679 you know, I ways tell people look act Sometimes you 0:13:00.720 --> 0:13:02.520 look back and you look next to you look right left, 0:13:02.559 --> 0:13:04.280 that's the person you're supposed to be with. So many 0:13:04.280 --> 0:13:06.560 people looking too far away and don't see who they're 0:13:06.559 --> 0:13:10.520 supposed to be with. But Holly Sprains, Mississippi, it's the 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:14.600 person she's with. Now, you got a movie coming out, 0:13:15.160 --> 0:13:17.760 Tyler Perry. Now. Now in the in the notes they 0:13:17.800 --> 0:13:21.000 say right here that Tyler Perry does not die in 0:13:21.000 --> 0:13:27.720 this movie. Correct the character Medea, That is correct. The 0:13:27.800 --> 0:13:31.600 funeral is not Medea's funeral, right, because I want to 0:13:31.600 --> 0:13:34.520 make sure it's a feral, so give us a little 0:13:34.520 --> 0:13:37.360 short synopsis old on this whole thing, because look, let 0:13:37.400 --> 0:13:39.280 me just let me just say this. You are a 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:43.319 character that has been developed in this series, so we 0:13:43.440 --> 0:13:45.800 got a sense of walking in when you come on screen. 0:13:46.200 --> 0:13:50.520 Who you are? Correct? Okay? Cool? So when when the 0:13:50.559 --> 0:13:53.599 scripts come to you or do they allow you to 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:56.200 make any adjustments to it? Just say, hey, can I 0:13:56.200 --> 0:13:59.000 say it this way? How much flexibility do you have 0:13:59.080 --> 0:14:01.960 in the script with your care You have to be 0:14:02.000 --> 0:14:04.880 honest with you because I've worked with Tyler for over 0:14:05.440 --> 0:14:11.559 fifteen years. He really does trust me as um an 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:16.560 actor who will um approach his peace with integrity. But 0:14:17.120 --> 0:14:21.760 usually his his writing is already there, and he writes 0:14:21.840 --> 0:14:25.120 because he knows what I will say, but because you know, 0:14:25.160 --> 0:14:28.680 he has so many other projects on the table. Sometimes 0:14:28.720 --> 0:14:31.200 I will say, well, Mr Barry, do you mind if 0:14:31.240 --> 0:14:34.200 I try this or if I ever try this? And 0:14:34.280 --> 0:14:36.960 if it works for him then he will allow it. 0:14:37.200 --> 0:14:40.400 But if it doesn't, it's sign um you know it doesn't. 0:14:40.440 --> 0:14:43.000 Sometimes he'll say, oh, Cassie, you do you do you 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:45.080 remember two years ago when you said blah blah blah 0:14:45.080 --> 0:14:47.200 blah blah blah, could you try that again? Yes? Sir, 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:50.320 I sure can. So he gives me liberty, but it's 0:14:50.320 --> 0:14:54.440 still his work. So um, I approach it as such. 0:14:54.720 --> 0:14:56.840 I don't try to get in there and just do 0:14:56.920 --> 0:14:59.160 my own group. Do you know, I'm funny Tyler, and 0:14:59.200 --> 0:15:01.200 you know I'm this. You know I'm no no, no, 0:15:01.200 --> 0:15:04.360 no no. This is the Sand's work. And um, and 0:15:04.440 --> 0:15:07.680 the only way you prosper in your own group is 0:15:07.720 --> 0:15:10.560 to make sure that you take care of another man's stuff. 0:15:10.800 --> 0:15:12.840 So that's what I do. I go in. I approach 0:15:12.880 --> 0:15:16.440 it very humbly, as you said. And um sometimes I 0:15:16.440 --> 0:15:18.480 can slip a little joke in and he'll say, oh 0:15:18.560 --> 0:15:21.640 my god, well let's keep that. That's funny. Okay, let's 0:15:21.720 --> 0:15:24.600 keep that, and so um, I really do try to 0:15:24.640 --> 0:15:27.760 do what he pens. Well, you know, I'm just day 0:15:27.880 --> 0:15:31.360 some funeral. Now. Well in the history, you know, just 0:15:31.400 --> 0:15:34.840 a black film. We all know they can be long winded, 0:15:34.960 --> 0:15:37.760 they could be uh when they've done right comedically, they 0:15:37.760 --> 0:15:40.360 could be historical. Just tell us how it leads up 0:15:40.360 --> 0:15:43.160 to this? What was the what's the what's the storyline 0:15:43.200 --> 0:15:49.760 that runs through this movie? Medea, the storyline that runs 0:15:49.760 --> 0:15:54.280 through this whole movie. It's Media's family member, and um, 0:15:54.320 --> 0:15:57.160 I don't want to give it away, Rashwan, but okay, cool, No, 0:15:57.200 --> 0:16:04.560 we just someone someone some dies in her family and um, 0:16:04.600 --> 0:16:09.040 and it's and Medea has to eventually conduct the funeral, 0:16:09.640 --> 0:16:13.600 which is a less but it's just it's but it's 0:16:13.640 --> 0:16:18.360 heart felt and it's indicative of that funeral thing. You 0:16:18.400 --> 0:16:22.080 know how sometimes some funerals are so sad. All of 0:16:22.080 --> 0:16:25.400 them really are sad to somebody, but there's always that 0:16:25.640 --> 0:16:28.240 one something that's just like, why did you do that? 0:16:28.400 --> 0:16:31.840 Or why did somebody do that? So I think Mr 0:16:31.920 --> 0:16:35.720 Perry was just trying to bring to light the likeness 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:39.720 of of of how funerals go and how you know, 0:16:39.800 --> 0:16:43.640 death is so final and it's so hard felt, but 0:16:44.040 --> 0:16:47.480 even in that sad moment, you can still find joy 0:16:47.520 --> 0:16:50.240 and you can still find peace and there's always something 0:16:50.240 --> 0:16:53.760 funny happening. Let's go back a little bit, uh your 0:16:53.800 --> 0:16:58.520 spell mcgrad and yeah, let me let me just interject. 0:16:58.680 --> 0:17:03.240 I was a senior for in years and yet and 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:06.560 I left in college in nine and that's when I 0:17:06.600 --> 0:17:09.600 came to California and started working. I came to California 0:17:09.680 --> 0:17:12.679 for two weeks for sean, and I left fourteen years 0:17:12.760 --> 0:17:17.000 later and so when I met him with Mr Perry, Yes, 0:17:17.359 --> 0:17:19.639 when I met up with Mr Perry, he brought me 0:17:19.680 --> 0:17:23.000 back to Atlanta to work on House of Pain. And 0:17:23.119 --> 0:17:24.800 I was in Atlanta and I was I just went 0:17:24.800 --> 0:17:27.520 off the Stone College and said, look, I want my degree. 0:17:28.040 --> 0:17:31.119 And I went over and I went in February, and 0:17:31.160 --> 0:17:33.560 they said, Cassie, you cave in just enough time. If 0:17:33.560 --> 0:17:37.480 you do not get this one credit, that's right, one 0:17:37.600 --> 0:17:41.119 credit by December, you're gonna lose all of your credits. 0:17:41.359 --> 0:17:45.760 So God's timing is just perfect. I'm telling you, He's 0:17:45.800 --> 0:17:48.680 in order. And so when I lost my mind back 0:17:48.720 --> 0:17:51.880 in ninety nine and ninety nine and one and decided 0:17:51.920 --> 0:17:55.520 I was gonna be grown, and God restored it, brought 0:17:55.520 --> 0:17:58.760 it all back to uh to its rightful place, and 0:17:58.920 --> 0:18:01.359 I got in there just enough time, and I graduated. 0:18:01.400 --> 0:18:07.359 Actually I graduated with Steve's daughter from so and when. Yeah, 0:18:07.400 --> 0:18:10.280 they were at my graduations. So it was just perfect, 0:18:11.000 --> 0:18:15.159 you know, win it in my heart? Um uh So 0:18:15.359 --> 0:18:17.239 it was just a great moment. So I graduated from 0:18:17.240 --> 0:18:20.679 Spelma College, yes, sir, in nineteen Uh no, it was 0:18:21.359 --> 0:18:26.240 two nine, yeah, but I got the spelment in four. 0:18:26.440 --> 0:18:29.919 So that's that's a testiment of wanting to complete something. 0:18:29.960 --> 0:18:32.840 Like you said, I would tell people, you know, there's 0:18:32.880 --> 0:18:34.520 a lot of things we go through life and we 0:18:34.640 --> 0:18:37.120 just let you just don't complete. And if you don't 0:18:37.119 --> 0:18:39.919 complete things, then it always feels like what have I 0:18:39.960 --> 0:18:42.080 really done in my life? And so and I obviously 0:18:42.119 --> 0:18:45.400 tell me about education, they can't report a degree. Once 0:18:45.440 --> 0:18:47.600 you get that plaque onund that wall. Bad credit can't 0:18:47.600 --> 0:18:49.880 take it down. Somebody can't come and go I want 0:18:49.920 --> 0:18:53.200 it back. So that's that's a that's a strong pride 0:18:53.240 --> 0:18:55.560 for moment in your life. Correct. I did that, Yes, sir, 0:18:55.760 --> 0:18:59.800 it was. It was the most important moment in my life. 0:19:00.080 --> 0:19:04.560 Was a sacrifice made by my parents and um and 0:19:04.760 --> 0:19:10.560 money galore and time for me and and you know, again, 0:19:10.600 --> 0:19:12.760 I thought I was grown and I was trying to 0:19:12.760 --> 0:19:15.480 move out on my own, and and I left Stelma 0:19:15.560 --> 0:19:18.200 College with that one hour to graduate. I just needed 0:19:18.240 --> 0:19:20.880 to do my senior recital and I didn't want to 0:19:20.880 --> 0:19:23.359 send there and do classical music. So I really thought 0:19:23.359 --> 0:19:25.480 I was standing up for what I thought was right 0:19:26.000 --> 0:19:28.040 because they said I couldn't do a gospel song. So 0:19:28.080 --> 0:19:30.040 I was just like, hey, do a gospel song then 0:19:30.080 --> 0:19:32.240 just like get it. I'm not I do that at all, 0:19:32.320 --> 0:19:35.680 but a man, that's kind of stupid. And so UM. 0:19:35.800 --> 0:19:37.720 When I came back, they were they allowed me to 0:19:37.840 --> 0:19:42.680 do UM a showcase. So I used about twenty seven 0:19:42.720 --> 0:19:45.680 of the Spellman Knights that were there during that time, 0:19:45.720 --> 0:19:48.800 young ladies, and and my program went very well. They 0:19:48.880 --> 0:19:52.080 accepted everything I presented. And and I got my degree 0:19:52.440 --> 0:19:56.359 with Sean in December of two thousand eight. And I 0:19:56.520 --> 0:20:00.960 marched and I walked, you know, and with snapping down 0:20:01.080 --> 0:20:04.080 and all of that, and it was just beautiful. Well 0:20:04.320 --> 0:20:06.560 that's important because I want people to hear that on 0:20:06.600 --> 0:20:08.880 this show. I want people to hear that there. It's 0:20:08.880 --> 0:20:10.840 never too late to go back and complete something that 0:20:10.880 --> 0:20:13.600 you started, and then and then and then all of 0:20:13.640 --> 0:20:16.520 a sudden, like you said at the time, when you 0:20:16.520 --> 0:20:19.120 you stood up for something, and then as you matured, 0:20:19.160 --> 0:20:22.120 you realized what what was the fight really all about? Right? 0:20:22.240 --> 0:20:26.040 What was the fight? What really I was I really lost. 0:20:26.680 --> 0:20:29.119 It was a dead fight. Um. I was fighting for 0:20:29.200 --> 0:20:33.679 no reason, but um, and I for real, I just 0:20:33.720 --> 0:20:35.640 really think that the Lord knew that I was trying 0:20:35.640 --> 0:20:37.480 to stat that for something, but I didn't have to 0:20:38.240 --> 0:20:40.719 and uh, in my ignorance, he you know, he just 0:20:41.080 --> 0:20:44.280 baited me down and and matured me and and and 0:20:44.320 --> 0:20:47.080 then gave me another opportunity to turn back and complete that. 0:20:47.160 --> 0:20:50.640 And my parents were happy and uh and I am 0:20:50.800 --> 0:20:54.240 so so satisfied to be a legitimate all the night. 0:20:54.800 --> 0:20:57.480 You know, you can just go and go and go. 0:20:58.040 --> 0:21:01.280 But you know I hadn't grabb situated. So now I 0:21:01.359 --> 0:21:04.400 am a Stoma Knight for real. Let's just talk about 0:21:04.400 --> 0:21:07.399 a little bit. Let me talk about something I really 0:21:07.400 --> 0:21:09.600 didn't do well when I was managing Steve was a 0:21:09.640 --> 0:21:12.520 balanced life. That's why I'm so happy that here that 0:21:12.640 --> 0:21:14.520 you are a man, a man in your life that 0:21:14.600 --> 0:21:18.040 you want to share, Mr Patten. And so how does 0:21:18.080 --> 0:21:21.120 that balanced life work for you? Now? What? Being he's 0:21:21.160 --> 0:21:25.479 more engaged in your life, how has it changed, Cassie? 0:21:27.720 --> 0:21:31.840 How has my marriage changed me? You know what? Let 0:21:31.840 --> 0:21:34.840 me just say this, um, to be honest with you, 0:21:35.119 --> 0:21:38.840 Rashan and his restored order in my life. Um, I 0:21:38.920 --> 0:21:41.520 had a wonderful childhood and I had a father that 0:21:41.640 --> 0:21:44.840 was in place, and I was just accustomed to even 0:21:44.880 --> 0:21:47.240 when I was working with Steve, and you you know, 0:21:47.280 --> 0:21:49.639 I was just accustomed to as a woman. I was 0:21:49.680 --> 0:21:55.679 accustomed to just having male leadership. And um, it's just 0:21:55.800 --> 0:21:58.320 a wonderful place for me. I'm a help meet, you know, 0:21:58.400 --> 0:21:59.879 that is what the Lord has made me to be. 0:22:00.600 --> 0:22:04.240 And I understand, you know, my place and uh and 0:22:04.480 --> 0:22:06.520 and I enjoy it. I enjoy being a woman. I 0:22:06.680 --> 0:22:10.400 enjoy being supportive of my husband. But then there are 0:22:10.440 --> 0:22:12.560 times when he has to be supportive of me. But 0:22:12.720 --> 0:22:15.720 even in his support of me, Um, I think I 0:22:15.840 --> 0:22:17.879 come in line with the vision that he has for 0:22:17.920 --> 0:22:23.159 our family. And I'm just excited about making that work. Um. 0:22:23.240 --> 0:22:25.960 I'm in love with him. And and I like his 0:22:26.160 --> 0:22:29.120