Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning. The Breakfast Club morning.
Speaker 2: Everybody's envy just hilarious, showing me the God we are
Speaker 2: the Breakfast Club. Law On La Rosa is here and
Speaker 2: we got a special guest in the building. We have
Speaker 2: Sherry Shephard.
Speaker 1: Welcome back.
Speaker 3: Hey y'all, are you feeling I'm so glad to be here.
Speaker 1: Lauren.
Speaker 4: Hi.
Speaker 3: My admiration for you. It's like my baby hair that
Speaker 3: is growing. It just grows every day for you. You follow
Speaker 3: me back on Instagram. I cried, oh are you serious,
Speaker 3: Like not.
Speaker 4: Like ugly cry, but I was just I called John
Speaker 4: and I was like, she just followed me back on Instagram, Like,
Speaker 4: oh my god, I.
Speaker 3: Really do admire you. You like an intelligence sister, and
Speaker 3: you like you boss mode. I love that. Thank you
Speaker 3: like little brown girls look at you and go I
Speaker 3: want to be like you.
Speaker 5: Somebody just told her that. Somebody just told her that,
Speaker 5: like like literally three minutes ago.
Speaker 3: Well, God is trying to tell you something. I hear
Speaker 3: you better receive it. Won't nobody ever do that to me.
Speaker 3: I never get it, Like it was on my way
Speaker 3: to tell you for me.
Speaker 4: I remember your trends, not the trance but when you
Speaker 4: first stepped into the role on the show, right, and
Speaker 4: it was a lot going on and a lot said it,
Speaker 4: but you handled it really gracefully.
Speaker 3: When she.
Speaker 4: Look at you, you know you have one support of you.
Speaker 3: But there was a lot of conversation that was happening.
Speaker 3: But the way that you handled it out, I thought
Speaker 3: was you handled it very well. Thank you. You know
Speaker 3: this season life is too short. You got you got
Speaker 3: to know what energy you're walking in and create your
Speaker 3: own energy. That's how it works. And it worked out
Speaker 3: what set what life?
Speaker 1: Uh?
Speaker 3: Where in your life did you learn that? Because it
Speaker 3: was loud? Yeah, but but I think from being on
Speaker 3: the view, that's why I learned how to get the
Speaker 3: criticism because I learned, you know, Joy Bayhart said, when
Speaker 3: you you know, when you have this kind of platform,
Speaker 3: when you open up your mouth, half the world is
Speaker 3: going to hate you. So you know, so you stopped
Speaker 3: trying to chase validation because I would go on this site.
Speaker 3: It was a site called I Hate Talk Shows, and
Speaker 3: I would going there to see what they said about me,
Speaker 3: and then they would say, oh, Sheerry's doing this. She
Speaker 3: didn't even mention this, So I would mention it the
Speaker 3: next time they go. Did you see how conceited she
Speaker 3: was when she mentioned this, you can't win? So I
Speaker 3: don't is I stopped reading all that stuff? They don't
Speaker 3: care about you, and so I stopped. But what I
Speaker 3: realized is nobody's sending me money to take care of
Speaker 3: my son. Nobody is offering to help me when I'm
Speaker 3: going through it. Nobody. You got your diehards that will
Speaker 3: pray for you. So why am I listening to all
Speaker 3: this is chatter from people who probably when they come
Speaker 3: at you on social media, they want to do what
Speaker 3: you're doing. They just don't want to put in that work.
Speaker 3: That's what Kevin Hart says, and it's so true.
Speaker 1: Have you heard that from Laura all right?
Speaker 3: Because you never said that to me, Charlamage, I never
Speaker 3: knew that was your You knew a lot of talk yet,
Speaker 3: but you never said that.
Speaker 1: But I'm the same way. I'm stop reading the comments,
Speaker 1: Like why don't I don't.
Speaker 3: Go looking for the comments? But no, I don't, But no,
Speaker 3: I do not. But every now and then you want
Speaker 3: to see what people.
Speaker 4: But I also like, for what I do, I have
Speaker 4: to kind of know what people are talking about. Why
Speaker 4: what are angles to care? How we dive in and
Speaker 4: what I talk at them. But it's hard.
Speaker 3: Now you just have to be discerning because I read
Speaker 3: my comments because sometimes people are very they have really
Speaker 3: good critique. Some people are commenting share you talk a
Speaker 3: mile a minute. I can't understand what you're saying. So
Speaker 3: I learned to slow down. Yes, then those people who go,
Speaker 3: you ain't cute, you ain't got no hips, you ain't
Speaker 3: got no or you're gonna you know, I don't pay
Speaker 3: attention to that because you look at it for what
Speaker 3: it is. You got to have your own self for it.
Speaker 3: So you do when it's just discern what is edifying,
Speaker 3: what is going to help you. The other stuff you
Speaker 3: throw out, but it means nothing, even.
Speaker 4: Your topics on your show, because that was another thing
Speaker 4: as well too, Like people were upset when you talked
Speaker 4: about Meg the stallion on the carpet and being you know,
Speaker 4: nude or whatever you called her right, and people respond
Speaker 4: to that and when that happens, Yeah, I changed.
Speaker 3: You for that. When I said that about Meg, I
Speaker 3: was ready for the backlash. But I am I'm a mum,
Speaker 3: I'm a woman. I mentor girls, and I just go
Speaker 3: at some point we have a responsibility. We have to
Speaker 3: speak up. And I love meg da Stallion. I love it,
Speaker 3: but I think that women are going too far and
Speaker 3: sometimes we forget that there are people who are watching
Speaker 3: us and they can't do what we do. They don't
Speaker 3: have security. They can't walk around and say I want
Speaker 3: to do the same thing. So we also we are
Speaker 3: our brother's keeper. To who much is given, much is required.
Speaker 3: So I knew I was gonna backlash. They told me,
Speaker 3: you know you're gonna get and I said, but no, no,
Speaker 3: I got to stand up. I got this platform, and
Speaker 3: it's really important that I say it. And if you
Speaker 3: listen to the context of what I said, you know
Speaker 3: I did love everything. People look at you because you
Speaker 3: have a degree. You went and graduated. You didn't just
Speaker 3: let it go. So you inspire girls to want to
Speaker 3: go to college. But also over here you inspire girls
Speaker 3: who want to do this. And I named other women
Speaker 3: who do it too, so you know, you just got
Speaker 3: to be I got this platform for a reason, know
Speaker 3: what it is, and I try to use it wisely.
Speaker 1: People should listen to the elders. What happened to that
Speaker 1: we used.
Speaker 3: To listen too. They don't do that now.
Speaker 4: They're old, you know, the push back at you, like,
Speaker 4: I know you're intentional with the topics that you choose
Speaker 4: when you get pushbacks like oh, this is an age thing.
Speaker 4: It's because you're older. She don't understand. She actly, she
Speaker 4: didn't have her day like right, those type of things.
Speaker 3: That I have a lot of grace. I know. You
Speaker 3: know there were things that we did when we were young,
Speaker 3: and you know and I do. But also you know
Speaker 3: what the assignment is. There's an assignment on your life.
Speaker 3: There's an assignment that you've been given and you got
Speaker 3: to carry it out. And it's just stuff that comes
Speaker 3: with this. With this, you know, position that you're in,
Speaker 3: it is gonna come. You can't escape it.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 2: So just before we get into straw.
Speaker 3: Before we're getting a straw.
Speaker 2: When you came in there today, you said your son
Speaker 2: just texted you and said, mom, I have off of
Speaker 2: school today and I have nothing to do. That's right,
Speaker 2: And he's twenty years old.
Speaker 5: Yes, that's not what she said. She had part that's
Speaker 5: always get through what she really said.
Speaker 2: But then you said that you're and also said he
Speaker 2: wants to smoke. He wants to smoke some marijuana.
Speaker 3: So yes, because that's what all everybody talks about at school,
Speaker 3: you know, they talk about that, and so he that's
Speaker 3: one of his things. He came. I was doing my
Speaker 3: podcast with Kim Whidley, two Funny Momas. He came. He
Speaker 3: was like, I want to talk to you, and that's
Speaker 3: what he was going to the basketball center and he said,
Speaker 3: you know, when can I get hi?
Speaker 2: First of all, it's amazing that he came to you
Speaker 2: and feel comfortable again, Yeah, what did you tell him?
Speaker 3: But he comes to me and I don't know nothing,
Speaker 3: Like that's the problem. And he was just like I'm
Speaker 3: a single mom. He was like, you know, I want
Speaker 3: to when can I do this? And I was sitting
Speaker 3: here praying and speaking in tongues, and I said, when
Speaker 3: you twenty four? He asked me that when he was
Speaker 3: like nineteen or eighteen. That's just the number that came
Speaker 3: to my head, envy saying a mother like it's too much,
Speaker 3: Like I still look at my son as like my baby,
Speaker 3: a fourteen year old. So when he came and was
Speaker 3: asking these questions about where, you know, when can you
Speaker 3: go and see you know, women dancing and stuff, And
Speaker 3: when I didn't know what Yes, so I said twenty four.
Speaker 3: That's just the number. But it came to my head.
Speaker 3: So he you know, so he my my the person
Speaker 3: who does my hair, theo. He has locks in his hair.
Speaker 3: So when my son saw him, he said he immediately
Speaker 3: said do you get high and stereotyping. But here's what happened.
Speaker 3: They looked at him. It was like yeah, But so
Speaker 3: I said, well, I wanted to have the experience of
Speaker 3: I said, well, maybe if they put the medicine and
Speaker 3: make you go to the bathroom, the diarrhea medicine in
Speaker 3: the brownie. That way, when he does it, he'll, you know,
Speaker 3: just have diarrhea. They don't want to do it again.
Speaker 3: That's what everybody says, like you give him so much
Speaker 3: liquor that they get sick.
Speaker 5: No, give him some sativa, some high grade sativa.
Speaker 3: And what is that?
Speaker 5: What if the kind that induces panic attacks and makes him.
Speaker 1: That will make him not want to do it again.
Speaker 1: Not the diarrhea.
Speaker 3: But I got to go to sleep wanting and my
Speaker 3: son gonna smother me, and I don't want him to
Speaker 3: have a pan. I just wanted to diarrhea.
Speaker 2: That No, nothing, he'll fly You see him on Madison
Speaker 2: avenue trying to fly for cars or something. Don't do that.
Speaker 5: The panic attackers was gonna make him not want to
Speaker 5: do it. That promise you okay, I want to do that?
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, m be saying no, Lauren saying no, should
Speaker 3: do it. When I when I first got hot, I
Speaker 3: think I was like eighteen seventeen.
Speaker 1: He got to wait till twenty four, because that's the look.
Speaker 3: I am a single mom. This is hard. You don't understand.
Speaker 3: It's not a man. This is where I get mad
Speaker 3: when I need some men to come in and help
Speaker 3: me because I don't know what to what to say
Speaker 3: to him. I don't get high. So when he came
Speaker 3: to me and was saying that, I was just like,
Speaker 3: I didn't know what to say. The judgment. I don't
Speaker 3: like Charlotte Magne. That's what I was saying to you.
Speaker 2: Well, when he's twenty four, me and uncle Charlotte take
Speaker 2: him to a landa strip club magic.
Speaker 3: Well, thanks a lot.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, we're handle that part.
Speaker 3: I'm just can y'all let him intern with y'all then
Speaker 3: and do what you will. I won't even look. I'll
Speaker 3: just close my eyes.
Speaker 5: But you would never say that a bad boy record, wowser, wowser,
Speaker 5: Like everybody have my suoena court.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, So single mother life for you? Like
Speaker 3: what other things are you figuring out on your own?
Speaker 3: Are you single mom? Like there's no communication anymore with
Speaker 3: your son's father or well, I mean, you know, we
Speaker 3: communicate with y'all. We don't as much because he turned eighteen. Like,
Speaker 3: I don't have to. I don't have to pay child
Speaker 3: support anymore. I don't have to. I don't add the
Speaker 3: court paper set. I have to tell you everything that's
Speaker 3: going on with school. I don't have to do that. Now.
Speaker 3: It's up to you to call him to check on him.
Speaker 3: That's not my that's not my thing. I've made you
Speaker 3: look good in his eyes. Now it's up to you
Speaker 3: to keep that going. That's not on me. I've never
Speaker 3: talked about his father badly in front of him. Now.
Speaker 3: When Jeffrey left the room, that was a different conversation.
Speaker 3: It's a lot going on at one point. Yeah, so
Speaker 3: but you know it's so this is on you.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 3: It's on you to talk to your dad. I'm not
Speaker 3: in that.
Speaker 4: What things do you deal with on your own with
Speaker 4: your son that you're like, man.
Speaker 3: All of that trying to teach him how to be
Speaker 3: a man. I don't know how to be a man
Speaker 3: because I'm not a man. I don't espouse that belief
Speaker 3: of you know, I can be everything for you. You
Speaker 3: don't need no daddy. You don't know you need a
Speaker 3: man in your life. A boy needs a man, especially
Speaker 3: in this day and age, A young black boy needs
Speaker 3: a black man because men what they do to my
Speaker 3: son because I'm not allowed to say his name, he
Speaker 3: told me don't talk about him. But what they do
Speaker 3: to my son is they say, look God, look me
Speaker 3: in the eye, shake my hand, you know, give me
Speaker 3: your deepest voice when you talk to me. I don't
Speaker 3: know how to say that. What he gets from me
Speaker 3: now is he's like you always, like you keep nagging
Speaker 3: because I feel like I only got maybe twelve minutes
Speaker 3: to give him the rest of life's lessons. And he's like,
Speaker 3: you told me already. And so I think with mothers
Speaker 3: and boys, as they get older, there's a frustration. That's
Speaker 3: why they keep wanting to pull away. They're longing from
Speaker 3: that male energy. So when he's around, when he's around
Speaker 3: my glam team, he likes being with them because they're
Speaker 3: just men, are you dating? And I'm single. I'm single,
Speaker 3: so I'm just I'm out here, I'm open.
Speaker 1: I was crazy.
Speaker 3: I never got my DM, so I don't. I really
Speaker 3: don't go on my dms because the last time it
Speaker 3: was somebody didn't have no finger, so it was missing
Speaker 3: the third digit. So I don't what happened. Let me
Speaker 3: tell you why not something that's a deal breaker when
Speaker 3: you're missing digits. I need, I need you to have
Speaker 3: a finger, no fingers, because it was in it. I
Speaker 3: went to his uh, I went to his profile, and
Speaker 3: I looked and he didn't have no finger, so which finger?
Speaker 3: Though he was a third finger? Not that you don't
Speaker 3: know if you really need your third finger til you
Speaker 3: got your third finger.
Speaker 5: What if this man was good looking, it was had
Speaker 5: a nice career, was a great man, he was going
Speaker 5: to be the love of your life and you could
Speaker 5: because you don't got a finger.
Speaker 3: You don't have a finger. That's just that's a big deal,
Speaker 3: not having a finger, because you need all ten of
Speaker 3: your fingers. I'm just saying, if you want to caress
Speaker 3: my neck and you ain't got that finger, you feel
Speaker 3: I feel emptiness. But on one hand, on it I
Speaker 3: didn't you know. I guess I saw the finger was
Speaker 3: missing Lauren. I just didn't stay. But it does that
Speaker 3: you get in this season. It's it's different now. Now
Speaker 3: I'm not looking at potential. When I was in my twenties,
Speaker 3: it was about, oh he got he got potential. I
Speaker 3: don't look at potentially. You have to have be living
Speaker 3: in your You have to be living your dream. It
Speaker 3: has to be your reality. You have to be a
Speaker 3: certain financial and a financial place because I'm not here
Speaker 3: trying to help you move forward. So it just changes.
Speaker 3: If I bring you into my space, you can't be intimidated.
Speaker 3: You can't be like looking at it around, going well,
Speaker 3: there's nothing I can do. So it just changes a
Speaker 3: little bit.
Speaker 2: So how was shooting straw I know you loved it?
Speaker 2: Four days shooting your Brain?
Speaker 3: No, I was six days.
Speaker 2: He was six days.
Speaker 3: She was doing Fight Night at the same time, and
Speaker 3: Tianna was also doing a movie at the same time. Look,
Speaker 3: I was the only one I had time, so mine
Speaker 3: was six days. I had I had a ball. It
Speaker 3: was a different experience step into the Tyler Perry world
Speaker 3: breaking death because I'm used to, you know, doing a
Speaker 3: movie and it'll take weeks to do. You know, I'm
Speaker 3: on location for a number of weeks. So even when
Speaker 3: Tyler had asked me and I wasn't available, I said,
Speaker 3: we I'm trying to work it out. How many weeks
Speaker 3: do you need me? He said, I don't need you
Speaker 3: for I need you for five days. And I had
Speaker 3: never heard that before because it was I was one
Speaker 3: of the stars of the movie. But with Tyler, he's
Speaker 3: got a world that he lives in. He's really he
Speaker 3: knows what he wants. He has a lot of cameras
Speaker 3: covering you. So when you go to a movie they
Speaker 3: do a master shot, you know, you go back and
Speaker 3: you wait till they turn it around and do a
Speaker 3: single shot. Then they got to turn those cameras around
Speaker 3: and do the other shot. Then they got to get
Speaker 3: a wide shot, then they got to get a close up,
Speaker 3: and you're you're doing maybe three pages in a whole day.
Speaker 3: Tyler does not do that. He has a ton of
Speaker 3: cameras in and they they're catching shots. So when I'm
Speaker 3: looking at the movie, they caught shot. To me, I
Speaker 3: didn't even realize because it was so many cameras. So
Speaker 3: he can do ten or twelve pages in a day.
Speaker 3: But he knows what he wants and he gets it done.
Speaker 1: And Tyler was a man of his word.
Speaker 5: Because I remember y'all just had to be like maybe
Speaker 5: four or five months ago, you was.
Speaker 1: Asking him to put you in.
Speaker 5: I don't know if it was a specific movie, or
Speaker 5: was it why did I get married, or I just
Speaker 5: remember you asking him to be in something.
Speaker 3: I ask everybody who comes if they could put me
Speaker 3: on something, he can put you in, and he put
Speaker 3: me in the movie. He called me, he said I
Speaker 3: have this part and I want you to do it.
Speaker 3: And it conflicted with the talk show. You can't really
Speaker 3: take off, but they moved and around. I said, I
Speaker 3: don't care who sits in the chair. I need to
Speaker 3: do this movie. And they we ended my show a
Speaker 3: week early so I could go and do it.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: But when I let me tell you something about Tyler Perry.
Speaker 3: He takes care of you. Now everybody talks about the
Speaker 3: money he pays you. Yes, But in terms of I
Speaker 3: walked into my trailer, you have to negotiate your trailer size.
Speaker 3: From the front of everything is negotiation, and I always negotiate,
Speaker 3: you know, I get the less one less of what
Speaker 3: the star gets. So I get a big trailer, but
Speaker 3: he I walked in my trailer and I said, it
Speaker 3: is Brad Pitt doing the movie to you. I walked
Speaker 3: in my trailer. It was a double staircase. I had
Speaker 3: a kitchen. I had an office I had I had
Speaker 3: a full kitchen with I tried to I was like,
Speaker 3: if I could take this refrigerator. It was a full
Speaker 3: size refrigerator. It was a bedroom. It was a walk
Speaker 3: in closet. It was I had a living room, a
Speaker 3: family room, reclined. I was like, I cried, I've never
Speaker 3: had in my wildest dreams, I never imagine said something
Speaker 3: like that. You know where he put me up at,
Speaker 3: where I stayed at night. It was just it was unbelievable.
Speaker 3: It was unbelievable. When I tell you, I mean even
Speaker 3: on my show. He came and we did a giveaway
Speaker 3: show where Tyler Perry came in and he just gave
Speaker 3: stuff away. He paid the mortgage off for one of
Speaker 3: our guests. He gave a colleague of mine who's a
Speaker 3: comic who had a stroke, Bonehampton. He was a Christian comic.
Speaker 3: Now he's in a wheelchair. He gave him one hundred
Speaker 3: thousand dollars so he could figure out. So he had
Speaker 3: a cushion to figure out what he wanted to do.
Speaker 3: I mean he gave, he just gave away. It was
Speaker 3: really wonderful what he did. Did that public le Yes,
Speaker 3: we did it on my show. Why are you thinking
Speaker 3: you need one hundred thousand dollars show?
Speaker 1: No, I just wouldn't want nobody to know that because
Speaker 1: everybody be asking.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's the down side.
Speaker 1: But the beauty about Tyler he had no problem saying no.
Speaker 3: He says, no, that's right because when I had to
Speaker 3: pitch it to him, I would say to him, we
Speaker 3: had this, and he goes, tell me what you're talking about. No, Like,
Speaker 3: when you come to Tyler, it has to be very specific.
Speaker 3: It has to be very well thought out, and you
Speaker 3: have to have research. Because he says, okay, so if
Speaker 3: I do this, then what about this? How are they
Speaker 3: going to pay this? And I said, I don't know.
Speaker 3: I'm just coming to you asking for the money. I
Speaker 3: don't know all that. He goes, well, when you know what,
Speaker 3: then you call me back. So he's you have to
Speaker 3: be on your business.
Speaker 1: Can you speak about that real quick?
Speaker 5: You're how important is it to actually say what it
Speaker 5: is you mean, because.
Speaker 1: We live in a generation with these kids be like,
Speaker 1: well you know what I meant to say?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know what I meant to say. I think
Speaker 3: that we're in the age of communication is harder for
Speaker 3: because we're in the social media age where you swipe
Speaker 3: and swiping, so you're putting in initials for you know,
Speaker 3: laugh out loud lol, So people you know you're not
Speaker 3: saying what you mean. And I think it's a big problem.
Speaker 3: I don't know how to fix it because I keep
Speaker 3: trying to talk to my nieces and nephews and say,
Speaker 3: tell me what you're saying. Don't think I know what
Speaker 3: you're saying. I don't know if it's a life lesson
Speaker 3: that they have to go through because I had to
Speaker 3: go through to get it. Whoopie was very hard on
Speaker 3: me on the view, tell me what you're saying, and
Speaker 3: I had to figure out and articulate so that came.
Speaker 3: That was hard for me. What was that like having
Speaker 3: Whoopy be like, yoh, tell me what you're saying. Oh,
Speaker 3: she was hard on me. Whoopy was very, very hard,
Speaker 3: but she loved me and she didn't want to see
Speaker 3: me go through a lot of stuff which has served
Speaker 3: me well doing having my own show and dealing with criticism,
Speaker 3: being able to say no, I say what I mean
Speaker 3: on my show. But I'm grown, you know. I think
Speaker 3: that's why I got the success at this age, you know,
Speaker 3: because I know how to stand up for myself. I
Speaker 3: know how to say no, I know how to say yes.
Speaker 3: I know what I am bringing to the show and
Speaker 3: what I want to see. So it's you know, sometimes
Speaker 3: you just have to go through life. You got to fall,
Speaker 3: and you gotta get You got to learn to get
Speaker 3: back up. You gotta fall, you gotta learn to get
Speaker 3: back up.
Speaker 5: And I'm sure whoop, you saw the greatness in you.
Speaker 5: Like a lot of times, people see things in you
Speaker 5: that you may not see seeing yourself.
Speaker 3: Sometimes, yeah, maybe she did. I would hope that. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: I know we came a long way saying we came
Speaker 3: a long way from when you call me to Tasmanian devil,
Speaker 3: mister Charlemagne to God.
Speaker 2: That's remember remember, And I don't know if you heard
Speaker 2: earlier when you started talking about yourself, he was like,
Speaker 2: damn as soon as you said that. I don't know
Speaker 2: if you if you heard it, but you know, he
Speaker 2: still took a little shot at you earlier today.
Speaker 1: What were talking about? Exactly what is he talking about?
Speaker 3: I don't know, but I went envy that right. What
Speaker 3: do you say?
Speaker 2: Watch him?
Speaker 1: You got to watch.
Speaker 2: Got to watch him. So I want to congratulations you
Speaker 2: were pregnant April first.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, you every celebrity confusing me with somebody.
Speaker 1: Do you'll want to stop this?
Speaker 3: I think I am. That's my calling card. I'm not
Speaker 3: getting pregnant.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, just that you're a man.
Speaker 2: You said it was a joe quickly because you said
Speaker 2: you didn't want to manifest that I did.
Speaker 3: I didn't want to. Yeah, because I found out I'm
Speaker 3: stelling perry menopause. So I still can get pregnant. And
Speaker 3: when the doctor told me that, I was like, no,
Speaker 3: they cannot be because at this age. Here's the thing,
Speaker 3: men don't want to hear. And at this age, they
Speaker 3: don't want to hear that you've been celibate for thirty years.
Speaker 3: That's not nothing. If you and your twenties, men like
Speaker 3: to hear that, oh you a virgin, Oh that is good.
Speaker 3: But when you dog onto your fifties and you're like,
Speaker 3: I've been celibate for the last twenty five years, waiting
Speaker 3: on the right one. A man will run, will run
Speaker 3: as fast as he can, and a man want here.
Speaker 3: I can't get pregnant. You can't get pregnant. Oh shoot.
Speaker 3: So when they told me that, I was just like, Okay, this,
Speaker 3: this don't make no sense. So that was my April
Speaker 3: Fool's joke, and everybody believed it. But I cut it
Speaker 3: short because I don't want to manifest that kind of thing.
Speaker 3: If I told y'all I was pregnant right now, if
Speaker 3: you had to report that, y'all would be laughing at me, wouldn't.
Speaker 3: Why I can't at this age?
Speaker 1: Janet jackcident and you got why not?
Speaker 3: Jennet Jackson is yeah, but no, And I love Janet
Speaker 3: and Janet No, Janet's one year older than man. She
Speaker 3: was fifty fifty five. No, I believe I don't want
Speaker 3: to be dealing with you. I'm not dealing with a
Speaker 3: two year old. At this sage. You have to have
Speaker 3: the energy and the stamina and the patience you have
Speaker 3: to go through when your child goes mommy, mommy, mommy, mommy,
Speaker 3: bo why but why but why? When they have temper tantrums,
Speaker 3: because they can't articulate. I don't have that kind of energy.
Speaker 3: At nine o'clock, I'm winding down.
Speaker 1: Well, I say, you look good. I'll be honest with you.
Speaker 1: I didn't even know you was for detail. I looked
Speaker 1: it up just now.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I only looked it up because.
Speaker 3: I said that. And I earn every one of these
Speaker 3: stripes absolutely.
Speaker 1: I don't know why I said it. Yesterday went to
Speaker 1: Rodger was here.
Speaker 5: Why would you want a young girl when black women
Speaker 5: age like this?
Speaker 1: It don't make no sense to me.
Speaker 3: I think though, a lot of younger men they do
Speaker 3: come to me because they do want an older, seasoned woman,
Speaker 3: because I think we know what we want. You know,
Speaker 3: we don't take a lot of mess. We're very we're
Speaker 3: very We're very articulate about what we want. We are accomplished.
Speaker 3: And I think a younger a lot of younger men
Speaker 3: like that. But I don't see there are women that
Speaker 3: like younger men. I like a man my age. I
Speaker 3: like a man that is seasoned. We want the same
Speaker 3: things in life. He's healthy, we can talk about things.
Speaker 3: If I say something, he knows who I'm talking about.
Speaker 3: That's right, Like my my hair got THEO every time
Speaker 3: we talk about stuff. He like, who is that? I said,
Speaker 3: I said, somebody doing a tour. They're doing a tour.
Speaker 3: It's El DeBarge, it's baby face, he said, who.
Speaker 2: El de Barge?
Speaker 3: He? Who is eld the bars. I need you to
Speaker 3: know who these people are and what they've done.
Speaker 5: And I want older men to like older women because
Speaker 5: we see what happens.
Speaker 3: And they get in trouble. That's the problem. But but
Speaker 3: I understand young young people bringing energy. They bring an
Speaker 3: energy into your life. I like, like, I would like
Speaker 3: to have a daughter so I could do a TikTok.
Speaker 3: I want to do a TikTok. That's how I want
Speaker 3: to We do TikTok together. Because my son won't do
Speaker 3: a TikTok for me, to save his life. We do
Speaker 3: a TikTok, he just walk out the frame. He just
Speaker 3: walk out the camera. Boys is different, you know, That's
Speaker 3: why I want a daughter. Like I was with Kadeen
Speaker 3: Devou's wife, Kadeen and like, she looks like she could
Speaker 3: be my daughter. Like I look like the cool sexy
Speaker 3: mom next to her, and I'm like, we look we
Speaker 3: look good together. A TikTok No, but we did. We
Speaker 3: was dancing together. We got we was twerking together. We
Speaker 3: got pictures. It looks so good, y do you know?
Speaker 3: And I'm mentored than I dudes, So that's why, so
Speaker 3: we can do what we do our tiktoks. They take
Speaker 3: me to boots on the ground. They told me that
Speaker 3: I know that to me a challenge I noticed to
Speaker 3: men't t ugh. They're keeping you a little safe though.
Speaker 4: They teach you like the things you should know at
Speaker 4: your age, like younger TikTok friendly stuff.
Speaker 1: I've been looking at it though.
Speaker 6: Some of that stuff to my knees, I'm like, mm hmm,
Speaker 6: seen the pop the pussy for a good chown?
Speaker 3: No, I ain't seen. No what that doesn't come up
Speaker 3: in my algorithm.
Speaker 1: That's gonna show you. It's going to show you what
Speaker 1: is popped.
Speaker 3: Oh my god.
Speaker 2: Now you've been you've been very open about your health
Speaker 2: and your finances.
Speaker 1: Right, yeah.
Speaker 2: Why are you so open? Because most people are kind
Speaker 2: of keep it to themselves. Maybe they'll feel embarrassed. But
Speaker 2: you've been open, You've been discussed, you've been talking about it.
Speaker 3: Why Because I think that a lot of people are
Speaker 3: going through health challenges like if you don't if you
Speaker 3: don't have your health together, you're not able to fulfill
Speaker 3: the purpose that you've been put here for and just
Speaker 3: do basic step. How do you want how do you
Speaker 3: want to live ten? What do you want your life
Speaker 3: to look like ten years from now, twenty years from now? Well,
Speaker 3: it's that starts today. So I'm really open about showing
Speaker 3: that I go to the gym. I get up at
Speaker 3: four thirty in the morning, four times a week to
Speaker 3: go to the gym. You know, however you want to feel,
Speaker 3: you got to start today, and I want people to
Speaker 3: know it's not over. Like you can start and go
Speaker 3: to that gym and work out, start eating healthy. You're
Speaker 3: able to accomplish so much more. Your outlook on life changes,
Speaker 3: your confidence changes. So I'm just really big and diabetes
Speaker 3: is really big in our community, and I'm a Type
Speaker 3: two diabetic. So I want people to know that life
Speaker 3: is not over because you're diabetic, but it can start
Speaker 3: and it can be amazingly wonderful. So I tell people,
Speaker 3: don't pray that the diabetes goes away. When they say
Speaker 3: I'm a pray for you that to go, No, don't
Speaker 3: pray that because having diabetes has saved my life. Having
Speaker 3: diabetes makes me look at everything that I put in
Speaker 3: my mouth. That sounding nastiesting. I just realized that. But
Speaker 3: it really makes me look at everything. Wow, it makes
Speaker 3: me look at everything that I do, that I eat.
Speaker 3: It makes me go to the gym. I look at
Speaker 3: my son and I go, he still needs me. So
Speaker 3: I need to do things different. So that's why I'm
Speaker 3: so open about it. I really am.
Speaker 1: And they changing everything at the doctor now.
Speaker 6: Like I went to the doctor the other day and
Speaker 6: they told me that I'm a five. Wait seven, you
Speaker 6: right on the cut. Youre bet and they come back
Speaker 6: in six months, and I'm like, you need to start
Speaker 6: walking more.
Speaker 1: I'm crazy.
Speaker 3: You need to watch what you eat. You eating starches,
Speaker 3: yeah you cut off? Oh you predisposed, Yeah, but a lot.
Speaker 3: You know, you can change that because you're over here
Speaker 3: on this side. You can modify stuff that you're eat
Speaker 3: because wen't you coming over coming over to my side?
Speaker 3: That stuff that you just can't have, like you know,
Speaker 3: chocolate chip cookies I'm addicted to. I had to stop that.
Speaker 3: I had I drink my tea with no sugar. I'm learning,
Speaker 3: I know, but I have to do it because otherwise
Speaker 3: my my gluecoast level goes up, so you then you
Speaker 3: wear a patch so you could see you know what
Speaker 3: your blood gluecoast level. That's what that is. What do
Speaker 3: you think is just a white thing you gonna have?
Speaker 3: Ring make me say you got to have everything you
Speaker 3: thought market? It is my glucoas, my continuous glue cooast
Speaker 3: monitor for my freely break. Haven't you see my diabetic commercials?
Speaker 3: We'll be skating around Ring Mark.
Speaker 5: You know, I did want to ask you, did me
Speaker 5: Along ever take you up on your conversation to come
Speaker 5: on your show? I guess that's who you was alluding
Speaker 5: to what they said alluding to when they said she
Speaker 5: rolled up on you.
Speaker 3: When I said unnamed celebrity, it rolled up a reporter
Speaker 3: that a source had told me that it was Along. Yes,
Speaker 3: did Neolong take me up? Because I didn't say her name,
Speaker 3: but yes, it was Along. You know if here's the thing,
Speaker 3: I don't know who Na Along had me confused with?
Speaker 3: And what I appreciate, Lauren, this is why I love you.
Speaker 3: You did your research, you did your homework, and you
Speaker 3: pulled up a clip. The only time I've ever talked
Speaker 3: about Na Along is when she went through it with
Speaker 3: her partner who it was infidelity, and I supported her
Speaker 3: and that she should she deserves to have a good
Speaker 3: man to be with her. And you pulled up that clip,
Speaker 3: so thank you for that. You handle it very well.
Speaker 3: So I have no idea. I think Neilon maybe confused.
Speaker 1: Me with someone not a lot of black women on TV,
Speaker 1: so it's not I have.
Speaker 3: No idea who she thought was shading her, but it
Speaker 3: was not me. I have no beef with Nie Along.
Speaker 3: I'm a fan of hers with grown women. We're both
Speaker 3: the same age, so like we can discuss it. That's
Speaker 3: why I invited her on my show, you know, And
Speaker 3: a lot of people said, well, why would you say
Speaker 3: something like that publicly? Well, number one, I did, never
Speaker 3: said her name. There was a lot of women that
Speaker 3: attended the Othello premiere, and number two I do. I'm
Speaker 3: a stand up comic, so everything that happens in my
Speaker 3: life is material for me and my stage. My comedy
Speaker 3: stage is the talk show. So I got on stage
Speaker 3: and I just talked about it, and I said, you know,
Speaker 3: it was a fun it was this happened. You wanted
Speaker 3: to know why I went to the bathroom, because I said,
Speaker 3: I went to the bathroom and had a meeting in
Speaker 3: the ladies room. That was actually a joke with you know,
Speaker 3: because Climax. This is why I don't give a younger man.
Speaker 3: It was climax meeting in the ladies room. I'll be back,
Speaker 3: and she says, don't. She said, don't test me because
Speaker 3: I might slap you. Remember, you know a DJ god
Speaker 3: don't know anybody, And so I did. I said the joke.
Speaker 3: Norman Baker, who's ahead of our hot topics. He was like,
Speaker 3: that's funny. Everybody got it, and you over here go.
Speaker 3: I don't understand why she went to the was waiting
Speaker 3: in the bathroom. You and jes So that's what that was.
Speaker 3: That was a joke. But yeah, but I don't have
Speaker 3: any beef. I don't I don't like to tear down people.
Speaker 3: But I honestly was was just confused. And I also
Speaker 3: don't like when you when you touch me and you
Speaker 3: pull at me, I don't like that, like grabbed me
Speaker 3: and spun me around. And here's the thing, I'm a
Speaker 3: really nice yeah like you.
Speaker 1: Oh that's what you mean?
Speaker 2: I hate him? You know you shof by the way.
Speaker 3: Never you know, but now I can't un see it.
Speaker 3: This is why I tell women stop getting with stand up,
Speaker 3: because you got to sit in bed and they go
Speaker 3: over the same joke and punchline over and over, and
Speaker 3: you got to hear that all night long. Charlamagne your wife, God,
Speaker 3: bless her, Lord, open up doors for her, bless her.
Speaker 3: Just bless her father, God.
Speaker 2: It could be your darkest moment. You could be crying.
Speaker 2: He's not gonna be sympathetic.
Speaker 1: No, I am sympathetic. I just wanted to bring some joy.
Speaker 3: That's a lot. No, But it's like, but when people
Speaker 3: when people tugget you, when they want to picture and
Speaker 3: they tugget you, it's like, so I'm still I think people,
Speaker 3: I'm so nice, but you can't confuse that. I am
Speaker 3: a Chicago girl. So when that happens, you know, then
Speaker 3: I go there. But you know, I'm cool. I'm so cool.
Speaker 3: It's done. If Nilon would love to come on my show,
Speaker 3: I would love. I'm a fan, we're both actresses. I
Speaker 3: would love to talk to her and just clear it up.
Speaker 3: That's such a That's why these beefs that come on
Speaker 3: social media like it's easily cleared up.
Speaker 5: So I would love suck and this young girl behavior
Speaker 5: like I wonder, because she's been around for so long,
Speaker 5: what could she think you her tone, I don't.
Speaker 3: Think it's younger behavior, charlamage. Sometimes you don't see a person,
Speaker 3: you know, sometimes these things fester. This is what Woopy
Speaker 3: told me, and this is why I'm very nice. On
Speaker 3: my talk show. She said, we were about to do
Speaker 3: a story. I wanted to do a story on the
Speaker 3: view about a certain rapper. The baby mama was asking
Speaker 3: for more money. Then something happened bad and I wanted
Speaker 3: to blame it on this this rapper. And I said,
Speaker 3: I want to talk about this, and Whoopy said, we're
Speaker 3: not going to talk about it. And I said, no, no, no,
Speaker 3: we got this platform and I'm gonna let people know.
Speaker 3: And she said no. So Barbara Walter said, if Whoope's
Speaker 3: not going to talk about it, we're not going to
Speaker 3: talk about it. And I went into a whoopees room
Speaker 3: and I said, why would you kill this story? It's
Speaker 3: very interesting. Everybody knows the rapper. And she said, let
Speaker 3: me tell you something to Sharry. She said, celebrities have
Speaker 3: long memories. And you know this, y'all know this. They
Speaker 3: have long memories. You have a career beyond the show
Speaker 3: and she said, and what will happen is you might
Speaker 3: go to a club encounter this rapper. You are black women,
Speaker 3: we'd at least protect it. And if they get mad
Speaker 3: at you want to do something, ain't nobody gonna do nothing.
Speaker 3: Now if Elizabeth hasseback goes to the club because she
Speaker 3: didn't say something and he does anything, everybody gonna be
Speaker 3: calling the police.
Speaker 1: He ain't even gonna do nothing to.
Speaker 3: Won't even do nothing to it. She said, you always
Speaker 3: had to keep that in mind. And she said, and
Speaker 3: you want to work beyond this show, because you're not
Speaker 3: gonna be here for long. You're gonna be working. And
Speaker 3: these and celebrities have very long memories, and you're in
Speaker 3: the business and your career is important. And I just
Speaker 3: always remember that. And I'm a kind person. So when
Speaker 3: I come at stories, Lauren always go is it edifying?
Speaker 3: I would rather you be laughing with me, going that
Speaker 3: girl is talking about me today. That is so funny
Speaker 3: what she says, Rather than I'm too old to be
Speaker 3: in the club and somebody comes up to me goes,
Speaker 3: my name is Thunn Thun, And I don't you know
Speaker 3: I heard what you said. It ain't gonna be I'm
Speaker 3: not gonna be having that, and you bet not. First
Speaker 3: of all, I'm fifty, I don't even know who you are.
Speaker 3: I don't remember what I said. And wait, does she
Speaker 3: just slap me? I don't be fighting no more like that.
Speaker 3: So you know, it's like life is too short. I
Speaker 3: want to put out good energy on my show. I
Speaker 3: want you to feel good. I want you to know
Speaker 3: that when you come to the show is a safe space.
Speaker 3: If you don't want to talk about something, there's a
Speaker 3: ton of other stuff we can talk about. If you
Speaker 3: want the shady stuff, it's a bunch of blogs you
Speaker 3: can go to. And I think that people, even though
Speaker 3: they like that, they turn on you quick. They turn
Speaker 3: on you quick when you're always giving out bad stuff
Speaker 3: and talking about people. I think I have more fans
Speaker 3: that will stick with me if I go through something
Speaker 3: then not. So that's just the way I operate, and
Speaker 3: it has worked.
Speaker 1: I feel like God is talking through Did you.
Speaker 3: Just say that three minutes ago?
Speaker 4: No, he just always talking to me. Yes, We've had
Speaker 4: a lot of conversations this weekend. Yesterday aways yeah, really, yes,
Speaker 4: I mean I literally was recording my podcast The Latest
Speaker 4: Who Learned the Roads? But before you came in here.
Speaker 3: And on my podcasts, I was talking about how I
Speaker 3: talked to guy yesterday and was like, look, I hear you.
Speaker 3: I get it. I know what I need to do
Speaker 3: to doll back and you know, focus and whatever whatever,
Speaker 3: And then you come in here. You're literally it sounds
Speaker 3: better coming from you, though you look a lot better.
Speaker 3: So when you're dealing with you understand. But there are
Speaker 3: people who do that. I just think that you have
Speaker 3: to go You're going to have to answer to what
Speaker 3: you put out in the world, right and sometimes stuff
Speaker 3: your parents even say that. Sometimes stuff you can say it,
Speaker 3: but do you need to say it?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 3: That's not for everybody. I'm I'm not judging anybody. There
Speaker 3: are blogs that I go to because I just got
Speaker 3: to know what's going on, and they give their opinion
Speaker 3: and I figure out how I'm going to form my opinion.
Speaker 3: But in a different way. For me, I'm like, it's
Speaker 3: going to edify you? Is it going to add to
Speaker 3: your life? If it's not, then let's go to another one.
Speaker 3: But a lot of this stuff doesn't add to my life.
Speaker 3: Like a lot of this stuff is like their topics.
Speaker 3: There's conversation and then we move on. So where's that balance? Well,
Speaker 3: what's your intention and what is your heart when you're
Speaker 3: doing it? Like, you know, I got Didy jokes too.
Speaker 3: Those I do on stage, I'm not gonna do him
Speaker 3: on the talk show. So you know, I just think,
Speaker 3: what what is your intention when you're saying it? So
Speaker 3: I don't know if you're talking about the fact that
Speaker 3: you want to do negative stuff. You got to report the.
Speaker 4: News, That's what I'm saying. Like, sometimes you got to
Speaker 4: touch on things that people are not happy touching on.
Speaker 3: But there are people who are intentionally mean about stuff.
Speaker 3: There are people intentionally trying to take down folks. So
Speaker 3: if you're not like that, but you have to report
Speaker 3: on the news. I don't have to do that a man.
Speaker 5: If you hear about a man nothing and then the
Speaker 5: man taking the nuting and rubbing it on his nipple,
Speaker 5: YEA heard that.
Speaker 3: The sperm shake. But but she's covering a trial. They
Speaker 3: are trying to show character. They're trying so you have
Speaker 3: to tell us what's going on. That is what they
Speaker 3: discuss in the courtroom. Yes it's gross, but that's what
Speaker 3: they talked about. They put him on the witness stand,
Speaker 3: so you're just you're just telling that and giving your opinion.
Speaker 3: This ain't nothing you said. Oh this is what I heard.
Speaker 3: This is actual fact. If he was on the he
Speaker 3: was on the witness stand, so you know, yes it was.
Speaker 3: I was like, that's disgusting. But I never looked at
Speaker 3: you like, oh, Lauren, why are you saying that the news?
Speaker 3: But I mean, like even relationships stuff like the big
Speaker 3: celebrity breakups and the divorces and the you I think
Speaker 3: you have to you know, you you have to report that.
Speaker 3: I try to do it too, like the way I
Speaker 3: come from with divorces. I'm upset because I looked at
Speaker 3: you know, there's I'm sad because they got divorced, and
Speaker 3: then I have some jokes in there. I'm sad they
Speaker 3: got divorced. But is he available now?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 3: Do you mind if I got to bring some lightness
Speaker 3: to it? Gotcha? But it is your job to report
Speaker 3: what is going on. Otherwise we wouldn't know what.
Speaker 2: She hasn't been so much. I get the calls, Yeah,
Speaker 2: we did, We do numerous times.
Speaker 3: Biggest conversation right now when breakups is CARDI b offset.
Speaker 3: So when we're covering those things, it's very temperamental for
Speaker 3: the people that are going through and I try to
Speaker 3: understand that.
Speaker 4: But at the same time, it's like these things are
Speaker 4: put out there. Cardi's on spaces talking about it, there's tweets,
Speaker 4: there's all these things. So the balance sometimes and.
Speaker 3: You're going to get it. You are going to get it.
Speaker 3: I've seen people who come on the show who don't
Speaker 3: want to know. Who was the one that didn't want
Speaker 3: to talk to Jess when she was six? He read
Speaker 3: I'm like, you know, and she's very, very sensitive, and
Speaker 3: she had to say numerous times, I just have to
Speaker 3: report it. I'm gonnam, this is what I do. We
Speaker 3: have to report it for them. I'm like, this comes
Speaker 3: with the territory. People are going to report. That's why
Speaker 3: I'm so private about my life, because otherwise people are
Speaker 3: going to report on it.
Speaker 2: It's just when people take sides though, right, because we don't.
Speaker 3: Know all the facts, and they want to know why
Speaker 3: you didn't say this because we only got three minutes
Speaker 3: and this is the information I was given you always
Speaker 3: I have to say that too. People get mad at
Speaker 3: me and I go, I didn't know. I didn't know
Speaker 3: that fact before. This is what we read and I'm
Speaker 3: I have to comment on it.
Speaker 1: But what Sherry said is true.
Speaker 5: Intention matters, right, Like, yeah, Lauren, you know we would
Speaker 5: have a dinner with the Wendy Williams.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and this was how long ago? I don't remember that.
Speaker 5: And Wendy said, verbatim, I think that I'm in the
Speaker 5: space that I'm in now because.
Speaker 1: Of how to talk about people.
Speaker 3: That's pretty powerful, that's what she says.
Speaker 1: And she was like, well, I just was and we
Speaker 1: don't even talk that.
Speaker 5: She was like, I don't know, I just I just
Speaker 5: think God, Like wow, for her to have that self awareness,
Speaker 5: then I mean, now it's good.
Speaker 3: But yes, and see, now here's the thing. No matter
Speaker 3: what I say about Wendy, it'll be it'll be taken
Speaker 3: out of context. So I don't get upset because I
Speaker 3: know my intention. I feel that's very powerful. And sometimes
Speaker 3: we get in the season of our life we started
Speaker 3: looking back over stuff and God is we're open more
Speaker 3: to hearing God. The fact that she said that is
Speaker 3: pretty deep because that means that at night she's been
Speaker 3: laying there thinking about some stuff. Now, she has a
Speaker 3: plethora of fans who if you if we said that,
Speaker 3: they'd be on us like on our asses about that.
Speaker 3: But Wendy said that, and it was a deep you
Speaker 3: can feel the sorry like I don't know, but maybe
Speaker 3: I've never seen her like that, And I was like,
Speaker 3: oh wow, I don't want to end up like that.
Speaker 3: And I would say this sometimes when you I remember
Speaker 3: my girlfriend said one time she didn't let The Real
Speaker 3: Housewives be played in her house. Her kids liked it,
Speaker 3: and she said, I don't want that energy in my
Speaker 3: house of always arguing people now with a man they do,
Speaker 3: because I don't want that any kind of seeds to
Speaker 3: be planet of energy in my house and I'm arguing
Speaker 3: with my friends, and so she wouldn't. So I feel
Speaker 3: like sometimes when you're in negative space all the time,
Speaker 3: negative energy seems define you. That's like how it is
Speaker 3: with Straw. It's the same thing with Straw. Like this girl, Taraji,
Speaker 3: her character, it was always negative stuff. And so everything
Speaker 3: you see these people that can't catch a break, they're
Speaker 3: always it's always something negative finds you because you're in
Speaker 3: such a negative space. So I think you have to
Speaker 3: look at that when I say, is it edifying how
Speaker 3: you were reporting the news? That's what you're doing. But
Speaker 3: when you know when you start to veer over into
Speaker 3: the shady, the mean, the shady Charlotte may when you
Speaker 3: veer over into that space. Because God get on me
Speaker 3: all the time. I'll veer over and He'll go stop stop,
Speaker 3: and I'm like, ah, but it's funny. Yeah, but it
Speaker 3: ain't from me. You know now, I'm not gonna open
Speaker 3: up a Bible and do malla co icept.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 3: I'm funny. I do dirty jokes. I talk about people.
Speaker 3: But I can feel when I'm veering over into the
Speaker 3: I know you got to go your character instro you
Speaker 3: brought back up.
Speaker 4: It's such it because we're talking about women in all
Speaker 4: these spaces, right, Your character is such an advocate for
Speaker 4: black women in distress.
Speaker 3: Yes, in real life. Where does that come from for you?
Speaker 3: You know what I just I'm I feel for women
Speaker 3: who go I don't get along with other women because
Speaker 3: they treacherous. They this that's what you're draw into your life.
Speaker 3: I'm a big believer. Way you speak is what comes
Speaker 3: to you. And we cannot exist without other women. We
Speaker 3: really cannot. Like our strength comes from women. We change
Speaker 3: the world. I know when I was going through my
Speaker 3: worst moments, when I would be on the floor crying.
Speaker 3: It would be my girlfriends that would pick me up
Speaker 3: and hold me like I Just who would encourage me,
Speaker 3: who challenge me, who get on me? Is women. So
Speaker 3: if you don't have a good, good female friends in
Speaker 3: your life and you think they treacherous and you think
Speaker 3: they trying to get your man, then you need to
Speaker 3: let them go. And also you need to look at
Speaker 3: yourself because what is that saying? Show me the four
Speaker 3: people you hang out with, and I'll show you who
Speaker 3: you are. So if you feel that all the women
Speaker 3: in your life are treacherous, then what are you? Who
Speaker 3: are you?
Speaker 5: So?
Speaker 3: I just think that women we have to we have
Speaker 3: to galvanize because young girls. I have a heart for
Speaker 3: young women. They don't have these they don't have enough
Speaker 3: role models, and they are looking to us to figure out.
Speaker 3: We have coping mechanisms all this stuff that's happening politically adults,
Speaker 3: we barely have coping mechanisms. Think about these kids that
Speaker 3: are out there. They got nothing, So they need to
Speaker 3: see positive women in what they are doing. We need
Speaker 3: more women like you, We need more women like me,
Speaker 3: We need more women who are We need more women
Speaker 3: like Megs the stallion who says, I'm gonna go to college. Yes,
Speaker 3: I got this, but I'm gonna give my education because
Speaker 3: I know I'm gonna make a differ with this thing
Speaker 3: behind me, this piece of paper. And they wanted they
Speaker 3: want to go to they want to go to college.
Speaker 3: When I looked at a different world, I wanted to
Speaker 3: go to college. So I think that we have to
Speaker 3: really reach back and health these young ones like y'all
Speaker 3: have to reach back. There's no reason why y'all have
Speaker 3: not reached out and said, can free come and help?
Speaker 3: Say his name, Oh damn it, my son. Okay, I
Speaker 3: would like him too. He needs he needs an intern.
Speaker 3: Perhaps he needs the intern. I need somebody to help.
Speaker 3: That's what he needs to do. Intern, because you know
Speaker 3: he's on he's on the spectrum, and so it just
Speaker 3: he needs some black men in his life to you know.
Speaker 3: He tell I had to teach him to take the
Speaker 3: train by himself. I deal with people way different than
Speaker 3: a man, would you know. So I tell I tell him,
Speaker 3: when you're on the train and somebody says something crazy,
Speaker 3: just get up and move. Maybe you might tell him
Speaker 3: something different. I tell him, if the police say this,
Speaker 3: do this, And he said, Mom, They're not going to
Speaker 3: say that to me. I don't know what to say
Speaker 3: to him when he goes. They're not going to say
Speaker 3: he's manifesting great stuff, that that's not going to happen.
Speaker 3: But you might say something different.
Speaker 5: That is the hardest thing raising kids, because you don't
Speaker 5: want to put that on them. If they feel that
Speaker 5: way and they have that positive energy, you don't want
Speaker 5: to take that away from them.
Speaker 1: But you still want them to deal with the reality.
Speaker 3: Absolutely they have to deal with. But my reality and
Speaker 3: the way I'm a nurturer, maybe he shouldn't be a nurturer.
Speaker 3: I'm a protector, you know, I'm a Look. Look, if
Speaker 3: somebody mess with you, run, if a girl messed with you, run.
Speaker 3: You know, maybe he's not supposed to do that. You
Speaker 3: might have different advice for him. You know. He obviously
Speaker 3: would talk to y'all more about brownies and all of
Speaker 3: that other stuff. He found a site to sell them
Speaker 3: seven ninety nine, so y'all can tell him something different.
Speaker 3: I didn't know what to say. He submitted, Lincoln, everything.
Speaker 2: You owns part of a dispensary to please don't tell
Speaker 2: him that.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna give him nothing. Give him to you
Speaker 1: and you can have them.
Speaker 5: Oh my god, I do want to end with this
Speaker 5: last question, miss Shepard, because you have been in here preaching.
Speaker 1: I mean, you do not know how God has been
Speaker 1: talking through you.
Speaker 3: Wow over that.
Speaker 5: Now, there is a generation of women watching your show
Speaker 5: who feels seen and heard. So what do you want
Speaker 5: to share his show to represent in this messy meme
Speaker 5: driven media landscape.
Speaker 3: I want I want the young brown girls to look
Speaker 3: at me and say, it's possible I can do that.
Speaker 3: I think you got three shows out with three black
Speaker 3: women running them. I don't know if you're gonna see
Speaker 3: that again in this temperature, but I want them to
Speaker 3: be able to look at us, look at me, and
Speaker 3: say I can do it. You know, That's why representation matters.
Speaker 3: People keep saying no no, we all won no no no.
Speaker 3: I saw Oprah Winfrey doing it and she looked like me.
Speaker 3: We had the same kind of hair, sayings the wig.
Speaker 3: We had the same kind of hair, her skin color.
Speaker 3: I saw Stephanie Mills and in the Whiz and I said,
Speaker 3: I want to do that. It matters. And so when
Speaker 3: little girls look at me and they come and see
Speaker 3: me and they call me untie, I'm like, yes, you
Speaker 3: can do this. There's a space for you. I want
Speaker 3: you to feel like there's a space. I want you
Speaker 3: to I want you to come up to me and
Speaker 3: ask me for advice. I want you to get ready
Speaker 3: because it's there for the taking. The money is here,
Speaker 3: the you just gotta be ready. So that's what I
Speaker 3: want to impart. It's doable, it really truly is. But
Speaker 3: you gotta do the work. So I think a lot
Speaker 3: of social media people, it comes to them so fast
Speaker 3: and when the crash comes, they're not able to rebound,
Speaker 3: you know, So put in, put in the work, and
Speaker 3: it's it'll happen.
Speaker 2: Check today.
Speaker 3: Can I tell you I'm also gonna be an NJ
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Speaker 3: We're gonna be at the NJ Pack at the North
Speaker 3: to Shore Comedy Festival June twentieth, and then we're gonna
Speaker 3: be in Philly. I'm gonna be in Philly July eleventh
Speaker 3: at the Riverside Casino. Is it the Riverside Casino? Rivers
Speaker 3: rivers Casino, Because I'm about to go on tour and
Speaker 3: do stand up. But Kim Whitley and I are the
Speaker 3: only comics who can stand on stage and do two
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Speaker 2: That's right, New Jersey Pack, that's June.
Speaker 3: And I don't be preaching. I'm funny. No, no, no,
Speaker 3: I'm funny.
Speaker 2: Sherry Shepherd, Ladies and Gentlemen, Straw Netflix, It's the Breakfast Club.
Speaker 2: Good morning, Wake that ass up in the morning.
Speaker 1: The Breakfast Club