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I 28 00:01:32,880 --> 00:01:35,560 Speaker 1: want you to stop tripping over small challenges and prepare 29 00:01:35,600 --> 00:01:38,240 Speaker 1: to rise above the bigger obstacles that life is going 30 00:01:38,280 --> 00:01:41,160 Speaker 1: to present to you and be prepared. The Money Making 31 00:01:41,160 --> 00:01:45,520 Speaker 1: Conversation interviews provide relatable information to listen about career and 32 00:01:45,560 --> 00:01:50,680 Speaker 1: financial planning, entrepreneurship, motivation, leadership, overcoming the arts, and how 33 00:01:50,760 --> 00:01:53,840 Speaker 1: to live a balance life. I always talk about leading 34 00:01:53,840 --> 00:01:55,480 Speaker 1: with your gifts. That's what it is all about on 35 00:01:55,600 --> 00:01:59,000 Speaker 1: Money Making Conversation. Money Making Conversation is the leading voice 36 00:01:59,080 --> 00:02:02,800 Speaker 1: for entrepreneurship in entertainment. My next guest is a talented 37 00:02:02,840 --> 00:02:06,680 Speaker 1: actress and singer who was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. 38 00:02:07,320 --> 00:02:09,400 Speaker 1: You know I'm from Texas so I can talk like that. 39 00:02:09,800 --> 00:02:12,600 Speaker 1: She right above me, right above me. She moved to 40 00:02:12,600 --> 00:02:16,040 Speaker 1: Atlanta for college and attended an hbc Uth School Clark 41 00:02:16,120 --> 00:02:19,560 Speaker 1: Atlantic University, where she majored in theater, and then moved 42 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:22,760 Speaker 1: to Los Angeles and has been booking television shows, films, 43 00:02:22,760 --> 00:02:25,560 Speaker 1: and commercials every since. She is now starting in the 44 00:02:25,600 --> 00:02:29,440 Speaker 1: news Tyler Perry series and it is entitled Tyler Perry's 45 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:33,600 Speaker 1: Ruthless Please Walk up to Money Making Conversation. Melissa L. Williams, 46 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:40,720 Speaker 1: Thank you. Wow. That was a great first of all, 47 00:02:40,760 --> 00:02:42,919 Speaker 1: you deserve it, you know, and you're you're out here, 48 00:02:43,840 --> 00:02:45,400 Speaker 1: you know. I always tell people a lot of people 49 00:02:45,560 --> 00:02:50,440 Speaker 1: are stopped based on fear, stop based on people's expectations, 50 00:02:50,480 --> 00:02:53,200 Speaker 1: on projections of what they should be doing in their lives, 51 00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:56,840 Speaker 1: in their life. And here you are in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. 52 00:02:56,840 --> 00:03:00,400 Speaker 1: I've been there several times. Uh. Eat some great appecue 53 00:03:00,400 --> 00:03:02,640 Speaker 1: in Oklahoma City. By the way, I've been there some 54 00:03:02,680 --> 00:03:07,680 Speaker 1: good papers. Yea. So how do you get to Atlanta 55 00:03:07,800 --> 00:03:11,799 Speaker 1: to Los Angeles from Oklahoma City? Ha ha? How think 56 00:03:11,800 --> 00:03:16,840 Speaker 1: your dreams be so big in Oklahoma City? Oh well, 57 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:20,440 Speaker 1: I'll tell you that's how you know it's your gift 58 00:03:20,560 --> 00:03:26,840 Speaker 1: when when nobody or nothing, you know, circumstances can stop 59 00:03:26,919 --> 00:03:31,800 Speaker 1: you from attaining it. I feel like my purpose I 60 00:03:31,880 --> 00:03:35,080 Speaker 1: found it at a young age. My purpose on this 61 00:03:35,240 --> 00:03:39,160 Speaker 1: earth was this to tell a story, um, whether it 62 00:03:39,160 --> 00:03:42,280 Speaker 1: beauty characters or my own. And that's why I think 63 00:03:42,320 --> 00:03:47,160 Speaker 1: that God has given me such a powerful testimony because 64 00:03:48,320 --> 00:03:52,520 Speaker 1: it is definitely one that I feel can transform other 65 00:03:52,880 --> 00:03:59,080 Speaker 1: young black women actors or even just people who live 66 00:03:59,160 --> 00:04:02,040 Speaker 1: in small town you know. I feel like my story 67 00:04:02,080 --> 00:04:07,440 Speaker 1: would transform that thinking at least enough to um make 68 00:04:07,520 --> 00:04:09,360 Speaker 1: them believe that they can do it, just because of 69 00:04:09,720 --> 00:04:12,240 Speaker 1: you know, where I'm from and where I grew up 70 00:04:12,320 --> 00:04:15,240 Speaker 1: as well, right, And I think I appreciate you saying 71 00:04:15,240 --> 00:04:17,919 Speaker 1: that because you know, people look at the big city 72 00:04:18,080 --> 00:04:22,520 Speaker 1: New York, Chicago, Houston, Atlanta, now Los Angeles, that's where 73 00:04:22,520 --> 00:04:25,279 Speaker 1: you go to achieve. You you either from those type 74 00:04:25,320 --> 00:04:26,880 Speaker 1: of cities or you're born in those types of cities 75 00:04:26,880 --> 00:04:29,160 Speaker 1: where the real talent is just like in anything, you know, 76 00:04:29,440 --> 00:04:31,919 Speaker 1: it comes from everywhere. You're part of that, one of 77 00:04:31,920 --> 00:04:34,920 Speaker 1: the limbs on the tree, that fruit that we need 78 00:04:34,960 --> 00:04:37,359 Speaker 1: to grow. And so when you made the decision to 79 00:04:37,400 --> 00:04:39,960 Speaker 1: go to Atlanta for college, that was the first major 80 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:42,000 Speaker 1: decision you had to make because you would leaving home 81 00:04:42,279 --> 00:04:46,520 Speaker 1: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, to Atlanta, Georgia, which we know. I've 82 00:04:46,520 --> 00:04:48,680 Speaker 1: been in Oklahoma City and I said that joking earlier, 83 00:04:48,720 --> 00:04:50,719 Speaker 1: but I was for real. I know the black population there. 84 00:04:50,960 --> 00:04:52,920 Speaker 1: Now you come into a market where we know is 85 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:55,800 Speaker 1: truly an African American market. What was that like? What 86 00:04:55,920 --> 00:04:59,599 Speaker 1: was that transition for you? Oh? It was definitely a 87 00:04:59,640 --> 00:05:02,880 Speaker 1: culture shark. I mean, you know, there are black population 88 00:05:02,960 --> 00:05:05,839 Speaker 1: in Oklahoma. You can count on your on your on 89 00:05:05,920 --> 00:05:08,800 Speaker 1: your one hand, on one hand, you know, we don't 90 00:05:08,800 --> 00:05:11,159 Speaker 1: mix up a lot a lot of space. We will 91 00:05:11,200 --> 00:05:13,800 Speaker 1: take up a lot of space in Oklahoma, but there 92 00:05:13,839 --> 00:05:16,520 Speaker 1: are black people. So I will just sell that miss 93 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:20,279 Speaker 1: right now. People always ask me, oh, I didn't know 94 00:05:20,320 --> 00:05:23,040 Speaker 1: black people live in Oklahoma, and I'm like, yep, yep, 95 00:05:23,320 --> 00:05:29,600 Speaker 1: because here's one right here. So uh, I think you know, 96 00:05:29,760 --> 00:05:32,400 Speaker 1: for me, it was a cultural shock because Atlanta obviously 97 00:05:32,680 --> 00:05:35,920 Speaker 1: is about that culture and black love and black history 98 00:05:35,960 --> 00:05:39,800 Speaker 1: and black restaurants and black owned businesses and black owned designers, 99 00:05:39,880 --> 00:05:43,479 Speaker 1: like it's everything black, and that's what I wanted, you know. 100 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:46,839 Speaker 1: I I the reason why I even found out about 101 00:05:46,880 --> 00:05:51,280 Speaker 1: like college in Atlanta. Is because I was impacted on 102 00:05:51,360 --> 00:05:54,200 Speaker 1: by a movie called Drumline. I saw that in high 103 00:05:54,200 --> 00:05:57,159 Speaker 1: school and I was like, I want that experience. I 104 00:05:57,200 --> 00:06:01,360 Speaker 1: want in all black experience HBCU. I want I want 105 00:06:01,360 --> 00:06:03,920 Speaker 1: to see the girls dancing like that. I was the 106 00:06:04,040 --> 00:06:06,640 Speaker 1: drum Line have rhythm, like I want to be around that. 107 00:06:07,279 --> 00:06:11,200 Speaker 1: So I looked it up our Line, and I thought, 108 00:06:11,360 --> 00:06:13,920 Speaker 1: I was so ready to, you know, move forward. I 109 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:16,200 Speaker 1: thought there's a school on drum Line was a real school. 110 00:06:16,240 --> 00:06:19,200 Speaker 1: So I looked at the school that and it went to, 111 00:06:19,680 --> 00:06:21,960 Speaker 1: and I found out that it was false obviously created 112 00:06:21,960 --> 00:06:24,680 Speaker 1: for the movie. But hey, I'm in Oklahoma, you know. 113 00:06:25,360 --> 00:06:30,200 Speaker 1: So I found out that Okay, they filmed it in 114 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:34,400 Speaker 1: Atlanta on a college campus, which happened to be um 115 00:06:34,520 --> 00:06:37,720 Speaker 1: An HBCU. So in the A U C Center that 116 00:06:38,040 --> 00:06:40,400 Speaker 1: makes up more House Stemming in Clark, Atlanta. You know, 117 00:06:40,440 --> 00:06:43,159 Speaker 1: all of the campuses are on one campus there in Atlanta. 118 00:06:43,600 --> 00:06:47,320 Speaker 1: So I applied to Spellman, I applied to Clarks, I 119 00:06:47,320 --> 00:06:49,520 Speaker 1: got a sas to Clark, and I went to Clark 120 00:06:50,320 --> 00:06:54,039 Speaker 1: and congratulations because that that that was a seed for 121 00:06:54,120 --> 00:06:56,800 Speaker 1: while we were talking today and uh, because you know 122 00:06:56,920 --> 00:07:00,480 Speaker 1: HBCUs I'm a part of a lot of camp pins 123 00:07:00,880 --> 00:07:04,680 Speaker 1: with HBCU. I didn't attended. I didn't attend an HBCU, 124 00:07:04,760 --> 00:07:08,320 Speaker 1: but I'm such a fan of bringing the quality of 125 00:07:08,520 --> 00:07:12,160 Speaker 1: educated people that their brand awareness that hbc uses given out, 126 00:07:12,240 --> 00:07:15,120 Speaker 1: especially in Hollywood. All the wood is really being overrun 127 00:07:15,160 --> 00:07:17,840 Speaker 1: by HBCU graduates, which is really positive as well as 128 00:07:17,880 --> 00:07:21,280 Speaker 1: the I'm sure you're finding it out as well, you know. 129 00:07:21,600 --> 00:07:25,120 Speaker 1: And so with that being said, I am, Yeah, that's 130 00:07:25,160 --> 00:07:28,040 Speaker 1: something that I'm I'm proud to to be a part 131 00:07:28,040 --> 00:07:30,320 Speaker 1: of it as well. And I'm I'm glad that people 132 00:07:30,360 --> 00:07:34,240 Speaker 1: are mentioning that because it only puts my business in 133 00:07:34,320 --> 00:07:36,920 Speaker 1: our HBCUs. You know, like at the end of the day, 134 00:07:37,320 --> 00:07:40,120 Speaker 1: college is a business. If I ain't nobody going and 135 00:07:40,240 --> 00:07:43,560 Speaker 1: nobody's showing, and you ain't like we need the ABC 136 00:07:43,760 --> 00:07:47,080 Speaker 1: used to be in the business. So yeah, I'm glad 137 00:07:47,120 --> 00:07:51,360 Speaker 1: that people are, like I think lean away when you um, 138 00:07:51,400 --> 00:07:54,120 Speaker 1: a lot of people are coming out mentioning that in 139 00:07:54,200 --> 00:07:58,080 Speaker 1: their journey or story, and I think that's important. That's 140 00:07:58,120 --> 00:08:00,040 Speaker 1: why I had to mention it in your story in 141 00:08:00,080 --> 00:08:03,480 Speaker 1: your journey. My executive producer, she's from Hampton, you know, 142 00:08:04,120 --> 00:08:07,680 Speaker 1: you know, I gotta get love over there. She keeps 143 00:08:07,720 --> 00:08:10,160 Speaker 1: me right every every time I do this show. Now, listen, 144 00:08:10,320 --> 00:08:12,960 Speaker 1: I don't want to get anybody mad because it may 145 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:15,720 Speaker 1: seem like I've drifted off into a personal conversation about 146 00:08:15,720 --> 00:08:19,400 Speaker 1: your life. Do you have a show coming out? Tyler 147 00:08:19,400 --> 00:08:22,120 Speaker 1: Perry is ruthless? Before we talk about that show, the 148 00:08:22,200 --> 00:08:26,920 Speaker 1: seed of your character was planted in his other shows 149 00:08:28,160 --> 00:08:32,640 Speaker 1: they're over now. It was really interested. I would reading. 150 00:08:32,640 --> 00:08:34,440 Speaker 1: I always trying to do additional research and what they 151 00:08:34,480 --> 00:08:36,200 Speaker 1: sent over to me, and I was reading this article 152 00:08:36,480 --> 00:08:38,640 Speaker 1: and he was talking about you know, you said Tyler 153 00:08:38,640 --> 00:08:41,040 Speaker 1: Perry was a genius. You said this guy was amazing. 154 00:08:41,240 --> 00:08:45,720 Speaker 1: Why did you say that about Tyler Perry Because that's 155 00:08:45,760 --> 00:08:48,080 Speaker 1: what I truly believe. I think he is amazing. I 156 00:08:48,120 --> 00:08:52,000 Speaker 1: think he is genius. Any man who can write greate producer. Okay, 157 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:53,560 Speaker 1: first of all, let me just start from the beginning. 158 00:08:53,920 --> 00:08:59,600 Speaker 1: My background is theater major. But I did uh continue 159 00:08:59,679 --> 00:09:03,880 Speaker 1: educating ation under the Media Production program. So I twitched 160 00:09:03,960 --> 00:09:06,960 Speaker 1: my major, okay, because I was like, I need to 161 00:09:07,040 --> 00:09:11,360 Speaker 1: learn the behind the scenes because later on down the line, Um, 162 00:09:11,400 --> 00:09:13,319 Speaker 1: you know, just having the theater major isn't going to 163 00:09:13,400 --> 00:09:16,200 Speaker 1: be enough. So I need to learn how to produce. 164 00:09:16,280 --> 00:09:17,720 Speaker 1: I need to learn how to edit. I need to 165 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:20,520 Speaker 1: learn learn how where did the rights go? So I 166 00:09:20,600 --> 00:09:23,880 Speaker 1: have good lighting? Right? Um? So I learned all that. 167 00:09:24,400 --> 00:09:26,880 Speaker 1: And I'm saying that to say any man that can 168 00:09:27,040 --> 00:09:29,760 Speaker 1: at his level, I'm talking about Netflix skills. I'm talking 169 00:09:29,760 --> 00:09:34,360 Speaker 1: about cable bt own uh now with this streaming service 170 00:09:34,400 --> 00:09:37,480 Speaker 1: that he's partnered with, the b t V E T plus. Um, 171 00:09:37,760 --> 00:09:42,360 Speaker 1: anything I can write, create, produced, and direct and steel, 172 00:09:42,679 --> 00:09:45,640 Speaker 1: you know, be a personality themselves with them India Tour. 173 00:09:46,360 --> 00:09:48,760 Speaker 1: That's a genius in my eyes. And if anybody wants 174 00:09:49,280 --> 00:09:53,079 Speaker 1: to to disagree, I love to talk about it. I 175 00:09:53,240 --> 00:09:55,240 Speaker 1: love to talk about it. I won't I won't disagree. 176 00:09:55,280 --> 00:09:58,200 Speaker 1: I will not disagree at all. Okay, I just like 177 00:09:58,280 --> 00:10:00,920 Speaker 1: to talk about the relationship up because of the fact 178 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:03,480 Speaker 1: that you know, everybody needs to toot that horn. It's 179 00:10:03,520 --> 00:10:06,040 Speaker 1: not tied to just he gave me an acting shot. 180 00:10:06,440 --> 00:10:08,920 Speaker 1: He's doing it over and over. The thing like about 181 00:10:08,920 --> 00:10:11,160 Speaker 1: Tyler Perry's that he does all these things and you 182 00:10:11,280 --> 00:10:13,560 Speaker 1: talked to him, it's the same guy he's you know, 183 00:10:13,600 --> 00:10:16,200 Speaker 1: he doesn't change. Did some walk on the stage floor 184 00:10:16,200 --> 00:10:19,880 Speaker 1: and he's some little weird dude or some over energized person. 185 00:10:20,160 --> 00:10:22,880 Speaker 1: It's the same individual. That's that's to me is amazing, 186 00:10:23,120 --> 00:10:26,160 Speaker 1: you know, being that he built his career, you know, 187 00:10:26,240 --> 00:10:29,120 Speaker 1: with Medea and all that stuff as an actor playing 188 00:10:29,120 --> 00:10:32,920 Speaker 1: a female role or female character over the top. But 189 00:10:32,960 --> 00:10:35,800 Speaker 1: he's so centered. Now, let's talk about the series. Is 190 00:10:35,880 --> 00:10:42,959 Speaker 1: it's not centered. It's Tyler Perry's the Oval. Okay, Now, okay, 191 00:10:42,960 --> 00:10:45,280 Speaker 1: like I got to talk about this show. If you 192 00:10:45,320 --> 00:10:49,000 Speaker 1: have not seen this show, everybody, Okay, the lead characters, 193 00:10:49,040 --> 00:10:51,839 Speaker 1: the guy looks like Bradley Cooper, the lead character. That's 194 00:10:51,840 --> 00:10:56,160 Speaker 1: the president, the president. It's it's a it's a dysfunctional show. 195 00:10:56,720 --> 00:10:59,400 Speaker 1: Right that the Obamas have left the White House and 196 00:10:59,400 --> 00:11:02,600 Speaker 1: it this far family has moved in. I'm talking about 197 00:11:02,720 --> 00:11:06,280 Speaker 1: I'm talking about, folks, This functional at the steroid level 198 00:11:06,360 --> 00:11:11,960 Speaker 1: has moved in. Okay, Okay, the President and the first 199 00:11:12,040 --> 00:11:16,840 Speaker 1: lady she's black, he's white. Okay, they do not they 200 00:11:16,840 --> 00:11:21,400 Speaker 1: do not get controversial, they do not get along the 201 00:11:21,520 --> 00:11:24,360 Speaker 1: least develop their problems that she's black, he's white. For 202 00:11:24,400 --> 00:11:26,320 Speaker 1: these people, that's the least of the problems on the show. 203 00:11:26,559 --> 00:11:30,280 Speaker 1: That is like minor league that that quickly becomes a 204 00:11:30,360 --> 00:11:33,959 Speaker 1: non issue compared to the other problems that they have 205 00:11:34,080 --> 00:11:38,400 Speaker 1: going on. Did they have a daughter? I gotta talked. 206 00:11:38,440 --> 00:11:43,400 Speaker 1: I gotta tell the doughters, she's crazy. Okay. The mama 207 00:11:43,440 --> 00:11:49,520 Speaker 1: actually tastes the dollar on the show, tastes her in 208 00:11:49,559 --> 00:11:52,480 Speaker 1: front of people, eat the white out, in front of 209 00:11:52,520 --> 00:11:56,600 Speaker 1: the in front of the security. You don't care. The mama, 210 00:11:56,960 --> 00:11:59,559 Speaker 1: her mama, her actual mom, not the step mama. Her 211 00:11:59,600 --> 00:12:03,400 Speaker 1: actual mama, tases her own daughter. Mama, the mama. Okay, 212 00:12:03,440 --> 00:12:08,360 Speaker 1: she has her she burst two kids, two kids, Okay, 213 00:12:09,160 --> 00:12:13,559 Speaker 1: now your daughter. Now, this is Tyler Perry's over office. 214 00:12:13,559 --> 00:12:15,280 Speaker 1: I'm not gonna give everything away, but I gotta set 215 00:12:15,360 --> 00:12:17,840 Speaker 1: these characters because we're gonna get to Yeah, we got 216 00:12:17,840 --> 00:12:21,560 Speaker 1: we still got to let them watch it now, Okay, no, no, 217 00:12:21,600 --> 00:12:24,120 Speaker 1: you know me. I'm not gonna bust Tyler Perry's bubber. 218 00:12:24,360 --> 00:12:26,880 Speaker 1: But there's enough crazy in his own this show. Enough 219 00:12:27,000 --> 00:12:32,079 Speaker 1: drug dealing going on, this show, enough enough sex going on. 220 00:12:32,240 --> 00:12:35,160 Speaker 1: I mean sex sex, sex, sex is going on. This 221 00:12:35,200 --> 00:12:39,440 Speaker 1: show is ridiculous. Oh my good man. And then your character, 222 00:12:39,679 --> 00:12:45,920 Speaker 1: well that's got to be that's got number one TV. 223 00:12:46,280 --> 00:12:50,240 Speaker 1: He does. I'm telling my why. Then your character. You're 224 00:12:50,280 --> 00:12:59,600 Speaker 1: part of a coat, she's saying, because you know she's 225 00:12:59,760 --> 00:13:03,200 Speaker 1: she could you know she could really sing. Okay, So 226 00:13:03,440 --> 00:13:06,760 Speaker 1: she causally throws in these notes along the way, humming, humming. 227 00:13:07,480 --> 00:13:11,679 Speaker 1: She has a child with the with the son of 228 00:13:11,840 --> 00:13:15,880 Speaker 1: the butler at the White House, but she has a 229 00:13:15,920 --> 00:13:17,640 Speaker 1: twin sister. Ain't gonna go no, I'm not gonna go 230 00:13:17,640 --> 00:13:19,880 Speaker 1: any further than that that she has a twin sister. 231 00:13:20,160 --> 00:13:22,880 Speaker 1: So she plays two characters in the oval. Am I 232 00:13:23,160 --> 00:13:25,400 Speaker 1: am I right now? But if you can correct me, Melissa, 233 00:13:25,400 --> 00:13:28,960 Speaker 1: I'm wrong. No, you're right. I'm just I'm just listening 234 00:13:28,960 --> 00:13:34,480 Speaker 1: to smiling Okay. Cool. So so, so it's all set up. 235 00:13:34,559 --> 00:13:38,840 Speaker 1: So picture this. Like I said earlier, the Obama's gracious, 236 00:13:40,520 --> 00:13:44,640 Speaker 1: the epitome of elegance has left the White House and 237 00:13:46,160 --> 00:13:57,160 Speaker 1: part hood, part trailer park, part uh foolishness, part uppity. 238 00:13:57,400 --> 00:14:03,439 Speaker 1: Deputy stupidity as moved in. So the staff at the 239 00:14:03,520 --> 00:14:07,280 Speaker 1: White House they caught off guard. They're not they're not 240 00:14:07,360 --> 00:14:11,080 Speaker 1: ready for this. If you just watch, I just beg. 241 00:14:11,160 --> 00:14:12,960 Speaker 1: I just beg people that just do me this faith. 242 00:14:13,320 --> 00:14:16,880 Speaker 1: If you question every Shad's enthusiasm, just watch the pilot. 243 00:14:17,520 --> 00:14:20,800 Speaker 1: If you watch the pilot. I swear to you, if 244 00:14:20,800 --> 00:14:25,640 Speaker 1: you watch the pilot, he has you you cannot believe 245 00:14:27,200 --> 00:14:28,960 Speaker 1: what we'll go on in the next episode. And we 246 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:32,560 Speaker 1: get to the next episode, it gets more crazy. You 247 00:14:32,640 --> 00:14:35,080 Speaker 1: know what you have said, none but the truth me 248 00:14:35,120 --> 00:14:38,080 Speaker 1: lessa tell us about your character and more detail. And uh, 249 00:14:38,240 --> 00:14:40,600 Speaker 1: let's uh, let's let's talk about this journey of this 250 00:14:40,680 --> 00:14:43,480 Speaker 1: new series because it's twenty four episodes. Correct, yes, it 251 00:14:43,560 --> 00:14:45,840 Speaker 1: is the twenty four episodes. It will be coming out 252 00:14:45,880 --> 00:14:48,560 Speaker 1: on d et plus, which is d e t s 253 00:14:48,640 --> 00:14:52,320 Speaker 1: new streaming app partners with Tyler Perry, and that is 254 00:14:52,400 --> 00:14:58,480 Speaker 1: available everywhere Android, Amazon, Apple, Roku. It's available everywhere. You 255 00:14:58,480 --> 00:15:01,560 Speaker 1: can type in on your smart m d et plus. UM. 256 00:15:01,640 --> 00:15:06,520 Speaker 1: So that's just letting everybody know. The price is coming 257 00:15:06,600 --> 00:15:09,920 Speaker 1: out on March nineteenth, and we are not dropping one, 258 00:15:10,120 --> 00:15:14,400 Speaker 1: we're not dropping two. We're dropping three episodes at one 259 00:15:14,840 --> 00:15:19,000 Speaker 1: on March nineteenth, just to show you you know what 260 00:15:19,080 --> 00:15:23,480 Speaker 1: Looseless is about. 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That's O T T E R 297 00:17:25,960 --> 00:17:30,440 Speaker 1: dot ai and Singer Well no, now, like I was 298 00:17:30,480 --> 00:17:32,919 Speaker 1: hooked on the Oval when it came out on BT 299 00:17:33,520 --> 00:17:37,840 Speaker 1: and that was really like an adult soap. That's what 300 00:17:37,960 --> 00:17:41,639 Speaker 1: they are. Oval really is what what exactly is? Ruthless? 301 00:17:42,400 --> 00:17:45,600 Speaker 1: What exactly? Yeah? What exactly? Like I said, you know, 302 00:17:45,680 --> 00:17:49,399 Speaker 1: the the Oval was more like an adult soap op? Okay, 303 00:17:49,480 --> 00:17:52,159 Speaker 1: what exactly is Tyler? Perish Ruthly, what exactly is the 304 00:17:52,160 --> 00:17:55,399 Speaker 1: theme of that and what drives the energy of the characters, 305 00:17:55,480 --> 00:17:57,200 Speaker 1: because we can get a more a little more detailed 306 00:17:57,240 --> 00:18:00,400 Speaker 1: in building enthusiasm because as I am enthusiastic and there's 307 00:18:00,440 --> 00:18:02,840 Speaker 1: about the Oval, they should definitely be enthus because your 308 00:18:02,920 --> 00:18:06,560 Speaker 1: character was very dynamic and it was developed on the 309 00:18:06,560 --> 00:18:09,840 Speaker 1: Oval show. So being this smart person than he is, 310 00:18:09,840 --> 00:18:13,560 Speaker 1: Tyler Berry spends it off. This characters this character off. 311 00:18:13,760 --> 00:18:16,480 Speaker 1: So tell us about the dynamics of your character that 312 00:18:16,680 --> 00:18:18,760 Speaker 1: was on The Oval, because I didn't want to give 313 00:18:18,800 --> 00:18:20,280 Speaker 1: that away too much. I want you to be able 314 00:18:20,320 --> 00:18:22,840 Speaker 1: to express that in your own words and then transition 315 00:18:22,880 --> 00:18:25,840 Speaker 1: and over the new show. Okay, okay, So my character 316 00:18:26,119 --> 00:18:30,240 Speaker 1: in uh The Oval that hasn't spent off is named Ruth. 317 00:18:30,440 --> 00:18:36,720 Speaker 1: Ruth has a baby with Barry, who is Um, the 318 00:18:36,760 --> 00:18:43,960 Speaker 1: son of Nancy Um Nancy which is the house the 319 00:18:44,359 --> 00:18:48,040 Speaker 1: house basically the house grandmother right now because her husband 320 00:18:48,040 --> 00:18:49,760 Speaker 1: works for the White House, he's the butler. His name 321 00:18:49,800 --> 00:18:54,840 Speaker 1: is Richard. So Um Ruth comes and she's like she 322 00:18:54,960 --> 00:18:57,800 Speaker 1: wants her child because Barry has full custody at the 323 00:18:57,840 --> 00:19:02,360 Speaker 1: moment because of Ruth path and she's like, I want 324 00:19:02,359 --> 00:19:05,560 Speaker 1: to see my my daughter, and that turned into her 325 00:19:05,640 --> 00:19:10,840 Speaker 1: kidnapping her daughter with her cult members and taking her back. Um, 326 00:19:11,000 --> 00:19:14,080 Speaker 1: So Ruthless is going to show you where she's taking 327 00:19:14,080 --> 00:19:19,720 Speaker 1: her back too. So basically Ruthless is Ruth's character, UM 328 00:19:19,760 --> 00:19:21,720 Speaker 1: taking her daughter to this cold and you're going to 329 00:19:21,960 --> 00:19:27,120 Speaker 1: be getting an inside look of this fanatical underground world 330 00:19:27,280 --> 00:19:32,439 Speaker 1: that is the rocket issue that's saying the call wow. 331 00:19:32,960 --> 00:19:37,399 Speaker 1: And it's all shot in Atlanta. It's all shot in 332 00:19:37,400 --> 00:19:43,440 Speaker 1: Atlanta on his studios. Um. It's it's literally I think 333 00:19:44,160 --> 00:19:46,600 Speaker 1: I could be wrong, but I think I'm right. Um. 334 00:19:46,720 --> 00:19:50,080 Speaker 1: This is like the first series that he shot like 335 00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:55,240 Speaker 1: on location. So he made an actual compound for the 336 00:19:55,400 --> 00:19:58,840 Speaker 1: cal just for the show. And when I tell you, 337 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:02,920 Speaker 1: just like walking on the ground of it, it's pretty, 338 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:07,240 Speaker 1: it's pretty eerie. So he's gotten it down to even 339 00:20:07,320 --> 00:20:11,000 Speaker 1: just like the aesthetics. UM, and people are going to 340 00:20:11,200 --> 00:20:13,680 Speaker 1: feel the eeriness of it because at the end of 341 00:20:13,720 --> 00:20:17,000 Speaker 1: the day, like this is someone was telling in this 342 00:20:17,040 --> 00:20:20,240 Speaker 1: earlier but it's it's kind of like speaking to that 343 00:20:20,520 --> 00:20:23,919 Speaker 1: fear of um the unknown. Because the new books on 344 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:29,399 Speaker 1: Netflix types and cult, You're gonna get hundreds of documentaries 345 00:20:29,480 --> 00:20:33,919 Speaker 1: on cults that are either inactive or active or we 346 00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:36,000 Speaker 1: don't know they're active, you know what I mean. So 347 00:20:36,520 --> 00:20:39,600 Speaker 1: like these are it's a thing. It's just no one 348 00:20:39,960 --> 00:20:43,280 Speaker 1: brings it to the forefront. But I think that, um, 349 00:20:43,400 --> 00:20:47,560 Speaker 1: this show is is going to be pioneering for Tyler 350 00:20:47,600 --> 00:20:50,600 Speaker 1: Perry because it's deefinitely out of the box and and 351 00:20:50,640 --> 00:20:52,960 Speaker 1: almost out of the out of the comfort zone of 352 00:20:53,080 --> 00:20:56,840 Speaker 1: like doing the lighthearted comedy. You know what you did? 353 00:20:56,840 --> 00:20:59,320 Speaker 1: That would a fall from grace with me because of 354 00:20:59,359 --> 00:21:01,439 Speaker 1: the fact that, well, that's what I'm saying, this is 355 00:21:01,440 --> 00:21:03,840 Speaker 1: a new way. So he started with a fall from 356 00:21:03,880 --> 00:21:07,639 Speaker 1: grace and we got all when he's six million of 357 00:21:07,720 --> 00:21:11,520 Speaker 1: those Netflix eyes on that, and that just made me 358 00:21:11,600 --> 00:21:15,359 Speaker 1: even more say, I know Ruthless is going to have 359 00:21:15,520 --> 00:21:17,879 Speaker 1: people just the same because it's on the same as 360 00:21:17,920 --> 00:21:19,560 Speaker 1: to say, he's going the same way with it, just 361 00:21:19,600 --> 00:21:26,160 Speaker 1: the drama, thriller, horror type. Right. No, nothing, I never 362 00:21:26,160 --> 00:21:28,560 Speaker 1: take for granted any talent. And you are a talent 363 00:21:28,960 --> 00:21:33,080 Speaker 1: when you're doing characters. And I can tease about your characters, 364 00:21:33,080 --> 00:21:37,560 Speaker 1: but there's work involved in auditioning for this character. Tell 365 00:21:37,640 --> 00:21:40,439 Speaker 1: us that whole process and and when you got the 366 00:21:40,520 --> 00:21:43,920 Speaker 1: role and then also the announcement of the new series. 367 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:46,080 Speaker 1: Let's let's first talk about I could like to live 368 00:21:46,160 --> 00:21:49,879 Speaker 1: my my fans, know how who wanted who aspire to 369 00:21:50,280 --> 00:21:53,080 Speaker 1: a world of entertainment or the level of acting and 370 00:21:53,200 --> 00:21:56,320 Speaker 1: acting that's a job, So talk about that whole process. 371 00:21:58,280 --> 00:22:01,000 Speaker 1: Oh well, it's definitely definitely. I was definitely job and 372 00:22:01,040 --> 00:22:04,600 Speaker 1: it's definitely a journey one that you've got to have 373 00:22:04,640 --> 00:22:08,639 Speaker 1: faith for. So um, I moved to California after I 374 00:22:08,800 --> 00:22:14,080 Speaker 1: after I finished the college in Atlanta, and I came 375 00:22:14,119 --> 00:22:17,320 Speaker 1: out here knowing nothing, and you know, I do no theater, 376 00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:21,119 Speaker 1: so I was extra in Atlanta, and that's like the 377 00:22:21,160 --> 00:22:24,240 Speaker 1: most experience I had had on like a TV or 378 00:22:24,359 --> 00:22:27,919 Speaker 1: film set, professionals set. So when I moved here, I 379 00:22:28,040 --> 00:22:30,359 Speaker 1: just started doing a lot of research on like you know, 380 00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:33,240 Speaker 1: wanting to get your head shots, what I do Actors 381 00:22:33,320 --> 00:22:37,240 Speaker 1: go on to to submit themselves for auditions. And once 382 00:22:37,280 --> 00:22:40,199 Speaker 1: I started getting all this material and knowledge by just 383 00:22:40,280 --> 00:22:45,680 Speaker 1: doing it the research myself, I was like garnering results. 384 00:22:46,119 --> 00:22:49,600 Speaker 1: My first role that I was on the game, and 385 00:22:49,640 --> 00:22:53,199 Speaker 1: that was from me submitting myself and my picture. It 386 00:22:53,320 --> 00:22:55,720 Speaker 1: was a head shot. It wasn't professional. I had nothing 387 00:22:55,720 --> 00:23:00,119 Speaker 1: on my resume, but Jay selected me and then the 388 00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:03,119 Speaker 1: delimma is me having to get back to Atlanta to 389 00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:06,200 Speaker 1: do the audition, you know, and so it was another fight, 390 00:23:06,320 --> 00:23:10,119 Speaker 1: and I think that, Um, it's just it takes this. 391 00:23:10,440 --> 00:23:14,560 Speaker 1: I think any career, any career with longevity, takes that 392 00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:18,320 Speaker 1: fight in that drive, uh, because it's not always gonna 393 00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:21,959 Speaker 1: be up. It's up and down. You know, a journey 394 00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:25,760 Speaker 1: is up and down, and so if you have that fight, 395 00:23:26,400 --> 00:23:28,760 Speaker 1: you'll be able to survive at all. And I think 396 00:23:28,800 --> 00:23:31,359 Speaker 1: that's that's what my journey has taught me. It's built 397 00:23:31,359 --> 00:23:35,200 Speaker 1: my character as a person to be able to withstand 398 00:23:35,359 --> 00:23:38,320 Speaker 1: like all the nose until you get the big yes, 399 00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:42,680 Speaker 1: which right now for me is this moment. So for Ruth, um, 400 00:23:42,720 --> 00:23:46,800 Speaker 1: I auditioned for the Oval for another character and never 401 00:23:46,840 --> 00:23:51,679 Speaker 1: audition for Ruth. So what character character did your audition for? 402 00:23:53,359 --> 00:24:00,000 Speaker 1: I auditioned for Lily that Lily uh, Sierra Peyton is drawn. Um, 403 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:02,480 Speaker 1: So I auditioned for that and then I got a 404 00:24:02,520 --> 00:24:06,760 Speaker 1: call back for that and his other shows. This so 405 00:24:07,240 --> 00:24:11,199 Speaker 1: I had died for both of the shows, and he 406 00:24:11,280 --> 00:24:13,320 Speaker 1: flew us all out to do that in Atlanta. We 407 00:24:13,359 --> 00:24:15,080 Speaker 1: did it at his studios and that was the first 408 00:24:15,080 --> 00:24:19,679 Speaker 1: time I had entered with Mary Studios um, and he 409 00:24:19,800 --> 00:24:25,280 Speaker 1: offered me the role of Denise. So then call from 410 00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:29,440 Speaker 1: Tyler Harry. Huh. He offered used a roll of Denise. Yes, 411 00:24:29,840 --> 00:24:32,280 Speaker 1: I got that was my first. Then I got a 412 00:24:32,280 --> 00:24:36,959 Speaker 1: phone call crazy daughter huh No, no, no, Denise, Denise 413 00:24:37,080 --> 00:24:38,959 Speaker 1: is the mistress to roll. That's right, that's right. They 414 00:24:39,240 --> 00:24:42,440 Speaker 1: got beat up. That's right, that's right, right. Yeah, yeah, 415 00:24:42,760 --> 00:24:45,360 Speaker 1: so Denise. That was my first. He offered me that one. 416 00:24:45,359 --> 00:24:48,000 Speaker 1: And then and then I got a phone call um 417 00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:50,240 Speaker 1: from a number I didn't know, and I didn't answer, 418 00:24:50,280 --> 00:24:51,760 Speaker 1: and then I got a text in the text said 419 00:24:51,800 --> 00:24:53,480 Speaker 1: it had to carry here. I'm trying to reach you, 420 00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:57,760 Speaker 1: and I was lying stop stop stop stop. And so 421 00:24:57,840 --> 00:25:01,280 Speaker 1: you got a phone call he nobody calling you, ain't 422 00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:04,200 Speaker 1: nobody calling you? And you have not to answer a 423 00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:09,760 Speaker 1: certain phone number. Now do you answer number? I aswer everything. 424 00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:12,600 Speaker 1: I asked everything I know to stay. No. Sorry, I 425 00:25:12,600 --> 00:25:17,639 Speaker 1: don't know you buy I don't say that real quick, 426 00:25:17,720 --> 00:25:19,480 Speaker 1: but less I'm telling you, so you better stop all that. 427 00:25:19,520 --> 00:25:22,320 Speaker 1: I don't know that, but I'm not gonna answer, okay, 428 00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:25,119 Speaker 1: because some of those calls come from offices and the 429 00:25:25,320 --> 00:25:31,320 Speaker 1: officers don't have texting capabilities. Okay, Oh is that what 430 00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:33,800 Speaker 1: it is? Yes, ma'am. I'm telling you. I think that 431 00:25:34,040 --> 00:25:39,080 Speaker 1: my for me for me. Um, this is how this 432 00:25:39,160 --> 00:25:41,960 Speaker 1: is my my motto. It's just important. And I don't 433 00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:48,280 Speaker 1: have your number thing, and people just like otherwise. Huh. 434 00:25:49,119 --> 00:25:51,720 Speaker 1: I love you. I know something. I can't say that. 435 00:25:51,720 --> 00:25:54,520 Speaker 1: I can't say anything to you. You submitted yourself to 436 00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:58,280 Speaker 1: the game with no representation and got and got an audition, 437 00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:01,320 Speaker 1: and you got your behind to Atlanta and you got 438 00:26:01,359 --> 00:26:04,480 Speaker 1: cast on the show. So you got the tudacity, you 439 00:26:04,600 --> 00:26:07,440 Speaker 1: got to drive. But if somebody called you from a 440 00:26:07,520 --> 00:26:12,480 Speaker 1: number you don't know, answer, okay, answer it might be Rishan, 441 00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:15,000 Speaker 1: might be Rishawn calling you. I might be calling and 442 00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:17,520 Speaker 1: looks like, well, now that I know that it might 443 00:26:17,560 --> 00:26:23,679 Speaker 1: be used. Always continue a fantastic story. Continue. I'm enjoying it. 444 00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:27,520 Speaker 1: Come on, my listeners are enjoying it too. Okay. So 445 00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:30,080 Speaker 1: then he calls me, so I missed the car. I 446 00:26:30,560 --> 00:26:33,240 Speaker 1: called him back, and he just starts, you know, talking 447 00:26:33,280 --> 00:26:35,800 Speaker 1: my way because obviously he knows my number. Let me 448 00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:38,800 Speaker 1: tell you something, Perry is a very smart man. He 449 00:26:38,840 --> 00:26:41,639 Speaker 1: didn't say hello when I when I called him, we 450 00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:43,920 Speaker 1: just started talking. He said, all right, cool, I'm about 451 00:26:43,920 --> 00:26:45,600 Speaker 1: to start my vacation, but I have a little time. 452 00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:48,200 Speaker 1: And I said hello, and he said, alright, cool, I'm 453 00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:49,840 Speaker 1: about to start my vacation, but I have a little time. 454 00:26:49,880 --> 00:26:51,960 Speaker 1: So you're playing Denise in my new show that oh well, 455 00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:53,960 Speaker 1: I really want you to. And he just kept talking 456 00:26:54,320 --> 00:26:57,320 Speaker 1: and I was like, oh, this is really dun Perry. 457 00:26:58,080 --> 00:27:01,479 Speaker 1: And so then I just listen no, because that listen 458 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:05,560 Speaker 1: You have to remember as an actress, right, we're used 459 00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:09,760 Speaker 1: to going to auditions, um and going home and going 460 00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:13,000 Speaker 1: on with our lives. Because if you dwell on one audition, 461 00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:16,720 Speaker 1: you lose your mind. So that's why I was like, yeah, 462 00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:19,440 Speaker 1: I did audition for these things, but no way, he's 463 00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:23,280 Speaker 1: calling me right now, you know. So um uh he 464 00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:25,280 Speaker 1: called me and he says all these things. He's like, 465 00:27:25,320 --> 00:27:27,199 Speaker 1: I want you to play roots. I don't want to 466 00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:29,399 Speaker 1: work with Peo for a long time. I'm doing a 467 00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:31,480 Speaker 1: spinoff and I think that would be a better role, see, 468 00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:33,840 Speaker 1: you know, for your range. And I didn't want to 469 00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:35,680 Speaker 1: like to think about it, take a time think about it. 470 00:27:35,680 --> 00:27:39,600 Speaker 1: I said, well, first of all, hi, Tyler Perry and 471 00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:43,440 Speaker 1: then I had a cousin and then I said yes, 472 00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:46,160 Speaker 1: the answer is yes, and he's like, no, just think 473 00:27:46,160 --> 00:27:48,600 Speaker 1: about it. You know, it was fourth of July at 474 00:27:48,600 --> 00:27:50,840 Speaker 1: that time, so it's like this, you know, spend the holiday, 475 00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:53,159 Speaker 1: think about it. Checks me in the morning with your 476 00:27:53,320 --> 00:27:57,560 Speaker 1: with the answer, I'm like, did you just see? All right? 477 00:27:57,760 --> 00:28:00,119 Speaker 1: So I said, you know what, okay, Mr Perry, I 478 00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:02,520 Speaker 1: will pray on it and i'll text you in the morning. 479 00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:08,280 Speaker 1: He said okay, and I did that and I sleep. 480 00:28:09,119 --> 00:28:12,800 Speaker 1: In my spirit it was confirmed. Could you sleep? That's all? 481 00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:17,600 Speaker 1: I don't know. You know hot fast can daylight comes 482 00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:21,359 Speaker 1: in the morning? I know. I was like, I was 483 00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:23,479 Speaker 1: like those kids waiting for the first day of school 484 00:28:23,480 --> 00:28:25,760 Speaker 1: with their hands on their on their cheeks, just looking 485 00:28:25,760 --> 00:28:29,080 Speaker 1: out the window. That was me. I was like, come on, 486 00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:32,680 Speaker 1: come on, let it be appropriate time, six seven am, 487 00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:35,240 Speaker 1: in appropriate, Hi, Mr Perry, I'd like to roll for 488 00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:38,480 Speaker 1: Thank you so much. And that's how I went. It 489 00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:41,120 Speaker 1: was a tech and he text me back and he's like, 490 00:28:41,480 --> 00:28:44,160 Speaker 1: sorry the blindside you, but this is gonna be really fine. 491 00:28:44,680 --> 00:28:46,840 Speaker 1: Thank you so much. I'll be in touch with you. 492 00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:55,320 Speaker 1: And I was like, whoa wow, congratulation, what a great 493 00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:58,560 Speaker 1: story and an honest story. And your career is honest 494 00:28:58,760 --> 00:29:02,360 Speaker 1: based on honesty and supreme hard work and not letting 495 00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:05,120 Speaker 1: people doubt you and not telling you that you're going 496 00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:07,800 Speaker 1: in a certain area you can't accomplish your dreams and 497 00:29:07,880 --> 00:29:10,920 Speaker 1: you're willing to travel. Not just from Oklahoma. You went 498 00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:13,320 Speaker 1: to Atlanta, a new area, Los Angeles. Like you said, 499 00:29:13,320 --> 00:29:16,320 Speaker 1: all you arrived with with your dreams and determination. And 500 00:29:16,320 --> 00:29:18,920 Speaker 1: then you came back to Atlanta and you know, steal 501 00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:21,760 Speaker 1: with your dreams and your determination. And that is a 502 00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:24,840 Speaker 1: testimony that I want everybody to hear. But before we go, 503 00:29:25,120 --> 00:29:27,440 Speaker 1: I'm talking to Melissa L. Williams. She's to start the 504 00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:31,000 Speaker 1: new Tyler Perry's Ruthless series. Tell us how and where's 505 00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:32,560 Speaker 1: it coming on and when does it start? And it 506 00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:35,360 Speaker 1: starts Marching eighteen. Tell us more details before we wrap 507 00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:38,959 Speaker 1: it up. Thank you so much for Jump for saying that. 508 00:29:39,040 --> 00:29:42,520 Speaker 1: And um, yes, okay, So everybody download b T plus. 509 00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:45,200 Speaker 1: It's a new streaming apps for us for a b 510 00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:48,880 Speaker 1: et um And you didn't get it anywhere Android, Apple, 511 00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:51,680 Speaker 1: Real cool, Just anywhere you've been type it in on 512 00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:55,400 Speaker 1: your phone a smart device. You'll get BT plus and 513 00:29:56,360 --> 00:29:59,800 Speaker 1: the show is called Rutus March nineteen. You're there, they'll 514 00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:05,120 Speaker 1: be because I'm gonna be talking about it now. He's 515 00:30:05,160 --> 00:30:07,840 Speaker 1: spoiling it for you. That's all I gotta say, my friend, 516 00:30:08,080 --> 00:30:09,840 Speaker 1: thank you for calling my show, and thank you. I'm 517 00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:11,760 Speaker 1: gonna support you. You know I got you. You know 518 00:30:11,800 --> 00:30:15,280 Speaker 1: I got you back. Okay, I got back, and your 519 00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:18,680 Speaker 1: star don't change your hard work. That's a testimony that, 520 00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:21,080 Speaker 1: Uh I when I look in the mirror or even 521 00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:22,960 Speaker 1: when I'm tired, I realized I have to go on 522 00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:26,120 Speaker 1: because God has gotten me up but a moment, and 523 00:30:26,120 --> 00:30:28,160 Speaker 1: and that should take advantage of it. And so you're 524 00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:30,560 Speaker 1: taking advantage of You're taking advantage of it every day. 525 00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:34,640 Speaker 1: In this new series called Tyler Perry's Ruthless Again, I'm 526 00:30:34,680 --> 00:30:38,560 Speaker 1: speaking to the star Melissa L. Williams. Um, you're listening 527 00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:40,360 Speaker 1: to Money Making Conversations. If you want to hear more 528 00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:43,640 Speaker 1: money making conversation shows, go to Money Making Conversation dot com. 529 00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:49,640 Speaker 1: I'm Rashawn McDonald. 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