WEBVTT - "Homegrown" 0:00:01.360 --> 0:00:05.920 Hold up, hold up, and it's not produced by me 0:00:06.040 --> 0:00:09.720 O C. T. And I'm with the homies and I 0:00:09.760 --> 0:00:15.760 am your favorite is so low. We sounded just like it. 0:00:15.800 --> 0:00:18.520 We sounded just like it. He sounded just like it. 0:00:19.079 --> 0:00:23.800 I can say that. Okay, I will judge how you guys. 0:00:24.000 --> 0:00:29.040 Um week has gone by. It's like the days are 0:00:29.120 --> 0:00:31.720 mixed together. I don't even know. Wait, do you have 0:00:31.760 --> 0:00:35.120 a new hairstyle? Yeah, you know what I'm saying. The 0:00:35.159 --> 0:00:37.480 quarantine braids had to come up. Shout out. I'm tired 0:00:37.479 --> 0:00:42.960 of doing my hair. I am right behind you because 0:00:43.120 --> 0:00:46.120 these little dusty corn rolls right here they had a goal. 0:00:47.880 --> 0:00:50.159 I got a haircut. I actually got my first haircut 0:00:50.200 --> 0:00:53.680 a couple of days ago, trimmed up. It was cool, 0:00:53.800 --> 0:00:56.200 just a little line up, you know. Um my hair 0:00:56.320 --> 0:01:01.000 was growing crazy, crazy crazy. And he didn't have a 0:01:01.080 --> 0:01:05.080 barber shop. No, my barber comes to me. I didn't 0:01:05.080 --> 0:01:07.119 even say it like that. Wait wait, yes he came 0:01:07.120 --> 0:01:13.080 with a mask. Meanwhile, my my nail technician is like, no, bitch, no, 0:01:13.280 --> 0:01:18.039 you either coming to us or not. Hey, yo, we 0:01:18.080 --> 0:01:20.160 got a special guest joining us today. Who we got today? 0:01:20.200 --> 0:01:24.440 Rory ms Shamiya Morton. Um I first met her. She 0:01:24.560 --> 0:01:27.360 was a She was one of the main people at 0:01:27.360 --> 0:01:30.080 the Atlanta Hawks. She was not just a cheerleader, but 0:01:30.160 --> 0:01:32.800 she was doing a lot of hosting on the ground, 0:01:33.000 --> 0:01:34.840 on the court side, and she was doing a lot 0:01:34.840 --> 0:01:36.560 of stuff like that. Then all of a sudden I 0:01:36.600 --> 0:01:39.000 saw her. I heard her doing radio at V one 0:01:39.040 --> 0:01:41.320 O three. Then all of a sudden, I heard her 0:01:41.400 --> 0:01:43.360 doing the Warning show at Streets Now four or five. 0:01:43.400 --> 0:01:45.280 I actually did a couple of morning shows with her, 0:01:45.280 --> 0:01:46.720 so we're gonna be talking to her. Then I see 0:01:46.720 --> 0:01:50.800 her on TV on Atlanta Housewives, and um, she has 0:01:51.040 --> 0:01:54.120 had a got a baby, she's married, she got a 0:01:54.160 --> 0:01:55.680 lot going on. So we're gonna have her come in 0:01:55.760 --> 0:01:58.400 and uh co host with us today. I love it. 0:01:58.680 --> 0:02:04.120 You're listening to The Lord Show. Shama Morton is joining 0:02:04.320 --> 0:02:08.240 us right now, the Ball and lest Show. How's it going, man, Man, 0:02:08.360 --> 0:02:11.000 it's going, it's going. I'm just happy to be COVID 0:02:11.040 --> 0:02:14.040 free in twenties one. So I'm gonna list a couple 0:02:14.080 --> 0:02:17.680 of things that I've witnessed you do. I first saw 0:02:17.760 --> 0:02:20.760 you cheerleading on the Atlanta Hawks, but you weren't just 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:25.079 a cheerleader. You were on the sidelines doing reporting. Yeah, 0:02:25.440 --> 0:02:27.800 I actually landed into that after the fact, you know, 0:02:28.880 --> 0:02:30.920 being at the right place at the right time deal. 0:02:31.080 --> 0:02:34.720 I started out here, and um, actually weird. People don't realize. 0:02:34.760 --> 0:02:37.040 I started with the Hawks back in two thousands three. 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:38.760 I'm not trying to age myself, but back in two 0:02:38.760 --> 0:02:41.520 thousands there was my rookie season cheer for them. I 0:02:41.639 --> 0:02:44.200 left them and went to the Falcons, where I did 0:02:44.440 --> 0:02:47.240 like five six seasons. Then I was like, I want 0:02:47.240 --> 0:02:50.040 to do some broadcast stuff, you know, I wanna because 0:02:50.080 --> 0:02:52.639 I had studied at Morris Brown broadcast durnalism. So I 0:02:52.680 --> 0:02:54.840 was like, I'm gonna do like in game stuff. I 0:02:54.880 --> 0:02:59.160 like football, like people, you know. So I've been doing 0:02:59.200 --> 0:03:02.560 some radio stuff for d B with Ryan and Ryan 0:03:02.800 --> 0:03:07.200 was the plug. One day the current the existing host 0:03:07.440 --> 0:03:09.880 didn't show up. She was, I guess called in l 0:03:09.919 --> 0:03:15.440 A and he was like you ready. I was like already, 0:03:15.440 --> 0:03:17.200 and they gave me the script and I killed that 0:03:17.240 --> 0:03:18.720 ship and they were like, okay, you don't let you 0:03:18.720 --> 0:03:20.360 be the feeling. Then when she's not available, you can 0:03:20.400 --> 0:03:22.360 just jump in and do it. And from there, you know, 0:03:22.720 --> 0:03:24.960 just it happened. So, I mean, it's crazy to think 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:26.600 back now because people text me and the d M 0:03:26.680 --> 0:03:28.480 and me and like, hey, do what you do? How 0:03:28.480 --> 0:03:34.160 do I do it? I'm like, yeah, y'all know, there's 0:03:34.200 --> 0:03:40.480 no I guess right right. I'm like started out hosting 0:03:40.520 --> 0:03:43.560 little stuff and around the city and then you know, 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:45.840 all right, so wait, wait wait, I wasn't done. Wait 0:03:45.880 --> 0:03:48.400 here we go. So then I'm driving, I'm going. I 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:50.160 forget where I was going. It was like, no, I 0:03:50.200 --> 0:03:51.600 was going to the club. I ain't ana lie and 0:03:51.640 --> 0:03:53.360 I hear you won't be one all through I said, damn, 0:03:53.400 --> 0:03:55.680 this girl's on the radio. I was at I was 0:03:55.720 --> 0:03:58.280 at the Halls game. I saw her on the big screen. Yeah, 0:03:58.360 --> 0:04:01.200 and all of a sudden, I leave you went through. 0:04:01.240 --> 0:04:02.680 I go the streets now for five I had to 0:04:02.720 --> 0:04:04.320 fill in on the morning show. And look at you 0:04:04.400 --> 0:04:10.160 coming in with you a little bit belly old and 0:04:10.320 --> 0:04:12.960 you're doing the morning show. Yeah. And then all of 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:15.200 a sudden, I think within the same week I saw 0:04:15.200 --> 0:04:24.039 you on TV. Look at that modest last. You know, 0:04:24.040 --> 0:04:25.839 when you get so many companiments you don't really know 0:04:25.839 --> 0:04:34.680 how to take it. Just last, a baby married, that's 0:04:34.680 --> 0:04:37.640 a lot. That's a lot, Like I mean, you know 0:04:37.680 --> 0:04:41.240 what she's actually one of the few women on the 0:04:41.320 --> 0:04:48.560 Atlanta Housewives that is married because she's looking. Man, let 0:04:48.640 --> 0:04:51.200 me tell you my cup running over. I'm just like 0:04:51.360 --> 0:04:53.599 you know, everybody always says like there's light at end 0:04:53.600 --> 0:04:55.640 of the tune, Like for everything great that's happening in 0:04:55.680 --> 0:04:58.080 my life, there's a batch that's happened in my past. 0:04:58.400 --> 0:05:00.159 And that's why I tell people to be encouraged, you 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:03.200 know what I mean, Like, just because you don't see 0:05:03.200 --> 0:05:05.800 it or you don't feel it, God is working through 0:05:05.839 --> 0:05:08.800 you and always for you. So if it's something out 0:05:08.800 --> 0:05:10.799 there for you, if you are want to do great things, 0:05:10.839 --> 0:05:12.920 you dest and Forgret, we are all destined for greatness. 0:05:12.920 --> 0:05:14.440 We just gotta figure out what we want to do 0:05:14.520 --> 0:05:17.400 and walk in that light. So for me, I always like, 0:05:17.440 --> 0:05:20.760 I've always been real big on people and just you know, 0:05:21.680 --> 0:05:24.880 I'm a socialite, so I feel like they all work 0:05:24.920 --> 0:05:30.159 hand in hand, radio, TV, music, UM hosting, it's all 0:05:30.360 --> 0:05:33.600 like married to each other. When he was in a 0:05:33.720 --> 0:05:36.080 sense because when you like people, you just like people. 0:05:36.120 --> 0:05:38.040 Don't it don't really matter, don't feel like work, You're 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:40.520 just out and about just hanging out. So yeah, you know, 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:42.719 I it was kind of sting you though, Rory, I 0:05:42.720 --> 0:05:44.320 feel like I left b and then it was like 0:05:44.520 --> 0:05:51.080 you're going over there, come over that. Where are your 0:05:51.080 --> 0:05:57.800 originally from? Sham? I'm from here in Atlanta? Okay? Um, 0:05:57.839 --> 0:06:00.120 so right now I'm in Sandy Springs. But you know 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:04.400 I'm a Dicata baby born at Emory Crawford Long in 0:06:04.400 --> 0:06:06.680 this city. We have joked my sister that my sisters 0:06:06.680 --> 0:06:07.960 want to great to me, be like mama to may 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:09.960 handle money when you was born. But they had a 0:06:09.960 --> 0:06:15.680 little okay, and I graduated from Grettie High School. Okay, 0:06:16.560 --> 0:06:20.000 dog get one, diafle north side. Then you get a 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:22.720 bunch of grated baby. They said about the about five 0:06:22.800 --> 0:06:28.400 or six times before we refilled that car. No, you know, 0:06:28.800 --> 0:06:33.840 I'm from Atlanta, the Cator Southwestern cab High School. How 0:06:33.839 --> 0:06:36.360 did you get into the Hawks? Um? How did you 0:06:36.360 --> 0:06:38.839 get into the arena? Did you always want to be 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:42.680 a part of it or Yeah? I got into hosting 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:46.479 the Hawks by way of dancing and cheering, but that's 0:06:46.480 --> 0:06:49.679 how people knew me. But I got the hosting gig 0:06:50.000 --> 0:06:54.920 from Ryan Cameron Ryan Plugmy Ryan Plugmy's radio. Ryan is 0:06:55.040 --> 0:06:58.479 my mentor. When it comes down to like radio and 0:06:58.720 --> 0:07:00.800 hosting this kind of stuff. So he really just took 0:07:00.800 --> 0:07:02.000 me on this wing and he was like, you can 0:07:02.040 --> 0:07:03.560 do it. You know, you can. Even look at this 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:05.920 day he'll be like, now you sounded stupid when you said, dude, 0:07:06.520 --> 0:07:10.160 you gotta up. You gotta not be like okay, okay, 0:07:10.760 --> 0:07:14.680 but yeah, with shout out to Ryan too, he's recovering 0:07:15.040 --> 0:07:19.600 still rightly. I used to actually for this his show, 0:07:19.840 --> 0:07:27.320 um for like three years before. Yeah, who hasn't you 0:07:27.480 --> 0:07:32.680 worked with Yeah, well, you know, since you mentioned cheerleading, 0:07:32.920 --> 0:07:36.560 I do want to know maybe some locker room tails. Girl, 0:07:36.760 --> 0:07:39.400 tell me, did you ever date any of the players 0:07:39.440 --> 0:07:42.240 while you were cheerleading? You know I didn't. I've never 0:07:42.400 --> 0:07:46.280 been really into athletes. I'm like the white collar guy, 0:07:46.480 --> 0:07:51.320 Like I want the accountant that you know you hired, 0:07:51.360 --> 0:07:56.040 I want your rep, your lawyer, you're that guy, you know, 0:07:56.680 --> 0:07:59.200 the athlete. I'm a hook thing up with my home girl, 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:02.640 like your whole girls were all over it to like 0:08:02.720 --> 0:08:06.040 girl was going to the club. Sure, And I'm I'm 0:08:06.040 --> 0:08:08.360 always like the friend of all the athletes, you know, 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:11.400 like the sister like less party and brain dam girls 0:08:11.400 --> 0:08:15.320 and brain Branthon Jillian to the pool party and bring 0:08:15.760 --> 0:08:17.200 you know that was that was kind of my role. 0:08:17.240 --> 0:08:20.200 I want your age girl, That's that sounds familiar. You're 0:08:20.240 --> 0:08:22.880 the one that they won't try, they won't disrespect, but 0:08:22.920 --> 0:08:29.200 they will try and disrespect your girlfriends. I feel you said, yeah, 0:08:29.600 --> 0:08:31.080 I just got to play the whole. I didn't know 0:08:31.160 --> 0:08:34.240 he was with that girl. No, why you let him 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:38.160 do that to you? I told you you wasn't. I 0:08:38.200 --> 0:08:43.200 do have a serious question. You know that for African 0:08:43.240 --> 0:08:47.199 American women it's kind of hard to basically accomplish damn 0:08:47.200 --> 0:08:50.840 there anything? Did you? Did you find any type of 0:08:51.120 --> 0:08:55.839 hardships when you were cheering to announcing because of your 0:08:55.880 --> 0:09:02.520 ethnicity at all? Or was everything you in my career period, 0:09:02.679 --> 0:09:07.560 they're always like setbacks, but you use those to move 0:09:07.600 --> 0:09:09.480 forward if you can figure out a way to use 0:09:09.520 --> 0:09:11.120 it to your advantage and if it works for you. 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:12.880 Like for me, I was a token black girl and 0:09:12.920 --> 0:09:15.360 I ran with that ship. I was the chocolate girl 0:09:15.880 --> 0:09:18.160 because like back in the day, back in two thousand three, 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:20.800 like when when I first started dancing and cheering, that 0:09:20.920 --> 0:09:23.719 was no actually started actually did my first role in 0:09:23.800 --> 0:09:26.600 drum Line. It was a movie where uh I danced 0:09:26.600 --> 0:09:30.720 alongside when we saw Donna. Yeah right, it was for me. 0:09:30.920 --> 0:09:32.600 You know, I gotta go back. I gotta go back 0:09:32.640 --> 0:09:35.520 and watch that. Yeah, you gotta watch it. So for 0:09:35.679 --> 0:09:37.840 me like exact. And I mean, I hate to sound 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:42.640 like this, but Hollywood is changing to where chocolate and 0:09:42.800 --> 0:09:46.160 black is now beginning to be beautiful. It's always been beautiful, 0:09:46.200 --> 0:09:48.800 but in their eyes, they're starting to see it. So 0:09:48.960 --> 0:09:51.040 back in the day, it was the same way on 0:09:51.080 --> 0:09:54.320 the sidelines, like I candy wasn't technically like like you 0:09:54.360 --> 0:09:56.240 had to be mixed or you know, or you have 0:09:56.360 --> 0:09:59.000 to be exotic or you know. And I'm like, hey, 0:09:59.040 --> 0:10:01.760 I'm chocolate. I'm zotic as hell, Like this is what 0:10:01.800 --> 0:10:03.840 you're gonna get. And it was so crazy because I 0:10:03.880 --> 0:10:06.960 remember one time I went to a school in Atlanta, 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:10.040 elementary school and this little girl came on to me. 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:11.760 She was like, you're chilly. Don't know that I am. 0:10:11.840 --> 0:10:15.280 She was like, how did you get on the team? 0:10:15.280 --> 0:10:18.680 She was like because you're so black, And like, I know, girl, 0:10:18.679 --> 0:10:21.160 and I'm working home black girl magic. I was because 0:10:21.160 --> 0:10:23.839 you don't She's like, no, I'm too dark skin. And 0:10:23.960 --> 0:10:26.280 it broke my heart because I'm like, wow, why would 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:29.800 you say that? You know, like me growing up and 0:10:29.840 --> 0:10:32.360 we um. I have two older sisters. My older sisters 0:10:32.440 --> 0:10:35.000 like light light light, like you, I take it, and 0:10:35.040 --> 0:10:38.400 then my middle sister is like you, Sue, and then 0:10:38.520 --> 0:10:41.839 on the chocolate one. So we're like three shades, you 0:10:41.880 --> 0:10:44.800 know what I mean. But we loved it, and my 0:10:44.880 --> 0:10:47.640 parents would be like, where's my little chocolate drop? Where 0:10:47.720 --> 0:10:49.720 is my chocolate Barbie? And I feel like it starts 0:10:49.720 --> 0:10:53.559 at home, like it can. We can use this and 0:10:53.559 --> 0:10:56.640 I'm going in to to push us forward, like sure, 0:10:57.120 --> 0:10:59.800 I will say as a woman, though there have been 0:10:59.800 --> 0:11:04.040 some hiccups, I'm a singer. I started out entertainment period. 0:11:04.040 --> 0:11:07.640 I only started dancing because I was singing and I 0:11:07.760 --> 0:11:11.200 was singing in different groups and and with someone you 0:11:11.280 --> 0:11:14.120 probably know some of the people have had their big moments, um, 0:11:14.160 --> 0:11:19.080 but for me, it was like, you know, just I 0:11:19.120 --> 0:11:21.199 don't want to have sex with you. I want to 0:11:21.240 --> 0:11:24.640 do music with you. I want to create and make 0:11:24.679 --> 0:11:29.480 money with you. And that's why I good representation is 0:11:29.520 --> 0:11:32.959 always good in this industry because you don't have to 0:11:33.000 --> 0:11:35.199 be the one speaking like you can just go in 0:11:35.240 --> 0:11:38.520 there and be the artists. And that is the hardest 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:41.680 thing I feel for me being taken serious as an 0:11:41.880 --> 0:11:46.200 artist and as an entertainer and not as like, um, 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:49.160 can I smash. I think that's a struggle for women 0:11:49.280 --> 0:11:54.120 period and entertainment, because I've come across that a lot. 0:11:55.559 --> 0:12:00.120 Don't stop almost it's worse like you're married, but you 0:12:00.200 --> 0:12:04.280 had some friends like our secret can we you know, 0:12:04.320 --> 0:12:06.120 and it's like, well, I kind of just want to 0:12:06.559 --> 0:12:10.360 just do this and not smash you. Definitely, like I 0:12:10.520 --> 0:12:13.520 Tavia said, it happens all the time in every way. 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:16.480 I worked in nightlife for a little over ten years, 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:19.520 and I think the first position I had, I was 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:23.160 the email girl. Okay, I was young. I'm the email girl, 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:25.400 and I'm just like, oh my god, like I'm out 0:12:25.400 --> 0:12:27.960 here looking crazy? Why are all these been talking to me? 0:12:28.000 --> 0:12:31.280 Then it's like as the cashier, it didn't matter what 0:12:31.360 --> 0:12:32.880 you did, It didn't matter what you look like, what 0:12:32.960 --> 0:12:34.840 you had on. If you were walking and you had 0:12:34.880 --> 0:12:38.760 a vagina and they wanted some, they were going for it. 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:42.840 It's so disgusting, and it is so sad because you know, 0:12:43.000 --> 0:12:45.120 men don't I mean not ting. I'm sure I'll have 0:12:45.160 --> 0:12:52.800 y'all things guys. Hey, hey, sorry, is amazing. He right 0:12:52.880 --> 0:12:57.880 to be honest with you. They had been a lot 0:12:57.920 --> 0:12:59.640 of guys in the industry that would tell me, like, 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:01.559 y'all to I want to work with you. Whether it 0:13:01.800 --> 0:13:04.320 was you know, jumping on my brunch or coming up 0:13:04.320 --> 0:13:06.319 with a new event to do, or whatever the case was, 0:13:06.440 --> 0:13:09.880 there was always this underlying thing of them wanting to 0:13:10.000 --> 0:13:14.160 have sex. And come when when Rory took me under 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:16.000 his wing, you wouldn't believe our I never told you this, 0:13:16.120 --> 0:13:17.839 but a couple of women hit me and were like, hey, 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:21.240 you have no idea that you are working with a 0:13:21.360 --> 0:13:23.679 gem ra is the only man that ever made me 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:26.719 feel comfortable. Um, he's never tried me. And I was like, 0:13:27.600 --> 0:13:29.200 I think it has a lot to do me being 0:13:29.240 --> 0:13:34.920 deeply in love with my wife. Yes, probably the love 0:13:35.000 --> 0:13:39.240 for your daughters too. Yes, running across no crazy man. 0:13:39.720 --> 0:13:42.320 But wait, listen, ladies, listen, listen. We're talking about vaginas. 0:13:42.360 --> 0:13:45.160 That's cool. Let's talk about the vaginas on TV that 0:13:46.200 --> 0:13:50.640 is uh in acquaintances with now you are wait, wait 0:13:50.720 --> 0:13:52.319 before you go to that world. I just want to 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:56.160 mention Shamia on the spirit you know of your the 0:13:56.200 --> 0:13:58.400 spirit of a black woman, like a darker you know, 0:13:59.000 --> 0:14:03.760 the sun kissed beautiful black woman, you know, because a 0:14:03.880 --> 0:14:06.640 lot of people don't have that attitude, you know, And um, 0:14:06.679 --> 0:14:09.160 I just I come across so many people with either 0:14:09.320 --> 0:14:13.680 negative attitudes, even light skinned women with you know, attitude 0:14:13.679 --> 0:14:17.480 problems like black comes in all different shades, and I 0:14:17.600 --> 0:14:20.200 just have to embrace each other. So I just want 0:14:20.240 --> 0:14:22.360 to we are all beautiful in our own right, you 0:14:22.400 --> 0:14:24.200 know what I mean. And that's that's that's it's sad 0:14:24.320 --> 0:14:26.680 that we just always have to remind each other. And 0:14:26.840 --> 0:14:29.040 you know, that's why it's a crazy because people are like, 0:14:29.160 --> 0:14:31.760 you know, oh you read my comment on Instagram, But 0:14:31.840 --> 0:14:34.280 it makes me feel good. You can say it million 0:14:34.360 --> 0:14:37.040 times a day. But sometimes people just don't feel pretty. 0:14:37.080 --> 0:14:42.040 Sometimes people don't feel uh just value, you know what 0:14:42.120 --> 0:14:44.680 I mean. So for me, when I go on another 0:14:44.840 --> 0:14:48.600 person's page, I might, I mean I sometimes I even 0:14:48.640 --> 0:14:50.120 go to the extreme and I might even set a 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:52.760 little like a lesbian because I literally give it to you. 0:14:52.800 --> 0:14:56.040 I'm gonna be like food, you look gorgeous, boobs parkeys, 0:14:56.120 --> 0:15:02.040 but but all the confidence, give all talking, you are 0:15:02.160 --> 0:15:06.120 you winning, You're working you guys, And why shouldn't I 0:15:06.160 --> 0:15:09.600 be a the component? Why can't love like why can't 0:15:09.640 --> 0:15:12.320 we do that for each other? Why we always gotta 0:15:12.440 --> 0:15:14.560 try to pull off the negative ship. You know, my 0:15:14.680 --> 0:15:17.760 hair getting great. I know my hair just be messed 0:15:17.880 --> 0:15:22.120 up sometimes. But why don't you just say d yeah, 0:15:22.960 --> 0:15:26.240 but your waistlines that you know what that that's that 0:15:26.400 --> 0:15:29.320 PTSD in our community. Okay, a lot of us are 0:15:29.360 --> 0:15:31.800 dealing with it and don't even know it. All right, ladies, 0:15:31.800 --> 0:15:34.160 stop running from a damn question. Okay, let me get back. 0:15:34.440 --> 0:15:39.600 I'm sorry. Okay, let me segue back into it. Okay, 0:15:40.360 --> 0:15:43.720 house Wives of Atlanta. Now keep in mind that's not 0:15:43.840 --> 0:15:46.120 necessarily my cup of tea. I'd rather watch sports, but 0:15:46.240 --> 0:15:47.960 I do need to know what's going on out here 0:15:48.000 --> 0:15:51.840 in the streets. Okay, when wife's downstairs watching that, I 0:15:51.960 --> 0:15:54.960 tend to get you a little bit of it. That's 0:15:55.000 --> 0:15:56.640 all kind of like a little date thing that we 0:15:56.720 --> 0:15:59.880 could do. Oh yeah, and I noticed that Shama Morton 0:15:59.920 --> 0:16:02.920 is never necessarily in any drama on the show. You're 0:16:03.000 --> 0:16:10.560 kind of just like, uh, you're just hanging out. Um, 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:15.760 initially get a little weird. Initially correct me if I'm wrong, 0:16:15.800 --> 0:16:18.480 because you know, I may be off a little bit. 0:16:18.560 --> 0:16:21.880 You were brought to the show, your porscheous friends. Did 0:16:21.960 --> 0:16:25.160 you pors you grow up together? Yeah, we both grew 0:16:25.200 --> 0:16:27.720 up indicator are paid for good friends with each come 0:16:27.800 --> 0:16:29.720 on out. We both went this out with the cab, 0:16:29.840 --> 0:16:32.480 which you were forced friends that first with our parents 0:16:32.560 --> 0:16:35.760 were good friends, and then our friendship, you know, took 0:16:35.800 --> 0:16:40.000 on its own life and we've just been like, now 0:16:41.080 --> 0:16:45.680 this is good. From the next question, are you cool 0:16:45.760 --> 0:16:48.600 with anybody else on the show? Like, is there somebody 0:16:48.640 --> 0:16:50.800 on the show that you met that was like, oh wow, 0:16:50.880 --> 0:16:54.920 they're actually really cool or they actually might not necessarily be. 0:16:55.320 --> 0:17:00.360 I've always been very fond of Candy Kansas. Yeah. Friends 0:17:00.400 --> 0:17:07.680 with Candy? Yeah, her a new song, right, y'allinger, first 0:17:07.720 --> 0:17:12.879 female whatever. I tell you. That's why you know, when 0:17:12.880 --> 0:17:14.840 you're a good person, you're gonna always when you're gonna 0:17:14.840 --> 0:17:17.600 stay winning, because she just she's the definition of like 0:17:17.680 --> 0:17:21.800 her magic. She's doing everything for music to acting to 0:17:22.040 --> 0:17:27.280 you know, she's just this is crazy crowd right like 0:17:27.880 --> 0:17:31.480 that money. But yeah, So I met Candy up. Actually 0:17:31.720 --> 0:17:33.000 back in the day, I was in a group called 0:17:33.000 --> 0:17:36.840 Pretty Tony with Anthony did and with Carrie is In 0:17:37.680 --> 0:17:39.320 and we had did It. We were in the studio 0:17:39.440 --> 0:17:42.639 and Kenny never remembers. I mean, she remembers everything now, 0:17:42.720 --> 0:17:44.600 but of course I wasn't cool like that back then. 0:17:44.920 --> 0:17:47.479 She like, So I was telling her like, I met 0:17:47.560 --> 0:17:48.960 you back in the day. I was in the group. 0:17:49.000 --> 0:17:50.480 But the last she was like, you did. I was 0:17:50.480 --> 0:17:51.920 like he was trying to write something. She was like, 0:17:52.000 --> 0:17:56.040 I love like yeah, and I was like, it wasn't 0:17:56.960 --> 0:17:58.520 Maybe it wasn't this group, Maybe it was that was 0:17:58.960 --> 0:18:02.960 another group that myself. She's literally like I think I 0:18:03.280 --> 0:18:05.080 told her other day I put on clostos, like I 0:18:05.160 --> 0:18:09.320 think you have hyper with our because she don't forget nothing. 0:18:09.400 --> 0:18:11.000 There are only a few people in this world that 0:18:11.160 --> 0:18:13.359 can remember everything from their childhood all the way up 0:18:13.400 --> 0:18:15.840 and today, and Kidie on those people. You can say 0:18:15.880 --> 0:18:19.600 something on March twenty one, two thousand and four, and 0:18:19.760 --> 0:18:21.920 she will tell you the day at the time to 0:18:22.000 --> 0:18:24.280 play home where you said it, and how you said, 0:18:24.440 --> 0:18:28.320 what she was wearing when she was wearing But that's crazy. Yeah, 0:18:28.560 --> 0:18:30.480 she's like that. But yeah, So Katie was a cool 0:18:30.560 --> 0:18:32.400 person um parts and the show, and then of course 0:18:32.440 --> 0:18:36.080 we got a little closer with me doing the show 0:18:36.240 --> 0:18:38.560 and being around Porsche because she and Porsche were actually 0:18:38.560 --> 0:18:43.720 really good friends. And then we just kept our friendship going. Well, 0:18:43.760 --> 0:18:46.120 it's a it's a lot of beef on the Housewives 0:18:46.280 --> 0:18:49.560 of Atlanta, of course, and uh, you know, I was 0:18:49.560 --> 0:18:52.160 a little nervous that the reunion may not be as 0:18:52.240 --> 0:18:54.840 popping as they have been in the past because everyone 0:18:54.960 --> 0:18:58.919 was at home. But it was like this, but maybe 0:18:59.400 --> 0:19:04.080 that's for you. In was hot. It was hot, yo, 0:19:04.280 --> 0:19:12.600 Para was going in on Kenya screaming crazy. That's a 0:19:12.680 --> 0:19:15.520 great question. What is the real be? It wouldn't be 0:19:15.560 --> 0:19:19.840 no TV if everybody got along, could be it could 0:19:20.000 --> 0:19:24.000 be just see any good thing. Um. I think that naturally, 0:19:24.680 --> 0:19:28.880 when you have different women, they're all powerful and doing 0:19:28.920 --> 0:19:31.840 their own thing, and they're bosses, all of them, all 0:19:31.880 --> 0:19:35.920 the beautiful, and you bring them all together, there's gonna 0:19:35.960 --> 0:19:39.240 be something. And then TV just magnifies it. And then 0:19:39.359 --> 0:19:41.520 when you look back at it, it's even worse because 0:19:41.560 --> 0:19:44.119 it's like you live through it at the time, then 0:19:44.200 --> 0:19:47.560 you relive through it when it airs, and then reunion 0:19:47.640 --> 0:19:49.560 you bring it back up again to all these emotions. 0:19:49.560 --> 0:19:52.320 So I could have beat but you robbery yesterday. We 0:19:52.440 --> 0:19:55.520 talked about it today, Then tomorrow I'm mad again because 0:19:55.560 --> 0:19:58.760 I'm like, I know you did this far and that 0:19:59.280 --> 0:20:02.600 you said that. Then they' getting their confessionals and you're 0:20:02.640 --> 0:20:07.000 just talking so crazy and then you you you relive 0:20:07.080 --> 0:20:11.240 it like I got you on the reunion. Well, not 0:20:11.400 --> 0:20:14.280 only do you keep it cool when you're on the show, 0:20:14.359 --> 0:20:17.040 you seem to just be a neutral person, but it 0:20:17.080 --> 0:20:22.000 seems like you also keep your personal life. Yeah, because 0:20:22.000 --> 0:20:24.639 that belongs to me, I mean, And that's the crazy 0:20:24.760 --> 0:20:28.000 thing about it. UM, just finding that balance. A lot 0:20:28.040 --> 0:20:29.720 of people I said, even in the past, like oh, 0:20:30.080 --> 0:20:32.880 you you'll never get a peach. I don't want one, 0:20:33.000 --> 0:20:34.720 Like I'm a true peach because I'm from Georgia and 0:20:34.760 --> 0:20:39.880 this is my stage. I will say, Um, my marriage, 0:20:40.080 --> 0:20:43.000 my family will always be my priority and come first 0:20:43.040 --> 0:20:44.840 in my life. And if it doesn't feel right for 0:20:44.920 --> 0:20:47.159 my spoff, then it doesn't feel right for me. So 0:20:47.440 --> 0:20:49.920 when my husband told me we were approached about it, 0:20:50.160 --> 0:20:53.080 um doing me being full time and on the cast 0:20:53.440 --> 0:20:56.920 um as an actual housewife. Um, I thought it was 0:20:56.920 --> 0:20:58.920 a great opportunity here. I was ready jump all over it. 0:20:59.560 --> 0:21:01.080 I'm like, I get to hang out with my friends 0:21:01.119 --> 0:21:03.520 and get paid to do it, and you know, and 0:21:03.640 --> 0:21:06.679 it just house I believe or not. Whether people admitted 0:21:06.720 --> 0:21:09.080 it does give you the platform that you need to 0:21:09.880 --> 0:21:12.399 rest and other things in your career, whereas it might 0:21:12.440 --> 0:21:14.720 take me ten times longer to get an album now 0:21:14.800 --> 0:21:16.159 if I was on, I was, I was like full time, 0:21:16.200 --> 0:21:17.680 that would be like tomorrow you're on the Ellen Show 0:21:17.760 --> 0:21:19.680 or now you're on with the Show. You know, like 0:21:20.000 --> 0:21:22.080 it's just it's a platform that you just can't really 0:21:22.119 --> 0:21:25.920 pay for. But my husband was like, I'm not comfortable 0:21:26.000 --> 0:21:27.240 with it. I don't I don't want to do it, 0:21:27.440 --> 0:21:32.600 and I want our lives to be good outside of 0:21:32.720 --> 0:21:38.560 that show. Um, and I'm just not really sure that 0:21:39.240 --> 0:21:42.119 doing a show like this will work for us. What 0:21:42.240 --> 0:21:44.600 do you say? And I was just like I was 0:21:44.600 --> 0:21:46.879 a little bang on. I was a little I had 0:21:46.880 --> 0:21:49.119 a little heart burned about it the first so bothered. 0:21:49.200 --> 0:21:52.760 That was like, hold on, you stopped my coins, but 0:21:52.920 --> 0:21:55.480