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Speaker 2: Waste, like yeah, because we got a real legend, because.

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Speaker 3: We don't have time to play.

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Speaker 1: I know you feel the same way about the lady

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Speaker 3: Don't work with it before. And even if you don't

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Speaker 1: Prison with this lady, she gave you some loves him uplifting.

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Speaker 2: And what he calls you, my sweet baby.

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Speaker 1: Not only is he a great president, she's a magnificent comedie.

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Speaker 3: A yes, a prolific writer.

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Speaker 2: You did a good damn joke teller.

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Speaker 1: The further you get in the hood, the more hood

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Speaker 4: Get what you're talking about now she talks ship, ship,

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Speaker 5: A magnificent actress, fucked motherfucker's up.

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Speaker 2: You've seen it. She told that big bitch kicked out.

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Speaker 3: And I want a holes, want a holoss.

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Speaker 2: She sat down, bitch, I let you get yourself together.

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Speaker 2: Now come down.

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Speaker 3: You better go down better. That that was right up,

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Speaker 3: That was right the way down the steps. I just

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Speaker 2: Come on, man, I'm not.

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Speaker 3: She was acting so good.

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Speaker 1: I was like, when I was watching it, I'm like, boy,

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Speaker 3: But that wasn't that she was on the squawn.

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Speaker 2: She was on the squab.

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Speaker 3: No no queens a comedy. So I have lost count

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Speaker 3: at this point. It ain't nothing. You can't say nothing

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Speaker 3: but good things. Better go look up on Google.

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Speaker 6: Come on man, none other then ooh, the legendary mo Nigga.

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Speaker 7: I'm gonna stay up there. I'm gonna you gotta get

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Speaker 1: Up the whole episode the definition money for real, for real,

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Speaker 3: Welcome to the eighty half self.

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Speaker 2: Thank y'all for having me ba couch. Y'all know how

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Speaker 2: long I have wanted to come sit on this couch?

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Speaker 2: Could y'all know how long I have wanted to come

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Speaker 2: sit on this couches? Well, we'll get coach to the building. Listen,

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Speaker 2: I'm like, as soon as they call him there, now

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Speaker 3: Man, it's so crazy. I don't we don't even know

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Speaker 2: Question.

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Speaker 3: I want to know the beginning on the comedy.

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Speaker 1: Side, because the work that you put in in the

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Speaker 3: And like you said, DC, we was talking before you

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Speaker 1: Man, it's like you gave me an opportunity so long ago,

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Speaker 3: You said you a millionaire. You don't. You're a millionaire already.

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Speaker 1: And just for you saying that on the national TV,

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Speaker 1: But tell me how it all started for you.

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Speaker 2: You know, I think that it starts the same way

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Speaker 5: I just saw it and then until we met in

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Speaker 5: Literally every time I remember you leaning, you was like

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Oh baby, thank you. It was a pleasure

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Speaker 2: because you didn't quit from the Monique Show to right now.

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Speaker 2: You kept going. And though you took that fire minutes,

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Speaker 2: This wasn't possible twenty years ago. So to watch y'all

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Speaker 2: so giving. Because I'm watching, I'm watching your staff, I'm

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Speaker 9: Like when a spotlight it on me, I ain't worry

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Speaker 2: Like, ain't nobody giving you no shot?

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Speaker 5: And even when you good that damn it put you

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Speaker 2: Well, because every shot was a shot, like I never

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Speaker 2: And I've always told the comedians, when you get on

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Speaker 2: I still go on my closet. I'll say to my husband,

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Speaker 1: Now I gotta ask this because you created one of

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Speaker 3: And I'm talking about you. You might get eight episodes

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Speaker 2: Because Nikki Parker gave Monique a string. Nickki Parker and

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Speaker 2: Monique began to intertwine with things that Nicki Parker did

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Speaker 3: Vaughn chemistry was amazing.

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Speaker 2: It was magical. You couldn't explain that. Like the first

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Speaker 2: knew I was hers. Could not explain that chemistry. It

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Speaker 8: I appreciate that show because it gave it gave it

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Speaker 2: With every show you got a lass.

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Speaker 3: Now a lot of people might not know, but you're

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Speaker 2: That's the reason why we click.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, forty trip. Yeah, Baltimore is real Little Baltimore. Baltimore's

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Speaker 2: Yes, and they treaty family.

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Speaker 2: I don't consider people fans anywhere. I never call somebody

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Speaker 1: Now, I'm about to ask you one of the trade

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Speaker 1: Do you still feel the need like I gotta get

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Speaker 3: Or a TV show, you don't have to.

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Speaker 2: Know when I'm doing that. I'm doing that, you know.

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Speaker 3: But you still get to itch like shit, it'd be

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Speaker 2: No, only because I mean you know. I've been doing

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Speaker 2: Because if I'm in town doing this, that's what I'm

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Speaker 2: I don't mix those two things up. Oh now they said,

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Speaker 8: And then you most different and you and you you

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Speaker 5: What was the first time Molique stay up off stage

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Speaker 2: It was at Burks in Baltimore. What did was that?

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Speaker 2: I remember that. I was, yeah, listen, it was nineteen

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Speaker 2: I worked at a sexphone line. I knew that. Let

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Speaker 1: Want if you all the fucking pope, and Monique was

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Speaker 2: That's how when you came to my drive through, because

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Speaker 2: And if they said hi Monique, I would like, I

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Speaker 2: know what, Monique? I think I would on around baby? Yeah,

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Speaker 11: You do that?

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Speaker 2: I did that?

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Speaker 3: And how did they come about was honey.

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Speaker 2: And it was an ad in the paper and they

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Speaker 2: So that's all it said, nine an hour customer I'm like, well,

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Speaker 3: That's amazing.

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Speaker 12: Man.

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Speaker 3: Like I want to ask you this, what's your favorite work?

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Speaker 2: Stand Up is my baby first and foremost. Stand up

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Speaker 2: stand up saved my life because you can walk out

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Speaker 2: because I paid my money, bitch, I'm unbalanced, so I

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Speaker 2: And when you can share your issues and then y'all

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Speaker 3: Tell me about it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you've gone up on stage. I'm sure some nights

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Speaker 2: there and you said, you know what, I've got to

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Speaker 2: I said, humbly, we are oftentimes people's medicine to feel

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Speaker 3: The only thing I gotta do is make y'all laugh. Nigga,

438
00:25:18,480 --> 00:25:21,600
Speaker 3: I'm hungry. I've been waiting on this all day. I'm

439
00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:23,160
Speaker 3: about to fuck y'all up.

440
00:25:24,040 --> 00:25:27,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, I need.

441
00:25:26,880 --> 00:25:30,080
Speaker 3: It, yeah, oh man.

442
00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:32,240
Speaker 8: Because you know, I listened to you and I could

443
00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:36,359
Speaker 8: tell from tones and people have great tranquility and be

444
00:25:36,480 --> 00:25:38,520
Speaker 8: very calm.

445
00:25:38,680 --> 00:25:40,280
Speaker 2: What did my sweet.

446
00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:41,640
Speaker 3: Babies come from?

447
00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:44,639
Speaker 2: Because my sweet babies is like a word where baby,

448
00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:46,560
Speaker 2: you won't want to be nothing after my sweet baby.

449
00:25:46,880 --> 00:25:48,600
Speaker 1: It's still the point that when we even hear your

450
00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:50,600
Speaker 1: name and that's you, gotta say.

451
00:25:50,400 --> 00:25:56,399
Speaker 2: It my sweet my sweet baby, because you're are and

452
00:25:56,480 --> 00:26:00,240
Speaker 2: for me it's such a term of endearment that how

453
00:26:00,280 --> 00:26:02,919
Speaker 2: can you be mad at that? How can you have

454
00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:03,880
Speaker 2: a problem with that?

455
00:26:04,800 --> 00:26:05,000
Speaker 10: You know?

456
00:26:05,240 --> 00:26:11,760
Speaker 2: And one day my grandson said it to me, he said, hey,

457
00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:16,600
Speaker 2: my sweet baby, and that thing melted me. And I'm like,

458
00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:19,159
Speaker 2: is that what people feel when I say that? Is that?

459
00:26:19,280 --> 00:26:19,399
Speaker 3: What?

460
00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:20,480
Speaker 10: So?

461
00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:26,600
Speaker 2: For me? It it makes me feel good. I hope

462
00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:29,960
Speaker 2: it makes you feel good. And if I don't remember

463
00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:32,320
Speaker 2: your name, hey sweet.

464
00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:40,720
Speaker 4: Baby, my sweet baby, yes, because you.

465
00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:43,040
Speaker 8: Always had the energy because I saw a clip.

466
00:26:43,680 --> 00:26:47,120
Speaker 2: It was some TV show and it was the daughter

467
00:26:47,240 --> 00:26:47,560
Speaker 2: and the.

468
00:26:47,520 --> 00:26:49,639
Speaker 8: Mama was standing right there at the door, like I

469
00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:50,320
Speaker 8: don't want to hear that.

470
00:26:50,480 --> 00:26:53,359
Speaker 5: You was just fighting with you, was just trying to

471
00:26:53,600 --> 00:26:54,640
Speaker 5: I saw it where you were.

472
00:26:54,560 --> 00:26:59,120
Speaker 3: Like this, But you know what, baby, I'm gonna fight

473
00:26:59,240 --> 00:26:59,560
Speaker 3: with you.

474
00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:09,639
Speaker 2: I said, what's she good? That it was? Chim school

475
00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:14,280
Speaker 2: was a great learning lesson, even for me because even

476
00:27:14,359 --> 00:27:17,399
Speaker 2: at that time, there were decisions and choices I was

477
00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:21,560
Speaker 2: making that I wasn't mature enough right. And I can

478
00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:25,679
Speaker 2: remember going home one night and I was telling my

479
00:27:25,760 --> 00:27:28,960
Speaker 2: husband about it, the fight that was get ready to

480
00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:33,080
Speaker 2: happen with the young lady's mother and then and he said, Mama,

481
00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:41,920
Speaker 2: he said, you are there to teach and learn, so

482
00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:45,560
Speaker 2: you can't handle it like they would handle it. You

483
00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:50,520
Speaker 2: can't get flustered, you can't get shook because now you're

484
00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:57,200
Speaker 2: in the same position. And at the time, mentally, as

485
00:27:57,240 --> 00:27:59,320
Speaker 2: I look back on it, and I said, wow, I

486
00:27:59,320 --> 00:28:02,320
Speaker 2: could have handled it differently. I could have said that differently.

487
00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:05,040
Speaker 2: I could have walked through that differently because I was

488
00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:07,560
Speaker 2: in my thirties. Now I'm a fifty seven year old woman.

489
00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:09,760
Speaker 2: So things I did in my thirties, I wouldn't do

490
00:28:09,800 --> 00:28:13,200
Speaker 2: in my fifties. So I would never challenge a baby

491
00:28:13,359 --> 00:28:19,400
Speaker 2: to take her in the bag. Okay, said now, I said,

492
00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:20,240
Speaker 2: we can go in the bag.

493
00:28:21,080 --> 00:28:23,639
Speaker 4: We can go in the bag, and we can go

494
00:28:23,760 --> 00:28:26,560
Speaker 4: in the bag and then we can come back our baby.

495
00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:29,640
Speaker 2: The Baltimore came out and be like, what we gonna do.

496
00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:33,359
Speaker 2: I would never do that at fifty seven years old.

497
00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:37,560
Speaker 2: So with that show, watching the Bag, I've learned just

498
00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:40,960
Speaker 2: like those women have learned. And I'm happy for those sisters,

499
00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:42,720
Speaker 2: for the ones that said I'm gonna keep it going,

500
00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:45,800
Speaker 2: I'm gonna do something with it. I'm happy for those babies.

501
00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:48,000
Speaker 2: And if I had to do it again, I would

502
00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:48,760
Speaker 2: do some things.

503
00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:53,360
Speaker 3: Differently that might be interesting, that might be an interesting,

504
00:28:53,640 --> 00:28:54,920
Speaker 3: that might be an interesting that.

505
00:28:56,400 --> 00:29:00,720
Speaker 2: Like bull click click too, he looks Buck that need

506
00:29:00,720 --> 00:29:01,360
Speaker 2: to get you great?

507
00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:10,719
Speaker 5: Need go talk Monique, We're going to back, going to back, right,

508
00:29:11,040 --> 00:29:14,800
Speaker 5: Jinna take it back, but talk this.

509
00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:21,280
Speaker 2: Some I would still take to other back, say proper situation.

510
00:29:22,400 --> 00:29:24,400
Speaker 3: Now, you know, we were fans of comedy over here,

511
00:29:24,440 --> 00:29:26,280
Speaker 3: and we been keeping the records.

512
00:29:26,560 --> 00:29:28,959
Speaker 1: So I want to ask you what was comedy like

513
00:29:29,800 --> 00:29:31,560
Speaker 1: in the nineties, because that's the era.

514
00:29:31,720 --> 00:29:33,160
Speaker 3: We'll never get the experience.

515
00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:37,360
Speaker 2: It was magical. Baby. See, there was a time that

516
00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:41,080
Speaker 2: we didn't know how you lived. We didn't know that

517
00:29:41,120 --> 00:29:43,600
Speaker 2: you had a private jack. We didn't know that you

518
00:29:43,640 --> 00:29:46,240
Speaker 2: had a yacht. We didn't know that you had twenty

519
00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:49,840
Speaker 2: five cars. We just knew you were funny, and that's

520
00:29:49,880 --> 00:29:53,040
Speaker 2: what we were going after. We didn't know how Richard

521
00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:56,680
Speaker 2: Prior lived, we didn't know how Eddie Murphy lived. We

522
00:29:56,800 --> 00:30:00,680
Speaker 2: just knew that these people were got bucket fun and

523
00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:04,200
Speaker 2: we wanted to get there. Well, I think for you, babies,

524
00:30:04,240 --> 00:30:08,520
Speaker 2: where it's different. You see people saying I want to

525
00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:11,880
Speaker 2: live and imagine. I want to have fancy cars, I

526
00:30:11,920 --> 00:30:13,920
Speaker 2: want to get on TV. I want to be in

527
00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:19,240
Speaker 2: the movies. So sometimes the stand up can lack because

528
00:30:19,280 --> 00:30:23,800
Speaker 2: you're chasing what you see on social media. You're chasing

529
00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:27,240
Speaker 2: what you hear about this person's on Forbes, and you're

530
00:30:27,280 --> 00:30:31,240
Speaker 2: no longer chasing the dream and the gift. You're now

531
00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:34,680
Speaker 2: chasing the materialistic part of it. And you've stepped away

532
00:30:34,720 --> 00:30:37,360
Speaker 2: from let me just go up on this stage and

533
00:30:37,440 --> 00:30:40,760
Speaker 2: show my gift, let me show the universe. I appreciate

534
00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:41,960
Speaker 2: that they chose me.

535
00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:46,640
Speaker 12: What is something you learned after you made it that

536
00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:48,880
Speaker 12: you wish you knew on your way coming up.

537
00:30:50,560 --> 00:30:51,840
Speaker 3: Nigga, hit you with some deep shit.

538
00:31:01,840 --> 00:31:06,000
Speaker 2: What's something that I've learned once I got there on

539
00:31:06,120 --> 00:31:06,680
Speaker 2: my way.

540
00:31:06,520 --> 00:31:09,200
Speaker 3: Coming out that you wish you knew on your way coming.

541
00:31:09,040 --> 00:31:12,240
Speaker 2: Up that I didn't need a bunch of shit, that

542
00:31:12,320 --> 00:31:14,480
Speaker 2: I didn't need to waste money on a bunch of

543
00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:19,320
Speaker 2: shit that you don't need when you When I first

544
00:31:20,440 --> 00:31:25,920
Speaker 2: got my first check from the Parkers, right, I understood

545
00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:30,080
Speaker 2: my contract, but I didn't understand it when I opened

546
00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:34,040
Speaker 2: up that first check, I didn't quite understand I was

547
00:31:34,080 --> 00:31:39,160
Speaker 2: getting twenty two more of those checks at that number. Right,

548
00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:42,960
Speaker 2: So when I understood that I'm gonna get another check

549
00:31:43,080 --> 00:31:47,800
Speaker 2: like this next week, fuck this chat and we bolling.

550
00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:50,840
Speaker 2: We are bolling, baby when I tell y'all want the

551
00:31:50,880 --> 00:31:57,520
Speaker 2: Cosco on board ship that I did not need. Yeah,

552
00:31:57,720 --> 00:32:01,160
Speaker 2: But then once you settle in and once you understand

553
00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:05,640
Speaker 2: this is not promise tomorrow and some of us get

554
00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:10,880
Speaker 2: in positions where we live these multimillion dollar lives on Monday,

555
00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:15,360
Speaker 2: but Tuesday it was taken away. So now what do

556
00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:21,840
Speaker 2: you do Wednesday, Thursday, Friday? So you start seeing a pattern. Oftentimes.

557
00:32:22,160 --> 00:32:24,800
Speaker 2: That's why for me it was important to read the

558
00:32:24,840 --> 00:32:29,080
Speaker 2: stories of the sisters that came before me, and most

559
00:32:29,120 --> 00:32:34,840
Speaker 2: of them died broke, unhealthy, and by themselves because they

560
00:32:34,920 --> 00:32:39,080
Speaker 2: never thought that it would end, especially when you ride

561
00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:43,480
Speaker 2: and high, especially when everyone says you're the best and

562
00:32:43,520 --> 00:32:47,240
Speaker 2: you're the greatest, and something happens and just like that,

563
00:32:48,200 --> 00:32:51,760
Speaker 2: now it's done. But you are still in this million

564
00:32:51,840 --> 00:32:55,760
Speaker 2: dollar lifestyle that you still have to try to maintain

565
00:32:56,240 --> 00:32:59,840
Speaker 2: and afford. So some sisters and brothers can find themselves

566
00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:05,200
Speaker 2: doing things that you gotta maintain this lifestyle instead of saying, Okay,

567
00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:07,600
Speaker 2: wait a minute, let me make sure I'm not living

568
00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:12,360
Speaker 2: above my means even though I get that check every week.

569
00:33:13,200 --> 00:33:16,320
Speaker 2: Let me make sure that if that check gets taken away,

570
00:33:17,120 --> 00:33:18,400
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna be taken away.

571
00:33:19,120 --> 00:33:21,160
Speaker 8: How you deal with people that don't understand and it's

572
00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:22,440
Speaker 8: just begging and asking.

573
00:33:24,040 --> 00:33:27,600
Speaker 2: You've got to get comfortable and no. And you've got

574
00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:31,680
Speaker 2: to get comfortable with your no with no explanation, because

575
00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:34,720
Speaker 2: when you say yes, they don't say why you say yes,

576
00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:37,320
Speaker 2: They just say what time can I pick it up?

577
00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:40,320
Speaker 2: Are you zelling it? Are you overnight in it? But

578
00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:44,160
Speaker 2: they never say dc why you say yes? So the

579
00:33:44,240 --> 00:33:47,160
Speaker 2: moment you say no, you's got to be comfortable, and

580
00:33:47,720 --> 00:33:51,400
Speaker 2: why you say no? Because I can, And that's it.

581
00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:55,320
Speaker 2: And it took me a long time to get comfortable

582
00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:59,960
Speaker 2: in my nose, and it cost me a relationship with

583
00:34:00,120 --> 00:34:03,840
Speaker 2: my biological family because I was so used to saying

584
00:34:03,920 --> 00:34:09,280
Speaker 2: yes that the moment you say no, you become the villain.

585
00:34:10,040 --> 00:34:12,520
Speaker 2: And that was very uncomfortable. I didn't want to be

586
00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:15,959
Speaker 2: the villain, so I would say no, but okay, because

587
00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:17,399
Speaker 2: I don't want you to be mad. I don't want

588
00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:19,960
Speaker 2: you to be upset Till you get to a place

589
00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:23,200
Speaker 2: where you're looking in the mirror and the person looking

590
00:34:23,239 --> 00:34:26,640
Speaker 2: back is mad at you because they're saying everything you

591
00:34:26,719 --> 00:34:31,160
Speaker 2: said you wouldn't do, you're doing. And now you have

592
00:34:31,239 --> 00:34:35,640
Speaker 2: resentment for yourself, not for them, because you're resenting the

593
00:34:35,719 --> 00:34:38,960
Speaker 2: fact that you didn't keep your word to say, I

594
00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:41,560
Speaker 2: can't take care of you, I can't take you along.

595
00:34:42,120 --> 00:34:44,560
Speaker 2: But a lot of things go with that. A lot

596
00:34:44,560 --> 00:34:47,360
Speaker 2: of us don't want to be by ourselves, so we

597
00:34:47,480 --> 00:34:51,279
Speaker 2: take people along that we know don't deserve it, because

598
00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:54,960
Speaker 2: you're simply afraid of being by yourself and then you

599
00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:58,759
Speaker 2: look up and you have people that you gotta get

600
00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:00,879
Speaker 2: mad at yourself because they said, but you knew who

601
00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:04,440
Speaker 2: I was. You knew I was a take up, But

602
00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:06,799
Speaker 2: now you thought something was going to change. You just

603
00:35:06,880 --> 00:35:09,680
Speaker 2: have more to give me. So you have to get

604
00:35:09,719 --> 00:35:14,040
Speaker 2: comfortable in your no and be okay with that. You

605
00:35:14,040 --> 00:35:19,120
Speaker 2: hear that, mother, No, No, I.

606
00:35:19,080 --> 00:35:24,040
Speaker 3: Still need Is there anything left you want to do?

607
00:35:25,640 --> 00:35:31,560
Speaker 2: Yes? Yes, there's so much left that I want to do.

608
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:34,640
Speaker 2: I want to learn how to bake a cut damn

609
00:35:34,760 --> 00:35:38,319
Speaker 2: chocolate cake from scratch and then don't tilt. That's what

610
00:35:38,360 --> 00:35:40,960
Speaker 2: I want to learn. How I know how to do it?

611
00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:43,239
Speaker 2: Wait minute, sugar. That was judgment, no.

612
00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:47,520
Speaker 3: Mean following.

613
00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:55,840
Speaker 2: Because oftentimes in this business, we get so caught up

614
00:35:55,880 --> 00:36:00,000
Speaker 2: in business and people say what's next, and you don't

615
00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:03,120
Speaker 2: don't even think to say, you know what, my grandbabies.

616
00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:07,160
Speaker 2: You don't think because you only think to deliver business.

617
00:36:07,640 --> 00:36:11,759
Speaker 2: I've had to learn to separate that. It's like, I

618
00:36:11,800 --> 00:36:16,040
Speaker 2: hope tomorrow's next because today is beautiful. So if I

619
00:36:16,200 --> 00:36:19,520
Speaker 2: just get to tomorrow, what a blessing that will be.

620
00:36:20,080 --> 00:36:22,360
Speaker 2: So when you say what more do I want to be?

621
00:36:23,520 --> 00:36:26,359
Speaker 2: I want to continue to be the best wife, the

622
00:36:26,360 --> 00:36:30,840
Speaker 2: best mother, the best grandmother, the best friend. The business

623
00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:34,520
Speaker 2: is the business, but the business won't be there when

624
00:36:34,560 --> 00:36:37,600
Speaker 2: I'm taking that last breath. The business won't be there

625
00:36:37,840 --> 00:36:40,799
Speaker 2: when I'm sick. The business won't be there when I'm

626
00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:43,640
Speaker 2: going through it. So what's next is going to be

627
00:36:43,680 --> 00:36:46,120
Speaker 2: what's next. But I hope I get as much as

628
00:36:46,160 --> 00:36:49,359
Speaker 2: time with my family that I can possibly get.

629
00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:53,839
Speaker 3: How did you adjust to living your life publicly? Because

630
00:36:53,880 --> 00:36:57,200
Speaker 3: I did. I saw you just reconciled with your sony.

631
00:36:57,200 --> 00:37:00,320
Speaker 2: And the like. That's life.

632
00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:02,319
Speaker 1: And you hear what I'm saying, but you'd have to

633
00:37:02,360 --> 00:37:06,040
Speaker 1: do it publicly knowing that it would happen. But being

634
00:37:06,120 --> 00:37:09,200
Speaker 1: on the world's timeline, how do you adjust to that

635
00:37:09,680 --> 00:37:11,879
Speaker 1: just when you going through regular life shit in front

636
00:37:11,880 --> 00:37:12,440
Speaker 1: of everybody.

637
00:37:12,480 --> 00:37:17,520
Speaker 2: It's what it is. And if my situation can help

638
00:37:17,560 --> 00:37:22,800
Speaker 2: your situation, I'm willing to go through that publicly. If

639
00:37:23,200 --> 00:37:27,440
Speaker 2: a mother and a son was able to reconcile watching

640
00:37:27,480 --> 00:37:30,480
Speaker 2: me and my son, I'm able to go through that publicly.

641
00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:33,600
Speaker 2: And as long as I'm telling the truth, I don't

642
00:37:33,640 --> 00:37:36,400
Speaker 2: give a damn who sees it or who hears it.

643
00:37:36,400 --> 00:37:39,080
Speaker 2: It's a part of what we do. You can't live

644
00:37:39,160 --> 00:37:42,319
Speaker 2: your life and they not know what you're doing. Now,

645
00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:44,600
Speaker 2: some things you can say, I'm gonna hold this just

646
00:37:44,640 --> 00:37:48,040
Speaker 2: to me. I'm gonna keep this right here, but everybody's

647
00:37:48,080 --> 00:37:51,239
Speaker 2: watching now, so if you see it, I'm not gonna

648
00:37:51,280 --> 00:37:54,200
Speaker 2: run from it. When my son went public, I couldn't

649
00:37:54,280 --> 00:37:56,359
Speaker 2: run from it. It was it was right there. It

650
00:37:56,400 --> 00:37:59,360
Speaker 2: was what it was. But as I said to him,

651
00:37:59,680 --> 00:38:05,120
Speaker 2: time will heal. Time will heal. And because I have

652
00:38:05,239 --> 00:38:10,200
Speaker 2: a king, it didn't make my knees buckle. Because I

653
00:38:10,239 --> 00:38:13,600
Speaker 2: have a man and says we're gonna stand in this together, Mama,

654
00:38:13,719 --> 00:38:18,120
Speaker 2: whatever they throw at us, we're right here. And because

655
00:38:18,160 --> 00:38:21,920
Speaker 2: you mind, I'll stand in front of it. My knees

656
00:38:21,920 --> 00:38:25,200
Speaker 2: don't buckle. I don't waver from what I know is right.

657
00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:27,680
Speaker 2: I don't wave it from the truth. So if that

658
00:38:27,760 --> 00:38:30,879
Speaker 2: has to be public, I'm okay with that. I'm still

659
00:38:30,880 --> 00:38:34,640
Speaker 2: waiting for Tyler Perry, still waiting for Oprah Winfrey to say,

660
00:38:34,880 --> 00:38:40,480
Speaker 2: let's have this public, open conversation. Don't run, don't run,

661
00:38:40,680 --> 00:38:44,680
Speaker 2: because that may be able to heal our community, just

662
00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:46,839
Speaker 2: like my son and I. And I'm not saying, oh,

663
00:38:46,880 --> 00:38:49,719
Speaker 2: we're these healers. No, but you got a chance to

664
00:38:49,719 --> 00:38:54,680
Speaker 2: see it in real time because I love him and

665
00:38:54,719 --> 00:38:57,440
Speaker 2: he loves me, and I was not gonna let that

666
00:38:57,520 --> 00:39:02,520
Speaker 2: split second cost us the rest of our lives. When

667
00:39:02,560 --> 00:39:06,560
Speaker 2: my mother left, I had no relationship. My father left,

668
00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:10,000
Speaker 2: I had no relationship. When my sister left, I had

669
00:39:10,040 --> 00:39:13,400
Speaker 2: no relationship. I have two biological brothers that I have

670
00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:16,680
Speaker 2: no relationship with. And I called my son and said,

671
00:39:17,080 --> 00:39:21,560
Speaker 2: I do not want us to go another moment like this,

672
00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:25,120
Speaker 2: and both of us were willing, so it had to

673
00:39:25,120 --> 00:39:28,480
Speaker 2: happen publicly. But look at where it is now. So

674
00:39:28,560 --> 00:39:30,400
Speaker 2: I'm okay with that. I ain't got your.

675
00:39:30,320 --> 00:39:37,240
Speaker 1: Die and you did? You brought up the Tyler Perry

676
00:39:37,280 --> 00:39:38,080
Speaker 1: and lead that.

677
00:39:38,480 --> 00:39:40,680
Speaker 2: I did because I didn't know if y'all was okay.

678
00:39:40,719 --> 00:39:47,359
Speaker 2: I mean, we brought you here just to show you love.

679
00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:50,520
Speaker 1: I love what we do on the on the comedy

680
00:39:50,560 --> 00:39:53,600
Speaker 1: side of things, the entertainment side of things. But you

681
00:39:53,640 --> 00:39:56,200
Speaker 1: did see when I did my Club Sha Shade, he

682
00:39:56,360 --> 00:39:58,440
Speaker 1: brought up you and I told me, you know, the

683
00:39:58,520 --> 00:40:01,960
Speaker 1: quote was that people say Monique hard to work with, yes,

684
00:40:01,960 --> 00:40:03,319
Speaker 1: And I told him, no, she ain't.

685
00:40:03,360 --> 00:40:04,919
Speaker 3: She just ain't to be played.

686
00:40:04,600 --> 00:40:08,720
Speaker 1: With, right, So what do you say to the people

687
00:40:08,719 --> 00:40:11,560
Speaker 1: who say Monique hard to work with, Well.

688
00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:13,239
Speaker 2: For the people that said I'm hard to work with,

689
00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:16,040
Speaker 2: they've not worked with me exactly, So I can't even

690
00:40:16,160 --> 00:40:19,520
Speaker 2: entertain it because they've not worked with me. But when

691
00:40:19,560 --> 00:40:23,160
Speaker 2: you have a man named Tyler Perry saying she's difficult

692
00:40:23,200 --> 00:40:26,680
Speaker 2: to work with, and you've never worked with me, and

693
00:40:26,719 --> 00:40:31,000
Speaker 2: that cost me twelve years of my career. So when

694
00:40:31,040 --> 00:40:35,360
Speaker 2: people say, Monique, let that go, I'll ask you, because

695
00:40:35,360 --> 00:40:39,000
Speaker 2: you know the streets. If somebody cost a man two

696
00:40:39,040 --> 00:40:45,200
Speaker 2: thousand dollars for lying on him in the streets, what happens? Okay,

697
00:40:45,560 --> 00:40:53,000
Speaker 2: that's two thousand. Now let's say twenty thousand. What happens? Okay?

698
00:40:54,680 --> 00:41:00,279
Speaker 2: So now let's say and fifty thousand. That is when

699
00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:03,160
Speaker 2: you gotta saya put it in gud hand. Okay, I'm

700
00:41:03,160 --> 00:41:06,160
Speaker 2: gonna keep going up because I'm making a point. So

701
00:41:06,160 --> 00:41:10,839
Speaker 2: now let's say that lie cost you two million. Now

702
00:41:10,920 --> 00:41:14,879
Speaker 2: let's say that lie cost you between twenty four and

703
00:41:14,920 --> 00:41:20,719
Speaker 2: thirty six million dollars. Do you let it go? I'm

704
00:41:20,760 --> 00:41:24,359
Speaker 2: asking you. Do you let it go? Do you let

705
00:41:24,400 --> 00:41:29,120
Speaker 2: it go? So? Whyever would I let that go? Whyever

706
00:41:29,480 --> 00:41:32,520
Speaker 2: would I not talk about it every opportunity I get

707
00:41:32,960 --> 00:41:36,960
Speaker 2: because you've cost my family that money. And what happens

708
00:41:37,040 --> 00:41:41,719
Speaker 2: is we get so afraid of power that we're too

709
00:41:41,800 --> 00:41:44,480
Speaker 2: afraid to say what's real. I've set in front of

710
00:41:44,520 --> 00:41:48,919
Speaker 2: brothers and sisters who will say off camera that shit

711
00:41:49,320 --> 00:41:53,520
Speaker 2: was wrong, but the moment the camera comes on, I

712
00:41:53,560 --> 00:41:57,040
Speaker 2: don't really know if I want to say this, because

713
00:41:57,400 --> 00:41:59,920
Speaker 2: we get afraid of what will be taken from me,

714
00:42:00,719 --> 00:42:04,200
Speaker 2: what what will happen to me? I keep saying it

715
00:42:04,200 --> 00:42:07,440
Speaker 2: out loud because I know they're sisters that came before

716
00:42:07,480 --> 00:42:10,279
Speaker 2: me that are no longer here, that they couldn't say

717
00:42:10,320 --> 00:42:13,560
Speaker 2: it because they were too afraid to say that one

718
00:42:13,920 --> 00:42:17,560
Speaker 2: cost me, that one did this, that one did that.

719
00:42:17,920 --> 00:42:21,000
Speaker 2: I'm gonna stand for each one of those sisters, and

720
00:42:21,080 --> 00:42:23,879
Speaker 2: for the ones that aren't even here yet until they

721
00:42:23,920 --> 00:42:28,400
Speaker 2: make it right. I'm unapologetic about that. I'm unapologetic about

722
00:42:28,560 --> 00:42:31,200
Speaker 2: saying you've got to make it right, because that's why

723
00:42:31,239 --> 00:42:34,520
Speaker 2: our community keeps getting treated the way it gets treated,

724
00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:38,560
Speaker 2: because we've been told from slavery, let it go. You

725
00:42:38,600 --> 00:42:41,400
Speaker 2: don't wanna upset them. I don't give a goddamn who's upset.

726
00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:43,920
Speaker 2: I don't give a goddamn who's hard of hearing it.

727
00:42:44,239 --> 00:42:47,440
Speaker 2: I'm gonna keep saying it until that black man and

728
00:42:47,480 --> 00:42:51,640
Speaker 2: that black woman and Lionsgate makes this right because you

729
00:42:51,840 --> 00:42:56,279
Speaker 2: cost my family generational money. For the other people, that's

730
00:42:56,280 --> 00:42:59,600
Speaker 2: cowardly and say I would just let it go, that's

731
00:42:59,600 --> 00:43:03,440
Speaker 2: your big business. My business says, never let it go.

732
00:43:03,800 --> 00:43:08,080
Speaker 2: And that's a part of entertainment. So I appreciate you said, hey, Mama,

733
00:43:08,239 --> 00:43:10,320
Speaker 2: we brought you here to show you love. This is

734
00:43:10,360 --> 00:43:13,160
Speaker 2: a part of it. This is a part of it

735
00:43:13,360 --> 00:43:17,520
Speaker 2: for the next black woman that says I won't be quiet,

736
00:43:17,760 --> 00:43:20,600
Speaker 2: because if I keep being quiet, it lets the next

737
00:43:20,640 --> 00:43:22,560
Speaker 2: black woman get her ass kicked.

738
00:43:28,160 --> 00:43:31,720
Speaker 12: Just let that sit, boy, let it similar.

739
00:43:32,440 --> 00:43:34,919
Speaker 2: My mama always said, when you got your Asshoopy'll.

740
00:43:34,320 --> 00:43:34,919
Speaker 3: Walk to the roof.

741
00:43:35,800 --> 00:43:38,200
Speaker 9: Don't say nothing, nap, don't ain't look at nobody.

742
00:43:38,239 --> 00:43:39,840
Speaker 3: We heard go to sleep.

743
00:43:39,960 --> 00:43:40,560
Speaker 2: We saw it too.

744
00:43:40,680 --> 00:43:45,680
Speaker 12: Shit listen with Precious with that strip, right, did you

745
00:43:45,760 --> 00:43:48,480
Speaker 12: feel any type of way as because I know that

746
00:43:48,480 --> 00:43:51,040
Speaker 12: that's not you, right, so, like did you feel any

747
00:43:51,080 --> 00:43:52,320
Speaker 12: type of way doing that movie?

748
00:43:52,320 --> 00:43:55,160
Speaker 3: Like was it some point you like god damn, like

749
00:43:55,239 --> 00:43:58,799
Speaker 3: who wrote this ship? Like did you have it? Did

750
00:43:58,840 --> 00:43:59,520
Speaker 3: you say it loud?

751
00:43:59,800 --> 00:44:07,960
Speaker 13: Like bitch, get I'm sorry, baby, that would.

752
00:44:09,080 --> 00:44:10,560
Speaker 3: Because it was it was like it was.

753
00:44:11,280 --> 00:44:14,640
Speaker 12: It was just so intense and like damn, like damn.

754
00:44:15,040 --> 00:44:18,040
Speaker 2: When Lee first sent me that script, when I got

755
00:44:18,040 --> 00:44:20,439
Speaker 2: to page ten, I called him up. I said, what

756
00:44:20,560 --> 00:44:23,560
Speaker 2: is this? Ship? What is this? He was like, bitch,

757
00:44:23,600 --> 00:44:29,080
Speaker 2: I know is right, And but my husband and I

758
00:44:29,160 --> 00:44:32,000
Speaker 2: were reading that script. He said, Mama, he said, don't

759
00:44:32,080 --> 00:44:37,200
Speaker 2: judge her, just become her. That was it. So when

760
00:44:37,239 --> 00:44:40,640
Speaker 2: he said action, Lee said this bitch is a monster.

761
00:44:41,239 --> 00:44:44,480
Speaker 2: When he said action, I was a monster. When he

762
00:44:44,560 --> 00:44:47,520
Speaker 2: said cut, I was Monique that way. It was just

763
00:44:47,560 --> 00:44:50,440
Speaker 2: that easy. It was just that because it allowed us

764
00:44:50,520 --> 00:44:53,879
Speaker 2: to play, like how far can we go? Like how

765
00:44:53,920 --> 00:44:56,600
Speaker 2: far do you want to push this damn envelope? And yes,

766
00:44:56,640 --> 00:44:58,359
Speaker 2: when he said cut, I was like, Gabby, you okay?

767
00:44:58,400 --> 00:45:03,760
Speaker 2: So because ship okay? Then look are you good? Listen listen.

768
00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:06,839
Speaker 2: There's one scene and this is what Lee has said

769
00:45:06,840 --> 00:45:10,440
Speaker 2: to me. He says after the scene, he said, Bitch,

770
00:45:11,400 --> 00:45:15,400
Speaker 2: that was the most brilliant ship I've ever seen. The

771
00:45:15,440 --> 00:45:19,480
Speaker 2: way you grabbed your heart and you bent over. Bitch,

772
00:45:19,800 --> 00:45:23,360
Speaker 2: you are incredible. I said, Nikka, I can't let you

773
00:45:23,440 --> 00:45:26,680
Speaker 2: believe that I bent over because I was laughing at

774
00:45:26,760 --> 00:45:29,640
Speaker 2: that bitch because she kicked her slipper down the steps

775
00:45:29,640 --> 00:45:31,560
Speaker 2: at me, so I had to bend over so I

776
00:45:31,600 --> 00:45:36,200
Speaker 2: didn't mess up the scene. And what's out laughing? Yeah,

777
00:45:38,040 --> 00:45:42,120
Speaker 2: watch them part watch it, you'll see me go because

778
00:45:42,239 --> 00:45:48,359
Speaker 2: I'm trying to hold the laugh back. Yeah, in the

779
00:45:48,400 --> 00:45:52,399
Speaker 2: middle of it, and she was like, that's what she's doing.

780
00:45:52,680 --> 00:45:56,319
Speaker 2: I got the top of the steps. They can't see her,

781
00:45:56,800 --> 00:46:01,080
Speaker 2: so I'm in it, and I'm like, it was so good,

782
00:46:01,440 --> 00:46:04,759
Speaker 2: it was so it was so good, It was so good. Yeah,

783
00:46:04,800 --> 00:46:05,560
Speaker 2: we played.

784
00:46:07,719 --> 00:46:11,120
Speaker 8: After such an intense scene, and you know, you don't

785
00:46:11,160 --> 00:46:14,600
Speaker 8: never talk sometimes after that such an intense scene.

786
00:46:15,640 --> 00:46:20,279
Speaker 13: Get back to yourself after the snap back.

787
00:46:21,400 --> 00:46:28,640
Speaker 2: Look. You know I've had people ask me that, like

788
00:46:28,680 --> 00:46:31,640
Speaker 2: did you have to get the programs that the moment

789
00:46:31,719 --> 00:46:38,280
Speaker 2: he said cut, I was Monique. I didn't take that anywhere.

790
00:46:39,440 --> 00:46:43,279
Speaker 2: Ship was done. Yeah, yeah, you.

791
00:46:43,280 --> 00:46:45,520
Speaker 14: Really made black history or if you know that, because

792
00:46:45,520 --> 00:46:50,560
Speaker 14: there's how many movies centered around a romantic comment. Yes,

793
00:46:50,840 --> 00:46:52,800
Speaker 14: and it must have resonated because you all get the

794
00:46:52,840 --> 00:46:54,879
Speaker 14: budget on three million, but like eighteen.

795
00:46:54,600 --> 00:47:03,040
Speaker 2: Bocks off, come on now, Google Entertainment and the money and.

796
00:47:03,040 --> 00:47:06,120
Speaker 14: Music and moves always fascination. Yes, So talk to us

797
00:47:06,120 --> 00:47:08,319
Speaker 14: about then how they connected and uh and what was

798
00:47:08,320 --> 00:47:10,799
Speaker 14: like carrying such a heavy road, Jay, we are trying

799
00:47:10,840 --> 00:47:12,120
Speaker 14: to get a podcast.

800
00:47:13,040 --> 00:47:20,319
Speaker 1: Right, that's one of you would call who movies because

801
00:47:20,320 --> 00:47:22,000
Speaker 1: that's right before everything went digital.

802
00:47:22,120 --> 00:47:24,000
Speaker 3: So he was watching ship like that.

803
00:47:24,080 --> 00:47:26,520
Speaker 1: We were actually going and picking it up and going

804
00:47:26,560 --> 00:47:29,440
Speaker 1: to Blockbusters and written and buying that and you know

805
00:47:29,480 --> 00:47:31,880
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, these are movies that people will.

806
00:47:33,440 --> 00:47:38,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, he went crazy. Yeah, Fat Girls was was this

807
00:47:39,200 --> 00:47:45,680
Speaker 2: brilliant sister. Niggas Lecky wrote that right, and when she

808
00:47:45,760 --> 00:47:49,320
Speaker 2: first sent it to me at the time, my sister,

809
00:47:49,560 --> 00:47:52,960
Speaker 2: my biological sister, was working in the office and she

810
00:47:53,160 --> 00:47:57,240
Speaker 2: told that woman Monique's not accepting scripts right now, right,

811
00:47:58,400 --> 00:48:00,960
Speaker 2: And she was like, okay, well, I didn't know anything

812
00:48:00,960 --> 00:48:03,840
Speaker 2: about that. And then just so happened. I'll say about

813
00:48:04,160 --> 00:48:07,000
Speaker 2: six months later, she got that script in my hands

814
00:48:07,360 --> 00:48:09,520
Speaker 2: and I could not put it down. And I called

815
00:48:09,520 --> 00:48:11,920
Speaker 2: her at night and I said, let's do it because

816
00:48:11,920 --> 00:48:15,640
Speaker 2: I had never seen a big black woman portrayed that way,

817
00:48:16,120 --> 00:48:18,960
Speaker 2: which she was the love interest and she wasn't the joke,

818
00:48:19,280 --> 00:48:23,640
Speaker 2: and it wasn't oh you know, it's a pity relationship.

819
00:48:23,920 --> 00:48:30,560
Speaker 2: It was this man really loving this woman, so that

820
00:48:30,560 --> 00:48:32,560
Speaker 2: that one was a lot of fun to do, a

821
00:48:32,560 --> 00:48:35,239
Speaker 2: lot of fun to do. Not the best business deal,

822
00:48:35,920 --> 00:48:38,880
Speaker 2: but a lot of fun to do. Yes, well, because

823
00:48:38,920 --> 00:48:41,920
Speaker 2: at the time there were so many things I didn't know.

824
00:48:42,600 --> 00:48:45,319
Speaker 2: There were questions I didn't know to ask, and people

825
00:48:45,360 --> 00:48:48,759
Speaker 2: aren't going to volunteer the information. So I didn't own

826
00:48:48,840 --> 00:48:49,480
Speaker 2: any effect.

827
00:48:49,520 --> 00:48:49,880
Speaker 3: Girls.

828
00:48:50,480 --> 00:48:54,360
Speaker 2: I was simply a worker, and though that's my image.

829
00:48:55,000 --> 00:48:58,719
Speaker 2: So what happens is when my husband did come on

830
00:48:59,080 --> 00:49:00,480
Speaker 2: and I said to him, I need you to be

831
00:49:00,560 --> 00:49:03,319
Speaker 2: my manager, he was like, Mama, that ain't that didn't

832
00:49:03,360 --> 00:49:06,920
Speaker 2: what I do until he saw how things were going

833
00:49:07,000 --> 00:49:11,200
Speaker 2: down and he knew I gotta step in. So we

834
00:49:11,239 --> 00:49:13,480
Speaker 2: made no more deals like that after he came in

835
00:49:13,760 --> 00:49:17,239
Speaker 2: as my manager. Now, everything we do, we have to

836
00:49:17,400 --> 00:49:19,799
Speaker 2: own some of it. We ain't saying we gotta have

837
00:49:19,840 --> 00:49:23,280
Speaker 2: all of it, but that's my image. That's our work.

838
00:49:23,480 --> 00:49:25,800
Speaker 2: We gotta have a piece of it. If you making money,

839
00:49:25,920 --> 00:49:27,919
Speaker 2: shouldn't we make money? That's it.

840
00:49:29,239 --> 00:49:31,600
Speaker 3: And you on tour with Cat, you still doing things

841
00:49:31,640 --> 00:49:31,960
Speaker 3: with Cat?

842
00:49:32,160 --> 00:49:32,359
Speaker 9: No.

843
00:49:32,440 --> 00:49:35,120
Speaker 2: I finished with Cat in May, Okay. And when I

844
00:49:35,200 --> 00:49:40,360
Speaker 2: tell you y'all, that tour was a tour that tour

845
00:49:40,840 --> 00:49:46,040
Speaker 2: was a tour. I had never seen a machine run

846
00:49:46,080 --> 00:49:51,200
Speaker 2: that way, and Kat Williams ran that machine because when

847
00:49:51,239 --> 00:49:54,480
Speaker 2: you see those arenas and you see all the trucks,

848
00:49:54,520 --> 00:49:58,160
Speaker 2: and I mean the brother just had that machine running

849
00:49:58,160 --> 00:50:00,920
Speaker 2: in a way where it was so it was just

850
00:50:00,960 --> 00:50:02,920
Speaker 2: a lot of fun. It was a lot of fun

851
00:50:03,400 --> 00:50:05,319
Speaker 2: to walk out on those stages and you standing in

852
00:50:05,320 --> 00:50:10,200
Speaker 2: front of ten thousand, fifteen thousand, twenty thousand, and you're

853
00:50:10,320 --> 00:50:13,520
Speaker 2: just that love and an enjoyment and it's like, wow,

854
00:50:14,120 --> 00:50:17,520
Speaker 2: get it, brother, But I still love a comedy club.

855
00:50:19,840 --> 00:50:22,960
Speaker 8: The company you cannot so it did right there, It's

856
00:50:23,080 --> 00:50:26,440
Speaker 8: right there, it is right, it is in the moment

857
00:50:26,840 --> 00:50:29,759
Speaker 8: I can look at you and tell a few in it.

858
00:50:29,800 --> 00:50:31,439
Speaker 2: Or if you're not so now I gotta ask.

859
00:50:31,440 --> 00:50:33,359
Speaker 3: You're gonna do some club dates? Is that on?

860
00:50:33,760 --> 00:50:36,480
Speaker 2: Well? I just did a club date. I did Rob

861
00:50:36,560 --> 00:50:40,880
Speaker 2: Stapleton's club in the Bronx.

862
00:50:42,360 --> 00:50:48,160
Speaker 10: Yes, yes, when you do the Bronx. The Bronx is

863
00:50:48,200 --> 00:50:50,880
Speaker 10: in New York, but it's in the South, Like you

864
00:50:51,000 --> 00:50:53,680
Speaker 10: still walking in front of a Southern crowd. It's that

865
00:50:53,920 --> 00:50:55,720
Speaker 10: damn home dark liquor.

866
00:50:56,080 --> 00:50:59,200
Speaker 2: Let's get it. Yeah, Yeah, I still love a club.

867
00:50:59,280 --> 00:51:00,000
Speaker 2: I still love a club.

868
00:51:00,120 --> 00:51:00,880
Speaker 3: Uh, that's what the.

869
00:51:02,880 --> 00:51:08,560
Speaker 1: Baby, because like you said, it's got the down home field.

870
00:51:08,960 --> 00:51:11,520
Speaker 3: Yes, with the Spanish infusion.

871
00:51:11,640 --> 00:51:15,600
Speaker 2: You did that ship right with that. Yes, there's a

872
00:51:15,600 --> 00:51:17,840
Speaker 2: lot of clubs we go to. It be like this,

873
00:51:18,120 --> 00:51:19,399
Speaker 2: this is a cool room, but it ain't.

874
00:51:19,480 --> 00:51:20,279
Speaker 3: It ain't one of them.

875
00:51:20,480 --> 00:51:22,520
Speaker 9: Did you go to places like Baltimore Comedy?

876
00:51:24,280 --> 00:51:27,279
Speaker 2: It's on the schedule every year. I'm stopping here every year.

877
00:51:27,400 --> 00:51:32,359
Speaker 2: I'st own a comedy club in Baltimore. Call moniques, mm hmm,

878
00:51:32,960 --> 00:51:34,440
Speaker 2: open back up so we can go back in them.

879
00:51:34,920 --> 00:51:35,720
Speaker 2: He had mo niques.

880
00:51:35,960 --> 00:51:37,240
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's hard.

881
00:51:37,440 --> 00:51:38,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, they had one of Miami.

882
00:51:39,200 --> 00:51:41,879
Speaker 3: What's some of your favorite times in there? We got

883
00:51:41,880 --> 00:51:42,120
Speaker 3: to see you.

884
00:51:42,160 --> 00:51:46,760
Speaker 1: Send us some pictures and moniques at your club.

885
00:51:46,520 --> 00:51:50,200
Speaker 2: Baby. Listen, he was gonna shut us down a few times.

886
00:51:50,880 --> 00:51:54,600
Speaker 2: Was crazy. It was a black comedy club. Okay, we

887
00:51:54,640 --> 00:51:56,960
Speaker 2: ain't have all the ship all the time, right. We

888
00:52:00,080 --> 00:52:02,319
Speaker 2: took that so the people loved it so much they

889
00:52:02,320 --> 00:52:05,880
Speaker 2: would bring us the liquor in with was that. Listen?

890
00:52:06,520 --> 00:52:10,080
Speaker 2: One night one night the fire the fire up Marshall

891
00:52:10,160 --> 00:52:14,120
Speaker 2: came right and all the ship that they said was

892
00:52:14,160 --> 00:52:16,920
Speaker 2: wrong was wrong. They wouldn't they weren't making ship. I

893
00:52:17,040 --> 00:52:21,040
Speaker 2: was wrong, right, but I knew the mayor at the time,

894
00:52:21,520 --> 00:52:23,880
Speaker 2: and he said, if you ever need anything, you called me,

895
00:52:24,239 --> 00:52:26,680
Speaker 2: I will call you down today. I told you said

896
00:52:26,719 --> 00:52:29,839
Speaker 2: you wait right here, sugar, I'll be right back. I said, hey,

897
00:52:30,520 --> 00:52:33,200
Speaker 2: they got the fire marshall down here and trying to

898
00:52:33,239 --> 00:52:36,200
Speaker 2: yell me down. He said, give me a second, Mantell

899
00:52:36,320 --> 00:52:41,919
Speaker 2: Williams's father was the chief, right Chief Williams. The Chief

900
00:52:42,320 --> 00:52:44,920
Speaker 2: Chief Williams called back and said, because you put that

901
00:52:45,239 --> 00:52:47,879
Speaker 2: gentleman on the phone. I said, yes, sir, I show

902
00:52:47,920 --> 00:52:51,360
Speaker 2: a character. When he got off the phone, that gentleman

903
00:52:51,400 --> 00:52:54,520
Speaker 2: walked past me and said, I want to apologize and

904
00:52:54,560 --> 00:52:58,759
Speaker 2: we'll never return again. Thank you, my love, thank you.

905
00:52:58,800 --> 00:53:01,480
Speaker 2: So I've always been covered, and now we had to

906
00:53:01,480 --> 00:53:04,239
Speaker 2: get this ship fixed. Like his daddy was like, yok,

907
00:53:04,280 --> 00:53:08,000
Speaker 2: they don't make me repay it, right, But it was

908
00:53:08,120 --> 00:53:11,320
Speaker 2: just you know that that covering, that that thing, baby.

909
00:53:11,520 --> 00:53:11,719
Speaker 3: Yeah.

910
00:53:11,800 --> 00:53:16,120
Speaker 2: Moniques with Steve Harvey. Everybody came through moniques. Everybody came

911
00:53:16,160 --> 00:53:16,920
Speaker 2: through moniques.

912
00:53:17,239 --> 00:53:19,640
Speaker 8: Yes, and you don't see a lot of people, Yes,

913
00:53:19,680 --> 00:53:21,000
Speaker 8: you don't seen a lot of people.

914
00:53:21,680 --> 00:53:22,319
Speaker 2: What are some.

915
00:53:22,280 --> 00:53:27,880
Speaker 5: People that you saw where you was like, man, they

916
00:53:28,080 --> 00:53:28,960
Speaker 5: they they got it.

917
00:53:29,120 --> 00:53:34,480
Speaker 2: That the world may not have got a chance to see. Wow,

918
00:53:41,920 --> 00:53:44,839
Speaker 2: that I saw that the world didn't get a chance

919
00:53:44,880 --> 00:53:49,360
Speaker 2: to see. The ones I saw that I knew was special,

920
00:53:50,080 --> 00:53:53,520
Speaker 2: the world got a chance to see. So there's there's

921
00:53:54,239 --> 00:53:57,799
Speaker 2: you know, I can't think of one that didn't make it,

922
00:53:58,560 --> 00:54:00,719
Speaker 2: you know, at least had a shot, yeah, or at

923
00:54:00,800 --> 00:54:03,640
Speaker 2: least had a shot. Yes, yes, But the babies that

924
00:54:03,719 --> 00:54:07,600
Speaker 2: came through, and we were babies, you know, everybody was

925
00:54:08,120 --> 00:54:10,840
Speaker 2: after that. I want to be funny like Richard. I

926
00:54:10,840 --> 00:54:12,600
Speaker 2: want to be funny like Eddie. I want to be

927
00:54:12,640 --> 00:54:15,759
Speaker 2: funny like not. I want to be rich like we

928
00:54:15,840 --> 00:54:20,600
Speaker 2: wanted to be funny like Yeah. But all the ones

929
00:54:20,640 --> 00:54:23,160
Speaker 2: that came through that was supposed to get it, they

930
00:54:23,160 --> 00:54:23,600
Speaker 2: got it.

931
00:54:24,400 --> 00:54:27,760
Speaker 3: What was your death Jam experience Deaf Jam?

932
00:54:28,040 --> 00:54:30,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, Deaf Jam was incredible.

933
00:54:30,080 --> 00:54:31,839
Speaker 3: You rocked that motherfucker.

934
00:54:33,520 --> 00:54:35,759
Speaker 1: Some of them sets you watch and then you see

935
00:54:35,800 --> 00:54:38,640
Speaker 1: people rip, but it's like some people get on stage

936
00:54:38,760 --> 00:54:41,719
Speaker 1: like like god damn, I wish I would have if

937
00:54:41,760 --> 00:54:44,360
Speaker 1: I could that moment right there, because it's like, I

938
00:54:44,360 --> 00:54:46,600
Speaker 1: guess people don't realize it just it just looked so

939
00:54:46,719 --> 00:54:49,280
Speaker 1: much bigger just watching it because.

940
00:54:49,040 --> 00:54:50,600
Speaker 8: It seems like if you get a great moment on

941
00:54:50,680 --> 00:54:53,480
Speaker 8: Death Jam, you knew the movies coming, you knew, you

942
00:54:53,560 --> 00:54:54,400
Speaker 8: knew something coming.

943
00:54:54,600 --> 00:55:00,319
Speaker 2: It was like something Deaf Jam was great. I remember

944
00:55:00,320 --> 00:55:04,719
Speaker 2: when Death Jam first came out and I was like,

945
00:55:04,800 --> 00:55:07,200
Speaker 2: I was seeing all the sisters do it and I

946
00:55:07,200 --> 00:55:10,960
Speaker 2: hadn't gotten a call, and I was like, wow, everybody

947
00:55:11,040 --> 00:55:12,600
Speaker 2: done it and name called me yet?

948
00:55:12,719 --> 00:55:12,919
Speaker 3: Right?

949
00:55:13,640 --> 00:55:16,480
Speaker 2: And then I get the call. And I remember when

950
00:55:16,480 --> 00:55:20,120
Speaker 2: Death Jam went on tour and the sisters, you know,

951
00:55:20,200 --> 00:55:22,560
Speaker 2: they were all getting these dates. I was like, they

952
00:55:22,560 --> 00:55:25,120
Speaker 2: ain't invited me to do the dates yet, but when

953
00:55:25,160 --> 00:55:29,040
Speaker 2: it was my turn, I got fifteen dates, right. So

954
00:55:29,080 --> 00:55:32,160
Speaker 2: I had to understand that when it's your turn, it's

955
00:55:32,160 --> 00:55:35,000
Speaker 2: your turn. Now I got a Deaf Jam story. Where's

956
00:55:35,040 --> 00:55:42,600
Speaker 2: my camera, Joe, I'm telling on your ass assum to okay,

957
00:55:43,040 --> 00:55:49,160
Speaker 2: And I'm also telling on Tommy Davison. You know, I'm

958
00:55:49,400 --> 00:55:53,960
Speaker 2: tell on the nigga. You tell always told on the

959
00:55:54,440 --> 00:55:59,880
Speaker 2: even as a child. So okay, I get my first

960
00:56:00,040 --> 00:56:02,440
Speaker 2: death Jam date right and we're sitting in the back

961
00:56:03,040 --> 00:56:08,120
Speaker 2: at the catering. So I said, wow, I'm the last

962
00:56:08,160 --> 00:56:12,359
Speaker 2: female to really be invited on the tour, and Joe

963
00:56:12,400 --> 00:56:15,880
Speaker 2: Torre says, that's because you're not funny, and there was

964
00:56:15,920 --> 00:56:21,799
Speaker 2: nobody else to choose from. Now this is my first date, right,

965
00:56:22,360 --> 00:56:25,760
Speaker 2: So I'm like, oh, so I can't let this nigga

966
00:56:25,800 --> 00:56:29,160
Speaker 2: see that it got me. I can't let him see

967
00:56:29,200 --> 00:56:31,319
Speaker 2: that it just stunned. So I get up and go

968
00:56:31,360 --> 00:56:33,400
Speaker 2: in the bathroom. But I guess my walk away was

969
00:56:33,400 --> 00:56:38,239
Speaker 2: a little you know. I was like this and got

970
00:56:38,280 --> 00:56:40,359
Speaker 2: go on stage and he telling me a funny new

971
00:56:40,480 --> 00:56:42,840
Speaker 2: kind of is the right right?

972
00:56:42,480 --> 00:56:42,640
Speaker 12: Right?

973
00:56:42,960 --> 00:56:48,359
Speaker 2: So here comes a knock on the door. I said, yes,

974
00:56:48,800 --> 00:56:52,880
Speaker 2: he said, Monice is Tommy Tommy Davidson. Let me in.

975
00:56:53,520 --> 00:56:53,680
Speaker 3: Now.

976
00:56:53,680 --> 00:56:55,000
Speaker 2: He don't know if I'm shipping, He don't know what

977
00:56:55,120 --> 00:56:58,120
Speaker 2: I'm doing in this day. I opened up the door

978
00:56:58,120 --> 00:56:59,640
Speaker 2: and he came in. He said, let me tell you something.

979
00:57:00,120 --> 00:57:02,080
Speaker 2: You go out there to night and you kick the ass.

980
00:57:02,320 --> 00:57:04,360
Speaker 2: Don't listen to what he had to say. He was

981
00:57:04,480 --> 00:57:08,000
Speaker 2: just so big brother in that moment, and I never

982
00:57:08,120 --> 00:57:10,200
Speaker 2: forgot it. He was like, when you hit that god

983
00:57:10,280 --> 00:57:13,320
Speaker 2: damn stage, you take all of that and you crush

984
00:57:13,400 --> 00:57:15,719
Speaker 2: that shit. You don't take that shit like he was

985
00:57:15,840 --> 00:57:18,400
Speaker 2: just so like that pep coach for I went out

986
00:57:18,800 --> 00:57:22,240
Speaker 2: and I never forgot that so to be able to

987
00:57:22,280 --> 00:57:26,440
Speaker 2: play with him on the Cat Williams tour and that chemistry.

988
00:57:26,960 --> 00:57:29,760
Speaker 2: I just when I would watch him perform. Tommy Davison

989
00:57:29,840 --> 00:57:33,840
Speaker 2: is one of the most brilliant comedians I've ever seen

990
00:57:34,040 --> 00:57:36,080
Speaker 2: do it because he can do a show in front

991
00:57:36,080 --> 00:57:39,240
Speaker 2: the kindergarteners all the way up to elderly and it's

992
00:57:39,240 --> 00:57:42,720
Speaker 2: the same show. Now I cannot do that, Okay, give

993
00:57:42,760 --> 00:57:45,400
Speaker 2: me some differ, but to watch him do his thing,

994
00:57:47,120 --> 00:57:49,960
Speaker 2: I will forever honor him because that night, he don't

995
00:57:50,000 --> 00:57:53,720
Speaker 2: know how impactful he was coming in that bathroom saying,

996
00:57:54,120 --> 00:57:56,280
Speaker 2: don't listen to his ass. Go out there and do

997
00:57:56,320 --> 00:57:59,960
Speaker 2: your thing.

998
00:58:01,240 --> 00:58:01,560
Speaker 9: Joey.

999
00:58:04,000 --> 00:58:09,880
Speaker 2: That's what he did. But it was great. But he

1000
00:58:09,920 --> 00:58:12,720
Speaker 2: didn't smile with it. That was Joe when he had

1001
00:58:12,720 --> 00:58:14,040
Speaker 2: to visit, that was Joe.

1002
00:58:18,840 --> 00:58:26,320
Speaker 1: I was that you hurt me, Let me get right.

1003
00:58:28,400 --> 00:58:31,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it just made me stronger, Like it just

1004
00:58:31,200 --> 00:58:33,440
Speaker 2: made me be like, all right, dad. It's part of

1005
00:58:33,480 --> 00:58:35,680
Speaker 2: it because when you knew to it, you don't know.

1006
00:58:36,240 --> 00:58:38,000
Speaker 2: You don't know that somebody can say some slick ship.

1007
00:58:38,320 --> 00:58:41,440
Speaker 2: You don't know. You're just thinking everyone's good. This is

1008
00:58:41,480 --> 00:58:43,840
Speaker 2: so good. This is all these black people and We're

1009
00:58:43,840 --> 00:58:46,360
Speaker 2: gonna go and do wonderful things. You don't know that

1010
00:58:46,480 --> 00:58:48,960
Speaker 2: somebody could say that. And when he said it, it

1011
00:58:49,040 --> 00:58:52,440
Speaker 2: was like the part of because I'm a fighter. I

1012
00:58:52,520 --> 00:58:55,080
Speaker 2: was like, but I said, let me get up and

1013
00:58:55,120 --> 00:58:56,040
Speaker 2: go catch myself.

1014
00:58:56,400 --> 00:58:57,080
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1015
00:58:57,600 --> 00:59:01,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, And that night was a great time. Great rocked it.

1016
00:59:01,160 --> 00:59:03,320
Speaker 2: It was a great time. It was a great time.

1017
00:59:03,840 --> 00:59:05,720
Speaker 3: Did you come back and be like, yeah, well fuck me?

1018
00:59:06,080 --> 00:59:10,800
Speaker 2: Nope, no, nope. I've never said, you know, for as

1019
00:59:10,840 --> 00:59:15,040
Speaker 2: many years as I've been on stages and before my

1020
00:59:15,120 --> 00:59:17,640
Speaker 2: husband was my husband, he was like my brother, right

1021
00:59:18,240 --> 00:59:19,800
Speaker 2: and I would call him. He said, how did it go?

1022
00:59:20,320 --> 00:59:22,600
Speaker 2: And I said, I had a great time. I will

1023
00:59:22,640 --> 00:59:25,680
Speaker 2: never say I gotta stand innovation. I would never say

1024
00:59:25,680 --> 00:59:28,760
Speaker 2: I rocked it. I would never say I ripped it

1025
00:59:28,800 --> 00:59:32,760
Speaker 2: tonight because I always felt like I would then be

1026
00:59:33,600 --> 00:59:37,520
Speaker 2: taking it from the universe and making it mine. So

1027
00:59:37,720 --> 00:59:41,160
Speaker 2: even now I have great times on stage, but that's

1028
00:59:41,160 --> 00:59:44,479
Speaker 2: what I say, we had a great time. I won't

1029
00:59:44,560 --> 00:59:48,760
Speaker 2: say I gotta stand innovation because then I make it

1030
00:59:48,840 --> 00:59:52,480
Speaker 2: mine and I take away the gift and it becomes

1031
00:59:52,520 --> 00:59:55,880
Speaker 2: what I did. So after thirty five years, baby, I

1032
00:59:55,920 --> 00:59:58,760
Speaker 2: still say, don't my daddy, we had a great time.

1033
00:59:59,160 --> 01:00:04,080
Speaker 3: That's it. Now, I gotta ask you this. Did you think.

1034
01:00:05,160 --> 01:00:09,360
Speaker 1: That they would get so mad that you saying take

1035
01:00:09,400 --> 01:00:10,680
Speaker 1: them goddamn Bunnis off?

1036
01:00:13,040 --> 01:00:13,400
Speaker 3: You ain't.

1037
01:00:13,440 --> 01:00:14,320
Speaker 2: You ain't saying nothing wrong.

1038
01:00:14,640 --> 01:00:16,360
Speaker 12: Every time I see a Bunning on the airport, I'd

1039
01:00:16,360 --> 01:00:20,280
Speaker 12: be like, she said, it.

1040
01:00:20,160 --> 01:00:26,160
Speaker 2: Goes on the pillow. I didn't think the older ones

1041
01:00:27,400 --> 01:00:31,120
Speaker 2: would have something to say. I understood the younger generation.

1042
01:00:31,600 --> 01:00:34,600
Speaker 2: That's why I didn't take it personal, because I understood it.

1043
01:00:35,040 --> 01:00:38,560
Speaker 2: I didn't think that the older ones would have something

1044
01:00:38,560 --> 01:00:41,560
Speaker 2: to say. That was the part that was like, you

1045
01:00:41,600 --> 01:00:45,439
Speaker 2: have a problem with me saying be your best? What's

1046
01:00:45,440 --> 01:00:49,280
Speaker 2: wrong with you? Like what's happening? So when I did say,

1047
01:00:49,320 --> 01:00:51,440
Speaker 2: and I still stand by it, when you wear that

1048
01:00:51,520 --> 01:00:55,520
Speaker 2: Halloween costume, that's what you look like Halloween. You have

1049
01:00:55,640 --> 01:00:58,360
Speaker 2: one of the bonnet, the pajamas, the slippers, that's a

1050
01:00:58,560 --> 01:01:02,640
Speaker 2: whole costume. And when did we get there? When did

1051
01:01:02,680 --> 01:01:06,360
Speaker 2: that become okay? When did we say that was acceptable?

1052
01:01:06,840 --> 01:01:09,720
Speaker 2: So again I'm gonna go back to let it go.

1053
01:01:10,680 --> 01:01:13,280
Speaker 2: We got so used to letting shit go. Just let

1054
01:01:13,320 --> 01:01:15,400
Speaker 2: it go, don't say nothing. Well, we let it go,

1055
01:01:15,480 --> 01:01:17,640
Speaker 2: and now that's what our babies think it's supposed to be.

1056
01:01:17,880 --> 01:01:20,480
Speaker 2: See what happens when you let shit go. You let

1057
01:01:20,560 --> 01:01:23,360
Speaker 2: it go for so long it becomes normal. So when

1058
01:01:23,400 --> 01:01:27,520
Speaker 2: I see him in the airport, excuse me, and I

1059
01:01:27,560 --> 01:01:29,920
Speaker 2: don't see as many I want to play him fair.

1060
01:01:30,440 --> 01:01:32,680
Speaker 2: I do. At one point it was every third one,

1061
01:01:32,720 --> 01:01:35,479
Speaker 2: and you're like, what kind of shit is this? Now?

1062
01:01:35,560 --> 01:01:38,840
Speaker 2: I see them not as often. And when I see them,

1063
01:01:38,920 --> 01:01:46,800
Speaker 2: if we lock eyes, right, if we lock eyes and

1064
01:01:46,920 --> 01:01:50,960
Speaker 2: they look like they're open, I say, come here, baby girl,

1065
01:01:52,080 --> 01:01:54,640
Speaker 2: you're too beautiful to walk around like that. She'd be like,

1066
01:01:54,680 --> 01:01:57,280
Speaker 2: I know, auntie, let me go take it off. But

1067
01:01:57,400 --> 01:01:59,040
Speaker 2: if I see one and we lock eyes and she

1068
01:01:59,160 --> 01:02:07,120
Speaker 2: looked like bitch, I and wait for you to say

1069
01:02:08,080 --> 01:02:10,640
Speaker 2: with yourself. But if your man happens to look at

1070
01:02:10,640 --> 01:02:15,240
Speaker 2: an old woman, he should. He should. You're nothing to

1071
01:02:15,320 --> 01:02:17,880
Speaker 2: look at. If you out and you looking like a

1072
01:02:17,880 --> 01:02:20,280
Speaker 2: whole ball a mess, and your man happened to look

1073
01:02:20,280 --> 01:02:23,720
Speaker 2: at something walking by, he should, that's only fair. You're

1074
01:02:23,760 --> 01:02:26,440
Speaker 2: not giving him anything to say. Look at my girl,

1075
01:02:26,800 --> 01:02:28,880
Speaker 2: look at how she represented me, look at how she

1076
01:02:28,960 --> 01:02:32,440
Speaker 2: representing our family. So I still stand on that, not

1077
01:02:32,560 --> 01:02:43,280
Speaker 2: backing down. Yeah, what a girl is a clacky. I

1078
01:02:43,360 --> 01:02:44,000
Speaker 2: know a lot of it.

1079
01:02:45,720 --> 01:02:48,919
Speaker 1: I know a lot of the up and coming young

1080
01:02:48,960 --> 01:02:51,600
Speaker 1: women comedians. I know they get the red with you

1081
01:02:51,640 --> 01:02:54,800
Speaker 1: from time to time. What caunt advice are you giving

1082
01:02:54,800 --> 01:02:57,320
Speaker 1: the up and coming feemale comedians.

1083
01:02:57,360 --> 01:03:01,960
Speaker 2: Keep going unapologetic. I can't tell you how many times

1084
01:03:02,120 --> 01:03:04,760
Speaker 2: someone said to me, cussing like that won't get you nowhere.

1085
01:03:05,680 --> 01:03:09,080
Speaker 2: You gotta change your act. You gotta do it this way,

1086
01:03:09,080 --> 01:03:11,360
Speaker 2: you gotta do it that way, do it the way

1087
01:03:11,440 --> 01:03:14,520
Speaker 2: your gift allows you to do it. And if you

1088
01:03:14,560 --> 01:03:16,640
Speaker 2: get out the way of that, you'll be fine.

1089
01:03:17,480 --> 01:03:20,520
Speaker 8: Just keep going, they explain, explain that because you know

1090
01:03:20,560 --> 01:03:24,080
Speaker 8: you some comedian, they be like, gotta clean up.

1091
01:03:24,400 --> 01:03:26,080
Speaker 2: You know you, you won't do it to get it

1092
01:03:26,120 --> 01:03:26,560
Speaker 2: clean up.

1093
01:03:26,560 --> 01:03:28,280
Speaker 3: And you're like, man, I'm just me.

1094
01:03:29,760 --> 01:03:30,400
Speaker 2: Clean for you.

1095
01:03:30,880 --> 01:03:31,480
Speaker 3: I'ma be real.

1096
01:03:31,840 --> 01:03:34,840
Speaker 5: They fuck kids, book somebody else with that.

1097
01:03:34,840 --> 01:03:39,200
Speaker 2: That's it. Ain't dripping, that's it's there's room for everybody.

1098
01:03:39,840 --> 01:03:42,240
Speaker 2: There's room for you to go to the church and

1099
01:03:42,360 --> 01:03:45,200
Speaker 2: speak about Jesus and comedy. There's room for you to

1100
01:03:45,240 --> 01:03:47,960
Speaker 2: go to the strip club and speak about pussy and funny.

1101
01:03:48,120 --> 01:03:50,000
Speaker 2: There's room for you to go to the regular club

1102
01:03:50,200 --> 01:03:52,320
Speaker 2: and have dark lookuor and add all of it together.

1103
01:03:52,640 --> 01:03:55,920
Speaker 2: There's room for everybody. So for you to say you

1104
01:03:56,000 --> 01:03:59,440
Speaker 2: must change, you're not for me. And I'm okay, I'm

1105
01:03:59,440 --> 01:03:59,920
Speaker 2: okay with that.

1106
01:04:02,280 --> 01:04:02,480
Speaker 3: Joke.

1107
01:04:02,920 --> 01:04:04,520
Speaker 2: It's not a dirty joke. It's an artist joke.

1108
01:04:06,600 --> 01:04:08,720
Speaker 3: What about the k y jail? You said, nigga put

1109
01:04:08,720 --> 01:04:09,840
Speaker 3: it on a biscuit, nigger.

1110
01:04:19,320 --> 01:04:22,160
Speaker 2: And that's the fun part too, when somebody could say,

1111
01:04:22,320 --> 01:04:25,439
Speaker 2: I remember when you said that, I remember this part.

1112
01:04:25,480 --> 01:04:29,200
Speaker 2: I remember that part. One day I was dropping my

1113
01:04:29,240 --> 01:04:32,880
Speaker 2: grandson off the school, right, and in the car it

1114
01:04:32,920 --> 01:04:36,280
Speaker 2: was three different it was three generations, and all of

1115
01:04:36,280 --> 01:04:40,640
Speaker 2: them knew me differently. Right, the youngest one knew me

1116
01:04:41,120 --> 01:04:45,520
Speaker 2: from the rung Rats and I played a moo right

1117
01:04:46,040 --> 01:04:48,800
Speaker 2: once I started talking, it was like that's up move.

1118
01:04:49,880 --> 01:04:53,720
Speaker 2: Then the the younger, the middle child knew me from

1119
01:04:53,760 --> 01:04:57,360
Speaker 2: the Parkers. Then the older one knew me from deaf

1120
01:04:57,480 --> 01:05:02,040
Speaker 2: Jam and all of those moments. So to be able

1121
01:05:02,080 --> 01:05:04,440
Speaker 2: to live through that, what a blessing.

1122
01:05:04,680 --> 01:05:10,080
Speaker 1: Absolutely, how can you like animation? But even that's a

1123
01:05:10,120 --> 01:05:12,760
Speaker 1: whole that, that's a whole foor nance bag to be into.

1124
01:05:13,080 --> 01:05:15,040
Speaker 2: When you first get in this business, there's no one

1125
01:05:15,040 --> 01:05:18,800
Speaker 2: on one, no one sits you down and say this

1126
01:05:18,880 --> 01:05:22,640
Speaker 2: is one O one of entertainment. No one says, here's

1127
01:05:22,680 --> 01:05:26,760
Speaker 2: the handbook, here's the no one goes over ship with you.

1128
01:05:26,760 --> 01:05:28,760
Speaker 2: You just have to figure it out. So when I

1129
01:05:28,800 --> 01:05:31,680
Speaker 2: first got called for animation, no one told me how

1130
01:05:31,720 --> 01:05:35,120
Speaker 2: to do goddamn animation, so I thought I had to

1131
01:05:35,720 --> 01:05:38,560
Speaker 2: do different ship. So they was like, you have to

1132
01:05:38,600 --> 01:05:41,040
Speaker 2: be an otter. I don't know what the goddamn people

1133
01:05:42,240 --> 01:05:45,240
Speaker 2: ain't never no damn. So no one said just talking

1134
01:05:45,320 --> 01:05:45,800
Speaker 2: and record.

1135
01:05:45,800 --> 01:05:56,600
Speaker 11: I was like, yeah, they had got this shit.

1136
01:05:57,480 --> 01:06:00,320
Speaker 2: I got this right for that. Then they were like,

1137
01:06:06,560 --> 01:06:09,200
Speaker 2: no one told me. You just wanposed to talk and

1138
01:06:09,240 --> 01:06:14,040
Speaker 2: your work with shit, right, So I didn't understand why

1139
01:06:14,160 --> 01:06:16,600
Speaker 2: they were left. I'm like, well, shit, because I don't audition.

1140
01:06:17,040 --> 01:06:19,480
Speaker 2: I'm like, I just came in here and read this. Okay,

1141
01:06:19,680 --> 01:06:23,720
Speaker 2: I'm like I got this ship. Yeah, they didn't call back, right,

1142
01:06:23,800 --> 01:06:26,439
Speaker 2: they didn't say anything. But when I wanted for aunt

1143
01:06:26,560 --> 01:06:30,760
Speaker 2: MoU right, I knew now at this point, you just

1144
01:06:30,840 --> 01:06:33,160
Speaker 2: talk in your voice and they'll put it to the

1145
01:06:33,200 --> 01:06:37,360
Speaker 2: little character. So again there's no one on one. Nobody

1146
01:06:37,440 --> 01:06:41,240
Speaker 2: explains shit to you. You just gotta figure it out.

1147
01:06:41,600 --> 01:06:43,600
Speaker 2: So when people say I don't have a college degree.

1148
01:06:43,880 --> 01:06:46,480
Speaker 2: Yes you do. You go through college with this shit

1149
01:06:46,880 --> 01:06:48,760
Speaker 2: everything you do. Baby, because you don't go to a

1150
01:06:48,800 --> 01:06:50,880
Speaker 2: building and sit down with a book and a pen,

1151
01:06:51,200 --> 01:06:53,880
Speaker 2: don't mean you ain't been to college. We've been to college.

1152
01:06:54,480 --> 01:06:56,480
Speaker 2: Some of us got all degrees and some of us didn't.

1153
01:06:56,560 --> 01:06:59,080
Speaker 3: In the field with it and come on back my

1154
01:06:59,160 --> 01:06:59,920
Speaker 3: class outside.

1155
01:07:00,600 --> 01:07:04,600
Speaker 8: Yes, I just don't want with my books.

1156
01:07:06,320 --> 01:07:09,640
Speaker 2: Come on now, come on. And you're only smart at

1157
01:07:09,640 --> 01:07:14,360
Speaker 2: what you know. That's it. You smart at what you

1158
01:07:14,400 --> 01:07:17,120
Speaker 2: know when people say I got my doctric and what

1159
01:07:17,280 --> 01:07:19,840
Speaker 2: you know. But take your ass to the jungles or

1160
01:07:19,840 --> 01:07:22,440
Speaker 2: the congo. Let's see how smart your ass is. You

1161
01:07:22,520 --> 01:07:26,400
Speaker 2: gonna need some assistance. Yeah, you smart at what you know.

1162
01:07:31,440 --> 01:07:36,400
Speaker 3: Who are some of your all time favorite comedians or

1163
01:07:36,480 --> 01:07:41,560
Speaker 3: just regular people who make you laugh, Like from the hood, your.

1164
01:07:41,400 --> 01:07:46,640
Speaker 2: Block, the funniest person it makes me laugh. I sleep

1165
01:07:46,680 --> 01:07:51,440
Speaker 2: with them and that's my husband. Black people don't know

1166
01:07:51,480 --> 01:08:00,880
Speaker 2: that about it. They don't know you sit here and

1167
01:08:00,880 --> 01:08:04,000
Speaker 2: not be like, yeah, did you just say that?

1168
01:08:04,080 --> 01:08:04,280
Speaker 9: Ship?

1169
01:08:04,440 --> 01:08:06,800
Speaker 2: Like I signed him up on time for open mic

1170
01:08:06,880 --> 01:08:09,640
Speaker 2: night at my comedy club. He kept winning the ship.

1171
01:08:10,000 --> 01:08:13,160
Speaker 2: He was like, listen because I see how committed you are.

1172
01:08:13,280 --> 01:08:15,240
Speaker 2: I couldn't do this ship, he said. When I get

1173
01:08:15,280 --> 01:08:17,960
Speaker 2: to Kentucky, I might not feel like being funny that night.

1174
01:08:18,240 --> 01:08:20,719
Speaker 2: You've got to be funny that night. And that's the difference.

1175
01:08:20,720 --> 01:08:26,639
Speaker 2: But he's naturally funny, gut bucket like gut bucket, down home,

1176
01:08:27,280 --> 01:08:28,479
Speaker 2: Mississippi funny.

1177
01:08:28,600 --> 01:08:33,559
Speaker 3: Oh shit, that like.

1178
01:08:33,640 --> 01:08:36,439
Speaker 2: And he's When I did the BT Awards, it was

1179
01:08:36,439 --> 01:08:41,839
Speaker 2: at the last one. He wrote everything. He wrote every

1180
01:08:42,080 --> 01:08:45,880
Speaker 2: single thing I said. And when I said to him, Daddy,

1181
01:08:45,880 --> 01:08:50,400
Speaker 2: can you write this? He was like yeah. I never like,

1182
01:08:51,120 --> 01:08:53,960
Speaker 2: it was just a trust that. I'm like, he got this,

1183
01:08:54,680 --> 01:08:58,280
Speaker 2: he got this, And here's where your ego can get involved, right.

1184
01:09:00,080 --> 01:09:03,360
Speaker 2: I remember that night being interviewed and I was writing

1185
01:09:03,439 --> 01:09:05,800
Speaker 2: so high because the show was so good, and it

1186
01:09:05,840 --> 01:09:08,720
Speaker 2: was like, oh my god. And I never even said

1187
01:09:09,600 --> 01:09:13,200
Speaker 2: my husband wrote this. I just took it. Yeah, I

1188
01:09:13,280 --> 01:09:15,519
Speaker 2: just because I'm right. But then when you play it back,

1189
01:09:15,560 --> 01:09:21,439
Speaker 2: it's like, oh, no, ma'am, no, ma'am. Writers, he wrote that.

1190
01:09:21,880 --> 01:09:23,920
Speaker 2: Let me make sure I acknowledge that. So when you

1191
01:09:23,960 --> 01:09:28,920
Speaker 2: say who's funny? Did you laugh your ass off? Right? All? Right?

1192
01:09:29,000 --> 01:09:33,080
Speaker 3: Then? Now what made you do the whole Beyonce dance

1193
01:09:33,160 --> 01:09:33,919
Speaker 3: type ship.

1194
01:09:33,760 --> 01:09:40,040
Speaker 2: Because I'm a Donza, I'm ance.

1195
01:09:40,680 --> 01:09:44,759
Speaker 1: I'm a don one of those moments that's gonna live forever.

1196
01:09:44,880 --> 01:09:49,240
Speaker 1: But every time the BT Awards come around, they clip

1197
01:09:49,400 --> 01:09:50,639
Speaker 1: start going back around.

1198
01:09:50,760 --> 01:09:56,120
Speaker 2: You know. I I've forever been a big woman, and

1199
01:09:58,160 --> 01:10:01,360
Speaker 2: I knew that the way big women are treated in

1200
01:10:01,400 --> 01:10:05,599
Speaker 2: this country, especially Black big women, it's almost like you've

1201
01:10:05,640 --> 01:10:11,080
Speaker 2: committed a crime. And to see us beautiful and sexy

1202
01:10:11,640 --> 01:10:15,559
Speaker 2: and unapologetic, it's like, listen, let's show them something different.

1203
01:10:16,200 --> 01:10:19,760
Speaker 2: Let's show them our sexy and our beauty. And yeah,

1204
01:10:19,800 --> 01:10:21,880
Speaker 2: we might jiggle a little bit, but damn it, the

1205
01:10:22,000 --> 01:10:25,240
Speaker 2: average woman dies. So when I first went to BT,

1206
01:10:25,800 --> 01:10:30,360
Speaker 2: to Stephen Hill, he said, oh, that's gonna be so funny,

1207
01:10:32,280 --> 01:10:36,400
Speaker 2: and I said, it's not a joke. It's not a joke.

1208
01:10:37,040 --> 01:10:40,120
Speaker 2: We're doing this for real. And once he knew I

1209
01:10:40,200 --> 01:10:45,479
Speaker 2: wasn't laughing, he was like, oh okay. And even the

1210
01:10:45,520 --> 01:10:48,920
Speaker 2: introduction of it, I was unaware of it. When the

1211
01:10:48,960 --> 01:10:53,240
Speaker 2: guy says let's get ready to jiggle. Oh no, I

1212
01:10:53,280 --> 01:10:56,360
Speaker 2: had no idea that was gonna happen. I had no

1213
01:10:56,479 --> 01:11:02,640
Speaker 2: idea that was gonna happen. So the actual women and

1214
01:11:02,760 --> 01:11:07,120
Speaker 2: the dance was so impactful. And again I said that humbly,

1215
01:11:07,400 --> 01:11:10,519
Speaker 2: you don't even remember that. You gotta think about that

1216
01:11:10,600 --> 01:11:14,120
Speaker 2: to go back to it. So for that moment in

1217
01:11:14,240 --> 01:11:19,759
Speaker 2: time to see those big women, and I could see

1218
01:11:19,800 --> 01:11:23,040
Speaker 2: them at home, jumping up and down in front of

1219
01:11:23,080 --> 01:11:26,599
Speaker 2: their TVs. I could feel them. I could feel them saying,

1220
01:11:26,880 --> 01:11:30,960
Speaker 2: we're good. Mo we okay, moe, we are sexy, we

1221
01:11:31,080 --> 01:11:34,120
Speaker 2: all beautiful. So that will be a moment in time

1222
01:11:34,560 --> 01:11:35,760
Speaker 2: that I always hold on to.

1223
01:11:40,960 --> 01:11:44,920
Speaker 1: And this is the crazy part about it, uplifting big

1224
01:11:44,960 --> 01:11:49,720
Speaker 1: Black women bbw's whoever whatever.

1225
01:11:49,479 --> 01:11:50,920
Speaker 3: Name to go by these days.

1226
01:11:51,520 --> 01:11:54,240
Speaker 1: And then you went on your weight loss journey and

1227
01:11:54,240 --> 01:11:55,080
Speaker 1: they got mad too.

1228
01:11:56,160 --> 01:11:58,000
Speaker 2: Well, am I a small woman?

1229
01:12:00,200 --> 01:12:00,960
Speaker 3: Are you asking me?

1230
01:12:01,080 --> 01:12:01,400
Speaker 2: I am?

1231
01:12:01,760 --> 01:12:03,960
Speaker 3: Oh?

1232
01:12:04,000 --> 01:12:06,880
Speaker 2: Okay, So if you saw me walking down the street,

1233
01:12:07,600 --> 01:12:11,880
Speaker 2: would you say, that's a big woman. And and I'm

1234
01:12:11,880 --> 01:12:16,960
Speaker 2: not a set about that's a big woman, right, So

1235
01:12:18,360 --> 01:12:21,240
Speaker 2: to say some of the sisters got mad, It's like, y'all,

1236
01:12:21,560 --> 01:12:24,559
Speaker 2: I got to two hundred pounds, Whenever is that a

1237
01:12:24,600 --> 01:12:28,760
Speaker 2: small person? I got to one ninety eight. Whenever is

1238
01:12:28,760 --> 01:12:32,559
Speaker 2: that a small person? Am I smaller than I was? Yes?

1239
01:12:33,000 --> 01:12:36,040
Speaker 2: But I am still a big woman. I will always

1240
01:12:36,120 --> 01:12:45,880
Speaker 2: be a big woman. You see my head, you see

1241
01:12:45,920 --> 01:12:50,120
Speaker 2: my feet, you see my ass like I'm a big woman,

1242
01:12:50,160 --> 01:12:52,920
Speaker 2: and I'm okay with that. But what I am saying

1243
01:12:52,960 --> 01:12:56,640
Speaker 2: to our sisters now, listen, It's okay to be a

1244
01:12:56,680 --> 01:13:00,280
Speaker 2: big woman, but can we be healthy Women's okay to

1245
01:13:00,360 --> 01:13:02,760
Speaker 2: be healthy women. There was a time I didn't think

1246
01:13:02,800 --> 01:13:04,640
Speaker 2: that way. There was a time I ate what I

1247
01:13:04,720 --> 01:13:07,320
Speaker 2: wanted to eat when I wanted to eat it. However,

1248
01:13:07,360 --> 01:13:10,120
Speaker 2: I wanted to eat it because I was this big

1249
01:13:10,200 --> 01:13:12,640
Speaker 2: woman and that's how people knew me. And you know what,

1250
01:13:12,880 --> 01:13:16,000
Speaker 2: and I'm over three hundred pounds and I can't climb

1251
01:13:16,040 --> 01:13:19,080
Speaker 2: a flight of steps without being out of breast and

1252
01:13:19,200 --> 01:13:22,280
Speaker 2: I can't move around like I'm supposed to. So it

1253
01:13:22,360 --> 01:13:25,559
Speaker 2: took my husband saying to me, check this out. That's

1254
01:13:25,600 --> 01:13:29,519
Speaker 2: too much, and what you're gonna do? And when you've

1255
01:13:29,600 --> 01:13:32,920
Speaker 2: never been loved the way that I'm being loved, you

1256
01:13:33,120 --> 01:13:36,320
Speaker 2: have to make a different decision MM to say I

1257
01:13:36,439 --> 01:13:39,599
Speaker 2: want that. I want that kind of love. I wanted

1258
01:13:39,720 --> 01:13:43,200
Speaker 2: love back like that, So I'll never be a small woman.

1259
01:13:43,880 --> 01:13:48,479
Speaker 2: But I don't wanna be close to the cemetery due

1260
01:13:48,520 --> 01:13:52,519
Speaker 2: to self neglect. So I hope our big, beautiful sisters

1261
01:13:52,560 --> 01:13:55,960
Speaker 2: can understand when I say that, and don't get it twisted.

1262
01:13:56,280 --> 01:13:59,599
Speaker 2: Sometimes people think because you're big, you're unhealthy, and because

1263
01:13:59,600 --> 01:14:03,320
Speaker 2: you're s you're healthy. Sometimes it's the complete opposite, baby,

1264
01:14:03,520 --> 01:14:05,280
Speaker 2: because if you don't take care of your body, I

1265
01:14:05,280 --> 01:14:07,320
Speaker 2: don't give a damn what size you are. That's why

1266
01:14:07,360 --> 01:14:10,320
Speaker 2: I started the Monique's Movement. It's on the YouTube channel.

1267
01:14:10,680 --> 01:14:13,320
Speaker 2: It's a free workout. Come on there and get your

1268
01:14:13,360 --> 01:14:16,040
Speaker 2: workout in. You don't have to be judged. You gotta

1269
01:14:16,080 --> 01:14:18,080
Speaker 2: be insecure. You can do it right in your home

1270
01:14:18,640 --> 01:14:22,599
Speaker 2: and just move your body. The person that moves, even

1271
01:14:22,640 --> 01:14:26,400
Speaker 2: if they're obese, will outlive the person that is not.

1272
01:14:27,000 --> 01:14:27,800
Speaker 2: But they don't move.

1273
01:14:30,880 --> 01:14:32,599
Speaker 3: Man, we can sit here and do this all day.

1274
01:14:34,000 --> 01:14:36,280
Speaker 3: It's just it's so refreshing. It's beautiful.

1275
01:14:36,320 --> 01:14:38,920
Speaker 2: That's how I felt about you, DC. I swear to

1276
01:14:39,080 --> 01:14:43,040
Speaker 2: goodness baby that day. I was just like, look at

1277
01:14:43,200 --> 01:14:47,120
Speaker 2: this baby ranked here and could take a note. That

1278
01:14:47,320 --> 01:14:51,040
Speaker 2: baby took a note with sitting at that damn table. Oh,

1279
01:14:51,120 --> 01:14:54,639
Speaker 2: what's so good. I appreciate it so good. You said,

1280
01:14:55,040 --> 01:14:56,000
Speaker 2: I'm gonna throw it at you.

1281
01:14:56,479 --> 01:15:00,519
Speaker 5: I said, first of all, she already asked that, right,

1282
01:15:01,560 --> 01:15:04,720
Speaker 5: she don't care she like, I won't see you win.

1283
01:15:05,680 --> 01:15:08,120
Speaker 3: So when I throw something at you, and the whole

1284
01:15:08,200 --> 01:15:08,719
Speaker 3: time I'm.

1285
01:15:08,600 --> 01:15:10,559
Speaker 8: There, I'm like, I know the script cause we doesn't

1286
01:15:10,560 --> 01:15:11,840
Speaker 8: see at the table for three weeks.

1287
01:15:12,439 --> 01:15:13,799
Speaker 2: Everybody gotta get their POV.

1288
01:15:13,960 --> 01:15:17,160
Speaker 3: I'm like, but the longest po okay.

1289
01:15:17,120 --> 01:15:19,800
Speaker 2: And I swung everything, man, I said, I ain't no win.

1290
01:15:20,200 --> 01:15:23,120
Speaker 2: But she was like, they coming at you.

1291
01:15:23,240 --> 01:15:24,280
Speaker 3: I was like, my day.

1292
01:15:24,360 --> 01:15:26,840
Speaker 9: She said I'm gonna throw it at you.

1293
01:15:28,000 --> 01:15:29,559
Speaker 2: I'm like, I don't know what you gonna say.

1294
01:15:29,600 --> 01:15:32,320
Speaker 5: But when she said that with the fuck and all that,

1295
01:15:32,439 --> 01:15:34,519
Speaker 5: and I said that and they were like cut, she

1296
01:15:34,720 --> 01:15:39,960
Speaker 5: was like, yeah, what you got.

1297
01:15:40,120 --> 01:15:43,640
Speaker 2: That football game that was not in the script, that

1298
01:15:43,880 --> 01:15:46,360
Speaker 2: was not in this And I'm like this baby, he's

1299
01:15:46,439 --> 01:15:48,160
Speaker 2: letting his get when he ran over and said that

1300
01:15:48,240 --> 01:15:50,720
Speaker 2: one was for you, that wasn't in the script. Like,

1301
01:15:50,880 --> 01:15:54,840
Speaker 2: I'm just like, create goal and you just kept going

1302
01:15:55,280 --> 01:15:56,040
Speaker 2: and look at you now.

1303
01:15:56,160 --> 01:16:04,360
Speaker 1: But yeah, guy, not say I just know that the

1304
01:16:04,479 --> 01:16:06,320
Speaker 1: hood to be on my ass if I didn't ask

1305
01:16:06,360 --> 01:16:08,760
Speaker 1: you about another.

1306
01:16:10,400 --> 01:16:13,519
Speaker 3: Iconic black movie that you've been a part of. Welcome

1307
01:16:13,600 --> 01:16:14,360
Speaker 3: Home Roscoe.

1308
01:16:21,280 --> 01:16:29,479
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, what he going, that's the ship. I like,

1309
01:16:29,600 --> 01:16:32,200
Speaker 2: just get up and walk off and come back. It's

1310
01:16:32,280 --> 01:16:32,679
Speaker 2: your ship.

1311
01:16:33,360 --> 01:16:33,679
Speaker 3: You can.

1312
01:16:41,360 --> 01:16:42,320
Speaker 2: Welcome home. Roscoe.

1313
01:16:42,400 --> 01:16:44,160
Speaker 3: Chinking was.

1314
01:16:46,600 --> 01:16:55,360
Speaker 2: Such an amazing time. And Martin Lawrence is selfless because

1315
01:16:56,000 --> 01:17:01,560
Speaker 2: he let everybody shine. Everybody. Everybody was able to do

1316
01:17:02,560 --> 01:17:06,519
Speaker 2: the thing right. And when you when you were with

1317
01:17:06,760 --> 01:17:10,640
Speaker 2: Mike Epps and Michael Clock Duncan, and you know that

1318
01:17:10,760 --> 01:17:13,800
Speaker 2: Mike Epps is gonna go to the left at any time,

1319
01:17:14,320 --> 01:17:16,519
Speaker 2: and you know that Michael Clock Duncan like say something

1320
01:17:16,600 --> 01:17:19,280
Speaker 2: else and I'm gonna get your ass. So when you

1321
01:17:19,360 --> 01:17:22,479
Speaker 2: see them he chased him, that's real ship. That's not scripted,

1322
01:17:22,560 --> 01:17:26,960
Speaker 2: that's not that is real. Like it was just so there.

1323
01:17:27,320 --> 01:17:30,519
Speaker 2: And then Martin Lauren says, come on down to my trailer.

1324
01:17:31,760 --> 01:17:33,280
Speaker 2: What's the nicest trailer you ever been in?

1325
01:17:34,080 --> 01:17:34,559
Speaker 3: The nic.

1326
01:17:38,000 --> 01:17:47,160
Speaker 2: Pretty decent. Describe it like beroom, I mean right.

1327
01:17:47,280 --> 01:17:47,479
Speaker 3: And the.

1328
01:17:50,080 --> 01:17:53,080
Speaker 2: Door when I stepped in his ship it was three

1329
01:17:53,160 --> 01:17:59,679
Speaker 2: stories okay when I stepped in, hit this trailer home.

1330
01:18:02,040 --> 01:18:06,280
Speaker 2: And then he said to me, Monique, don't ever let

1331
01:18:06,400 --> 01:18:10,519
Speaker 2: them tell you what you can have. And that was

1332
01:18:10,600 --> 01:18:15,200
Speaker 2: that brother showing me all that was possible, without bragging,

1333
01:18:15,840 --> 01:18:19,200
Speaker 2: without saying, look at my shit. He was saying, don't

1334
01:18:19,240 --> 01:18:22,000
Speaker 2: you ever let them tell you what you can have

1335
01:18:23,320 --> 01:18:27,800
Speaker 2: because if you want it, this is this is what's available.

1336
01:18:28,439 --> 01:18:29,000
Speaker 3: And I would.

1337
01:18:29,760 --> 01:18:32,240
Speaker 2: I was grateful for him in that moment because that

1338
01:18:32,360 --> 01:18:35,320
Speaker 2: was a moment of hey, sis, this is the kind

1339
01:18:35,360 --> 01:18:39,200
Speaker 2: of shit that's available to us. This is what's available

1340
01:18:39,280 --> 01:18:43,080
Speaker 2: to us. So it was incredible. It was incredible to

1341
01:18:43,160 --> 01:18:47,320
Speaker 2: make that movie with someone that I grew up watching

1342
01:18:47,960 --> 01:18:50,639
Speaker 2: House Party, What's happening now?

1343
01:18:50,960 --> 01:18:51,200
Speaker 3: Come on?

1344
01:18:51,600 --> 01:18:55,360
Speaker 2: Come on? Remember Martin Lawrence was on What's Happening now? Okay,

1345
01:18:58,640 --> 01:19:01,000
Speaker 2: then you see the Martin Show. Oh, and now I

1346
01:19:01,080 --> 01:19:03,120
Speaker 2: get a chance to play with this brother.

1347
01:19:04,760 --> 01:19:06,519
Speaker 3: You fuck me up because I didn't even know they

1348
01:19:06,600 --> 01:19:07,759
Speaker 3: had three story trailers.

1349
01:19:08,040 --> 01:19:08,320
Speaker 1: Did not.

1350
01:19:11,439 --> 01:19:15,120
Speaker 2: Okay I did not either, And it was just so

1351
01:19:16,240 --> 01:19:19,840
Speaker 2: I've been appreciative of the ones I've been around who

1352
01:19:20,000 --> 01:19:22,360
Speaker 2: was willing to share, like I've been around some of

1353
01:19:22,439 --> 01:19:26,519
Speaker 2: the greats, Patty LaBelle Astra and Simpson. I've been around

1354
01:19:26,560 --> 01:19:29,280
Speaker 2: Stephanie Mills. I've been around those people that said, let

1355
01:19:29,320 --> 01:19:32,000
Speaker 2: me show you something, let me put something in your ear.

1356
01:19:32,560 --> 01:19:36,639
Speaker 2: I've appreciated those moments because they've walked the path before

1357
01:19:36,720 --> 01:19:39,479
Speaker 2: me and they were willing to say, let me just

1358
01:19:39,560 --> 01:19:42,680
Speaker 2: show you if you just stay on this path you

1359
01:19:42,800 --> 01:19:44,800
Speaker 2: all right, that's all right?

1360
01:19:45,120 --> 01:19:49,840
Speaker 3: Well what we got for Well, this could really be

1361
01:19:49,920 --> 01:19:52,439
Speaker 3: a ten part series. You can come back every month

1362
01:19:52,479 --> 01:19:54,040
Speaker 3: and you can come back whenever you want. You can

1363
01:19:54,040 --> 01:19:55,840
Speaker 3: come back and host this ship if you want to.

1364
01:19:59,040 --> 01:20:01,000
Speaker 3: You know what, I I just want to get out

1365
01:20:01,040 --> 01:20:04,639
Speaker 3: the house we have there. But we did get you something.

1366
01:20:04,920 --> 01:20:07,080
Speaker 3: We got something. We can't let you come down here.

1367
01:20:06,960 --> 01:20:10,479
Speaker 2: And not get you Sure, Oh my babies, thank you?

1368
01:20:11,040 --> 01:20:17,160
Speaker 2: Should I open it now? Yes, it's like priscip Yes, like, oh,

1369
01:20:17,240 --> 01:20:19,160
Speaker 2: y'all have merchandise.

1370
01:20:25,160 --> 01:20:25,600
Speaker 3: Around and what.

1371
01:20:27,160 --> 01:20:36,120
Speaker 2: Sweet baby, you gotta pop your collar twenty five sounds.

1372
01:20:36,760 --> 01:20:39,920
Speaker 2: It's my size though, right, it won't be a midrif

1373
01:20:39,960 --> 01:20:43,519
Speaker 2: on me. Okay, you're gonna be coming Oh yeah, that's yes,

1374
01:20:43,560 --> 01:20:46,400
Speaker 2: that's clear on Maybee.

1375
01:20:47,439 --> 01:20:47,880
Speaker 3: Do whatever.

1376
01:20:48,200 --> 01:20:50,240
Speaker 2: You're gonna make sure it's baby.

1377
01:20:51,760 --> 01:20:54,200
Speaker 3: Any questions from the floor, anybody?

1378
01:20:54,360 --> 01:20:55,840
Speaker 9: Come on? Now, we got a real we got a

1379
01:20:55,880 --> 01:20:56,800
Speaker 9: real icon in here.

1380
01:20:56,840 --> 01:21:01,200
Speaker 2: Now I know you do your baby you on the podcast.

1381
01:21:03,080 --> 01:21:04,320
Speaker 3: So be for Baltimore.

1382
01:21:04,720 --> 01:21:08,760
Speaker 2: Yes to like what is the origin of behind that?

1383
01:21:08,880 --> 01:21:12,439
Speaker 3: Always that to do how you say those words?

1384
01:21:12,960 --> 01:21:19,360
Speaker 2: We say Doug, we say mother, we say father, f

1385
01:21:19,600 --> 01:21:22,680
Speaker 2: A v A m O v A. That's just how

1386
01:21:22,720 --> 01:21:25,360
Speaker 2: we say it, you know, that's that's our dialogue. That's

1387
01:21:25,400 --> 01:21:28,360
Speaker 2: how we talk. I can't we say Baltimore with that

1388
01:21:28,520 --> 01:21:36,519
Speaker 2: D and that Baltimore Baltimore. We say Bottimore too.

1389
01:21:37,600 --> 01:21:39,240
Speaker 3: You don't understand the new lingo they got.

1390
01:21:39,160 --> 01:21:41,559
Speaker 2: Today, do I don't understand none of it. When they

1391
01:21:41,640 --> 01:21:44,240
Speaker 2: be abbreviating ship, I'm like, listen.

1392
01:21:46,640 --> 01:21:57,439
Speaker 13: And the fighting Latugansk Baltimoreatugan, you know, talk.

1393
01:21:59,439 --> 01:21:59,600
Speaker 3: Like that.

1394
01:22:02,000 --> 01:22:03,840
Speaker 2: I've not meant them yet. I don't know.

1395
01:22:04,520 --> 01:22:10,320
Speaker 3: I don't know. He was speaking more like, yeah, we

1396
01:22:10,520 --> 01:22:11,519
Speaker 3: sing when we talk.

1397
01:22:12,240 --> 01:22:15,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, we we we sing with it. Yeah, the youth

1398
01:22:16,000 --> 01:22:16,360
Speaker 2: part just.

1399
01:22:16,400 --> 01:22:20,040
Speaker 3: Kind of like frustrain yell. You got some questions in

1400
01:22:20,400 --> 01:22:21,120
Speaker 3: the industry.

1401
01:22:24,920 --> 01:22:29,080
Speaker 14: You realize you're the only woman in that boom.

1402
01:22:29,560 --> 01:22:30,200
Speaker 3: In that state.

1403
01:22:32,400 --> 01:22:34,600
Speaker 2: When if I realized I was the only woman in

1404
01:22:34,680 --> 01:22:38,360
Speaker 2: the room that day on it on the Deaf Jam

1405
01:22:38,479 --> 01:22:41,920
Speaker 2: tour with Joe Toy, I was the only woman in

1406
01:22:42,040 --> 01:22:44,920
Speaker 2: the room, and I had to make a decision. Do

1407
01:22:45,080 --> 01:22:48,080
Speaker 2: I cuss his ass out and never be the only

1408
01:22:48,120 --> 01:22:50,519
Speaker 2: woman in the room again? But do I get up

1409
01:22:50,520 --> 01:22:53,120
Speaker 2: and catch my breath and then go put the gift

1410
01:22:53,200 --> 01:22:58,120
Speaker 2: on stage? So, yeah, when you do realize that you

1411
01:22:58,240 --> 01:23:02,280
Speaker 2: hold your position. You ain't gotta be a fella, you'd

1412
01:23:02,280 --> 01:23:06,800
Speaker 2: be the woman in the room. That's such a great question.

1413
01:23:08,120 --> 01:23:12,080
Speaker 2: I love James L. Jones, okay, and I know he

1414
01:23:12,160 --> 01:23:17,040
Speaker 2: has since transitioned. And James O. Jones is an older gentleman, right.

1415
01:23:17,880 --> 01:23:20,439
Speaker 2: And I was standing next to him one day, okay,

1416
01:23:21,120 --> 01:23:23,800
Speaker 2: and he went to hug me around my waist, but

1417
01:23:24,000 --> 01:23:27,240
Speaker 2: his hand was like on the top of my ass,

1418
01:23:29,200 --> 01:23:35,439
Speaker 2: and I was like, it's James Jones, this is made

1419
01:23:35,479 --> 01:23:39,280
Speaker 2: of daddy. This is route from Claude day. I didn't

1420
01:23:39,320 --> 01:23:43,280
Speaker 2: even say nothing. I let him stay right there. He

1421
01:23:43,360 --> 01:23:45,280
Speaker 2: can't tell from a back to the you know, it's

1422
01:23:45,280 --> 01:23:50,360
Speaker 2: all right. But he was he was everything. He was

1423
01:23:50,479 --> 01:23:56,880
Speaker 2: truly that patriarch. He was the energy of I've been here,

1424
01:23:57,439 --> 01:24:00,679
Speaker 2: I've done it. I'm gonna share my gift with these babies.

1425
01:24:01,120 --> 01:24:04,800
Speaker 2: He was that, just like Danny Glover. Like to work

1426
01:24:04,840 --> 01:24:10,680
Speaker 2: with Danny on almost Christmas. Danny Glover was everything. We

1427
01:24:10,760 --> 01:24:13,560
Speaker 2: would watch Danny Glover do this, and this is O

1428
01:24:13,720 --> 01:24:17,040
Speaker 2: g shit, this is how you preserve yourself. He would

1429
01:24:17,040 --> 01:24:18,320
Speaker 2: sit at the down on the table and do this

1430
01:24:19,880 --> 01:24:25,200
Speaker 2: when we were in cut. He would go to sleep

1431
01:24:26,600 --> 01:24:29,080
Speaker 2: when it was time to go. He was up in it.

1432
01:24:30,200 --> 01:24:34,120
Speaker 2: We are young, We Gone. But I just watched him.

1433
01:24:34,320 --> 01:24:39,000
Speaker 2: I watched him say, let me preserve, and when it's

1434
01:24:39,080 --> 01:24:42,160
Speaker 2: my turn, let me go. I watched James George Jones

1435
01:24:42,200 --> 01:24:45,840
Speaker 2: do the same thing. When it wasn't they turn, they

1436
01:24:45,960 --> 01:24:48,080
Speaker 2: was like, I don't need to be nowhere. But when

1437
01:24:48,120 --> 01:24:50,639
Speaker 2: it was they turn, baby. So yeah, when you work

1438
01:24:50,680 --> 01:24:55,840
Speaker 2: with the greats, you go to school, you go to school. Yeah,

1439
01:24:56,880 --> 01:24:57,400
Speaker 2: you did you.

1440
01:25:00,080 --> 01:25:03,120
Speaker 3: Like growing up like in high school and things and stuff.

1441
01:25:04,680 --> 01:25:08,360
Speaker 2: That's such a great question. I was in one school

1442
01:25:08,439 --> 01:25:14,240
Speaker 2: play and I played a dying grandmother and I had

1443
01:25:14,360 --> 01:25:17,799
Speaker 2: no lines, but I was gonna show that mother fucker's

1444
01:25:17,920 --> 01:25:19,759
Speaker 2: baby that I was gonna beat something.

1445
01:25:20,080 --> 01:25:30,720
Speaker 4: It took me five minutes to die, nigga. I didn't

1446
01:25:30,720 --> 01:25:32,320
Speaker 4: even care about the other bitsures line hou.

1447
01:25:34,520 --> 01:25:36,759
Speaker 2: Yes, just one school play, baby.

1448
01:25:36,880 --> 01:25:37,120
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1449
01:25:40,920 --> 01:25:44,840
Speaker 15: So, not to get too much into me, but my

1450
01:25:44,960 --> 01:25:47,400
Speaker 15: mother was a social I got pregnant and I was

1451
01:25:47,439 --> 01:25:49,479
Speaker 15: born into a family that had a strong hold of

1452
01:25:49,760 --> 01:25:50,960
Speaker 15: patriot toxicity.

1453
01:25:51,000 --> 01:25:54,560
Speaker 16: And and I hear you say that you didn't have

1454
01:25:54,680 --> 01:25:55,439
Speaker 16: a relationship with.

1455
01:25:55,520 --> 01:25:57,840
Speaker 2: Your parents, and you have siblings that you don't have

1456
01:25:57,960 --> 01:25:58,600
Speaker 2: relationships with.

1457
01:25:58,720 --> 01:26:02,519
Speaker 16: It that's you have such a and loving heart, how

1458
01:26:02,640 --> 01:26:06,840
Speaker 16: do you make the choice to give and not be

1459
01:26:07,040 --> 01:26:11,040
Speaker 16: consumed with hating anger towards the people that you want

1460
01:26:11,160 --> 01:26:14,320
Speaker 16: to have with the relationship would fits you love your dad?

1461
01:26:15,680 --> 01:26:15,880
Speaker 10: You know?

1462
01:26:16,400 --> 01:26:19,760
Speaker 2: For me and I don't know, this only worked for me.

1463
01:26:21,520 --> 01:26:24,200
Speaker 2: I know what I came from, and I know what

1464
01:26:24,320 --> 01:26:27,920
Speaker 2: I prayed for, and when I received what I prayed for,

1465
01:26:28,800 --> 01:26:31,560
Speaker 2: I couldn't take what I came from and put it

1466
01:26:31,640 --> 01:26:35,040
Speaker 2: into that because I would be just carrying the poison

1467
01:26:35,400 --> 01:26:39,280
Speaker 2: from one generation to the next generation. So for me,

1468
01:26:39,400 --> 01:26:43,400
Speaker 2: I had to get to a place where I had

1469
01:26:43,439 --> 01:26:47,680
Speaker 2: to save my life and I had to really appreciate

1470
01:26:48,200 --> 01:26:51,400
Speaker 2: and respect the family that I prayed for. I aksed

1471
01:26:51,439 --> 01:26:54,920
Speaker 2: for a second chance. I aks for another chance. So

1472
01:26:55,640 --> 01:26:58,639
Speaker 2: I didn't hate my family. I don't hate my family.

1473
01:26:59,160 --> 01:27:03,080
Speaker 2: I love those people. However, I knew that in staying

1474
01:27:03,160 --> 01:27:06,840
Speaker 2: with those people, I would continue to be sick. And

1475
01:27:06,960 --> 01:27:12,360
Speaker 2: I was mentally sick. I was ill, and that illness

1476
01:27:13,000 --> 01:27:15,840
Speaker 2: was taking over and it was getting me to a

1477
01:27:15,920 --> 01:27:18,880
Speaker 2: place where it was getting dangerous. So I had to

1478
01:27:19,080 --> 01:27:23,679
Speaker 2: choose me. I had to choose me and I stop loving.

1479
01:27:24,160 --> 01:27:25,560
Speaker 2: But I had to get to a place where I

1480
01:27:25,640 --> 01:27:27,800
Speaker 2: had to say, I've got to walk away from this

1481
01:27:28,640 --> 01:27:32,600
Speaker 2: because if not, I will repeat the same thing. And

1482
01:27:32,720 --> 01:27:35,720
Speaker 2: if y'all are not willing to change, I'm not going

1483
01:27:35,760 --> 01:27:39,200
Speaker 2: to try to change you. I just gotta change me

1484
01:27:39,800 --> 01:27:44,920
Speaker 2: and keep moving. And I think too, And it took

1485
01:27:45,000 --> 01:27:46,400
Speaker 2: me a long time to do that, so I don't

1486
01:27:46,400 --> 01:27:48,360
Speaker 2: want you to think that that's something that's just like,

1487
01:27:48,600 --> 01:27:50,800
Speaker 2: oh girl, you just gotta walk away. It took me

1488
01:27:51,040 --> 01:27:55,200
Speaker 2: years because you always told that's your family, and you

1489
01:27:55,320 --> 01:27:58,320
Speaker 2: get down for your family, and I don't care. I

1490
01:27:58,520 --> 01:28:02,120
Speaker 2: will not get down for people that will not get

1491
01:28:02,200 --> 01:28:07,160
Speaker 2: down from me, regardless as to who you are, because

1492
01:28:07,280 --> 01:28:11,040
Speaker 2: you will wind up in a place of misery and

1493
01:28:11,160 --> 01:28:13,960
Speaker 2: you'll start taking your last breaths, saying I wonder what

1494
01:28:14,000 --> 01:28:16,120
Speaker 2: would have happened if I would have only done that.

1495
01:28:16,880 --> 01:28:19,679
Speaker 2: So as long as you still got breath, baby, be happy,

1496
01:28:20,840 --> 01:28:28,599
Speaker 2: Be happy, Monique.

1497
01:28:28,640 --> 01:28:31,360
Speaker 3: We more than appreciate you stopping through here.

1498
01:28:31,439 --> 01:28:32,679
Speaker 2: I thank y'all for having any.

1499
01:28:35,680 --> 01:28:40,800
Speaker 3: While you're here. He get you, shine, man.

1500
01:28:41,080 --> 01:28:43,519
Speaker 2: I gotta tell y'all something, that's the best ship I

1501
01:28:43,560 --> 01:28:46,560
Speaker 2: ever been on. Okay, because I ain't lift let me

1502
01:28:46,720 --> 01:28:49,519
Speaker 2: just tell you why turn my right he was rolling

1503
01:28:49,920 --> 01:28:53,519
Speaker 2: to my left he already had one roll sitting right here. Baby,

1504
01:28:53,600 --> 01:28:56,120
Speaker 2: you had a little piece you was. I said this

1505
01:28:56,640 --> 01:28:57,120
Speaker 2: that ship.

1506
01:28:59,479 --> 01:29:09,280
Speaker 3: Oh no, we got through the world smoking about it up.

1507
01:29:12,040 --> 01:29:13,720
Speaker 1: Come on this side way, it's it's a little more

1508
01:29:13,760 --> 01:29:19,519
Speaker 1: room over here. You're my lighter for you steal it

1509
01:29:19,520 --> 01:29:21,599
Speaker 1: because you be stealing the lighters stealing.

1510
01:29:22,240 --> 01:29:24,800
Speaker 2: Hemn. I don't put that label on me now, and

1511
01:29:24,880 --> 01:29:26,240
Speaker 2: I don't accidentally talk some ship.

1512
01:29:26,320 --> 01:29:29,519
Speaker 3: But I ain't no lighter thief ship.

1513
01:29:29,760 --> 01:29:31,160
Speaker 9: You know what, I'm gonna come drop out a load

1514
01:29:31,160 --> 01:29:32,880
Speaker 9: of lighter so that just wipe off all the little

1515
01:29:32,880 --> 01:29:37,200
Speaker 9: thief for your death, my dead eighty five seth show Monique,

1516
01:29:43,120 --> 01:29:43,479
Speaker 9: what is it?

1517
01:29:46,560 --> 01:29:50,960
Speaker 2: I'm not getting my butts on here. Y'all are awesome, baby,

1518
01:29:51,800 --> 01:29:52,160
Speaker 2: y'all are.

1519
01:29:53,640 --> 01:29:57,360
Speaker 3: Let's let's get a.

1520
01:30:03,800 --> 01:30:07,599
Speaker 2: You smiling, yeah? Are you smiling? Yes? Okay, I'm smiling.

1521
01:30:07,680 --> 01:30:12,559
Speaker 2: Now you're trying to give from the hard eighty vice him?

1522
01:30:16,720 --> 01:30:22,599
Speaker 2: Oh my, thank you babies.

1523
01:30:22,880 --> 01:30:24,000
Speaker 3: Anytime you know what.

1524
01:30:24,040 --> 01:30:29,840
Speaker 2: I want to take nice because my phone with my

1525
01:30:30,000 --> 01:30:30,479
Speaker 2: baby's

1526
01:30:34,720 --> 01:30:41,439
Speaker 12: Yes, take one, my phone two third player, yeah, Michael,

1527
01:30:52,080 --> 01:30:53,000
Speaker 12: let me y'all hold u