WEBVTT - The Journey of Terisa Griffin 0:00:28.360 --> 0:00:43.960 He with U. If you watch Coffee Time to Baby, 0:00:44.000 --> 0:00:46.360 you know the name Flame, my role also known as 0:00:46.440 --> 0:00:49.000 my role Flame. Come in with last and come in 0:00:49.080 --> 0:00:51.479 with then love lounds Baby. You better catch it when 0:00:51.520 --> 0:00:54.960 you can't drop a knowledge from fatherhood to politics, shouting 0:00:55.040 --> 0:00:58.279 now comics just paying homics. What's up? Tip? Yeah? You 0:00:58.280 --> 0:01:00.960 know she raped shot towns on speaking to the ground 0:01:01.000 --> 0:01:03.920 a second. We're gonna last cut of the kicking and 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:05.759 at the end we leave it with just a lift 0:01:05.840 --> 0:01:08.200 spirits take you want to revisit, so your first take 0:01:08.200 --> 0:01:10.440 a list of your folks say it slip, oh folks 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:14.480 that we take it. Can't do what you doin't no 0:01:14.720 --> 0:01:17.520 fish do what you do. I can't no kids do 0:01:17.600 --> 0:01:42.640 what I do with Hello, everyone, welcome Flame Math's come on, 0:01:42.920 --> 0:01:47.120 come on in the room. We're gonna have a great 0:01:47.120 --> 0:01:50.400 show today. I'm very, very pleased at my not even 0:01:50.400 --> 0:01:52.840 my co host, but my Lauren is here because I 0:01:52.880 --> 0:01:54.400 don't think she was gonna get here. I thought she's 0:01:54.440 --> 0:01:57.480 gonna be stuck at the all. Listen the travel guys 0:01:57.800 --> 0:02:02.160 in the universe. Somebody don't me flying, Okay, somebody don't 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:04.760 want me flying, y'all. I didn't when did I leave. 0:02:04.800 --> 0:02:07.360 I left Wednesday morning, seven am flight to go to 0:02:07.400 --> 0:02:10.600 Cleveland because we had an event with Cookie Johnson around 0:02:10.639 --> 0:02:14.320 All Star weekend. Flew into Atlanta first because there's no 0:02:14.400 --> 0:02:17.760 direct flights on Delta from l A to Cleveland. Got 0:02:17.760 --> 0:02:21.200 to Atlanta, landed two minutes later, it said my flight 0:02:21.280 --> 0:02:23.480 to Cleveland was canceled. Now you know, I just had 0:02:23.520 --> 0:02:25.800 this whole other debacle for the eight hours prior to 0:02:26.120 --> 0:02:30.160 JFK lose. My bag. Flight was canceled. So I spent 0:02:30.200 --> 0:02:32.239 the night in Atlanta and came right back home. That 0:02:32.400 --> 0:02:36.400 is God telling you. So that's what I did. I 0:02:36.440 --> 0:02:38.560 spent it in Atlanta and turned around and came right 0:02:38.560 --> 0:02:41.239 back to l A. I did in the hotel or 0:02:41.280 --> 0:02:44.000 in the ample. When I wasn't done again, I was 0:02:44.040 --> 0:02:46.920 in a hotel. I definitely called our travel agent and 0:02:47.000 --> 0:02:48.799 was like, please help me. So she booked me in 0:02:48.840 --> 0:02:51.239 a hotel, stayed there for the night, and took my 0:02:51.280 --> 0:02:53.040 ass home the next day. I'm glad you're back. Thank 0:02:53.080 --> 0:02:56.200 you the universe. Right on back home. The dad, me 0:02:56.200 --> 0:02:58.200 and the daddy had because against that we had prayed 0:02:58.200 --> 0:03:00.200 for her. Come on right, you know, because my dad 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:02.760 said he didn't want me to leave either. So y'all, shade, 0:03:02.800 --> 0:03:05.080 it was your fault. No, it's called brilliant minds. It 0:03:05.160 --> 0:03:07.120 was your fault because you know I leave next Wednesday 0:03:07.160 --> 0:03:09.080 to go back to New York. I'm sorry what happened 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:13.079 trying us down. I'm still loud. You're not loud. I'm 0:03:13.080 --> 0:03:17.919 not loud. Your ears might be sensitive today. Is that better? 0:03:17.560 --> 0:03:21.560 That was loud? Hello? Yeah, thank you guys for joining us. 0:03:21.560 --> 0:03:24.360 I hope you guys had a wonderful Valentine's Day. Y'all 0:03:24.360 --> 0:03:26.160 say hello to Kendall. Kinda with he here saying hello 0:03:26.200 --> 0:03:28.120 to Kendle. You know, Canda, people be asking about you, 0:03:28.160 --> 0:03:30.040 like who's that man in the beanie? People be checking 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:32.880 for you, so we gotta make sure that's Candle. Y'all. Look, 0:03:33.040 --> 0:03:35.240 I always spen on Kendall's game, but Knda, you got 0:03:35.280 --> 0:03:38.080 a whole woman. I want you to know that we 0:03:38.160 --> 0:03:40.200 hung out a couple of times. She's Asian. That's all 0:03:40.240 --> 0:03:42.720 I need to say. She's Asian. She will suck you 0:03:42.800 --> 0:03:44.800 up and you might get cooked. I'm just letting you know. 0:03:47.960 --> 0:03:49.520 So we have a good show today. I know we're 0:03:49.520 --> 0:03:51.240 going to touch on a couple of things that are 0:03:51.240 --> 0:03:53.280 happening in the political space. And then we're gonna bring 0:03:53.280 --> 0:03:57.880 in our special guests, Miss Teresa Griffin, recording artist, philanthropists, 0:03:58.120 --> 0:04:01.720 Lupus survivor Influen want sir, all of that. So we're 0:04:01.720 --> 0:04:04.160 gonna get to all that. But what happened this week? Lord? 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:06.080 What happened? Well? Where do you want to start? I 0:04:06.120 --> 0:04:08.920 want to start with yesterday I got a teenage daughter 0:04:09.000 --> 0:04:10.800 that I had to beat up and drag out my house. 0:04:10.880 --> 0:04:13.200 But you don't don't tell the people, You're too late 0:04:13.240 --> 0:04:16.480 a total. So yeah, teenagers, That's all I'm telling. If 0:04:16.480 --> 0:04:19.280 you got teenagers, I'm praying for you. Woolf sigh, thank 0:04:19.279 --> 0:04:22.000 you Jesus. You might need to burn some stage in 0:04:22.000 --> 0:04:24.680 your house. I need to burn the house, may do 0:04:24.680 --> 0:04:29.440 an exorcism on yours, something like that. What has happened 0:04:29.480 --> 0:04:32.880 this week? Oh? Y'all Star game? Trying to go to 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:36.640 Saturday Sunday? Well I wasn't going to the actual All 0:04:36.680 --> 0:04:38.919 Star Game on Sunday. Um, like I said, we had 0:04:38.920 --> 0:04:40.640 an event with Cookie, which I think it when well, 0:04:40.680 --> 0:04:44.240 I haven't really talked to any of my colleagues, but um, yeah, 0:04:44.279 --> 0:04:46.919 the All Star Game, Lebron one and one you know, 0:04:47.040 --> 0:04:49.920 more than half a million dollars for his kids at 0:04:49.920 --> 0:04:52.919 the I Promised School, which is of course phenomenon. The 0:04:53.000 --> 0:04:56.040 gun the dunk contest was horrible. That was very underwhelmed. 0:04:56.400 --> 0:05:00.440 See Kendall horrible right, there was more, you know, exciting 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:03.839 dunks in the damn All Star Game. Was one of 0:05:03.880 --> 0:05:05.920 the best pictures that I saw from the All Star 0:05:05.960 --> 0:05:09.520 weekend when I saw Michael Jordan's hohog and Lebron James. 0:05:09.600 --> 0:05:11.600 Oh my god, that head did it for me. That's 0:05:11.640 --> 0:05:14.960 called greatness and greatness baby. That was hot. Yeah, but 0:05:15.080 --> 0:05:17.840 Lebron is also on hot water too today. Lebron is 0:05:17.839 --> 0:05:20.800 always in hot water, but this time is different. Did 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:23.039 you see what happened with him this week? He was 0:05:23.080 --> 0:05:27.200 giving praise to um Sam Pressy, who's the GM for 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:30.719 okay see, saying that he like scouted all this talent 0:05:30.800 --> 0:05:34.240 and talking about different players and supposedly it was actually 0:05:34.279 --> 0:05:36.280 a black man behind the scenes that really did everything. 0:05:36.320 --> 0:05:38.080 So people are really trying to come for him right 0:05:38.120 --> 0:05:41.359 now and saying he's throwing shade at Rob Polenka and 0:05:41.400 --> 0:05:44.159 all these different things. So it's a Lebron's back in 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:47.760 the hot seat. So Lebron if you'll see this too warm. 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:49.880 You can always come sitting on my sofa. It's nice 0:05:49.880 --> 0:05:53.080 and just cool and mellow because I'm a big Lebron fan, 0:05:53.120 --> 0:05:56.440 and not not so much of his basketball game as 0:05:56.440 --> 0:05:58.919 I am to what he does for people that you 0:05:58.920 --> 0:06:01.719 don't know about, put kids in college and building schools, 0:06:01.760 --> 0:06:05.520 and and and pushing blacks and single women, single mothers 0:06:05.560 --> 0:06:08.320 to do better with buy and for their children. So 0:06:08.560 --> 0:06:11.000 that that part right there. So child, he made a mistake, 0:06:11.040 --> 0:06:12.880 apologize like whoopy didn't get your job back? Well, I 0:06:12.880 --> 0:06:15.080 don't know if it's a mistake. I'm just saying it's controversial. 0:06:15.520 --> 0:06:17.440 You know. I love he's like I said, he's back 0:06:17.440 --> 0:06:20.480 in the news. I was watching ESPN today. He just 0:06:20.520 --> 0:06:23.360 wanted to steal from Kanye West, because Kanye k stay 0:06:23.400 --> 0:06:27.200 out the news. That's kind of shine. That's called I 0:06:27.240 --> 0:06:30.400 don't even know what that's called, Kanye. That's called whooped, 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:33.320 that's called whipped baby. I ain't been whipped like that. 0:06:34.040 --> 0:06:36.720 Mental health is real since my thirties. It might be 0:06:36.760 --> 0:06:38.719 a little bit of mental unbalanced. But I think Kim 0:06:38.760 --> 0:06:42.360 must have put them. I don't know. I saw Kim 0:06:42.400 --> 0:06:44.840 point video. She don't even got the Zoos album say, 0:06:44.839 --> 0:06:47.039 I don't know about that, but anyway, yes, all Star games. 0:06:47.400 --> 0:06:52.599 So lebron one. Uh, Steph Curry hit sixteen threes in 0:06:52.640 --> 0:06:57.520 the game. Yeah, step cry three pointer from Heaven that child. 0:06:57.640 --> 0:06:59.359 I think the part where he shoots it and turns 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:01.479 around and just knows it's going and the level of 0:07:01.520 --> 0:07:05.960 confidence is just phenomenal to me. So Um, overall, it 0:07:06.000 --> 0:07:08.080 was a very good game. They wouldn't let the boy 0:07:08.120 --> 0:07:09.840 beat the record though. I think the record was like 0:07:09.840 --> 0:07:13.440 fifty two points from Anthony Davis. Steph got to forty 0:07:13.480 --> 0:07:15.080 eight and they was like, no, you're not shooting anymore. 0:07:15.080 --> 0:07:16.520 They kept double teaming in the rest of the game, 0:07:16.560 --> 0:07:20.400 but they still one. Like I said, lebron Um one 0:07:20.440 --> 0:07:22.760 over half a million dollars for the I promised school. 0:07:23.280 --> 0:07:26.560 So congrats to the team. Yeah, they played really well. 0:07:26.600 --> 0:07:29.720 And then Karl Anthony Towns won the three point um 0:07:29.880 --> 0:07:34.200 shooting contest. Who is that? Um, Karl Anthony Towlens. He's 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:38.080 a uh, he's a center for the Timberwolves. He also 0:07:38.160 --> 0:07:41.720 dates Jordan Woods, Kylie Jenner's ex best friend. Um. He's 0:07:41.720 --> 0:07:43.400 been through a lot. He lost his mother to COVID 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:48.040 two years ago. You know, He's really sweet. He dunking many. 0:07:49.320 --> 0:07:52.560 Can we talk about the celebrity All Star Game with 0:07:52.640 --> 0:07:56.880 my boss and you our Friendtive Show executive producer Tiffany. 0:07:57.200 --> 0:07:58.800 She came through the tunnel kript walk and I love 0:07:58.880 --> 0:08:01.160 that she came through walking and shut it down and 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:03.200 talk some. She was gonna be the m V people, Tiffany. 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:04.960 I love you to that girl. You can stay your 0:08:04.960 --> 0:08:09.720 grass off the basketball court, Tithing was Sarah All. The 0:08:09.720 --> 0:08:12.080 basketball was worse than me. And I know I can't 0:08:12.080 --> 0:08:13.920 shoot the ball. I can play with the balls, but 0:08:13.960 --> 0:08:18.600 I can't shooting. Good God. It was so fun though, 0:08:18.720 --> 0:08:21.240 because they were having a good time. Who was the 0:08:21.320 --> 0:08:23.840 big guy though, the tall light skinning with the dreads 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:28.360 who kept dunking on them? He was Oh my god, 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:30.920 did you watch the celebrity Oh he was fantastic. He 0:08:31.000 --> 0:08:33.480 was a big monster. He thrilled me. I screamed, he 0:08:33.640 --> 0:08:38.200 thrilled you screamed. If he was a transman, The Lord 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:44.480 is my shepherd ship want well? Alrighty then yeah. Congratulations 0:08:44.480 --> 0:08:46.080 to all the charities that made money from the All 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:48.719 Star Game. Thank you for all the celebrities they participated 0:08:48.760 --> 0:08:51.200 and everybody that raised money. All the professional athletes. But 0:08:51.320 --> 0:09:00.360 can we go to the Star spangle banner at Macy Gray. Yeah, 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:05.000 what do you think, Laura like, that's her sound, So 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:09.000 it wasn't the singing that I had concerned. She looked 0:09:09.040 --> 0:09:12.920 like she was a little under the influence of something. 0:09:13.000 --> 0:09:14.800 She looked like she was still in the movie for 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:17.280 Color Girls that Tyler Perry produced when she was doing 0:09:17.280 --> 0:09:21.400 the debauched abortions. Baby, she looked good and screw and 0:09:21.480 --> 0:09:25.560 she did. She looked very clear column it out. I 0:09:25.640 --> 0:09:29.160 don't know, and I don't know. The players were laughing. 0:09:29.600 --> 0:09:32.720 I was thoroughly entertained. They were that. I was thoroughly entertained. 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:36.000 It was entertaining. I mean she the sound was great. 0:09:36.040 --> 0:09:38.720 I mean that's that's Macy that's her sound. But I 0:09:39.160 --> 0:09:41.640 just physically how she looked. I was a little concerned. 0:09:42.880 --> 0:09:45.400 So well, let me let me say this about the 0:09:45.920 --> 0:09:47.920 spangle bandon Macy Grey and all the people who have 0:09:48.040 --> 0:09:50.880 covered to start spangle Bannon because y'all ain't gonna get 0:09:50.880 --> 0:09:52.640 on Macy Gray and y'all ain't say nothing about one. 0:09:52.720 --> 0:09:56.520 Roseanne just completely destroyed the Stars spangle Bannon at a 0:09:56.640 --> 0:10:01.839 baseball game. Roseanne bar you didn't know that she's saying, well, no, 0:10:03.320 --> 0:10:06.599 like like, when the hell did Rosanne starts saying she 0:10:06.800 --> 0:10:09.360 didn't if it was a major scandal years ago and 0:10:09.440 --> 0:10:12.280 she was terrible, I'm sure I don't know she had 0:10:12.400 --> 0:10:15.679 vocal ability, baby, she don't. She did have vocal abilities 0:10:15.679 --> 0:10:17.240 and they took it away from it. That's why she's 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:21.600 not a rosy Okay, So look it's been a week. Uh, 0:10:22.360 --> 0:10:24.760 we're not gonna keep you long because and our guess 0:10:24.840 --> 0:10:28.440 coming on so special to the show. She's not only 0:10:28.520 --> 0:10:32.199 is she explained Matt. She's a recording artist from from 0:10:32.280 --> 0:10:34.720 She's from Monroe, Louisiana, but she now lives in Chicago. 0:10:35.160 --> 0:10:38.040 She has multiple albums out, She's Grammy nominated. She is 0:10:38.120 --> 0:10:40.600 definitely apprintic. She is a major fruit flat. And when 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:42.600 if you don't understand what go on a fruit flat? 0:10:42.760 --> 0:10:46.640 Sometimes only sometimes, it depends on it depends on where 0:10:46.679 --> 0:10:52.480 fruits you are. Yeah, exactly which people And the definition 0:10:52.520 --> 0:10:54.160 of a fruit flat is a person that is an 0:10:54.200 --> 0:10:57.280 ally of the LGBT community, very friendly with the gays, 0:10:57.360 --> 0:10:59.880 like almost to the plus and speaking of very friendly 0:10:59.880 --> 0:11:01.640 to the gates. Before I introduce you, Teresa, let me 0:11:01.720 --> 0:11:04.920 just say hats off to Netflix and Dave Chappelle for 0:11:05.120 --> 0:11:07.599 standing their ground and telling the Council culture to go 0:11:08.080 --> 0:11:11.719 somewhere and jump off a bridge because Netflix made it. 0:11:11.960 --> 0:11:14.120 Toldly stood on the ground and say it makes dollars 0:11:14.160 --> 0:11:16.760 and not sense, and that Da've just got for a 0:11:16.920 --> 0:11:21.720 four deal, a four comedy deal, special comedy deal. So great. 0:11:21.880 --> 0:11:24.000 So if this is going to be the beginning of 0:11:24.080 --> 0:11:26.679 the end of the Council culture, god damn, and I 0:11:26.840 --> 0:11:28.800 take it because I'm sick of y'all crying about every 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:30.800 damn thing. It's go somewhere, put a vamper on. I 0:11:30.840 --> 0:11:32.920 don't think cancel culture is going anywhere, per se. I 0:11:33.000 --> 0:11:35.760 just don't think it's going to be as impactful as 0:11:35.840 --> 0:11:41.079 it once was. Well Netflix for at least sticking with 0:11:41.240 --> 0:11:44.560 it and not letting um the court of public opinion 0:11:44.640 --> 0:11:48.480 run everything. Okay, back to Teresa, you do it? Okay, Well, 0:11:48.559 --> 0:11:53.240 I'm gonna bring to risa um, Teresa. I'm gonna come 0:11:53.320 --> 0:11:55.400 and find you see if there's an easier way to 0:11:55.440 --> 0:11:57.199 do girl. I was doing the coffee time this morning. 0:11:57.200 --> 0:11:59.240 I was putting my makeup on, Teresa, we was bumping you. 0:11:59.320 --> 0:12:02.000 I bought my two songs that my flame mats. Absolutely 0:12:02.120 --> 0:12:05.199 love Teresa. Can you put something in the comments? So 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:11.720 there she is, miss some marriages. I gotta go find 0:12:11.800 --> 0:12:16.040 you there you are live so lady, and please welcome 0:12:16.040 --> 0:12:19.920 to this show. Friend Lupus survivor, friend to the show. Cook. 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:22.079 She has her own show called Tea Time every Tuesday 0:12:22.160 --> 0:12:30.560 and Thursday, always on the road, the only Teresa Griffin. 0:12:30.679 --> 0:12:35.160 Ladies and gentlemen, you have those people screaming, God can screaming, 0:12:37.200 --> 0:12:44.200 Oh my god, they're just screaming. Girl. You look Teresa, 0:12:44.760 --> 0:12:48.000 you look cute. Huh. You put on makeup for both 0:12:48.040 --> 0:12:54.559 me and Flames actually Flames on makeup. Well, I'm happy 0:12:54.800 --> 0:12:57.120 just to see the both of you. I'm sitting here 0:12:57.160 --> 0:13:00.599 in my basement by the fire, and and I'm just 0:13:00.800 --> 0:13:03.600 really blessed to have the opportunity to speak with you both. 0:13:04.000 --> 0:13:06.400 Do me favor, do me a favor. Aggust yourself with 0:13:06.480 --> 0:13:10.400 this girl. Back a little bit, lay back. Let me 0:13:10.480 --> 0:13:12.559 talk to that right, because you know that right titty, 0:13:12.640 --> 0:13:15.439 don't cooperate that one. Listen to miss girl. You look 0:13:15.480 --> 0:13:17.400 girl right there. She's not right now. She's trying to 0:13:17.480 --> 0:13:20.080 come out. Baby, that lady want to be seen. Every show. 0:13:24.559 --> 0:13:26.000 I was a gonout to say, Teresa, you're trying to 0:13:26.040 --> 0:13:28.040 compete with Flame today. It might be a battle of 0:13:28.080 --> 0:13:32.280 the titties today because Flames too. No, you know what, 0:13:32.480 --> 0:13:35.480 I tried to make sure, yes I have this is 0:13:35.559 --> 0:13:38.120 only this much of my head and this, you know, 0:13:38.240 --> 0:13:43.560 I want to be enticing is never right? Is never right. 0:13:43.720 --> 0:13:46.320 I love your hair, Teresa. I see you change the style. 0:13:46.320 --> 0:13:48.000 I love that you change it up. I changed man 0:13:48.080 --> 0:13:50.240 all the time too, but not a little more often 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:51.760 in yours, because as soon as this show is over, 0:13:51.880 --> 0:13:59.560 this one gonna get changed. Mine doesn't. Come on, yo, yos, 0:13:59.559 --> 0:14:03.640 don't come on. They think you got braids. Lawrence hair 0:14:03.760 --> 0:14:06.360 is not braided. Oh no, no no, it was into 0:14:06.440 --> 0:14:08.160 miss Ceely braids and then I just took them out 0:14:08.160 --> 0:14:10.679 because I didn't feel like doing my hair today. So well, 0:14:10.720 --> 0:14:13.400 I think you both look cute. From well, I think 0:14:13.440 --> 0:14:18.120 you look fabulous. Deus. So thank you. Hello like mad 0:14:18.200 --> 0:14:22.520 to the Hello, my tea time, merge tie baby, it's 0:14:22.520 --> 0:14:25.120 like y'all doing. We've been trying to set this interview 0:14:25.320 --> 0:14:28.280 for quite some time. And you know on Love Lounge 0:14:28.480 --> 0:14:30.200 you are not only a friend to the show, but 0:14:30.320 --> 0:14:32.960 we play your music every time when they don't block 0:14:33.040 --> 0:14:36.320 us on Instagram. We played love loud, I mean Teresa 0:14:36.360 --> 0:14:38.840 Griffin's music all the time, which is why so many 0:14:38.880 --> 0:14:41.680 of my flame mats know who you are. So what 0:14:41.800 --> 0:14:43.400 I want to ask you started out first because I 0:14:43.440 --> 0:14:48.400 said you were from a role Lousi Louisiana. Was that right? Terse? 0:14:48.480 --> 0:14:56.000 Your internet is pregnant. Turn your wife out off my internet? 0:14:56.080 --> 0:14:59.160 My internet is pregnant. Turn your wife out off. That's funny. 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:05.840 Come on, why do you say the internet is pregnant? 0:15:05.880 --> 0:15:09.000 What does that mean? Because it keeps circling and that's 0:15:09.080 --> 0:15:13.520 usually us that that's better. Teresa, Okay, I said you 0:15:13.600 --> 0:15:17.400 were from Monroe, Louisiana. Was that right? Yes? I am 0:15:17.680 --> 0:15:20.160 coming Roe Louisiana. Okay. Now, so what what we want 0:15:20.200 --> 0:15:23.120 to know is who is the Resa Griffin? Tell us 0:15:23.160 --> 0:15:25.440 tell us where you came from. Wh why this is 0:15:25.520 --> 0:15:27.520 who you are? We want to we want to hear 0:15:27.520 --> 0:15:29.000 from you. Theyn't want to hear my black ass. They 0:15:29.000 --> 0:15:32.080 want to hear from you. Well, I mean to be 0:15:32.280 --> 0:15:35.040 to be very honest, that's kind of complicated. I am 0:15:35.880 --> 0:15:38.360 we grew up in Monroe, but we also there are 0:15:38.440 --> 0:15:40.760 four girls, so let me be clear about that. There 0:15:40.800 --> 0:15:43.320 are four girls, all of us saying I think all 0:15:43.360 --> 0:15:49.520 of us are insanely uh amazing. Um at the same time, Now, y'all, 0:15:49.520 --> 0:15:51.320 I'm at home, so my wife I should be cool. 0:15:51.400 --> 0:15:52.840 I do teach time from here, so I don't know 0:15:52.880 --> 0:15:58.040 what it's great now. Okay, somebody said my wife I 0:15:58.160 --> 0:16:04.000 had the corona. I can read so so so no 0:16:04.160 --> 0:16:06.240 you didn't say, you didn't say, but but who help? 0:16:06.320 --> 0:16:11.000 That is push so either way, because I hope it's 0:16:11.040 --> 0:16:14.120 better now I understand. But I grew up in the country. 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:18.760 I'm a country girl. I love to cook and uh, 0:16:18.880 --> 0:16:22.760 I love to help people. I I love helping kids. UM. 0:16:23.400 --> 0:16:26.040 My motto really is, you know, Lord, let me be 0:16:26.080 --> 0:16:29.960 a better version today than I was yesterday. UM. So 0:16:31.320 --> 0:16:33.480 it's kind of hard to put all of that in words. 0:16:33.640 --> 0:16:37.640 I'm work in progress. Um. I'm a performer, I'm a writer, 0:16:37.800 --> 0:16:41.040 I'm a singer. But I'm also somebody who doesn't need 0:16:41.120 --> 0:16:44.320 somebody else to tell me what to do with my 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:48.840 happiness and how I define myself and what I take 0:16:49.520 --> 0:16:52.800 you know in this industry, what that looks like to 0:16:52.920 --> 0:16:55.520 make me happy. I've always said it's great to be 0:16:55.600 --> 0:16:57.400 a household name, but I'm good with being able to 0:16:57.440 --> 0:17:00.680 go to the grocery store and buy buy my groceries. Um. 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:03.960 I am really of that set of you know, what's 0:17:03.960 --> 0:17:06.320 a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul? 0:17:07.080 --> 0:17:09.280 And in this industry, I feel like you can lose 0:17:09.359 --> 0:17:12.440 your soul. Um, I don't. If I had to have 0:17:12.560 --> 0:17:15.959 a deal that left me broke, then that's not a deal. Um. 0:17:16.720 --> 0:17:21.080 If I can't talk to my brother man along the way, 0:17:21.160 --> 0:17:25.080 then I've lost myself. UM. If I can't be a 0:17:25.160 --> 0:17:30.000 good wife, then I've failed in life. Um. Because I 0:17:30.080 --> 0:17:31.920 didn't have kids, so I at least need to be 0:17:31.960 --> 0:17:34.800 a good wife. And if I can help someone else's kid, 0:17:34.880 --> 0:17:37.040 because there are so many neglected kids, and I've done 0:17:37.080 --> 0:17:41.479 pretty good. Um. So UM. It is complicated because, as 0:17:41.520 --> 0:17:44.720 you know, Flame, I moved from Monroe, Louisiana to come 0:17:44.800 --> 0:17:48.840 to Chicago, and I left everything and everybody that I 0:17:48.960 --> 0:17:52.040 loved in life to do this. They were the only 0:17:52.080 --> 0:17:55.360 people that I knew. I knew no one else. And Uh, 0:17:55.920 --> 0:17:58.119 that's how much I had to believe in myself and 0:17:58.240 --> 0:18:01.840 step out on faith, uh and on what I knew 0:18:02.720 --> 0:18:06.720 would be most beneficial for my sanity. Living in Louisiana 0:18:07.280 --> 0:18:09.480 was a blessing, and at the same time, when you 0:18:09.560 --> 0:18:13.280 have three other siblings who also sing, it can be 0:18:13.320 --> 0:18:16.280 a curse because people want to pick you against one another, 0:18:16.480 --> 0:18:19.280 and that would be heartbreaking for me because I love 0:18:19.359 --> 0:18:21.040 my sister so much. I was going to ask you 0:18:21.119 --> 0:18:22.920 that because I know your sister, Mary Griffin, and she 0:18:23.080 --> 0:18:25.320 is a phenomenal thing. She's saying back out background for 0:18:25.440 --> 0:18:28.199 Patty Libell for many, many years. But I was going 0:18:28.240 --> 0:18:30.520 to ask you, growing up in the household for the singers, 0:18:30.960 --> 0:18:33.719 was there a because your dad's saying, right, not your 0:18:33.760 --> 0:18:36.879 mom my dad saying, my mama saying but had a 0:18:36.960 --> 0:18:41.879 robertry plant. But was there like a healthy competition, because 0:18:41.920 --> 0:18:45.159 I would have imagined that you know, I'm, I'm, we've sisters, 0:18:45.320 --> 0:18:47.119 but I can hit this note that you can't hit 0:18:47.160 --> 0:18:48.760 and I can do this run and not in a 0:18:48.920 --> 0:18:52.560 mean way. But sometimes the healthy competition puts a fire 0:18:52.680 --> 0:18:55.399 uponder you make you better. It was never about who 0:18:55.480 --> 0:19:00.520 could hit a run, because um, you hear do it, 0:19:00.760 --> 0:19:05.240 and um your job was to mimic it. Your job 0:19:05.320 --> 0:19:07.480 in our house was to mimic it in another key, 0:19:07.840 --> 0:19:10.359 I mean well, in a in an octave below in 0:19:10.359 --> 0:19:13.880 an octave under. You know, we needed to harmonize each 0:19:13.920 --> 0:19:17.680 other's runs, so and that in that regard, if you 0:19:17.760 --> 0:19:20.560 couldn't do that, then you're not doing what you're supposed 0:19:20.600 --> 0:19:23.520 to be doing. Anyway, My dad was insane that way. 0:19:24.040 --> 0:19:26.600 In the car on our rod on our ride to church, 0:19:27.000 --> 0:19:29.600 he would start singing, and we needed to harmonize. And 0:19:29.720 --> 0:19:33.560 if you couldn't, then you weren't listening. And so we 0:19:33.800 --> 0:19:37.600 learned to learn to musically listen, but we failed and 0:19:37.720 --> 0:19:41.239 learning to listen to one another. You just brought up 0:19:41.240 --> 0:19:43.320 a great point to reach that I'm going to touch 0:19:43.359 --> 0:19:45.280 you on. Now. You said your dad would would make 0:19:45.320 --> 0:19:47.159 y'all seeing going to church and everything. Now, did you 0:19:47.240 --> 0:19:49.480 think that made you a great singer? Because look at 0:19:49.560 --> 0:19:52.600 Janet Jackson and the geneticson's because Janet Jackson documentary just 0:19:52.720 --> 0:19:55.240 came out and Joe pushed them. Joe, even though they 0:19:55.359 --> 0:19:58.000 made it something else, he pushed them all to be greatness. 0:19:58.440 --> 0:20:00.440 So you think that your dad was the big influence 0:20:00.480 --> 0:20:04.440 that made you this and your sisters because saying, well, 0:20:04.480 --> 0:20:07.640 to be honest, my my father wanted us to sing 0:20:07.760 --> 0:20:12.720 together in church. Um, and so in that regard music wise, 0:20:13.160 --> 0:20:16.159 listening to one another. We developed quite a bit just 0:20:16.400 --> 0:20:20.320 because even everybody at the damn church saying the singers 0:20:20.400 --> 0:20:25.760 at the church were traveling harmonizing our Southern harmonaires. So 0:20:26.200 --> 0:20:30.800 you come from everyone sort of like competing on Sunday 0:20:30.920 --> 0:20:33.719 till the damned church. Doores need to be shipped? Uh? 0:20:33.920 --> 0:20:35.800 So you know when you learn, when you grow up 0:20:35.840 --> 0:20:42.440 on Jesus breaks everything or breaks everything really doesn't. I 0:20:42.480 --> 0:20:44.920 mean your sisters, that's what That's what you hear in 0:20:45.040 --> 0:20:49.160 your head your program to hear that. And then as 0:20:49.240 --> 0:20:52.320 we because we were called migrant children because we my 0:20:52.440 --> 0:20:55.280 father traveled around, we needed to get certain hours in school. 0:20:55.359 --> 0:20:58.680 So we even were in school in the summertime, and 0:20:58.880 --> 0:21:02.400 all we did was school and church. That is the extent. 0:21:03.200 --> 0:21:05.040 School and church. And if you want to learn how 0:21:05.080 --> 0:21:08.000 to perform, go to church, because those are the greatest 0:21:08.040 --> 0:21:10.280 liars and performers that you could ever run into. In 0:21:10.400 --> 0:21:15.920 Jesus name, in Jesus name, let me tell you. So 0:21:16.040 --> 0:21:18.680 we don't take all that every Sunday, Okay, it don't, 0:21:18.760 --> 0:21:21.680 but it's some about when you finally get that mike 0:21:22.400 --> 0:21:25.639 on Sunday morning, and hollelujah, the Lord has blessed you 0:21:26.160 --> 0:21:30.119 with this boat that you can touch somebody. That is 0:21:30.119 --> 0:21:32.520 an amazing feeling. And you don't need a million dollars 0:21:32.560 --> 0:21:34.520 for that. You just need paths to to give you that. Mike, 0:21:35.000 --> 0:21:37.800 that's what you need, and that is what we grew 0:21:37.880 --> 0:21:41.000 up in. When you got that, Mike, you are the star. 0:21:41.200 --> 0:21:44.000 The star is the one with the microphone. Okay, let's 0:21:44.040 --> 0:21:47.280 be clear about that. And so when my father would 0:21:47.320 --> 0:21:49.800 give all four of us to Mike, our job was 0:21:49.920 --> 0:21:53.440 to drive Jesus into your soul. So ain't no damn 0:21:53.520 --> 0:21:55.440 way when I get on the stage somebody from the 0:21:55.480 --> 0:21:59.000 out saying made because guess what, it ain't even about them, 0:21:59.320 --> 0:22:02.080 It's about Resa. For to turn it out for Teresa. 0:22:02.400 --> 0:22:05.159 I tell my musicians like, y'all ready, because if you 0:22:05.240 --> 0:22:06.920 ain't me, to get up off the stage because we're 0:22:06.920 --> 0:22:09.880 about to fuck. We're about to do this thing together 0:22:10.280 --> 0:22:11.800 and I can't do it if you ain't with me, 0:22:12.400 --> 0:22:14.639 And that's a hard person to work for. Let me 0:22:14.680 --> 0:22:18.359 ask you a question, though, because this was basically a path. 0:22:18.640 --> 0:22:20.440 It seems like that was forged to you by your father. 0:22:20.840 --> 0:22:22.399 Was there for a time when you were like, I 0:22:22.440 --> 0:22:23.639