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Players 19 00:01:00,360 --> 00:01:03,120 Speaker 1: must be eighteen years older to purchase Blayer Plan Awesome 20 00:01:03,120 --> 00:01:06,520 Speaker 1: Welcome to Money Making Conversation. I'm your host, Rushan mcdownald. 21 00:01:06,640 --> 00:01:10,160 Speaker 1: He's Money Making Conversation talk show. It's about entrepreneurship and entertainment. 22 00:01:10,480 --> 00:01:13,920 Speaker 1: I provide the consumer and business owner access to celebrity CEOs, 23 00:01:14,080 --> 00:01:17,319 Speaker 1: entrepreneurs and industry decision makers. I recognize that we all 24 00:01:17,360 --> 00:01:21,240 Speaker 1: have different definitions of success. For some exercisable paycheck. Mine 25 00:01:21,319 --> 00:01:23,760 Speaker 1: is helping people wake up and inspiring them to accomplish 26 00:01:23,760 --> 00:01:26,560 Speaker 1: their goals and live their very best life. These are 27 00:01:26,600 --> 00:01:28,800 Speaker 1: my passions and that's what I'm going to do for you. 28 00:01:28,880 --> 00:01:31,000 Speaker 1: Thank you for tuning in today. I want you to 29 00:01:31,040 --> 00:01:34,039 Speaker 1: stop tripping over small challenges and prepare to rise above 30 00:01:34,120 --> 00:01:36,800 Speaker 1: the bigger obstacles that life will present to you. The 31 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:40,480 Speaker 1: Money Making Conversation interviews provide relatable information to the listener 32 00:01:40,800 --> 00:01:45,640 Speaker 1: about career and financial planning, entrepreneurship, motivation, leadership, overcoming the art, 33 00:01:45,760 --> 00:01:48,800 Speaker 1: and how to live a balanced life. My next guest 34 00:01:49,480 --> 00:01:52,800 Speaker 1: is a social media influencer. She has built her social 35 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:56,280 Speaker 1: media influencing capabilities based on who she is in her 36 00:01:56,520 --> 00:02:00,200 Speaker 1: unapologetic truth as a transgender She has become one of 37 00:02:00,200 --> 00:02:04,040 Speaker 1: the most entertaining names in show business today. How popular podcast, 38 00:02:04,320 --> 00:02:07,680 Speaker 1: The Queen's Supreme Court, which airs every Monday at six 39 00:02:07,720 --> 00:02:12,440 Speaker 1: pm specific nine pm each It's awesome. It delivers celebrity gossips, 40 00:02:12,520 --> 00:02:15,840 Speaker 1: celebrity interviews, and hilarious entertainment. Like you've never seen her 41 00:02:15,880 --> 00:02:18,880 Speaker 1: herd before. She's I'm sure to talk about her many brands, 42 00:02:19,480 --> 00:02:23,120 Speaker 1: COVID and eighteen money making conversations. So please welcome the 43 00:02:23,160 --> 00:02:28,280 Speaker 1: money making Conversation. My dear friend T. S. Madison, Hey, 44 00:02:28,320 --> 00:02:30,200 Speaker 1: come on, Mr Lake, Now, I like that. I got 45 00:02:30,440 --> 00:02:34,160 Speaker 1: I gotta call them money making man, missed. I appreciate that. 46 00:02:34,280 --> 00:02:36,520 Speaker 1: I appreciate that. Now, where are you based there? Let's 47 00:02:36,600 --> 00:02:38,960 Speaker 1: let's get everything. Let's get to the grassroots and everything here. 48 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:44,160 Speaker 1: I'm based in Atlanta, Georgia. I'm originally from Miami, Florida. Okay, 49 00:02:44,600 --> 00:02:47,960 Speaker 1: I'm based here at We'll asked him over here in Collenges, Georgia. 50 00:02:47,960 --> 00:02:51,280 Speaker 1: I here while the cows, chickens and goats and things 51 00:02:51,280 --> 00:02:56,200 Speaker 1: out here in the country. Let's talk about newers and 52 00:02:56,480 --> 00:03:00,720 Speaker 1: newers with your career. Let's talk about your goal. You 53 00:03:00,760 --> 00:03:02,959 Speaker 1: went from you was in Florida, now you're moving to Georgia. 54 00:03:03,040 --> 00:03:04,760 Speaker 1: Or it's just gonna be a base for you, or 55 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:08,160 Speaker 1: you have New York and d c's your car. What's 56 00:03:09,720 --> 00:03:12,160 Speaker 1: what my goal is? I do want to I want 57 00:03:12,200 --> 00:03:14,760 Speaker 1: to stay here. I brought a home here, I've been 58 00:03:14,919 --> 00:03:18,040 Speaker 1: I've been living here for the past. Uh. I would 59 00:03:18,040 --> 00:03:22,320 Speaker 1: say about seventeen years. Okay, right, I gotta I gotta break. 60 00:03:22,320 --> 00:03:26,280 Speaker 1: I gotta think like I'm forty three. I yeah, it's 61 00:03:26,280 --> 00:03:31,519 Speaker 1: been about seventeen years. I moved here. I'm getting ready 62 00:03:31,520 --> 00:03:35,880 Speaker 1: to term forty three. And um, I moved here with 63 00:03:35,920 --> 00:03:40,680 Speaker 1: a suitcase and nothing. And now you've become a dreammaker 64 00:03:40,920 --> 00:03:45,560 Speaker 1: or a decision maker, influencer. And with that being said, 65 00:03:46,040 --> 00:03:49,040 Speaker 1: what what what role does do you play having that 66 00:03:49,080 --> 00:03:52,400 Speaker 1: additional influence because it carries a burden with it. It It 67 00:03:52,520 --> 00:03:55,760 Speaker 1: carres a sense of people look to you and changes 68 00:03:55,840 --> 00:03:59,800 Speaker 1: need to be spoken about, a situation need to be announced, 69 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:01,960 Speaker 1: or an influence at that level, it cares at a 70 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:04,920 Speaker 1: high level responsibility. Let's talk about that in the community 71 00:04:04,960 --> 00:04:10,360 Speaker 1: that you embrace. Well, I'm a part of the LBGT community. 72 00:04:10,400 --> 00:04:12,280 Speaker 1: I am the tea part of the community. I'm a 73 00:04:12,280 --> 00:04:18,680 Speaker 1: transgender woman, UM, meaning that I was born male, I 74 00:04:18,800 --> 00:04:26,560 Speaker 1: transitioned to UH to preopertive man. I'm preppertive transact female. 75 00:04:26,680 --> 00:04:35,520 Speaker 1: But I'm I'm a woman, honey. I love it, love it, 76 00:04:35,640 --> 00:04:40,040 Speaker 1: love it. Um in my community. You know, I've I've 77 00:04:40,080 --> 00:04:44,000 Speaker 1: built a brand off of my social media. You know. 78 00:04:44,360 --> 00:04:46,280 Speaker 1: At one point, I used to be involved in the 79 00:04:46,360 --> 00:04:50,200 Speaker 1: adult entertainment industry, which I'm noticing now due to the 80 00:04:50,200 --> 00:04:56,560 Speaker 1: COVID nineteen, so many people have uh uh think they're 81 00:04:56,640 --> 00:05:00,440 Speaker 1: told over into that industry by you know, deviling gabbling 82 00:05:00,440 --> 00:05:02,960 Speaker 1: around and only fans. And I was like, wow, like 83 00:05:03,440 --> 00:05:09,719 Speaker 1: we have such big, huge celebrities, um, well, big celebrities 84 00:05:09,720 --> 00:05:13,480 Speaker 1: that have started to explore only fans. And then when 85 00:05:13,480 --> 00:05:17,520 Speaker 1: you have a pew celebrity like Beyonce, uh that that 86 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:21,080 Speaker 1: wraps and says all my demon time, I might make 87 00:05:21,080 --> 00:05:24,039 Speaker 1: an only fans you know, and it just pushed, it 88 00:05:24,120 --> 00:05:26,680 Speaker 1: just peaked it up more, you know, especially for those 89 00:05:26,720 --> 00:05:29,560 Speaker 1: people that were curious about it. You know, one thing, 90 00:05:29,880 --> 00:05:33,120 Speaker 1: one thing about me, I don't uh, I don't run 91 00:05:33,160 --> 00:05:36,000 Speaker 1: from my past. That don't hide from my past. I 92 00:05:36,040 --> 00:05:38,520 Speaker 1: feel like that you have to do. You have to 93 00:05:39,240 --> 00:05:42,720 Speaker 1: um grasp your past so that you can accept your future, 94 00:05:43,040 --> 00:05:45,960 Speaker 1: you know. And a part of my past that was 95 00:05:46,040 --> 00:05:49,200 Speaker 1: that's what I did. That was an adult entertainment field, 96 00:05:49,320 --> 00:05:53,760 Speaker 1: and I used to do our films um produce some 97 00:05:54,160 --> 00:05:57,560 Speaker 1: storry in them. They were kind of like what what 98 00:05:57,560 --> 00:06:00,240 Speaker 1: people are doing on only fans Now? However, you know, 99 00:06:00,320 --> 00:06:03,120 Speaker 1: it's just my website and I made money off of that. 100 00:06:03,200 --> 00:06:05,720 Speaker 1: Like I definitely that's the industry that would go to 101 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:07,800 Speaker 1: the cars that were dealt to me at the time, 102 00:06:07,839 --> 00:06:11,560 Speaker 1: and that's the inditry that I was in. You know, 103 00:06:11,600 --> 00:06:13,280 Speaker 1: I'm not promoting it, but I mean it is what 104 00:06:13,320 --> 00:06:15,880 Speaker 1: it is. Well, think about this that I'm not even 105 00:06:15,920 --> 00:06:18,000 Speaker 1: being negative about it. You know, I know we all 106 00:06:18,040 --> 00:06:21,440 Speaker 1: go through different things in life and because like you said, 107 00:06:21,600 --> 00:06:26,440 Speaker 1: made money and we all we all grow. Because the 108 00:06:26,440 --> 00:06:28,560 Speaker 1: thing about it, the thing I appreciate the fact is 109 00:06:28,600 --> 00:06:33,600 Speaker 1: that you've been allowed to move on. Okay, it is 110 00:06:33,720 --> 00:06:36,000 Speaker 1: your pass, you know what I'm saying. That is what 111 00:06:36,680 --> 00:06:38,960 Speaker 1: to feel that social media allows us to do now 112 00:06:39,040 --> 00:06:41,479 Speaker 1: because if you didn't have social media, you basically have 113 00:06:41,560 --> 00:06:44,480 Speaker 1: trapped into that story that that's the story that they 114 00:06:44,520 --> 00:06:46,600 Speaker 1: thy can say you are, that's who you are. But 115 00:06:46,960 --> 00:06:48,800 Speaker 1: social media has allowed you to be able to say 116 00:06:49,320 --> 00:06:51,800 Speaker 1: that's that's my that's one of my resume. But look 117 00:06:51,800 --> 00:06:54,200 Speaker 1: at what I'm doing now, and look what I represent now. 118 00:06:54,560 --> 00:06:56,640 Speaker 1: And this is what I really wanted to bring you 119 00:06:56,680 --> 00:06:59,719 Speaker 1: on the show to talk about how because a lot 120 00:06:59,760 --> 00:07:02,680 Speaker 1: of people get frustrated they do make decisions, whether it's 121 00:07:02,680 --> 00:07:07,320 Speaker 1: a business decision or relationship decision or lifestyle decision, and 122 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:10,360 Speaker 1: then they feel they can't they can't climb out of 123 00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:13,200 Speaker 1: that rut. And on my show, I tried to bring 124 00:07:13,240 --> 00:07:16,360 Speaker 1: on individuals that can share some nuggets to say, yes, 125 00:07:16,800 --> 00:07:20,840 Speaker 1: I did this, openly confessed I do that. But you 126 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:24,640 Speaker 1: used the new age of branding now that allows you 127 00:07:24,720 --> 00:07:27,200 Speaker 1: to have a voice, that allows you to call your 128 00:07:27,240 --> 00:07:33,840 Speaker 1: press conference anytime you feel like yeahs you know, and 129 00:07:33,840 --> 00:07:36,560 Speaker 1: and much to figgureback off what you're saying, like, I've 130 00:07:36,560 --> 00:07:39,640 Speaker 1: embracing my past, and my personality has always been you know, 131 00:07:39,760 --> 00:07:42,440 Speaker 1: over the top and you know, bigger than life. I've 132 00:07:42,440 --> 00:07:46,600 Speaker 1: been very opinionated, and I got into you know, social 133 00:07:46,640 --> 00:07:51,000 Speaker 1: commentary and and and and blogging and YouTube and Instagram, 134 00:07:51,040 --> 00:07:53,800 Speaker 1: you know, all these safest where I was able to 135 00:07:53,920 --> 00:07:57,120 Speaker 1: let my opinion start to make me make money for me, 136 00:07:57,200 --> 00:08:00,840 Speaker 1: make a living for me. And I once again I 137 00:08:00,880 --> 00:08:03,160 Speaker 1: took the tools that I learned in a prior life 138 00:08:03,200 --> 00:08:06,120 Speaker 1: and applied them to this one and and was able 139 00:08:06,160 --> 00:08:09,680 Speaker 1: to package up and and you know, resell myself as 140 00:08:09,920 --> 00:08:14,800 Speaker 1: a social media influencer. Um, half million. You are not 141 00:08:14,960 --> 00:08:19,160 Speaker 1: not kind of sell yourself half million Instagram followers and more. 142 00:08:20,160 --> 00:08:22,200 Speaker 1: You're doing your thing, my friend. You're doing your time, 143 00:08:22,240 --> 00:08:24,320 Speaker 1: my friend. But let's let's talk about you as a 144 00:08:24,320 --> 00:08:27,720 Speaker 1: as a brand. Let's talk about the Queen Supreme Court. 145 00:08:28,080 --> 00:08:31,960 Speaker 1: Did that idea come about? It's available on podcasts. Well, 146 00:08:32,160 --> 00:08:34,920 Speaker 1: the Queen Supreme Court was originally the Queen's Court. It 147 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:38,200 Speaker 1: was something that my former co host uh and myself 148 00:08:38,280 --> 00:08:41,200 Speaker 1: used to do together. Um, and even though she and 149 00:08:41,240 --> 00:08:45,280 Speaker 1: I parted ways, I continue to, uh, you know, re 150 00:08:45,280 --> 00:08:48,200 Speaker 1: revamp and rebrand the show into you know, a social 151 00:08:48,200 --> 00:08:53,000 Speaker 1: commentary show. And uh, it's become very influential in popular car. 152 00:08:53,040 --> 00:08:56,760 Speaker 1: It was always influential, influential in popular culture, but it 153 00:08:56,800 --> 00:08:59,560 Speaker 1: became you know, a different staple and popular culture where 154 00:09:00,080 --> 00:09:02,600 Speaker 1: or you know, most celebrities coming. They we we we 155 00:09:02,679 --> 00:09:04,880 Speaker 1: talked about the things that are going on in the world, 156 00:09:04,880 --> 00:09:06,920 Speaker 1: like current events and stuff. And you know, I shall 157 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:12,199 Speaker 1: sponsorship packages for the show. UM. My fans are always 158 00:09:12,240 --> 00:09:14,680 Speaker 1: you know, supporting me or whatever. But the most the 159 00:09:14,679 --> 00:09:17,720 Speaker 1: biggest thing about it is I'm able to sell sponsorship 160 00:09:17,720 --> 00:09:23,600 Speaker 1: packages to money, making conversation money. I love talking to you. 161 00:09:23,800 --> 00:09:26,600 Speaker 1: I love talking to you. It was about It's about, 162 00:09:26,640 --> 00:09:30,120 Speaker 1: you know, being able to market yourself and realize their money, 163 00:09:30,480 --> 00:09:33,440 Speaker 1: real financial opportunities that are out there. But you have 164 00:09:33,480 --> 00:09:35,800 Speaker 1: to be consistent about it. You have to be passionate 165 00:09:35,800 --> 00:09:37,720 Speaker 1: about it, and you have to have a plan. And 166 00:09:37,760 --> 00:09:40,880 Speaker 1: that's what you have. You have a plan and you're consistent. 167 00:09:41,280 --> 00:09:43,199 Speaker 1: And like you said, I'm over the top, but that's 168 00:09:43,200 --> 00:09:45,640 Speaker 1: part of the brand. If you told me it was like, okay, 169 00:09:45,720 --> 00:09:48,240 Speaker 1: I wouldn't know about you. You wouldn't have five hundred 170 00:09:48,280 --> 00:09:50,920 Speaker 1: thousand followers. But it's not as disruptive. It's not a 171 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:54,800 Speaker 1: disruptive or rude over the top. It's as a branding 172 00:09:54,840 --> 00:09:59,600 Speaker 1: that's entertaining, is funny, and that's what we're talking about here, 173 00:09:59,600 --> 00:10:06,080 Speaker 1: fun quality entertainment, information that makes you smile. Yes, Yes, 174 00:10:06,320 --> 00:10:10,120 Speaker 1: I love you, Yes, I don't get together to this 175 00:10:10,200 --> 00:10:14,120 Speaker 1: pandemic dot down. They won't. You know, let's transition over there. 176 00:10:14,200 --> 00:10:16,640 Speaker 1: Let's transition over there. Because of the fact that we 177 00:10:16,720 --> 00:10:19,480 Speaker 1: know the community, African American community. We're also gonna talk 178 00:10:19,480 --> 00:10:23,240 Speaker 1: about the HIV community. It's being just tearing up black 179 00:10:23,240 --> 00:10:26,959 Speaker 1: people is impacting that your community as well, Let's talk 180 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:30,120 Speaker 1: about that because of the fact that we have UH, 181 00:10:30,800 --> 00:10:34,120 Speaker 1: we have a situation where now they're starting to wear 182 00:10:34,240 --> 00:10:36,760 Speaker 1: they wear masks. And what role are you playing as 183 00:10:36,760 --> 00:10:42,120 Speaker 1: far as trying to guide the proper information in your community? Well, 184 00:10:42,640 --> 00:10:45,920 Speaker 1: in my community, you know, it's very important that we 185 00:10:46,080 --> 00:10:50,720 Speaker 1: cover um HIV and aid US, the HIV and AIDS 186 00:10:50,720 --> 00:10:53,079 Speaker 1: and things of that nature. You know, I'm always talking 187 00:10:53,080 --> 00:10:58,040 Speaker 1: about UH prep UH PREP is UH. This is a 188 00:10:58,120 --> 00:11:01,320 Speaker 1: drug that's administered the people who are who are sexually 189 00:11:01,360 --> 00:11:06,000 Speaker 1: active that can prevent them from UM even becoming intersected 190 00:11:06,040 --> 00:11:08,720 Speaker 1: with the HV or AIDS virus and if. And I 191 00:11:08,840 --> 00:11:11,920 Speaker 1: also make sure that I've encouraged people in my community 192 00:11:11,920 --> 00:11:14,160 Speaker 1: that might have been that might be affected by it 193 00:11:14,600 --> 00:11:18,600 Speaker 1: to you know, continue to take their their medications, you know, 194 00:11:18,640 --> 00:11:22,959 Speaker 1: so that they can remain to have an undetectable um 195 00:11:23,200 --> 00:11:28,200 Speaker 1: UH status. And I'm no different with the situation with 196 00:11:28,240 --> 00:11:32,360 Speaker 1: the COVID nineteen, Like I'm afraid like this, this this virus, 197 00:11:32,400 --> 00:11:34,440 Speaker 1: you know, popped up out of nowhere. I really believe 198 00:11:34,440 --> 00:11:36,920 Speaker 1: that it was already here and then I think we 199 00:11:37,040 --> 00:11:40,000 Speaker 1: all have been affected by maybe back some time last 200 00:11:40,120 --> 00:11:46,640 Speaker 1: year and either UH December November November December time frame. 201 00:11:46,720 --> 00:11:50,440 Speaker 1: This this virus is over here. It was just our 202 00:11:50,480 --> 00:11:52,640 Speaker 1: our leaders as we are. I just want to use 203 00:11:52,640 --> 00:11:56,000 Speaker 1: the word leaders chose not chose to ignore it because 204 00:11:56,000 --> 00:11:59,320 Speaker 1: it would have impacted the stock market. And so now 205 00:12:00,040 --> 00:12:01,559 Speaker 1: we have a you know, when I when I look 206 00:12:01,600 --> 00:12:03,839 Speaker 1: at it, you know, this is a national broadcast. And 207 00:12:03,960 --> 00:12:05,760 Speaker 1: just let everybody know. When the April came out in 208 00:12:05,800 --> 00:12:08,880 Speaker 1: the CDC announced that, you know, eight out of tend 209 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:13,920 Speaker 1: COVID nineteen UH patients were African American or black. That 210 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:16,320 Speaker 1: was a frightening number. And then when the when the 211 00:12:16,360 --> 00:12:20,439 Speaker 1: State of Georgia decided to reopen, and that's when it reopened, 212 00:12:20,640 --> 00:12:24,240 Speaker 1: knowing that information meant that they had no plan for 213 00:12:24,720 --> 00:12:27,719 Speaker 1: that's they had no plan for White America. The or 214 00:12:27,760 --> 00:12:30,640 Speaker 1: reopened prop properly and they didn't care how it affected 215 00:12:30,679 --> 00:12:34,880 Speaker 1: the Hispanic community, the black community, any community of color. 216 00:12:35,360 --> 00:12:38,200 Speaker 1: And so that really really that's what I'm saying. Your 217 00:12:38,320 --> 00:12:40,880 Speaker 1: role in my role, my role as well as as 218 00:12:40,960 --> 00:12:43,320 Speaker 1: it means to be at front I I do a 219 00:12:43,320 --> 00:12:46,760 Speaker 1: lot of interviews on UH general market stations, and I 220 00:12:46,840 --> 00:12:49,120 Speaker 1: try to be honest about this whole situation because of 221 00:12:49,160 --> 00:12:51,640 Speaker 1: the fact that you gotta mask up, you gotta wash 222 00:12:51,679 --> 00:12:55,160 Speaker 1: your hands. Is this you know? This is now because 223 00:12:55,240 --> 00:12:57,840 Speaker 1: now we're sending young people out there. Thought they were immortal. 224 00:12:58,080 --> 00:13:01,840 Speaker 1: Now they're being affective and you have the social distance 225 00:13:02,080 --> 00:13:05,120 Speaker 1: you have to do that. You know, it's imperative. And 226 00:13:05,600 --> 00:13:08,840 Speaker 1: when I see people even in my camp, being reckless 227 00:13:09,440 --> 00:13:13,760 Speaker 1: and party partying and and and not and not taking 228 00:13:13,760 --> 00:13:16,880 Speaker 1: this pandemic serious, I'm like, hey, are you not looking 229 00:13:16,880 --> 00:13:18,960 Speaker 1: at the numbers? Is this stuff? Like like, people are 230 00:13:18,960 --> 00:13:23,360 Speaker 1: really dying from this, from this situation. People are dying, 231 00:13:23,840 --> 00:13:26,840 Speaker 1: And like, how are you How are you not paying 232 00:13:26,840 --> 00:13:28,440 Speaker 1: this stuff in your attention or how are you not 233 00:13:28,520 --> 00:13:30,640 Speaker 1: following the rules of the godlines of it? You know, 234 00:13:30,679 --> 00:13:33,720 Speaker 1: I've been in quarantine. The only place I've been as 235 00:13:33,760 --> 00:13:38,319 Speaker 1: the grocery store at home. That's it. You know, you 236 00:13:38,400 --> 00:13:40,800 Speaker 1: and I could be dating because that's what I do too, Okay, 237 00:13:41,080 --> 00:13:43,240 Speaker 1: because I don't really I go to you know, it 238 00:13:43,240 --> 00:13:45,280 Speaker 1: always amazes me t s when I go on the 239 00:13:45,320 --> 00:13:49,160 Speaker 1: grocery store. I um, I I see people no mass, 240 00:13:49,200 --> 00:13:51,640 Speaker 1: I'm going like, okay, did you not get the memo. 241 00:13:53,160 --> 00:13:56,200 Speaker 1: And then I've seen these videos of people white people 242 00:13:56,400 --> 00:14:00,280 Speaker 1: angry when they've been told mask, trying to I can 243 00:14:00,360 --> 00:14:02,560 Speaker 1: bully they weigh in the mall mark, I saw some 244 00:14:02,679 --> 00:14:04,960 Speaker 1: videos where this lady took all her food out of 245 00:14:04,960 --> 00:14:07,280 Speaker 1: her grocery bass and just threw it on the floor. 246 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:12,800 Speaker 1: Some people throw food at people. Hey, hey, they they 247 00:14:12,840 --> 00:14:16,040 Speaker 1: will give you a mask to wear. But this is 248 00:14:16,040 --> 00:14:18,160 Speaker 1: the problem is they don't want to be told what 249 00:14:18,200 --> 00:14:20,640 Speaker 1: to do and and and right now they're feeling like 250 00:14:20,680 --> 00:14:24,720 Speaker 1: that the mask and the social distancing and the quarantine 251 00:14:24,800 --> 00:14:29,600 Speaker 1: is some conspiracy theory um for the government to control people. 252 00:14:30,240 --> 00:14:32,480 Speaker 1: And I'm like, do you not see that this stuff? 253 00:14:32,520 --> 00:14:35,240 Speaker 1: Like people are really sick and dying out here? Like 254 00:14:35,440 --> 00:14:38,040 Speaker 1: I do feel like that they're there are small pieces 255 00:14:38,160 --> 00:14:41,720 Speaker 1: of of this pandemic that is a little bit you know, 256 00:14:41,800 --> 00:14:44,640 Speaker 1: hyped up, just just a bit. But I do believe 257 00:14:44,680 --> 00:14:47,640 Speaker 1: that this is really going on because one, um, it 258 00:14:48,040 --> 00:14:51,320 Speaker 1: did affect business for everyone, like we're working from home. 259 00:14:51,360 --> 00:14:55,359 Speaker 1: Everybody's working from home now, and and and for entertainers 260 00:14:55,360 --> 00:14:57,960 Speaker 1: like myself who traveled my because I traveled my show 261 00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:02,000 Speaker 1: as well, I lost gig, I lost appearances, you know, 262 00:15:02,120 --> 00:15:04,520 Speaker 1: I was not able to you know, show up and 263 00:15:04,760 --> 00:15:07,240 Speaker 1: meeting greet with my fans. And you know, I lost 264 00:15:07,280 --> 00:15:11,640 Speaker 1: lots of money from speaking engagement and everything goes. 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That's O T 308 00:17:30,720 --> 00:17:33,680 Speaker 1: T E R dot Ai. Okay, there you go. There, 309 00:17:33,720 --> 00:17:36,040 Speaker 1: you go right back in this break here and come 310 00:17:36,080 --> 00:17:40,040 Speaker 1: back talking to a dear friend. She's Atlanta, seventeen years deep, 311 00:17:40,359 --> 00:17:42,880 Speaker 1: seventeen deals deep, come out of Florida. You know, she's 312 00:17:42,960 --> 00:17:45,200 Speaker 1: kind of like moved a little bit now, she moved 313 00:17:45,200 --> 00:17:48,720 Speaker 1: more actually, but she still realized she was stealing the South. 314 00:17:48,880 --> 00:17:51,080 Speaker 1: That's what she said. Okay, we we we jumped in 315 00:17:51,119 --> 00:17:53,400 Speaker 1: a little bit about the Queen Supreme Court. Now, how 316 00:17:53,440 --> 00:17:56,560 Speaker 1: do you get your guests like I see Tam Tamar Braxton, 317 00:17:56,760 --> 00:18:03,440 Speaker 1: who's crazy anyway, lonell the original gangster comedy female wise. Okay, 318 00:18:03,480 --> 00:18:06,040 Speaker 1: now you're getting me jealous now, because see I I 319 00:18:06,080 --> 00:18:07,760 Speaker 1: was able to get me Lou New but I I 320 00:18:07,920 --> 00:18:11,040 Speaker 1: definitely not have no Nicki Minaj and no Tamar practice. 321 00:18:11,080 --> 00:18:13,960 Speaker 1: So you're out there balling with these guests my friends. No, 322 00:18:14,400 --> 00:18:17,120 Speaker 1: I've been on Nicki Minaj's show. Nicki Minaj was very 323 00:18:17,200 --> 00:18:20,520 Speaker 1: much interested in UM, you know, producing the first phase 324 00:18:20,600 --> 00:18:22,960 Speaker 1: of the show, and she and I continue to be 325 00:18:23,040 --> 00:18:26,679 Speaker 1: friends after that. UM didn't work out, but you know, 326 00:18:26,800 --> 00:18:29,760 Speaker 1: she and my girlfriend. I've had Candy Burst on the show. 327 00:18:30,600 --> 00:18:35,840 Speaker 1: Keep keep bragging. Okay, Oh my god, char from American medicine. 328 00:18:35,960 --> 00:18:39,760 Speaker 1: Doctor heavily from American medicine. I've had a lot of 329 00:18:39,800 --> 00:18:45,199 Speaker 1: social media influencers. Uh, oh my god. Flame Monroe, my 330 00:18:45,280 --> 00:18:48,280 Speaker 1: girl Flame role has been on the show. Uh. So 331 00:18:48,440 --> 00:18:50,480 Speaker 1: many different guests come in and out of there. And 332 00:18:51,000 --> 00:18:53,159 Speaker 1: I really like to rotate the chair because you know, 333 00:18:53,400 --> 00:18:56,160 Speaker 1: when you're doing social commentary, I don't want to sit 334 00:18:56,200 --> 00:18:59,199 Speaker 1: there and and run the show on my own because 335 00:18:59,280 --> 00:19:05,080 Speaker 1: I don't want my opinions on my uh views or 336 00:19:05,160 --> 00:19:08,200 Speaker 1: something to to seem like it's it's the law. I 337 00:19:08,359 --> 00:19:11,200 Speaker 1: like to to discuss and banter and throw the joke 338 00:19:11,280 --> 00:19:14,520 Speaker 1: a two out of your I tell you about you 339 00:19:14,520 --> 00:19:16,760 Speaker 1: can't be told by no jokes until I heard you 340 00:19:16,840 --> 00:19:19,960 Speaker 1: tell you because you know, I'm one of the top comedians. Now, 341 00:19:20,280 --> 00:19:22,480 Speaker 1: I got love for you now, but you can't just 342 00:19:22,520 --> 00:19:24,000 Speaker 1: come on my show and say you're a comedian with 343 00:19:24,080 --> 00:19:27,240 Speaker 1: I mean not branding you right now once I see 344 00:19:27,280 --> 00:19:30,040 Speaker 1: you'm gonna bringing back on the show, go this girl 345 00:19:30,760 --> 00:19:35,480 Speaker 1: funny right here. Funny. Now I can use words like hilarious, 346 00:19:35,800 --> 00:19:37,800 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, all that kind of stuff, 347 00:19:37,800 --> 00:19:39,679 Speaker 1: because you could be hilarious to not be a standard 348 00:19:39,720 --> 00:19:42,480 Speaker 1: comedian because you're actress and all that good stuff. So 349 00:19:42,720 --> 00:19:44,560 Speaker 1: let's talk about let's talk about where do you get 350 00:19:44,600 --> 00:19:48,199 Speaker 1: your celebrity gossip from on the on your show The 351 00:19:48,280 --> 00:19:53,040 Speaker 1: Queen's Supreme Court. What do you get your celebrity gossip from? Um? Well, 352 00:19:53,160 --> 00:19:56,600 Speaker 1: I mean I pulled from a different set of places 353 00:19:56,640 --> 00:19:59,679 Speaker 1: like um, you know, and sometimes it comes just you know, 354 00:19:59,760 --> 00:20:03,720 Speaker 1: now show from watching watching watching watching television shows or whatever. 355 00:20:04,440 --> 00:20:05,920 Speaker 1: But I get a lot of my gossip from a 356 00:20:05,920 --> 00:20:07,560 Speaker 1: lot of the blog sites or whatever. But see the 357 00:20:07,560 --> 00:20:10,080 Speaker 1: difference with me is the blog sites might report on 358 00:20:10,160 --> 00:20:13,399 Speaker 1: the star. I will bring the star to me and 359 00:20:13,480 --> 00:20:18,560 Speaker 1: going with them. I like that. I like that. Now. Now, now, 360 00:20:18,600 --> 00:20:21,520 Speaker 1: when when one comes to your show, I've hollered out 361 00:20:21,720 --> 00:20:23,879 Speaker 1: and screamed out some things on the show, But what 362 00:20:24,040 --> 00:20:26,040 Speaker 1: is what it's really the goal of your show? Is 363 00:20:26,040 --> 00:20:28,960 Speaker 1: it is it to educate people about your brand. It's 364 00:20:29,119 --> 00:20:33,240 Speaker 1: about about entertaining. It's an entertainment package that you put together. 365 00:20:33,320 --> 00:20:35,640 Speaker 1: You feel blessed to be able to present that on 366 00:20:35,640 --> 00:20:37,560 Speaker 1: a global because it's a global when you when you're 367 00:20:37,600 --> 00:20:40,880 Speaker 1: doing podcasts and social media, global night. This is people 368 00:20:40,920 --> 00:20:44,520 Speaker 1: in China watching your stuff. People in understand you're watching 369 00:20:44,520 --> 00:20:47,359 Speaker 1: your stuff, so your your global brand. I'm not gonna 370 00:20:47,359 --> 00:20:51,440 Speaker 1: short that shot you on that, okay, Well, I mean 371 00:20:51,720 --> 00:20:54,240 Speaker 1: the goal of my show just to make people laugh, 372 00:20:54,640 --> 00:20:56,760 Speaker 1: you know, We'll laugh at the parts that are to 373 00:20:56,840 --> 00:20:59,520 Speaker 1: be funny and educate them on the parts that they 374 00:20:59,560 --> 00:21:01,720 Speaker 1: need to be educated on, and to clear up some 375 00:21:01,800 --> 00:21:04,480 Speaker 1: of the myths and shade you know that might be 376 00:21:04,520 --> 00:21:06,320 Speaker 1: out in the streets because you know, we are we 377 00:21:06,400 --> 00:21:09,639 Speaker 1: are a part of the urban uh, the urban community, 378 00:21:09,880 --> 00:21:13,080 Speaker 1: you know, and there are times that people there, a 379 00:21:13,160 --> 00:21:17,040 Speaker 1: celebrity might have some bad information or a bad story 380 00:21:17,119 --> 00:21:18,639 Speaker 1: about them that they might want to come to my 381 00:21:18,680 --> 00:21:20,760 Speaker 1: show and they might want to clear up. So you know, 382 00:21:20,880 --> 00:21:22,399 Speaker 1: we well, this is this is the place that you 383 00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:24,680 Speaker 1: can do it, especially with their fans can tune in 384 00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:27,400 Speaker 1: and see them, you know, hash out some some bad 385 00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:29,840 Speaker 1: rumor that might have been spread about, you know, but 386 00:21:30,080 --> 00:21:32,320 Speaker 1: but my show is just all all around. I want 387 00:21:32,359 --> 00:21:35,520 Speaker 1: to make sure that my show is it's entertaining, it's informative, 388 00:21:36,119 --> 00:21:38,320 Speaker 1: and and it makes money. I just want to make 389 00:21:38,359 --> 00:21:42,600 Speaker 1: sure that love right there. See that's what I've been 390 00:21:42,640 --> 00:21:44,239 Speaker 1: trying to get people on the show. I would talk 391 00:21:44,280 --> 00:21:47,679 Speaker 1: about money. See we on the same page about the 392 00:21:47,680 --> 00:21:52,240 Speaker 1: money conversation here. Now here's the here's the philanthropic, the 393 00:21:52,600 --> 00:21:54,520 Speaker 1: giving side that I want to make sure people know 394 00:21:54,600 --> 00:21:58,359 Speaker 1: about you. In the midst of the pandemic crisis, TS 395 00:21:58,400 --> 00:22:02,120 Speaker 1: has surprised families, ends and others with groceries and donations 396 00:22:02,119 --> 00:22:07,199 Speaker 1: to help them through these challenging tisks. Now why, you know, 397 00:22:07,400 --> 00:22:09,840 Speaker 1: I'm just saying why because guess what, how much? Just 398 00:22:09,840 --> 00:22:14,000 Speaker 1: throw it out like that? Why t Why is that important? Well, 399 00:22:14,040 --> 00:22:17,040 Speaker 1: it's important to me because everybody may not know how 400 00:22:17,040 --> 00:22:20,679 Speaker 1: to slip a dollar there in a hard time. And 401 00:22:20,680 --> 00:22:22,760 Speaker 1: and there are some people that that have relied on 402 00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:25,320 Speaker 1: their jobs and and and what they know, like they 403 00:22:25,359 --> 00:22:27,480 Speaker 1: know how to get up and go to work every 404 00:22:27,520 --> 00:22:30,760 Speaker 1: day from nine to five. And this has been taken 405 00:22:30,800 --> 00:22:33,280 Speaker 1: away from a lot of people. So you know, this 406 00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:35,560 Speaker 1: is this is one of the luxuries that I have. 407 00:22:35,800 --> 00:22:38,480 Speaker 1: It's been a social media influencer and an ambassador for 408 00:22:38,560 --> 00:22:41,040 Speaker 1: brands and and things like that, and having my show 409 00:22:41,320 --> 00:22:43,359 Speaker 1: that I still am able to make money during this 410 00:22:43,720 --> 00:22:46,560 Speaker 1: during these times, So why not being why not help 411 00:22:46,640 --> 00:22:49,480 Speaker 1: somebody or help a family out that that you know 412 00:22:49,520 --> 00:22:53,480 Speaker 1: have lost those privileges. You know, you know it really 413 00:22:53,600 --> 00:22:57,160 Speaker 1: is important. I you know, I I find myself because 414 00:22:57,200 --> 00:23:02,960 Speaker 1: you know, I blessed. I can. I haven't been able 415 00:23:02,960 --> 00:23:05,800 Speaker 1: to lay off my staff during the pandemic. They've received 416 00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:08,800 Speaker 1: their pay and I believe in the function and not 417 00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:11,879 Speaker 1: that the Lord knows. I'm not making any money, but 418 00:23:11,880 --> 00:23:14,360 Speaker 1: I'm also planning to make money. And that's how all 419 00:23:14,400 --> 00:23:16,800 Speaker 1: part about money making conversation is. And I want to 420 00:23:16,800 --> 00:23:19,159 Speaker 1: ask you about your your character. There was there was 421 00:23:19,200 --> 00:23:21,480 Speaker 1: a question in your and your they don't want to 422 00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:24,240 Speaker 1: bring up when asked about your Lodger than life passan. 423 00:23:24,800 --> 00:23:28,240 Speaker 1: This is your saying, it's Maddie. I I know you're 424 00:23:28,240 --> 00:23:32,080 Speaker 1: not calling you Maddie. You know, just transition that that 425 00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:35,800 Speaker 1: just threw that out there, you and all right with me. 426 00:23:38,240 --> 00:23:41,040 Speaker 1: You said, I've always had a big personality, but the 427 00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:45,320 Speaker 1: more I've become I became comfortable with myself and feeling 428 00:23:45,359 --> 00:23:49,520 Speaker 1: okay with whatever choices I make in life, not being apologetic, 429 00:23:49,560 --> 00:23:53,320 Speaker 1: the true me was able to be released. The reason 430 00:23:53,359 --> 00:23:56,119 Speaker 1: I read that out is that that happens to a 431 00:23:56,119 --> 00:23:58,840 Speaker 1: lot of people. That's that's that's a statement that anybody 432 00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:02,800 Speaker 1: can say, the struggle with identity, struggling with the path 433 00:24:02,840 --> 00:24:05,879 Speaker 1: they want to follow in life. And I want you 434 00:24:05,960 --> 00:24:08,480 Speaker 1: to just comment on that, because that's why I always 435 00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:10,320 Speaker 1: try to be in preple with shows. You know something, 436 00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:12,879 Speaker 1: just because you're a different color, just because you make 437 00:24:12,920 --> 00:24:15,879 Speaker 1: where a different uh, you have a different lifestyle approach. 438 00:24:16,280 --> 00:24:19,679 Speaker 1: We all think, we all experienced the same desires to 439 00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:22,400 Speaker 1: be successful, we all play taxes, we all want to 440 00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:25,000 Speaker 1: live a healthy life. We all want to be loved. 441 00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:27,600 Speaker 1: And that's all that statement is saying. Right there, it's 442 00:24:27,600 --> 00:24:30,920 Speaker 1: a relatable statement. Just just open your blindness to realize 443 00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:35,119 Speaker 1: that she's relatable, she's understandable, and she's passionate, and she 444 00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:38,720 Speaker 1: cares now to talk about that uh, that whole lodger 445 00:24:38,760 --> 00:24:42,560 Speaker 1: than life possana and accepting yourself and not being you know, 446 00:24:42,760 --> 00:24:47,600 Speaker 1: worried about what people thought about you. Wait, okay, so 447 00:24:47,720 --> 00:24:51,320 Speaker 1: let me come back and okay, Okay, that was a 448 00:24:51,320 --> 00:24:52,880 Speaker 1: good one. That was a good girl. That was good. 449 00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:57,360 Speaker 1: That was good. That's good. You slipped a good joke 450 00:24:57,400 --> 00:24:59,719 Speaker 1: on man. I like that. I like like, I like that. 451 00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:10,359 Speaker 1: I might want you now. Well, you know, the only 452 00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:14,080 Speaker 1: way to truly aspire in life is to embrace one's self, 453 00:25:14,240 --> 00:25:17,000 Speaker 1: you know. And I think a lot of times we 454 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:20,119 Speaker 1: we even whether we're gay, straight, by trans, or whatever, 455 00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:23,919 Speaker 1: there's pieces of us that we might not want to grasp, 456 00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:26,680 Speaker 1: we may not want to accept that, you know, especially 457 00:25:26,720 --> 00:25:29,800 Speaker 1: with even even in even in our African American community, 458 00:25:30,080 --> 00:25:32,520 Speaker 1: where mental health is like a big, big thing that 459 00:25:32,520 --> 00:25:35,760 Speaker 1: that's not talked about. Like sometimes we have to accept 460 00:25:36,119 --> 00:25:38,280 Speaker 1: I might be a little by polar. I need to 461 00:25:38,320 --> 00:25:41,560 Speaker 1: accept that and embrace it. And I used that by 462 00:25:41,600 --> 00:25:45,200 Speaker 1: polar example because I get a lot of inspiration from 463 00:25:45,280 --> 00:25:48,520 Speaker 1: Jennifer Lewis, And you know, Jennifer Lewis came out on 464 00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:51,280 Speaker 1: Oprah and she was like, I'm by polar and I 465 00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:54,520 Speaker 1: have to, you know, medicate myself or whatever. And and 466 00:25:54,920 --> 00:25:57,760 Speaker 1: that really made me look at it, like I'm trans 467 00:25:57,920 --> 00:26:00,919 Speaker 1: and you know, I have to I'm bracing this stuff 468 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:03,119 Speaker 1: or whatever, and this is not a crutch for me. 469 00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:06,200 Speaker 1: And this is not a hinderance in my life for 470 00:26:06,359 --> 00:26:09,280 Speaker 1: me moving on into you know, achieving the goals that 471 00:26:09,320 --> 00:26:11,280 Speaker 1: I want to achieve in my life. And when I 472 00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:14,600 Speaker 1: started Jennifer Lewis do that, I was like, wow, you know, 473 00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:17,159 Speaker 1: this is this This just brings that statement that I 474 00:26:17,320 --> 00:26:20,760 Speaker 1: that I made there, It brings it all full circle. 475 00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:25,160 Speaker 1: Like everybody has to embrace an extempt that part of 476 00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:29,440 Speaker 1: them selves fully so that they can be the most 477 00:26:29,480 --> 00:26:31,920 Speaker 1: magnificent self that they can be, so that they can 478 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:38,280 Speaker 1: really really embrace themselves and be successful in their life. 479 00:26:38,320 --> 00:26:40,199 Speaker 1: Because that's the only way that you're really going to 480 00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:43,959 Speaker 1: be successful successful in life is by fully and purely 481 00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:48,280 Speaker 1: embracing yourself, embracing your flaws and all embracing your past, 482 00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:52,480 Speaker 1: embracing this, embracing the things that come to you, and 483 00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:58,840 Speaker 1: just knowing how to to to propel yourself forwards and 484 00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:01,240 Speaker 1: and all that you do. You know, it's really interesting 485 00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:05,000 Speaker 1: as we talk and our interview Jennifer Lewis, and you 486 00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:08,920 Speaker 1: know that book is a great read's a very sexual 487 00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:17,440 Speaker 1: book because she's very sexually active. Uhllywood. Okay, Now, if 488 00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:20,000 Speaker 1: you if you if you if you're worried about reading 489 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:23,159 Speaker 1: about something. Don't don't read that book. It's not okay, 490 00:27:25,359 --> 00:27:27,879 Speaker 1: she's just young point. But it's about the bipolar, about 491 00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:31,080 Speaker 1: accepting mental health and all these things. Because within the 492 00:27:31,080 --> 00:27:33,719 Speaker 1: black community, because you said that, the black community, you know, 493 00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:36,720 Speaker 1: we kind of like kick things to the curve that 494 00:27:36,760 --> 00:27:40,040 Speaker 1: we really should be talking about weight, uh, high cholesterol, 495 00:27:40,119 --> 00:27:43,119 Speaker 1: high blood pressure, which which is an impact and of 496 00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:45,880 Speaker 1: our help. When it comes to COVID nineteen. It's same 497 00:27:45,920 --> 00:27:47,840 Speaker 1: thing to that team comming, I gotta I gotta wrap 498 00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:50,440 Speaker 1: everybody into it because it's not just us, anybody who 499 00:27:50,560 --> 00:27:53,119 Speaker 1: was eating wrong and living wrong and and have and 500 00:27:53,440 --> 00:27:56,480 Speaker 1: then and winked, winked when it came to the situation 501 00:27:56,520 --> 00:27:59,240 Speaker 1: that you know, we should be taken care of. We 502 00:27:59,359 --> 00:28:02,080 Speaker 1: have to start realizing that we have to change as 503 00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:05,120 Speaker 1: were trying to tear down these Confederate statutes and take 504 00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:07,359 Speaker 1: these flags out of Mississippi. We gotta start eating right, 505 00:28:07,400 --> 00:28:10,200 Speaker 1: we gotta start living right. We gotta start admitting that 506 00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:13,680 Speaker 1: we are not especially men, especially black men, we tend 507 00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:15,480 Speaker 1: to want to be like you know, we can want 508 00:28:15,520 --> 00:28:18,000 Speaker 1: through a brick row, not if it's really brick. Now 509 00:28:18,080 --> 00:28:20,960 Speaker 1: you need to realize and so and so. But the 510 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:25,600 Speaker 1: Black community is always uh shunned uh the truth, and 511 00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:30,240 Speaker 1: especially in the community that you are part of. You know, 512 00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:32,639 Speaker 1: let's let's let's step back a little bit, you know, 513 00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:36,080 Speaker 1: and Ellen de Generous, you know, made her announcement, has 514 00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:39,360 Speaker 1: been so successful on TV, has allowed a lot of 515 00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:43,640 Speaker 1: truths to be spoken and to be accepted. Now, who 516 00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:46,080 Speaker 1: are other great leaders out there? Because she gets the 517 00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:48,720 Speaker 1: most fanfare, what other great leaders that we should be 518 00:28:48,760 --> 00:28:52,200 Speaker 1: recognizing that have been uh besides RuPaul had to have 519 00:28:52,240 --> 00:28:57,520 Speaker 1: to put him out there as well, RuPaul Um, Ellen 520 00:28:57,600 --> 00:29:01,160 Speaker 1: de Generous, I mean people, well, I mean, for me, 521 00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:04,520 Speaker 1: there's some there's some people that we were not I'm 522 00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:07,720 Speaker 1: not gonna say suspect, but that we know. It's that's 523 00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:11,000 Speaker 1: a part of the community that's really not vocal about it, 524 00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:13,719 Speaker 1: which I really wish, which which I really wish they 525 00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:16,840 Speaker 1: would be because it would help more people who are 526 00:29:17,280 --> 00:29:20,239 Speaker 1: struggling with themselves to be the greatest self that they 527 00:29:20,240 --> 00:29:22,120 Speaker 1: could be. I really wish they would speak out. But 528 00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:27,400 Speaker 1: you know, there's there's Billy porter Um from posts Um, 529 00:29:27,560 --> 00:29:32,720 Speaker 1: There's Leverne cock Uh, there's Angelical Ross. You know, there's uh, 530 00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:36,480 Speaker 1: there's Hopes, there there's so many different people that are 531 00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:39,200 Speaker 1: that are leaders in our community, you know, that have 532 00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:42,960 Speaker 1: embracement stems fully. And you know, here's the thing with 533 00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:46,280 Speaker 1: me with with with black people that I want black 534 00:29:46,320 --> 00:29:49,520 Speaker 1: people to know as a black trans woman, I need 535 00:29:49,560 --> 00:29:52,720 Speaker 1: black people to understand that I'm black first, baby, and 536 00:29:52,760 --> 00:29:57,200 Speaker 1: I'm skill black. No matter what other umbrella or whatever 537 00:29:58,040 --> 00:30:07,280 Speaker 1: um identity that I have, I'm Black first and and yes, 538 00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:09,800 Speaker 1: and I try to do so much for my community, 539 00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:13,600 Speaker 1: for my own community because I'm black and train and 540 00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:17,440 Speaker 1: it runs, it runs in an intersection, it's intersectional. So 541 00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:22,320 Speaker 1: you know, I just really really wish that our black 542 00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:24,960 Speaker 1: brothers and sisters would really embrace us just a little 543 00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:27,800 Speaker 1: bit more and not meet this with lots of resistance 544 00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:29,960 Speaker 1: because it's something that they may not understand. This is 545 00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:32,280 Speaker 1: why I have to applaud you, um, you know for 546 00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:34,720 Speaker 1: even allowing me to come on your platform and and 547 00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:37,160 Speaker 1: just talk a little bit about you know, my business 548 00:30:37,160 --> 00:30:39,600 Speaker 1: and my my show and things just going on, because 549 00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:43,120 Speaker 1: lots of times they're there are black people who you know, 550 00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:47,320 Speaker 1: are afraid of you know, communicating or or or even 551 00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:51,000 Speaker 1: getting knowledge about something that that they may may make 552 00:30:51,040 --> 00:30:53,480 Speaker 1: them feel uncomfortable. But we have to know that we're 553 00:30:53,480 --> 00:30:56,080 Speaker 1: all the people at the same time. You know, I 554 00:30:56,080 --> 00:31:01,000 Speaker 1: got to bring up Laverne cox Um. She does she's 555 00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:06,000 Speaker 1: doing that. She's transgender, right yeahs and she has an 556 00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:09,520 Speaker 1: amazing spurt off commercial right now. She doesn't been on. 557 00:31:09,680 --> 00:31:12,320 Speaker 1: She doesn't been on a bunch of stuff like listen, 558 00:31:12,520 --> 00:31:16,000 Speaker 1: Laverne Lavernes, she's she's champion a lot of things for 559 00:31:16,720 --> 00:31:20,600 Speaker 1: black trans women and her and Janet my Janet mind 560 00:31:21,280 --> 00:31:26,240 Speaker 1: she's they've championed things for you know, uh, trans women. 561 00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:28,440 Speaker 1: It's just trans women of color. So you know, I 562 00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:32,120 Speaker 1: love them for the things that they do, and you know, 563 00:31:32,840 --> 00:31:35,520 Speaker 1: their existence is so important because not only did it 564 00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:40,280 Speaker 1: when when they champion things for for for trans women 565 00:31:40,880 --> 00:31:44,560 Speaker 1: and people in the LBGT black people. Let me emphasize 566 00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:49,200 Speaker 1: this black people, black and brown people of the LBGT community. 567 00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:52,920 Speaker 1: It also opens doors for other minorities in the world, 568 00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:55,720 Speaker 1: black people as a whole. There you go, that's what 569 00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:57,360 Speaker 1: I need to hear from you. That's what I need 570 00:31:57,360 --> 00:31:59,400 Speaker 1: to hear from Oh. You know, I am a fan 571 00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:03,840 Speaker 1: as Madison, as I like to call matte Us to 572 00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:06,800 Speaker 1: hold a very popular the Queen's Supreme Court. You know, 573 00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:08,800 Speaker 1: you can come on my show anytime. I just wanted 574 00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:10,520 Speaker 1: to have a little sit down, a little money making 575 00:32:10,560 --> 00:32:13,640 Speaker 1: conversation conversation with you and let you know that I 576 00:32:13,720 --> 00:32:16,120 Speaker 1: love you, I support you. I'm gonna be there when 577 00:32:16,120 --> 00:32:18,440 Speaker 1: you need me. And as soon as this covid and 578 00:32:18,520 --> 00:32:21,600 Speaker 1: Nineteam died out, we're gonna share hamburger, you know, a 579 00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:23,680 Speaker 1: hot dog. We're gonna share some food. I'm a big, 580 00:32:24,120 --> 00:32:26,600 Speaker 1: big foodie, so I love the serch. 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