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Speaker 1: Y'all, that's problemse. We got a special guest this morning,

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Speaker 1: longtime friend, Lord Have Mercy, has played such a pivotal

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Speaker 1: role in my success early on, as well as a

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Speaker 1: host of others. We go all the way back to

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Speaker 1: the Steve Harvey Show, Lord Have Mercy. She starred as

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Speaker 1: LaVita alas A Jenkins. She's an actress, a writer, producer.

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Speaker 1: Her newest project, brand new one, y'all, is an all

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Speaker 1: new series that's on Netflix right now. All new series

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Speaker 1: on Netflix right now, and it's called She the People.

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Speaker 1: She is the co creator, she is the executive producer

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Speaker 1: of She the People, and she's here to tell us

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Speaker 1: all about it. It's a new series on Netflix. Ladies

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Speaker 1: and gentlemen, please welcome family member, longtime friend you know

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Speaker 1: her as LaVita alas A Jenkins called government name Terry

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Speaker 1: Jay Von Harry.

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Speaker 2: Welcome Harry.

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Speaker 1: What was going on?

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Speaker 2: Girl? Yes, I am so happy to be with you guys.

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Speaker 2: Thank you Seeve, thank you Shirley, Carla, Tommy, thank y'all

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Speaker 2: for having me on. Hello.

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Speaker 1: I couldn't believe this. You have been at this for

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Speaker 1: quite some time. I know you. I've heard you discussing

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Speaker 1: projects before. Well, we did it. It's called She the

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Speaker 1: People is streaming right now on Netflix. You star as

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Speaker 1: a character named Antoinette Dunkerson. She is Mississippi's first black

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Speaker 1: female lieutenant governor and She the People is all about politics,

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Speaker 1: power and petty. It's Southern style. So Terry tell us

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Speaker 1: about the show.

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Speaker 2: Yes, so She's the People First. I have to tell

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Speaker 2: you how where the inspiration for the show came from.

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Speaker 2: When my girlfriend London Breed became the first black female

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Speaker 2: mate of our city, San Francisco, where we grew up

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Speaker 2: in back in twenty seventeen or twenty eighteen, and she

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Speaker 2: got so much pushback and with so much drama for

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Speaker 2: her and she's just a girl from the hood. You know,

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Speaker 2: she grew up in one hood. I grew up in

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Speaker 2: another hood. To come from very humble beginning and watching

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Speaker 2: her work her way up through politics in our city,

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Speaker 2: one of the richest cities in the nation, and to

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Speaker 2: become the first black female mayor, it was a huge deal.

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Speaker 2: And she got so much pushback and watching her like

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Speaker 2: smile through all the situations and do all the things

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Speaker 2: you have to do was just so inspiring to me.

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Speaker 2: And so I was like, dang that would be a

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Speaker 2: really great character to play. But of course, though she

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Speaker 2: was dealing with all this drama and heaviness, I wanted

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Speaker 2: to put a comical twist on it because I believe

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Speaker 2: you can tell stories and send your messages and they

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Speaker 2: become more digestible if you can make people laugh while

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Speaker 2: you're talking about all the harsh things that we have

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Speaker 2: to go through. So that's where the inspiration where the

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Speaker 2: show came from. So back during the writer's strike, when

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Speaker 2: the writers and actors and everybody was on strike, I

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Speaker 2: called Nya Palmer, who's an amazing writer, and I was like,

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Speaker 2: what if we shoot a proof of concepts of this show?

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Speaker 2: Because we've been like pitching it, talking, telling people about it,

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Speaker 2: and nobody's fighting. So I was like, let's shoot it

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Speaker 2: while everybody's on strike, so when the strike is over,

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Speaker 2: we have something to show people. And so that's what

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Speaker 2: we did. She wrote, like the fifteen minute speck we shot.

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Speaker 2: I got a team together, as you know seeve I

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Speaker 2: live here in Atlanta now, so the support of the

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Speaker 2: people here in the community for us to be able

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Speaker 2: to shoot it with massive and you know, because it

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Speaker 2: was in the space of politics and I'm not super

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Speaker 2: well versed in that area at all. I thought it

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Speaker 2: was smart to bring somebody onto the team that could

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Speaker 2: be like the producer, a consulting producer. So I called

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Speaker 2: our friend Kisha Lance Bottom, and I pitched her the

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Speaker 2: show and asked her if she would be interested in

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Speaker 2: coming on board with me as a producer, and she

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Speaker 2: loved the idea and she said, yes, I'll join you.

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Speaker 2: So with her by my side, I was able to

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Speaker 2: get the fund raise the fund from a private investor

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Speaker 2: here in Atlanta, and we shot this proof of concepts

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Speaker 2: so it came out exactly like I wanted it to.

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Speaker 2: So when the strike was over, we sent it out

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Speaker 2: into the world and we just got called after calls

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Speaker 2: after calls to people wanting to meet with us for

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Speaker 2: this show. And one of the people we met with

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Speaker 2: was Tyler Perry, and we got multiple offers. But going

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Speaker 2: with Tyler Perry, it sits the vision of what I

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Speaker 2: wanted to do with the show. And now it's on air.

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Speaker 2: And you know, a lot of the character's names are

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Speaker 2: named after people in my family or my neighborhood. My

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Speaker 2: mother's played by jo Marie Peyton, who was Harriet Winslow

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Speaker 2: on Family matters. Yeah, yeah, she is not Harriet Windblow

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Speaker 2: on this show, fasy saucy. She drops the f bob.

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Speaker 2: He tells it like it is. This has been twenty

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Speaker 2: years of pitting my own show, and finally it happened.

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Speaker 2: We did it, And congratulation. That is persistence.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm telling you well. I mean it's just

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Speaker 1: a great story of perseverance and vision and all of

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Speaker 1: that and that's how God works. And congratulations on it

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Speaker 1: because I think Tyler Perry was the ideal pick for it.

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Speaker 2: Yep, yeah, I.

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Speaker 1: Mean, congratulations. That's a great story. I think it's I

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Speaker 1: think it's it's a worse for everybody. Everybody in the

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Speaker 1: Steve Harvey Nation. Go on Netflix and check it out.

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Speaker 1: It is called She the People. It is produced. Start

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Speaker 1: in our very own Terry Jay Vaughn. Listen to me.

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Speaker 1: What a great story everybody's involved in. It sounds like

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Speaker 1: a great project. I'm gonna watch it myself. I'm telling

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Speaker 1: everybody in the Steve arvination, let's go to Netflix and

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Speaker 1: support our own Terry J. Vond. The name of the

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Speaker 1: project is She the People. Ladies and gentlemen, put your

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Speaker 1: hands together for my dear friend Terry j Von

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