WEBVTT - BACK LIKE WE NEVER LEFT 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:01.640 I'm Tamika d. Mallory and the. 0:00:01.639 --> 0:00:03.159 Ship Boy my son in general. 0:00:03.320 --> 0:00:05.480 We are your host of T m I, t. 0:00:05.519 --> 0:00:10.280 Mika and my Son's Information, Truth, motivation and inspiration. 0:00:10.039 --> 0:00:16.200 Name new energy. What's going on, my son, Lennon. 0:00:17.040 --> 0:00:19.200 I am happy to be back, Tomail. 0:00:19.280 --> 0:00:20.600 We're back, We're back, We're back. 0:00:20.680 --> 0:00:21.600 I'm back in this. 0:00:23.600 --> 0:00:24.960 Why are you screaming that? 0:00:25.000 --> 0:00:27.600 Because you know I'm a little energy. Gotta come with 0:00:27.640 --> 0:00:30.720 a little energy. We back. Genie, always be like yo, 0:00:30.840 --> 0:00:33.600 come with you guys have doing energy. So I came 0:00:33.680 --> 0:00:36.360 with the energy today, you know, right, Jannis. 0:00:36.080 --> 0:00:38.240 And with the energy table, with your energy. 0:00:38.360 --> 0:00:43.360 Okay, just no banging, no banging, but very nice to 0:00:43.400 --> 0:00:44.320 see you, sir. 0:00:44.720 --> 0:00:50.320 Likewise, you got your head done. Yes, you look it 0:00:50.360 --> 0:00:51.120 looks like it's work. 0:00:51.479 --> 0:00:54.720 To the side, over the pillow and just get up 0:00:54.760 --> 0:00:58.960 and keep it moving. Curling it the curls was real good. 0:00:59.000 --> 0:01:03.000 It was real good curl Uh. I had a black 0:01:03.760 --> 0:01:07.720 Jamaican woman who curled my hair for Sherry Shepherd Show 0:01:07.800 --> 0:01:08.640 two days ago. 0:01:08.920 --> 0:01:13.960 She curled different. She put the perfection curls to this heir. 0:01:14.600 --> 0:01:19.319 Yes, ma'am, yes, Brenda from Sherry Sheppard Show. 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:23.199 She is not from the Sherry shepherdow, oh my god, 0:01:23.240 --> 0:01:25.520 why are you acting like you know what? I realized 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:29.400 that you did not know who Brenda was. Brenda is 0:01:29.520 --> 0:01:34.600 directly across from Alicia in the salon all my stuff. 0:01:34.680 --> 0:01:37.640 Yes, yes, she's Brenda. 0:01:38.000 --> 0:01:39.000 So she's the one. 0:01:39.080 --> 0:01:43.280 She Ala went to Mexico and then I said, I 0:01:43.760 --> 0:01:46.679 tried to tell her my by the way, Alicia is 0:01:46.720 --> 0:01:50.120 my hairstylas y'all for everybody who's listening, I was like, Alicia, 0:01:50.280 --> 0:01:52.600 not this week, Like you cannot have a trip to 0:01:52.640 --> 0:01:54.720 go on this week because I'm gonna be on Chevy 0:01:54.760 --> 0:01:55.240 Shepherd Show. 0:01:55.280 --> 0:01:57.640 What am I gonna do? And she was like damn. 0:01:57.800 --> 0:02:01.560 You know you could see that she really considered, like damn, 0:02:01.960 --> 0:02:02.960 I gotta do your hair. 0:02:03.080 --> 0:02:04.360 Your hair gotta be right. 0:02:04.880 --> 0:02:07.600 Till she when I saw her the next few days 0:02:07.840 --> 0:02:11.040 whatever later, I was like, yeah, now you remember, I said, 0:02:11.040 --> 0:02:13.480 what you gonna do? Because you know it's on Monday. 0:02:13.960 --> 0:02:18.560 She said, I'm going to Mexico and you gotta call Brenda. 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:21.960 She called Brenda set up the appointment. She was like, yeah, baby, 0:02:22.040 --> 0:02:25.000 I love you, but there's always gonna be something because 0:02:25.040 --> 0:02:29.720 my hair style is everybody who she handles has something 0:02:29.800 --> 0:02:34.160 going on it's whatever it is teaching, being on TV, 0:02:34.760 --> 0:02:35.680 being in the mix. 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:38.240 So she gotta she gotta find a little minute for herself, 0:02:38.280 --> 0:02:41.640 and I not she's gonna be putting out fires and 0:02:41.720 --> 0:02:44.720 running like a person with her hair cut off. 0:02:44.840 --> 0:02:48.360 I am very very happy for her that she got 0:02:48.400 --> 0:02:51.800 her a little bit of. 0:02:50.880 --> 0:02:52.720 Vacation and Brenda came to. 0:02:52.639 --> 0:02:55.400 The Brenda came to the rescue and came to my 0:02:55.480 --> 0:02:57.440 house at six o'clock in the morning and started with 0:02:57.440 --> 0:03:01.680 some curls, some good curves. Okay, right, and shout out 0:03:01.720 --> 0:03:05.360 to Tatiana who also was on the beat Beat. 0:03:05.760 --> 0:03:06.000 Yes. 0:03:06.600 --> 0:03:10.679 So anyway, speaking of Sherry Shepherd the Sherry Shepherd Show, 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:13.079 first of all, let me just say that Sherry Shepherd 0:03:13.240 --> 0:03:18.960 in general is just an incredibly authentic woman. So speaking 0:03:19.000 --> 0:03:23.520 of Sherry Shepherd and the Sherry Shepherd Show, which I 0:03:23.880 --> 0:03:27.000 was very very very proud and honored to be on, 0:03:27.639 --> 0:03:33.680 you know, Sherry is a super authentic woman. I I 0:03:33.960 --> 0:03:38.360 first of all, First of all, we met because people 0:03:38.400 --> 0:03:43.360 continuously tagged us together on social media saying, y'all look 0:03:43.440 --> 0:03:45.840 so much alike it what it used to be. Keisha 0:03:45.920 --> 0:03:50.720 Knight Pulliam that I always, always, always was mistaken for 0:03:50.920 --> 0:03:54.120 and people would tag me with Keisha all the time, 0:03:54.720 --> 0:03:58.600 but l as of late, it's really been Sherry Shepherd. 0:03:58.960 --> 0:04:03.680 And so we met because you know, people were saying it. 0:04:03.760 --> 0:04:06.360 And then eventually, no matter how busy you are, no 0:04:06.400 --> 0:04:08.360 matter how many people who are following you or speaking 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:11.120 to you, if you see if something is consistently being 0:04:11.160 --> 0:04:14.080 stated in your comment section, you're gonna see it and 0:04:14.120 --> 0:04:16.920 you being tagged to, you know, people saying look at 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:20.000 them look alike photos. So we both saw it and 0:04:20.120 --> 0:04:23.279 somehow online we just were like, oh, you know, hey, sis, 0:04:23.320 --> 0:04:25.440 I guess we twin and you know, and that was that. 0:04:25.839 --> 0:04:29.160 But then Bevy Smith had a dinner and we were 0:04:29.200 --> 0:04:32.320 both there and that's where we had our first opportunity 0:04:32.360 --> 0:04:35.960 to actually sit and talk about this look alike piece. 0:04:36.080 --> 0:04:38.279 And then of course, you know, we took a video. 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:40.120 We put it out and it was super cute. And 0:04:40.200 --> 0:04:43.200 I do see the resemblance between us. I don't think 0:04:43.240 --> 0:04:45.600 we look as much as you know, folks be going 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:48.080 hard like, oh my god, I thought it was Sherry 0:04:48.160 --> 0:04:51.880 talking to Sherry. Okay, I don't know about that, yah, 0:04:52.839 --> 0:04:55.760 but there's a resemblance. You see something there. Especially it 0:04:55.800 --> 0:04:58.880 depends on the angle depends on the hair, depends on 0:04:59.080 --> 0:04:59.920 a bunch of things. 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:02.320 So we just became, you. 0:05:02.240 --> 0:05:05.880 Know, cool, off of something where other people kind of 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:09.360 bought us together around this idea. But once we met 0:05:09.440 --> 0:05:12.280 at the dinner, it was just like a starr in 0:05:12.360 --> 0:05:13.160 your eye, like. 0:05:13.120 --> 0:05:15.520 You know it, sis, I see you, you see me. 0:05:15.760 --> 0:05:16.599 You know we cool. 0:05:16.920 --> 0:05:18.680 So then we just seen. You know how it is. 0:05:18.760 --> 0:05:21.120 It's like a car. Once you get one or once 0:05:21.160 --> 0:05:24.800 your friend has one. Everywhere you go you see this 0:05:24.880 --> 0:05:27.080 particular brand, this making model. 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:27.920 That's how it is. 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:29.880 So then all of a sudden we just see each 0:05:29.880 --> 0:05:32.120 other here and there in the third and she always 0:05:32.240 --> 0:05:35.000 is just so cool and so real. She's not the 0:05:35.080 --> 0:05:38.320 type of person. It's some of these folks that you know, 0:05:38.880 --> 0:05:42.599 these uh and I want to say entertainment because she 0:05:42.760 --> 0:05:44.760 is an entertainment movies and all of that. 0:05:44.800 --> 0:05:45.719 So she's an entertainment. 0:05:45.760 --> 0:05:48.600 So I'm gonna say these entertainers that you can meet 0:05:48.720 --> 0:05:51.880 and you're like hey, and they like how you doing. 0:05:52.200 --> 0:05:56.760 I have to say I'm very, very very very privileged 0:05:56.960 --> 0:06:01.200 in that it doesn't happen to me often, even whether 0:06:01.279 --> 0:06:05.400 people know me or not generally, And I think I 0:06:05.680 --> 0:06:08.120 kind of like do the same thing on the street. Right, 0:06:08.680 --> 0:06:10.200 A lot of people are like, oh, you know, you 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:12.680 shouldn't get out your car in this place or that 0:06:12.800 --> 0:06:15.520 place because look at those guys or look at those people. 0:06:15.600 --> 0:06:18.760 But when I approach people, just because we work in communities, 0:06:19.279 --> 0:06:21.520 I know how to have a voice and a tone 0:06:21.600 --> 0:06:24.200 that just makes people feel like, Okay, she cool. 0:06:24.279 --> 0:06:24.880 She gets me. 0:06:25.200 --> 0:06:26.560 So I jump out the car and I'm in the 0:06:26.600 --> 0:06:27.839 hood and I want to go to the store and 0:06:27.839 --> 0:06:31.600 get me some skittles or something water, whatever it is. 0:06:32.160 --> 0:06:33.720 And I see a bunch of guys in front of 0:06:33.760 --> 0:06:36.560 the store. I don't act afraid, first of all, and 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:39.080 second of all, I just honor them, like, what's up, guys, 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:41.159 how y'all doing? It's good to see you, and you know, 0:06:41.320 --> 0:06:43.640 usually the response is like, what's up? 0:06:43.680 --> 0:06:45.320 Sists? How you doing? You know? Cool? 0:06:45.760 --> 0:06:48.240 So the same thing with how I try to operate 0:06:48.400 --> 0:06:50.719 in any space is that when I see people, I 0:06:50.760 --> 0:06:53.479 try to give them reverence, respect. It ain't about me. 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:55.840 I don't need you to be like, hey, I'm hi, 0:06:56.080 --> 0:06:59.000 how you doing. I'm willing to speak first. So every 0:06:59.040 --> 0:07:01.839 time I see her, it's mad love, mad love, mad love. 0:07:02.200 --> 0:07:04.680 And she said to me one day. You know, you 0:07:04.720 --> 0:07:07.360 got a book coming out, you're doing different things. Let 0:07:07.400 --> 0:07:08.280 me know how I. 0:07:08.240 --> 0:07:09.200 Can be supportive. 0:07:09.520 --> 0:07:11.880 And sure enough I was able to get on her 0:07:11.920 --> 0:07:15.680 show now, you know, and she's not she. 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:16.600 Doesn't have anything. 0:07:16.680 --> 0:07:18.880 I don't even I think she just told her producers, 0:07:18.880 --> 0:07:23.240 who happened to be amazing black woman on this set, amazing, 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:25.480 all kinds of people, all different types of people. They 0:07:25.480 --> 0:07:29.680 were amazing on the set, Patrick, or just a bunch 0:07:29.760 --> 0:07:32.880 of people just amazing. So I'm not saying I'm not 0:07:32.920 --> 0:07:35.840 putting this on them, but you know how hard it 0:07:35.920 --> 0:07:39.520 is for me, especially me, to be able to get 0:07:39.520 --> 0:07:43.320 in some of those mainstream spaces because you have some 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:45.720 of the people on the teams like, oh, she's this 0:07:45.920 --> 0:07:48.400 or she's that too controversial, to this, to that and 0:07:48.440 --> 0:07:53.920 the third. And so I just expected and understood that 0:07:54.000 --> 0:07:55.880 when I was telling her, like, hey, I would love 0:07:55.920 --> 0:07:57.960 to come on this show, if she would have said 0:07:58.120 --> 0:08:00.560 I've not been I can't get it done, which I 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:04.720 have been told that by other black people on other shows. 0:08:05.240 --> 0:08:08.120 By the way, I'm sorry, I really would love to 0:08:08.160 --> 0:08:10.280 have you on. You know, I was on Tammer Hall 0:08:10.320 --> 0:08:13.280 too during my first book. But I've had a lot 0:08:13.320 --> 0:08:17.320 of people say I want to do it, but you 0:08:17.480 --> 0:08:19.600 know the story, you know what I've heard. You know, 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:22.400 I wish I tried, but in the meeting it turned 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:24.560 into this, that and the third. So I don't know 0:08:24.720 --> 0:08:26.520 if she had to deal with anything. I don't know 0:08:26.520 --> 0:08:28.120 if she had to speak up for me. I have 0:08:28.280 --> 0:08:31.400 no idea. She never made it a thing any of that. 0:08:31.480 --> 0:08:33.040 She just was like, I want to have you on, 0:08:33.160 --> 0:08:35.280 and the next thing, you know, I was on and 0:08:35.360 --> 0:08:38.800 I was expecting my son to get the call from 0:08:38.840 --> 0:08:40.880 between when she told me that I was going to 0:08:40.920 --> 0:08:44.600 be on, which was weeks before, I was expecting that 0:08:44.679 --> 0:08:46.640 she would text me and say, Sis, can we talk? 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:48.920 Cause I get that all the time, and I already 0:08:48.960 --> 0:08:51.680 know what it is. You know, whenever I'm supposed to 0:08:51.720 --> 0:08:54.640 work on a project with the celebrity or you know, 0:08:54.720 --> 0:08:58.760 in some type of space like that and they text me, 0:08:59.000 --> 0:09:01.400 can we talk? Know that they're either trying to get 0:09:01.400 --> 0:09:04.920 there talking points to go back and fight, or they're 0:09:04.920 --> 0:09:08.800 getting ready to tell me that. Unfortunately, these folks are 0:09:08.840 --> 0:09:10.880 saying whatever whatever and let me support you in a 0:09:10.880 --> 0:09:14.680 different way. So that didn't happen. It was a great conversation. 0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:19.880 She's a beautiful person. The energy in the space was amazing. 0:09:20.360 --> 0:09:23.240 The black women that's showing up for Sherry Shepherd is 0:09:23.320 --> 0:09:28.200 also extremely powerful. Just beautiful to see all those black folks, 0:09:28.200 --> 0:09:30.760 men and women. So it was just a really really 0:09:30.760 --> 0:09:31.480 good vibe. 0:09:31.760 --> 0:09:34.760 Dope, you know, it looked very amazing. Like you said, 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:37.440 everybody there was Dope. I was happening to be there 0:09:37.840 --> 0:09:40.199 to support you, and you know she was. 0:09:40.400 --> 0:09:42.040 Not to support me on you on. 0:09:42.720 --> 0:09:47.480 You are on the payroad for the tour, so let's 0:09:47.520 --> 0:09:49.120 get that anyway. 0:09:49.160 --> 0:09:51.959 It's your job. And what I told you about the. 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:58.040 Job, do your job because we have got to do 0:09:58.080 --> 0:09:58.480 your job. 0:09:58.480 --> 0:10:00.439 You've got to get paid, So you got to your job. 0:10:00.840 --> 0:10:03.160 You know. It was it was just an amazing energy. 0:10:03.640 --> 0:10:05.480 And like you said, it's a lot of people that don't. 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:07.480 It's a lot of people that say, oh, we're gonna 0:10:07.520 --> 0:10:09.360 do this and yeah, you can come on the show, 0:10:09.559 --> 0:10:12.040 and then it's and but I respect the people that 0:10:12.160 --> 0:10:15.520 say I can't because that's just the reality. Look, I'm 0:10:15.559 --> 0:10:17.240 at the boss here, you know, I work for some 0:10:17.280 --> 0:10:19.680 people and they said this. But the people that pissed 0:10:19.679 --> 0:10:21.000 me off is the ones that said they gonna do 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:24.400 it and then they don't respond your your cyst and bro, 0:10:24.679 --> 0:10:26.720 we got you, we got you, like I don't, I 0:10:26.720 --> 0:10:30.120 don't even, I don't even energy. No, it's not even 0:10:30.160 --> 0:10:32.679 a fight. It's just for me. It's like, why should 0:10:32.679 --> 0:10:35.480 I have to fight because you volunteered something and we're 0:10:35.480 --> 0:10:42.480 still in this issue because it's people. It's just it's 0:10:42.520 --> 0:10:45.440 so much fake ship in this industry, and you know, 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:48.880 and you just I've grown past the calling out and 0:10:48.920 --> 0:10:51.280 feeling a way because I know these be the same 0:10:51.320 --> 0:10:53.600 people that you'll hug tomorrow, that see you and be like, 0:10:53.600 --> 0:10:55.880 oh yo, yeah, you call me tomorrow. It's the same 0:10:55.880 --> 0:11:00.120 shit you see them, and it's the industry. Hug the industry. 0:11:00.280 --> 0:11:01.880 You just hit me up, we're gonna do this. And 0:11:01.920 --> 0:11:03.920 then you call them, they never answer what they respond 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:06.160 once and then you see him again they act like 0:11:06.200 --> 0:11:08.280 they never told you. They told you last time, and 0:11:08.320 --> 0:11:10.480 you just keep playing this game. And before it would 0:11:10.480 --> 0:11:10.960 pissed me off. 0:11:11.280 --> 0:11:13.599 Before I remember, because you used to pull people like 0:11:14.440 --> 0:11:15.320 you can't me. 0:11:15.520 --> 0:11:18.080 But now I realized that you know, you know that, 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:20.480 I know that you bullshit and I know you know, 0:11:20.760 --> 0:11:22.920 so I don't have to do because you you gotta 0:11:22.960 --> 0:11:24.640 deal with that. I don't even I don't take it 0:11:24.679 --> 0:11:27.000 on myself no more because that's the world we live 0:11:27.000 --> 0:11:29.360 in this industry. But it's good to see that there 0:11:29.360 --> 0:11:33.240 are still people still a genuine and authentic and you know, 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:36.320 it was a dope interview. The energy was dope. You know, 0:11:36.400 --> 0:11:39.680 it was fun. It wasn't you know. It dived into 0:11:39.720 --> 0:11:42.199 the book, but it had some fun things she showed 0:11:42.240 --> 0:11:44.040 you social media. It was it just was a dope. 0:11:44.720 --> 0:11:50.000 And you know what, I think that my appearance on 0:11:50.080 --> 0:11:54.920 Sherry Shepherd's show showed. It gave people the ability to 0:11:54.960 --> 0:11:57.840 see the other sides of me because I have been 0:11:57.920 --> 0:12:02.080 boxed into what I have present. I'm not trying to 0:12:02.120 --> 0:12:05.400 say that people should just out of the head imagine 0:12:05.559 --> 0:12:08.760 something other than what they continuously see that you. 0:12:08.800 --> 0:12:10.000 Promote about yourself. 0:12:10.320 --> 0:12:13.280 And what I have been very comfortable as and what 0:12:13.440 --> 0:12:16.839 I am until the death of me is an activist, 0:12:16.960 --> 0:12:21.400 an organizer, a strategist in the movement. I am absolutely 0:12:21.480 --> 0:12:24.040 that I am a protester. That's what I am. But 0:12:24.120 --> 0:12:26.280 I just want folks to be able to see that 0:12:26.280 --> 0:12:29.320 there is a human side to people that is not 0:12:29.640 --> 0:12:33.240 just in front of a bullhorn, microphone camera. You know, 0:12:33.520 --> 0:12:37.840 just being the angry black woman all the time, although 0:12:37.920 --> 0:12:40.000 I'm angry as shit, and I don't let nobody take 0:12:40.040 --> 0:12:43.440 that from me however, however, or try to weaponize that, 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:46.160 because we should be angry about everything that is happening 0:12:46.559 --> 0:12:50.000 in our society. But I will say that I also 0:12:50.280 --> 0:12:55.240 have other things about me, and I am evolving as 0:12:55.280 --> 0:12:58.640 a person. My forty four year old self is very 0:12:58.800 --> 0:13:03.360 much different than what people met in twenty nineteen, twenty twenty, 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:06.839 twenty twenty one. I have a whole new thing going 0:13:06.880 --> 0:13:09.560 on that I can feel rising up in me, and 0:13:09.600 --> 0:13:12.240 so I think the interview gave an opportunity for people 0:13:12.240 --> 0:13:15.800 to see those things, and it made people mad because 0:13:15.840 --> 0:13:19.680 I've already received a few dms from people I know 0:13:19.880 --> 0:13:24.679 and don't know, like those bikini pictures, like you're letting 0:13:24.679 --> 0:13:26.240 people diminish your brand. 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:28.840 I love when they get mad about the bikini is why. 0:13:28.640 --> 0:13:29.959 Would it diminish your brand? 0:13:30.000 --> 0:13:30.320 I don't. 0:13:30.559 --> 0:13:33.120 I mean people are weird because they you know what 0:13:33.160 --> 0:13:36.280 it is people have in their mind what your brain 0:13:36.480 --> 0:13:38.760 is to them, So that means it's to you what 0:13:38.960 --> 0:13:41.240 you think it is exactly. No, my brain is not 0:13:41.400 --> 0:13:43.640 like when I say I'm gangsters woke. It's for people. 0:13:43.800 --> 0:13:46.439 Oh you can't No, I can be. You can't be. 0:13:46.800 --> 0:13:49.040 You don't get to tell me. Look, if I'm outside 0:13:49.080 --> 0:13:50.920 and you approach me in a way, I'm gonna handle 0:13:50.920 --> 0:13:52.679 it that way. When it comes to being woke, I'm 0:13:52.679 --> 0:13:55.120 gonna speak on behalf of my people. I'm going to 0:13:55.320 --> 0:13:59.120 merge both parts of me to create who I am, right, 0:13:59.200 --> 0:14:01.400 And I don't have to make you feel comfortable. Yeah, 0:14:01.600 --> 0:14:04.040 I don't have to make you feel comfortable about who 0:14:04.120 --> 0:14:06.680 I am and that's okay. And you don't have to 0:14:06.800 --> 0:14:08.200 like that part of me. You can be like you 0:14:08.200 --> 0:14:09.960 know what, they can be like Yo, you know what? 0:14:10.000 --> 0:14:11.199 To me, I don't really want to see you in 0:14:11.240 --> 0:14:14.080 the babies don't look right. Go to like you said, 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:16.319 go to until freedom page. You're gonna see all of 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:19.840 the business and all. But on this page, I might 0:14:19.880 --> 0:14:22.000 have on a babing suit, I might do this, I 0:14:22.080 --> 0:14:24.400 might do whatever I want on my personal page, because 0:14:24.520 --> 0:14:28.080 this is my personal life. And people gotta understand that 0:14:28.200 --> 0:14:31.880 the Internet makes people. And we love you as fans. 0:14:31.920 --> 0:14:33.800 We want you to love us for what you love 0:14:33.880 --> 0:14:37.560 us for. Right. If you just like my wraps, my 0:14:37.680 --> 0:14:39.680 YouTube page is full of raps, going in and watch 0:14:39.720 --> 0:14:42.120 my raps. If you don't like my political stance, don't 0:14:42.120 --> 0:14:44.920 come to my Instagram. Right, It's not gonna work for 0:14:44.960 --> 0:14:47.280 you because I'm gonna speak on what I think. So 0:14:47.960 --> 0:14:50.640 take the part of me that you like and enjoy it. 0:14:50.680 --> 0:14:53.000 Take it with you, but don't put the rest of 0:14:53.000 --> 0:14:55.560 the shit on me, because the other part you don't like, 0:14:55.960 --> 0:14:58.720 that's me. It's still me, and I'm not gonna change 0:14:58.720 --> 0:14:59.720 it to make you happy. 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:00.840 I mean, that's it. 0:15:00.960 --> 0:15:03.400 So it is, it is what it is, Yes, but 0:15:03.520 --> 0:15:07.840 I am very grateful for that opportunity. And more over, 0:15:08.080 --> 0:15:11.280 and this is my thought of the day, I am 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:15.640 grateful for the way that people are showing up on 0:15:15.720 --> 0:15:18.720 this tour now. I know in season four we talked 0:15:18.720 --> 0:15:22.240 about this as well, because the tour just began and 0:15:22.360 --> 0:15:24.680 there was so many incredible people coming out, and I 0:15:24.720 --> 0:15:27.800 said that I was just, you know, very very grateful. 0:15:28.080 --> 0:15:29.520 But I really want to kind of come at it 0:15:29.560 --> 0:15:33.880 from a different perspective today, because yes, people are showing up. 0:15:33.920 --> 0:15:37.440 And when I say showing up, it is amazing to me. 0:15:37.880 --> 0:15:42.360 It's beyond what I could have imagined. I knew that 0:15:42.960 --> 0:15:46.080 I wanted, which is why I have funded my entire 0:15:46.240 --> 0:15:51.560 tour myself, and I knew that I wanted a And 0:15:51.920 --> 0:15:54.440 by the way, funding my tour doesn't mean people haven't 0:15:54.440 --> 0:15:57.360 had to purchase tickets depending on the venues or whatever. 0:15:57.720 --> 0:16:00.760 But in terms of how I got there, the travel 0:16:00.840 --> 0:16:03.480 for the most part, ninety percent of the time, I've 0:16:03.480 --> 0:16:06.720 covered it myself. I've covered the team, different individuals who've 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:09.760 either had to travel with me or handling different aspects 0:16:09.800 --> 0:16:13.960 of it. I've purchased books myself to give away here 0:16:14.240 --> 0:16:18.240 to give to different people. I have done as much 0:16:18.320 --> 0:16:21.840 as I can because I understand that the investment from 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:25.360 you for you is going to be more significant. You're 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:27.960 going to get more of a return from the investment 0:16:28.000 --> 0:16:32.640 that you put into yourself. My publishing team amazing, amazing, amazing. 0:16:32.720 --> 0:16:35.880 They have gone above and beyond to support me. But 0:16:35.920 --> 0:16:39.960 there are still limitations with a company that's working with 0:16:40.160 --> 0:16:43.280 a million authors. So if you really really want to 0:16:43.320 --> 0:16:49.160 see a product that is like a product that represents 0:16:49.320 --> 0:16:54.400 you in exactly what you want and your capabilities and 0:16:54.440 --> 0:16:57.120 your brand, you have to invest in it, right. And 0:16:57.160 --> 0:16:59.520 I know that's hard for people to hear because it's like, damn, 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:02.400 I already struggled for you to hear what. 0:17:02.320 --> 0:17:05.679 You mean, because I had to, damn it. I'm not 0:17:05.720 --> 0:17:08.640 about this book, but just in general, I tell you 0:17:09.000 --> 0:17:11.360 believe in certain things. You're be like, wow, I don't 0:17:11.359 --> 0:17:13.720 know if people are going to come and I don't know. No, 0:17:14.160 --> 0:17:19.960 you have, you have it, you have. 0:17:18.680 --> 0:17:20.520 That particular part is different. 0:17:20.640 --> 0:17:24.240 What I'm saying is I always believe in investing in 0:17:24.280 --> 0:17:28.000 myself because no matter what we've done on this podcast, 0:17:28.119 --> 0:17:33.080 to my other businesses, to UH until Freedom, to the 0:17:33.280 --> 0:17:36.320 Justice League, and anything that we've been involved in, I 0:17:36.359 --> 0:17:39.800 have always put my credit card up with everybody else's. 0:17:40.480 --> 0:17:42.679 Let me let me I guess what I'm saying. 0:17:42.560 --> 0:17:45.920 Is but I think you're speaking to the first part 0:17:46.240 --> 0:17:48.919 of what I was saying, which is the way that 0:17:48.960 --> 0:17:52.840 people are showing up is beyond my imagination and. 0:17:52.760 --> 0:17:54.119 I told you that it shouldn't be. 0:17:54.560 --> 0:18:00.199 But but well, it's it's that people are. If you 0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:02.159 know some of the events that I have been a 0:18:02.200 --> 0:18:07.480 part of the group of people who are having it right. 0:18:07.560 --> 0:18:12.080 The host let's just say they're charging one hundred and 0:18:12.160 --> 0:18:15.600 ten dollars for a ticket because they're feeding people, giving 0:18:15.640 --> 0:18:18.360 you a drink ticket, giving you a book that's signed 0:18:18.400 --> 0:18:20.280 by me, and of course they got to pay for 0:18:20.359 --> 0:18:22.840 a venue, so they have all that going on. Sure, 0:18:22.960 --> 0:18:26.840 I get there on my own in most situations. Few 0:18:26.880 --> 0:18:29.239 times other people have paid for me to come, But 0:18:29.280 --> 0:18:31.320 for the most part I don't even ask. I let 0:18:31.400 --> 0:18:33.680 them offer, or if not, if it's something I want 0:18:33.680 --> 0:18:36.879 to do, I'm on my way because I understand that 0:18:37.040 --> 0:18:39.359 having events for somebody, and this is my book, this 0:18:39.400 --> 0:18:41.560 ain't they booked like you know what I'm saying, it's 0:18:41.560 --> 0:18:46.120 a lot. It's if venues are not cheap, dinner, drinks, 0:18:46.200 --> 0:18:49.520 whatever you have, it's not cheap. So for somebody to 0:18:49.640 --> 0:18:52.560 go in their pocket in this day and age, with 0:18:52.720 --> 0:18:54.919 all the expenses, the eggs too high, to bread to 0:18:55.000 --> 0:18:58.520 how to gas too high, the daycare, distress of what's 0:18:58.560 --> 0:19:02.840 going on on the tea, the world is a mess 0:19:02.880 --> 0:19:04.720 for them to go in there pocket and say I'm 0:19:04.760 --> 0:19:08.040 gonna spend one hundred and ten dollars on this event 0:19:08.160 --> 0:19:10.520 so I could go and be a part of something 0:19:10.560 --> 0:19:13.119 for Temiega Mallory. And it's not just one, but in 0:19:13.160 --> 0:19:15.719 most places, one hundred, one hundred and fifty two hundred, 0:19:16.040 --> 0:19:19.600 three hundred people just this past weekend, and there have 0:19:19.720 --> 0:19:22.480 been some situations where it's even more folks than that 0:19:23.160 --> 0:19:27.720 showing up to celebrate and or just to be in 0:19:27.800 --> 0:19:32.640 community with me and other people. That is amazing. It's 0:19:32.680 --> 0:19:35.280 amazing to me. Amazing to get back to. 0:19:35.240 --> 0:19:36.800 My Twitter of the day. 0:19:37.480 --> 0:19:41.280 The thing that has been eye opening to me is 0:19:41.359 --> 0:19:49.359 the creativity and the genius and the entrepreneurial spirit of 0:19:49.440 --> 0:19:53.119 folks all over this country, everywhere that I've been. You 0:19:53.160 --> 0:19:56.439 think I have a book, people have six books that 0:19:56.480 --> 0:20:01.680 they have written on education, on health, kid on serious issues, 0:20:02.200 --> 0:20:07.840 or novels or you know, the Coldest Winter Ever sequel. Right, 0:20:08.160 --> 0:20:12.199 people in there, they're in their literary bag. 0:20:12.359 --> 0:20:15.639