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Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning. Breakfast Club Morning.

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Speaker 2: Everybody's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the Guy. We are

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Speaker 2: the Breakfast Club Law on the roaster head for Jesson.

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Speaker 2: We got some special guests joining us this morning. We

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Speaker 2: have A J Johnson, She's back. Good morning, Good morning,

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Speaker 2: we have TRUSTA Smallwood Welcome.

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Speaker 3: Good morning everyone.

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Speaker 1: How you feeling this morning?

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Speaker 4: Ladies?

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Speaker 1: Listen, I'm in New York. It's cold as I'm on

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Speaker 1: the walk, but I'm here.

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Speaker 2: It ain't that bad if you came, but we could

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Speaker 2: go to been like thirty twenty degrees.

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Speaker 5: Well, you know, when you're bouncing between La and Africa.

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Speaker 5: Anything under seventy is like, I'm not going outside.

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Speaker 4: Okay.

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Speaker 6: Last time I saw you was then gone. Yes, but

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Speaker 6: you living there now?

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Speaker 1: Well, I was back and forth then.

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Speaker 5: You just didn't know it because it was December and

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Speaker 5: everybody was hanging out. Okay, but I've been back and forth,

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Speaker 5: living and working since twenty nineteen.

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Speaker 7: Wow.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I got the email early.

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Speaker 8: I was ing it was everything happening politically, or you

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Speaker 8: just really wanted to just go and be, you know,

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Speaker 8: back in Africa.

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Speaker 1: I' would be honest.

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Speaker 5: It was it was I love the life that I

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Speaker 5: was developing there, but with the pandemic, I saw governmentally

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Speaker 5: and politically what didn't feel right to me. Not that

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Speaker 5: I knew what was happening, but just you know, in

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Speaker 5: terms of the and honestly, when Africa opened up late

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Speaker 5: twenty twenty, I got there around November twenty twenty.

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Speaker 1: So if you remember, we had been told, oh it's

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Speaker 1: gonna be two weeks.

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Speaker 5: Oh it's gonna be six months, yes, right, yeah, right

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Speaker 5: when it first started in twenty twenty. And of course,

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Speaker 5: you know you call on Monday, you did by Friday.

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Speaker 1: So I was like, so right.

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Speaker 5: So when I got to Africa and I'm watching CNN

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Speaker 5: from there, me and my African friends are like, well,

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Speaker 5: why is everybody dying? You know, we had masks on

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Speaker 5: just to respect it. But it was like, you know,

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Speaker 5: you take a pill and everything's fine. So I was like,

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Speaker 5: you know what, something's not right, and let me start

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Speaker 5: making moves now. So I started investigating like citizenship and

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Speaker 5: just what it would take to do business there and

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Speaker 1: And so I'm bouncing back and forth.

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Speaker 4: So you're dual citizen.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I love it. Oh yeah, you've.

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Speaker 4: Been helping people get dual citizenship to saw Yeah.

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Speaker 5: I mean you know I when it says help just

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Speaker 5: to clarify because your people plugging my DM.

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Speaker 1: You know, who do I need to write? What do

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Speaker 1: I need to do? Listen? Can I pay you to

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Speaker 1: get my passport?

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Speaker 5: So I said, what that means is really, you know,

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Speaker 5: I'm taking groups over with retreats.

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Speaker 1: I got a retreat in July and a retreat in December.

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Speaker 5: Been doing that for five years, just to show you

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Speaker 5: the country, just to introduce it to you intimately, you know,

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Speaker 5: group of one hundred and just really have you, you know,

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Speaker 5: like to be employeed. When you're there, the rules are different,

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Speaker 5: the country's different, and so we can't keep going as

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Speaker 5: Americans expecting Africa to be America or to be run

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Speaker 5: like that. So I try to educate and share, you know,

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Speaker 5: form my life so that when it's time and you're

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Speaker 1: Want to make a move, I want to be a citizen.

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Speaker 1: You know what it really takes.

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Speaker 2: What got you to gun? And when did you first

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Speaker 2: go to Gun? It was like this is I like this,

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Speaker 2: this is where I want to live.

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Speaker 5: I told you this, John Bade, I actually went for

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Speaker 5: our birthday turn up. I was going through a breakup

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Speaker 5: and I was like, I need new I need new fragrances,

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Speaker 5: new music. And so I went in twenty nineteen and

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Speaker 5: At the time, it was called Full Circle Festival, and

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Speaker 5: changed my life mentally, spiritually, nutritionally.

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Speaker 5: I mean I saw a difference in my hair and

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Speaker 5: you spend time over there. And so I was like, oh,

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Speaker 5: so I just started saying, you know, I'm gonna sell

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Speaker 5: some flights over there and the more I went, the

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Speaker 5: more I learned about, of course, US as a culture

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Speaker 5: that we don't know, and the more I started embracing

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Speaker 5: the African that I am.

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Speaker 4: When you think about your overall talk about what y'all

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Speaker 4: here for.

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Speaker 1: We've got a lot of catch it up.

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Speaker 6: When you think about your overall mental wellness, how does

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Speaker 6: living in Ghana affect it as a poll living into

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Speaker 6: the United States of anxiety?

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Speaker 5: I mean, first of all, you know, to get off

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Speaker 5: the plane and see everybody black. I'm not saying that

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Speaker 5: there's not you know, issues within us as people, but

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Speaker 5: they're they're sure not racial issues.

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Speaker 1: I don't experience personally. I don't experience any colorism.

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Speaker 5: You know, I'm still talking to a lot of women

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Speaker 5: who are dealing with you know, light skinned, brown skin.

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Speaker 5: You know over there it's you know, the black of

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Speaker 5: that part the safety of it. I'm not running from

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Speaker 5: I don't get nervous. And even just the love, the

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Speaker 5: love and acceptance is different. The conversations are different. You know,

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Speaker 5: we're talking about you know, being African and what that

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Speaker 5: means and how do we get our resources back in

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Speaker 5: our pockets as opposed to the man that's going on here.

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Speaker 1: So it just I'm just more comfortable.

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Speaker 5: I love it, and we're creators, you know, we're creative

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Speaker 5: creators naturally, so I have more experience with more collaboration

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Speaker 5: spirits as opposed to I got mine, you get yours,

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Speaker 5: and so I really love the collaborative energy I'm experiencing there.

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Speaker 8: How is celebrity different being in Africa versus being over

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Speaker 1: I think, Well, I'm answered a couple of ways.

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Speaker 5: One of the reasons I'm back and forth is because

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Speaker 5: I feel and see my value there as an American celebrity.

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Speaker 5: And I don't mind that, you know, I know that

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Speaker 5: they value my work and my and my resume, and

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Speaker 5: so we're using that as well, teaching master classes and

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Speaker 5: things like that. But at the same time, I think

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Speaker 5: the African celebrity also wants some of the American celebrity.

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Speaker 5: So now after five years, I've got friends in the

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Speaker 5: business there and we're trying to you know, we're looking

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Speaker 5: for scripts.

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Speaker 1: You know, It's one of the reasons why I trusted,

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Speaker 5: We're looking for international scripts so that we can join

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Speaker 5: there's benefits to the celebrity on both continents. But again

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Speaker 5: it's like, you know what happens if we come together.

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Speaker 8: That's the point, right, And I know that you guys

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Speaker 8: are here to talk about Fighting to Me, the Dwyn

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Speaker 8: Curry story. You mentioned Tressa and Trust. I know you're

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Speaker 8: new to the platform. I want to introduce yourself in

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Speaker 8: Mega My Media.

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Speaker 7: What you do, Yes, absolutely so I'm trust Siza Real Smallwood.

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Speaker 7: I'm CEO of Mega My Media, an independent movie production

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Speaker 7: company that's making our own way in the industry. So

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Speaker 7: where THEI gets cut, we don't get cut.

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Speaker 1: There you go, there you go.

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Speaker 5: And I want to make sure you all know how

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Speaker 5: important that is, which is why I'm paddling around with

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Speaker 5: marsis because you know, nowadays the studios are are governing

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Speaker 5: what we're doing, and they're not really that interested in

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Speaker 5: our stories. And so this Fighting to Be Me is

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Speaker 5: my second project with Mega Mind and Tresa. I did

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Speaker 5: a Christmas movie which I hadn't done. I'm trying to

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Speaker 5: check the boxes of things I hadn't done, and so

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Speaker 5: I did Holiday Heartbreak with Trusta and I was like, yo, family,

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Speaker 5: Family Run. I was like, this is good. It feels good.

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Speaker 5: I'm like, I love this.

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Speaker 6: I love this doing Curry for the people who are

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Speaker 6: from dwyn Curry, you have a close relationship with well Dwenn.

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Speaker 5: Dwynn is a very well renowned and respected Hollywood stylist

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Speaker 5: from the nineties and honestly, not only is he known

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Speaker 5: I right after House Party when I hit you know,

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Speaker 5: and and Alcohlade, he became a convicted felon for credit

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Speaker 5: trans community, is now an advocate, has done time and

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Speaker 2: Breakdown some of the people that Dwin styled for, because

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Speaker 2: Dwinn style for a lot of people.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and I mean, I'm just naming a few us

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Speaker 5: and Lisa Ray, Missy, Elliott, Gabriel, Union, me DMX on there.

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Speaker 5: I mean, and I'm telling you in the nineties it

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Speaker 1: Know, the celebrity, the for real celebrity.

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Speaker 5: Had arrived, because you know, we look at styling now

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Speaker 1: But Dwynn was creating the images.

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Speaker 5: Dwynn was actually creating the celebrities in the nineties based

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Speaker 5: on knowing your image is how you walk in the room,

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Speaker 1: Like in the movie it depicts you saw where Yo

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Speaker 5: Was like, you know, I'm a rapper with braids in

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Speaker 5: a bandana, and Dwynn was like, oh no, no, no,

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Speaker 5: you got to be you gotta be a sexy and

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Speaker 7: So it should respect her a lot even now to today,

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Speaker 7: you know, they reach out to her like, hey, we

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Speaker 7: don't want to let what's happening now and how people

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Speaker 5: There's a lot of times I don't get dressed without saying, okay,

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Speaker 3: I love you. People need to hear that now, right.

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Speaker 7: People are going through it, and you need to know

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Speaker 4: To touch them, They don't.

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Speaker 7: You know, but again, you gotta be courageous enough to

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Speaker 7: I don't want your riches because remember Dwenn tried to

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Speaker 5: as simple as that is, like, that's the thing in

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Speaker 1: Do I say it? Do I not?

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Speaker 5: I interviewed a lot of gay trans families, and so

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Speaker 1: I said, baby boy, about how the reason.

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Speaker 2: I said the house party is my daughter's dance, right,

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Speaker 7: The ejects are not green lighting those types of projects.

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Speaker 7: So we have to come together right in our community

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Speaker 5: And just think about what's crazy about that? Because House

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Speaker 5: of best to say, you know, why not why try

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Speaker 5: to fix what's what's not broken? In terms of that

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Speaker 5: just feel good Kmar films, the family films, So a

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Speaker 5: that's not necessarily what's gonna be talked about in thirty

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Speaker 6: I think the nineties early two thousands was more focused

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Speaker 6: Then somewhere along the line it just became about let's

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I mean, you know, sign of the government,

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Speaker 5: But I also think, which is what I love about

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Speaker 8: I was gonna say, y'all touch so much stuff in

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Speaker 9: Were coming up here.

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Speaker 8: And it's unfortunate because it's really really good, Like the

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Speaker 1: Don't you love at least when I watch it what

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Speaker 5: Have you seen it yet, Shrmy, No, you see it

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Speaker 5: Your platinum blond were now till like mid nineties, late nineties, right,

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Speaker 5: Yes, if you don't know the nineties, you kind of

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Speaker 5: Yeah, so so Zaire was one of Dwynn's life loves

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Speaker 5: me just say this. The apple doesn't fall.

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Speaker 1: Far from the tree.

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Speaker 5: We had an hour and a half to tell the story.

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Speaker 5: No, you keep the money she was taking them first,

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Speaker 6: Support is important because you can make these films, but

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Speaker 6: if nobody supports them, it won't make sense for you

440
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Speaker 6: to do them, and it won't make sense for studios

441
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Speaker 6: to buy them.

442
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Speaker 4: So how important is supporting?

443
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Speaker 7: Absolutely, we need the eyeballs on these projects. And so

444
00:19:06,280 --> 00:19:09,720
Speaker 7: you know, dwayn Curry is currently streaming on beet Plus

445
00:19:09,800 --> 00:19:12,199
Speaker 7: and we need everybody to go watch it.

446
00:19:12,560 --> 00:19:14,000
Speaker 3: We you know, Shameless plugged.

447
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Speaker 9: Last night.

448
00:19:14,560 --> 00:19:16,840
Speaker 7: AJ and I were in Times Square and we saw

449
00:19:16,880 --> 00:19:20,119
Speaker 7: the billboard come up right, and we were so excited.

450
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Speaker 7: I mean, it was just like, Okay, this is real.

451
00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:25,239
Speaker 7: People are getting eyeballs on it. You know, we had

452
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Speaker 7: a premiere last week, people started talking about it. But

453
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Speaker 7: to Lawren's point, we need more people talking about it.

454
00:19:32,160 --> 00:19:35,359
Speaker 5: And you know, I gotta say, even with these cultural, iconic,

455
00:19:35,760 --> 00:19:40,040
Speaker 5: legendary projects, from my experience, it takes time. You know,

456
00:19:40,080 --> 00:19:42,600
Speaker 5: for these stories that are not mainstream, it takes time.

457
00:19:42,880 --> 00:19:45,520
Speaker 5: You know, House Party was a small independent when it

458
00:19:45,560 --> 00:19:47,639
Speaker 5: first came out. Baby Boy didn't do it was a

459
00:19:47,640 --> 00:19:49,840
Speaker 5: sony picture, but it didn't really do great in the theater.

460
00:19:50,280 --> 00:19:54,160
Speaker 5: And so now everybody's like, whoa, these are iconic classics.

461
00:19:54,560 --> 00:19:56,840
Speaker 5: But you know, once again, you just have to talk

462
00:19:56,880 --> 00:19:58,520
Speaker 5: it up and market and you know, thank you guys

463
00:19:58,560 --> 00:20:00,600
Speaker 5: for having us because we you have to tell more

464
00:20:00,600 --> 00:20:02,800
Speaker 5: of the community. You got to watch, tune in, spread

465
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Speaker 5: the word, you know, watch, so we get more of

466
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Speaker 5: them done.

467
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Speaker 6: Have you ever turned down a film because it wasn't

468
00:20:07,560 --> 00:20:09,640
Speaker 6: good for business because you want to create art, right,

469
00:20:09,680 --> 00:20:11,359
Speaker 6: but it's still a business.

470
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Speaker 4: You ever say yourself like that might be a little tough.

471
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Speaker 7: Yeah, truly, I definitely think about distribution before I ever

472
00:20:19,400 --> 00:20:22,560
Speaker 7: shoot anything, you know, and so it's it's always keep

473
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Speaker 7: in mind independently is my money? So that means you

474
00:20:26,119 --> 00:20:28,520
Speaker 7: are really thinking this through in terms of can I

475
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Speaker 7: get this money back?

476
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Speaker 3: Where can we go? Who's going to support it?

477
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Speaker 7: And doesn't have longevity because when you own your films

478
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Speaker 7: and perpetuity, like right now BT owns the rights to

479
00:20:39,119 --> 00:20:43,240
Speaker 7: Duane Curry, Well, five years from now, you can start

480
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Speaker 7: licensing that product to another platform, and so you have

481
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Speaker 7: to think, you know, ahead, ahead of the game going

482
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Speaker 7: Okay in ten years, who will still want to see

483
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Speaker 7: this project?

484
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Speaker 5: And that's why she says it's important to own it

485
00:20:55,320 --> 00:20:59,280
Speaker 5: because once the contract is up with a network, you

486
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Speaker 5: go someplace in do what you want with it.

487
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Speaker 8: Well, have you ever seen the meme Aja of there's

488
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Speaker 8: a video of you in your garden as a baby

489
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Speaker 8: boy's mom, and everybody's like, now that we're older, we

490
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Speaker 8: understand why her having his garden and having that blunt

491
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Speaker 8: in the garden was so important?

492
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Speaker 9: Saw that mean? Before?

493
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Speaker 5: Lord, let me tell you something, every type somebody posts it. Yes,

494
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Speaker 5: I get it, sit to me, okay thousand times.

495
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Speaker 8: So when you see that, I mean you probably understood

496
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Speaker 8: that then because you were at you know what I mean,

497
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Speaker 8: you were in it. You had to channel the character.

498
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Speaker 8: But like when you see that and you see like,

499
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Speaker 8: because my generation is doing it, people younger than me

500
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Speaker 8: are reposting it like that type of impact, Like, what's

501
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Speaker 8: your response to that?

502
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Speaker 9: Are you?

503
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Speaker 5: And listen? When I shot the film, I didn't know.

504
00:21:37,640 --> 00:21:40,040
Speaker 5: I didn't get it. So I feel like everybody.

505
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Speaker 9: Else you did know, we believed you so bad.

506
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Speaker 1: Well, I exactly I was what I'm saying.

507
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Speaker 5: Now that I'm older, I understand that stance, you know,

508
00:21:48,600 --> 00:21:51,240
Speaker 5: in terms of just wanting the piece and finding your

509
00:21:51,280 --> 00:21:53,600
Speaker 5: own place, especially as women, you know, we're so busy

510
00:21:53,760 --> 00:21:56,399
Speaker 5: doing and doing and doing that. I now understand the

511
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Speaker 5: importance of yeah, but where's the piece? Is it in

512
00:21:58,440 --> 00:22:00,000
Speaker 5: your garden? Is it just with a glass of want?

513
00:22:00,400 --> 00:22:02,679
Speaker 5: Is a kicking it with your girls? So I understand,

514
00:22:03,480 --> 00:22:05,679
Speaker 5: and the fact that it's become such an iconic moment.

515
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Speaker 5: You never can predict that you know at least I can't.

516
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Speaker 5: I never I never can predict what's going to be iconic.

517
00:22:12,920 --> 00:22:15,600
Speaker 5: And I don't pick projects even thinking that I picked

518
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Speaker 5: projects because I know that my divine assignment is to

519
00:22:18,320 --> 00:22:22,040
Speaker 5: do projects where there's a message, you know, And I

520
00:22:22,080 --> 00:22:24,320
Speaker 5: always think, if I do this. It just took me

521
00:22:24,359 --> 00:22:26,120
Speaker 5: up to think about it. If I do this project,

522
00:22:26,400 --> 00:22:29,240
Speaker 5: can I change one life? Can I talk to one

523
00:22:29,280 --> 00:22:32,120
Speaker 5: person and maybe shift their perspective? If the answer is yes,

524
00:22:32,160 --> 00:22:34,080
Speaker 5: that's why I do it. So that's why you don't

525
00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:36,560
Speaker 5: see me a lot. Honestly, in film, it's got to

526
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Speaker 5: mean something. I can't just do the hot the hot

527
00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:41,879
Speaker 5: project or the hot script. If I can't find a

528
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Speaker 5: reason for me to give a message, then it's not mine.

529
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Speaker 4: What makes you want to do a film?

530
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Speaker 6: Because you know, when I watch Baby Boy now, I

531
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Speaker 6: got a whole different perspective of it than I did

532
00:22:50,440 --> 00:22:52,119
Speaker 6: twenty years ago. So what made you want to do

533
00:22:52,200 --> 00:22:54,439
Speaker 6: that film twenty years ago? What was the message in

534
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Speaker 6: it for you?

535
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Speaker 5: The message was, you know, single moms are not necessarily

536
00:23:00,280 --> 00:23:04,520
Speaker 5: the downfall, and to give single moms hope in once again,

537
00:23:04,720 --> 00:23:07,320
Speaker 5: like I said, that prepared me for fighting to be me.

538
00:23:07,880 --> 00:23:11,359
Speaker 5: You know, single moms, especially in the hood, are learning,

539
00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:13,720
Speaker 5: growing up and learning with their kids that you know,

540
00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:17,159
Speaker 5: I wanted to give them permission to fail and to

541
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Speaker 5: keep moving and that love always wins. Even Mama Sin said,

542
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Speaker 5: not knowing that she was confirming what I knew from

543
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Speaker 5: the experience of Baby Boy. When I was researching with

544
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Speaker 5: Mama Sin and just making her go deep about why

545
00:23:28,240 --> 00:23:29,879
Speaker 5: certain things that I knew were gonna be depicted in

546
00:23:29,920 --> 00:23:33,639
Speaker 5: this film, she finally said, tears streaming, she said, you know,

547
00:23:34,480 --> 00:23:37,720
Speaker 5: fear can lead, but love has to win. And so

548
00:23:38,080 --> 00:23:40,960
Speaker 5: that's what made me go okay, because as black women

549
00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:43,280
Speaker 5: in these situations, a lot of times we're leading and

550
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Speaker 5: living in fear. And so if the film can depict

551
00:23:46,600 --> 00:23:48,920
Speaker 5: step out the fear and do what you know you

552
00:23:49,040 --> 00:23:51,160
Speaker 5: have to do, whether it's putting your son out because

553
00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:52,320
Speaker 5: it's time for him to learn how to be a

554
00:23:52,320 --> 00:23:54,159
Speaker 5: man on his own and you can't do it, or

555
00:23:54,200 --> 00:23:57,720
Speaker 5: whether it's you know, sending your drug addict gay son

556
00:23:57,840 --> 00:24:00,639
Speaker 5: away in the nineties because you know he at the

557
00:24:00,680 --> 00:24:04,760
Speaker 5: time doesn't know who he she is. Then sometimes love

558
00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:07,200
Speaker 5: is doing the hard thing, and so if God's choosing

559
00:24:07,200 --> 00:24:09,159
Speaker 5: me to do it on film, I gotta do it.

560
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Speaker 4: That's how I felt to watch it.

561
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Speaker 6: When you watch Baby Boy now, it's like at first,

562
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Speaker 6: when you first see it, you think this is a

563
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Speaker 6: movie about this young man, but it's really about the

564
00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:19,719
Speaker 6: women and the women in his life and how he

565
00:24:19,840 --> 00:24:24,040
Speaker 6: has to eventually break the cycle I think of single motherhood.

566
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Speaker 1: Yeah way, and let me tell you now that it's

567
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Speaker 1: years later.

568
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Speaker 5: One of the things my dear love and friend John Singleton,

569
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Speaker 5: when Sony told him that they wanted a PG rating,

570
00:24:35,680 --> 00:24:38,840
Speaker 5: it was it was it was shot to be are

571
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Speaker 5: because there was a lot of the women, the sexuality

572
00:24:41,240 --> 00:24:44,600
Speaker 5: and all that. Sony said they wanted PG and pushed

573
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Speaker 5: the film with Tyrese and Snoop because they were the hot,

574
00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:50,560
Speaker 5: the hot talents at MTV at the time. That wasn't

575
00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:53,480
Speaker 5: the story though, So they actually gave John millions of

576
00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:56,240
Speaker 5: dollars to reshoot some of the film to focus on them.

577
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Speaker 5: A lot of the chase scenes at the end, you

578
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Speaker 5: know Snoop coming out of jail, he goes on the

579
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Speaker 5: foremost of the time In the original script, and it

580
00:25:01,640 --> 00:25:04,920
Speaker 5: was about me and being in the relationship Taraji and Tyrese,

581
00:25:05,119 --> 00:25:07,360
Speaker 5: But the studio was like, that's not the story. What's

582
00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:09,760
Speaker 5: funny now is what you just said all these years later,

583
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Speaker 5: It is exactly the story in that deep.

584
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Speaker 4: Yeah, because the family you ended up with ving Raams, so.

585
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Speaker 6: That that's that's a full family now. Yeah, you know

586
00:25:17,320 --> 00:25:20,200
Speaker 6: Tyrese and Saraji ended up together, so that's a full family.

587
00:25:20,240 --> 00:25:22,840
Speaker 4: Now, only brother got left. That was Tyre's first baby, Mama.

588
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Speaker 1: Yeah, nobody.

589
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Speaker 6: You know.

590
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Speaker 7: I want to just give Aj a shout out because

591
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Speaker 7: I was thinking about as you were talking. They don't

592
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Speaker 7: know your your presence on set. When Aj comes on set,

593
00:25:37,119 --> 00:25:40,720
Speaker 7: everybody is going to leave fulfilled. You're going to get

594
00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:42,879
Speaker 7: schooled and you don't even know that you're getting school.

595
00:25:43,080 --> 00:25:45,600
Speaker 7: You're going to get some inspiration and you don't even

596
00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:49,240
Speaker 7: realize that it's coming people. You You change so many

597
00:25:49,280 --> 00:25:50,480
Speaker 7: lives when you're on set.

598
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Speaker 3: You always do.

599
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Speaker 5: I hope so because I know now that when I

600
00:25:55,760 --> 00:25:59,639
Speaker 5: go on set, I'm not there to boost my celebrity.

601
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Speaker 5: You know I'm not there. I mean, honestly, I've been

602
00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:05,280
Speaker 5: doing this since I was twenty, so you know, the

603
00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:07,840
Speaker 5: Red Carpets, I get it, but you already know you know,

604
00:26:08,080 --> 00:26:10,000
Speaker 5: life is more than that, At least for me, it

605
00:26:10,040 --> 00:26:11,560
Speaker 5: is and to be able to travel and live in

606
00:26:11,640 --> 00:26:13,800
Speaker 5: other countries is way more than that. So for me,

607
00:26:13,960 --> 00:26:15,840
Speaker 5: when I go on set, I know it's a divine

608
00:26:15,880 --> 00:26:19,159
Speaker 5: assignment to just show people at this age and stage

609
00:26:19,280 --> 00:26:21,359
Speaker 5: that your life can be full and it doesn't have

610
00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:23,560
Speaker 5: to be about chasing the next project. Like even now

611
00:26:23,560 --> 00:26:25,679
Speaker 5: when I'm doing interviews in red carpets for this, So,

612
00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:27,800
Speaker 5: what's your next project? And I said, Collie Joeneralists is

613
00:26:27,840 --> 00:26:30,400
Speaker 5: still asking that, like after twenty thirty years, and I say,

614
00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:32,600
Speaker 5: you know what, I don't freaking know. And I'm okay

615
00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:35,240
Speaker 5: with that. I'm okay with that. I'm producing, you know,

616
00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:37,679
Speaker 5: I'm looking for projects, we're looking for scripts. So we

617
00:26:37,720 --> 00:26:39,879
Speaker 5: don't know yet. But I mean I couldn't say that

618
00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:42,080
Speaker 5: with confidence twenty years ago because that just wasn't the

619
00:26:42,119 --> 00:26:44,600
Speaker 5: thing to do. But now the freedom I live with,

620
00:26:45,160 --> 00:26:48,199
Speaker 5: the freedom is amazing. So I'm just trying to, you know,

621
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Speaker 5: be an example on set, and I know that's why

622
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Speaker 5: I'm there.

623
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Speaker 2: I gotta ask you attended and you graduated Spelman, Yeah,

624
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Speaker 2: in Atlanta. Now you're also a member of Delta Sigma

625
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Speaker 2: Theta have been for years now. You heard this, Well,

626
00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:03,120
Speaker 2: yesterday morning when we were talking about the young man

627
00:27:03,119 --> 00:27:04,120
Speaker 2: that lost his life.

628
00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:06,200
Speaker 1: He so glad you're bringing us out, go ahead.

629
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Speaker 4: And wanted you to break that down.

630
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Speaker 2: We were talking about is hazing should fraternities this already

631
00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:14,600
Speaker 2: should be Should they still be doing hazing at this point?

632
00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:20,080
Speaker 5: Okay, how much time we got because yeah, yeah, yeah,

633
00:27:20,119 --> 00:27:22,080
Speaker 5: yeah yeah. So let's start with the fact that I

634
00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:26,040
Speaker 5: pledged at seventeen, one of the youngest undergraduate pledges at

635
00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:31,040
Speaker 5: Spelman at the time, and then through my stay at Spelman,

636
00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:34,639
Speaker 5: I became vice president of the chapter, which then gives

637
00:27:34,680 --> 00:27:37,680
Speaker 5: me Dina pledges as a new when the new line

638
00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:40,600
Speaker 5: comes in and Dina probates. The difference between those is

639
00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:43,800
Speaker 5: Dino pledges is you bring the new pledges in and

640
00:27:43,840 --> 00:27:46,760
Speaker 5: see them through the process. Dina Probates means you carry

641
00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:49,639
Speaker 5: them through the end of the process because it's a process.

642
00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:53,720
Speaker 5: And so having those two positions, I can comfortably say

643
00:27:54,080 --> 00:27:58,120
Speaker 5: that hazing is a personal thing. It's not an organization thing.

644
00:27:58,359 --> 00:28:01,080
Speaker 5: When I say that, meaning if you've been hazed before

645
00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:04,200
Speaker 5: and you want to interject that on a new pledge,

646
00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:07,200
Speaker 5: that's a personal thing. My pledge period was no walking

647
00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:10,320
Speaker 5: the park. It was not and so one of the

648
00:28:10,320 --> 00:28:13,080
Speaker 5: reasons I wanted to become DNA Pledges is to say

649
00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:16,880
Speaker 5: that's not necessary. And again we're talking about undergraduate pledging.

650
00:28:17,280 --> 00:28:20,040
Speaker 5: So when you are twenty five and twenty six and

651
00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:22,640
Speaker 5: you're no longer even in the school and you're still

652
00:28:22,640 --> 00:28:25,120
Speaker 5: coming back to be part of the pledge period, that's

653
00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:27,560
Speaker 5: also a personal thing like what are you missing and

654
00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:31,840
Speaker 5: why are you coming back to inflict possibly deadly fatal force.

655
00:28:32,680 --> 00:28:35,359
Speaker 5: If you're in the institution and you're a member of

656
00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:38,240
Speaker 5: the chapter, nine times out of ten you're being raised

657
00:28:38,280 --> 00:28:40,479
Speaker 5: in the way that the chapter is being raised. And

658
00:28:40,520 --> 00:28:43,960
Speaker 5: so nowadays hazing's not allowed. So again I'm still going

659
00:28:44,000 --> 00:28:49,080
Speaker 5: to there's something personal, a personal vendetta that somebody's exercising

660
00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:52,320
Speaker 5: in that. The other side of it is, as Dina Pledges,

661
00:28:52,600 --> 00:28:55,560
Speaker 5: I'm in control, and that's just it. I'm in control

662
00:28:55,800 --> 00:28:58,800
Speaker 5: of not only who's around the pledges within the chapter,

663
00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:02,280
Speaker 5: but also the visit members of the organization that come back.

664
00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:04,480
Speaker 5: So it's my say who gets to be around the

665
00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:07,880
Speaker 5: pledges period. So that job only goes to we were

666
00:29:07,880 --> 00:29:10,040
Speaker 5: talking about this, that job only goes to a strong

667
00:29:10,080 --> 00:29:13,719
Speaker 5: spirit and authoritative spirit to make sure that the pledges

668
00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:14,400
Speaker 5: stay safe.

669
00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:16,360
Speaker 1: So were there sorrows coming back around when I was

670
00:29:16,360 --> 00:29:19,440
Speaker 1: seeing pledgies. Absolutely? Was I the ones saying no, we're

671
00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:21,680
Speaker 1: not doing that, No you can't be there. And you

672
00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:23,520
Speaker 1: know who they are. See, that's the other thing.

673
00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:25,920
Speaker 5: A lot of these a lot of these hazers, you

674
00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:28,200
Speaker 5: know who they are or you know the potential they have,

675
00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:31,160
Speaker 5: so they're not strangers to your organization or to your chapter.

676
00:29:31,440 --> 00:29:33,400
Speaker 1: You have to stand up and say that's gonna be

677
00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:34,440
Speaker 1: an now.

678
00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:36,000
Speaker 2: When you look at tradition, right, because you know a

679
00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:38,400
Speaker 2: lot of people that have been through the process might

680
00:29:38,480 --> 00:29:39,920
Speaker 2: say I've been paddled before.

681
00:29:40,080 --> 00:29:43,320
Speaker 1: Yeah. A lot of people say I might been whatever before. Yeah.

682
00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:46,320
Speaker 2: And usually those things don't kill you, don't hurt you.

683
00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:49,160
Speaker 2: But right in situations, it can happen.

684
00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:51,440
Speaker 1: Yes, So what do you say in that situation in

685
00:29:51,560 --> 00:29:53,680
Speaker 1: terms of when you when you have those things going

686
00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:55,160
Speaker 1: like paddle.

687
00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:57,040
Speaker 2: Right, that that's something that a lot of sororities and

688
00:29:57,040 --> 00:29:58,800
Speaker 2: fraternities say, Yes, that has happened before.

689
00:29:58,880 --> 00:30:01,640
Speaker 4: Yes, you can get hit with a paddle and die.

690
00:30:01,840 --> 00:30:02,080
Speaker 1: Yes.

691
00:30:02,440 --> 00:30:06,040
Speaker 5: And so so here's the open honesty. So I've been paddled.

692
00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:08,960
Speaker 2: Usually when the sentry club, the lady called one and

693
00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:09,720
Speaker 2: says she was at the centry.

694
00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:10,680
Speaker 1: I did, I did.

695
00:30:10,760 --> 00:30:12,400
Speaker 5: I made the central You were young, So are you

696
00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:15,680
Speaker 5: allowed to talk about it? Not beyond me saying I mean, I'm.

697
00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:15,920
Speaker 4: Part of this.

698
00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:20,880
Speaker 8: Yeah, I was gonna say, because you normally, I don't

699
00:30:20,880 --> 00:30:22,400
Speaker 8: know how much you could talk about. But I have

700
00:30:22,840 --> 00:30:25,120
Speaker 8: I have friends that have been younger on the line. Yeah,

701
00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:27,440
Speaker 8: and they got a little bit worse because they were younger.

702
00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:28,120
Speaker 1: Yeah.

703
00:30:28,240 --> 00:30:30,720
Speaker 9: I don't know if your experience leaning toward that either too,

704
00:30:30,720 --> 00:30:32,760
Speaker 9: because you were younger, like they were making examples.

705
00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:34,719
Speaker 5: I don't know if that was the case. I mean,

706
00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:36,720
Speaker 5: I do believe sometimes that is the case. I don't

707
00:30:36,720 --> 00:30:39,960
Speaker 5: necessarily think that was the case with my line. And

708
00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:42,480
Speaker 5: when I pledged, it was a lot of suspended chapters.

709
00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:44,640
Speaker 5: It was a lot of you know, not having lines

710
00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:48,120
Speaker 5: for years, so you know, but once again, we were

711
00:30:48,120 --> 00:30:50,080
Speaker 5: talking about different time. We're talking about early you know,

712
00:30:50,160 --> 00:30:52,000
Speaker 5: late eighties, early nineties, so it's a whole different time.

713
00:30:53,360 --> 00:30:57,160
Speaker 5: But what I say is once and you're typically blindfolded,

714
00:30:57,200 --> 00:30:58,400
Speaker 5: so you don't know who it is, you don't know

715
00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:01,320
Speaker 5: what's happening, right, So to me, once I became a

716
00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:04,080
Speaker 5: member of the chapter and started seeing how that works.

717
00:31:05,120 --> 00:31:06,520
Speaker 5: There's things that can replace that.

718
00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:07,080
Speaker 8: You know.

719
00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:11,560
Speaker 5: Uh, that's that's that's tradition that doesn't need to stay.

720
00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:14,360
Speaker 5: And that's what I feel, you know, there's traditions that

721
00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:15,840
Speaker 5: don't need to stay. I mean when I was needing

722
00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:17,760
Speaker 5: pledges and a lot of my pledges are gonna say.

723
00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:18,600
Speaker 1: I had them exercising.

724
00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:20,960
Speaker 5: I mean that was punishment enough, right, you don't know

725
00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:24,360
Speaker 5: your founders more mild and they're like, oh man, really,

726
00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:28,680
Speaker 5: it's like, you know, there's different forms of teaching and

727
00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:30,760
Speaker 5: being authoritative without it being physical abuse.

728
00:31:30,840 --> 00:31:32,360
Speaker 4: Yeah, I just feel like if it's college, it should

729
00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:33,440
Speaker 4: be something more cerebral.

730
00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:35,840
Speaker 5: Well I'm just I mean, there's just it doesn't have

731
00:31:35,920 --> 00:31:37,560
Speaker 5: to be physical abuse period.

732
00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:38,920
Speaker 1: And that's just my stance.

733
00:31:39,040 --> 00:31:41,480
Speaker 2: But you know, sometimes people will say that the graduate

734
00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:44,640
Speaker 2: people that's that's in the fraternity and sorority are not

735
00:31:44,640 --> 00:31:46,320
Speaker 2: looked at the same as the people that actually quote

736
00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:47,400
Speaker 2: unquote pledged.

737
00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:50,040
Speaker 1: Grad chapter correct. Well, that's true.

738
00:31:50,280 --> 00:31:52,680
Speaker 5: And then we also some organizations in the D nine

739
00:31:52,720 --> 00:31:56,240
Speaker 5: also have honorary members. Now, what I say as having

740
00:31:56,280 --> 00:31:59,920
Speaker 5: pledged is what's most important to me is the union

741
00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:02,760
Speaker 5: and the camaraderie of me having had line sisters some

742
00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:05,960
Speaker 5: of my best friends to this day, as separate as

743
00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:09,360
Speaker 5: our lives have gone, kids no kids, teacher, I'm in Hollywood,

744
00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:13,000
Speaker 5: we're still connected because we helped each other through a

745
00:32:13,120 --> 00:32:16,080
Speaker 5: trying process as we were teenagers. You're not getting that

746
00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:19,920
Speaker 5: and graduate right, and you're definitely not going through that

747
00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:23,920
Speaker 5: when you're in and when you're an honorary. So I

748
00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:26,120
Speaker 5: think we have the value and undergrad we have to

749
00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:29,040
Speaker 5: value the truth of the process and know that it

750
00:32:29,040 --> 00:32:31,920
Speaker 5: doesn't have to be physically abusive, especially when it can

751
00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:32,400
Speaker 5: be fatal.

752
00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:35,040
Speaker 2: Now also talking about the importance of sororities and fraternities,

753
00:32:35,040 --> 00:32:37,120
Speaker 2: because was like, I also do a blood.

754
00:32:36,920 --> 00:32:38,000
Speaker 1: Of crypt I heard you.

755
00:32:38,120 --> 00:32:40,720
Speaker 7: I asked that too earlier when we started talking and

756
00:32:40,760 --> 00:32:43,720
Speaker 7: I said, hey, tell me, what is the biggest benefit

757
00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:46,200
Speaker 7: now at your age, I said, because I didn't pledge

758
00:32:46,320 --> 00:32:49,280
Speaker 7: because I didn't like seeing what some of my friends

759
00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:50,480
Speaker 7: online were going through.

760
00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:51,840
Speaker 1: Yes, I would give.

761
00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:53,720
Speaker 8: It to me, I said, tell me, I feel like

762
00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:56,120
Speaker 8: insteadic you give aka, but internally you give dota.

763
00:32:56,240 --> 00:32:58,040
Speaker 1: That's what I think we can change the esthetic.

764
00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:04,080
Speaker 8: No, no, no, because deltas like you know what I mean, period.

765
00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:07,120
Speaker 8: But I do think there's a look I know what

766
00:33:07,120 --> 00:33:10,120
Speaker 8: you mean period? I do, But can you talk about

767
00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:12,640
Speaker 8: that from undergrad and and graduate, Like, what's the importance

768
00:33:12,760 --> 00:33:15,560
Speaker 8: undergrad and then graduate being able to fit?

769
00:33:15,760 --> 00:33:19,280
Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't think. I don't think it changes. I

770
00:33:19,280 --> 00:33:20,080
Speaker 5: think it matures.

771
00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:20,640
Speaker 9: I don't.

772
00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:23,800
Speaker 5: I don't think the benefit changes in undergrad. You know,

773
00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:26,920
Speaker 5: when you're studying, when you're looking to graduate and find

774
00:33:26,920 --> 00:33:30,080
Speaker 5: a job, you know, you've got generations of women that

775
00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:32,200
Speaker 5: have gone that are with you, that have gone before you,

776
00:33:32,440 --> 00:33:33,680
Speaker 5: that are going to be a help that.

777
00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:34,560
Speaker 1: You won't normally have.

778
00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:38,760
Speaker 5: You've got sororiety members that are in corporations that that

779
00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:41,160
Speaker 5: may be able to get your resume in a different

780
00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:43,800
Speaker 5: position and faster than if you weren't a member. And

781
00:33:43,920 --> 00:33:47,360
Speaker 5: remember i'll speak for mine. You know, there's a certain

782
00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:50,680
Speaker 5: g PA that is required to pledge, and so you've

783
00:33:50,720 --> 00:33:52,880
Speaker 5: got a certain intellect. Going back to the collegiate thing,

784
00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:55,200
Speaker 5: you've got a certain intellect to even qualify.

785
00:33:55,320 --> 00:33:56,520
Speaker 9: Y'all don't play about education.

786
00:33:56,680 --> 00:33:59,520
Speaker 1: We don't, and so our foundation, Our foundation is service

787
00:33:59,560 --> 00:34:00,000
Speaker 1: and education.

788
00:34:00,720 --> 00:34:11,279
Speaker 8: So for Chinese that they want you bad enough, they'll

789
00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:15,040
Speaker 8: figure it out. But delta is their number one thing.

790
00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:15,840
Speaker 8: They don't play about the.

791
00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:18,920
Speaker 5: Day and I'm gonna tell you, even in the graduate level,

792
00:34:19,160 --> 00:34:22,319
Speaker 5: it's even strict with being being a you having a

793
00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:25,879
Speaker 5: graduate degree, at this point, I probably wouldn't have made

794
00:34:25,960 --> 00:34:29,680
Speaker 5: line outside of undergrad because I don't have the the

795
00:34:29,680 --> 00:34:32,040
Speaker 5: the graduate level education that's required.

796
00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:33,400
Speaker 1: So that's part of it.

797
00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:36,640
Speaker 5: And so what happens is the organization is building a

798
00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:41,680
Speaker 5: platform and a funnel of education like mind, like minded,

799
00:34:41,960 --> 00:34:44,080
Speaker 5: like spirited women. So now you've got all these women

800
00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:47,640
Speaker 5: who are successful in their own right helping each other worldwide.

801
00:34:48,120 --> 00:34:51,800
Speaker 5: So they're worldwide organizations. I can travel, whether it's Australia, Africa,

802
00:34:52,040 --> 00:34:54,239
Speaker 5: and I'm meeting the sorrow who's saying, hey, what are

803
00:34:54,280 --> 00:34:54,759
Speaker 5: you trying to do?

804
00:34:54,840 --> 00:34:55,799
Speaker 1: Hey, what are you trying to do?

805
00:34:55,920 --> 00:34:58,360
Speaker 5: Well, let's connect Or I know a sorrow who's or

806
00:34:58,400 --> 00:35:01,319
Speaker 5: who's So I don't know where I would be, whether

807
00:35:01,360 --> 00:35:04,880
Speaker 5: it's Hollywood or or just in my life if I

808
00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:07,360
Speaker 5: didn't have Saaras to call on. And now it's bigger

809
00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:10,600
Speaker 5: than Delta for me, it's now de nine because as

810
00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:13,160
Speaker 5: a as a Hollywood personality, it's more than just Delta.

811
00:35:13,239 --> 00:35:15,960
Speaker 5: I've got friends and colleagues that are Aka and Zeta

812
00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:18,880
Speaker 5: and and so now it's even bigger because now we

813
00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:22,239
Speaker 5: have more of a D nine sorority going than just

814
00:35:22,480 --> 00:35:26,000
Speaker 5: Delta or just Aka or just Zeta or just Sigmun Gammero.

815
00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:28,400
Speaker 1: So it's it's really a like mind to like spirit.

816
00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:30,319
Speaker 6: It from the beginning is they're a film y'all would

817
00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:31,560
Speaker 6: want to make about the D nine.

818
00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:34,520
Speaker 3: That's that's confirmation, your confirmation.

819
00:35:34,719 --> 00:35:36,440
Speaker 1: We just thought we were just because of this.

820
00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:38,719
Speaker 5: We were talking about it because I was saying, n Tresa,

821
00:35:38,960 --> 00:35:41,680
Speaker 5: I've seen where TV shows and movies have tried to

822
00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:45,520
Speaker 5: touch on it, but they rarely use true Greeks to consult,

823
00:35:46,239 --> 00:35:48,600
Speaker 5: and so it's always been a problem for me to

824
00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:52,319
Speaker 5: have pledged and obviously passionate about it, but but them

825
00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:55,200
Speaker 5: not getting the intricate details right. Not that we tell

826
00:35:55,200 --> 00:35:57,920
Speaker 5: the secrets of the organization, but there's still things that

827
00:35:57,960 --> 00:36:01,120
Speaker 5: could help people better understand why. The fact that you're

828
00:36:01,120 --> 00:36:03,600
Speaker 5: even asking that means that the stories that have been

829
00:36:03,640 --> 00:36:05,000
Speaker 5: told have not been accurate enough.

830
00:36:05,239 --> 00:36:06,160
Speaker 1: Not only that it's.

831
00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:08,520
Speaker 2: Bigger than in other communities or in other cities than

832
00:36:08,520 --> 00:36:11,280
Speaker 2: others Like I'm from New York, so fraternities and sororities

833
00:36:11,360 --> 00:36:13,839
Speaker 2: we didn't see as much, but I had roommates from

834
00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:17,920
Speaker 2: in down South Mississippi and Atlanta, so it was everything

835
00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:21,480
Speaker 2: for them and the legacy my dad. When you have

836
00:36:21,600 --> 00:36:24,279
Speaker 2: those roommates and they're telling you about it and what

837
00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:26,239
Speaker 2: it does, it hypes you up to be like, damn,

838
00:36:26,239 --> 00:36:27,880
Speaker 2: I think I want to do that, which put me

839
00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:29,680
Speaker 2: onto it because I never heard anything about it. But

840
00:36:29,719 --> 00:36:32,640
Speaker 2: they would always say, you know, when I graduate, my

841
00:36:32,920 --> 00:36:35,080
Speaker 2: my my brother's gonna help me get this job. My

842
00:36:35,120 --> 00:36:37,040
Speaker 2: fraternity brother is gonna help me in this lane. He's

843
00:36:37,040 --> 00:36:38,560
Speaker 2: gonna guide me when it comes to this. And I

844
00:36:38,600 --> 00:36:39,560
Speaker 2: was like, that's things come.

845
00:36:39,560 --> 00:36:45,520
Speaker 6: I feel like that's what people should cinema.

846
00:36:44,920 --> 00:36:47,800
Speaker 8: Explain to people who haven't been on HBCU campus and

847
00:36:47,800 --> 00:36:50,000
Speaker 8: actually went to the school, because you know that while

848
00:36:50,040 --> 00:36:52,279
Speaker 8: you're there, but see it, yeah, and you feel it,

849
00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:55,279
Speaker 8: like the Greek impact. That's why, like when Kamala was

850
00:36:55,280 --> 00:36:57,600
Speaker 8: getting all that flag for like going and speaking to

851
00:36:57,640 --> 00:37:01,080
Speaker 8: Greek organizations over whatever. I'm like, if people understood the

852
00:37:01,120 --> 00:37:03,960
Speaker 8: power of the Divine Nine and what they can do

853
00:37:04,000 --> 00:37:06,120
Speaker 8: when they unified, they would get it. But for people

854
00:37:06,120 --> 00:37:08,239
Speaker 8: who've never been on the STCU campus, you don't feel

855
00:37:08,280 --> 00:37:10,400
Speaker 8: the power in the culture that Divine Nine brings, and

856
00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:12,279
Speaker 8: I think it is because we're not seeing it in

857
00:37:12,360 --> 00:37:14,080
Speaker 8: cinema maybe consistently in the right way.

858
00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:16,960
Speaker 3: We're looking for investors.

859
00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:22,440
Speaker 5: Yeah for sure for that lady to or yeah period.

860
00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:27,120
Speaker 8: Right, but wait, is that why Judge matthis is one

861
00:37:27,160 --> 00:37:29,520
Speaker 8: of the he's like the produce. He's an ep on

862
00:37:29,840 --> 00:37:32,680
Speaker 8: the Dwiny because he is do you know him through

863
00:37:32,719 --> 00:37:34,200
Speaker 8: the He's different, he's.

864
00:37:34,080 --> 00:37:34,680
Speaker 3: A so.

865
00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:40,160
Speaker 7: So Judge actually took in both the Tenisa Welch story

866
00:37:40,200 --> 00:37:43,360
Speaker 7: and the dwyn Carry story to be Et because b

867
00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:47,319
Speaker 7: Et was doing the American Gangsters series and so both

868
00:37:47,320 --> 00:37:50,400
Speaker 7: of those projects they had episodics which I think it

869
00:37:50,480 --> 00:37:52,759
Speaker 7: was like maybe forty five minutes. And so those were

870
00:37:52,760 --> 00:37:56,120
Speaker 7: the two projects that BT said, all right, let's let's

871
00:37:56,160 --> 00:37:59,160
Speaker 7: make this a full biopic. But Judge matthis was the

872
00:37:59,160 --> 00:38:01,640
Speaker 7: one that took them and he had relationships with both

873
00:38:01,680 --> 00:38:04,400
Speaker 7: of them, and then they introduced Judge to me and

874
00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:05,560
Speaker 7: then that's how we.

875
00:38:05,880 --> 00:38:07,799
Speaker 8: I thought, because he's an alpha, and I thought y'all

876
00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:09,560
Speaker 8: might have known each other just like you know.

877
00:38:09,880 --> 00:38:12,480
Speaker 5: It was it helped make a deeper connection, got you know,

878
00:38:12,560 --> 00:38:14,320
Speaker 5: But I just I just want to ask something about

879
00:38:14,320 --> 00:38:17,000
Speaker 5: the Greek thing. You know, after spending time in Africa.

880
00:38:17,440 --> 00:38:19,840
Speaker 5: Another thing that I actually took a break because I

881
00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:22,240
Speaker 5: was so I was so busy in undergrad with Delta.

882
00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:25,480
Speaker 5: I took a break because I just I was burnout.

883
00:38:25,800 --> 00:38:27,640
Speaker 5: What made me want to come back to the organization

884
00:38:27,760 --> 00:38:31,279
Speaker 5: here is because we don't have as Americans, we don't

885
00:38:31,280 --> 00:38:35,200
Speaker 5: have the sense of village that we had on the continent.

886
00:38:35,560 --> 00:38:38,800
Speaker 5: So families live in compounds, you know, families work together,

887
00:38:39,120 --> 00:38:42,080
Speaker 5: families grow together. As Americans, we don't have that, and

888
00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:44,279
Speaker 5: so I feel like that's another reason why a lot

889
00:38:44,320 --> 00:38:47,879
Speaker 5: of us pledged is to have that camaraderie in terms

890
00:38:47,920 --> 00:38:51,680
Speaker 5: of as we move through life here, our family separate,

891
00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:54,760
Speaker 5: you know, as we get adults and we marry, we separate.

892
00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:57,880
Speaker 1: In Africa, the new wife comes, the husband comes, the

893
00:38:57,920 --> 00:38:59,720
Speaker 1: kids come, and then we stay together.

894
00:38:59,840 --> 00:39:01,839
Speaker 5: So because we don't have that experience, I think that's

895
00:39:01,880 --> 00:39:03,799
Speaker 5: what makes a lot of us pledge. But I think

896
00:39:03,880 --> 00:39:07,120
Speaker 5: that's what the Greek organizations based here in America have

897
00:39:07,239 --> 00:39:07,760
Speaker 5: to remember.

898
00:39:07,920 --> 00:39:12,040
Speaker 1: That we're creating villages. Is it's not about killing people.

899
00:39:12,080 --> 00:39:14,200
Speaker 2: It's crazy you said that when I went to years ago.

900
00:39:14,280 --> 00:39:16,400
Speaker 2: Years ago, I went to Johannesburg to do some parties

901
00:39:16,440 --> 00:39:18,920
Speaker 2: and do some shows. And the person that I went there,

902
00:39:18,960 --> 00:39:20,640
Speaker 2: I went to visit him and.

903
00:39:21,320 --> 00:39:22,480
Speaker 1: The way that he lived.

904
00:39:22,640 --> 00:39:25,360
Speaker 2: He bought the property next door to his house and

905
00:39:25,360 --> 00:39:27,080
Speaker 2: then brought the property next door to their house and

906
00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:29,680
Speaker 2: they all live like in a big compound. And I

907
00:39:29,719 --> 00:39:32,000
Speaker 2: just thought it was amazing. That's why my daughter still

908
00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:33,239
Speaker 2: lives in my house now at twenty three.

909
00:39:34,200 --> 00:39:35,040
Speaker 1: I just like that.

910
00:39:35,160 --> 00:39:37,520
Speaker 2: I have the fact that you have that community. And

911
00:39:37,520 --> 00:39:38,640
Speaker 2: I don't know what we got to the point where

912
00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:39,600
Speaker 2: it's like you turned to on the one you gotta

913
00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:40,319
Speaker 2: get to fuck out my house.

914
00:39:40,320 --> 00:39:43,839
Speaker 1: I well, we were taught that we were talking.

915
00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:45,960
Speaker 2: I like the fact that I can see my daughter

916
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:48,160
Speaker 2: every day and it is what it is. She has

917
00:39:48,160 --> 00:39:51,040
Speaker 2: a boyfriend, that's fine. I love the fact that everybody's

918
00:39:51,040 --> 00:39:53,480
Speaker 2: in the same house, same community. We cook together, we

919
00:39:53,520 --> 00:39:55,839
Speaker 2: play games together, we do this, we do that. There's

920
00:39:55,960 --> 00:39:58,520
Speaker 2: no other feeling. But it's also a safety for myself.

921
00:39:58,600 --> 00:40:01,040
Speaker 2: I know where everybody is. I was going to ask

922
00:40:01,560 --> 00:40:03,520
Speaker 2: one thing that Louis V said, which is our program

923
00:40:03,520 --> 00:40:05,360
Speaker 2: director from Atlanta. He said, the hardest thing about the

924
00:40:05,360 --> 00:40:07,560
Speaker 2: Divine Nine is people don't pay their dues and.

925
00:40:07,600 --> 00:40:09,360
Speaker 1: Sim because that a lot of times, y'all.

926
00:40:09,200 --> 00:40:11,120
Speaker 2: Don't have the power that you need because you don't

927
00:40:11,120 --> 00:40:12,040
Speaker 2: have the money and funding.

928
00:40:12,120 --> 00:40:12,840
Speaker 1: Is that true?

929
00:40:13,120 --> 00:40:17,440
Speaker 5: I think it's an individual thing for organization, but I

930
00:40:17,520 --> 00:40:21,480
Speaker 5: know that, you know, I also feel like dues paying

931
00:40:21,840 --> 00:40:25,840
Speaker 5: has got to be more appealing in terms of what

932
00:40:25,880 --> 00:40:29,120
Speaker 5: the organization is going to do, you know, for me,

933
00:40:29,560 --> 00:40:32,719
Speaker 5: because I'm a soul that's into service, I'm traveling the

934
00:40:32,760 --> 00:40:34,800
Speaker 5: world in service. I mean, I work for orphanages in

935
00:40:35,080 --> 00:40:37,360
Speaker 5: Ghana and Senegal and I'm still doing what I was

936
00:40:37,360 --> 00:40:39,920
Speaker 5: trained to do as a delta. But to be in

937
00:40:39,960 --> 00:40:42,280
Speaker 5: a chapter in an organization, I have to be attracted

938
00:40:42,280 --> 00:40:44,279
Speaker 5: to what that chapter is going to do. And if

939
00:40:44,280 --> 00:40:46,920
Speaker 5: I'm paying dues, I need to know what's my money

940
00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:49,879
Speaker 5: being put towards. And I think that's where a lot

941
00:40:49,880 --> 00:40:52,720
Speaker 5: of organizations that in D nine organizations have to elevate

942
00:40:52,920 --> 00:40:55,239
Speaker 5: in terms of what are they really doing with the

943
00:40:55,280 --> 00:40:58,520
Speaker 5: financial obligation and so I you know, there's always room

944
00:40:58,560 --> 00:40:58,879
Speaker 5: to grow.

945
00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:00,239
Speaker 1: So we'll see.

946
00:41:00,760 --> 00:41:01,000
Speaker 4: Mh.

947
00:41:01,560 --> 00:41:04,120
Speaker 8: Well, the last question for you, what what's your what

948
00:41:04,160 --> 00:41:08,200
Speaker 8: would you rate your most impactful culturally impactful role of

949
00:41:08,239 --> 00:41:08,839
Speaker 8: all your roles?

950
00:41:08,880 --> 00:41:13,120
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, you.

951
00:41:13,080 --> 00:41:16,319
Speaker 5: Know, honestly, I've seen where you know, House Party has

952
00:41:16,360 --> 00:41:18,640
Speaker 5: done its thing and continues to do its thing. You know,

953
00:41:19,280 --> 00:41:21,359
Speaker 5: I can't deny that. You know, people are still running

954
00:41:21,440 --> 00:41:24,480
Speaker 5: up to me in Times Square at the airport with

955
00:41:24,520 --> 00:41:24,920
Speaker 5: you everything.

956
00:41:25,680 --> 00:41:29,160
Speaker 4: You Yes, A lot of that has to do with

957
00:41:29,200 --> 00:41:29,880
Speaker 4: the fact you have not.

958
00:41:32,360 --> 00:41:35,560
Speaker 5: She broke it down right out here before office had

959
00:41:35,640 --> 00:41:41,359
Speaker 5: had suit a head. I was like, yes, And then

960
00:41:41,360 --> 00:41:43,760
Speaker 5: of course Baby Boy, you know it's it has hits,

961
00:41:43,800 --> 00:41:46,880
Speaker 5: it's plunged. And you see how to me, every project,

962
00:41:46,960 --> 00:41:48,960
Speaker 5: and I can't speak for every actress, but I know

963
00:41:48,960 --> 00:41:51,600
Speaker 5: the way God moves with me, every project pushes me

964
00:41:51,640 --> 00:41:54,040
Speaker 5: into the next one. So as you heard me say,

965
00:41:54,120 --> 00:41:57,320
Speaker 5: Baby Boy helped prepare me for for fighting to be me.

966
00:41:57,680 --> 00:42:01,480
Speaker 5: This is my first installment of taking a dance anything LGBTQ,

967
00:42:02,280 --> 00:42:04,960
Speaker 5: and so that's a whole nother culture and community for me.

968
00:42:05,200 --> 00:42:07,759
Speaker 5: So let's I mean, I'm sure this project is going

969
00:42:07,760 --> 00:42:09,719
Speaker 5: to do something in that community, in that space, but

970
00:42:09,760 --> 00:42:13,000
Speaker 5: as an African American culture, that's part of our culture.

971
00:42:13,360 --> 00:42:15,520
Speaker 5: So I just think that for people to have seen

972
00:42:15,560 --> 00:42:17,800
Speaker 5: me so much in Baby Boy, and so many people

973
00:42:17,800 --> 00:42:19,960
Speaker 5: have grown up with me. You were saying that, right,

974
00:42:20,200 --> 00:42:22,239
Speaker 5: have grown up with me in the culture I think

975
00:42:22,280 --> 00:42:24,920
Speaker 5: when I step on screen, it's just part of it anyway,

976
00:42:25,320 --> 00:42:28,560
Speaker 5: and I take that to my advantage. Yeah, I know,

977
00:42:28,760 --> 00:42:30,479
Speaker 5: like I said, I know when I step on screen

978
00:42:30,520 --> 00:42:32,319
Speaker 5: in a role like this, I know people are going.

979
00:42:32,280 --> 00:42:35,319
Speaker 1: To pay attention, and so I take that seriously. What

980
00:42:35,320 --> 00:42:35,680
Speaker 1: do you think?

981
00:42:36,640 --> 00:42:38,239
Speaker 8: No, I just you did a great job as a

982
00:42:38,400 --> 00:42:42,160
Speaker 8: Dwin's mom and you haven't met Hern's mom.

983
00:42:42,280 --> 00:42:44,040
Speaker 1: Oh like the mama said.

984
00:42:43,960 --> 00:42:47,200
Speaker 9: Oh no, no, no, no, she's crazier than how you were on screen.

985
00:42:47,400 --> 00:42:51,040
Speaker 8: Yes, did you put a gun?

986
00:42:51,239 --> 00:42:51,759
Speaker 1: I pull a gun.

987
00:42:51,800 --> 00:42:54,280
Speaker 9: Let's just say I pull a early on in the movie.

988
00:42:54,360 --> 00:42:54,879
Speaker 1: I pull a gun.

989
00:42:54,920 --> 00:42:57,560
Speaker 5: Cigarette I do, I pull a gun. Look you, Sai,

990
00:42:57,760 --> 00:42:59,960
Speaker 5: I go straight into Mama' saying straight into her.

991
00:43:01,360 --> 00:43:01,720
Speaker 1: Yeah.

992
00:43:01,840 --> 00:43:05,560
Speaker 5: Yeah, she's a she's a she's a she's a colorful

993
00:43:05,600 --> 00:43:06,799
Speaker 5: person and.

994
00:43:06,760 --> 00:43:08,839
Speaker 1: So and so.

995
00:43:09,840 --> 00:43:11,920
Speaker 5: Even that, you know, I was a little nervous because

996
00:43:12,080 --> 00:43:14,239
Speaker 5: there's a there's a risk as an actress. And I

997
00:43:14,239 --> 00:43:16,560
Speaker 5: talked to Trusts about this and the director when we're filming.

998
00:43:16,560 --> 00:43:19,360
Speaker 5: There's a risk as an actress that people think, Okay,

999
00:43:19,360 --> 00:43:22,160
Speaker 5: where where is all this coming from? In AJ's portrayal,

1000
00:43:22,520 --> 00:43:25,879
Speaker 5: that's who she is, that's really who she is. So

1001
00:43:25,960 --> 00:43:28,000
Speaker 5: I mean, when you look at the characters in the

1002
00:43:28,120 --> 00:43:31,880
Speaker 5: story that are real people, you get to see, okay, this,

1003
00:43:31,880 --> 00:43:35,399
Speaker 5: this whole story is really colorful. I'll just say that

1004
00:43:35,640 --> 00:43:36,920
Speaker 5: you're gonna ask something now, I was.

1005
00:43:36,880 --> 00:43:38,799
Speaker 4: Gonna say, what's the story that you that you want

1006
00:43:38,840 --> 00:43:39,680
Speaker 4: to tell? TRESSA.

1007
00:43:39,960 --> 00:43:46,200
Speaker 7: Ultimately, I think I want a faith based or faith

1008
00:43:46,320 --> 00:43:52,160
Speaker 7: based adjacent project that will appeal to the masses and

1009
00:43:52,280 --> 00:43:56,240
Speaker 7: get stories told that people wouldn't ordinarily listen to because

1010
00:43:56,239 --> 00:43:57,680
Speaker 7: they hear faith based and then.

1011
00:43:57,600 --> 00:44:00,399
Speaker 1: They run what's faith based adjacent based?

1012
00:44:00,400 --> 00:44:02,600
Speaker 7: A Jason is, for example, I'm getting ready to shoot

1013
00:44:02,640 --> 00:44:05,960
Speaker 7: a movie that is a crime drama slash faith based

1014
00:44:05,960 --> 00:44:10,480
Speaker 7: where it's a it's a it's a story about crime

1015
00:44:10,600 --> 00:44:13,080
Speaker 7: and activity that's going on. But then there's this devout

1016
00:44:13,200 --> 00:44:16,799
Speaker 7: Christian mother that has to make a decision where she's like,

1017
00:44:16,880 --> 00:44:19,920
Speaker 7: you know what, I believe in the Lord. However, you

1018
00:44:20,040 --> 00:44:21,960
Speaker 7: just mess with my child and we get ready to

1019
00:44:21,960 --> 00:44:22,919
Speaker 7: have a problem.

1020
00:44:22,960 --> 00:44:24,440
Speaker 3: So if you tell.

1021
00:44:24,239 --> 00:44:26,799
Speaker 7: Stories like that where people it's real life, you know,

1022
00:44:26,800 --> 00:44:30,240
Speaker 7: because people think that being a Christian means I'm perfect,

1023
00:44:30,280 --> 00:44:32,120
Speaker 7: That's not what that means. And so I want to

1024
00:44:32,160 --> 00:44:35,160
Speaker 7: tell a story that will relate to the masses where

1025
00:44:35,200 --> 00:44:38,000
Speaker 7: they can see oh wow, like I can. I can

1026
00:44:38,080 --> 00:44:41,000
Speaker 7: have faith but still be human. I'm not perfect. Doesn't

1027
00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:42,879
Speaker 7: mean I have to do everything right. So I want

1028
00:44:42,880 --> 00:44:44,120
Speaker 7: to tell a story like that, and I want to

1029
00:44:44,160 --> 00:44:47,640
Speaker 7: do it in a big way with an excellent cast.

1030
00:44:47,800 --> 00:44:51,640
Speaker 7: And AJ is gonna be my EP. Yes, Charlemagne's gonna

1031
00:44:51,680 --> 00:44:54,600
Speaker 7: invest Lauren's gonna be in the movie.

1032
00:44:54,480 --> 00:44:58,200
Speaker 3: Yes, what you're doing? Yeah, what's gonna be your role?

1033
00:44:58,719 --> 00:44:58,959
Speaker 4: Everything?

1034
00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:00,800
Speaker 2: I can act, I can invest a you can figure out.

1035
00:45:00,640 --> 00:45:04,640
Speaker 8: The soundtrack and the sound But you know what, even

1036
00:45:04,680 --> 00:45:07,080
Speaker 8: though we're using this as an example, that is what

1037
00:45:08,760 --> 00:45:10,520
Speaker 8: I was going to say that I'm going to do that,

1038
00:45:10,600 --> 00:45:13,640
Speaker 8: and oh, I know, but you do that in real life,

1039
00:45:13,719 --> 00:45:15,920
Speaker 8: Like I don't think people understand how lit it is.

1040
00:45:16,600 --> 00:45:19,320
Speaker 8: Like even with me, like a first time pitching a show,

1041
00:45:19,800 --> 00:45:22,120
Speaker 8: I got on the phone with her and she was like, okay,

1042
00:45:22,160 --> 00:45:23,799
Speaker 8: so yeah, that's that's done.

1043
00:45:23,840 --> 00:45:25,560
Speaker 9: What else you want to do? But I was like,

1044
00:45:25,960 --> 00:45:27,400
Speaker 9: I had pitched to so many.

1045
00:45:27,160 --> 00:45:29,440
Speaker 8: Networks directly, and I talked to her and she was

1046
00:45:29,480 --> 00:45:31,279
Speaker 8: like and I was like, this is crazy because it's

1047
00:45:31,280 --> 00:45:32,279
Speaker 8: like it's another black woman.

1048
00:45:32,360 --> 00:45:33,799
Speaker 9: So she gets it, but.

1049
00:45:33,719 --> 00:45:35,759
Speaker 8: You do, You've empowered so many people through that, and

1050
00:45:35,760 --> 00:45:38,680
Speaker 8: they're making real money. Like, yeah, that's another thing because

1051
00:45:38,680 --> 00:45:40,520
Speaker 8: when you independently do stuff, you don't see her return.

1052
00:45:40,560 --> 00:45:43,040
Speaker 8: But like so many country ways, so many people are

1053
00:45:43,080 --> 00:45:45,080
Speaker 8: making money off of the projects you take to these

1054
00:45:45,120 --> 00:45:45,879
Speaker 8: networks as well.

1055
00:45:45,920 --> 00:45:49,440
Speaker 7: Like that is just the vessel. And so what I

1056
00:45:49,520 --> 00:45:52,400
Speaker 7: like to do is go in the room. We figure

1057
00:45:52,400 --> 00:45:54,359
Speaker 7: out how we can work together, because that's the only

1058
00:45:54,400 --> 00:45:56,960
Speaker 7: way we're gonna make it is if we collaborate. Everybody's

1059
00:45:56,960 --> 00:46:00,239
Speaker 7: out here trying to be cutthroat. Me, me, me, that's

1060
00:46:00,239 --> 00:46:02,040
Speaker 7: not how to win that. You can't do it that way.

1061
00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:04,520
Speaker 5: Right, And they're expecting us to be cutthroat because they

1062
00:46:04,520 --> 00:46:05,680
Speaker 5: know we can't win that way.

1063
00:46:05,920 --> 00:46:06,920
Speaker 1: So we have to change it.

1064
00:46:07,200 --> 00:46:10,480
Speaker 5: And they're and they're telling us a lot and loud

1065
00:46:11,080 --> 00:46:13,040
Speaker 5: that they're expecting us to act a certain way.

1066
00:46:13,120 --> 00:46:15,680
Speaker 1: And so it's up to us to change the narrative.

1067
00:46:15,920 --> 00:46:17,719
Speaker 8: So when she called, y'all answer the phone, because she's

1068
00:46:17,719 --> 00:46:20,480
Speaker 8: going for the call, y'all, trust yeah what you just said, listen,

1069
00:46:21,200 --> 00:46:21,920
Speaker 8: And it don't take.

1070
00:46:21,840 --> 00:46:22,759
Speaker 4: Long with her.

1071
00:46:22,880 --> 00:46:26,320
Speaker 6: And what's this role overpaying you for next?

1072
00:46:26,560 --> 00:46:30,680
Speaker 5: You know, I think it's and this is interesting. After

1073
00:46:30,760 --> 00:46:34,040
Speaker 5: baby boy, I was offered the mama role, the mama

1074
00:46:34,120 --> 00:46:36,720
Speaker 5: role fifty seven, the mom mo role sixty five, and

1075
00:46:37,520 --> 00:46:39,640
Speaker 5: I was and I turned a lot of it down

1076
00:46:40,000 --> 00:46:42,880
Speaker 5: because I was using baby Boy as critical acclaim as

1077
00:46:42,880 --> 00:46:45,360
Speaker 5: an actress to do more action. That's really what I

1078
00:46:45,400 --> 00:46:49,160
Speaker 5: wanted to do, and so that didn't really happen. Not,

1079
00:46:49,320 --> 00:46:51,520
Speaker 5: I don't think because of me. It's just that that genre.

1080
00:46:51,719 --> 00:46:53,800
Speaker 5: Nobody was looking for a black action star.

1081
00:46:53,880 --> 00:46:55,239
Speaker 1: At the time. And so.

1082
00:46:57,000 --> 00:47:03,920
Speaker 5: Now I realize that there is what's the word, there's uh,

1083
00:47:04,320 --> 00:47:09,920
Speaker 5: adoration what you say, yeah, appetite, Yeah, appetite, adoration, respect

1084
00:47:11,520 --> 00:47:14,319
Speaker 5: for what I bring to these roles. And so now

1085
00:47:14,400 --> 00:47:17,560
Speaker 5: I'm looking at story. I'm looking for for for stories

1086
00:47:17,600 --> 00:47:21,640
Speaker 5: that can can can talk about our culture, whether it's

1087
00:47:21,640 --> 00:47:25,200
Speaker 5: the mama role or whether it's the teacher something. But

1088
00:47:25,280 --> 00:47:28,520
Speaker 5: I'm just I'm looking more for scripts where there's parts

1089
00:47:28,560 --> 00:47:31,520
Speaker 5: of our culture that aren't being displayed on screen and

1090
00:47:31,560 --> 00:47:33,439
Speaker 5: not so much. Now if I can wear hot pants

1091
00:47:33,440 --> 00:47:35,480
Speaker 5: and carry a gun, then I'm good with that too.

1092
00:47:35,880 --> 00:47:39,000
Speaker 5: But but you know, I mean, I've always wanted to

1093
00:47:39,040 --> 00:47:40,080
Speaker 5: do flojo story.

1094
00:47:42,440 --> 00:47:43,520
Speaker 1: Yeah, and and so.

1095
00:47:45,200 --> 00:47:47,200
Speaker 5: Yeah, I can't remember we have to go back to

1096
00:47:47,200 --> 00:47:48,799
Speaker 5: that because John Singleton and I were going to We're

1097
00:47:48,840 --> 00:47:51,399
Speaker 5: trying to do it right after baby Boy, and then

1098
00:47:51,480 --> 00:47:53,640
Speaker 5: you know, it just his his focus shifted and we

1099
00:47:53,680 --> 00:47:56,000
Speaker 5: just didn't get it done. But again, not even just

1100
00:47:56,320 --> 00:47:59,319
Speaker 5: the biopic of the athlete, but just the life of

1101
00:47:59,360 --> 00:48:01,560
Speaker 5: an athlete at that time and what it took to

1102
00:48:01,600 --> 00:48:04,359
Speaker 5: be so great and to still be a woman and

1103
00:48:04,440 --> 00:48:07,440
Speaker 5: to be so courageous in her fashion. It's like what

1104
00:48:07,520 --> 00:48:09,480
Speaker 5: we know, you know, we see Serena doing it, we

1105
00:48:09,560 --> 00:48:11,839
Speaker 5: see other women doing it, but Flow Joe started it.

1106
00:48:12,400 --> 00:48:14,600
Speaker 5: And so I like those kind of stories of let's

1107
00:48:14,640 --> 00:48:16,439
Speaker 5: let's know who we where we come from.

1108
00:48:16,680 --> 00:48:17,480
Speaker 1: That's the other side.

1109
00:48:17,680 --> 00:48:19,959
Speaker 5: I like going back into our history so that people

1110
00:48:20,000 --> 00:48:23,560
Speaker 5: don't think it's just happening. You know, we are we are,

1111
00:48:23,320 --> 00:48:25,719
Speaker 5: we got a bad history behind us, and I want

1112
00:48:25,719 --> 00:48:26,640
Speaker 5: to tell those stories too.

1113
00:48:26,760 --> 00:48:28,760
Speaker 4: Yeah, it was I think Tiffany had I feel.

1114
00:48:28,560 --> 00:48:34,160
Speaker 8: Like she well she was supposed to play about Flow Joe.

1115
00:48:34,160 --> 00:48:36,920
Speaker 10: I don't know what happened else because I'm supposed to

1116
00:48:36,960 --> 00:48:41,000
Speaker 10: do it, or me and Tifty or me and Tiffany.

1117
00:48:41,120 --> 00:48:43,880
Speaker 5: I mean again, it's collaboration. So I mean, I don't know,

1118
00:48:43,920 --> 00:48:45,920
Speaker 5: but that's what I'm saying. I mean, I want to

1119
00:48:45,960 --> 00:48:49,239
Speaker 5: get that story done. She was very instrumental flow Jo.

1120
00:48:49,320 --> 00:48:52,080
Speaker 5: I mean was very instrumental when I was little in

1121
00:48:52,120 --> 00:48:54,719
Speaker 5: my work ethic, you know, and just you know, taking

1122
00:48:54,760 --> 00:48:58,280
Speaker 5: care of my body and so you know, my my

1123
00:48:58,520 --> 00:49:01,880
Speaker 5: physical existence now is a large result of her. And

1124
00:49:01,960 --> 00:49:04,919
Speaker 5: so oh for sure, you know, Gail Divers there would

1125
00:49:04,920 --> 00:49:07,600
Speaker 5: attract greats then and so now because I ran track

1126
00:49:07,600 --> 00:49:09,080
Speaker 5: in high school, I pay attention to like, you know,

1127
00:49:09,080 --> 00:49:13,719
Speaker 5: sign your richardson and and uh, there's the stars now

1128
00:49:15,680 --> 00:49:19,360
Speaker 5: than yeah, yeah, Shakari. So so you know what I

1129
00:49:19,400 --> 00:49:21,960
Speaker 5: see is it doesn't change. The work ethic doesn't change.

1130
00:49:22,080 --> 00:49:25,680
Speaker 5: The generations do. But there's a mind space and a

1131
00:49:25,719 --> 00:49:28,120
Speaker 5: work ethic that doesn't change, and that needs to be

1132
00:49:28,160 --> 00:49:30,640
Speaker 5: seen and taught more than just seeing them at the Olympics.

1133
00:49:30,840 --> 00:49:32,120
Speaker 5: So I'm looking for stories like that too.

1134
00:49:32,280 --> 00:49:33,879
Speaker 6: Question what like, would you ever do a story about

1135
00:49:33,880 --> 00:49:38,200
Speaker 6: polygamy but being being a woman who has who.

1136
00:49:39,960 --> 00:49:40,080
Speaker 7: Are?

1137
00:49:41,160 --> 00:49:44,440
Speaker 1: Yeah? How is that amazing? Amazing?

1138
00:49:45,120 --> 00:49:48,759
Speaker 4: But thunder Neil he the guy, No, but he.

1139
00:49:48,840 --> 00:49:54,160
Speaker 5: You know, listen, you can because he's a whole different reason.

1140
00:49:54,440 --> 00:49:56,160
Speaker 5: Let me let me say this, since we're bringing it up,

1141
00:49:56,520 --> 00:49:59,520
Speaker 5: my my space in it honestly is because since I've

1142
00:49:59,520 --> 00:50:05,520
Speaker 5: been supposed to different cultures and different religious and spirit

1143
00:50:05,600 --> 00:50:09,200
Speaker 5: practices around the world. My thing is, I haven't I

1144
00:50:09,239 --> 00:50:14,279
Speaker 5: haven't found a lot of men in America who who

1145
00:50:14,360 --> 00:50:20,160
Speaker 5: are really appealing to me spiritually, physically, emotionally, mentally. So

1146
00:50:20,239 --> 00:50:22,560
Speaker 5: my thing is, I've got the athlete that I hang

1147
00:50:22,560 --> 00:50:24,920
Speaker 5: out with. I've got the spirit that I pray with,

1148
00:50:25,200 --> 00:50:26,960
Speaker 5: you know, I've got the person that's adventures that I

1149
00:50:27,000 --> 00:50:30,200
Speaker 5: travel with. So it's more lifestyle than it is the

1150
00:50:30,280 --> 00:50:33,359
Speaker 5: sexual connection. For me, it's it's more like I'm not

1151
00:50:33,400 --> 00:50:35,719
Speaker 5: in a relationship, so I have more than one man

1152
00:50:35,840 --> 00:50:36,680
Speaker 5: I spend time with.

1153
00:50:36,880 --> 00:50:38,680
Speaker 9: So whatever you don't get over here, you can get

1154
00:50:38,719 --> 00:50:39,319
Speaker 9: here here.

1155
00:50:39,400 --> 00:50:39,600
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1156
00:50:39,680 --> 00:50:44,000
Speaker 5: Now my soul is actually monogamous, Okay, But because I

1157
00:50:44,040 --> 00:50:45,960
Speaker 5: can't find that, I don't stop.

1158
00:50:46,400 --> 00:50:50,840
Speaker 8: Did you decide to Dibbo Dabo in polygamy after that breakup?

1159
00:50:50,880 --> 00:50:53,640
Speaker 8: You mentioned it took you to Africa before that, before.

1160
00:50:53,360 --> 00:50:54,920
Speaker 1: That, years ago. It was before that.

1161
00:50:55,040 --> 00:50:58,040
Speaker 5: Wow, it was way before that, and so and so

1162
00:50:58,160 --> 00:51:01,279
Speaker 5: me having a relationship after that was me trying I'm

1163
00:51:01,320 --> 00:51:04,320
Speaker 5: not gonna again, and a large part of me was bored,

1164
00:51:04,520 --> 00:51:06,879
Speaker 5: you know, intellectually, I was bored again.

1165
00:51:06,920 --> 00:51:07,920
Speaker 1: I want to travel the world.

1166
00:51:08,280 --> 00:51:10,640
Speaker 5: I wasn't finding a lot of African American men who

1167
00:51:10,680 --> 00:51:13,520
Speaker 5: are building their lives to do that. I even say

1168
00:51:13,560 --> 00:51:15,319
Speaker 5: now when I meet men, I say, you know, I

1169
00:51:15,400 --> 00:51:17,520
Speaker 5: carry five currencies on any given day.

1170
00:51:17,600 --> 00:51:18,680
Speaker 1: How many currencies do you have?

1171
00:51:20,719 --> 00:51:21,000
Speaker 4: God?

1172
00:51:21,640 --> 00:51:22,879
Speaker 1: And that's not a flex.

1173
00:51:24,520 --> 00:51:25,560
Speaker 3: But it's intimidating.

1174
00:51:25,640 --> 00:51:33,160
Speaker 5: Oh well, see here we go with ax go anywhere. Yeah,

1175
00:51:33,200 --> 00:51:35,320
Speaker 5: but I mean think about in the pandemic, when the

1176
00:51:35,640 --> 00:51:38,680
Speaker 5: American passport couldn't get us out of here. I got

1177
00:51:38,800 --> 00:51:40,840
Speaker 5: to leave you because I got I got another passport,

1178
00:51:40,880 --> 00:51:43,600
Speaker 5: I got other currencies. Even without the passport. I wasn't

1179
00:51:43,640 --> 00:51:46,000
Speaker 5: even a dual citizen until twenty twenty two. In twenty

1180
00:51:46,000 --> 00:51:49,680
Speaker 5: twenty I went to three different countries because I had cash.

1181
00:51:50,040 --> 00:51:51,560
Speaker 1: I was prepared. I tell you, I got the email,

1182
00:51:52,160 --> 00:51:52,640
Speaker 1: so I had.

1183
00:51:52,520 --> 00:51:55,480
Speaker 5: Cash in the currency. So I mean, again, this is

1184
00:51:55,560 --> 00:51:57,480
Speaker 5: just my life, right. It's not like I'm trying to

1185
00:51:57,520 --> 00:52:00,080
Speaker 5: say I don't want an American man. I'm just saying

1186
00:52:00,160 --> 00:52:04,920
Speaker 5: my international life, my global options take me into different cultures.

1187
00:52:05,160 --> 00:52:07,760
Speaker 4: And it would be cool if that man had the same.

1188
00:52:07,880 --> 00:52:09,359
Speaker 2: Just on the other side, if he had a woman

1189
00:52:09,400 --> 00:52:10,960
Speaker 2: for this, a woman for that, woman for that, and

1190
00:52:11,080 --> 00:52:11,840
Speaker 2: you for traveling.

1191
00:52:11,920 --> 00:52:13,960
Speaker 1: As long as he's okay with me doing the same thing,

1192
00:52:14,200 --> 00:52:15,040
Speaker 1: we're gonna have fun.

1193
00:52:15,600 --> 00:52:18,879
Speaker 4: See that's a story. Yeah, yeah, that's a story because

1194
00:52:18,880 --> 00:52:19,960
Speaker 4: I feel like there's so much.

1195
00:52:19,840 --> 00:52:22,880
Speaker 6: Things that we're not going to be taught because especially

1196
00:52:23,000 --> 00:52:24,480
Speaker 6: what's going on in this country as far as you know,

1197
00:52:24,640 --> 00:52:26,160
Speaker 6: the book banning and.

1198
00:52:26,080 --> 00:52:26,840
Speaker 4: All types of stuff.

1199
00:52:26,920 --> 00:52:28,960
Speaker 6: But I feel like those type of things we need

1200
00:52:29,000 --> 00:52:30,800
Speaker 6: to see how we're going to get exposed other culture.

1201
00:52:31,400 --> 00:52:32,040
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying.

1202
00:52:32,239 --> 00:52:34,080
Speaker 5: It's so interesting because you know, when I start talking

1203
00:52:34,080 --> 00:52:37,360
Speaker 5: about it, the men got offended and all of a sudden,

1204
00:52:37,360 --> 00:52:41,200
Speaker 5: I was the queen of running trains choo choo whatever, right,

1205
00:52:41,520 --> 00:52:43,960
Speaker 5: And then the women were empowered because a lot of

1206
00:52:44,000 --> 00:52:45,920
Speaker 5: women were saying, you know, I want I wanted to

1207
00:52:45,960 --> 00:52:48,359
Speaker 5: explore that, but I've been afraid to or I can't

1208
00:52:48,400 --> 00:52:50,640
Speaker 5: believe you're talking about it publicly. And I would say

1209
00:52:50,719 --> 00:52:52,960
Speaker 5: even by in the background of it. It's not just

1210
00:52:53,000 --> 00:52:56,160
Speaker 5: a sexual experience, right, that's what that's what us as

1211
00:52:56,160 --> 00:52:56,960
Speaker 5: Americans think.

1212
00:52:57,000 --> 00:52:58,759
Speaker 9: That's the first thing I thought of it. Yeah, it's not.

1213
00:52:58,880 --> 00:53:01,640
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's not just a set actual experience. It's it's

1214
00:53:01,680 --> 00:53:07,080
Speaker 5: like I can be I can be not even sexually active.

1215
00:53:07,480 --> 00:53:11,120
Speaker 5: But but I'm still getting full from my spiritual partnership,

1216
00:53:11,280 --> 00:53:14,759
Speaker 5: my adventure partnership, in my travel, my fitness partnership. You know,

1217
00:53:14,800 --> 00:53:16,239
Speaker 5: the guy I pray with me don't want to hike,

1218
00:53:17,640 --> 00:53:19,480
Speaker 5: you see what I'm saying. And the guy that wants

1219
00:53:19,480 --> 00:53:21,680
Speaker 5: to hike and pray may not want to travel or can't.

1220
00:53:21,920 --> 00:53:25,359
Speaker 5: It doesn't mean I stopped my life. So Neo got

1221
00:53:25,360 --> 00:53:27,560
Speaker 5: a lot of flat uh not well not a lot.

1222
00:53:27,600 --> 00:53:30,360
Speaker 8: But like Neo has kids, right, and his one of

1223
00:53:30,400 --> 00:53:32,640
Speaker 8: his kids mom came out about the way that I

1224
00:53:32,640 --> 00:53:35,360
Speaker 8: guess he's talking about his lifestyle so openly because of

1225
00:53:35,400 --> 00:53:38,360
Speaker 8: their kids. And then they started a whole conversation about like,

1226
00:53:38,520 --> 00:53:40,040
Speaker 8: how do you explain this to your kids? Do you

1227
00:53:40,080 --> 00:53:43,560
Speaker 8: bring the people because there's multiple partners around the kids

1228
00:53:43,560 --> 00:53:44,080
Speaker 8: and like all of that.

1229
00:53:44,120 --> 00:53:44,919
Speaker 9: I know you have a son.

1230
00:53:45,360 --> 00:53:45,719
Speaker 1: I don't.

1231
00:53:45,840 --> 00:53:48,719
Speaker 8: Oh I don't have the kids. Oh, Google said you did. Really, yes,

1232
00:53:48,760 --> 00:53:52,320
Speaker 8: they gave me one sign and everything.

1233
00:53:53,520 --> 00:53:54,320
Speaker 4: Has one son.

1234
00:53:55,200 --> 00:53:55,719
Speaker 1: Who is that?

1235
00:53:55,840 --> 00:54:02,000
Speaker 10: Somebody about to come out because I'm I I finally

1236
00:54:02,000 --> 00:54:03,560
Speaker 10: get Instagram might never seen a post a kid, but

1237
00:54:03,560 --> 00:54:06,160
Speaker 10: I'm only.

1238
00:54:07,800 --> 00:54:09,640
Speaker 8: I thought you were a celebrity that kept your kid

1239
00:54:09,680 --> 00:54:12,439
Speaker 8: out in the style. No, I mean this don't apply

1240
00:54:12,480 --> 00:54:14,600
Speaker 8: to you then, But how do you feel about that conversation,

1241
00:54:14,640 --> 00:54:15,920
Speaker 8: because I'm sure you've had that in a conversation with

1242
00:54:16,000 --> 00:54:17,040
Speaker 8: your family members in general.

1243
00:54:17,320 --> 00:54:18,160
Speaker 1: Well, I think this.

1244
00:54:18,560 --> 00:54:20,920
Speaker 5: You know, if you live in open and honest life,

1245
00:54:21,040 --> 00:54:23,719
Speaker 5: then there's nothing ever to hide. And so for me,

1246
00:54:24,880 --> 00:54:26,759
Speaker 5: I can't speak because I don't have kids, but I

1247
00:54:26,800 --> 00:54:29,200
Speaker 5: feel like there's a respectful way if that's a lifestyle.

1248
00:54:29,400 --> 00:54:31,239
Speaker 5: I feel the same way about, you know, a gay

1249
00:54:31,320 --> 00:54:34,759
Speaker 5: parent thing with a kid. You know, if if two

1250
00:54:34,840 --> 00:54:36,920
Speaker 5: gay men adopt want to raise a kid, or two

1251
00:54:36,960 --> 00:54:39,160
Speaker 5: gay women are raising a family, there's a way that

1252
00:54:39,160 --> 00:54:42,839
Speaker 5: that family is raised and trained to understand. And so

1253
00:54:43,120 --> 00:54:46,440
Speaker 5: even when that kid is going to school with heterosexual

1254
00:54:46,560 --> 00:54:50,120
Speaker 5: other parents orving sleepovers, and there's a different way that

1255
00:54:50,160 --> 00:54:52,839
Speaker 5: they're being raised and taught what that lifestyle is like.

1256
00:54:53,239 --> 00:54:55,799
Speaker 5: So I don't know. I don't know much about Neo's thing.

1257
00:54:56,120 --> 00:54:57,480
Speaker 5: I'm not wild with mine.

1258
00:54:57,760 --> 00:54:58,000
Speaker 1: I'm not.

1259
00:54:58,160 --> 00:54:59,959
Speaker 5: It's not something that I promote because it's not about

1260
00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:03,680
Speaker 5: out that. It's about me making sure that I'm full

1261
00:55:04,480 --> 00:55:05,920
Speaker 5: and what that means as.

1262
00:55:05,800 --> 00:55:06,600
Speaker 1: A global woman.

1263
00:55:07,640 --> 00:55:08,600
Speaker 4: Global woman.

1264
00:55:10,400 --> 00:55:13,920
Speaker 3: Again, she is intimidating.

1265
00:55:15,760 --> 00:55:20,760
Speaker 4: Cannot figure that's the of the movie Global Global Woman.

1266
00:55:22,440 --> 00:55:25,640
Speaker 1: I wanted delaware, I want to do that is not

1267
00:55:26,320 --> 00:55:28,239
Speaker 1: Here's a question. Here's a question real quick for you too.

1268
00:55:28,680 --> 00:55:30,799
Speaker 5: So I know, I know you have women, But how

1269
00:55:30,840 --> 00:55:32,880
Speaker 5: do you feel about that woman perspective?

1270
00:55:33,520 --> 00:55:36,600
Speaker 1: Would you allow it? Would you allow it a lot?

1271
00:55:36,640 --> 00:55:38,120
Speaker 4: I don't know what. How can you stop a woman

1272
00:55:38,160 --> 00:55:39,000
Speaker 4: from doing what you want to do?

1273
00:55:39,120 --> 00:55:40,840
Speaker 5: But how do you feel you would you be?

1274
00:55:43,000 --> 00:55:45,359
Speaker 4: I wouldn't, I mean I would, I wouldn't personally. Can

1275
00:55:45,400 --> 00:55:48,160
Speaker 4: you tell me why I'm too insecure?

1276
00:55:48,440 --> 00:55:58,640
Speaker 11: Okay, that's fair woman, Woman's very proud of you.

1277
00:56:00,080 --> 00:56:04,600
Speaker 8: Else for the same part of part of it is

1278
00:56:04,600 --> 00:56:06,600
Speaker 8: probably for what NB said, but you wouldn't just say

1279
00:56:06,600 --> 00:56:07,040
Speaker 8: that out loud.

1280
00:56:07,120 --> 00:56:09,280
Speaker 1: Mostly, I guess we would.

1281
00:56:09,120 --> 00:56:11,480
Speaker 3: Have twenty three I've been married for twenty eight.

1282
00:56:12,000 --> 00:56:13,560
Speaker 4: My woman for twenty six years.

1283
00:56:13,600 --> 00:56:15,120
Speaker 6: But I guess we would have to have the conversation,

1284
00:56:15,239 --> 00:56:17,040
Speaker 6: like because you said you have all of these different

1285
00:56:17,040 --> 00:56:19,759
Speaker 6: guys for different things, right, So what is it that

1286
00:56:19,800 --> 00:56:21,000
Speaker 6: I'm not fulfilling that?

1287
00:56:21,480 --> 00:56:24,799
Speaker 4: I think that conversation has to happen first to see

1288
00:56:24,800 --> 00:56:25,200
Speaker 4: what it is.

1289
00:56:25,280 --> 00:56:28,080
Speaker 5: See I love that, But if it's something that you

1290
00:56:28,120 --> 00:56:31,080
Speaker 5: can't fulfill or you're not interested, in Do you feel

1291
00:56:31,160 --> 00:56:35,680
Speaker 5: like she's supposed to acquiesce and compromise or are there

1292
00:56:35,719 --> 00:56:40,200
Speaker 5: concessions there's that that compromise concession my devotion or do

1293
00:56:40,280 --> 00:56:42,960
Speaker 5: you feel like there's concessions that can be made so

1294
00:56:43,000 --> 00:56:43,680
Speaker 5: that you're both.

1295
00:56:43,520 --> 00:56:44,720
Speaker 1: Happy and tough?

1296
00:56:44,800 --> 00:56:49,080
Speaker 8: Man, that's tough I do because I think if presented,

1297
00:56:49,120 --> 00:56:51,279
Speaker 8: if the other way, presented the other way, if your

1298
00:56:51,320 --> 00:56:53,000
Speaker 8: wives came to you and was like, hey, y'all, I

1299
00:56:53,000 --> 00:56:54,520
Speaker 8: think it would be fun for us to try puligueing

1300
00:56:54,560 --> 00:56:57,200
Speaker 8: me for like six months, what would y'all say now?

1301
00:57:00,800 --> 00:57:02,640
Speaker 4: Because I'm not missing nothing, like I'm not that.

1302
00:57:02,760 --> 00:57:07,839
Speaker 5: It's different term relationship, what you wanted you want hike right?

1303
00:57:08,960 --> 00:57:11,640
Speaker 1: No, I mean like if.

1304
00:57:11,880 --> 00:57:14,880
Speaker 8: Said I'm okay with you having hypothetically, I'm okay with

1305
00:57:14,960 --> 00:57:17,080
Speaker 8: us having three other wives.

1306
00:57:17,840 --> 00:57:23,960
Speaker 4: It's I'm happy for what I have. I wouldn't want that.

1307
00:57:24,000 --> 00:57:25,520
Speaker 4: I wouldn't want like when Neil has to deal with

1308
00:57:25,520 --> 00:57:27,240
Speaker 4: I would want to deal with. And let's be clear,

1309
00:57:27,440 --> 00:57:28,800
Speaker 4: maybe a girlfriend.

1310
00:57:29,720 --> 00:57:31,760
Speaker 3: Don't don't.

1311
00:57:37,000 --> 00:57:42,160
Speaker 5: Girlfriend. I brought it up right, I want the boy

1312
00:57:42,400 --> 00:57:44,720
Speaker 5: I want the girlfriend. So so here's what's inter saying.

1313
00:57:44,720 --> 00:57:46,560
Speaker 5: If you're like a boyfriend, you're cool with that no,

1314
00:57:46,720 --> 00:57:47,400
Speaker 5: he already said no.

1315
00:57:47,760 --> 00:57:48,320
Speaker 9: But that's what i'maying.

1316
00:57:48,360 --> 00:57:49,720
Speaker 8: That's the that's what I was trying to get into,

1317
00:57:49,800 --> 00:57:52,920
Speaker 8: that that standard of like I think when Neo does it,

1318
00:57:53,000 --> 00:57:55,520
Speaker 8: and people will have things to say, but it's like, oh,

1319
00:57:55,600 --> 00:57:57,880
Speaker 8: shoot Neo. But when people hear you say it, it's like,

1320
00:57:58,120 --> 00:58:00,680
Speaker 8: what did you say? They called you train something. Other guys,

1321
00:58:01,000 --> 00:58:03,000
Speaker 8: yeah that I was Queen of the Train. Yeah, it's

1322
00:58:03,000 --> 00:58:10,160
Speaker 8: like it's such a different way.

1323
00:58:12,720 --> 00:58:14,400
Speaker 9: Yeah, don't standard be crazy.

1324
00:58:15,400 --> 00:58:16,320
Speaker 1: I stuck in combats.

1325
00:58:16,440 --> 00:58:19,640
Speaker 5: Oh, listen to the Queen of the trades talking.

1326
00:58:18,800 --> 00:58:23,280
Speaker 7: So I have a movie with Neo and I present that.

1327
00:58:23,440 --> 00:58:25,840
Speaker 7: Everybody's like, hey, I watch what's the name of that movie?

1328
00:58:25,960 --> 00:58:29,320
Speaker 7: And I say, it's nothing like that. That sound it's

1329
00:58:29,320 --> 00:58:32,280
Speaker 7: called the Sound of Christmas. The lead in a Christmas

1330
00:58:32,280 --> 00:58:36,040
Speaker 7: movie like that. But when people realize it, you know,

1331
00:58:36,080 --> 00:58:38,520
Speaker 7: just because they're talking about Neo now, they're like, yeah,

1332
00:58:38,520 --> 00:58:39,760
Speaker 7: we know Neo is in your movie.

1333
00:58:39,760 --> 00:58:41,919
Speaker 3: What's the name? And I was like, it's not like that.

1334
00:58:42,240 --> 00:58:44,280
Speaker 5: What I was gonna say is the difference with them

1335
00:58:44,440 --> 00:58:46,840
Speaker 5: is you all have been in long term relationships.

1336
00:58:46,840 --> 00:58:48,600
Speaker 1: This Mountain valleys. Mountain valleys.

1337
00:58:48,600 --> 00:58:51,040
Speaker 5: No relationship is perfect course, but you know, For me,

1338
00:58:51,480 --> 00:58:54,560
Speaker 5: I think it's also individual because I started my career

1339
00:58:54,880 --> 00:58:57,880
Speaker 5: so young that trying to find that kind of relationship

1340
00:58:57,880 --> 00:59:00,720
Speaker 5: in Hollywood. You know, I wanted it, I couldn't find it.

1341
00:59:00,880 --> 00:59:03,680
Speaker 5: You know, at that time, everybody that could have been

1342
00:59:03,800 --> 00:59:07,600
Speaker 5: a potential partner, we were all trying to get our

1343
00:59:07,600 --> 00:59:12,000
Speaker 5: foot in the door. And so whether it's athlete, producer, director, talent,

1344
00:59:12,240 --> 00:59:14,560
Speaker 5: it wasn't happening for me like that. But I still

1345
00:59:14,560 --> 00:59:16,760
Speaker 5: wanted my life. So it's not so much I want

1346
00:59:16,800 --> 00:59:18,720
Speaker 5: to make sure it's clear even for the people listen.

1347
00:59:19,040 --> 00:59:20,880
Speaker 5: It's like, it's not like I'm just saying I want

1348
00:59:20,880 --> 00:59:22,880
Speaker 5: more than one man. That's why I said my heart

1349
00:59:22,880 --> 00:59:25,560
Speaker 5: and my soul is monogamous. But if I can't have that,

1350
00:59:26,200 --> 00:59:27,040
Speaker 5: then what do I do?

1351
00:59:28,280 --> 00:59:30,560
Speaker 7: That's fair like until you get it. Yeah, because we

1352
00:59:30,640 --> 00:59:32,720
Speaker 7: found a couple of potentials for you, but then we

1353
00:59:32,760 --> 00:59:33,520
Speaker 7: had to boot them out.

1354
00:59:33,600 --> 00:59:35,760
Speaker 8: Is it tough because you're aj like you you are,

1355
00:59:35,840 --> 00:59:37,520
Speaker 8: they see you and it's like, oh shoot, I watched

1356
00:59:37,560 --> 00:59:40,600
Speaker 8: Nacci movie credits and things behind the scenes.

1357
00:59:41,440 --> 00:59:42,520
Speaker 1: You know what, I'll tell you.

1358
00:59:43,080 --> 00:59:46,360
Speaker 5: It helps dating internationally because a lot of the international

1359
00:59:46,360 --> 00:59:50,000
Speaker 5: men don't know or they don't really care because they're

1360
00:59:50,440 --> 00:59:54,520
Speaker 5: they're of a certain financial status themselves, a certain social

1361
00:59:54,520 --> 00:59:59,320
Speaker 5: status themselves, and so I'm like, listen, we gotta travel, boot,

1362
00:59:59,360 --> 01:00:03,240
Speaker 5: we got to travel. And so it's not important to

1363
01:00:03,280 --> 01:00:07,240
Speaker 5: their culture, you know. And so you know, they acknowledge

1364
01:00:07,240 --> 01:00:09,640
Speaker 5: it and they respect it. But we're not connecting on

1365
01:00:09,720 --> 01:00:13,040
Speaker 5: that that level. We're connecting more on spiritual level, on

1366
01:00:13,080 --> 01:00:15,400
Speaker 5: what are we doing for the country, which is where

1367
01:00:15,400 --> 01:00:17,040
Speaker 5: I'm at in my own self.

1368
01:00:20,200 --> 01:00:28,440
Speaker 1: Appreciate joining us.

1369
01:00:25,360 --> 01:00:30,640
Speaker 4: And do not take Laura with you. She's single, she

1370
01:00:30,680 --> 01:00:31,320
Speaker 4: can't find somebody.

1371
01:00:31,600 --> 01:00:32,640
Speaker 1: Lawren's looking at me with.

1372
01:00:32,560 --> 01:00:34,840
Speaker 3: The cock jewel. Honey, thank you.

1373
01:00:34,880 --> 01:00:37,640
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, don't settle. That's my final statement. Whoever it is,

1374
01:00:37,680 --> 01:00:40,280
Speaker 5: don't settle. Be a woman with global options.

1375
01:00:41,160 --> 01:00:43,560
Speaker 6: It's crazy how she acting like she don't got options though,

1376
01:00:43,640 --> 01:00:47,120
Speaker 6: you know, don't Valentine. They three different guys than her flowers, Charlomae,

1377
01:00:47,400 --> 01:00:57,000
Speaker 6: the three different guys in on Valentine.

1378
01:00:57,200 --> 01:00:57,880
Speaker 9: That is not true.

1379
01:00:58,120 --> 01:00:59,880
Speaker 1: It's the same guy from three different floors.

1380
01:01:00,160 --> 01:01:03,160
Speaker 8: No same floor is three different flowers. You think all

1381
01:01:03,400 --> 01:01:05,040
Speaker 8: all these guys are the one to the same floor.

1382
01:01:05,120 --> 01:01:07,640
Speaker 4: Maybe it was the one closest to it.

1383
01:01:08,760 --> 01:01:13,040
Speaker 9: He's lying.

1384
01:01:13,080 --> 01:01:13,560
Speaker 4: Good morning.

1385
01:01:14,120 --> 01:01:17,360
Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning the Breakfast Club

1386
01:01:21,480 --> 01:01:21,520
Speaker 9: H