Speaker 1: Don't know.
Speaker 2: Every day click up the Breakfast Club morning.
Speaker 3: Everybody's d j n V. Just hilarious, charlamage the guy.
Speaker 3: We are the Breakfast Club. We got a special guest
Speaker 3: in the building. Indeed, she's in season three A Reasonable Doubt,
Speaker 3: which starts on September eighteenth, So it's.
Speaker 1: Out right now. Brandy Evans, welcome you.
Speaker 4: I'm amazing. I'm in New Yorker. I love New York.
Speaker 4: You do, yes? I do?
Speaker 5: Like literally now, I'm trying to figure out how I
Speaker 5: can be like in the l A Coast and in
Speaker 5: the we in the East Coast.
Speaker 4: You're from Memphis, I am wanting raised. Yes, okay? Cool?
Speaker 4: And so you you you like New York? I do?
Speaker 5: I feel like, you know, New York people keep it real,
Speaker 5: and I feel like sometimes I love you La, but
Speaker 5: sometimes y'all be a little sensitive.
Speaker 4: So I think, I I that's what I like about
Speaker 4: New York.
Speaker 2: That's what kind of keep it fake, real, fake real
Speaker 2: to each other. Really, yea, he.
Speaker 4: From New York. Okay, from somewhere You from, Oh you
Speaker 4: Southern like me?
Speaker 6: You already know?
Speaker 4: So what does that mean that you're just you're trying
Speaker 4: to figure out Folks, out here.
Speaker 6: No, I've been figuring them out and thinking about a
Speaker 6: long time ago.
Speaker 1: That's not true.
Speaker 5: Long time ago, queen Okay, okay, we were just talking
Speaker 5: about going to Queen's.
Speaker 4: Okay, ask me.
Speaker 6: If you've been to a Didty party?
Speaker 4: What Ask him?
Speaker 6: He's gonna lie and say no, ask him.
Speaker 1: I've not been to Okay, okay, And if I have,
Speaker 1: it was way do you see what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: There'm no judgment. I used to dance for Diddy, so
Speaker 4: she was.
Speaker 5: Assistant, Lari and Gibson all that I never saw the
Speaker 5: things that people.
Speaker 2: You missed the lie because the lie was so good.
Speaker 2: First that I ain't never been no Didty party, and
Speaker 2: if I did, it was.
Speaker 6: Way way way back in.
Speaker 1: I was joking, joke, I never been no damn Diddy
Speaker 1: party party.
Speaker 4: I ain't never been on one iground.
Speaker 5: I went home to get my mama down the stage.
Speaker 4: I feel good. I feel amazing.
Speaker 5: It's caregiver appreciation months speaking up taking care of my mama.
Speaker 5: So this is my respite break to just being out
Speaker 5: here in New York doing what I want to do,
Speaker 5: seeing some art, enjoying some cold weather.
Speaker 4: Because I feel like we don't really get that in LA.
Speaker 6: Who's all the caregivers out there? Man? Break down?
Speaker 2: What exactly do caregivers do? Because it's such an unappreciating
Speaker 2: service that they that they provide.
Speaker 4: That's a good question.
Speaker 5: Everything care like for me my mom, Diane Harrington, she
Speaker 5: has multiple sclerosis, she has Alzheimer's and she's paraplegic. So
Speaker 5: basically it's like having my newborn with me at all times.
Speaker 4: And it just depends on what you're dealing with.
Speaker 5: It could be from feedings, the doctor's appointments, emotional support,
Speaker 5: just sitting with them, taking them out.
Speaker 4: You just never know.
Speaker 5: But caregivers need love and check on us too because
Speaker 5: we ain't all right.
Speaker 4: All the time.
Speaker 2: And you know, people, I'm sure I don't know if
Speaker 2: you're through the system, but you know, people get paid
Speaker 2: for that.
Speaker 5: Not everywhere. That's I'm glad you mentioned that New York
Speaker 5: is a blessing. LA is a blessing. I think I
Speaker 5: heard Florida has a little bit, but everywhere else it's
Speaker 5: been frustrated.
Speaker 4: And that's why I had to move Mama from Memphis.
Speaker 6: Wow.
Speaker 5: So and then I moved it to Atlanta season one
Speaker 5: when I was filming Pea Valley and had to move
Speaker 5: a back because I lost all my benefits. So it
Speaker 5: is that's that we just did care Fest out here,
Speaker 5: and that's what we were talking about, getting the care
Speaker 5: because people aren't doing that, and either all of us
Speaker 5: are either going to be caregivers for somebody or somebody's
Speaker 5: gonna care for us at one time in our lives.
Speaker 4: So I don't know what's up with the government. So
Speaker 4: who does care for you?
Speaker 6: Then?
Speaker 4: Because you've been doing this for a long time, you
Speaker 4: take care.
Speaker 5: But I've watched your journey just over the years, even
Speaker 5: before I met you, and you are like your mom
Speaker 5: is your baby in between rolls, and I even shot
Speaker 5: a project with you, and on a break, you on
Speaker 5: a phone mama, making sure everybody is in place while
Speaker 5: you're doing the things that you have to do to
Speaker 5: keep making the money right. And then as soon as
Speaker 5: you finish, you and you go, you wit your mom,
Speaker 5: you wake up, you go back on set. That's right,
Speaker 5: Because during Pretty Stone, I had Mama in the hospital,
Speaker 5: so I was on the phone with doctors and they
Speaker 5: were like cut and I was like holding the doctor
Speaker 5: stayed while I did a scene on the phone and
Speaker 5: came back. So yeah, rehearsed in lines and remembering the
Speaker 5: script and everything like that. I write my friends and family,
Speaker 5: I will say more so my friends. No, not to
Speaker 5: my family, but my friends are the ones that are
Speaker 5: out there with me, people like Ivri, who's with me here?
Speaker 4: When I'm filming season one, A p.
Speaker 5: Valley had a caregiver walk out and I checked the
Speaker 5: live camera stream, I'm like, what's going on? What's going
Speaker 5: on in Mama's room. He had connected all of my
Speaker 5: friends together. Then they took turns taking care of my
Speaker 5: mother while I filmed because the caregiver walked out.
Speaker 4: So my friends on.
Speaker 5: My ride or Diyes Sasha, you know, my Bestisasha. Sasha's
Speaker 5: at the house of Mama now, like they, I just
Speaker 5: have a good village, a good chosen family, which is
Speaker 5: a blessing.
Speaker 1: Would you ever put your you know a lot of
Speaker 1: people talk about putting their moms or parents in the home.
Speaker 1: Would you do that?
Speaker 5: And while glad that actually I promised my mama ever
Speaker 5: would and she did go in one. So that's my story.
Speaker 5: On her birthday in twenty and fourteen, she had a fall.
Speaker 5: I was dancing background for Lettercy at the time. My
Speaker 5: little brother called me. He was like, Mama fail, she
Speaker 5: has to be in a rehabilitation center. And I'm like,
Speaker 5: the one promise I made to Mama, which was never
Speaker 5: put in a nurse home, she had to be in it,
Speaker 5: but never again. So that's when I fought for my
Speaker 5: life to start teaching dance classes all over the country
Speaker 5: and asking every celeb I knew, like, I don't need
Speaker 5: your money, but.
Speaker 4: Just a repost is a blessing.
Speaker 5: And we raised fourteen thousand dollars in four days, and
Speaker 5: I got my mama out of that nursing home. When
Speaker 5: that was December twenty first, it'd be nine years. I've
Speaker 5: had her since that day.
Speaker 3: The reason I ask is, you know, sometimes parents will say,
Speaker 3: you know what, I don't want to, you know, be
Speaker 3: a problem with your Like I don't want to, you know,
Speaker 3: you know, mess up what you have, So put me
Speaker 3: in a home so that way there is help.
Speaker 1: And then there's some people that say, you know, I'll
Speaker 1: never put my mind in a home.
Speaker 3: But having that kid twenty four to seven, I mean,
Speaker 3: I'm sure you know it's almost impossible.
Speaker 4: Right then it's nine thousand dollars a month, right to
Speaker 4: be exact.
Speaker 3: So my wife's had dementia in all times, and we
Speaker 3: had a full day, and if.
Speaker 1: We didn't have a nanny helping, it would.
Speaker 3: Be almost impossible, because you know, there's been times when
Speaker 3: she didne walked out the house and just kept walking,
Speaker 3: while there.
Speaker 1: Was times where you know, she didn't know where the
Speaker 1: toilet was. So you know, it's like having a newborn
Speaker 1: at times.
Speaker 3: There's been times when you know there's so much going on,
Speaker 3: So how do you deal with that twenty four seven
Speaker 3: and still work and still.
Speaker 4: Take care of God?
Speaker 5: Because at this point it's just got to be all
Speaker 5: God because I'm so exhausted in New York. That's the
Speaker 5: first time I don't have the baby monitor about my ear,
Speaker 5: and so when you hear that cough, you don't know,
Speaker 5: just like with your baby, are you choking or are
Speaker 5: you coughing? So then you're getting up, running into the
Speaker 5: room trying to have that rest.
Speaker 4: It is exhausting. It is very exhausting.
Speaker 5: But I also don't knock people that have to do
Speaker 5: that because everybody's situation is different. I think that if
Speaker 5: you have to put them there, you got to stay
Speaker 5: on top of them.
Speaker 4: I was stalking the home like I was showing up.
Speaker 5: I was popping up. At one point. They was like,
Speaker 5: we feel like you're watching us.
Speaker 4: I am.
Speaker 5: I am because it's my mom and that where she was.
Speaker 5: My mom probably wouldn't be alive right now if I
Speaker 5: wouldn't have gotten her. One time I popped up and
Speaker 5: Mama was like laid over with a fever and I
Speaker 5: had to break her fever.
Speaker 4: By the way, you can.
Speaker 5: Break your fever with alcohol, just rub it on the
Speaker 5: baby's back. Mama taught me that when I was a
Speaker 5: little girl, rub rubbing alcohol on the back.
Speaker 4: But yeah, I honestly don't know. I'm still trying to.
Speaker 5: I'm working through it with therapy and just trying to
Speaker 5: find my peace and taking more vacations and things for
Speaker 5: myself too. And that's hard too, because now Mama had
Speaker 5: a meltdown about me coming to New York because she's like,
Speaker 5: why are you leaving me? And I can you know
Speaker 5: with kids. I know y'all overstanding, you don't want to
Speaker 5: leave the babies, but we gotta work.
Speaker 4: We gotta have some time for us because I came
Speaker 4: for from the empty cup.
Speaker 2: I loved this conversation so much because years years and
Speaker 2: years years years ago God blessed the dead. Andre Herrel
Speaker 2: called me and had a whole conversation about this exactly
Speaker 2: and introduced me to the world of cadgive was and
Speaker 2: introduced me to a woman named Gina Lisa Montacero. And
Speaker 2: she's the founder of the Medicated Visory Group and they're
Speaker 2: a consulting company who assists elders and family caregivers. And so,
Speaker 2: you know, she helped my family with some stuff, and
Speaker 2: she helped a lot of my friends.
Speaker 6: I think it's just something that people don't know about
Speaker 6: it and.
Speaker 5: We don't think about it until we have to be
Speaker 5: in that situation, right, because I never thought about it,
Speaker 5: and then I realized, oh, this is Medicare, Medicaid, all
Speaker 5: the different things like it's hard and if you don't
Speaker 5: have it, you can't get your supplies, you can't pay
Speaker 5: and paying for these supplies at the house is very
Speaker 5: expensive if you don't have that help.
Speaker 6: So that's what Gina Lisa does.
Speaker 2: She helps you just navigate the help get system because
Speaker 2: it's complex.
Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, and they don't want us to know about
Speaker 4: it at all. They definitely don't want us to know
Speaker 4: about it. So yeah, and so you said therapy, so
Speaker 4: you are currently. Yes, I gotta find new therapist.
Speaker 5: Though the last one I had, I'm like, it's been
Speaker 5: a minute and she ain't really answer that phone.
Speaker 4: So I need to find me.
Speaker 5: But then it's finding the right people, and they're trusting
Speaker 5: people too, because I'm like, it's like, I don't really
Speaker 5: want you to talk about.
Speaker 4: What I do.
Speaker 5: I just want to I want to be Brandy. I
Speaker 5: don't want to be the actor. I just want to
Speaker 5: be Brandy the caregiver and.
Speaker 1: Just talk about things.
Speaker 6: What about y'all?
Speaker 4: Is that hard for y'all to do when you go
Speaker 4: to therapy? Y'all go to therapy.
Speaker 6: I'm on my.
Speaker 4: Second yeah, trying to find that right fit.
Speaker 5: It's like, yeah, I haven't I heard it. It's like
Speaker 5: I haven't started therapy yet. I would like to, but
Speaker 5: I just I haven't started yet. But I hear that
Speaker 5: a lot in people like my son's father. He's like, Yo,
Speaker 5: I just can't find the right person, you know what
Speaker 5: I mean. And then he also battles with trusting, like, yo,
Speaker 5: how can this person tell me anything?
Speaker 4: How can he fix me? If he never been through
Speaker 4: what I've been through?
Speaker 5: If they don't look like me or you know, so
Speaker 5: he's battling like trying to find a black man to
Speaker 5: talk to you.
Speaker 6: I got a good one for him.
Speaker 2: We need to share talk about my first my first therapist.
Speaker 2: I wanted somebody that was completely opposite, so I was looking.
Speaker 2: I actually was looking for like an Asian woman, but
Speaker 2: I ended up with a white woman and she was cool.
Speaker 2: But it is something about having a black male therapist
Speaker 2: who's culturally competent.
Speaker 6: You don't got to explain too much. A lot of
Speaker 6: things he already understands.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, now, but.
Speaker 6: You always gonna be kind of hard because he to
Speaker 6: deal with you.
Speaker 4: So I needed to you know what, Excuse me.
Speaker 6: I didn't.
Speaker 1: Like how I'm doing.
Speaker 5: I'm doing good. I'm very better now. Ye Season three,
Speaker 5: Reasonable Doubt. I'm so proud of you. What drew you
Speaker 5: to the character Monica? Well, first of all, I wasn't
Speaker 5: drawn at all to the character Monica because she's a mess.
Speaker 5: But I was drawn to the show total opposite. So
Speaker 5: I've always wanted to be Unreasonable Doubt. I've been watching
Speaker 5: the show. It was on my vision board, and I
Speaker 5: want to do something different than p Valley. So but
Speaker 5: then when Ramula called about the director session, I was like, oh,
Speaker 5: my lord, Monica, and I didn't find out till after
Speaker 5: I auditioned what was happening. They gave me the storyline
Speaker 5: in the arc of this, and I was like, Oh,
Speaker 5: this is gonna be good.
Speaker 4: And they finish dragged me and these internet streets.
Speaker 5: But that's when I knew it was gonna It's gonna
Speaker 5: be worth it, and it's a great story, not a
Speaker 5: great but an important story to tell. Because have y'all
Speaker 5: seen it yet? It's okay if you haven't, No, okay,
Speaker 5: all right. So I'm playing an agent and there's this
Speaker 5: child star named Ozzie Edwards and just like most child
Speaker 5: stars they growing up with, you know, they got the money,
Speaker 5: the fame. But the gag is I'm his agent who's
Speaker 5: been molesting him since he was thirteen years old, which
Speaker 5: is terrible.
Speaker 4: But a lot of.
Speaker 5: Times people let that pass with boys because they think,
Speaker 5: you know, it's dope that there's an older woman trying
Speaker 5: to turn him on. But it's not cool, so he
Speaker 5: kept it hidding. The secret comes out and it's a gag.
Speaker 5: And I have six nephews.
Speaker 2: You're trying to be funny, They can't share nothing with you.
Speaker 3: I'm asking yeah, I'm fine, are you No? No, no,
Speaker 3: but I didn't want to make sure he wasn't triggered.
Speaker 3: That's what happened to him. He was blested by an
Speaker 3: older woman. Yes, but the reason he wanted it to white,
Speaker 3: the reason because she had a Jerry I.
Speaker 2: Didn't like to smell her jerak that's what I saw. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but I actually didn't like what she was doing to me. Okay,
Speaker 2: but I told myself it was just smelling her Jerry
Speaker 2: crow when I was eight.
Speaker 5: Okay, yes, but you know what different things to cope
Speaker 5: this This young man on episode nine, the younger version
Speaker 5: of me says to him, Oh, I'm sorry to know
Speaker 5: you were gay, which is terrible. And that's what I
Speaker 5: feel like some women will do to young boys too,
Speaker 5: to try to push them off and make them feel like,
Speaker 5: you know, that's why you want. Yeah, they do all
Speaker 5: types of stuff. And and she was wrong, not you
Speaker 5: so well.
Speaker 4: He was talking about drink girl.
Speaker 6: And then therapist.
Speaker 1: Okay, but then when he got old it happened again.
Speaker 1: He would sitting on laps.
Speaker 6: It was just.
Speaker 1: This is how much work it was.
Speaker 4: Like it you would have been ugly to be to
Speaker 4: you boy.
Speaker 1: And I'm doing all this work.
Speaker 5: What well, the finale dropped last week, okay, okay, And
Speaker 5: at the end because his his attorney Jax, who is Amiazi,
Speaker 5: she plays the star in the show, Well, she finds
Speaker 5: out what happened, she puts Monica on the stand and
Speaker 5: it comes out to the family everybody, and then at
Speaker 5: the end, Monica decides to go in and shoot the
Speaker 5: place up. Yeah, and we don't know who she shot.
Speaker 6: So emotional place you've ever had to go to for
Speaker 6: a role with it.
Speaker 4: That probably that absolutely.
Speaker 5: I got six nephews and so just to think about
Speaker 5: my baby boys like i'd be in jail or hell,
Speaker 5: did it?
Speaker 4: Absolutely not?
Speaker 5: Because I think it's my job as an actor to
Speaker 5: tell the stories, even the ones that are difficult. And
Speaker 5: I've had fans that are like, I can't believe you
Speaker 5: do that. After Mercedes, we love Missades, why would you
Speaker 5: come do this? Maybe they'll make you pay attention to
Speaker 5: your baby boy when they come home. Maybe they'll make
Speaker 5: you ask different questions or if you see him shifting.
Speaker 5: So that's why I always want to take on roles
Speaker 5: that tell important stories.
Speaker 4: We work out. I love working out, going hiking.
Speaker 5: Honestly, I've been with Mama so much, did I just
Speaker 5: have to just tamp away from it? But yeah, just
Speaker 5: stay in touch with who I am and step twelve
Speaker 5: of the actor the actor Handbook for me is let
Speaker 5: it go.
Speaker 4: So it's not real.
Speaker 3: I was gonna ask, so, how are you with your nephews?
Speaker 3: Do you have different conversations with them now? Like, hey,
Speaker 3: let me talk to you for a second.
Speaker 5: Oh, always, because I know DJ, because I know you listening. Yes,
Speaker 5: that my nephews are cute too. So I've already had
Speaker 5: that situation with them with older women and I pick
Speaker 5: up the phone and call. I told one girl, I
Speaker 5: was like, I will find you and you will go
Speaker 5: to jail. And I'm just gonna leave it at that.
Speaker 5: So nephews, absolutely, Jesus, absolutely, they do it all the time.
Speaker 5: I mean, so, I'm not crazy so seeing this, I
Speaker 5: also did my research on it. But I've also seen it.
Speaker 5: I'm the only girl, so I've seen how the women act.
Speaker 4: You know, you know your brother final he's married and
Speaker 4: he's younger. You know, so yeah, you look at.
Speaker 3: People, sorry, do you look at people differently when you
Speaker 3: see like so not a big thing in our community
Speaker 3: is you'll see like a thirty year old dating an
Speaker 3: eighteen year old or a forty year old dating a
Speaker 3: twenty year old. Do you look at people differently now
Speaker 3: because of that, because of the role you play.
Speaker 5: No, I don't think so long as they are of age,
Speaker 5: I need them to be of age, because I mean,
Speaker 5: as long as they've grown, that's that's their business.
Speaker 4: I stay out of it. But longer but under age,
Speaker 4: I'm absolutely und I'm snitching.
Speaker 5: I think it is very important that you did bring
Speaker 5: up the fact that when it's like a double standards. Yeah,
Speaker 5: when it when it's a woman, right, who is older
Speaker 5: going after a guy? I mean, you know a young guy,
Speaker 5: people tend to like leave that.
Speaker 4: Yeah it's okay. Oh you you did that, that's what
Speaker 4: you told her. It's not okay.
Speaker 5: And the whole time you don't even know how the
Speaker 5: young person is thinking. These young men, their minds are
Speaker 5: not even like they trying to be cool at the
Speaker 5: end of the day, and the whole time it's like, damn,
Speaker 5: I was really molested.
Speaker 4: I was That's appropriate.
Speaker 6: You wouldn't even make jokes about it if it was
Speaker 6: a woman.
Speaker 4: No, that's that point. That is a huge point.
Speaker 5: No one's making a joke about it when it's someone.
Speaker 5: Why are we joking about it when it's man? That's
Speaker 5: a wonderful question.
Speaker 6: No, for sure, don't try to act figure even now.
Speaker 4: Yo, you make fun of.
Speaker 1: Yours? Are you cold?
Speaker 6: I'm really hurting on the inside. No, Brandy.
Speaker 2: When you think about your evolution from dancer the actors,
Speaker 2: what part of your past shows up the most in
Speaker 2: your your acting today.
Speaker 5: I think as a dancer, we learn how to take direction,
Speaker 5: and we learn how to take direction quick because you
Speaker 5: ain't got time for that. And if you if you
Speaker 5: were Loria and Gibson and she said I need you
Speaker 5: to point that toe and get to the end of
Speaker 5: the stage by the next eight count, you're gonna figure
Speaker 5: it out.
Speaker 4: So I feel like I took that, especially with.
Speaker 5: On P Valley, because we had to do dancing and
Speaker 5: things of that sort, I was able to take that direction.
Speaker 5: So I think directors enjoy that. And I've always heard
Speaker 5: that dancers are the best actors because they can take
Speaker 5: direction easily. And we not, we not, we have thick skins.
Speaker 5: So you literally could yell at me and be like
Speaker 5: that sucks, and be like, for real, no, what you
Speaker 5: need on the next take to make it not sound
Speaker 5: like I just it's real hard for me to get
Speaker 5: in my feelings about that.
Speaker 4: How was your auditions for p Valley chow a vary
Speaker 4: over there?
Speaker 5: My friend he helped me choreograph it, so I was
Speaker 5: already teaching dance classes and so, but I did a
Speaker 5: slow routine because I felt like everybody the first routine,
Speaker 5: I did a chair routine and it's actually on the
Speaker 5: internet if y'all google Brandy Evans Valentine's Day neo hip
Speaker 5: hop and heels, and I did the slow routine and
Speaker 5: they were like, where you come from? Because I couldn't
Speaker 5: get an audition, they told me that I didn't fit
Speaker 5: any of the roles that they were currently casting for
Speaker 5: pre vally.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 4: They said, we.
Speaker 5: Don't fit any And I found out on Valentine's Day
Speaker 5: twenty eighteen. So my agent was like, I was like, yeah,
Speaker 5: this is show. My friend just called me about if
Speaker 5: you heard about it. She's like, yeah, we already tried.
Speaker 4: They said no.
Speaker 5: So then a couple months went past, my homegirl sends
Speaker 5: me the script. She was like, my sister auditioner for this,
Speaker 5: and I really think it.
Speaker 4: Should be you.
Speaker 5: So I was like, oh that little strip of show.
Speaker 5: That's how I had an attitude at that point. I
Speaker 5: was like, they don't want me, and so she was like,
Speaker 5: just read the script. And so then I took pictures.
Speaker 5: I'm a PK preacher's kid. Took pictures of me being
Speaker 5: a PK. Mercedes is a PK. Took pictures of me
Speaker 5: teaching Miss Tina how to dance at the Hip BT experience.
Speaker 5: Took pictures of me and my daddy at church, like
Speaker 5: whatever you needed. Then I got the audition, did the
Speaker 5: chair routine when there was no one even in the
Speaker 5: room to see me. When I tell you, they could
Speaker 5: care less that I came in that audition. At first,
Speaker 5: I just had the reader in there, and now I
Speaker 5: remember her looking.
Speaker 4: From the side.
Speaker 5: She was like, where are you from? I was like Memphis,
Speaker 5: She's like where you been? I said, waiting on y'all
Speaker 5: to call me in. And so then I got the
Speaker 5: call back and I called ivari. I was like, listen,
Speaker 5: we got it up to Andy now. And so I
Speaker 5: read the script that said that it was six inch
Speaker 5: hills was in the pilot script. So I said, I'm
Speaker 5: gonna do the routine and six inch chills and so
Speaker 5: by the time we finished that routine, I was doing
Speaker 5: front hand springs and six inch chills. I worked with
Speaker 5: my acting coach, Raquel Gardner to make sure I was
Speaker 5: locked in and the rest is history.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this is this is great for me being a dad, right,
Speaker 3: for daughters, two sons. My two girls dance, right, and
Speaker 3: it's a lot of money. Yesterday, it's a lot of money.
Speaker 3: And they dance. I mean they get out of school
Speaker 3: at three o'clock. They dance from four to eight, six
Speaker 3: days a week, competitions, we fly all over the place.
Speaker 1: But I always just like, well, what's the end goal?
Speaker 6: You know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Because you spend so much money.
Speaker 3: And I like it because it keeps them away from boys,
Speaker 3: It keeps them out out off the phone, off the internet,
Speaker 3: or out the malls.
Speaker 1: But I always like, well, what is the the.
Speaker 5: Well I paid a school was paid for so I
Speaker 5: got a full scholarship at the University in Memphis, and
Speaker 5: they can get the scholarship there. They can get scholarships.
Speaker 5: If they don't they don't want to go to college.
Speaker 5: They just want to go and train, you know, Alvin Ailey,
Speaker 5: you know different things.
Speaker 4: So there is an end goal. Katie Perry.
Speaker 5: I toured the world with her, so and then I
Speaker 5: became a choreographer, So all of that is very important.
Speaker 4: They're gonna need that on that resume. So there's an
Speaker 4: end go.
Speaker 5: They paid mama's medical bills, it might be paying yours
Speaker 5: one day.
Speaker 3: You never know, how did you feel? Because when they
Speaker 3: do dance and they just don't do hip hop. They
Speaker 3: they do tap, they do baallet, they do everything. Actually
Speaker 3: you need it, they really into it. But how does
Speaker 3: it feel because there's not too many of us out there?
Speaker 3: Like when we go to these competitions and.
Speaker 4: We go, oh, yeah, I was the only black girls.
Speaker 3: That only black girls. It's good because they're recognizable. Soon
Speaker 3: as they see me, they be like, oh, that's your kids.
Speaker 3: But how did that affect you mentally?
Speaker 5: I think because I went to perform in our school
Speaker 5: where we were very diverse, but like on Memphis Elite,
Speaker 5: I was many times I was one or two black
Speaker 5: girls when I was the only black girl on scholarship
Speaker 5: my freshman year at the University of Memphis, and back
Speaker 5: then it was just known that it was going to
Speaker 5: only be one and I remember I was fighting for
Speaker 5: that one scholarship but I was like, how many black
Speaker 5: girls one?
Speaker 4: But I really didn't think anything of it.
Speaker 5: I think because my dad kept me in such diverse schooling.
Speaker 5: Are they at a diverse school? Yes, I think that
Speaker 5: that's the world, though I feel like a lot of
Speaker 5: times we may be the only one. So for me,
Speaker 5: I felt like it's been a blessing for me because
Speaker 5: some of my friends are actually unable to navigate that
Speaker 5: diversity and like, you know, it's only one of us,
Speaker 5: And I'm like, I ain't paying no attention to that
Speaker 5: because I've been around that my whole life. So I
Speaker 5: think that it's cool they know how to navigate in
Speaker 5: those different worlds right now.
Speaker 2: You know, people talk about the physicality of Pep Valley
Speaker 2: all the time, but what's something mental about that role
Speaker 2: of Mercedes that people don't realize.
Speaker 5: Oh, that's a really good question. My back is still
Speaker 5: in the workman's comp though.
Speaker 4: Right now.
Speaker 5: But I think mentally for me, let me just say,
Speaker 5: because I talked to high school English, so then I
Speaker 5: jumped into that accent so hard back home that a
Speaker 5: lot of times my friend be like, you can you
Speaker 5: get out of chuck Atleasta? Because what happened to your
Speaker 5: like what happened to your dialect? So I feel like
Speaker 5: it shifted that. But mentally, we were filming so late
Speaker 5: at night, you almost like you almost felt like you
Speaker 5: were a part of that world so much. You're going
Speaker 5: to bed when the when the sun is up, and
Speaker 5: then you're going to work, and we're we're literally on
Speaker 5: set at two three in the morning and then going
Speaker 5: to bed at seven am, like you were really immersed
Speaker 5: in that world. So I think that this season you're
Speaker 5: gonna see some some things and you'll understand when you
Speaker 5: see it that it took a lot for me to
Speaker 5: get some of those things out of my head. Season
Speaker 5: two was tough because of my daughter and the abortion
Speaker 5: scene and all of that information. But I also my
Speaker 5: daughter passed away, so I had a steel birth and
Speaker 5: so she would have been the same age.
Speaker 4: Lyric would have been the same.
Speaker 5: Age as Azaria or Tererica on Pa Valley, So that part,
Speaker 5: you know, mentally for me was tough because I felt
Speaker 5: like Azaria, it was like my daughter in real life,
Speaker 5: so things like that, detaching from that at times so
Speaker 5: that those.
Speaker 4: Scenes were emotional.
Speaker 5: Those were the most emotional, but they were the most
Speaker 5: beautiful to me. Because it felt like I got my
Speaker 5: baby in a sense. It's like God gave me a
Speaker 5: Zaria who played Terarika in that same age, So it
Speaker 5: was like I was able to have my baby girl.
Speaker 4: In season two of Pivley.
Speaker 5: Now that you say that, yeah, you were more your
Speaker 5: Mercedes definitely was more emotional, and it was a lot
Speaker 5: more scenes where the stories were crying too, trying to
Speaker 5: think all the steaks at hand of trying to save
Speaker 5: her baby, and that was the whole thing, just trying
Speaker 5: to make life better for herself and her child and
Speaker 5: then her mother exactly the exactly. It was very tumultuous,
Speaker 5: and that was my real life a little bit not
Speaker 5: like that. And now she wasn't Patrice Woodbine, but me
Speaker 5: and my mom had a tumultuous relationship. So I was
Speaker 5: able to And where was that.
Speaker 4: In life?
Speaker 5: No, not just in life. I think it was just
Speaker 5: that mother daughter dynamics. Sometimes that could just be like that.
Speaker 5: But when I start caring for her, you know that
Speaker 5: had to shift because you gotta forgive. But I was
Speaker 5: able to use p Valley season one to get out
Speaker 5: everything I'd never say to my mama, And oh, I
Speaker 5: get to say what now okay, so just healing, healing
Speaker 5: through p Valley.
Speaker 4: I feel like that was a very healing.
Speaker 2: That was a great segue because I was going to
Speaker 2: a playing that dynamic change how you see generational trauma.
Speaker 5: Absolutely absolutely, I was just talking to someone about that
Speaker 5: certain things isn't necessary, isn't necessary to get that whooping,
Speaker 5: isn't necessary to beat them? Can you actually talk to
Speaker 5: them and tell them what's going on?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 5: Can we can we communicate better? So I do think
Speaker 5: playing those different roles, you don't have to yell and
Speaker 5: scream and and be little, you know, because the hope
Speaker 5: this is the same person that you're belittling. It's the
Speaker 5: same person you want to come to you and trust
Speaker 5: that you can. They can tell you their deep secrets.
Speaker 4: Come to me, come to me. We don't want to
Speaker 4: be scared.
Speaker 5: So that that to me made me pay attention to
Speaker 5: you know what, if im I'm blessed to be able
Speaker 5: to be a parent, I would parents so differently. But
Speaker 5: I also the older I get, I also know we
Speaker 5: all do the best we can because I feel like
Speaker 5: all of us, you know, our kids could probably say
Speaker 5: the same thing, like when you did this, you did that,
Speaker 5: you're doing the best you can, and the older you get,
Speaker 5: you start realizing, you know what, my mama, Mama really
Speaker 5: did the best you could.
Speaker 6: But I do realize as a parent, every child challenges
Speaker 6: you do.
Speaker 4: Absolutely.
Speaker 6: You think you're gonna parent all of them the same,
Speaker 6: you can't.
Speaker 2: No, No, I mean there's a core foundation of love, right,
Speaker 2: I know you love them, but no, they all will challenge.
Speaker 6: You in different way.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Absolutely, words, did you challenge your mother? I don't know.
Speaker 4: Mama will swing on me so quick. I don't.
Speaker 5: I don't know that I got that challenge. I might
Speaker 5: have tried to challenge one time and never again. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I still to this day. But I also love that
Speaker 5: healthy respect because to this day, I don't care if
Speaker 5: she in that wheelchair. I'm nothing to go talking crazy
Speaker 5: to her at all. That's my mama. And I feel
Speaker 5: like you only give one you respect your parents. Yeah,
Speaker 5: So how does she feel about your success? Have you
Speaker 5: ever just sat down and just talk to her about it?
Speaker 5: How does she I'm not gonna cry, I'm not. I
Speaker 5: don't know that she knows. Yeah, the Alzheimer's of it all, Yeah,
Speaker 5: I don't know that she knows. Almost every day I'm
Speaker 5: reminding her.
Speaker 1: Of who I am, but she remember, Does she remember you?
Speaker 1: I was gonna ask that at a days.
Speaker 5: Yes, Sometimes she doesn't, and I go and hide in
Speaker 5: the closet, and that's the biggest acting job I've ever done.
Speaker 5: I'll go put myself on speakerphone and I'll go call
Speaker 5: her daughter, Brandy, and then I'll hide in the room
Speaker 5: and talk to her, and I'll come back and it's
Speaker 5: like almost like the notebook. Sometimes like she'd remembers sometimes
Speaker 5: sometimes she doesn't. I'll say, you know, where do we live?
Speaker 5: She'll say Memphis because she remembers Memphis. But then I'll
Speaker 5: point to myself on the screen and like she saw
Speaker 5: reasonable down had an attitude.
Speaker 4: She was so upset. I was like, Mama, it's not real.
Speaker 4: I really did not touch that boy.
Speaker 5: But then then I'll come back and then she'll be like,
Speaker 5: I was like, that's me and she was like really,
Speaker 5: you know. So it's just I've learned to not not
Speaker 5: make them confused more by it and just be like, yeah,
Speaker 5: you know what, it's okay, it's okay.
Speaker 3: That was one of the toughest things I've ever seen
Speaker 3: my wife deal with. We were actually on the plane.
Speaker 3: We were coming back from overseas Dubai and we were
Speaker 3: in first class and she got up and she was
Speaker 3: trying to go downstairs because she said she.
Speaker 1: Had to go to work and they're like, go to work,
Speaker 1: there's work. So she woke up. I was like, no, mom,
Speaker 1: this standing heel and she did not know who her
Speaker 1: daughter was.
Speaker 3: And my wife started crying because she was like, how
Speaker 3: does my mom not know who she was?
Speaker 1: And then when I got up, she knew who I
Speaker 1: was and it was the weirdest. It was the weirdest thing,
Speaker 1: like she knew me.
Speaker 3: Here was showing I'm just trying to go to work
Speaker 3: and I'm like, no, mama, this is we're in the plane.
Speaker 3: But she didn't know who my mom was, and but
Speaker 3: when we landed she did. But it was just it
Speaker 3: hurt so much because I was like, this is my mother,
Speaker 3: Like I'm her carry give but I'm the one.
Speaker 1: That makes her take a medicine.
Speaker 5: Watch it and where you grow on a plane. Yes,
Speaker 5: it's very My MoMA asked me for car keys the
Speaker 5: other day. I just want to lay them on her lap,
Speaker 5: like you just got it. At this point, we just
Speaker 5: smiled and played again. I said where you going. She's
Speaker 5: some about to drive to turl from She's from turl Arkansas.
Speaker 5: I was like, okay, then, well it's a little late
Speaker 5: right now, but I'm put the keys right here. I'm
Speaker 5: gonna go to bed, you know, like I've learned to
Speaker 5: play with it. But then I go back in that
Speaker 5: room and cry. You know, I try not to cry
Speaker 5: in front of her, but it is it is the
Speaker 5: hardest thing ever. It's like, Mama, don't remember me. When
Speaker 5: she asked me that time, like what's your mama name you?
Speaker 5: And I was like Brandy. She's like, oh me too,
Speaker 5: And I was like, oh my gosh, she doesn't know
Speaker 5: it's me.
Speaker 6: What if you to sleep that car crank up.
Speaker 4: Miss, I've probably been happy.
Speaker 5: I would have been happy if like girl getting getting
Speaker 5: a passion seats over?
Speaker 4: Yes, and I dream about that? Does your wife dream
Speaker 4: about that? Does she dream about Oh? I dream about
Speaker 4: her walking?
Speaker 1: You know she walked and she did.
Speaker 3: You know, there was a couple of times like I
Speaker 3: remember one time she walked out the house. So my
Speaker 3: daughter was watching, and my daughter was young at the time, sixteen,
Speaker 3: and she said, Grandma, and you know, she walked out.
Speaker 1: My daughter Grandma, where you going? And so you know,
Speaker 1: Grandma said, get off me. She was like no. So
Speaker 1: Grandma slapped her right and she's like, where are you going?
Speaker 1: She was like, I'm going home, Grandma. You can't go home,
Speaker 1: and there's beers out there. She was like, well, pray
Speaker 1: for the beers.
Speaker 5: I't worried about my baby. They don't like for you
Speaker 5: to correct them, now, don't.
Speaker 3: That was one and another thing that we still have
Speaker 3: to watch what she well, watch what she watches on
Speaker 3: television because her favorite show was Judged.
Speaker 1: You they Maury love that.
Speaker 3: Well, what happened at night? You know the way we
Speaker 3: like feed the dogs and feed that. She would cry
Speaker 3: every day because you see that and think she had
Speaker 3: to give to the dying dogs and dying cats and
Speaker 3: dying kids in Africa with the flies, like that would
Speaker 3: affect her like she would be balling.
Speaker 5: I'm so glad you said that because I tell my
Speaker 5: caregivers that. I said, we keep it light in here.
Speaker 5: We don't watch the news in the house. No, we
Speaker 5: don't turn on. I was like, if there's a movie
Speaker 5: and you see something said, if you about to cry,
Speaker 5: turn it, like because I don't want her crying. So
Speaker 5: we are very clear were watching Martin, We're watching girlfriends,
Speaker 5: you know what I mean, Watching joyous.
Speaker 4: Things and things that make you smile. For sure, that's
Speaker 4: so important. I love that. And you actually document a
Speaker 4: lot of that too.
Speaker 6: Girl.
Speaker 5: You talking about you, your fans and followers.
Speaker 4: They love more than they love me. I'm like, I'll
Speaker 4: post something.
Speaker 5: I'd be like, yeah, watch my new show. They don't
Speaker 5: be saying no. I look up Asta mama, two million followers.
Speaker 1: I've looked too many likes.
Speaker 4: I'm like, god, Mama, but yeah, thank you for loving
Speaker 4: my mom.
Speaker 2: How does the experience of being a kid given for
Speaker 2: your mother's sharpen your emotional strength as a performer?
Speaker 4: I think patience. That's a good question, emotional strength.
Speaker 5: I just feel like if I can make it through
Speaker 5: caregive and I can make it through anything, because most
Speaker 5: times I will jump on the carpet and you don't
Speaker 5: know if I've just left the emergency room or I'm
Speaker 5: trying to manage a UTI or trying to set up scheduling.
Speaker 5: You know, just yesterday walking down walking down the street
Speaker 5: in New York, and I'm like what, I'm like, Lord,
Speaker 5: I just want one day where I don't have to
Speaker 5: manage it. But then I have to check myself because
Speaker 5: I'm like, there's gonna be one day where you wake
Speaker 5: up and wish that you could be stressed out. But
Speaker 5: I just tell myself if I can handle all this,
Speaker 5: Like I don't know what it's like to study lines
Speaker 5: and not have Mama in the other world. So the
Speaker 5: blessing is okay, So you've done this well caregiving.
Speaker 4: What will happen later on in life?
Speaker 5: I don't know, because my whole career has been while
Speaker 5: caregiving for Mama. Season one, I had her with me,
Speaker 5: So when we were wrapped the show, I know my
Speaker 5: castmates were probably like.
Speaker 4: Dang show, never want to go nowhere with us.
Speaker 5: I was with Mama, and I was embarrassed to tell
Speaker 5: them what was going on with Mama. But if Iri
Speaker 5: knows that all my furniture got broke when I came
Speaker 5: to Atlanta, and I was hiding that I was sleeping
Speaker 5: on the floor the whole first half season of Pea Valley,
Speaker 5: only my best friends knew that. Wow, because I didn't
Speaker 5: want the network to find out and think that I
Speaker 5: couldn't handle it.
Speaker 4: So a lot of times I do hide what's really
Speaker 4: going on. You know.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's got to be like this. It makes
Speaker 2: you thinks like what is what is your purpose?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 2: Because I have the service in a way. But then
Speaker 2: it could also feel like your purpose because I feel
Speaker 2: like what you're doing, documenting it and telling people who's
Speaker 2: gonna help so many other people.
Speaker 6: But then you're also an actress, so it's like, what
Speaker 6: is Brandy?
Speaker 5: I think I'm still trying to figure that out. That's
Speaker 5: that's why I'm still trying to figure out. I know
Speaker 5: that I love acting, but I love my mother more,
Speaker 5: and so she's gonna always always say I'm a caregiver
Speaker 5: first and then I'm an actor. But then I was
Speaker 5: crying to my friend should other day. I was like,
Speaker 5: so if mama passes, what do I have? Like though,
Speaker 5: that's just authentic being authentic right now, like what do
Speaker 5: I have? I keep saying I'm hustling for mama, hustling
Speaker 5: for mama.
Speaker 4: What about me?
Speaker 5: So I don't even know what that is right now
Speaker 5: because all I can see is where's this next job?
Speaker 4: Because I gotta feed my mama and I got to
Speaker 4: take care of it. I mean, we are.
Speaker 5: When I audition for Pee Valley, Mama was on a
Speaker 5: camera in my phone because I couldn't afford a caregiver.
Speaker 5: So I woke up early, I fed her, and I
Speaker 5: put the phone in my purse, rushed to will share
Speaker 5: the audition was like Mamma, on the way back, rush back, Like,
Speaker 5: I don't know what it's like to just live and
Speaker 5: be in the career.
Speaker 4: So what does what makes Brandy happy? Like what do
Speaker 4: you do? Do you ever just go out to dinner?
Speaker 5: Yes, I'm by myself a lot, Like you know, I
Speaker 5: love a good dinner. Yeah, I'll find the time because
Speaker 5: the caregivers like, I'm like, y'all please, can y'all just stay?
Speaker 5: And some nights I'm like they're like, well you're back home.
Speaker 5: I'm like, can you spend a night so I can
Speaker 5: just sleep through the night because I'm not going to sleep.
Speaker 5: But I love to watch movies. I love to go
Speaker 5: to a movie. I love to go to run your
Speaker 5: canyon and just hike. I love to sit at the
Speaker 5: beach and just hear the water. So and ride my bike,
Speaker 5: but just moments that I can just hear myself because
Speaker 5: I feel like I'm always listening for my mother.
Speaker 4: Yeah in every way.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, how did faith guide you during like moments
Speaker 2: when acting roles weren't coming in as fast as you.
Speaker 5: Hope everything, because I didn't get my first acting role
Speaker 5: until I got Mama. But that was my prayer, like, God,
Speaker 5: please bless me to be able to take care of
Speaker 5: my mother and have the job now.
Speaker 4: Need to be a little bit more specific, Lord, please.
Speaker 5: Let it be able to be smoother so I'm able
Speaker 5: to have the jobs to take care of her now.
Speaker 5: But it's so stressful, like sometimes it's not fun because
Speaker 5: it's it's like everybody's like, look what you're doing. I'm like,
Speaker 5: but you don't know that by the time I go back,
Speaker 5: Like when I get off of this, I got to
Speaker 5: go FaceTime make sure do y'all have all the groceries
Speaker 5: y'all need in La?
Speaker 4: Do y'all have this?
Speaker 5: So I'm praying for a moment of peace to truly
Speaker 5: know that I can go away and Mama will be okay,
Speaker 5: and then I don't have to micro manage everybody.
Speaker 4: But God is everything to me everything.
Speaker 6: Of course, now I know people Valley's coming back, but
Speaker 6: why did it?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I have no idea it's coming back. And baby is
Speaker 4: so good.
Speaker 5: We wrapped up on it last season. Yes, we or
Speaker 5: last year, rather, we shot last season. We finished in
Speaker 5: was it November maybe October of last year.
Speaker 4: Before, and it's just been sitting on it when it's
Speaker 4: coming out.
Speaker 5: You know what, I will say, they're sitting on it.
Speaker 5: I think they're just perfecting it even more. You know,
Speaker 5: our show runner co Tory Hall is very specific, and
Speaker 5: that's the reason y'all love it so much is because
Speaker 5: she pays attention to those details. She makes sure that
Speaker 5: everything's perfect. I mean even our closed caption. We want
Speaker 5: to make sure it's right, so y'all know what we're saying.
Speaker 5: So she just posted a couple of months ago that
Speaker 5: post production is done, So I think we're just.
Speaker 4: Waiting to get the word. But I'm waiting, like y'all
Speaker 4: because it's a it's a good one.
Speaker 6: You're happy with what the next chapter of Mercedes.
Speaker 5: Oh I'm so happy with the next chapter of Mercedes,
Speaker 5: Like it's beyond my wireless imagination.
Speaker 4: It's gonna be crazy and y'all, y'all gonna lose it too.
Speaker 5: And the show couldn't have been casted any better. Like everybody,
Speaker 5: everybody's so good, oh so great?
Speaker 4: Yes, I know. I tried to, but I couldn't speak
Speaker 4: to girl.
Speaker 5: Yeah, y'all want them down now?
Speaker 4: I wanted them down there, girl.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think that our audition for Oh my God is.
Speaker 4: She played on and the girl who got the role.
Speaker 5: That I auditioned for she played she kills it too,
Speaker 5: she would She played the crag kid on Snowfalls.
Speaker 4: She was let.
Speaker 5: And girl, I couldn't get the trust the chuck a
Speaker 5: Lisa all down. I was like, damn for real, I couldn't.
Speaker 5: And then they wanted me to, like, you know, do
Speaker 5: some dances.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 4: I wasn't flexible like you, Brandy.
Speaker 5: I couldn't shot like Gail killed it though, I love you,
Speaker 5: But yeah, that was Gail John.
Speaker 4: I love.
Speaker 1: I love, I love her.
Speaker 4: She's phenomena just as well. But yeah, it was. It's
Speaker 4: perfectly cast and I can't wait.
Speaker 5: But even more, I can't wait to see your role
Speaker 5: in a reasonable doubt. Yes, thank you, Yes, I want
Speaker 5: you to see different. Yeah, it's crazy, Like I knew
Speaker 5: it was crazy. I went in a store yesterday and
Speaker 5: somebody was like, don't just be walking up in here
Speaker 5: after you shot somebody. I was like whyzy, Like I
Speaker 5: will post a picture of my mom and they like,
Speaker 5: does she know you like to shoot people?
Speaker 4: I was like, oh my goodness.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: They going hard for Brandy to be Oh and you
Speaker 5: know the finale, I took the wig off and I
Speaker 5: came out with the set it off braids and it
Speaker 5: was like, yo, yeah, but.
Speaker 4: Yeah, don't break it down.
Speaker 6: I've got two more questions. It's about Mercedes.
Speaker 2: But what's the lesson from real life Brandy that Mercedes
Speaker 2: that's really needs.
Speaker 4: Oh oh, that's a good question. A lesson from Mercedes
Speaker 4: is pretty dope.
Speaker 5: Maybe that even when things look like they aren't gonna
Speaker 5: go the way you want them to keep going, don't
Speaker 5: let it break you. Because I feel like at times
Speaker 5: you saw Mercedes break a little, but she always picked
Speaker 5: herself back up. But I think I've gotten better with
Speaker 5: as of late just being like, all right, it's gonna
Speaker 5: have to work out, because we a lot of times
Speaker 5: we freak out first and then we circle back. I'm
Speaker 5: getting better. Ain't there yet, but I'm getting better with
Speaker 5: just being like.
Speaker 4: It's just is what it is. It's gonna work out.
Speaker 6: Yeah, So let's flip it. What's a lesson from Mercedes
Speaker 6: that real life Brandy.
Speaker 4: Needs that hustle. Oh that's good.
Speaker 5: You know what, don't be afraid because I think about
Speaker 5: you know, Mercedes going after her gym, and I want to.
Speaker 4: Write my book. So as you as you called me
Speaker 4: out on this in this moment, what you're so scared
Speaker 4: of Brandy write your book right?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 4: Brand okay, all right?
Speaker 5: Yeah, because she went after it anyway when things and
Speaker 5: I always keep saying, yeah, I know why I got
Speaker 5: time to write.
Speaker 4: I got mama, I got this and that Mercedes figured
Speaker 4: it out. Thank you to get my girl up here.
Speaker 4: Thank you so much, Thank y'all for having me.
Speaker 1: That's right, it's Brandy Evans. Thank you for joining us.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much everything.
Speaker 5: Thank you, thank you, and y'all make sure y'all get
Speaker 5: y'all some caregiver merch. I have a Caregiver Strong March
Speaker 5: shop dot Brandyevans dot com. And I have one that
Speaker 5: says the shirt that says I don't have a capacity
Speaker 5: because it's okay to not have the capacity sometimes, and
Speaker 5: one that says caregivering Strong, because it's a different type
Speaker 5: of strength when you're a caregiver, all right.
Speaker 1: And the Evans is the breakfast Club, Good morning, Hold
Speaker 1: up every day I wake up, pake your ass up.
Speaker 1: The breakfast club.
Speaker 6: Y'all finish, y'all done,