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Speaker 3: Supremer Supreme Role came Suprema Supremo Role.

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Speaker 1: My name is Sugar, Yeah, and I don't care, Yeah,

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Speaker 4: Supreme Supreme Supremo roll every Wednesday. Yeah, that's when we're on.

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Speaker 4: My name is Boss Bill and that's one to grow on.

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Speaker 3: SUPREMEA So Supprema roll came Subpremer Supremo roll.

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Speaker 5: Yeah with kim the Queen. Yeah, if you're sure, Yeah,

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Speaker 5: Reference Regime.

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Speaker 1: Supprimer Supremo roll called.

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Speaker 4: My name is Suprema.

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Speaker 6: My name is Kimmy.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: I'm in the house. Yeah, I'm in New York. Yeah,

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Speaker 6: I saw a mouse.

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Speaker 3: Something Supremo role called Supreme Suprema roll called Suprema Son

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Speaker 3: Suprema roll call.

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Speaker 1: I'm so glad someone gets me. I'm currently as we speak,

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Speaker 1: I'm currently house shopping right now. And my second question

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Speaker 1: is any burn men. Yeah, I'm I'm I'm out. I've

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Speaker 1: given houses away because.

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Speaker 5: Oh you know what are you talking about there?

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Speaker 1: Yes? Yeah that house. I saw a few rats in there.

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Speaker 1: I was like, hey, merry Christmas.

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Speaker 5: Yes, that's what he did.

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Speaker 1: I gave my house my sister. All right, guys, of

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Speaker 1: course love here. You may have heard me. We got

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Speaker 1: a bill, we gotta lie here, we got Steve and

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Speaker 1: a family member is still out getting cigarettes. He said

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Speaker 1: that he comes home eventually. But I don't know. I'm

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Speaker 1: not being kurt, but there's really no time to waste,

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Speaker 1: and it's not every day a guy gets to interview

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Speaker 1: his uh childhood celebrity, which is anyway.

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Speaker 4: I don't want to that next tool.

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Speaker 1: I want to wait. I don't want to waste to act.

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Speaker 1: I want to waste a second on acting royalty. I

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Speaker 1: will say that our guest today, UH is pretty much

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Speaker 1: maybe the reason I sort of kind of talked to

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Speaker 1: UH bottles of syrup every uh pancakes Saturday? Wait in

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Speaker 1: Black Households is set? Is pancakes on a Saturday? Like

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Speaker 1: an event? Yes?

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Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, any day of regular.

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Speaker 1: No for Black Households like that was a treat.

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Speaker 7: That was a Saturday.

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Speaker 1: I survived off of like tasty cakes, quarter waters for Saturdays.

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Speaker 1: That's that's that's when we're rich. That's when the cat

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Speaker 1: you know, check our cash. The first black roller skater avenue. Uh,

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Speaker 1: the reason why I fell in love with any girl

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Speaker 1: who wore braces in my in my school. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: the only the only person whose character truly understands uh

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Speaker 1: what uh dejection from a Jackson means, especially when one

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Speaker 1: works works so hard to give them gifts that they

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Speaker 1: made with their own money anyway, and the fact that

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Speaker 1: most people don't know. Without this person, the the empire

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Speaker 1: known as Friends would have never existed. Yes, Like did

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Speaker 1: you know this? Yeah? Your your beloved Chandler, Joey, Monica

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Speaker 1: and I guess and Rachel you know, I'm just saying

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Speaker 1: Ad and Becky whoever else is on Friends, you miss

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Speaker 1: Joey with Without with our guest today, none of that

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Speaker 1: would have been possible. Uh yeah No, Seriously, Ladies and gentlemen,

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Speaker 1: acting royalty or quest Love Supreme today, welcome incomparable Madam

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Speaker 1: Kimberly Victoria Field. What's like supremes? Finally?

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Speaker 6: What an intro? Finally? Man we've been trying to do.

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Speaker 1: I know we've been doing five minutes intro.

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Speaker 6: Wow, thank you for that intro.

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Speaker 5: Get better little TV for real.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, seriously, no, seriously, we have so many questions that

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Speaker 1: asking so little time. So, Kim, where were you born Harlem?

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Speaker 6: Right here?

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Speaker 1: Really?

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Speaker 6: And I'm Kim. I was born Kim Victoria, not Kimberly.

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Speaker 1: Kim Victoria, Yes, just Kim is okay.

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Speaker 6: Yes, we will request love you can call me.

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Speaker 1: No, no, we were not to give the proper respect

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Speaker 1: respect due. What were your memories of Harlem? How long

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Speaker 6: Six years really from zero to six?

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Speaker 1: So what what what were your memories of Harlem growing up?

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Speaker 1: Is it anything close to the centerfied?

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Speaker 6: Well not the gingrified, right, No, but I mean like

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Speaker 6: my beloved Saint Nicholas Park, the the whole grass lawn

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Speaker 1: Any other notable peers of yours growing up in that.

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Speaker 6: Area or I don't remember where they lived, But Danielle

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Speaker 6: Spencer who played Deal on What's Happening, So basically my

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Speaker 6: would go to acting school in Saint Philip's Church. Alfan

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Speaker 6: And so we would be at the at the acting classes,

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Speaker 6: And so Danielle was there because her stepdad Tempell got

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Speaker 1: Yes, okay, so we would be remiss. Are you tired

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Speaker 1: of people coming up to you saying how much their

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Speaker 1: mom is Your mom has traumatized them all their lives

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Speaker 1: thought about it and the Okay, yes, of course, now

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Speaker 1: that we're adults, we know what acting is. Yes, but

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Speaker 1: let's take it back like thirty years or whatever. How

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Speaker 1: many of your friends were traumatized at the side of

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Speaker 4: For those that haven't seen good times, Oh god, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 4: I'm just kidding. Kim's mother played uh, Penny, well, Penny.

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Speaker 4: But what was the character's name?

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Speaker 6: I can't remember, Missus Gordon.

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Speaker 4: Missus Gordon, Yes, her name was, Yeah, she was Plenty's mom.

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Speaker 4: Penny of course was was Janet Jackson and the Penny

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Speaker 4: was being abused by her mother.

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Speaker 5: And what iron I said.

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Speaker 4: Miss Missus chip Fields played the hell out of that,

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Speaker 4: Yes she did.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that hit.

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Speaker 4: If I ever see in the street, you know, it's

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Speaker 4: a hat, tip of the hat and you know, what

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Speaker 4: do you need? What can I get for you?

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Speaker 1: So you're just saying that watching your mother and these

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Speaker 6: Also not No, that was just the intro and and

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Speaker 6: kind of the environment to just be exposed to it all.

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Speaker 6: It wasn't until I actually saw her and saw the environment. Uh,

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Speaker 6: when mom was doing Hello Dolly with Pearl Bailey on

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Speaker 1: So was it commercials first? That?

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Speaker 1: What was your very first commercials first? First? So with

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Speaker 6: A still bottle still? Okay, Yes, I was, you know, yeah,

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Speaker 6: it was just just a bottle that was just there.

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Speaker 1: Oh, another course left first. So I'll say that Baby

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Speaker 1: I'm Back was technically the first sitcom I was allowed

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Speaker 1: to watch. Okay, I wasn't allowed to watch TV much

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Speaker 1: back then. Yeah, because you guys came on right after

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Speaker 1: the Jacksons and in seventy six seventy seven the Jackson's.

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Speaker 6: Had Yes, they did the specials.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Arriety show. So you were I think your character

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Speaker 1: was Damon Wilson's Damon. Yeah, I never that's how he

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Speaker 5: He may have been.

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Speaker 4: He was a preacher too, Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Jamond Wilson and the great What's Your Brother? On the show? Okay,

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Speaker 1: I don't know what became of him whatever, but yeah,

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Speaker 1: my mom loved Denise Nichols. I guess everybody was.

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Speaker 6: Everybody, yes, and everybody's uncle loved Oh. He was so

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Speaker 5: Really, everyone until the heat of tonight, yeap.

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Speaker 7: Up until I mean, well that's when the last time

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Speaker 1: your very first sitcom? Yes, so how easy was it

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Speaker 6: It was definitely a learning experience, you know. For example,

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Speaker 6: definitely was a lot of fun, you know, but it

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Speaker 1: Before, and by that point you moved to Los Angeles. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: So what was that transition like because the seventies, I

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Speaker 1: first ten years, I'm sure that it was a learning

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Speaker 1: curve for anyone in Hollywood in the seventies. Sure, kind

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Speaker 1: any decades or time before. So what was it like

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Speaker 1: coming Like, where were your memories of moving to LA Like.

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Speaker 6: Well, I went to school back at PS ninety two.

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Speaker 6: I went to school that morning, and when I came

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Speaker 6: including like my little easy bake oven and you know

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Speaker 6: those like everything, my view Master. Everything was packed up.

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Speaker 6: It wasn't a whole lot. And my mom said, we're

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Speaker 5: So why did y'all end up moving to La So.

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Speaker 6: Mom had been there when she toured with Hello Dolly,

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Speaker 6: Exactly. I had to talk back to missus Garrett and

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Speaker 1: Absolutely I always wondered, like, what's the what's the power

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Speaker 1: No, no, dude, it's like, yeah, like what was the

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Speaker 6: Too young? I was, I was too young.

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Speaker 1: Getting you guys knew that the pendulum non pendulum, that

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Speaker 6: Not quite like that.

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Speaker 5: You always knew you was the lone black girl in

439
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Speaker 5: the room.

440
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Speaker 6: No, not like that. That was one of the few times.

441
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Speaker 6: That's why I said, it was one of the few

442
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Speaker 6: times where I really registered the idea of being the

443
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Speaker 6: black girl, being the black person. And that was very

444
00:24:43,760 --> 00:24:47,080
Speaker 6: early on. But but for the most part, one I

445
00:24:47,160 --> 00:24:49,840
Speaker 6: wasn't taught to look through, you know, the lens with

446
00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:58,400
Speaker 6: color I everybody was just people, not fire, just not

447
00:24:58,480 --> 00:25:01,160
Speaker 6: invited exactly been there.

448
00:25:01,240 --> 00:25:08,800
Speaker 1: But in retrospect, yes, in retrospect though, or in hindsight

449
00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:14,119
Speaker 1: you being a first living a life of being a

450
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Speaker 1: first or whatever. What was the environment like on the set?

451
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Speaker 6: It was great? Really, it really was great. Everybody was

452
00:25:23,160 --> 00:25:26,960
Speaker 6: It was a level playing field, truly, truly, like even

453
00:25:27,040 --> 00:25:31,399
Speaker 6: as the youngest, I didn't feel like the baby, you know,

454
00:25:31,560 --> 00:25:34,359
Speaker 6: like Tuty felt that more than Kim did. Does that

455
00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:38,159
Speaker 6: make sense? Yeah, oh good, because I didn't have nothing else.

456
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Speaker 1: What was the average working like.

457
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Speaker 6: Well, as a minor, you can only work, you know,

458
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Speaker 6: a certain number of hours a day, and then you

459
00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:50,920
Speaker 6: also have to go to school. So we would go

460
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Speaker 6: to school in the morning. And by the second season,

461
00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:57,639
Speaker 6: when Nancy arrived, Nancy and I were in studio school together. Mindy,

462
00:25:58,119 --> 00:26:02,280
Speaker 6: her family wanted her to stay in her school environment,

463
00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:05,359
Speaker 6: and so she would come to work after Lisa was

464
00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:08,159
Speaker 6: already what do you call it, she had taken the

465
00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:10,720
Speaker 6: proficiency test or whatever, so she wasn't in school anymore

466
00:26:10,760 --> 00:26:13,960
Speaker 6: even though she was sixteen. Uh. And that's also really

467
00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:16,560
Speaker 6: a huge contributing factor to why Nancy and I are

468
00:26:16,600 --> 00:26:20,600
Speaker 6: so close and were so close, even though to DM

469
00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:24,399
Speaker 6: Joe were not Nancy and I are. I'm oh, my gosh.

470
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Speaker 7: I just thought it was in my mind, has always

471
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Speaker 7: been because that's because that show was.

472
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Speaker 6: But I spent actually more time, far more time than

473
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Speaker 6: any with anyone than with Nancy, because you're in studio

474
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Speaker 6: school and so you start roughly about two hours before

475
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Speaker 6: everybody even comes to work us school.

476
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Speaker 1: I always wanted to know what, Yeah.

477
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Speaker 6: So you're in, you know, like one of the rooms

478
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Speaker 6: in the production office. When we filmed for three seasons

479
00:26:50,680 --> 00:26:53,240
Speaker 6: at Universal Studios, we were in a row of trailers.

480
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Speaker 6: Uh so there was facts of life, different strokes, one

481
00:26:57,040 --> 00:26:59,159
Speaker 6: day at a time, silver spoons. We were all in this,

482
00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:03,399
Speaker 6: not together, but we were just in a row of

483
00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:05,919
Speaker 6: trailers that you know, were separated by a door. But

484
00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:12,440
Speaker 6: we were all right there.

485
00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:13,600
Speaker 4: I would have had so much fun.

486
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Speaker 6: It was great.

487
00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:18,720
Speaker 1: Show.

488
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Speaker 6: Each show has a different teacher, uh and so, and

489
00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:26,760
Speaker 6: depending on you know, if the grade levels of the kids,

490
00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:29,080
Speaker 6: if there are multiple kids on a show, you might

491
00:27:29,119 --> 00:27:32,159
Speaker 6: have different tutors to cover different ages. But Nance and

492
00:27:32,240 --> 00:27:35,960
Speaker 6: I had the same tutor, Margaret god Reshearsal. Margaret was

493
00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:39,240
Speaker 6: our tutor for the whole time. Uh, and so you know,

494
00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:41,600
Speaker 6: you you go and you you you have two hours

495
00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:45,040
Speaker 6: of school. Then when everybody comes to work, you literally

496
00:27:45,080 --> 00:27:49,200
Speaker 6: man are ping pong back and forth between school and

497
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Speaker 6: and rehearsal until you've done enough hours in the day

498
00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:55,080
Speaker 6: because you have to be in school for three hours

499
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Speaker 6: a day and then you can be in this rehearsal

500
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Speaker 6: hall or filming full time. Now what they end up

501
00:28:00,840 --> 00:28:03,480
Speaker 6: doing is like if you're on a hiatus week. Those

502
00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:06,840
Speaker 6: are tough because there's no outlet. You're there and you

503
00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:08,280
Speaker 6: go to school and then you have to what you

504
00:28:08,280 --> 00:28:11,800
Speaker 6: call bank time, so you might be there for like

505
00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:16,240
Speaker 6: five hours doing school because when you're in production on

506
00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:19,159
Speaker 6: your filming day, you might only get twenty minutes of

507
00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:21,240
Speaker 6: school and which is the minimum that you have to

508
00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:24,600
Speaker 6: be there, and then they pull from your hours in

509
00:28:24,680 --> 00:28:26,720
Speaker 6: the bank so that you still have your time.

510
00:28:27,200 --> 00:28:30,880
Speaker 1: Someone is there literally clocking like a union person like baby.

511
00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:34,159
Speaker 6: We used to have booth time and Margaret time. And

512
00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:36,639
Speaker 6: Margaret if it was booth time, was like in the

513
00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:39,800
Speaker 6: control room where the producers would go, Okay, we're gonna

514
00:28:39,840 --> 00:28:41,920
Speaker 6: lose Kim in five minutes. We have to get this

515
00:28:42,040 --> 00:28:44,600
Speaker 6: scene done or you know that sort of thing, and

516
00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:47,960
Speaker 6: Margaret time was, y'all have to finish now. I don't

517
00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:51,040
Speaker 6: know that that that that clock's not right. My clock

518
00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:54,200
Speaker 6: says it's nine o'clock now, and so you've got to

519
00:28:54,240 --> 00:28:54,880
Speaker 6: pull the plug.

520
00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:57,440
Speaker 1: Are they still doing that system today or is that.

521
00:28:58,960 --> 00:29:01,680
Speaker 6: Back then to a certain extent, you know, because the

522
00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:05,280
Speaker 6: labor laws they got such a bad rap from, you know,

523
00:29:05,360 --> 00:29:07,920
Speaker 6: earlier generation, so they tried to be better at it.

524
00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:10,520
Speaker 6: But when our son Quincy was in the Pride and

525
00:29:10,520 --> 00:29:13,760
Speaker 6: Prejudice movie for a Lifetime this past summer, he filmed

526
00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:16,120
Speaker 6: it at the end of last year and I was

527
00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:20,479
Speaker 6: set mom, and I was in the trailer and you know,

528
00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:23,720
Speaker 6: there was his tutor and all those things, and I

529
00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:26,240
Speaker 6: actually took video and showed it to Nancy. I was like, oh,

530
00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:28,880
Speaker 6: my god, your nephew's at studio school right now.

531
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Speaker 1: Are they all? Are? They?

532
00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:32,840
Speaker 5: Absolutely?

533
00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:34,240
Speaker 6: Absolutely?

534
00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:40,560
Speaker 1: I was asking because during like I just never understood

535
00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:43,160
Speaker 1: and always sort of frowned. And first of all, yes,

536
00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:46,920
Speaker 1: I commit that. You know, I'm very bad at punctuality

537
00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:50,920
Speaker 1: and time and all that stuff. I'm working all myself, boss, Bill,

538
00:29:51,080 --> 00:29:58,680
Speaker 1: you know this. So when working on Hamilton, I didn't

539
00:29:58,720 --> 00:30:02,280
Speaker 1: realize that they are also very antal retentive with time.

540
00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:05,800
Speaker 1: So like they there was always a on set person

541
00:30:05,840 --> 00:30:10,280
Speaker 1: with a stopwatch and say if like George Washington had

542
00:30:10,280 --> 00:30:12,200
Speaker 1: to re sing a part over again, it's like, okay,

543
00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:14,760
Speaker 1: well we have six minutes and thirty seconds, guys, until

544
00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:18,640
Speaker 1: up now it's five minutes and fifty seconds. And I'm

545
00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:21,120
Speaker 1: just like, look, this is working on cast album. Yeah,

546
00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:25,000
Speaker 1: because they're also anal and you know there's like actual

547
00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:27,320
Speaker 1: people whose jobs it is just to look at the

548
00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:32,320
Speaker 1: stopwatch absolutely and enforce rules of which as a black person.

549
00:30:32,040 --> 00:30:40,280
Speaker 6: I'm like, but the unions are to your point, really,

550
00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:43,360
Speaker 6: you know they're there to really protect the artists, is

551
00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:46,479
Speaker 6: what you know, the idea of the union is, and

552
00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:50,280
Speaker 6: so being able to protect, making sure that that you know,

553
00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:53,920
Speaker 6: you're not overworked and all of those things. So they

554
00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:54,719
Speaker 6: are sticklers.

555
00:30:54,800 --> 00:30:57,760
Speaker 1: So does that leave you enough time to actually study

556
00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:01,760
Speaker 1: your lines and or you guys just given sides and

557
00:31:01,840 --> 00:31:04,440
Speaker 1: you recap them for two seconds and right.

558
00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:06,640
Speaker 6: So when you're doing a movie, then you know you

559
00:31:06,720 --> 00:31:10,280
Speaker 6: shoot bits of it every day, but on a multi

560
00:31:10,320 --> 00:31:13,720
Speaker 6: camera comedy like that, then you you film just kind

561
00:31:13,760 --> 00:31:15,960
Speaker 6: of once or twice a week, so you have the

562
00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:19,280
Speaker 6: script and you rehearse the whole thing over and over

563
00:31:19,360 --> 00:31:19,760
Speaker 6: and over.

564
00:31:20,800 --> 00:31:24,360
Speaker 1: Okay, so as a teenager, let's let's push on in

565
00:31:24,400 --> 00:31:29,520
Speaker 1: the years. No, I'm trying to cover every every aspect

566
00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:36,560
Speaker 1: of your career. Was there a general fear of Hollywood

567
00:31:36,600 --> 00:31:41,920
Speaker 1: trappings that have sort of sort of grabbed everyone? You

568
00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:44,440
Speaker 1: seem to, at least in my eyes. You got out

569
00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:51,200
Speaker 1: of it unscathed and you know, without a scratch or

570
00:31:51,280 --> 00:31:55,360
Speaker 1: I don't know, but like, how hard was that to

571
00:31:55,440 --> 00:32:02,160
Speaker 1: avoid in such a decadent time period social media?

572
00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:07,320
Speaker 6: Yeah? Right, yeah, it was. It was. There was a

573
00:32:07,360 --> 00:32:09,920
Speaker 6: part of it that was really easy because I was scared,

574
00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:14,560
Speaker 6: meaning I was I was that kid that was like,

575
00:32:14,840 --> 00:32:16,680
Speaker 6: I don't even want to try weed because I'd be

576
00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:18,840
Speaker 6: that one person that they find out, oh my god,

577
00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:21,960
Speaker 6: it can't kill you if you puff. Once we didn't know,

578
00:32:22,040 --> 00:32:24,400
Speaker 6: and now God rest her soul, you know. So I

579
00:32:24,440 --> 00:32:30,120
Speaker 6: was like, so, you know, it's like, I'm not going

580
00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:32,680
Speaker 6: to try that, and certainly not anything stronger than that.

581
00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:38,280
Speaker 6: But but basically I just felt like I didn't want

582
00:32:38,320 --> 00:32:42,800
Speaker 6: to be a has been At eighteen, I clearly remember

583
00:32:42,800 --> 00:32:45,280
Speaker 6: having that thought, you know, as you get fifteen and

584
00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:47,960
Speaker 6: sixteen and you you know, you're just becoming a young adult.

585
00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:49,680
Speaker 6: And I remember thinking, I'm not going to be a

586
00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:54,240
Speaker 6: has been at eighteen, and I'm not gonna let my

587
00:32:54,400 --> 00:32:58,840
Speaker 6: village suffer because I'm a statistic. My village has put

588
00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:00,680
Speaker 6: way too much in me for me to go out

589
00:33:00,680 --> 00:33:03,600
Speaker 6: like that. That's that's not an option. So that's how

590
00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:08,440
Speaker 6: I avoided. Now. I'm not unscratched, not not at all.

591
00:33:08,520 --> 00:33:16,320
Speaker 6: It's just I didn't have some of those monumental tragic incidents,

592
00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:19,400
Speaker 6: you know, that sort of thing. But I certainly had

593
00:33:19,480 --> 00:33:21,840
Speaker 6: struggles and challenges. That's why I start my book with

594
00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:24,160
Speaker 6: the piece from Langston Hughes. Well time, I'll tell you

595
00:33:24,280 --> 00:33:27,000
Speaker 6: life for me been no Crystal stare because people think

596
00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:28,360
Speaker 6: they look at me and they go, oh, she ain't

597
00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:29,040
Speaker 6: been through nothing.

598
00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:32,440
Speaker 5: You was the first. How could you not go through something.

599
00:33:35,280 --> 00:33:35,720
Speaker 6: Exactly?

600
00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:37,600
Speaker 5: The whole woman, the woman.

601
00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:44,600
Speaker 1: I think.

602
00:33:53,040 --> 00:34:06,120
Speaker 5: She been my friends, she just didn't know.

603
00:34:00,520 --> 00:34:03,520
Speaker 1: How well, not how important, but how hard was it

604
00:34:03,600 --> 00:34:06,320
Speaker 1: to shake the T word?

605
00:34:07,040 --> 00:34:08,080
Speaker 6: I love you for that man?

606
00:34:08,360 --> 00:34:13,240
Speaker 1: Once once the series ended, what eighty six.

607
00:34:13,719 --> 00:34:18,080
Speaker 6: Eight nine, eighty eight, eighty eight, seventy nine to eighty eight, Yeah, okay.

608
00:34:18,520 --> 00:34:21,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, by the way, first everybody remembers the first show

609
00:34:21,200 --> 00:34:24,960
Speaker 1: they ever recorded when they got a VCR. So I

610
00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:33,640
Speaker 1: got my box over writing in time for the Eldbarge episode. Well,

611
00:34:34,520 --> 00:34:36,680
Speaker 1: we talked about this when it was on our show,

612
00:34:37,239 --> 00:34:40,960
Speaker 1: that's right, yeah, yeah, so it was first. Like back

613
00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:42,960
Speaker 1: when you in the eighties, when you got a VCR,

614
00:34:43,120 --> 00:34:46,640
Speaker 1: you recorded any and everything because, like you know, you

615
00:34:46,640 --> 00:34:47,720
Speaker 1: didn't want to miss anything.

616
00:34:47,840 --> 00:34:52,120
Speaker 4: So we used to have like the mountains of EHS tapes,

617
00:34:52,440 --> 00:34:55,160
Speaker 4: like this is a Saturday lineup, pile, this isday lineup.

618
00:34:56,520 --> 00:34:59,719
Speaker 6: Wait, funny, Maxwell just sent me a text of a

619
00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:02,920
Speaker 6: PI make sure of like just piled like like piles

620
00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:05,799
Speaker 6: of VHS and and cassette and he's like, I got mine.

621
00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:09,879
Speaker 6: You know you got shorts. Oh my god.

622
00:35:10,360 --> 00:35:14,839
Speaker 1: If you think about it, we are like as a species,

623
00:35:15,560 --> 00:35:20,360
Speaker 1: we're the most documenting, never going back to watch people

624
00:35:21,640 --> 00:35:25,120
Speaker 1: like the amount. Oh wait, that's for Maxwell. Yeah, wait

625
00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:26,000
Speaker 1: with a floppy disc?

626
00:35:28,160 --> 00:35:47,320
Speaker 4: You have stuff In comments.

627
00:35:38,200 --> 00:35:41,520
Speaker 1: Kim just showed us her phone and Maxwell's center photo

628
00:35:41,560 --> 00:35:45,000
Speaker 1: of a bunch of VHS, a cassette and a floppy disc,

629
00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:51,040
Speaker 1: which reminds me of that to this day. To this day,

630
00:35:50,600 --> 00:35:54,160
Speaker 1: uh d'angela still creates his music on his A s

631
00:35:54,320 --> 00:36:01,439
Speaker 1: R ten and needs floppy discs bs.

632
00:36:01,880 --> 00:36:03,280
Speaker 5: Uh he just said again.

633
00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:09,640
Speaker 1: But my point being that, Uh, when when the series

634
00:36:09,719 --> 00:36:16,279
Speaker 1: was over, how hard was it to to shake the

635
00:36:16,400 --> 00:36:19,800
Speaker 1: character as far as figuring out what you're going to

636
00:36:19,880 --> 00:36:20,360
Speaker 1: do next?

637
00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:24,360
Speaker 6: Well, thankfully the character had grown up. So you know,

638
00:36:24,560 --> 00:36:28,200
Speaker 6: I wasn't like a Shirley Temple type of of of

639
00:36:28,200 --> 00:36:31,360
Speaker 6: of child start trapped in you know, being a child.

640
00:36:32,560 --> 00:36:36,640
Speaker 6: So so and I had gone to college, and you know,

641
00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:40,040
Speaker 6: I'd gotten my degree, so I stayed busy number one,

642
00:36:40,160 --> 00:36:43,160
Speaker 6: So my mind wasn't idol and I wasn't just kind

643
00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:45,320
Speaker 6: of trapped my own self.

644
00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:46,799
Speaker 1: What did you major in it, Pepperdine?

645
00:36:47,160 --> 00:36:50,239
Speaker 6: I double majored in broadcast journalism and TV and film

646
00:36:50,320 --> 00:36:52,040
Speaker 6: production and a minor in religion.

647
00:36:52,520 --> 00:36:54,680
Speaker 1: Wow, what whoa why did you use?

648
00:36:56,280 --> 00:36:58,040
Speaker 6: I wanted to go to San Diego State, but I

649
00:36:58,080 --> 00:36:59,920
Speaker 6: couldn't go out of state for school or out of

650
00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:02,520
Speaker 6: out of town for school because the facts life was still.

651
00:37:02,840 --> 00:37:03,920
Speaker 6: Did you wear that from me?

652
00:37:05,160 --> 00:37:07,160
Speaker 5: Oh you got on your head.

653
00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:08,560
Speaker 6: It's just facts.

654
00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:18,799
Speaker 1: Oh crash. Not even shout out to Dan Ricky h Now,

655
00:37:19,120 --> 00:37:20,960
Speaker 1: I did this weird thing when I meditated in the

656
00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:22,879
Speaker 1: morning and it was like the first word I saw,

657
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Speaker 1: so wow, okay, I did facts. And then when I like,

658
00:37:26,760 --> 00:37:29,359
Speaker 1: I grabbed a whole bunch of letters and whatever comes

659
00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:31,520
Speaker 1: out in my hand, I was just like, I'll use that.

660
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Speaker 5: I swear to God, that's next level of meditation.

661
00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:37,200
Speaker 1: Then again, like I didn't know crown.

662
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Speaker 6: Or what, but look how connected we are that I

663
00:37:39,600 --> 00:37:43,839
Speaker 6: permeated your meditation time see and and you and and

664
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Speaker 6: you had me on your mind.

665
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Speaker 1: Wow.

666
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Speaker 4: I don't think you ever left.

667
00:37:49,520 --> 00:37:51,440
Speaker 1: I don't even read the calendar in the morning. I

668
00:37:51,480 --> 00:37:54,359
Speaker 1: was like, oh, wait, I'm going to work right. Oh, oh, Kim,

669
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Speaker 1: I'm playing.

670
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Speaker 5: Although he's been asking me almost once a week, so

671
00:37:57,000 --> 00:38:03,720
Speaker 5: when's is cam? Did you get cam?

672
00:38:03,840 --> 00:38:04,040
Speaker 1: Yeah?

673
00:38:04,040 --> 00:38:05,280
Speaker 4: I think because it's true.

674
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sadly true. How do you decide which crown

675
00:38:08,640 --> 00:38:09,760
Speaker 1: to wear each day?

676
00:38:09,960 --> 00:38:10,520
Speaker 5: Different ones?

677
00:38:10,560 --> 00:38:16,600
Speaker 1: Steve, Steve, Steve Anyway, No, I totally forgot I was

678
00:38:16,600 --> 00:38:18,240
Speaker 1: wearing a crown in my head.

679
00:38:17,560 --> 00:38:20,160
Speaker 6: I interrupted you. What were you saying no?

680
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Speaker 1: No about Pepperdine.

681
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Speaker 5: Yes.

682
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Speaker 6: So I wanted to go out of state and I

683
00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:26,839
Speaker 6: couldn't go out of state, And then I couldn't even

684
00:38:26,920 --> 00:38:29,160
Speaker 6: go out of town because Fact's life was still filming

685
00:38:29,520 --> 00:38:32,359
Speaker 6: when I started college, because I took seventh and eighth

686
00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:34,680
Speaker 6: grade together, so I got out of high school a

687
00:38:34,719 --> 00:38:36,759
Speaker 6: year early. So I was still done Facts Life when

688
00:38:36,760 --> 00:38:40,520
Speaker 6: I started college. And so we had done the Australian

689
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Speaker 6: movie and then I started school.

690
00:38:43,440 --> 00:38:45,560
Speaker 1: Well, this was fun. I remember the Paris one. I

691
00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:46,799
Speaker 1: was on punishment for the other one.

692
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Speaker 6: Man, weren't we older? How was you on punishment?

693
00:38:51,960 --> 00:38:58,080
Speaker 1: Then we don't want to Paris. I remember being in

694
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Speaker 1: trouble that Paris was like, wait, eighty Irish tried right.

695
00:39:01,840 --> 00:39:06,080
Speaker 1: I was two of those special Facts of Life trips

696
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Speaker 1: was on punishment.

697
00:39:07,920 --> 00:39:10,360
Speaker 6: For so okay, the other one I was. I was

698
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Speaker 6: seventeen eighteens. I don't even want to know.

699
00:39:12,920 --> 00:39:15,680
Speaker 1: Why you was. No, no, no, my bad. Y'all went

700
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Speaker 1: to Hawaii.

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00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:18,000
Speaker 5: Everybody went to Hawaiian.

702
00:39:18,120 --> 00:39:22,640
Speaker 6: Yeah, Hawaii went to Hawaii and you saw they took

703
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Speaker 6: their hairdressers.

704
00:39:23,480 --> 00:39:34,239
Speaker 8: Because here's here's here's something weird.

705
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Speaker 1: Okay, so don't say we won't get we will in

706
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Speaker 1: a second, Okay, Okay, so APOLOONI and I have a

707
00:39:44,239 --> 00:39:48,040
Speaker 1: really good mutual friend in Chef Gordon, who lives in Mali.

708
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Speaker 1: And one of Apple's favorite thing is to uh what

709
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Speaker 1: do when you go I don't say thrifting when you

710
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Speaker 1: go to the thrift stories to antique, right, And somehow

711
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Speaker 1: and and somehow, Appollonia wound up with Roxy Wrokers polaroid,

712
00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:15,759
Speaker 1: uh scrap book of when the Jeffersons went to wh No,

713
00:40:16,040 --> 00:40:17,840
Speaker 1: she just like always had it and that's how I

714
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Speaker 1: introduced her to to Lenny and Zoey to get the

715
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Speaker 1: book back.

716
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Speaker 5: So she's had it for Miss Roxy's hair was straight

717
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Speaker 5: and white.

718
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Speaker 1: Yeah, so those on those special episodes, you guys were

719
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Speaker 1: allowed special amenities for your.

720
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Speaker 6: Well facts of life.

721
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Speaker 5: I wasn't.

722
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Speaker 6: And that's why when that wind blew to these bangs

723
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Speaker 6: looked like all to be damned and my mother was like,

724
00:40:42,840 --> 00:40:44,880
Speaker 6: oh never again. That's the one time she was kind

725
00:40:44,920 --> 00:40:47,680
Speaker 6: of managers and was like, my baby will not be

726
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Speaker 6: looking like that if you guys go anywhere else.

727
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Speaker 5: Did they have a hairdresser for you?

728
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Speaker 6: Yes, like joe Anne Stafford. Baby, that's who created the

729
00:40:56,280 --> 00:41:01,719
Speaker 6: sig zag part. That's right, Heat of the night, Right,

730
00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:02,640
Speaker 6: did you want that?

731
00:41:03,520 --> 00:41:03,680
Speaker 1: Wait?

732
00:41:03,760 --> 00:41:04,360
Speaker 5: How do you know that?

733
00:41:04,640 --> 00:41:06,480
Speaker 4: Read the book? And then I did google afterwards.

734
00:41:06,560 --> 00:41:10,759
Speaker 1: Okay, I don't just say because you pioneered for me

735
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Speaker 1: like the the even though people now are sort of

736
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Speaker 1: crediting like salt and pepper for the mushroom is Oh yeah, no,

737
00:41:19,520 --> 00:41:22,239
Speaker 1: she had no like I felt like you were the

738
00:41:22,320 --> 00:41:23,840
Speaker 1: pioneering what's that.

739
00:41:23,920 --> 00:41:28,240
Speaker 6: Called the page boy the page boy circle.

740
00:41:28,760 --> 00:41:31,040
Speaker 5: I thought that halle Berry cut was a page boy, right.

741
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Speaker 1: Single, I'm talking about her facts of life, That's what

742
00:41:34,680 --> 00:41:35,400
Speaker 1: I'm talking about.

743
00:41:35,320 --> 00:41:39,040
Speaker 6: The mush mushroom, right, yes, And I mean I had

744
00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:42,640
Speaker 6: bangs that big barrel on the curl curlin iron. So yeah,

745
00:41:42,719 --> 00:41:46,480
Speaker 6: but the zig zag part picked all of my styles,

746
00:41:46,600 --> 00:41:48,560
Speaker 6: was joining, but they didn't take joy in the Paris

747
00:41:49,080 --> 00:41:50,160
Speaker 6: and old Kim.

748
00:41:50,040 --> 00:41:55,200
Speaker 1: Say, it's good to know that. See when we go

749
00:41:55,360 --> 00:41:59,640
Speaker 1: in on location and I'm after big and fleet like

750
00:41:59,719 --> 00:42:04,319
Speaker 1: you afro, don't come let me. It's just as much

751
00:42:04,360 --> 00:42:06,120
Speaker 1: of the character on the show as I am.

752
00:42:06,320 --> 00:42:06,759
Speaker 8: That's right.

753
00:42:06,960 --> 00:42:10,560
Speaker 6: And then when we went to Australia, Kim was laid

754
00:42:10,640 --> 00:42:12,840
Speaker 6: though Kim Kim had her hair tight.

755
00:42:12,840 --> 00:42:13,319
Speaker 1: On that one.

756
00:42:13,360 --> 00:42:14,879
Speaker 6: But I took my hairstylist.

757
00:42:15,000 --> 00:42:15,480
Speaker 5: Was that a really?

758
00:42:15,600 --> 00:42:17,319
Speaker 7: Was you a relaxer or was that a blowout? I'm sorry,

759
00:42:17,320 --> 00:42:23,640
Speaker 7: I just always had that question. Press yes, okay, it

760
00:42:23,680 --> 00:42:25,400
Speaker 7: took a while. Does she ever, did you ever get

761
00:42:25,480 --> 00:42:27,000
Speaker 7: your hair chemical up?

762
00:42:27,560 --> 00:42:29,719
Speaker 6: I don't think so, I don't think my mom. I

763
00:42:29,800 --> 00:42:30,440
Speaker 6: have to ask my mom.

764
00:42:30,719 --> 00:42:31,520
Speaker 5: That was good to watch.

765
00:42:31,680 --> 00:42:34,759
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, that wooden spoon on my ear, that's what

766
00:42:34,880 --> 00:42:37,759
Speaker 6: I really remember. And the blue grease, No, because it's

767
00:42:37,800 --> 00:42:39,960
Speaker 6: thank And now back to.

768
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Speaker 1: Believe we are we are the rabbit Hole Kings on

769
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Speaker 1: the show good So, as I was mentioned earlier, and

770
00:42:48,800 --> 00:42:51,279
Speaker 1: you know, and I know that people seem to think, uh,

771
00:42:52,000 --> 00:42:54,520
Speaker 1: I'm talking out the side of my neck, but not

772
00:42:54,719 --> 00:42:59,279
Speaker 1: many people know that the reasons that Friends exist is

773
00:42:59,360 --> 00:43:04,479
Speaker 1: because the creators of Friends, my great pals at NBC

774
00:43:04,640 --> 00:43:07,960
Speaker 1: where I currently work to this day, what my job

775
00:43:08,480 --> 00:43:15,319
Speaker 1: and benefits. It's okay, No, well, you know, I thought

776
00:43:15,520 --> 00:43:20,320
Speaker 1: it was Brendan Tartakoff's last move. He had a chance

777
00:43:20,440 --> 00:43:27,120
Speaker 1: to have uh living single or an NBC. But they

778
00:43:27,160 --> 00:43:29,759
Speaker 1: were like, well, we have enough black shows already. We

779
00:43:29,800 --> 00:43:33,400
Speaker 1: already have Labelle's Up all Night, and we have the

780
00:43:33,400 --> 00:43:35,440
Speaker 1: Fresh Prince of bel Air, and we have L's in

781
00:43:35,480 --> 00:43:38,560
Speaker 1: the house, so maybe three is enough, you know, and

782
00:43:38,640 --> 00:43:41,600
Speaker 1: we still have Cosby in a different world. So that's

783
00:43:41,800 --> 00:43:44,040
Speaker 1: that's a lot of blackness. So we'll pass on this one,

784
00:43:44,800 --> 00:43:47,200
Speaker 1: and he was like, I don't know something about this

785
00:43:47,239 --> 00:43:50,160
Speaker 1: show and the chemistry they have, and I guess the

786
00:43:50,280 --> 00:43:54,240
Speaker 1: decision was, well, let's create the white version of living single,

787
00:43:54,840 --> 00:43:58,840
Speaker 1: and thus that's how Friends came to be.

788
00:43:59,400 --> 00:43:59,920
Speaker 4: Is that correct?

789
00:44:00,239 --> 00:44:02,759
Speaker 1: I did not know that, which it is is no, No,

790
00:44:03,440 --> 00:44:06,640
Speaker 1: I'm asked Brandon if she said no?

791
00:44:07,360 --> 00:44:08,520
Speaker 5: He said it. He admitted it.

792
00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:12,799
Speaker 6: Yeah, even jump in the grave and get him.

793
00:44:15,840 --> 00:44:22,080
Speaker 1: I don't know that, you know, Joe when Emmys and Taro.

794
00:44:22,600 --> 00:44:24,239
Speaker 4: I knew Joanne won the Emmy because I read the

795
00:44:24,280 --> 00:44:27,080
Speaker 4: book and then I did googlefter tartakov I actually remember

796
00:44:27,120 --> 00:44:29,279
Speaker 4: when he died. Yeah, I actually remember when he died.

797
00:44:29,320 --> 00:44:31,120
Speaker 4: I was like probably like eleven or twelve, but I

798
00:44:31,239 --> 00:44:32,279
Speaker 4: remember that shout out damn.

799
00:44:32,440 --> 00:44:35,120
Speaker 6: Yeah. Well that's uh, that's what I'm surprised to have

800
00:44:35,320 --> 00:44:36,840
Speaker 6: Tartakoff connected to Friends.

801
00:44:36,960 --> 00:44:42,960
Speaker 1: Well, even whoever whoever was the president of NBC in

802
00:44:45,560 --> 00:44:50,120
Speaker 1: ninety two ninety three admitted it on like one of

803
00:44:50,160 --> 00:44:54,040
Speaker 1: those like panel things. Yes, I'm getting and thus the

804
00:44:54,120 --> 00:44:58,239
Speaker 1: reason why jay Z made the Moonlight video with all

805
00:44:58,239 --> 00:44:59,480
Speaker 1: the Black Friends characters.

806
00:44:59,560 --> 00:45:03,680
Speaker 5: I didn't know is that. Okay, I didn't know. I

807
00:45:03,719 --> 00:45:05,960
Speaker 5: didn't say that. I just didn't know that he was

808
00:45:06,120 --> 00:45:08,279
Speaker 5: up on his pop culture trivia like.

809
00:45:08,320 --> 00:45:14,600
Speaker 1: That it's quasi common knowledge. But uh, were you aware

810
00:45:14,600 --> 00:45:15,440
Speaker 1: of those facts at all?

811
00:45:16,480 --> 00:45:19,240
Speaker 6: Not those particular facts from other facts.

812
00:45:20,320 --> 00:45:22,840
Speaker 5: What what I know, uh is that.

813
00:45:24,920 --> 00:45:28,040
Speaker 6: Uh Yvett created this this this brilliant show and Evett

814
00:45:28,120 --> 00:45:31,279
Speaker 6: had a deal with Fox to develop a show with

815
00:45:31,520 --> 00:45:35,680
Speaker 6: Dana and Kim Coles Lativa and Kim Coles. I don't

816
00:45:35,760 --> 00:45:40,680
Speaker 6: know what the preamble was prior to that. What was difficult,

817
00:45:41,040 --> 00:45:42,839
Speaker 6: you know, and a bit of a challenge to work

818
00:45:42,920 --> 00:45:46,880
Speaker 6: through sometimes was that both friends of Limit single was

819
00:45:46,960 --> 00:45:51,880
Speaker 6: Warner Brothers, and so, you know, oftentimes real talk, we

820
00:45:52,080 --> 00:45:53,080
Speaker 6: we kind of felt like that.

821
00:45:53,560 --> 00:46:00,359
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Bill, looking up, I want you to you right,

822
00:46:00,480 --> 00:46:04,160
Speaker 1: I'm partly insulting as I'm listening to you, like, yeah, continue,

823
00:46:04,200 --> 00:46:11,280
Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm.

824
00:46:13,280 --> 00:46:16,680
Speaker 6: So sometimes we kind of felt like the redheaded stepchild

825
00:46:17,080 --> 00:46:23,640
Speaker 6: right right now, from from the standpoint of we were

826
00:46:24,280 --> 00:46:30,200
Speaker 6: you know, quote unquote first and you know, if you're

827
00:46:30,239 --> 00:46:32,920
Speaker 6: able to inspire people to create great content, great, what

828
00:46:33,040 --> 00:46:36,399
Speaker 6: do they say? You know something is the highest form

829
00:46:36,440 --> 00:46:42,080
Speaker 6: of flattery, imitation, That's it. He came with that quick

830
00:46:42,480 --> 00:46:51,359
Speaker 6: to google that, but being able to you know, when

831
00:46:51,400 --> 00:46:53,360
Speaker 6: my kids wake up from nightmares, the first thing I

832
00:46:53,440 --> 00:46:56,560
Speaker 6: say is what's your truth? Speak your truth, know your truth,

833
00:46:57,080 --> 00:46:59,839
Speaker 6: and we know our truth bottom line, So we don't

834
00:46:59,880 --> 00:47:03,000
Speaker 6: have to have anybody validated and do memes about it

835
00:47:03,120 --> 00:47:05,479
Speaker 6: and start a hashtag campaign and used.

836
00:47:05,400 --> 00:47:07,160
Speaker 5: To because we're just starting shitting people copying.

837
00:47:07,640 --> 00:47:11,319
Speaker 6: Well, there's that, there's that part, But at the end

838
00:47:11,360 --> 00:47:15,279
Speaker 6: of the day, that's the part that was the most frustrating,

839
00:47:15,400 --> 00:47:19,000
Speaker 6: you know, to be a part of the same production,

840
00:47:19,160 --> 00:47:22,719
Speaker 6: the same studio essentially, uh and to be treated so

841
00:47:22,960 --> 00:47:27,239
Speaker 6: grossly different in terms of pay, in terms of you know,

842
00:47:27,360 --> 00:47:30,880
Speaker 6: there's there's a this is a true story. One day

843
00:47:30,920 --> 00:47:32,560
Speaker 6: we came to work in the set. The sound stage

844
00:47:32,640 --> 00:47:34,880
Speaker 6: was freezing, and even things like, you know what the

845
00:47:34,920 --> 00:47:37,520
Speaker 6: big Warner Brothers is the main Warner Brothers lot, and

846
00:47:37,640 --> 00:47:40,840
Speaker 6: then they have the ranch. Who do you think filmed

847
00:47:40,920 --> 00:47:43,280
Speaker 6: at the main lot? And who do you think filmed

848
00:47:43,320 --> 00:47:43,880
Speaker 6: at the ranch?

849
00:47:45,160 --> 00:47:48,239
Speaker 1: The ranch was the better option and not the better option?

850
00:47:48,719 --> 00:47:51,680
Speaker 6: No, the ranch was you know kind of that that

851
00:47:51,920 --> 00:47:55,880
Speaker 6: out the way. The ranch is not the big studio,

852
00:47:57,200 --> 00:47:59,719
Speaker 6: that's right, that's right. So we came in there and

853
00:48:00,760 --> 00:48:04,359
Speaker 6: the sound stage was freezing and they said that they

854
00:48:04,400 --> 00:48:07,600
Speaker 6: weren't going to turn the lights on, and so we

855
00:48:07,719 --> 00:48:10,080
Speaker 6: had to rehearse in these big, big puffer coats and

856
00:48:10,120 --> 00:48:12,600
Speaker 6: stuff because they were saying that they didn't want to

857
00:48:12,640 --> 00:48:15,479
Speaker 6: spend the money to turn the lights on and or heat.

858
00:48:16,280 --> 00:48:18,520
Speaker 6: And that's when we actually that that was the one

859
00:48:18,560 --> 00:48:21,680
Speaker 6: and only time that we collectively said we're not coming

860
00:48:21,880 --> 00:48:25,279
Speaker 6: to work. We're not going to do that because at

861
00:48:25,320 --> 00:48:31,680
Speaker 6: this point, this is a safety hazard. Meanwhile, meanwhile the

862
00:48:31,800 --> 00:48:35,040
Speaker 6: other folks walk off to get a million per episodes

863
00:48:35,440 --> 00:48:38,920
Speaker 6: and it's like they want money, we want heat. If

864
00:48:39,000 --> 00:48:40,759
Speaker 6: that don't sound like an episode a good time.

865
00:48:43,400 --> 00:48:45,080
Speaker 7: So it was a whole black woman in that moment,

866
00:48:45,480 --> 00:48:49,160
Speaker 7: you know what I'm saying, Not even then the seventy six,

867
00:48:49,920 --> 00:48:52,440
Speaker 7: you know, and so so, so you.

868
00:48:52,560 --> 00:48:56,000
Speaker 6: Have those moments where it's like, never mind all the

869
00:48:56,560 --> 00:48:59,759
Speaker 6: other stuff that goes around the comparisons, those are the

870
00:48:59,800 --> 00:49:01,080
Speaker 6: moments where it's like that.

871
00:49:03,800 --> 00:49:05,160
Speaker 7: Can you ask them, I just real quick, I just

872
00:49:05,239 --> 00:49:07,160
Speaker 7: want to know since you knew this, right, My question

873
00:49:07,239 --> 00:49:09,400
Speaker 7: is because usually on the opposite side, the other people

874
00:49:09,640 --> 00:49:10,560
Speaker 7: have no idea.

875
00:49:10,440 --> 00:49:11,880
Speaker 5: What the other folks are going through. So was it

876
00:49:11,960 --> 00:49:12,440
Speaker 5: the same way?

877
00:49:12,600 --> 00:49:15,719
Speaker 6: I don't know. I never met that ran into that.

878
00:49:16,440 --> 00:49:18,759
Speaker 6: They probably we weren't. We weren't at the lotch so

879
00:49:19,160 --> 00:49:21,280
Speaker 6: we didn't. We didn't run into them in the comments.

880
00:49:21,440 --> 00:49:23,160
Speaker 5: So somebody told them, you know, your show is based

881
00:49:23,160 --> 00:49:24,640
Speaker 5: off the show called Living Single. They'd be like, what

882
00:49:24,760 --> 00:49:25,160
Speaker 5: the you know?

883
00:49:25,400 --> 00:49:32,000
Speaker 1: A well, okay, I know that there there have been

884
00:49:32,040 --> 00:49:35,359
Speaker 1: a few times on these episodes that you directed, Yes,

885
00:49:35,920 --> 00:49:40,120
Speaker 1: and often, like when I watched shitcoms, like a key

886
00:49:40,239 --> 00:49:45,040
Speaker 1: character will go away for a vacation, right, this week

887
00:49:45,280 --> 00:49:49,919
Speaker 1: she went on a convention and direct, right, how one?

888
00:49:50,680 --> 00:49:55,680
Speaker 1: How is that? How is that negotiated? And how hard

889
00:49:55,800 --> 00:49:59,640
Speaker 1: is it to direct? And or really the real question

890
00:49:59,760 --> 00:50:01,960
Speaker 1: is how welcome characters have to leave to go on

891
00:50:02,040 --> 00:50:04,440
Speaker 1: vacation to direct their own things? Like why can't you

892
00:50:04,680 --> 00:50:06,000
Speaker 1: also be there at the time?

893
00:50:06,160 --> 00:50:06,239
Speaker 5: Right?

894
00:50:06,320 --> 00:50:08,520
Speaker 6: You know what's funny is I remember when Anton Williams

895
00:50:08,560 --> 00:50:11,120
Speaker 6: and Ron Howard and those guys started directing like Happy Days,

896
00:50:11,160 --> 00:50:13,200
Speaker 6: and you'd see, like you just said, you know, Podgy's

897
00:50:13,200 --> 00:50:16,520
Speaker 6: going off to the right because he was directing Regime

898
00:50:16,560 --> 00:50:18,760
Speaker 6: didn't go anywhere Regime. But the first time I directed

899
00:50:18,800 --> 00:50:21,160
Speaker 6: an episode of eleven Single, I was the BT story.

900
00:50:20,920 --> 00:50:22,400
Speaker 5: And I was like, wait a minute, what happened to

901
00:50:22,480 --> 00:50:23,040
Speaker 5: the rules?

902
00:50:23,160 --> 00:50:26,879
Speaker 6: What I'm I'm directing and I'm the best story wait,

903
00:50:27,400 --> 00:50:29,480
Speaker 6: And really they try to do that because it's a

904
00:50:29,560 --> 00:50:33,080
Speaker 6: lot to direct an episode, and then you've got to

905
00:50:33,120 --> 00:50:34,799
Speaker 6: put yourself in it, you know, and then you've got

906
00:50:34,920 --> 00:50:37,400
Speaker 6: to have your stand in to be you. And then

907
00:50:37,440 --> 00:50:39,239
Speaker 6: when you're in it, then you have to make sure

908
00:50:39,280 --> 00:50:42,239
Speaker 6: that the assistant director or stage manager is watching. So

909
00:50:42,360 --> 00:50:44,480
Speaker 6: it's just it's a lot instead of just being in

910
00:50:44,600 --> 00:50:46,759
Speaker 6: one scene and then you go away and then you

911
00:50:46,840 --> 00:50:49,520
Speaker 6: can really focus on that, you know. And for the

912
00:50:49,640 --> 00:50:53,200
Speaker 6: type of sitcom that we were doing, this was when

913
00:50:53,440 --> 00:50:56,600
Speaker 6: they would have a control room and so you'd actually

914
00:50:56,760 --> 00:50:59,360
Speaker 6: leave the sound stage go to another part of the

915
00:50:59,480 --> 00:51:04,320
Speaker 6: building to you know, where we're basically master control was

916
00:51:04,360 --> 00:51:07,760
Speaker 6: where you're talking to the cameras and all just everybody

917
00:51:07,800 --> 00:51:10,000
Speaker 6: and all the monitors are there and you're switching shots

918
00:51:10,040 --> 00:51:10,680
Speaker 6: and things like that.

919
00:51:11,120 --> 00:51:13,640
Speaker 1: She's determined that as well. Yeah, so it's a big

920
00:51:13,680 --> 00:51:14,440
Speaker 1: giant division of.

921
00:51:15,200 --> 00:51:17,759
Speaker 5: Absolutely which makes Tyler Perry look even more genius than

922
00:51:17,800 --> 00:51:23,080
Speaker 5: his way. I guess, yes, no, I know, but he does. Yes,

923
00:51:23,239 --> 00:51:24,000
Speaker 5: you can't take it away.

924
00:51:24,280 --> 00:51:26,080
Speaker 1: You don't have to defend it. I agree with you.

925
00:51:26,239 --> 00:51:32,439
Speaker 1: Oh sorry, Tyler, you know he's making power moves. Yes,

926
00:51:32,600 --> 00:51:44,720
Speaker 1: Steve clear in my throat. In the hindsight, what lessons

927
00:51:44,920 --> 00:51:51,560
Speaker 1: or valuable lessons have you learned in your career that

928
00:51:53,480 --> 00:51:56,600
Speaker 1: you wish you knew then at that at that particular

929
00:51:56,719 --> 00:52:02,640
Speaker 1: time period or you're fine with your outcome and yeah,

930
00:52:06,920 --> 00:52:09,840
Speaker 1: I feel like everything happens for a reason. Yeah, and

931
00:52:09,960 --> 00:52:13,359
Speaker 1: so even now, like I'll see someone that has done

932
00:52:13,400 --> 00:52:14,880
Speaker 1: better than me in my career or whatever, and like

933
00:52:15,880 --> 00:52:17,600
Speaker 1: maybe at that moment, I'll be like, oh man, I

934
00:52:17,640 --> 00:52:19,520
Speaker 1: wish I wrote that song or something like that. But

935
00:52:19,640 --> 00:52:23,400
Speaker 1: then I feel like I'm on the path I'm supposed.

936
00:52:23,000 --> 00:52:23,960
Speaker 6: To be on exactly.

937
00:52:24,280 --> 00:52:29,479
Speaker 1: But if there's something like, Okay, I wish I knew about, Like, Okay,

938
00:52:29,560 --> 00:52:33,680
Speaker 1: there's some real like it's about to I'm not. I've

939
00:52:33,719 --> 00:52:37,239
Speaker 1: known you for all my life, all right. I really

940
00:52:37,360 --> 00:52:42,120
Speaker 1: wish i'd gotten early in the game on like stocks

941
00:52:42,160 --> 00:52:46,960
Speaker 1: and investments, way earlier in my career. I'm on it now.

942
00:52:47,200 --> 00:52:48,360
Speaker 5: We all do a mirror shoot.

943
00:52:48,640 --> 00:52:51,719
Speaker 1: But you know, had I known then when I know now, yeah,

944
00:52:51,840 --> 00:52:53,640
Speaker 1: you know, I wouldn't left at askton Coat. You were like,

945
00:52:54,040 --> 00:52:56,320
Speaker 1: what's it? I mean, get out of here? Like that

946
00:52:56,480 --> 00:53:00,000
Speaker 1: sort of thing, but like, what things do you wh

947
00:53:00,120 --> 00:53:01,319
Speaker 1: she I.

948
00:53:01,360 --> 00:53:04,640
Speaker 6: Wish I hadn't worn braces so long because fucking over

949
00:53:04,760 --> 00:53:09,840
Speaker 6: bites are sexy. Now what the hell like Live Live Tyler?

950
00:53:10,120 --> 00:53:13,120
Speaker 6: I mean, you know, just like, isn't that like a thing?

951
00:53:13,200 --> 00:53:15,120
Speaker 5: But not her daddy, He's got one, but I didn't

952
00:53:15,120 --> 00:53:15,880
Speaker 5: bring him up right.

953
00:53:21,239 --> 00:53:22,960
Speaker 7: We talked about physical things. Can I ask you a

954
00:53:23,040 --> 00:53:25,000
Speaker 7: question that I read? And I'm so curious just as

955
00:53:25,040 --> 00:53:26,919
Speaker 7: a woman, a bountiful, plentiful woman.

956
00:53:27,120 --> 00:53:29,359
Speaker 5: Yes, why do you? Why did you have to get

957
00:53:29,440 --> 00:53:30,320
Speaker 5: two reductions?

958
00:53:30,320 --> 00:53:31,840
Speaker 7: And I know one of them was covered on the

959
00:53:31,920 --> 00:53:34,760
Speaker 7: Living single, but yes, I'm scared for myself.

960
00:53:35,520 --> 00:53:39,279
Speaker 6: Uh well, the first one was just physically. I was

961
00:53:39,360 --> 00:53:42,759
Speaker 6: five ft tall and and so just I'm still in

962
00:53:42,920 --> 00:53:44,960
Speaker 6: but my I had a lot of back issues with that.

963
00:53:45,719 --> 00:53:49,120
Speaker 6: Then yes, look at the pictures of us together, look

964
00:53:49,160 --> 00:53:56,280
Speaker 6: how like I mean like because she's and I always

965
00:53:56,360 --> 00:53:58,279
Speaker 6: wear heels when I'm on the show.

966
00:53:58,400 --> 00:54:02,120
Speaker 5: Speak exactly, Prince, You're big on It's just something big

967
00:54:02,160 --> 00:54:02,440
Speaker 5: about you.

968
00:54:03,040 --> 00:54:03,839
Speaker 1: I'm a guy, I'm dumb.

969
00:54:06,239 --> 00:54:08,400
Speaker 6: But the second one was for aesthetics. I just felt

970
00:54:08,480 --> 00:54:11,520
Speaker 6: like I'm just you know, being on camera so much

971
00:54:12,360 --> 00:54:15,440
Speaker 6: and I just wasn't wasn't wasn't pleased. But you know,

972
00:54:15,760 --> 00:54:18,600
Speaker 6: but I mean, the the procedures have come such a

973
00:54:18,680 --> 00:54:20,319
Speaker 6: long way. Don't be scared. If that's what you want

974
00:54:20,360 --> 00:54:22,480
Speaker 6: to do, go for No. Well yeah, but then what

975
00:54:22,560 --> 00:54:23,640
Speaker 6: do you want to do it? Then don't do it?

976
00:54:24,040 --> 00:54:24,920
Speaker 5: Yeah, I thought about it.

977
00:54:24,920 --> 00:54:26,600
Speaker 7: I mean, it's funny because guys go but why would

978
00:54:26,640 --> 00:54:28,360
Speaker 7: you do that? But we all know sometimes you just

979
00:54:28,400 --> 00:54:30,440
Speaker 7: want to wear one sports bra, or sometimes you just

980
00:54:30,520 --> 00:54:32,480
Speaker 7: want to run, or sometimes you just want to stand.

981
00:54:32,320 --> 00:54:34,919
Speaker 5: Straight and you know, have your shoulders down. It's hard.

982
00:54:36,120 --> 00:54:36,400
Speaker 4: Okay.

983
00:54:36,680 --> 00:54:38,560
Speaker 5: I was answering the questions because you know, because.

984
00:54:39,400 --> 00:54:47,719
Speaker 1: Yes, you were. Wait, it just hit me. You on

985
00:54:47,880 --> 00:54:50,000
Speaker 1: your Instagram. You put up a photo that kind of

986
00:54:50,040 --> 00:54:55,959
Speaker 1: blew up, blew my mind, and it's you at west

987
00:54:56,040 --> 00:55:02,760
Speaker 1: Lake Studios. Yes, casually, uh, visiting Michael Jackson while recording

988
00:55:02,840 --> 00:55:07,480
Speaker 1: Thriller during the p y T background vocal sessions. Yes,

989
00:55:07,960 --> 00:55:12,840
Speaker 1: was that just like just like a regular Tuesday, just

990
00:55:12,920 --> 00:55:16,839
Speaker 1: about Hey, what are you guys doing? That's nice?

991
00:55:19,200 --> 00:55:21,880
Speaker 6: So Janet, it was one of the times when she

992
00:55:22,080 --> 00:55:28,640
Speaker 6: was on different strokes and this was yeah, and she

993
00:55:29,400 --> 00:55:32,520
Speaker 6: had asked Mindy and I because again different strokes facts Life.

994
00:55:32,520 --> 00:55:34,360
Speaker 6: We all filmed in the same right there, in the

995
00:55:34,400 --> 00:55:36,839
Speaker 6: same areas, and so she asked us if we wanted

996
00:55:36,840 --> 00:55:38,640
Speaker 6: to hang out and go to the studio because Michael

997
00:55:38,760 --> 00:55:43,040
Speaker 6: was recording. Sure, So we show up and he was recording,

998
00:55:43,440 --> 00:55:46,080
Speaker 6: like you said, the backgrounds for p y T. And

999
00:55:46,239 --> 00:55:49,920
Speaker 6: James was there and mister Jones was there and uh

1000
00:55:52,400 --> 00:55:59,640
Speaker 6: m hmmm, uh what LaToya was the toy Janet Bunny

1001
00:56:00,200 --> 00:56:00,680
Speaker 6: Bunny Home.

1002
00:56:00,800 --> 00:56:02,840
Speaker 1: Stephanie is Frill Sprill.

1003
00:56:03,400 --> 00:56:06,319
Speaker 6: Yes, So they were all there and they were like, hey,

1004
00:56:06,400 --> 00:56:08,239
Speaker 6: you know, we're at this part where we're doing the

1005
00:56:08,280 --> 00:56:10,960
Speaker 6: column response and the p y T saying no, no, no,

1006
00:56:11,080 --> 00:56:13,520
Speaker 6: want you guys all get in there. Okay, So we

1007
00:56:13,719 --> 00:56:17,239
Speaker 6: all go in the studio and we do this yes

1008
00:56:17,800 --> 00:56:20,359
Speaker 6: and we do the no no nos and mister Jones

1009
00:56:20,480 --> 00:56:32,760
Speaker 6: is the but I hear an anchovy. I never forget

1010
00:56:32,840 --> 00:56:35,960
Speaker 6: that he's a anchovy. And so we all was there

1011
00:56:36,080 --> 00:56:37,799
Speaker 6: was like everybody, come on out, just come on out.

1012
00:56:38,440 --> 00:56:40,560
Speaker 6: And then it became like you know, being picked for

1013
00:56:40,880 --> 00:56:44,080
Speaker 6: the sport at school. Okay, you you you and you

1014
00:56:44,200 --> 00:56:44,719
Speaker 6: go back in.

1015
00:56:51,480 --> 00:56:52,759
Speaker 5: Outside looking in.

1016
00:56:54,320 --> 00:57:00,480
Speaker 1: We'll take the girl. You guys take them mirror. Yeah,

1017
00:57:02,640 --> 00:57:05,960
Speaker 1: manager man, that's funny.

1018
00:57:06,000 --> 00:57:09,600
Speaker 6: I was team manager of our baseball team at Burbank High. Really, yeah,

1019
00:57:09,840 --> 00:57:11,560
Speaker 6: but I'm sure it's not funny because of what you

1020
00:57:11,640 --> 00:57:11,960
Speaker 6: were Just.

1021
00:57:15,440 --> 00:57:15,880
Speaker 4: It's funny.

1022
00:57:15,920 --> 00:57:19,080
Speaker 1: It's funny. I'm still here. Funny, I'm still here. Yeah,

1023
00:57:19,240 --> 00:57:22,080
Speaker 1: you know, I'm sure Grant Woods could see me. Now

1024
00:57:22,840 --> 00:57:27,080
Speaker 1: you regret, you regret all them out. I was a

1025
00:57:27,120 --> 00:57:30,880
Speaker 1: good first baseman. I know the sports, right, Steve, I.

1026
00:57:30,920 --> 00:57:34,440
Speaker 4: Understand we're calling out childhood bullies, all right, Shane.

1027
00:57:36,360 --> 00:57:38,360
Speaker 5: Yeah, An.

1028
00:57:39,960 --> 00:57:40,960
Speaker 6: I started that.

1029
00:57:41,040 --> 00:57:43,880
Speaker 5: I'm sorry she was little, Dan me.

1030
00:57:44,120 --> 00:57:49,600
Speaker 1: Any other casual flexes like that, No, yeah, we shall

1031
00:57:49,600 --> 00:57:52,560
Speaker 1: all be scared of anyone smaller than us, bigger dudes.

1032
00:57:52,560 --> 00:57:55,120
Speaker 1: I'm like whatever, but small people they have something to prove.

1033
00:57:55,640 --> 00:57:58,120
Speaker 1: Any other casual flexes that you've had in your life

1034
00:57:58,600 --> 00:58:02,840
Speaker 1: so far? Now, Red like, oh yeah, here's printing his cadillagers.

1035
00:58:06,160 --> 00:58:08,120
Speaker 6: You know when Johnny Gill and I met, it was

1036
00:58:08,160 --> 00:58:11,520
Speaker 6: in the Glendale Galleria and we've been friends ever since.

1037
00:58:11,640 --> 00:58:14,360
Speaker 6: And I just did a promotional thing for my Christmas

1038
00:58:14,480 --> 00:58:16,520
Speaker 6: movie there and they were like, you grew up in

1039
00:58:16,560 --> 00:58:18,280
Speaker 6: this area, do any special memories? And I'm like, you

1040
00:58:18,360 --> 00:58:20,360
Speaker 6: know what, I met Johnny Gill here and they were like,

1041
00:58:20,480 --> 00:58:23,160
Speaker 6: oh my god. And then he and I text each

1042
00:58:23,160 --> 00:58:24,000
Speaker 6: other and joked about it.

1043
00:58:24,160 --> 00:58:26,680
Speaker 1: John is everywhere. Yes he's uncle Johnny.

1044
00:58:26,800 --> 00:58:29,560
Speaker 5: Oh so this are and this time you are directing

1045
00:58:29,640 --> 00:58:30,960
Speaker 5: and starring at the yea, this.

1046
00:58:31,040 --> 00:58:31,840
Speaker 6: One I didn't direct.

1047
00:58:31,880 --> 00:58:32,480
Speaker 5: I epeed it.

1048
00:58:32,560 --> 00:58:35,200
Speaker 1: But yes, so what has this whole experience been like

1049
00:58:35,480 --> 00:58:39,480
Speaker 1: doing the Christmas movie? And oh my goodness, and how

1050
00:58:39,560 --> 00:58:43,320
Speaker 1: did you orchestrate this well with this one?

1051
00:58:43,400 --> 00:58:45,400
Speaker 6: You light up my Christmas a lifetime And I've been

1052
00:58:45,440 --> 00:58:47,760
Speaker 6: in development for a couple of projects for a while now.

1053
00:58:47,960 --> 00:58:50,920
Speaker 6: And then they said, we really want you on the

1054
00:58:50,960 --> 00:58:54,360
Speaker 6: air this year, just bottom line, and that that really

1055
00:58:54,440 --> 00:58:56,560
Speaker 6: meant a lot to me to have a network executive

1056
00:58:56,600 --> 00:58:59,720
Speaker 6: say that, after this many decades, you know, in the

1057
00:59:00,680 --> 00:59:02,840
Speaker 6: top it off and we want you to be the

1058
00:59:02,920 --> 00:59:06,120
Speaker 6: leading lady. You're the start and you know, you're not

1059
00:59:06,240 --> 00:59:08,000
Speaker 6: the friend, you're not the boss, you're not the sister.

1060
00:59:08,760 --> 00:59:12,360
Speaker 6: And so that just really just did something for me.

1061
00:59:12,600 --> 00:59:15,880
Speaker 6: Of course it would. And so they said, we have

1062
00:59:15,960 --> 00:59:17,760
Speaker 6: a script. We have this writer that we really like.

1063
00:59:17,880 --> 00:59:20,720
Speaker 6: She's got the script. If you like it, let's put

1064
00:59:20,760 --> 00:59:23,680
Speaker 6: you in pre production and go. And so I read

1065
00:59:23,720 --> 00:59:26,480
Speaker 6: it and I loved it. We made some tweaks to it,

1066
00:59:26,680 --> 00:59:29,080
Speaker 6: and they said, great, go up to Vancouver. Here you go,

1067
00:59:29,520 --> 00:59:34,080
Speaker 6: and we had this amazing six weeks up there, fifteen

1068
00:59:34,160 --> 00:59:37,439
Speaker 6: days in production and we have this beautiful, amazing movie

1069
00:59:37,560 --> 00:59:38,960
Speaker 6: called You Light Up My Christmas.

1070
00:59:39,400 --> 00:59:42,640
Speaker 1: Wait, fifteen days in production, but six weeks to edit

1071
00:59:42,720 --> 00:59:43,720
Speaker 1: shoot or Yeah.

1072
00:59:43,840 --> 00:59:46,280
Speaker 6: So there was pre production, you know, where you are

1073
00:59:46,480 --> 00:59:51,160
Speaker 6: casting and location shooting and wardrobe and designing the characters

1074
00:59:51,200 --> 00:59:55,120
Speaker 6: and all that. And then they by the time they

1075
00:59:55,160 --> 00:59:57,800
Speaker 6: saw the dailies bits of you know, the things that

1076
00:59:57,880 --> 01:00:00,680
Speaker 6: we had been filming, they said, oh, we love this.

1077
01:00:00,880 --> 01:00:03,440
Speaker 6: We're moving your production. Your air date up two weeks,

1078
01:00:04,040 --> 01:00:07,000
Speaker 6: okay to December first. So the Sunday after Thanksgiving?

1079
01:00:07,360 --> 01:00:11,000
Speaker 1: How was it being back with your cohorts?

1080
01:00:11,040 --> 01:00:13,520
Speaker 6: And it was fun. You know, it's not like we

1081
01:00:13,600 --> 01:00:16,920
Speaker 6: haven't been together since, you know, eighty eight. I mean

1082
01:00:17,000 --> 01:00:19,720
Speaker 6: we we certainly we're sisters and so we've seen each

1083
01:00:19,720 --> 01:00:23,560
Speaker 6: other over the years. Our children know each other, you know. Again,

1084
01:00:23,600 --> 01:00:26,560
Speaker 6: we're all you know there chat thread, Yes, there is,

1085
01:00:26,680 --> 01:00:28,080
Speaker 6: but the living single one is better.

1086
01:00:33,600 --> 01:00:35,200
Speaker 5: She's really been killing it. I just had to say

1087
01:00:35,240 --> 01:00:39,120
Speaker 5: that while you were here. Yeah, I mean that she's

1088
01:00:39,120 --> 01:00:40,320
Speaker 5: been doing a lot of dramatic roles.

1089
01:00:40,880 --> 01:00:42,960
Speaker 6: Alexander has been my hero for a long time. And

1090
01:00:43,000 --> 01:00:45,760
Speaker 6: then she's like, oh, Kim Fields, please be quiet. Let

1091
01:00:45,840 --> 01:00:47,520
Speaker 6: you call me a little Fields because she's you know,

1092
01:00:47,640 --> 01:00:48,320
Speaker 6: much taller than me.

1093
01:00:48,440 --> 01:00:53,960
Speaker 4: But by the way, girl, my mind is blown. The

1094
01:00:54,000 --> 01:00:56,360
Speaker 4: fact that there's a living single group chat right now.

1095
01:00:56,840 --> 01:01:01,480
Speaker 1: I know we actually thought about it all that group chat,

1096
01:01:01,880 --> 01:01:05,680
Speaker 1: I mean appropriate group chats, well you know ours.

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01:01:05,800 --> 01:01:09,000
Speaker 7: Yes, I'm like, does big Les ever drop in? Because

1098
01:01:09,080 --> 01:01:11,360
Speaker 7: I mean for nothing, but she she's a part.

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01:01:11,680 --> 01:01:14,040
Speaker 5: She is, but no, okay, sorry, that's all right, that's

1100
01:01:14,080 --> 01:01:14,400
Speaker 5: all right.

1101
01:01:16,840 --> 01:01:19,480
Speaker 6: But it was great being an executive producer being able

1102
01:01:19,520 --> 01:01:21,320
Speaker 6: to say to them, hey, guys, because I called each

1103
01:01:21,400 --> 01:01:24,400
Speaker 6: one after I got the go ahead from from Lifetime,

1104
01:01:24,440 --> 01:01:27,440
Speaker 6: because I said to Lifetime, I'd really love to, you know,

1105
01:01:27,600 --> 01:01:29,720
Speaker 6: invite my sisters to be a part of this, because

1106
01:01:29,960 --> 01:01:33,680
Speaker 6: you know, the holidays about family and nostalgia and memories,

1107
01:01:33,760 --> 01:01:35,800
Speaker 6: and I think it'd be a really cool look. And

1108
01:01:35,880 --> 01:01:38,600
Speaker 6: we'd had we'd had two scenes in this ice skating rink,

1109
01:01:38,640 --> 01:01:40,440
Speaker 6: and I said, what if we, you know, kind of

1110
01:01:40,520 --> 01:01:43,000
Speaker 6: have them there is like this is their ice skating

1111
01:01:43,120 --> 01:01:45,640
Speaker 6: rink that they either own or manage and work there

1112
01:01:46,120 --> 01:01:48,720
Speaker 6: and we call the ice rink Charlotte for Charlotte Rent

1113
01:01:50,120 --> 01:01:52,160
Speaker 6: and so they were like, yes.

1114
01:01:52,200 --> 01:01:55,720
Speaker 4: Go please ask and so I called, we're talking about.

1115
01:01:59,120 --> 01:02:02,840
Speaker 6: Thank you and they said yes, and so we and

1116
01:02:02,920 --> 01:02:04,880
Speaker 6: then I said to them what kind of character would

1117
01:02:04,880 --> 01:02:09,120
Speaker 6: you like to play, you know, and here's our ideas

1118
01:02:09,200 --> 01:02:12,080
Speaker 6: for its story. You know, what, what do you think?

1119
01:02:13,000 --> 01:02:15,040
Speaker 6: And so it was really great to have them collaborate

1120
01:02:15,240 --> 01:02:19,160
Speaker 6: about their special appearances and things like that. And like

1121
01:02:19,400 --> 01:02:22,360
Speaker 6: Lisa's character in the movie, she's named after Nancy's daughter,

1122
01:02:24,160 --> 01:02:26,840
Speaker 6: Mindy wanted to name her character Rose for her grandmother.

1123
01:02:27,840 --> 01:02:31,800
Speaker 6: There's a food drive component in the movie because Nancy said,

1124
01:02:32,520 --> 01:02:36,240
Speaker 6: I think that compassion and kindness are just something that

1125
01:02:36,320 --> 01:02:38,520
Speaker 6: people miss nowadays. Is that something you can put in

1126
01:02:38,600 --> 01:02:42,000
Speaker 6: your script? It was like, yeah, sure, you know. And

1127
01:02:42,080 --> 01:02:44,680
Speaker 6: then we've got little fun inside jokes and things like

1128
01:02:44,800 --> 01:02:48,240
Speaker 6: Lisa mentions, you know, having a delivery from Edna's edibles,

1129
01:02:48,960 --> 01:02:50,640
Speaker 6: you know. So there's just a whole bunch of fun

1130
01:02:50,720 --> 01:02:52,080
Speaker 6: little touches there.

1131
01:02:52,520 --> 01:02:55,880
Speaker 1: In addition to Brilliant's going to be in trouble. I

1132
01:02:55,960 --> 01:02:57,280
Speaker 1: was waiting for that, you know what.

1133
01:02:57,560 --> 01:03:00,120
Speaker 6: We tried a couple and it was like, oh, that

1134
01:03:00,160 --> 01:03:03,680
Speaker 6: one's too on the show if it didn't feel organic, Yeah, exactly,

1135
01:03:03,720 --> 01:03:04,439
Speaker 6: but we did try.

1136
01:03:04,800 --> 01:03:06,880
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, see, so what.

1137
01:03:07,400 --> 01:03:11,120
Speaker 4: What is before you go? You mentioned you asked I'm sorry,

1138
01:03:11,160 --> 01:03:13,080
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, but I just want to get this let's

1139
01:03:13,080 --> 01:03:15,439
Speaker 4: get right. I just want to ask this question before

1140
01:03:15,440 --> 01:03:17,280
Speaker 4: I lose it. You said you asked everybody else what

1141
01:03:17,440 --> 01:03:18,960
Speaker 4: kind of character they wanted to play? What kind of

1142
01:03:19,040 --> 01:03:19,880
Speaker 4: character do you want to play?

1143
01:03:20,400 --> 01:03:21,040
Speaker 1: Well? Thank you?

1144
01:03:21,320 --> 01:03:23,520
Speaker 6: I played you mean in this movie.

1145
01:03:23,440 --> 01:03:26,560
Speaker 1: In any movie or in general? Well, yeah, what's actually

1146
01:03:26,600 --> 01:03:29,480
Speaker 1: that wasn't my question? Sorry, no bucket listing, Like, is

1147
01:03:29,520 --> 01:03:32,040
Speaker 1: there anything that you haven't done that you wish to do?

1148
01:03:32,360 --> 01:03:35,720
Speaker 6: Absolutely? The ironic thing about being in the industry for

1149
01:03:35,800 --> 01:03:37,760
Speaker 6: over forty years is that there's still a lot of

1150
01:03:37,840 --> 01:03:41,040
Speaker 6: characters that I have not played because I number one,

1151
01:03:41,080 --> 01:03:42,680
Speaker 6: I started when I was a kid, So you only,

1152
01:03:42,840 --> 01:03:44,520
Speaker 6: you know, for a certain period of time, you can

1153
01:03:44,560 --> 01:03:48,680
Speaker 6: only play kid characters. Uh, And then being on long

1154
01:03:48,800 --> 01:03:51,960
Speaker 6: running shows, I mean it's a blessing, but then you're

1155
01:03:52,080 --> 01:03:55,160
Speaker 6: those characters. So there's a lot of characters that I

1156
01:03:55,200 --> 01:03:58,000
Speaker 6: want to play. There's more genres that you know that

1157
01:03:58,240 --> 01:04:01,000
Speaker 6: that are being unearthed and created that I want to

1158
01:04:01,040 --> 01:04:03,880
Speaker 6: be a part of so, like the whole graphic novel world,

1159
01:04:04,040 --> 01:04:07,040
Speaker 6: I can't wait. There's something that we're working on and there,

1160
01:04:08,080 --> 01:04:10,800
Speaker 6: you know what, we love working together. And that's another

1161
01:04:10,880 --> 01:04:13,000
Speaker 6: thing with the whole reason why I asked my Fax

1162
01:04:13,120 --> 01:04:17,600
Speaker 6: Life sisters. I really have had a great track record

1163
01:04:17,640 --> 01:04:19,600
Speaker 6: working with a lot of great people and so being

1164
01:04:19,640 --> 01:04:21,880
Speaker 6: able to ask them, you know, to be a part

1165
01:04:21,960 --> 01:04:24,880
Speaker 6: of something that I'm doing, now, that's that's that's a

1166
01:04:25,000 --> 01:04:27,680
Speaker 6: great you know, feeling to be able to do it.

1167
01:04:28,600 --> 01:04:31,680
Speaker 4: Don't well, I just remember another story from your book. Yes,

1168
01:04:32,760 --> 01:04:34,600
Speaker 4: can you tell the story of when you were cast

1169
01:04:34,640 --> 01:04:35,600
Speaker 4: a storm in x Men?

1170
01:04:36,120 --> 01:04:36,280
Speaker 2: Oh?

1171
01:04:36,560 --> 01:04:38,480
Speaker 6: You mean you were?

1172
01:04:42,760 --> 01:04:43,600
Speaker 4: It's such a waful.

1173
01:04:44,080 --> 01:04:47,280
Speaker 6: Sometimes I don't read all the detail and stuff. I'll

1174
01:04:47,400 --> 01:04:49,520
Speaker 6: just gloss over it and be like, Okay, I got it.

1175
01:04:49,640 --> 01:04:52,800
Speaker 6: It's a horrible thing. It's horrible, I know, horrible, horrible.

1176
01:04:53,240 --> 01:04:57,000
Speaker 6: And so I got an audition that came and my

1177
01:04:57,120 --> 01:05:00,960
Speaker 6: manager says, have an audition for x men. Uh, And

1178
01:05:01,440 --> 01:05:03,600
Speaker 6: he sent me the information and I was so excited

1179
01:05:03,600 --> 01:05:05,360
Speaker 6: and they said its storm and I was like, oh

1180
01:05:05,440 --> 01:05:07,400
Speaker 6: my god, hell, he's not going to do this anymore.

1181
01:05:07,400 --> 01:05:09,560
Speaker 6: What the hell's wrong with her? But oh, well, one

1182
01:05:09,920 --> 01:05:12,120
Speaker 6: you know, one man's trash, another man's treasure. I mean,

1183
01:05:12,160 --> 01:05:14,480
Speaker 6: I went through all the you know, little colloquialism. So

1184
01:05:15,560 --> 01:05:18,000
Speaker 6: when I go into an audition, I really prep for it.

1185
01:05:18,400 --> 01:05:21,560
Speaker 6: And so I had my boots and I had my outfit.

1186
01:05:21,680 --> 01:05:24,720
Speaker 6: I mean, I was going in and then I went

1187
01:05:24,840 --> 01:05:28,920
Speaker 6: to read where the location was for the for the audition.

1188
01:05:29,600 --> 01:05:40,640
Speaker 6: Turned out it was for a voiceover for the animated series. Yeah,

1189
01:05:40,760 --> 01:05:44,280
Speaker 6: she wasn't going nowhere. Storm was not available, and if

1190
01:05:44,320 --> 01:05:46,320
Speaker 6: it was, they were not taking for your ass, king

1191
01:05:46,400 --> 01:05:57,880
Speaker 6: for you. But yes, I love creating characters. I absolutely do.

1192
01:05:58,160 --> 01:06:01,720
Speaker 6: And so even like tomorrow, I'm excited we're dropping on

1193
01:06:02,280 --> 01:06:04,960
Speaker 6: Mylifetime dot com as well as on their YouTube channel.

1194
01:06:05,080 --> 01:06:08,760
Speaker 6: We're dropping a short film called Designing Emma, and it's

1195
01:06:08,840 --> 01:06:12,000
Speaker 6: all about how we created the character for the Christmas movie,

1196
01:06:12,720 --> 01:06:17,360
Speaker 6: for hair, makeup, wardrobe, just everything designing Emma. Because that again,

1197
01:06:17,520 --> 01:06:21,600
Speaker 6: I go back to our earlier conversation. I love creating characters.

1198
01:06:21,720 --> 01:06:24,120
Speaker 6: That's what drew me into this when I saw other

1199
01:06:24,160 --> 01:06:28,080
Speaker 6: people doing that as a kid. So any character I've

1200
01:06:28,120 --> 01:06:32,840
Speaker 6: not yet played, I'm doing a new series at the

1201
01:06:32,920 --> 01:06:34,600
Speaker 6: top of the year, I can't I can't tell you

1202
01:06:34,720 --> 01:06:37,960
Speaker 6: what it is just yet. But it's really exciting. But

1203
01:06:38,200 --> 01:06:41,280
Speaker 6: in a way, it's still kind of uncharted territory. Even

1204
01:06:41,320 --> 01:06:44,000
Speaker 6: though it's a comedy. Even though it's you know, certain

1205
01:06:44,040 --> 01:06:46,480
Speaker 6: things that I've done, there's still a great deal of

1206
01:06:46,520 --> 01:06:48,960
Speaker 6: it I haven't done. If I haven't done it, you

1207
01:06:49,040 --> 01:06:53,000
Speaker 6: can believe I'm probably gonna say yes because I just

1208
01:06:53,160 --> 01:06:55,320
Speaker 6: I just love that, you know. And even with this

1209
01:06:55,480 --> 01:07:00,280
Speaker 6: character in this lifetime movie, being able to place one

1210
01:07:00,360 --> 01:07:06,520
Speaker 6: who is dealing with discovering, rediscovering, rekindling a romance, going

1211
01:07:06,640 --> 01:07:10,640
Speaker 6: after the issues of family legacy, uh, and dealing with

1212
01:07:10,760 --> 01:07:13,720
Speaker 6: your inner light, and you see everybody around you just

1213
01:07:13,840 --> 01:07:16,920
Speaker 6: kind of like numb is the new joy and it's like, no,

1214
01:07:17,200 --> 01:07:20,720
Speaker 6: that's not, no, we we have we have another level

1215
01:07:20,880 --> 01:07:25,919
Speaker 6: of life and lifestyle and and laughter enjoy to tap into.

1216
01:07:26,520 --> 01:07:28,280
Speaker 6: And so that's a lot of you know, what my

1217
01:07:28,400 --> 01:07:31,320
Speaker 6: character in this movie is, but really just anything I

1218
01:07:31,400 --> 01:07:33,520
Speaker 6: haven't done, I'm all in for.

1219
01:07:34,520 --> 01:07:34,720
Speaker 4: Wow.

1220
01:07:35,000 --> 01:07:40,920
Speaker 1: All right, inspirational words from Kim Fields. Kim Victoria Fields.

1221
01:07:41,040 --> 01:07:43,200
Speaker 5: That's right, I see now, Kimberly, No.

1222
01:07:43,840 --> 01:07:48,040
Speaker 1: Kim Victoria Fields. Wait real quick, well there's two minor questions. Yes,

1223
01:07:49,080 --> 01:07:53,320
Speaker 1: now that Atlanta, which I assume is still your home

1224
01:07:53,400 --> 01:07:55,000
Speaker 1: base for now kind of.

1225
01:07:55,280 --> 01:07:58,240
Speaker 6: Because we still you know, have a place here. Harlem

1226
01:07:58,400 --> 01:08:00,720
Speaker 6: is home. Harlem is where you know in my heels.

1227
01:08:00,760 --> 01:08:05,400
Speaker 1: But go ahead, okay, Well, now that Atlanta has uped

1228
01:08:05,400 --> 01:08:09,120
Speaker 1: its game and be sort of the industry factor with this,

1229
01:08:09,320 --> 01:08:16,120
Speaker 1: with this giant studio system in its backyard, do you

1230
01:08:16,160 --> 01:08:21,360
Speaker 1: think that will change at all for opportunities and as

1231
01:08:21,400 --> 01:08:25,920
Speaker 1: far as work is concerned with actors and production.

1232
01:08:25,800 --> 01:08:28,760
Speaker 6: And well, a lot of cities have stepped up the game.

1233
01:08:28,840 --> 01:08:31,640
Speaker 6: I mean, just being in Vancouver for as long as

1234
01:08:31,680 --> 01:08:34,000
Speaker 6: we were there and just all the work that's there,

1235
01:08:34,040 --> 01:08:36,439
Speaker 6: I'm like, oh, I'll be right back. I'm gonna just

1236
01:08:36,520 --> 01:08:41,120
Speaker 6: go get my kids in my bed. Oh my gosh.

1237
01:08:41,160 --> 01:08:43,080
Speaker 6: I can't wait to do more stuff there and get

1238
01:08:43,120 --> 01:08:45,080
Speaker 6: a place there. I mean, it was, it was phenomenal.

1239
01:08:45,160 --> 01:08:49,080
Speaker 6: I loved it. And Tyler's had other studios there, so

1240
01:08:49,320 --> 01:08:51,920
Speaker 6: this is not his first go round with this, and

1241
01:08:52,439 --> 01:08:56,000
Speaker 6: Marvel has you know, set up there, and there's.

1242
01:08:55,840 --> 01:08:57,160
Speaker 1: A lot set up in Atlanta.

1243
01:08:57,439 --> 01:08:57,599
Speaker 8: Yeah.

1244
01:08:58,240 --> 01:09:00,800
Speaker 6: Yeah, there's a lot of production. I think that's that's

1245
01:09:00,920 --> 01:09:04,599
Speaker 6: out there, okay, and smaller companies who do a lot

1246
01:09:04,720 --> 01:09:06,880
Speaker 6: of movies swirl films they do about I don't know,

1247
01:09:07,040 --> 01:09:10,439
Speaker 6: Jesus twenty movies a year or something, so a lot

1248
01:09:10,520 --> 01:09:13,639
Speaker 6: of production has been there. But you know, an actor's life,

1249
01:09:13,680 --> 01:09:16,680
Speaker 6: for the most part is really the gypsy life. You know,

1250
01:09:16,800 --> 01:09:18,559
Speaker 6: you go where the work is. There's so much work

1251
01:09:18,640 --> 01:09:22,519
Speaker 6: in Spain, there's work in Florida. I mean, it really

1252
01:09:22,680 --> 01:09:25,160
Speaker 6: is just if you're able to have the lifestyle to

1253
01:09:25,200 --> 01:09:28,519
Speaker 6: commit to it. And our kids are great because they're like, yeah,

1254
01:09:28,680 --> 01:09:30,840
Speaker 6: we got a tutor, We're good where we're going.

1255
01:09:32,400 --> 01:09:35,200
Speaker 1: All right, my last this is my last random question

1256
01:09:35,240 --> 01:09:36,080
Speaker 1: unless you have another one.

1257
01:09:36,520 --> 01:09:39,320
Speaker 4: I mean, is this question about dear Michael and he

1258
01:09:39,360 --> 01:09:40,519
Speaker 4: loves me? He loves me not at all.

1259
01:09:41,040 --> 01:09:43,080
Speaker 1: Sort of but go ahead, you can go go ahead.

1260
01:09:43,200 --> 01:09:43,960
Speaker 1: No you first.

1261
01:09:45,520 --> 01:09:52,559
Speaker 4: Question, well, I mean, okay, yeah, you put out these

1262
01:09:52,640 --> 01:09:54,880
Speaker 4: two singles and was it one single or two? I

1263
01:09:54,920 --> 01:09:57,600
Speaker 4: can't remember two? Well, I wasn't sure if it was

1264
01:09:57,640 --> 01:10:01,200
Speaker 4: two releases or right, and yeah, he loves me and

1265
01:10:01,240 --> 01:10:03,679
Speaker 4: he loves me not And dear Michael, can you explain

1266
01:10:03,760 --> 01:10:05,880
Speaker 4: how that all came about in nineteen eighty Yeah?

1267
01:10:06,080 --> 01:10:09,919
Speaker 6: Sure, It's so funny because just yesterday I was telling Adrian,

1268
01:10:10,160 --> 01:10:13,960
Speaker 6: my leading man in Uh you Light up my Christmas.

1269
01:10:14,479 --> 01:10:16,920
Speaker 6: Uh that the gentleman who wrote got to be there

1270
01:10:17,960 --> 01:10:19,520
Speaker 6: wrote Dear Michael.

1271
01:10:19,400 --> 01:10:20,280
Speaker 1: How David and.

1272
01:10:21,920 --> 01:10:25,720
Speaker 6: Yes, Elliot Wilensky, but Hal Davis also produced both of

1273
01:10:25,800 --> 01:10:29,680
Speaker 6: them and the stuff with me. Uh And so you

1274
01:10:29,760 --> 01:10:32,400
Speaker 6: know it's it's the eighties. It was a time where

1275
01:10:32,400 --> 01:10:34,479
Speaker 6: everybody if you were a teenager on TV, then you

1276
01:10:34,600 --> 01:10:36,760
Speaker 6: were making a record. I mean it's just that the

1277
01:10:36,880 --> 01:10:40,880
Speaker 6: seventies and eighties, just all the kids. Ralph Carter had one.

1278
01:10:41,000 --> 01:10:47,599
Speaker 1: I mean, yes, you don't remember that, you lie, somebody

1279
01:10:47,680 --> 01:10:50,840
Speaker 1: swindled the cowboy guy. You don't remember that rat that Gary?

1280
01:10:52,080 --> 01:10:54,559
Speaker 1: I brought that twelve and I found it in Portland.

1281
01:10:54,720 --> 01:10:56,920
Speaker 4: I remember our Founds of Weberos breakdance record.

1282
01:10:57,080 --> 01:11:00,240
Speaker 1: Nah, Gary Coleman, did he spent the last of his

1283
01:11:00,360 --> 01:11:03,400
Speaker 1: money on this rap record? Well, he was like a

1284
01:11:03,439 --> 01:11:03,920
Speaker 1: wrapping cow.

1285
01:11:04,240 --> 01:11:05,320
Speaker 5: Sorry for that rat hole.

1286
01:11:06,120 --> 01:11:09,280
Speaker 6: I wanted you to not bring that up. And because

1287
01:11:09,320 --> 01:11:12,200
Speaker 6: we were talking about when we were kids, so everybody

1288
01:11:12,360 --> 01:11:14,400
Speaker 6: you know was doing that. And this was also when

1289
01:11:15,840 --> 01:11:20,439
Speaker 6: um Thriller was popping out, and so you know he

1290
01:11:20,560 --> 01:11:22,240
Speaker 6: was about to win all the awards and everything. So

1291
01:11:22,400 --> 01:11:23,880
Speaker 6: the people at Motown was like, oh, you know what

1292
01:11:24,280 --> 01:11:29,280
Speaker 6: we should redo dear Michael and get somebody to sing it,

1293
01:11:29,320 --> 01:11:32,479
Speaker 6: because remember Michael did it first, and it was as

1294
01:11:32,520 --> 01:11:35,080
Speaker 6: if he was reading a fan letter. So they had

1295
01:11:35,120 --> 01:11:37,479
Speaker 6: the brilliant idea of what if we have someone that

1296
01:11:37,720 --> 01:11:41,320
Speaker 6: it's actually them and their fan letter. And at that

1297
01:11:41,520 --> 01:11:45,480
Speaker 6: time I was just about the only black girl available

1298
01:11:45,600 --> 01:11:54,080
Speaker 6: around that was on TV whatever. They was like, you uh,

1299
01:11:54,360 --> 01:11:57,439
Speaker 6: and so they asked me to do it, and I did,

1300
01:11:57,560 --> 01:12:00,360
Speaker 6: and then that did so well beyond just kind of

1301
01:12:00,439 --> 01:12:04,160
Speaker 6: the gimmick of he's winning, you know, all these awards

1302
01:12:04,200 --> 01:12:06,680
Speaker 6: and this is you know, a big deal, and and

1303
01:12:07,000 --> 01:12:09,559
Speaker 6: I could carry a tune. So they said, well, let'st

1304
01:12:09,680 --> 01:12:11,720
Speaker 6: follow up single, and then that one blew up on

1305
01:12:11,880 --> 01:12:15,680
Speaker 6: the dance charts and then it was like wow, I

1306
01:12:15,840 --> 01:12:18,080
Speaker 6: was performing at the trump a cannon.

1307
01:12:17,760 --> 01:12:21,120
Speaker 4: So that what was there any any thought of doing

1308
01:12:21,200 --> 01:12:22,640
Speaker 4: more music or no, no.

1309
01:12:23,240 --> 01:12:23,760
Speaker 6: It was I was.

1310
01:12:23,880 --> 01:12:24,560
Speaker 1: I was good on it.

1311
01:12:24,960 --> 01:12:28,280
Speaker 6: Yeah, until I did my my smooth jas spoken word,

1312
01:12:28,320 --> 01:12:32,679
Speaker 6: which is still want to just for me as an artist,

1313
01:12:32,880 --> 01:12:34,439
Speaker 6: truly one of the greatest things I've ever.

1314
01:12:34,360 --> 01:12:38,479
Speaker 4: Done, and impossible to find, by the way, it is,

1315
01:12:38,600 --> 01:12:39,840
Speaker 4: you know what will.

1316
01:12:39,720 --> 01:12:41,640
Speaker 6: I will just send you the tracks I can I

1317
01:12:41,720 --> 01:12:44,000
Speaker 6: can do that. Yes, yes, so.

1318
01:12:47,680 --> 01:12:48,000
Speaker 1: Stop it.

1319
01:12:52,600 --> 01:12:59,719
Speaker 6: Yes, yes, there is only one link.

1320
01:13:02,320 --> 01:13:07,439
Speaker 1: I want to seriously, this is what I'm obsessed with

1321
01:13:07,560 --> 01:13:12,200
Speaker 1: finding out. Do you have a copy of that Jermaine

1322
01:13:12,320 --> 01:13:13,839
Speaker 1: Jackson paper and shape bust.

1323
01:13:14,040 --> 01:13:15,120
Speaker 6: You are Jesus.

1324
01:13:16,880 --> 01:13:17,479
Speaker 4: No I do not.

1325
01:13:18,360 --> 01:13:20,320
Speaker 1: You didn't take it home, I said anything.

1326
01:13:20,439 --> 01:13:23,400
Speaker 6: No, Nor do I have any of regime's wigs. Next,

1327
01:13:23,840 --> 01:13:24,400
Speaker 6: did you keep.

1328
01:13:24,320 --> 01:13:27,840
Speaker 4: Anything from those sets, either either Living Single or Class No?

1329
01:13:28,680 --> 01:13:30,639
Speaker 1: None, okay, not even a sharene doll.

1330
01:13:33,880 --> 01:13:35,680
Speaker 4: No, you know what.

1331
01:13:35,960 --> 01:13:37,559
Speaker 6: No from Living Single?

1332
01:13:38,120 --> 01:13:38,160
Speaker 2: No?

1333
01:13:38,479 --> 01:13:41,240
Speaker 6: Wow, I been master, Reggie. That is so funny.

1334
01:13:41,479 --> 01:13:42,519
Speaker 5: You are in baby.

1335
01:13:42,640 --> 01:13:42,680
Speaker 1: No.

1336
01:13:43,520 --> 01:13:43,560
Speaker 2: No.

1337
01:13:43,760 --> 01:13:46,240
Speaker 6: But when I did my when I did my final

1338
01:13:46,320 --> 01:13:49,479
Speaker 6: episode of Living Single, uh, the prop guys gave me

1339
01:13:49,760 --> 01:13:54,120
Speaker 6: the large mug and saucer that regime I would always.

1340
01:13:54,160 --> 01:13:56,479
Speaker 6: I love drinking hot cocoa and tea and stuff, and

1341
01:13:56,560 --> 01:13:58,639
Speaker 6: so any chance I could in a scene, I would.

1342
01:13:59,040 --> 01:14:01,960
Speaker 6: And so they gave me that. And it says yes,

1343
01:14:02,160 --> 01:14:04,560
Speaker 6: and it says we'll miss you very much, we love you.

1344
01:14:04,680 --> 01:14:05,360
Speaker 6: So I do have that.

1345
01:14:06,160 --> 01:14:08,439
Speaker 1: Okay, so you're properly given a send off.

1346
01:14:08,680 --> 01:14:09,040
Speaker 8: Yes, not.

1347
01:14:09,200 --> 01:14:11,000
Speaker 1: Just came in to work and saw the cake one day.

1348
01:14:11,040 --> 01:14:14,080
Speaker 6: I was like, yeah, no, no, that was planned. Yes,

1349
01:14:14,320 --> 01:14:15,720
Speaker 6: that's another episode of.

1350
01:14:16,560 --> 01:14:19,800
Speaker 1: Well miss Fields, I appreciate you coming here.

1351
01:14:19,920 --> 01:14:26,280
Speaker 7: Finally, finally, can I thank him? Can you pass this

1352
01:14:26,400 --> 01:14:29,320
Speaker 7: on to your mom, to your sister. Thank you guys

1353
01:14:29,439 --> 01:14:31,400
Speaker 7: for your time and your energy with us on these

1354
01:14:31,439 --> 01:14:33,760
Speaker 7: te because even people forget, but Alexis, we were watching.

1355
01:14:34,720 --> 01:14:36,600
Speaker 5: So I just want to thank you for that.

1356
01:14:36,760 --> 01:14:37,320
Speaker 6: I will share.

1357
01:14:37,520 --> 01:14:38,120
Speaker 5: It takes a lot.

1358
01:14:38,280 --> 01:14:39,640
Speaker 6: I will tell her, thank you.

1359
01:14:40,320 --> 01:14:43,719
Speaker 1: Thank you on behalf of the QL S fan Sugar Steve,

1360
01:14:44,680 --> 01:14:54,040
Speaker 1: that's name. Do you want to know Steve? Steve has

1361
01:14:54,080 --> 01:14:56,360
Speaker 1: been engineering hold on the Burger King.

1362
01:14:56,680 --> 01:15:02,040
Speaker 4: I'll tell the story. I have diabetes, that's all, and

1363
01:15:02,080 --> 01:15:03,240
Speaker 4: we have to and we have to rap.

1364
01:15:05,120 --> 01:15:05,519
Speaker 1: I love you.

1365
01:15:06,200 --> 01:15:09,000
Speaker 4: That's that's a longer story.

1366
01:15:09,160 --> 01:15:12,719
Speaker 1: He became my engineer and there gave him. Perhaps perhaps

1367
01:15:13,400 --> 01:15:15,880
Speaker 1: it wasn't as savory as it is right now. And

1368
01:15:16,600 --> 01:15:20,479
Speaker 1: after three months of work with each other, Steve has

1369
01:15:20,560 --> 01:15:22,880
Speaker 1: to start getting this sold. The shots. Look, there was the.

1370
01:15:25,160 --> 01:15:27,679
Speaker 8: Never seen I never seen the spit take.

1371
01:15:30,040 --> 01:15:32,400
Speaker 5: I don't want to laugh, I swear don't. But as

1372
01:15:32,439 --> 01:15:33,840
Speaker 5: you said, he's drinking sugar now.

1373
01:15:35,680 --> 01:15:39,599
Speaker 1: He was my engineer for doing like the Common records

1374
01:15:39,640 --> 01:15:43,320
Speaker 1: and the D'Angelo Voodoo records. And once he became my

1375
01:15:43,400 --> 01:15:46,320
Speaker 1: full time engineer. He sort of after my diet and

1376
01:15:46,439 --> 01:15:48,080
Speaker 1: we used to go to the best old food spots

1377
01:15:48,120 --> 01:15:50,960
Speaker 1: in Philly. And then three months and that did you

1378
01:15:51,000 --> 01:15:51,639
Speaker 1: get struggle?

1379
01:15:52,360 --> 01:15:55,600
Speaker 7: Yes, everything to take time to apologize to Michelle and

1380
01:15:55,640 --> 01:15:57,320
Speaker 7: everybody is getting built right.

1381
01:15:57,240 --> 01:16:02,280
Speaker 1: Now on behalf of Sugar Steve, Boss, Bill and Faith

1382
01:16:02,360 --> 01:16:05,360
Speaker 1: Bill uh fan take. I hope you're doing lit cigarettes,

1383
01:16:05,400 --> 01:16:09,320
Speaker 1: Brother and light Kim. Thank you so much for coming

1384
01:16:09,360 --> 01:16:09,800
Speaker 1: on the show.

1385
01:16:10,160 --> 01:16:13,000
Speaker 6: Thank you for having me. This is fantastic, of course.

1386
01:16:12,920 --> 01:16:15,439
Speaker 1: Love signing off. We will see you next time on

1387
01:16:15,560 --> 01:16:37,479
Speaker 1: the next go round, of course, Love Supreme. For more

1388
01:16:37,520 --> 01:16:41,520
Speaker 1: podcasts from iHeart Radio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,

1389
01:16:41,960 --> 01:16:43,679
Speaker 1: or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.