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Speaker 2: Just like, these are my people.

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Speaker 1: I don't know them, but I'm going to claim them

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Speaker 3: Dead ass, dead ass.

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Speaker 2: I love that.

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Speaker 3: Hey.

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Speaker 2: I'm Kadeen and I'm Devout and we're the Ellis's.

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Speaker 4: You may know us from posting funny videos with our

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Speaker 2: Each other publicly as a form of therapy.

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Speaker 3: Wait, I make you need therapy most days.

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Speaker 2: Wow. Oh, and one more important thing to mention, we're married.

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Speaker 4: Yes, sir, we are. We created this podcast to open

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Speaker 4: dialogue about some of Li's most taboo topics.

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Speaker 2: Things most folks don't want to talk.

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Speaker 4: About through the lens of a millennial married couple. Dead

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Speaker 4: ass is a term that we say every day. So

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Speaker 4: when we say dead ass, we're actually saying facts one

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Speaker 3: We about to take Bilos off to a whole new level.

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Speaker 1: Dead ass starts right now, all right, So, typically for

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Speaker 1: my listeners out there, everyone knows that we do storytime

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Speaker 2: Oh and I'm so excited to hear what she got

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Speaker 3: Guess it's not a it's not a story story, but

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Speaker 1: Ivy Coco.

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Speaker 2: Do you just go buy Ivy or Ivy Cocoa. You

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Speaker 3: I'll never forget that.

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Speaker 5: No, no, honestly, I think the first thing that actually

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Speaker 1: Oh for sure, And I love that you said that

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Speaker 2: So love that, yeah, absolutely, I love that.

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Speaker 1: So at what point did you realize, like, we're really

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Speaker 8: Man, we saw the park full up, you know, I

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Speaker 3: I think that was when I realized.

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Speaker 6: That's when we realized that we were able to expand

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Speaker 1: Now, Etty, and how has your being a survivor of

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Speaker 3: One hundred. It's funny you bring that up because I've

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Speaker 6: In my first year of starting Walk Good, I had

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Speaker 6: You know, I'm able to walk, I'm able to I'm

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Speaker 3: I think of all those trials and tribut.

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Speaker 6: It just might have It just might have a young

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Speaker 5: able to bring the sunshine out of people, and during

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00:22:16,640 --> 00:22:19,320
Speaker 5: our raining days, and you know, I was just able

445
00:22:19,440 --> 00:22:22,679
Speaker 5: to be there and like literally welcome people every morning,

446
00:22:22,720 --> 00:22:26,199
Speaker 5: selling T shirts, T shirt, T shirt, te shirts, you know,

447
00:22:26,359 --> 00:22:29,240
Speaker 5: every single Sunday. Like it was like we were all

448
00:22:29,280 --> 00:22:31,920
Speaker 5: being able to bring our gifts together because the thing

449
00:22:31,920 --> 00:22:34,280
Speaker 5: about it is like we weren't just doing this for profit.

450
00:22:34,320 --> 00:22:36,399
Speaker 5: We were doing this because we actually felt like this

451
00:22:36,560 --> 00:22:39,359
Speaker 5: was our purpose. We actually felt like we were called

452
00:22:39,400 --> 00:22:41,520
Speaker 5: to do this. And I think that's the best thing

453
00:22:41,560 --> 00:22:44,320
Speaker 5: about operating in your purpose is that you know that

454
00:22:44,359 --> 00:22:46,919
Speaker 5: it's a gift. You know it's God given, and so

455
00:22:47,040 --> 00:22:48,960
Speaker 5: I don't take it for granted. And I think that

456
00:22:49,359 --> 00:22:52,920
Speaker 5: knowing that we have the support the spiritual guidance of

457
00:22:52,960 --> 00:22:56,440
Speaker 5: our grandmother and our grandfather, it wouldn't be walk good

458
00:22:56,480 --> 00:22:59,480
Speaker 5: without our grandmother literally telling us every day, make sure

459
00:22:59,520 --> 00:23:02,560
Speaker 5: your walk go right, you know. So it's just us

460
00:23:02,640 --> 00:23:05,080
Speaker 5: embracing who we are and where we come from.

461
00:23:05,119 --> 00:23:06,000
Speaker 2: That's beautiful.

462
00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:09,439
Speaker 1: You can't even sometimes fathom the idea of you know,

463
00:23:09,440 --> 00:23:11,600
Speaker 1: people always talk about like I'm living or I'm walking

464
00:23:11,680 --> 00:23:15,360
Speaker 1: my ancestors prayers and my grandmother's prayers, and to think

465
00:23:15,400 --> 00:23:18,160
Speaker 1: about where our families have come from. I can relate

466
00:23:18,200 --> 00:23:20,800
Speaker 1: to that, you know, also being of Jamaican descent, and

467
00:23:20,840 --> 00:23:22,439
Speaker 1: you know, my mom telling me the stories of how

468
00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:24,080
Speaker 1: she had to walk five miles to school and she

469
00:23:24,119 --> 00:23:31,040
Speaker 1: didn't have the shoes to do its had that same

470
00:23:31,119 --> 00:23:35,080
Speaker 1: same story and it's it's what it is, and it

471
00:23:35,119 --> 00:23:37,960
Speaker 1: gives such a greater appreciation. But you don't even realize

472
00:23:37,960 --> 00:23:40,480
Speaker 1: sometimes at the time, how when you're going through a trial,

473
00:23:40,520 --> 00:23:44,000
Speaker 1: for example, yours etsyan that that was just the setup

474
00:23:44,359 --> 00:23:46,919
Speaker 1: for the way you were now living in your purpose

475
00:23:46,960 --> 00:23:49,800
Speaker 1: to impact so many people. And it's such a beautiful

476
00:23:49,840 --> 00:23:52,800
Speaker 1: thing to see because you know, the evolution of our

477
00:23:52,840 --> 00:23:55,520
Speaker 1: families coming from such a small little rock right there

478
00:23:55,520 --> 00:23:57,679
Speaker 1: in the Caribbean, to like the impact we all have

479
00:23:57,920 --> 00:24:01,639
Speaker 1: now within our communities and globally because you know, everyone

480
00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:04,960
Speaker 1: has access to social media, we can see what's happening.

481
00:24:05,040 --> 00:24:07,520
Speaker 1: So this is awesome in an awesome space for you

482
00:24:07,560 --> 00:24:08,800
Speaker 1: guys to be in, and I feel like you need

483
00:24:08,840 --> 00:24:09,399
Speaker 1: to keep going.

484
00:24:09,680 --> 00:24:10,400
Speaker 2: Then keep going.

485
00:24:10,760 --> 00:24:12,639
Speaker 6: I told us, if you would have told me that

486
00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:14,600
Speaker 6: I was going to be a yoga's instructor and that

487
00:24:14,880 --> 00:24:17,160
Speaker 6: we would be living the lives we're living right now,

488
00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:18,480
Speaker 6: I would have said you must.

489
00:24:18,320 --> 00:24:25,920
Speaker 1: Have no good But yeah, no, that's amazing. Your mom

490
00:24:25,960 --> 00:24:29,680
Speaker 1: had said once in an interview that nepotism doesn't exist

491
00:24:29,760 --> 00:24:36,440
Speaker 1: within your family, right. She said that you two pretty

492
00:24:36,520 --> 00:24:39,800
Speaker 1: much work for everything that you have, and she takes

493
00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:42,360
Speaker 1: pride in that and you take pride in that. And

494
00:24:43,800 --> 00:24:46,399
Speaker 1: have you ever had instances where folks have questioned, like

495
00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:49,600
Speaker 1: how you got an opportunity or why you're existing in

496
00:24:49,640 --> 00:24:51,600
Speaker 1: the space that you're in because of your mom?

497
00:24:51,840 --> 00:24:55,920
Speaker 5: Oh my gosh, I mean I heard somebody say something

498
00:24:55,920 --> 00:24:57,840
Speaker 5: about Walk Good before and they're like, Oh, they don't

499
00:24:57,840 --> 00:25:00,879
Speaker 5: need this, they don't need this organizedzation. They have their

500
00:25:00,880 --> 00:25:05,400
Speaker 5: support from their mother. And we're like, our mom wasn't

501
00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:08,440
Speaker 5: teaching us yoga telling us to do X, Y and Z?

502
00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:09,680
Speaker 2: Was she did?

503
00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:12,879
Speaker 5: She inspire us because she's a woman of wisdom and

504
00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:15,119
Speaker 5: she's a woman that knows how to bring people together

505
00:25:15,160 --> 00:25:17,359
Speaker 5: with her voice. And that's how we were able to

506
00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:20,600
Speaker 5: do this absolutely, But she wasn't the one that said

507
00:25:20,680 --> 00:25:22,720
Speaker 5: you need to go out there and do X, Y

508
00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:23,200
Speaker 5: and Z.

509
00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:26,200
Speaker 6: Why she ain't introduced us to Michael B. Jordan's expressed

510
00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:27,160
Speaker 6: to get us that studio.

511
00:25:27,560 --> 00:25:28,000
Speaker 3: Oh wow?

512
00:25:28,160 --> 00:25:30,679
Speaker 1: Did it so that that happened through a genuine connection

513
00:25:30,720 --> 00:25:31,199
Speaker 1: you had with her?

514
00:25:31,720 --> 00:25:36,520
Speaker 3: Let me tell you how that God is right.

515
00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:40,239
Speaker 6: So we had started Walk Good four years ago, so

516
00:25:41,359 --> 00:25:46,080
Speaker 6: three years ago, no, last last year. Last year, we

517
00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:50,800
Speaker 6: get a call from Propel Fitness Water and they say, hey,

518
00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:54,399
Speaker 6: we got this new campaign Propel your City project. We

519
00:25:54,440 --> 00:25:58,000
Speaker 6: want to support fitness communities all across the United States.

520
00:25:58,240 --> 00:26:00,880
Speaker 6: They want to support Walk Good and asking us, well,

521
00:26:00,920 --> 00:26:04,359
Speaker 6: what do you need? What will propel your community, what

522
00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:07,600
Speaker 6: will build your organization? And at first we were thinking

523
00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:11,960
Speaker 6: about doing some type of program for one of our classes.

524
00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:15,360
Speaker 6: But they came back to us and was like, no,

525
00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:18,159
Speaker 6: actually we want to do something, but you need create

526
00:26:18,240 --> 00:26:23,200
Speaker 6: an impact. What you need yes, And I went back

527
00:26:23,240 --> 00:26:26,800
Speaker 6: to my sister and my cousin. I was like, I

528
00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:31,200
Speaker 6: think we need a studio space, right, So we went

529
00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:33,760
Speaker 6: back to them and they said we got you.

530
00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:35,959
Speaker 3: Oh, by the way, Michael B.

531
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Speaker 6: Jordan is a part of this campaign to help your

532
00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:41,400
Speaker 6: initiative low and behold.

533
00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:43,040
Speaker 3: They didn't know that Michael B.

534
00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:47,000
Speaker 6: Jordan's brother Khalid had come to the very first Walk

535
00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:51,440
Speaker 6: Good protests wow literally June thirteen, twenty.

536
00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:56,920
Speaker 5: And divine because I mean his family has literally come

537
00:26:56,960 --> 00:26:58,520
Speaker 5: into our space without even.

538
00:26:58,440 --> 00:27:00,439
Speaker 3: His mom, his dad, sister.

539
00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:03,479
Speaker 5: He said, brother, like, they've all come into the space

540
00:27:03,560 --> 00:27:05,639
Speaker 5: and they're like wait, wait, Michael was a part of this.

541
00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:07,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't even know.

542
00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:09,879
Speaker 5: I had no idea, right, And his father actually do

543
00:27:10,080 --> 00:27:12,359
Speaker 5: yoga at like a juneteen yoga flow.

544
00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:15,960
Speaker 2: It's crazy, you know, like it was all in divine order.

545
00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:17,800
Speaker 3: Wow, in divine order for real.

546
00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:21,480
Speaker 6: And they've been like, I can't tell you enough how

547
00:27:21,520 --> 00:27:25,639
Speaker 6: appreciative I am for that family, for Propel, because literally

548
00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:27,600
Speaker 6: we would not have our studio space, the walk good

549
00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:31,120
Speaker 6: Yard would not exist if they didn't help us get

550
00:27:31,119 --> 00:27:34,200
Speaker 6: that money so that we could put it towards our studio.

551
00:27:34,480 --> 00:27:37,000
Speaker 1: Wow, very good, that's awesome. I didn't even know, as

552
00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:38,760
Speaker 1: you know, it's funny. I actually shot my shot with

553
00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:41,440
Speaker 1: Michael B. Jordan, not how you think because I'm a married.

554
00:27:44,240 --> 00:27:47,119
Speaker 2: Preface it when I DMD him and I said, well, funny,

555
00:27:47,280 --> 00:27:48,720
Speaker 2: quick story, I'll tell you really quick.

556
00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:51,760
Speaker 1: My mom was at the gym, you know, local gym

557
00:27:51,760 --> 00:27:55,800
Speaker 1: where we live out in Georgia, and she calls my

558
00:27:55,840 --> 00:27:58,160
Speaker 1: phone and I missed the call, so ill I text

559
00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:00,320
Speaker 1: her about She texted me and I was like, what's

560
00:28:00,359 --> 00:28:00,639
Speaker 1: going on?

561
00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:01,280
Speaker 2: Everything good?

562
00:28:01,400 --> 00:28:03,760
Speaker 1: She said, you never guess who's here in the gym

563
00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:07,000
Speaker 1: and she's in like the La Fitness and I'm like, ohoh.

564
00:28:07,560 --> 00:28:08,800
Speaker 2: So she goes to Michael B.

565
00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:11,760
Speaker 1: Jordan's Instagram page and she screenshots his picture and sent

566
00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:13,760
Speaker 1: it to me. So I said, you're in the gym

567
00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:17,320
Speaker 1: in LA Fitness, in this random part of Georgia with

568
00:28:17,359 --> 00:28:17,680
Speaker 1: Michael B.

569
00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:18,119
Speaker 3: Jordan.

570
00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:21,720
Speaker 2: And she's like, yes, girl, wait, let me get a picture.

571
00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:25,960
Speaker 1: So I know my mom is like probably scrambling now

572
00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:29,240
Speaker 1: with her phone, probably being so obvious. Right, she probably

573
00:28:29,280 --> 00:28:31,320
Speaker 1: don't have an eye glasses or anything, so I can

574
00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:34,479
Speaker 1: imagine what she looks like trying to capture discreetly this

575
00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:35,280
Speaker 1: picture of Michael B.

576
00:28:35,359 --> 00:28:37,120
Speaker 2: Jordan working out in this La Fitness.

577
00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:40,120
Speaker 1: So then I'm waiting for the picture to come along

578
00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:42,040
Speaker 1: and I see the bubbles and I see the bubbles.

579
00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:43,280
Speaker 2: And I said, I said, what happened?

580
00:28:43,280 --> 00:28:45,440
Speaker 1: And she's like, girl, I lost him. He must have

581
00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:46,760
Speaker 1: saw me trying to take the picture.

582
00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:47,800
Speaker 3: Oh.

583
00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:51,720
Speaker 1: So I knew that Michael followed the family and my

584
00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:54,640
Speaker 1: husband and all that. So I just was like, you

585
00:28:54,640 --> 00:28:56,560
Speaker 1: know what, I want to randomly DM him and just

586
00:28:56,600 --> 00:28:58,680
Speaker 1: tell him this joke. So I was like, bro, my

587
00:28:58,760 --> 00:29:01,800
Speaker 1: mom literally was at Fitness to explain everything what happened.

588
00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:04,560
Speaker 1: So I said, please tell me that she's not crazy

589
00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:06,800
Speaker 1: and that you are in this part of Georgia and

590
00:29:06,840 --> 00:29:08,400
Speaker 1: you went to Talor Fitness today.

591
00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:10,480
Speaker 2: So he messages me back.

592
00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:12,080
Speaker 1: Within a couple of minutes, which I was surprised about

593
00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:13,400
Speaker 1: because I was like, this is Michael Jordan. He's not

594
00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:16,400
Speaker 1: gonna answer my little DM right, And he was just like, hey,

595
00:29:16,560 --> 00:29:20,120
Speaker 1: I actually wasn't there, and that's just so funny that

596
00:29:20,280 --> 00:29:21,120
Speaker 1: your mom thought.

597
00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:24,320
Speaker 2: She saw me, So it wasn't here. He was in

598
00:29:24,440 --> 00:29:27,320
Speaker 2: New Orleans filming something, and he's.

599
00:29:27,240 --> 00:29:29,360
Speaker 1: Like, but if I'm ever in that part of Georgia,

600
00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:32,840
Speaker 1: I'll definitely come to LA's Fitness. So I circled back

601
00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:35,120
Speaker 1: with him after that because I was having my live show,

602
00:29:35,560 --> 00:29:38,000
Speaker 1: which is now since not happening, but I'm gonna pivot

603
00:29:38,040 --> 00:29:39,600
Speaker 1: because he was going to be one of my interviews

604
00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:40,960
Speaker 1: there and he's like, I'd love to sit down and

605
00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:42,360
Speaker 1: do an interview with you one on on my next

606
00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:42,840
Speaker 1: press run.

607
00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:44,719
Speaker 2: So I was like, oh, this is great. So it's

608
00:29:44,760 --> 00:29:47,160
Speaker 2: a good thing. I shot my shot in back, but

609
00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:50,840
Speaker 2: it was just so funny. How you know.

610
00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:55,880
Speaker 1: Listen's eye glass home? Are you telling me that that's

611
00:29:55,920 --> 00:29:59,240
Speaker 1: my She's like, hey, I promised you. It looked just

612
00:29:59,400 --> 00:29:59,760
Speaker 1: like him.

613
00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:03,800
Speaker 2: They smile everything staying where. I'm like, okay, mom, sure,

614
00:30:05,320 --> 00:30:05,840
Speaker 2: all right.

615
00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:06,680
Speaker 3: So a kind of.

616
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Speaker 1: Fun question for you guys because you grew up of course,

617
00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:11,320
Speaker 1: with you know your mom in the position she's in.

618
00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:14,280
Speaker 1: When did you realize, like, my mom is famous, like

619
00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:17,680
Speaker 1: people revere her. Was there like a particular age or

620
00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:20,560
Speaker 1: a moment where you were like this is it?

621
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Speaker 6: I think we were always aware of it. I think

622
00:30:24,880 --> 00:30:29,120
Speaker 6: all the events we'd go to, the red carpets we

623
00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:32,600
Speaker 6: go to, especially during like the Moesha days, those are

624
00:30:32,640 --> 00:30:38,280
Speaker 6: like the big Hollywood moments that I remember, right. But

625
00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:41,800
Speaker 6: I think the beautiful thing about our mother is that

626
00:30:41,960 --> 00:30:45,640
Speaker 6: even though she is a famous actress, you know, she's

627
00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:48,880
Speaker 6: a she's a human being. You know, she's she just

628
00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:51,000
Speaker 6: happens to be our mom. She just happens to be

629
00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:55,800
Speaker 6: an actress. She's a real person. Absolutely no. She Yes,

630
00:30:55,840 --> 00:30:58,760
Speaker 6: she might have like this big bravado and has like

631
00:30:58,800 --> 00:31:02,400
Speaker 6: a special waves speaking, but I think that's her gift

632
00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:05,240
Speaker 6: that she, like my sister said, has passed down to us.

633
00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:08,280
Speaker 6: And I think some people might be intimidated by it,

634
00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:11,360
Speaker 6: especially if you have a strong black woman as a mother.

635
00:31:11,760 --> 00:31:14,560
Speaker 6: It's something that you can recognize. Oh and I think

636
00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:17,400
Speaker 6: she has done such a great job on screen of

637
00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:20,560
Speaker 6: playing a mom that when people see her in real life,

638
00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:21,320
Speaker 6: they're like, oh, my.

639
00:31:21,240 --> 00:31:23,680
Speaker 3: God, I was raised by you through the TV.

640
00:31:23,560 --> 00:31:27,120
Speaker 6: And I think that is a unique gift to be

641
00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:33,640
Speaker 6: able to have compassion for younger people and have an

642
00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:36,760
Speaker 6: understanding for younger people. I think is a gift that

643
00:31:36,800 --> 00:31:38,640
Speaker 6: my mom has always had and has passed down to

644
00:31:38,760 --> 00:31:41,640
Speaker 6: us for sure. But I always, to answer your question,

645
00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:45,040
Speaker 6: I always saw our mother as a special human being

646
00:31:45,080 --> 00:31:49,560
Speaker 6: and someone who is, you know, extraordinary, because she's not

647
00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:52,440
Speaker 6: your average mother at all, and not your average mother

648
00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:55,360
Speaker 6: at all, but she cares and then she shows she

649
00:31:55,360 --> 00:31:56,480
Speaker 6: shows a lot of compassion.

650
00:31:56,560 --> 00:31:59,280
Speaker 3: So while she's a Hollywood mother, she's a.

651
00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:01,120
Speaker 2: She's a human mom, and I love that.

652
00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:04,480
Speaker 1: I had a moment with her at the Jamaica Independence

653
00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:07,240
Speaker 1: galap last year. I went and was actually presenting an

654
00:32:07,240 --> 00:32:09,080
Speaker 1: award to her and we were sitting at the same

655
00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:13,600
Speaker 1: table together with her and oh yes, photo, yes, but

656
00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:18,080
Speaker 1: a testament, a testament to your description of your mom, right.

657
00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:20,480
Speaker 1: I was with my good friend Joshua, who's also my

658
00:32:20,600 --> 00:32:22,280
Speaker 1: videographer photographer good friend.

659
00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:23,640
Speaker 2: His wife makes airrings.

660
00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:26,040
Speaker 1: She's from Jamaica as well, So when we were there

661
00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:28,880
Speaker 1: at the event, his wife came along to support and

662
00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:30,640
Speaker 1: she had some earrings and she's like I would love

663
00:32:30,680 --> 00:32:33,400
Speaker 1: to give these to Cherry Lee, but I'm just shy

664
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Speaker 1: to do so I don't know what to do. So

665
00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:36,280
Speaker 1: I made the connection because we were at the table

666
00:32:36,320 --> 00:32:38,880
Speaker 1: together and my friend was down on her knees right

667
00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:40,400
Speaker 1: in front of your mom, and she was just so

668
00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:43,640
Speaker 1: humble and just so she had so much humility, and

669
00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:45,800
Speaker 1: she listened to my friend's story about her earrings and

670
00:32:45,840 --> 00:32:48,000
Speaker 1: how she started making them, and you know, your mom

671
00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:50,480
Speaker 1: took off the earrings she was wearing and put on

672
00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:53,360
Speaker 1: my friend's earrings and wore them on stage so proudly.

673
00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:53,880
Speaker 3: Wow.

674
00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:56,440
Speaker 1: And that was a beautiful moment from my friend. But

675
00:32:56,480 --> 00:32:58,680
Speaker 1: it was just a testament to how much of a

676
00:32:58,760 --> 00:33:00,840
Speaker 1: people's people your mom is. And she's just like a

677
00:33:00,920 --> 00:33:03,760
Speaker 1: genuine person, which is awesome. How about you, Ivy, when

678
00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:04,720
Speaker 1: did you realize, like, you.

679
00:33:04,640 --> 00:33:06,880
Speaker 2: Know, Mom's not just mom.

680
00:33:07,320 --> 00:33:09,720
Speaker 5: I think for me, it's just like I've always known

681
00:33:09,760 --> 00:33:13,360
Speaker 5: that she's just someone operating in their gift. But I think,

682
00:33:13,720 --> 00:33:17,320
Speaker 5: like Etien said, she's very she's grounded. She's so she'd

683
00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:19,800
Speaker 5: rather be with the people, you know, And I think

684
00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:23,760
Speaker 5: no matter how big and how much she expands as

685
00:33:23,760 --> 00:33:25,520
Speaker 5: her brand and as an actress, like.

686
00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:27,680
Speaker 2: She will always be the Sharley Raff that loves to

687
00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:28,360
Speaker 2: go to Ross.

688
00:33:28,480 --> 00:33:30,760
Speaker 5: She'll always be the Sharley Raft that loves to go

689
00:33:31,280 --> 00:33:34,920
Speaker 5: dip her head in at Marshalls. She's she she loves

690
00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:37,760
Speaker 5: the Curer girl. Yeah, she'll always be like yo, I

691
00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:39,120
Speaker 5: have to go to my Korean spa.

692
00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:39,520
Speaker 3: Like.

693
00:33:39,800 --> 00:33:42,600
Speaker 5: She embraces the things that make her happy like every

694
00:33:42,640 --> 00:33:46,160
Speaker 5: individual should. But I think what makes her such an

695
00:33:46,160 --> 00:33:48,880
Speaker 5: incredible A lot of people are like, oh, like Etien said,

696
00:33:49,040 --> 00:33:52,800
Speaker 5: your mother raised me on TV. It's it's because she's

697
00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:55,920
Speaker 5: such an incredible mother. You know, I'll never forget like

698
00:33:56,000 --> 00:34:00,200
Speaker 5: being in like probably like yeah, grade one and know

699
00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:02,840
Speaker 5: someone asking me my teacher on first day of school,

700
00:34:02,920 --> 00:34:04,320
Speaker 5: like what do you want to be when you grow up?

701
00:34:04,320 --> 00:34:05,560
Speaker 5: And I said, I want to be a mom. And

702
00:34:05,600 --> 00:34:06,719
Speaker 5: they're like, why do you want to be a mom?

703
00:34:06,760 --> 00:34:09,319
Speaker 5: I said, because I have an incredible mom, you know.

704
00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:11,640
Speaker 5: So when people say, oh my god, I love your mom,

705
00:34:11,640 --> 00:34:17,279
Speaker 5: I'm like, I love her too, right, I love her too.

706
00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:19,080
Speaker 1: I think that that's an interesting thing that you said,

707
00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:22,359
Speaker 1: because for me, I've always grown up knowing I wanted

708
00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:25,440
Speaker 1: to be a wife and mom and to your point,

709
00:34:26,200 --> 00:34:29,560
Speaker 1: having an example of an exemplary mother or father.

710
00:34:30,239 --> 00:34:32,920
Speaker 2: You know, it's something that you want to emulate, You

711
00:34:32,920 --> 00:34:35,000
Speaker 2: want to be like you see what that was like,

712
00:34:35,160 --> 00:34:36,440
Speaker 2: you see the impact.

713
00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:38,000
Speaker 1: I know the impact my mom has had on me

714
00:34:38,120 --> 00:34:40,640
Speaker 1: now that I'm a four year old woman. So for me,

715
00:34:40,840 --> 00:34:44,759
Speaker 1: top tier is mother and wife. Everything else is secondary.

716
00:34:45,080 --> 00:34:47,960
Speaker 1: So I can't completely understand how you feel. So I

717
00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:50,000
Speaker 1: have four boys, like I told you guys before, and

718
00:34:50,080 --> 00:34:52,160
Speaker 1: you know, we always talk to them about the importance

719
00:34:52,239 --> 00:34:55,120
Speaker 1: of paying it forward and working hard and like finding

720
00:34:55,120 --> 00:34:58,040
Speaker 1: their purpose. How do you guys stay grounded and rooted

721
00:34:58,280 --> 00:35:02,000
Speaker 1: in an industry that could potentially be one to kind

722
00:35:02,040 --> 00:35:05,360
Speaker 1: of take you off of your target or take you

723
00:35:05,400 --> 00:35:08,239
Speaker 1: out of your track. What advice do you have to

724
00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:11,200
Speaker 1: me as a mom who's raising some boys. You know,

725
00:35:11,320 --> 00:35:14,920
Speaker 1: I know you're just a younger woman, but in this

726
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:16,600
Speaker 1: day and age, things are so different. So how do

727
00:35:16,640 --> 00:35:18,799
Speaker 1: you guys stay grounded and rooted in who you are?

728
00:35:19,120 --> 00:35:21,000
Speaker 6: Whatever you do, it has to be bigger than you.

729
00:35:21,800 --> 00:35:25,200
Speaker 6: Whatever you do, it has to be bigger than yourself.

730
00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:31,359
Speaker 6: I think one thing that I've learned through our upbringing.

731
00:35:31,080 --> 00:35:32,480
Speaker 3: Is you have to be of service.

732
00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:36,239
Speaker 6: I think that should always be a part of your

733
00:35:36,280 --> 00:35:39,200
Speaker 6: purpose is how can I help somebody else? How can

734
00:35:39,239 --> 00:35:43,440
Speaker 6: I use my platform to help somebody who might be struggling.

735
00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:47,720
Speaker 6: Our mother she runs a nonprofit called the DVA Foundation.

736
00:35:48,040 --> 00:35:51,800
Speaker 6: She started that after losing so many of her friends

737
00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:56,520
Speaker 6: and family to HIV and AIDS during her time during

738
00:35:56,600 --> 00:35:59,920
Speaker 6: dream Girls. And I think at a very young age,

739
00:36:00,280 --> 00:36:05,000
Speaker 6: watching our mother raise money for her organization really propelled

740
00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:09,200
Speaker 6: us really to start Walk Good and for us to

741
00:36:09,280 --> 00:36:12,680
Speaker 6: build an organization that is rooted in being of service

742
00:36:12,719 --> 00:36:16,799
Speaker 6: to people through health wellness in the arts. I think

743
00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:20,279
Speaker 6: also growing up, we grew up in the church. Our

744
00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:24,440
Speaker 6: grandfather was the music director in New York. We also

745
00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:29,480
Speaker 6: found out recently that our grandmother was also a community

746
00:36:30,239 --> 00:36:34,160
Speaker 6: organizer in her own right as a fashion designer.

747
00:36:34,640 --> 00:36:36,759
Speaker 3: You know, she was one of the She was.

748
00:36:36,960 --> 00:36:43,879
Speaker 6: The person to desegregate j C. Pennies in Connecticut. And

749
00:36:43,960 --> 00:36:49,120
Speaker 6: so I think we come from a family of fighters,

750
00:36:49,719 --> 00:36:53,880
Speaker 6: people who wanted to not only do it for themselves,

751
00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:59,719
Speaker 6: but do it for communities. And I think anything you'd

752
00:36:59,760 --> 00:37:02,120
Speaker 6: do in life, I think it has to be bigger

753
00:37:02,440 --> 00:37:05,000
Speaker 6: than just you. Like a movement can't be run with

754
00:37:05,120 --> 00:37:09,160
Speaker 6: just one person. People need people don't be afraid to

755
00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:13,040
Speaker 6: ask for help. Don't be afraid to, you know, to

756
00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:17,200
Speaker 6: just ask. I think that's the biggest thing that we're

757
00:37:17,440 --> 00:37:19,040
Speaker 6: a lot of us are afraid to do, is just

758
00:37:19,680 --> 00:37:23,719
Speaker 6: ask the question, you know, and just seek advice. Yeah,

759
00:37:23,760 --> 00:37:26,880
Speaker 6: And a lot of times that drives us into depression

760
00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:29,520
Speaker 6: and then we start to overthink, well, why are we

761
00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:32,600
Speaker 6: making these decisions instead of asking somebody who might be

762
00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:34,560
Speaker 6: more knowledgeable than us.

763
00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:37,520
Speaker 1: So, yeah, don't be afraid to ask the questions. And

764
00:37:37,560 --> 00:37:39,960
Speaker 1: I love that be of service to people. I think

765
00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:42,560
Speaker 1: for me, it's just about finding your personal practice. What's

766
00:37:42,600 --> 00:37:45,319
Speaker 1: that one thing every day that you feel so unapologic,

767
00:37:45,560 --> 00:37:47,759
Speaker 1: unapologetic about that you can just get up and do it.

768
00:37:47,800 --> 00:37:51,080
Speaker 5: Whether that's prayer, whether that's meditation. And I think, you know,

769
00:37:51,200 --> 00:37:54,000
Speaker 5: we all have our own type of meditation. I remember

770
00:37:54,080 --> 00:37:57,080
Speaker 5: growing up, and my mom's meditation was waking up in

771
00:37:57,080 --> 00:37:59,799
Speaker 5: the morning singing and burning her incense. For my dad

772
00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:03,200
Speaker 5: might be running biking or doing some pilates, or for

773
00:38:03,280 --> 00:38:06,520
Speaker 5: my grandmother might be opening her Bible and finding her scripture.

774
00:38:07,280 --> 00:38:09,680
Speaker 5: For my grandfather might be picking up the phone and

775
00:38:09,719 --> 00:38:12,920
Speaker 5: singing to his grandchildren. Like there are so many different

776
00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:16,120
Speaker 5: types of practices that make you feel good. And I

777
00:38:16,120 --> 00:38:18,680
Speaker 5: think that's what we really want to show people is

778
00:38:18,719 --> 00:38:20,960
Speaker 5: that you know you as much as you do good,

779
00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:23,400
Speaker 5: you have to feel good for sure, because you know,

780
00:38:23,520 --> 00:38:25,479
Speaker 5: for me, I'm like, when I look good, I do good.

781
00:38:25,680 --> 00:38:28,719
Speaker 5: When I feel good, I do good and I look good.

782
00:38:29,080 --> 00:38:30,759
Speaker 5: So I think you have to figure out what your

783
00:38:30,840 --> 00:38:31,560
Speaker 5: good is.

784
00:38:31,800 --> 00:38:34,920
Speaker 1: What makes you ticking inside? Speaking of looking good, you're

785
00:38:34,920 --> 00:38:39,440
Speaker 1: a stylist. Thank you, you're a stylist. How did that

786
00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:41,120
Speaker 1: come about? Was that a passion of your.

787
00:38:40,960 --> 00:38:41,919
Speaker 2: Make up to yeah?

788
00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:45,719
Speaker 1: Yeah, waiting and putting together stuff.

789
00:38:45,560 --> 00:38:49,399
Speaker 5: And all that, all of that, Like my grandma taught

790
00:38:49,400 --> 00:38:52,000
Speaker 5: me at a handstitch. That was the first thing that

791
00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:55,120
Speaker 5: she ever taught me to do. She was always making

792
00:38:55,520 --> 00:38:58,960
Speaker 5: things in Jamaica, whether it was you know, a garment

793
00:38:59,280 --> 00:39:01,520
Speaker 5: or just a table cloth or anything for the house.

794
00:39:01,640 --> 00:39:04,719
Speaker 5: But she ran an incredible store called the House of

795
00:39:04,840 --> 00:39:08,080
Speaker 5: Ivy in Devon House. So after Ettenna and I would

796
00:39:08,080 --> 00:39:10,400
Speaker 5: finish up summer schools, we would go to Devon House

797
00:39:10,680 --> 00:39:12,560
Speaker 5: and help her with the shop. And I would remember

798
00:39:12,719 --> 00:39:15,840
Speaker 5: tourists would come in on big buses coming from like

799
00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:19,200
Speaker 5: ochi Ormo Bay coming to Kingston, and then it would

800
00:39:19,280 --> 00:39:20,840
Speaker 5: just be one of those things where I had to

801
00:39:20,920 --> 00:39:23,800
Speaker 5: help people and you know, just telling people about product,

802
00:39:23,960 --> 00:39:27,080
Speaker 5: and you know, I was amazing to see my grandma

803
00:39:27,320 --> 00:39:30,120
Speaker 5: see it from making the pattern, from cutting and sewing

804
00:39:30,560 --> 00:39:33,239
Speaker 5: to being on the sewing machine, packaging up and then

805
00:39:33,560 --> 00:39:36,600
Speaker 5: deliver and it was crazy. Like my thing was the

806
00:39:36,719 --> 00:39:40,040
Speaker 5: retail management of it all. Like it was like everything.

807
00:39:40,080 --> 00:39:41,719
Speaker 5: I would pack up my grandma's stuff and I would

808
00:39:41,719 --> 00:39:43,640
Speaker 5: take it to Carbs, car Beats. It was one of

809
00:39:43,680 --> 00:39:47,760
Speaker 5: the biggest stores, like downtown Kingston or like New Kingston,

810
00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:51,719
Speaker 5: not downtown New Kingston, Carby's, Yeah, New Kingston. I would

811
00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:55,000
Speaker 5: take my grandma's stuff to live with the taximan to Carbs.

812
00:39:55,880 --> 00:39:59,560
Speaker 5: So like all of this stuff, like the styling fashion,

813
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:02,920
Speaker 5: I'm not new to it. I'm true to and then just.

814
00:40:02,960 --> 00:40:04,920
Speaker 2: Come about or you started styling your mom.

815
00:40:07,239 --> 00:40:09,640
Speaker 5: Is And I think there's a reason why my grandmother

816
00:40:10,440 --> 00:40:13,000
Speaker 5: has the name Ivy and why my parents gave me

817
00:40:13,080 --> 00:40:18,040
Speaker 5: the name Ivy. I genuinely feel I'm doing exactly what

818
00:40:18,200 --> 00:40:20,640
Speaker 5: I'm supposed to do. And I have the greatest teacher

819
00:40:20,680 --> 00:40:21,640
Speaker 5: who was my grandmother.

820
00:40:21,880 --> 00:40:23,520
Speaker 2: That is so beautiful.

821
00:40:24,080 --> 00:40:26,200
Speaker 1: Wow, I'm loving you guys even more just sitting down

822
00:40:26,239 --> 00:40:28,280
Speaker 1: here half the time, I'm just watching you in admiration

823
00:40:28,360 --> 00:40:37,040
Speaker 1: because I'm just like so beautiful Grandma ivy. Okay, she

824
00:40:37,120 --> 00:40:39,719
Speaker 1: had a piece to play, I'm sure several, but a

825
00:40:39,800 --> 00:40:41,920
Speaker 1: specific piece to play in your wedding et t the end.

826
00:40:42,960 --> 00:40:46,400
Speaker 1: So we talked about in the beginning of the episode,

827
00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:49,880
Speaker 1: you know, me watching and praying and hoping that everything

828
00:40:49,960 --> 00:40:53,200
Speaker 1: would come to pass for your wedding day. Before we

829
00:40:53,320 --> 00:40:57,000
Speaker 1: dive into Grandma's tribute or your tribute to Grandma.

830
00:40:57,120 --> 00:41:00,239
Speaker 2: Rather tell me what that whole week was looking for.

831
00:41:00,320 --> 00:41:02,440
Speaker 3: You give me a.

832
00:41:04,080 --> 00:41:08,520
Speaker 6: Real quick So July sixth is the day that I

833
00:41:08,640 --> 00:41:10,880
Speaker 6: met my wife. It's the day that I proposed to

834
00:41:11,000 --> 00:41:13,520
Speaker 6: my wife. It's the day that we got married, not

835
00:41:13,640 --> 00:41:17,759
Speaker 6: only one day though, in the span of three years,

836
00:41:18,360 --> 00:41:23,279
Speaker 6: span of three years. And I always said when we met,

837
00:41:23,560 --> 00:41:25,800
Speaker 6: I was like, we're going to get married in Jamaica.

838
00:41:26,120 --> 00:41:30,600
Speaker 6: And so we've been planning eleven months for this wedding, right,

839
00:41:31,080 --> 00:41:36,080
Speaker 6: and I a month before the wedding, I go shoot

840
00:41:36,200 --> 00:41:42,120
Speaker 6: a Christmas movie in Canada and I tell Steph I'm like, yo,

841
00:41:42,239 --> 00:41:44,839
Speaker 6: that's her name is Stephanie. And I told her, well,

842
00:41:45,040 --> 00:41:46,920
Speaker 6: I'm going to be in Canada. So she was like,

843
00:41:46,960 --> 00:41:49,160
Speaker 6: all right, I'm going to go to Jamaica, make sure

844
00:41:49,280 --> 00:41:52,879
Speaker 6: that everything is set and good to go, and then

845
00:41:53,120 --> 00:41:54,960
Speaker 6: you arrive and we're gonna get married.

846
00:41:55,640 --> 00:41:55,920
Speaker 3: Girl.

847
00:41:56,239 --> 00:41:59,320
Speaker 6: It is a week before our wedding. I'm about to

848
00:41:59,480 --> 00:42:03,680
Speaker 6: travel to Jamaica. And they said there's an unprecedented there's

849
00:42:03,719 --> 00:42:09,840
Speaker 6: an unprecedented hurricane hurricane five hurricane barrel category five hurricane.

850
00:42:10,719 --> 00:42:14,680
Speaker 6: I'm like, God, why all the weeks gotta be on

851
00:42:14,880 --> 00:42:20,680
Speaker 6: this week July sixth? And we get there, hurricane comes

852
00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:26,160
Speaker 6: and we're just stuck in the house, rain, no power

853
00:42:27,480 --> 00:42:31,480
Speaker 6: in Kingston at our at our home, yeah, and we're

854
00:42:31,480 --> 00:42:32,120
Speaker 6: playing Uno.

855
00:42:32,640 --> 00:42:36,120
Speaker 3: We got the candles burning and we just you know,

856
00:42:36,320 --> 00:42:37,160
Speaker 3: share stories.

857
00:42:39,520 --> 00:42:42,799
Speaker 6: It was my best friend Ron, my mom, my other

858
00:42:42,880 --> 00:42:45,920
Speaker 6: good friend Nika and her partner and Coco and stuff.

859
00:42:45,960 --> 00:42:52,360
Speaker 6: We're all sitting there eating KFC leftover KFC different islands.

860
00:42:52,960 --> 00:42:55,600
Speaker 6: And they tell us the next day that they've shut

861
00:42:55,680 --> 00:42:59,239
Speaker 6: down the whole airport, all the airports. Nobody can fly

862
00:42:59,440 --> 00:43:02,000
Speaker 6: in or come out, and they might not open up

863
00:43:02,239 --> 00:43:05,640
Speaker 6: until Sunday. We're getting supposed to get married on Saturdaturday.

864
00:43:06,440 --> 00:43:08,640
Speaker 6: My poor wife, she just broke down and cried.

865
00:43:09,760 --> 00:43:11,960
Speaker 1: As much as you tried to be optimistic, and as

866
00:43:12,040 --> 00:43:14,720
Speaker 1: much as you try to hold it together, there's just nothing.

867
00:43:15,400 --> 00:43:20,960
Speaker 6: And I said this too, that like that was the

868
00:43:21,160 --> 00:43:25,440
Speaker 6: biggest test for us, and it really tested our faith.

869
00:43:26,120 --> 00:43:28,480
Speaker 3: Tested my faith for sure. I was thinking to myself,

870
00:43:28,880 --> 00:43:29,760
Speaker 3: why is this happening?

871
00:43:29,840 --> 00:43:33,480
Speaker 1: God, Why were you always optimistic through ivy or were

872
00:43:33,520 --> 00:43:35,200
Speaker 1: you kind of like I don't know what I understand.

873
00:43:35,239 --> 00:43:38,560
Speaker 2: I was sleeping, girl, I was up.

874
00:43:40,840 --> 00:43:41,680
Speaker 3: It wasn't wedding.

875
00:43:42,920 --> 00:43:44,400
Speaker 1: It was not anyway.

876
00:43:44,400 --> 00:43:46,279
Speaker 5: It's funny because my mom came in my room and

877
00:43:46,360 --> 00:43:48,120
Speaker 5: she was like, yo, Coca has been sleeping for like

878
00:43:48,280 --> 00:43:52,479
Speaker 5: fourteen hours. I was so tired, and honestly, I knew

879
00:43:52,880 --> 00:43:55,360
Speaker 5: that God always has a plan. But like at the

880
00:43:55,480 --> 00:43:57,279
Speaker 5: end said, you know, like God will test you to

881
00:43:57,320 --> 00:43:58,279
Speaker 5: get to the testimony.

882
00:43:59,239 --> 00:44:01,640
Speaker 6: It was through the oh, I know my God, just

883
00:44:01,840 --> 00:44:05,440
Speaker 6: like the anticipation of whether or not our guests were

884
00:44:05,480 --> 00:44:07,239
Speaker 6: even going to make it to the island, if they're

885
00:44:07,239 --> 00:44:10,040
Speaker 6: going to open back up the airport, and by the

886
00:44:10,080 --> 00:44:12,320
Speaker 6: grace of God, they said, we're going to open it

887
00:44:12,400 --> 00:44:15,480
Speaker 6: back up. On Friday, we were looking at the flight

888
00:44:15,600 --> 00:44:17,520
Speaker 6: statuses of my father.

889
00:44:17,480 --> 00:44:20,480
Speaker 2: And my wife's parents, all of the key people, the

890
00:44:20,600 --> 00:44:21,600
Speaker 2: key friends and.

891
00:44:21,680 --> 00:44:24,239
Speaker 6: Family, that were stuck in like Houston. We had friends

892
00:44:24,280 --> 00:44:27,120
Speaker 6: and family that were stuck all over the world. We

893
00:44:27,360 --> 00:44:29,520
Speaker 6: had three hundred and fifteen people on that guest list.

894
00:44:29,719 --> 00:44:32,560
Speaker 6: Two hundred and seventy five showed up at the Good

895
00:44:32,600 --> 00:44:34,160
Speaker 6: Hope in Trelawney.

896
00:44:34,239 --> 00:44:36,360
Speaker 2: Jamaica, and it percentage.

897
00:44:36,680 --> 00:44:40,279
Speaker 3: It was the most amazing wedding ever.

898
00:44:40,560 --> 00:44:43,200
Speaker 6: Like I know, everybody, y'all got your nice little weddings

899
00:44:43,280 --> 00:44:47,239
Speaker 6: out there in Italy better than I'm going to say

900
00:44:47,280 --> 00:44:48,279
Speaker 6: I fell it out there.

901
00:44:48,440 --> 00:44:50,919
Speaker 2: My husband's gonna be like, not after how much we spent,

902
00:44:51,680 --> 00:44:52,880
Speaker 2: But I'm like, man.

903
00:44:52,880 --> 00:44:54,600
Speaker 3: It was given us the spirit.

904
00:44:54,840 --> 00:44:58,680
Speaker 6: It was the story how everybody got there, because everybody

905
00:44:58,760 --> 00:45:02,040
Speaker 6: had a story how they Jamaica. I agree there were

906
00:45:02,040 --> 00:45:03,759
Speaker 6: a lot of people that didn't make it, but there

907
00:45:03,760 --> 00:45:05,400
Speaker 6: are a lot of people that did make it. And

908
00:45:05,560 --> 00:45:08,840
Speaker 6: I think when everybody got to the island, everybody just

909
00:45:08,880 --> 00:45:09,319
Speaker 6: didn't care.

910
00:45:09,400 --> 00:45:15,799
Speaker 3: They were like, we made it. Read everybody the rain

911
00:45:16,360 --> 00:45:17,040
Speaker 3: it was clear.

912
00:45:17,320 --> 00:45:19,960
Speaker 6: They said the rain might have fallen on July sixth.

913
00:45:20,040 --> 00:45:22,160
Speaker 6: I said, Baby, I said, Steph, the rain is not

914
00:45:22,239 --> 00:45:24,160
Speaker 6: gonna rain on our wedding. It's not gonna rain during

915
00:45:24,160 --> 00:45:27,359
Speaker 6: the ceremony. And then lo and behold the rain came

916
00:45:27,560 --> 00:45:32,360
Speaker 6: down soon as we did the the son and mother dance.

917
00:45:32,800 --> 00:45:33,080
Speaker 2: Wow.

918
00:45:33,239 --> 00:45:37,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, but it was fine. It was okay as long

919
00:45:37,920 --> 00:45:40,600
Speaker 3: as we got through the wedding, it was. It was amazing.

920
00:45:40,600 --> 00:45:47,800
Speaker 3: And then we had the best after party home video footage.

921
00:45:47,840 --> 00:45:53,280
Speaker 3: And I can't wait the edit that document.

922
00:45:53,440 --> 00:45:55,840
Speaker 1: I was particularly touched to by you and your mom's

923
00:45:55,960 --> 00:45:57,480
Speaker 1: dance because it's also the choice of song.

924
00:45:58,080 --> 00:45:59,080
Speaker 2: I'm like, that's a beautiful song.

925
00:45:59,080 --> 00:46:00,880
Speaker 1: You would never think of applying that to your your

926
00:46:00,960 --> 00:46:04,480
Speaker 1: son and your child everything. I'm already getting teary. I

927
00:46:04,640 --> 00:46:07,360
Speaker 1: thinking about my four sons and having to have that

928
00:46:07,560 --> 00:46:08,160
Speaker 1: dance with them.

929
00:46:08,719 --> 00:46:09,399
Speaker 3: Oh my god.

930
00:46:09,920 --> 00:46:13,040
Speaker 6: I remember so growing up when my mom would pick

931
00:46:13,320 --> 00:46:15,920
Speaker 6: Coco and I up from school, after she would pick

932
00:46:16,000 --> 00:46:18,919
Speaker 6: us up from uh from shooting Mosha, she would play

933
00:46:19,000 --> 00:46:22,240
Speaker 6: that album front to back and that specific song everything.

934
00:46:22,680 --> 00:46:24,880
Speaker 3: Wow, we're gonna dance to this song?

935
00:46:26,160 --> 00:46:26,480
Speaker 8: Oh my god?

936
00:46:26,520 --> 00:46:28,440
Speaker 2: Should I be picking out a song now? But the

937
00:46:28,560 --> 00:46:30,480
Speaker 2: music is not even good? The music is not even

938
00:46:30,520 --> 00:46:30,839
Speaker 2: good now.

939
00:46:30,960 --> 00:46:32,880
Speaker 1: This is probably gonna be some old robat that I

940
00:46:33,000 --> 00:46:35,080
Speaker 1: picked because the music nowadays young.

941
00:46:35,040 --> 00:46:35,960
Speaker 2: I don't know about that.

942
00:46:36,200 --> 00:46:38,960
Speaker 6: And then we have you know, our second mom, Miss May.

943
00:46:39,120 --> 00:46:42,400
Speaker 6: She was growing up so you know, we were blessed

944
00:46:42,440 --> 00:46:46,200
Speaker 6: to have Miss May in our lives. When our mom

945
00:46:46,360 --> 00:46:48,239
Speaker 6: was always shooting or doing a show.

946
00:46:48,719 --> 00:46:50,279
Speaker 3: You know, we had Miss May. She was like our

947
00:46:50,320 --> 00:46:52,600
Speaker 3: living nanny, and so I got to dance with her.

948
00:46:53,000 --> 00:46:54,120
Speaker 2: That's a beautiful moment.

949
00:46:54,480 --> 00:46:58,200
Speaker 6: We danced to Uh, my life is in your hands. Wow, Franklin,

950
00:46:58,440 --> 00:46:59,480
Speaker 6: that started balling.

951
00:47:00,239 --> 00:47:03,080
Speaker 2: Yes, you know them kind of moments.

952
00:47:03,120 --> 00:47:05,359
Speaker 1: As much as you try to contain yourself, I'm sure

953
00:47:05,400 --> 00:47:06,839
Speaker 1: there was not a dry eye in the house.

954
00:47:06,880 --> 00:47:07,440
Speaker 2: That's beautiful.

955
00:47:07,520 --> 00:47:08,879
Speaker 3: It was a beautifully ordained wedding.

956
00:47:09,040 --> 00:47:11,120
Speaker 1: I love that, such a round out the wedding chatter.

957
00:47:12,280 --> 00:47:17,759
Speaker 1: Grandma Ivy, you're paying homage to her. Your groom's men

958
00:47:17,840 --> 00:47:20,560
Speaker 1: had a particular garb on tell us about that and

959
00:47:20,800 --> 00:47:23,080
Speaker 1: what whose idea was that?

960
00:47:23,239 --> 00:47:24,360
Speaker 6: Like moment?

961
00:47:24,560 --> 00:47:26,319
Speaker 2: Oh, I thought it was no.

962
00:47:28,560 --> 00:47:28,800
Speaker 1: She was.

963
00:47:28,960 --> 00:47:34,200
Speaker 6: She styled in the process. Even dang rest in peace,

964
00:47:34,480 --> 00:47:39,000
Speaker 6: war aor Boswell. He was the designer of my tuxedo

965
00:47:39,600 --> 00:47:43,520
Speaker 6: and it was the last body of work that he

966
00:47:43,760 --> 00:47:45,239
Speaker 6: designed before his pass.

967
00:47:46,280 --> 00:47:47,080
Speaker 2: I'm sorry to hear that.

968
00:47:47,239 --> 00:47:49,680
Speaker 3: Thank you. He designed this.

969
00:47:49,760 --> 00:47:55,200
Speaker 6: Beautiful double breasted off white tuxedo jacket and we had

970
00:47:55,280 --> 00:47:58,720
Speaker 6: two different pants, so we had the off white pants

971
00:47:58,760 --> 00:48:00,279
Speaker 6: to match with the jacket, and then we had the

972
00:48:00,360 --> 00:48:01,520
Speaker 6: black linen pants to.

973
00:48:03,120 --> 00:48:04,800
Speaker 3: Go with the jacket to compliment the jacket.

974
00:48:05,280 --> 00:48:09,280
Speaker 6: And the night night before UH we flew to Jamaica,

975
00:48:09,840 --> 00:48:11,520
Speaker 6: I was like Coco, which one am I gonna wear?

976
00:48:13,600 --> 00:48:15,720
Speaker 3: And we collectively made this decision.

977
00:48:15,360 --> 00:48:17,120
Speaker 6: That it was going to be the off white pants,

978
00:48:17,520 --> 00:48:20,240
Speaker 6: and then I wore the black one for the reception.

979
00:48:21,040 --> 00:48:25,520
Speaker 6: And then I hit up my brother Toastin from Naid's

980
00:48:25,520 --> 00:48:29,000
Speaker 6: studio and he was able to look at some of

981
00:48:29,040 --> 00:48:31,880
Speaker 6: the previous designs that my grandmother made from back in

982
00:48:31,960 --> 00:48:35,640
Speaker 6: the seventies, and he created like this modern version of

983
00:48:35,719 --> 00:48:39,920
Speaker 6: the cariba that my grandmother designed, which was to come

984
00:48:39,960 --> 00:48:43,800
Speaker 6: back colonial forms of dress back in the seventies with

985
00:48:44,280 --> 00:48:49,239
Speaker 6: you know, the short sleeve linen jacket and the de

986
00:48:49,360 --> 00:48:54,080
Speaker 6: pleated pants. And so it was beautiful that Toaston was

987
00:48:54,160 --> 00:49:00,239
Speaker 6: able to bring my grandmother's dream UH to make could

988
00:49:00,239 --> 00:49:03,400
Speaker 6: come alive because the Kariba was our grandmother's dream, you know.

989
00:49:03,520 --> 00:49:05,000
Speaker 3: She said it came to her in a dream that

990
00:49:05,120 --> 00:49:05,680
Speaker 3: she saw.

991
00:49:05,600 --> 00:49:10,440
Speaker 6: This, this this beautiful suit dress for man that's not

992
00:49:10,680 --> 00:49:13,680
Speaker 6: just your regular suit and tie. That's a young man

993
00:49:14,760 --> 00:49:18,879
Speaker 6: in Jamaica can feel proud and wear these these these

994
00:49:18,960 --> 00:49:23,600
Speaker 6: forms of dress and change the world in this formal attire.

995
00:49:23,920 --> 00:49:26,440
Speaker 3: Wow, that that came from her mind. That literally came

996
00:49:26,480 --> 00:49:27,040
Speaker 3: from a dream.

997
00:49:27,160 --> 00:49:29,320
Speaker 6: And so I thought, what better way to honor my

998
00:49:29,440 --> 00:49:33,440
Speaker 6: Jamaican heritage and my Jamaican grandmother then to dress my

999
00:49:33,520 --> 00:49:35,280
Speaker 6: groom's men in the Cariba.

1000
00:49:35,840 --> 00:49:39,560
Speaker 2: They were sharp, so sharp, Oh my gosh, so sharp.

1001
00:49:39,680 --> 00:49:43,320
Speaker 1: So from a stylish perspective, you were feeling it, Ivy, Oh, no, absolutely.

1002
00:49:43,160 --> 00:49:45,680
Speaker 5: Because I'm so passionate about the Cariba and the history

1003
00:49:45,719 --> 00:49:47,880
Speaker 5: of it, not just because it's our grandmother, just because

1004
00:49:47,920 --> 00:49:51,560
Speaker 5: of like the intentionality behind it, and because like not

1005
00:49:51,840 --> 00:49:55,719
Speaker 5: just off of what Etchien was saying, but just to emphasize,

1006
00:49:55,760 --> 00:49:58,800
Speaker 5: like she was making something sustainable, Like it was a

1007
00:49:58,880 --> 00:50:02,440
Speaker 5: thing about her seeing men wearing long sleeve jackets and

1008
00:50:02,600 --> 00:50:05,440
Speaker 5: suits and they're sweating. They're like, yo, there are men

1009
00:50:05,920 --> 00:50:08,359
Speaker 5: taking off their shirts and they can see sweat drip.

1010
00:50:08,760 --> 00:50:10,960
Speaker 5: And she was like, Yo, honestly, we need to make

1011
00:50:11,040 --> 00:50:13,919
Speaker 5: something that's short sleeve, that's sustainable, that make people look

1012
00:50:13,960 --> 00:50:15,920
Speaker 5: good and feel good and they know that they can

1013
00:50:16,239 --> 00:50:18,359
Speaker 5: get into the courtroom and they can know that they can,

1014
00:50:18,760 --> 00:50:22,360
Speaker 5: you know, take meetings in Cuba with foreign foreigners and presidents,

1015
00:50:22,400 --> 00:50:26,520
Speaker 5: everything taken seriously. And I really look at this one

1016
00:50:26,640 --> 00:50:30,000
Speaker 5: photo of Michael Manley wearing his Cariba and it's with

1017
00:50:30,200 --> 00:50:34,200
Speaker 5: him and different prime ministers and I believe Fidel Castro

1018
00:50:34,560 --> 00:50:38,200
Speaker 5: and you know, different people from different different countries, and

1019
00:50:38,280 --> 00:50:41,880
Speaker 5: I'm like, wow, look upon miss Ivy and what she created.

1020
00:50:42,600 --> 00:50:45,480
Speaker 5: It's just it's you know, it's something that I could

1021
00:50:45,560 --> 00:50:48,840
Speaker 5: literally google that anybody can see. And I you know,

1022
00:50:49,200 --> 00:50:50,560
Speaker 5: you know, I plan to do the same at my

1023
00:50:50,680 --> 00:50:51,359
Speaker 5: wedding one day.

1024
00:50:51,520 --> 00:50:54,840
Speaker 2: You know, speak a girl. Absolutely.

1025
00:50:55,480 --> 00:50:58,560
Speaker 1: I am even going to say that I think you

1026
00:50:58,719 --> 00:51:01,000
Speaker 1: might have started some sort of trends. Like people of

1027
00:51:01,080 --> 00:51:02,960
Speaker 1: course will jump on the trend because they think it's

1028
00:51:03,040 --> 00:51:05,560
Speaker 1: just trendy or it's fashion or it's different. But I

1029
00:51:05,640 --> 00:51:08,960
Speaker 1: think that in every thing that you do, honoring your

1030
00:51:08,960 --> 00:51:11,000
Speaker 1: grandmother and telling the story of the Kreeba is so

1031
00:51:11,120 --> 00:51:13,640
Speaker 1: important because you know, the blogs will pick up your

1032
00:51:13,640 --> 00:51:15,600
Speaker 1: picture and people may say, oh my god, we love

1033
00:51:15,640 --> 00:51:17,200
Speaker 1: this look. Where they may question the look, like some

1034
00:51:17,280 --> 00:51:20,600
Speaker 1: people did, but you were very clear about saying, uh huh,

1035
00:51:21,640 --> 00:51:22,319
Speaker 1: not this man.

1036
00:51:22,360 --> 00:51:23,680
Speaker 3: You gotta understand where it comes from.

1037
00:51:23,719 --> 00:51:25,800
Speaker 1: Pick apart the wedding, but don't pick apart the Koreba.

1038
00:51:26,360 --> 00:51:28,400
Speaker 1: This is where it comes from exactly, and I can

1039
00:51:28,520 --> 00:51:31,680
Speaker 1: see people doing that. People have weddings in the islands

1040
00:51:31,719 --> 00:51:34,680
Speaker 1: and in warm climates always, so this may be like

1041
00:51:34,760 --> 00:51:36,800
Speaker 1: a new trend that you guys start to just I

1042
00:51:36,920 --> 00:51:37,200
Speaker 1: see it.

1043
00:51:39,239 --> 00:51:40,040
Speaker 2: Ivs. Yeah.

1044
00:51:40,520 --> 00:51:43,520
Speaker 5: December twenty twenty four, House of Ivy making a comeback.

1045
00:51:43,760 --> 00:51:50,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, it's giving announcement. Yeah for sure, we have.

1046
00:51:50,800 --> 00:51:52,680
Speaker 3: December is a big year, a big month.

1047
00:51:52,880 --> 00:51:53,080
Speaker 6: Yeah.

1048
00:51:53,280 --> 00:51:57,279
Speaker 1: December n it's what's your birthday? December twenty third, nice,

1049
00:51:57,719 --> 00:52:00,200
Speaker 1: my Goda's birthday. And the fifth of December it's not

1050
00:52:00,280 --> 00:52:02,400
Speaker 1: love Baby and your Wife is the second.

1051
00:52:02,600 --> 00:52:07,040
Speaker 6: Yeah, November sixteenth, I'm the only scorpio on the fan. Well,

1052
00:52:07,080 --> 00:52:08,440
Speaker 6: my stepdaddy's a scorpio as well.

1053
00:52:08,480 --> 00:52:10,720
Speaker 2: My baby boy is too. November eight awesome.

1054
00:52:10,960 --> 00:52:13,160
Speaker 5: And then ten has a movie coming out in December two.

1055
00:52:13,760 --> 00:52:19,000
Speaker 6: Yeah, HBO will own network. Okay, listen to Matrimony. Nice

1056
00:52:19,040 --> 00:52:21,320
Speaker 6: coming out, and then day after that premiere is on

1057
00:52:21,719 --> 00:52:25,520
Speaker 6: HBO Max my first, my first lead role.

1058
00:52:30,120 --> 00:52:30,920
Speaker 3: That's amazing.

1059
00:52:31,000 --> 00:52:33,040
Speaker 2: You know, everybody loves a Christmas, so it's my favorite

1060
00:52:33,080 --> 00:52:33,520
Speaker 2: time of year.

1061
00:52:34,080 --> 00:52:35,680
Speaker 1: Like I was born at the right, so I was

1062
00:52:35,680 --> 00:52:38,640
Speaker 1: actually doing on Christmas Day came twenty days early and

1063
00:52:38,880 --> 00:52:41,799
Speaker 1: for me after Halloween, like, that's my time of year.

1064
00:52:41,960 --> 00:52:44,759
Speaker 1: So my Christmas lights go up, trees go up, all

1065
00:52:44,840 --> 00:52:47,880
Speaker 1: seven of them. November first, and it's the entire season.

1066
00:52:47,880 --> 00:52:51,839
Speaker 1: We celebrate Thanksgiving, my Birthday, Christmas, family time.

1067
00:52:51,920 --> 00:52:54,040
Speaker 2: And I will definitely put that movie in rotation. Tell

1068
00:52:54,120 --> 00:52:55,040
Speaker 2: us the name one more time.

1069
00:52:56,040 --> 00:53:02,960
Speaker 3: You heard it first right here on Dead Ass Podcast, Matrimony.

1070
00:53:04,440 --> 00:53:10,280
Speaker 6: Network Leading Man starring myself and Ashley Sharp Chestnut, directed

1071
00:53:10,320 --> 00:53:13,680
Speaker 6: by Rhonda Baraka. Yeah, and you'll see it on on

1072
00:53:13,880 --> 00:53:15,879
Speaker 6: Network and comes out on HBO Max.

1073
00:53:16,160 --> 00:53:16,640
Speaker 2: I love that.

1074
00:53:16,920 --> 00:53:19,200
Speaker 1: So between that and How Survivor making a comeback, it's

1075
00:53:19,239 --> 00:53:22,239
Speaker 1: about to be an amazing into an amazing, incredible year

1076
00:53:22,320 --> 00:53:23,360
Speaker 1: with so many memories.

1077
00:53:23,840 --> 00:53:26,000
Speaker 2: I am so honored to sit alongside you, guys.

1078
00:53:26,040 --> 00:53:28,279
Speaker 1: You have no idea, and sitting here with you during

1079
00:53:28,360 --> 00:53:31,279
Speaker 1: this time, I just get to see even more why

1080
00:53:31,360 --> 00:53:33,839
Speaker 1: I felt like there was a genuine connection here, more

1081
00:53:33,880 --> 00:53:36,480
Speaker 1: than just the Jamaican roots, more than just you know,

1082
00:53:36,560 --> 00:53:38,840
Speaker 1: being people who are like minded individuals. But this is

1083
00:53:38,920 --> 00:53:41,719
Speaker 1: something like a kindred spirit that I feel with you too.

1084
00:53:41,960 --> 00:53:44,200
Speaker 1: So thank you, thank you for being so eloquent and

1085
00:53:44,400 --> 00:53:47,439
Speaker 1: for you know, spending some time with me, a day

1086
00:53:47,480 --> 00:53:52,920
Speaker 1: with k that's what make yea And if you ever

1087
00:53:53,000 --> 00:53:55,400
Speaker 1: decided to bring Walk Good to La Atlanta, you know

1088
00:53:55,440 --> 00:53:55,919
Speaker 1: what I'm saying.

1089
00:53:56,040 --> 00:54:01,880
Speaker 3: Like you're also ready hear first. Okay, so let me

1090
00:54:01,960 --> 00:54:02,359
Speaker 3: know how.

1091
00:54:13,080 --> 00:54:18,040
Speaker 2: I love it. Let's take a break, y'all, because we

1092
00:54:18,200 --> 00:54:20,480
Speaker 2: can sit here and cackle all day. Let's take a

1093
00:54:20,520 --> 00:54:29,400
Speaker 2: quick break and we will be right back. All right.

1094
00:54:29,440 --> 00:54:32,600
Speaker 1: So I'm back with et t N and Ivy Coco Maurice,

1095
00:54:33,239 --> 00:54:35,360
Speaker 1: So tell me what's something that you're dead ass about?

1096
00:54:36,719 --> 00:54:38,600
Speaker 2: Nobody can shake you. I'm dead ass.

1097
00:54:38,440 --> 00:54:43,919
Speaker 6: About I am dead ass about my wife. Yes, I'm

1098
00:54:44,040 --> 00:54:47,080
Speaker 6: dead ass about my sister, Ivy Coco. I'm dead ass

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Speaker 6: about now my stay Marley Ray. I'm dead ass about

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Speaker 6: my mother. I'm dead ass about Walk Good.

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Speaker 5: I love that all the I'm dead ass about loyalty,

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Speaker 5: I'm deadass about my family, and I am dead ass

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Speaker 5: about honesty.

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Speaker 2: Those three things. Oh, just so you know, are you single, Ivy?

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Speaker 2: I am single?

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Speaker 1: Okay, So just no, there's a prospect out here to

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Speaker 1: start with those three Okay, she said, that's about those

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Speaker 1: three things.

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Speaker 2: Three things? Yeah, are you single and mingling or you

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Speaker 2: just kind of like.

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Speaker 5: No, it's don't work now I'm singling single and yeah

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Speaker 5: I am. It's really it's fun, it's exciting.

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Speaker 2: Good for you. I love that. Are you overprotective big brother?

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Speaker 3: Very much?

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Speaker 4: So?

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Speaker 2: I can just imagine I would.

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Speaker 6: She knows better than to introduce me to somebody who

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Speaker 6: she's not serious about it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you got a whole tight until the right time.

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Speaker 7: I love that.

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Speaker 2: Well, we're gonna wrap up the show now.

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Speaker 1: Tell everybody where they can find you, guys about we

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Speaker 1: Love that all right, and be sure to find us

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Speaker 1: on Patreon to see exclusive dead Ass podcast video content.

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Speaker 1: And if you follow us on social media, you can

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Speaker 3: Walkody.

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Speaker 2: Oh is that like a thing?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, teach me walk good wod Let me see.

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Speaker 7: I like that.

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Speaker 2: I like you are we leg going the bird.

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Speaker 7: Bird.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for being here, y'all.

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Speaker 3: Thank you for having us.

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Speaker 2: Good time than cut.

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