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Speaker 1: Wait the program Your Alarm to power one oh five

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Speaker 1: point one on iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: Good morning Usa yo yo yo yo.

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Speaker 3: Yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo

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Speaker 3: yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo.

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Speaker 4: What's up? Just Larry Charlamani God, it's Thursday. Happy New Year?

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Speaker 5: That's right, Happy New Year?

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Speaker 6: How long could you say Happy New Years?

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Speaker 7: You fit?

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Speaker 4: Did you say it for another weekly? Did we just

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Speaker 4: say it one more day? Had long?

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Speaker 6: Did we say half the New Year?

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Speaker 3: I really shouldn't even be saying it now because we're

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Speaker 3: on vacation, you know what I'm saying. But you know,

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Speaker 3: since they got us doing these these type of things

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Speaker 3: on our vacation, I don't know how happy I am

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Speaker 3: about that.

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Speaker 4: But Happy New Year, that's right.

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Speaker 2: And today's all about the queens, right like Patti Leabell,

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Speaker 2: Miss Patty Leabelle, Stephanie Nell Shaka Khan, Felicia Rishard and

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Speaker 2: Marra brocka Kit.

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Speaker 4: Do you know the goosebumps I get when you name

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Speaker 4: every single one of them names?

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Speaker 3: I mean, every single one of those women give me

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Speaker 3: absolute goose bumps. If you've ever been around any of

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Speaker 3: these women, you know that you're not you know around

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Speaker 3: just regular individuals. You are around actual spiritual beings, just

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Speaker 3: living human existences, and we are all blessed to have

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Speaker 3: all of those people on our planets.

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Speaker 4: Still, that is.

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Speaker 6: Right, Well, let's get into those interviews.

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Speaker 4: We're gonna be talking to those queens in a little bit.

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Speaker 4: It's the Breakfast Club on the morning for Moody.

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Speaker 1: Is it your time to get it off your chest,

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Speaker 1: whether you're mad or blessed, time to get.

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Speaker 4: Up and get something.

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Speaker 1: Call them now eight hundred and five eighty five, one

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Speaker 1: oh five to one.

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Speaker 4: We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club.

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Speaker 4: What's up on mylone? Who's there?

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Speaker 8: Hello?

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Speaker 9: This is Sian. Good morning y'all. So I just want

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Speaker 9: to say, whoever used the last little bit of my

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Speaker 9: coffee creamer.

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Speaker 10: Last night at work? I work starts at the hospital?

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Speaker 10: Whoever us my last bit of coffee cream at work?

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Speaker 11: Your mom?

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Speaker 12: A ho?

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Speaker 4: Damn? What hospital you work at? And where are you

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Speaker 4: calling from? Okay?

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Speaker 9: I'm calling from Florence, South Carolina. I work at MUSC

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Speaker 9: and someone had the audacity to use.

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Speaker 4: My That's crazy that you even left did was your

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Speaker 4: name on it? No?

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Speaker 13: Damning your coffee people do this to her all the time, dismay,

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Speaker 13: they just did this.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, they they're nasty people in it, and I hate them,

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Speaker 9: but their mom's the whole.

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Speaker 10: I'm on, I'm on the way to get my daughter

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Speaker 10: ready for school this morning, and I'm so hot about this.

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Speaker 14: I understand.

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Speaker 3: Take a breathe, And I don't know why you whole

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Speaker 3: shaming people mamas like, damn, mamas can't have a whole face.

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Speaker 10: No, they can't, not in my world.

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Speaker 4: It's crazy to think about that, y'all.

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Speaker 3: Y'all too, It is a lot of mamas out there

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Speaker 3: that holds to somebody that is crazy thinking about and

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Speaker 3: grandma's and everything.

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Speaker 4: I don't think there's anything wrong with it. I think

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Speaker 4: that everybody should have a whole face.

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Speaker 14: Okay, everybody do at some point.

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Speaker 3: That is a very hard thing for people to grasp

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Speaker 3: the like your mama at some point gave some manfulation

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Speaker 3: a few times.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't want.

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Speaker 4: To think about that. I don't know about grandma like that.

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Speaker 14: Either.

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Speaker 3: You're doing it to somebody, Mama, I'm doing it to somebody.

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Speaker 3: Think about that logan slam your daddy one time just

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Speaker 3: because Okay, hello, who's this irritated uber?

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Speaker 14: Driver.

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Speaker 3: He irritated, Uber driver, how are you blasting?

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Speaker 15: How be medicated?

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Speaker 4: There you go?

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Speaker 15: Okay, I'm irritated.

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Speaker 16: I drive in the city of Detroit, and in my

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Speaker 16: car I got a picture of Barack Obama and Michelle

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Speaker 16: Obama as I should. I got a picture of Kamala

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Speaker 16: Harris when I met her in Betray. I had the

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Speaker 16: Trump supporter in my car tell me yesterday, if he

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Speaker 16: knew what a ninjab was picking him up, he would

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Speaker 16: have counted the right, said, I said, I said hey.

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Speaker 15: I said go, so he said it and I dropped

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Speaker 15: his ass.

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Speaker 16: Off on the east side of the tray.

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Speaker 4: I said, I.

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Speaker 16: Figure it out.

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Speaker 3: Why did he think he could beat the ninja? Did

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Speaker 3: you have your mask on, your sword and everything else?

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Speaker 4: Shut up?

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Speaker 9: Man, you know what, You're all funny.

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Speaker 15: But these Trump supporters, y'all do not run this y'all.

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Speaker 16: I'm tired of y'all talking about what Donald Trump.

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Speaker 15: Has done for this country.

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Speaker 16: He's segregated us. He wants to try to put us

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Speaker 16: in our place. And then I'm tired of him talking

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Speaker 16: about construction workers that we make too much money. I

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Speaker 16: told the Trump supporter get out there and do the

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Speaker 16: jobs that a construction worker does put some respect on

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Speaker 16: our page and leave our affordable wages alone.

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Speaker 4: I agree with you. How many stars did he give you?

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Speaker 16: He gave listen, he gave me one star, reported me

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Speaker 16: telling me that I have the sense of pictures.

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Speaker 10: Up in my car.

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Speaker 16: Boober called me yesterday and said, man, what's going on?

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Speaker 16: You gotta complain? I said, okay, and I said I

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Speaker 16: got a picture of my president, Barack Obama and his wife.

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Speaker 16: They said maybe I should take it down. I said,

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Speaker 16: maybe you should kiss my ass?

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Speaker 4: Right? I wonder what the policy though?

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Speaker 16: They tell us to be neutral and stuff like that.

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Speaker 16: I said, there's no neutral about it. When you get

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Speaker 16: in my car and talking ignorant.

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Speaker 14: You call me your.

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Speaker 16: Name, and then you're gonna call me out my name.

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Speaker 16: Thank you, jes you heard that you're gonna call me

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Speaker 16: out by name. Put some respect on my melani.

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Speaker 4: First of all, well, I'm mad.

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Speaker 3: I'm mad at you that you didn't mad at you

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Speaker 3: that you didn't call him a cracker back. But also

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Speaker 3: if you know what.

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Speaker 16: I called him, call him an ignorant, blooney smelling damn

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Speaker 16: trust oh joe head oh. I called him up everything

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Speaker 16: else too. But I can't say it on the radio.

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Speaker 15: But if you want me to, I will. But I'm

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Speaker 15: a Trump reporters.

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Speaker 16: Y'all need to stay in y'all lane.

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Speaker 4: You should have called me, because you should. You should

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Speaker 4: have called him a milk cricket.

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Speaker 3: But also to look at the flip side, right, if

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Speaker 3: you would have gotten into a car and the person

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Speaker 3: had a bunch of magapart for Neilia, how would you

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Speaker 11: I would have got in that car.

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Speaker 16: I want to cancel that, right.

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Speaker 4: So it's kind of the same thing. Yeah, yeah, but

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Speaker 4: he should have canceled it.

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Speaker 16: He should have canceled it if he's seen a beautiful

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Speaker 16: black woman with.

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Speaker 3: Hello damn cut the call off.

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Speaker 4: Playing whole Wow.

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Speaker 2: I was gonna tell the baby should download the lift app,

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Speaker 2: you know, just in case you go, so she'd have

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Speaker 2: some some other income coming in down.

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Speaker 3: But also to man, if you want to get where

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Speaker 3: you're going this mind you god damn business. You can't

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Speaker 3: hold your political opinion for two seconds.

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Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 3: You get in the car, you see Barack Obama picture,

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Speaker 3: Michelle Obama picture, Shut.

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Speaker 4: The hell up.

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Speaker 3: You're getting somebody call you see macapraff and shut the

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Speaker 3: hell up all Like she said, cancel the ride.

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Speaker 13: I was gonna say, just get out like you you

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Speaker 13: I pull off and then you you tell me that

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Speaker 13: you if you knew that I was gonna be black,

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Speaker 13: you would have canceled.

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Speaker 4: You can always get out.

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Speaker 6: Now, yeah, get out right now.

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Speaker 13: That's why if she said, if she did what she

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Speaker 13: said and dropped his ass off in the hood, good time.

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Speaker 2: But I'm like selo, if I got to get to

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Speaker 2: the airport, I ain't got time to mess with you

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Speaker 2: out Just get me there.

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Speaker 6: I don't care.

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Speaker 3: I don't care what you got in the reality is,

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Speaker 3: you don't know what's in the person's head.

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Speaker 4: That's heart, you know, or trunk. So you got it,

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Speaker 4: got to put.

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Speaker 6: It off your chest. Eight hundred five eighty five, one

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Speaker 6: oh five.

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Speaker 2: If you need to, then hit us up. Now it's

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Speaker 2: the breakfast Club, go morning. This is your time to

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Speaker 2: get it off your chest. Eight hundred five five five one.

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Speaker 2: We want to hear from you on the breakfast club.

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Speaker 4: Hello, who's this.

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Speaker 11: Hey, I'm gonna remain anonymous.

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Speaker 3: Why we can't see you? You can say your name

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Speaker 3: is Jill Scott for.

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Speaker 11: All we know, no, no, no, not ba nah I

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Speaker 11: ain't gonna say my name.

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Speaker 10: Let me care what happened.

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Speaker 11: I worked for the airlines and I got injured on

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Speaker 11: the clock, and then the doctor said I can go

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Speaker 11: back to work.

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Speaker 4: You don't.

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Speaker 11: Manager, don't want to let me come back towards from

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Speaker 11: one hundred percent. But the doctor said, you will never

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Speaker 11: be one hundred percent. Ain't that stupid?

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Speaker 2: So basically you said you ain't trying to ever go

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Speaker 2: back to work because the doctor said you ain't never

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Speaker 2: gonna be one hundred percent, So you ain't never going

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Speaker 2: back to No.

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Speaker 11: I want to go back to one. I want to

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Speaker 11: go back to it, but they have this dumb ass

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Speaker 11: one hundred healed policies that don't exist that they want

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Speaker 11: to use. But they've got stoop for it. I't ever

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Speaker 11: called top dog law.

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Speaker 4: You called dog law. I won't tell what they said

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Speaker 4: at top laws.

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Speaker 11: My impairment rating was too low, so they can't take

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Speaker 11: my thing.

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Speaker 4: So what you gotta do? What are you gonna do?

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Speaker 4: In the meantime, I gotta.

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Speaker 11: Keep calling lawyers because airlines got a history of when

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Speaker 11: people get injured on the clock, and let's they say

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Speaker 11: they're not gonna ever be one hundred percent. They want

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Speaker 11: to push them back to try to make them quit.

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Speaker 11: I didn't quit it for my job. I want to

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Speaker 11: them horse even get that job.

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Speaker 4: I agree, man, I'm sure it might.

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Speaker 11: Not be a good paying job, but I'm still gonna

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Speaker 11: try to get my job. I've been calling lawyers and everything,

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Speaker 11: but this manager she also kind of races too.

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Speaker 3: We're gonna have Laura La Rose reach out the top

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Speaker 3: dog law for you, man. You know she gotta she

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Speaker 3: got a different relationship with them, so you're gonna have

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Speaker 2: Everybody is dej NV just hilarious, charlamage the guy we

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Speaker 2: That's right, Miss Marl brock a kill, welcome, thank you.

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Speaker 17: Good morning, good morning, nice to be here.

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Speaker 4: How are you Less Black and Holly Fie. How's your energy?

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Speaker 17: I'm really I'm floating.

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Speaker 4: How does it feel to have yet another hit TV show?

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Speaker 4: Let's talk about it.

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Speaker 4: This one's on Netflix.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, this one's on Netflix. Yeah, so how did the

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Speaker 17: We're doing for I had a deal, you know, my

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Speaker 18: It was special.

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Speaker 17: From the beginning, I met Judy Bloom somebody else's come on,

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Speaker 19: And back in the seventies it was controversial because of

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Speaker 17: I'm actually looking at the real thing. It's just what

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Speaker 17: gets on that bigger screen, and how important it is.

449
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Speaker 17: I know, we talk about representation matters. That's why it matters.

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Speaker 17: You got to see yourself in order to decide is

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Speaker 17: that beautiful? Is that how I want to look?

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Speaker 4: You know?

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Speaker 18: Is that right?

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Speaker 14: Ezact type?

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Speaker 17: You know, I can't see it, And I think boys

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Speaker 17: are getting their heartbroken a lot sooner.

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Speaker 18: I felt so bad for adjusting the whole time.

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Speaker 19: Why because I just felt like a lot of times

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Speaker 19: the characters they were yearning for this like space of

460
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Speaker 19: like I don't know, to just be okay and the

461
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Speaker 19: things would be going good and then something what else

462
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Speaker 19: would happened to be? Something small would be like for Keisha,

463
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Speaker 19: like the video get sent to her phone and she's

464
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Speaker 19: finally in this relationship, you know what I mean? Like

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Speaker 19: things were just like happening. I'm like dying kids, Like

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Speaker 19: why can't they just be and not deal with these things? Yes,

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Speaker 19: it's life, and it's also technology that we didn't have.

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Speaker 19: We got some freedoms without you know that they don't.

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Speaker 19: They're not afforded. That's what I want to talk about.

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Speaker 19: It's like, are we making any room for them? Like

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Speaker 19: one of the things that I love when we every

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Speaker 19: production meeting, I said, we're making an epic and intimate

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Speaker 19: love story within a love letter to Los Angeles, right,

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Speaker 19: And what that meant to me is that we need

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Speaker 19: to see them in scope and scale and epic. I

476
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Speaker 19: need to see them their bodies in the space in

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Speaker 19: Los Angeles. What that means is that they it's a

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Speaker 19: feeling cinematically that I'm making you feel that they belong here.

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Speaker 19: And when they belong here, they belong to us.

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Speaker 17: And so you would engage with our children differently, psychologically, emotionally,

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Speaker 17: those things are important in our image on the details,

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Speaker 17: the details on anyone makes them feel more human. So

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Speaker 17: I want to make just room for their humanity, so

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Speaker 17: that we think about the measures around technology, we think

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Speaker 17: about what the rules are for these kids. I mean,

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Speaker 17: these kids are being told today that you make one

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Speaker 17: false move, you won't get a scholarship.

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Speaker 6: I mean, come on, it's the truth that follows them

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Speaker 6: for the rest of their lives.

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Speaker 17: But the rest of their life said, there's no humanity

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Speaker 17: in that, And as much as it's a story about

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Speaker 17: the kids, it's a story about the adults, right, Like,

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Speaker 17: like the.

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Speaker 4: Way Judy Bloom made people feel seen at thirteen, it

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Speaker 4: feels to me like you're making us feel seen at

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Speaker 4: forty something fifty something, So what do those ages need

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Speaker 4: that nobody's writing about.

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Speaker 17: I'm going to keep saying this over just more complexity,

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Speaker 17: more of our human side. Like don't you know, I've

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Speaker 17: said before, I don't you know. I don't really believe

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Speaker 17: in positive images. I think they can be just as

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Speaker 17: damaging as negative images.

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Speaker 6: Really found on that down.

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Speaker 17: Because so the negative image is is a product of

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Speaker 17: a lie. Going back to the documentary, it's the perpetuating

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Speaker 17: the lies and the midst of us that's been out there.

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Speaker 17: So a lot of black people want a positive image

508
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Speaker 17: because they want to rewrite the wrong of somebody else's

509
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Speaker 17: view of me. But what that doesn't as an artist,

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Speaker 17: It keeps me behind the eight ball. I'm chasing up

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Speaker 17: and trying to clean up somebody else's mess. I'm from

512
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Speaker 17: the Zori Neil Hurston school of thought. I know my people,

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Speaker 17: I see my people. I want to be able to

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Speaker 17: talk about them fully and in the spectrum of our humanity,

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Speaker 17: there is light and dark. We are not. We are

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Speaker 17: not perfect to be perfect. That's just as hard to

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Speaker 17: be perfect as it is to be bad. Like I

518
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Speaker 17: want to out the spectrum of my humanity. I want

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Speaker 17: to be able to make a mistake and have my

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Speaker 17: village patch me up and put me back out there.

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Speaker 17: I deserve that. You deserve that, we deserve that, and

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Speaker 17: so I want the spectrum of who I am and

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Speaker 17: sometimes i'm you know, sometimes I'm not great, and sometimes

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Speaker 17: I am in the same day, in the same hour,

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Speaker 17: and I deserve that. That's exploration of who I am

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Speaker 17: as a human being, and I give that to my characters.

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Speaker 17: I think Don for instance, you know, people there's a

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Speaker 17: lot of conversation about her as a mother, but that

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Speaker 17: black mother has raised a lot of kids to get them,

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Speaker 17: to keep them alive. Does she deserve looking at herself? Yes,

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Speaker 17: my high my name is marb Barack and Kill and

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Speaker 17: I'm a former Don. I've put my pain on the screen.

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Speaker 17: I think, you know, I wanted to out of love.

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Speaker 17: I'm trying to overprotect my children.

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Speaker 4: Hi.

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Speaker 6: We got more with Marro brock a Kill when we

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Speaker 6: come back.

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Speaker 4: It's the breakfast Club.

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Speaker 6: Good morning.

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Speaker 4: What emotional space does forever occupy that none of your

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Speaker 4: previous shows have.

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Speaker 17: I think the cross generational idea. I just think the

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Speaker 17: complexity of family and the generational connection and that I

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Speaker 17: just really enjoyed that. I think also the scale emotionally.

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Speaker 17: It allowed me to really scale us and I enjoyed

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Speaker 17: that and you know the kids say take up space.

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Speaker 17: It allowed me to take up space for us and

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Speaker 17: for myself.

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Speaker 3: It's forever about love you've had, love you've lost, or

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Speaker 3: love you still believe in.

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Speaker 17: All the above. I believe in love. One of the

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Speaker 17: things I'm really proud of with the ending. I know

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Speaker 17: there's a controversy about the ending, but what I love

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Speaker 17: that Justin and Keisha showed us is how love endures

555
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Speaker 17: and it takes its shape, shifts, it's dynamic, can change,

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Speaker 17: but love can stay present. And they showed us how

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Speaker 17: to let go and keep love in that ending. I

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Speaker 17: think we could learn a lot from Justin and Keisha.

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Speaker 17: You know the question is this a forever love or

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Speaker 17: the one you remember forever? And I would like to

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Speaker 17: think that we as we move through our lives as

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Speaker 17: human beings, that when we choose to use that word right,

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Speaker 17: I loved you, that you there's a present, that you

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Speaker 17: were so present and so loving that even if you

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Speaker 17: don't last, the couple doesn't last, the love can last.

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Speaker 17: It just it might shift to wow, it might just

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Speaker 17: shift to we always just sort of text each other

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Speaker 17: on each other's birthday that you matter to me. You know,

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Speaker 17: one of the fun things you realize when you're re

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Speaker 17: visiting the work, especially as young people. Oftentimes that's where

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Speaker 17: our big dreaming happens, and those young loves that a

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Speaker 17: lot of times, the best part of you is packed

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Speaker 17: in somebody else's memory of you, and so to have.

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Speaker 18: Access back to those people actually is.

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Speaker 17: Good for you to remember who you are when you

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Speaker 17: lose your way, because you're gonna lose your way, and

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Speaker 17: so love holds you there. So it is about the past,

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Speaker 17: the present, and the future. And I think that love

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Speaker 17: can take many different forms.

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Speaker 4: Not playing tomorrow, Yeah, hit after heat in multiple decades. Okay,

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Speaker 4: stream is services to linear television. Give her what she wants.

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Speaker 3: That's right, including the fifty million dollars for girlfriends.

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Speaker 14: We need color.

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Speaker 4: It's that simple.

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Speaker 18: It's that simple.

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Speaker 17: We've been talking about this. It's real. It's really that simple.

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Speaker 18: I think it's time.

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Speaker 4: And a success. Girlfriends just had on Netflix.

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Speaker 19: Oh my god, oh my god, Like they should see

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Speaker 19: generational success and people watch it.

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Speaker 4: I watch that.

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Speaker 19: I rewatched the whole thing with my mom and I

593
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Speaker 19: was like, this is so different.

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Speaker 17: But you know, it's fine finding out people are putting

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Speaker 17: girlfriends on for their go to sleep. It's their they

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Speaker 17: call it their comfort TV show that they put on

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Speaker 17: and they just let it run. And some people let

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Speaker 17: it run while they go to sleep.

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Speaker 4: What do you want for ever to get people permission

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Speaker 4: to do it? And that's my last question. I problem love.

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Speaker 17: I want people to think more about love in every

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Speaker 17: aspect of their life. And actually, even if we're older,

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Speaker 17: that it's okay to want that that first love kind

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Speaker 17: of feeling. Like what do we need to do to

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Speaker 17: get back to that first love kind of feeling?

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Speaker 12: I don't know.

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Speaker 17: I just think it's I think as a human spirit,

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Speaker 17: having a human experience, dancing with love all the time,

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Speaker 17: it's got to be our top endeavor. So that's what

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Speaker 17: I want.

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Speaker 4: Mar Rocker kill Legend. Appreciate you so much. We love you,

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Speaker 4: we value you, appreciate you and all your work.

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Speaker 14: That's right, Thank you.

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Speaker 17: I really appreciate being here. Thank you.

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Speaker 18: Breakfast Club.

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Speaker 4: That's the Breakfast Club.

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Speaker 2: Good morning everybody you stej Nvy just hilarious. Charlamagne de

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Speaker 2: goud we are the Breakfast Club. Lon La Rosa is

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Speaker 2: here as well. We got a special guest in the building.

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Speaker 3: We have a woman who has represented you know, black people,

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Speaker 3: especially black women correctly forever.

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Speaker 4: Miss Felisa Rashad is here. How are you, queens.

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Speaker 3: I'm good, good to see you, and you're here for

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Speaker 3: I mean, we're gonna talk to you about a lot

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Speaker 3: of stuff.

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Speaker 4: You're making your Broadway directorial debut and purpose. Yes, how

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Speaker 4: did that feel? Well?

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Speaker 20: It was wonderful. This is the first time I'm directing

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Speaker 20: in a Broadway theater. But this play and this cast,

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Speaker 20: it's a real gift. You'll come and see, yes, yeah, yes,

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Speaker 20: And I hope you'll come to Brandon. Jake Jenkins is

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Speaker 20: the playwright. He received the Tony Award last year for

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Speaker 20: his play Appropriate And this particular production originates at Chicago

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Speaker 20: at the Steppenwolf Theater, and the Steppenwolf has its own ethos,

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Speaker 20: its own legacy for theater as it was formed by actors.

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Speaker 20: So it's ensemble work, and that's the best work. Absolutely

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Speaker 20: ensemble work. But then that spirit I watched it move

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Speaker 20: through the cast into everybody, the designers, the production office

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Speaker 20: and staff, the theaters of everybody. It's one.

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Speaker 12: We call it collective intention.

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Speaker 21: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: When I think about the thing that you and your

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Speaker 3: sister have done, Miss de Wie Allen, You know, I

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Speaker 3: just wondered, what did y'all dream of when y'all was kids,

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Speaker 3: when y'all was just two little girls growing up?

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Speaker 4: Like, what did y'all play about? What did y'all think about?

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Speaker 4: What did y'all imagine?

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Speaker 20: We grew up in Houston, Texas. Our father doctor Andrew A.

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Speaker 20: ELM's a dentist. Our mother Vivianaires.

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Speaker 4: It's a poet.

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Speaker 20: We grew up with a poet. We grew up with

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Speaker 20: a visionary and it was about freedom. It was about

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Speaker 20: realizing your full potential as a human being. Can you

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Speaker 20: imagine things like this? Teaching dual children like this?

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Speaker 14: She would teach us.

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Speaker 20: Things like She'd have aphorisms and she'd give them to

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Speaker 20: us to say, the universe bears no ill to me,

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Speaker 20: I bear no ill to it. And we'd repeat that

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Speaker 20: the universe fair is no ill to me. I bear

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Speaker 20: no ill to it. If we just go around, the

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Speaker 20: universe s fairs no ill to me. I bet when

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Speaker 20: you teach a child like this, be true, be beautiful,

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Speaker 20: be free.

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Speaker 14: She would say.

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Speaker 20: Things like this to us. We grew up to be fearless,

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Speaker 20: but not to be stupid.

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Speaker 4: Fearless but not stupid.

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Speaker 20: Well, I mean, look, if you see a rattlesnake.

669
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Speaker 4: In front of you, come on, that's right, that's right.

670
00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:57,840
Speaker 20: Don't be stupid. If you see a car come in

671
00:29:57,840 --> 00:29:58,520
Speaker 20: your way.

672
00:29:59,120 --> 00:30:01,280
Speaker 4: Don't be stupid. Absolutely, What was.

673
00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:03,880
Speaker 19: Your mother's upbringing like? Because she seems like she was

674
00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:06,480
Speaker 19: so steell and so short of herself. And I'm sure

675
00:30:06,600 --> 00:30:08,960
Speaker 19: she had, you know, experienced a lot.

676
00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:11,400
Speaker 20: My mother grew up in Chester, South Carolina.

677
00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:15,320
Speaker 4: A South Carolina what part. I was born in Charleston,

678
00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:18,400
Speaker 4: rad in a small town called Most Corner. Oh you

679
00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:18,959
Speaker 4: the people?

680
00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:22,440
Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, Chia you the people?

681
00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:26,200
Speaker 20: Okay. So it was a small mill town. Her father

682
00:30:26,320 --> 00:30:29,240
Speaker 20: was a blacksmith, one of his brothers was a mortician,

683
00:30:29,280 --> 00:30:32,280
Speaker 20: and the other brother was a barber. And these businesses

684
00:30:32,320 --> 00:30:37,280
Speaker 20: had been owned by her grandfather. It was an agricultural community, right.

685
00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:39,760
Speaker 20: But there was a school there that had been founded

686
00:30:39,760 --> 00:30:42,760
Speaker 20: by the presbytery. There was such a number of such schools,

687
00:30:42,840 --> 00:30:45,440
Speaker 20: pardon me, that had been founded by the presbytery for

688
00:30:45,560 --> 00:30:49,920
Speaker 20: the descendants of freed African people throughout the South. This

689
00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:53,200
Speaker 20: school was Brainerd Institute. And in this school there was

690
00:30:53,280 --> 00:31:00,080
Speaker 20: this classical education administered by black people. My mother it

691
00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:03,440
Speaker 20: was always interested in music. Oh, she was quite the pianist.

692
00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:06,200
Speaker 20: She described herself to me once as saying, she was

693
00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:10,760
Speaker 20: a little girl swinging high on the swing, looking up

694
00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:14,160
Speaker 20: at the sky and dreaming big breed. That's how she grew.

695
00:31:14,560 --> 00:31:17,560
Speaker 20: Her mother passed away when my mother was nine. She

696
00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:20,240
Speaker 20: lost her mother, And she said, as she sat at

697
00:31:20,280 --> 00:31:24,240
Speaker 20: her mother's funeral and listened to the things that people

698
00:31:24,280 --> 00:31:28,680
Speaker 20: were saying, she decided none of them were intelligent enough

699
00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:32,920
Speaker 20: to tell her anything to do. She would chart her

700
00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:37,520
Speaker 20: own course at nine, at nine, at nine, and she did.

701
00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:40,520
Speaker 20: It was not an easy life, but there was this

702
00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:46,040
Speaker 20: spirit living in her, burning in her, that carried her through.

703
00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:49,960
Speaker 20: Her first publication is Spice of Dawns. This is a

704
00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:55,360
Speaker 20: collection of forms. Her second publication Hawk. If you read Hawk,

705
00:31:55,440 --> 00:31:59,080
Speaker 20: you will understand how I grew. This is an inner journey.

706
00:31:59,280 --> 00:32:02,840
Speaker 20: This is an hour of freedom, which parallels flight through

707
00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:07,400
Speaker 20: space without a vehicle. It was published eleven weeks before

708
00:32:07,520 --> 00:32:08,880
Speaker 20: the launch of Spot.

709
00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:12,480
Speaker 3: Make ie, Wow, what did you learn from your father,

710
00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:13,680
Speaker 3: because you said he was a dentist.

711
00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:17,400
Speaker 20: Oh, my father. My father was born on the back

712
00:32:17,440 --> 00:32:22,400
Speaker 20: porch of a farm in Lovedale, Louisiana. He was one

713
00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:26,280
Speaker 20: of nine children. His father worked on the railroad. He

714
00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:29,560
Speaker 20: was a fireman on the South Pacific Railroad, and his mother,

715
00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:33,440
Speaker 20: you know, his house keeping, right. My grandfather put great

716
00:32:33,480 --> 00:32:37,160
Speaker 20: emphasis on education and he made sure that all of

717
00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:39,560
Speaker 20: his children went to college.

718
00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:41,960
Speaker 4: Imagining, especially in that time imagining.

719
00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:47,560
Speaker 20: So my father was a very kind and generous man.

720
00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:52,320
Speaker 20: He was what was called a man's man. Men loved

721
00:32:52,360 --> 00:32:56,240
Speaker 20: him and trusted him. He was always the treasurer of

722
00:32:56,280 --> 00:32:59,280
Speaker 20: the dental Association because they said, if text takes care

723
00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:03,400
Speaker 20: of the money, we're we're in good shape. He was organized,

724
00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:07,280
Speaker 20: he was very clean. He loved music, he loved theater,

725
00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:10,120
Speaker 20: he loved the arts. He came to see any and

726
00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:14,440
Speaker 20: everything we did, whatever it was. He was very supportive.

727
00:33:15,000 --> 00:33:17,880
Speaker 20: He was so handsome. He did things that people didn't

728
00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:18,440
Speaker 20: know he did.

729
00:33:18,760 --> 00:33:19,520
Speaker 4: He was like that.

730
00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:23,280
Speaker 20: And in his office he dealt with people's pain and

731
00:33:23,360 --> 00:33:28,120
Speaker 20: anxiety every day, and they came to him and trusted him.

732
00:33:28,320 --> 00:33:30,840
Speaker 20: And when they couldn't pay, he'd work out a payment

733
00:33:31,040 --> 00:33:35,200
Speaker 20: plan for them that was convenient for them. They didn't

734
00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:38,520
Speaker 20: have to go anywhere and incur interest rates. He would

735
00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:41,400
Speaker 20: work that out for him. When my father passed away,

736
00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:47,240
Speaker 20: at his viewing the line stretched out of the mortuary. Wow,

737
00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:50,960
Speaker 20: all the way down the street, Wow, all the way

738
00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:55,400
Speaker 20: round the block. And when the last person came, he said,

739
00:33:55,600 --> 00:33:56,240
Speaker 20: he looked.

740
00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:59,600
Speaker 12: At it and he said, you don't understand. That's my dentist.

741
00:34:01,480 --> 00:34:05,520
Speaker 20: And that motiicaid as I remember that motiicaid on the

742
00:34:05,560 --> 00:34:08,759
Speaker 20: way to the cemetery, stretched as far as the eye

743
00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:11,080
Speaker 20: could see. He was so beloved.

744
00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:12,920
Speaker 3: That's why I asked, just because you know when you

745
00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:15,240
Speaker 3: look like I said, you know, we look at Felicia

746
00:34:15,360 --> 00:34:17,080
Speaker 3: Shade and wi Allen, two strong queens.

747
00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:19,560
Speaker 4: Somebody had to raise them. Somebody had to insteal that

748
00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:19,839
Speaker 4: in them.

749
00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:22,640
Speaker 3: And as a father raising four beautiful black girls, you know,

750
00:34:22,680 --> 00:34:24,920
Speaker 3: I'm just always thinking about, you know what should me

751
00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:27,640
Speaker 3: and my wife be in stealing in them all the time,

752
00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:29,919
Speaker 3: just so they grow up to be strong black women.

753
00:34:30,120 --> 00:34:32,640
Speaker 14: When you love them, my mom says, all the time,

754
00:34:32,840 --> 00:34:33,560
Speaker 14: when you love.

755
00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:36,520
Speaker 20: Them, that's all. If I can remember one great instruction,

756
00:34:36,719 --> 00:34:39,120
Speaker 20: my father gave me two great instructions. And I was

757
00:34:39,160 --> 00:34:42,120
Speaker 20: a little girl. He said, never let anybody run over you.

758
00:34:42,360 --> 00:34:44,719
Speaker 20: It was five years old. You told me that never

759
00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:48,279
Speaker 20: let anyone run over you. And then later on in

760
00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:51,000
Speaker 20: life he said always know the balance of your bank

761
00:34:51,040 --> 00:34:53,600
Speaker 20: account and keep your own money.

762
00:34:54,040 --> 00:34:58,279
Speaker 21: What can you tell us about without spoiling it? But

763
00:34:58,360 --> 00:34:59,960
Speaker 21: what can you tell us about the story of purpose?

764
00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:01,200
Speaker 14: Oh?

765
00:35:01,239 --> 00:35:05,840
Speaker 20: This is wonderful family family drama. Oh, and there's humor

766
00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:10,279
Speaker 20: in it. A young man is recalling a visit to

767
00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:14,120
Speaker 20: his home and on this night of nights, so much

768
00:35:14,640 --> 00:35:18,879
Speaker 20: happens one night, and so much is revealed in one night,

769
00:35:19,320 --> 00:35:23,120
Speaker 20: and some things are resolved. That's all I'm ontario.

770
00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:26,360
Speaker 14: Except to tell you that.

771
00:35:26,600 --> 00:35:32,520
Speaker 20: Cast Harry Lennox, the Tanya Richardson, Jackson Glen Date, Alana

772
00:35:32,680 --> 00:35:37,080
Speaker 20: Arenas and John Michael Hill. It's the most incredible ensemble

773
00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:40,520
Speaker 20: that I've ever witnessed. Each one is a mess and

774
00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:44,360
Speaker 20: the inimitable carry Young who was Loudy Bell in Parly

775
00:35:44,440 --> 00:35:47,960
Speaker 20: Victorious nat Season. That's our cast. People come at the

776
00:35:48,080 --> 00:35:52,520
Speaker 20: end of the play and have various reactions. One woman said, ooh,

777
00:35:52,600 --> 00:35:55,920
Speaker 20: that scene at the dining room table, that was my

778
00:35:56,080 --> 00:36:01,400
Speaker 20: family's thanksgiving for the past five relatable, right, And she

779
00:36:01,520 --> 00:36:03,040
Speaker 20: was not an African American woman.

780
00:36:03,320 --> 00:36:03,600
Speaker 4: Wow.

781
00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:07,040
Speaker 20: People see themselves and that's when we know we are

782
00:36:07,080 --> 00:36:10,480
Speaker 20: really doing our best work. When you see yourself.

783
00:36:10,800 --> 00:36:12,799
Speaker 18: I was gonna say, speaking of doing your best work.

784
00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:14,480
Speaker 19: I think you know, for a lot of us and

785
00:36:14,560 --> 00:36:17,600
Speaker 19: watching you on television the iconic role of Claire Huxtable

786
00:36:18,120 --> 00:36:21,319
Speaker 19: and just what that image of you know, having a

787
00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:24,720
Speaker 19: mom that was just so graceful and so like everything

788
00:36:24,719 --> 00:36:27,440
Speaker 19: that you were in that show. Do you, like in

789
00:36:27,520 --> 00:36:30,160
Speaker 19: real life, is there ever pressure or was there at

790
00:36:30,200 --> 00:36:33,560
Speaker 19: the time for you to like upkeep like a certain

791
00:36:33,760 --> 00:36:35,440
Speaker 19: like I don't know, like an image or like just

792
00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:36,279
Speaker 19: anything that.

793
00:36:36,239 --> 00:36:37,080
Speaker 18: People try to house.

794
00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:40,440
Speaker 19: No, like so not in your house, but like in

795
00:36:40,480 --> 00:36:43,040
Speaker 19: real life, like in Hollywood and other roles you were taking,

796
00:36:43,120 --> 00:36:44,600
Speaker 19: and like you know what I mean, Like, did you

797
00:36:44,680 --> 00:36:47,200
Speaker 19: ever feel like because I think for us like you

798
00:36:47,239 --> 00:36:50,320
Speaker 19: are like the perfect like image of like a black woman.

799
00:36:50,560 --> 00:36:52,880
Speaker 19: Like so I always wondered if you felt that pressure.

800
00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:59,719
Speaker 20: No, light is not heavy, carry light, sheer light, light is.

801
00:36:59,760 --> 00:37:03,919
Speaker 21: Not even in interviews back then you would still have

802
00:37:04,040 --> 00:37:08,880
Speaker 21: this same deposition, the same grace, you know, outside of

803
00:37:08,920 --> 00:37:09,359
Speaker 21: that rule.

804
00:37:09,640 --> 00:37:11,480
Speaker 14: I'm gonna tell you the one that sticks for me.

805
00:37:11,800 --> 00:37:18,240
Speaker 13: When you told uh Saundra's boyfriend Alvin that is iconico.

806
00:37:18,400 --> 00:37:20,040
Speaker 22: You and doctor Huxtable like some coffee.

807
00:37:20,160 --> 00:37:22,920
Speaker 18: Coffee, Yeah, coffee, you mean you're.

808
00:37:22,760 --> 00:37:23,359
Speaker 4: Gonna get it.

809
00:37:23,760 --> 00:37:25,440
Speaker 20: Yeah, you're surprised.

810
00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:26,920
Speaker 18: I'm sorry, missus Huxtable.

811
00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:28,319
Speaker 4: I didn't think you did that kind of thing.

812
00:37:28,520 --> 00:37:34,440
Speaker 22: What kind of thing you don't serve, serve whom serve him.

813
00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:36,040
Speaker 20: Doesn't serve your man?

814
00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:38,799
Speaker 22: Well, yeah, let me tell you some Elvin. You see,

815
00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:42,279
Speaker 22: I am not serving doctor Huxtable. Okay, okay, that's the

816
00:37:42,360 --> 00:37:44,600
Speaker 22: kind of thing that goes on in a restaurant. Now

817
00:37:44,640 --> 00:37:46,520
Speaker 22: I'm gonna bring him a cup of coffee, just like

818
00:37:46,520 --> 00:37:48,799
Speaker 22: he brought me a cup of coffee this morning. And that,

819
00:37:48,960 --> 00:37:51,600
Speaker 22: young man, is what marriage is made of. It is

820
00:37:51,719 --> 00:37:53,160
Speaker 22: give and take fifty to fifty.

821
00:37:53,280 --> 00:37:55,200
Speaker 20: And if you don't get it together and drop these

822
00:37:55,200 --> 00:37:57,640
Speaker 20: macho attitudes, you will never go have anybody bringing you

823
00:37:57,640 --> 00:37:59,359
Speaker 20: anything anywhere, any place, anytime ever.

824
00:38:01,080 --> 00:38:04,719
Speaker 13: And then when Vanessa wanted to go to Baltimore where

825
00:38:04,920 --> 00:38:08,440
Speaker 13: I'm friend, to see the wretched lying.

826
00:38:08,200 --> 00:38:10,719
Speaker 20: On the floor of some burning building, dying of that

827
00:38:10,960 --> 00:38:12,360
Speaker 20: fixed up and you down.

828
00:38:12,200 --> 00:38:17,400
Speaker 22: In Baltimore, Melolne with the wretched to have big fun,

829
00:38:17,719 --> 00:38:18,520
Speaker 22: weren't you, Vanessa?

830
00:38:18,640 --> 00:38:19,440
Speaker 5: Isn't that where you were?

831
00:38:19,480 --> 00:38:21,879
Speaker 20: Didn't you go down there to Baltimore and have big fun?

832
00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:22,320
Speaker 10: Vanessa?

833
00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:24,440
Speaker 5: Tell me, didn't you go for big fun.

834
00:38:25,239 --> 00:38:28,640
Speaker 17: Mom, shut up, don't you can't.

835
00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:30,080
Speaker 20: Open your mouth when I'm asking you a question?

836
00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:33,640
Speaker 13: Oh my god, when I tell you those are my

837
00:38:33,719 --> 00:38:38,279
Speaker 13: two like key episodes, right, well, yeah, because I'm from

838
00:38:38,320 --> 00:38:40,160
Speaker 13: Baltimore and I done snuck out the house. And you

839
00:38:40,200 --> 00:38:43,239
Speaker 13: know I don't done all that. You ain't knocked Vanessa out.

840
00:38:43,320 --> 00:38:45,280
Speaker 13: I got knocked out a few times, but well.

841
00:38:45,120 --> 00:38:47,760
Speaker 4: She almost did quack.

842
00:38:47,920 --> 00:38:53,239
Speaker 18: Well yeah, right, how do you now a days like?

843
00:38:53,280 --> 00:38:55,440
Speaker 19: Because I mean, you obviously pick and choose what you

844
00:38:55,480 --> 00:38:57,719
Speaker 19: want to do with your roles. Like I watched you

845
00:38:57,719 --> 00:39:00,560
Speaker 19: in Dre from Detroit, and I like the one thing

846
00:39:00,640 --> 00:39:02,359
Speaker 19: we all in the car and you were talking about

847
00:39:02,480 --> 00:39:03,640
Speaker 19: the temptations.

848
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:06,440
Speaker 20: All of them.

849
00:39:06,520 --> 00:39:07,600
Speaker 17: She's gonna tell you right now.

850
00:39:07,840 --> 00:39:09,719
Speaker 18: I felt bad watching that. I'm like, I don't think.

851
00:39:09,640 --> 00:39:10,360
Speaker 20: I was supposed to hear her.

852
00:39:14,040 --> 00:39:15,920
Speaker 4: The first time I saw the clips, they didn't tell

853
00:39:15,920 --> 00:39:17,080
Speaker 4: me it was from a TV show.

854
00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:25,840
Speaker 13: Yeah, yes, he thought that she were reflecting all your life.

855
00:39:27,360 --> 00:39:30,200
Speaker 13: I said, damn, she slept with all the temptations.

856
00:39:30,280 --> 00:39:33,680
Speaker 20: No, that was a character, Darling, that was a character.

857
00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:36,239
Speaker 20: As actors, we play these roles.

858
00:39:36,719 --> 00:39:38,640
Speaker 19: When you choose a character like that, where it's like

859
00:39:38,719 --> 00:39:41,000
Speaker 19: it's a lot different than how we've seen you or

860
00:39:41,040 --> 00:39:44,000
Speaker 19: how I've seen you anyway, and different things that you've done.

861
00:39:44,360 --> 00:39:46,200
Speaker 19: What's your thinking behind Is it because you want to

862
00:39:46,280 --> 00:39:47,719
Speaker 19: you want people to see you in the different lights,

863
00:39:47,760 --> 00:39:49,279
Speaker 19: or is it just I just want to.

864
00:39:49,239 --> 00:39:52,480
Speaker 20: Do what she was doing. Yes, that's why I chose

865
00:39:52,480 --> 00:39:55,439
Speaker 20: the character because of what she was doing. Yeah, people

866
00:39:55,480 --> 00:39:58,719
Speaker 20: get all caught up in funny stuff. Yeah, what was

867
00:39:58,760 --> 00:39:59,600
Speaker 20: that woman doing.

868
00:39:59,680 --> 00:40:00,759
Speaker 18: She was rescuing people.

869
00:40:00,800 --> 00:40:04,680
Speaker 20: She was rescuing people. She was living with the deepest

870
00:40:05,280 --> 00:40:08,640
Speaker 20: hurt that a mother can have, that she lost her

871
00:40:08,760 --> 00:40:12,480
Speaker 20: child because she was not paying attention, and in her

872
00:40:12,520 --> 00:40:16,000
Speaker 20: heart she felt that her child was alive somewhere. And

873
00:40:16,040 --> 00:40:19,160
Speaker 20: this is years later, but just in a moment of

874
00:40:19,200 --> 00:40:23,719
Speaker 20: being too tired and too annoyed and too distracted and

875
00:40:23,800 --> 00:40:27,399
Speaker 20: wanting to do something else, she turned away, and in

876
00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:31,000
Speaker 20: that instant, her child was taken from her. And so

877
00:40:31,040 --> 00:40:35,560
Speaker 20: she set about the saving people. She went on one day,

878
00:40:35,600 --> 00:40:39,760
Speaker 20: somebody would save her son. So I choose people because

879
00:40:39,760 --> 00:40:42,080
Speaker 20: I choose a character because of what people are doing.

880
00:40:42,360 --> 00:40:44,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, gotcha, I want to go back to something just

881
00:40:44,520 --> 00:40:48,600
Speaker 3: that she brought up the Elvin scene, right, because that

882
00:40:48,719 --> 00:40:49,600
Speaker 3: was a role.

883
00:40:50,520 --> 00:40:53,280
Speaker 4: Well, when you schooled Elvin on I guess the marital,

884
00:40:53,520 --> 00:40:56,280
Speaker 4: the marital. How much input did you have.

885
00:40:56,600 --> 00:40:58,960
Speaker 3: On that scene and what were you trying to convey

886
00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:00,640
Speaker 3: when you saw it on paper? What did you say

887
00:41:00,640 --> 00:41:02,440
Speaker 3: to yourself, Oh, I know what I can do in

888
00:41:02,480 --> 00:41:04,080
Speaker 3: this scene to convey a larger message.

889
00:41:04,160 --> 00:41:06,200
Speaker 20: Oh, I didn't say anything. I just said I just

890
00:41:06,239 --> 00:41:06,839
Speaker 20: said the lines.

891
00:41:07,080 --> 00:41:10,239
Speaker 4: It was just as it was there. Oh it was,

892
00:41:10,480 --> 00:41:11,240
Speaker 4: but it was the way.

893
00:41:11,120 --> 00:41:12,560
Speaker 14: You deliver it, you know.

894
00:41:12,880 --> 00:41:20,400
Speaker 4: It was like battle rapping. It was so good. I

895
00:41:20,400 --> 00:41:21,320
Speaker 4: thought it was imprime.

896
00:41:21,520 --> 00:41:24,080
Speaker 20: You know, this is this is a part of your

897
00:41:24,080 --> 00:41:27,000
Speaker 20: training as an actor in language and how you use it.

898
00:41:27,320 --> 00:41:29,680
Speaker 20: And there's rhythm in this pace and so much it's

899
00:41:29,760 --> 00:41:32,799
Speaker 20: conveyed in that way. If you said it another way,

900
00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:37,319
Speaker 20: it wouldn't be as effect If you tried to say

901
00:41:37,360 --> 00:41:42,000
Speaker 20: it like you were singing the lazy No, it wouldn't work.

902
00:41:44,160 --> 00:41:46,960
Speaker 4: Like a black mama. What would in writers' rooms like though?

903
00:41:47,080 --> 00:41:52,120
Speaker 3: Because it felt like a black experience with black writers writers.

904
00:41:53,719 --> 00:41:56,520
Speaker 20: The thing was to write a human story, to write

905
00:41:56,520 --> 00:42:00,799
Speaker 20: about human behavior, the truth of human behavior. That's what

906
00:42:01,160 --> 00:42:06,080
Speaker 20: makes comedy and theater real, the truth of human behavior.

907
00:42:06,520 --> 00:42:10,320
Speaker 20: You don't have to make something up if you're writing

908
00:42:10,360 --> 00:42:14,239
Speaker 20: about something that's real, you can take a different perspective

909
00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:16,640
Speaker 20: on it, and your skills as a writer, you know,

910
00:42:16,760 --> 00:42:22,279
Speaker 20: show up in your language or your you know those

911
00:42:22,320 --> 00:42:23,319
Speaker 20: things that writers do.

912
00:42:24,239 --> 00:42:27,359
Speaker 21: What do you do to channel roles like your role

913
00:42:27,440 --> 00:42:29,360
Speaker 21: and fall from grace, like where you're the villain?

914
00:42:29,760 --> 00:42:31,880
Speaker 12: What do you do to channel those roles?

915
00:42:32,280 --> 00:42:36,480
Speaker 20: Everybody's a human being, right, Yeah, she's just a nasty human.

916
00:42:39,600 --> 00:42:41,120
Speaker 14: This is a person who is sick.

917
00:42:41,320 --> 00:42:45,000
Speaker 20: Her whole perspective is warped. You've got to be sick

918
00:42:45,040 --> 00:42:46,360
Speaker 20: to mistreat another person.

919
00:42:46,640 --> 00:42:47,360
Speaker 14: I'm sorry.

920
00:42:47,600 --> 00:42:51,640
Speaker 20: You cannot be sane and do hurtful things to people.

921
00:42:51,960 --> 00:42:54,600
Speaker 20: You just the same person won't do that.

922
00:42:55,120 --> 00:42:58,400
Speaker 14: Do you agree?

923
00:42:59,400 --> 00:43:01,919
Speaker 3: One of the four even says, you know, don't don't

924
00:43:01,920 --> 00:43:04,160
Speaker 3: take offense to things. Don't take things personal because what

925
00:43:04,280 --> 00:43:06,120
Speaker 3: you do, what somebody does to you is not a

926
00:43:06,120 --> 00:43:09,879
Speaker 3: reflection to you, is something that's going on internally with them.

927
00:43:09,880 --> 00:43:12,840
Speaker 3: It's hard, you know, to put yourself in that position,

928
00:43:12,880 --> 00:43:13,960
Speaker 3: but you really got to know that.

929
00:43:14,080 --> 00:43:17,440
Speaker 20: Yes, sometimes you want to just clutch somebody, shake them

930
00:43:17,480 --> 00:43:17,959
Speaker 20: real good.

931
00:43:18,160 --> 00:43:20,440
Speaker 3: My daddy used to say, you'll stop taking everything personal

932
00:43:20,480 --> 00:43:22,200
Speaker 3: personal once you realize that it's a bunch of people

933
00:43:22,200 --> 00:43:23,160
Speaker 3: out here on cocaine.

934
00:43:23,600 --> 00:43:30,120
Speaker 4: Who people out here doing all types of stuff that

935
00:43:30,200 --> 00:43:31,120
Speaker 4: you have no idea about.

936
00:43:31,560 --> 00:43:33,440
Speaker 19: I was going to say, your time at at Howard.

937
00:43:33,440 --> 00:43:35,319
Speaker 19: I'm an HBC, you graded went the Delaware State.

938
00:43:35,520 --> 00:43:36,799
Speaker 4: Have you ever heard of it? Yes?

939
00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:37,320
Speaker 12: Wow?

940
00:43:39,719 --> 00:43:42,000
Speaker 18: The police next, exactly right.

941
00:43:43,120 --> 00:43:45,040
Speaker 19: I wonder like for you, what was like one of

942
00:43:45,040 --> 00:43:47,480
Speaker 19: your favorite things about walking on campus every day with

943
00:43:47,480 --> 00:43:48,560
Speaker 19: those students as a.

944
00:43:48,560 --> 00:43:52,600
Speaker 20: Dean walking on campus? If it where I look? I

945
00:43:52,719 --> 00:43:56,080
Speaker 20: was reminded of my time there, it's excuse, and I

946
00:43:56,160 --> 00:44:00,280
Speaker 20: was reminded of my friends, and I was my minded

947
00:44:00,440 --> 00:44:04,040
Speaker 20: the things that week and the time in which we

948
00:44:04,040 --> 00:44:09,560
Speaker 20: were viving with students. It was an important Doctor King

949
00:44:09,719 --> 00:44:11,600
Speaker 20: was assassinated in my sophomore year.

950
00:44:11,960 --> 00:44:12,320
Speaker 4: Wow.

951
00:44:12,520 --> 00:44:17,719
Speaker 20: Yeah, I watched these things happened. So much unfolded on

952
00:44:17,760 --> 00:44:21,200
Speaker 20: that campus. I remember when Muhammad Ali came and spoke

953
00:44:21,280 --> 00:44:24,440
Speaker 20: on the steps of Frederick Douglas Hall, and I remember

954
00:44:24,520 --> 00:44:25,480
Speaker 20: him standing there.

955
00:44:25,280 --> 00:44:26,880
Speaker 4: And said, look at me.

956
00:44:27,160 --> 00:44:29,160
Speaker 20: Can't you see that I'm free?

957
00:44:29,560 --> 00:44:30,040
Speaker 4: And you come?

958
00:44:30,440 --> 00:44:32,279
Speaker 20: So there was a time, you know. I was just

959
00:44:32,880 --> 00:44:36,480
Speaker 20: referencing back to my father's area dentistry. There was a

960
00:44:36,520 --> 00:44:41,320
Speaker 20: time when African Americans were trained could be trained at Harvard,

961
00:44:41,560 --> 00:44:44,960
Speaker 20: but they wouldn't hire them to teach. So these people

962
00:44:44,960 --> 00:44:50,080
Speaker 20: who were trained in these great quote great institutions went

963
00:44:50,120 --> 00:44:55,680
Speaker 20: to HBCUs to teach. You were receiving that education there,

964
00:44:56,040 --> 00:45:00,920
Speaker 20: that discipline, those demands they were.

965
00:45:00,080 --> 00:45:03,120
Speaker 19: Were you when you when you decided not to return

966
00:45:03,160 --> 00:45:05,480
Speaker 19: back to Howard did you feel like you didn't return

967
00:45:05,480 --> 00:45:07,799
Speaker 19: because your work was done there? Or was it just

968
00:45:07,840 --> 00:45:10,160
Speaker 19: like a personal decision because like business reasons, Like I

969
00:45:10,200 --> 00:45:12,319
Speaker 19: just felt like people like you, we need you on

970
00:45:12,400 --> 00:45:14,719
Speaker 19: campuses every day. But I know it's probably it's a

971
00:45:14,719 --> 00:45:17,120
Speaker 19: lot to do well at once. But like, what was

972
00:45:17,160 --> 00:45:18,879
Speaker 19: that like for you, that decision not to go back.

973
00:45:19,120 --> 00:45:21,480
Speaker 20: Well, I will always be connected. I will always be

974
00:45:21,520 --> 00:45:24,600
Speaker 20: connected down with university. As a matter of fact, next

975
00:45:24,640 --> 00:45:27,920
Speaker 20: week I will be in Washington, D C. For the

976
00:45:27,960 --> 00:45:31,680
Speaker 20: one night only reading of Chadwick A. Boseman's Deep As

977
00:45:31,719 --> 00:45:35,600
Speaker 20: You Are. He wrote that, So he was one of

978
00:45:35,600 --> 00:45:39,320
Speaker 20: my students early early on Wow, when Al Freeman Jr.

979
00:45:39,360 --> 00:45:42,680
Speaker 20: Invited me to come and teach for a semester. So

980
00:45:42,760 --> 00:45:45,480
Speaker 20: we were in the studio doing the show Monday through

981
00:45:45,520 --> 00:45:48,399
Speaker 20: Thursday and Friday morning, I'd get up and fly down

982
00:45:49,080 --> 00:45:51,719
Speaker 20: and I'd teach. And he was one of my students

983
00:45:51,840 --> 00:45:56,080
Speaker 20: A'leecchi Susan Collecci Watson was one of the students. Camilla

984
00:45:56,160 --> 00:45:59,640
Speaker 20: Force is one of the students. Was He was fearless,

985
00:45:59,640 --> 00:46:06,200
Speaker 20: he was great South Carolina, and he was also very respectful.

986
00:46:06,520 --> 00:46:07,960
Speaker 20: This is why I say as a people, we are

987
00:46:08,000 --> 00:46:14,360
Speaker 20: a respectful people. We are naturally you know. So Anyway,

988
00:46:14,640 --> 00:46:17,680
Speaker 20: he kept in contact with me, and after he had graduated,

989
00:46:17,920 --> 00:46:20,280
Speaker 20: one day I received this call, I'm sending you something,

990
00:46:20,560 --> 00:46:23,359
Speaker 20: mister Shady, but always call me that I'm sending you something.

991
00:46:24,800 --> 00:46:29,759
Speaker 20: Even after he had attained fame and notoriety, he still

992
00:46:29,760 --> 00:46:32,160
Speaker 20: called me miss always.

993
00:46:32,560 --> 00:46:33,200
Speaker 14: Is that okay?

994
00:46:33,320 --> 00:46:35,200
Speaker 20: And what he sent was a copy of the script

995
00:46:35,280 --> 00:46:37,880
Speaker 20: that he had ridden. Hip Hop theater was born on

996
00:46:37,920 --> 00:46:40,480
Speaker 20: the campus of Howard University, and he was one of

997
00:46:40,480 --> 00:46:41,200
Speaker 20: the progenitors.

998
00:46:42,320 --> 00:46:44,320
Speaker 14: He was one of the innovatives.

999
00:46:44,040 --> 00:46:47,560
Speaker 20: Hip hop language and rhythm through the voice and experience

1000
00:46:47,560 --> 00:46:48,959
Speaker 20: of a classic be Trained act.

1001
00:46:50,120 --> 00:46:51,560
Speaker 4: It is grand Wow.

1002
00:46:52,320 --> 00:46:54,560
Speaker 18: The I had a question about the Deep Azure.

1003
00:46:55,360 --> 00:46:57,719
Speaker 19: So the proceeds from the One night Only are going

1004
00:46:57,760 --> 00:47:02,320
Speaker 19: back to the College of Finite Arts at Howard. Yes,

1005
00:47:03,640 --> 00:47:06,239
Speaker 19: what like today if Chadwick could see kind of like

1006
00:47:06,280 --> 00:47:08,440
Speaker 19: you know how the final product has come along and

1007
00:47:08,480 --> 00:47:12,440
Speaker 19: everybody that's evolved, Like, what would his sentiments be, Like

1008
00:47:12,440 --> 00:47:14,040
Speaker 19: how happy would he be to see all of this

1009
00:47:14,160 --> 00:47:16,360
Speaker 19: coming to fruition from that first phone call that you

1010
00:47:16,400 --> 00:47:17,320
Speaker 19: guys had about I'll.

1011
00:47:17,200 --> 00:47:20,200
Speaker 20: Tell you his wife is very and he's producing partner

1012
00:47:20,320 --> 00:47:25,839
Speaker 20: who was his best friend of college very and because

1013
00:47:25,840 --> 00:47:29,120
Speaker 20: it's happening. God, we're so honored. We're so honored. And

1014
00:47:29,239 --> 00:47:32,560
Speaker 20: our Honorary host Committee, I mean, you know who's on that.

1015
00:47:33,400 --> 00:47:37,200
Speaker 19: So the Honorary Host Committee. Ryan Coogler is the honorary chair,

1016
00:47:37,880 --> 00:47:43,799
Speaker 19: Common Susan Khalichi Watson, don Cheto, Tonney C. Coats, I'm sorry,

1017
00:47:43,800 --> 00:47:50,800
Speaker 19: Talahsee Coats, Camilla Forbes, Reginald Hudling, Kenny Leon and Terrell,

1018
00:47:50,880 --> 00:47:52,240
Speaker 19: Alvin McCraney.

1019
00:47:54,040 --> 00:47:59,400
Speaker 18: Yes, Universe, Yeah, all to some brace legacy.

1020
00:47:59,600 --> 00:48:04,200
Speaker 20: Yeah, to support his legacy. Chadwick was He was really amazing.

1021
00:48:04,680 --> 00:48:08,800
Speaker 20: Chadwick was an actor. Yes, Chadwick was a writer. Chadwick

1022
00:48:08,920 --> 00:48:12,600
Speaker 20: was a director. Chadwick was a scholar. He studied many things.

1023
00:48:12,960 --> 00:48:17,160
Speaker 20: The etymology of words. He was deep into that, into

1024
00:48:17,360 --> 00:48:21,040
Speaker 20: names and the means of it. He studied the Bible,

1025
00:48:22,080 --> 00:48:27,040
Speaker 20: not to Bible thump, but to understand its origins really

1026
00:48:27,280 --> 00:48:31,759
Speaker 20: and its deeper meanings. And then he combined all of

1027
00:48:31,800 --> 00:48:35,759
Speaker 20: that with you know, I hate to say it like this,

1028
00:48:35,880 --> 00:48:39,040
Speaker 20: but I'll say it like this with African cosmology. Why

1029
00:48:39,040 --> 00:48:40,560
Speaker 20: don't I hate to say it like that because Africa

1030
00:48:40,640 --> 00:48:46,200
Speaker 20: was a huge continent and it is not a monolithic proposition, right,

1031
00:48:46,480 --> 00:48:49,520
Speaker 20: but there is a certain ethos that runs through all.

1032
00:48:50,040 --> 00:48:51,320
Speaker 4: He was brilliant.

1033
00:48:52,440 --> 00:48:56,600
Speaker 20: There was nobody else to play Black Panther but Chadwick.

1034
00:48:57,160 --> 00:49:00,439
Speaker 20: And you know what he really cared about. He called

1035
00:49:00,480 --> 00:49:03,360
Speaker 20: me one day, and this was after graduation. He was

1036
00:49:03,400 --> 00:49:07,000
Speaker 20: living in New York, and he was so excited and

1037
00:49:07,040 --> 00:49:09,040
Speaker 20: he wanted me to know what he was doing and

1038
00:49:09,160 --> 00:49:11,239
Speaker 20: to come and see. And I was thinking, Okay, now,

1039
00:49:11,320 --> 00:49:14,719
Speaker 20: let's see what premiere is this, What film is this?

1040
00:49:14,800 --> 00:49:15,440
Speaker 20: What play is this?

1041
00:49:16,200 --> 00:49:17,000
Speaker 14: It was none of that.

1042
00:49:17,600 --> 00:49:21,040
Speaker 20: He was working with young people in the Chamberg Library

1043
00:49:21,239 --> 00:49:26,120
Speaker 20: and he was so excited about Wow. Yes, and that's

1044
00:49:26,160 --> 00:49:26,719
Speaker 20: who he was.

1045
00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:29,040
Speaker 4: Do you mean so gracious with your time? So I've

1046
00:49:29,080 --> 00:49:30,160
Speaker 4: got a couple more questions.

1047
00:49:30,280 --> 00:49:33,319
Speaker 3: What's the lesson you learned way too late in life

1048
00:49:33,320 --> 00:49:35,520
Speaker 3: that you wish you figured out sooner you would teach

1049
00:49:35,560 --> 00:49:36,400
Speaker 3: the next generation.

1050
00:49:37,440 --> 00:49:41,520
Speaker 20: Was that I'm enough as a young girl growing up,

1051
00:49:41,560 --> 00:49:43,600
Speaker 20: you know, and young girls go through this, You'll know,

1052
00:49:43,920 --> 00:49:46,960
Speaker 20: you know, you go through a period where you feel

1053
00:49:47,000 --> 00:49:51,800
Speaker 20: like and it's because you're looking outside yourself. You compare

1054
00:49:51,840 --> 00:49:54,439
Speaker 20: yourself to everyone else you see, and you're not enough

1055
00:49:54,760 --> 00:49:57,960
Speaker 20: because you don't dress like that one, or you don't

1056
00:49:58,239 --> 00:50:00,400
Speaker 20: have hair like that one, or you do you don't

1057
00:50:00,760 --> 00:50:03,040
Speaker 20: have legs like that one. You can think of any

1058
00:50:03,120 --> 00:50:06,360
Speaker 20: number of things. Young girls go through. This kind of

1059
00:50:06,440 --> 00:50:10,759
Speaker 20: thing usually happens around adolescence, where you feel like you're

1060
00:50:10,760 --> 00:50:12,839
Speaker 20: not enough. Part of that had to do with my

1061
00:50:12,880 --> 00:50:15,800
Speaker 20: mother being so beautiful, my father being so handsome, and

1062
00:50:16,000 --> 00:50:19,320
Speaker 20: my sister being so cute, my brother being so whatever,

1063
00:50:19,960 --> 00:50:23,799
Speaker 20: And I just thought, well, when I was born, the

1064
00:50:23,880 --> 00:50:25,239
Speaker 20: Lord was doing something else.

1065
00:50:25,400 --> 00:50:26,880
Speaker 4: So when did you get to that place of worthy?

1066
00:50:27,200 --> 00:50:28,400
Speaker 20: When did I get to that place?

1067
00:50:28,520 --> 00:50:29,040
Speaker 4: Yeah?

1068
00:50:29,239 --> 00:50:35,240
Speaker 20: Think that was about thirty four, thirty five years old? Wow,

1069
00:50:35,880 --> 00:50:38,400
Speaker 20: And now I look back at those pictures of myself

1070
00:50:38,440 --> 00:50:39,439
Speaker 20: and I say.

1071
00:50:39,360 --> 00:50:40,400
Speaker 14: Why did you feel like that?

1072
00:50:40,680 --> 00:50:42,440
Speaker 4: Ye? Yes, yeah.

1073
00:50:42,520 --> 00:50:46,240
Speaker 20: The mind. That's why it's important to teach young people

1074
00:50:46,640 --> 00:50:51,239
Speaker 20: to look inside the mind, the state of mind. And

1075
00:50:51,280 --> 00:50:54,080
Speaker 20: there's too much going on right now that's so distracting

1076
00:50:54,160 --> 00:50:57,080
Speaker 20: for them. I don't know how young people feel. If

1077
00:50:57,080 --> 00:51:01,640
Speaker 20: they listen to news reports today, they can't feel empowered.

1078
00:51:02,719 --> 00:51:05,239
Speaker 20: It's not meant to do that for us, for anybody.

1079
00:51:05,480 --> 00:51:07,360
Speaker 18: Well, thank you, not just for the interview, but for

1080
00:51:08,080 --> 00:51:08,600
Speaker 18: your career.

1081
00:51:08,680 --> 00:51:11,239
Speaker 4: Ok, thank you, just thank you for being you.

1082
00:51:11,600 --> 00:51:12,360
Speaker 14: Yeah, thank you.

1083
00:51:12,680 --> 00:51:15,040
Speaker 3: You know, it is not every day you get to

1084
00:51:15,040 --> 00:51:17,160
Speaker 3: meet people that you you know, you grew up on

1085
00:51:17,360 --> 00:51:20,160
Speaker 3: and watch. You know, said to yourself, Man, that person

1086
00:51:20,239 --> 00:51:22,640
Speaker 3: right there is a pillar of our community and what

1087
00:51:22,680 --> 00:51:24,120
Speaker 3: we need to be as a people. And then you

1088
00:51:24,120 --> 00:51:27,319
Speaker 3: meet them and you're just a gracious and regal in person. Yeah,

1089
00:51:27,600 --> 00:51:29,400
Speaker 3: thank you. Thank you to your mother and your father

1090
00:51:29,520 --> 00:51:30,600
Speaker 3: for raising such a.

1091
00:51:30,680 --> 00:51:34,200
Speaker 4: Beautiful, strong woman, and I hope I can do the

1092
00:51:34,239 --> 00:51:35,240
Speaker 4: same for my thoughts.

1093
00:51:35,480 --> 00:51:38,520
Speaker 20: I think you are. I think when they look at you,

1094
00:51:38,880 --> 00:51:39,440
Speaker 20: they know that.

1095
00:51:39,440 --> 00:51:41,920
Speaker 14: They're in love and they're protected.

1096
00:51:42,560 --> 00:51:43,399
Speaker 4: That's all we need.

1097
00:51:43,800 --> 00:51:47,080
Speaker 3: Absolutely, make sure y'all go check out Purposes running through

1098
00:51:47,160 --> 00:51:48,840
Speaker 3: on Broadway through July sixth.

1099
00:51:48,960 --> 00:51:51,160
Speaker 4: It is Queen Felicia Rashad. Thank you for joining us.

1100
00:51:51,200 --> 00:51:55,760
Speaker 6: Now, thank you absolutely, it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning again.

1101
00:52:00,400 --> 00:52:05,120
Speaker 4: Drop that Charlotte made the truth.

1102
00:52:06,800 --> 00:52:10,200
Speaker 3: Don't here today goes to La Trance Battle Latrance Battle

1103
00:52:10,280 --> 00:52:12,680
Speaker 3: is a fifty two year old Bay County, Florida woman.

1104
00:52:13,080 --> 00:52:15,000
Speaker 4: What does your uncle Shalla always say about the great

1105
00:52:15,040 --> 00:52:15,600
Speaker 4: state of Florida.

1106
00:52:15,640 --> 00:52:17,880
Speaker 3: The craziest people in America come from the Bronxon all

1107
00:52:17,960 --> 00:52:20,920
Speaker 3: of Florida, and today is no exception. Salute to everybody

1108
00:52:21,040 --> 00:52:22,719
Speaker 3: who listens to us on one of four or five

1109
00:52:22,800 --> 00:52:25,000
Speaker 3: to beat in Orlando dropping the clues bombs for Orlando.

1110
00:52:25,080 --> 00:52:28,800
Speaker 3: I was in Orlando majority of the weekend. I figured

1111
00:52:28,800 --> 00:52:32,480
Speaker 3: out what makes Florida crazy. It's the heat, Okay. There

1112
00:52:32,560 --> 00:52:35,759
Speaker 3: is studies that show how excessive heat impacts your mental health.

1113
00:52:35,760 --> 00:52:36,040
Speaker 4: Okay.

1114
00:52:36,080 --> 00:52:38,200
Speaker 3: By the way, we in the black community have always

1115
00:52:38,239 --> 00:52:41,680
Speaker 3: known this, but over the years, with climate change global warming,

1116
00:52:41,920 --> 00:52:45,719
Speaker 3: the world has gotten hotter. Therefore, places like Florida have

1117
00:52:45,800 --> 00:52:48,759
Speaker 3: gotten hotter, so people have gotten crazier.

1118
00:52:48,920 --> 00:52:52,200
Speaker 4: I'm not debating with you about this. It's science, okay.

1119
00:52:52,280 --> 00:52:54,920
Speaker 3: Study suggests that he can have a significant impact on

1120
00:52:54,960 --> 00:52:59,600
Speaker 3: mental health, potentially leading to increased irrability, anxiety, and even

1121
00:52:59,680 --> 00:53:04,000
Speaker 3: a great high temperatures can disrupt sleep, impact cognition, and

1122
00:53:04,040 --> 00:53:09,359
Speaker 3: affect mood, potentially exasperating pre existing mental health conditions. So yes,

1123
00:53:09,680 --> 00:53:14,280
Speaker 3: people in Florida are crazy because it's hot. Global warming

1124
00:53:14,320 --> 00:53:17,719
Speaker 3: has made people even crazier. Okay, that's all I got.

1125
00:53:18,360 --> 00:53:20,600
Speaker 3: But one thing about people in Florida. They are creative,

1126
00:53:21,120 --> 00:53:24,280
Speaker 3: very very creative. They do things that make you say wow,

1127
00:53:24,920 --> 00:53:28,480
Speaker 3: that's a unique crime. Okay, I've never seen that before.

1128
00:53:28,600 --> 00:53:31,240
Speaker 3: And that's the case with Latrans Battle. See La Trance

1129
00:53:31,280 --> 00:53:35,799
Speaker 3: Battle was upset that her ex boyfriend had a new wife. Now,

1130
00:53:35,840 --> 00:53:37,600
Speaker 3: I could play a game or guess what race it is,

1131
00:53:37,640 --> 00:53:39,279
Speaker 3: but I need to tell you what race they are

1132
00:53:39,320 --> 00:53:42,359
Speaker 3: for proper context. Latrance Battle is a black woman as

1133
00:53:42,360 --> 00:53:44,960
Speaker 3: far as I can tell, and her ex boyfriend's.

1134
00:53:44,480 --> 00:53:46,080
Speaker 4: Wife is clearly a foreigner.

1135
00:53:46,200 --> 00:53:50,520
Speaker 3: Based off the facts of this situation, based off the

1136
00:53:50,560 --> 00:53:53,640
Speaker 3: fact is Florida, and based off what Latrance did to her,

1137
00:53:53,719 --> 00:53:56,839
Speaker 3: I can only assume she's some type of Latino. Now,

1138
00:53:56,840 --> 00:53:59,640
Speaker 3: if you are a black woman, okay, and you're in

1139
00:53:59,640 --> 00:54:02,560
Speaker 3: Florida and your ex boyfriend's wife was Latino in twenty

1140
00:54:02,600 --> 00:54:04,560
Speaker 3: twenty five, and you wanted to get her out of

1141
00:54:04,560 --> 00:54:05,840
Speaker 3: the picture, what would you do?

1142
00:54:07,760 --> 00:54:15,719
Speaker 4: Okay? Oh boy, let's go to news for news for

1143
00:54:15,760 --> 00:54:16,160
Speaker 4: the report.

1144
00:54:16,160 --> 00:54:19,760
Speaker 23: Please, investigator, say a woman posed as an immigration officer

1145
00:54:19,800 --> 00:54:22,439
Speaker 23: to pull off a deer and kidnapping. They also claimed

1146
00:54:22,480 --> 00:54:26,160
Speaker 23: Latrent's battle had a police type radio and a business

1147
00:54:26,160 --> 00:54:29,320
Speaker 23: card to persuade another woman she was an Ice officer.

1148
00:54:29,719 --> 00:54:32,560
Speaker 23: According to the Bay County Sheriff's Office, the victim eventually

1149
00:54:32,680 --> 00:54:35,600
Speaker 23: escaped all battle faces kidnapping, and other charges.

1150
00:54:36,719 --> 00:54:38,760
Speaker 4: Ten ten for her creativity round the loss.

1151
00:54:38,800 --> 00:54:42,839
Speaker 3: Okay, she clearly committed to the role.

1152
00:54:42,920 --> 00:54:45,640
Speaker 4: She had a costume, a T shirt that's that ice

1153
00:54:45,680 --> 00:54:46,080
Speaker 4: on the front.

1154
00:54:46,280 --> 00:54:48,080
Speaker 3: She had props, She had some type of little walkie

1155
00:54:48,080 --> 00:54:50,360
Speaker 3: talkie that looked like a radio. She clearly had the

1156
00:54:50,480 --> 00:54:53,480
Speaker 3: language because she was able to convince the woman to

1157
00:54:53,520 --> 00:54:55,359
Speaker 3: come with her. She was able to convince the woman

1158
00:54:55,360 --> 00:54:57,759
Speaker 3: that she was indeed an Ice agent and you needed.

1159
00:54:57,480 --> 00:54:57,960
Speaker 4: To come with me.

1160
00:54:58,120 --> 00:55:01,400
Speaker 3: Now, where she went wrong She clearly didn't plan all

1161
00:55:01,440 --> 00:55:03,840
Speaker 3: the way to the end. Because this feels very wily

1162
00:55:03,960 --> 00:55:06,719
Speaker 3: coyote road runner isshit. She didn't think about what she

1163
00:55:06,800 --> 00:55:09,400
Speaker 3: was going to actually do if she caught her. I

1164
00:55:09,440 --> 00:55:11,719
Speaker 3: feel like she didn't have a plan after kidnapping her,

1165
00:55:11,880 --> 00:55:15,120
Speaker 3: unless she was gonna take her to this apartment complex

1166
00:55:15,160 --> 00:55:17,080
Speaker 3: to kill her. But I'm gonna tell you how dangerous

1167
00:55:17,120 --> 00:55:19,239
Speaker 3: this was for her ex boyfriend's wife. Do you know

1168
00:55:19,280 --> 00:55:22,600
Speaker 3: how many Latinos are afraid to have any interactions with

1169
00:55:22,680 --> 00:55:24,880
Speaker 3: law enforcement because they believe it's going to lead to

1170
00:55:24,920 --> 00:55:28,560
Speaker 3: them having to deal with ICE and possibly being possibly

1171
00:55:29,040 --> 00:55:32,520
Speaker 3: be deported. This woman believed La Trance was an ICE

1172
00:55:32,600 --> 00:55:36,560
Speaker 3: agent because she is currently in the process of becoming

1173
00:55:36,600 --> 00:55:39,680
Speaker 3: a legal US resident. Latrance had to know that too,

1174
00:55:39,880 --> 00:55:41,759
Speaker 3: and that's how she knew she could get this off.

1175
00:55:41,920 --> 00:55:44,239
Speaker 4: That could have ended up really bad for her ex

1176
00:55:44,320 --> 00:55:47,839
Speaker 4: boyfriend's wife. But hell, maybe that's what Latrance wanted. I

1177
00:55:47,880 --> 00:55:50,319
Speaker 4: don't know. All I know is I have to give

1178
00:55:50,400 --> 00:55:53,000
Speaker 4: Latrance an E for effort, and I have to give

1179
00:55:53,040 --> 00:55:54,879
Speaker 4: her a D for donkey. And you know what else.

1180
00:55:54,960 --> 00:55:56,799
Speaker 4: Rhym's with D he as in hall.

1181
00:55:56,920 --> 00:55:59,200
Speaker 3: And that's exactly what I want you to give La

1182
00:55:59,239 --> 00:56:00,480
Speaker 3: Trance battle right now.

1183
00:56:04,040 --> 00:56:08,839
Speaker 4: We live in a cruel, cold, hilarious world. Y'all. Won't

1184
00:56:08,840 --> 00:56:09,239
Speaker 4: play game.

1185
00:56:10,960 --> 00:56:11,800
Speaker 12: We know the race.

1186
00:56:14,640 --> 00:56:19,000
Speaker 4: Let little rhetor let him you know he don't listen? Sure, Sure,

1187
00:56:19,040 --> 00:56:20,240
Speaker 4: and you want to play a game?

1188
00:56:20,800 --> 00:56:21,799
Speaker 6: Nope, I don't play games.

1189
00:56:22,120 --> 00:56:26,719
Speaker 4: Okay, all right, I didn't listen. I just turned the

1190
00:56:26,760 --> 00:56:27,319
Speaker 4: mic back on.

1191
00:56:27,560 --> 00:56:28,759
Speaker 6: I'm broadcasting live.

1192
00:56:29,400 --> 00:56:34,040
Speaker 4: Listen what you call in me? I caught the end

1193
00:56:34,080 --> 00:56:36,520
Speaker 4: of it. I caught the end of it.

1194
00:56:37,200 --> 00:56:40,560
Speaker 6: You caught the tip pause morning.

1195
00:56:40,560 --> 00:56:42,520
Speaker 4: Everybody is d J n V.

1196
00:56:42,880 --> 00:56:43,520
Speaker 6: Just hilarious.

1197
00:56:43,600 --> 00:56:45,840
Speaker 2: Charlamagne the God, we are the breakfast club. Law La

1198
00:56:45,920 --> 00:56:47,799
Speaker 2: Ross is here with us as well, and we got

1199
00:56:47,800 --> 00:56:49,320
Speaker 2: a special guest in the buildings.

1200
00:56:49,760 --> 00:56:54,680
Speaker 3: Know he's an icon, right. I think legend is even

1201
00:56:54,680 --> 00:56:58,960
Speaker 3: an understatement. I can only think of three one word queens, Yes,

1202
00:56:59,239 --> 00:57:00,680
Speaker 3: another word I that's it.

1203
00:57:01,040 --> 00:57:07,759
Speaker 6: But there you have it. We have Stephanie Mills. Come on,

1204
00:57:09,280 --> 00:57:10,320
Speaker 6: how are y'all feeling?

1205
00:57:10,360 --> 00:57:13,560
Speaker 5: Y'all look amazing, Thank you, We're happy to be here.

1206
00:57:13,800 --> 00:57:15,120
Speaker 5: We are, We're happy to be here.

1207
00:57:15,200 --> 00:57:16,000
Speaker 12: Good morning.

1208
00:57:16,160 --> 00:57:18,280
Speaker 3: Now y'all are on the Queen Store. Why couldn't this

1209
00:57:18,320 --> 00:57:21,440
Speaker 3: have happened decades ago? Like decades ago, Why couldn't people

1210
00:57:21,480 --> 00:57:22,200
Speaker 3: put this together?

1211
00:57:22,480 --> 00:57:23,360
Speaker 14: Weren't old enough?

1212
00:57:25,440 --> 00:57:27,480
Speaker 8: No, I just think it wasn't the right time. I

1213
00:57:27,480 --> 00:57:30,280
Speaker 8: think this is definitely the right time. And Patty and

1214
00:57:30,440 --> 00:57:33,080
Speaker 8: Gladys and I have worked together, and I've always wanted

1215
00:57:33,080 --> 00:57:35,919
Speaker 8: to work with Shaka, so they came together and put

1216
00:57:35,920 --> 00:57:37,760
Speaker 8: it together, and I was like, yes, let's do it.

1217
00:57:38,040 --> 00:57:40,280
Speaker 2: Is there are enough time for a show to happen.

1218
00:57:40,360 --> 00:57:42,800
Speaker 2: I have so many hits, so many records. How long

1219
00:57:42,880 --> 00:57:43,320
Speaker 2: is the show?

1220
00:57:43,360 --> 00:57:46,120
Speaker 4: How long is this a concert? It's about two hours long.

1221
00:57:46,440 --> 00:57:47,120
Speaker 5: It's not long.

1222
00:57:47,360 --> 00:57:49,360
Speaker 12: We have quick, quick moments.

1223
00:57:49,480 --> 00:57:52,600
Speaker 21: We have like fifty minutes apiece, and you can hardly

1224
00:57:52,640 --> 00:57:54,440
Speaker 21: say hello and good night with that.

1225
00:57:54,440 --> 00:57:56,440
Speaker 14: That's what we do.

1226
00:57:57,080 --> 00:57:58,960
Speaker 4: How do y'all decide who closes? Though I feel like

1227
00:57:58,960 --> 00:58:00,000
Speaker 4: that might have been a little debate.

1228
00:58:02,600 --> 00:58:06,320
Speaker 8: Closes the Gladys offense, I come on second, and then

1229
00:58:06,560 --> 00:58:07,840
Speaker 8: miss Daddy comes.

1230
00:58:08,000 --> 00:58:09,880
Speaker 12: I like to open the show.

1231
00:58:10,960 --> 00:58:15,160
Speaker 14: Gets actually.

1232
00:58:15,840 --> 00:58:20,320
Speaker 4: Right, that's why you like over the show work? Okay?

1233
00:58:20,480 --> 00:58:27,120
Speaker 13: Yeah, cookies, cookies.

1234
00:58:27,960 --> 00:58:30,880
Speaker 3: At this stage in your careers, is it harder or

1235
00:58:30,960 --> 00:58:32,120
Speaker 3: easier to navigate?

1236
00:58:33,360 --> 00:58:36,080
Speaker 4: I guess ego would be the right word. Are there.

1237
00:58:37,320 --> 00:58:41,720
Speaker 21: I don't I haven't seen any not.

1238
00:58:41,000 --> 00:58:45,959
Speaker 7: No, God not ego is the only ego, the honest one.

1239
00:58:47,320 --> 00:58:54,360
Speaker 19: When you said you guys weren't old enough to do this? Okay, yeah,

1240
00:58:54,760 --> 00:58:57,360
Speaker 19: I mean because when you mentioned God is the only ego,

1241
00:58:57,360 --> 00:58:58,800
Speaker 19: I didn't know if it was like you were saying

1242
00:58:58,840 --> 00:59:00,280
Speaker 19: that you had to get to a point where that's

1243
00:59:00,280 --> 00:59:02,160
Speaker 19: something that you realize in the industry because you deal

1244
00:59:02,160 --> 00:59:03,720
Speaker 19: with so many egos navigating.

1245
00:59:03,800 --> 00:59:06,000
Speaker 18: I still am it never stopped.

1246
00:59:06,960 --> 00:59:07,919
Speaker 14: Life never stop?

1247
00:59:08,880 --> 00:59:12,040
Speaker 6: Is there any friendly competition, because no, not at.

1248
00:59:11,920 --> 00:59:13,400
Speaker 14: All, not at all.

1249
00:59:16,520 --> 00:59:19,560
Speaker 21: Yeah, we have fun watching each other and doing each

1250
00:59:19,560 --> 00:59:22,320
Speaker 21: other individual We got to keep on giving.

1251
00:59:22,160 --> 00:59:25,320
Speaker 7: The jewel own rights. We are all different people. We

1252
00:59:25,840 --> 00:59:28,200
Speaker 7: do we do individually.

1253
00:59:28,560 --> 00:59:30,560
Speaker 4: Yes, So how did this tal come together?

1254
00:59:30,600 --> 00:59:32,680
Speaker 3: Because I know it's it's hard to get any of

1255
00:59:32,760 --> 00:59:34,120
Speaker 3: y'all to want to do something.

1256
00:59:34,120 --> 00:59:37,160
Speaker 4: It's, you know, because y'all got great lives, our schedules

1257
00:59:39,040 --> 00:59:41,120
Speaker 4: as a collective. Like well, the.

1258
00:59:41,560 --> 00:59:44,080
Speaker 7: Whole thing with me was that I felt that this

1259
00:59:44,200 --> 00:59:46,080
Speaker 7: is going to be a one off ever in life

1260
00:59:46,560 --> 00:59:49,840
Speaker 7: like some of us, some of us, you know, we

1261
00:59:49,840 --> 00:59:51,760
Speaker 7: weren't going to get the chance to be able to

1262
00:59:52,640 --> 00:59:55,280
Speaker 7: be seen together on one stage.

1263
00:59:54,960 --> 00:59:57,840
Speaker 6: And one night for all of us collectively.

1264
00:59:58,400 --> 01:00:02,680
Speaker 7: So and when I realized important that for people who

1265
01:00:02,680 --> 01:00:06,440
Speaker 7: grew up listening to our song baby we got on

1266
01:00:06,560 --> 01:00:09,880
Speaker 7: us hearing that was that was compelled me.

1267
01:00:10,600 --> 01:00:13,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, we have a surprise about the the ages of

1268
01:00:13,400 --> 01:00:15,480
Speaker 2: people that come to the show because it varies from

1269
01:00:15,600 --> 01:00:16,360
Speaker 2: young teens.

1270
01:00:17,480 --> 01:00:20,680
Speaker 14: That I did because I get it off of you kids.

1271
01:00:21,040 --> 01:00:23,360
Speaker 14: I was weaned on you. Yeah, exactly.

1272
01:00:24,920 --> 01:00:27,960
Speaker 5: They made children on our music.

1273
01:00:28,480 --> 01:00:30,040
Speaker 14: People have babies going on music.

1274
01:00:30,640 --> 01:00:32,400
Speaker 6: But when you have those young individuals in the show.

1275
01:00:32,480 --> 01:00:35,080
Speaker 2: Let's say they're twenty one, twenty two and they're trying

1276
01:00:35,120 --> 01:00:37,200
Speaker 2: to holler at y'all this dad s like, I still

1277
01:00:37,200 --> 01:00:37,600
Speaker 2: got it.

1278
01:00:38,360 --> 01:00:42,840
Speaker 19: No, I don't give anybody you're talking about young.

1279
01:00:44,840 --> 01:00:49,360
Speaker 2: Because looks so beautiful that I'm just.

1280
01:00:49,280 --> 01:00:50,480
Speaker 6: Asking a questions.

1281
01:00:52,120 --> 01:00:57,400
Speaker 8: Young boys at them, like, damn no, young boy, I

1282
01:00:57,480 --> 01:00:59,640
Speaker 8: want to mature and older.

1283
01:01:00,040 --> 01:01:02,120
Speaker 4: But the problem with them is they want the young girls. Why.

1284
01:01:02,200 --> 01:01:06,160
Speaker 4: I don't know, especially when y'all look like this, don't

1285
01:01:06,880 --> 01:01:07,480
Speaker 4: because we want to.

1286
01:01:07,480 --> 01:01:11,160
Speaker 8: Show them that this is how you age and you

1287
01:01:11,160 --> 01:01:12,320
Speaker 8: could still do your thing.

1288
01:01:13,920 --> 01:01:14,840
Speaker 5: We're all beautiful.

1289
01:01:15,120 --> 01:01:16,920
Speaker 3: What do you have a routine to, like keep your

1290
01:01:17,000 --> 01:01:18,960
Speaker 3: voice wrong and your body ready?

1291
01:01:19,200 --> 01:01:19,520
Speaker 20: Sleep?

1292
01:01:21,440 --> 01:01:26,800
Speaker 8: I sing, I sing every day and six days awaking.

1293
01:01:27,280 --> 01:01:28,960
Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean I don't sing.

1294
01:01:29,000 --> 01:01:30,920
Speaker 5: She don't sing every day, but she keeps it together.

1295
01:01:31,400 --> 01:01:34,600
Speaker 12: I'll be hitting the tigh notes. Thanks, thank you, honey.

1296
01:01:35,000 --> 01:01:39,280
Speaker 12: I do what I do, and that aby one. I'm still.

1297
01:01:40,880 --> 01:01:45,080
Speaker 14: The queen. She's the queen, the Queen, my queen.

1298
01:01:45,200 --> 01:01:49,520
Speaker 2: Yes, baby, yeah, I still patty and pull up. I

1299
01:01:49,560 --> 01:01:51,920
Speaker 2: promise I was gonna come on Thanksgiving. My kids are

1300
01:01:51,920 --> 01:01:54,680
Speaker 2: a little older now, so that they're a lot, they'll

1301
01:01:54,680 --> 01:01:55,800
Speaker 2: sit in the corner when you tell them to sit

1302
01:01:55,840 --> 01:02:00,240
Speaker 2: in the corner now, So I'm gonna pull up one Thanksgiving.

1303
01:01:58,880 --> 01:01:59,680
Speaker 20: Yeah you should.

1304
01:02:00,080 --> 01:02:05,000
Speaker 14: We would be playing a big place of food.

1305
01:02:05,720 --> 01:02:10,080
Speaker 19: Good are you cooking for them some of the stops?

1306
01:02:10,080 --> 01:02:12,840
Speaker 7: You know, I'm not letting the cook because why because

1307
01:02:13,960 --> 01:02:18,120
Speaker 7: after the tour she's being good because I'm trying.

1308
01:02:17,920 --> 01:02:18,280
Speaker 14: To be good.

1309
01:02:18,320 --> 01:02:19,120
Speaker 20: No, I better.

1310
01:02:20,960 --> 01:02:23,040
Speaker 3: Do y'all feel like towards like just remind people with

1311
01:02:23,160 --> 01:02:24,640
Speaker 3: a real show is supposed to.

1312
01:02:24,640 --> 01:02:29,960
Speaker 8: Yes, absolutely, because we have real band, nothing staped, Our

1313
01:02:30,000 --> 01:02:33,800
Speaker 8: microphones are on singing.

1314
01:02:33,920 --> 01:02:35,320
Speaker 5: Yes, we are actually singing.

1315
01:02:35,400 --> 01:02:35,640
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1316
01:02:36,000 --> 01:02:38,200
Speaker 3: And do you think fans have the same appreciation for

1317
01:02:38,280 --> 01:02:41,640
Speaker 3: live instrumentation and raw vocals that they did? Like when

1318
01:02:41,640 --> 01:02:47,720
Speaker 3: you'll first hit the stage.

1319
01:02:43,160 --> 01:02:46,680
Speaker 7: I think may not even know the difference. Someone may

1320
01:02:46,800 --> 01:02:48,520
Speaker 7: not even know what the hell is going on, you know.

1321
01:02:49,040 --> 01:02:52,200
Speaker 7: And that's what's unfair and messed up at it is

1322
01:02:52,240 --> 01:02:56,800
Speaker 7: that when you go up there, you should represent yourself honestly.

1323
01:02:57,280 --> 01:02:58,160
Speaker 20: You know, you.

1324
01:02:58,240 --> 01:03:00,680
Speaker 7: Singing the mic, you know you have to have tricks

1325
01:03:00,680 --> 01:03:03,160
Speaker 7: and gags and googles and stuff like that. Ye know

1326
01:03:03,680 --> 01:03:06,720
Speaker 7: that you gotta do. But I'm saying I'm not about it.

1327
01:03:07,360 --> 01:03:09,040
Speaker 7: I've got I've walked up, We walked on the stage.

1328
01:03:09,080 --> 01:03:09,840
Speaker 14: Man's horse.

1329
01:03:11,120 --> 01:03:13,560
Speaker 7: You can't hit all the notes. That's just the way

1330
01:03:13,600 --> 01:03:16,760
Speaker 7: life is. You know what, you give everything, You give

1331
01:03:16,920 --> 01:03:20,480
Speaker 7: everything you got and that is something that people can

1332
01:03:20,800 --> 01:03:22,680
Speaker 7: definitely they know they can feel that.

1333
01:03:23,080 --> 01:03:25,480
Speaker 6: What do you think make this this tour so important?

1334
01:03:25,640 --> 01:03:25,840
Speaker 12: Right?

1335
01:03:25,920 --> 01:03:28,880
Speaker 2: Because seeing so many icons and queens and legends on

1336
01:03:28,880 --> 01:03:30,800
Speaker 2: that stage. You don't get to see that so much.

1337
01:03:31,080 --> 01:03:32,479
Speaker 2: But the fact that we see it with you guys,

1338
01:03:32,480 --> 01:03:34,920
Speaker 2: what makes it so important? Why did you all guys agree.

1339
01:03:35,000 --> 01:03:38,959
Speaker 21: That we as black women represent ourselves the right way?

1340
01:03:39,520 --> 01:03:44,520
Speaker 21: Like Steph said, there's no pretend singing, no no stuff

1341
01:03:44,800 --> 01:03:46,840
Speaker 21: because people have a lot of stuff in their shows.

1342
01:03:47,280 --> 01:03:51,800
Speaker 8: We just go out train tricks. There's nobody flying through

1343
01:03:51,800 --> 01:03:54,840
Speaker 8: the air, none of that. You know, not that that's

1344
01:03:54,880 --> 01:03:57,320
Speaker 8: not good, but I mean we just give shows like

1345
01:03:57,360 --> 01:04:01,400
Speaker 8: we did back in the day's pure black foot stand

1346
01:04:01,400 --> 01:04:01,959
Speaker 8: there and sing.

1347
01:04:02,360 --> 01:04:06,800
Speaker 7: I mean we come from like actually similar but almost

1348
01:04:06,800 --> 01:04:11,040
Speaker 7: the same generational generation levels are like like that stairs

1349
01:04:11,160 --> 01:04:14,720
Speaker 7: and it's close. You know, they're close enough yet far

1350
01:04:14,840 --> 01:04:19,080
Speaker 7: enough all right to reach a really big audience, you

1351
01:04:19,120 --> 01:04:22,080
Speaker 7: know what I'm saying, a huge audience. And it has

1352
01:04:22,160 --> 01:04:25,720
Speaker 7: been the by the grace of God, they just gone

1353
01:04:25,720 --> 01:04:28,680
Speaker 7: together in such as it a good way.

1354
01:04:28,920 --> 01:04:31,880
Speaker 4: Ms Mills. We saw you earlier this year. You caught

1355
01:04:31,880 --> 01:04:35,440
Speaker 4: out the Essence Festival, and I thought it was constructive criticism,

1356
01:04:35,520 --> 01:04:37,000
Speaker 4: you know, it wasn't like you were just bashing. And

1357
01:04:37,160 --> 01:04:37,880
Speaker 4: why did you feel the.

1358
01:04:37,840 --> 01:04:39,440
Speaker 21: Need to red.

1359
01:04:40,440 --> 01:04:41,200
Speaker 12: What's so happened?

1360
01:04:41,840 --> 01:04:44,880
Speaker 8: Because I was there the whole weekend and I saw

1361
01:04:45,040 --> 01:04:48,160
Speaker 8: all the apps and it was just very poorly run

1362
01:04:49,120 --> 01:04:53,280
Speaker 8: and it didn't it didn't show respect to the artists,

1363
01:04:54,160 --> 01:04:54,400
Speaker 8: you know.

1364
01:04:54,520 --> 01:04:57,440
Speaker 5: And I remember Essence from Susan Taylor and.

1365
01:04:58,680 --> 01:05:03,000
Speaker 8: Mister Lewis and it was always prestigious.

1366
01:05:01,920 --> 01:05:05,600
Speaker 5: And ran with respect, and that just was not there.

1367
01:05:06,440 --> 01:05:10,120
Speaker 8: So I could not sit and let them accuse, you know,

1368
01:05:10,200 --> 01:05:13,240
Speaker 8: people for being late when it was them that was

1369
01:05:13,320 --> 01:05:14,520
Speaker 8: late and running it.

1370
01:05:14,720 --> 01:05:18,000
Speaker 5: I just it bothered me. And at sixty eight, I

1371
01:05:18,040 --> 01:05:18,680
Speaker 5: really don't.

1372
01:05:18,520 --> 01:05:19,720
Speaker 14: Care what people think about me.

1373
01:05:19,800 --> 01:05:20,840
Speaker 12: I'm gonna say and.

1374
01:05:20,760 --> 01:05:22,720
Speaker 8: Do what I want to do. I feel like I

1375
01:05:22,800 --> 01:05:26,160
Speaker 8: learned that right, absolutely, So I wanted to call them out,

1376
01:05:26,160 --> 01:05:28,360
Speaker 8: but I did it respectfully, you did. I didn't want

1377
01:05:28,360 --> 01:05:32,520
Speaker 8: to be ghetto about it. I wanted to be constructive

1378
01:05:32,520 --> 01:05:33,000
Speaker 8: and that's.

1379
01:05:32,840 --> 01:05:33,160
Speaker 20: What I did.

1380
01:05:33,240 --> 01:05:34,320
Speaker 6: Well, they said they were going to fix it.

1381
01:05:34,320 --> 01:05:36,200
Speaker 2: They said they were getting down to the bottom of

1382
01:05:36,320 --> 01:05:37,840
Speaker 2: the things that went wrong and they were going.

1383
01:05:37,760 --> 01:05:40,400
Speaker 6: To make sure that I'm glad. I'm glad they took

1384
01:05:40,440 --> 01:05:41,920
Speaker 6: full of accountabilities.

1385
01:05:42,040 --> 01:05:42,840
Speaker 20: Patty was there.

1386
01:05:43,640 --> 01:05:44,400
Speaker 14: Yeah, it was awful.

1387
01:05:44,520 --> 01:05:45,160
Speaker 18: It was awful.

1388
01:05:45,240 --> 01:05:45,439
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1389
01:05:45,520 --> 01:05:48,040
Speaker 12: So when I saw what you did, I said, go girl,

1390
01:05:48,880 --> 01:05:50,520
Speaker 12: talk Yeah, don't stop. Yeah.

1391
01:05:50,640 --> 01:05:52,560
Speaker 5: She tells me to keep on talking, don't stop.

1392
01:05:52,760 --> 01:05:54,320
Speaker 14: Yeah, you have a lot to say.

1393
01:05:54,680 --> 01:05:55,040
Speaker 4: What did you do?

1394
01:05:55,080 --> 01:05:57,800
Speaker 3: Miss You got them privately or did I did you

1395
01:05:57,800 --> 01:05:58,920
Speaker 3: say anything that them privately?

1396
01:05:59,040 --> 01:05:59,760
Speaker 15: Or no?

1397
01:06:00,600 --> 01:06:00,720
Speaker 12: No?

1398
01:06:00,960 --> 01:06:03,880
Speaker 21: And I have one song with yo'se cusain right. I

1399
01:06:03,920 --> 01:06:06,600
Speaker 21: couldn't cheat you too much about anything because I didn't

1400
01:06:06,600 --> 01:06:09,480
Speaker 21: have a set of my own, you know, so I

1401
01:06:09,600 --> 01:06:11,040
Speaker 21: know somebody would take care of it.

1402
01:06:11,280 --> 01:06:13,080
Speaker 5: I felt like I spoke for everybody.

1403
01:06:13,800 --> 01:06:14,560
Speaker 18: You know what I'm saying.

1404
01:06:14,600 --> 01:06:16,440
Speaker 8: I feel like because I'm not afraid. I don't have

1405
01:06:16,480 --> 01:06:17,840
Speaker 8: any fear. I only fear God.

1406
01:06:18,400 --> 01:06:19,040
Speaker 4: So I'm not.

1407
01:06:19,040 --> 01:06:22,120
Speaker 8: Afraid when people say, oh, if you do this, you're

1408
01:06:22,120 --> 01:06:23,040
Speaker 8: going to be blacklisted.

1409
01:06:23,120 --> 01:06:26,280
Speaker 5: I'm black already, So you know what I'm saying, I

1410
01:06:26,760 --> 01:06:29,240
Speaker 5: don't really care. You put all my glasses and see

1411
01:06:29,600 --> 01:06:30,320
Speaker 5: if I give it.

1412
01:06:31,000 --> 01:06:31,720
Speaker 14: Damn about it.

1413
01:06:32,080 --> 01:06:33,440
Speaker 6: You were date a whole weekend, so you see a

1414
01:06:33,480 --> 01:06:34,040
Speaker 6: bunch of artists.

1415
01:06:34,040 --> 01:06:35,440
Speaker 5: I've seen a bunch of artists.

1416
01:06:35,480 --> 01:06:37,600
Speaker 8: I saw what they did, I saw how late they

1417
01:06:37,600 --> 01:06:41,480
Speaker 8: were putting the shows together. And I had an incidents

1418
01:06:41,600 --> 01:06:46,480
Speaker 8: with the owner's daughter and I didn't talk about that,

1419
01:06:46,560 --> 01:06:48,480
Speaker 8: but it was just not respectful.

1420
01:06:48,640 --> 01:06:50,800
Speaker 2: I was gonna ask what artists are you loving right

1421
01:06:50,800 --> 01:06:52,680
Speaker 2: now that you've seen, since you watched a lot of

1422
01:06:52,680 --> 01:06:54,720
Speaker 2: the shows, the artists right now, that just came out

1423
01:06:54,760 --> 01:06:56,960
Speaker 2: to me, like, I really like that person. That person's

1424
01:06:56,960 --> 01:06:57,919
Speaker 2: doing an amazing job.

1425
01:06:58,600 --> 01:06:59,919
Speaker 5: I love Jasmine Sella.

1426
01:07:00,080 --> 01:07:04,560
Speaker 8: Then I love Selina Johnson, I love uh.

1427
01:07:03,920 --> 01:07:05,400
Speaker 5: I love Leilah Hathaway.

1428
01:07:06,280 --> 01:07:10,120
Speaker 8: You know I love I love a lot of the singers,

1429
01:07:10,160 --> 01:07:11,680
Speaker 8: but I see I listen to a lot of the

1430
01:07:11,760 --> 01:07:14,240
Speaker 8: old when I'm singing to get ready for my shows.

1431
01:07:14,600 --> 01:07:17,880
Speaker 8: I'm doing Ashford and Simpson, and I do them because

1432
01:07:18,000 --> 01:07:20,920
Speaker 8: they sing the melody, but they still go around it,

1433
01:07:21,040 --> 01:07:24,040
Speaker 8: so they stay in the pocket. And that's what I

1434
01:07:24,080 --> 01:07:25,800
Speaker 8: That's what I try to do. And then I listen

1435
01:07:25,840 --> 01:07:28,560
Speaker 8: to my songs so I could sound somewhat.

1436
01:07:28,200 --> 01:07:29,439
Speaker 12: Like I sounded back in the day.

1437
01:07:29,480 --> 01:07:31,560
Speaker 6: What about you shot the artist right now that you

1438
01:07:31,640 --> 01:07:32,560
Speaker 6: like an R and B artist that.

1439
01:07:33,200 --> 01:07:36,360
Speaker 14: Yeah, I like a lot of them, not ever like her.

1440
01:07:36,760 --> 01:07:38,480
Speaker 4: Her, She's special.

1441
01:07:38,680 --> 01:07:41,880
Speaker 7: Yeah, we're gonna do some stuff together. Really, he's the

1442
01:07:41,880 --> 01:07:43,200
Speaker 7: closest thing to Prince.

1443
01:07:45,200 --> 01:07:45,480
Speaker 14: Wow.

1444
01:07:46,160 --> 01:07:48,440
Speaker 4: Pat Labell, who do you feel, honey?

1445
01:07:48,920 --> 01:07:49,520
Speaker 14: Young people?

1446
01:07:49,600 --> 01:07:52,880
Speaker 12: So many, so many? Yeah, I mean I do love Coco.

1447
01:07:53,440 --> 01:08:01,120
Speaker 21: Oh yeah, Singe you know likes so many is I

1448
01:08:01,120 --> 01:08:03,640
Speaker 21: mean she sings her face off? There are so many

1449
01:08:03,720 --> 01:08:06,520
Speaker 21: young girls of course singing. I might not remember the names,

1450
01:08:06,920 --> 01:08:08,320
Speaker 21: but I know I like certain music.

1451
01:08:08,600 --> 01:08:09,880
Speaker 2: Now, some of these art has reached out to do

1452
01:08:10,000 --> 01:08:12,040
Speaker 2: besides her, reached out to do records.

1453
01:08:12,040 --> 01:08:14,440
Speaker 6: And would y'all consider doing it? Moll, You're like, I

1454
01:08:14,480 --> 01:08:14,800
Speaker 6: don't know.

1455
01:08:15,040 --> 01:08:18,680
Speaker 12: Well, there's some thoughts, you know, me and Cardi B.

1456
01:08:18,880 --> 01:08:22,519
Speaker 4: Possibly you and Cardi B. I love that. I love

1457
01:08:22,600 --> 01:08:27,200
Speaker 4: that you're thinking about it. You her?

1458
01:08:28,120 --> 01:08:34,920
Speaker 21: No, she wants to. Yeah, No, Cardi is my girl.

1459
01:08:34,960 --> 01:08:40,439
Speaker 21: We did a commercial together blond It. But I haven't

1460
01:08:40,479 --> 01:08:42,880
Speaker 21: had a record out in like fifteen years, R and

1461
01:08:42,920 --> 01:08:47,080
Speaker 21: B album for twenty years, and I've been working on

1462
01:08:47,120 --> 01:08:47,519
Speaker 21: her for the.

1463
01:08:47,479 --> 01:08:48,960
Speaker 14: Last six months.

1464
01:08:49,000 --> 01:08:51,240
Speaker 12: But I got it coming still on tour.

1465
01:08:53,080 --> 01:08:56,600
Speaker 6: Card What about you?

1466
01:08:56,720 --> 01:08:57,680
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, I'm no.

1467
01:08:59,680 --> 01:09:01,120
Speaker 6: Column.

1468
01:09:00,960 --> 01:09:02,320
Speaker 4: I want to I want to see.

1469
01:09:03,880 --> 01:09:04,559
Speaker 14: Whatever makes you?

1470
01:09:05,320 --> 01:09:06,080
Speaker 4: What about yourself?

1471
01:09:06,400 --> 01:09:09,720
Speaker 7: At the beginning of the year, Yeah, I see you

1472
01:09:09,840 --> 01:09:13,360
Speaker 7: and I got together did a little pop album and

1473
01:09:14,280 --> 01:09:17,599
Speaker 7: I got oh Snoop is on there, I got wrapping one,

1474
01:09:18,840 --> 01:09:21,560
Speaker 7: but I got quite a few other surprises.

1475
01:09:22,120 --> 01:09:25,000
Speaker 14: But you do, it's gonna be interesting.

1476
01:09:25,080 --> 01:09:27,479
Speaker 18: I saw you performed with du Leap as well too.

1477
01:09:27,600 --> 01:09:29,720
Speaker 14: Yeah, we did. We jammed. Yeah, I came with jam

1478
01:09:29,800 --> 01:09:30,599
Speaker 14: brother the other day.

1479
01:09:30,960 --> 01:09:32,599
Speaker 19: How do you how do you pick and chooser? All

1480
01:09:32,680 --> 01:09:34,320
Speaker 19: three of you, ladies? How do you pick and choose?

1481
01:09:34,320 --> 01:09:36,800
Speaker 19: Like what artists call you and say, hey, I'm almost

1482
01:09:36,800 --> 01:09:38,559
Speaker 19: paying tribute. We'll love to have you where you're like

1483
01:09:38,640 --> 01:09:41,000
Speaker 19: you leaning your actual face and presence to an artist

1484
01:09:41,000 --> 01:09:41,840
Speaker 19: if they can.

1485
01:09:41,800 --> 01:09:47,320
Speaker 14: Say that's it, gonna do something special?

1486
01:09:47,640 --> 01:09:50,080
Speaker 21: Yeah, I mean Cardi is not a singer singer, right,

1487
01:09:50,439 --> 01:09:51,720
Speaker 21: but she's special.

1488
01:09:53,320 --> 01:09:55,840
Speaker 14: Entertainer. Yeah, you know what I'm saying.

1489
01:09:56,640 --> 01:09:58,760
Speaker 2: Would you say you made more money now in the

1490
01:09:58,840 --> 01:10:00,639
Speaker 2: last ten years than you it in your career?

1491
01:10:00,720 --> 01:10:03,240
Speaker 20: Absolutely? Absolutely?

1492
01:10:03,479 --> 01:10:04,360
Speaker 14: Thank you right now.

1493
01:10:04,880 --> 01:10:10,240
Speaker 8: Well, because I'm independent and I'm more veriable about what

1494
01:10:10,280 --> 01:10:12,479
Speaker 8: I want. I know exactly what I want, I know

1495
01:10:12,520 --> 01:10:14,360
Speaker 8: how I want it to be done, I know what

1496
01:10:14,439 --> 01:10:19,080
Speaker 8: percentages I want, So yeah, absolutely absolutely.

1497
01:10:19,200 --> 01:10:23,479
Speaker 4: What about how much of the industry is changed and

1498
01:10:23,479 --> 01:10:24,320
Speaker 4: how much is the state is.

1499
01:10:24,360 --> 01:10:27,000
Speaker 12: Say, it's changed a lot. I think women are getting

1500
01:10:27,000 --> 01:10:29,960
Speaker 12: more play these days.

1501
01:10:30,000 --> 01:10:33,479
Speaker 21: And like Stephanely says, you have to know what you

1502
01:10:33,600 --> 01:10:36,240
Speaker 21: are and you have to know that's ever doing your

1503
01:10:36,280 --> 01:10:40,000
Speaker 21: business with you, they're safe, which is hard to find.

1504
01:10:40,200 --> 01:10:42,879
Speaker 12: You know, my son is with me, yes forever?

1505
01:10:43,400 --> 01:10:46,920
Speaker 5: Oh no, no, go ahead, finishment. I just want to

1506
01:10:46,960 --> 01:10:47,840
Speaker 5: say that you have.

1507
01:10:47,760 --> 01:10:49,479
Speaker 8: To know your work and you have to be willing

1508
01:10:49,520 --> 01:10:53,120
Speaker 8: to say no and not chase the money because all

1509
01:10:53,120 --> 01:10:55,040
Speaker 8: money ain't good money.

1510
01:10:55,120 --> 01:10:56,760
Speaker 12: Yeah, because it's real.

1511
01:10:56,920 --> 01:10:58,840
Speaker 21: I mean, you can't go out and say I'm going

1512
01:10:58,920 --> 01:11:01,599
Speaker 21: to do this and you embarrass yourself when you talked

1513
01:11:01,600 --> 01:11:02,600
Speaker 21: about barely.

1514
01:11:02,280 --> 01:11:04,080
Speaker 12: For taking that check, right, you know.

1515
01:11:04,160 --> 01:11:07,840
Speaker 21: So I know all of these things are done well

1516
01:11:07,920 --> 01:11:10,360
Speaker 21: with me and my son, but he'll stop it in

1517
01:11:10,360 --> 01:11:11,160
Speaker 21: a minute.

1518
01:11:11,040 --> 01:11:12,240
Speaker 12: No matter how much it is.

1519
01:11:13,439 --> 01:11:17,960
Speaker 21: So you know, I'm blessed again. I'm blessed with business.

1520
01:11:17,040 --> 01:11:27,640
Speaker 4: What about you?

1521
01:11:27,640 --> 01:11:29,920
Speaker 7: No, you know the big you know the big house,

1522
01:11:30,640 --> 01:11:33,120
Speaker 7: the big you know the big companies.

1523
01:11:34,640 --> 01:11:36,000
Speaker 14: I was very thrilled.

1524
01:11:36,000 --> 01:11:39,920
Speaker 7: I was thrilled when I found out that a lot

1525
01:11:39,960 --> 01:11:45,160
Speaker 7: of artists, hip hop artists were like in their hotel room,

1526
01:11:45,160 --> 01:11:48,439
Speaker 7: cutting records. I was like, yes, that's the way it

1527
01:11:48,479 --> 01:11:51,600
Speaker 7: to be, Absolutely and Prince. Then I went through a

1528
01:11:51,640 --> 01:11:56,640
Speaker 7: really big fight with you know for some years you

1529
01:11:56,680 --> 01:12:02,679
Speaker 7: know about how crooked they were, and so finally I'm

1530
01:12:02,760 --> 01:12:07,680
Speaker 7: in a good place. I own everything. I'm of mine.

1531
01:12:08,040 --> 01:12:09,639
Speaker 7: Get to come through me first.

1532
01:12:10,360 --> 01:12:13,000
Speaker 3: If there's one message you want the audience to take

1533
01:12:13,040 --> 01:12:16,000
Speaker 3: away after seeing all of y'all perform together, what is

1534
01:12:16,040 --> 01:12:17,480
Speaker 3: it unity?

1535
01:12:18,520 --> 01:12:20,000
Speaker 12: And that what we respect each other?

1536
01:12:20,680 --> 01:12:20,920
Speaker 4: Love.

1537
01:12:23,920 --> 01:12:27,400
Speaker 14: We've been talking about this for years, you know together.

1538
01:12:27,560 --> 01:12:30,120
Speaker 14: This is when this came. So here's our chance.

1539
01:12:31,280 --> 01:12:40,200
Speaker 4: You know, night too. She's also.

1540
01:12:38,600 --> 01:12:44,000
Speaker 21: Sweeta, So that's why she's not with us today.

1541
01:12:44,200 --> 01:12:49,040
Speaker 14: She's her because she has other jobs. Yeah, we love

1542
01:12:49,160 --> 01:12:54,639
Speaker 14: glad Amazing. I grew I grew up on her. Yeah.

1543
01:12:55,000 --> 01:12:57,919
Speaker 2: Well, thank you ladies for joining us, the queens, the Queens,

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Speaker 2: the legends, the icon and make sure you go out

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Speaker 2: there and get all miss Patty LaBelle products.

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Speaker 4: You know, Thanksgiving right around you.

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Speaker 12: S to go with my pancakes.

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Speaker 21: Yeah it's and Kroger's in somewhere, but I do have it.

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Speaker 14: As outcome my institution out.

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Speaker 4: At Texas.

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Speaker 2: A yet texts coming through Patti LaBelle, Stephanie, mil Sha

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Speaker 2: Ka Khan, thank you so much.

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Speaker 4: It's The Breakfast Club.

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Speaker 6: Good morning.

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Speaker 4: Yes, it's the world's more dangerous morning show, The Breakfast Club.

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Speaker 4: Charlamagne to God. Here, I just want to tell all

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Speaker 4: of y'all Happy New Year, man, and made this new

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Speaker 4: year all your dreams turned into reality and made all

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Speaker 4: your efforts turn into great achievements.

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Speaker 20: Man.

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Speaker 4: Salute see y'all in the week. Breakfast Club feels for y'all.

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Speaker 1: Done up, Wake you up Up, program your alarm. The

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