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Speaker 1: Morning, everybody. It's DJ Envy, Jess Hilarious, Charlamagne the guy.

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Speaker 1: We are to Breakfast Club. Lona Rosa is hanging out

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Speaker 1: with us this morning. Yes, indeed, and we got a

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Speaker 1: special guest in the building. Yes we have Nicole Avon. Welcome,

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Speaker 1: thancome to thank you.

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Speaker 2: It's good to be bad.

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Speaker 1: How are you feeling?

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Speaker 2: Great? New book, new book, new.

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Speaker 3: New film, new forward, new forward.

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Speaker 2: Everything's new. Thank god, it's a It's so yeah.

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Speaker 4: The paperback version I Think You'll Be Happy is now

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Speaker 4: out and my husband Ted Sarandos wrote the forward and

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Speaker 4: it is a beautiful addition to the book, and it

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Speaker 4: became a best seller again and I'm just so happy

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Speaker 4: because the legacy continues.

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Speaker 2: And but it's.

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Speaker 4: Through Ted's lens, which was great because Ted was with

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Speaker 4: my father with the Black oul Father when he crossed

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Speaker 4: over to the other side, and it was really ted

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Speaker 4: like I had left the room and said to Ted,

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Speaker 4: we're going to switch places now. And the crazy thing

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Speaker 4: is is the six Triple eight was the last moment

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Speaker 4: I had with my father. Tyler Perry had just sent

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Speaker 4: me one of the last, you know, cuts of the

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Speaker 4: film and he said, Okay, take some notes, we're ready

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Speaker 4: to lock and my father was in the other room,

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Speaker 4: and I thought, I was no, I don't want to

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Speaker 4: bother him, and I could just feel Holy Spirit saying,

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Speaker 4: what do.

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Speaker 2: You mean bother him?

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Speaker 4: Go sit with him? So I said, Daddy, here's the

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Speaker 4: movie that you told me to finish.

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Speaker 2: Here's the movie.

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Speaker 4: And he's laying there and he gets all the way

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Speaker 4: to the end and the song The Journey is playing,

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Speaker 4: and Diane Warren wrote the song. Her sings the song beautifully.

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Speaker 4: It just got nominated, by the way for an Oscar.

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Speaker 4: And I was able to look at my father after

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Speaker 4: everything's done, of course crying, and I went over to him, and.

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Speaker 2: That's when I said my goodbye. Wow.

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Speaker 4: I was like, you know what, Daddy, You've had the

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Speaker 4: best journey. You've journeyed here for ninety two and a

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Speaker 4: half years. You've done so much for your people, You've

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Speaker 4: done so much for America, You've done so much for

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Speaker 4: the world.

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Speaker 2: You can go be a piece now. You you what

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Speaker 2: a journey? What a journey?

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Speaker 3: With any response or anything, he just he.

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Speaker 4: Get he opened his eyes and there was a slight smile,

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Speaker 4: but I saw the peace come over him. Because I

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Speaker 4: kept saying, Daddy, don't hang out for me. I know

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Speaker 4: you wanted Everything's done. The book is done, the film

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Speaker 4: was done. Remember, because he had said to me after

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Speaker 4: my mom died, after she was killed, I didn't want

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Speaker 4: to finish anything.

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Speaker 2: Why would you?

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Speaker 4: So I'm thinking I'm done, and my father every day,

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Speaker 4: you're going to finish that book, You're going to finish

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Speaker 4: this movie.

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Speaker 2: Life goes on. You have to.

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Speaker 4: Of course you need to grieve. Of course you're going

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Speaker 4: to be sad. But you can't give your power away.

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Speaker 4: You can't give your light away.

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Speaker 2: You can't.

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Speaker 4: This darkness came into our life. You can't be consumed

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Speaker 4: by the darkness. You better take this light and figure

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Speaker 4: this shit.

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Speaker 2: Out and be an avant. And this is what we do.

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Speaker 2: He's like, you know how hard my life was. You

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Speaker 2: know what I went through.

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Speaker 4: I was picking cotton at five, I was picking tobacco

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Speaker 4: at five. I was doing this. I was bounced around.

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Speaker 4: I was so it was and he said, he goes,

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Speaker 4: and you owe us that. You kind of owe us

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Speaker 4: your life. You can't let your life force go. So

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Speaker 4: all that to say, it took three years for me

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Speaker 4: to be sitting here now in a much different, more peaceful,

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Speaker 4: absolutely position of healing. You know, grief never goes away,

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Speaker 4: but it does get lighter as you go because you

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Speaker 4: learn how to manage it. Last time I was here,

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Speaker 4: you know, right, you know, right after the hardcover came out,

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Speaker 4: I was still in a state of shock and sadness.

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Speaker 4: No much, however much I was trying to hide it,

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Speaker 3: That's right. Why did you leave the room, Like, why

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Speaker 4: Because I said, I could tell my father didn't want

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Speaker 4: to leave in front of you know, well, first of all,

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Speaker 4: I heard I don't know if you guys have experienced,

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Speaker 4: but it's called the death rattle where you hear it

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Speaker 4: sounds like someone's choking.

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Speaker 2: It's it's not you know, it's it's scary. It's that

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Speaker 2: rattle where the body is actually shutting down. And so he's.

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Speaker 4: Trying to breathe and I and it's just so painful.

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Speaker 4: So I knew, and I could tell though that he's

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Speaker 4: trying to hang on. And I was like, daddy, Daddy,

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Speaker 4: So I said, let me, let me, I'm gonna go

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Speaker 4: get a glass of water. And then I went out

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Speaker 4: and looked at Ted. I said, you know what, maybe

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Speaker 4: then we'll do it together.

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Speaker 2: And then the next thing.

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Speaker 4: And then I just knew once Ted went in, he

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Speaker 4: was gonna be different, and he was. Ted played music

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Speaker 4: Ted all of a sudden, I said, all of a sudden,

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Speaker 4: it all my I was the little Catholic boy again

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Speaker 4: in school. And he goes and I started saying my

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Speaker 4: prairies because I hadn't said them in years. But they

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Speaker 4: listened to Duke Ellington, Quincy Jones, Frank Sinatra, everybody. They

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Speaker 4: just he played. He sent Clarence out, held his hand

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Speaker 4: and they had their beautiful moment.

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Speaker 2: You know. They were very very close.

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Speaker 4: And my father and Ted's dad didn't understand really what

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Speaker 4: Ted did for a living.

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Speaker 2: He grasped it, but he didn't really. But my father

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Speaker 2: was like, wait a minute, you're what at Netflix?

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Speaker 4: And what is Netflix gonna do? And he's my father

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Speaker 4: has watched Ted from fifteen years. When I came into

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Speaker 4: Ted's life skyrocket and become CEO, my dad was there

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Speaker 4: during the whole rise, you know, so it was he

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Speaker 4: got this promotion. Then he got another promotion and Clarence

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Speaker 4: would sit with him and then I'd watch him do

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Speaker 4: his numbers thing and write on the paper, you got

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Speaker 4: to ask for this, you gotta do this.

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Speaker 2: Where do you want to see yourself in five years?

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Speaker 2: Who are you hiring? What are you doing? You know?

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Speaker 2: Are you going around the world. It was so great

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Speaker 2: for Ted.

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Speaker 5: Ted he had the ultimate chicole. You could tap Clarence

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Speaker 5: Avon anytime you want for advice, right, yeah.

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Speaker 6: I don't understand, so you call it Clarence avan that's yeah.

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Speaker 4: And you know Ted would say, which you got to

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Speaker 4: get him all next time? He's like, how come I'm

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Speaker 2: The breakfast cut with you?

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Speaker 4: Said right now, We're going to have it next time.

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Speaker 4: But you know it's a funny you said that. It's

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Speaker 4: because Ted said when he was dating me, he went

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Speaker 4: to lunch with my father. He said, everybody kept coming

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Speaker 4: It goes everybody kept coming to kidster Gooz. I knew

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Speaker 4: impact of him, he said. And I had black people,

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Speaker 4: white people, men and women saying he changed the course

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Speaker 4: He opened this door, he closed this door, he made

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Speaker 4: sure the contract was right. I mean, it was all

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Speaker 4: of a sudden, Ted's thinking, this man was one of

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Speaker 4: the architects of the entire entertainment business. Absolutely, and I

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Speaker 4: don't know his name, and my friends don't know his name,

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Speaker 4: and I'm pissed. So Ted went out and was telling

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Speaker 4: everybody he said, that's why we got to make.

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Speaker 2: The Black Odfather.

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Speaker 6: Oh okay, yeah, because when I watched that and I

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Speaker 6: heard about the story, I figured you might have push

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Speaker 6: forward more because it's your family's legacy. But your husband

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Speaker 6: happens to be at Netflix, so you have that right.

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Speaker 6: I mean, Notenli, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 2: You can pick up that.

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Speaker 6: Phone and call him, so you're like, oh, let's make

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Speaker 6: this work. But hearing that he in real time was

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Speaker 6: like people need to experience and.

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Speaker 4: Really, Reggie Hudler and I had been working on The

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Speaker 4: Black op Father for so long, or at least talking

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Speaker 4: long time ago, my dad kept saying, I'm just going

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Speaker 4: to write a book.

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Speaker 2: I don't want to be in a movie. I'm going

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Speaker 2: to write a book. And David Geffen's like, no, one's

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Speaker 4: I said, Daddy, if we put this in words, who's

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Speaker 4: we're going to talk about all these experiences and all

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Speaker 4: the things that you did. People need to hear Bill

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Speaker 4: Otherwise everyone's gonna say, oh, yeah, that really happened.

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Speaker 2: Okay. So it was so great that everyone came together.

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Speaker 4: And then Ted every time I'd come home and I'd

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Speaker 4: have my little check, It's like, you got that person

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Speaker 4: Clive Davis is coming on.

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Speaker 2: Yes.

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Speaker 4: Ted's like, oh, no, we're doing this. We have to

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Speaker 4: cement this legacy. And Ted knew that. That's the way

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Speaker 4: my parents raised me. They raised me.

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Speaker 2: They gave me black history mostly through music and film.

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Speaker 4: You know, there was a lot of stuff in the house,

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Speaker 4: of course, the art and things, but my parents would

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Speaker 4: have me watch you know, a lot of whether it

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Speaker 4: was Lili's and the you know, to start with love

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Speaker 4: or lilies in the field or guess who's coming to

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Speaker 4: to the Dutchman in all these films, and even.

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Speaker 2: Birth of a Nation, which is horrific to watch, but

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Speaker 2: you need to watch it. You need to learn so

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Speaker 2: that you could.

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Speaker 4: Say that shit was really happening, and thank god it's

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Speaker 4: not now, do you know what I mean? It's there

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Speaker 4: was so much It was easier for me to digest

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Speaker 4: history through entertainment, which is why we were able to

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Speaker 4: tell so many stories in The Black Godfather that I

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Speaker 4: don't think would have resonated with people if it was

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Speaker 4: on separately.

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Speaker 3: Right now, that a little bit of what Tedd said, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: in the Ford he said.

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Speaker 5: And Nicole's father, my father in law, Clarence Avont, the

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Speaker 5: Black Godfather, came directly from the hospital.

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Speaker 3: To live with us.

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Speaker 5: The next few years were like a gift from the universe,

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Speaker 5: cosmic payback for the pain of the few weeks in

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Speaker 5: twenty twenty one that changed all our lives. Clarence was

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Speaker 5: a role model in business and in life. Every meal

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Speaker 5: together was a masterclass cheating. He didn't say that.

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Speaker 3: I said that.

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Speaker 5: I had spent time with him over the years, heard

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Speaker 6: Y'all did a good job of showing that parallel too,

442
00:20:12,440 --> 00:20:15,760
Speaker 6: because the one girl in the movie who her actual

443
00:20:16,080 --> 00:20:17,919
Speaker 6: like significant other, he went away to the war and

444
00:20:17,920 --> 00:20:20,160
Speaker 6: she hadn't heard from him, so she was like frustrated.

445
00:20:20,640 --> 00:20:23,639
Speaker 6: It really showed like why because I was watching it

446
00:20:23,680 --> 00:20:26,080
Speaker 6: with people who were like, but they're only doing male

447
00:20:26,160 --> 00:20:28,800
Speaker 6: to your point, But then when you saw her storyline,

448
00:20:28,840 --> 00:20:30,920
Speaker 6: it's like, that's why the male was important. I think

449
00:20:30,960 --> 00:20:34,000
Speaker 6: that helped, like that overarching storyline helped you understand the

450
00:20:34,000 --> 00:20:35,600
Speaker 6: importance of their job too. I thought that that was

451
00:20:35,600 --> 00:20:38,000
Speaker 6: a great peace. I don't know if you guys did

452
00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:38,280
Speaker 6: that on.

453
00:20:38,640 --> 00:20:41,159
Speaker 4: We did, but thank you because it's because Tyler was like,

454
00:20:41,240 --> 00:20:44,119
Speaker 4: we have to really show why. Yeah, and it actually

455
00:20:44,119 --> 00:20:47,080
Speaker 4: did happen, but it's to your again. Everyone said, oh,

456
00:20:47,080 --> 00:20:49,800
Speaker 4: it's just the male, but it's really not just anything.

457
00:20:50,280 --> 00:20:53,840
Speaker 4: It's communication, right, it's humanity, And but we didn't get

458
00:20:53,840 --> 00:20:56,200
Speaker 4: that until that scene that you're talking about. Yeah, and

459
00:20:57,359 --> 00:20:59,560
Speaker 4: it does make a huge difference. That people need to

460
00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:03,040
Speaker 4: see the power of human connection and the power of

461
00:21:03,040 --> 00:21:05,440
Speaker 4: your Why why is somebody doing something?

462
00:21:05,720 --> 00:21:09,360
Speaker 2: Why is somebody being so committed to.

463
00:21:09,480 --> 00:21:11,800
Speaker 4: They were also trying to prove themselves. They were also

464
00:21:11,920 --> 00:21:14,919
Speaker 4: trying to plant seeds. Again, for all of us to

465
00:21:14,960 --> 00:21:16,959
Speaker 4: be sitting here doing what we're doing, you don't have

466
00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:19,639
Speaker 4: to be in the armed forces. I think people we

467
00:21:19,680 --> 00:21:22,120
Speaker 4: all have to remember everybody in our history and everybody

468
00:21:22,160 --> 00:21:26,520
Speaker 4: before us, they knew they weren't going to see their

469
00:21:26,560 --> 00:21:27,439
Speaker 4: fruits of their labor.

470
00:21:28,240 --> 00:21:29,560
Speaker 2: There wasn't you know what I mean.

471
00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:33,600
Speaker 4: There were so many people who still fought for civil rights,

472
00:21:33,640 --> 00:21:35,639
Speaker 4: knowing that they may not get their rights, but we

473
00:21:35,680 --> 00:21:36,320
Speaker 4: were worth it.

474
00:21:37,080 --> 00:21:39,280
Speaker 2: Then when we came along, we would have our rights.

475
00:21:39,640 --> 00:21:42,320
Speaker 4: That is what I respect so much about people who

476
00:21:42,320 --> 00:21:46,160
Speaker 4: were never going to receive any benefits and still said

477
00:21:46,359 --> 00:21:48,200
Speaker 4: I'm doing this because it's the right thing to do.

478
00:21:49,240 --> 00:21:51,680
Speaker 3: That's right. Y'all were nominated for Best Original Songs.

479
00:21:52,480 --> 00:21:56,720
Speaker 4: That mean, yes, oh my gosh, well, it's amazing because

480
00:21:57,080 --> 00:21:59,440
Speaker 4: twofold again because Clarence comes in here again.

481
00:21:59,440 --> 00:22:02,480
Speaker 2: Because my dad and Diane Warren have been friends forever.

482
00:22:02,760 --> 00:22:05,399
Speaker 4: Wow, and the fact that it's Diane who wrote the

483
00:22:05,440 --> 00:22:08,360
Speaker 4: song and then her singing the song, it's so great.

484
00:22:08,640 --> 00:22:10,359
Speaker 4: But that's what I was able to say to my

485
00:22:10,400 --> 00:22:12,320
Speaker 4: father when he was passing over. I said, Dad, you know,

486
00:22:12,720 --> 00:22:15,000
Speaker 4: here's your journey. Go on your journey. You had such

487
00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:17,440
Speaker 4: a great journey, I said, And of course, guests who

488
00:22:17,440 --> 00:22:20,359
Speaker 4: wrote the song, Diane Warren, I said, your girl who

489
00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:22,280
Speaker 4: likes to curse just as much as you. That's how

490
00:22:22,280 --> 00:22:24,560
Speaker 4: they became friends, because he said, I've never met somebody

491
00:22:24,560 --> 00:22:27,840
Speaker 4: who drops an fbom more than me, faster than me.

492
00:22:28,240 --> 00:22:31,520
Speaker 2: But she's brilliant, right, She's a brilliant songwriter.

493
00:22:32,000 --> 00:22:37,320
Speaker 4: And I was just so happy that this is this

494
00:22:37,400 --> 00:22:40,040
Speaker 4: is the category that we got an OSCAR nomination, and

495
00:22:40,080 --> 00:22:42,520
Speaker 4: I was like, Okay, I'll take this because this song

496
00:22:42,680 --> 00:22:45,439
Speaker 4: is everything and the song really makes the move.

497
00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:46,879
Speaker 2: I don't know how you felt, but I thought the

498
00:22:46,960 --> 00:22:48,560
Speaker 2: song was just perfect.

499
00:22:48,720 --> 00:22:50,560
Speaker 6: It was a lot of good stuff that was entertwined

500
00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:53,879
Speaker 6: into a song. I think the costuming was great. I

501
00:22:53,880 --> 00:22:55,520
Speaker 6: thought that was important to especially when he got off

502
00:22:55,520 --> 00:22:56,359
Speaker 6: the I'm telling too much.

503
00:22:56,240 --> 00:22:56,960
Speaker 2: About that march.

504
00:22:57,040 --> 00:22:59,399
Speaker 6: No, but in the march, Yeah, that was such a

505
00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:03,000
Speaker 6: powerful moment. And I think as a like as a

506
00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:04,920
Speaker 6: black woman, for me, when they were doing that march,

507
00:23:04,960 --> 00:23:06,880
Speaker 6: I was like, I feel that because there's a lot

508
00:23:06,880 --> 00:23:09,280
Speaker 6: of times where you just got to like, you know,

509
00:23:09,440 --> 00:23:11,560
Speaker 6: like you're powerful, but you gotta like let other people

510
00:23:11,600 --> 00:23:13,760
Speaker 6: assert it for you. And that march was that.

511
00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:14,040
Speaker 2: It was.

512
00:23:14,040 --> 00:23:14,960
Speaker 6: It's a really good movie.

513
00:23:15,040 --> 00:23:15,639
Speaker 2: I love that.

514
00:23:15,760 --> 00:23:20,000
Speaker 4: You know, every single test screw that we did the march.

515
00:23:20,040 --> 00:23:23,680
Speaker 4: It could be white men, black men, Asian women, this

516
00:23:23,920 --> 00:23:26,520
Speaker 4: that children, that march.

517
00:23:27,000 --> 00:23:28,280
Speaker 2: There's nothing is said.

518
00:23:29,280 --> 00:23:32,480
Speaker 4: Everyone gets moved, people cry, people are moving around their

519
00:23:32,520 --> 00:23:34,160
Speaker 4: seats because it stirs up.

520
00:23:34,280 --> 00:23:35,640
Speaker 2: The underdog and everybody.

521
00:23:36,119 --> 00:23:39,480
Speaker 4: It's the March, and it's that power of I know

522
00:23:39,560 --> 00:23:42,200
Speaker 4: I'm being underestimated, no one believes in me, but I'm

523
00:23:42,200 --> 00:23:43,000
Speaker 4: about to show you.

524
00:23:43,080 --> 00:23:43,320
Speaker 2: Yeah.

525
00:23:43,560 --> 00:23:45,159
Speaker 5: Laura said something that I want you to expose on

526
00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:46,960
Speaker 5: the call because you are a powerful woman, you know.

527
00:23:47,160 --> 00:23:49,520
Speaker 5: She said, when you're a powerful woman, you have to

528
00:23:49,720 --> 00:23:51,439
Speaker 5: often have to let other people assert it for you.

529
00:23:51,960 --> 00:23:52,480
Speaker 2: Mm hmmm.

530
00:23:52,640 --> 00:23:53,720
Speaker 3: Do you feel you feel that way?

531
00:23:54,440 --> 00:23:58,920
Speaker 2: I understand that. Mm hm. I do understand that it's

532
00:23:58,960 --> 00:24:02,240
Speaker 2: a you know, it's so funny.

533
00:24:02,320 --> 00:24:06,240
Speaker 4: I remember being in a meeting once and I looked

534
00:24:06,240 --> 00:24:08,119
Speaker 4: at this man and he said, well, why you you

535
00:24:08,119 --> 00:24:09,919
Speaker 4: know we believe in this. I said, you know, I

536
00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:12,120
Speaker 4: do have a brain and it does function.

537
00:24:12,880 --> 00:24:15,919
Speaker 2: I'm just in case you guys didn't know that I

538
00:24:15,960 --> 00:24:18,640
Speaker 2: do have a functioning brain. But it's true, you go

539
00:24:18,640 --> 00:24:18,879
Speaker 2: into it.

540
00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:23,840
Speaker 4: It's so conditioned by everyone that sometimes people have to

541
00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:26,439
Speaker 4: go before you and just assert it for you, and

542
00:24:26,520 --> 00:24:28,919
Speaker 4: in a different way. Even when I became ambassador, it

543
00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:32,159
Speaker 4: was my friend Charlie who said, I said, no, no, no,

544
00:24:32,600 --> 00:24:35,240
Speaker 4: I don't want to do I'm doing this. I'm going

545
00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:37,159
Speaker 4: back to the record business. I know what I like

546
00:24:37,240 --> 00:24:40,240
Speaker 4: to do. I'm done with this. And he looked at

547
00:24:40,240 --> 00:24:44,639
Speaker 4: me like, really, you've outdone so many other people who

548
00:24:44,720 --> 00:24:48,920
Speaker 4: are demanding to have all these roles, and you earned it.

549
00:24:49,640 --> 00:24:51,320
Speaker 4: And so Charlie said, I'm gonna put your name in

550
00:24:51,520 --> 00:24:54,320
Speaker 4: just ree, I'm about to do this. And it's interesting

551
00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:56,440
Speaker 4: how I just didn't.

552
00:24:56,160 --> 00:24:58,760
Speaker 2: Even realize that I wasn't really.

553
00:24:58,480 --> 00:25:02,760
Speaker 4: Stepping into You're full you, my full me, my whole

554
00:25:02,800 --> 00:25:05,879
Speaker 4: life force, my whole thing. I just didn't realize, you know,

555
00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:08,119
Speaker 4: And it's it's I think we have to just remind

556
00:25:08,119 --> 00:25:09,280
Speaker 4: ourselves all the time.

557
00:25:09,440 --> 00:25:11,480
Speaker 2: Of of course I'm gonna try it.

558
00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:13,320
Speaker 4: It's I don't want to give my half, meaning I

559
00:25:13,359 --> 00:25:16,679
Speaker 4: want to give all of me and people take it

560
00:25:16,840 --> 00:25:19,520
Speaker 4: or leave it. But we should all feel comfortable enough

561
00:25:19,560 --> 00:25:23,679
Speaker 4: with our life force to show up as best.

562
00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:26,200
Speaker 2: We can and as much as we can.

563
00:25:26,359 --> 00:25:30,400
Speaker 4: Not dim our light because it makes other people feel uncomfortable.

564
00:25:30,840 --> 00:25:32,879
Speaker 4: I mean I used to do that a lot growing up, Like, oh,

565
00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:34,719
Speaker 4: I don't want to say this, Oh I don't want

566
00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:37,119
Speaker 4: to say this. No, there's just you're just dimming your

567
00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:40,919
Speaker 4: light for what And you're taking your energy down to

568
00:25:40,960 --> 00:25:44,760
Speaker 4: make other people comfortable, and then the only one that's

569
00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:47,560
Speaker 4: hurt in the end, you Yeah, they don't care.

570
00:25:47,480 --> 00:25:48,879
Speaker 2: If they feel more comfortable or not.

571
00:25:49,000 --> 00:25:50,879
Speaker 4: And then I feel like shit when I get home

572
00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:55,320
Speaker 4: because I dimmed myself and I shrunk myself.

573
00:25:55,480 --> 00:25:58,600
Speaker 5: Becoming your full you is interesting though, because sometimes other

574
00:25:58,640 --> 00:26:00,760
Speaker 5: people see things in you that you don't see yourself,

575
00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:02,560
Speaker 5: and I.

576
00:26:02,440 --> 00:26:05,280
Speaker 2: Think we need Yeah, but I think that.

577
00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:09,200
Speaker 4: Sometimes I think there's a flip side and a good

578
00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:11,560
Speaker 4: side to that too. I think that there's a you know,

579
00:26:11,680 --> 00:26:14,960
Speaker 4: like my father, for example, I think he saw he

580
00:26:15,080 --> 00:26:18,600
Speaker 4: was very good at seeing talent and seeing people that

581
00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:22,480
Speaker 4: could really change things, and they just for example, Hank Aaron.

582
00:26:22,520 --> 00:26:26,159
Speaker 2: I don't think Aaron was, you know, insecure.

583
00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:28,440
Speaker 4: I think he was never just thought of, oh, I

584
00:26:28,440 --> 00:26:29,919
Speaker 4: should be getting endorsement deals.

585
00:26:30,080 --> 00:26:31,639
Speaker 2: I just don't think he ever thought of it.

586
00:26:32,359 --> 00:26:34,920
Speaker 4: And Clarence comes along and was like, I don't even

587
00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:36,840
Speaker 4: know who you are, but if you're about to break

588
00:26:37,000 --> 00:26:41,160
Speaker 4: break Baboos record, you definitely need an endorsement deal. But again,

589
00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:45,359
Speaker 4: my father saw things in people that they sometimes didn't

590
00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:48,960
Speaker 4: see for themselves, and then he made magic for them.

591
00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:49,520
Speaker 2: You know.

592
00:26:49,560 --> 00:26:51,600
Speaker 4: He would always say people tell black people to just

593
00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:54,040
Speaker 4: run your erase, run your erase, and he goes a

594
00:26:54,080 --> 00:26:55,920
Speaker 4: mother thing to everybody is well, we can't.

595
00:26:55,760 --> 00:26:56,960
Speaker 2: Even get on our marks.

596
00:26:57,440 --> 00:26:59,800
Speaker 4: Let us get on our mark and then let us

597
00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:02,639
Speaker 4: But if you're going to take our mark away, don't

598
00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:06,440
Speaker 4: you dare tell anybody just run your race.

599
00:27:07,119 --> 00:27:08,920
Speaker 2: You know, you can't say pull up your bootstraps. You

600
00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:12,320
Speaker 2: don't have boots on. Ah, you know, get it together,

601
00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:13,560
Speaker 2: and we have to remind people.

602
00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:15,960
Speaker 4: But knowing your history, even if you're the only person

603
00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:18,160
Speaker 4: at the table, I always tell people, know as much

604
00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:22,880
Speaker 4: as your history, just know as much as you can,

605
00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:25,320
Speaker 4: so that when you are at a table or when

606
00:27:25,320 --> 00:27:27,879
Speaker 4: you're with people that don't know any of it, you

607
00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:29,760
Speaker 4: could be the one instead of worry about I'm the

608
00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:32,200
Speaker 4: only black person at this table, be so proud I'm

609
00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:34,200
Speaker 4: the only black person at this table. And then when

610
00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:37,200
Speaker 4: they're talking about certain inventions and talking about this and that,

611
00:27:37,359 --> 00:27:39,400
Speaker 4: you could say, oh, well, you know, this black scientist

612
00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:42,280
Speaker 4: did this, and this black inventor did this, and this

613
00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:44,760
Speaker 4: person did this, and they happen to be black, and

614
00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:48,439
Speaker 4: people don't know that. And it is a superpower that

615
00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:50,919
Speaker 4: my mom gave me that I have used all my

616
00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:51,680
Speaker 4: life and.

617
00:27:51,600 --> 00:27:53,840
Speaker 2: It it does feel great.

618
00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:56,199
Speaker 4: Just because everybody else doesn't know it doesn't mean that

619
00:27:56,280 --> 00:28:00,360
Speaker 4: I'm not going to express it. Kind of to your point,

620
00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:02,879
Speaker 4: everybody else is talking about it and their light is

621
00:28:02,960 --> 00:28:06,000
Speaker 4: up and their vibration's up, and oh, I'm not going

622
00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:08,679
Speaker 4: to mention this scientists because they may not know George

623
00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:12,280
Speaker 4: Washington Carvery may they may not know Elijah McCoy, or

624
00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:15,280
Speaker 4: they may not know somebody. Well, I'm just gonna tell them, well,

625
00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:17,200
Speaker 4: this is why we say we want the real McCoy.

626
00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:20,679
Speaker 4: I like why, I'm like, well, good, you know, and

627
00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:23,280
Speaker 4: then you tell the story and then everyone has that

628
00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:28,200
Speaker 4: Oh I didn't know. And so that's where the power

629
00:28:28,680 --> 00:28:32,840
Speaker 4: does come from knowledge and information and it is powerful

630
00:28:33,320 --> 00:28:36,160
Speaker 4: and to use it in the best way is kind

631
00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:41,640
Speaker 4: of how we move forward, especially women, just really knowing

632
00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:46,160
Speaker 4: everything who we are and being rooted and grounded in

633
00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:49,600
Speaker 4: real power versus I always say, there's real power, and

634
00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:50,960
Speaker 4: then there's power adjacent.

635
00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:53,960
Speaker 2: I'm not interested in the power adjacent. I'm not. You know,

636
00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:56,120
Speaker 2: there's and that's the pride and we all fall into

637
00:28:56,120 --> 00:28:57,400
Speaker 2: that too. You know.

638
00:28:57,560 --> 00:29:00,640
Speaker 4: My father says everything that I had lost it all

639
00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:03,560
Speaker 4: in one fell swoop. You know why, because I had

640
00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:05,760
Speaker 4: pride and my ego was too big. And then he

641
00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:07,560
Speaker 4: was able to share that with music, and then I

642
00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:10,080
Speaker 4: was able to pick myself up and I was able

643
00:29:10,080 --> 00:29:11,800
Speaker 4: to start to have you records and I was able

644
00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:13,240
Speaker 4: to bring Jimmy jam and Terry Lewis.

645
00:29:13,240 --> 00:29:14,240
Speaker 2: He goes all.

646
00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:17,920
Speaker 4: Before that, I got too erring itt and I started

647
00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:21,360
Speaker 4: doing too many things, radio station, this TV show that

648
00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:25,640
Speaker 4: out of focus, lost everything. He goes, and you know,

649
00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:28,560
Speaker 4: it's like my grandmother used to say, you know, pride cometh.

650
00:29:28,320 --> 00:29:31,080
Speaker 2: Before the fall. It's just it does. And to all

651
00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:31,400
Speaker 2: of us.

652
00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:34,160
Speaker 4: So we all have to remember to try to say

653
00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:37,280
Speaker 4: rooted and grounded, but in real power, in God's power

654
00:29:37,320 --> 00:29:41,360
Speaker 4: and light versus human power.

655
00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:44,240
Speaker 1: When you know, talking to your dad, people always say

656
00:29:44,280 --> 00:29:47,120
Speaker 1: when you lose everything, it makes you a strong individual, right,

657
00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:49,200
Speaker 1: and that you can't be the person that you need

658
00:29:49,240 --> 00:29:51,000
Speaker 1: to be unless you lose everything.

659
00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:51,960
Speaker 3: Did he ever talk about that?

660
00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:56,000
Speaker 4: Yes, he did, Yeah, and he felt that he lost

661
00:29:56,520 --> 00:29:59,280
Speaker 4: a really good question. He felt that he lost everything

662
00:29:59,280 --> 00:30:01,720
Speaker 4: from a very young age. Is all the time he

663
00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:05,000
Speaker 4: was being bounced around, moved around, stepfather kicked him out

664
00:30:05,040 --> 00:30:08,320
Speaker 4: of his house. He was always starting new and losing everything,

665
00:30:08,760 --> 00:30:12,160
Speaker 4: losing a home, you know, and just starting new.

666
00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:14,479
Speaker 2: But it does build character.

667
00:30:14,480 --> 00:30:17,800
Speaker 4: And he'd always say to me every time, every time

668
00:30:17,840 --> 00:30:21,600
Speaker 4: you have a shortcoming in life, every challenge, the real

669
00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:25,680
Speaker 4: power comes from what's the lesson behind it. You don't

670
00:30:25,720 --> 00:30:27,840
Speaker 4: all learn it in the beginning. You just like, oh

671
00:30:27,880 --> 00:30:30,000
Speaker 4: my god, they shut the door because of this. Oh

672
00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:32,400
Speaker 4: this didn't have so But you got to go behind

673
00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:34,880
Speaker 4: it and figure out what you're And if you learn

674
00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:36,360
Speaker 4: the lesson, you get to graduate.

675
00:30:36,440 --> 00:30:37,200
Speaker 2: It's like school.

676
00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:39,920
Speaker 4: You get to get you know, you read a certain level,

677
00:30:40,000 --> 00:30:41,080
Speaker 4: you get to go to the eighth grade.

678
00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:42,840
Speaker 2: You do this, you get to go to high school.

679
00:30:42,840 --> 00:30:43,040
Speaker 2: It goes.

680
00:30:43,080 --> 00:30:48,320
Speaker 4: But if you don't learn as you fall, then you'll.

681
00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:51,080
Speaker 2: Just stay where you are. And he'd love the pivot.

682
00:30:51,160 --> 00:30:54,000
Speaker 4: He'd always say, sometimes you have dreams and shit, and

683
00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:56,560
Speaker 4: sometimes the universe is thinking way.

684
00:30:56,400 --> 00:30:57,920
Speaker 2: Bigger than you. I have to have this.

685
00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:00,400
Speaker 4: I have to be on this radio station, goes, and

686
00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:02,200
Speaker 4: God's trying to tell you you're going to go all

687
00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:04,640
Speaker 4: the way over here and run the station. But you're

688
00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:06,880
Speaker 4: so stuck in your one dream. You have to be

689
00:31:06,920 --> 00:31:09,480
Speaker 4: able to open your dream up and then be able

690
00:31:09,520 --> 00:31:12,080
Speaker 4: to pivot. And then at some point, if you keep

691
00:31:12,080 --> 00:31:14,920
Speaker 4: getting closed doors, just say maybe I'm supposed to go

692
00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:18,400
Speaker 4: somewhere else. And if I am, he goes, just ask maybe.

693
00:31:18,760 --> 00:31:22,680
Speaker 4: But the pivot, he said. People who aren't successful usually

694
00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:23,600
Speaker 4: never get the pivot.

695
00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:26,000
Speaker 2: That's right, he said, they will not pivot. Be Goues.

696
00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:28,280
Speaker 4: I see it all the time, the most successful people,

697
00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:32,719
Speaker 4: and they end up right flatline because they just won't change.

698
00:31:32,840 --> 00:31:35,920
Speaker 4: They won't change with the times, they won't change their

699
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:37,000
Speaker 4: stubborn ideas.

700
00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:39,800
Speaker 2: Have to be this. And he said, I just tried everything.

701
00:31:40,120 --> 00:31:40,600
Speaker 2: Some of it.

702
00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:43,520
Speaker 4: I was great at some of it I failed. Then

703
00:31:43,560 --> 00:31:45,280
Speaker 4: I figured out what I was good at and just

704
00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:48,200
Speaker 4: kind of say, once he figured out managing was his thing,

705
00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:50,440
Speaker 4: and that's what he was really good at, and he

706
00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:51,760
Speaker 4: can change people's lives.

707
00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:54,120
Speaker 2: That's when he started over.

708
00:31:54,160 --> 00:31:55,760
Speaker 4: And then it was Jimmy and Terry, and then it

709
00:31:55,800 --> 00:31:58,000
Speaker 4: was La and Face, and it was Benny Medina and

710
00:31:58,080 --> 00:31:59,920
Speaker 4: it was because all of a sudden, he's like this,

711
00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:00,760
Speaker 4: this is what I can do.

712
00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:02,280
Speaker 5: I say that to people all the time, Like I

713
00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:04,360
Speaker 5: think folks they like to say, reinvent yourself.

714
00:32:04,360 --> 00:32:05,480
Speaker 3: No, you just got to know when to pivot.

715
00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:08,080
Speaker 2: Pivot. It's not not a reinvention.

716
00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:08,800
Speaker 3: It's just a pivot.

717
00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:10,360
Speaker 2: It's a pivot, you know.

718
00:32:10,520 --> 00:32:13,960
Speaker 4: And it's in the beauty as humans is that we're

719
00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:16,120
Speaker 4: the only animals that could actually do.

720
00:32:16,120 --> 00:32:19,120
Speaker 2: That, you know. So we can change. As soon as

721
00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:20,680
Speaker 2: you change your mind. Think about it.

722
00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:23,040
Speaker 4: As soon as we change our minds, and as soon

723
00:32:23,080 --> 00:32:26,160
Speaker 4: as we start thinking different thoughts, speaking a new way,

724
00:32:27,080 --> 00:32:31,120
Speaker 4: behavior changes right doors open all of a sudden, You're

725
00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:32,800
Speaker 4: in the right place, at the right time, with the

726
00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:33,440
Speaker 4: right people.

727
00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:35,760
Speaker 2: As soon as you change your mind.

728
00:32:35,880 --> 00:32:38,240
Speaker 4: My dad always used to say, keep your mind right,

729
00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:40,160
Speaker 4: keep your mind right.

730
00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:41,160
Speaker 2: And I knew what he means.

731
00:32:41,280 --> 00:32:44,440
Speaker 4: You have to renew it every day your thoughts, O,

732
00:32:44,560 --> 00:32:46,280
Speaker 4: it's never gonna work. It's never gonna work, because so

733
00:32:46,320 --> 00:32:48,920
Speaker 4: why would you expect it to work. It's doesn't this

734
00:32:49,080 --> 00:32:51,800
Speaker 4: science doesn't even the universe doesn't even work like that.

735
00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:54,959
Speaker 4: You tell it it's not gonna work, and the universe

736
00:32:55,040 --> 00:32:55,960
Speaker 4: is gonna be okay.

737
00:32:56,680 --> 00:32:59,280
Speaker 2: I mean why why would it be any way else?

738
00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:01,560
Speaker 4: It doesn't work like that. Life doesn't work like that.

739
00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:04,960
Speaker 4: So he just he just, he said, Nicole, I just rolled.

740
00:33:04,960 --> 00:33:07,280
Speaker 4: I didn't care anybody color. I didn't care this.

741
00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:11,000
Speaker 2: I just my mentors were white. I just rolled, he said.

742
00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:13,640
Speaker 4: And none of my mentors thought, oh, he's going to

743
00:33:13,680 --> 00:33:15,400
Speaker 4: be end up being the black out Father and he's

744
00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:16,360
Speaker 4: going to use all.

745
00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:19,320
Speaker 2: This power that we're giving him people. So that was

746
00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:21,320
Speaker 2: not their intention, he goes.

747
00:33:21,360 --> 00:33:23,200
Speaker 4: I just got lucky and they picked me, and then

748
00:33:23,240 --> 00:33:25,040
Speaker 4: they let me in and taught me things that gave

749
00:33:25,080 --> 00:33:29,400
Speaker 4: me connections, and then I chose to go back and

750
00:33:29,520 --> 00:33:32,400
Speaker 4: try to make a difference for black people, he said.

751
00:33:32,480 --> 00:33:34,920
Speaker 4: But that was my decision on what to do with

752
00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:37,640
Speaker 4: what was given to me, not their intention.

753
00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:42,040
Speaker 5: You know, the name of his book is Think you'll

754
00:33:42,080 --> 00:33:44,120
Speaker 5: be happy, and it's because of something your.

755
00:33:44,040 --> 00:33:46,720
Speaker 3: Mother used to say. Yes, yes, So what is the

756
00:33:46,760 --> 00:33:49,240
Speaker 3: book about mister Avon be titled?

757
00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:54,000
Speaker 2: I know, you know, okay, it's the true story. And

758
00:33:54,320 --> 00:33:56,400
Speaker 2: I think I can curse on this show. Sorry, of course.

759
00:33:57,120 --> 00:33:59,480
Speaker 4: So when I wrote think You'll be happening, I told

760
00:33:59,560 --> 00:34:02,080
Speaker 4: my dad, your daddy, I'm saying, think you'll be happy,

761
00:34:02,160 --> 00:34:05,160
Speaker 4: because this is mommy's last message to me.

762
00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:09,040
Speaker 2: Six hours later I was heard she was shot. And so.

763
00:34:10,480 --> 00:34:12,920
Speaker 4: He said, maybe it's a later you know, maybe I

764
00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:13,760
Speaker 4: should write a book.

765
00:34:14,239 --> 00:34:15,520
Speaker 2: I should write a book. I should write a.

766
00:34:15,480 --> 00:34:17,080
Speaker 4: Clarence save On book. I said, well, what would your

767
00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:19,680
Speaker 4: title be? And he was thinking about it, and then

768
00:34:19,719 --> 00:34:23,319
Speaker 4: he had watched you know, some I don't know what station, MSNBCC,

769
00:34:23,440 --> 00:34:26,120
Speaker 4: and so somebody had said on TV was the black

770
00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:28,719
Speaker 4: person who said, you know, there's been no progress sixty years,

771
00:34:29,040 --> 00:34:31,799
Speaker 4: nothing and on and on and I'm telling you my

772
00:34:32,080 --> 00:34:40,160
Speaker 4: everything in my father his back when I goes no progress, what, Yeah,

773
00:34:40,200 --> 00:34:42,360
Speaker 4: he was like, I'm picking cotton, I'm picking tobacco.

774
00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:44,399
Speaker 2: I'm doing this. There were no rights. You couldn't vote,

775
00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:44,800
Speaker 2: you could do that.

776
00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:47,520
Speaker 4: He went on on. I go, okay, but what's the

777
00:34:47,520 --> 00:34:50,239
Speaker 4: title of your book, I ain't lean's in. He goes,

778
00:34:51,040 --> 00:34:55,280
Speaker 4: You're fucking welcome. That's my that's the title of my book.

779
00:34:55,280 --> 00:35:00,520
Speaker 4: You're fucking welcome by Clarence. Oh my god. He gave

780
00:35:00,560 --> 00:35:03,520
Speaker 4: me all these like I have all the Clarence isms

781
00:35:03,600 --> 00:35:06,160
Speaker 4: written down, and I was like, you know what, I'm

782
00:35:06,160 --> 00:35:08,880
Speaker 4: gonna I'll do that for you. I'm gonna write your book.

783
00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:11,000
Speaker 4: Just now I'm writing it.

784
00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:13,480
Speaker 2: It's so good of just his little nuggets. It's not

785
00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:17,719
Speaker 2: gonna be wrong. It's just clarence Ism right on it.

786
00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:21,840
Speaker 2: Next page of just real nuggets of how to get

787
00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:24,359
Speaker 2: through life. You know, his whole thing. Remember you know this,

788
00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:25,759
Speaker 2: it is what it is?

789
00:35:25,920 --> 00:35:26,279
Speaker 3: Right now?

790
00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:27,480
Speaker 2: What are you gonna do about it?

791
00:35:27,840 --> 00:35:29,960
Speaker 4: And he'd always say, everybody's always like, it is what

792
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:31,239
Speaker 4: it is. He goes, No, then you.

793
00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:33,600
Speaker 2: Finished the sentence. What you want? What are you going

794
00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:34,799
Speaker 2: to do about it?

795
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:38,040
Speaker 4: Make a decision of what you're going to do about

796
00:35:38,040 --> 00:35:38,880
Speaker 4: whatever it is.

797
00:35:39,040 --> 00:35:40,279
Speaker 3: And if you're not gonna do nothing, boy, to shut

798
00:35:40,280 --> 00:35:40,680
Speaker 3: the fuck up.

799
00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:45,040
Speaker 2: Shut, he would always say.

800
00:35:45,160 --> 00:35:47,080
Speaker 4: If I and I remember one day I called and

801
00:35:47,120 --> 00:35:49,239
Speaker 4: I needed advice and I was in the Bahamas, and

802
00:35:49,280 --> 00:35:51,600
Speaker 4: I was so feeling sorry for myself.

803
00:35:51,880 --> 00:35:54,120
Speaker 2: I said, but daddy, daddy, I'm crying. He goes, it

804
00:35:54,200 --> 00:35:54,879
Speaker 2: is what it is.

805
00:35:55,239 --> 00:35:58,839
Speaker 4: And I said, can't you just be sensitive for one

806
00:35:58,920 --> 00:36:01,560
Speaker 4: minute and just listen to me. I'm trying to explain something.

807
00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:03,880
Speaker 4: And he said. I said, I know it is what

808
00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:06,880
Speaker 4: it is, but it hurts me. And he said, okay,

809
00:36:07,640 --> 00:36:10,520
Speaker 4: what you gonna do about it? I said, but dad?

810
00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:12,560
Speaker 4: He goes, no, no, no, I'm trying to teach you something.

811
00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:18,360
Speaker 4: You cannot make a constructive decision in chaos.

812
00:36:19,320 --> 00:36:21,000
Speaker 2: So when I say, what are.

813
00:36:20,880 --> 00:36:22,880
Speaker 4: You going to do about it? You got to accept

814
00:36:22,920 --> 00:36:25,879
Speaker 4: what is, don't fight what is. Don't because you don't

815
00:36:25,960 --> 00:36:28,640
Speaker 4: like it. It's not fair. That's going to keep you spinning.

816
00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:29,920
Speaker 2: So it is what.

817
00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:34,160
Speaker 4: It is, accept it like own it it's happening, and

818
00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:37,480
Speaker 4: then sit with yourself. Calm yourself down, tell yourself I'm

819
00:36:37,520 --> 00:36:38,439
Speaker 4: in control of my soul.

820
00:36:38,560 --> 00:36:38,759
Speaker 3: Is well?

821
00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:42,440
Speaker 4: I met control? And then make a decision. Now what

822
00:36:42,480 --> 00:36:44,640
Speaker 4: am I going to do about it? What's your new

823
00:36:44,760 --> 00:36:48,839
Speaker 4: attitude going to be from this? And I'm telling you

824
00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:52,720
Speaker 4: it worked. I calmed down, I said a prayer, I cried,

825
00:36:52,840 --> 00:36:56,400
Speaker 4: I got over the self pity and I focused and

826
00:36:56,440 --> 00:36:57,200
Speaker 4: I was like, Okay, who.

827
00:36:57,160 --> 00:36:59,160
Speaker 2: Do I want to be? Who do I want to be?

828
00:36:59,239 --> 00:37:01,200
Speaker 4: How do I want to s up in this situation?

829
00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:03,680
Speaker 4: It was the best advice he gave me. And I've

830
00:37:03,760 --> 00:37:07,560
Speaker 4: used it throughout my life, you know. And but he

831
00:37:07,600 --> 00:37:11,440
Speaker 4: gave me those little nuggets. And and you're fucking welcome.

832
00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:13,279
Speaker 4: Also was about like, you owe me a life.

833
00:37:13,960 --> 00:37:18,520
Speaker 2: I gave you a life. Live it. You're welcome. All

834
00:37:18,560 --> 00:37:19,319
Speaker 2: of us got here.

835
00:37:19,440 --> 00:37:23,080
Speaker 4: You had parents, every bid, generations of generations of generations

836
00:37:23,080 --> 00:37:24,320
Speaker 4: of people did.

837
00:37:24,160 --> 00:37:29,080
Speaker 2: Not quit, so you got you all definitely.

838
00:37:30,239 --> 00:37:33,279
Speaker 4: Do not have the audacity to just sit and do

839
00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:38,359
Speaker 4: nothing with everything that we went through for you, because

840
00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:40,279
Speaker 4: we had a big dream for you, all of you,

841
00:37:41,160 --> 00:37:45,600
Speaker 4: and and and we do. And you guys, by the way,

842
00:37:45,680 --> 00:37:49,160
Speaker 4: have done a phenomenal job. I mean, I'm looking every

843
00:37:49,160 --> 00:37:51,880
Speaker 4: time I watch I'm thinking, look at all these politicians

844
00:37:51,960 --> 00:37:54,600
Speaker 4: coming on this show, Look at how they're changing the culture.

845
00:37:54,920 --> 00:37:56,040
Speaker 2: Look what you're doing.

846
00:37:56,160 --> 00:37:59,200
Speaker 4: And the truth is this would not this show would

847
00:37:59,200 --> 00:38:02,960
Speaker 4: not have happened twenty years ago, thirty years I'm sorry

848
00:38:03,080 --> 00:38:05,040
Speaker 4: it was wasn't even probably drummed up, do you know

849
00:38:05,080 --> 00:38:05,440
Speaker 4: what I mean?

850
00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:10,000
Speaker 5: I followuprint I never seeing a black man who you know,

851
00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:14,120
Speaker 5: had that type of influence in so many different industries

852
00:38:14,160 --> 00:38:16,840
Speaker 5: and so much respect and so many different And to me,

853
00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:19,439
Speaker 5: that's how you move culture forward for real.

854
00:38:19,600 --> 00:38:23,040
Speaker 4: Yes, and and but that's what you guys have done.

855
00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:25,360
Speaker 4: I mean, I hope you guys really understand. I'm not

856
00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:28,680
Speaker 4: just saying this. I mean it's real, and it's a

857
00:38:28,680 --> 00:38:32,319
Speaker 4: big deal, and it's a big deal for people of

858
00:38:32,719 --> 00:38:35,960
Speaker 4: all colors, all races to tune in and see what

859
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:38,240
Speaker 4: you create. See who gets to sit in this chair,

860
00:38:38,680 --> 00:38:40,000
Speaker 4: listen to different ideas.

861
00:38:40,080 --> 00:38:42,560
Speaker 2: By the way, I love that you have diverse ideas.

862
00:38:42,600 --> 00:38:45,239
Speaker 4: I love that you have Republicans and Independents and Democrats

863
00:38:45,239 --> 00:38:49,000
Speaker 4: and everybody talking so that people can make an independent.

864
00:38:48,760 --> 00:38:51,040
Speaker 2: Decision on who they are.

865
00:38:51,680 --> 00:38:55,319
Speaker 4: I think that's very very important, especially for black men,

866
00:38:56,280 --> 00:38:59,800
Speaker 4: because I think that black men have always been piggeled

867
00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:02,399
Speaker 4: everybody else. You notice, everybody else gets to be whatever

868
00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:06,680
Speaker 4: they want, everybody, everybody gets to think conservatively.

869
00:39:06,719 --> 00:39:07,719
Speaker 2: I know, everybody else.

870
00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:12,120
Speaker 4: I'm like, wait a minute, hold on, they're black conservative men.

871
00:39:12,160 --> 00:39:14,440
Speaker 4: There are black independent men. There are black liberal men,

872
00:39:14,680 --> 00:39:16,280
Speaker 4: just like every other.

873
00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:18,840
Speaker 2: Type of man. Do you know? And every time I

874
00:39:18,880 --> 00:39:20,320
Speaker 2: turned around, I was at a dinner table.

875
00:39:21,040 --> 00:39:23,600
Speaker 4: That black man's conservative, But why are you hating on

876
00:39:23,680 --> 00:39:26,920
Speaker 4: him because he's conservative? Because the white guy's conservative, the

877
00:39:26,960 --> 00:39:29,680
Speaker 4: Asian guy's conservative, the Hispanic person's conservative.

878
00:39:29,719 --> 00:39:31,759
Speaker 2: But none of you are throwing this person.

879
00:39:31,400 --> 00:39:35,279
Speaker 4: In any shade whatsoever. And I don't know why this

880
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Speaker 4: group only, not even women. I'm talking men, only have

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Speaker 4: to think one way. We're not that kind of Everybody

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Speaker 4: else thinks different ways.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I mean Booker, T. Washington, there are many.

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Speaker 4: Remember we all come many of us were a Republican

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Speaker 4: in the beginning.

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Speaker 2: So I just I don't know what I love that

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Speaker 2: you do.

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Speaker 4: Again, is I love that I've watched everybody sit in

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Speaker 4: this chair and there's different ideas, and I've always taken

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Speaker 4: a little piece from everybody. Even if I disagreed with

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Speaker 4: ninety percent, there's always that two percent five percent that

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Speaker 4: I think I never thought about it that way. Sure

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Speaker 4: I agree with that.

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Speaker 2: That's what you do, and I think it's really powerful

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Speaker 2: what you guys do.

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Speaker 5: Thank you, Thank you so much. I do have one

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Speaker 5: last question. Six trip late right, that's out on Netflix now.

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Speaker 5: You can you can basically probably tell any story you

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Speaker 5: want to and get it on Netflix if you want

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Speaker 5: it to right, how do you pick which stories you

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Speaker 5: want to do?

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Speaker 4: I for me, if it's for me personally, I love

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Speaker 4: anything that's inspiring, empowering, motivating, and if it's true.

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Speaker 2: I love true stories, you know what I mean. And

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Speaker 2: I love documentaries.

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Speaker 4: Documentaries for me are everything because I think that you

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Speaker 4: can teach people again, like I say, through film and art.

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Speaker 4: It's so important for me to tell something that people

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Speaker 4: will be moved by and people will leave that room

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Speaker 4: saying I didn't know that, or.

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Speaker 2: I feel so good about this, or I don't care

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Speaker 2: about that. That's what I care about.

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Speaker 4: Empowering people, motivating people, aspiring people. Any kind of script

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Speaker 4: that I get that's like that, that's those are the

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Speaker 4: stories that I want to tell that move culture forward

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Speaker 4: and have people thinking even in a different way than

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Speaker 4: they ever have before.

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Speaker 2: But that's what I love making people.

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Speaker 4: I want people to feel good, and I want people

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Speaker 4: to feel positive, and I want people to feel hopeful

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Speaker 4: and also be educated in ways. You know, if I

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Speaker 4: don't like I said, we both said, like, oh my god,

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Speaker 4: I didn't know this story. And I love the response

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Speaker 4: around the world about the six triple eight of every

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Speaker 4: response is I had no idea number one. And then

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Speaker 4: the second response is and now I could feel that

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Speaker 4: I could do anything. Or I've sat with my children

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Speaker 4: and I've watched us with my children, and this has

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Speaker 4: been great. I mean, I was on Brett Baer Show

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Speaker 4: on Fox and they were so supportive of the six

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Speaker 4: Triple A and it was so great that this.

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Speaker 2: Story is just resonating.

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Speaker 4: That's what I mean is every everybody wants to talk

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Speaker 4: about this film because it's important and it's it's a

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Speaker 4: great piece of history that everyone should know.

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Speaker 3: Well, thank you for joining us this morning. That's right, Trip.

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Speaker 1: You can check it on Netflix right now. It's streaming now.

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Speaker 1: And the book I Think You'll Be Happy is out

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Speaker 1: right now, right now.

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Speaker 3: Well afford by Ted. Saranda tell Ted we do want

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Speaker 3: him up there?

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Speaker 2: Yes, well Ted will Ted will love it.

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Speaker 3: He's great, Okay, but.

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Speaker 1: We'll see you again when, yes, when the other book

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Speaker 1: comes out. Please all right, Nicole Avon, good morning, thank

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Speaker 2: You, thank you,