1 00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:05,320 Speaker 1: Hey fam, Hello Sunshine. 2 00:00:05,400 --> 00:00:09,560 Speaker 2: Today on the bright Side, we're joined by Disney Channel Royalty. 3 00:00:10,119 --> 00:00:12,920 Speaker 2: You might know her from that So Raven, The Cheetah Girls, 4 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:17,560 Speaker 2: and now the CW's original game show Scrabble. It's the one, 5 00:00:17,840 --> 00:00:22,079 Speaker 2: the only Raven Simone. She's here with us today. It's Thursday, 6 00:00:22,120 --> 00:00:24,680 Speaker 2: October twenty fourth. I'm Danielle Robe. 7 00:00:24,440 --> 00:00:25,599 Speaker 1: And I'm Simone Voice. 8 00:00:25,640 --> 00:00:28,319 Speaker 3: And this is the bright Side from Hello Sunshine, a 9 00:00:28,400 --> 00:00:31,680 Speaker 3: daily show where we come together to share woman's stories, laugh, 10 00:00:31,880 --> 00:00:40,080 Speaker 3: learn and brighten your day. Danielle, Danielle, today is such 11 00:00:40,080 --> 00:00:43,080 Speaker 3: a big day for the show. We have Raven Simone 12 00:00:43,080 --> 00:00:45,320 Speaker 3: here with us today. 13 00:00:46,640 --> 00:00:49,680 Speaker 1: Are you crying? Not yet? Not yet, but there will 14 00:00:49,680 --> 00:00:52,960 Speaker 1: be tears. I'm sure. I'm so excited about this. 15 00:00:53,360 --> 00:00:57,200 Speaker 2: She's she's one of the few people in Hollywood who 16 00:00:57,320 --> 00:01:03,080 Speaker 2: has almost checked every box. She's hosted, she's acted, she's directed, 17 00:01:03,240 --> 00:01:06,319 Speaker 2: she's danced, I mean just across the board. 18 00:01:07,040 --> 00:01:09,040 Speaker 3: Well, she checked the box of My Heart a long 19 00:01:09,080 --> 00:01:12,759 Speaker 3: time ago. I've probably seen every episode of that So Raven. 20 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:15,160 Speaker 3: I just have these vivid memories of me and my 21 00:01:15,200 --> 00:01:19,199 Speaker 3: little cousin Maya sitting on her couch watching That's so Raven. 22 00:01:19,360 --> 00:01:20,480 Speaker 1: Until we passed out. 23 00:01:21,319 --> 00:01:23,720 Speaker 3: I mean not to get too deep, but like we 24 00:01:23,720 --> 00:01:27,200 Speaker 3: were actually going through some grief as a family, and 25 00:01:27,800 --> 00:01:31,600 Speaker 3: Raven Simone just brought so much joy to our lives. 26 00:01:31,680 --> 00:01:34,800 Speaker 1: Like she was just so goofy and silly and fun 27 00:01:34,840 --> 00:01:37,839 Speaker 1: and free, and that energy was so contagious. 28 00:01:37,920 --> 00:01:40,360 Speaker 2: I feel like that's what the best comedians do, right, 29 00:01:40,520 --> 00:01:44,240 Speaker 2: if they like bring joy in in good times and 30 00:01:44,280 --> 00:01:45,360 Speaker 2: in hard times. 31 00:01:46,080 --> 00:01:48,720 Speaker 3: Fun fact about that so Raven It was actually the 32 00:01:48,800 --> 00:01:51,760 Speaker 3: first time a black woman starred in a self titled 33 00:01:51,800 --> 00:01:53,760 Speaker 3: comedy series on the Disney Channel. 34 00:01:54,040 --> 00:01:55,040 Speaker 1: I mean that's huge. 35 00:01:55,080 --> 00:01:58,360 Speaker 3: Like, I truly don't know that we have given Raven 36 00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:01,200 Speaker 3: Simone enough credit for her how much of a trailblazer 37 00:02:01,360 --> 00:02:01,680 Speaker 3: she is. 38 00:02:01,840 --> 00:02:04,320 Speaker 2: Okay, we've talked about her acting chaps, we've talked about 39 00:02:04,360 --> 00:02:08,760 Speaker 2: her comedic genius. Can we talk about the Cheetah Girls, 40 00:02:08,880 --> 00:02:10,560 Speaker 2: Girl Power two point zero. 41 00:02:11,080 --> 00:02:12,760 Speaker 1: She had a girls, she had a sister. 42 00:02:14,280 --> 00:02:18,120 Speaker 2: Those albums and movies just brought so much joy to 43 00:02:18,160 --> 00:02:18,760 Speaker 2: our lives. 44 00:02:19,440 --> 00:02:20,720 Speaker 1: And I actually didn't know this. 45 00:02:20,919 --> 00:02:24,880 Speaker 2: She's released four albums and performed on Broadway. She's really 46 00:02:24,919 --> 00:02:26,400 Speaker 2: done so much. 47 00:02:26,840 --> 00:02:29,600 Speaker 3: Just a megawatt talent, and now she's in her game 48 00:02:29,639 --> 00:02:32,760 Speaker 3: show host Era I'm so excited for her. Raven Simone 49 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:36,240 Speaker 3: is currently hosting Scrabble on the CW and she's actually 50 00:02:36,280 --> 00:02:38,040 Speaker 3: a board game fan irl. 51 00:02:38,120 --> 00:02:39,559 Speaker 1: Y'all, Hi, Dan, Yelle. 52 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:41,840 Speaker 3: What do you think that we have to do to 53 00:02:41,880 --> 00:02:44,040 Speaker 3: score an invite to one of her legendary game nights? 54 00:02:44,280 --> 00:02:45,000 Speaker 1: How do that? 55 00:02:45,040 --> 00:02:47,360 Speaker 2: Okay, that's our goal for this interview is we need 56 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:48,520 Speaker 2: an invite to game night. 57 00:02:48,560 --> 00:02:49,959 Speaker 1: You and I are word girls. 58 00:02:50,600 --> 00:02:54,040 Speaker 3: I always say that my goal for an interviewer conversation 59 00:02:54,160 --> 00:02:56,160 Speaker 3: is to get another conversation. I want to get a 60 00:02:56,160 --> 00:02:57,760 Speaker 3: game night out of this conversation. 61 00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:01,680 Speaker 2: Okay, we're definitely putting that on our wish list, So 62 00:03:01,960 --> 00:03:05,600 Speaker 2: let's bring her in. The one and only Raven Simone. 63 00:03:05,680 --> 00:03:07,160 Speaker 2: Welcome to the bright Side. 64 00:03:07,720 --> 00:03:08,440 Speaker 1: Oh thank you. 65 00:03:08,680 --> 00:03:09,560 Speaker 4: I'm glad to be here. 66 00:03:10,160 --> 00:03:12,680 Speaker 1: Raven Simone. I have to fangirl just for a moment. 67 00:03:13,639 --> 00:03:17,320 Speaker 3: You mean a lot to me because you were my 68 00:03:17,400 --> 00:03:20,040 Speaker 3: first famous Simone on TV. I know it's only part 69 00:03:20,040 --> 00:03:22,400 Speaker 3: of your name, okay, but for all the Simones in 70 00:03:22,440 --> 00:03:24,720 Speaker 3: the world and for all the times people have misspelled 71 00:03:24,720 --> 00:03:26,560 Speaker 3: my name, I was just like, oh my gosh, there's 72 00:03:26,560 --> 00:03:28,160 Speaker 3: another Simone and she's goofy. 73 00:03:28,200 --> 00:03:31,360 Speaker 4: Do you smell like similar, We don't, okay, but that's okay, 74 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:34,400 Speaker 4: that's fine. It was the same, you know syllables exactly. 75 00:03:35,280 --> 00:03:36,920 Speaker 3: I feel like we have to give you your flowers 76 00:03:37,040 --> 00:03:39,760 Speaker 3: because you were the youngest black woman to have a 77 00:03:39,800 --> 00:03:42,560 Speaker 3: show named after her on television, one of the longest 78 00:03:42,600 --> 00:03:46,320 Speaker 3: running Disney Channel stars ever. I truly don't think you 79 00:03:46,360 --> 00:03:49,760 Speaker 3: get enough credit for what you did for POC representation 80 00:03:49,920 --> 00:03:53,560 Speaker 3: before we were even talking about the representation, you know. 81 00:03:54,720 --> 00:03:57,480 Speaker 3: And then I looked at the comments beneath this YouTube 82 00:03:57,520 --> 00:04:00,160 Speaker 3: interview that you did, and it restored my face in 83 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:02,760 Speaker 3: the internet, because clearly everyone knows that you are still 84 00:04:02,800 --> 00:04:04,640 Speaker 3: that girl. If I can, I want to read you 85 00:04:04,680 --> 00:04:07,920 Speaker 3: some of these comments. Oh my people said, this woman 86 00:04:08,160 --> 00:04:13,240 Speaker 3: is literally living black history. She's my inspiration. She raised us, 87 00:04:13,400 --> 00:04:16,720 Speaker 3: she is the blueprint. Now, something that I've learned as 88 00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:19,839 Speaker 3: I've gotten older is that receiving love can often be 89 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:23,039 Speaker 3: harder than giving it immediately. Yes, do you feel like 90 00:04:23,040 --> 00:04:24,760 Speaker 3: you're at a stage in your life where you're able 91 00:04:24,800 --> 00:04:26,040 Speaker 3: to receive this love? 92 00:04:26,440 --> 00:04:27,000 Speaker 1: No? 93 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:30,080 Speaker 4: No, no, no, it's really I guess there's two types 94 00:04:30,120 --> 00:04:32,159 Speaker 4: to it, right, Like I hear you and I say 95 00:04:32,200 --> 00:04:34,000 Speaker 4: thank you, and that's a genuine thank you and a 96 00:04:34,080 --> 00:04:37,479 Speaker 4: genuine like oh, thank you, And then the other part 97 00:04:37,480 --> 00:04:40,640 Speaker 4: of me is like, who are you talking about? Like 98 00:04:40,839 --> 00:04:43,480 Speaker 4: I don't know who you're talking about, because I was 99 00:04:43,560 --> 00:04:45,640 Speaker 4: working so hard and a lot of stuff was going 100 00:04:45,640 --> 00:04:48,640 Speaker 4: on at certain times, and I wasn't always present for 101 00:04:48,680 --> 00:04:52,520 Speaker 4: those moments, so it is hard to receive the flowers. 102 00:04:52,600 --> 00:04:54,760 Speaker 4: And then sometimes I'm like, yeah, you're right, I was 103 00:04:54,800 --> 00:04:58,080 Speaker 4: that thank you. I do want my award that nobody 104 00:04:58,080 --> 00:05:00,279 Speaker 4: gave me, but and that doesn't sit all the time 105 00:05:00,279 --> 00:05:01,080 Speaker 4: on my shoulders. 106 00:05:01,440 --> 00:05:01,799 Speaker 1: I don't. 107 00:05:02,040 --> 00:05:03,640 Speaker 4: And then the other side was like, you don't really 108 00:05:03,680 --> 00:05:05,760 Speaker 4: need it because you have so many other things that 109 00:05:05,839 --> 00:05:08,760 Speaker 4: you want to do. And I'm not in it for 110 00:05:08,800 --> 00:05:11,720 Speaker 4: the awards. I'm in it for the money. And I'm 111 00:05:11,720 --> 00:05:14,920 Speaker 4: also in it real talk, real time talk, We'll talk. 112 00:05:16,960 --> 00:05:19,200 Speaker 4: You are so funny, but I am. I'm in it 113 00:05:19,320 --> 00:05:22,440 Speaker 4: to just keep working and sustain my life. And people 114 00:05:22,480 --> 00:05:25,080 Speaker 4: like Debbie Allen have been working for years and I 115 00:05:25,120 --> 00:05:28,320 Speaker 4: see her. She's healthy, she's happy, and I'm like, that's 116 00:05:28,360 --> 00:05:30,240 Speaker 4: what I want. I work so I can live and 117 00:05:30,400 --> 00:05:30,960 Speaker 4: enjoy life. 118 00:05:31,040 --> 00:05:33,920 Speaker 2: You know, when I saw how happy Debbie Allen and 119 00:05:33,960 --> 00:05:36,640 Speaker 2: her husband were in real life at a party, I 120 00:05:36,760 --> 00:05:38,960 Speaker 2: just looked at them and I thought, that's what I want. 121 00:05:39,080 --> 00:05:42,719 Speaker 4: Yeah, that is special. That whole family is our goals 122 00:05:42,760 --> 00:05:45,560 Speaker 4: for me. I am friends with the family and we 123 00:05:45,640 --> 00:05:47,919 Speaker 4: have waves like I'm in their life full, I'm like 124 00:05:47,960 --> 00:05:49,520 Speaker 4: sleeping over and then I'm like, I gotta go, i 125 00:05:49,520 --> 00:05:51,200 Speaker 4: gotta work, and we will see each other for a while. 126 00:05:51,200 --> 00:05:54,560 Speaker 4: But all the while we are always connected and we 127 00:05:54,680 --> 00:05:58,200 Speaker 4: know how the industry will try to tear families apar 128 00:05:58,520 --> 00:06:02,120 Speaker 4: who push wedges between people, but we understand it. We 129 00:06:02,120 --> 00:06:03,919 Speaker 4: can look each other in each other's souls and be 130 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:05,560 Speaker 4: like love you, love you too, see you in the 131 00:06:05,560 --> 00:06:07,480 Speaker 4: next ones. I love Miss Debbie and her whole family. 132 00:06:08,120 --> 00:06:10,160 Speaker 4: I was having a conversation with my friend the other day. 133 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:12,760 Speaker 4: She's a musician, but she said something that I thought 134 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:16,160 Speaker 4: was really profound. She was like, it's not the failures 135 00:06:16,160 --> 00:06:18,880 Speaker 4: that you have to worry about, it's actually the successes, 136 00:06:19,080 --> 00:06:20,960 Speaker 4: because the successes. 137 00:06:20,360 --> 00:06:22,480 Speaker 1: Are the things that can tear families apart. 138 00:06:22,800 --> 00:06:25,040 Speaker 4: Oh yeah, that is a true statement as well. 139 00:06:25,200 --> 00:06:25,800 Speaker 1: Both can do. 140 00:06:25,920 --> 00:06:28,560 Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm going to be honest, like, especially in our industry, 141 00:06:28,960 --> 00:06:34,800 Speaker 4: failures haunt you forever. Really, I think so, especially now 142 00:06:34,920 --> 00:06:36,800 Speaker 4: social media. Unless you pay somebody to get it off 143 00:06:36,839 --> 00:06:39,560 Speaker 4: the internet. That's gone. Anytime you type certain people's names, 144 00:06:39,560 --> 00:06:42,080 Speaker 4: you're always going to see their failure first. But yes, 145 00:06:42,120 --> 00:06:45,600 Speaker 4: the successes in families just like a just like a 146 00:06:45,760 --> 00:06:51,120 Speaker 4: good old will reading that's funny, just like a good 147 00:06:51,120 --> 00:06:55,000 Speaker 4: old death. In a family, somebody's going to be fighting 148 00:06:55,120 --> 00:06:58,359 Speaker 4: for the success and that's my money. It's like, oh goodness, gracious, 149 00:06:58,400 --> 00:06:58,920 Speaker 4: go sit down. 150 00:06:59,360 --> 00:07:01,760 Speaker 2: So you bring up Debbie Allen. I want to talk 151 00:07:01,800 --> 00:07:05,920 Speaker 2: about Whoopie Goldberg because I love that. Did you meet 152 00:07:05,960 --> 00:07:07,600 Speaker 2: when you started co hosting the View? 153 00:07:08,279 --> 00:07:11,360 Speaker 4: So we met before? Actually she remembers more than I do. 154 00:07:11,440 --> 00:07:13,080 Speaker 4: We met when I was a lot younger, and she 155 00:07:13,120 --> 00:07:15,640 Speaker 4: said I scared her because I was like an adult 156 00:07:15,640 --> 00:07:17,840 Speaker 4: in a baby's body and she was very scared of me. 157 00:07:18,120 --> 00:07:19,880 Speaker 4: I do not remember this moment, but we do have 158 00:07:19,920 --> 00:07:22,000 Speaker 4: a picture together, and I'm like, it's probably that time. 159 00:07:22,360 --> 00:07:25,920 Speaker 4: Then when I did Sister Act, we met while I 160 00:07:25,960 --> 00:07:30,200 Speaker 4: was an adult officially conscious, and then we grew to 161 00:07:30,280 --> 00:07:31,760 Speaker 4: love each other and become family. 162 00:07:31,800 --> 00:07:37,080 Speaker 2: On the View, I interviewed Ego Nowoh diem a few 163 00:07:37,760 --> 00:07:40,240 Speaker 2: months ago, and she has this photo with Whoopee and 164 00:07:40,320 --> 00:07:44,040 Speaker 2: she said that it felt like an invitation I loved 165 00:07:44,080 --> 00:07:47,760 Speaker 2: that description because you're nodding your head, did it like 166 00:07:47,840 --> 00:07:50,760 Speaker 2: it feels like a stamp almost. What does that relationship 167 00:07:50,840 --> 00:07:52,280 Speaker 2: or mentorship with Whoopee mean? 168 00:07:52,520 --> 00:07:55,000 Speaker 4: Whoop Bee? I don't even have a word to describe 169 00:07:55,080 --> 00:07:57,880 Speaker 4: Whoopye Goldberg and the energy field that she lives in 170 00:07:57,920 --> 00:08:01,680 Speaker 4: on an everyday basis. All I know is that she's 171 00:08:01,720 --> 00:08:05,640 Speaker 4: Auntie Whoop and you know, she's a woman of a 172 00:08:05,680 --> 00:08:10,280 Speaker 4: certain age. So she has her times and her thoughts, 173 00:08:10,360 --> 00:08:12,720 Speaker 4: and she speaks her mind and she has her moods, 174 00:08:12,760 --> 00:08:15,080 Speaker 4: and at every single step of it, I'm like. 175 00:08:15,120 --> 00:08:15,800 Speaker 1: What do you need? 176 00:08:16,160 --> 00:08:19,240 Speaker 4: I got I will hold your coattails for you whatever 177 00:08:19,280 --> 00:08:20,680 Speaker 4: you need. And my wife feels the same way. My 178 00:08:20,680 --> 00:08:22,720 Speaker 4: wife is like, you should call her more like I 179 00:08:22,760 --> 00:08:24,720 Speaker 4: still get starstruck because that's like. 180 00:08:24,800 --> 00:08:27,680 Speaker 2: Auntie Whoop in the phone, even when you're out her 181 00:08:27,720 --> 00:08:30,040 Speaker 2: Thanksgiving table, your starstruck. 182 00:08:29,440 --> 00:08:32,360 Speaker 4: When she cooked for us, I'm still like, thanks, thanks, 183 00:08:32,360 --> 00:08:38,880 Speaker 4: whoop Like, I still she's majestic, she's a unif's immortal. 184 00:08:39,160 --> 00:08:42,319 Speaker 4: She's immortal, and she's looking better with age. Honey, have 185 00:08:42,400 --> 00:08:45,040 Speaker 4: you seen her recently? I don't know why she likes me. 186 00:08:45,160 --> 00:08:51,319 Speaker 4: I'm I'm projecting here but I have a soul and 187 00:08:51,360 --> 00:08:53,440 Speaker 4: she has a soul still even though we've been in 188 00:08:53,480 --> 00:08:57,000 Speaker 4: this industry for so long, and she checks in on me, man, 189 00:08:57,040 --> 00:08:58,960 Speaker 4: like I just did the view the other day. She 190 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:01,520 Speaker 4: didn't talk to me through the whole television interview, and 191 00:09:01,559 --> 00:09:02,559 Speaker 4: some people are like, why didn't. 192 00:09:02,360 --> 00:09:02,679 Speaker 1: You talk to you? 193 00:09:02,679 --> 00:09:04,840 Speaker 4: I said, because we had a whole conversation offline. We 194 00:09:04,880 --> 00:09:07,080 Speaker 4: don't have to talk in the public to show that 195 00:09:07,120 --> 00:09:09,640 Speaker 4: we love each other. Like she's like, you didn't call 196 00:09:09,720 --> 00:09:11,880 Speaker 4: me when your brother died. I'm mad at you because 197 00:09:12,040 --> 00:09:14,080 Speaker 4: you know what that is, and I'm supposed to be there. 198 00:09:14,120 --> 00:09:14,839 Speaker 4: I was like, you cared. 199 00:09:14,920 --> 00:09:17,120 Speaker 1: I love somebody she is. 200 00:09:17,480 --> 00:09:18,319 Speaker 4: She's majestic. 201 00:09:18,960 --> 00:09:20,880 Speaker 5: I love here, surely, thank you for sharing that with us. 202 00:09:20,920 --> 00:09:22,760 Speaker 4: Yeah, don't worries she's I love that woman. 203 00:09:23,200 --> 00:09:25,040 Speaker 3: Did it feel good to be able to dip in 204 00:09:25,080 --> 00:09:26,600 Speaker 3: and then dip out of the view on the same 205 00:09:26,800 --> 00:09:27,960 Speaker 3: time every. 206 00:09:27,640 --> 00:09:29,760 Speaker 4: Time I kept one foot by the door, Yes, in 207 00:09:29,800 --> 00:09:31,439 Speaker 4: case they tried to close me in. No, no, no, 208 00:09:31,559 --> 00:09:34,840 Speaker 4: I absolutely love the people there, from Brian Teta to 209 00:09:34,920 --> 00:09:39,520 Speaker 4: all of the producers, would be Sarah, all the the panelists. 210 00:09:39,840 --> 00:09:41,079 Speaker 1: I think that's a special place. 211 00:09:41,400 --> 00:09:43,880 Speaker 4: I do get PTSD when the cameras start rolling and 212 00:09:43,920 --> 00:09:46,280 Speaker 4: we have to actually quote unquote work and do the 213 00:09:46,360 --> 00:09:49,320 Speaker 4: job that we're there for. That's not my favorite, but 214 00:09:49,400 --> 00:09:51,360 Speaker 4: it is my favorite to see those people and feel 215 00:09:51,360 --> 00:09:53,199 Speaker 4: that love. It's a different kind of love on that set. 216 00:09:53,520 --> 00:09:58,200 Speaker 3: Yeah, Raven, your range is so impressive, Like between your 217 00:09:58,200 --> 00:10:00,880 Speaker 3: work on the Cosby Show that's so Raven, Raven's Home, 218 00:10:00,960 --> 00:10:04,880 Speaker 3: everything in between. You've truly amassed this intergenerational fan base. 219 00:10:05,480 --> 00:10:07,880 Speaker 3: But I want to know what's something only the real 220 00:10:08,240 --> 00:10:09,920 Speaker 3: Raven Simone fans know about you? 221 00:10:10,040 --> 00:10:12,480 Speaker 4: Ooh, oh, my goodness. 222 00:10:12,200 --> 00:10:13,760 Speaker 1: Great question and a toughie. 223 00:10:14,080 --> 00:10:16,120 Speaker 4: I mean, I guess the real Raven Simone fans know 224 00:10:16,240 --> 00:10:19,800 Speaker 4: that I went on tour within Sync back in the day. Yeah, 225 00:10:19,800 --> 00:10:25,079 Speaker 4: that I was like massively touring during ENGL. Mister Cooper, maybe. 226 00:10:24,760 --> 00:10:26,719 Speaker 1: How old were you when you were touring with them 227 00:10:26,960 --> 00:10:27,680 Speaker 1: with in sinc. 228 00:10:27,720 --> 00:10:32,280 Speaker 4: I was thirteen twelve area it was the Bye Bye 229 00:10:32,320 --> 00:10:32,760 Speaker 4: Bye era. 230 00:10:33,440 --> 00:10:33,920 Speaker 1: My goodness. 231 00:10:34,040 --> 00:10:36,240 Speaker 4: Yeah, it was crazy. Mandy Moore was on there, Jordan 232 00:10:36,320 --> 00:10:40,640 Speaker 4: Knight was on there, A third Story was there. Yeah, 233 00:10:40,679 --> 00:10:42,920 Speaker 4: it was a It was a massive tour that I 234 00:10:42,920 --> 00:10:45,839 Speaker 4: traveled around and I went a bago because we didn't 235 00:10:45,840 --> 00:10:49,520 Speaker 4: have any record label and went to every city that 236 00:10:49,600 --> 00:10:52,240 Speaker 4: they did, and they had two stages back then. Yeah, 237 00:10:52,280 --> 00:10:54,719 Speaker 4: I mean like you had one stage that was by 238 00:10:54,760 --> 00:10:56,600 Speaker 4: the front that everybody came in. It was like me 239 00:10:56,720 --> 00:10:58,120 Speaker 4: and all the other ones, and then you had the 240 00:10:58,120 --> 00:10:58,960 Speaker 4: big stage. 241 00:10:59,360 --> 00:11:03,280 Speaker 2: So I'm gonna give all the listeners a little inside 242 00:11:03,320 --> 00:11:05,959 Speaker 2: Scoop Raven showed up fifteen minutes early. 243 00:11:06,320 --> 00:11:07,520 Speaker 5: I did to our interview. 244 00:11:07,559 --> 00:11:08,080 Speaker 1: You're welcome. 245 00:11:08,720 --> 00:11:11,400 Speaker 2: Well, you're one of the only people to ever do that, 246 00:11:12,280 --> 00:11:16,200 Speaker 2: and I wanted the reason I noticed it was, I 247 00:11:16,280 --> 00:11:19,000 Speaker 2: was thinking, you've spent so much of your life on set. 248 00:11:19,160 --> 00:11:20,920 Speaker 2: I was going to ask you what you've picked up 249 00:11:20,960 --> 00:11:24,400 Speaker 2: that you carry over into your life. But timeliness, I 250 00:11:24,440 --> 00:11:25,400 Speaker 2: think is one of them. 251 00:11:25,360 --> 00:11:26,800 Speaker 4: Because I did not get that from Segur. 252 00:11:27,280 --> 00:11:28,000 Speaker 1: You didn't know. 253 00:11:28,440 --> 00:11:31,000 Speaker 4: That came from people being late for me and me 254 00:11:31,120 --> 00:11:33,680 Speaker 4: being irantated as hall because you're late and you're wasting 255 00:11:33,720 --> 00:11:36,720 Speaker 4: my time. I have things to do today. Why do 256 00:11:36,800 --> 00:11:39,720 Speaker 4: you think that you're more important than me? My wife 257 00:11:39,800 --> 00:11:42,280 Speaker 4: is like yeah, but we're in LA like fashionably late 258 00:11:42,360 --> 00:11:44,200 Speaker 4: is like cool. I'm like yeah, yeah, yeah, get the car. 259 00:11:44,240 --> 00:11:44,599 Speaker 1: We got to go. 260 00:11:44,720 --> 00:11:46,760 Speaker 4: It's the appointments at one. Let's get the car at 261 00:11:46,760 --> 00:11:49,520 Speaker 4: eleven o'clock, and I want to be there just in 262 00:11:49,559 --> 00:11:51,559 Speaker 4: case they could take me early, because if I can 263 00:11:51,600 --> 00:11:53,800 Speaker 4: get in early, I can go home early and then 264 00:11:53,840 --> 00:11:55,720 Speaker 4: I can go and just relax on the couch. But 265 00:11:56,280 --> 00:11:58,920 Speaker 4: I don't like when people have to wait for me. 266 00:11:59,080 --> 00:12:02,600 Speaker 4: I think it's disrespectub full, and I feel disrespected when 267 00:12:02,600 --> 00:12:03,360 Speaker 4: people do that to me. 268 00:12:04,160 --> 00:12:05,080 Speaker 5: I think that's so cool. 269 00:12:05,160 --> 00:12:07,720 Speaker 1: I agree, completely agree. 270 00:12:08,440 --> 00:12:11,280 Speaker 5: Okay, can we talk about that, so, Raven, let's do it. 271 00:12:11,760 --> 00:12:14,120 Speaker 1: So dn't didn't. 272 00:12:14,880 --> 00:12:19,280 Speaker 4: Sorry, I'm not gonna do it, Simon, and I. 273 00:12:20,960 --> 00:12:21,280 Speaker 3: Do it. 274 00:12:21,640 --> 00:12:23,360 Speaker 1: My soul is gonna leave my body if he starts 275 00:12:23,360 --> 00:12:25,280 Speaker 1: singing the you guys sing with me, I'll sing it, 276 00:12:25,440 --> 00:12:26,800 Speaker 1: of course, of course dn't. 277 00:12:26,920 --> 00:12:27,240 Speaker 2: Dn't. 278 00:12:27,280 --> 00:12:28,640 Speaker 4: Didn't. If you can. 279 00:12:29,160 --> 00:12:32,760 Speaker 3: Into the future, future future, my thing life would be 280 00:12:32,800 --> 00:12:34,640 Speaker 3: a Drees life. 281 00:12:34,520 --> 00:12:36,480 Speaker 1: Is a free trouble from this. 282 00:12:37,160 --> 00:12:40,679 Speaker 4: Yeah, but it's not that easy. 283 00:12:40,880 --> 00:12:42,240 Speaker 1: Oh no, I try. 284 00:12:42,320 --> 00:12:46,400 Speaker 4: It's goody good, Oh my wait, I just need a 285 00:12:46,440 --> 00:12:50,480 Speaker 4: moment that was so insane, my jack it off. 286 00:12:52,920 --> 00:12:57,560 Speaker 1: Those are so cool. You don't understand, Raven. Maybe you do, 287 00:12:57,760 --> 00:12:59,480 Speaker 1: I don't. I don't get it. 288 00:13:02,559 --> 00:13:04,640 Speaker 4: I mean my version version. 289 00:13:04,640 --> 00:13:08,880 Speaker 1: I cannot do this interview anymore. I'm again, Yeah, thank 290 00:13:08,920 --> 00:13:13,600 Speaker 1: you so much. When I tell my cousin that we 291 00:13:13,679 --> 00:13:17,840 Speaker 1: just did, I just I'm hilarious. Oh thanks, ladies. 292 00:13:18,840 --> 00:13:20,440 Speaker 2: We have to take a short break, but we'll be 293 00:13:20,520 --> 00:13:34,199 Speaker 2: right back with Raven Simone. And we're back with Raven Simone. 294 00:13:35,160 --> 00:13:37,959 Speaker 2: A lot of news has come out recently about how 295 00:13:38,040 --> 00:13:41,040 Speaker 2: during a few episodes of That So Raven, there was 296 00:13:41,080 --> 00:13:44,520 Speaker 2: footage that was edited of you to appear slimmer. 297 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:51,600 Speaker 1: Really, yeah, were you aware of that? Yes, you told that. 298 00:13:51,800 --> 00:13:52,680 Speaker 1: It's on the internet. 299 00:13:52,760 --> 00:13:55,400 Speaker 2: There was a former Disney Channel exec that wrote something, 300 00:13:58,200 --> 00:14:00,920 Speaker 2: where are they SIPs her water? 301 00:14:02,800 --> 00:14:05,360 Speaker 4: Wow? I can't believe they released that. Cool beans, what 302 00:14:05,360 --> 00:14:05,800 Speaker 4: do you say? 303 00:14:05,840 --> 00:14:06,400 Speaker 1: Who was it? 304 00:14:06,520 --> 00:14:16,720 Speaker 2: Adam Bonnet specifically referenced a school dance episode. 305 00:14:17,120 --> 00:14:20,680 Speaker 4: So that's the Raven is. It was during a time 306 00:14:21,280 --> 00:14:27,680 Speaker 4: when weight was not celebrated like it is now. There's 307 00:14:27,680 --> 00:14:30,160 Speaker 4: this really interesting thing you can do with film when 308 00:14:30,200 --> 00:14:35,720 Speaker 4: you're in television, and you can stretch the film. So 309 00:14:35,840 --> 00:14:38,080 Speaker 4: if you're wide and you stretch it long ways, you 310 00:14:38,120 --> 00:14:43,160 Speaker 4: look skinnier. And there were talks about that. I can't 311 00:14:43,200 --> 00:14:46,120 Speaker 4: believe he said that out loud. Okay, Adam, do. 312 00:14:46,080 --> 00:14:48,120 Speaker 5: You feel like that wasn't his story to tell? 313 00:14:48,920 --> 00:14:49,080 Speaker 2: Oh? 314 00:14:49,080 --> 00:14:53,040 Speaker 4: I don't care. It's uh, that's actually if he was 315 00:14:53,080 --> 00:14:54,800 Speaker 4: the one who started it, that's fine. But I also 316 00:14:54,880 --> 00:14:57,400 Speaker 4: know the culprits in that conversation that I will not 317 00:14:57,520 --> 00:14:58,120 Speaker 4: name right now. 318 00:14:58,880 --> 00:15:02,640 Speaker 2: In hindsight, how do you feel about that because you 319 00:15:02,680 --> 00:15:04,200 Speaker 2: were just a kid, Like it's not like you had 320 00:15:04,280 --> 00:15:06,120 Speaker 2: say over them doing that, or. 321 00:15:06,160 --> 00:15:08,040 Speaker 4: In hindsight, I was told I was fat all the time, 322 00:15:08,600 --> 00:15:11,000 Speaker 4: Like I'm used to that on set as a kid. Yeah, 323 00:15:11,040 --> 00:15:14,360 Speaker 4: but not by people on set. Where was it coming 324 00:15:14,400 --> 00:15:18,040 Speaker 4: from behind the scenes. That was the industry executives. No, 325 00:15:18,120 --> 00:15:20,520 Speaker 4: not at all. That was the industries. That was the 326 00:15:20,520 --> 00:15:22,000 Speaker 4: industry back in the day. I mean, I don't know 327 00:15:22,040 --> 00:15:23,480 Speaker 4: if you guys remember, but back in the day, they 328 00:15:23,520 --> 00:15:25,280 Speaker 4: thought I had O Marion's baby because I was fat. 329 00:15:25,320 --> 00:15:26,840 Speaker 4: They were like, she must be pregnant. I'm like no, 330 00:15:26,920 --> 00:15:29,040 Speaker 4: I like in and out, go sit down, Like what 331 00:15:29,080 --> 00:15:32,120 Speaker 4: are you talking about? I'm depressed. Here's my food, Which 332 00:15:32,120 --> 00:15:34,360 Speaker 4: is why if you look at my pictures from back 333 00:15:34,400 --> 00:15:37,040 Speaker 4: in the day, Perez Hilton, she looks like a poodle. 334 00:15:37,120 --> 00:15:40,000 Speaker 4: I didn't get the same visuals as the other ladies 335 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:42,440 Speaker 4: did because I didn't look the same, especially during that 336 00:15:42,520 --> 00:15:44,360 Speaker 4: time when I gained a lot of weight from a 337 00:15:44,520 --> 00:15:47,440 Speaker 4: really bad breakup, so and depression, all kinds of stuff. 338 00:15:47,440 --> 00:15:48,720 Speaker 4: But yeah, that was Why do you think I was 339 00:15:48,720 --> 00:15:51,240 Speaker 4: in heels during all of the Cheetah girls, Because if 340 00:15:51,240 --> 00:15:54,400 Speaker 4: you were heels, you're taller and you look skinnier. Who 341 00:15:54,520 --> 00:15:57,640 Speaker 4: struts in the middle of those struts in Spain? 342 00:15:58,800 --> 00:15:59,200 Speaker 1: Just heels? 343 00:15:59,240 --> 00:16:01,400 Speaker 4: When these ladies are in fled I love them. 344 00:16:01,400 --> 00:16:02,600 Speaker 5: I would have never noticed that. 345 00:16:02,960 --> 00:16:07,080 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, how old were you when that footage was edited? 346 00:16:07,640 --> 00:16:13,240 Speaker 4: Oh? I remember edited footage. I remember the conversation's happening 347 00:16:13,400 --> 00:16:16,600 Speaker 4: like from the start. So so that wasn't the only time. 348 00:16:16,760 --> 00:16:20,120 Speaker 4: Oh do you hold on to that? No, I actually 349 00:16:20,160 --> 00:16:23,360 Speaker 4: forgot about it. I'm really good at disassociating you guys. 350 00:16:23,400 --> 00:16:25,520 Speaker 4: You guys, if you have a problem, just like, forget 351 00:16:25,520 --> 00:16:28,320 Speaker 4: about it. 352 00:16:28,320 --> 00:16:32,440 Speaker 3: It works that all the experts say. 353 00:16:32,400 --> 00:16:33,720 Speaker 1: Just just forget about it. 354 00:16:34,400 --> 00:16:36,680 Speaker 2: The only problem is, like I've heard, if you keep 355 00:16:36,720 --> 00:16:38,840 Speaker 2: running from yourself, eventually you run into yourself. 356 00:16:38,840 --> 00:16:41,280 Speaker 4: Oh all day, And I'm not worried about that right now, Okay, 357 00:16:41,440 --> 00:16:44,200 Speaker 4: I'm talking about the initial pain. Get rid of it, 358 00:16:44,200 --> 00:16:45,960 Speaker 4: it's right, and then you'll deal with it later. 359 00:16:47,640 --> 00:16:50,520 Speaker 3: How did you process those things as they were being 360 00:16:50,560 --> 00:16:52,760 Speaker 3: said to you, did you have someone that you could 361 00:16:52,920 --> 00:16:53,760 Speaker 3: talk to about it? 362 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:54,080 Speaker 2: No? 363 00:16:54,960 --> 00:16:57,400 Speaker 4: How did I process it? I just did? 364 00:16:58,000 --> 00:16:59,000 Speaker 1: Yeah, I just did. 365 00:16:59,040 --> 00:17:01,040 Speaker 4: You just do what you gotta do because you have 366 00:17:01,720 --> 00:17:04,239 Speaker 4: hundreds of people that rely on you to show up 367 00:17:04,240 --> 00:17:08,080 Speaker 4: for a job, you have goals, you have overbearing people 368 00:17:08,119 --> 00:17:12,240 Speaker 4: around you. And I was in a relationship at the time, 369 00:17:12,240 --> 00:17:14,399 Speaker 4: and that person actually helped me with a lot of 370 00:17:14,400 --> 00:17:19,560 Speaker 4: my self esteem because of whatever. But honey, if you 371 00:17:19,640 --> 00:17:22,000 Speaker 4: only knew I'm writing a book, Yeah. 372 00:17:21,880 --> 00:17:25,840 Speaker 3: Yeah, you were carrying so much from such a young age. 373 00:17:26,119 --> 00:17:29,840 Speaker 3: You started performing when you were what sixteen months or something. 374 00:17:29,920 --> 00:17:30,440 Speaker 2: Yeah. 375 00:17:30,560 --> 00:17:32,720 Speaker 1: Yeah, I have a three year old and. 376 00:17:33,440 --> 00:17:36,159 Speaker 3: All he says to me is like, fart, poopy mommy, 377 00:17:36,440 --> 00:17:43,000 Speaker 3: poopy penis fart. I can't imagine someone being competent. 378 00:17:42,720 --> 00:17:46,760 Speaker 4: And incompetent and. 379 00:17:45,920 --> 00:17:48,640 Speaker 3: Articulate enough at three years old to do what you did. 380 00:17:48,840 --> 00:17:51,520 Speaker 1: You just I'm so impressed by you. Took a lot 381 00:17:51,600 --> 00:17:51,920 Speaker 1: of work. 382 00:17:52,400 --> 00:17:53,200 Speaker 4: Took a lot of work. 383 00:17:53,880 --> 00:17:56,960 Speaker 1: Well. I was watching that Hulu documentary Child Star. 384 00:17:57,280 --> 00:17:57,840 Speaker 2: That was good. 385 00:17:58,720 --> 00:18:00,399 Speaker 1: I liked it. I was a little afraid. 386 00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:02,399 Speaker 4: I didn't know I was going down. I mean, you 387 00:18:02,560 --> 00:18:03,800 Speaker 4: get to see the cut beforehand. 388 00:18:03,960 --> 00:18:05,200 Speaker 1: Yeah, I was like, oh, this is good. 389 00:18:05,240 --> 00:18:06,479 Speaker 4: I actually want people to watch it. 390 00:18:06,600 --> 00:18:08,760 Speaker 3: There's this one scene that really stuck with me where 391 00:18:08,800 --> 00:18:11,080 Speaker 3: you're having a conversation with Demi Lovado about a time 392 00:18:11,119 --> 00:18:12,679 Speaker 3: when you worked on her show and you told her 393 00:18:12,720 --> 00:18:16,120 Speaker 3: that you instantly pinpointed this glazed overlook in her eyes, 394 00:18:16,119 --> 00:18:18,800 Speaker 3: and it sounds like you kind of experienced it too. 395 00:18:18,960 --> 00:18:20,199 Speaker 3: What did that term mean to you? 396 00:18:20,280 --> 00:18:22,720 Speaker 4: Oh, I didn't have a glaze. I was very aware 397 00:18:22,760 --> 00:18:25,440 Speaker 4: of what's going on. I think I was aware because 398 00:18:25,440 --> 00:18:27,600 Speaker 4: I had multiple masks that I was working through. I 399 00:18:27,680 --> 00:18:31,359 Speaker 4: knew at eleven or twelve that I was gay. So 400 00:18:31,960 --> 00:18:36,120 Speaker 4: first mask towards family, next mass, family teaching me how 401 00:18:36,119 --> 00:18:39,160 Speaker 4: to be in public, that's the next mass. Next mask 402 00:18:39,240 --> 00:18:42,320 Speaker 4: coming through, Like I think I'm a little bit dudish, 403 00:18:42,359 --> 00:18:44,399 Speaker 4: but I'm also in a relationship with a guy, So 404 00:18:44,760 --> 00:18:47,159 Speaker 4: here's the next mask. I blocked out a lot of that. 405 00:18:47,400 --> 00:18:50,240 Speaker 4: I never really had the glaze. What I have is 406 00:18:51,160 --> 00:18:54,040 Speaker 4: the ability to turn off my light when I want 407 00:18:54,080 --> 00:18:56,760 Speaker 4: to to not be seen, and people might take that 408 00:18:57,080 --> 00:19:00,560 Speaker 4: however you want to. But with Demmy and a couple 409 00:19:00,640 --> 00:19:03,600 Speaker 4: other people that I witnessed in the industry, the sadness 410 00:19:03,640 --> 00:19:04,520 Speaker 4: is too thick. 411 00:19:05,880 --> 00:19:06,479 Speaker 1: To mask. 412 00:19:06,920 --> 00:19:09,280 Speaker 4: It's a little too thick to mask. And I'm sure 413 00:19:09,640 --> 00:19:11,920 Speaker 4: people meeting me at a certain age might have thought 414 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:14,360 Speaker 4: the same thing. But I was very aware, so much 415 00:19:14,400 --> 00:19:16,120 Speaker 4: so that when I turned eighteen and I got free, 416 00:19:16,200 --> 00:19:17,840 Speaker 4: I was like, I need to go to therapy. This 417 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:21,320 Speaker 4: is incorrect. And never had a drug problem, never had 418 00:19:21,359 --> 00:19:26,800 Speaker 4: an alcohol problem. I have other problems which all of 419 00:19:26,840 --> 00:19:31,119 Speaker 4: my partners know about, but they're getting better now, you 420 00:19:31,160 --> 00:19:33,119 Speaker 4: know what I mean. My wife has helped me so 421 00:19:33,480 --> 00:19:36,080 Speaker 4: much and just grounding and integrating with who I am 422 00:19:36,160 --> 00:19:40,800 Speaker 4: and undoing programming, reprogramming and making sure that I'm a 423 00:19:40,840 --> 00:19:43,480 Speaker 4: semi well rounded human as best as you can be 424 00:19:43,520 --> 00:19:45,040 Speaker 4: in this industry and on this planet. 425 00:19:45,119 --> 00:19:49,960 Speaker 2: I personally, as like a fan of yours, have seen 426 00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:53,880 Speaker 2: the light turn back on since you got with your wife. 427 00:19:53,920 --> 00:19:54,280 Speaker 4: Thank you. 428 00:19:54,720 --> 00:19:56,000 Speaker 5: It feels like a lot changed. 429 00:19:56,160 --> 00:19:58,160 Speaker 4: Yeah, a lot changed. It's not always a safe space, 430 00:19:58,200 --> 00:20:01,000 Speaker 4: but my wife is a safe space, and and I was, 431 00:20:01,200 --> 00:20:03,600 Speaker 4: you know, I had had a lot of different things 432 00:20:03,600 --> 00:20:05,040 Speaker 4: going on that I don't tell a lot of people 433 00:20:05,080 --> 00:20:09,960 Speaker 4: about because I try my best to let the quote 434 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:13,119 Speaker 4: unquote celebrity of Raven Simone rule the industry and not 435 00:20:13,200 --> 00:20:16,560 Speaker 4: the personal life. Really bleed into it, but thank you. Yeah, 436 00:20:16,560 --> 00:20:18,200 Speaker 4: a lot of people said I look a lot happier, 437 00:20:18,520 --> 00:20:20,800 Speaker 4: and it was. I was a lot happier once I 438 00:20:20,840 --> 00:20:23,040 Speaker 4: got married to her and who she is and how 439 00:20:23,080 --> 00:20:23,720 Speaker 4: she treats me. 440 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:27,040 Speaker 5: When you say you let the celebrity of Raven simone 441 00:20:27,080 --> 00:20:31,919 Speaker 5: rule is that because you've seen it with other celebrities 442 00:20:32,320 --> 00:20:34,440 Speaker 5: or what rules that decision? 443 00:20:35,000 --> 00:20:39,480 Speaker 4: What rules that decision is my old programming as well 444 00:20:39,520 --> 00:20:44,320 Speaker 4: as they weren't ready for me. I knew who I 445 00:20:44,560 --> 00:20:48,720 Speaker 4: was when my house door closed, you know what I mean, 446 00:20:48,840 --> 00:20:55,439 Speaker 4: Like that was me, that was hoodie, that was my 447 00:20:55,560 --> 00:20:59,600 Speaker 4: sexual orientation, my gender orientation, all that. And then when 448 00:20:59,640 --> 00:21:02,440 Speaker 4: I open the door to walk outside, Oh, Hi, how 449 00:21:02,480 --> 00:21:05,960 Speaker 4: are you Tit's up. Let's do it. Let's have a conversation. Hi, 450 00:21:06,680 --> 00:21:08,919 Speaker 4: Like I know it. So I just knew how to 451 00:21:08,920 --> 00:21:11,680 Speaker 4: play that because my programming taught me that that's what 452 00:21:11,760 --> 00:21:14,160 Speaker 4: people want to see. And it's still in that way, 453 00:21:14,200 --> 00:21:16,240 Speaker 4: you know, especially as a female in the industry, they 454 00:21:16,280 --> 00:21:19,240 Speaker 4: need to lust after you. For you to be popular, 455 00:21:19,760 --> 00:21:22,320 Speaker 4: you need to have the sex factor. And I never 456 00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:28,920 Speaker 4: really totally grasped my sensuality and sexuality in public view 457 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:32,600 Speaker 4: because that was not really a true moment for me 458 00:21:33,240 --> 00:21:36,000 Speaker 4: now being that I'm in a comfortable space in my 459 00:21:36,040 --> 00:21:39,280 Speaker 4: life and who I am. I have it myself and 460 00:21:39,359 --> 00:21:41,800 Speaker 4: if somebody sees it, they see it well done. But 461 00:21:42,080 --> 00:21:44,119 Speaker 4: it's not not like it used to be. 462 00:21:45,160 --> 00:21:49,320 Speaker 3: What do you think young closeted Raven Simone needed to 463 00:21:49,359 --> 00:21:51,399 Speaker 3: hear the most what age? 464 00:21:51,640 --> 00:21:54,480 Speaker 4: Pick an age? I'm gonna let you pick the age. 465 00:21:54,480 --> 00:22:00,800 Speaker 4: Oh goodness, I'm gonna pick like seventeen. You don't have 466 00:22:01,080 --> 00:22:06,639 Speaker 4: to continue the facade anymore and lash out at people 467 00:22:06,680 --> 00:22:10,119 Speaker 4: around you because they want you to be something you're not. 468 00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:12,199 Speaker 4: You don't have to continue those sad and you're okay 469 00:22:12,440 --> 00:22:15,399 Speaker 4: to just do you. But then again, that would have 470 00:22:15,400 --> 00:22:17,720 Speaker 4: been a lie because at that time it was not okay, 471 00:22:18,680 --> 00:22:20,800 Speaker 4: you know what I mean? Like I needed to hear 472 00:22:20,840 --> 00:22:23,320 Speaker 4: that the world has changed, even in the past five years. 473 00:22:23,359 --> 00:22:26,480 Speaker 4: It's changed, you know, and it's rapidly doing that even 474 00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:29,240 Speaker 4: more now, more and more is okay? I don't know, 475 00:22:29,640 --> 00:22:34,760 Speaker 4: other than you can quit. You can quit. Probably needed 476 00:22:34,800 --> 00:22:35,159 Speaker 4: to hear that. 477 00:22:36,480 --> 00:22:38,439 Speaker 1: Did that not feel like an option? That was no? 478 00:22:38,320 --> 00:22:41,800 Speaker 4: No, no, not feel that was not an option? Still 479 00:22:41,840 --> 00:22:42,000 Speaker 4: is not. 480 00:22:43,240 --> 00:22:43,720 Speaker 1: Can't quit? 481 00:22:44,400 --> 00:22:48,520 Speaker 4: You can't quit because I'm addicted to the life. I'm 482 00:22:48,560 --> 00:22:52,240 Speaker 4: addicted to the check. I like it. Now I found 483 00:22:52,240 --> 00:22:54,160 Speaker 4: what I like and if back then I was doing 484 00:22:54,200 --> 00:22:55,600 Speaker 4: things that I didn't like, you know what I mean. 485 00:22:55,680 --> 00:22:57,880 Speaker 4: So now I found I direct, I produce, I'm working 486 00:22:57,880 --> 00:22:59,840 Speaker 4: with my wife like, I have people around me that 487 00:22:59,840 --> 00:23:02,600 Speaker 4: I like and I want to really work with. Back then, 488 00:23:03,359 --> 00:23:06,480 Speaker 4: I probably should not have been in the public eye. 489 00:23:06,720 --> 00:23:10,040 Speaker 2: I feel a heaviness when you talk about that time. 490 00:23:10,240 --> 00:23:13,640 Speaker 2: Just sitting here with you. I know that you are 491 00:23:13,680 --> 00:23:17,199 Speaker 2: doing your own development deal with Disney now and you 492 00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:20,119 Speaker 2: have opportunities to tell stories that you want to share. 493 00:23:21,040 --> 00:23:24,159 Speaker 2: I'm wondering what you're excited about producing if there's a 494 00:23:24,240 --> 00:23:26,800 Speaker 2: gap you see the stories that you want to tell. 495 00:23:27,520 --> 00:23:29,359 Speaker 4: Thanks to Disney for giving me an overall deal for 496 00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:33,640 Speaker 4: directing and producing. Really excited about that. So obviously there's 497 00:23:33,640 --> 00:23:35,719 Speaker 4: a mandate for Disney Channel, and I want to make 498 00:23:35,760 --> 00:23:37,840 Speaker 4: sure that I'm a part of the zeitgeist of Disney 499 00:23:37,880 --> 00:23:39,800 Speaker 4: Channel and what they're looking for. So I just directed 500 00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:42,160 Speaker 4: a pilot called Alice in the Palace. It's a spinoff 501 00:23:42,320 --> 00:23:45,640 Speaker 4: of Raven's Home with Michael Michelle Harris. She plays two 502 00:23:45,760 --> 00:23:49,560 Speaker 4: characters in one show, Awesome I'm so proud of her. 503 00:23:49,920 --> 00:23:52,159 Speaker 4: We just got a cut of the pilot and I 504 00:23:52,280 --> 00:23:53,199 Speaker 4: started to tear up. 505 00:23:53,359 --> 00:23:54,199 Speaker 1: What made you tear up? 506 00:23:54,280 --> 00:23:54,440 Speaker 2: Yeah? 507 00:23:54,520 --> 00:23:58,679 Speaker 4: Why a POC in a big princess dress for a 508 00:23:58,680 --> 00:23:59,440 Speaker 4: television show. 509 00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:02,000 Speaker 1: I want to cry. 510 00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:06,639 Speaker 4: That's why. That's why I started tearing up. She's killing it. 511 00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:08,400 Speaker 4: She's killing it, and I hope they pick up the show. 512 00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:09,200 Speaker 4: That's one. 513 00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:10,040 Speaker 1: Two. 514 00:24:11,200 --> 00:24:16,760 Speaker 4: The stories I want to tell are normalizing stories of 515 00:24:16,800 --> 00:24:22,800 Speaker 4: someone that is an LGBTQ bus libgitqua community. 516 00:24:22,840 --> 00:24:23,199 Speaker 1: I like that. 517 00:24:23,480 --> 00:24:27,760 Speaker 4: I like that libergita qua. 518 00:24:30,680 --> 00:24:32,920 Speaker 1: Qua. It's so much better. 519 00:24:32,880 --> 00:24:36,040 Speaker 2: When I host lgbt Q i A events. Do you 520 00:24:36,080 --> 00:24:39,560 Speaker 2: think they'll be cool with me saying the legit community? 521 00:24:41,880 --> 00:24:43,679 Speaker 4: I think if you make sure it has a French 522 00:24:43,720 --> 00:24:44,679 Speaker 4: accent on top of it. 523 00:24:44,960 --> 00:24:48,080 Speaker 1: Yes, I would love to see you try, Danielle. 524 00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:48,919 Speaker 5: I would love. 525 00:24:50,840 --> 00:24:53,080 Speaker 1: And I'm sending you the. 526 00:24:52,560 --> 00:24:54,560 Speaker 4: Video and I'll stick of for you. 527 00:24:54,640 --> 00:24:54,880 Speaker 2: Girls. 528 00:24:57,040 --> 00:24:59,560 Speaker 4: I just can't say that. Listen, there's eighty million letters 529 00:24:59,560 --> 00:25:01,600 Speaker 4: in our I don't know. I just mean something easier. 530 00:25:01,680 --> 00:25:04,239 Speaker 4: Just give me one word, libita qua. I want to 531 00:25:04,280 --> 00:25:09,439 Speaker 4: tell libigit da qua stories that are not quote unquote. 532 00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:11,879 Speaker 4: When some people would say, like, oh, you're forcing it 533 00:25:11,920 --> 00:25:14,600 Speaker 4: on us. No, we're not, but I do want to 534 00:25:14,840 --> 00:25:23,520 Speaker 4: have those romance holiday conversations. When it comes to television 535 00:25:23,560 --> 00:25:28,439 Speaker 4: shows and kids network, I want to make things that 536 00:25:28,520 --> 00:25:31,320 Speaker 4: are actually funny. Now you're gonna say, what do you mean? 537 00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:35,480 Speaker 4: What I'm gonna say is I truly believe that a 538 00:25:35,560 --> 00:25:40,320 Speaker 4: taste for comedy is learned. I grew up with Jim Carrey, 539 00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:44,160 Speaker 4: I grew up with Adam Sandler, I grew up with 540 00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:47,439 Speaker 4: Lucy and all these people. I have a taste for 541 00:25:47,520 --> 00:25:52,400 Speaker 4: comedy that's different than and I love them, but hear 542 00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:55,600 Speaker 4: me out than a friend's cast. And I don't think 543 00:25:55,640 --> 00:25:58,640 Speaker 4: that I'm trying to like give slapstick comedy for everyone, 544 00:25:58,920 --> 00:26:01,679 Speaker 4: but I do think that for the years. Sometimes not 545 00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:03,439 Speaker 4: all the times, and definitely not with my channel, but 546 00:26:03,520 --> 00:26:07,080 Speaker 4: sometimes comedy for kids can be watered down because they 547 00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:10,840 Speaker 4: talked down to kids, and I don't think that that's necessary. 548 00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:14,120 Speaker 4: That's one of the reasons I loved doing the pilot 549 00:26:14,640 --> 00:26:19,000 Speaker 4: because Michael Michelle Harris knows how to integrate physical comedy 550 00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:23,600 Speaker 4: as well as standard but I'm bump jokes, but she 551 00:26:23,680 --> 00:26:25,560 Speaker 4: does it in a way to where it doesn't seem corny, 552 00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:29,040 Speaker 4: and I don't want to give kids corny material anymore. 553 00:26:29,160 --> 00:26:33,720 Speaker 4: I want to laugh along with children's comedy at the 554 00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:36,960 Speaker 4: same time a four year old is laughing the Shrek effect. 555 00:26:37,520 --> 00:26:39,920 Speaker 4: I think that's fantastic, and I want to make sure 556 00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:43,240 Speaker 4: that happens with anything that I touch within the Disney universe. 557 00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:46,480 Speaker 5: I just had a whole revelation as you were speaking 558 00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:46,879 Speaker 5: about this. 559 00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:55,040 Speaker 1: Do you have a vision slight a second? 560 00:26:56,840 --> 00:26:59,520 Speaker 3: That's so raven question I really want to ask you, 561 00:26:59,560 --> 00:27:02,240 Speaker 3: and I'm to ask, is what is the secret to 562 00:27:02,359 --> 00:27:03,040 Speaker 3: mastering that? 563 00:27:03,560 --> 00:27:03,720 Speaker 2: Oh? 564 00:27:03,720 --> 00:27:06,880 Speaker 4: Fund shouldn't look okay, Isaac, there is a secret. What 565 00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:09,640 Speaker 4: is it? There is a secret. You have to keep 566 00:27:09,640 --> 00:27:11,760 Speaker 4: your mouth slightly opened and your tongue down. 567 00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:14,240 Speaker 1: I feel like she's drinking us, right, I'm not. 568 00:27:14,359 --> 00:27:16,520 Speaker 4: I swear you can open your eyes and keep them 569 00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:18,359 Speaker 4: open if your mouth is open a tiny bit and 570 00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:21,960 Speaker 4: your tongue is down, and when you start to water 571 00:27:22,119 --> 00:27:26,920 Speaker 4: and fight through it, you think about here you go, 572 00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:29,439 Speaker 4: mouth open exactly a little bit. 573 00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:32,960 Speaker 5: You did it so well. 574 00:27:33,240 --> 00:27:34,160 Speaker 1: I don't even want to try. 575 00:27:34,280 --> 00:27:34,639 Speaker 3: You can do it. 576 00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:36,399 Speaker 1: No, you just did it. We're talking about nobody can 577 00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:37,000 Speaker 1: do it like you. 578 00:27:37,119 --> 00:27:39,040 Speaker 4: Well, this is true, but you did it pretty well. 579 00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:43,119 Speaker 4: No Isaac, my little my son on Raven's home. He 580 00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:45,159 Speaker 4: asked me that question. I was like, you gotta do it. 581 00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:46,960 Speaker 1: So I love this boy. Guy. 582 00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:49,159 Speaker 4: He's a grown ass man. Sorry, I love this dude. 583 00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:52,399 Speaker 2: He the way you described him was like he was 584 00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:53,080 Speaker 2: a four year old. 585 00:27:53,119 --> 00:27:54,840 Speaker 4: I know because I knew him when he was twelve 586 00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:56,640 Speaker 4: and I was eighteen. He's like a sexy boy. 587 00:27:56,640 --> 00:27:57,240 Speaker 1: I can't handle. 588 00:27:57,280 --> 00:27:59,439 Speaker 4: It's weird. But he has a music career and she 589 00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:01,520 Speaker 4: go check it out. He asked me, how do you 590 00:28:01,560 --> 00:28:03,639 Speaker 4: do it? I was like, haha, I'm not gonna tell you. 591 00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:05,320 Speaker 4: I'm i gonna tell you how you do it. And 592 00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:08,920 Speaker 4: during the season we would have vision offs, like who 593 00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:13,719 Speaker 4: could last longest without blinking. I always won, of course always. 594 00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:15,480 Speaker 4: He always I'm like, you blinked? He so I can't 595 00:28:15,480 --> 00:28:15,720 Speaker 4: do it. 596 00:28:15,760 --> 00:28:17,480 Speaker 1: I said, I have a fu. 597 00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:19,440 Speaker 4: You got the visions you can't blink. 598 00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:20,040 Speaker 1: Oh my god. 599 00:28:20,080 --> 00:28:21,000 Speaker 4: I had so much fun with him. 600 00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:27,080 Speaker 2: Well, the vision I had we were speaking was that 601 00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:30,280 Speaker 2: that is what made you so funny on that so Raven. 602 00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:32,720 Speaker 2: It wasn't like you were playing this character. It was 603 00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:35,800 Speaker 2: like you were the next generation. You had inherited this 604 00:28:35,920 --> 00:28:39,400 Speaker 2: gift from people like Whoopee and Jim Carrey and Robin Williams. 605 00:28:40,240 --> 00:28:43,640 Speaker 4: There are very few people carrying that torch. Now, I 606 00:28:43,640 --> 00:28:45,520 Speaker 4: think Michael Michelle Harris will be able to do it. 607 00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:47,880 Speaker 4: And I think that as we continue to look for 608 00:28:48,360 --> 00:28:52,480 Speaker 4: talent in the younger community and I'm there to help 609 00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:55,440 Speaker 4: them through it, I think we can do that. I mean, listen, 610 00:28:55,480 --> 00:28:58,360 Speaker 4: when I go through a boot camp with any of 611 00:28:58,360 --> 00:29:00,160 Speaker 4: my kids from any of my shows, the first thing 612 00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:02,160 Speaker 4: I do is say you better get Nike ad night 613 00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:06,360 Speaker 4: because I'm gonna make you watch everything. And I always 614 00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:08,600 Speaker 4: ask in an audition what television shows do you watch? 615 00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:12,200 Speaker 4: And when they go to two thousands comedy and say, 616 00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:15,920 Speaker 4: oh my god, I go, mm okay, I'm gonna take 617 00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:18,000 Speaker 4: you back to the fifties. I'm gonna take you back 618 00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:20,280 Speaker 4: a little bit further, just suck it up, and I 619 00:29:20,320 --> 00:29:22,120 Speaker 4: need you to watch and see the difference. When they 620 00:29:22,120 --> 00:29:25,200 Speaker 4: see the difference, they go, oh, there was something grounded 621 00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:30,880 Speaker 4: about those characters, like they weren't acting. But I really 622 00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:37,480 Speaker 4: do request strongly that anybody who works with me goes 623 00:29:37,520 --> 00:29:40,120 Speaker 4: and watches what I watch because I also need to reference, 624 00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:42,240 Speaker 4: you know what I mean, Like if we're doing something 625 00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:44,080 Speaker 4: and I don't know how to give a direction. I'm like, 626 00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:46,239 Speaker 4: did you watch the Jimmy Fox show? Okay, now I 627 00:29:46,240 --> 00:29:48,760 Speaker 4: need that character and this we're oh got it? Did 628 00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:49,400 Speaker 4: you watch Martin? 629 00:29:49,400 --> 00:29:49,560 Speaker 2: You did? 630 00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:51,400 Speaker 4: And you're too young? That's okay, go to Jimmy Fox. 631 00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:51,880 Speaker 1: Here we go. 632 00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:54,920 Speaker 4: But you need those things to pull from. It's an encyclopedia, 633 00:29:55,360 --> 00:29:58,120 Speaker 4: and I think with comedy, you have to learn from 634 00:29:58,160 --> 00:30:02,120 Speaker 4: your ancestors, and you have to learn George Carlin, even 635 00:30:02,160 --> 00:30:05,000 Speaker 4: Warren Hutcherson, Like he's a writer that worked on Raven's Home, 636 00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:07,520 Speaker 4: but he was also a fantastic stand up comedian that 637 00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:09,400 Speaker 4: I used to watch, and so when he came on 638 00:30:09,440 --> 00:30:10,600 Speaker 4: the show to write, I was like. 639 00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:13,920 Speaker 1: Oh, I'm sorry, who's taught you that? 640 00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:14,480 Speaker 3: Like? 641 00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:16,160 Speaker 5: How are you such a student of the game. 642 00:30:17,320 --> 00:30:19,480 Speaker 4: My parents, I wasn't allowed to watch certain television. I 643 00:30:19,480 --> 00:30:22,560 Speaker 4: was only allowed to watch Nick at Night and classics. 644 00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:25,920 Speaker 3: This is why whoopee said you were an old soul 645 00:30:25,960 --> 00:30:26,760 Speaker 3: and a young body. 646 00:30:26,840 --> 00:30:28,920 Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. 647 00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:31,560 Speaker 3: We need to take another quick break, but we'll be 648 00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:34,920 Speaker 3: right back to our conversation with Raven Simone. Don't go anywhere, 649 00:30:41,720 --> 00:30:45,440 Speaker 3: and we're back with Raven Simone. So now that you 650 00:30:45,840 --> 00:30:49,000 Speaker 3: are at this creative helm and you have the ability 651 00:30:49,040 --> 00:30:53,040 Speaker 3: to direct and produce, what does a raven simone set 652 00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:57,080 Speaker 3: feel like? What have you made a point to do 653 00:30:57,480 --> 00:30:59,640 Speaker 3: on your set that comes from your own experience as 654 00:30:59,640 --> 00:30:59,920 Speaker 3: a child. 655 00:31:00,600 --> 00:31:06,240 Speaker 4: Oh my goodness, Well, how am I gonna say this 656 00:31:06,280 --> 00:31:12,240 Speaker 4: without sounding absolutely tyrnoral like a tyrant. I like things 657 00:31:12,360 --> 00:31:17,920 Speaker 4: to be done quickly, efficiently, and move on. I don't 658 00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:21,360 Speaker 4: like to belabor situation. So a rehearsal day for me, 659 00:31:21,840 --> 00:31:24,960 Speaker 4: every actor, no matter what age. If you're under the 660 00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:27,840 Speaker 4: age of eighteen, your parent is on set, and I'm 661 00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:30,960 Speaker 4: giving parents the notes as well as the kid, and 662 00:31:31,480 --> 00:31:33,680 Speaker 4: I require you to have a script at all times. 663 00:31:33,720 --> 00:31:35,600 Speaker 4: There are certain things that I just don't budge on. 664 00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:37,760 Speaker 4: I require you to have your script. I require you 665 00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:41,840 Speaker 4: to read the stage directions so that if I don't 666 00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:44,000 Speaker 4: tell you to move to the left because it's in 667 00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:46,440 Speaker 4: the stage directions, you should be doing it anyway because 668 00:31:46,440 --> 00:31:50,280 Speaker 4: it's there unless I tell you differently. I'm also one 669 00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:53,840 Speaker 4: to have fun after we get our work done, and 670 00:31:54,120 --> 00:31:56,920 Speaker 4: if we're doing so well because people are on their game, 671 00:31:57,040 --> 00:31:59,480 Speaker 4: will have fun during I don't rehearse a lot. I'll 672 00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:01,120 Speaker 4: do one or two who takes for rehearsal and move 673 00:32:01,120 --> 00:32:03,840 Speaker 4: on to the next one, no matter what stage of 674 00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:06,800 Speaker 4: professionalism you're at, because I do believe that comedy is 675 00:32:06,840 --> 00:32:09,600 Speaker 4: better fresh. I believe that if you belabor it, it 676 00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:15,840 Speaker 4: becomes spoiled. People start overacting and it's dangerous. And you 677 00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:17,479 Speaker 4: can tell when it comes to tape day. After three 678 00:32:17,560 --> 00:32:20,280 Speaker 4: days of rehearsal, everybody's like, can they do this? They 679 00:32:20,280 --> 00:32:21,640 Speaker 4: did it and run through. I said, yeah, that was 680 00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:23,680 Speaker 4: the first day. It was hilarious, and now we've noted 681 00:32:23,720 --> 00:32:25,600 Speaker 4: them eighteen times and it's not going to work anymore. 682 00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:28,640 Speaker 4: Tape day is a little interesting. I tell my kids 683 00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:30,600 Speaker 4: all the time. I'm like, I love you guys. We 684 00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:34,160 Speaker 4: had Monday to Wednesday together. Just because I'm not talking 685 00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:35,920 Speaker 4: to you like I did on rehearsal day doesn't mean 686 00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:37,720 Speaker 4: that I don't love you. Have to change my brain 687 00:32:37,840 --> 00:32:42,000 Speaker 4: into cameraman, set deck and all these modes. Now, so 688 00:32:42,520 --> 00:32:45,280 Speaker 4: you guys huddle together. You've created your community. You guys 689 00:32:45,320 --> 00:32:47,920 Speaker 4: can handle yourself. I know you can. And then I 690 00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:52,040 Speaker 4: start dealing with all the adults who have their notes 691 00:32:52,280 --> 00:32:55,520 Speaker 4: and studio and to make sure that that's good and 692 00:32:55,520 --> 00:32:58,440 Speaker 4: that to find that balance between the two. I let 693 00:32:58,520 --> 00:33:00,520 Speaker 4: them speak. But then one of the things that I 694 00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:02,440 Speaker 4: remember when I was a kid, after you did a take, 695 00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:05,200 Speaker 4: it took forever for the director to come over because 696 00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:07,520 Speaker 4: he was taking so many notes from so many people. 697 00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:11,240 Speaker 4: I have a wonderful dialogue coach that stands with me. 698 00:33:12,040 --> 00:33:15,320 Speaker 4: I say, hey, any camera things, tell me. Tell the 699 00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:17,560 Speaker 4: acting to the dialogue coach, so I can go over 700 00:33:17,600 --> 00:33:19,120 Speaker 4: there and make sure that these kids. 701 00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:19,640 Speaker 2: No. 702 00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:22,160 Speaker 4: Just because I'm taking a long time doesn't mean anything, 703 00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:24,440 Speaker 4: because the longer it takes, the more notes you have. 704 00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:26,560 Speaker 4: But if you're just left on set and you haven't 705 00:33:26,600 --> 00:33:29,200 Speaker 4: been through as many shows as I have, you'd be like, 706 00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:31,120 Speaker 4: oh my god, what happened? You're gonna start getting anxious. 707 00:33:31,360 --> 00:33:32,560 Speaker 4: So I try to get over to the kids as 708 00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:35,240 Speaker 4: much as possible, and then I like to get out early. 709 00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:35,840 Speaker 3: Honeys. 710 00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:39,040 Speaker 4: I like an hour lunch. I like to beat the clock. 711 00:33:39,200 --> 00:33:40,800 Speaker 4: I do not like to be at their I don't 712 00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:42,680 Speaker 4: like to be on set all day. I love working 713 00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:43,959 Speaker 4: you guys, it's fantastic. 714 00:33:44,160 --> 00:33:44,640 Speaker 1: You know what else. 715 00:33:44,680 --> 00:33:47,400 Speaker 4: I love going home. There's some people I feel like 716 00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:49,600 Speaker 4: they belabor work because they don't want to go home. 717 00:33:49,760 --> 00:33:54,120 Speaker 1: Yes, you're basically every studio's dream. I mean, I'm righting 718 00:33:54,160 --> 00:33:57,440 Speaker 1: there thinking an excellent person. Sign me up? 719 00:33:58,320 --> 00:33:59,080 Speaker 4: I really do you guys? 720 00:33:59,120 --> 00:34:00,560 Speaker 1: Don't you want to go home? Yes? 721 00:34:00,720 --> 00:34:02,440 Speaker 4: And I tell my guys that all the camera men, 722 00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:06,280 Speaker 4: I'm like, listen, fellas, Yes, show me what shot I need. 723 00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:08,120 Speaker 4: If it's better than mine, I'm taking it. 724 00:34:08,280 --> 00:34:10,800 Speaker 1: Let's go. Let's go. We may want it's done well 725 00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:11,360 Speaker 1: and right. 726 00:34:11,600 --> 00:34:13,319 Speaker 4: Well and writing. I'm not always going to be right, 727 00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:15,520 Speaker 4: and I'm definitely not always well in the brain. So 728 00:34:15,640 --> 00:34:16,560 Speaker 4: help me out here. 729 00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:18,080 Speaker 1: I mean, help me out. 730 00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:19,880 Speaker 4: That's my life. 731 00:34:20,239 --> 00:34:20,640 Speaker 1: Okay. 732 00:34:21,280 --> 00:34:22,800 Speaker 4: Oh my goodness, she's holding the table. 733 00:34:25,880 --> 00:34:27,160 Speaker 1: Spoke to some friends at ABC. 734 00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:30,080 Speaker 2: Oh no, and they told me that I had to 735 00:34:30,120 --> 00:34:33,440 Speaker 2: ask you about Cheetah girls for really what they say? 736 00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:39,680 Speaker 2: They said, it's it's there's been talks, there's been rumors, 737 00:34:39,680 --> 00:34:41,320 Speaker 2: there's been rumblings in the hallways. 738 00:34:41,560 --> 00:34:43,279 Speaker 1: Really have any of those come to you? 739 00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:48,600 Speaker 2: No? Really, Oh, it's coming, it's coming. Really, you don't 740 00:34:48,640 --> 00:34:50,200 Speaker 2: have to tell me yes or no. Can you just 741 00:34:50,200 --> 00:34:52,319 Speaker 2: tell me what city it's going to be in. We 742 00:34:52,440 --> 00:34:54,160 Speaker 2: might be very excited, we. 743 00:34:54,040 --> 00:34:57,239 Speaker 4: Might be we might not. There's so many things on 744 00:34:57,239 --> 00:35:01,839 Speaker 4: the horizon with the Disney channel alone, Disney brand of television, 745 00:35:02,400 --> 00:35:05,600 Speaker 4: that everything is up for grabs. And I think we're 746 00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:07,440 Speaker 4: in a time period and a time period in our 747 00:35:08,320 --> 00:35:12,680 Speaker 4: society in the resurgence of nostalgia that I think that 748 00:35:12,719 --> 00:35:14,080 Speaker 4: would be a fantastic idea. 749 00:35:14,920 --> 00:35:15,480 Speaker 5: I do too. 750 00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:19,080 Speaker 4: What would it look like to you? Like, what would 751 00:35:19,200 --> 00:35:21,799 Speaker 4: your dream Cheetah reunion look like? 752 00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:25,560 Speaker 2: First of all, we're Cheetah girls, Cheetah sisters, So the 753 00:35:25,600 --> 00:35:28,440 Speaker 2: sisterhood's really important to me. I feel like there was 754 00:35:28,440 --> 00:35:31,760 Speaker 2: one Cheetah girl that nobody liked and so we need. 755 00:35:31,560 --> 00:35:34,840 Speaker 1: To replace her. So there really is a sisterhood. Wow, 756 00:35:41,160 --> 00:35:41,880 Speaker 1: no bad. 757 00:35:41,640 --> 00:35:43,560 Speaker 4: Apples, No bad apples? 758 00:35:43,960 --> 00:35:47,000 Speaker 2: Whoa? This is like if we're gonna have a set 759 00:35:47,040 --> 00:35:49,920 Speaker 2: that's well and right. Yeah, we need everyone to be kind. 760 00:35:50,080 --> 00:35:50,880 Speaker 4: I agree. 761 00:35:51,160 --> 00:35:53,160 Speaker 1: And then I love seeing a new city through your eyes. 762 00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:56,080 Speaker 2: Okay, so whichever city you guys choose, I'll be hyped 763 00:35:56,080 --> 00:35:56,920 Speaker 2: for lovely. 764 00:35:57,080 --> 00:35:57,680 Speaker 1: Here are my notes. 765 00:35:57,719 --> 00:35:59,040 Speaker 4: Okay, here my notes them. 766 00:35:59,440 --> 00:36:01,719 Speaker 3: I wanted to be real, like I want it to 767 00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:05,439 Speaker 3: be honest about what's transpired between all. 768 00:36:05,360 --> 00:36:08,080 Speaker 1: The two in real life or in like, no, just 769 00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:09,520 Speaker 1: for the characters. Okay, cool? 770 00:36:09,520 --> 00:36:11,680 Speaker 3: You know, Like I think us as millennials who grew 771 00:36:11,719 --> 00:36:13,839 Speaker 3: up with these characters. We're gonna appreciate that because we've 772 00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:16,120 Speaker 3: all been through some shit, yeah, between the last one 773 00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:17,640 Speaker 3: and now, so i'd appreciate that. 774 00:36:17,680 --> 00:36:20,759 Speaker 5: Honestly, We'll take you Cheetah fans who haven't grown up 775 00:36:20,760 --> 00:36:21,120 Speaker 5: on them. 776 00:36:21,160 --> 00:36:25,000 Speaker 3: They can, They could get larious. Did you keep any 777 00:36:25,080 --> 00:36:26,279 Speaker 3: wardrobe items from the. 778 00:36:26,200 --> 00:36:29,640 Speaker 4: Set from Cheetah? Yeah, no, I kept it. I kept 779 00:36:29,640 --> 00:36:31,200 Speaker 4: a lot of stuff from that so raven though. Okay, 780 00:36:31,320 --> 00:36:35,520 Speaker 4: the group of women that were raised on Cheetahs are 781 00:36:35,560 --> 00:36:40,520 Speaker 4: so special and beautiful and colorful and excited. And the 782 00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:43,560 Speaker 4: boys that were raised on Cheetahs, Honey, let me talk 783 00:36:43,600 --> 00:36:44,560 Speaker 4: about a Cheetah boy. 784 00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:46,800 Speaker 1: Cheetah brothers. 785 00:36:47,200 --> 00:36:50,840 Speaker 4: The Cheetah brothers don't play around. The strutt is real. 786 00:36:51,680 --> 00:36:54,759 Speaker 4: So yeah, we'll see what happens. I'll let you guys know. Hey, 787 00:36:54,880 --> 00:36:56,799 Speaker 4: if it comes up, I'll come back. 788 00:36:57,080 --> 00:36:57,879 Speaker 1: Thank you. Cool. 789 00:36:58,040 --> 00:36:58,320 Speaker 4: Cool. 790 00:36:59,120 --> 00:37:03,120 Speaker 2: I just think like after Spice Girls, we didn't have 791 00:37:04,040 --> 00:37:07,480 Speaker 2: like Destiny's Child wasn't in that same arena. It was 792 00:37:07,680 --> 00:37:10,799 Speaker 2: gave us something else. Cheetah Girls gave us like sisterhood to. 793 00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:11,200 Speaker 1: Hold on to. 794 00:37:11,360 --> 00:37:14,920 Speaker 4: So it was a special pop music. I mean, I was, 795 00:37:14,960 --> 00:37:18,400 Speaker 4: like I always said, if there was a cheatera reunion. 796 00:37:18,480 --> 00:37:23,240 Speaker 4: I need like a rapper cheetaha. I need a cheetah. 797 00:37:23,320 --> 00:37:27,879 Speaker 1: Emcy, we need a left eye. Lisa cheat a left eye. 798 00:37:27,960 --> 00:37:32,440 Speaker 3: Lisa cheatah, Lisa, Lisa cheatah. 799 00:37:32,560 --> 00:37:35,960 Speaker 4: I'm down for a Lisa cheetah. 800 00:37:36,160 --> 00:37:36,799 Speaker 1: So much fun to. 801 00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:43,440 Speaker 3: Say, almost as fun as to be. 802 00:37:44,080 --> 00:37:45,239 Speaker 1: Have you seen Girls five ever? 803 00:37:45,520 --> 00:37:47,360 Speaker 4: Because no, but I heard it was amazing. 804 00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:50,200 Speaker 3: Yeah, there's so much of that that reminds me of like, yes, 805 00:37:50,280 --> 00:37:50,879 Speaker 3: that's quite affair. 806 00:37:51,480 --> 00:37:51,600 Speaker 4: Yea. 807 00:37:52,040 --> 00:37:54,080 Speaker 1: We actually have to talk about why you're here before 808 00:37:54,120 --> 00:37:54,520 Speaker 1: you leave. 809 00:37:55,520 --> 00:37:58,759 Speaker 4: I got really Oh my god, hilarious. I am here 810 00:37:58,800 --> 00:37:59,320 Speaker 4: for a reason. 811 00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:04,480 Speaker 1: Every day you're on your game show hosting era. 812 00:38:04,680 --> 00:38:07,520 Speaker 2: Yes, you're hosting the all new game shows Scrabble for 813 00:38:07,600 --> 00:38:11,400 Speaker 2: the CW. Here's the thing, Raven, you could sign on 814 00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:14,479 Speaker 2: to so many things. I know you're very particular. Why 815 00:38:14,480 --> 00:38:15,960 Speaker 2: did scrabble get you hype? 816 00:38:16,640 --> 00:38:21,600 Speaker 4: Scrabble got me hype because I love games? 817 00:38:21,880 --> 00:38:22,239 Speaker 2: You do? 818 00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:23,239 Speaker 1: Oh? 819 00:38:23,280 --> 00:38:28,319 Speaker 4: I love a game During Raven's home Yeah, to keep 820 00:38:28,360 --> 00:38:31,120 Speaker 4: all of us busy, including me, I would bring games 821 00:38:31,120 --> 00:38:35,640 Speaker 4: on set. We created games to keep filming interesting. I 822 00:38:35,680 --> 00:38:39,440 Speaker 4: play boggle, I play Scrabble, I play sequence, I play poker, 823 00:38:39,520 --> 00:38:42,480 Speaker 4: I play all of the card games, all the games 824 00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:47,480 Speaker 4: I got asked to play Scrabble, and I never thought 825 00:38:47,880 --> 00:38:50,200 Speaker 4: that I would ever host a game show. That was 826 00:38:50,280 --> 00:38:53,080 Speaker 4: never even came through my brain for a while because 827 00:38:53,480 --> 00:38:55,880 Speaker 4: the weakest link, before the weakest link, there was only 828 00:38:55,960 --> 00:38:58,239 Speaker 4: one other female game show host, and barely call that 829 00:38:58,280 --> 00:39:02,400 Speaker 4: a game show never really was in my peripheral. And 830 00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:04,120 Speaker 4: then when I saw ke Key, I was like, oh yeah, 831 00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:07,640 Speaker 4: game show still didn't hit me as if I should 832 00:39:07,680 --> 00:39:10,040 Speaker 4: do one. And then the executive producer from twenty five 833 00:39:10,040 --> 00:39:11,560 Speaker 4: Words or Less said he put my name in the 834 00:39:11,600 --> 00:39:13,799 Speaker 4: hat for a host of Scrabble, and I was like, 835 00:39:13,880 --> 00:39:16,319 Speaker 4: what would you do, sir, there's no I really think 836 00:39:16,360 --> 00:39:17,600 Speaker 4: you can do it. I'm like, no, I can't, sir. 837 00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:20,319 Speaker 4: I'm gonna I'm gonna fangirl out on you right now, 838 00:39:20,560 --> 00:39:22,799 Speaker 4: start crying. You guys, I've really been in my crying era. 839 00:39:22,960 --> 00:39:25,600 Speaker 4: And we're not going to talk about it, blabes. I 840 00:39:25,640 --> 00:39:27,200 Speaker 4: don't like to show that side of me anyway. 841 00:39:27,239 --> 00:39:28,720 Speaker 5: I was gonna say, you didn't cry on this show. 842 00:39:29,280 --> 00:39:31,000 Speaker 1: We're offended. We're offended. 843 00:39:33,560 --> 00:39:33,919 Speaker 2: So much. 844 00:39:35,760 --> 00:39:38,319 Speaker 4: But they told me about it, you guys. When I 845 00:39:38,360 --> 00:39:41,400 Speaker 4: talk about research, I went down the rabbit hole of 846 00:39:41,440 --> 00:39:45,120 Speaker 4: game shows. I refused to walk on that set and 847 00:39:45,200 --> 00:39:49,520 Speaker 4: not know the Dick Clark specialties, the Steve Harvey specialties, 848 00:39:49,840 --> 00:39:53,480 Speaker 4: the Bob Barker specialties, all the old school even like, 849 00:39:53,560 --> 00:39:54,920 Speaker 4: oh my God, all the other ones that I used 850 00:39:54,960 --> 00:39:58,840 Speaker 4: to watch. I wanted to make sure because rarely do 851 00:39:58,920 --> 00:40:04,640 Speaker 4: you get a person of color, female to do service 852 00:40:04,680 --> 00:40:07,840 Speaker 4: to a game show that part. And I also have 853 00:40:07,880 --> 00:40:10,239 Speaker 4: been in the industry for thirty seven years, and I 854 00:40:10,280 --> 00:40:14,040 Speaker 4: felt like it was the universe saying, hey, go get them, Tiger, 855 00:40:14,600 --> 00:40:16,560 Speaker 4: you paid your dues, go get a game show like 856 00:40:16,640 --> 00:40:19,080 Speaker 4: I want this to go forever and evil and evil. 857 00:40:19,320 --> 00:40:23,000 Speaker 4: It was the best experience of my adult life. Wow, 858 00:40:23,600 --> 00:40:25,560 Speaker 4: I got to do a whole season in a matter 859 00:40:25,600 --> 00:40:28,200 Speaker 4: of a week. But to be able to stand up 860 00:40:28,239 --> 00:40:30,480 Speaker 4: there and just like talk like I am with you guys, 861 00:40:30,680 --> 00:40:33,200 Speaker 4: but then sometimes go and read my prompter, make sure 862 00:40:33,239 --> 00:40:36,040 Speaker 4: I'm on point, Like get to interact with people and 863 00:40:36,040 --> 00:40:39,239 Speaker 4: not have to say, oh, SMP is going to be 864 00:40:39,239 --> 00:40:41,080 Speaker 4: mad at me here, you know what I mean? Like 865 00:40:41,160 --> 00:40:43,360 Speaker 4: I don't have to be a kid, I can be myself. 866 00:40:44,760 --> 00:40:48,200 Speaker 4: It's been an absolute pleasure and I feel lighter, Like 867 00:40:48,239 --> 00:40:50,640 Speaker 4: you talk about earlier that my wife helped me put 868 00:40:50,640 --> 00:40:52,719 Speaker 4: a smile on my face. This show has done the 869 00:40:52,719 --> 00:40:54,760 Speaker 4: same thing for me when it comes to my face 870 00:40:54,800 --> 00:40:58,040 Speaker 4: on screen, because honestly, honey, before this, I was like, 871 00:40:58,080 --> 00:41:00,239 Speaker 4: I'm out, I'm not about to be acting. I'm not 872 00:41:00,239 --> 00:41:01,840 Speaker 4: doing any of it is. So I'm going to direct 873 00:41:01,840 --> 00:41:03,360 Speaker 4: and produce and if you pay me, I'll come on. 874 00:41:03,719 --> 00:41:04,920 Speaker 4: But I was like, you don't even have to pay 875 00:41:04,920 --> 00:41:06,640 Speaker 4: me to host this. But at the same like, I 876 00:41:06,800 --> 00:41:09,160 Speaker 4: love this game. You can get it on the CW 877 00:41:09,320 --> 00:41:13,120 Speaker 4: app the night after if you want, but watching it live, 878 00:41:13,360 --> 00:41:15,520 Speaker 4: playing with friends and family, it's one of those game 879 00:41:15,560 --> 00:41:18,080 Speaker 4: shows you yell at like family few you know what 880 00:41:18,120 --> 00:41:22,239 Speaker 4: I mean. So it's it's an absolute pleasure. Yes, don't 881 00:41:22,280 --> 00:41:23,160 Speaker 4: tell me it's over. 882 00:41:24,200 --> 00:41:27,120 Speaker 3: Say we don't want you to be late for your 883 00:41:27,120 --> 00:41:31,440 Speaker 3: next But you know what, Whoopie always says this on 884 00:41:31,560 --> 00:41:31,919 Speaker 3: the view. 885 00:41:32,560 --> 00:41:33,319 Speaker 5: You gotta come back. 886 00:41:33,360 --> 00:41:34,000 Speaker 1: Will you come back? 887 00:41:34,080 --> 00:41:36,759 Speaker 4: Oh, I'm gonna come back for the book. I'm gonna 888 00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:39,520 Speaker 4: come back. If there's a reunion and you guys have 889 00:41:39,600 --> 00:41:41,759 Speaker 4: to come and meet my wife on our podcast, we 890 00:41:41,800 --> 00:41:42,799 Speaker 4: would love to have you. 891 00:41:42,880 --> 00:41:45,919 Speaker 1: Oh my dad, it'll be so cute. Would excited done 892 00:41:45,920 --> 00:41:48,280 Speaker 1: it babes. You heard it, You heard it. 893 00:41:48,280 --> 00:41:50,120 Speaker 5: It'ank you, thank you, and thank you. 894 00:41:51,360 --> 00:41:55,120 Speaker 3: Raven Simone is an Emmy Award winning actor, singer, producer, director, 895 00:41:55,239 --> 00:42:03,560 Speaker 3: and the host of Scrabble, which airs Thursdays on the CW. 896 00:42:04,719 --> 00:42:05,960 Speaker 1: That's it for today's show. 897 00:42:06,120 --> 00:42:08,360 Speaker 2: Tomorrow, we're popping off with the co hosts of the 898 00:42:08,400 --> 00:42:11,800 Speaker 2: Breaking Beauty podcast, Jill Dunn and Carlene Higgins. 899 00:42:12,920 --> 00:42:16,440 Speaker 3: Join the conversation using hashtag the bright Side and connect 900 00:42:16,480 --> 00:42:19,680 Speaker 3: with us on social media at Hello Sunshine on Instagram 901 00:42:19,760 --> 00:42:22,920 Speaker 3: and at the bright Side Pod on TikTok Oh, and 902 00:42:22,960 --> 00:42:25,560 Speaker 3: feel free to tag us at Simone Boyce and at 903 00:42:25,640 --> 00:42:26,680 Speaker 3: Danielle Robe. 904 00:42:27,200 --> 00:42:30,160 Speaker 2: Listen and follow The bright Side on the iHeartRadio app, 905 00:42:30,200 --> 00:42:32,879 Speaker 2: Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. 906 00:42:33,280 --> 00:42:37,200 Speaker 3: See you tomorrow, folks, Keep looking on the bright side.