WEBVTT - Black Hollywood with Leslie Jones | NLP Replay 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:02.920 Natively and pod is a production of iHeartRadio in partnership 0:00:02.960 --> 0:00:08.920 with Reaisent Choice Media all Right. Joining the podcast now 0:00:09.080 --> 0:00:14.400 is author, comedian, and somewhat of a social commentator, Leslie Jones. 0:00:14.440 --> 0:00:17.520 We are social to have you on this show. 0:00:17.600 --> 0:00:19.919 It's happening in your world. I've been seeing you pop 0:00:20.040 --> 0:00:22.520 up a lot, so I know we have a lot 0:00:22.560 --> 0:00:24.319 to get into you. Thank you so much for joining us. 0:00:24.320 --> 0:00:25.360 We're happy to have you, sus. 0:00:25.520 --> 0:00:30.120 Thanks welcome home. Thank you for having me. I'm excited. 0:00:30.840 --> 0:00:33.960 I watch you and Angela and Andrew all the time. 0:00:34.280 --> 0:00:35.600 But we appreciate it. 0:00:35.840 --> 0:00:37.680 Yeah, I love your pot. I love you Pot. 0:00:37.840 --> 0:00:38.479 We appreciate you. 0:00:38.479 --> 0:00:38.559 Know. 0:00:38.680 --> 0:00:40.680 We out here trying to do what we can in 0:00:40.720 --> 0:00:46.120 this uh, in this chaos, and it's so much happening, Leslie. 0:00:46.120 --> 0:00:47.760 And what I would have to say, what I appreciate 0:00:47.800 --> 0:00:49.680 about you is you have always tried to use your 0:00:50.000 --> 0:00:53.320 platform that either a make people laugh or be speak 0:00:53.360 --> 0:00:55.560 out about something. I love that you center women and 0:00:55.640 --> 0:00:57.279 black women and a lot of the things that you 0:00:57.320 --> 0:00:58.600 do and hold the line for us. 0:00:58.600 --> 0:01:00.360 So we appreciate you that. 0:01:00.640 --> 0:01:03.360 I think in this time we talked a little bit 0:01:03.360 --> 0:01:05.640 about what do we do so many people are asking 0:01:05.720 --> 0:01:06.880 us all the time what do we do? 0:01:07.319 --> 0:01:08.760 And on the other side. 0:01:08.520 --> 0:01:10.760 So many people are checked out, like they're just like, 0:01:10.840 --> 0:01:12.240 I can't it's too much happening. 0:01:12.720 --> 0:01:14.360 You know, I'm gonna binge something, I'm gonna. 0:01:14.160 --> 0:01:18.400 Stream something which uniquely puts entertainers in a spotlight. So 0:01:18.440 --> 0:01:22.160 I'm curious what you think the role of Black Hollywood 0:01:22.400 --> 0:01:27.360 is in this moment as we're facing assault on every front, 0:01:27.400 --> 0:01:31.560 from our civil rights to our bodily autonomy, to our 0:01:31.640 --> 0:01:35.720 finances to the very infrastructure of the country. What do 0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:37.360 you think the role of Black Hollywood is there? 0:01:38.040 --> 0:01:42.880 Well, first, I feel like we need to realize what's 0:01:42.959 --> 0:01:47.600 happening through each decade or is that we're using less 0:01:47.640 --> 0:01:51.960 and less percentage of our brain, Like there's no critical thinking, 0:01:52.080 --> 0:01:55.200 there's no like and you get that through reading books 0:01:55.280 --> 0:01:58.720 and Okay, it's hard to kind of say this without 0:01:58.800 --> 0:02:00.880 I don't want to be offensive or whatever. 0:02:00.720 --> 0:02:01.960 But speak the truth. 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:04.400 We had a crack error, you know what I'm saying. 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:07.680 We had There's there's kids that were born of that 0:02:07.680 --> 0:02:12.919 that wasn't raised like us like to have boundaries and 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:16.120 critical thinking and think about it's we have to think 0:02:16.160 --> 0:02:19.080 about where the mind state of where everybody is not 0:02:19.280 --> 0:02:23.720 just black people white people, this society period. We are 0:02:23.800 --> 0:02:28.440 in the complacent stage right now, Like people always ask like, 0:02:28.480 --> 0:02:29.000 what do we do? 0:02:29.040 --> 0:02:30.720 What do we do? You know what we have to do? 0:02:31.040 --> 0:02:32.480 Everybody knows what we have to do. 0:02:32.520 --> 0:02:36.320 We just too complacent and we've paid for our convenience 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:37.920 with our democracy. 0:02:38.280 --> 0:02:39.880 You know what I'm saying, We're not. 0:02:40.040 --> 0:02:42.440 No one's gonna stop watching Netflix, no one's gonna stop 0:02:42.520 --> 0:02:46.040 ordering Amazon. And we could stop smoking cigarettes for one 0:02:46.080 --> 0:02:48.720 week and shut shit down, but no one's gonna do that, 0:02:49.080 --> 0:02:52.320 no one. No one's gonna take responsibility for their role 0:02:52.400 --> 0:02:54.680 and what we have to do until they actually take 0:02:54.720 --> 0:02:57.920 it serious. Because people still are on that Oh they 0:02:57.960 --> 0:03:01.160 can't do that, Oh they can't make that happen, but 0:03:01.200 --> 0:03:04.160 they are making that happen. And we're sitting here not 0:03:04.919 --> 0:03:08.640 understanding that we hold that we hold the key in 0:03:08.680 --> 0:03:09.080 our hand. 0:03:09.160 --> 0:03:09.880 It's us. 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:13.840 We millionaires don't have money unless we give them money, 0:03:14.560 --> 0:03:16.840 you know, And as black people, we're one of the 0:03:16.880 --> 0:03:23.519 biggest consumers of this market and we just uneducated. 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:25.480 Man, Like I'm so, I'm sorry. 0:03:25.520 --> 0:03:28.040 It really comes down to whenever I hear anyone say 0:03:28.040 --> 0:03:31.920 that they're racist or or they don't understand. D you 0:03:32.120 --> 0:03:36.240 just uneducated because DEI is very simple. No one's saying 0:03:36.280 --> 0:03:40.720 they're lowing expectations. They're saying they're opening it up to everyone, 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:43.600 not just to white people. And if you think that 0:03:43.680 --> 0:03:46.400 black people or immigrants are taking your jobs, go look 0:03:46.400 --> 0:03:47.280 at the test scores. 0:03:47.480 --> 0:03:51.000 No, it's your white friend that's taking your job. So 0:03:51.000 --> 0:03:53.440 so I'm sorry, I was going to ask you. 0:03:53.480 --> 0:03:56.560 So one of the things that TIF was getting at 0:03:57.600 --> 0:04:00.960 is the role that you see entertained playing in this 0:04:01.200 --> 0:04:04.960 particular moment. We know in our history, whether we're talking 0:04:05.000 --> 0:04:10.160 Harry Harry Belafonte to did Gregory, entertainment entertainers have always 0:04:10.160 --> 0:04:13.040 been an essential part of movement building. And you brought 0:04:13.120 --> 0:04:16.400 up DEI, which for our audience diversity, equity and inclusion. 0:04:16.800 --> 0:04:19.880 Hollywood was one of the first industries hit by folks 0:04:19.920 --> 0:04:21.839 saying you know what, we actually are going to retract 0:04:21.839 --> 0:04:24.720 a little bit on this whole DEI thing. So when 0:04:24.800 --> 0:04:27.600 you think about what the requirement is, what is your 0:04:27.640 --> 0:04:31.200 most reasonable service in this time and what would you 0:04:31.279 --> 0:04:32.279 challenge your peers to do. 0:04:32.600 --> 0:04:36.400 Yeah, I challenged them to when they go on a set, 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:39.320 which is something I do. How many black people here, like, 0:04:40.400 --> 0:04:42.479 you know, you know you're not going to give me 0:04:43.240 --> 0:04:45.599 favorite dations. That's what they want to use, all of 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:47.920 it because can't no white woman do my hair. I've 0:04:47.960 --> 0:04:51.479 had white hairdressers on set say to me, Oh, I 0:04:51.560 --> 0:04:53.960 date a black guy and we have a kid, so 0:04:54.040 --> 0:04:56.840 I know how to do black hair. What I've had 0:04:56.920 --> 0:05:00.320 a makeup artist said to me, Hey, I did Yola 0:05:00.400 --> 0:05:04.240 Davis and Gabrielle that bitch that has nothing to do 0:05:04.360 --> 0:05:04.640 with me. 0:05:05.160 --> 0:05:07.880 You need to go and get that tone. You need 0:05:07.920 --> 0:05:09.200 to go get my color. 0:05:09.000 --> 0:05:12.680 Tone because I'm five shades darker than her and five 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:14.320 shades lighter than her. 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:15.520 So what like? 0:05:15.680 --> 0:05:18.680 And I'm gonna tell you you gonna get labeled a bitch, 0:05:19.200 --> 0:05:23.800 but they gonna call you one anyway. I me myself. 0:05:24.400 --> 0:05:27.240 I don't like to look like a shiny ass bitch. 0:05:27.360 --> 0:05:29.800 When I was on SNL, we had a light in 0:05:29.839 --> 0:05:33.000 person that was like like put. 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:34.960 Some more light, and I was like, put some more 0:05:35.040 --> 0:05:36.320 light on me. 0:05:36.960 --> 0:05:39.479 This is a dark gass stage. I'm a black bitch. 0:05:40.560 --> 0:05:43.320 Put the light on me. No, And I'm very verbal. 0:05:43.360 --> 0:05:46.440 I'm very verbal. Oh I look shiny, No, I look 0:05:46.600 --> 0:05:48.960 darker than what I am are you doing that on purpose? 0:05:49.040 --> 0:05:51.240 Are you trying to make me look dirty? Or are 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:54.360 you is there a reason put some light on me? No. 0:05:54.560 --> 0:05:57.400 I had to learn that shit easy early too, because 0:05:57.440 --> 0:05:59.600 I'm a dark skinned person and if I wear any 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:02.000 kind of light color, that shit flushes me out. 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:05.599 So you have to speak up. Some people are scared 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:06.320 to speak up. 0:06:06.240 --> 0:06:10.960 Because again, we in this this industry that's like, oh, you. 0:06:10.960 --> 0:06:12.719 Know, she's how I have to work with whatever. 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:17.520 Yeah, I'm difficult, Yeah, because I'm fucking Leslie Jones and 0:06:17.880 --> 0:06:21.000 I This is what people need to understand in this business. 0:06:21.640 --> 0:06:25.400 You are a business, that's right. You are a freelancer. 0:06:25.960 --> 0:06:28.440 When people ask you to work for them, that means 0:06:28.440 --> 0:06:32.160 that you are letting them have your services for a 0:06:32.160 --> 0:06:32.960 certain amount of time. 0:06:33.040 --> 0:06:33.880 In other words, if. 0:06:33.800 --> 0:06:36.720 I have some tractors and you had a feel you 0:06:36.800 --> 0:06:39.880 are renting my tractors and you're using them to do 0:06:39.960 --> 0:06:43.159 your field. But mother, those are my tractors, and you 0:06:43.240 --> 0:06:45.760 know what you're not gonna do. You're not gonna mistrade 0:06:45.800 --> 0:06:48.200 and mistreat my tractors either. You're gonna take care of them. 0:06:48.240 --> 0:06:50.400 And if you suck up my tractors, you're gonna pay 0:06:50.400 --> 0:06:52.400 for them. Do you get what I'm saying. So when 0:06:52.440 --> 0:06:55.159 you go on set and you see that, man, I 0:06:55.200 --> 0:06:57.520 say it straight up. I already know when somebody can't 0:06:57.560 --> 0:06:59.720 do my makeup. As soon as they go to reach 0:06:59.760 --> 0:07:01.600 for a rush, I'll be like, you don't know what 0:07:01.600 --> 0:07:05.240 you're doing. I call my girl, you got you gotta 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:08.760 you gotta force them to do it, because most people 0:07:08.920 --> 0:07:11.200 don't and they get away with it. But if you 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:14.960 say something, they can do something. I mean, I mean, 0:07:15.280 --> 0:07:17.040 at least when I do it. I don't know about 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:19.880 everybody else, but when I speak up, oh I have 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:24.600 nappy hair. She can't do my hair. So I have 0:07:24.680 --> 0:07:27.040 a glam team and we bro What I do is 0:07:27.080 --> 0:07:29.560 I bring my glam team in and they're good at 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:31.480 what they do, and they be good at what they do, 0:07:31.560 --> 0:07:36.040 and then those people go, oh wow, yeah this works better, 0:07:36.080 --> 0:07:37.280 Oh wow, she looks great. 0:07:37.400 --> 0:07:38.280 Do you get what I'm saying? 0:07:38.360 --> 0:07:40.840 So you have to I hear you saying, Leslie like 0:07:40.920 --> 0:07:43.240 you si down to the glam and we love you 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:46.320 for it. Dad supports black businesses. I'm sure, Andrew, who 0:07:46.360 --> 0:07:47.000 is the real fam? 0:07:47.040 --> 0:07:49.240 You for the no? 0:07:49.280 --> 0:07:53.240 I'm just sorry, you know, I'm loving that you you 0:07:53.360 --> 0:07:56.760 broke it down like that, and more importantly, I'm loving 0:07:56.920 --> 0:07:59.440 you calling out the fact that your talent is a 0:07:59.480 --> 0:08:03.280 business what you bring to the table. As Jay Z says, 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:08.880 I'm a business man, and I wonder for you, Leslie, 0:08:08.960 --> 0:08:13.800 as you have increasingly become I don't know if it's 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:17.000 become of you always been outspoken, because you know, I 0:08:17.040 --> 0:08:19.640 see you through the television screen and the movie theaters. 0:08:19.840 --> 0:08:23.640 But I'm wondering, as you speak up and speak out 0:08:24.080 --> 0:08:27.520 in Hollywood, does it cost you? Yeah, because I think 0:08:27.640 --> 0:08:30.440 you were getting at this. People don't want to be 0:08:30.520 --> 0:08:33.640 put in discomfort. They don't want to be inconvenience, which 0:08:33.679 --> 0:08:37.360 is why we're not choosing to boycott certain industries because 0:08:37.360 --> 0:08:40.280 that would hit too close to home. Talk a moment, 0:08:40.440 --> 0:08:44.600 just about the fact that you're risking something if you 0:08:44.679 --> 0:08:47.760 are well, every time you choose to step in the gap. 0:08:48.440 --> 0:08:51.040 I'd rather risk that than my the way. I mean, 0:08:51.080 --> 0:08:51.880 I'm older now. 0:08:52.040 --> 0:08:55.000 Maybe in my twenties and thirties, you know I would 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:56.840 have been like, Yo, I'm down for this, let's get 0:08:56.880 --> 0:08:58.720 this done because I'm trying to be in the hustle. 0:08:58.960 --> 0:09:00.640 But at the older I get, the more I think 0:09:00.640 --> 0:09:03.320 about my parents, more I think about my grandmother. The 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:06.040 more I think about us as a people like and 0:09:06.400 --> 0:09:10.040 as getting older, I just become so into me being 0:09:10.480 --> 0:09:13.640 a black woman. Like I stopped perming my hair, I 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:17.680 started growing my I just didn't realize how beautiful black 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:21.760 women really are until you really, like after SNL, I 0:09:21.920 --> 0:09:25.400 dug deep into like a black woman's soul, and it's 0:09:25.400 --> 0:09:28.640 so it was always there, you know, it was always there. 0:09:28.720 --> 0:09:32.160 So whenever I'm choosing stuff now, it don't be like 0:09:32.760 --> 0:09:35.000 I'm making a choice. It's just like, yo, this is 0:09:35.040 --> 0:09:38.079 what's happening, Like no that I can't do this because 0:09:38.200 --> 0:09:40.720 I feel like this. So, yes, I do lose some things, 0:09:41.080 --> 0:09:44.600 But the good thing that I'm noticing is that the 0:09:44.640 --> 0:09:47.000 people who do know that I'm good, and the people 0:09:47.080 --> 0:09:50.800 do that know what integrity and dignity is, they're starting 0:09:50.800 --> 0:09:52.679 to come back around it at because I'm good at 0:09:52.679 --> 0:09:55.200 what I do. That's why I have to be super 0:09:55.559 --> 0:09:57.640 good at what I do. I wouldn't be able to 0:09:57.679 --> 0:10:02.040 take a stance if I wasn't funny as trust and believe. 0:10:02.160 --> 0:10:05.120 So that's why we tell everybody have some foundation behind 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:07.280 your you know, don't don't be the pig with the 0:10:07.320 --> 0:10:09.839 stick house, be the pig with the bricks. 0:10:09.800 --> 0:10:12.040 You know what I'm saying, So and be able to 0:10:12.080 --> 0:10:15.200 make more bricks, you know, yeah, so yeah, I. 0:10:15.160 --> 0:10:16.640 Do break went up. 0:10:16.960 --> 0:10:17.320 You know. 0:10:18.760 --> 0:10:24.720 All we're talking about the price right, right. 0:10:24.920 --> 0:10:38.640 I appreciate that we're also talking. 0:10:38.400 --> 0:10:42.200 About this boycott, right, A lot of things the boycott, 0:10:42.200 --> 0:10:44.920 And I think as this administration continues to show chaos 0:10:44.960 --> 0:10:47.040 and we see the role of the private sector and 0:10:47.040 --> 0:10:49.720 as they fund some of these really dacronian initiatives, and 0:10:50.440 --> 0:10:52.160 who knows what else is coming down the pike. But 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:55.800 a lot of us build audience on some of these platforms, 0:10:55.840 --> 0:11:00.200 for example Instagram even Facebook. For some people, you have 0:11:00.240 --> 0:11:03.520 a huge following on Instagram. Yeah, I used to, you know, 0:11:03.640 --> 0:11:06.560 watch your replays when it was about like Game of 0:11:06.640 --> 0:11:08.240 Thrones and all. A lot of the things that you do 0:11:08.240 --> 0:11:11.160 would go viral on Instagram. But this is owned by 0:11:11.320 --> 0:11:15.400 meta Mark Zuckerberg, who's a part we stream content on Amazon. 0:11:15.520 --> 0:11:18.000 I'm just curious how you plan to navigate that space. 0:11:18.080 --> 0:11:22.000 You plan on keeping your Instagram. 0:11:20.880 --> 0:11:22.720 And if you get off, like where is there to go? 0:11:22.800 --> 0:11:23.600 What are your thoughts? 0:11:23.679 --> 0:11:23.920 Well? 0:11:24.040 --> 0:11:27.520 Well, my thing too also is I'm a business person also, 0:11:27.600 --> 0:11:29.800 like you know, it's I can't. 0:11:30.400 --> 0:11:32.480 I have to learn how to navigate. 0:11:32.040 --> 0:11:35.839 A business too, but it also has to be what 0:11:36.000 --> 0:11:39.920 people want to Like. If people stop can win Instagram 0:11:40.679 --> 0:11:43.440 and you know, then I'm gonna find somewhere else because 0:11:43.760 --> 0:11:47.720 I was doing that before Instagram and before TikTok and 0:11:47.720 --> 0:11:50.160 before Twitter, I still was out there. You know what 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:53.160 I'm saying, We I think we need to start start 0:11:53.520 --> 0:11:56.960 like trying to wane off that shit because it's not 0:11:57.120 --> 0:11:59.320 good for us anyway. You know what I'm saying, Like, 0:11:59.760 --> 0:12:03.640 it's it's just making unnecessary people like conveymous that are 0:12:04.200 --> 0:12:05.360 really dangerous. 0:12:05.840 --> 0:12:08.319 You know. I think we're just so into this social 0:12:08.360 --> 0:12:11.520 media ship that I don't know. 0:12:11.600 --> 0:12:14.720 I just feel like if this wasn't around, we would 0:12:14.760 --> 0:12:15.520 still find. 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:17.040 A way to communicate with each other. 0:12:18.440 --> 0:12:20.080 I think we just have to put a little bit 0:12:20.080 --> 0:12:22.360 more effort into it and I would find a way. 0:12:22.400 --> 0:12:25.160 I mean, you know, now they got substacked, Now they 0:12:25.200 --> 0:12:28.840 got what is that Patreon? 0:12:29.200 --> 0:12:35.079 You know? I mean, yeah, what are what are working on? 0:12:35.240 --> 0:12:35.400 Now? 0:12:35.520 --> 0:12:38.040 What is working to find? What can they see you in? 0:12:38.559 --> 0:12:39.520 How are going to promote it? 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:42.200 Oh? I'm so many things. 0:12:42.480 --> 0:12:44.160 People just came out with that because you know, we're 0:12:44.160 --> 0:12:48.000 celebrating the sn L fifty, so I'm. 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:48.720 On the cover of that. 0:12:48.960 --> 0:12:53.240 So I just uh sold a show with Universal, so 0:12:53.320 --> 0:12:56.880 that's going to be coming out. I'm also uh getting 0:12:56.920 --> 0:13:00.720 ready to do a play. My special was coming out. 0:13:01.480 --> 0:13:04.920 Uh yeah, we got a lot of good ship cooking. 0:13:08.200 --> 0:13:10.680 I think she's propriet keeping it down. 0:13:10.520 --> 0:13:13.360 And if and she had a special, she didn't invite 0:13:13.400 --> 0:13:15.480 us to as much as she said, Oh my god, 0:13:15.600 --> 0:13:17.760 let me tell you, let me tell. 0:13:17.679 --> 0:13:22.640 You, let me tell you. I'm just let me tell 0:13:22.640 --> 0:13:23.400 you what happened. 0:13:23.720 --> 0:13:29.480 So was my special was supposed to be taped in 0:13:29.559 --> 0:13:32.240 Rancho Cuckamonga, so we was about to promote that, right. 0:13:32.559 --> 0:13:34.160 Rachal Cookamonga was like with it. 0:13:34.200 --> 0:13:36.080 They was like, yo, we're gonna pay you twenty five 0:13:36.120 --> 0:13:40.880 thousand extra for you to mention Rancho Cookamonga. And then somebody, 0:13:40.880 --> 0:13:43.000 I guess on the board went and looked at my 0:13:43.040 --> 0:13:46.840 material and they was like, oh no, she can't represent 0:13:46.960 --> 0:13:51.640 Rancho Cuckamonga. So they banned me from Rancho wow. 0:13:53.000 --> 0:13:56.440 Yo. 0:13:57.480 --> 0:13:59.160 And then I told him, I said, so it wasn't 0:13:59.160 --> 0:14:02.800 the myth that oh it was, It's not it's not 0:14:02.880 --> 0:14:05.320 the it's not the robber reason nothing that's not what's 0:14:05.400 --> 0:14:08.319 killing Okay, me telling a dick joke? 0:14:08.480 --> 0:14:08.920 All right? 0:14:09.120 --> 0:14:14.600 Wow, so so so what happened we end up when yeah, 0:14:14.720 --> 0:14:18.680 then we yeah, then we read we had to reranch. Yeah, 0:14:18.920 --> 0:14:21.920 we had to redo it, and we end up doing 0:14:21.960 --> 0:14:28.080 it the night after the election, which was the worst night. 0:14:28.160 --> 0:14:30.040 And I'm telling you nobody. 0:14:30.520 --> 0:14:32.280 I was like so mad because I was like, why 0:14:32.280 --> 0:14:35.120 did y'all pick that date? Niggas, Like we saw Kamala 0:14:35.280 --> 0:14:35.760 was gonna win. 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:39.200 All thought we would have we would have rs VP 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:41.560 that we were going lest to celebrate with you and 0:14:41.560 --> 0:14:42.320 wouldn't have shown up. 0:14:42.360 --> 0:14:43.280 You would have been done with it. 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:46.960 Before we let you go. So many people before we 0:14:47.080 --> 0:14:48.520 let you go. I have to just. 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:54.960 Before we let go, we gotta ask you had referenced 0:14:55.000 --> 0:14:58.040 your twenty somethings, your thirty somethings. If you could turn 0:14:58.080 --> 0:15:02.160 back and look at that, sister, mm hmm, for those 0:15:02.560 --> 0:15:06.480 of us who are you know, still coming up on 0:15:06.680 --> 0:15:09.640 the rest side of the mountain, advice would you give? 0:15:10.800 --> 0:15:12.920 How would you ease the soul, the mind, the heart 0:15:13.920 --> 0:15:17.560 looking back on your troubles at the time, and how 0:15:18.040 --> 0:15:19.080 how you got over. 0:15:19.480 --> 0:15:21.400 You know what's so crazy? First of all, I believe 0:15:21.400 --> 0:15:24.520 in God. I really do believe in a higher power. 0:15:24.680 --> 0:15:25.920 You know what I'm saying. I don't know if I 0:15:25.960 --> 0:15:28.840 believe in the God that these people believe in. But 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:31.680 when you get older, you do start developing a real 0:15:31.720 --> 0:15:35.320 relationship with him because you really do. Like there's times 0:15:35.360 --> 0:15:37.240 that come the way you go, like I had a 0:15:37.240 --> 0:15:40.360 surgery and you know that type of stuff, people die. 0:15:40.800 --> 0:15:43.800 You know, you go on your knees and be like, yo, 0:15:44.320 --> 0:15:46.320 you say you there, like are you there? 0:15:46.520 --> 0:15:48.840 And he has proven to me that he's there. 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:52.760 So so that for me is very important because then 0:15:52.840 --> 0:15:56.880 you just really hoping faith work in together, you know 0:15:56.880 --> 0:15:57.400 what I'm saying. 0:15:57.880 --> 0:16:01.080 But I would tell young folks, which I which. 0:16:01.000 --> 0:16:02.720 I tell people all the time, if I could quantum 0:16:02.800 --> 0:16:07.000 leap to myself and say, please don't worry, Like worry is. 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:08.800 Not going to help it the situation at all. 0:16:08.920 --> 0:16:12.160 It is just like try to enjoy every stage of 0:16:12.200 --> 0:16:16.480 your life, like enjoy the small apartment, enjoy the ragley 0:16:16.520 --> 0:16:21.560 ass car, enjoy the shitty job, enjoy enjoy enjoy it, 0:16:21.640 --> 0:16:23.880 Like there's so many moments in there where you know 0:16:23.920 --> 0:16:26.160 you having fun. I think back when I was broke 0:16:26.320 --> 0:16:28.640 and the most fun thing I used to do was 0:16:28.720 --> 0:16:31.280 like I had a cupon for l Poloko and I 0:16:31.280 --> 0:16:36.280 would go get me some chicken wings. I would give 0:16:36.280 --> 0:16:39.880 me some chicken wings and two cheer rows and let 0:16:39.920 --> 0:16:42.520 me tell you something and go home and watch my 0:16:42.560 --> 0:16:46.320 favorite and I'm talking about joy. You have to find 0:16:46.760 --> 0:16:51.240 the little creases because that makes you human. Also disconnect 0:16:51.520 --> 0:16:55.080 like I literally leave my phones now inside another room 0:16:55.160 --> 0:17:00.600 because you have me connect. You have to promise you 0:17:00.640 --> 0:17:04.840 will waste most of your life and go outside. Go outside, 0:17:05.320 --> 0:17:08.240 walk in the park, look at the sky, and let 0:17:08.240 --> 0:17:11.120 me tell you something. And I tell young instant all 0:17:11.200 --> 0:17:14.640 the time. If you do not appreciate where you are, 0:17:15.240 --> 0:17:18.840 you will not be given the next step. Until you appreciate, 0:17:19.840 --> 0:17:21.080 you will not graduate. 0:17:21.720 --> 0:17:23.240 That's just it. That's a word. 0:17:24.280 --> 0:17:25.080 You made me think of something. 0:17:25.080 --> 0:17:26.800 Andrew. This is gonna be our last question because I 0:17:26.800 --> 0:17:29.840 know we overtime and Leslie gotta go, but just really 0:17:29.920 --> 0:17:32.600 before we let you go. You you work with a 0:17:32.640 --> 0:17:37.479 lot of other comedians, but also white women comedians, and 0:17:37.960 --> 0:17:40.520 I know we have talked about on this show, and 0:17:40.560 --> 0:17:43.719 I've been struggling with this question of the role of 0:17:43.720 --> 0:17:47.080 white women in our politics. And so my attitude is 0:17:47.280 --> 0:17:49.680 kind of like, y'all, y'all got it, y'all, y'all work 0:17:49.680 --> 0:17:50.680 it out amongst yourselves. 0:17:50.720 --> 0:17:51.680 I can't do it. 0:17:51.920 --> 0:17:54.320 But when you're in those spaces, Leslie as the soul 0:17:54.359 --> 0:17:58.240 black woman in an ensemble cast or on a show 0:17:58.320 --> 0:18:01.479 like SNL, do you get into those conversations and what 0:18:01.520 --> 0:18:04.840 would you say to white women who are complaining about it? 0:18:04.880 --> 0:18:07.440 And maybe they voted right, but they grandma voted for Trump, 0:18:07.520 --> 0:18:09.439 or maybe they group chat voted for Trump, or the 0:18:09.480 --> 0:18:12.119 assignment was to bring along your friends, how do you 0:18:12.200 --> 0:18:13.680 respond to them in this moment? 0:18:13.720 --> 0:18:13.840 Right? 0:18:13.840 --> 0:18:16.040 No, girl, girl, do you know how much trouble I 0:18:16.119 --> 0:18:18.080 used to get into. I used to get into so 0:18:18.400 --> 0:18:20.960 much trouble because they would do things and I'd be like, 0:18:21.040 --> 0:18:24.240 that's racist, Like I'm that person. I'd be like, nah, 0:18:24.280 --> 0:18:26.920 that's racist, or a microaggression, like that's racist? 0:18:27.000 --> 0:18:27.760 What you mean by that? 0:18:28.000 --> 0:18:30.000 Like I don't I don't give about calling the bitch 0:18:30.000 --> 0:18:32.280 out because like you, you can't fight me. 0:18:32.520 --> 0:18:35.120 So let's let's go like what did you mean by that? 0:18:35.320 --> 0:18:37.159 But what did you mean by that? But what did 0:18:37.200 --> 0:18:37.840 you mean by that? 0:18:37.880 --> 0:18:39.920 But like no, And then a lot of white women 0:18:40.000 --> 0:18:43.640 do say things because they think that they're like, oh, 0:18:43.680 --> 0:18:45.560 I love when they say, well, I don't see color, 0:18:45.600 --> 0:18:47.720 and I'd be like, yes, you do, bitch, I said, 0:18:47.720 --> 0:18:49.840 you see colors because your outfit is. 0:18:49.800 --> 0:18:52.040 Coordinated, right, And let me tell you something. 0:18:52.200 --> 0:18:55.119 You're gonna see my color, bitch, because I'm a beautiful 0:18:55.160 --> 0:18:58.040 black alabasta And if you don't see my. 0:18:58.040 --> 0:19:00.280 Colors, then we have a mothering problem them. 0:19:00.320 --> 0:19:03.520 So you gotta check them, like the there's club owners 0:19:03.560 --> 0:19:06.160 that own that are trumpers, and you gotta check them. 0:19:06.320 --> 0:19:10.320 You gotta check them. You're wrong, You're freaking wrong. You're 0:19:10.359 --> 0:19:12.399 freaking wrong. There's a club that I don't go to 0:19:12.760 --> 0:19:15.159 because I'm not. I don't do this. I don't. You 0:19:15.160 --> 0:19:18.160 don't get to have me, and then vote the other way. 0:19:18.680 --> 0:19:20.919 You don't get to have me, and then tell me 0:19:21.040 --> 0:19:23.760 that I don't I'm a three fists of a person, 0:19:24.200 --> 0:19:27.040 or that I can't take care of my body, or 0:19:27.480 --> 0:19:28.560 I can't get. 0:19:28.400 --> 0:19:29.679 The same pay as you. 0:19:29.720 --> 0:19:32.680 No, the fing pay is the motherfucking pay. 0:19:33.200 --> 0:19:34.800 Yeah, yeah, and. 0:19:34.520 --> 0:19:38.560 And and so I get in trouble all the time, son, 0:19:39.000 --> 0:19:42.720