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Speaker 1: We all be et now.

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Speaker 2: Wow morning, everybody's CDJ MV. Charlamagne the Guy. We are

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Speaker 2: the Breakfast Club. We got a special guests in the building,

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Speaker 2: the legendary Saraji p Henson.

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Speaker 1: Welcome. I'm legendary, but not legendary enough to be on

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Speaker 1: this wall.

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Speaker 3: That's not true. We got the whole room. We're doing

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Speaker 3: this all. You'll see.

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Speaker 1: We should have been first. But that's okay.

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Speaker 3: You know what, when you ain't wrong, when you're right,

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Speaker 3: that's right. How are you?

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Speaker 4: How are you feeling?

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Speaker 1: I feel great? I feel great.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 5: Whenever I come to New York, and especially when I'm

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Speaker 5: coming for Bors Lawn Hanson Foundation, you know, we're coming

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Speaker 5: to spread joy, spread a message that it's okay not.

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Speaker 1: To be okay.

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Speaker 3: That's right.

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Speaker 1: You started that conversation for.

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Speaker 3: People who don't know what the Boy's Lawrence Tension Foundation is.

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Speaker 5: Okay, Yes, it's Bors Lawrence Hanson Foundation. We launched in

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Speaker 5: twenty eighteen, Oh my god, twenty eighteen, and it's really

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Speaker 5: to eradicate the stigma around mental illness in the black community,

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Speaker 5: to bring more awareness to mental wellness in the black

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Speaker 5: because you know, we don't talk about it.

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Speaker 1: We suffer in silence.

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Speaker 5: We isolate, and we try to be strong and we're dying.

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Speaker 5: So out of my own necessity for my own help

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Speaker 5: mental wellness and my son, I realized there was no

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Speaker 5: real help out there for us. So I had to

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Speaker 5: do something about it. So my best friend since the

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Speaker 5: seventh grade, Tracy J. We launched a Bords Laurenceanson Foundation

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Speaker 5: to hopefully help help an underserved community.

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Speaker 4: How's doing He's doing great.

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Speaker 1: He's great. Yeah, he's doing great.

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Speaker 5: He's maneuvering through, you know, trying to become being a

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Speaker 5: young black man in America. You know when those rose

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Speaker 5: colored glasses come off. I'm sure you remember those days.

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Speaker 5: But he's maneuvered through it pretty well. Did he have

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Speaker 5: a moment, Oh, he had a huge moment, But I

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Speaker 5: was he picked the right mother because you know, and

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Speaker 5: it's interesting because I had an older gentleman tell me

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Speaker 5: years ago when I was on the television show called

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Speaker 5: The Division. It was my first series regular, and I

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Speaker 5: came in upset about something with Marcel. He was little

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Speaker 5: at the time, and this guy said, don't you ever

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Speaker 5: give up on them, don't ever give up. I don't

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Speaker 5: even know if Mark is still alive to this day,

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Speaker 5: but I just remember him. I never forget him saying that.

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Speaker 5: Every time I would have these issues with my son,

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Speaker 5: I wanting to choke him, I would hear his voice,

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Speaker 5: don't ever give up on them.

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Speaker 1: And you can't give up on your kids. You just

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Speaker 1: gotta pray.

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Speaker 5: Tracy sent me something or was it you a pam?

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Speaker 5: Somebody sent me something about I think it was a

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Speaker 5: pastor who was saying, don't give up on your baby.

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Speaker 1: I don't care if they strung out on drugs.

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Speaker 5: I don't care if they whatever their problem is, you

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Speaker 5: wrap them up in prayer.

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Speaker 1: Don't ever give up on your children.

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Speaker 3: So what if you have to say, can you set

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Speaker 3: maybe think, can you set boundaries with your kids that

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Speaker 1: You have to set boundaries. You must set boundaries. Are

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Speaker 4: What type of boundaries?

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Speaker 1: Boundaries?

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Speaker 3: Like?

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Speaker 1: What are you willing to accept and not accept?

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Speaker 5: You have to because these kids down days come so privileged,

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Speaker 5: they're not like us.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 5: I was talking to somebody the other day, I was like,

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Speaker 5: I don't even think. I can't remember the last time

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Speaker 3: It's real. Yeah, I make mine.

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Speaker 5: You have to because they have these devices now, which

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Speaker 1: Air is anymore. I don't think you know, it's just

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Speaker 3: Don't even tell you smell like outside. They don't go up.

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Speaker 5: The thing about being parents is once you cut that

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Speaker 5: and they still have choices. But one thing I always

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Speaker 1: That they smell it, you know what I mean?

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Speaker 5: They usually they come around, and I would always tell

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Speaker 5: listen to that inside voice, because that's your God voice.

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Speaker 5: That's the voice that's gonna save your ass. And if

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Speaker 1: You know, they're not gonna always follow.

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Speaker 5: It the way that you see them to follow it,

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Speaker 5: but eventually they'll come around.

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Speaker 1: If you stayed on on them, I guess it will

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Speaker 3: I guess the scariest thing is you don't want them

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Speaker 5: Absolutely, that's that was your mother's fear. That's every parent's fear,

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Speaker 5: that was your father's fear. That's all of our fear forever.

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Speaker 5: Like my mother to this day, she tracks me. I'm

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Speaker 1: It never ends. It never ends.

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Speaker 3: What you know, we don't talk about enough the resources

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Speaker 3: to deal with folks who have mental health issues.

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Speaker 5: Exactly, you know, because it takes a toll on them,

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Speaker 5: especially parents, because you feel like I can't fix my child.

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Speaker 1: It's something that I did wrong.

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Speaker 5: It's really hard because that's your job to protect your

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Speaker 1: It's hard. Parenting is not easy.

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Speaker 5: And then being a single parent, I promise you I

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Speaker 5: just wouldn't. It's it's first of all, children need both parents,

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Speaker 5: You need both of your parents. If you're not living

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Speaker 5: I was unfortunately my son's father was murdered, so I

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Speaker 1: But yeah, it's it's hard.

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Speaker 5: It's tough, especially me being a boy mom.

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Speaker 1: I need the man.

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Speaker 5: I can't teach him how to be a man. I

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Speaker 5: that was the that was the hardest struggle for us

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Speaker 5: You know, it's just the dynamic is it gets a

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Speaker 2: Like Selm was just saying, you know, so what do

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Speaker 1: Remember when I went to Bali.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I had to. I had to.

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Speaker 5: I was coming apart at the seams and I didn't

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Speaker 5: And you know, when you finally make it, you have

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Speaker 5: But they were concerned because I was a short fuse.

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Speaker 1: Any little thing. I was like, I'm so annoyed. I

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Speaker 5: And it was like like I could even feel myself

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Speaker 1: It could be the end of your life, you know.

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Speaker 5: And so it was things like little things were triggering me,

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Speaker 3: When did g Rogerie have that I made it moment?

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Speaker 5: I did a huge renovation to my house and finally

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Speaker 3: What is joy joints?

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Speaker 5: And we're all connecting through the Boris Lawrence Hnson Foundation

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Speaker 3: It was like a party.

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Speaker 1: Kse Spade has been our partner since twenty a twenty

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Speaker 2: And talk about that what you're doing on those HBCU

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Speaker 1: And our next stop is Hampton.

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Speaker 5: And we're doing this one in November, and this is

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Speaker 3: We are you allowed to do it at Hampton.

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Speaker 1: I knew you was gonna bring some He got trying

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Speaker 4: Wow losses last weekend? You know, was it? Hampton A game.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of like, y'all number one on in anything.

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Speaker 3: Damn joy joy we have.

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Speaker 5: We're here to spread joy.

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Speaker 1: He tried his helmet.

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Speaker 1: My joy, I'm back.

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Speaker 3: So what are the pods exactly?

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Speaker 1: Now, So we found a company. What's the company.

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Speaker 5: Again, I'm sorry, that'side container bills and they are amazing.

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Speaker 5: We had a student from Alabama State University who's a

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Speaker 1: Yes, and oh yes, we said that already.

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Speaker 3: Oh she's talking to Tracy. She's not talking to herself

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Speaker 4: Exactly.

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Speaker 5: We're student because you know, when you're in college, you're

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Speaker 1: You can go rest. But you can rest, you can

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Speaker 3: And sometimes you need.

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Speaker 5: Yes, yes, yes, So it's a safe space for students

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Speaker 2: It's too much and how many specs are you going to?

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Speaker 2: How many HBCUs are you going to?

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Speaker 1: How many how many are we going to for this?

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Speaker 2: Yes, the students need that because because it gets stressful,

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Speaker 5: The dropout rate is insane and it's I think it's

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Speaker 1: other things. You know, So we're just trying to help.

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00:20:36,560 --> 00:20:39,960
Speaker 5: We're just trying to save us and save our future

448
00:20:40,119 --> 00:20:41,280
Speaker 5: by saving these kids.

449
00:20:41,960 --> 00:20:43,400
Speaker 3: I feel like you should come out with a line

450
00:20:43,440 --> 00:20:44,919
Speaker 3: of pre roles called joy Joints.

451
00:20:45,440 --> 00:20:50,320
Speaker 1: Joints, Yes, okay, joints, a lot of pre rolls.

452
00:20:51,400 --> 00:20:55,879
Speaker 3: I got it based medicine for the anxiety and stuff

453
00:20:55,920 --> 00:20:56,160
Speaker 3: like that.

454
00:20:56,359 --> 00:21:00,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, they are dope, he says.

455
00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:00,640
Speaker 4: He thinks they Jeordi.

456
00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:03,360
Speaker 5: They're probably already joy Joys. You're not the first one

457
00:21:03,359 --> 00:21:03,800
Speaker 5: to come up.

458
00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:11,040
Speaker 3: You also have the one man hours Joy Challenge. Oh absolutely,

459
00:21:11,080 --> 00:21:13,560
Speaker 3: yeah you started that last bring. How did somebody join that?

460
00:21:14,800 --> 00:21:17,920
Speaker 1: Bores L Henson Foundation dot org.

461
00:21:18,400 --> 00:21:20,359
Speaker 5: You can find out how you can sign up for

462
00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:22,520
Speaker 5: the joy Joints or how you just if you just

463
00:21:22,520 --> 00:21:23,560
Speaker 5: want to donate.

464
00:21:24,200 --> 00:21:24,439
Speaker 4: You know.

465
00:21:24,800 --> 00:21:28,120
Speaker 2: Tyler Perry spoke about something a couple of days ago. Lord,

466
00:21:28,840 --> 00:21:29,640
Speaker 2: I just got a question.

467
00:21:29,680 --> 00:21:29,840
Speaker 3: Now.

468
00:21:29,840 --> 00:21:30,840
Speaker 4: He was talking about.

469
00:21:30,920 --> 00:21:39,399
Speaker 2: Women should be to try to talk about women dating

470
00:21:39,440 --> 00:21:41,440
Speaker 2: men that aren't as financially.

471
00:21:41,160 --> 00:21:42,480
Speaker 3: Well, you know how to take a hand, do you?

472
00:21:42,480 --> 00:21:46,240
Speaker 3: You just keep going have mercy?

473
00:21:46,320 --> 00:21:47,280
Speaker 1: We got snoop.

474
00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:52,880
Speaker 5: Flakes, shall we got snoop fruit And you were saying,

475
00:21:52,880 --> 00:21:53,600
Speaker 5: what were you saying?

476
00:21:54,160 --> 00:21:57,640
Speaker 3: Can you talk about your Broadway show about okay?

477
00:21:57,680 --> 00:22:00,960
Speaker 5: Okay, I am so proud to be a producer of

478
00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:06,560
Speaker 5: a Broadway show. What I love about this show is

479
00:22:06,560 --> 00:22:10,399
Speaker 5: it because it showcases these women and I love bringing

480
00:22:10,440 --> 00:22:11,480
Speaker 5: life to hidden figures.

481
00:22:12,400 --> 00:22:15,359
Speaker 1: And you know, I grew up in DC and.

482
00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:18,480
Speaker 5: I used to get my hair braided, but it was

483
00:22:18,560 --> 00:22:21,919
Speaker 5: always over somebody's house, a friend's house. I never really

484
00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:26,080
Speaker 5: knew about the hair braiding salons hung out millions of

485
00:22:26,119 --> 00:22:29,960
Speaker 5: times in Harlem and I would walk past the salons.

486
00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:31,040
Speaker 5: I just walked past them, you know.

487
00:22:31,240 --> 00:22:31,400
Speaker 2: Uh.

488
00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:35,639
Speaker 5: But this play brings such a light to these women.

489
00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:38,720
Speaker 5: And another thing, when you think about ice and deportation,

490
00:22:38,920 --> 00:22:41,240
Speaker 5: you never think about us because the only images they

491
00:22:41,240 --> 00:22:46,520
Speaker 5: always show are the Latin community, right, But this play

492
00:22:46,560 --> 00:22:51,320
Speaker 5: showcases that these women are undocumented. They're in this country

493
00:22:51,359 --> 00:22:56,879
Speaker 5: and they're trying to make a living and.

494
00:22:55,119 --> 00:22:56,600
Speaker 1: This is how they're doing their braiding hair.

495
00:22:57,080 --> 00:22:58,720
Speaker 5: And in the play you see that they have an

496
00:22:58,720 --> 00:23:02,880
Speaker 5: issue with ice and their documentation and I never think

497
00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:03,239
Speaker 5: about that.

498
00:23:03,280 --> 00:23:04,160
Speaker 1: Do you think about that?

499
00:23:05,119 --> 00:23:07,919
Speaker 3: No? One time when they I think it was was

500
00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:10,200
Speaker 3: it the Haitian micros who they say were coming over?

501
00:23:11,080 --> 00:23:12,359
Speaker 3: That was a couple of years ago. It was like

502
00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:12,720
Speaker 3: a mention.

503
00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:13,880
Speaker 1: It it was just a mention.

504
00:23:14,119 --> 00:23:16,960
Speaker 5: But whenever Ice shows up, you never see it's always

505
00:23:16,960 --> 00:23:17,840
Speaker 5: they're coming down.

506
00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:20,560
Speaker 1: On a Latin community. So I never even thought about that.

507
00:23:20,680 --> 00:23:24,600
Speaker 5: I never even thought about undocumented black people in the US,

508
00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:27,199
Speaker 5: you know what I mean. And these women literally just

509
00:23:27,240 --> 00:23:29,760
Speaker 5: trying to make a living, and so that was very

510
00:23:29,760 --> 00:23:34,479
Speaker 5: interesting to me. Not only that, yes, bringing life to

511
00:23:34,520 --> 00:23:37,520
Speaker 5: their story and their lives and these incredible women.

512
00:23:37,760 --> 00:23:42,320
Speaker 1: But I love hair. I almost became a cosmetologist.

513
00:23:42,520 --> 00:23:44,919
Speaker 5: I mean I almost went to school for cosmetology, but

514
00:23:44,960 --> 00:23:46,560
Speaker 5: I missed it by one year. And I have a

515
00:23:46,560 --> 00:23:48,480
Speaker 5: haircare line, so it really makes it was a no

516
00:23:48,600 --> 00:23:50,040
Speaker 5: brainer for me to produce the show.

517
00:23:50,080 --> 00:23:52,600
Speaker 4: And congratulations on the haircareline won a bunch of awards.

518
00:23:52,840 --> 00:23:55,680
Speaker 5: Yeah, are you using it at your household?

519
00:23:55,840 --> 00:23:59,560
Speaker 2: I did try some my kids as well. You know what,

520
00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:00,880
Speaker 2: my daughter had a problem with.

521
00:24:01,320 --> 00:24:02,440
Speaker 3: Boyd and Hampton people live.

522
00:24:05,200 --> 00:24:07,680
Speaker 2: Because I actually had to go and get everybody's hair

523
00:24:07,760 --> 00:24:11,600
Speaker 2: product because my daughter had I don't know what it was,

524
00:24:11,720 --> 00:24:13,719
Speaker 2: but she has something in the hair, and we we

525
00:24:13,760 --> 00:24:15,800
Speaker 2: went and got everybody's head. I mean I didn't got

526
00:24:15,800 --> 00:24:17,159
Speaker 2: the brat. I didn't even know the Brat had a

527
00:24:17,200 --> 00:24:19,679
Speaker 2: hair products to pick up the Brat hair products. Porsche

528
00:24:19,800 --> 00:24:20,560
Speaker 2: has hair products.

529
00:24:20,560 --> 00:24:21,160
Speaker 3: I picked up.

530
00:24:21,240 --> 00:24:22,879
Speaker 2: Because my wife sent me to the store and I

531
00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:25,040
Speaker 2: just looked for anybody black and I just got on

532
00:24:25,080 --> 00:24:25,480
Speaker 2: the product.

533
00:24:27,160 --> 00:24:28,960
Speaker 1: But you love t p AH. But anyway, that's what

534
00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:31,080
Speaker 1: you forgot to say. This one here?

535
00:24:31,960 --> 00:24:34,600
Speaker 3: What makes t p A stand put.

536
00:24:36,040 --> 00:24:36,320
Speaker 4: Again?

537
00:24:38,320 --> 00:24:40,119
Speaker 3: What makes t stand off of everybody else?

538
00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:44,520
Speaker 5: Because t p A specializes in scalp care. Honey, you

539
00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:46,920
Speaker 5: gotta clean your scalp first, and you have a head

540
00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:48,360
Speaker 5: that is naked.

541
00:24:48,640 --> 00:24:52,320
Speaker 3: You can see, do you have anything for protection?

542
00:24:54,480 --> 00:24:56,480
Speaker 1: He has a scout, doesn't it You still.

543
00:24:56,280 --> 00:25:02,520
Speaker 3: Got to and moisturizers or don't. That's what got.

544
00:25:07,320 --> 00:25:08,320
Speaker 1: This is what I came from.

545
00:25:11,920 --> 00:25:14,080
Speaker 3: But that's another way to bring joy.

546
00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:17,359
Speaker 1: Absolutely, I believe self care.

547
00:25:17,480 --> 00:25:21,080
Speaker 5: Hair care is self care, especially for women and women

548
00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:26,600
Speaker 5: cultural women from ethnic backgrounds, because we have curly, thick,

549
00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:29,840
Speaker 5: big hair, and we look at doing our hair as

550
00:25:29,840 --> 00:25:32,480
Speaker 5: a chore. And so with the t p H line,

551
00:25:32,560 --> 00:25:36,320
Speaker 5: it's more of it's like a spa experience. So you

552
00:25:36,359 --> 00:25:39,320
Speaker 5: pamper yourself from scout to toad. That's you do not

553
00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:42,879
Speaker 5: have a body line too. So the whole line was

554
00:25:42,880 --> 00:25:48,520
Speaker 5: created to change the narrative of you know, taking care

555
00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:51,360
Speaker 5: of yourself as a chore and look at it more

556
00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:53,600
Speaker 5: as self care, like take yourself to the spa.

557
00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:55,320
Speaker 1: And and the reason I came.

558
00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:57,440
Speaker 5: Up with that is because my hair care line launched

559
00:25:57,520 --> 00:26:01,640
Speaker 5: during the pandemic. People were ready to go to salons

560
00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:02,800
Speaker 5: and be around other people.

561
00:26:02,840 --> 00:26:05,040
Speaker 1: So it was more like bring the.

562
00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:08,160
Speaker 5: Salon home to you you can at an affordable price

563
00:26:08,359 --> 00:26:09,720
Speaker 5: and affordable Can men use it?

564
00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:13,680
Speaker 1: Just absolutely? Man, you have a scout right, yes.

565
00:26:13,960 --> 00:26:15,680
Speaker 3: But I'm talking about guys that use like the just

566
00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:17,920
Speaker 3: for men in the Beijing Like will they wash it out?

567
00:26:18,400 --> 00:26:20,800
Speaker 5: It'll wash it all off? Damn Yeah, I think I

568
00:26:20,840 --> 00:26:21,800
Speaker 5: hear soap and rain.

569
00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:26,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, you try to be funny.

570
00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:28,760
Speaker 3: We had a whole conversation about this because I think

571
00:26:28,800 --> 00:26:30,480
Speaker 3: a lot of guys are doing this now, They're getting

572
00:26:30,480 --> 00:26:33,359
Speaker 3: their hair transplants into Beijing and the just Wan and

573
00:26:33,359 --> 00:26:35,880
Speaker 3: I'm like, I'm like, why, like who are y'all doing

574
00:26:35,920 --> 00:26:37,480
Speaker 3: this for? And so a lot of women called up

575
00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:38,679
Speaker 3: here this morning and say they don't even like that.

576
00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:41,240
Speaker 3: They rather the guys just just be bald or go

577
00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:42,200
Speaker 3: to the salt and.

578
00:26:42,119 --> 00:26:44,679
Speaker 5: Pepper bag, would rather us just wear our hair and

579
00:26:44,680 --> 00:26:47,520
Speaker 5: not wear wigs and stuff. Oh I don't care, you know,

580
00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:49,880
Speaker 5: I know, but I hear that, you know a lot

581
00:26:49,880 --> 00:26:50,320
Speaker 5: of minutes.

582
00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:51,440
Speaker 1: Just be natural.

583
00:26:51,560 --> 00:26:54,560
Speaker 3: They don't believe that. I think they just I'm I

584
00:26:54,560 --> 00:26:56,200
Speaker 3: think you should do whatever it is that makes you happy,

585
00:26:56,280 --> 00:26:58,640
Speaker 3: makes you happy, unless you're a man. If you're a man,

586
00:26:58,680 --> 00:27:00,280
Speaker 3: you should let the salt and pepper wrong.

587
00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:01,200
Speaker 1: Men can't do.

588
00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:02,560
Speaker 3: Because it looks ridiculous.

589
00:27:02,560 --> 00:27:03,200
Speaker 1: That's terrible.

590
00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:05,480
Speaker 3: They haven't learned how to blend it in. Like it

591
00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:06,680
Speaker 3: don't look good.

592
00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:07,840
Speaker 1: You don't mind if it looks good.

593
00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:11,560
Speaker 5: If it looks good, right, because some of those wigs

594
00:27:11,560 --> 00:27:13,639
Speaker 5: look really good. I'm not I'm trying to say this

595
00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:17,359
Speaker 5: with a straight face. I'm really not trying to be

596
00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:20,360
Speaker 5: funny because I believe people should do what makes them

597
00:27:20,359 --> 00:27:22,760
Speaker 5: feel good. And if if women can't wear lace fro,

598
00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:23,840
Speaker 5: men can too.

599
00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:25,919
Speaker 4: Baby hair, they've been going.

600
00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:28,080
Speaker 5: Crazy with the baby hair is a little out of control.

601
00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:29,919
Speaker 5: Their baby they're bangs, they're not.

602
00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:32,520
Speaker 2: Baby baby is going down to your your your mouth

603
00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:35,840
Speaker 2: like this, your nose, like your cheeks.

604
00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:36,520
Speaker 4: It's getting crazy.

605
00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:38,440
Speaker 1: Now you know what you know what it is when

606
00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:39,560
Speaker 1: the baby here meet the eyebrow.

607
00:27:39,840 --> 00:27:40,480
Speaker 4: That's getting crazy.

608
00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:44,280
Speaker 1: Now, it's a little I don't judge. Some people like it.

609
00:27:44,320 --> 00:27:47,800
Speaker 5: And if that makes you happy, wear that baby, bang baby,

610
00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:51,199
Speaker 5: because that.

611
00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:51,280
Speaker 1: That is a bang on your forehead.

612
00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:54,680
Speaker 5: But if that makes you feel good, wear that bang

613
00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:58,480
Speaker 5: baby and get you some TPH products to slick it down.

614
00:27:58,840 --> 00:28:01,440
Speaker 3: That's right, that's right now. World Mental Health Day is

615
00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:03,960
Speaker 3: coming up. Yeah, what are some things people could do

616
00:28:04,280 --> 00:28:06,520
Speaker 3: in their community to create their own joy? Joints and

617
00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:08,360
Speaker 3: joy challenges?

618
00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:09,960
Speaker 1: Get the best group.

619
00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:12,920
Speaker 5: If you like space, you like oh no, whatever it

620
00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:15,760
Speaker 5: is that brings you joy. It could be sitting outside,

621
00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:19,119
Speaker 5: sitting on the stoop talking, whatever it is, whatever brings

622
00:28:19,119 --> 00:28:19,560
Speaker 5: you joy.

623
00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:21,879
Speaker 1: I can't tell you what brings you, Joel. I know

624
00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:24,560
Speaker 1: what brings me joy. I want to play. I want

625
00:28:24,600 --> 00:28:27,920
Speaker 1: to do double dutch. I want to jump double dutch.

626
00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:29,359
Speaker 3: You're still doing nothing play checks.

627
00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:32,560
Speaker 5: I haven't in a while, but I would to bring

628
00:28:32,600 --> 00:28:34,359
Speaker 5: myself joy. I'm willing to do anything.

629
00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:36,120
Speaker 3: People don't bring in a child.

630
00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:38,320
Speaker 1: Absolutely, never let your in a child die.

631
00:28:38,840 --> 00:28:41,240
Speaker 2: People don't double dut no, nor do they know how

632
00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:43,920
Speaker 2: to double dutch. And that which is crazy because when

633
00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:46,320
Speaker 2: we do the events, I bring this double dutch team

634
00:28:46,560 --> 00:28:48,440
Speaker 2: husband and wife and they teach people how to double

635
00:28:48,520 --> 00:28:50,040
Speaker 2: Dutch men and women, and they teach you the easy

636
00:28:50,080 --> 00:28:52,360
Speaker 2: way how to how to you know, because I'm double handed,

637
00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:53,280
Speaker 2: so I don't know how to. I don't know how

638
00:28:53,280 --> 00:28:57,000
Speaker 2: to do it, but but it teaches you because it's

639
00:28:57,000 --> 00:28:58,120
Speaker 2: funny and it's an exercise.

640
00:28:58,160 --> 00:28:59,440
Speaker 4: And a lot of people that they don't know how.

641
00:28:59,320 --> 00:28:59,800
Speaker 3: To do it anymore.

642
00:28:59,880 --> 00:29:02,200
Speaker 1: They know because people aren't playing outside anymore.

643
00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:02,960
Speaker 4: That is correct.

644
00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:05,520
Speaker 3: I like what you said about that, because you know

645
00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:07,640
Speaker 3: a lot of people are afraid to do that because

646
00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:10,120
Speaker 3: they're in a child still need is so broken. Yeah,

647
00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:11,760
Speaker 3: so what do you do when you're in a child

648
00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:13,360
Speaker 3: still needs to be loft?

649
00:29:13,520 --> 00:29:16,280
Speaker 5: You have to nurture it. Have to nurture that little child,

650
00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:20,680
Speaker 5: pay attention to it. That child cries out for attention

651
00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:24,120
Speaker 5: all the time. You have to pay attention.

652
00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:29,680
Speaker 1: I play still to this day. That's what my salon

653
00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:31,040
Speaker 1: is about. I'm a salon in.

654
00:29:31,080 --> 00:29:34,760
Speaker 5: My house and I get my friends tease me all

655
00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:37,480
Speaker 5: the time because I have a square like a register.

656
00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:40,240
Speaker 5: It's just I used to play register when I was

657
00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:42,479
Speaker 5: a kid, and as I grew up, I was like,

658
00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:44,920
Speaker 5: I'm going to always purchase the things that I couldn't afford.

659
00:29:44,960 --> 00:29:47,640
Speaker 5: When I was a kid, I was told no so

660
00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:50,120
Speaker 5: much because we couldn't afford it. And when I can afford,

661
00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:52,560
Speaker 5: I'm going to get it. And so my salon is

662
00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:55,920
Speaker 5: more like my playroom, and that's where I go when

663
00:29:55,960 --> 00:29:58,440
Speaker 5: things become too much. I go in there and I

664
00:29:58,480 --> 00:30:00,840
Speaker 5: tell people, don't call me clients.

665
00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:06,600
Speaker 3: And what do you do? Do You go through a.

666
00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:11,400
Speaker 1: Whole like an appointment book, and I make up appointments.

667
00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:14,720
Speaker 5: I go there, I let my inner child play, and

668
00:30:14,840 --> 00:30:17,560
Speaker 5: I have these dolls, these heads, and I do their

669
00:30:17,640 --> 00:30:21,560
Speaker 5: hair like one may have a wet set appointment, one

670
00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:23,320
Speaker 5: may have a dye.

671
00:30:23,520 --> 00:30:24,440
Speaker 1: I may have to cut.

672
00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:25,280
Speaker 4: You do by yourself.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Wow.

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Speaker 5: I went to the University of YouTube and I learned

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Speaker 5: a lot. I graduated magna cum Latti, so I know

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Speaker 5: a lot of things.

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Speaker 4: Bring my girls over your house and you.

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Speaker 1: Too, Oh yes, bring them. I was like that, why

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Speaker 1: did I have a girl? You know what I mean?

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Speaker 3: It was a hard man.

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Speaker 1: Like miss me. With all of that, I'm not interested.

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Speaker 3: Girls are hard. I got four of them, and my

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Speaker 3: oldest is at that age where she don't want nothing

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Speaker 3: to do with daddy. She's fifteen. Oh my god. And

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Speaker 3: that's heartbreaking.

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Speaker 1: Your put your seat out on.

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Speaker 4: Damn.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, my wife says it'll it'll, it'll go away. But

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Speaker 3: how long though, Jeuz you never know.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that she's gonna get a boyfriend and she really

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Speaker 4: not gonna care about five years.

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Speaker 1: It can be ten usually a ten year pretty much.

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Speaker 4: Wait till she's twenty five that she's gonna get married

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Speaker 4: or not.

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Speaker 1: Yes, because it's true, she got a baby.

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Speaker 4: You're done.

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Speaker 5: It's just like hang it up for the twenties. Just

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Speaker 5: don't watch, just wait for to come back like twenty eight,

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Speaker 5: twenty nine.

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Speaker 4: Stop crying out.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think people realize how heartbreaking. That's something

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Speaker 3: that fathers don't talk about it enough, Like that's heartbreaking

704
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Speaker 3: when you're your little girl all of a sudden don't

705
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Speaker 3: want nothing to do with you and act like they

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Speaker 3: don't even like you.

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Speaker 4: Yea, you know, I'll understand that part. They not like

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Speaker 4: it your part though, I get that.

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Speaker 3: I want to ask you about this quote to Roger

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Speaker 3: Oh another quote, no, no, no no. It says healing

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Speaker 3: can be so hard when you're when the child wants love,

712
00:32:01,520 --> 00:32:04,400
Speaker 3: your teenage self wants revenge, and your current self only

713
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Speaker 3: wants peace.

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Speaker 1: That's deep.

715
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Speaker 5: What comes up for you when you oh, it's facts,

716
00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:16,200
Speaker 5: it's real. It's triggering because that's so real.

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Speaker 1: I just never heard it. Put the anger, the teenage anger.

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Speaker 5: Get ready, Lord have mercy, Jesus RaSE would you?

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Speaker 3: Would you say that the bory Thlornenti Foundation is your

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Speaker 3: life's work?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: Definitely my life a life purpose, a purpose, you know,

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Speaker 5: a clear purpose. Like I thought it was acting, I'm

724
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Speaker 5: going to touch the people through my work, and of

725
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Speaker 5: course I did, but I just felt like that was

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Speaker 5: to bring me here, because this feels really fulfilling, Like

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Speaker 5: I really because you could do a performance, will you

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Speaker 5: touch somebody?

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Speaker 1: Will you change my I don't know. I hope so.

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Speaker 5: But this is the work that is really changing and

731
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Speaker 5: saving lives. And I feel good about what I'm doing.

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Speaker 1: I feel important.

733
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Speaker 3: You are important, I.

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Speaker 5: Know, but this really makes me feel like I have

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Speaker 5: a life purpose beyond vanity and being pretty in front

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Speaker 5: of a camera or what does she have on?

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Speaker 3: Or you know, are you almost tired of Hollywood?

738
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Speaker 5: Almost almost is anyway.

739
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Speaker 1: But I still got some jobs to complete. I have

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Speaker 1: some things that.

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Speaker 5: I'm working on, but I know, yeah, it's getting to

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Speaker 5: the point where I'm ready to let these kids have it.

743
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Speaker 5: You know, I'm looking for my exit strategy. I don't

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Speaker 5: want to be doing this one, not on a grind,

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Speaker 5: you know. I want to dip back in when I'm ready,

746
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Speaker 5: when it's a project that I feel so inclined that

747
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Speaker 5: I will come out of my retirement, you know. But

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Speaker 5: I'm literally ready to go stick my toes and some

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Speaker 5: saying somewhere and let these.

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Speaker 1: Kids have it. I literally feel like you.

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Speaker 3: Never see that in how ito you feel like you

752
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Speaker 3: just see people keep going, keep going, keep going. You

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Speaker 3: never see nobody just say you know what I'm done?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, But I have other things I'm working on to

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Speaker 5: that's not just acting. The acting will not be my

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Speaker 5: exit strategy. Like that's not gonna be my nest egg

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Speaker 5: that I can lay up on.

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Speaker 1: It'll be a little bit of it, But my nest

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Speaker 1: egg is gonna be my brand when.

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Speaker 3: Somebody coming by buys TPH for a billion dollars or

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Speaker 3: something like that.

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Speaker 1: Did you hear that from your mouth?

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Speaker 3: How can people donate a contribute to the Borings lawnch

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Speaker 3: Hinston Foundation.

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Speaker 1: Always you can always go to www.

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Speaker 5: Dot Boris l Henson dot Boris Lhinson Foundation dot org.

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Speaker 2: We appreciate you doing that, and you all loved, valued

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Speaker 2: and appreciate it absolutely.

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Speaker 1: I will know that when I'm up on this wall.

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Speaker 4: But we appreciate you.

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Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen from Howard University.

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Speaker 1: Hain't you no period. Get that water bucket out in.

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Speaker 3: It's the breakfast cloak of water so farious.

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Speaker 5: I love the work you guys are doing. I'm so

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Speaker 5: glad you're on my television.

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Speaker 1: That's all I watch to be.

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Speaker 3: I even