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Speaker 1: What's episteel? I'm Angela yee, And of course Jasmine Brand

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Speaker 1: is here with me. Yes, I'm here, and Mona's got

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Speaker 1: Young is here also, I'm here. Now let me I

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Speaker 1: still talk to you because last time I saw.

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Speaker 2: You, I beat you senseless.

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Speaker 3: I know what happened.

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Speaker 2: No, no, no, not like that. Oh Jesus, I don't

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Speaker 2: believe that a cooking competition. Yeah, don't say it like that.

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Speaker 2: That was pretty impressive because she was talking a.

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Speaker 1: Lot of smash saw us. I just want to be

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Speaker 1: did I No?

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Speaker 2: No, no, I brought my own combination of marination.

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Speaker 1: See that wasn't allowed, did they?

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Speaker 2: I don't remember that. But anyway, after I was done,

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Speaker 2: But I want chicken.

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Speaker 1: But Mona is a great cook.

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Speaker 2: Oh, thank you? You know did you taste my jerk

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Speaker 2: that day?

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Speaker 1: Yet? I tasted a little bit?

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Speaker 3: Yes, what did you think? Angela? It was good?

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Speaker 1: You know, if I would have had time to prepare a.

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Speaker 2: You know what the secret was. I'll tell you. When

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Speaker 2: you got to cook that quickly, you have to get

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Speaker 2: in there and like massage the meat so that it

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Speaker 2: opens it up and takes the seasoning more quickly. And

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Speaker 2: I think once you just sprinkle it.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't work, and I think it's a smaller pieces

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Speaker 2: So I like massage, marinated and then like saute.

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Speaker 3: It was the final day it was jerk chicken.

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Speaker 1: Do you know you could cook like that? Though?

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Speaker 2: I love to cook. Actually, I haven't had a chance

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Speaker 2: for as much as I love to, but I love

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Speaker 1: All right, Well, let's get into it because so many

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Speaker 1: things are happening. What we're talking about today, though, is

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Speaker 1: a new film series, Love and Murder Atlanta Playboy. I

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Speaker 1: like to say it like that, Love and Murder, and

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Speaker 1: is actually starring in it, and there's a lot of

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Speaker 1: And first of all, we got to talk about how

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Speaker 1: you even like for this? So it's two parts, right.

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Speaker 2: It's two parts. Yes, the man lived the big life.

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Speaker 2: We had to get it into two parts.

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Speaker 1: And I'm not going to give anything away by saying this,

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Speaker 1: because they tell you in the very first line.

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Speaker 3: Yes what happens? Yeah, opens the whole point.

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Speaker 1: Of it is.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a passion thriller, right, it's a passion thriller.

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Speaker 2: It's based on this guy, Lance Herndon. Back in the

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Speaker 2: late nineties. He was like a huge tech entrepreneur, one

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Speaker 2: he also was and like notorious, a notorious womanized. It

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Speaker 2: it did. Yes, yes, it is, it is. It is.

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Speaker 2: It's a rip from the headline story. And you can

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Speaker 2: this makes it even more juicier exactly. So he was

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Speaker 4: Those Olympics was going on, and I was like, oh, okay, exactly.

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Speaker 2: He actually revolutionized the nine to one one system. Yeah, exactly, exactly.

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Speaker 1: We just had so one of our friends from Detroit, right,

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Speaker 2: And this is from a while nineteen ninety six, Yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And I think it helps when you know somebody

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Speaker 1: cares to like, you know, fifty cent definitely, oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: Amazing because Missy Elliott seems like the coolest person, by

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Speaker 1: Feel good, man, to have somebody like Missy who's like,

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Speaker 3: And she's so chill, like she SEMs very like.

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Speaker 2: Missy is incredible because she's a cancer. Okay, so what

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Speaker 2: it's just I don't need to blow smoke up your hands.

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Speaker 2: There are so many other people that will I don't

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Speaker 2: The silliest I'm trying to think of what would be

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Speaker 2: And for twenty something years my job has been to

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Speaker 1: And bringing it to today, you have Scarlet. Yeah, tell

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Speaker 2: We just love Scarlett, right, I mean, you know what

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Speaker 1: Because I'm sure a lot of people have come to

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Speaker 2: And you know, built a team around her. Shout out

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Speaker 2: right now, what scar and you know my partner is

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Speaker 2: That's because you haven't seen her yet. Tomorrow, Yes, exactly tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: So, you've been tied to that franchise for so long

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Speaker 2: Very simply that the network had put out their statement

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Speaker 1: And I think even the fact that certain people that

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Speaker 1: with you, like fifty cent Elliott like rhyme rhymes. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: Exactly people who know me. That's why on my page

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Speaker 3: Well, you have such a big viewership for that show.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they're passionate. They go hard. Like every once in

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Speaker 4: But mona, yes, man, I have a question. You have

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Speaker 2: There?

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Speaker 3: You're what I'm saying now, But looking back, do you

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Speaker 2: I try not to live with regret because there's nothing

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Speaker 2: let's move forward. Let's take the lessons away from that,

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Speaker 2: what I'm saying, I can't, could have, would have, should have?

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Speaker 1: Did you ever have a time where, you know, being

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Speaker 1: Sometimes we think everything is going to stop. And when

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Speaker 2: What they will step over your rotting carcass and keep

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Speaker 1: Yeah, right, But what do you do to your energy

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Speaker 2: I get off of social media or even within my life.

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Speaker 2: I just I'm not out as much, do you know

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Speaker 3: They don't never.

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Speaker 1: The time, And I.

434
00:20:21,359 --> 00:20:24,200
Speaker 2: Feel like there's a little bit of a mob mentality, right,

435
00:20:24,640 --> 00:20:29,239
Speaker 2: So even I've watched people's positions changed based on what

436
00:20:29,320 --> 00:20:32,520
Speaker 2: people are saying, right, Yes, I rock with you. Yes,

437
00:20:32,560 --> 00:20:34,760
Speaker 2: you're the worst thing in the world. Yes, I rock

438
00:20:34,840 --> 00:20:36,600
Speaker 2: with you, you know, And I'm just like, what is

439
00:20:36,640 --> 00:20:39,720
Speaker 2: your real position here? So, but like you said, I've

440
00:20:39,840 --> 00:20:44,400
Speaker 2: never I don't want to say that. I don't encourage it. Yeah, no, no, no, But.

441
00:20:44,760 --> 00:20:46,920
Speaker 1: The first listen, I think there is a.

442
00:20:47,080 --> 00:20:53,000
Speaker 2: Value to having that direct line, having that open communication.

443
00:20:53,560 --> 00:20:56,360
Speaker 2: But I also think you have to understand that when

444
00:20:56,400 --> 00:20:59,720
Speaker 2: you open up that floodgate right, there is zero filter.

445
00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:01,560
Speaker 1: All I know is if I blocked you and then

446
00:21:01,600 --> 00:21:03,040
Speaker 1: you come up to me and ask me for something,

447
00:21:03,080 --> 00:21:04,480
Speaker 1: and then I go look up your name and do

448
00:21:04,560 --> 00:21:07,040
Speaker 1: you really do that, I'll be like no.

449
00:21:07,160 --> 00:21:11,000
Speaker 2: Angela has a black for a reason. Angela has a blockless,

450
00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:11,800
Speaker 2: not a black list.

451
00:21:12,160 --> 00:21:15,000
Speaker 1: A blockless because I don't ever want to be tempted

452
00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:17,440
Speaker 1: to respond to anybody saying something negatives. I just block

453
00:21:17,480 --> 00:21:19,119
Speaker 1: it right away, or am I mute you and then

454
00:21:19,160 --> 00:21:20,760
Speaker 1: you can say whatever you want and I just won't.

455
00:21:21,040 --> 00:21:23,199
Speaker 2: Or do you ever write out that response, get it

456
00:21:23,240 --> 00:21:24,600
Speaker 2: off your chest and then delete it.

457
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Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, You showed me something for

458
00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:28,720
Speaker 3: I'm like, no, you're like, okay, yes.

459
00:21:28,960 --> 00:21:30,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll start and I'll be why am I doing

460
00:21:30,880 --> 00:21:33,320
Speaker 1: this right? Because then I always regret it afterwards.

461
00:21:33,440 --> 00:21:36,560
Speaker 2: I have a whole kind of like sister, and of

462
00:21:36,600 --> 00:21:39,199
Speaker 2: course my husband is in it too, and they be like, no, no, no,

463
00:21:39,320 --> 00:21:41,600
Speaker 2: let us see what you're saying. No, just get her

464
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Speaker 2: off your chest.

465
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Speaker 4: Yeah.

466
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Speaker 1: And then whenever somebody says something I don't like, I'm

467
00:21:46,320 --> 00:21:51,679
Speaker 1: just going to put handled. That's my response. Listen. I

468
00:21:51,720 --> 00:21:54,240
Speaker 1: tend to believe in the good and people all the time. First,

469
00:21:54,320 --> 00:21:56,320
Speaker 1: have you ever come across somebody who you just feel

470
00:21:56,320 --> 00:21:59,760
Speaker 1: like is just not a good person? Like I cut

471
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Speaker 1: Some times you do have to work with people and

472
00:22:01,359 --> 00:22:04,639
Speaker 1: just be like, I hate the fact that this person

473
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Speaker 1: is just not good for my soul, my spirit, is

474
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Speaker 1: not a good person.

475
00:22:09,119 --> 00:22:11,520
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, I don't think we can say we've

476
00:22:11,520 --> 00:22:14,959
Speaker 2: gone through life without running across people that you're just

477
00:22:15,160 --> 00:22:17,480
Speaker 2: I mean, there is some you know, very few times

478
00:22:17,520 --> 00:22:21,960
Speaker 2: I could probably count on one hand where your whole

479
00:22:22,119 --> 00:22:24,879
Speaker 2: aura rejects a person, right you get around them and

480
00:22:24,880 --> 00:22:27,080
Speaker 2: all of a sudden you're just like, oh, you know.

481
00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:31,640
Speaker 2: And then other times people reveal themselves if you pay attention,

482
00:22:31,760 --> 00:22:35,160
Speaker 2: you're like okay, But again, I'm just like, if I

483
00:22:35,240 --> 00:22:38,800
Speaker 2: know my intentions were pure, I can't be responsible for

484
00:22:38,880 --> 00:22:41,880
Speaker 2: your actions, right right, I can only govern my reaction.

485
00:22:42,280 --> 00:22:45,679
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the word responsible for me. I can control

486
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Speaker 1: what you do. Now back to Love and Murder Atlanta Place.

487
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Speaker 2: Excuse me, you have to say it like.

488
00:22:51,760 --> 00:22:56,840
Speaker 1: That, Love and Murder at Atlanta Playboy, Yes, how did

489
00:22:56,840 --> 00:23:00,800
Speaker 1: you get Tay Diggs? And like, how did you get

490
00:23:00,880 --> 00:23:03,399
Speaker 1: Keisha Sharp and Tay Diggs? How did this even happen?

491
00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:06,720
Speaker 1: Because I think when you attached them first and foremost

492
00:23:06,720 --> 00:23:08,840
Speaker 1: that kind of helps every Or did they absolutely?

493
00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:12,000
Speaker 2: No, no, no, they actually were one of the some

494
00:23:12,080 --> 00:23:15,560
Speaker 2: of the earlier attachments and taste specifically, I mean, you know,

495
00:23:15,640 --> 00:23:18,040
Speaker 2: you look at a character like Lance and you're like, okay,

496
00:23:18,119 --> 00:23:20,159
Speaker 2: especially with the style of the way we wanted to

497
00:23:20,200 --> 00:23:22,919
Speaker 2: make the movie right if you you know, when you

498
00:23:22,960 --> 00:23:25,480
Speaker 2: watch it, you'll see it feels very much like a

499
00:23:25,520 --> 00:23:28,320
Speaker 2: period piece. It feels like one of those movies you

500
00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:30,960
Speaker 2: would have watched back in the nineties.

501
00:23:30,520 --> 00:23:33,119
Speaker 1: Because it got the car phone or something that was

502
00:23:33,160 --> 00:23:35,800
Speaker 1: like a I forget there was once yeah he pulled

503
00:23:35,880 --> 00:23:37,920
Speaker 1: up the car, but not only that, like the music,

504
00:23:38,040 --> 00:23:41,240
Speaker 1: the way it shot you know what shot y. Yeah,

505
00:23:41,359 --> 00:23:43,440
Speaker 1: it feels like Steve Harvey suit in there.

506
00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:47,399
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, there was the white shoulders. It feels like

507
00:23:47,640 --> 00:23:50,800
Speaker 2: a movie that is from the nineties, right, not just

508
00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:52,919
Speaker 2: the movie about the nineties, but a movie that is

509
00:23:52,960 --> 00:23:56,159
Speaker 2: from the nineties. So that was that was intentional and

510
00:23:56,200 --> 00:23:59,160
Speaker 2: hopefully people get that because you know, in retrospect sometimes

511
00:23:59,240 --> 00:24:01,840
Speaker 2: they have creative idea and you're like, huh, did that work?

512
00:24:03,280 --> 00:24:07,280
Speaker 2: But it was important to find somebody that can that

513
00:24:07,359 --> 00:24:09,760
Speaker 2: could carry that role, right, because he was this guy.

514
00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:14,600
Speaker 2: He's flashy, you know, very braggadocious and then was a

515
00:24:15,119 --> 00:24:18,760
Speaker 2: ladies man, right, So it wasn't so much about finding

516
00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:21,240
Speaker 2: somebody that looked exactly like Lance. It was about finding

517
00:24:21,280 --> 00:24:24,879
Speaker 2: somebody that could carry that off right. And Tay was

518
00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:29,840
Speaker 2: brilliant because you actually like forgot this was right.

519
00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:31,920
Speaker 1: He's a great actor, he really Yeah, and he's a

520
00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:32,840
Speaker 1: very funny person.

521
00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:34,800
Speaker 2: He's funny naturally, and then it was going.

522
00:24:34,760 --> 00:24:37,320
Speaker 1: To see him in April on their together exactly.

523
00:24:37,520 --> 00:24:41,000
Speaker 2: Yeah. And they were super professional. I mean I get

524
00:24:41,040 --> 00:24:43,280
Speaker 2: asked that about like how is that working. They were

525
00:24:43,320 --> 00:24:45,720
Speaker 2: super You wouldn't even have known, right they was in

526
00:24:45,720 --> 00:24:48,200
Speaker 2: a relationship. You know what I'm saying, They were super

527
00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:53,320
Speaker 2: seated together. They did. But it was funny because I'm

528
00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:56,040
Speaker 2: like all of the dynamics, especially with having some of

529
00:24:56,040 --> 00:24:59,480
Speaker 2: the cast members in there. It was like, okay, so now,

530
00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:01,320
Speaker 2: and I don't want to give it away for the

531
00:25:01,359 --> 00:25:03,320
Speaker 2: folks who haven't seen it yet, so make sure you

532
00:25:03,320 --> 00:25:06,000
Speaker 2: guys catch up in part one so that you're brought

533
00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:08,160
Speaker 2: up to speed by the time you watch part two tomorrow.

534
00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:10,479
Speaker 2: But you know, there's some couplings in there that I

535
00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:13,560
Speaker 2: was just like, I wonder what that's like. Yeah, watching

536
00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:15,920
Speaker 2: that and seeing that, and you know, I just.

537
00:25:15,880 --> 00:25:18,399
Speaker 1: Want to give some tips. If you are a woman

538
00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:20,679
Speaker 1: and you're boot up with your man but he's cheated

539
00:25:20,720 --> 00:25:22,639
Speaker 1: on you in the past, you may not want to

540
00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:23,640
Speaker 1: watch this together.

541
00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:30,320
Speaker 2: All right exactly, or it might inspire some ideas.

542
00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:32,520
Speaker 3: You know, he really had some nerve.

543
00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:36,000
Speaker 1: But you know what is also interesting is that because

544
00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:38,200
Speaker 1: for somebody like that, they also have to have something

545
00:25:38,280 --> 00:25:39,240
Speaker 1: likable about them.

546
00:25:39,280 --> 00:25:41,159
Speaker 2: And that's what I was saying, there has to be

547
00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:45,520
Speaker 2: a redeemable aspect. He was incredibly charismatic from everything you

548
00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:48,800
Speaker 2: know that we're very, very smart and just one of

549
00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:51,439
Speaker 2: those kind of affable guys that you can't help. But

550
00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:54,960
Speaker 2: like you know, even though you know you're a dirty dog,

551
00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:57,480
Speaker 2: but I like you. You know what I'm saying, you

552
00:25:58,240 --> 00:26:00,960
Speaker 2: understand it, and that's what I think. Tad an amazing job,

553
00:26:01,119 --> 00:26:02,560
Speaker 2: you know, conveying.

554
00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:04,440
Speaker 1: And so it's going to be something that is because

555
00:26:04,440 --> 00:26:06,480
Speaker 1: I feel like I read somewhere that you were saying,

556
00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:07,400
Speaker 1: this will be a series.

557
00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:09,520
Speaker 2: That's because that's my plan.

558
00:26:09,680 --> 00:26:10,040
Speaker 1: Okay.

559
00:26:10,080 --> 00:26:12,600
Speaker 2: I don't know BT plus is with my plan, but

560
00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:14,720
Speaker 2: that's my plan. Okay, you know, Eric and I. The

561
00:26:14,840 --> 00:26:18,160
Speaker 2: idea here was Eric Thomas soon Is from Swirl Films.

562
00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:21,040
Speaker 2: Shout out to my partners at Swirl. The idea here

563
00:26:21,320 --> 00:26:26,160
Speaker 2: was Love and Murder as an overarching umbrella premise and

564
00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:29,040
Speaker 2: then ripped from the headlines passion thrillers.

565
00:26:29,119 --> 00:26:29,920
Speaker 1: Okay, you know.

566
00:26:29,840 --> 00:26:32,800
Speaker 2: What I'm saying, just kind of always expanding on the

567
00:26:32,840 --> 00:26:36,720
Speaker 2: brand and so many of those that are unfortunately, yeah,

568
00:26:36,960 --> 00:26:38,919
Speaker 2: so many of those kinds of stories, and I just

569
00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:41,320
Speaker 2: thought it could be a great way, you know, to

570
00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:44,080
Speaker 2: tell those stories under that passion thriller because we know

571
00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:48,200
Speaker 2: we love love and we love murder. You know, I

572
00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:51,280
Speaker 2: was reading somewhere a long time ago that when it

573
00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:54,640
Speaker 2: comes to murder. Like for men, usually they'll get charged

574
00:26:54,640 --> 00:26:57,560
Speaker 2: with the crime of passion if they murder their significant other,

575
00:26:57,600 --> 00:27:01,639
Speaker 2: But for women, it's more premeditated when that happens, because

576
00:27:01,640 --> 00:27:05,760
Speaker 2: they feel like we're not like physically well plant, it's

577
00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:07,760
Speaker 2: we had to plan it because we can't just act

578
00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:11,600
Speaker 2: in the moment. I also think it's that constant responsibility

579
00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:14,720
Speaker 2: or that constant double standard that they place on women, right,

580
00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:18,840
Speaker 2: because we, you know, think things through, we plan things,

581
00:27:18,840 --> 00:27:24,640
Speaker 2: So why would it be any different. We don't act impulsively.

582
00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:28,000
Speaker 2: We have a plan because we've got to make sure

583
00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:30,560
Speaker 2: we cover all our bases, try to, or at least

584
00:27:30,560 --> 00:27:33,040
Speaker 2: we tried to. Yes, just got young like when she's mad,

585
00:27:35,080 --> 00:27:37,119
Speaker 2: Oh god, I don't know what you know what you

586
00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:38,919
Speaker 2: got to ask my husband? So what am I like

587
00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:42,240
Speaker 2: when I'm mad? I don't know, because you know what

588
00:27:42,280 --> 00:27:45,320
Speaker 2: it is, I'm an aquarium. Right, So we say what

589
00:27:45,359 --> 00:27:47,600
Speaker 2: we got to say, and we keep it moving, Okay, right,

590
00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:50,320
Speaker 2: I'm not hanging on to it, and it's and so

591
00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:53,200
Speaker 2: that's a bit disorienting for people because they want to

592
00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:55,760
Speaker 2: stay mad and I'm like, oh no, I'm over it. Okay,

593
00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:57,000
Speaker 2: you know, I said what I had to say. Back

594
00:27:57,040 --> 00:28:00,520
Speaker 2: and you don't raise your voice like very rare. I mean,

595
00:28:00,520 --> 00:28:02,200
Speaker 2: there are a few times when people have gotten me

596
00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:04,399
Speaker 2: to the who the and it's usually my daughter. No,

597
00:28:04,440 --> 00:28:08,840
Speaker 2: I'm just heading, but not very rarely am I Just like,

598
00:28:09,560 --> 00:28:12,880
Speaker 2: you know, because and that's something just very quickly going

599
00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:14,760
Speaker 2: back to the franchise I said all the time, like

600
00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:19,639
Speaker 2: you can't express yourself and be taken seriously and people

601
00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:24,119
Speaker 2: know not you know, without it evolving and becoming you know,

602
00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:26,440
Speaker 2: it's certainly without it having to adveraget fils.

603
00:28:26,560 --> 00:28:30,200
Speaker 1: People like to see things turn into yelling and screaming

604
00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:33,920
Speaker 1: on you know. That's what I feel like that when

605
00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:35,680
Speaker 1: it comes to that. I also feel like people when

606
00:28:35,680 --> 00:28:38,000
Speaker 1: they're on these shows, they like to do that because

607
00:28:38,040 --> 00:28:42,520
Speaker 1: it gets more you know, yeah, spect later and they're

608
00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:44,880
Speaker 1: like I should have said, I should have that.

609
00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:47,440
Speaker 2: There's nothing like a good read. I feel like we

610
00:28:47,520 --> 00:28:51,560
Speaker 2: appreciate that too. It words together make it.

611
00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:54,840
Speaker 1: You know, it's got to be clever, exactly, you gotta be.

612
00:28:56,640 --> 00:28:58,320
Speaker 2: You got to you got to think about it so

613
00:28:58,360 --> 00:29:02,600
Speaker 2: that you but you just got to know how to

614
00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:08,280
Speaker 2: deliver it. Yeah, premeditatedly spontaneous, yes, you know.

615
00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:12,800
Speaker 1: Well mona one more thing too. So when it comes

616
00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:16,000
Speaker 1: to this, obviously you're loving this, you know, scripted series,

617
00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:18,160
Speaker 1: I am. So do you think you would do more

618
00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:19,880
Speaker 1: shows like in the reality amazing?

619
00:29:20,320 --> 00:29:22,640
Speaker 2: Well, you mean, am I still doing unscripted?

620
00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:24,560
Speaker 1: Yeah? Absolutely absolutely.

621
00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:26,840
Speaker 2: We've got you know a ton of things in development,

622
00:29:26,960 --> 00:29:30,720
Speaker 2: things that we're waiting for the green light on music,

623
00:29:30,840 --> 00:29:35,880
Speaker 2: everything from like competition shows to formats. You know, We've

624
00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:37,640
Speaker 2: got a lot of things that we're working on with

625
00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:40,720
Speaker 2: a number of networks. Hopefully some announcements you know, coming

626
00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:43,200
Speaker 2: in the near future. But we're also working on more

627
00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:46,640
Speaker 2: scripted projects as well. We have another film that's in

628
00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:50,040
Speaker 2: the finishing stages, you know, and the strike, of course,

629
00:29:50,080 --> 00:29:52,320
Speaker 2: out of respect for the writers and the actors, we've

630
00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:55,920
Speaker 2: you know, stopped down even on development on the scripted side.

631
00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:59,440
Speaker 2: But hopefully now that you know, everything is getting resolved,

632
00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:02,160
Speaker 2: we can get to work. Yeah, but we're just finishing

633
00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:03,960
Speaker 2: up on a project that you know, we had shot

634
00:30:04,040 --> 00:30:07,080
Speaker 2: thankfully before the strike went into effect, and hopefully now

635
00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:09,240
Speaker 2: that everything's lifted, we'll be able to get it up

636
00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:13,520
Speaker 2: on your screen scripted or scripted Yes story. Ms. Vivika

637
00:30:13,560 --> 00:30:18,560
Speaker 2: Foxo Yes and Jesse He co wrote and directed the project. Okay,

638
00:30:18,640 --> 00:30:22,000
Speaker 2: Jesse Smole, Jesse Smoley, do you have.

639
00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:24,480
Speaker 1: A passion project that one day that you haven't done yet,

640
00:30:24,520 --> 00:30:26,880
Speaker 1: but you know on your bucket list one day? I

641
00:30:26,920 --> 00:30:28,480
Speaker 1: would love to get this.

642
00:30:29,200 --> 00:30:30,880
Speaker 2: I've got to give the answer to that, because you're

643
00:30:30,920 --> 00:30:33,320
Speaker 2: like the second person that asked me that question.

644
00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:35,920
Speaker 1: Because I I can see you saying, Okay, at some point,

645
00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:40,360
Speaker 1: I would love to do uh you know, uh uh

646
00:30:40,440 --> 00:30:42,320
Speaker 1: what do you call it? Was that based on a

647
00:30:42,360 --> 00:30:44,200
Speaker 1: two yeah biopic on Missy Elliott?

648
00:30:44,320 --> 00:30:48,080
Speaker 2: Oh? Well, you know, Missy doesn't want to do a

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Speaker 2: Missy biopic. You know, she just feels like her story

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Speaker 2: is still being written. Of course, we get asked about

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Speaker 2: that almost on a daily what would that story be?

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Speaker 2: I don't know, you know, because there's nothing. I'm just like, oh,

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Speaker 2: that's the Holy grail everything that I'm thinking about. I

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Speaker 2: kind of try to get moving on. So I've got

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Speaker 2: a lot, like I said, in development, but nothing that.

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Speaker 3: Is like what about what about your telling your own story?

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Speaker 2: Oh? God, people would be bored. That's the funny part.

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Speaker 1: I'm telling you.

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Speaker 2: They'd be like, really, that was it? You know, you

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Speaker 2: met a dude, you found love. You y'all had some kids.

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Speaker 2: You know, people just swear that I'm gonna up. I

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Speaker 2: could up, yes, take some creative liberties.

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Speaker 1: Well, thank you so much for coming through. And I

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Speaker 1: know as things are developing with all these new projects,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna give us a little heads up.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely. I love this way up, I love this connection.

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Speaker 2: I love this duo. So thank you for having me.

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Speaker 1: Do you ever walk out of interviews and be like

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Speaker 1: fuck them?

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Speaker 2: No, I would have said it in the room.

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Speaker 1: All right. Well, Mona Scott Young you guys, make sure

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Speaker 1: you check out Love and Murder.

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Speaker 2: Oh sorry, thank you.

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Speaker 1: Love and Marri Atlanta Playboy on B E T Plus

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Speaker 1: Parts one and part two.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, thank you so much for having me, ladies, thank

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Speaker 2: you my much. Well,