WEBVTT - TRACEE ELLIS ROSS 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:13.319 Hi there, Welcome to Love Someone with Delilah. That the 0:00:13.360 --> 0:00:16.759 title of my podcast is going to tie in so 0:00:16.960 --> 0:00:21.240 perfectly with what we're going to talk about today and 0:00:21.320 --> 0:00:24.000 who we're going to talk with today. Today, we are 0:00:24.079 --> 0:00:27.720 going to have the pleasure of talking with an amazingly 0:00:28.760 --> 0:00:34.919 multi talented, beautiful, strong woman. Some of you may know 0:00:35.040 --> 0:00:38.560 her name, some of you may recognize her work, and 0:00:38.880 --> 0:00:41.920 if you're some of the ones that don't, I promise 0:00:42.600 --> 0:00:45.680 you will be looking her up after you listen to this. 0:00:46.680 --> 0:00:51.400 She's the daughter of a celebrity songstress heard often on 0:00:51.440 --> 0:00:56.400 my radio show, but she is so much more than 0:00:56.480 --> 0:01:00.240 just a famous singer's daughter. You're probably familiar or with 0:01:00.280 --> 0:01:05.160 her starring role as Dr Rainbow bo Johnson on the 0:01:05.200 --> 0:01:11.480 ABC comedy Blackish now in its sixth season. Before that, 0:01:11.640 --> 0:01:16.280 she hosted Lifetimes the Dish and played Joan Clayton in 0:01:16.360 --> 0:01:21.360 the up n c W comedy Girlfriends. And that's only 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:24.960 a couple of the items on her very very impressive, 0:01:25.120 --> 0:01:30.840 very long resume. Today, we have Tracy Ellis Ross with 0:01:30.920 --> 0:01:34.160 us to talk about her new movie Out the High Note, 0:01:34.640 --> 0:01:38.600 and more specifically her single And I said, it's going 0:01:38.640 --> 0:01:41.040 to tale in perfectly with the title of this podcast, 0:01:41.280 --> 0:01:45.640 Love Someone. The single is called Love Myself and that 0:01:46.200 --> 0:01:48.720 is the lead off the soundtrack. The lead song off 0:01:48.760 --> 0:01:53.920 the soundtrack Welcome to Love Someone with Delilah Tracy Ellis Ross. 0:01:54.040 --> 0:01:57.520 Do you know how how excited I am when Jenny 0:01:57.600 --> 0:01:59.920 told me that I got to talk to you. Thank you, 0:02:00.480 --> 0:02:03.360 thank you for agreeing to view with us. Oh my god, 0:02:03.360 --> 0:02:05.480 I'm so excited. The name of your show is It's 0:02:05.560 --> 0:02:08.520 so perfect, isn't it Given the name of the single 0:02:08.639 --> 0:02:11.359 that we're going to be talking about, you know, that's 0:02:11.400 --> 0:02:16.600 like perfect kissmith there. So before we get started and 0:02:16.720 --> 0:02:19.240 start talking about the movie, do you have ever have 0:02:19.400 --> 0:02:23.840 this weird thing happened where you're like looking for sandals 0:02:24.000 --> 0:02:27.760 or a pedicure stay at home pedicure kit and all 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:31.079 of a sudden ads start popping up on your cell phone? 0:02:31.320 --> 0:02:35.360 Does that happen to you? Yeah, because it's an actual thing, Delilah. 0:02:35.520 --> 0:02:43.280 There is a service that people can corporations can pay 0:02:43.400 --> 0:02:46.880 for where they can hear and there's like different tiers. 0:02:46.919 --> 0:02:50.280 I can't remember what it's called, but there's different tiers 0:02:50.440 --> 0:02:53.600 like if you, for example, our Breakfast Cereal, you can 0:02:53.639 --> 0:02:56.960 pay to just put an ad in if somebody talks 0:02:57.000 --> 0:03:00.160 about food, or you could be even more specific, if 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:03.680 someone talks about breakfast, or even more specific, if someone 0:03:03.720 --> 0:03:07.000 mentioned cereal, then your ad will go into their feed. 0:03:07.240 --> 0:03:11.160 But I'm not googling breakfast cereal? Are they literally they 0:03:11.200 --> 0:03:15.480 can hear you? Okay? How do they know that that 0:03:15.639 --> 0:03:20.679 I love sappy love songs and sappy movies Because I'm 0:03:20.680 --> 0:03:24.120 not kidding you. Your movie it comes up in every 0:03:24.240 --> 0:03:27.360 feed I'm on and I'm already like, I can't wait 0:03:27.440 --> 0:03:30.240 to see it, I'm dying to see it. But every 0:03:30.360 --> 0:03:34.280 five minutes I'm seeing new clips from your movie? Is 0:03:34.320 --> 0:03:37.440 it reading my mind? It's because the name of your 0:03:37.480 --> 0:03:40.760 show is Love and the World, and the energy and 0:03:40.880 --> 0:03:44.440 frequency of the world is connected to your heart, specifically Delilah. 0:03:44.760 --> 0:03:48.040 And they know that you're gonna love the movie, so 0:03:48.120 --> 0:03:50.360 they just keep inundating you with it because they don't 0:03:50.400 --> 0:03:53.680 want you to forget. It's crazy because I started seeing 0:03:53.760 --> 0:03:56.640 ads for your movie that we're going to talk about 0:03:56.680 --> 0:03:58.840 the High Note probably I don't know, a month ago, 0:03:59.240 --> 0:04:01.440 and I was saying to young we're in quarantine. How 0:04:01.440 --> 0:04:03.200 am I going to see this thing? And we're in 0:04:03.440 --> 0:04:04.960 and then all of a sudden, it's like it's gonna 0:04:05.000 --> 0:04:07.040 be on pay per view, you can watch it. I'm like, 0:04:07.200 --> 0:04:12.720 how did you know? I was thinking that it's crazy. 0:04:13.240 --> 0:04:16.960 I don't know. Somebody in your head, somebody's in my head. 0:04:17.400 --> 0:04:21.119 Somebody is in my head. It's it is weird. Now, 0:04:21.440 --> 0:04:23.760 let's talk about this movie that I'm seeing all the 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:27.360 ads for. Did they just like take out the best 0:04:27.400 --> 0:04:30.359 clips to put in the ad? Uh? You star in 0:04:30.400 --> 0:04:34.880 it with Dakota Johnson, who looks like she plays the 0:04:35.040 --> 0:04:39.359 part beautifully? What what is this movie about? And what 0:04:39.520 --> 0:04:43.599 about the story resonated in your heart? I am so 0:04:43.839 --> 0:04:47.680 I cannot. I cannot tell you the patients that I 0:04:49.200 --> 0:04:55.480 and then when this pandemic hit, I'm like, what's um? So, 0:04:55.600 --> 0:04:57.880 I'm so thrilled that people are finally going to be 0:04:57.920 --> 0:05:00.320 able to see it. I'm I'm so proud to what 0:05:00.360 --> 0:05:02.040 we did. And when I went to see it, when 0:05:02.080 --> 0:05:04.080 I went to see the screening, I was like, this 0:05:04.200 --> 0:05:07.839 is a feel good movie. Man. When was the last 0:05:07.880 --> 0:05:10.640 time I went to the movie theater or like saw 0:05:10.680 --> 0:05:13.040 a movie that was just like Major Heart feel all 0:05:13.040 --> 0:05:17.160 warm and fuzzy, And that's this movie. See. I'm watching 0:05:17.200 --> 0:05:21.040 the little clips that have been released, and it looks 0:05:21.080 --> 0:05:23.200 like a feel good movie, but it also looks like 0:05:23.279 --> 0:05:27.680 such an empowering movie. Like I'm sitting there cheering you 0:05:27.760 --> 0:05:31.719 on and cheering on your character. And there's one line 0:05:31.760 --> 0:05:34.600 that's in the clip that keeps coming up in my 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:39.440 feed when you say only five women over fifty had 0:05:39.480 --> 0:05:42.240 a number one hit and and only one of them 0:05:42.279 --> 0:05:47.440 was black. And I'm like, prencient sister, Yeah, I you know, Um, 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:50.479 it's so crazy that, at first of all, I love 0:05:50.560 --> 0:05:52.600 that you say that it's like an empowering movie. That 0:05:52.680 --> 0:05:54.560 was really one of the things that drew me to 0:05:54.640 --> 0:05:58.279 the role is the idea, the story of this woman 0:05:58.520 --> 0:06:00.880 who was at a place in her life where he 0:06:01.640 --> 0:06:05.520 didn't want to keep playing it's safe and didn't want 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:08.560 to keep being who he thinks the world wants her 0:06:08.600 --> 0:06:12.800 to be, but instead the who he is and let 0:06:12.880 --> 0:06:16.960 her think her her dream out, you know, the kind 0:06:17.000 --> 0:06:20.480 of voice that she wants to have. The trailers look wonderful, 0:06:20.640 --> 0:06:24.080 and and I was so empowered when I heard you 0:06:24.120 --> 0:06:27.480 saying that, because a couple of years ago, I was inducted. 0:06:27.839 --> 0:06:29.320 And I'm not trying to make this all about me, 0:06:29.320 --> 0:06:31.279 because it's not, but I was inducted into the Radio 0:06:31.320 --> 0:06:36.279 Hall of Fame. Okay, I was inducted into the Radio 0:06:36.320 --> 0:06:37.600 Hall of Fame. And I found out I was the 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:40.599 first woman inducted in the Radio Hall of Fame since 0:06:40.720 --> 0:06:45.880 Kate Smith for singing the national anthem No No. And 0:06:45.920 --> 0:06:48.520 I'm like, wait a minute, I've been I've been on 0:06:48.560 --> 0:06:50.479 the air for you know, a very long time. And 0:06:50.520 --> 0:06:52.400 I hear a lot of other women on the air, 0:06:52.560 --> 0:06:56.400 really good talented women on the air. Why has am 0:06:56.400 --> 0:06:58.680 I the first one inducted in twenty seven years or 0:06:58.760 --> 0:07:02.240 thirty seven years or whatever the crazy number was. And uh, 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:05.960 you know the the old adage a woman has to 0:07:06.000 --> 0:07:08.600 work twice as hard to get half the recognition as 0:07:08.640 --> 0:07:15.880 her male counterpart. Fortunately for us, that's easy. We're used 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:21.360 to works are being, choice is efficient, well multitasking. We 0:07:21.440 --> 0:07:24.360 need to pause here, Tracy for a brief moment so 0:07:24.400 --> 0:07:26.560 that we can share a message that helps to make 0:07:26.560 --> 0:07:30.080 this podcast possible. Hold on, when we come back, we'll 0:07:30.080 --> 0:07:33.480 talk about what it means to change the world one 0:07:33.640 --> 0:07:36.640 heart at a time. I told you I'm sheltering in 0:07:36.720 --> 0:07:40.280 place with five of my kids. Um, my husband and 0:07:40.280 --> 0:07:46.200 I are the only two, uh that are Caucasian. Everybody 0:07:46.240 --> 0:07:48.480 else in our household is a person of color. My 0:07:48.560 --> 0:07:51.160 in laws are Costa Rican. We just adopted a young 0:07:51.200 --> 0:07:56.720 woman who is Hispanic, and then my other children are 0:07:57.160 --> 0:08:02.520 are all um African and African American. And because you're 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:05.920 such a strong role model and such a beautiful woman, 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:10.120 and my four teenage girls, UH need that need that 0:08:10.240 --> 0:08:16.560 kind of UM positivity. M hm. You know, I think, UM, 0:08:16.600 --> 0:08:20.120 your household sounds like our world. You know, UM, we 0:08:20.920 --> 0:08:25.880 we all UM, there's such an inclusivity and how we 0:08:26.000 --> 0:08:29.560 love each other and the reality of that human connection. 0:08:30.440 --> 0:08:34.360 And UM, a moment like this in a pandemic UM, 0:08:34.400 --> 0:08:38.079 we get to see a glaring light on the inequity 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:41.320 that exists in our world. UM. And I do think 0:08:41.360 --> 0:08:45.840 that stories like this, UM that allow us to see 0:08:47.240 --> 0:08:53.000 see different um representations of what it is to be 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:56.400 a woman, UM, and to be a black woman, and 0:08:56.720 --> 0:08:59.520 those different kinds of journeys. Told you the face and 0:08:59.600 --> 0:09:03.079 being usum of different kinds of people is so important. 0:09:03.240 --> 0:09:06.120 You know. I know that inclusivity and diversity have become 0:09:06.200 --> 0:09:10.160 such buzzwords, but they are there because of the need 0:09:10.320 --> 0:09:12.880 and the desire for all of us to see ourselves 0:09:12.920 --> 0:09:17.080 mirrored back to ourselves in a way that we see possibility. 0:09:17.559 --> 0:09:21.839 We understand ourselves a little better, and we understand each 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:25.200 other a little bit better, both in our uniqueness that 0:09:25.280 --> 0:09:28.040 each of us have, that our cultures and our identities 0:09:28.080 --> 0:09:31.920 and um, and you know, the legacies that we all 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:35.160 come from and how beautiful they are and how they 0:09:35.160 --> 0:09:38.600 actually add something to our world and make our world 0:09:38.760 --> 0:09:42.439 a more interesting and wonderful place. But also how we 0:09:42.480 --> 0:09:45.920 are the same. You know, both things are true, and 0:09:46.000 --> 0:09:48.480 one doesn't discount the other. You know. I always say, 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:51.240 it's not like to me, it's not about a color 0:09:51.320 --> 0:09:55.520 blind world, but a colorful world. That's where all of 0:09:55.800 --> 0:09:58.640 the humanity and the robustness of life comes in as 0:09:58.640 --> 0:10:01.959 we get to really see all of um, what our 0:10:02.160 --> 0:10:05.319 world has to offer, different cultures and traditions and all 0:10:05.320 --> 0:10:08.400 of that that makes our world a better place. So yeah, 0:10:08.440 --> 0:10:11.520 I do. I think it's wonderful that you have a 0:10:11.559 --> 0:10:15.360 family that looks like our world. Um, and that you 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:18.080 guys will get to show up and see a movie 0:10:18.120 --> 0:10:23.000 and I love it. Um. How old are your teenagers? Uh? Well, 0:10:23.080 --> 0:10:28.240 baby d and my youngest is eleven going on fifteen. Uh. 0:10:28.280 --> 0:10:30.640 And then I have a fifteen year old, sixteen year old, 0:10:30.679 --> 0:10:34.839 and twenty one year old all with me right now. Amazing. Well, 0:10:35.120 --> 0:10:36.800 I don't know what kind of hair they have today, 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:39.880 have curly coil hair? Oh, we have every kind of 0:10:39.960 --> 0:10:43.200 hair in the world. Girlfriend. I have a line of 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:47.000 hair product for curly coile anti textures called Powdered Beauty 0:10:47.040 --> 0:10:49.760 that they should look up. The farm we're at is 0:10:49.800 --> 0:10:53.280 ten miles out in the Sticks, but there's a little 0:10:53.320 --> 0:10:56.679 town like twenty miles away in southern Oregon. And I 0:10:56.720 --> 0:10:59.199 was driving through the town the other day because I 0:10:59.280 --> 0:11:01.160 just dropped my mother in law off at the hospital 0:11:01.240 --> 0:11:03.920 to have a procedure done. And she's Hispanic, and although 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:06.360 she's been here a long time, she doesn't speak English well. 0:11:06.679 --> 0:11:09.240 And they wouldn't let me go in to translate for her, 0:11:09.920 --> 0:11:13.439 and they don't have a translator there. So what what 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:15.840 they said is, we will call you on her cell 0:11:15.840 --> 0:11:19.360 phone and then we will talk with you, you know, 0:11:19.440 --> 0:11:22.040 so you'll be able to tell us everything. Okay, So 0:11:22.120 --> 0:11:24.120 we do that. It takes about an hour, and then 0:11:24.160 --> 0:11:26.600 they said it's going to be about two hours. So 0:11:26.920 --> 0:11:29.480 I took my father in law and we're driving down 0:11:29.480 --> 0:11:33.319 a side street and I see a backyard that looks 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:38.160 like a little paradise. It's like this fabulous little garden 0:11:38.280 --> 0:11:41.840 of beauty and wonderment. And I am passionate about gardening 0:11:42.440 --> 0:11:45.480 and and I'm trying to encourage everybody to plant a 0:11:45.559 --> 0:11:48.959 garden because it's good for your soul. And I had 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:51.040 to pull over. My father in law was like, you know, 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:52.520 ask me in Spanish what are you doing? And I 0:11:53.040 --> 0:11:55.080 have to pull over. I have to I have to 0:11:55.120 --> 0:11:57.120 see this beauty and if they're there, I have to 0:11:57.160 --> 0:11:59.200 tell them how much I love it. So I pull 0:11:59.280 --> 0:12:02.240 over and there's two men in the backyard working in 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:06.560 this beautiful little um shangar law. It was like a 0:12:06.600 --> 0:12:09.760 shangar law. And I just said, I need to tell 0:12:09.800 --> 0:12:13.800 you how beautiful this little, this little heaven is. And 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:15.720 they responded to me and they had a very strong 0:12:15.760 --> 0:12:17.880 African accent. And I said, oh, my gosh, are you 0:12:17.920 --> 0:12:20.360 from West Africa? And they're like, yes, how did you 0:12:20.400 --> 0:12:22.200 know that? And I said, well, I've been there thirty 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:25.280 two times and I have six children who are also 0:12:25.360 --> 0:12:27.559 from there. So we start talking. When we get back 0:12:27.559 --> 0:12:30.000 in the car, my father in law looks at me, says, Delilah, 0:12:30.160 --> 0:12:33.560 there's probably only two people from West Africa for a 0:12:33.640 --> 0:12:38.640 thousand miles and you find them. But we we just 0:12:38.720 --> 0:12:42.080 had this connection instantly over gardening and over my kids. 0:12:42.440 --> 0:12:44.720 So I went back. I've got a flock of chickens 0:12:44.720 --> 0:12:46.960 and I took them two dozen eggs. A couple of 0:12:47.000 --> 0:12:51.600 days later and the mom came out and she's and 0:12:51.640 --> 0:12:53.320 I had my daughters in the car, and she says, 0:12:53.320 --> 0:12:55.439 oh my gosh, who does their hair? I need someone 0:12:55.480 --> 0:12:57.600 to do my hair. And I said, I do their hair. 0:12:57.800 --> 0:13:01.080 She's like, no, you don't. I said, yeah I do. 0:13:01.800 --> 0:13:08.560 She's like that, that is impossible. Your fingers are white. 0:13:07.600 --> 0:13:12.400 Your fingers are white, was her comment. Like, yeah they are, 0:13:12.440 --> 0:13:15.880 but they've been they've been doing hair for a long time. 0:13:16.320 --> 0:13:18.600 So what's the name of your product, because I'm gonna 0:13:18.600 --> 0:13:22.440 get her some too. 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When I'm no longer 0:15:22.560 --> 0:15:25.680 in the middle of nowhere and you're somewhere, I'd love 0:15:25.720 --> 0:15:27.760 to bring my girls to come and meet you. But 0:15:27.880 --> 0:15:30.520 until then, I think you'll be amazing and I'm so 0:15:30.600 --> 0:15:33.040 excited for you to see the high Note. I can't 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:35.240 wait to hear what you think. Then I can't wait 0:15:35.280 --> 0:15:37.360 for you to hear all the music um and I 0:15:37.440 --> 0:15:39.760 hope that it makes you feel good and that you 0:15:39.800 --> 0:15:42.600 can have it, create a little event with your family 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:45.520 and get dressed up and watching. Thank you, Tracy, God 0:15:45.520 --> 0:15:46.920 bless you, and I'll talk to you soon.