Speaker 1: He laugh. If you watch coffee time too, baby, you
Speaker 1: know the name Flame, my role also known as my
Speaker 1: role Flame. Come in with last and come in with
Speaker 1: jawn love lounds. Baby, you better catch it when you
Speaker 1: can't drop a knowledge from fatherhood to polytics shouting now
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Speaker 1: she raped shot towns on speaking to the ground. And
Speaker 1: second we're gonna last coin of the kicking in at
Speaker 1: the end. We leave it with just a lift. You
Speaker 1: spirits think you want to revisit, tell your first take
Speaker 1: a list of your folks. Say it's lif all folks
Speaker 1: that we take it. No do what you don't, No
Speaker 1: fish do what you do? Can't, No fish do what
Speaker 1: I do? No fish? What's up? Y'all? Welcome to laugh
Speaker 1: and learned with Flame Monroe, Laurie Hogi, that's Lauren and
Speaker 1: Nick Smith. We're gonna bring him on a minute. Our
Speaker 1: very special guests will be here in a minute. She's
Speaker 1: running a little late. She's bucked and busy. She's very
Speaker 1: booked and she's very busy, but she's very here. Long.
Speaker 1: I can't see you slide over. I am today. I
Speaker 1: took a bath, but we do have a fabulous cameraman
Speaker 1: Kendle here and I wonderful producer Triple and we got
Speaker 1: you Flame's coming on the end. We're gonna give you
Speaker 1: all the show. We're gonna talk about some things and
Speaker 1: you've been in the world. Wait a minutelet me give
Speaker 1: you all this. Y'all see my circus tent. Look at
Speaker 1: the circus tent. Look at the heels are alive with
Speaker 1: the sound of music. No, we're gonna have a great
Speaker 1: time today. How have you been. How was your week traveling? Honey? Yeah,
Speaker 1: last week was rough. It was very, very busy work wise,
Speaker 1: and then I went to Atlanta on Thursday and I
Speaker 1: got back yesterday morning and found out for my other job,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be on a plane at least once a
Speaker 1: month until December. So it's gonna be nice and fun.
Speaker 1: You know, traveling is not the same traveling. It can
Speaker 1: be a little horrendous right now, everybody's on edge. Some
Speaker 1: people want to be disgrunted. You do know that with traveling,
Speaker 1: the restrictions are you must wear your mask on the planes.
Speaker 1: That is one of the biggest issues that people are
Speaker 1: having on the plane. Because I was just traveling to
Speaker 1: to Chicago and people just do not want to see
Speaker 1: with that mask on for three or four hours, but
Speaker 1: they'll pull it like halfway down. So the and the
Speaker 1: flighter tendants are like, can you please put your mask
Speaker 1: over your nose, in your mouth. I'm gonna need the
Speaker 1: flat the flight of tendants to get more personal with that.
Speaker 1: Stop staying it publicly and just go to that person. Dude,
Speaker 1: do you want to get kicked off this plane because
Speaker 1: we could just let you off for a thirty feet
Speaker 1: That's what I had on my plane. It was a
Speaker 1: real white lady. She was like, sir, you need to
Speaker 1: lift up your mask. She was she was on it.
Speaker 1: She was a little aggressive, but you know she you
Speaker 1: have to be with these people because that's where we're at. Um.
Speaker 1: Today's show is going to be very inspiring for me
Speaker 1: more so than anybody else, because this was the lady
Speaker 1: who's coming on, who gave me a break, who saw
Speaker 1: me and said, you know what, come on, I got
Speaker 1: something for you. So she didn't let me stand in
Speaker 1: hers and she didn't let me stand in her shadow.
Speaker 1: She let me stand in Harshan and it worked. Bring
Speaker 1: Nick on Lawrence, so we can bring on other co
Speaker 1: host Nick Smith news Oh oh oh you flame mess,
Speaker 1: you'll get it, questions together and type of big because
Speaker 1: you know I can't see oh man t but I
Speaker 1: look good, smells. I did a drag show last night.
Speaker 1: Thank you guys for coming to on cash app and
Speaker 1: tipping and watching the show on Instagram and all that.
Speaker 1: Hi Nick, Hello, everybody. How are you doing? Lauren? I'm good.
Speaker 1: How are you doing? All right? You're the one who's
Speaker 1: been on the road, so we you know, we keep
Speaker 1: you in prayer and in in thought anytime you're traveling like that.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Please do yes. Because I was telling the
Speaker 1: Flame Loki this man got into a flight attending yesterday.
Speaker 1: It was a lot, literally and I was sitting by
Speaker 1: the door too, and you know they already had the
Speaker 1: situation where somebody tried to open up the door in
Speaker 1: the middle of the flight. I did go to sleep,
Speaker 1: but still, you know, it was a lot. It was
Speaker 1: a lot going on. So but I appreciate the prayer.
Speaker 1: Thank you. You seem a little low. Your your volume
Speaker 1: seems a little low. How was your a week? My
Speaker 1: volume sees because you just shine so bright. Flame, that's
Speaker 1: what it is. Somebody that that part we know but
Speaker 1: I'm just asking about your the sound of your bed.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm a beach. I know that. Feel like
Speaker 1: I don't need validation from you at all. I got
Speaker 1: this thing. You just okay, let me a justice volume.
Speaker 1: But bit ask triple how that sounds? Now? How am
Speaker 1: I now trouble you? Sound good? Alright? Alright, sounds good.
Speaker 1: A little late, she'll be here about ten minutes. The
Speaker 1: world has opened up, and you know we're in Long
Speaker 1: Beach and the traffic is back to California traffic. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: Can we talk about a rather spectacular show yesterday? What
Speaker 1: the sho uh? From the shot? Yes, from the shot,
Speaker 1: So that's that's close. But I'm looking at all the
Speaker 1: comments from the flame mats, it looks like I was
Speaker 1: not the only one to tune into someone really bringing
Speaker 1: down the house old school style. Talk to us about that, Well,
Speaker 1: I got to be old school song so like, and
Speaker 1: we're gonna say old school, I worked at it. Let
Speaker 1: me check something. Two cans and and in Palm Springs
Speaker 1: is a bar that caters to uh. Seasoned White gave me,
Speaker 1: in season White gave me and love Diana Rolls, Donna Summer,
Speaker 1: and Tina Turner. I e seasoned black gave me and
Speaker 1: that du Dreg loves Diana Rowles do too. I did
Speaker 1: give y'all some babies that shot town. Baby. You know
Speaker 1: I'm always representing my city. It was great. Thank you
Speaker 1: guys for tuning in. I had a really good time.
Speaker 1: So Nick, how was your week? What's been going on
Speaker 1: with traveling a little bit too, Lauren, you know it's
Speaker 1: been um, It's been a good week. Nothing over the top.
Speaker 1: I've been kind of preparing this week because I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go to drop in and see my mom this weekend.
Speaker 1: But block block them. Sorry, enjoy popped up. Sorry, somebody
Speaker 1: says something nasty, bitch, go jump off a bridge without
Speaker 1: water up under the bottom because my thought that your
Speaker 1: mama's busted in your daddy, or your daddy busted in
Speaker 1: your mama. He should have busted any other lady. Then
Speaker 1: you wouldn't be here. Trollers are moving. I have no
Speaker 1: issues with black controls. I'm real grown. Kiss my dick
Speaker 1: in the face. I don't care how you feel, nigger.
Speaker 1: This may be a good time to remind flame Matts
Speaker 1: and those who may be joining us for the first
Speaker 1: time that if you want to sound out, we encourage
Speaker 1: you to do so, but we do ask that you
Speaker 1: be respectful and that you type in capital letters so
Speaker 1: that Flame can read it at the bottom, and Lauren
Speaker 1: and I will continue to monitor. But if you go sideways,
Speaker 1: Flame has no problem called straightening you up, babe. If
Speaker 1: you come at me sideways, I will straighten you up
Speaker 1: something that you didn't get in your DNA. But guess
Speaker 1: what Mother is here to deliver nine times out of
Speaker 1: time might see it before Flame, So you know these
Speaker 1: these as a no good I can't see. I'm like
Speaker 1: Stevie wonder, I ain't never made a mistake what this
Speaker 1: was that? But I can hear it, I can smell it.
Speaker 1: I think Stevie can smell it. Probably, I think you
Speaker 1: know Stephanie Mills. Stephanie Mills was on Breakfast Club this morning.
Speaker 1: She said she was dynamic and she was saying to
Speaker 1: Stevie she believes Stevie can see step Stephanie Mills said,
Speaker 1: a whole lot of ships. So let me just start right,
Speaker 1: you know what to Flame before we go in too far.
Speaker 1: I do want to give a shout out to our
Speaker 1: photographer Kendall. Why because Kendall and I communicated over the weekend,
Speaker 1: he was working on editing the show. So if you
Speaker 1: all have not had a chance to see last week's
Speaker 1: show with Tashak our special guest, I encourage you to
Speaker 1: do so on Flames Page, Lawrence Page or mine. Boy
Speaker 1: Kendall did is he did a little bit of editing,
Speaker 1: and he gave me a Chicago skyline. So he's like, Nick,
Speaker 1: I like the green screen behind you. Keep that going
Speaker 1: because that helps me get more creative. And we knew
Speaker 1: that mother Voucher would approve. Well, maybe if you would
Speaker 1: have given you a California skyline, you'd be here. You
Speaker 1: know how about right? Thank you those great Let me
Speaker 1: tell you something. Kinder Love's coming too the house because
Speaker 1: guess what Kendall can do. This skinny food can eat.
Speaker 1: I don't know how he stayed one pound and no
Speaker 1: ounces because I look at food and just be like,
Speaker 1: Kiki way just pregnant if you just look at but
Speaker 1: she could say, so, I have one. I have one
Speaker 1: other shout out I want to give out you guys.
Speaker 1: This weekend, as you know, was June tenth, So this
Speaker 1: weekend I went to the memorial for Little Rock Central
Speaker 1: High School. What is that? Little Rock Central High School
Speaker 1: was the site of the first place for integration. Well,
Speaker 1: I one, I just did that tour because I wanted
Speaker 1: to do something in recognition of our history and where
Speaker 1: we've come. So I went to the statue which is
Speaker 1: across town near the state capitol here in Little Rock, Arkansas,
Speaker 1: and I met Miss Elizabeth Eckfort MS. Elizabeth Effort was
Speaker 1: the first She's part of the group to uh integrate
Speaker 1: and uh it was amazing running into this woman who
Speaker 1: was living history, you know, and she could not have
Speaker 1: been more gracious. I introduced myself, told her how how
Speaker 1: inspiring her story was and the courage it must have taken,
Speaker 1: and just recognize him once again, the power of strong
Speaker 1: black women. So I'll keep going until you want us
Speaker 1: to go ahead and get settled there. Keep on. So
Speaker 1: it was just amazing, Elizabeth Effort. I posted a picture
Speaker 1: of the two of us on my Instagram page because
Speaker 1: the picture of where she was being yelled at by
Speaker 1: a crowd of um white citizens and spat at brick
Speaker 1: strown at the courage and strength it not only took her,
Speaker 1: but the other eight who were all part of the
Speaker 1: Little Rock Nine, was just absolutely amazing. So if you
Speaker 1: all have not had a chance to either hear the
Speaker 1: story or learn the story. I would encourage you to,
Speaker 1: uh just look up miss Elizabeth Effort and the other
Speaker 1: members of the Little Rock Nine. So it's just it
Speaker 1: was amazing to see her and see her story. I
Speaker 1: saw your photos, Nick, they looked really lovely. I didn't
Speaker 1: even know that they actually had that statue there. So
Speaker 1: that's really impressive and amazing that they erected that for
Speaker 1: people to see and have that moment in history. Hill.
Speaker 1: Look who's here, everybody? Our special guest just arrived. It
Speaker 1: looks like, thank you, thank you. There you go, welcome,
Speaker 1: welcome to I'm good. How are you to drink? Thank you?
Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, very special guests in the house.
Speaker 1: Not only is she my friend, but I am a fan.
Speaker 1: I am humbled and honored that she saw me. And
Speaker 1: I mean just what I said, that she saw me
Speaker 1: and allowed me to stand not in her shadow but
Speaker 1: in her shine. Lady, Please welcome to the stage or
Speaker 1: to the show. Our girlfriend, my baby, the executive producer
Speaker 1: of this show. She also our boss. We ready, We'll
Speaker 1: be ready, were ready for this one hour? That for
Speaker 1: why do white Netflix? One hour and left the road
Speaker 1: it's good to see. The driver was okay, did you
Speaker 1: charge your car? You said, got of charging more? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I thought it like I didn't. I didn't need to
Speaker 1: charge it up though it was already charged. I'm just
Speaker 1: goodn't say I'm plugging it up. Oh you feel so good.
Speaker 1: Thank you. I've been putting moisturized what's his name, moisturized shake,
Speaker 1: but very pleased to have you here. Thank you for
Speaker 1: this show, this platform and coming on and push this
Speaker 1: with us, so we appreciate it to talk. I love
Speaker 1: you more, and I know you love me. That's that's
Speaker 1: what's real. I do know that you actually love me.
Speaker 1: Everybody's gonna say that because you know I could be
Speaker 1: a bit me too. I have a head name. I
Speaker 1: haven't had the experience, okay, just like a show. I
Speaker 1: don't have the experience of your bitchy side as of yet.
Speaker 1: You haven't experienced it yet and somebody else. But see,
Speaker 1: I'm a smart bitch. When you when you go into
Speaker 1: that tippany, guess what I do. Back the funk up.
Speaker 1: Like I'm leaving, I just come back later. I'm about
Speaker 1: my business. Very that's and that's what people need to know.
Speaker 1: What Tippany has that because to me, greatness is getting
Speaker 1: to a platform and the world sees you as great.
Speaker 1: What makes you great is that you take so many
Speaker 1: other people with you along the journey to help other people,
Speaker 1: because we put on earth to love God and help
Speaker 1: other people. That's what I believe, and you have helped
Speaker 1: a lot of us. Well, you know, I'm just doing
Speaker 1: for others what I wish they would have done for me.
Speaker 1: You know, treat people the way you want to be treated.
Speaker 1: And you know that. Somebody the other day was telling me, Tippy,
Speaker 1: you know you're a gatekeeper. You know you're a gatekeeper.
Speaker 1: I say no, no, no no, no, no, no no, I'm
Speaker 1: not a gatekeeper. I'm a gate remover. I'm over there
Speaker 1: trying to take the gate off the henges Maid Dawn
Speaker 1: and we can just walk on across and it's like,
Speaker 1: come on, everybody, if you're ready, let's go, like go through.
Speaker 1: It's no excuse to be like, oh, I can't do this.
Speaker 1: They're not letting me know. You you can create it,
Speaker 1: you can make it happen. And I knocked the gate down,
Speaker 1: So let's go. So the new project that you have
Speaker 1: right now, first of all, let's talk about the kids,
Speaker 1: says Donna's Things is probably one of my favorite show
Speaker 1: because I love that you get down with those kids.
Speaker 1: You don't make them be grown, You go right with
Speaker 1: those kids. Are yeah, yeah, that is the real talent.
Speaker 1: Where where did you actually because you have no children?
Speaker 1: Right right? Right? But how can you relate to these
Speaker 1: kids so well? Because these kids love you too well.
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm a big kid at heart, right,
Speaker 1: let's be honest. And and I missed being a kid.
Speaker 1: But and and I just talked to them the way
Speaker 1: that I wish adults would have talked to me back then,
Speaker 1: you know. And I treat them like they are people.
Speaker 1: They are they are little people, and you know, listening
Speaker 1: to them, I think it's super important. A lot of
Speaker 1: times the producers are in my ear and they're like
Speaker 1: asking this, asking this, asking that, change something to go
Speaker 1: to this, and I'm like, no, I'm listening to this child.
Speaker 1: I'm having a conversation with him, and they see me
Speaker 1: seeing them, and and that's that. And that's where the
Speaker 1: magic happens. Is when people feel like they are being recognized,
Speaker 1: especially children, when they are being heard, then magic happens.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's number one on prime time right now.
Speaker 1: So I'm doing something right, you know what I'm thinking
Speaker 1: it a part of the it is now that you
Speaker 1: move to a different network, you change clothes, you change hair,
Speaker 1: You give them so many different flavors and so many
Speaker 1: different options, and people love options, and you get those
Speaker 1: kids options. That is dope. Well, that's for the people
Speaker 1: at home. That the looks, it's for the people at home.
Speaker 1: You know. I'm trying to check it to the new levels.
Speaker 1: The goal is to be on the cover of every
Speaker 1: Vogue magazine all around the world for fashion. Because I
Speaker 1: haven't seen any comedians to do that yet. I was
Speaker 1: thinking about really dressing up, dressing up, and I thought,
Speaker 1: it's too hot today. Where my beautiful son dressed Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: which kicked off this Friday, your new talk show on TVs,
Speaker 1: right yeah. And you have Snoop on that. I love you.
Speaker 1: Snoop got some piece I got you who I will
Speaker 1: give it to you now. But girl, you might say something, man,
Speaker 1: I might say something Landage without this rock this um
Speaker 1: And you had Dion Cole on that, who's from Chicago
Speaker 1: like me, who's been coming in comedy longer than me.
Speaker 1: But it's a good friend of Man. How is in
Speaker 1: this show? How do you like it? Um? I like
Speaker 1: it a lot. It's super fun. Um, we get really
Speaker 1: great guests. We have some really cool ones coming up
Speaker 1: in the next episode next Friday. And what I love
Speaker 1: the most about it is it's another place where you
Speaker 1: haven't seen me yet, but you will see where I
Speaker 1: get to give more people opportunity to shine new talent.
Speaker 1: It's like get them a chance to be on and
Speaker 1: so I'm super excited about that part that's coming. That's
Speaker 1: our partner there, Nick Smith, Nick saying hello, Tiffany. You
Speaker 1: know the deal is Tiffany, like Flame just said, just
Speaker 1: want to give you your flowers right here right now
Speaker 1: because of all the different projects that you're doing. But
Speaker 1: one of the questions that I have for you, Tiffany
Speaker 1: is going back to kids, say the darned this thing.
Speaker 1: How did you make that your own? How did you
Speaker 1: decide that, you know what, I'm going to make this
Speaker 1: the way that I want to do it and not
Speaker 1: listen to everybody else in my head? Well, um, first
Speaker 1: of all, but it's a team effort, right, So the
Speaker 1: producers that I'm working with, Eric shots and belling me
Speaker 1: the way the way that we are communicate is super
Speaker 1: duper important, right, And we wanted this show to be original,
Speaker 1: to be of my voice. I was very specific about, like,
Speaker 1: if we do this, I'm not doing it like all
Speaker 1: these men did it because I'm not a man. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm a woman and I and I think, in my now,
Speaker 1: in my heart, i think I'm a gay man in
Speaker 1: a black woman's body. But that's a whole another situation,
Speaker 1: a whole another day. Okay, a whole another time. But
Speaker 1: but um, I definitely wanted it to be like something
Speaker 1: I would want to watch, Like, can we make a
Speaker 1: show that I would want to watch? Can we make
Speaker 1: something that when I'm sitting at home, I'm like, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: let me leave this one. This makes me smile, And
Speaker 1: I feel like if it makes me smile, it makes
Speaker 1: me feel good, then it'll make at least another five
Speaker 1: thousand people feel that way. And for every one of
Speaker 1: those five thousands, they'll tell ten and that'll be you know,
Speaker 1: next to you know, you got fifty thousand, three million,
Speaker 1: three million people are watching, you know, so that's huge.
Speaker 1: When do you sleep? Um, when I'm not talking, I
Speaker 1: got a testa for a reason. They drive itself. Well,
Speaker 1: speaking of black Girl magic, because I'm gonna switch to this. Um.
Speaker 1: We're seeing so many things around the Olympics. You know,
Speaker 1: Shikari richards Oh my goodness, she's just such an amazing job.
Speaker 1: Simone Biles is going to Tokyo. I saw someone man
Speaker 1: well for a swimming. You gotta talk about Shakari Richardson
Speaker 1: and then your new project, Flow Jo because they're comparing
Speaker 1: her to Flow Joe and you have that coming up.
Speaker 1: So how is that project going? How did you prepare
Speaker 1: for it? Are you excited? Okay? So we are currently
Speaker 1: preparing for it. I don't know if you noticed. I
Speaker 1: lost about forty pounds and and losing more and lifting
Speaker 1: weights and getting my body shredded down to be Flow Joe.
Speaker 1: I'm learning everything there is to learn about her, spending
Speaker 1: time her husband is training me and teaching me and
Speaker 1: sharing footage with me. And when as I'm watching Chicari,
Speaker 1: I'm just so super proud. I'm so proud of her
Speaker 1: because I know how difficult where she coming from and
Speaker 1: where she's going and how hard that path is, and
Speaker 1: how everyone doubts you, and and and the devil be busy.
Speaker 1: He never the devil never takes vacation. Okay, the devil
Speaker 1: stay on trying to mess you up, and she is
Speaker 1: not allowing nothing to sway her. And I feel like,
Speaker 1: I mean, she's so young too, she's um. I feel
Speaker 1: like by the time she's she's gonna most likely if
Speaker 1: she stays consistent and focuses, she will most likely break
Speaker 1: that record. And I will be excited for her, very
Speaker 1: proud of her. And what is it like, what is
Speaker 1: it like working with Al Joyner? You're working with Al Joiner?
Speaker 1: He literally worked with the fastest woman ever. What is
Speaker 1: that like? What? What? What is that spiritual moment? Like? Well,
Speaker 1: it is It's huge because Al reminds me of like
Speaker 1: the big brother. I always wanted the uncle, the person
Speaker 1: that you always wanted in your life to be like
Speaker 1: motivating and pushing, and his guidance and advice is so
Speaker 1: on point, and he he can see you like he
Speaker 1: see me, like he passed all of jokes passed out
Speaker 1: of you know, the fame and all that. He sees
Speaker 1: Tiffany the little girl who just wants to do her
Speaker 1: best right, and he knows how to make that go.
Speaker 1: Like He's really been very instrumental in my last like
Speaker 1: two years on this planet. He's really been very I'm
Speaker 1: so glad I reached out to him on Instagram and
Speaker 1: he believed it was me because I was not gonna
Speaker 1: stop bothering him because I saw a video of him
Speaker 1: saying how he was able to you know, he was
Speaker 1: rehabbing this his um, his uh, his athletes and who
Speaker 1: had injuries. And I had tore my meniscuits while shooting
Speaker 1: my special and I'm like, I need help, and they
Speaker 1: wanted to do surgery and I was not about that
Speaker 1: surgery life. I'm not about it. I'm afraid of being
Speaker 1: put to sleep. And so he helped me, and I'm
Speaker 1: able to run, fast, jump high, and all kinds of things. Now, now,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, now, I don't be afraid of being
Speaker 1: put asleep. If it's the right kind of put to sleep,
Speaker 1: if it's some if it's something that's putting me to sleep,
Speaker 1: I'm with you. In fact, I'm Now we're drinking a
Speaker 1: little red wine, a little romance thing, and then oh,
Speaker 1: this is this is one of the reasons why you
Speaker 1: appeal to so many different audiences. This Tiffany is funny,
Speaker 1: can turn it on the you know, kids say the
Speaker 1: darknest things is the one I can sit there with
Speaker 1: my grandmother and and and and children and watching. It's
Speaker 1: just there are so many different facets to you. Do
Speaker 1: you continue to feel inspired to introduce the audiences to
Speaker 1: something new or you just like, hey, just go on
Speaker 1: this journey with me and let me let's figure it
Speaker 1: out together. Well, I think that let's go on this
Speaker 1: journey with me and let's figure it out together is
Speaker 1: the best way to go about it. I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: an onion. There's many many layers to me, and I
Speaker 1: might I might be delicious, I might be a little bitter,
Speaker 1: I might be hilarious. I might make you cry. Like
Speaker 1: it's it's so many different layers to me, and I'm
Speaker 1: I'm no different than any other human being, right, And
Speaker 1: I love a good adventure on a journey where you know,
Speaker 1: I kind of like that, I don't know what I'm
Speaker 1: gonna get, but let's go, let's see where we go,
Speaker 1: let's see where we end up. It's the wizard of us,
Speaker 1: you know, you know, And um, I love to bring
Speaker 1: my friends along with me to it really lift the
Speaker 1: journey up and make it more exciting. And and that's
Speaker 1: what we do. I mean, that's what I'll do. I'm
Speaker 1: I'm open to sharing. There are three lessons that I
Speaker 1: learned from you while we were touring on with the
Speaker 1: First Day Ready tour. Um one was never let anybody
Speaker 1: pay me less than you pay me. Number two was
Speaker 1: Tiffany would go on stage for all the haters and
Speaker 1: people would say, oh, she's not funny, she not this.
Speaker 1: Tiffany would go on the stage after selling out eight
Speaker 1: thousand seat arena. Our names were not on the bill,
Speaker 1: not mine, not Shontage's, not trade, She's not Marlowe's, not
Speaker 1: Iteas or April's. Our name was not on the bill.
Speaker 1: It said Tiffany had it sold out. We were just
Speaker 1: the asterisks, and she sold the place else. And so
Speaker 1: when she would come out, she said, just in case you,
Speaker 1: I wasn't funny for y'all the bitches that I brought
Speaker 1: more funny, So you still got your money's work. Even
Speaker 1: though Timmy would go out and do that hour and wreck.
Speaker 1: But it made me know that I was. You were
Speaker 1: so comfortable with you that no matter what a hater
Speaker 1: said or anybody else said, Babe, this is my job.
Speaker 1: I'm doing my job and I'm good at and y'all
Speaker 1: still coming. They kept coming. The meeting green Lands was
Speaker 1: as long as the eight thousands seat theaters, So meet
Speaker 1: and Greek would last for about three hours. Real taker,
Speaker 1: because I talked to every single person and talked to
Speaker 1: If you try to talk to me, I'm gonna talk
Speaker 1: to you. You know. I treat every single person the
Speaker 1: way I would want somebody to treat me. Now, if
Speaker 1: you treat me shitty, I'm gonna treat you what you
Speaker 1: get you get with you here. Tip told me never
Speaker 1: changed who I was to meet somebody else's demands, And
Speaker 1: I think I had that in my head, but until
Speaker 1: somebody else says it to you, then you don't know that.
Speaker 1: That's what's the reassurance. When you told me that, I
Speaker 1: was like, charl I could do anything. Come on with
Speaker 1: what y'all guy, let's do it. It was. It was
Speaker 1: great until I appreciate you. Not even to kiss your
Speaker 1: ass right now. Cameras it all the time anyway, But
Speaker 1: get that comments. You know, he from the Chicago, from
Speaker 1: the South Side. I don't want to roll up. What's
Speaker 1: the thing you taught me to tell him? That he
Speaker 1: do that? He makes me feel the food, the food
Speaker 1: fops that Chicago about the food pops. I'm not my
Speaker 1: mother watches the show. Your mama got the food pops
Speaker 1: to have your ass. I understand. So, Timmy, I know
Speaker 1: what's near to do to you, because everybody thinks that
Speaker 1: you're comical and that you're always doing this and doing that.
Speaker 1: But Tiffany is on Tippy was on the ground in
Speaker 1: Atlanta during the whole flipping Atlanta Flipping Georgia blue out.
Speaker 1: She was on the ground. How was that? How was that? Wait?
Speaker 1: Wait wait wait, I wasn't in You didn't. Oh, I
Speaker 1: thought you for because I saw you doing some fund
Speaker 1: raises in l A, l A Common Common you know,
Speaker 1: we like him gonna do the footwek. I was over
Speaker 1: here supporting holding down the household, you know a little bit,
Speaker 1: and talking about l A, holding down l A and
Speaker 1: talking about building generational wealth exactly exactly, sharing the information,
Speaker 1: sharing knowledge, doing that and doing it that way. I
Speaker 1: didn't go out there now, but you were entriguing part
Speaker 1: of the Black Lives Matter, Black Lives Matter movement here
Speaker 1: because I saw you on the microphone out there when
Speaker 1: they were Yeah, but I wasn't talking necessarily about black
Speaker 1: lives matter. I was talking about how important it is
Speaker 1: for us as a people to pound together, to stick together,
Speaker 1: and how much s up it is that the police
Speaker 1: are constantly, I feel like, trying to take us out.
Speaker 1: Not all the police, but there are someones that's trying
Speaker 1: to take us out. And I just wasn't feeling that,
Speaker 1: and I was expressing my emotions and my feelings about
Speaker 1: the situation and how I've watched people being killed and
Speaker 1: it's like, it's horrible, and I don't I just don't
Speaker 1: support the destruction of a race of people. And yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's what I was talking to. You agree that
Speaker 1: with with Police Reformed, that you can't grow up a
Speaker 1: little billy in this Caucasian community where he has never
Speaker 1: been introduced to black and brown people, and then you
Speaker 1: put them in our situation and we talk regressive, We
Speaker 1: talked about hid. Now, we're not gonna be violent towards you.
Speaker 1: We talked violent. We do we so if you learnt
Speaker 1: familiar with who we are, you instantly go for your guns. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because they're scared, and it's and that it's true. They
Speaker 1: there needs to be like, oh, if you're gonna be
Speaker 1: a police officer in this community. Then they need to
Speaker 1: live in that community exactly. They need to live over there,
Speaker 1: you know, like, don't live forty miles away and then
Speaker 1: you drive into work and like all that. Like, no,
Speaker 1: they need to live in the community that they're patrolling,
Speaker 1: because then they'll have a better understanding of what how
Speaker 1: the people are. I think another project that's near and
Speaker 1: that you always talk about this and is maybe more
Speaker 1: than the ones that we're gonna get to. But I
Speaker 1: know you love you talk about the foster care system.
Speaker 1: That is majorly important to you because I might for
Speaker 1: you to say because that's where I come from, because
Speaker 1: I was a part of the foster care system. I
Speaker 1: was definitely a youth in that system, and that was
Speaker 1: a very difficult time. I think the most I don't
Speaker 1: care how I really feel like the hardest time of
Speaker 1: your existence as a human being is like your child,
Speaker 1: your adolescent years, like being a child, being a teenager,
Speaker 1: because you don't have a whole lot of say so
Speaker 1: over how you live, where you live. You're depending on
Speaker 1: these other people to nurture you and take care of you.
Speaker 1: And it's very um, it's unpredictable, and it's very scared
Speaker 1: because you have no control. Once you're an adult, at
Speaker 1: least you got the power to say no, yes and
Speaker 1: make the choices. And when you're a child, you really
Speaker 1: don't have. You You're hoping someone cares enough to make
Speaker 1: the right decisions for you, to guide you in the
Speaker 1: right way, and then you have the choice to agree
Speaker 1: with it or not. But no times out of tend
Speaker 1: like when you're in the system, they take you at
Speaker 1: the aluge. You can't say no, I want to stay
Speaker 1: with my mama, who mentally ill, even though she beat me.
Speaker 1: This is where this is what I know, right, you
Speaker 1: don't have that choice. They just move you. And then
Speaker 1: you're like moving into a place where maybe somebody's doing
Speaker 1: some inappropriate things to you, but you don't even know
Speaker 1: if that's inappropriate or not. You think they're trying to
Speaker 1: help you, and the really molesting you don't know. It's
Speaker 1: so many things that, um, you just don't know. And
Speaker 1: as an adult, um, life is difficult. I've had some
Speaker 1: difficult moments as an adult, but never as unpredictable and
Speaker 1: as difficult as when I was a child. And I
Speaker 1: think that the children really need a very strong foundation
Speaker 1: and support system. And like they say it takes a village,
Speaker 1: It really really does. And um, just being that one
Speaker 1: member in the village who's willing to pay attention and listen,
Speaker 1: I'm willing to do that. You know. I talked to
Speaker 1: kids all the time. I'm always talking to whether they're
Speaker 1: in falsecure system or not, if they're trying to talk
Speaker 1: to me, I'm talking to them because it is so important.
Speaker 1: There are future. You know. There's a song by Whitney
Speaker 1: Houston called I Believe Children Are the Future, and that
Speaker 1: song is one of my favorite songs in the hawai world.
Speaker 1: And I sometimes I get in a lot of times
Speaker 1: I get in the mirror and I just speak those words,
Speaker 1: you know, I believe that children are the future. You
Speaker 1: teach them well and let them lead the way, show
Speaker 1: them all the beauty they possessed and signs, give them
Speaker 1: a sense of pride, and let the children's laughter remind
Speaker 1: us how we used to be. I used to be skinny.
Speaker 1: Count The children will remind you of that too. We'll
Speaker 1: tell you you got got fat. Don't take you speaking
Speaker 1: because you're saying, because you're saying in the movie with
Speaker 1: Billy Crystal, Yes, what's the name of that movie? Here today? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you came to the rap party. What I love about Tim.
Speaker 1: When Tim introduces me to people, she don't say, oh,
Speaker 1: this is a comedian. Flame. Tim holds me by my
Speaker 1: hand and leads me to meet these big celebrities like
Speaker 1: this my beach right here, This like talented, beautiful Flame Monroe,
Speaker 1: who would like to meet you? Flame is very talented.
Speaker 1: And then frames and then it's a whole conversation and
Speaker 1: I could just slowly fade away. Told you the person
Speaker 1: you introduced her to that mattered the most that she
Speaker 1: was most in all of Yeah, yeah, and she crying
Speaker 1: and everything. I was prying and everything. We were on
Speaker 1: the set of Good Times, And I wanted to meet
Speaker 1: Norman Lear because the whole Beverley the Sale story with
Speaker 1: Beverley the salary, you don't know play the character on
Speaker 1: All the Family. She was a drag queen. She was
Speaker 1: the first person who I saw that I could identify
Speaker 1: at nine years old. That made me know that I
Speaker 1: wasn't crazy. So when I wanted to meet normally, Tippy
Speaker 1: had left. She was already in her car about to
Speaker 1: pull I wasn't I was in my trailer. Well, they
Speaker 1: said you were in the car, so I thought that
Speaker 1: you were just sitting in your car wait for them
Speaker 1: to take you out because so many people there. So, Dion,
Speaker 1: who's your makeup artist? I said, Frame, what's your way?
Speaker 1: You know? I said, I'm waiting. She said, Tiffany Gone,
Speaker 1: said I'm waiting to meet Norman Lear. She said you
Speaker 1: wanted me normally? I said yeah. Dion called somebody else
Speaker 1: who called Tiffany. Tiffany got out, came out, the trailer,
Speaker 1: came back and Mitch, who you want me? Grabbed me
Speaker 1: by my hand like her kid, and walked me through
Speaker 1: everybody to meet. And I was an emotional sissy, cry
Speaker 1: baby rap because it was a full circle moment that
Speaker 1: that was probably one of the most joyous moments. And
Speaker 1: of course that check from Netflix from you that I
Speaker 1: do want to backtrack though to what you were saying
Speaker 1: about kids, because I recently saw this story or a
Speaker 1: video about this little boy named Tyler whose family literally
Speaker 1: put him on social media for being gay, and you know,
Speaker 1: they shaved his head and his head in his head,
Speaker 1: they were literally hitting him on camera. So just in
Speaker 1: situations like that, like what do you what do you
Speaker 1: do for those kids you know that are in and
Speaker 1: these are their actual family members, you know, like what
Speaker 1: do you? What do you do? But I think first though,
Speaker 1: that he needs to be removed from that home. He
Speaker 1: needs to be away from those those children. And that's
Speaker 1: that's that's a child that needs to be nurtured, listening
Speaker 1: to talk to and shown the way. Right Like, so
Speaker 1: already there's probably a whole bunch of damage that's me
Speaker 1: and done. And that's what I'm talking about as a child.
Speaker 1: He can't he can't just leave there, right. It's and
Speaker 1: it's probably what he's been experiencing his whole life. And
Speaker 1: they're probably calling him gay and probably doing gay things
Speaker 1: to him. They're probably the ones that's actually you know,
Speaker 1: they're probably who know, like you'd be so surprised how
Speaker 1: somebody not really that surprised, but somebody will try to
Speaker 1: put something on you when it's really them that's suffering
Speaker 1: with the issue. This them that's feeling guilty about what
Speaker 1: they've been doing to you, and then they think it's
Speaker 1: funny or whatever. They're taking their pain out on you
Speaker 1: because somebody has done it to them. Like it's a mess.
Speaker 1: But that baby needs to be taken up out of there.
Speaker 1: He need to be placed in a in a home
Speaker 1: where you don't necessarily need to be, like a gay
Speaker 1: home or a mom and dad home or whatever. Just
Speaker 1: God need to put that baby where he's supposed to be,
Speaker 1: and that's not with them, But that needed to be
Speaker 1: seen so people understand that this is going on all
Speaker 1: the damn time. This is happening in a lot of households.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of big brothers that's been torturing their
Speaker 1: little brother or sister. It's it's a lot of that
Speaker 1: going on. I mean, let me be honest, I might
Speaker 1: not have been the best big sister all the time.
Speaker 1: I was definitely scaring my brother and sisters, making them
Speaker 1: things zombies were real. I definitely just doing that, and
Speaker 1: I might I might have put my little brother in
Speaker 1: the trunk one time, and I might have I might
Speaker 1: have taught my my little cousin up to offense and
Speaker 1: hosts or damn what called walking holes because she's going
Speaker 1: in my diary. But that that's neither here that I
Speaker 1: apologize for my actions, and I was wrong for doing
Speaker 1: what I did, but I was I was young, and
Speaker 1: I did not know how to get them to not
Speaker 1: keep messing me up. So anyway, I think all of
Speaker 1: your childhood tragedies attributed to why you are so wonderful
Speaker 1: with those kids on um. Yes, he said, because that.
Speaker 1: I've seen other hosts on there, and some of them
Speaker 1: are pretty good, but not as good as you, because
Speaker 1: you meet the those kids were there, but I meet
Speaker 1: everybody where they're at. If I can meet him there,
Speaker 1: I meet him there. Unlet's say in a super love Girl,
Speaker 1: You're gonna see something I had, and I love you
Speaker 1: and I love you, but I've seen a lot of things, Tiffic.
Speaker 1: I want to talk to you more about about the
Speaker 1: bio pick Um and your collaboration with like Greg Ekonomu,
Speaker 1: and you too as a producer. You're wearing this producer had.
Speaker 1: How do you all decide on the structure of the movie,
Speaker 1: the direction that will go, and what can we expect? Well, Um,
Speaker 1: you can expect a beautiful love story. Okay, I want
Speaker 1: to show how you know, Florence was doing real good
Speaker 1: before she met al Right, she was doing good, right,
Speaker 1: and with Bob Kersey and all that, she was doing good.
Speaker 1: But once her and al came together, both of them
Speaker 1: were unstoppable. And I want to show how in in sports,
Speaker 1: but in any aspect in life when when a couple
Speaker 1: comes together and truly so poured each other and truly
Speaker 1: love and and hold each other up, how dynamic they
Speaker 1: both can be right, and how you can break world
Speaker 1: records and you can you can really inspire a whole generation,
Speaker 1: a whole community of people, and become a legendary hero
Speaker 1: like and not even just a hero, but I mean
Speaker 1: just what she did was phenomenal and she set up
Speaker 1: so many of us for the future when it comes
Speaker 1: to she made sports for women a beautiful thing. She
Speaker 1: made it because, let's be honest, women in sports before
Speaker 1: him was like, oh if that's a man, Oh she ugly,
Speaker 1: you gotta be Yeah, she's a little rushed rough around
Speaker 1: the edges. You know. She made it beautiful. She came
Speaker 1: out there with her hair done, makeup done, nails for
Speaker 1: the gods. Okay. She she designed her own uniforms, her
Speaker 1: constoms like the one leg. Yeah, and then every that
Speaker 1: was a huge controversy, but everybody else are hearing booty
Speaker 1: shorts with the whole booty singing out it. She got
Speaker 1: her whole lead covered in that. Oh she's taking such risk,
Speaker 1: it's risk a risk, a really, she's covered she is
Speaker 1: absolutely covered. At one point problem I read that you
Speaker 1: called her your shiro. She is my shiro. She is
Speaker 1: definitely my shiro. She showed me for me anyways that
Speaker 1: you can be creative, You can be in your bag
Speaker 1: and still be the best at what you do, and
Speaker 1: don't worry about what everybody else is saying. Don't worry
Speaker 1: about what everybody is thinking. How do you feel about you?
Speaker 1: And go for it. And that man helped her do that,
Speaker 1: he lifted her, he allowed her to be her like.
Speaker 1: He didn't try to tell down like, oh man, I
Speaker 1: don't think you should be doing like and cut your
Speaker 1: nails down with no. If that's what you feel good in,
Speaker 1: do it, baby, do what makes you feel right. And
Speaker 1: I just want to show especially black people like you
Speaker 1: don't see that all the time. You don't see us
Speaker 1: really supporting each other the way that we should. You
Speaker 1: wonder why these men, these fortune companies is killing it
Speaker 1: because they got some woman behind him that's lift them up,
Speaker 1: and he's lifting her up like they're lifting each other.
Speaker 1: They're supporting each other. And we need to be seeing
Speaker 1: more of that. We need to see more black love
Speaker 1: and not just like oh sexy, no, we need to
Speaker 1: see support. Support is love. I think she allowed. She
Speaker 1: gave her story and her journey and how she was
Speaker 1: so confident when it gave the new girl Shikari confident
Speaker 1: to be who I am. I want to have long
Speaker 1: blond hair. I want to have nails because you're a woman,
Speaker 1: and oh she's she's ghetto. That's not ghetto. This is
Speaker 1: how we fashion. If we take me away from me
Speaker 1: and you can go all the way back to Africa, Honey,
Speaker 1: a hundred years ago, even a hundred and fifty, whenever
Speaker 1: they were taking pictures it was black. When when long
Speaker 1: nails in Africa and all this head dresses on and
Speaker 1: everything like, that's in our blood, Honey, to be eccentric
Speaker 1: and unique and out there, and it's it's queen that
Speaker 1: her shine, that her queen. This is how you was
Speaker 1: acting when you was a legendary. Look. I know I
Speaker 1: made a lot of people mad with that legendary, but
Speaker 1: I don't give a damn. I wasn't if I wasn't entertained,
Speaker 1: I wasn't entertained, and I need you didn't make me bad.
Speaker 1: I was hilarious. I was getting a whole lot of
Speaker 1: messages that people were very angry. Why would you chop them?
Speaker 1: I'm like, just because one person did poorly and the
Speaker 1: other person did excellently and they're on the same team,
Speaker 1: I'm not about to just let that slide. That's how
Speaker 1: I felt. Anyways, everybody needs to be bringing a hunt
Speaker 1: of their tin. Yeah, we gonna bring me in Nicholas
Speaker 1: in a second. But I know what Tiffany wants to
Speaker 1: talk about because she blew me out the water last
Speaker 1: week when we talked about it, because I didn't know
Speaker 1: because I'm not biologically a woman. Can you believe it?
Speaker 1: But in the South, young women of color are being
Speaker 1: arrested and put in jail for abortions, and and these
Speaker 1: are very unwanted pregn Some of my unwanted pregnancy someone
Speaker 1: some of my accidents, some of them were not playing.
Speaker 1: But this is very near and dear to Tippany is hard,
Speaker 1: So we want her to talk about it because I'm
Speaker 1: telling you, I was so unfamiliar with what was going
Speaker 1: on down there until tip brought it to my attention.
Speaker 1: I was like, Oh, you have to come and talk
Speaker 1: about that, because people only think Tiffany is this this
Speaker 1: actress and comedian and go get her and she's a
Speaker 1: black woman, and black women are very empowered in this
Speaker 1: country right now, especially what she just said. If you
Speaker 1: get a strong man on your side that believes in
Speaker 1: you and not just a man, just a partner, a partner,
Speaker 1: you could be another woman, it could be whatever, it
Speaker 1: could be a he she wek it don't matter where
Speaker 1: you're support and you got together, I would lift you up,
Speaker 1: just as I hope you would lift me up and
Speaker 1: support me. Whatever you decided you wanted to do, I would.
Speaker 1: I would be right there. We got the hell you
Speaker 1: got me on that problem in the room with titties
Speaker 1: and a paenis must be me? But till I know
Speaker 1: how that is to you? So what? And they are
Speaker 1: these girls, some of these girls as the youngest fifteen
Speaker 1: and sixteen years old. Yeah, well here's my thing. So like, um, so,
Speaker 1: there's these laws that have been passed in certain states
Speaker 1: down south where there where it's illegal to have an abortion.
Speaker 1: You can go to jail right if you have an abortion,
Speaker 1: which okay, cool, But if you're gonna inflict that and say, oh,
Speaker 1: you have to have this baby and you're determining, you're
Speaker 1: saying what somebody can do with their body right in
Speaker 1: what they can and can't have, Well, then what's this
Speaker 1: thing with You know, insurance is covering sex changes for
Speaker 1: people that are fourteen, fifteen, sixteen years out. Thirteen is
Speaker 1: youngest thirteen. So you can cut your penis off if
Speaker 1: you want to and turn that into the vagina and
Speaker 1: that will stop production of people. But if if a
Speaker 1: woman is raped or molested or whatever, she has to
Speaker 1: have this baby, you're demanding that she has this baby.
Speaker 1: But if somebody that's very young besides I'm I'm a
Speaker 1: I'm a woman, and I want you all to cut
Speaker 1: to give me titties and and put my penis inside
Speaker 1: of me, and I want to vagina. The insurance is
Speaker 1: gonna pay for that. We pay the taxpayers. Is playing
Speaker 1: for that's not that's not They're giving them away and
Speaker 1: that's not okay. I feel like if that person can
Speaker 1: decide that they don't want their penis anymore, then somebody
Speaker 1: should be able to decide if they don't want to
Speaker 1: have a child. Yeah. I think that's a good thing
Speaker 1: to bring up because it's really about almost like policing
Speaker 1: women's bodies. And it's not just black women too. Like
Speaker 1: I said, it's all women, especially in Texas, they have
Speaker 1: this new law that the governor just signed that if
Speaker 1: after four weeks it's considered murder and it's illegal, you
Speaker 1: can get arrested. I also saw a young woman who
Speaker 1: gave her class valedictorian speech and totally shifted it and
Speaker 1: made it about this abortion right skill what you know.
Speaker 1: Hats off to her, But to your point, though, it's
Speaker 1: absolutely ridiculous that so you're forcing me to have this baby,
Speaker 1: you're gonna help me raise the baby? What you have?
Speaker 1: The financial means, there's mental health's part of them. Are
Speaker 1: you gonna help me actually bring this child into life
Speaker 1: and raise it in a positive environment or no, they're
Speaker 1: not gonna help you do that. And then they said,
Speaker 1: well you can just give the baby up for adoption
Speaker 1: or drop it off at the police, at the fire
Speaker 1: station or whatever. Okay, man, that's another person that that's
Speaker 1: that needs to find a home, that's gonna be potentially homeless,
Speaker 1: that's gonna be whatever. And you know what I am
Speaker 1: all for. We need more humans. Yes, we need more
Speaker 1: productive humans. We I'm for life, but I'm also for
Speaker 1: the right to protect your body, the right to make
Speaker 1: decisions for your flesh for your life, and if somebody's
Speaker 1: already violated that, Like, I don't know about any of y'all,
Speaker 1: but I've been righted before. I know what that feels like.
Speaker 1: I know what it feels like to have some something
Speaker 1: taken from you and then that that's like that rape
Speaker 1: last for a whole lifetime, and it doesn't if you
Speaker 1: have an abortion, it doesn't go away. Like you're you're
Speaker 1: always gonna feel that and you're always gonna suffer with that, right,
Speaker 1: that's not something that ever goes away. And now you're
Speaker 1: you're gonna make me raise this child, and I've been
Speaker 1: My mama didn't like me if she would say, really
Speaker 1: meeting things, you look like you're ugly as dad, you
Speaker 1: ain't never gonna be shipped like like, I just don't
Speaker 1: think that should be put on a child, Okay. And
Speaker 1: then if they are giving up for adoption and it's
Speaker 1: twenty years later, they want to find their mom and
Speaker 1: they find them and they go, why did you give
Speaker 1: me up? Well, I was forced to have you. The
Speaker 1: law made me have you, and I just couldn't stand
Speaker 1: looking at you because the reason I was even pregnant
Speaker 1: with you was because I was right now. Now they
Speaker 1: know that they are product of right, how does that
Speaker 1: make them feel like it's just a whole realm? Like
Speaker 1: either way, you don't win. Not there's no winning. But
Speaker 1: I just think like, if you're gonna say, if you're
Speaker 1: gonna demand that a woman, you're gonna implement this a
Speaker 1: lot of a woman can't change her body or decide
Speaker 1: what happens with her body, then I don't think you
Speaker 1: should be allowing people to cut their bigs off. Well,
Speaker 1: you ain't got to worry about me doing that. I
Speaker 1: don't know what y'all along with that one, but they
Speaker 1: got build the Bear and the impossible Burger. But until
Speaker 1: you can come up with pick a pussy, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: keep what I got because if I can't pick the
Speaker 1: one I want, I don't want Megan's. I don't want Beyonce's.
Speaker 1: I don't want Kim Kardashian's. I want y'all do want
Speaker 1: to make it. I want Megan Marco the sparklecause she
Speaker 1: made that white boy change. Dna't want your prints, you
Speaker 1: don't even want to be white. I want what she got.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying I think that should be a choice
Speaker 1: that is made when you're grown twenty one plus, twenty plus,
Speaker 1: And I don't think that taxpayers should be paying for that.
Speaker 1: I think that should something that should come out of
Speaker 1: your pockets. So what do you think we could do
Speaker 1: as people, especially women, because black women and powering of
Speaker 1: women right now is the strongest that it has ever been.
Speaker 1: What do you think that they could do tivity to
Speaker 1: help implement some changes to help that. We got to
Speaker 1: change the politicians was making the laws. We have to
Speaker 1: get in we gotta get into the right offices, like
Speaker 1: we have to be supporting our people and and get
Speaker 1: people in there that believe the way you believe. And
Speaker 1: as that's really that simple. I saw somebody in the
Speaker 1: thing say that that. Somebody says something about like they're
Speaker 1: doing it because there's not enough white babies being born,
Speaker 1: or something like they're trying to keep the white women
Speaker 1: from having abortions. I don't give a damn what kind
Speaker 1: of baby it is or what kind of persons they are,
Speaker 1: Like people should be allowed to have choice. Alison is
Speaker 1: a flame Matt Tip. She is running for a city
Speaker 1: commissioner in Lakeland, Florida. Young, twenty seven year old black,
Speaker 1: So she's a teacher. Teacher, teachers black history, and she's
Speaker 1: very on black history is not being tied in the schools.
Speaker 1: But it's your job to teach your children their history
Speaker 1: because you're the parents. They should learn it at home.
Speaker 1: You can depend on the school. So we're gonna bring
Speaker 1: her in. And I told her I was gonna bring
Speaker 1: her in because she is pretty informed and pretty bright.
Speaker 1: What she at? Hello? Hello, Hello, Yes, so I have
Speaker 1: listened to the conversation Tiffany Hattris. I'll tell you my
Speaker 1: hat goes off to you. Congratulations on all your success.
Speaker 1: Thank you. I found crazy. But I'm just speaking to you. Yes, absolutely,
Speaker 1: absolutely and and let me just go me dillingback. So
Speaker 1: I am running for Lakeland City commission Commissioner in Lakeland,
Speaker 1: Pope County, Florida. Um. But again, yes it and when
Speaker 1: you when you stated, uh, it starts locally. Excuse me,
Speaker 1: it starts with the politician. It starts locally because the
Speaker 1: local your local. Because people think that your government is
Speaker 1: top down. Your government is down up, local, state, federal, right.
Speaker 1: You know when when you touched on the foster care system.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say this, I almost put out of law
Speaker 1: school because I got me and some of my comrades
Speaker 1: to start doing some research on foster care systems. And
Speaker 1: so here in Florida, what was happening is these people
Speaker 1: would create these businesses about these homes to get these
Speaker 1: false to get these students, get these children in the
Speaker 1: foster care system. And of course you get a percentage
Speaker 1: and it is called incentive for having these type of children.
Speaker 1: And you know the little kids, you get more do
Speaker 1: ones with disabilities, and come to find out these children
Speaker 1: wasn't treated being treated well. And the thing about it
Speaker 1: is it's the information. Because here in Florida, when you
Speaker 1: go through the Falster Care system, you're going to college
Speaker 1: for free. And a lot of kids did not do
Speaker 1: not know about that. And so I am putting in.
Speaker 1: And then in your local government there is money, right
Speaker 1: taxpayers money. Instead of put it in a p p
Speaker 1: P which is public private partnerships like your Amazon and FedEx,
Speaker 1: put it into the Falster care sister, put it into
Speaker 1: you can see your programs. And that's one of my pillars.
Speaker 1: Put it. If an idle mind is a devil's workshop.
Speaker 1: So if you don't give these children anything to do,
Speaker 1: your city will continue to be wrecked. And so if
Speaker 1: we if we put these dollars and to our children,
Speaker 1: the future will be much brighter because at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, if we don't invest in the children,
Speaker 1: our future will be nothing. Yes, like that song, I
Speaker 1: believe children. You know what ither thing? You got my vote.
Speaker 1: I ain't even the Florida citizen, but I'm gonna make
Speaker 1: sure if they vote for you, because you already I
Speaker 1: feel your energy. You already on the white right right wavelength,
Speaker 1: not white right right right. And so again, I am
Speaker 1: an advocate for children. Um I teach world's history, teach history,
Speaker 1: and and and and as I tell my children all
Speaker 1: the time, listen, I'm here for you. And I don't
Speaker 1: have any kids biologically, but at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: all these kids are our responsibility because I'm growing, right,
Speaker 1: You're grow and so you listen. You just have to
Speaker 1: reach out. I'm everybody's auntie because at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, at the end of the day, if you're
Speaker 1: not doing it for these kids, then who are you
Speaker 1: doing it for? What are you sitting around that table for?
Speaker 1: You know, we want to change, we want to change
Speaker 1: our local police force. But in order for that to change,
Speaker 1: we have to sit in the seat to change it.
Speaker 1: And if we sit around these tables, sit around the
Speaker 1: right tables, if you sit around in your local government,
Speaker 1: because at the end of the day, the federal is
Speaker 1: the federal. But if but if you understand that those
Speaker 1: who was once in your local excuse me, what those
Speaker 1: who who's in your federal was once at your local.
Speaker 1: And if we stop it at the local, if you
Speaker 1: stop it at the local, that state and that federal
Speaker 1: is going to look different. The Senate is going to
Speaker 1: look different, the House is going to look different. Yes,
Speaker 1: talk about defunding the police. But yes, in order for
Speaker 1: us to defund the police, we have to get the
Speaker 1: right people around the table in order for that to happen. Right,
Speaker 1: And and it's not that we want to defund the police,
Speaker 1: We just want to correct officers to treat everybody right.
Speaker 1: Because if you because if your grandmama gets sick and
Speaker 1: you call nine one one and you talk about defunding
Speaker 1: public safety, who gonna come get grandma? You see what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. So we have to ensure that the words
Speaker 1: that we say and we put the right people in
Speaker 1: position to get what we need, because it's not that
Speaker 1: we want their money. We just want the opportunities, if
Speaker 1: you let me know about them, if you implement these
Speaker 1: things into the system, right, then that's how can we
Speaker 1: can leverage this as as as people of color and
Speaker 1: as people in general, because just as many blacks and
Speaker 1: and the colored people who are in poverty, there are
Speaker 1: just as many whites. And so if we're not going
Speaker 1: to if we're so, My things to this is if
Speaker 1: in order for this system to change, we got to
Speaker 1: put the correct people in place. You, but you have
Speaker 1: to start at your local your public your public, private hospitals.
Speaker 1: You were talking about women, women in the abortions and
Speaker 1: things of that nature. Listen, that starts on the local level.
Speaker 1: That starts on the local level, your local city. Get
Speaker 1: all this money. There shouldn't be a way that we're
Speaker 1: having to pay for all these said things, especially with
Speaker 1: women in our health. There shouldn't be. But if you
Speaker 1: have the right people in place that believe in our rights, right,
Speaker 1: because now they have some women not even believing in
Speaker 1: women's rights, and it's absolutely it's absolutely absurd. You a
Speaker 1: whole woman out here in these streets, but you don't
Speaker 1: believe in our rights. You want but that's why we
Speaker 1: have to vote you have to vote, you have to study,
Speaker 1: and so that's I don't know this. I just know this.
Speaker 1: If men could get pregnant, and if they were getting
Speaker 1: raped and they end up pregnant, they gonna I'm just
Speaker 1: saying they would would not be implemented. I'm a whole
Speaker 1: woman out here. What you were like, Allison's twenty seven
Speaker 1: year old. She's a teacher, and Allison has really made
Speaker 1: me believe that all politicians should be teachers first, because
Speaker 1: you get to be with them, children are and you
Speaker 1: know what, it's important for the future. So tiff And
Speaker 1: let me ask you a question. Would you want to
Speaker 1: consider later down the lane and you're like running for
Speaker 1: any kind of public office? Yeah, I have thought about it.
Speaker 1: I was thinking about when I saw who was running
Speaker 1: from I was thinking the governor. I think you, I
Speaker 1: think you can hold it down. You could be the
Speaker 1: new Maxine like I'm not the new but Tiffany had again. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I feel like I could do especially if
Speaker 1: I had the right team around me. I think I could.
Speaker 1: I think I could do anything I had. Tiffany, listen,
Speaker 1: if Marge Taylor Green and all these same people, it's
Speaker 1: running for office I'm quite sure you would do just fine.
Speaker 1: Yeah quite yeah, yes, fine, I think so. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm running my business pretty good. I feel like it's
Speaker 1: like kind of like how you run business. You gotta
Speaker 1: and you gotta listen to the people, and then you
Speaker 1: start implementing what needs to be implementing to the people.
Speaker 1: And let me just share this with you all, for
Speaker 1: all those future politicians, and let me tell you something.
Speaker 1: I sit at the feet of people I like to
Speaker 1: learn because at the end of the day, what can
Speaker 1: I share? What can I share if I don't sit
Speaker 1: at those who come before me to speak to those
Speaker 1: who want to come along, right, And so at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, you don't have to know everything
Speaker 1: about politics to be in politics. I don't know everything.
Speaker 1: But one thing I do is I study, and I
Speaker 1: have a heart of a servant and a heart of
Speaker 1: a servant. That's all you need because you're serving the people.
Speaker 1: It's not about you. Because I always give this example,
Speaker 1: when you step on the towers and the floor, you
Speaker 1: don't step on one tower without won't stepping on the
Speaker 1: next time. So that's the same way that life and people.
Speaker 1: You don't just pass one person a day. You don't
Speaker 1: just pass one person out of the year. You pass
Speaker 1: multiples of people. That's why you have to pass them
Speaker 1: and assure you're pass them with love and kindness and peace.
Speaker 1: And that is what needs to be in our polity
Speaker 1: and if we approach if we approach politics that way,
Speaker 1: we have a far better world today. We love you,
Speaker 1: Alison over yea with you. So every Thursday when I
Speaker 1: do Love Lounge Tiffany, this month of Jim we have
Speaker 1: donate that dedicated to Alix Coat. You know, it takes
Speaker 1: money to win a campaign. She has another contender on that,
Speaker 1: so we've been donating. I'm glad you're following up Tifficy
Speaker 1: gonna get behind you, but tifty makes her own man house.
Speaker 1: And believe me, Alison al lewis okay following back the
Speaker 1: one and only the tiff. I like what you're talking about,
Speaker 1: and I'm looking forward to see what you're doing the future,
Speaker 1: and who knows, you may be the next president girl
Speaker 1: to state. I gotta get thirty five. You gotta get
Speaker 1: thirty five, get five, get there and you got my
Speaker 1: support though, since you got my thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Thank you all, actually all donate to Alison Lewis's campaign.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you she looked like us, she thinks like us,
Speaker 1: and she is for us because some of them look
Speaker 1: like us, but they don't think like us. And said,
Speaker 1: you're gonna make me run for office? You need to
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, no, you need to. Let me tell
Speaker 1: you something. We already got a training that funk about
Speaker 1: the up the government if she win. But but we
Speaker 1: are complete opposites. She's white, she's rich. She killed the
Speaker 1: white woman. I'm black. I ain't rich, but I'm pretty,
Speaker 1: and as of today, I have not ran over white woman.
Speaker 1: My god, but you understand the issues, and you have
Speaker 1: good resolutions, and you're a good listener, and you know
Speaker 1: how to bring people together, and I think that's very important.
Speaker 1: I learned everything from Tip. You didn't you live it already?
Speaker 1: You know it already, everything from you. When I first
Speaker 1: let me tell you when I first met himself back
Speaker 1: at the Comedy Union. Oh my god, I don't even
Speaker 1: tell you what a a year. I was a younger. I
Speaker 1: was a damn piece and Timpany was really young. She
Speaker 1: I thought she's like sixteen. I was like, look and
Speaker 1: she was twenty years ago. And she says, excuse me,
Speaker 1: Can I ask you a question? Very innocent, very cool?
Speaker 1: Are you? Are you a drag queen? I said, I am?
Speaker 1: And then I went on stage and did it. She
Speaker 1: came and she says, oh my god, I just love you,
Speaker 1: and we just bought it from there. And I think
Speaker 1: that if more women went to trans women authentically, like respectfully,
Speaker 1: you know, can I ask you a question? Not I
Speaker 1: mis saying I know your tea and all that you know.
Speaker 1: Don't get that familiar with me. If I don't know,
Speaker 1: you don't get that coming me, because I will, I
Speaker 1: will blast you. This right here is deadly. But Tiffany
Speaker 1: was never like that. She was already and we just
Speaker 1: became fast. And I was like, who made your shoes?
Speaker 1: With shoes and those? And where like my friend of
Speaker 1: Chicago made me thease and whether the dress that you're wearing,
Speaker 1: where is that? And like she wanted to get a
Speaker 1: drag y'all real talking? She really did want I still
Speaker 1: do we should do a d show together. So I
Speaker 1: did a drag show last night. Was great and post
Speaker 1: you should do a drag show with me too. I
Speaker 1: don't do it, they would love it. I'll do it. Hello,
Speaker 1: I'm with it. I want to be specting and pretty
Speaker 1: do flips with heels one that's the one thing you amazed,
Speaker 1: did you know? Yes, with how heels are where? If
Speaker 1: d W T. S Will called me, I can do
Speaker 1: it for the world. That's what the stars. If you listen,
Speaker 1: I'm available. Let's start making that happen. We're gonna campaign that.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make some fune calls. We're gonna make that happen. Baby.
Speaker 1: Let me tell you someone another Joy's moments. When you
Speaker 1: introduced me to Billy Crystal and he said he had
Speaker 1: just watched me on the Ready. I've been in love
Speaker 1: with Billy Crystal since he played Jody on soap. When
Speaker 1: I told him that, he said, oh you went Wade.
Speaker 1: You know I love soap and Jody. That was great.
Speaker 1: So last year Tip introduced me to Common with her boyfriend.
Speaker 1: And now if he's not my boyfriend, he's my man.
Speaker 1: He correct, he's not a boy, he's a man. He's
Speaker 1: my mind. Definitely a man. And I don't know about
Speaker 1: if a man and no other capacity, but the way
Speaker 1: he treats me, he was respectful, he was genuine. He
Speaker 1: talked to my son who just got this whatever comment
Speaker 1: said to my son at his house on my birthday
Speaker 1: last year, what's some stuck with him? Because dude just
Speaker 1: kind of turned around with his wrap and with how
Speaker 1: he expresses himself. And I thought that was great. And
Speaker 1: I think that common met me while I was because
Speaker 1: of you, Tiffany, not to say that he would not
Speaker 1: have been fair to me outside of this capacity. I
Speaker 1: probably would have met him in different spaces and he
Speaker 1: has never judged me. I'm his he she we what's up? Flame?
Speaker 1: What's up? HOMEI We talked to each other like two brothers,
Speaker 1: and I appreciate that we stayed in the hotel room together.
Speaker 1: Meet him and Tip, don't get it twisted me him sweet.
Speaker 1: I was in my room, they was in there. But
Speaker 1: I felt so at home with the both of them.
Speaker 1: We was up playing cars. He loved you too, ready
Speaker 1: to whoop his ass? He wrapp and you want to oscar,
Speaker 1: But then whoop me if you are the all around
Speaker 1: the best person I know, and that you pay us
Speaker 1: so for now, where did you get that from? Because
Speaker 1: so many comedians before you have had opportunities to bring
Speaker 1: so many others along. But then when you came, they
Speaker 1: people looked at you and God that you helped so
Speaker 1: many of us unknowns to say, come on, let me
Speaker 1: give you an opportunity. Where'd you get that from? Who
Speaker 1: did that? Watching these white men? I watched The White Man.
Speaker 1: I watch how they get down. I figured it might
Speaker 1: as well move away. They move um and they stick together.
Speaker 1: They put their friends and their movies, they put their
Speaker 1: friends in shows, they produce things with their friends, and
Speaker 1: they keep close and they make money with their friends.
Speaker 1: And that's what I want to do. So I'm always pushing,
Speaker 1: Like they don't like it's so funny because we're like, oh,
Speaker 1: they're giving you everything. If they gave me everything, you
Speaker 1: would just see me with my friends all the time. Like,
Speaker 1: because that's why I want to be around period. But
Speaker 1: they have to fight, and I get so tired sometimes.
Speaker 1: I like so hard to make sure that we like
Speaker 1: we can be together, we can work together, like pulling
Speaker 1: this person in on this project, pulling this, and it's
Speaker 1: like even my own team. Sometimes they push, they opposed
Speaker 1: the people that I want on and I'm like, stop
Speaker 1: fighting me on this. If I was Adam Sandler, you
Speaker 1: wouldn't be fighting me on this. If I was Will Farrell,
Speaker 1: if I was anybody like y'all wouldn't fight. Y would
Speaker 1: just be like, okay, yes, whatever you want, sir, however
Speaker 1: you want to do it, sir. But I have to
Speaker 1: fight like too now, and I get so tired in
Speaker 1: the world. It's like attacking me. I'm gett attacked over
Speaker 1: your typed over there. And I just need to be
Speaker 1: around people that support me so that I could do
Speaker 1: my job. But also like I want to see my
Speaker 1: friends win. I want to see them brow. I want
Speaker 1: to see them with their own movies, they're own TV shows,
Speaker 1: they're aren't like that makes me feel good at my spirit.
Speaker 1: And so when I see Okay, so Dan could he
Speaker 1: always take the same people on the road with him.
Speaker 1: He take his boys on the road with him. And
Speaker 1: I said, Dan, can I go with you? He said, no, no,
Speaker 1: you I have my set, my set group because I
Speaker 1: know they're gonna support me. They're gonna look out for me,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna look out for them. They know where
Speaker 1: I'm weak at they make me strong, and that stuck
Speaker 1: with me like I need to be able to do.
Speaker 1: I gotta build friends like that and bring those people
Speaker 1: with me everywhere I go, and I try to ploy
Speaker 1: y'all on these movies. Put on my TV show, like
Speaker 1: please take the acting class. I could get you on
Speaker 1: this goddamn movies so I don't have to fight with
Speaker 1: these mothers like please, Like it's it's so difficult to
Speaker 1: make it so hard, and that's why I want to produce,
Speaker 1: so I could say, no, I'm producing this and I'm
Speaker 1: not doing it without this person, and that's how it's
Speaker 1: gonn to be. Like it's but and then they said,
Speaker 1: you were diva, you're being a bit, you're being difficult
Speaker 1: to work with whatever, and when I wouldn't be so
Speaker 1: difficult to work but if you just give me what
Speaker 1: I fucking asked for, because if I was anybody else,
Speaker 1: she would just give them what they asked for. I
Speaker 1: lived that experience with Tiff because when we were taking
Speaker 1: they ready, uh, they were taking me to clubs that
Speaker 1: were not comfortable at that was not my audience. And
Speaker 1: when I sitting out my audience, it was just not
Speaker 1: my audience. And so the one of the people involved
Speaker 1: with the Tiffany he was like, I don't think flame
Speaker 1: gat it. I don't think flame can do it. And
Speaker 1: Tiff called me. She didn't say that, she said Flame,
Speaker 1: just don't let me down. I knew what it was.
Speaker 1: I said, Tiff, I got you. So when we were
Speaker 1: at the actual taping of They Ready, I was in
Speaker 1: the back and I prayed and I said, God, this
Speaker 1: is her first baby, this is her first baby. I
Speaker 1: have to kill this because this woman gave me a chance.
Speaker 1: I might not get another chance. I'm fifty years old.
Speaker 1: I might not get another opportunity. Tiff came in the room,
Speaker 1: we talked. She said, just bits, just do you. That's it,
Speaker 1: That's all she said. Just go and have her and
Speaker 1: do you. We all went out there did our thing,
Speaker 1: but there was there was opposing forces in an Tippanty's
Speaker 1: ear to say, we don't think Flame had what it
Speaker 1: takes to be on the show. Shit, shit, you don't
Speaker 1: know who you was with. And that's why I was
Speaker 1: so proud of everybody, because I'm telling you, there was
Speaker 1: like in my like, why are you putting this? So
Speaker 1: you put this? You shouldn't put these people on. You
Speaker 1: shouldn't look after like they was telling me all the
Speaker 1: things I should not do. Who who? Who else? And
Speaker 1: I'm like, no, this is who I said, and this
Speaker 1: is what it is. And then if it fails. It
Speaker 1: fails like kiss my ass I don't like. And that's
Speaker 1: why I just came to eat you and every money
Speaker 1: I'll like, just do you bring the best whatever you
Speaker 1: can bring, like I love you regardless. I'm here for you,
Speaker 1: regardless of what they're saying. Like and this that could
Speaker 1: have destroyed me. It could have been like, that's the
Speaker 1: end of your career to me, you have a bad
Speaker 1: choice and talent. But I knew that it was gonna
Speaker 1: because that's what you did know. And you said that
Speaker 1: when we were at that spot, because what you saw
Speaker 1: I don't even think I saw, because you knew it
Speaker 1: was gonna be a monster. I mean me and you
Speaker 1: was laying in the massage and we had to get naked, y'all,
Speaker 1: so Tippy on one side, Nick and I want to
Speaker 1: us that my naked is very different from tickety Tiffany
Speaker 1: naked let me just and the man was beside me.
Speaker 1: I said, okay, don't go too low, you're gonna get
Speaker 1: a bit. But Tiffany knew this was going to be
Speaker 1: a major And I'm tring. I didn't even see that
Speaker 1: because but the ingenious part was Tippany, and it was slick.
Speaker 1: Her and her and Wander and Paige, who were the
Speaker 1: executive producers from Pushing productives, like okay, so the first one,
Speaker 1: just go out, this is the one we're gonna take.
Speaker 1: Just do about the book. And then the second one
Speaker 1: just do yourself. They were smart because to do yourself
Speaker 1: when they used because most of us, okay, we got
Speaker 1: to get it into the cane. We're gonna get our check,
Speaker 1: not gonna have fun. They used to have phone because
Speaker 1: we were relaxed. Smoke screen was down and we was
Speaker 1: we were just able to go and just help came
Speaker 1: and hugged, she wrapped. What y'all do not know is
Speaker 1: that she gave each and every one of us a
Speaker 1: great gift outside of the check and the opportunity. She
Speaker 1: made each and every one of us the executive producer
Speaker 1: of our own thirty minutes special, which was they could
Speaker 1: have kept the check behind that be well not really,
Speaker 1: but no, you need your check, but the executive producing
Speaker 1: gives you a little cloud. So but now, and I
Speaker 1: thought that was so important because you you are the
Speaker 1: one who came up with the material. You are the
Speaker 1: one who was in those nightclubs working at you don't
Speaker 1: want They got bumped off of shows you don't want
Speaker 1: that had to go right around of this city, that city,
Speaker 1: and that, Like, you earned that executive producer credit because
Speaker 1: without you producing this content, there would be nothing for
Speaker 1: us to see, there would be nothing for us to
Speaker 1: put on camera. So um, and I'm so, I'm very
Speaker 1: I'm a big advocate of people having producer credits for
Speaker 1: where they deserve it. You're producing, you're creating content like
Speaker 1: you are putting in the work you made, the phone calls,
Speaker 1: you did that you put you did the hard work
Speaker 1: to get there, so you deserve the credit. And they
Speaker 1: didn't want to give that up at first. Now I
Speaker 1: was like, no, you're gonna give it to him and
Speaker 1: take my name off then put them on like you
Speaker 1: know they did it, though I wouldn't. I want to
Speaker 1: give you kudos too, because I don't even think you
Speaker 1: probably remember I was back stage when you did they
Speaker 1: already season two. I came with flame, and I just
Speaker 1: want to say, what you're saying now is not just
Speaker 1: like a facade of what you did, because even then,
Speaker 1: when you were doing it in the midst of COVID,
Speaker 1: you still made it happen. You still gave these comedians
Speaker 1: this amazing platform. And you said backstage too, you said,
Speaker 1: I'm using everybody black because that's what I want to do,
Speaker 1: and I can do it because of the hard work
Speaker 1: that I put in. So I want to give you
Speaker 1: major credit. I'm seeing all of your passion and just
Speaker 1: your drive, and I'm wanna thank you. Even if people
Speaker 1: aren't giving you your flowers yet, you giving me your
Speaker 1: flowers because you flowers, because you've really been doing this
Speaker 1: for a while and you were really giving back. I mean,
Speaker 1: and Flamers always talked highly of you to me. But
Speaker 1: to see you do it like being action. You had
Speaker 1: your Eddie Murphy tribute suit on you. It was a
Speaker 1: very black show. It was a good show, like Eddie.
Speaker 1: Eddie is another prime example of someone who got in
Speaker 1: there and pulled his friends on and put his friends
Speaker 1: in the movies, put his friends on the shows with him,
Speaker 1: like that is a prime example. And he was just
Speaker 1: doing what he's seen the white boys wan to. But
Speaker 1: they don't always allowed us to do that, like and
Speaker 1: it's it's very few of us that do it, like
Speaker 1: men Keenan Thompson, like female comments barely ever do it,
Speaker 1: if at all, you know, it's like, because but we
Speaker 1: have to fight so hard. It's it's sometimes people aren't
Speaker 1: just not built for the fight. It's terrible that they
Speaker 1: think that female comedians don't work well together and they
Speaker 1: can't do it, and we do work and they we
Speaker 1: worked exceptionally well. It was so much love on they
Speaker 1: ready with all the female comments. It was it was
Speaker 1: nothing like you would have thought. Everybody was empowering each
Speaker 1: other and hugging and praying and petting each other on
Speaker 1: the back. Go kill it, go kill it, go kill
Speaker 1: And Tip was right at the forefront like mother Goose,
Speaker 1: like baby, you did it, Go do your thing. She
Speaker 1: was waiting on the Saturn stage and none of that
Speaker 1: was for the camera. She was waiting like our mothers
Speaker 1: at the Saturn stage, like when you which, when you
Speaker 1: do it, you come up. I'm waiting right here to
Speaker 1: give you your big hooks, like your first day at school.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be waiting on you that this first show.
Speaker 1: What y'all didn't see it's my microphone thing was hanging out.
Speaker 1: So Tiffy ran up on me like my titty was outside.
Speaker 1: I think because I wanted you to be perfect. The
Speaker 1: best was with the production of it that it needed
Speaker 1: to look good. You need to be your absolute best
Speaker 1: because this was Netflix, you know it was it was
Speaker 1: It ain't even that it was about Netflix. It was
Speaker 1: it's you. It's you, and you deserve to have the
Speaker 1: best and look the best and feel the best, and
Speaker 1: be protected and be looked out for and not just
Speaker 1: left out there floundering or looking crazy. I wasn't feel
Speaker 1: allowing it. I wasn't allowing it. But Netflix, did you
Speaker 1: hear that? Call a bit? I'm ready? She we is,
Speaker 1: damn sure already back to let me go back, back, backtrack,
Speaker 1: a little nick for you come in. I want to
Speaker 1: just give a shout out to Dwayne Wade and his
Speaker 1: wife Gabriel, because if that's on that daughter of the
Speaker 1: Azire Wade, if the little boy who got the gay
Speaker 1: shaved in his head had a supportive team like that
Speaker 1: in his household from his hand, the child will grow
Speaker 1: up to be great. Whether it was gay or anything else,
Speaker 1: the child will because at home, you're safe. That's all
Speaker 1: I wanted. When I was at home, I wanted a
Speaker 1: safe space because the world was I assisted this miss
Speaker 1: markts fighting and all that. I wanted to be able
Speaker 1: to go in my house and know I'm safe in
Speaker 1: my house, but I wasn't because I had my mother
Speaker 1: was violent. You know, my uncle's didn't want me to
Speaker 1: be gay. They would fight me. You can't fight the
Speaker 1: gay out. That's why not how to box awhere? Because
Speaker 1: I was happy, But that's what you need, and so
Speaker 1: I applaud them, and I think the I used to
Speaker 1: be zieway. The only difference was I didn't have a
Speaker 1: parent at home to protect me. You know, Balley was
Speaker 1: doing her things, she was on drugs. She didn't care
Speaker 1: what I was doing. But I had to learn to
Speaker 1: fan for myself. And a lot of us trans women
Speaker 1: are on the defense because we have to be on
Speaker 1: the defense, but all the time. But although you went
Speaker 1: through that and they weren't there the way they could
Speaker 1: have been there for you. Look how awesome apparent you
Speaker 1: are now you're like the best version of what they were.
Speaker 1: But you're like the best, best mommy daddy, Like you're
Speaker 1: the best. I don't think my seventh year od deal
Speaker 1: will agree with you right there. I'm not right now.
Speaker 1: But because they're seventeen and they want to get what
Speaker 1: they want to do, what they want to do in
Speaker 1: this that's a part of growing up. But they're never hungry.
Speaker 1: They ain't never been sleeping the streets, you know. They
Speaker 1: always got clothes on their back, always got shoots on
Speaker 1: their feet. They've never been abused. Like you take care
Speaker 1: of them the best, and that's because of what you've
Speaker 1: been through, and you know you do want to them
Speaker 1: as you wish someone would done. If we would be hungry,
Speaker 1: I just called you and said, girl, I ain't got
Speaker 1: no money, please send and I send it. I'd be like,
Speaker 1: out to my house and bring it to you. Brought
Speaker 1: us a dog one time for Christmas. I'd be like,
Speaker 1: what you need grown speed, I'm about to go get
Speaker 1: you something like with the kids, what are the allergies?
Speaker 1: It is uncanny to think that you are such a
Speaker 1: phenomenon as a woman, Tiffany, as an artist, as a
Speaker 1: as a as a human, because everybody doesn't have that
Speaker 1: capacity that you have to just make people feel good
Speaker 1: about themselves. You know, that's what you do. You make
Speaker 1: people feel so comfortable about who you because you are you.
Speaker 1: Never she never changes. This is Tiffany period. And I
Speaker 1: changed my clothes and my hair, my mind. That wasn't
Speaker 1: about getting no check that didn't get I mean, I
Speaker 1: did do a movie right there, but that wasn't The
Speaker 1: hair do wasn't for the movie. That was because I
Speaker 1: wanted to see my scalp. That was for me. That
Speaker 1: was something for me. And I'm gonna tell you, I
Speaker 1: wish I would have did it at a younger age
Speaker 1: because I think every woman, every human being should be
Speaker 1: bald headed at least one time. And they're like, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm talking about, playing amazing when that the
Speaker 1: rain drops hit your scalp. Feel like, guys, just go
Speaker 1: like when that water and like if somebody touch your scalp,
Speaker 1: and it seemed like my senses like I'm I can
Speaker 1: sense bullshit way quicker, Like I don't know, it's just
Speaker 1: the feeling of being bald was kind of a freaking
Speaker 1: amazing And I don't care if you got a funny
Speaker 1: shape head. Let that funny shape head breeze one time
Speaker 1: in the universe. Let the sun kissing. Let the sun
Speaker 1: kiss it. What the sun kissing? That's not that's not
Speaker 1: That wasn't her name, but she did kiss Listen, lorde
Speaker 1: of that you did was Madame C. J. Walker. I
Speaker 1: loved you and Madame C. J. Walker, did you take
Speaker 1: acting classes? Because you were really, really, really good. Thank you.
Speaker 1: I've been taking acting classes for years. I'm trying to
Speaker 1: take something too. I've been taking them for years. I've
Speaker 1: been taking them since two thousand and one, two two. Um,
Speaker 1: I've been in acting really before then, because I was
Speaker 1: taking them in nineteen nineties six and said, and I
Speaker 1: mean I won drama festivals in ninety four and nine,
Speaker 1: so like I've been doing it for years. Um. But yeah,
Speaker 1: that that Madame C. J. Walker. That was a lot
Speaker 1: of sitting down and like, okay, focus on the times.
Speaker 1: How did they talk? How do you carry yourself? What,
Speaker 1: what if me can I bring to this character? What
Speaker 1: does this character have to offer um to to grow
Speaker 1: me as a person? And that I played with that
Speaker 1: a lot. Nick, I know you had a question, Go ahead, Well,
Speaker 1: I wanted to talk about Tiffany's uh internship where she's
Speaker 1: providing opportunities for people to succeed, because Tiffany, this also
Speaker 1: ties back to you having the ability to do all
Speaker 1: the stuff that you want to do because you want
Speaker 1: to provide an opportunity for others to be able to
Speaker 1: have that agency and do that. Talk to us about
Speaker 1: that because there are so many people who are tuning
Speaker 1: in right now who won't have a chance to speak
Speaker 1: with you directly. How can they learn more about that?
Speaker 1: And what do you want people at home to know?
Speaker 1: So I started a foundation called that She Ready Foundation,
Speaker 1: And when I originally started it, I just wanted it
Speaker 1: to be something that was super simple, that um, I
Speaker 1: just I just wanted to give suitcases to foster you
Speaker 1: because I remember what it felt like being moved around
Speaker 1: from house to house and all my clothing trash bags,
Speaker 1: and how that made me feel as a person, like
Speaker 1: I was garbage being moved around, right, And once someone
Speaker 1: gave me a suitcase, I started feeling like a person,
Speaker 1: like a travel like I was on an adventure, like
Speaker 1: I was a visitor as opposed to be in garbage
Speaker 1: dropped off at these people's house. And that evolved over
Speaker 1: the course of time. Like so, I was just giving
Speaker 1: out suitcases every comedy show I do. I would like
Speaker 1: people wanted to take pictures with me, I would make
Speaker 1: them bring a suitcase. And they got to the point
Speaker 1: where I started performing at bigger venues and I couldn't
Speaker 1: buy the trucks anymore. That was filling up with the suitcases,
Speaker 1: and it was okay, you you can do a meet
Speaker 1: and greet with me, but you pay this much. And
Speaker 1: now that money went directly to the to the foster
Speaker 1: us where we were getting them suitcases, toiletries, clothing, the
Speaker 1: books and things live this nature. And then as I
Speaker 1: started talking to more and more the youth, and I'm
Speaker 1: the more ingratiated I got into business. I started realizing
Speaker 1: that these people that I work with and these organizations
Speaker 1: that I work with, they don't understand me. They don't
Speaker 1: understand people like me. They're confused. And as I'm talking
Speaker 1: to the kids, I'm realizing that they don't understand that
Speaker 1: there's opportunity for them in this field. They're thinking all
Speaker 1: I can be is an actor or a writer or
Speaker 1: a director. But there's so many other positions in entertainment.
Speaker 1: There's so many other things you can be. You can
Speaker 1: be a DP, you can be a camera operator, you
Speaker 1: can be an editor and executive at a company. You
Speaker 1: can be you know, there's so many different positions. You
Speaker 1: could be craft services, like, there's so many other positions,
Speaker 1: but they're not exposed to it, so they'll never be
Speaker 1: able to do it. So I decided I would starting
Speaker 1: internship program where we start placing these falseter youths that
Speaker 1: are in college, you know, in that are interested in
Speaker 1: the arts into these companies. So we have some at Disney,
Speaker 1: we got some at UH william or U t A.
Speaker 1: We got some artists person and management companies, we got
Speaker 1: them at um uh Sony Pictures, we got them everywhere,
Speaker 1: like all these different places. So first we're just starting
Speaker 1: with California. This is our first year doing it, and
Speaker 1: we're just seeing how it works out. And so far
Speaker 1: it's been going really really well. Now there's some kids
Speaker 1: that's a little stuck up, like, oh no, I can't
Speaker 1: do I really want to be a writer. And I
Speaker 1: don't think that researchers like it was like, because when
Speaker 1: you're intern you're doing the base, the basic job, and
Speaker 1: so you and you need to learn these things. I mean,
Speaker 1: I was an extra before I was ever a paid actress, right,
Speaker 1: I was an extra learning how things work, seeing, learning
Speaker 1: the you know, the cause that they may like okay,
Speaker 1: pictures up, sound, speeding, different things like I was learning
Speaker 1: all these things at the base level of acting, right,
Speaker 1: the background which is important to making something feel real. Um.
Speaker 1: I never said I'm too good to be sitting in
Speaker 1: the background though. I need to sit back here so
Speaker 1: I can see how this should go right. So, but
Speaker 1: this is one kid I had to have a conversation, like, look,
Speaker 1: like research is important to writing. You saying you want
Speaker 1: to be a writer, you need to understand what you
Speaker 1: are writing. You need to be writing things that are informative,
Speaker 1: that are real, and if you're even writing imaginary, you
Speaker 1: need to have an understanding of what's real so you
Speaker 1: can write the imaginary period. And the more that you
Speaker 1: read and the more information that you gathered, the better
Speaker 1: writer you will be. But still they thought they were
Speaker 1: too good to be doing research. So you can search
Speaker 1: your grass about it here. Yeah, and it blows me
Speaker 1: because people think that you just up overnight. They don't
Speaker 1: even know that you've been doing comedy camps since how old?
Speaker 1: I started doing this standard comic at nineteen nine seven,
Speaker 1: so in the I was like sixteen. Yeah was that important?
Speaker 1: What did that help mold you to be the comedian
Speaker 1: that you are not doing all those times? Yeah? I
Speaker 1: mean that was okay. So, like, so I was getting
Speaker 1: in trouble and I was I think who frame Rodger
Speaker 1: Rabbit got me started because there was a scene in
Speaker 1: the movie where the detective says to the rabbit, why
Speaker 1: are these people doing these nice things where? And he
Speaker 1: said because I make him laugh, Attie, if you make
Speaker 1: people laugh or do anything for you, right, And that
Speaker 1: was like, that's the ticket. This is how I'm gonna
Speaker 1: make friends. That's how I'm gonna get help with my homework.
Speaker 1: Is I'm gonna get get through life. Is I'm gonna
Speaker 1: make people laughing, They're gonna help me. And and people
Speaker 1: did help me, and it was in a way where
Speaker 1: I didn't have to really ask for help. They kind
Speaker 1: of noticed. Or I'd be like, let me see your homework.
Speaker 1: You probably didn't get that, right, let me see, like
Speaker 1: and then I copy copy, copy, Um, that's how cheated on.
Speaker 1: So that's how I got through high school. And then
Speaker 1: but I was also like getting in trouble school a lot.
Speaker 1: And the social worker was getting tired of coming up
Speaker 1: to the school and she was like, clearly, there's something
Speaker 1: wrong with you. Because I had these imaginary friends, I
Speaker 1: might have been a little bit, you know, racist. I
Speaker 1: had to burden named Cracker and I'd be like, what's
Speaker 1: answer number seven? Cracker? And I went to like the
Speaker 1: whitest junior high high school ever. I'm like, what's the
Speaker 1: answer number seven? Cracker? And I'd be like the teacher like,
Speaker 1: who are you calling a cracker? My bird, my bird,
Speaker 1: my bird on my shoulder, And I'm like, there's no
Speaker 1: bird on your shoulder. I'm like, that's because you're blind.
Speaker 1: You're a blind. Cracker said that you were blind, like
Speaker 1: so um. Then they would send me to the dean's
Speaker 1: office and the social worker come up there and be like, look,
Speaker 1: something is clearly wrong with you. You got two choices
Speaker 1: this summer. You go to the last factory comedy camper,
Speaker 1: you can go to psychiatric therapy. I ended up in
Speaker 1: the comedy camp and that was the first time that
Speaker 1: I was surrounded like I was in an environment that
Speaker 1: supported my silliness, but also in an environment where, you know,
Speaker 1: it was a man. There were men there that were
Speaker 1: telling me you're talented, you're funny, you're beautiful, you're smart.
Speaker 1: And I didn't think something bad was gonna happen, right
Speaker 1: because at that point in my life, any time a
Speaker 1: man told me anything positive, he was gonna do something negative.
Speaker 1: You know, something bad would happen. And so this was
Speaker 1: mind blowing to me, and um, I was like, I
Speaker 1: like this. And then as I started going to the
Speaker 1: comedy club and how comics would hug each other like
Speaker 1: like I realized now, like I didn't get many hugs
Speaker 1: coming up like and to get that nurturing and from
Speaker 1: a man and didn't feel like he was gonna like violate.
Speaker 1: It wasn't him, It wasn't him making a move. It
Speaker 1: was it was just genuine camaraderie right like that was
Speaker 1: really super important to me, Like as I don't even
Speaker 1: know how to describe what it was, but it turned
Speaker 1: something for it turned something. I was like, I love
Speaker 1: this in the sound of people laughing, that to me
Speaker 1: is the most magical sound in the world's people could
Speaker 1: be laughing at me with me, it doesn't matter to
Speaker 1: hear people laughing it. It's it's like I know, I
Speaker 1: won't get physically hurt, you know. It's it's a I
Speaker 1: don't even know how to I just love the sound,
Speaker 1: especially babies laughing. When you know you're hilarious. If you
Speaker 1: can make a kid laugh like a little baby like
Speaker 1: one years old too, I don't know, to me, that
Speaker 1: means you're super funny and like good spirit um and
Speaker 1: to see people smiling even if they ain't got no
Speaker 1: teeth and they got the ugliest teeth. To me, that's
Speaker 1: just it's just beautiful. So that's why I don't like
Speaker 1: babies laughing with me. I'll be doing they'd be clocking
Speaker 1: the tea. I'll be like, you know, I know you're
Speaker 1: a man. So recently we lost Paul Moone because we
Speaker 1: all wrap it up really, so we lost Paul Mooney recently,
Speaker 1: who is a comic gold mine, legend, and so Tiffany
Speaker 1: sent in a video talking about telling us a story
Speaker 1: about what Paulman was said to you and I could
Speaker 1: not share because it was good yet the thing, but
Speaker 1: you have to tell us, oh Man, So Pulmony, I
Speaker 1: know Paul since I was fifteen years old, seen sixteen
Speaker 1: years old. He was one of those comedians that was constantly,
Speaker 1: you know, giving me that positive reinforcement, also telling me
Speaker 1: when I was messing up, tell me when I was
Speaker 1: doing good, tell me when I was looking good, tell
Speaker 1: me when I was looking dad like. He was always honest.
Speaker 1: It's like the uncle home that I always wish I had,
Speaker 1: like the family member I wish he taught me about
Speaker 1: I mean, he talked me about stones and stuff and
Speaker 1: like energy and like he was always so positive and
Speaker 1: when I was homeless. When I was homeless, He's like,
Speaker 1: so I heard Jamie told me he was home. So
Speaker 1: you ain't gonna where to live. You sleeping in the streets.
Speaker 1: So now I'm sleeping in my car. But yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: definitely homeless. She was like, well, let me call my sister. Coming, sister,
Speaker 1: she got some kids they need to be babysitting, and
Speaker 1: you could live with her and you can babysit their kids.
Speaker 1: And I was like, I think I'd rather be homeless.
Speaker 1: I don't want me. I've been already taking care of kids. Man,
Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna be homeless. And I'm just sticking
Speaker 1: with that. Man. He would always like guide me on
Speaker 1: my jokes, like he would see me doing the joke,
Speaker 1: he like, oh, that's a lot of children right there. Okay,
Speaker 1: what you need to do is flip this, flip that dude,
Speaker 1: and uh, I don't know. Plus the makeup, come here
Speaker 1: looking crazy like come here, come my hair, and making
Speaker 1: sure you know I look presentable. And I got some days,
Speaker 1: I mean I could, I couldn't. I didn't have I
Speaker 1: didn't have the resources sometimes, but he was the most
Speaker 1: amazing and he taught me so much in I just
Speaker 1: I'm missing him terribly, you know, and I've been missing
Speaker 1: him for a long time because he was not himself
Speaker 1: those last few years. So um. But he always greeted
Speaker 1: me with love, always was kind to me. Sometimes he
Speaker 1: would cuss me out, but to me, that was his
Speaker 1: way of Yeah I was every time. Yeah, but that
Speaker 1: was his kindness. It was he would be coming to talk.
Speaker 1: Shit your ass down, let's talk. You asked me, do
Speaker 1: they get your hard time? I say they do? He said,
Speaker 1: we beat You know, you're not a real girl, so
Speaker 1: you're expected fun and as a joke, but did you
Speaker 1: ever give Kevin at three hundred dollars? Yes, yes, he
Speaker 1: got his three dollars plus that. I mean that movie
Speaker 1: made a lot more than Yeah, he got that money. Man.
Speaker 1: That was nice school. Yeah, nice school. I loved doing
Speaker 1: that movie and Kevin. That was a funny ass movie
Speaker 1: about three o'clock and more and and how for edible
Speaker 1: good guy. I was laughing, didn't even though I was laughing. Tiffany,
Speaker 1: we thank you so much for joining us. If you
Speaker 1: didn't know that Tiffany Hatties is the executive producer of
Speaker 1: Laugh and Learning. This show probably would not have happened
Speaker 1: for Charlotte Maye not giving us a pass and Tiffany
Speaker 1: standing on to say green light this, bitch, let's go.
Speaker 1: We love you. We have a message that we leave
Speaker 1: here every week. Nicholas here at Laugh and Learn. First
Speaker 1: of all, Nicholas, tell us where we can find you.
Speaker 1: You can find me at Nick Smith News. On all
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Speaker 1: my baby, my mentor, my muse, my love life, my everything.
Speaker 1: My Tiffany had his on. Tiffany has all social media
Speaker 1: platforms at last I say I don't do to my
Speaker 1: birthday last year high and my daughters. That's I know.
Speaker 1: She a big as kid. They had to do about
Speaker 1: a hundred and Tiffany knew every damn dance that those
Speaker 1: kids were doing well. I tried. It was way more
Speaker 1: advanced than me. But yeah, TikTok and Tiffany ha does
Speaker 1: she want? I believe Tippy had this one. Nicholas, what's
Speaker 1: that message here? And laugh and learned. We are not
Speaker 1: trying to get anyone to change their minds. We are
Speaker 1: simply trying to get you to use your mind, because
Speaker 1: wife flame. In order to do that, you have to
Speaker 1: have one. Critical thinking is important. The decisions you make
Speaker 1: about you should come from you. I don't care what
Speaker 1: this bitch think. She paid me, but I'm looking for you.
Speaker 1: Have to me that many times, I don't care what
Speaker 1: you think what I'm telling you because how I feeling.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm doing. And she has always respected my
Speaker 1: boundaries like I have to respected her. Tiffany had his
Speaker 1: as my friend. I love you as my flawyer. I
Speaker 1: appreciate you as my mentor. I applaud you and as
Speaker 1: the woman that you are and what you have done
Speaker 1: for so many people. Humble myself and point we're gonna
Speaker 1: do a dram show together, y'all. How we're gonna do
Speaker 1: a draft showing. It's gonna be sounding pemples here and
Speaker 1: we're in enough to get it. Let me see I
Speaker 1: Laughing Learning, Thank you so much. Please finow tifty had
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