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Actress Cassi Davis Patton on starring in the eighth season of "Tyler Perry's House of Payne" · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: time frame. My next guest is Cassie Davis Patton castes
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  Speaker 1: starting on Tyler Perris House of Pain planning Ella Pain,
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  Speaker 1: which returns on BT for his eight seasons. Tyler Perris
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  Speaker 1: House of Pain is the number one comedy series for
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  Speaker 1: African America's eighteen to forty nine fifty four in the
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  Speaker 1: calendar year twenty and you can say the calendar year
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  Speaker 1: one too, because it's already been picked up for the
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  Speaker 1: other season. Cassie Davis pattern has worked extensively over the
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  Speaker 1: years with Tyler perryl on his stage plays, TV shows
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  Speaker 1: and movie he She made a lot of money with
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  Speaker 1: Medill Mdea is really her middle name. She also attended
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  Speaker 1: uh Spellman College is Atlanta, Georgia and major in music.
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  Speaker 1: Her big acting break was her role in Spike Lee's
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  Speaker 1: film School Days, Please Welcome. When I knew it back
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  Speaker 1: in the day, she was just Cafe David. Now you
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  Speaker 1: know she got a man naturally. Now she Cassie David Patton.
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  Speaker 1: So from Tyler Perris, hustle pain my good friend, Cassie
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  Speaker 1: Davis Patton, how you doing better? Introduced me do a
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  Speaker 1: good job, Cassie, do a good job for shure. No,
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  Speaker 1: you did what you know I'm gonna do. Thank you?
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  Speaker 1: You think you know you you still got it. I
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  Speaker 1: appreciate it. You know the amazing thing that you wanted
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  Speaker 1: one you when we started calling now girl, you said
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  Speaker 1: one one. It took me all of your one baby
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  Speaker 1: one and one Attorney Anderson. Come on, y'all, you guys
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  Speaker 1: were the You guys were a mad team of brilliant
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  Speaker 1: black men that knew what y'all wanted to do and
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  Speaker 1: did it. Steve you won home Attorney and send um
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  Speaker 1: James Boomerang. You guys were an awesome team, and y'all
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  Speaker 1: taught me so much. I was. I was at the
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  Speaker 1: house and um, you guys were in the field and
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  Speaker 1: you are working. Your ethics were good, and um you
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  Speaker 1: were suited all the time. Uh, you guys would come
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  Speaker 1: back to the house and you guys would discuss strategies
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  Speaker 1: and I would eavesdrop, and UM, I learned and took notes,
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  Speaker 1: didn't even know I care, But um, I just appreciated
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  Speaker 1: everything that you guys came back home and discussed and
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  Speaker 1: made happy. You know, it wasn't just like you were
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  Speaker 1: blowing smoke signals you. There was actually fire and there
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  Speaker 1: was a product that you guys um put together and
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  Speaker 1: that was me and the boys, and that was It
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  Speaker 1: was just so much that you all did. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you guys were the kings of comedy before the Kings
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  Speaker 1: of comedy came out. Absolutely absolutely no. Cassi talking to
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  Speaker 1: Cassie David, She's just start Tyler Perris hals of pain.
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  Speaker 1: That's one of the things she's a star because she
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  Speaker 1: really is a breed talent. And then she just talked
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  Speaker 1: about our history. The person she brought up one and
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  Speaker 1: one that's one hole, just a little little walk down
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  Speaker 1: history lane. He was Steve's manager before I became his manager,
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  Speaker 1: and he was all our best friend and we lost
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  Speaker 1: that he was close to the loss to the same
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  Speaker 1: heart element and uh and and that that allowed me
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  Speaker 1: to come into his life. And Ricky Anderson was the attorney.
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  Speaker 1: He's still out the attorney in our lives today after
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  Speaker 1: all these years of African American attorney. That's what she
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  Speaker 1: was talking about. Black men who was breaking ground were
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  Speaker 1: breaking ground because the rules were different back in nineteen
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  Speaker 1: two five. That's exactly right and exactly right. And there
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  Speaker 1: was there was a hustle that you guys came out
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  Speaker 1: with and it was just like everybody get somebody. That's
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  Speaker 1: that's what we said in high school. Everybody gets somebody,
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  Speaker 1: don't let them shoot. And that is what you all did.
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  Speaker 1: You all. Steve was in charge of this, one was
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  Speaker 1: in charge of this attorney and so handled this and
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  Speaker 1: Rashan you really uh gatheredized a whole lot of things
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  Speaker 1: you were caring to to be briefcase, you know, thank
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  Speaker 1: you for that compliment, Cassie. But the thing about our relationship,
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  Speaker 1: you know, is that I always saw a talented person
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  Speaker 1: and but you were not doing anything with your career
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  Speaker 1: at the time when I came into your life. But
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  Speaker 1: I was why, uh, you know what, I got my
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  Speaker 1: feelings hurt. I was up for a part on Hanging
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  Speaker 1: with Mr Cooper, and I thought I was gonna be
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  Speaker 1: on that show, and I was doing storyboards, I was,
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  Speaker 1: you know, going into meetings with the executives, and I
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  Speaker 1: I learned that I did not get the part when
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  Speaker 1: the show aired, and it hurt my feelings so bad.
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  Speaker 1: I just didn't understand the rejection of the business. I
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  Speaker 1: thought they really liked what they saw and I thought
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  Speaker 1: they meant what they said, and um, it became just
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  Speaker 1: one line after another that's one of Chip Fields songs
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  Speaker 1: and uh and uh. So I just thought that it
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  Speaker 1: would probably be best for me to pull out and
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  Speaker 1: not pursue this career because you know, I could have
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  Speaker 1: had anger issues and I did not want to you know,
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  Speaker 1: take my anger out on someone. So I just stopped
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  Speaker 1: and started working with young people at Wendy School. Um
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  Speaker 1: and um, and I just I just fell in love
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  Speaker 1: with you know what the aren't really could for the
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  Speaker 1: lives of those young people. And then Mr Perry, oh
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  Speaker 1: my god, he saw me doing a favor for someone
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  Speaker 1: and asked me to come and be a part of
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  Speaker 1: his empire, and I was like, I don't have no
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  Speaker 1: time but that y'all say one thing, y'all do another thing.
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna do it, do it. And if you're not,
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  Speaker 1: then don't. And I must say that man has kept
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  Speaker 1: his word. You guys kept your word. But I just
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  Speaker 1: got my feelings hurt. I was so bruised by being rejected,
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  Speaker 1: and I just didn't understand the rejection part of the pursuit.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, you just important people here that Cassie Davis,
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  Speaker 1: because of Cassie Davis's Pattonna, I'm gonna talk different periods.
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  Speaker 1: on your cage didn't even say sorry. No, they didn't
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  Speaker 1: even say sorry. I didn't even I was at home waiting.
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  Speaker 1: if you're gonna lose, why not lose to her? But
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  Speaker 1: you know, but I it just hurt me so bad. Um,
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  Speaker 1: What do you mean you said, that girl right there
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  Speaker 1: can sing. I go Cassie, Cassie Gazie. She never showed
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  Speaker 1: when I realized that the talent was not mine to
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  Speaker 1: stories that I now hear um about how the messages
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  Speaker 1: from House of Pain has helped somebody's family or somebody's
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  Speaker 1: was it was God that that made me do it.
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  Speaker 1: I did not do by research. I was just taking
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  Speaker 1: No problem. I did not have wise counsel, but did
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  Speaker 1: not I didn't have any counsel really at all. And
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  Speaker 1: and I want to go back to uh your Spellman days,
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  Speaker 1: because I really always when I read a graduate of Spellman,
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  Speaker 1: I gotta HBCU in general. I got to be able
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  Speaker 1: of Spellman. Oh my god, Rashawn. I heard about Spellman
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  Speaker 1: her dad and lived right below by my dad's house
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  Speaker 1: He said, Hey, look, there's a girl over here that
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  Speaker 1: I want to come to Spellman her dad and I'm
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  Speaker 1: not gonna have a whole lot of money, so just
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: find her some money and uh come over here, and
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: I need you all to recruit her and talk to
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: her daddy, and she did. She came and um, she
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: spoke with my dad and assured him that I would
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: matriculate and I would be okay, and I would be safe,
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: and and and it happened. And my dad took me
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: down to Spelling College in nineteen eighty four and I
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: graduated in two thousand nine. I was a senior for
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: twenty one years. I got down to Atlanta and last
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: my mind, I got into the city with all these
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: lights and got over there in that a youth center
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: on fairst S and the party became real. And then
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: I fell in love with the theater company to Monday
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: Productions in the city, and I began to work with them.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: And I didn't really care about being a music major anymore.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: I didn't really care about singing UM classical music. I
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: thought I was going to be a gospel singer. And
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: when I got to Spellman, they wanted us to do
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: UM a classical format and the method for really learning
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: and studying music. And when I got I was just like, what,
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: I don't want to sing an aria. I want to
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: sing to God be the glore and my tribute. You know,
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: my dad come home. They want to hear English, I
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: don't want to be singing, oh to tell you, and
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: so just country I didn't really know, and uh, and
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: so I got mad. I had one hour to graduate,
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: and I left. Chip Fills came through and she was
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: going out in a play with Nicky Whinings and and um,
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: and so I got in that play in nine and
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: and I left Atlanta with that one hour to graduate.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: I called my dad and them three days before graduation
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: to tell them that I would not be graduating, and um,
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: they were just undone. My dad was like, you're living
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: in a bubble. Now you're going out to chase a
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: dream and you never do you know, actors come a
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: dime a dozen. You're never gonna be on a show.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: Nobody knows you'll get out of here. You're not gonna
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: And the more he said you're not, the more I said,
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna show you. I'm gonna prove it to you.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: I know that this is what I need to do.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: I want to do it. They won't let me sing
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: for God. And you know our model a Spellman was
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: our whole school for Christ. I was like our whole
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: school for Christ. And you won't let me do a
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: gospel song on my senior recital. We'll forget it. I
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: don't want to degree, and I was. I got out
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: to California, I went out to a visit hip for
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: two weeks. I left fourteen years later. And in that
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: fourteen years, you know, I stummed up to be too
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: years to seven years, you know, like so it was
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: to the first seven years I was learning one thing.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: The second seven years I learned another thing. And um
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: and and it was it was completion twice for me. Um.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: Seven is usually the number of completions. So I had
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: to run my course twice to get out of l A.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: And when I left, I came back to Atlanta doing
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: House of Pain with Mr Perry and UM and I
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: went back to Spellman College and I marched and walked. Uh.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: I got that degree in two thousand and eight December,
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: and I marched in two thousand nine. And I am
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: a proud Spellman moment and um And it was not
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: just what I learned on the inside of the gates
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: that make me the woman that I am today, But
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: it was what they taught me on the inside that
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: I applied on the outside of the gates, UM that
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: makes me an even more proud moment. And um, and
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: it was those fourteen years of labor out there in
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: l A that prepares me for today. You know when um,
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: you know, I don't even like doing interviews because it
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: just seems like, um, it's so much you want me
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: to cram into twenty minutes when um, you know we're
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: talking about ninety one two twenty one? Are you kidding me?
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: In a pandemic? It's so many jewels and elements to
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: get a life and to describing it and to telling
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: you how important everything is. Money is important, faith is important, Uh,
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: rejection is important, health is important, Wisdom is important. Uh,
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: and wisdom is the principal thing. Um, So at all
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: I get you need to get wisdom, you need to
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: get an understanding. But wisdom is the principal thing. You know.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: It's just a um. You know when you when you
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: get mature, and you know, I left Spelman College. I
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: didn't want on, I didn't walk degree. Are you kidding me?
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: All that money, my folks sacrifice, I had to do it,
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: and I did, and and it just feels so good
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: to accomplish. You know, when I was in l A
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: and I was saying, I'm a spelling to night. But
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: well I had a graduated yet, but I am a
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: spell to night. I met I have want how to graduate.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: You know, that's not really to brag about until you
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: can say I did it. I went back, I got
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: my degree, and I am a spell tonight. And it's
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: not just spelling from college, because you know, I'm more
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: of a bearcat at Russ College in a Holly Springs,
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: mississiffic that I am a jaguar as Spellment College. I
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: know more about growing up on Russ College's campus than
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: I do of how growing up on Spellinger's campus. But
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: you know, I had those institutions and of higher education,
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: and I just believed in doing better and doing more
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: and being exposed to more. And you know, now making
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: a way for my siblings or my my my nieces
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: and nephews to have you know, their dreams come to fruition,
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: you know. So now I'm passing the torch if you will,
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: well you look fantastic at Cassie Davis. We're talking to
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: Catchy Davis Patton. Thank you a co star, Tyler Perry.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: This House of Pain is the number one show on
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: African American homes in is gonna come back this month.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: It's the eighth season of the show. Let's talk about fame.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: Let's talk about fame and you, Cassie, because I know
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: you humble, you know, you know, you know not you
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: not want to want to get recognized in the grocery store.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: You uh you, I mean you can't. On the Steve
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: Harvey Morning Show, you played nephew Tommy's mama and girl
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: and say that. I go, oh, I'm not gonna say that.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: It's just it's still doing that. That was a secret.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: And you guys that baby all my money, Okay, I
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: called Steve, are the one of the richest man's and
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: the men in the world. We're gonna pay you all
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: your money. Now, would you being famous Tyler's Paris House
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: of Fame because you're famous in Medea movies? How did
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: you deal with fame? How did you deal with that? Well,
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: you know what, um Rishan, I really don't know. I
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: really don't know if I deal with it. You know,
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: I just like people. And so when I meet them
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: out anywhere and they are talking about Ella, or they're
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: talking about Bam, or they're talking about Tyler Pier, I
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: welcome what they have to say, you know, I feel
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: like what they have seen um is in their house.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: It becomes very personal to them, and the messages I
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: think hit home with their lives. And so some people
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: are very nice when they approach you. And then there
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: are some people who, uh, who tripped And then you
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: know you have to say, hey, wait, man, that's a character.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: Don't sleep now, I don't don't don't don't do that.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: Don't you know I'm not always on TV. I'm not
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: always active, not always a script. So don't get slapped.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: But you know, but it is so wonderful to experience
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: these things because these people are so wonderful. Now, you know,
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: the when when you meant so, I don't know. I
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: don't know that I'm handling it properly. I don't know.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: There's two types of fame for you because you you know,
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: you you blew up in his plays Tyler Perrish plays,
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: and then the TV show and then the movies which
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: became international which also put you on the big screen,
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: the Medea movies. That what you feel is mostly impactful
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: in your career, the plays, the MDEA movies, or the
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: TV show impactful. I would probably have to say, um,
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: the movies. UM, well, I probably would have to say
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: the TV show. Um. The thing I enjoyed the most,
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: I would have to say is the play or the plays,
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: you know, just to get that instant gratification and to
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: be their lives in a in a building with Shawn
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: and I always describe it like I'm in a building
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: with ten thousand people and they don't know each other,
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: but they're all laughing at the same time, the all
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: crying at the same time. And then I'm sitting next
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: to a mastermind Tyler Perry as my dear, and he
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: just orchestrates direct. If there's something on the stage that
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: goes wrong, he can handle it. If there is a
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: fight in the crowd, he can handle it. If there's
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: a heckler in the crowd, he can handle that. You know.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: If he's said and we need to finish us, you
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: know the show early, he can handle that, you know.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: So just to be sitting on stage with a mastermind
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: as just really ah been the treat of my whole career.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: So I love all the mediums. I love plays, I
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: love TV, I love movies. UM and I think the
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: best thing for me is his work ethics and UM
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: and he means business when he shows up. So if
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: you have your script uh ten days before or five
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: days before, or if he calls you the night before
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: it says, hey, look, I thought about something that I'd
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: like to put you in, just be ready. And so
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: that's what I really appreciate about the about the three
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: entities that I worked in. Let's talk about TV for
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: a wrap up here, because I want to make sure
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: I've been hyping and been promoting the eighth season. What
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: can we expect on this season of Tyler Perry's House
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: of Pain is on every Tuesday, NAPM Central. It's come
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: an a p m. Central, NPM Eastern West Coast. Yes,
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: um rishan, you should expect more of the same, and
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: then you can't expect um uh. I just think that
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: because House of Pain depicts life and art depicts life,
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: it's going to it's going to speak to those who
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: are in broken relationships. It's gonna speak to those young
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: people who are feeling themselves. It's going to speak to
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: all the people who are you know, so it's it's
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: going to reach the gathert you know are We love
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: the fact that we have that generation to generation from
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: two to two hundred are watching the show, you know,
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: the age Branges, and we actually have families sitting down
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: watching the show together. So I think you're going to
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: be amazed with uh um, some of the storylines and
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: the messages that we will bring to the forefront on
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: this run, on this season and again it ties in,
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: it ties the seventh season into the ninth season, So
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: I'm excited about it. Well, my dear, thank you for
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: coming on Money. As a family, on and off set,
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: we love each other. So I hope that you will
• 30:54
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• 30:59
  Speaker 1: Well that's no doubt. That's no doubt because of the
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