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Cocoa Brown Full Interview · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: as an actress, comedian and entrepreneur, her the Coca Brown Collection,
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Speaker 1: is a high I'll be turned passion turn calls during
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Speaker 1: this pandemic. With no acting gigs, comedy, stand up club
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Speaker 1: dates or TV film role to play right now, how
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Speaker 1: is she making money? Because these times are not working
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Speaker 1: for me. She's most notably known for her lead role
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Speaker 1: in Tyler Paris, The Single Mom's Club and for Better
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Speaker 1: or Worse, Please work on the money making conversation to
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Speaker 1: hilarious comedian actress Coco Brown, Hey, how are you to
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Speaker 1: get all that out? I'd set you up? No, I
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Speaker 1: come on now, you know, because you got a big
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Speaker 1: restI I had to like go through and pick what
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Speaker 1: I thought would be noteworthy. Because you got a body
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Speaker 1: of work that's fantastic. But let's go to the beginning,
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Speaker 1: because you know you hit straight heart with me, but
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Speaker 1: the stand up comedy and uh, it's such a male
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Speaker 1: dominated field. So how did you get started? And how
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Speaker 1: did you start carving out your brand? Coca? You know
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Speaker 1: it's study. Um, I never, Emili years, thought I would
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Speaker 1: be a comedian. I mean, you know, I wanted growing up.
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Speaker 1: I wanted to be Clay Hustable and I don't I know,
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Speaker 1: she wasn't a real character, but in my mind she was.
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Speaker 1: She was. She was achievable. So when I graduated college, Um,
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Speaker 1: I had done some internships and gotten the job, and
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Speaker 1: a friend of mine, who thought I was I thought
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Speaker 1: I was funny all through college introduced me to a
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Speaker 1: guy who owned a comedy club in d C. And
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Speaker 1: a barbecue, and I guess he had told him about me,
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Speaker 1: and he was like, man, she's really funny. So this
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Speaker 1: thing I know, He's invited me down the open NC.
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Speaker 1: I've never been afraid of the stage. I've been acting
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Speaker 1: and doing theater since I was ten. But um, I
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Speaker 1: went down to his club. I didn't open mic night.
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Speaker 1: It was a very interesting night because I thought you
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Speaker 1: had to try to be a comic, and I learned
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Speaker 1: quite quickly that trying to be a comic and being
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Speaker 1: a comic are two different things. Um. But when I
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Speaker 1: realized they weren't laughing at me trying to be a comic,
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Speaker 1: and I just started rambling about the fact that I
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Speaker 1: really worked at Ringland Brothers and I had a real job,
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Speaker 1: and the crowd begin to laugh. That's when I realized
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Speaker 1: that people liked what's real, like what's real and relatable
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Speaker 1: with what's funny. So um, it kind of beat me.
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Speaker 1: I thought it was fun. I thought it was gonna
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Speaker 1: be like a hobby, but it turned out to be
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Speaker 1: um more so of a career because I ended up
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Speaker 1: getting a mentor Darcel. The fact Dr blaichmat who recently
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Speaker 1: passed away. God rest his soul. But he mentored a
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Speaker 1: lot of DC comics, you know, Martin Lawrence, Tommy Davis
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Speaker 1: and Bive Chappelle, Donnelle Roblins. I could go down the
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Speaker 1: line and um, he took me under his wing, and
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Speaker 1: he taught me the game. He taught me the business.
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Speaker 1: And um, after a while, I realized that it took
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Speaker 1: it took my boss at Ringling Brothers to see something
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Speaker 1: in me that I hadn't seen. She actually gave me
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Speaker 1: the option of either quitting or her firing me because
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Speaker 1: she had come to one of my shows and she said,
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Speaker 1: you're wasting your time in this cubicle. You have a
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Speaker 1: true talent ring Brothers. I was working for Greenland Brothers
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Speaker 1: corporate officers. Yes, in Virginia in the average some big
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Speaker 1: elephants and you know, I'm just talking that's the office.
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Speaker 1: But no, I don't know. I knew you weren't in
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Speaker 1: the circus. I'm just saying, but that's the brand that
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Speaker 1: you were representing elephants, clowns and trappy artists. And here
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Speaker 1: you are, just energetic, funny. Your friend been laughing at
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Speaker 1: you all through college. He's been laughing at so much.
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Speaker 1: He introduced you to the owner of a club at
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Speaker 1: a barbecue, which is funny in itself. Okay, exactly exactly. Hey,
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Speaker 1: come on here, he was like, she needs to be
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Speaker 1: a comment stoptious. Come over here, girl, put down that streep.
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Speaker 1: Come on here, peach color, come on here. There, I
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Speaker 1: guess funny here she's funny, funny, funny, funny, funny, funny, funny.
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Speaker 1: Now so, and I know that's how I started to
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Speaker 1: stand up. You know, you go on stage. It's not
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Speaker 1: about being nervous. It's about a new experience and you
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Speaker 1: don't know what to do. You know. I just went
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Speaker 1: on stage and I worked up some some things I
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Speaker 1: thought were funny, and they did laugh at it. So
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Speaker 1: that didn't help out the next step, which is to
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Speaker 1: get back on stage again. And so it really it
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Speaker 1: really allows for you to grow as a person. But
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Speaker 1: like you said, but that wasn't your first love. Being
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Speaker 1: on stage as an actress was your first love? Correct? Yeah? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: when I was ten years old. Um, my fifth grade
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Speaker 1: teacher Ms. Marshall, who so much love for it because
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Speaker 1: she didn't even realize what she was doing it. She
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Speaker 1: put me the lead in a play in the fifth grade.
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Speaker 1: I had so many lines and that was my first time,
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Speaker 1: and everybody was like, oh my god, like you should
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Speaker 1: be an actress, Like you were so good, you know,
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Speaker 1: but in the fifth grade, in the fifth grade, in
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Speaker 1: the fifth grade, yeah, just slaying in the fifth grade
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Speaker 1: in the fifth grade. Yeah, my grandmother made my costume
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Speaker 1: and everything. Um. But you know, coming from such a
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Speaker 1: traditional Southern family, that was not an option. I was
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Speaker 1: used to go to school, get good grades, getting the
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Speaker 1: good college. Mae guy, get married, have some babies, and
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Speaker 1: come home to my parents of your Sunday for dinner.
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Speaker 1: I wouldn't most to be in the Hollywood, but you did.
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Speaker 1: You did to go to college. You got your degree?
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Speaker 1: Now did you get got two degrees? So you highly educated?
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Speaker 1: You high And what are degrees? What are degrees at
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Speaker 1: what college? I have a bachelor's and mass communications with
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Speaker 1: a focus and advertising, and I have a master's in
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Speaker 1: secondary education. And we're college University of Scenic DC GE,
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Speaker 1: Commonwealth University with undergrad and University of Phoenix with graduates.
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Speaker 1: Now we got all that that good education behind you
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Speaker 1: got all how you started? Now did you go on
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Speaker 1: the road being a comic first, or did you move
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Speaker 1: to be an actress first? What did you do? I
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Speaker 1: would have the road to be a comic first. Um,
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Speaker 1: that was just an adventure when I look back at
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Speaker 1: some of the crazy stuff I did, like work at
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Speaker 1: eight hour day and Ringland brothers, get in my car
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Speaker 1: at six pm at night, drive to New York to
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Speaker 1: do a couple of open mics and drive back to Maryland,
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Speaker 1: or back to Maryland where I lived, and being worked
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Speaker 1: the next morning by eight I couldn't imagine doing that
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Speaker 1: now I would die. But back then I was doing
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Speaker 1: it three or four times a week, like it was
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Speaker 1: nothing right where you had to I know that I
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Speaker 1: worked for the IBM, and I was be on stage
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Speaker 1: three or four o'clock in the morning. And sometimes because
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Speaker 1: you know, when you're doing an open micaela comic, you
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Speaker 1: know it's a line of it could be comments on
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Speaker 1: forth the effort. You have to make sacrifice. And that's
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Speaker 1: what you're talking about. That drive up, you know, and
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Speaker 1: we know that drive back was scary, you know, worrying
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Speaker 1: about falling to sleep, worrying about what I'm making on town,
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Speaker 1: a lot of fraying, put your head out the window
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Speaker 1: to stay awake, you know, driving with the air condition though,
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Speaker 1: all kind of slapping yourself, all that kind of stuff
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Speaker 1: you were doing on a regular basis there. Way, I
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Speaker 1: know because I did those techniques because I was crazy,
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Speaker 1: just trying to get to that dream. Didn't know what
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Speaker 1: your dream was, but just trying to get to that dream.
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Speaker 1: And so exactly so, so now you're going to New York.
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Speaker 1: You just starting to get your wheels on the your Now,
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Speaker 1: when did your first big break come? Coacer Brown? Um, Honestly,
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Speaker 1: I think the first big break that got me noticed
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Speaker 1: was showtime to the Apollo when they were doing the
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Speaker 1: comedy t KO and I went five rounds before I
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Speaker 1: got eliminated. Um that got me noticed by a lot
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Speaker 1: of people in terms of management, promoters, clubs, things like that. Um,
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Speaker 1: So I started working heavily, and then um, I would say.
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Speaker 1: The next one after that most was Tyler Perry's for
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Speaker 1: Better or Work. M Now, how did you get there?
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Speaker 1: Because Tyler's always getting new talent a shot. So did
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Speaker 1: of years, and I will He's never he loves giving
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Speaker 1: for Better or Worse, not knowing that Tyler had seen
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Speaker 1: a year before that, and he had said that, you know,
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Speaker 1: he wanted to you know, he he told me, he goes.
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Speaker 1: When I saw you, I said, wow, I want to
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Speaker 1: Because I went in just auditioning like anybody else. I
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Speaker 1: for Better Work? Hundred and one hundred and sixty seven
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Speaker 1: hundred and six seven. Now what did that do for
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Speaker 1: your brillin as a stand up comic? Now? Now you
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Speaker 1: black people know your Now you know Coca Brown, Coca Brown. Now,
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Speaker 1: how how did the reaction start? Could you? Were you
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Speaker 1: selling that Dayton comedy closed and small venues? How did
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Speaker 1: that reaction start for you? And then when did you
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Speaker 1: to you Coco? And it was probably after like the
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Speaker 1: second season for Better or Worse? When you know, when
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Speaker 1: wasn't in every episode. When we came back to the
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Speaker 1: second season, Tyler had me in all the episodes and
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Speaker 1: that's how it remained, uh, from that day forward that
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Speaker 1: my character Jennifer was in all the episodes and people
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Speaker 1: begin to recognize me as Jennifer. And so when I
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Speaker 1: began to you know, run around that time when I
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Speaker 1: started to really get into comedy clubs and the improblems,
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Speaker 1: the Funny Bones and stuff started letting me in for
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Speaker 1: a weekend, not just Black Knight, you know, and so
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Speaker 1: and so I told them to specifically advertise it as
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Speaker 1: Jennifer from Pyler Perry for Better or Worse. Well, when
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Speaker 1: I say it packed the room, I mean Tyler Perry
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Speaker 1: has a shoot. I mean you can't even put a number,
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Speaker 1: and then you say that you're a part of one
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Speaker 1: of his shows as a character that just opened up.
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Speaker 1: I mean people would lined up. And to this day,
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Speaker 1: even with me now getting a fan base for mine
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Speaker 1: one one on the Fox, which is which is a
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Speaker 1: whole different fans drama, which is a drama exactly the
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Speaker 1: For Better or Worse fans are so loyal they still
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Speaker 1: come out to my shows, pack out the shows. Always
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Speaker 1: asked me if the show is gonna come back. So,
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Speaker 1: I mean it definitely impacted my career, especially my stand
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Speaker 1: up career. I mean, to this day, if I put
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Speaker 1: from Tyler Perry's single Moms Club and For Better or Worse,
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Speaker 1: I can guarantee three quarters, if not more than club
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Speaker 1: going to pack with black folks coming in to see
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Speaker 1: black Cocole brown, Cocobe brown and excuse me and latinos
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Speaker 1: Latinos a huge fans. I'm talking about that on the
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Speaker 1: social media and when come back, I'm gonna we're gonna
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Speaker 1: get to the entrepreneurship side of Coco Brown. This is
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Speaker 1: sitcom episodes. She's big time and she's on money make
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Speaker 1: I've kepful for two breaks, Tyler Perry, you know, move back,
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Speaker 1: you know, we talked about how she started. We talked
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Speaker 1: about being a stand up, which is the beauty of
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Speaker 1: Entrepreneur she's out there. She a business woman, you know,
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Speaker 1: And a lot of people look at stand ups as talent,
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Speaker 1: but really we're business people because we got a book
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Speaker 1: out days. We gotta hustle out days. We gotta sometimes
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Speaker 1: we're out there at the club. We gotta book on
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Speaker 1: our travel, hotel room, feed ourselves. If you get big enough,
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Speaker 1: you gotta get security and limos and car services and
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Speaker 1: all these things. So when you become a stand up,
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Speaker 1: the early stages of a stand up, you are a
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Speaker 1: small business. You are an entrepreneur, and you are self employed,
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Speaker 1: and so you already had that skill set down pad
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Speaker 1: when you became a working actress. Now now it's like
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Speaker 1: when you're in this time, now that we all got
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Speaker 1: caught off guard by this, by this pandemic, what are
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Speaker 1: you doing to uh, you know, keep yourself focused, to
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Speaker 1: be able to plan because we know it's gonna end.
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Speaker 1: We know we're gonna get back out in the streets.
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Speaker 1: We know we're gonna get back out in the clubs,
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Speaker 1: We're gonna get back in the arenas. What are you
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Speaker 1: doing right now during this period, Coca? You know, I
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Speaker 1: am hustling my other businesses. I mean, it has been
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Speaker 1: crazy that what has started out as hobbies have now
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Speaker 1: become my main source of income. I have a c
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Speaker 1: And that is just taken off, especially with the hand
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Speaker 1: so so you have hand sanitizers. This is fantastic because
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Speaker 1: you know, because That's one of the things I tell
18:43
Speaker 1: people in their six steps is that you know, you
18:46
Speaker 1: gotta have your hand sanitizer when you leave the house.
18:48
Speaker 1: You know, in that way, you can especially were going
18:51
Speaker 1: into public environments when you when you get back, the
18:53
Speaker 1: carts for your hands before you touch your car keys
18:56
Speaker 1: and if you touch your string will So there's a
18:59
Speaker 1: lot of things that we can deal with on a
19:01
Speaker 1: regular basis. This is soundingly fantastic, So so continue along
19:04
Speaker 1: this client. You stop it right there, because the business
19:06
Speaker 1: side of Roushawn had to come and go, whoa, you
19:10
Speaker 1: got hands. I realized there was a need for it
19:15
Speaker 1: because you know when when when you know, two months ago,
19:18
Speaker 1: I didn't have hand sanitized it. But when I realized
19:20
Speaker 1: it was a need for it, and I knew that
19:22
Speaker 1: I could make it, and then I could give people
19:23
Speaker 1: this you know, great sense and they could have it
19:26
Speaker 1: with it without c B d Um it took off.
19:29
Speaker 1: You know. I sold out my first batch in what
19:32
Speaker 1: two days, you know? And um then I have creams
19:36
Speaker 1: and I also have body scrubs that all CBD infused.
19:40
Speaker 1: But then I started making CBD infused goodies. I have
19:44
Speaker 1: brownies and cookies. Now what exactly is c b D
19:54
Speaker 1: B b D is all the benefits of marijuana without
19:57
Speaker 1: th HC, without the marijuana resist wolf. Okay, so you're
20:01
Speaker 1: saying that now the marijuana residual is that the part
20:04
Speaker 1: that you know get you as they say hi, that's
20:07
Speaker 1: the protect to get you that they get you buck Exactly.
20:13
Speaker 1: Cb D gives you all the great benefit of cannabis
20:17
Speaker 1: implement you know, relief of inflammation, anxiety, depression, sleeplessness, you know,
20:23
Speaker 1: sleep disorders, insomnia, depression, anxiety. But it doesn't have th
20:28
Speaker 1: HC in it, which is what is the residue of
20:31
Speaker 1: weed that shows up in your drug tests. Now I
20:34
Speaker 1: give people the option do you want your edible with
20:37
Speaker 1: th HC or without th HC Because some people are
20:41
Speaker 1: still work in jobs that they get tested, they can't
20:43
Speaker 1: have that from in their tests. But it still provides
20:46
Speaker 1: all the benefits for anxiety, depression, in psomnia, pain, inflammation,
20:51
Speaker 1: things of that nature. Um. And the good thing is
20:54
Speaker 1: it's handmade, it's organic and um. From what I told
20:58
Speaker 1: from all my wonderful customer, it's gooder than the mo
21:01
Speaker 1: fol It's like people have literally gotten their ordered that morning.
21:04
Speaker 1: And don't you ever throw another old line like that
21:08
Speaker 1: on my radio show. That is like it is like
21:13
Speaker 1: a forty year old line. I can't believe you said
21:15
Speaker 1: you were old. You said old Coca Coca Brown. I
21:22
Speaker 1: can't believe you. You got to understand, these are my
21:25
Speaker 1: grandmother's recipes that I'm using. So you got you know,
21:29
Speaker 1: a black woman and a creole woman that taught me
21:32
Speaker 1: how to cook. So you know they know, you know,
21:34
Speaker 1: they take absolutely absolutely so But before we get too deep,
21:36
Speaker 1: because I want to come back to the cravables because
21:38
Speaker 1: in the beginning during your intro, I stated that the
21:42
Speaker 1: Coca Brown Collection is a hobby turned passion turn calls.
21:46
Speaker 1: Because I want to talk about the calls part of
21:48
Speaker 1: this because it's very important because one of my dear
21:52
Speaker 1: friends and one of my producers I've been doing over
21:54
Speaker 1: twenty years, she has lupus. So when I talk about
21:58
Speaker 1: lupas is not something that I'm familiar with, and I
22:01
Speaker 1: know the impact and she lives a very uh quality,
22:04
Speaker 1: quality quality for your life. She has a beautiful daughter,
22:07
Speaker 1: but she also has to take medicine. So let's talk
22:10
Speaker 1: about the whole cause part of the the Coca Brown Collection, right, Um,
22:17
Speaker 1: I partnered years a year and a half ago with
22:20
Speaker 1: a group called the Social Butterflies Network Butterfly representing the
22:23
Speaker 1: Butterfly Rash that lucas patient skin and it's an organization
22:27
Speaker 1: that provides all kinds of services for lupus survivors. And
22:31
Speaker 1: they near and gear cost to me because my favorite
22:34
Speaker 1: aunt had lupas when I was growing up and she
22:35
Speaker 1: passed away when I was twenty one, and she was just,
22:39
Speaker 1: you know, so resilient. But I watched the transformation of
22:42
Speaker 1: this woman because of lupus, and to this day there's
22:45
Speaker 1: no cure, and they have such minimal research and really
22:47
Speaker 1: don't that they know it's an um an autoimmune to
22:51
Speaker 1: that they know what's autoimmune diseins. They know what attacks
22:53
Speaker 1: your nervous system and your immune system and all that,
22:56
Speaker 1: but they really don't put the effort in the research
22:58
Speaker 1: they do all the other cancers and autoimmune of disease causes.
23:02
Speaker 1: So I partnered with them a year and a half
23:05
Speaker 1: ago to raise money for that. But then when I
23:07
Speaker 1: begin when I created menty toes and my CBD infused products,
23:12
Speaker 1: a lot of them were ordering it because it was
23:14
Speaker 1: aiding in the pain and discomfort they were getting from
23:17
Speaker 1: their file on my AUGA things of that nature. So
23:20
Speaker 1: I when I created the Coca Brown collection, I decided
23:24
Speaker 1: that from ten percent of each sale would go towards
23:27
Speaker 1: social butterflies and lupus research. Wow, because they're using it
23:33
Speaker 1: and they raised about it. I mean I I would
23:36
Speaker 1: say a good forty five percent of my customers of
23:39
Speaker 1: the menty toes uh pain release cream is lucas patients
23:44
Speaker 1: and people who suffer from everything from a neuropathy file
23:49
Speaker 1: of my AUGA authoritis, I mean, psiatic nerve issues. I
23:55
Speaker 1: mean I had everybody from lupas patients to fitness trainers
23:58
Speaker 1: to firemen, and I even have a podiatrist who endorses
24:03
Speaker 1: my mente toes and actually sells it in her office
24:06
Speaker 1: as an alternative to prescription creams. Congratulations, that's awesome. So yeah,
24:12
Speaker 1: it is awesome, you know because really when I'm talking
24:14
Speaker 1: to you, you know, I'm talking to use that's the
24:17
Speaker 1: marketing side of You're coming out of communication and advertising
24:20
Speaker 1: side of you. Yeah, you know, I did a lot
24:23
Speaker 1: of marketing with advertising degree side. I don't like I
24:26
Speaker 1: still have all my marketing books, which is hilarious. Well,
24:29
Speaker 1: you know the thing about it is, you know for
24:31
Speaker 1: yourself is that that's a comic. You're constantly selling yourself,
24:34
Speaker 1: you know, you it's a reason you're successful. It's the
24:38
Speaker 1: reason that you say, Hey, if you're gonna market me
24:40
Speaker 1: at this club, make sure everybody know I'm Jennifer for
24:45
Speaker 1: we spell my name right. I mean, they're just such
24:48
Speaker 1: minor things. Say your name right. Let's let's get there right,
24:51
Speaker 1: Say your name right, Coca, Say it right now, Coca.
24:56
Speaker 1: But good, long as the spell right on my chack.
25:00
Speaker 1: At this point, I'm not gonna trip. But you know,
25:03
Speaker 1: the thing about it is that my name is Rushan.
25:05
Speaker 1: So you know a lot of people have coming me
25:07
Speaker 1: with a lot of a lot of their own versions
25:10
Speaker 1: of how Rushan should be said. And then you know,
25:14
Speaker 1: and and sometimes you just go, okay, long this is
25:16
Speaker 1: but it really is your brand, and you're trying to
25:18
Speaker 1: build a brand that respect, a brand of recognition. And
25:23
Speaker 1: so when I saw the way you announciated your name
25:26
Speaker 1: when it was I was spelled out, I went, that's awesome.
25:28
Speaker 1: She she she's controlling her voice. She's controlling her brand
25:32
Speaker 1: and dictating it too, because of the fact that yeah,
25:35
Speaker 1: it gets it's gets spelled right on the check. But
25:37
Speaker 1: bar when just a stranger walk up to you and
25:40
Speaker 1: said right, because that's that's what I knew. I was
25:42
Speaker 1: kind of making it a little bit there. Coca would
25:44
Speaker 1: when I didn't even know people, Hey, y Sean, I
25:47
Speaker 1: don't even know who you are, because I because I
25:49
Speaker 1: should be able to tell people who knew me and
25:51
Speaker 1: didn't know me by how they said my name. I go, okay,
25:54
Speaker 1: I never meant to do mother, Hey Russian, Okay, I've
25:57
Speaker 1: never met this dude in my life, you know, and
26:02
Speaker 1: so and so that really helped me to start definding
26:04
Speaker 1: that okay by by getting more and more people saying
26:08
Speaker 1: my name right really means my marketing and my branding
26:11
Speaker 1: is my my my brand awareness is working, and so
26:15
Speaker 1: a lot of people understand that, like, you know, Apple
26:18
Speaker 1: wants to be said correctly. You know, IBM wants their
26:21
Speaker 1: name to be spelled correctly, IBM and said correctly. You know,
26:24
Speaker 1: Google wants their name to be said correctly, and so
26:28
Speaker 1: all these things are very important. We talked about marketing
26:30
Speaker 1: and branding because that's all you've dealt with from day one.
26:34
Speaker 1: You know, when you say five years old and remember
26:37
Speaker 1: all these lines, that means that there was an effort
26:40
Speaker 1: to way back after fifth grade when it was in
26:43
Speaker 1: the fifth grade, and all these lines, it was an effort,
26:45
Speaker 1: but you still prepared and and achieved and that in
26:49
Speaker 1: that work at the people saw you in chief special
26:52
Speaker 1: because guess what, if you gave me a lot of
26:54
Speaker 1: lines in the fifth grade, I'm pretty sure I would
26:56
Speaker 1: never remember or would even care to have done, because
27:00
Speaker 1: that wasn't my passion. That wasn't my passion. And so
27:02
Speaker 1: you've been able to carry a passion all these years
27:06
Speaker 1: and now you're a successful talent and now you're a
27:08
Speaker 1: successful business woman. What are the next steps because you're
27:11
Speaker 1: a single parent? Correct, yes, yes, I am old cocase
27:18
Speaker 1: I'll stun you that. Yes, you're you're a single parent.
27:25
Speaker 1: What do you just say, single par I'm a single mall.
27:28
Speaker 1: That's right? Yeah, So what married out there? So let's
27:35
Speaker 1: talk about the whole balanced life now, because you know,
27:37
Speaker 1: you're acting, you're traveling, you know your businesswoman now you're
27:42
Speaker 1: now you're talking about this whole product line that you
27:44
Speaker 1: have out there, and then you are a mom, single mall,
27:48
Speaker 1: talk about how you balance all that, um you know,
27:52
Speaker 1: by the grace of God and a great village. You know,
27:56
Speaker 1: I have always had a great village around me, especially
28:00
Speaker 1: you know, after I left you know, my marriage and
28:04
Speaker 1: became a single mom. I've always had a great village
28:06
Speaker 1: around me to help me with my son from the
28:08
Speaker 1: very beginning. So I'm very adamant about, you know, building
28:13
Speaker 1: a great village around you as a single parent, you know,
28:16
Speaker 1: much as we were like it from for super people,
28:18
Speaker 1: you know, super superheroes. You know, we can't do it
28:21
Speaker 1: all by ourself, and we do need help and we
28:23
Speaker 1: have to always remember that, you know. And I've always
28:26
Speaker 1: been grateful and then too, I mean, I'm just gonna
28:29
Speaker 1: brag a little bit. I have an amazing kid. I
28:31
Speaker 1: have an amazing kid. His resilience, understanding of what bommy does, um,
28:38
Speaker 1: and what I have to do for a living. I mean,
28:41
Speaker 1: he gets it, you know, even you know, he has
28:43
Speaker 1: his moment where he just wants his mommy and you know,
28:46
Speaker 1: and I give him that. I mean, this is the
28:48
Speaker 1: most time that we have been with each other constantly
28:53
Speaker 1: with no distractions. I mean, you know, well, Mommy is
28:56
Speaker 1: physically here day in and day out. It has been
28:59
Speaker 1: for almost right, So, um, that's interesting. And then that's
29:05
Speaker 1: that's the good side of the pandemic because I'm the
29:08
Speaker 1: same way with my daughter, you know, uh, you know,
29:10
Speaker 1: she's twenty two senior in college, and you know all
29:13
Speaker 1: those shares of raising her, I was on the road.
29:16
Speaker 1: I was traveling. Plus she was a she was a
29:18
Speaker 1: tennis star and so tennis probably, so she was always
29:22
Speaker 1: traveling all over the country. So you know, we last night,
29:24
Speaker 1: we're playing dance tap dance fever. Every day I'm playing
29:27
Speaker 1: with her, you know, beating up with calories. You know
29:30
Speaker 1: how Dad beat me losing more calories in the dance.
29:33
Speaker 1: So I know what that that that part of this
29:35
Speaker 1: whole thing is. It's real special to me and I
29:37
Speaker 1: can hear come out of your bars. But before we
29:39
Speaker 1: end this interview, I want to go back to these
29:41
Speaker 1: cravables and I want you to tell people how to
29:44
Speaker 1: where they can go to follow you, as well as
29:46
Speaker 1: to buy some of your products. Show time. Okay, great, great,
29:50
Speaker 1: all right, you guys can uh go right now to
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Speaker 1: the Coca Brown Collection that's th h E c O
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Speaker 1: c O eight Brown Collection dot com. There you'll find
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Speaker 1: all of my wonderful cv D creams and body scrubs,
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Speaker 1: hand sanitizers, and I also as a bonus, have lashes
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Speaker 1: you guys you know, and you guys can also if
30:13
Speaker 1: you'd like to order some of the Coca Cravables. We
30:16
Speaker 1: have brownies, cookies, pound cakes, cupcakes. Um you can order
30:21
Speaker 1: them at Cocus Cravables at gmail dot com. That c
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Speaker 1: And if you don't want to do all of that,
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Speaker 1: so I'm there with you, and I want to thank
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Speaker 1: I really appreci thank you so much for having Thank you,
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