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Tichina Arnold, Kenny "Babyface" Edmonds, RonReaco Lee & More (Full Episode) · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: Catch Up tonight on VAH one's Daytime Divas and on
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Speaker 1: Sunday Stars Survivors Remorse, Please, Welcome to money making Conversations.
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Speaker 1: To Sheen Hello, the wrong with money making conversations at all.
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Speaker 1: Thank you. I'll tell you something. First of all, I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna tell you something right now. I watched your shows,
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Speaker 1: so we could talk about anything about the shows. You
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Speaker 1: can talk about the character. So I'm not one of
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Speaker 1: these guys that you called in and I kind of know.
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's a really good y'all, go watch it.
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Speaker 1: I know about Cassie and Chie. You know I'm staying.
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Speaker 1: You know, I know the Uncas dad. I know about that.
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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. I know rod Rico what
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Speaker 1: he did with his daddy in the restaurant. You know
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Speaker 1: what I'm saying. I know y'all from Dorchester, you know,
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Speaker 1: right outside of Boston. I know I really had to
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Speaker 1: do a quiz. You will win. You probably know more
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Speaker 1: than I do. But it ain't a bad thing because
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Speaker 1: that's what fans are supposed to do. And I'm a
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Speaker 1: fan of your work. I'm a fan of your work
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Speaker 1: and before and I'm not gonna leave this out because
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Speaker 1: I asked. I asked them for two breaks because it's
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Speaker 1: a couple of things I want to talk about. First.
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Speaker 1: I want to talk about the Lucas Foundation. We're gonna
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Speaker 1: talk about that later. Because that's important to me. And
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Speaker 1: know you have a fan if you ever doing a gala,
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Speaker 1: doing a walk, contact with Sean McDonald or your contact
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Speaker 1: with Sean McDonald, and I will put it on my
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Speaker 1: social media because that's an important because my creative producer,
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Speaker 1: Tracy Logan has the same illness. So well, that's good.
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Speaker 1: We appreciate it because we're trying to get the word out.
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Speaker 1: There's so many people and know that you know that
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Speaker 1: that's important to me and I wanted to get that
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Speaker 1: out and we'll talk about it later on when we
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Speaker 1: close out the show, because that's important. And I'm always
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Speaker 1: there for her, not only as a you know, an employer,
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Speaker 1: but a friend and understand the things that she goes
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Speaker 1: through to you know, live a quality of life every
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Speaker 1: a and it's important. But let's go back to the
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Speaker 1: star power of you, young lady. You got two TV
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Speaker 1: show to TV show. Well, God has blessed me to
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Speaker 1: keep working. Now here's the deal. Here's the deal, and
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Speaker 1: you do keep working. Now people are if they are
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Speaker 1: not watching Daytime Divas, which is uh, it's from the
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Speaker 1: It's from Star Jones who used to be from the
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Speaker 1: View and she wrote a book called Satan's Sisters, and
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Speaker 1: I know Star Jones can Star Jones with the college
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Speaker 1: with me at the University of Houston and then and
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Speaker 1: then is executive to produced by Susanne the Past, who
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Speaker 1: gave me one of my first writing jobs on Sister
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Speaker 1: Sister sitcom. Okay, so so so no, we're all in
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Speaker 1: this thing now. Now, your character is a comedian and
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Speaker 1: basically I'm just let everybody know if you've seen the
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Speaker 1: talk if you've seen the view is that's that's set up,
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Speaker 1: but the story is off stay each that's the story exactly.
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Speaker 1: It's what happens in the women's lives outside of the
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Speaker 1: talk show. But you know, the one thing about those
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Speaker 1: group of women is that they all will have each
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Speaker 1: other's back, so they mess with each other. They don't
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Speaker 1: want anybody else mess with you, so you know, they
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Speaker 1: take care of each other. But yeah, you know, it's
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Speaker 1: it's uh, it's definitely based off of the Jones book
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Speaker 1: Satan's Sisters. Now that the cool thing about is that
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Speaker 1: your character went on a little journey because your character
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Speaker 1: and if I'm saying that they roll you could correct me.
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Speaker 1: Your character was all about you in the beginning. Okay,
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Speaker 1: it was all about you. You know, it's all about
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Speaker 1: you know, trying to get that that left chair, you know,
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Speaker 1: left chair, and all about what it's gonna be about
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Speaker 1: you after. You know. I watched the show, and I'm
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Speaker 1: a fame because of the fact that it's a well
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Speaker 1: written show. And I love the fact that anytime I
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Speaker 1: see a show with strong African American characters, and that
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Speaker 1: show has it. And also I like Shaun's character to
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Speaker 1: executive to do some on the show. That's a strong,
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Speaker 1: diverse character emotionally for me. And then Vanessa week come on,
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Speaker 1: you got Vanessa Williams. I mean, it's a great cast
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Speaker 1: of people and we really enjoyed I'm doing, you know,
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Speaker 1: playing those roles, you know, because this is a brand
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Speaker 1: new show, um and it was starts vision and I'm
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Speaker 1: happy that you know that her vision is literally playing
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Speaker 1: out right, you know. And the and the cool thing
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Speaker 1: about the show is that they have celebrities on the show.
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Speaker 1: It's like, you know, like when you ran into uh
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Speaker 1: Tamary Maori at the at the at the at the
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Speaker 1: at the clothing store, y'all was fighting over that shirt
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Speaker 1: and so and so she told you got no job
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Speaker 1: on the rail and got no job on the rail.
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Speaker 1: Now you know, you better get your butt back on
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Speaker 1: that show. And so my whole thing is that when
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Speaker 1: you get these roles, you know, because you're you're a
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Speaker 1: talented singer, you know, and then and then you're you're funny,
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Speaker 1: you're attractive, and then you and then you then you're
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Speaker 1: dramatic and all these things. And so so if you
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Speaker 1: watch the series, you know, you start out and guess what,
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Speaker 1: and you're a woman's woman, you know you you know you,
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Speaker 1: you you learn about know, you still got it going on,
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Speaker 1: you still find And I think that's guess And I
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Speaker 1: think that's important because sexy don't die. Well, I wouldn't
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Speaker 1: say sexy. You know, I always chose comedy. Comedy came
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Speaker 1: natural to me, and I really love doing drama. But
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Speaker 1: you know, you gotta get ugly for comedy, right, But
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Speaker 1: I love about it. You know, there ain't no time
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Speaker 1: to be playing no cute game, right right, right, And
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Speaker 1: and that's what happens in this series and so and
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Speaker 1: so in the last series, in the last episode I
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Speaker 1: just saw was the episode where this is what I
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Speaker 1: was talking about, the journey of your character. And I'm
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Speaker 1: and I'm talking about the show because I'm not trying
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Speaker 1: to reveal you know, key plot points in the show,
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Speaker 1: because I feel everybody should watch the watch started tonight.
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Speaker 1: If you have not seen the series from the beginning,
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Speaker 1: you can being watch it. Just go on demand and
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Speaker 1: Ben watched. The show is well worth it. You will laugh,
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Speaker 1: you will you. The characters are very relatable. Vanessa Williams
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Speaker 1: Diva role is fantastic. It has selations. She's just an
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Speaker 1: awesome person. I love the word selations. Plot lines. I'm
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Speaker 1: talking about these characters. They go be y'all, just normal behavior.
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Speaker 1: But I love the fact that in the end when
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Speaker 1: you came back and defended kiddy character, you know, you
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Speaker 1: saved her character. And that's what I was saying, is
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Speaker 1: that your character is more than in the beginning. You know,
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Speaker 1: use about you? And if Vanessa we stopped you in
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Speaker 1: the hallway, she said, really you about somebody other than you?
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Speaker 1: Tell me about that journey. And when you take these roles,
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Speaker 1: are you looking to develop your characters? Let's just be
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Speaker 1: funny and do what you tell you. No, no, no, never,
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Speaker 1: just be funny and do what they tell you. That
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Speaker 1: is never the key to success, nor are being happy
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Speaker 1: at what you do. Um, I have to like, I
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Speaker 1: was asked to do this, to to this role, you know,
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Speaker 1: and play the part of more, which is always a
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Speaker 1: pleasure because when you're asked to something, that means they
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Speaker 1: trust your opinion and what choices you will make. And
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Speaker 1: with Mo, I just it's just the Caacus screamed out
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Speaker 1: of me. I just laughed and laughed, and I saw
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Speaker 1: that she had a lot of hearts. But I kind
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Speaker 1: of loved the fact that I was you know, that
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Speaker 1: I would be hated a little bit by a lot
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Speaker 1: of people, which was cool too, But it's somewhere there's
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Speaker 1: a reason for it. You know, there's always a deeper
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Speaker 1: there's a deeper layer to every character. And the layers
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Speaker 1: that uh that that Mo has really uh intrigued me,
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Speaker 1: which was one of the reasons why I really really
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Speaker 1: wanted to play the role. Um. And that's what I'm like.
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Speaker 1: I mean, everything is in the writing, you know, and
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Speaker 1: black women we need to be we were so many things,
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Speaker 1: so we should be represented correctly. And uh that's always
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Speaker 1: a fight, you know, it's always you know, you gotta
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Speaker 1: keep that integrity. But that's me as a mom, me
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Speaker 1: as a as an actress me as a survivor being
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Speaker 1: a show business so long. You know, people call me
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Speaker 1: a legend, but you know, I'm a survivor. I've been
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Speaker 1: able to be in the industry over thirties six years.
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Speaker 1: I've seen a lot of people come and go. But
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Speaker 1: I wake up every day loving what I do. God's
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Speaker 1: bless me to to do what I love doing, and
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Speaker 1: I respected, so I put it in high regard. So
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna treat it that way. Well, that's the show
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Speaker 1: we're talking about right now, because we're gonna talk about
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Speaker 1: other show, Survivor's Remorse, which premiers this Sunday, August twenty
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Speaker 1: throw stars we're talking about here currently is her other
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Speaker 1: show that's on VH one. You can watch you tonight.
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Speaker 1: It's called Daytime Divas. And one of the things that
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Speaker 1: I like about the characters there are strong female characters.
10:44
Speaker 1: There are diversed. But one of the things that you
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Speaker 1: said something in your speech is the fact that you're
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Speaker 1: are a mother. You're a single mother, you know, and
10:53
Speaker 1: that that so what you do on screen plays an
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Speaker 1: important role to what your daughter sees. Is that correct?
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Speaker 1: Most definitely, I had a you know, when my daughter
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Speaker 1: was younger, I had a rule. You know, if she
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Speaker 1: can't watch it, I don't take the role. And now
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Speaker 1: she's older, you know she could stomach more a little more.
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Speaker 1: You know what, even if she was young, I still
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Speaker 1: would have taken the role of Mole because um, it's
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Speaker 1: just the way they are. They're developing the character. And
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Speaker 1: I always said, you know, I have to take full
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Speaker 1: responsibility for my position in life, and that is I
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Speaker 1: am a mother first, so I have to represent myself
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Speaker 1: correctly as best as I can. Now, you know, I
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Speaker 1: also have a lot of young people out there that
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Speaker 1: look up to me and that are looking up to me,
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Speaker 1: like my fellow you know, actors that look to me.
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Speaker 1: You know, Hey, you survived as long her. How can
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Speaker 1: you help us? So? How can you? So? I'm the
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Speaker 1: best way I can't help anybody else is helping myself,
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Speaker 1: and that's making the right charge. Try to make the
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Speaker 1: right cho and you make the right charge over and
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Speaker 1: over gain I try, I try. I tried so hard.
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Speaker 1: I'm something. You know, when I've asked you to come
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Speaker 1: to the Neighborhood Awards or the Hoodie Awards, You've come there,
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Speaker 1: you know, and that's that's giving your time because you
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Speaker 1: knew that made people or your fans feel good. Did
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Speaker 1: you care about them? Did you have time for them?
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Speaker 1: Where will we be without the fans? And as long
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Speaker 1: as they enjoy it, they keep us working, So why
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Speaker 1: would we not? Now I was reading something about this.
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Speaker 1: You have something that you do with your daughter on
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Speaker 1: Instagram is called morning school playlist. Yeah, school Morning playlist,
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Speaker 1: that's what I caught. Yeah. I started that because my daughter,
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Speaker 1: she is just so challenged, she really is. She has
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Speaker 1: a lot of gifts. God gave her the gift of
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Speaker 1: a gift song, and now she wants to do some
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Speaker 1: more acting. So I said, okay. But I was a
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Speaker 1: single mother, so starting out it was just like, oh
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Speaker 1: my god, we're fighting in the mornings trying to get
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Speaker 1: dressed the school. And I said, somebody has got to
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Speaker 1: feel my pain right now. How do I turn this around?
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Speaker 1: How do I make this a pleas it experience for
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Speaker 1: both she and I? And I said, you know what,
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Speaker 1: we let's turn on some music. And I started turning
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Speaker 1: on music and she just learned all the songs. She
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Speaker 1: listened to music all the time. So I said, you
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Speaker 1: know what, let me start recording it and sharing it.
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Speaker 1: With people, and the top of that, I mean, it
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Speaker 1: just got such a great response from people. People, Can
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Speaker 1: you please put some more videos up? You know, we
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Speaker 1: love watching your daughter and you in the morning. So
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Speaker 1: I don't mind what people, I don't mind sharing our
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Speaker 1: faults or our our personal lives. This is gonna help
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Speaker 1: somebody else. And I saw that me and Eliza, what
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Speaker 1: we were going through in the morning time, helping other
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Speaker 1: mothers get their kids ready. And then just even if
13:44
Speaker 1: you know that somebody else is going through it and
13:46
Speaker 1: you're not the only one, it helps. So I was
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Speaker 1: just kind of developed from there, and Elijah enjoyed doing it.
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Speaker 1: It's amazing. I've laughing because I get this. I'm watching
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Speaker 1: the video because he plays back on my Facebook stream
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Speaker 1: and I'm getting to see you guys actially in the car.
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Speaker 1: She's dancing in the back seat and you're in the
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Speaker 1: front sea dancing and things like that. So this is
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Speaker 1: on your Instagram at the sena Arnold morning School playlist
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Speaker 1: correct school morning. Just I keep saying it wrong because
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Speaker 1: they put it wrong on this piece of paper. It's
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Speaker 1: so good. You got good memory because you remember a
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Speaker 1: lot of stuff. Well, I would this. We got some
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Speaker 1: more to talk about, which is in particular, you know,
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Speaker 1: Survivors Remorse. I left that whole first X section about
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Speaker 1: daytime fevers because when you're star, you know, just cramp
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Speaker 1: everything in the one break. Coming up next, we're gonna
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Speaker 1: talk about the dramatic end to the third season. We're
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Speaker 1: gonna talk about that car crash when UNC died your brother.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna get emotional, we're gonna laugh. Stay tuned, y'all
14:49
Speaker 1: hanging there. I got the great legendary funny singer single
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Speaker 1: Mob to sing the on on the call. We'll be
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Speaker 1: right back with more money making conversation. I'm back. I
15:01
Speaker 1: gotta bring her back up real quick. She's on hold.
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Speaker 1: She hung in with me for one break. Now we're
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Speaker 1: gonna wrap up this next break because premiere in this
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Speaker 1: Sunday August is the fourth season of Survivor's Remorse, starring
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Speaker 1: on Stars. Does she know how you're doing? Now? Here's
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Speaker 1: the great thing about this is that is that in
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Speaker 1: real life, your single mam on this episode or this series,
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Speaker 1: which is I'm gonna tell you I have run reco
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Speaker 1: le on earlier and I'm gonna just tell you because
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Speaker 1: I don't don't I want to make sure you hear
15:32
Speaker 1: what I'm saying about how I love this show. This
15:36
Speaker 1: show is from an African American standpoint, is one of
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Speaker 1: the best shows I've seen in my life. I gotta
15:46
Speaker 1: say this because it's a drama d and I say
15:48
Speaker 1: that because very few shows have the ability because we
15:52
Speaker 1: want to know where the classic drama is. Mash Mash
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Speaker 1: is one of the all time great classic drama d
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Speaker 1: series in television history. Well, one minute you're crying, one
16:02
Speaker 1: minute you're taking on the emotional journey, and then the
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Speaker 1: next minute you're laughing and you're finding every character relatable.
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Speaker 1: And that's what the key of this show is all about.
16:12
Speaker 1: And you play a single mom on this show to
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Speaker 1: m Chuck and to Cam and Camras the basketball superstar.
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Speaker 1: Who's who think that this family would migrated down from Boston,
16:24
Speaker 1: Dorchester's their community to live in Atlanta. So they're coming
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Speaker 1: down the whole Atlantis a new experience. I'm just I'm
16:30
Speaker 1: just I'm just painting the story for him so they
16:32
Speaker 1: won't be lost. We start talking about I love this show.
16:38
Speaker 1: I love this show. I think it's My wife has
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Speaker 1: cried twice on this show. She cried, she cried when
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Speaker 1: Uncle Ju die. You know that car accident. Whoa? And
16:51
Speaker 1: then and then the hospital scene, whoa, I'm telling you,
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Speaker 1: and then then you know, I'm just letting everybody know.
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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna go in detail because you need to,
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Speaker 1: as they say, started being watching watching the series this
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Speaker 1: week so you can be ready for the August premiere
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Speaker 1: on Stars. Yes, tell us about your character Cassie, who
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Speaker 1: now has a relationship with Shin. Yes, And I'm just
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Speaker 1: gonna give you a little backstory. Um Chen is played
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Speaker 1: by Robert wool great actor. He came on, we had
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Speaker 1: a scene together, and the scene that we had together
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Speaker 1: just was so he just did so well. And I
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Speaker 1: would say, you know what, I really want to delve
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Speaker 1: a little. I want my character to um double a
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Speaker 1: little deeper into this relationship because for so long I
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Speaker 1: have not seen on television black women adorned truly loved.
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Speaker 1: And I said, you know what, I want him to,
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Speaker 1: you know, truly love her and show his love for her.
17:49
Speaker 1: And what better way didn't have a billionaire love you
17:51
Speaker 1: right right right right? So um you know, and and
17:55
Speaker 1: that's every woman's fantasy to be loved like that. So
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Speaker 1: I said, let's us do it, and and Michael Mallley.
18:02
Speaker 1: The good thing about him is that he's not the
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Speaker 1: executive producer. But every season, you know, we as actors,
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Speaker 1: we individually sit there and we go in the writer's
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Speaker 1: room getting of each season, and we talk about what
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Speaker 1: we see, our characters, talk about our storyline. So your
18:20
Speaker 1: survivor's remorris is, you know a lot of our input
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Speaker 1: as well, because you know we we you know, when
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Speaker 1: you play a character, but for so long, you know,
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Speaker 1: it becomes a part of you. And of course you
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Speaker 1: wanted to see a grow, You want to see you different,
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Speaker 1: you want to experience different things. So that was one
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Speaker 1: of my things with Cassie. But this season, the amazing
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Speaker 1: Isaiah Washington, who is coming on and he just comes
18:48
Speaker 1: on and just now he's Cam's father. Correct, Yes, he's
18:52
Speaker 1: Cam's father, Okay, and now and that that's how this
18:54
Speaker 1: last season end when you want to visit him in jail. Correct, Okay,
18:59
Speaker 1: So not gonna reveal too much, Yeah, you don't want
19:02
Speaker 1: to so many different this year. You're gonna see so
19:05
Speaker 1: many different plots and storyline. You'll still see us as
19:10
Speaker 1: a family cohesive, but you know we are. Yeah, Well,
19:14
Speaker 1: the key that the thing I liked about I like
19:17
Speaker 1: about the series. It's first of all, when I was
19:19
Speaker 1: talking to Ron Rico, is the anger because it's a family.
19:23
Speaker 1: You know, you got money now didn't have money kind
19:26
Speaker 1: of little hoodish, little hoodish, you know, the hood kind
19:34
Speaker 1: of but you but you, but you respect you respect
19:37
Speaker 1: your son. Now you have two children. Uh, let's break
19:41
Speaker 1: down to the listener and to the view about your child.
19:45
Speaker 1: IM Chuck which is short for Mary Charles. And then
19:49
Speaker 1: Cam who's the basketball superstar who was signed to play
19:52
Speaker 1: basketball at the the A lot of Hawks. Now they
19:57
Speaker 1: both as we we established that um I was raped,
20:02
Speaker 1: gang raped by um one of them chucked. Well she
20:07
Speaker 1: you know, she went down that path of finding her
20:09
Speaker 1: father M Chucked and then UM Cam's father obviously now
20:13
Speaker 1: is Isaiah Washington. So UM I have two children that
20:17
Speaker 1: are obviously completely different, but um who love each other
20:23
Speaker 1: and who um who are basically on my life, you know,
20:27
Speaker 1: as with any other any mother, you know, we make
20:29
Speaker 1: our children our lives. And you know, I think Cassie
20:32
Speaker 1: does puts Cam in a position because he is the moneymaker.
20:36
Speaker 1: He is, you know, but she he's still her son.
20:39
Speaker 1: And I don't think she ever loses sight of that.
20:42
Speaker 1: Uh So she's always going to give him her honest opinion.
20:46
Speaker 1: She's never going to uh steer him wrong. Now her
20:50
Speaker 1: opinion kiss married. It could be a little different sometimes,
20:55
Speaker 1: but it's because she's been through it. It's because she's
20:58
Speaker 1: she's overcome a lot different obstacles. So you know, she
21:02
Speaker 1: she has the right as the matriarch of the show
21:05
Speaker 1: as well to um to to let's just say, speak
21:09
Speaker 1: her mind and she has no Cassie has no problem
21:12
Speaker 1: doing it. Now, let me as it is because whatever
21:15
Speaker 1: you do, because just the drama side of the series,
21:17
Speaker 1: and when you start getting involved with deaf scenes and
21:20
Speaker 1: and still have to be funny and you know, because
21:23
Speaker 1: one scene has written said and the other scenes you
21:25
Speaker 1: have to deliver a funny line to break the ice.
21:28
Speaker 1: As an actress, how do you build on that? How
21:31
Speaker 1: did you create that moment um? You go with the moment,
21:35
Speaker 1: you believe the moment. You know, um, all of us
21:38
Speaker 1: as actors on the show, we all insert a little
21:41
Speaker 1: bit of ourselves. I know that I do try to
21:44
Speaker 1: with every role that I take so that I will
21:46
Speaker 1: be believable. But you insert a little bit of yourself
21:49
Speaker 1: and you try to identify with what's going on in
21:52
Speaker 1: the actual scene. And we have great writers. You better
22:00
Speaker 1: believe you've got great writers. Girl. When you have good writers,
22:03
Speaker 1: that is always a great combination. So because of our
22:06
Speaker 1: writers and because of you know, our executive producers, and
22:10
Speaker 1: because there's such a great vision for the show, we
22:13
Speaker 1: try to play that vision out as best as possible.
22:16
Speaker 1: It makes it a little easier. And you know, like
22:18
Speaker 1: I said, it comes you know, a lot of it
22:20
Speaker 1: is our own input day and you know, you know,
22:26
Speaker 1: being a sitcom writer and knowing what you have to do,
22:29
Speaker 1: and that's why I just love First of all, you
22:31
Speaker 1: gotta have talent. And when you looked at cast, such
22:34
Speaker 1: a talented, talented cast. When the show came out, the
22:37
Speaker 1: big fanfare was it was Lebron James executive produced. That's
22:41
Speaker 1: what that was the hype on that. And I'm just
22:43
Speaker 1: telling everybody who's listening or who's watching on my Facebook
22:46
Speaker 1: page and who will here play back on my Heart
22:49
Speaker 1: Radio podcast that this is a show that is incredibly funny,
22:54
Speaker 1: a cast that is very relatable, and the diversity on
22:58
Speaker 1: this show is amazing easy. And the thing I like
23:01
Speaker 1: about the show is that when I go to m Chuck,
23:04
Speaker 1: I see an avery young lady, but a beautiful young lady,
23:08
Speaker 1: and she's trying to find herself. She's in a lesbian world.
23:12
Speaker 1: You know, she has a major voice, but she's she
23:15
Speaker 1: doesn't even know who she is. And the season end
23:18
Speaker 1: with her trying to find her father. That's how the season.
23:21
Speaker 1: That's that's the season for storyline. Correct. Yes, so that's
23:25
Speaker 1: one of them. We got a lot of story but yes,
23:27
Speaker 1: that's one of them. And then and then you have
23:30
Speaker 1: and then the other storyline, just sending the talk for storylines,
23:33
Speaker 1: not cam. I'm assuming any one of his story lives
23:36
Speaker 1: is gonna be his relationship with his father. Correct, two
23:40
Speaker 1: kids pursuing their past with their father. Okay, cool. Then
23:44
Speaker 1: if if if he's going to pursue his relationship with
23:47
Speaker 1: his father, then once his father is there, Washington comes
23:49
Speaker 1: in the world. That means there's gonna be some connectivity
23:52
Speaker 1: with you correct, yes, correct, without me telling the storyline,
23:56
Speaker 1: which means there's going to be a problem with the billionaire.
24:00
Speaker 1: You know what, it may it may not good. Look,
24:06
Speaker 1: you ain't gonna get it out of me. And then
24:08
Speaker 1: you got Reggie and Missy who plays his wife on
24:11
Speaker 1: the show, and Reggie is the cousins who's also the
24:14
Speaker 1: manager because Missy is so busy trying to make sure
24:18
Speaker 1: he has a career outside of Camp, and Kim's fighting
24:21
Speaker 1: with that because guess what the reason he's hit is
24:25
Speaker 1: because of Camp. Yep. Yeah, so you're gonna see that
24:28
Speaker 1: relationship dynamic. It's some great tell you something. I'm gonna
24:32
Speaker 1: tell you something to sell. I am a fan. You
24:40
Speaker 1: are really listen, you are proving yourself to be a
24:42
Speaker 1: true fan. That's for sure. I'm a fan because this
24:45
Speaker 1: is what we want people to do. We want you
24:47
Speaker 1: to dissect it. We want you to pay attention to
24:51
Speaker 1: those little things. We want you to have an opinion.
24:54
Speaker 1: We actually do listen to people that follow us on
24:58
Speaker 1: Twitter and they give us their opinion on Facebook. We
25:01
Speaker 1: pay attention to all of that because we want to
25:03
Speaker 1: be able to service everybody. Ok. But before before we
25:07
Speaker 1: get out of here again, let me just tell everybody
25:08
Speaker 1: want to talk about the foundation before, because we hit
25:11
Speaker 1: on it a little bit in the beginning, but I
25:12
Speaker 1: want to give it the time that it deserves now.
25:15
Speaker 1: Survivor's remar the fourth season, premieres this Sunday, August on Stars. Now,
25:21
Speaker 1: if you've never seen an episode of Survivor's Remorse, I'm
25:25
Speaker 1: talking right now to Sheina Arnold. I have run recoently
25:29
Speaker 1: on earlier. A fantastic cast. It's a drama day something
25:33
Speaker 1: that's not gonna t you right now. An amazing African
25:36
Speaker 1: American cast with a lot of diversity. That's the great
25:39
Speaker 1: thing about this show. Now you can binge watch. Just
25:43
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25:45
Speaker 1: bend watched, Just just start. Just just get you some water,
25:48
Speaker 1: get you some Cheetos and start laughing, you know, pause
25:52
Speaker 1: on the bathroom breaks and go do your thing. You
25:55
Speaker 1: need to be ready for this. You got the bench
25:59
Speaker 1: rotch because it's it's great. It's not that long. Episodes
26:02
Speaker 1: go by like that. It's half out. It's half out. Now.
26:06
Speaker 1: With that being said, I talked to her about the
26:09
Speaker 1: Luver's foindation. Give me some details of why it's important
26:12
Speaker 1: and how we can you know, either donate now or
26:14
Speaker 1: participate in any cause that you have in relationship in
26:18
Speaker 1: relations in relation to this in the future. Yes, well, well,
26:21
Speaker 1: I I have my sister and I have an organization
26:25
Speaker 1: called We Went Foundation. My sister has seven autoimmune diseases,
26:30
Speaker 1: the seventh one she was diagnosed with with lupus. She
26:34
Speaker 1: asked me to talk about I said, you know, once
26:36
Speaker 1: I opened my big mouth and there's gonna be no stopping.
26:39
Speaker 1: We started talking about it. And um, you know, we
26:43
Speaker 1: once we once we start talking about it, we found
26:45
Speaker 1: that so many people were suffering from that. Even if
26:50
Speaker 1: you weren't suffer room from it, somebody knew somebody else
26:53
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26:56
Speaker 1: black and Latino women the worst, and in even men.
27:00
Speaker 1: And we uh so what we've been doing is just
27:04
Speaker 1: talking about it and just teaching everybody to listen to
27:07
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27:10
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27:13
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27:15
Speaker 1: she was diagnosed with, she told the doctor, well, just
27:17
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27:19
Speaker 1: And he's like, no, it's incurable. So that's when we
27:22
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27:25
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27:29
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27:32
Speaker 1: That's when my my sister says all the time, because
27:36
Speaker 1: you can, despite your obstacles, despite your illness, get through it.
27:40
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27:44
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27:47
Speaker 1: but just any sort of relief. If somebody pays your
27:50
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27:54
Speaker 1: we're trying to help people the best way we know how.
27:57
Speaker 1: And uh, and teach awareness and and and let's get
28:01
Speaker 1: it from the beginning. That's let's not wait even with
28:03
Speaker 1: prostate cancer and all the stuff. We let's pay attention
28:06
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28:09
Speaker 1: the doctor. Also, it's called the We Win Foundation dot org.
28:14
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28:18
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28:22
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28:25
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28:27
Speaker 1: came to me, I'm mean listener to uh Tracy Tracy Logan,
28:32
Speaker 1: and she uh, you know, she said, thank you. It's
28:34
Speaker 1: about this is what we need. We need people who
28:37
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28:40
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28:42
Speaker 1: a lot of people when you're not going through it.
28:44
Speaker 1: At the time, you don't care. You're like keep it moving.
28:46
Speaker 1: But until it affects you, that's when you're like, oh
28:49
Speaker 1: wait a minute. And that's what happened. You know. Even
28:51
Speaker 1: with me and my sister, I took it. You know,
28:54
Speaker 1: I'm thinking, okay, well she'll be all right, you know,
28:57
Speaker 1: And and and it really dawned on me. I gotta
29:00
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29:02
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29:05
Speaker 1: I can't untie my shoe. So something as simple as
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29:13
Speaker 1: so many different ways. So you know, just be you know,
29:17
Speaker 1: I'm considered as a caregiver. Um, you know, we even
29:21
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29:23
Speaker 1: people that have And others were my friend. I got
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Speaker 1: to heard you your half hour. We talked about Daytime Davis.
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Speaker 1: Watch it tonight on vh one Daytime Davis. He's players.
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Speaker 1: She plays the character More Evans Sunday, August fourth, on Stars.
29:40
Speaker 1: The fourth season of Survivors, Remorse relaced the roll of Cassie.
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Speaker 1: She has an organization just trying to find a cure
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Speaker 1: for lupa's we Win Foundation dot org. She's a mother,
29:51
Speaker 1: you know, single parents. She's doing her thing. Ladies and gentlemen,
29:55
Speaker 1: without further ado, give some love. Continued to support the
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30:03
Speaker 1: My friend, my next dance. I'm gonna just tell you
30:11
Speaker 1: he's a musical genius. Let's just put it out there, right.
30:14
Speaker 1: He is a musical genius. He's an American singer, songwriter,
30:18
Speaker 1: and record producer. He has written and produced over twenty
30:21
Speaker 1: six number one R and B hits throughout his career,
30:24
Speaker 1: and he has over eleven Grammy Awards. Please welcome to
30:28
Speaker 1: money Making Conversation. Kenny, baby Face, Edmund, How are you doing,
30:37
Speaker 1: sir good Man? How are you? I'm doing great. Last
30:41
Speaker 1: time you saw me, I was running around your dressing
30:43
Speaker 1: room at the Hoodie Awards telling you how great you
30:45
Speaker 1: were and man, you were special, and you probably thought
30:47
Speaker 1: I was crazy. Well I thought you were special. I
30:52
Speaker 1: appreciate that. I appreciate that. Now here's a great thing
30:54
Speaker 1: about it, because whenever I get a chance where I've
30:57
Speaker 1: had you on the radio show, I just love to
30:59
Speaker 1: talk about your career, Kenny, because of the fact that
31:02
Speaker 1: you're a performer, and a lot of people don't know
31:04
Speaker 1: because they hear the music, but they don't connect the
31:06
Speaker 1: dots that that that you wrote that song. Uh is
31:10
Speaker 1: that important to you or it's as long as you
31:13
Speaker 1: get to check it's all good. Um, you know, it's
31:18
Speaker 1: it's I think it's important, but I don't. It's still
31:21
Speaker 1: not something that I've run around talking about every day.
31:23
Speaker 1: But you know, as long as ultimate, I think people
31:25
Speaker 1: are starting to kind of put it together absolutely because
31:28
Speaker 1: you've been on the you've been on the road. That's
31:29
Speaker 1: when I put it together. It's it's it's it's really crazy.
31:32
Speaker 1: I just had Anthony Hamilton's on the on the on
31:35
Speaker 1: the on the on my show, and we were talking
31:38
Speaker 1: about one of his songs and I didn't know you
31:40
Speaker 1: wrote that song, you know, and uh, you know, because
31:43
Speaker 1: I was talking about a lyric was saying that, Uh,
31:45
Speaker 1: I thought that men God had it like that And
31:48
Speaker 1: I said, that was an amazing lyric that that And
31:52
Speaker 1: he said, man, baby Farris wrote that lyric. I go, huh,
31:56
Speaker 1: because when when? Because that's how because that is such
31:58
Speaker 1: a natural thing that you do with your lyrics. You know,
32:03
Speaker 1: you know, you know, how do you what is the process?
32:06
Speaker 1: Let let's just slow it down. I don't want to
32:08
Speaker 1: get excited because we got a lot to talk about it.
32:10
Speaker 1: I'm glad you made time to do my show because
32:12
Speaker 1: of the fact that you are a genius. You are
32:17
Speaker 1: a person that R and B hits, pop hits. You know,
32:21
Speaker 1: you cross all genres as a producer. What what what
32:25
Speaker 1: makes Keinty baby Face Emmon's tick? Well, you know you
32:31
Speaker 1: mentioned like like with um with Anthony, like coming up
32:35
Speaker 1: with that line, that line wouldn't it wouldn't exist without Anthony,
32:40
Speaker 1: meaning that when I hung out with him and was
32:45
Speaker 1: just talking with him, is like that's how he talks. Yeah,
32:50
Speaker 1: So I just I just took up on people and
32:54
Speaker 1: and and say what they would say. And uh because
32:59
Speaker 1: and that's kind of like where you get it from.
33:00
Speaker 1: You watch people and you hear you hear music and
33:03
Speaker 1: lyrics all the time if you just watch and listen.
33:06
Speaker 1: Now here's a great thing about it. I want to say.
33:09
Speaker 1: Would you say that the Grammy is the is the
33:11
Speaker 1: ultimate music award? Is that correct? When I say that, Uh, yeah,
33:16
Speaker 1: it's it's it's kind of like the oscars, the Oscars
33:20
Speaker 1: of musical kind of like no question, it's like the
33:22
Speaker 1: oscars for a musician. Right, So, because you've got twenty
33:24
Speaker 1: six of them. As a producer, I only have eleven eleven.
33:28
Speaker 1: You got twenty six number one R and B hits,
33:30
Speaker 1: twenty eleven grammars. Okay, apologize now, to get that means
33:34
Speaker 1: that there has to be a level of consistency and trust.
33:37
Speaker 1: And when people come to you, do they come to
33:39
Speaker 1: you with any level of expectations? Um, they come, I
33:46
Speaker 1: think at this particular point they could. I don't know
33:48
Speaker 1: if they come with thinking that the necessarily going to
33:50
Speaker 1: get a hit per se. They come to get quality,
33:56
Speaker 1: real song, um and so and and and hoping that
33:59
Speaker 1: that ultimately turns into something. But I think so the
34:03
Speaker 1: days of where people kind of just at least coming
34:06
Speaker 1: to me, they don't. They're coming not coming to me
34:08
Speaker 1: thinking they're gonna get this huge hit song. We come
34:11
Speaker 1: in search of a song. Said because you were recently
34:16
Speaker 1: inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, right then, June, Now,
34:21
Speaker 1: now when you was inducted to that that that's like
34:23
Speaker 1: that that's that's that's that's like the well he was
34:26
Speaker 1: on the thirteen using you had a star on the
34:29
Speaker 1: Hollywood Walk of Fame and now you're into the Songwriters
34:32
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame. So there those are those equal? Or
34:36
Speaker 1: what means more to you? Songwriters means more than the
34:40
Speaker 1: Hollywood star, no question? And why is that? Because that's
34:44
Speaker 1: what I am of a songwriter. I don't necessarily consider
34:47
Speaker 1: myself a star. I consider myself a songwriter. But you,
34:50
Speaker 1: but you also a performer, and that that's key too.
34:53
Speaker 1: So so when you're making that well, I guess what.
34:55
Speaker 1: I met you when you was performer way back in
34:57
Speaker 1: the day. But now you then you went to become
34:59
Speaker 1: a writing you know, and all that, So what what what?
35:02
Speaker 1: What keeps that balance going? Because you're a special guy.
35:05
Speaker 1: And I say that, and I hope I'm not embarrassing
35:07
Speaker 1: you when I say that, because of the fact that
35:09
Speaker 1: you do incredible things with music. You affect how people
35:13
Speaker 1: live their lives. Your songs come on the radio and
35:15
Speaker 1: they change, they can change how I feel in a
35:18
Speaker 1: given day. That's that's amazing to have that quality, don't
35:21
Speaker 1: you think, No question. I mean, that's that's how music
35:24
Speaker 1: has always affected me. And that's why I love being
35:27
Speaker 1: a part of it. You know, I love writing it.
35:30
Speaker 1: So it's it is certainly something that that you feel
35:33
Speaker 1: proud of and and because of because of writing music
35:37
Speaker 1: and what I've done, it's it's put me in situations,
35:41
Speaker 1: you know, with with amazing people and people that I
35:43
Speaker 1: grew up you know, uh, listening to and as a
35:48
Speaker 1: fan of people that I looked up to. You know,
35:50
Speaker 1: I've been able to be with those people and you know,
35:53
Speaker 1: hang out with you know, the likes of Stevie Wonder
35:56
Speaker 1: or I can call Stevie a friend. And and that's
35:59
Speaker 1: that's all because you know, it's really because I listened
36:02
Speaker 1: to him and I learned how to write music. You know,
36:06
Speaker 1: I learned what was important, the importance of what you're doing.
36:09
Speaker 1: Now when you're on tour, now, that's when you now
36:13
Speaker 1: you you you do a lot of the songs that
36:15
Speaker 1: you've written, correct for other artists. Correct. Okay, that's when
36:21
Speaker 1: it because that's when it just opened up to me
36:23
Speaker 1: how great you work. Let me just tell you something.
36:26
Speaker 1: Let me just if you don't mind, give me a
36:27
Speaker 1: couple of minutes, I'm go and we can interact Morom Tennis.
36:30
Speaker 1: Some of the songs that you're very familiar with fans, listeners, watchers,
36:34
Speaker 1: don't be cruel. Bobby Brown, every little step you take, Bobby,
36:38
Speaker 1: Bobby Brown, Superwoman, Karen White. You know My My My
36:45
Speaker 1: by Johnny Gil End of the Road Boys, Two men,
36:51
Speaker 1: Can we talk? Kevin Campbell. I'll make love to you boys.
36:57
Speaker 1: Two Men again, ad Light Special TLC. Sitting up in
37:03
Speaker 1: my room. Brandy, you're making me high. Tony Braxton, excel, shoot,
37:12
Speaker 1: shoot shoot, come on that song or the year? Oh
37:17
Speaker 1: my goodness man, and then you But then also you've
37:21
Speaker 1: worked with Eric Clapton and you've worked with Madonna. Correct yes,
37:26
Speaker 1: how you know? Okay, here'r deal with my radio show
37:30
Speaker 1: and I'm also on I Heart podcast as well. This
37:35
Speaker 1: is what it's gonna play back as well. Is that
37:37
Speaker 1: what I'm just trying to say is that I don't
37:40
Speaker 1: want to say, because you're so talented, how do you
37:43
Speaker 1: break it down to somebody trying to get in the
37:45
Speaker 1: field that you have mastered? Kenny? I think ultimately what
37:54
Speaker 1: gets you there our songs, Yes, sir, It like you know,
38:00
Speaker 1: when you write a good song, and when you write
38:02
Speaker 1: a great song and it's a great melody and uh
38:06
Speaker 1: and and the track feels good and everything feels good
38:08
Speaker 1: about it, people find it. So in all reality, you know,
38:13
Speaker 1: your your credit card is your songwriting. You know, that's
38:17
Speaker 1: what gets you in the door. It's not I was writing.
38:21
Speaker 1: I've been writing songs on my life and so and
38:24
Speaker 1: initially when I was writing songs, I wasn't writing the
38:26
Speaker 1: right ones. I wasn't I wasn't getting the attention because
38:30
Speaker 1: I needed to. I needed to fix some things I needed.
38:32
Speaker 1: It wasn't catchy enough. It wasn't it wasn't touching people,
38:36
Speaker 1: and so I kept having to go back to the
38:38
Speaker 1: you know, drawing board and start over again. And that's
38:41
Speaker 1: and to this day, that's what I do. I'll write
38:44
Speaker 1: songs and write work on them forever till I can
38:47
Speaker 1: get them right. So it's, you know, whenever anybody's ever
38:52
Speaker 1: you know, trying to figure that out. Ultimately it comes
38:54
Speaker 1: down to are you writing a great song? Are you
38:57
Speaker 1: making something that everybody wants to listen to and everybody
39:00
Speaker 1: wants to sing along with our group with whatever, for
39:03
Speaker 1: whatever it is, And that's that's the key, and that
39:06
Speaker 1: the key is that you're also now working on a
39:08
Speaker 1: new album, correct, Yes, I am okay? What drives this
39:12
Speaker 1: next album? What emotion of, what thought of does anything
39:16
Speaker 1: trigger you to say, I gotta do this album because
39:18
Speaker 1: I have something I want to say. Well, you know,
39:21
Speaker 1: I'm out on the road a lot, and and I
39:23
Speaker 1: feel like new music is great when you can have
39:26
Speaker 1: the right kind of new music. You can't just cut
39:29
Speaker 1: music just the sake of I got a new album.
39:31
Speaker 1: You gotta do something that you that you feel like
39:33
Speaker 1: it's gonna that that people are looking for and they
39:36
Speaker 1: want to feel and then they want to have and
39:38
Speaker 1: they help them have a good time or you know. So,
39:41
Speaker 1: I think being out on the road helps you figure
39:43
Speaker 1: kind of that out with your audience wants from you
39:46
Speaker 1: and and and so that helps it to that extent
39:49
Speaker 1: you could you could easily not try to do any
39:52
Speaker 1: new music. And and a lot of times people aren't
39:54
Speaker 1: necessarily ready to hear new music from their their favorite artists. Um, yeah,
40:00
Speaker 1: because you pay the ticket based on what you heard,
40:02
Speaker 1: correct exactly, So so you know. So it's it is
40:07
Speaker 1: as much a thing today of trying to write that
40:11
Speaker 1: right song that makes the difference that they're open with
40:13
Speaker 1: it radio and and create create new new space. Now,
40:17
Speaker 1: I have to be honest with you, it's a lot
40:19
Speaker 1: easier to do that on a new artist that hasn't
40:23
Speaker 1: had that shot yet, where people are more willing to
40:26
Speaker 1: listen to because they they haven't heard got anything from them.
40:29
Speaker 1: So so hence I still write and do things for
40:32
Speaker 1: other artists to this day and and and always will.
40:36
Speaker 1: And that's called multiple strains of income. Correct, Yes, as
40:40
Speaker 1: long as you're doing it with every with everybody else.
40:43
Speaker 1: The whole thing is I always said I don't want
40:47
Speaker 1: to have all my eggs in one basket. That's what
40:51
Speaker 1: I've talking about. Hey, Kenny, I gotta go to break.
40:54
Speaker 1: Can you hang on because I want to ask you
40:55
Speaker 1: a couple of more questions by man, I'm on the
40:57
Speaker 1: phone with the legend, the music genius who has multiple
41:01
Speaker 1: streams of income. We'll be back with money making conversations.
41:03
Speaker 1: And I guess Kenny, baby face Adam's gonna talk about
41:06
Speaker 1: this tour his album. And I got the idea, let's
41:09
Speaker 1: go to Broadway, Baby, Let's go to Broadway. I'm on
41:13
Speaker 1: the phone with my man. His credit sale American song
41:17
Speaker 1: sing singer, songwriter and record producing call him an incredible man,
41:22
Speaker 1: nice guy. But the hits that he created over the years,
41:26
Speaker 1: not only did he perform that he's written affect us
41:28
Speaker 1: every day when you hear Don't be Cruel, every little
41:32
Speaker 1: step by Bobby Brown, Superwoman by Karen White, or him
41:36
Speaker 1: singing It's no crime. Whip a Peel, that's my song
41:39
Speaker 1: right there. I think that's what I fell in love
41:40
Speaker 1: with the baby Whip a pill. And then my, my,
41:44
Speaker 1: my my, I'm talking about Johnny gil still making money
41:46
Speaker 1: off that song. Into the Road Boards two men, the
41:50
Speaker 1: Bodyguard soundtrack, Come on now for the Cooler Youth. That's
41:54
Speaker 1: when that that that's when you was really cool, Kenny
41:56
Speaker 1: on that one. Can't we talk? Kevin Tambo? Do that?
42:04
Speaker 1: Do you do you get what some people say? Do
42:06
Speaker 1: you ever have a block? You said, man, But I
42:08
Speaker 1: think what you told me was that you listen to
42:10
Speaker 1: people and that helps you be creative? Is that is? That?
42:13
Speaker 1: Is that the key? That's the care You just you
42:17
Speaker 1: just listen to everyone, watch everyone, listen to everything, and
42:20
Speaker 1: that's where you get That's where you get the ideas.
42:23
Speaker 1: And that's that's like when they say, you know when
42:25
Speaker 1: a good a great actor is when they listen to
42:27
Speaker 1: the other person and you react naturally, not to the
42:30
Speaker 1: line of what that person does and that creates creates
42:33
Speaker 1: a great scene. Now when you when you put together music,
42:37
Speaker 1: when I when I saw you, when I when I've
42:38
Speaker 1: seen you on stage three times, and I've been fortunate
42:41
Speaker 1: enough to book you one time, so I've come as
42:43
Speaker 1: a customer twice to see you. And the beauty of
42:46
Speaker 1: that is that I get to see an artist who's
42:49
Speaker 1: having a good time. Man, and explained that experience of
42:54
Speaker 1: being on stage. Because when you look like you having
42:56
Speaker 1: a great time on stage, man, talk to me about that.
43:00
Speaker 1: I mean, you can't help but have a good time.
43:02
Speaker 1: When when when everybody else is having a good time,
43:06
Speaker 1: you know that's ah, I mean that that's a big,
43:10
Speaker 1: big part of it is Um, if you wouldn't be
43:13
Speaker 1: having a good time, if the audience looks like they're
43:15
Speaker 1: having a good time, then you're don't want to get
43:16
Speaker 1: off as soon as you can. But but I think
43:21
Speaker 1: when we go through through the songs, and you know,
43:23
Speaker 1: something else happens when you hit the stage, You've become
43:26
Speaker 1: something else from someone else, and uh, and it's and
43:31
Speaker 1: the music takes over and and and the the stories,
43:35
Speaker 1: the songs, the it's it's um, it takes you back
43:40
Speaker 1: to a time and I watched it take people back
43:43
Speaker 1: to their too special times in their lives where they're
43:46
Speaker 1: in love or I don't love, or whether it was
43:48
Speaker 1: hurt or not hurt um and all those things kind
43:52
Speaker 1: of make a difference. And so you know, at that
43:54
Speaker 1: particular point you're connecting me. It's the music that is
43:59
Speaker 1: we have that strong did the world we live in now,
44:01
Speaker 1: today's social media world will live now in now? Today?
44:04
Speaker 1: Has that changed how you approach your music? Only it
44:09
Speaker 1: changes it in the sense of you're maybe a little
44:13
Speaker 1: more aware of how people talk and how people say things.
44:16
Speaker 1: People say things differently, so so as you're writing not
44:20
Speaker 1: so much for myself, but as I'm writing for someone
44:22
Speaker 1: that might be younger than might because I'm gonna people.
44:25
Speaker 1: People ultimately only go for songs that they feel that
44:28
Speaker 1: they think are honest. Though you can't give one song
44:31
Speaker 1: to another person that that that it doesn't seem like
44:34
Speaker 1: their personality. It just because it doesn't feel real and
44:37
Speaker 1: that and that's important to you. Correct, Yeah, well, because
44:41
Speaker 1: it's it's important because if it's because you know, if
44:45
Speaker 1: people don't feel like it's real and they're not gonna
44:47
Speaker 1: they're not gonna like it. Let me ask you just
44:48
Speaker 1: cause it's just me talking. Okay, Kenny, is that when
44:52
Speaker 1: I see when I when I watched when I went
44:54
Speaker 1: to your show, it was like watching the collection of
44:56
Speaker 1: okay with you, the greatest hits, okay, your your greatest
44:59
Speaker 1: hits and other hits that you produced and written over
45:02
Speaker 1: the years. Okay, I see on Broadway, I see Motown,
45:06
Speaker 1: I see Mama Mia. Is there any talk or even
45:11
Speaker 1: across your mind of taking your collection of amazing songs?
45:14
Speaker 1: And because they touched so many emotions and they all
45:17
Speaker 1: tell stories to Broadway, There's been a number of people
45:22
Speaker 1: that are kind of come to me here and there,
45:24
Speaker 1: and I just haven't acted on it yet because I
45:26
Speaker 1: haven't some the right the hit or the right idea
45:30
Speaker 1: for um and uh. And that's a lot of a
45:33
Speaker 1: lot of time that you have to put into that
45:34
Speaker 1: to make that right. So and if I'm going to
45:36
Speaker 1: do it, I want to it's gonna be right. And
45:38
Speaker 1: it means that you have to have time to put
45:39
Speaker 1: into it. Yeah. Cool, because because because because it just
45:43
Speaker 1: seems like it's one of the obvious pictures. And I
45:45
Speaker 1: know what you're saying, don't come to do something that's obvious.
45:48
Speaker 1: What what what's the plane, what's the story? So it
45:51
Speaker 1: makes sense to me. If it makes sense to me
45:52
Speaker 1: and I got the time to do it, then guess what,
45:54
Speaker 1: I do it because guess what, I'm a creative person
45:57
Speaker 1: and I know and I understand my music history in
46:00
Speaker 1: my music legacy. But you want to put it out
46:02
Speaker 1: there right correct? Yes? Now, what's coming up on these tours? Man?
46:06
Speaker 1: What we're gonna see you? You're on the road a
46:08
Speaker 1: lot lately at this month and next month? What's going on? Brother? Yeah,
46:11
Speaker 1: I'm I'm out. I'm in Philly this Thursday, Philly, and uh,
46:16
Speaker 1: I'm in Brooklyn and uh Coney Island on Friday, and
46:21
Speaker 1: the Columbia, Maryland on Saturday, and then I think next
46:25
Speaker 1: week I got some more dates coming up. So I'm
46:27
Speaker 1: kind of in and out. I always like to do
46:28
Speaker 1: these like weekend warrior dates where you kind of go
46:31
Speaker 1: in and out. So because I still do work in
46:33
Speaker 1: the studio, and I just finished doing uh Johnny Mathis
46:37
Speaker 1: album and UM and now working on an album with
46:41
Speaker 1: myself and still working with a lot of new younger
46:43
Speaker 1: artists too, so I gotta kind of kind of go
46:46
Speaker 1: in and out, hit hit and quit it now you said,
46:48
Speaker 1: did you say, Johnny Mathis, I did. I'll achieve something, man,
46:52
Speaker 1: when I come to l A. So always funny because
46:55
Speaker 1: I stayed in the comment the hotel. When I come
46:57
Speaker 1: to l A and I will get up, everything's always magical.
47:00
Speaker 1: Every time I would get up and go work out
47:02
Speaker 1: in the gym about six o'clock in the morning, Johnny
47:05
Speaker 1: Mathis was always in there working out, always in there working,
47:10
Speaker 1: working there with two guys. It's always with two guys
47:11
Speaker 1: in there working out. And UH had a great conversation
47:14
Speaker 1: with him, man. And and the fact that you're telling
47:17
Speaker 1: me today you're working with him means that, guess what,
47:19
Speaker 1: He's a machine and he has something today he has
47:22
Speaker 1: to say. So when we look at somebody like Johnny Mathis,
47:25
Speaker 1: what when you start talking about music because you've seen
47:27
Speaker 1: you listen to them, what what? What? What? What? What
47:30
Speaker 1: are you trying to convey us? A writer for him? Well, unfortunately,
47:35
Speaker 1: the Johnny Mathis Project is an album that worked with
47:39
Speaker 1: Clid David song where we put together UH songs of
47:43
Speaker 1: the past in the past twenty years. So he's doing
47:48
Speaker 1: the song he's done. He's doing like I believe I
47:50
Speaker 1: can fly right he's doing like he raised me up right,
47:54
Speaker 1: and he's uh so, he's he's done a collection the
47:56
Speaker 1: songs without ten songs where he's singing the songs and
47:59
Speaker 1: he's sounding he sounds amazing, years old and still kicking it.
48:06
Speaker 1: And it looks great, sounds great. And that's that's who
48:10
Speaker 1: and where I want to be at that age too. Well,
48:13
Speaker 1: you look good. You know that that you look good.
48:16
Speaker 1: Believe me, it's an amazing man, when I get to
48:18
Speaker 1: see because all these people only see you as a star.
48:21
Speaker 1: They se using it and you are man, you are,
48:23
Speaker 1: don't I know you? You know you're You're a very
48:26
Speaker 1: humble guy. That's one thing I take away every time
48:28
Speaker 1: I had the pleasure of meeting you, with you, being
48:31
Speaker 1: in the room with you, is that you're very respectful
48:34
Speaker 1: for the talent of the round you. You treat your
48:35
Speaker 1: staff one level. You know, you don't. You don't sing
48:38
Speaker 1: about anybody. That's important to having the right people around
48:42
Speaker 1: your Like Susan, you know who's my contact for you,
48:44
Speaker 1: She's fantastic. It's important. Now you just want to let
48:47
Speaker 1: people know that and you should. Can you let people
48:50
Speaker 1: know the importance of surrounding yourself with the right people. Well,
48:54
Speaker 1: I think in business, you's it's hard to be in
48:59
Speaker 1: this business and and not step on somebody's toes at
49:02
Speaker 1: some point, at some point you're gonna you're gonna have
49:06
Speaker 1: a disagreement and things are gonna be aren't always going
49:10
Speaker 1: to go that way. But as long as you do
49:11
Speaker 1: it respectfully and and you're you're honest about it and
49:15
Speaker 1: straightforward about it, then then people will respect you. I
49:18
Speaker 1: pride myself and being in this business as long as
49:20
Speaker 1: I've been and not really have any enemies. Um, and
49:25
Speaker 1: that allows you to return to places. Um, you have
49:29
Speaker 1: to be careful if you if you're kind of like,
49:32
Speaker 1: you know, kind of stepping on everybody all along the way,
49:35
Speaker 1: and then if if if, and we all go through
49:39
Speaker 1: ups and downs. You know, nobody's at the top all
49:42
Speaker 1: the time, so you know at some point that person
49:47
Speaker 1: that you stepped on might be the person might help
49:49
Speaker 1: you get to the next step. So um, so you
49:51
Speaker 1: should always be careful of that. My man, Um, I
49:55
Speaker 1: have a project I'm gonna bring to you and I'm
49:59
Speaker 1: running I sue them suser sitting all We're gonna be
50:02
Speaker 1: done with it because she's I don't I don't. I
50:04
Speaker 1: don't buy pass who I talked to on a regular basis,
50:07
Speaker 1: but man, I want to I want to thank you
50:08
Speaker 1: for taking the time. I know she's always been trying
50:10
Speaker 1: to get us together and connect. We're connecting the radio,
50:13
Speaker 1: but I'd love to sit down in person with you,
50:14
Speaker 1: just to chop up some things, some visions I have.
50:17
Speaker 1: You tell me some of your vision and see if
50:18
Speaker 1: we can work together. Is that cool? Hey? Man? Thank you?
50:22
Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen. Please, uh he's great. If you want
50:24
Speaker 1: to get some of these tickets to see him on too,
50:26
Speaker 1: go to ticket nap ticket master goes ticket masters dot
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Speaker 1: com right now, go to ticket master dot com. If
50:31
Speaker 1: you've not seen him on two, you gotta see him
50:32
Speaker 1: on tour. Amazing talent, you've heard him. A wonderful man.
50:36
Speaker 1: Please nice round of the floyd from my man, Kenny
50:39
Speaker 1: baby Face. Edmond my next guest, is best known for
50:44
Speaker 1: his roles on the sitcom's Sister Sister and the BT
50:48
Speaker 1: romantic comedy Let's Stay Together. But Now. He plays a
50:52
Speaker 1: critically acclaimed role and arguably one of the strongest African
50:57
Speaker 1: American characters on television and stars Survivors Remorse, Please welcome
51:01
Speaker 1: to money making conversations, Run Rico, Lee Wowick for for
51:09
Speaker 1: a boy, you have to be listed, but I know
51:11
Speaker 1: how to make the brothers feel very welcome. Thank you
51:13
Speaker 1: so much for having me and is an honor and
51:15
Speaker 1: a pleasure. First of all, Ron Rico, I can hear
51:19
Speaker 1: the humbleness in your voice, and that's what makes you special. Man.
51:22
Speaker 1: I got you for two breaks because I got a
51:24
Speaker 1: lot to talk about, because it's a journey that you
51:27
Speaker 1: are dealing with in your life to be as successful
51:31
Speaker 1: entrepreneur in the career in the field of entertainment. And
51:34
Speaker 1: and there's a show I'm gonna just tell you something, um,
51:38
Speaker 1: Survivor's Remorse. First of all, just tell me what does
51:42
Speaker 1: that title mean before we get into the ny detail.
51:44
Speaker 1: What does that title meaning, Survivor's Remorse. Well, it's funny
51:48
Speaker 1: because that the show's inception. Obviously, this show is is
51:51
Speaker 1: ultimately the brainchild of Lebron James and Maverick Carter. And
51:55
Speaker 1: as they've experienced success, and my goodness, they've experienced it
51:59
Speaker 1: to such a great degree. Uh, they've often referred to
52:03
Speaker 1: this feeling of having remorse because they've survived, survived their circumstances,
52:08
Speaker 1: and they've often felt this pool to go back and
52:11
Speaker 1: to help and feel bad when they can't do everything
52:13
Speaker 1: for everybody. So that's where the show's title comes from.
52:16
Speaker 1: It really ultimately comes from them and a feeling that
52:19
Speaker 1: they've had over the years as they've grown and expanded
52:23
Speaker 1: their territory, and so they've often felt this Survivor's remorse. Okay,
52:28
Speaker 1: I'm gonna just tell you this right now, I'm talking
52:29
Speaker 1: to I'm interviewed right now, Rico Lea on one of
52:32
Speaker 1: the true stars of the star series Survivor's Remorse. Ro Rico,
52:37
Speaker 1: you can talk to me about this show. I know
52:39
Speaker 1: you're serious. I watched this series, so anything you want
52:42
Speaker 1: to talk about, you can bring it up to me.
52:43
Speaker 1: I know all the characters. I'm not one of those
52:45
Speaker 1: guys just bring you on the radio. Know a little bit.
52:48
Speaker 1: I watched this serious. In fact, my wife cried on
52:52
Speaker 1: the on the episode after If people I'm gonna do it,
52:56
Speaker 1: if they haven't seen this series, I gotta tell you this.
52:58
Speaker 1: The mic EP episode after everybody was in the hospital,
53:00
Speaker 1: my wife cried on that episode. I look back at it,
53:03
Speaker 1: I go, you got to be kidding me. Episodes like this.
53:09
Speaker 1: It's just that, so you could talk to me about
53:11
Speaker 1: this seriously. I want to talk to you about this
53:12
Speaker 1: series and other things that you're doing in your life,
53:15
Speaker 1: but also the fact that when you when you get
53:17
Speaker 1: a character like this man, and I'm gonna just tell
53:19
Speaker 1: you what I'm gonna just tell you when I watch you, man,
53:22
Speaker 1: you know, it's like impressive brother and and and and
53:27
Speaker 1: and and their layers in it, and I want you
53:30
Speaker 1: to tell me about it because some of them remind
53:32
Speaker 1: me of me when I when in my early years
53:35
Speaker 1: of managing Steve Harvey, because I was angry a lot,
53:39
Speaker 1: because I had nowhere to turn because everybody looked at
53:43
Speaker 1: me for information and sometimes I didn't have the information.
53:47
Speaker 1: And if you and you, if you're looking, if you're
53:49
Speaker 1: perceived to be the answer man. Plus you know, I
53:53
Speaker 1: managed him in l A. So I was constanly surrounded
53:55
Speaker 1: by you know that that the gang world, you know,
53:57
Speaker 1: because everybody came to us. And so I see you
54:00
Speaker 1: step in and out of that a lot, and so
54:03
Speaker 1: so the the drain on that character for you emotionally
54:07
Speaker 1: tell me about it. You know, it's it's tough man,
54:11
Speaker 1: and and the funny thing and people may or may
54:13
Speaker 1: not know, but you know, Rashawn was you know, you
54:16
Speaker 1: and I worked together when I first moved to l A.
54:18
Speaker 1: And I had so much to learn. And so I
54:20
Speaker 1: look back and the late nineties to taken on a role,
54:24
Speaker 1: to taken on a role like this and all honesty, man,
54:27
Speaker 1: if the way God works, if God has shown me
54:30
Speaker 1: the amount of responsibility that the page count, the emotional
54:34
Speaker 1: uh depths I'd have to go to for this role.
54:36
Speaker 1: I don't know if I would have accepted it early on,
54:39
Speaker 1: just because I wasn't a percent sure that it was
54:42
Speaker 1: in me. But having said that God never gets anything
54:45
Speaker 1: that you can't handle, it has truly been beyond the
54:48
Speaker 1: blessing for me to explore this character, to be given
54:52
Speaker 1: the free range to really explore it and go deep.
54:54
Speaker 1: They've challenged me on so many different levels and really, uh,
54:58
Speaker 1: you know, just taught me that there was an artists
55:02
Speaker 1: in me that I ain't even know it was there.
55:04
Speaker 1: And um and and that's really what this role has been.
55:07
Speaker 1: You know, the feedback, the you know, the lack of
55:11
Speaker 1: positive African American males on television and movies. Uh, you know,
55:16
Speaker 1: it being able to portray this character and get the
55:19
Speaker 1: type of love that I get from the community is
55:22
Speaker 1: a reward that it's just I can't even begin to
55:25
Speaker 1: tell you. Um, it just feels really great and um
55:29
Speaker 1: and it's just a testament to you know, uh enduring
55:32
Speaker 1: the the you know this bi business in peace the
55:35
Speaker 1: valley and uh, you know, there's far more valleys than
55:38
Speaker 1: there are peaks. So when you can get to a
55:41
Speaker 1: role like this and and be given the free rein
55:43
Speaker 1: to dig in, Uh, it's just truly a bus and
55:45
Speaker 1: truly an honor. Right. You know. It's funny because he
55:48
Speaker 1: ron Rico mentioned my name early in his career and
55:51
Speaker 1: just gets just let's go a little deeper on that one,
55:54
Speaker 1: is that I was young producer writer on the series
55:57
Speaker 1: Sister Sister, and UH had the opportunity to be in
56:00
Speaker 1: the casting room and cast him to be one of
56:03
Speaker 1: the love interests for one of the trends to the
56:05
Speaker 1: character there was Tarik Scott and and the thing about
56:08
Speaker 1: it and we develop a relationship off camera when he
56:11
Speaker 1: would talk to me and come to me and he
56:14
Speaker 1: and one of the things that always always trip me
56:18
Speaker 1: out about him was he always wanted to know what
56:20
Speaker 1: to do with his money. Yeah, he come serious story.
56:24
Speaker 1: Now you come to my time, how we sit down?
56:26
Speaker 1: He's can I come out and talk to you? Because
56:28
Speaker 1: you know, I'm making a little money. I don't want
56:30
Speaker 1: to mess it up, and you know, and young actors
56:33
Speaker 1: don't do that, which means that he always had a
56:35
Speaker 1: plan that this was gonna be his career and he
56:38
Speaker 1: didn't want to mess it up, and he wanted to
56:40
Speaker 1: know what the money he made, what to do with it?
56:43
Speaker 1: What was the vote philosophy back then? Because I love
56:46
Speaker 1: the fact that you know I'm now doing and that's
56:48
Speaker 1: been my crusade now is telling people how they advanced,
56:51
Speaker 1: how to tell people to move their careers forward. And
56:54
Speaker 1: I basically was doing this as a hobby way back then.
56:58
Speaker 1: I wanted to say, you were my first plient, and
57:02
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm proud to be your first client. Man.
57:05
Speaker 1: I remember that day in Park Libre when I met you.
57:08
Speaker 1: We went and had lunch. You took me to a hairline,
57:10
Speaker 1: Bells for the first time, and uh, and then we
57:14
Speaker 1: went down to Santiago. You took me down to your
57:16
Speaker 1: one of your tailors and uh we But really, what
57:19
Speaker 1: I remember sitting down in in in your townhouse, and
57:23
Speaker 1: I remember we got you got the newspaper and we
57:25
Speaker 1: started looking at stocks and I remember at the time
57:28
Speaker 1: you were very very heavy on a O. L. It
57:30
Speaker 1: always stands out and taught me how to look at
57:32
Speaker 1: those stocks. Um and um. You know. It was just
57:36
Speaker 1: you had something uh aura about you that really drew
57:40
Speaker 1: me to you. And the beauty of you was that
57:42
Speaker 1: you made time, made time and you and I said
57:46
Speaker 1: it in a post earlier today, man sees that you
57:49
Speaker 1: sold you. You so season me that I still to
57:53
Speaker 1: this day, uh reap the benefits of things that you
57:56
Speaker 1: taught me, things that you just in terms of how
57:58
Speaker 1: you have never was again you said, man, never give
58:00
Speaker 1: l A your money. I was always amazing fact that
58:02
Speaker 1: you had a place in l A, but your base
58:05
Speaker 1: was still in Houston. I'll save you had a whole system.
58:08
Speaker 1: You had. You had a really nice vehicle that you
58:10
Speaker 1: drove the work, you know, Monday through Friday. After we
58:13
Speaker 1: take you had a Suzuki side kick out believe that
58:15
Speaker 1: you would drive to the airport. And I remember thinking like,
58:19
Speaker 1: wait a minute, you mean it's possible for me to
58:22
Speaker 1: go back to where I was raised and still be
58:25
Speaker 1: able to have a career in l A. And my
58:28
Speaker 1: my goal from that moment on was to do whatever
58:31
Speaker 1: I had to do to make sure that when it
58:33
Speaker 1: came kind of settle down to buy a house, to
58:35
Speaker 1: get me have kids, I would be able to do
58:38
Speaker 1: you know that in Georgia because what Houston was, you
58:41
Speaker 1: Georgia was for me. Uh you know, man, what you
58:44
Speaker 1: the time you took from me back then again, Man,
58:47
Speaker 1: I was early twenties. We're talking, you know, two decades later, Man,
58:51
Speaker 1: I am still still drawing from that information, still drawing
58:56
Speaker 1: from that knowledge, Man, and I just had. And that's
58:58
Speaker 1: just you know, that's just the business side. There were
59:01
Speaker 1: things you imparted to me as an artist that I
59:04
Speaker 1: steal to this day. You know, I never forget. Man.
59:07
Speaker 1: You probably don't remember this, but you know, when I
59:09
Speaker 1: started on Sister Sister, Sister Sister was the first four
59:11
Speaker 1: cameras show I've ever done. It was really the first
59:14
Speaker 1: comedy I've ever done. And so for a lot of
59:16
Speaker 1: actors when you're when you come into that comedy where
59:19
Speaker 1: you're still trying to get your feelings, you know, you're
59:21
Speaker 1: kind of trying to find your footing. And I remember
59:24
Speaker 1: you guys cast Dion Richmond opposite right at the same time,
59:27
Speaker 1: Dian and I got cast the Cosby show, Yes, and
59:31
Speaker 1: and came up in a in a you know, under
59:33
Speaker 1: the tulage of a comedic genius with Bill Cosby. And
59:37
Speaker 1: so I found myself and you noticed that what I
59:39
Speaker 1: started doing was kind of aligning my comedy with Dean's comedy.
59:43
Speaker 1: I'll never forget this. May or may not remember. We
59:45
Speaker 1: was at craft service. You just can't tap me to
59:47
Speaker 1: shows and let me touch you for a second. We
59:49
Speaker 1: when and we sat down and basically what you were
59:52
Speaker 1: saying to me was find your own voice. You know,
59:55
Speaker 1: we've brought Dion in to do what Dion does. We
59:59
Speaker 1: don't need you to do what Dan. We need you
1:00:01
Speaker 1: to do what you do. And I remember feeling I'm
1:00:04
Speaker 1: not only I remember initially feeling hurt because as an
1:00:07
Speaker 1: actor you're sensitive trap ya. But the more I thought
1:00:11
Speaker 1: about it, man, it was some of the most vital
1:00:13
Speaker 1: information that has ever been imparted on me because what
1:00:16
Speaker 1: it urged me to do, what it pushed me to do,
1:00:18
Speaker 1: was to create what was my funny, not somebody else's funny.
1:00:22
Speaker 1: And uh man, So I just want you to know
1:00:24
Speaker 1: that not only from a business standpoint of financial standpoint,
1:00:27
Speaker 1: but just from a career standpoint. Man, you also imparted
1:00:32
Speaker 1: knowledge and so sees in me that to this day
1:00:35
Speaker 1: I still draw upon me And I've never told you
1:00:37
Speaker 1: thank you for that, but I appreciate it, man, because
1:00:40
Speaker 1: you could have very easily allowed me to continue down
1:00:42
Speaker 1: that path. And you know I never would have developed
1:00:44
Speaker 1: my own voice but you. But you took that time out, man,
1:00:47
Speaker 1: and that's a that's something God gave you, man, and
1:00:50
Speaker 1: it's it's listen if you're If you've been a blessing
1:00:53
Speaker 1: to me, I can only imagine the the other people,
1:00:56
Speaker 1: the thousands and thousands of other people that you've been
1:00:58
Speaker 1: a blessing to. Man, So I thank you about my heart,
1:01:00
Speaker 1: he Enrico. I appreciate you because when I've asked you
1:01:03
Speaker 1: to come to the Neighborhood Awards the Uplift everyday people,
1:01:06
Speaker 1: You've shown up and I know your schedule is busy,
1:01:09
Speaker 1: and the thing about it, Man, I appreciate everything that
1:01:12
Speaker 1: you're saying about me. I appreciate the fact that you
1:01:15
Speaker 1: have become the man that I knew you could become.
1:01:18
Speaker 1: And when I watched and I watched the series survivor's
1:01:21
Speaker 1: remarks if it premiers this Sunday, August twinter Um from
1:01:26
Speaker 1: m Chuck. You know, to Cam's character, it's not about
1:01:30
Speaker 1: them playing on the basketball courts, their lives off the court,
1:01:33
Speaker 1: you know, the new character Chin his character, and then
1:01:36
Speaker 1: the diversity of the cast, your wife, Missy, you know,
1:01:40
Speaker 1: it's really what it is. Is there, they're they're they're
1:01:43
Speaker 1: from the Boston area, Dorchester, Boston area, and they moved
1:01:48
Speaker 1: down to Atlanta, Georgia. That's the setting. And he plays
1:01:52
Speaker 1: for the Atlanta Hawks, Okay, and the owner the team
1:01:55
Speaker 1: is in their lives and in fact, let's look I wanted.
1:01:58
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm just building the picture for everybody who
1:02:01
Speaker 1: may have not seen the show. Because the one thing
1:02:04
Speaker 1: I like about the show, and this's just this. The
1:02:05
Speaker 1: thing about it's a great show to bend watch. It's
1:02:08
Speaker 1: a great show to bend watch if you have not.
1:02:10
Speaker 1: It is going into season four. And the great thing
1:02:12
Speaker 1: about it is that this show will make you cry,
1:02:15
Speaker 1: and this show will make you laugh in the very
1:02:17
Speaker 1: next scene, will make you angry. It will make you understand,
1:02:23
Speaker 1: you know, I think you understand relationships. Here to make
1:02:25
Speaker 1: you understand the lesbian gay community, and to make you
1:02:30
Speaker 1: feel sympathy for everybody who has uh an emotional plan
1:02:35
Speaker 1: in life that may not go right, even though they
1:02:37
Speaker 1: even though we all wanted to right go right. One
1:02:40
Speaker 1: of my favorite they're telling me, you got to go
1:02:41
Speaker 1: to commercial. Rico hold on, man, because I got because
1:02:44
Speaker 1: you know the Jupiter character, the Sean Hey, come on back,
1:02:51
Speaker 1: I got my maver Rico League star of the stars
1:02:54
Speaker 1: series Survivors Remorse. We'll be back with more money made conversations.
1:02:58
Speaker 1: He just did a testimony for me in the first act.
1:03:01
Speaker 1: The second act, that's gonna be a second break. When
1:03:03
Speaker 1: we come back, we're gonna talk about his career, where
1:03:05
Speaker 1: he's going. You want to be a director. He's the
1:03:07
Speaker 1: father two sons, but more importantly, he is Enrico Leacause, Hi,
1:03:17
Speaker 1: I'm back to the Sean McDonald of money making conversations
1:03:21
Speaker 1: I have on the phone. One of the stars of
1:03:23
Speaker 1: Survivor's Remorse. It premiers August twenty. Guest stars this upcoming
1:03:28
Speaker 1: season will be my man, Isaiah Washington. He would be
1:03:30
Speaker 1: playing Cam's father, DJ Cally, Isaiah Whitlock, Vanessa Bell Callaway.
1:03:37
Speaker 1: This is some of the stars that will be, you know,
1:03:39
Speaker 1: stepping in playing different roles on Survivor's Remorse this season.
1:03:43
Speaker 1: But this right now, I got one of the stars
1:03:46
Speaker 1: on The Old Friend, a person I'm so proud of
1:03:49
Speaker 1: just because what he's doing on the on the TV
1:03:52
Speaker 1: screen right now, it's amazing. It's amazing. I'm telling you.
1:03:56
Speaker 1: When I've been i've been casting people, I've been watching people.
1:04:00
Speaker 1: I've been fortunate to produce hit movies, he TV, hit
1:04:02
Speaker 1: TV shows, and to watch a talent like ron Rico
1:04:06
Speaker 1: Lee do his thing effortlessly, effently, it's amazing and I'm
1:04:10
Speaker 1: blessed to have him on the call right now. Uh, Rodrico,
1:04:13
Speaker 1: you still have my friend? Okay, tell me about this
1:04:17
Speaker 1: the Father episode, Brother whoa Go? The Father episode? Come on, man,
1:04:26
Speaker 1: oh tay you something man that episode and I'm gonna
1:04:29
Speaker 1: let you talk because I want you to break down
1:04:32
Speaker 1: the steps because that had to be one of those
1:04:34
Speaker 1: episodes where you had to go there emotionally and when
1:04:37
Speaker 1: you wrapped up, you couldn't do too many retakes because
1:04:43
Speaker 1: in the basement boxing and your girl coming down the
1:04:46
Speaker 1: steps and you throw out that little cute little Joe
1:04:48
Speaker 1: going up the steps. Nice Teddy, come on now, tell
1:04:54
Speaker 1: us about that episode. Man, let everybody know why they
1:04:57
Speaker 1: should be watching Survivors Remorse. That premier is this Sunday,
1:05:00
Speaker 1: August twenty on stars and yet it also stars mcgirl
1:05:04
Speaker 1: to Sheina Arnold, who will be on the show later
1:05:06
Speaker 1: on today. Um, you know, listen, Savirus Morris is one
1:05:11
Speaker 1: of those shows that it's unlike anything on television right
1:05:14
Speaker 1: now in my opinion, and um, you know, it's we've
1:05:17
Speaker 1: been fortunate enough to to grow and it's kind of
1:05:21
Speaker 1: been a slow boy. When you look at the numbers, man,
1:05:23
Speaker 1: they've really Man, we've really, really really been blessed to
1:05:26
Speaker 1: have the numbers just they all I think they they
1:05:28
Speaker 1: they almost you know, doubled by over from I think
1:05:33
Speaker 1: second to Thursday. So we were continually growing. People are
1:05:36
Speaker 1: finding out about the show, people like you, you know,
1:05:40
Speaker 1: talking us up having the show. It raises awareness of
1:05:43
Speaker 1: the show. I think the episode that you're you're speaking
1:05:46
Speaker 1: to with the season finale last year, and in all honesty, uh,
1:05:50
Speaker 1: they had given me some indication early on of of
1:05:54
Speaker 1: that particular scene, but it was a couple of years ago,
1:05:58
Speaker 1: and so as an actor, you kind of you know
1:06:01
Speaker 1: you're taking it. You go all right, but if it happens,
1:06:02
Speaker 1: it happens. If it doesn't, So when it didn't happen,
1:06:05
Speaker 1: I kind of got away from it and uh and
1:06:07
Speaker 1: and never thought about it. And then two weeks before
1:06:09
Speaker 1: we shot, maybe a week before we were scheduled to
1:06:11
Speaker 1: shoot the Zega, Bruster put me aside and say, hey, man,
1:06:15
Speaker 1: we're putting this scene back in. I was like, WHOA.
1:06:17
Speaker 1: So uh. You know, as a lot of people don't know,
1:06:20
Speaker 1: when you get into the the weekly grind of making
1:06:24
Speaker 1: a television show, you know, it's every week it's a
1:06:26
Speaker 1: new episode, and so it becomes difficult to prepare because
1:06:30
Speaker 1: you're you know, you you're shooting one episode. You gotta
1:06:33
Speaker 1: be thinking about the next episode, but you can't afford
1:06:35
Speaker 1: to not think about the current episode. So it was
1:06:38
Speaker 1: a lot. It was. It was a lot. It was.
1:06:40
Speaker 1: It was quite the challenge. Uh and uh. You know,
1:06:43
Speaker 1: the one thing I did do was I was very
1:06:46
Speaker 1: much uh in the noah as to how they wanted
1:06:50
Speaker 1: to shoot it. And so there were a couple of
1:06:52
Speaker 1: things that I just asked for that I felt would
1:06:54
Speaker 1: help me and just kind of in shooting it, and
1:06:57
Speaker 1: that we didn't We didn't do a whole lot of coverage.
1:07:00
Speaker 1: We just simply kind of we got in there and um,
1:07:03
Speaker 1: we kind of broke it down. I think I did
1:07:05
Speaker 1: it one time, all the way through with this fact
1:07:07
Speaker 1: and we kind of broke it down. They gave me
1:07:09
Speaker 1: a couple of points and I told them, I said,
1:07:12
Speaker 1: looking for some reason, it's not feeling cohesive to break
1:07:14
Speaker 1: it down. We'll just go straight through it. You know,
1:07:17
Speaker 1: it worked out that way. Um, I think to go there.
1:07:19
Speaker 1: People always asked me, I mean, listen, when that episode aired,
1:07:23
Speaker 1: my d m s, whether it's Facebook and grand Twitter,
1:07:26
Speaker 1: were just literal with people that had similar, uh you know,
1:07:29
Speaker 1: similar experience, and I was really surprised by the women
1:07:33
Speaker 1: that were raising children that that we're having similar experiences.
1:07:36
Speaker 1: Solve was getting it not only from young men, older
1:07:38
Speaker 1: men that relate to it. I was also getting it
1:07:40
Speaker 1: from women that were ultimately affected by the absence of
1:07:44
Speaker 1: fathers in their in their son's lives. And so for me,
1:07:47
Speaker 1: growing up in a two pair of household with a
1:07:48
Speaker 1: father that I absolutely adore, it was very, very difficult.
1:07:52
Speaker 1: And so for the first time, I think I actually
1:07:56
Speaker 1: work with a work with an acting coach, and uh,
1:07:59
Speaker 1: and we broke it down over the course of mab Yeah,
1:08:03
Speaker 1: what it was, and more importantly, how I could get
1:08:06
Speaker 1: there and stay there and um and and and be
1:08:09
Speaker 1: present throughout that because again, people see what ultimately equation
1:08:13
Speaker 1: to eight and I maybe ten minutes of on screen,
1:08:15
Speaker 1: but it's probably boils down to about four and a
1:08:17
Speaker 1: half hours of actually feeling. That's a long time, you know,
1:08:21
Speaker 1: to to have to sustain. Uh, and so you have
1:08:23
Speaker 1: to be aware of it. So that day, Uh, you know,
1:08:26
Speaker 1: I just really tried to stay to myself, um, but
1:08:30
Speaker 1: not too much. You know, I didn't want to just
1:08:32
Speaker 1: be isolated. But but yeah, you know, I'm how to
1:08:35
Speaker 1: prayer a lot of just kind of letting go and
1:08:39
Speaker 1: just kind of yielding to what this experience was. You know, Now,
1:08:42
Speaker 1: I am a father, and a lot of what I
1:08:44
Speaker 1: was able to draw upon it. I'm a father. I
1:08:46
Speaker 1: got two boys, and so what I was able to
1:08:49
Speaker 1: really do is kind of substitute. You know, what if
1:08:52
Speaker 1: I wasn't my boy's father, what if my what what
1:08:55
Speaker 1: if my children's father was like the guy that I'm
1:08:58
Speaker 1: sitting across this table looking from and and and and
1:09:01
Speaker 1: you know, digging into and so once we you know,
1:09:04
Speaker 1: we had to go through a couple of things to
1:09:06
Speaker 1: figure out what would kind of ignite that thing in me.
1:09:09
Speaker 1: And and we found out it would be trying to
1:09:11
Speaker 1: imagine my children being raised by an abusive father. Uh
1:09:15
Speaker 1: and and not being there, not being present and uh
1:09:18
Speaker 1: And as soon as we kind of hit that, uh,
1:09:21
Speaker 1: you know, a lot of times, I think when it
1:09:23
Speaker 1: comes down and the kids, you know, we always think
1:09:25
Speaker 1: of women being you know, the mothers being very protective
1:09:29
Speaker 1: emotionally and physically of their child, but actually fathers carry
1:09:33
Speaker 1: that same trade. And we we you know, we want
1:09:35
Speaker 1: to protect our children, we want to you know, love
1:09:38
Speaker 1: our children. And so in the absence of being able
1:09:40
Speaker 1: to do that or imagine my kid's life, you know,
1:09:43
Speaker 1: without that type of protection, and then you add on abuse,
1:09:47
Speaker 1: and you add on all the other things that Reggie
1:09:49
Speaker 1: talked about in that scene, it became very easy to
1:09:52
Speaker 1: go there. Yeah, it was two things that really stood
1:09:54
Speaker 1: out for being the scene we're talking about a scene
1:09:56
Speaker 1: in the series Survivors Remorse where Reggie meets his father,
1:10:01
Speaker 1: uh and his father and it's not a very h
1:10:04
Speaker 1: happy meeting because his father is trying to trying to
1:10:08
Speaker 1: get back in good graces without Hey, hey, I'll recover.
1:10:12
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to reveal any of this scene to anybody,
1:10:14
Speaker 1: but just give you the nuances of what this scene
1:10:16
Speaker 1: is all about. But there were two things in this scene.
1:10:18
Speaker 1: In this scene that made it a brilliant scene to me.
1:10:21
Speaker 1: One was when the waitress kept coming into the scene
1:10:25
Speaker 1: and you said not right now, which is a classic
1:10:27
Speaker 1: scene that I've had when I'm doing business in the restaurant,
1:10:30
Speaker 1: and I went, wow, man, that was brilliant, toy. Have
1:10:33
Speaker 1: this waitress come in here and you didn't break try
1:10:36
Speaker 1: anywhere right now, be with you in a minute, not
1:10:39
Speaker 1: right there, be with you in a minute. Twice she
1:10:40
Speaker 1: came in. And the other great moment in that scene
1:10:43
Speaker 1: which when you was patting your dad on his back,
1:10:48
Speaker 1: dud dude, because the path they kind of kind of
1:10:51
Speaker 1: got a little heavy and then you pulled up. So
1:10:54
Speaker 1: so I like to know when that scene and then
1:10:56
Speaker 1: what did he say about those paths on this back? Uh?
1:11:00
Speaker 1: You know, Marlon Young is a great actor. I've been
1:11:02
Speaker 1: a fan of his work for years and he's very
1:11:05
Speaker 1: much one of those actors. He didn't want me to
1:11:07
Speaker 1: to pull pull pull back, man. He needed to feel
1:11:11
Speaker 1: it you know, he's one of those actors and he
1:11:12
Speaker 1: was certainly there for me emotionally made himself available. But no,
1:11:17
Speaker 1: you know it was it was weird. Even writing to
1:11:19
Speaker 1: the set, you know, he and I had very little interactions.
1:11:23
Speaker 1: Uh you know, we kind of wanted this thing to
1:11:24
Speaker 1: feel like a father and son that hadn't seen each
1:11:26
Speaker 1: other and you know, twenty many years, eighteen twenty years.
1:11:31
Speaker 1: But you know, afterwards it was just um, you know
1:11:35
Speaker 1: it was it was just one of those things, man,
1:11:38
Speaker 1: where two performers get together and they connect and it
1:11:42
Speaker 1: just becomes about the material. But yeah, no, the pat
1:11:45
Speaker 1: wanted him is hard. You know, he's hard. I could
1:11:47
Speaker 1: stand him. That's what he wanted, and that's what I
1:11:49
Speaker 1: gave a brother. That scene was phenomenal. But I was
1:11:52
Speaker 1: just gonna tell you, man, the characters that they developed
1:11:56
Speaker 1: on this show, the Jupiter character, who was the football player,
1:11:59
Speaker 1: that the show character who was as managers slash pimp Flash,
1:12:03
Speaker 1: I don't know what it was. Uh, tell us about
1:12:06
Speaker 1: the upcoming season, man, because I'm seeing the promos and
1:12:09
Speaker 1: you're getting in the fight here, look like you're going
1:12:11
Speaker 1: back into the streets a little bit. Tell us about
1:12:13
Speaker 1: the upcoming season here f Rico, Uh, well, you know, listen,
1:12:17
Speaker 1: we got we got ten episodes to cover a lot,
1:12:20
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of territory. So I think
1:12:22
Speaker 1: we do just that. The show, if you look back
1:12:24
Speaker 1: on the first season to show us continued to evolve, thankfully,
1:12:28
Speaker 1: our audiences continued to embrace us. Hopefully that will continue,
1:12:31
Speaker 1: because that's the best way to ensure we get subsequent
1:12:34
Speaker 1: seasons five, six, hey, who knows, seven and eight. But
1:12:37
Speaker 1: but I think this season will continue to continue to
1:12:40
Speaker 1: see uh, you see less of the family dynamic. And
1:12:43
Speaker 1: I just say that. When I say that, I mean
1:12:45
Speaker 1: you don't see as much of the family together, and
1:12:48
Speaker 1: everybody kind of in their own worlds, dealing with their
1:12:51
Speaker 1: own issues and just trying to kind of hell find
1:12:56
Speaker 1: exactly perfect perfect find themselves. You know. For Reggie, you know,
1:13:00
Speaker 1: the situation with his father is something that we don't
1:13:02
Speaker 1: dwell on that much this season. But what we really
1:13:04
Speaker 1: see with him is she's trying to continue to grow
1:13:07
Speaker 1: that legacy and and and so not actually what he's
1:13:09
Speaker 1: really trying to do this year is focus more so
1:13:12
Speaker 1: on the Vons he and Missy's legacy, uh and and
1:13:16
Speaker 1: the and the the thing that happens this season is,
1:13:19
Speaker 1: you know, what he kind of envisions for his future
1:13:22
Speaker 1: kind of bump heads with what Cam sees and the
1:13:26
Speaker 1: very interesting dynamic between the two of them. Uh. To
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Speaker 1: Sheina Arnold's character, Uh, Cassie goes on a spiritual journey. Uh.
1:13:35
Speaker 1: You know, Cam continues his feeling uh, you know, continues
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Speaker 1: his work to his foundation. He's still growing, and we
1:13:41
Speaker 1: watched him actually take a very prominent role uh kind
1:13:45
Speaker 1: of in what serves as our players union on the show.
1:13:48
Speaker 1: Um Im Chuck continues to dig deep into her past
1:13:52
Speaker 1: and feel uh, and Missy does the Missy still on
1:13:55
Speaker 1: that same trajectory of really trying to make sure that
1:13:59
Speaker 1: when Cam's career end, Reggie's career doesn't end. And so
1:14:04
Speaker 1: you know, collectively, everybody's just kind of on their own
1:14:06
Speaker 1: separate journey. Um. And it's you know, it's been a
1:14:09
Speaker 1: it's been a testament to the writers to kind of
1:14:11
Speaker 1: take a show and kind of deviate from its initial inception.
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Speaker 1: I think when it was first sold, it was sold
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1:14:33
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1:14:39
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1:14:42
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1:14:50
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1:14:53
Speaker 1: a scene later will had you cracking up, laughing, like
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Speaker 1: my wife crying, you know, but it's for a good reason,
1:14:58
Speaker 1: because the characters are relatable. Ron Rico, Man, I thank
1:15:02
Speaker 1: you for calling in on my show. And it's about
1:15:05
Speaker 1: It's about careers, man, it's about the journey. And I
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1:15:10
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1:16:50
Speaker 1: a website. You know, now you got social media. How
1:16:53
Speaker 1: has that changed the game for you? The social media? Well,
1:16:58
Speaker 1: for me, I was to be honest at you, I
1:17:00
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1:17:07
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1:17:08
Speaker 1: me and you together. When the social media first came,
1:17:11
Speaker 1: the young comedians was on it, I was like, Man,
1:17:14
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1:17:27
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1:17:38
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Speaker 1: many followers you got. That's the fault. I want to know.
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1:18:03
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1:18:11
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1:18:13
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1:18:16
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1:18:27
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1:18:31
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1:18:36
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1:18:39
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1:18:42
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Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's, it's, it's it's amazing that you
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Speaker 1: everybody and they can touch it, and you can put
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1:19:17
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1:19:20
Speaker 1: some more on the show today too, and it's the
1:19:22
Speaker 1: same conversation I'm gonna have with her about social media
1:19:24
Speaker 1: because we know it's a beast out there, Like Kevin
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1:19:33
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1:19:35
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1:19:38
Speaker 1: we don't even know that out there there, young comedians.
1:19:42
Speaker 1: They got four or five million followers and I've never
1:19:45
Speaker 1: heard of my life, but they are relevant because they
1:19:48
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1:19:51
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1:20:01
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1:20:04
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1:20:16
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1:20:51
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1:20:53
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1:21:06
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1:21:09
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1:21:14
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1:21:35
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1:22:47
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1:22:50
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Speaker 1: And what we call it is the anchor. You know,
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1:23:06
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1:25:59
Speaker 1: talent in the world, but if your talent ain't with
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1:26:35
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1:26:38
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1:26:41
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1:26:43
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1:28:39
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1:28:42
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1:28:50
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Speaker 1: in with this videotape some more, some more, sit to
1:30:15
Speaker 1: my club to get booked. I wasn't looking at it
1:30:18
Speaker 1: at all. Finally I told her, Okay, I'm gonna just
1:30:21
Speaker 1: book her. I'm just gonna book her if you just
1:30:23
Speaker 1: leave me along, Caroline, I'm a book her. I'm gonna
1:30:26
Speaker 1: tell you something. I booked some more. She blew the headline. Yeah,
1:30:32
Speaker 1: it didn't even mean to do that. I mean, she was.
1:30:37
Speaker 1: My club was in Houston, Floorda from Atlanta, Georgia, flord Flanda.
1:30:41
Speaker 1: She hit that stage and messed everybody up. And that
1:30:44
Speaker 1: was the foundation for you being a star, you know,
1:30:48
Speaker 1: because you just had that natural gift to be great
1:30:52
Speaker 1: and you've just carried it on. So here's the thing
1:30:55
Speaker 1: that people didn't know before I became a stand up comedian.
1:30:58
Speaker 1: I was. I was a business owner, owned my own business.
1:31:01
Speaker 1: I own my own store, and then I used to
1:31:04
Speaker 1: be a a substitute algebra teacher. So days when I
1:31:09
Speaker 1: wasn't working at my store, I would be I would
1:31:11
Speaker 1: be in uh school in the high school's teaching. And
1:31:15
Speaker 1: so before I became a comedian, I actually read a
1:31:18
Speaker 1: book and I still tell people refer people to this
1:31:22
Speaker 1: book today. It's called How to Be a Stand Up Comedian.
1:31:26
Speaker 1: I read the entire book. I did exactly what the
1:31:29
Speaker 1: book said to do. I picked the persona that I
1:31:32
Speaker 1: wanted to go on stage to have um even from
1:31:35
Speaker 1: my name, my name, my real name is Lorie. I
1:31:38
Speaker 1: couldn't go up there and talk to junk that I
1:31:39
Speaker 1: was talking as Lori. So so I'm like, people ain't
1:31:44
Speaker 1: gonna buy that Lori is this superhero. So I picked
1:31:47
Speaker 1: the name and I said, if you give somebody something
1:31:49
Speaker 1: good with what they want, they would want some more. Okay,
1:31:52
Speaker 1: I'm going with some more. And that's and that's how
1:31:55
Speaker 1: it happened. And I did exactly what the book said
1:31:58
Speaker 1: to do. I wrote my material, I stuck to my persona.
1:32:02
Speaker 1: I worked on my delivery and it worked. But it
1:32:05
Speaker 1: was a business I approached it from a business perspective
1:32:08
Speaker 1: because your degrees in mathematics, correct, right, My degree is
1:32:11
Speaker 1: in business administration of minor and mathematics. Okay, because my
1:32:14
Speaker 1: degree is in mathematics. And the reason I bring that
1:32:17
Speaker 1: up because it is a certain analytical behavior that you have.
1:32:20
Speaker 1: You know, too pless too is always four and so
1:32:23
Speaker 1: if you and that means your planner, and that really
1:32:26
Speaker 1: I'm this is the first time I've heard your stories.
1:32:28
Speaker 1: Many times we talked, and it's not we share the stage.
1:32:31
Speaker 1: That explains to me how your pattern of success, how
1:32:34
Speaker 1: you've always been a forward moving person. And I plan
1:32:38
Speaker 1: everything I write. I write notes every night before I
1:32:41
Speaker 1: go to bed my day what I'm gonna do the
1:32:44
Speaker 1: next day. I have to plan. I am. I am
1:32:47
Speaker 1: a planner. I have to. I have to. I believe
1:32:49
Speaker 1: in structure, right, and I really do. And then with that,
1:32:52
Speaker 1: with that, with that structure. So so because you've done
1:32:55
Speaker 1: certain things, I think that's been really important. You know,
1:32:58
Speaker 1: your headline tool and then something towards you. Her host
1:33:02
Speaker 1: is the strategy and the hosting versus the headlining. Here yeah, okay,
1:33:08
Speaker 1: here here's the thing. First of all, I love stand
1:33:11
Speaker 1: Up Stand Up. It stole my heart, like I loved it,
1:33:15
Speaker 1: and I loved it from the time the first time
1:33:18
Speaker 1: I've ever seen Joan Rivers. I swear to you like
1:33:21
Speaker 1: I was just in awe, in awe of the of
1:33:24
Speaker 1: the whole world of stand up. Like I said, I
1:33:26
Speaker 1: studied it and for me, it's about the show, about
1:33:32
Speaker 1: it being a good show. It's never about just me
1:33:35
Speaker 1: as a performer. I want people to say, oh, that
1:33:38
Speaker 1: was a great show. So I always am concerned about
1:33:41
Speaker 1: my positioning on the show. You know one thing that
1:33:46
Speaker 1: people never understood with Deaf Comedy Jam when they would
1:33:49
Speaker 1: see people have bad sets on Death Comedy Jam, and
1:33:53
Speaker 1: they never realized that sometime it was the positioning the
1:33:56
Speaker 1: way people position or what you didn't know is that
1:33:59
Speaker 1: the and stood outside for two hours to get in.
1:34:02
Speaker 1: It was cold, it was raining, They're in a bad
1:34:05
Speaker 1: mood already, you know, would stand up. There's so many
1:34:09
Speaker 1: elements that go into your performance being successful. It really
1:34:14
Speaker 1: it really, it's like you know this, You know that
1:34:17
Speaker 1: that you're right on the money when you're talking about attitude,
1:34:21
Speaker 1: talking about positioning, and about taking advantage of things that
1:34:24
Speaker 1: have presented to you. For instance, here Naty two, I'm
1:34:26
Speaker 1: telling you this, this young lady. You know, I would
1:34:30
Speaker 1: have had to be forced to be on my comedy
1:34:32
Speaker 1: close stage because because I didn't want to take the
1:34:34
Speaker 1: time to put on stage. And guess what, I didn't
1:34:36
Speaker 1: think I had time. I never heard of some more
1:34:39
Speaker 1: like you just told you just made the name up,
1:34:42
Speaker 1: you know, and so she blowed my stage away, and
1:34:45
Speaker 1: then what two years later he was the first female
1:34:47
Speaker 1: host of BTS Comic View Exactly Wow, which was strategic
1:34:53
Speaker 1: in what I wanted to do, Like I really made
1:34:55
Speaker 1: a lot of lot of strategic moves, even down to
1:34:59
Speaker 1: you know, like I still twenty five years in the business.
1:35:02
Speaker 1: I go on stage with a list, a comedy list,
1:35:05
Speaker 1: and people always say, well, why you just don't go
1:35:07
Speaker 1: up in freestyle? I can. I care about the quality
1:35:10
Speaker 1: of the show. I care about the quality of the show,
1:35:14
Speaker 1: like I know the theme of this presentation that I
1:35:17
Speaker 1: am going to give you all some kind of way,
1:35:19
Speaker 1: all of these jokes will mesh with the overall theme
1:35:22
Speaker 1: of the show, Like I'm that deep with it when
1:35:25
Speaker 1: it comes to doing stand up. But that's where a
1:35:28
Speaker 1: lot of people miss is that they don't take the
1:35:30
Speaker 1: business side of life. And my whole, my whole thing
1:35:33
Speaker 1: I tell people when they listen to the show and
1:35:34
Speaker 1: watch the show on Facebook is that your story can
1:35:38
Speaker 1: be applied in so many different layers of life. You
1:35:41
Speaker 1: just happy to tell jokes because you're talking about you know,
1:35:44
Speaker 1: planning your success. You're talking about hey, getting up, you know,
1:35:47
Speaker 1: applying a plan of action and being consistent with your
1:35:51
Speaker 1: goal setting. And that's what this is. I have always
1:35:55
Speaker 1: been that way. I mean just from even you know,
1:35:57
Speaker 1: when you're going to the grocery store with your mother,
1:35:59
Speaker 1: your mother before all leaves, she said, look here, we're
1:36:01
Speaker 1: going in here with this list. I'm not buying you this.
1:36:05
Speaker 1: I'm not buying you that you get two things. You
1:36:07
Speaker 1: know you had, you had a structure, so when you
1:36:09
Speaker 1: get in there, we already know the game plan. Like
1:36:12
Speaker 1: I am just a planning person. I have to have
1:36:15
Speaker 1: structure to know what it actually what what what is
1:36:18
Speaker 1: I'm going into and if it doesn't work for me,
1:36:21
Speaker 1: if it doesn't, if it won't, if I don't like
1:36:23
Speaker 1: to be put in situations where I don't, I'm not
1:36:26
Speaker 1: at my best light. And I tell people, if anything
1:36:30
Speaker 1: you do, you have to approach it as a business
1:36:33
Speaker 1: and you have to know your strengths and your weaknesses
1:36:36
Speaker 1: and always be in your best light. And that's really important.
1:36:40
Speaker 1: So so when I ask you this question about because
1:36:42
Speaker 1: I'm starting to see you more and more, you know
1:36:44
Speaker 1: on social media. You know I'm talking to what the
1:36:46
Speaker 1: Facebook lide feeds. So so why why why why are
1:36:50
Speaker 1: you doing that and just just strate teaching questions because
1:36:53
Speaker 1: I just want to educate. I don't First of all,
1:36:55
Speaker 1: I'm so afraid of social media. If airy to me,
1:37:01
Speaker 1: it's so scary to me. And here's why it's scary
1:37:04
Speaker 1: to me, because you're you're open up and you're you're
1:37:07
Speaker 1: being vulnerable to people who, first of all, may not
1:37:10
Speaker 1: know your whole story. They don't they don't care about
1:37:13
Speaker 1: your whole story, and they can be evil when they
1:37:15
Speaker 1: can be mean. You know, so you when when you
1:37:18
Speaker 1: when you dibble and dabble in that particular arena, you
1:37:21
Speaker 1: gotta you gotta you know, you gotta be careful because
1:37:25
Speaker 1: you could come on there and they'd be like your
1:37:26
Speaker 1: nose big right, right, right right? Because now is that
1:37:31
Speaker 1: the reason you were shades? No? No, I the reason
1:37:35
Speaker 1: I love sunglasses. I want to know, because you know,
1:37:38
Speaker 1: every time you'll be looking at I wear sunglasses, let
1:37:42
Speaker 1: me tell you my outfit is not complete. I start
1:37:46
Speaker 1: with the sunglasses. No, no, no, But I'm just saying
1:37:51
Speaker 1: like people will say anything like like you look, I'm
1:37:55
Speaker 1: just not I'm just not cut from that cloth. Where
1:37:57
Speaker 1: I'm just to having to, you know, deal with people
1:38:02
Speaker 1: randomly people's opinion all the time. So yeah, and I
1:38:06
Speaker 1: can understand. I can relate to that because that's a
1:38:08
Speaker 1: big part of social media, having to deal with opinions,
1:38:10
Speaker 1: having to deal with people making comments about you. But
1:38:13
Speaker 1: they tell you that that's the that's the forward motion
1:38:15
Speaker 1: because if you don't participate, then you're not considered topical,
1:38:18
Speaker 1: you're not consider the influencers. So if it forces you
1:38:22
Speaker 1: in that lane, that that guess what determines whether or
1:38:25
Speaker 1: not you're successful in certain opportunities did they come your way?
1:38:28
Speaker 1: So here's here's the thing. Also, like I don't worry
1:38:32
Speaker 1: about being relevant because most people that are relevant have
1:38:37
Speaker 1: a sex tape out. True, in order to be relevant,
1:38:43
Speaker 1: you just got to do so many things to be relevant.
1:38:46
Speaker 1: But what I work on and I do challenge people
1:38:48
Speaker 1: to do, is to be loyal to my brand or
1:38:51
Speaker 1: to be if you if you're interested in equality stand up,
1:38:55
Speaker 1: then this is where you can come to get it.
1:38:58
Speaker 1: But what what happened, what we're happened, what's happening now
1:39:01
Speaker 1: is that I think the art of stand up is
1:39:04
Speaker 1: being convoluted with so many different different styles and different.
1:39:08
Speaker 1: You know, we're dealing with silly a lot too, absolutely,
1:39:11
Speaker 1: and they give followers to get engagement. You know, it's
1:39:15
Speaker 1: one thing for somebody to be silly sitting in a car,
1:39:18
Speaker 1: or silly for two minute two seconds you're seeing them
1:39:21
Speaker 1: on Facebook, than to be silly to be honest doing
1:39:25
Speaker 1: stand up on stage. Thank you so more for calling in.
1:39:28
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1:39:31
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