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Full Episode: Judge Rhonda Wills, Host of Relative Justice reality court show & Emmy-winning TV Personality Rocsi Diaz · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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Speaker 1: court show. Relative Justice with Judge runder Wills is a
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Speaker 1: for the very first time, but not the last time,
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Speaker 1: Judge Runda Wills, how you doing? Hi there soon? How
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Speaker 1: are you? It's great to be with you. Thank you.
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Speaker 1: I hope I got enough information about you out there,
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Speaker 1: you know, because you you perked up a little bit
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Speaker 1: when I was talking about you. So I'm assuming a
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Speaker 1: these interviews. Well, you know, a lot of people do,
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Speaker 1: but there are always a lot of other things I
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Speaker 1: want people to know about me. But I think you
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Speaker 1: cover most of this good because you know, when when
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Speaker 1: to just feel that way and they forget the fact
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Speaker 1: that there's a journey for anybody no matter how they look.
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Speaker 1: So tell us how I know your Texas girl, because
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Speaker 1: I'm a Texas boy, okay, and I know you live
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Speaker 1: in Houston. I'm from Houston, so we're already hitting it
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Speaker 1: off of you over there by the Tyler Rose Country
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Speaker 1: in East Texas. That's where he was born and raised.
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Speaker 1: Cabral Country. She's an cabol country, but she's raising herself
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Speaker 1: and a family and and delivering the level of success
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Speaker 1: in Houston, Texas. Let's talk about how you got started
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Speaker 1: in the law business and what attracted you to that,
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Speaker 1: of the country. But you come from a small, very
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Speaker 1: stop you from going to a big school like the
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Speaker 1: University of Texas. Talk about your journey in early years,
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Speaker 1: Judge Wills. So, first of all, ri Sean, thank you
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Speaker 1: so much for having me on your podcast. This is amazing.
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Speaker 1: I've been watching your podcast. You're doing great things, and
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Speaker 1: so I'm excited to be here. Uh. My story is
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Speaker 1: one of very humble beginnings. I'm from this little bitty
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Speaker 1: town called Oneona. Uh. It's in East Texas, right outside
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Speaker 1: of Tyler. I'm one of five children. I was raised
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Speaker 1: by a single mother and my grandmother. Uh, and was
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Speaker 1: was just raised in a you know, a really really
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Speaker 1: frankly poor family. And I always knew that there was
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Speaker 1: a lot of injustice in the world, and I always
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Speaker 1: wanted to be someone who could right those wrongs and
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Speaker 1: help people. And I was just very fortunate that I
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Speaker 1: went to the University of Texas undergrad on a full scholarship.
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Speaker 1: I got an international business degree, and then I went
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Speaker 1: on to the University of Texas and got a law
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Speaker 1: degree again on a full scholarship, and started my law practice.
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Speaker 1: And I started out working for a really, really really
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Speaker 1: big law firm, and that wasn't what I wanted to do.
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Speaker 1: My passion was with helping people, um, and that's what
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Speaker 1: I wanted to do, was to help people. Uh So
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Speaker 1: I started my own law firm, and I have focused
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Speaker 1: my law practice for the last two decades on helping people,
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Speaker 1: just everyday Americans, to fight corporate giants, because in many
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Speaker 1: of the cases that I take, if I didn't speak
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Speaker 1: for them, if I was not their voice, they wouldn't
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Speaker 1: have a voice. And when really bad things happened to
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Speaker 1: people be being sexually assaulted or sexually harassed in the workplace,
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Speaker 1: being discriminated against on the basis of your race, your ender,
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Speaker 1: your sexual orientation, um, any of those things, surviving a
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Speaker 1: catastrophic personal injury without someone to come in and help
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Speaker 1: you to get economic justice, a lot of people would
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Speaker 1: have no justice and would have no way to start
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Speaker 1: and try and rebuild their life after going through something
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Speaker 1: extremely tragic. So I always knew that I wanted to
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Speaker 1: be a person who would go out there and fight
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Speaker 1: for the voiceless and fight for people that really, really
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Speaker 1: really wouldn't have a voice unless I stood up. Now,
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Speaker 1: judge under wills, here, I'm asking a simple question may
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Speaker 1: not be, But to me, what makes a good lawyer.
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Speaker 1: I think that what makes a good lawyer as someone
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Speaker 1: first of all, who studies the law, UM, who knows
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Speaker 1: the law, and somebody who's willing to go out and
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Speaker 1: fight and be fearless in the face of whoever they're
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Speaker 1: up against. UM. I'm fortunate in that I'm licensed in Texas, California,
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Speaker 1: and York, which just means I took a lot of
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Speaker 1: our exams, a lot of studying. But I've practiced all
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Speaker 1: over this country. I represent people all over the country. UM.
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Speaker 1: And one thing that I found is oftentimes I can
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Speaker 1: walk in to a courtroom and there's nobody there that
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Speaker 1: looks like me. But that doesn't matter to me. Doesn't
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Speaker 1: matter if I'm the only woman in the courtroom. It
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Speaker 1: doesn't matter if I'm the only black person in the courtroom.
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Speaker 1: Doesn't matter if I'm the only black woman in the courtroom,
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Speaker 1: because at the end of the day, I'm going to
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Speaker 1: bring it. As my grandmother always told me, you will
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Speaker 1: come up against people who have more money than you do,
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Speaker 1: who maybe went to better schools and you went to.
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Speaker 1: But one thing about it is no one will ever
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Speaker 1: outwork me. So I've always made that my mantra. You
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Speaker 1: will never outwork me. So no matter what it takes,
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Speaker 1: I put in the work. And that's what I try
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Speaker 1: to encourage, especially young women to do, to know that
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Speaker 1: you can do anything. Don't let anybody tell you what
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Speaker 1: you can or can't do. You can do anything. You
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Speaker 1: just have to put in the work. And I ask
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Speaker 1: you this because, you know, because it's funny watching you,
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Speaker 1: because it's a good funny, because you got passionate and
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Speaker 1: and that's what's missing on television right now. But boy,
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Speaker 1: So I was just put that in perspective. She went
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Speaker 1: can be respectful for ut and what they delivered down
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Speaker 1: in Austin, Texas. Now, when you as an individual who
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Speaker 1: Well were sponsored news shows, the local news. That's why
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Speaker 1: I asked that question, what makes a good lawyer? Because
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Speaker 1: nowadays everyday people are just hit with so much information
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Speaker 1: How do they how do they cut through that to
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Speaker 1: make the right decision to work with the lawyer that's
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Speaker 1: gonna benefit them. I guess that's the question I should
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Speaker 1: have asked you initially because of the fact that advertisement
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Speaker 1: for law firms and lawyers is so dominant in the
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Speaker 1: media today. Well, first and foremost, if they need a
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Speaker 1: good lawyer called my law firm, Will's law firm, PLLC,
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Speaker 1: so call me first. There are a lot of great
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Speaker 1: law firms out there. I think the most important thing
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Speaker 1: that people need to do is to educate themselves and
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Speaker 1: to make sure that you're hiring someone as a lawyer
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Speaker 1: who's going to represent you and be passionate about representing you.
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Speaker 1: I never ever stopped fighting for my clients no matter what. UM.
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Speaker 1: I have gone up against some of the biggest corporate giants.
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Speaker 1: I'm One of my biggest cases was I got a
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Speaker 1: twenty million dollar settlement against Wells Fargo in a class
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Speaker 1: action case. I've represent a lot of people. I've had
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Speaker 1: a lot of class action cases where, for example, a
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Speaker 1: group of African Americans that were being paid less than
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Speaker 1: their white counterparts. UM I I have, you know, represented
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Speaker 1: people that weren't paid all their wages. So for a
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Speaker 1: lot of people, they just don't get it. You know,
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Speaker 1: they think, Okay, well, you only got paid for forty
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Speaker 1: hours instead of fifty hours you work fifty hours. Well,
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Speaker 1: I was raised by a single mother. Sometimes my mother
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Speaker 1: had to work two and three jobs in order to
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Speaker 1: take care of us. So I know what it means
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Speaker 1: when somebody doesn't get paid when they work fifty hours
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Speaker 1: as opposed to forty hours, and those ten hours that
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Speaker 1: they didn't get paid for that can mean the difference
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Speaker 1: between food on the table or food not being on
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Speaker 1: the table. So, because of my humble background, I know
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Speaker 1: what it means for everyday people to struggle to fight.
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Speaker 1: And when I see these big corporations that put profits
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Speaker 1: over people, that makes me angry and that makes me fight.
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Speaker 1: I've had to fight cases all the way to the U. S.
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Speaker 1: Supreme Court. I'm licensed before the U. S. Supreme Court,
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Speaker 1: so I will fight no matter how long, how hard
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Speaker 1: it requires, I will fight. In that case that I
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Speaker 1: had before the U. S. Supreme Court, I want a
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Speaker 1: five point two million dollar judgment for my client who
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Speaker 1: had his throat slashed at work by a co worker.
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Speaker 1: I want a five point two million dollar verdict against
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Speaker 1: So yes, why did you because you see say you
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Speaker 1: have a great family of great mom, Why are you
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Speaker 1: in the Why are you getting in the TV business
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Speaker 1: like this with this show, which is a wonderful show,
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Speaker 1: by the way, Thank you. So first of all, before
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Speaker 1: I did Relative Justice, I had another show on WE
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Speaker 1: TV called Sisters in Law, and it was a reality
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Speaker 1: based TV show basically Houston followed my legal career, and
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Speaker 1: so that kind of got me into thinking about TV
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Speaker 1: is something that I might want to do. Before that,
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Speaker 1: I never even thought about it. When this opportunity came along,
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Speaker 1: it seemed perfect for me because I'm from a huge family.
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Speaker 1: I have four kids of my own. I'm one of
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Speaker 1: five kids. My grandmother had ten kids, and I've got
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Speaker 1: more than fifty first cousins, So I'm a huge family.
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Speaker 1: So what makes this show my show Relative Justice with
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Speaker 1: Judge Ronda Wills, What makes it different from the other
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Speaker 1: court TV shows is that we focus only on disputes
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Speaker 1: between family members. So everyone that comes on my show,
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Speaker 1: every litigant that you see, they're related by blood or
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Speaker 1: marriage for children. So that's what made this fascinating for
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Speaker 1: me because it's different from every other court TV show. Right, Well,
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Speaker 1: you know what you need to buy out? You know? Uh?
18:47
Speaker 1: And family Girl that can be ugly. Now. Yeah, I'm
18:54
Speaker 1: just thinking that because you know, because you sit up
18:55
Speaker 1: there making me funny about Ronny. You know what you
18:58
Speaker 1: talk about a big family. I come from six sister,
19:00
Speaker 1: two brothers, So I'm about to kill that little big
19:02
Speaker 1: family theory that you feature out there. You know, I
19:05
Speaker 1: was I was number five. You just only had five. Okay,
19:08
Speaker 1: you're running around, so we're just gonna kill that little
19:11
Speaker 1: big family when you're talking to me. And my aunt
19:14
Speaker 1: had sixteen kids, so we don't kick out of theory. Okay.
19:17
Speaker 1: So so but that's my fun part of just talking
19:20
Speaker 1: to you. But when you get into these what made you? Okay,
19:25
Speaker 1: first of all, it's to take in l a. Where's
19:27
Speaker 1: it take that show? The show has taken in Lexington, Kentucky, Okay,
19:31
Speaker 1: which for me was great because I'm a small town
19:33
Speaker 1: girl and I'm a Southern girl, so it was like
19:36
Speaker 1: going home for me to be filming in Lexington. Oh,
19:38
Speaker 1: it's beautiful because they do have their white picket fash
19:41
Speaker 1: you go around and drive those Kentucky Hart Ranges. Just
19:44
Speaker 1: beautiful Kentucky. So I've been up there. Now, now when
19:47
Speaker 1: you're putting the show together, like so you have to
19:49
Speaker 1: stand on reality TV. And I always tell people when
19:52
Speaker 1: I interview people who do reality TV, why you know,
19:55
Speaker 1: why would you do reality TV? And then you told
19:58
Speaker 1: us an opportunity to come and do your own show,
20:00
Speaker 1: Relative Justice with Judge Rhanda Wills, and you're taking it
20:03
Speaker 1: anything in Kentucky, but you live in Houston, and then
20:06
Speaker 1: you have you still have a successful law firm. Why
20:08
Speaker 1: I have to ask the question why. And that's a
20:10
Speaker 1: that's a positive why. It's not a negative white when
20:12
Speaker 1: I say that, because some people will tell you, isn't
20:15
Speaker 1: nothing enough? Don't you have? You? You got it going on?
20:18
Speaker 1: You look good, you got money, you got kids, you
20:20
Speaker 1: got you. When you're gonna stop, Rhonda, what's your what's
20:23
Speaker 1: your problem? Girl? Well, I will tell you that. I
20:27
Speaker 1: feel like a full life is a blessing. And every
20:30
Speaker 1: blessing that God brings to me, I embrace it with
20:33
Speaker 1: open arms and I run with it. So when this
20:37
Speaker 1: opportunity was brought to me to do this show again,
20:40
Speaker 1: this was a unique concept. There's no other core TV
20:43
Speaker 1: show out there like this one because we only focus
20:47
Speaker 1: on families. Now, when they come into my courtroom, it's
20:51
Speaker 1: a money dispute, and I resolved the money dispute. But
20:55
Speaker 1: above and beyond that money dispute, because these are families
20:58
Speaker 1: that you're dealing with, I try to bring the families
21:01
Speaker 1: back together again. There are some cases in my courtroom
21:04
Speaker 1: where sisters get into a dispute about money and they
21:07
Speaker 1: haven't spoken for years, and they come into my courtroom.
21:11
Speaker 1: I have to resolve this money issue and then try
21:14
Speaker 1: to get them back to being sisters again. I had
21:17
Speaker 1: one case where a mother had a mother was there
21:22
Speaker 1: against her son and daughter in law. She had taken
21:25
Speaker 1: out a restraining order against her daughter in law, so
21:28
Speaker 1: they had signed waivers just to be in the courtroom
21:30
Speaker 1: because she had a restraining order against her daughter in law.
21:33
Speaker 1: That's how broken down this family was. At the end
21:37
Speaker 1: of this episode, at the end of my resolution of
21:40
Speaker 1: this case, the mother, the daughter in law, and the
21:43
Speaker 1: son are all crying and hugging and are have committed
21:47
Speaker 1: to building their relationship again and being a family again.
21:51
Speaker 1: So it's things like that that made me feel like
21:54
Speaker 1: I'm really really making a difference. I got into the
21:57
Speaker 1: practice of law to make a difference, and I'm doing
22:00
Speaker 1: this TV show to make a difference. And the other
22:03
Speaker 1: thing with Seawan that you're gonna see about my show
22:05
Speaker 1: Relative Justice. That's different from other shows. So oftentimes a
22:09
Speaker 1: lot of these family dramas, a lot of it. Uh,
22:14
Speaker 1: it's not just something that people can work through on
22:16
Speaker 1: their own. And I refer people for counseling and therapy
22:20
Speaker 1: where appropriate, either family counseling, individual countling. Sometimes it's drug counseling,
22:26
Speaker 1: sometimes it's trauma therapy. But I we also had a
22:29
Speaker 1: therapist on staff who was there, and I would refer
22:33
Speaker 1: some of the families to sit down and meet with
22:35
Speaker 1: the therapist because there's so much stigma attached to getting
22:38
Speaker 1: therapy and getting counseling, and oftentimes, especially with families, there's
22:43
Speaker 1: a money dispute here, but that's just the surface, and
22:46
Speaker 1: when you scratch underneath the surface, there's something much deeper
22:51
Speaker 1: and much more dramatic going on, and sometimes you need
22:54
Speaker 1: the help of a therapist, a family therapist in particular,
22:58
Speaker 1: to help you as a family work through it. Well,
23:01
Speaker 1: you know what I'm talking about. I'm talking to Judge
23:02
Speaker 1: rand Since it has a new show, Uh, there's gonna
23:05
Speaker 1: be eight percent of the country again, congratulations, that's a
23:08
Speaker 1: high number for a new show. A lot of people
23:10
Speaker 1: understand in syndication, which which is a very competitive market,
23:14
Speaker 1: and you know you're pre presiding over the show through
23:16
Speaker 1: they say, your show compassion and tough love resolved literans
23:20
Speaker 1: legal disputes, but to work towards, like you said, bringing
23:23
Speaker 1: families back together in the process. We all know that
23:27
Speaker 1: that that that's the end goal. But have I know
23:29
Speaker 1: you're early in your judge career in this TV format,
23:33
Speaker 1: has anything shocked you? Yet you go, I can't believe
23:36
Speaker 1: they just couldn't understand like you just talked about like
23:39
Speaker 1: you just talked about the restraining order and for the
23:42
Speaker 1: daughter in law, and it's just so many things that
23:45
Speaker 1: are going on out there's anything really went Wow, that's crazy,
23:50
Speaker 1: so like every day something. But I tell you the
23:55
Speaker 1: amazing thing about relative justice, people who want to tune
23:59
Speaker 1: in every day because every day is different. Are some
24:02
Speaker 1: days where with some cases, I'm laughing so hard that
24:05
Speaker 1: i can barely get my ruling out because I'm laughing,
24:08
Speaker 1: I'm falling, I'm about to fall from the bench because
24:11
Speaker 1: I'm laughing hard. And there are other cases where it's
24:14
Speaker 1: just so sad, I'm crying. I'm almost crying. Everybody in
24:18
Speaker 1: the audience is crying, the litigans are crying. And then
24:20
Speaker 1: there are other cases where people do something that's so wrong,
24:25
Speaker 1: so toxic, so terrible that I have to tell them.
24:28
Speaker 1: I have to tell them you're wrong and you need
24:30
Speaker 1: to change and you need to do better, and I
24:32
Speaker 1: have to actually go in on them. So every single
24:36
Speaker 1: day is different. We have experts that come in, we
24:39
Speaker 1: have demonstrations. Okay, so one we have we have a
24:47
Speaker 1: pole dancer. One of the litigants is a pull dancer.
24:51
Speaker 1: And you don't want to miss the episode with the dancer,
24:54
Speaker 1: Like my mouth was, Paul, dancer is out there. You
24:59
Speaker 1: don't what's well, You'll gonna just tell you, you know,
25:02
Speaker 1: just watching your energy, You're amazing. I'm gonna compliment you
25:06
Speaker 1: on that. And I'm just happy you decided to just
25:08
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25:11
Speaker 1: sometimes we can get stiff and just trying to deliver information.
25:14
Speaker 1: And hopefully my story and my interview and this and
25:17
Speaker 1: the way I was just walking you through the process
25:18
Speaker 1: gave you a confidence zone. You are funny, you are,
25:22
Speaker 1: you are smart, you are I'm going to watch the
25:25
Speaker 1: show and I want to bring you back on in
25:27
Speaker 1: the spring when we talk about you in a hundred
25:29
Speaker 1: percent of the country. But again, I just want to
25:31
Speaker 1: say congratulations on this show. And I'm tell your team
25:34
Speaker 1: and I got almost a million followers on social media,
25:37
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25:39
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25:42
Speaker 1: I'm a Texas ball. I gotta support you no matter what. Girl. Okay,
25:45
Speaker 1: thank you, Thank you so much, and good luck with
25:48
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25:54
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Speaker 1: has interviewed everyone from Lady Gaga to former President Barack Obama.
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Speaker 1: has always been known for setting the tone for what's
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Speaker 1: happening in music and movies and entertainment. She's always on
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Speaker 1: gonna talk about that again and host the new Fox
29:09
Speaker 1: series Alter Ego. You've seen it's it's been heavily promoted
29:13
Speaker 1: on TV all the time. Well, behind all that, who's
29:16
Speaker 1: gonna be the show runner? As they said, it's gonna
29:18
Speaker 1: be directing the people on stage and talking to the judges.
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Speaker 1: It's gonna be her, which is really a blessing because
29:23
Speaker 1: I've known it for a long time. If you don't
29:25
Speaker 1: know anything about Alter Ego, let me explain to you
29:27
Speaker 1: what it is. Alter Ego is an all new, original
29:30
Speaker 1: singing competition show whereas they say, lost dreams and second
29:34
Speaker 1: chances are reignited when singers from all walks of life
29:37
Speaker 1: become the stars. They've always wanted to be. However, these
29:41
Speaker 1: contestants won't perform as themselves. That's the that's the beautiful catchup.
29:46
Speaker 1: This is its animation. Rather, they are given they'll be
29:49
Speaker 1: giving a chance to show how they would be seen
29:52
Speaker 1: creating their own dream avatar alter ego is to reinvent
29:57
Speaker 1: themselves and performed like they never before. Please welcome to
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Speaker 1: money making conversation the host and long time frame, a
30:03
Speaker 1: long time mentor her. We've done it all radio, We've
30:06
Speaker 1: done TV, We've done show a war shows together. I'm
30:10
Speaker 1: even crying with this young lady. Please working the money
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Speaker 1: main conversation, Roxy d is how are you doing? Roxy?
30:16
Speaker 1: It's so good to see you when you're fantastic. It
30:20
Speaker 1: really has been a long career for us. I was just,
30:22
Speaker 1: you know, I was, you know, rock, I was sitting
30:23
Speaker 1: up to just think about me, and I was saying,
30:25
Speaker 1: you know, youth is really scary and anything you do
30:29
Speaker 1: because when you have success early, you know, you still
30:32
Speaker 1: gotta get you the thirties, she gotta get you the
30:34
Speaker 1: farties in the fifties. And you know, I've gotten passed
30:37
Speaker 1: my thirties, farties and fifties. That's the journey you still
30:39
Speaker 1: have to make but still you can have so much
30:42
Speaker 1: success early and you're still having success now in your mind.
30:46
Speaker 1: How does that work when people think about because your
30:49
Speaker 1: success is in the public's eye. Yeah, it's scary. It's
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Speaker 1: it's scary, like you said, you know, to be completely
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Speaker 1: honest and and and forthcoming. Uh, I started wondering when
31:03
Speaker 1: was I washed up? I was like, I've done so
31:05
Speaker 1: much already, what else is there left for me to
31:08
Speaker 1: do on a TV? Uh? And it was It was
31:11
Speaker 1: a very scary moment. It was a very scary moment
31:13
Speaker 1: cause I was like, I'm trying everything that I can
31:16
Speaker 1: possibly think of to re event myself to stay relevant.
31:22
Speaker 1: And this opportunity, thank god, came and opened the door
31:25
Speaker 1: and now I manifested this. Uh. I had it on
31:28
Speaker 1: my vision board to host a huge competition show like
31:31
Speaker 1: like Alter Ego UM. And I'm so grateful to the
31:35
Speaker 1: people at Fox and the producers who did not go
31:39
Speaker 1: the traditional route for a post and chose this little
31:43
Speaker 1: brown girl to all her dream and and host this
31:48
Speaker 1: humongous opportunity UM show. And not only that, to come
31:53
Speaker 1: off of behind Nick Cannon, who's you know, the mass
31:57
Speaker 1: singer and and another huge show and another huge opportunity
32:00
Speaker 1: that Fox gave you know, somebody that wasn't traditional as
32:05
Speaker 1: the host. So I really, I really think them and
32:07
Speaker 1: I applaud them for for opening the door and giving
32:11
Speaker 1: me this opportunity. Robert, I bring it up because, like
32:13
Speaker 1: I said, uh, it really is interesting when we look
32:16
Speaker 1: at our lives, look at your lives. You know, last
32:18
Speaker 1: time we saw each other physical I think was in
32:20
Speaker 1: the Disney Dreamers. Yeah, there had to be like in twyfteen,
32:26
Speaker 1: last time I saw you, and you're looking fantastic like
32:28
Speaker 1: you're looking now. But again it's a journey. It's a
32:31
Speaker 1: journey when we look at when you, like said, you're
32:34
Speaker 1: a bank teller. You can go to work eight to five.
32:36
Speaker 1: If your company is doing well, you know, you can
32:38
Speaker 1: probably have a life, maybe even a pension, maybe maybe
32:42
Speaker 1: even health benefits, and you can raise and live your life.
32:46
Speaker 1: But when you're an entertainment when you're in it, entrepreneur,
32:49
Speaker 1: that's what she is. She's an entrepreneur. She's self employed.
32:52
Speaker 1: She had to go out there and she has people
32:54
Speaker 1: who represented her. She has PR people, she has social
32:56
Speaker 1: media people, she has management, she had agencies. How does
33:00
Speaker 1: one put that in perspective roxy when you're talking about
33:04
Speaker 1: your career, because it's your career and a lot of
33:06
Speaker 1: people have to have a lot of ideas of where
33:08
Speaker 1: they want to push it, how do you do you
33:10
Speaker 1: push back? Or you said this is the direction I
33:12
Speaker 1: want to go, or if you take people advice it
33:14
Speaker 1: doesn't go that way, or you're disappointed it yourself, or
33:17
Speaker 1: you say, hey, that's the way it just goes. You know,
33:20
Speaker 1: I think I think you just said the key thing.
33:22
Speaker 1: It's your career. So yeah, you can have a whole team,
33:25
Speaker 1: but if you're not working with that team or for
33:28
Speaker 1: that team, because they work for you, but you have
33:30
Speaker 1: to work for them also. You have to come up
33:33
Speaker 1: with ideas and creatives and when they make a meeting
33:36
Speaker 1: and and set something up, you have to deliver and
33:40
Speaker 1: show up in that room. It's it's part of your
33:42
Speaker 1: job too. Um yeah, I have an agent, I have
33:45
Speaker 1: an attorney, and I have all of that stuff. But
33:48
Speaker 1: if I don't make money for them, then why would
33:50
Speaker 1: they keep me as a client? You know? And vice versa.
33:53
Speaker 1: So it's something very important to consider and think about
33:56
Speaker 1: when you're going into this career and just as an entrepreneur,
33:59
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, it's like you're constantly creating,
34:02
Speaker 1: You're constantly reinventing and thinking, and they're just a branch
34:07
Speaker 1: to your trunk, because you're the trunk of the tree.
34:10
Speaker 1: But there are a branch of you. Um but you
34:12
Speaker 1: still have to stay strong and continue striving and surviving
34:16
Speaker 1: in this in this world. So um so, yeah, it's
34:21
Speaker 1: it could be challenging, but I'm an amazing team and
34:23
Speaker 1: we worked together. We come up with ideas you know,
34:27
Speaker 1: I create, they make it bigger for me, bigger than
34:30
Speaker 1: I would ever imagine. And and so it's a great
34:33
Speaker 1: synergy that I have with my team. We're on Fox
34:36
Speaker 1: Alter ego is big. It's big. It's huge, okay because
34:41
Speaker 1: it comes with the imagination too, because I like said,
34:44
Speaker 1: you know, short hasn't premiered yet. I'm just talking to
34:47
Speaker 1: my listeners who in this world out there, my viewers
34:49
Speaker 1: and all this in the world because I'm on syndicated radio,
34:52
Speaker 1: I'm on podcasts, I'm on video and YouTube, so it's
34:55
Speaker 1: so many different lanes I'm talking to. But how much
34:58
Speaker 1: it can you reveal as the because we're seeing people
35:02
Speaker 1: because I'm hearing I just read what the show is
35:03
Speaker 1: about and so do you what do you see on stage?
35:07
Speaker 1: Because we're gonna see the avatar performing what do you
35:09
Speaker 1: see on stage? And then we're gonna talk about the judges.
35:12
Speaker 1: You know what's awesome is that what I see and
35:15
Speaker 1: what I know everybody else at home gets to see
35:18
Speaker 1: and no, so you get to know the true people
35:21
Speaker 1: and you get to learn the true stories behind the avatars,
35:25
Speaker 1: the people that are controlling the avatars um or alter
35:28
Speaker 1: egos I like to say our alter egos um. You
35:31
Speaker 1: really get invested into the story. Are judges Will I Am,
35:35
Speaker 1: nick La, Shay Atlantis, Morrisette and Grimes. They have no
35:38
Speaker 1: clue whatsoever who these people are, so they're discovering each
35:42
Speaker 1: and every week as the show progresses and goes on.
35:45
Speaker 1: And neither of those our live studio audience as well,
35:48
Speaker 1: they have no clue either. So it's it's a fun,
35:52
Speaker 1: fun reveal when they do happen. Um. But you know,
35:56
Speaker 1: it's all about second chances and and new opportunity for people.
36:00
Speaker 1: Everybody's like, well, what's different from this singing competition show
36:03
Speaker 1: than singing competition shows? The story? You know, you have
36:07
Speaker 1: people uh like, let's just say Jennifer Hudson didn't fit
36:13
Speaker 1: the American idol mold. Remember she didn't win because they
36:17
Speaker 1: told her she didn't have a full package. Why did
36:19
Speaker 1: she have a full package? You know? We have contestants
36:23
Speaker 1: that have been told their entire life, some way, somehow
36:26
Speaker 1: that they weren't the full package. So we're judging people
36:30
Speaker 1: completely on their talent and their voice, and that's what matters.
36:36
Speaker 1: The alter ego and and a lot of senses has
36:39
Speaker 1: been liberating for a lot of our contestants as well,
36:41
Speaker 1: because they may have a mental disability or a physical
36:45
Speaker 1: disability that really prohibits them from being on stage. So
36:50
Speaker 1: with this modernty i G technology, they're able to fulfill
36:54
Speaker 1: their lifelong dream of being a musician or being a
36:58
Speaker 1: singer and getting on that stage age through these alter egos.
37:02
Speaker 1: It's quite liberating to not be judged through a disability
37:06
Speaker 1: or or a gender and be binary or and just
37:10
Speaker 1: be free, you know. Um. So that's what I love
37:12
Speaker 1: about the show, and that's what the show, that's what
37:15
Speaker 1: makes us different than this show. And we're literally stepping
37:17
Speaker 1: into a new wave of how music is going to
37:19
Speaker 1: be done and how music, how music artists are going
37:22
Speaker 1: to be you know, portrayed as well. This is this
37:25
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37:29
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37:31
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37:33
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37:36
Speaker 1: I never thought about that. That's not being promoted in
37:39
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37:41
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37:45
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37:48
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37:51
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37:54
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37:58
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38:00
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38:03
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38:06
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38:09
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38:12
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38:15
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38:17
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38:21
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38:24
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38:28
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38:31
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38:34
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38:37
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38:41
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38:43
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38:49
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38:52
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38:57
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39:02
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39:06
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41:32
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41:36
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41:39
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41:42
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41:45
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41:51
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41:54
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41:57
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42:00
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42:03
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42:07
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42:09
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42:12
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42:14
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42:16
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42:19
Speaker 1: but it also means that there are other opportunities you
42:21
Speaker 1: have to be seeking to keep that emotional high. So
42:24
Speaker 1: you're premiering on the twenty second and two separate episodes
42:28
Speaker 1: back to back. Episode they take twelve of them talk
42:31
Speaker 1: about this roller coaster ride leading up to you because
42:33
Speaker 1: you're doing a lot of media, You're looking fantastic and
42:35
Speaker 1: you're the one right now, you're the host. It's it's
42:38
Speaker 1: been again. It's been a dream come true. Uh. It
42:41
Speaker 1: literally was my vision board and it was my manifestation
42:45
Speaker 1: and like dreamt of this show and I've dreamt of
42:48
Speaker 1: this day. So I'm super excited for everybody to check
42:52
Speaker 1: out Alter egoal Fox. Uh, it's just next level and fun.
42:57
Speaker 1: Like I love every opportunity that I've had my career
43:01
Speaker 1: to be fun. Um and this is by far the
43:04
Speaker 1: most very long time. So um. Yeah, I don't know
43:09
Speaker 1: what else to say about it because it's it's I
43:11
Speaker 1: do I do because we kind of glossed over these
43:14
Speaker 1: judges and you mentioned them, and I think I need
43:16
Speaker 1: to go back and take Nick to Shade Grabs, where
43:18
Speaker 1: I am alone is more set these Uh. You know, really,
43:23
Speaker 1: we've just seen this industry where and I'm not saying
43:25
Speaker 1: anything negative, where these people are touring professionals. These people
43:29
Speaker 1: are successful in their fields and now they're on the
43:31
Speaker 1: show like this together one time. How did you create
43:34
Speaker 1: your relationships and how do you communicate with them? Because,
43:38
Speaker 1: like you said, they're looking at animation as we're looking
43:41
Speaker 1: at animation, and then they have to react to that.
43:45
Speaker 1: Where do they put their judgment hats on? I guess
43:48
Speaker 1: I should say, or can you reveal that everybody was
43:51
Speaker 1: then everybody was authentically themselves I'll say that, and and
43:55
Speaker 1: there was a mutual level of respect across the board,
44:00
Speaker 1: know there. I'll say this Fox had the best of
44:03
Speaker 1: the best when it came to this from from producers
44:07
Speaker 1: to music director Adam black Stone. Who if you don't
44:11
Speaker 1: know who Adam black Stone is, you just think of
44:14
Speaker 1: you know, uh, Quest, Love Times Hud Okay. He's like
44:18
Speaker 1: up there with Quests and Um, Will I Am and Grimes.
44:22
Speaker 1: They live in this futuristic technology world. You know, this
44:27
Speaker 1: is there house, this is their forefront whealehouse. Like sometimes
44:31
Speaker 1: I didn't think I was intellectually capable of having conversations
44:35
Speaker 1: with them, but this is what they live breathe by.
44:38
Speaker 1: So there was no better way or better judges to
44:41
Speaker 1: have on the panel than Will I Am. With his
44:43
Speaker 1: musical background, he's iconic, the black Eyed Peas. He knows music,
44:47
Speaker 1: he knows technology. And Grimes she's an innovator, She's into technology.
44:51
Speaker 1: She's an amazing artist and producer as well. The young
44:54
Speaker 1: people love her. She's a gamer. Um Atlantis Moore said, iconic.
45:00
Speaker 1: She knows music, she knows vocals, she knows tones, she
45:03
Speaker 1: knows sounds, she knows lyrics, she knows all of that.
45:06
Speaker 1: And nick La Shay he knows what it is to
45:08
Speaker 1: have a big production of big band, a big stage.
45:12
Speaker 1: You know you're part of a boy band, your your
45:14
Speaker 1: legendary in that sense as well being part of such
45:17
Speaker 1: an iconic boy band and and working together with people
45:20
Speaker 1: and technology so to be completely honest. For Sean, I
45:23
Speaker 1: don't think I've ever seen a panel who didn't even
45:27
Speaker 1: have to do a chemistry test because we all got
45:29
Speaker 1: along and we all respected each other's space and opinion,
45:33
Speaker 1: and there were different opinions a lot of times, but
45:36
Speaker 1: it was still respectable. And you're gonna like to see
45:40
Speaker 1: the interaction between our judges and and the humanity that
45:44
Speaker 1: our alter egos were able to bring out of our
45:46
Speaker 1: judges too. There's a lot of crying, not crying because
45:50
Speaker 1: it's like a SOB story because more ask you because
45:53
Speaker 1: because you know, Madd Singer is much more of a party,
45:57
Speaker 1: you know, it's much more of a you know. But
45:59
Speaker 1: this when I'm here in these great stories that you're telling,
46:02
Speaker 1: and these reveals have to be like positively stunning. That's
46:06
Speaker 1: where the crime comes from. That's where the uplift comes from.
46:09
Speaker 1: That's where I'm gonna to tell you. I didn't know
46:11
Speaker 1: anything about this show, Roxy until I reviewed you, because
46:14
Speaker 1: they wouldn't send me a screen and I respect that,
46:17
Speaker 1: but you have made me a fan of this show.
46:19
Speaker 1: I want to see it. I want to see the backstory.
46:22
Speaker 1: Send you something too. I don't be sure they send
46:24
Speaker 1: you something. This is I'm gonna I'm gonna wait because
46:28
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you the only reason I was just
46:30
Speaker 1: you know, I'm gonna be Roseanne and I think I
46:32
Speaker 1: run the world anyway. And so but in the hearing
46:34
Speaker 1: your story, your pitch, your this interview, I want to
46:38
Speaker 1: see the show because of the fact that it's something
46:41
Speaker 1: about you know you you see the Paralympics. You know,
46:43
Speaker 1: everybody wants to be treated normal. That's why you do
46:47
Speaker 1: these differently. And to have a show that kind of
46:49
Speaker 1: like levels the playing field of entertainment, I think it's
46:53
Speaker 1: really special. I think it's really really unique and using
46:56
Speaker 1: technology and having a show like alter ego. Like I
46:59
Speaker 1: said earlier, it's almost brilliant. Socially, it's it kind of
47:02
Speaker 1: borderlines on brilliant because of the fact that everybody has
47:06
Speaker 1: this dream, even if you even though you know, everybody
47:09
Speaker 1: dreams to be younger, everybody dreams to be sexier, everybody
47:12
Speaker 1: dreams that they can sing in the shower and to
47:14
Speaker 1: actually come on the show where they can take some
47:17
Speaker 1: talents that God gave them, but they have not been
47:20
Speaker 1: able to utilize and because of some mental of physical
47:24
Speaker 1: uh that they different than from what we call normalcy.
47:28
Speaker 1: It's pretty special and so but you were brought into
47:31
Speaker 1: this and when did it really hit you what they
47:36
Speaker 1: was giving you an opportunity to the host? When did
47:38
Speaker 1: they really hit you? Uh? Hit me? The first time
47:41
Speaker 1: I got on set, they hit me like I was like, Okay,
47:43
Speaker 1: I know what I'm about to do. I know what's
47:45
Speaker 1: to do. But our set is freaking next level right
47:50
Speaker 1: right right right right, It's so big. I mean, like
47:55
Speaker 1: you've been there with like the big set y you walk,
48:00
Speaker 1: you get that that anxiety and it's like, oh, this
48:05
Speaker 1: is next this is amazingly. You know when they put
48:08
Speaker 1: money behest absolutely absolutely absolutely this big money behind this show,
48:15
Speaker 1: Gazilian life here control. So like we already know, you know,
48:21
Speaker 1: the Fox put the bag and when it came to
48:23
Speaker 1: this show and it's it's so cool to watch it. Uh.
48:26
Speaker 1: So that was the first time I got off set.
48:29
Speaker 1: I knew that we were dealing with something that was
48:32
Speaker 1: next level and really really special and something that America
48:36
Speaker 1: is gonna love and families are gonna love because it's
48:38
Speaker 1: something that's never been seen or done on TV. People
48:41
Speaker 1: try to compare us to a different, different music show
48:45
Speaker 1: or competition show. We're just not that, and you're gonna
48:47
Speaker 1: see it. I see the people falling in love with
48:49
Speaker 1: the with the performers for the first time. Really, the
48:52
Speaker 1: backstory is beautiful. But then you do you still shot
48:55
Speaker 1: this and tape this in this COVID time frame. You know,
48:58
Speaker 1: I just did Jim and came up with stephen A,
49:01
Speaker 1: and I had to get the COVID tests on the Friday.
49:04
Speaker 1: I had to get the COVID test twenty four hours
49:06
Speaker 1: before I came on set the next day, well, just
49:09
Speaker 1: that Monday, so Sunday I had to get another COVID test.
49:11
Speaker 1: How was it able to I wasn't working in that environment,
49:14
Speaker 1: because we have to work in that environment. We have
49:16
Speaker 1: to realize that unfortunately, COVID is going to be with us,
49:20
Speaker 1: and if you don't take the shot, you may consider
49:22
Speaker 1: taking a shot. I've been double vaccinated because I want
49:24
Speaker 1: to be able to go through life somewhat normal. How
49:27
Speaker 1: did the I was production handled with the COVID and
49:30
Speaker 1: how did you feel about the whole process? Um you know,
49:33
Speaker 1: I was one of those during the quarantine that I
49:35
Speaker 1: didn't go nowhere. I was completely completely paranoid and stared
49:39
Speaker 1: to go anywhere, even the grocery store. So Instacart was
49:41
Speaker 1: my best friend. Um, I you know took my vaccination
49:47
Speaker 1: and everything. UM. I'll say this, never have I felt
49:52
Speaker 1: so comfortable and safe in a production, especially during these times.
49:56
Speaker 1: Right now then doing the show, we were come poletely,
50:00
Speaker 1: completely COVID aware and woke. I guess you said you
50:05
Speaker 1: could say to where everybody was tested regularly. Um, there
50:10
Speaker 1: was no slip up during our production. Fox was very
50:14
Speaker 1: very strict when it come came to our safety and
50:17
Speaker 1: the safety of our audience as well, and we were
50:20
Speaker 1: very conscious about that wild taping. UM. So yes, they were, uh,
50:24
Speaker 1: they were tests regularly, and nobody had a problem with it,
50:30
Speaker 1: you know, because we're all trying to keep each other safe.
50:33
Speaker 1: And not only that, but even during production, you know
50:35
Speaker 1: those weeks that were you were taping, we quarantined when
50:38
Speaker 1: we weren't on set, and we were mindful of everybody
50:41
Speaker 1: because it's not just us and in our contestants, it's
50:45
Speaker 1: you know, the stage handlers, it's your it's your stage producer.
50:49
Speaker 1: It's your camera, guys. You know, you got to be
50:51
Speaker 1: mindful of everybody. So you know, we we They played
50:55
Speaker 1: it very very strict and and and kept us very
50:58
Speaker 1: very safe, which I'm very great full for and then
51:01
Speaker 1: there was no hiccups. We're friend. You know, I want
51:04
Speaker 1: you to talk about this recipes here, but I want
51:07
Speaker 1: this this show, I want to just focus on. I
51:09
Speaker 1: want to bring you back if you have time to
51:10
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51:13
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51:16
Speaker 1: This show I feel this very special alter ego which
51:19
Speaker 1: Arizon Fox UH premier September twenty second and twenty two
51:23
Speaker 1: separate episodes, NAPM Sentral, NAPM Eastern West Coast, a PM Central. UH.
51:29
Speaker 1: There's a Wednesday and Thursday, and they have a fantastic
51:33
Speaker 1: coast not a marvelous host, a fantastic host for a
51:36
Speaker 1: long time. And you you please stay. It's twelve episodes,
51:40
Speaker 1: and stay blessed, and please thank you for allowing me
51:43
Speaker 1: to share your story with my fan base. And there's
51:45
Speaker 1: a lot of them. There's a lot of them, by
51:46
Speaker 1: the way, it's a lot of millions of them. And
51:49
Speaker 1: I feel fortunate to be able to share your story.
51:51
Speaker 1: This part of your story. I want to bring you
51:53
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51:55
Speaker 1: I know outside the camera that makes you so special
51:59
Speaker 1: rocks that you are special to me. By the way,
52:01
Speaker 1: I really do Apprecator or Sean. I'll never forget all
52:04
Speaker 1: the talks, and I never forget all the guy itence
52:06
Speaker 1: and and you definitely were there for me and many
52:08
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52:11
Speaker 1: and please please tell your audience alter Ego Syptember twenty second,
52:15
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52:18
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52:21
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52:25
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52:27
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52:29
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52:32
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52:35
Speaker 1: I'll be popping you in there and to send me
52:37
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52:39
Speaker 1: to that. But again, thank you Roxy for coming on
52:41
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52:44
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52:46
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52:48
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52:50
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