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Full Episode: GRAMMY Award-winning Artist Tamela Mann & Actor/Writer Allen Maldonado · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: next guest is Tamla Man. She's a Grammy Award winner,
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  Speaker 1: b e T Award winner, bill Board Music Award winner
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  Speaker 1: in Double a, CP Image Award winner, Gospel Music Stell
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  Speaker 1: Award winner, g m A Dove Award winner, songwriter, producer,
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  Speaker 1: and businesswoman. As an actress, she stars in Tyler Pears
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  Speaker 1: Assistant Living on b ET. Tyler Pear's Assistant Living is
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  Speaker 1: to forty nine and twenty five and fifty four and
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  Speaker 1: I'm Not Through y'all. Tamlads on the show to talk
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  Speaker 1: about her career and her new gospel album Overcome or
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  Speaker 1: a compelling collection of songs that takes the listener on
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  Speaker 1: the journey Tamla has been traveling in the past few years.
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  Speaker 1: Please welcome. We always have a good time. She puts
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  Speaker 1: a smile on my face and she inspires my viewers
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  Speaker 1: and my listeners. Tamla Man to money making conversations. Tamla
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  Speaker 1: what's going on? Hey are you I'm doing fantastic And
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  Speaker 1: I always got a lot to say when you come
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  Speaker 1: on the show, you look fantastic. I see awards behind you.
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  Speaker 1: Are they blessings? You know? People always say, you know
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  Speaker 1: you're your achieve a certain level. It can be a
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  Speaker 1: blessing and a curse. Talk about that experience of being
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  Speaker 1: successful talent on man, Well, I wouldn't say it's a curse.
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  Speaker 1: But sometimes you're not gonna please. The thing how I've
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  Speaker 1: learned is you're not gonna please everybody, so I enjoy it.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm just living, as the kids say, now,
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  Speaker 1: I'm living my best life, and I really thank God
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  Speaker 1: for the favor that he's giving me. But I mean
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  Speaker 1: thank God for the wards. But I don't try not
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  Speaker 1: to get caught up to all of that. I just
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  Speaker 1: like certain. I just love certain. We're not. Look at
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  Speaker 1: Tom Brady when he wanted the super Bowl, you know,
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  Speaker 1: he said he wanted to win another super Bowl. And
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  Speaker 1: that's and I think that's that's what we have to understand,
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  Speaker 1: that don't hold on what sometimes to what you've accomplished.
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  Speaker 1: Look at what you can do. And I've always talked
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  Speaker 1: that about you know, you know I love David. Your
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  Speaker 1: husbands are daf and today I got you by yourself
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  Speaker 1: today to talk about the things you're doing for your career,
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  Speaker 1: you can get caught up and people just think you
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  Speaker 1: can only do things as a pair, you don't have
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  Speaker 1: a life. But I've always seen you as an individual
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  Speaker 1: and saw him as a successful individual. Talk about that
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  Speaker 1: relationship as a couple and then defining yourself as Tamila
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  Speaker 1: Man as a couple, I can say for myself, I
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  Speaker 1: look at us as being a powerful couple because of
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  Speaker 1: us believing in supporting one another, and we just try
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  Speaker 1: to be examples for other people to see that you
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  Speaker 1: can't work together and you know, be some shakers and
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  Speaker 1: be some movers to get some things done because we're
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  Speaker 1: just really sent to be encourages and as individuals. It
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  Speaker 1: works for us because we were not jealous of each other.
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  Speaker 1: We're in each other's corners. We have each other's best
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  Speaker 1: interested hard and making whatever that gold is or desire
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  Speaker 1: that you have, we want to make it come to
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  Speaker 1: past for each other. Like now David got my career
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  Speaker 1: often going and now I want him I told him,
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  Speaker 1: let's do it. Let's go do whatever you need to do,
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  Speaker 1: we want to do. Let's make that happen. And we're
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  Speaker 1: just used to allowing each other to have that light.
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  Speaker 1: If it's it's time to be in the light, I'm
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  Speaker 1: cool with just standing in the background, sharing them on
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  Speaker 1: and vice versa. For me, well, the beauty of being
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  Speaker 1: in the background, you really ain't in the background, Tama, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: you know sound you're so much. You're in front of me.
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  Speaker 1: You're from a lot of people, girl, especially in the
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  Speaker 1: gospel world, and that's the beautiful thing. Because we don't
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  Speaker 1: know the journeys that we see. We all we do
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  Speaker 1: is wake up in the morning. We feel blessed because
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  Speaker 1: God a louder. I will tell people a long clock
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  Speaker 1: doesn't wake me up. God. Yeah, you know, just have
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  Speaker 1: to be some physical tool that reminds me that I
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  Speaker 1: can get up at a certain time. But I get up,
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  Speaker 1: but I look at your schedule. Let me just tell
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  Speaker 1: y'all something about tell the man when they the hard
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  Speaker 1: working should be her middle name, hard working should be
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  Speaker 1: David Mane. While working on the album Overcomer, she filmed
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  Speaker 1: two movies, so Sata and The new Tyler Parish movie
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  Speaker 1: made because Tyler said he wasn't gonna do made no more. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: but they roll that check in front of you, making
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  Speaker 1: do a lot of things, making do a lot of things. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: you know what he wanted to bring laughter two And
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  Speaker 1: we've been going through so much. She was like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I just wanted us to get together and made people laugh.
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  Speaker 1: So he's really this movie is Homecoming, is gonna make
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  Speaker 1: y'all laugh. I'm telling it's some funny jump going on
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  Speaker 1: in this movie. And when I'll see what's going on,
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  Speaker 1: Mr Brown, I tell you it's hilarious. I can see,
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  Speaker 1: I can see Tyler Perry at the Netflix office, right,
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  Speaker 1: I ain't ever gonna do but dia no more. Then
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  Speaker 1: that man said wrote some numbers. He probably broke out
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  Speaker 1: the mdea right there, which I won't which I won't girl,
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  Speaker 1: which by calling y'all from Netflix, girl, Mr Brooke, damn
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  Speaker 1: Mr Brown from getting close out that closet. Mdina is
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  Speaker 1: back in the filmmaking business right right. I love it.
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  Speaker 1: I love it, And I tell us about Soul Santa
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  Speaker 1: now because I mean and that that's the whole Soul
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  Speaker 1: Santa is gonna be something really different for us as
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  Speaker 1: a couple. We still as a couple, but we have
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  Speaker 1: some disagreements going on here. But it's serious and you
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  Speaker 1: know it's a drama. Um Normally you know we have
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  Speaker 1: a comedy, uh andre, But this time it's just more
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  Speaker 1: drummer and David is You get to see him in
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  Speaker 1: a different light. And I really believe it's a really
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  Speaker 1: really cute, loving Christmas movie. He's just gonna put you
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  Speaker 1: in a Christmas sphere. Well, you know the thing about
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  Speaker 1: that when I talked about like I always look at
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  Speaker 1: Kevin Hart and I always telling people Kevin Hodg's gonna
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  Speaker 1: win to Oscar because you can really act. He's a
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  Speaker 1: He structured his career where you can accept him as
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  Speaker 1: a comedian and now you can accept him as a
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  Speaker 1: serious actor. And and I've always seen David and because
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  Speaker 1: he's he's he's he's a person. When you said I
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  Speaker 1: and talked to him, you can just see that other
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  Speaker 1: side of him because he's not a guy who has
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  Speaker 1: to be owned all the time to entertain you. And
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  Speaker 1: that allows me to let him know that he can
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  Speaker 1: cross over and be serious, he can cross over, be focused.
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  Speaker 1: He he the role so So when you start seeing
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  Speaker 1: him and the script came to you, what were your
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  Speaker 1: thoughts of the opportunity and what was his thoughts that
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  Speaker 1: he shared with you when he saw he had to
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  Speaker 1: do a more serious role. He was he was serious
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  Speaker 1: and he was serious of happy of out it. And
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  Speaker 1: for him to be serious, I mean it was hard.
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  Speaker 1: Like when we were recording of Feminine, you know, some
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  Speaker 1: things he wanted to bring in some comedy, but he
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  Speaker 1: had to really structure himself to just be straight. And um,
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  Speaker 1: Terry Vaughan was out directed ball. When I tell you
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  Speaker 1: she was working with it, she was like, no, we're
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  Speaker 1: not doing anything like sitcoms. It's straight. I don't want
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  Speaker 1: no laughter right here. So it was really challenging, but
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  Speaker 1: a great challenge for him. And even to the extent
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  Speaker 1: that him you know, he was a drinker in the movie,
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  Speaker 1: so he had to be drunk, so that was something
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  Speaker 1: totally different for him. So it's crazy, it's really crazy,
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  Speaker 1: but he did it. He did during the Pandemic, which
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  Speaker 1: which means we're gonna get to some more stuff you've
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  Speaker 1: done because you were busy doing the pandemic. Pandemic did
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  Speaker 1: show you, it didn't, Thank the Lord it really didn't.
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  Speaker 1: So how was that done? When you know, when you
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  Speaker 1: when you guys are quarantined on his compound, how are
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  Speaker 1: you able to do these movies and they feel still
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  Speaker 1: comfortable that you could be safe and your family was
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  Speaker 1: safe when you saw him again on the compound with
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  Speaker 1: Tyler Perry Studios, Yes, we once you you had the
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  Speaker 1: test before you got in. We tested like two to
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  Speaker 1: three times a week, and it was like once you
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  Speaker 1: got on, you cannot you couldn't leave. So we were
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  Speaker 1: on campus the whole time that we were there feeling,
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  Speaker 1: which was great. Tyler made sure that everybody had everything
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  Speaker 1: they needed. It was it was incredible. It was it
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  Speaker 1: was expensive for him, but it was very incredible how
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  Speaker 1: he took care of everybody. And safety was the first
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  Speaker 1: thing that they I mean they pumped it into us
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  Speaker 1: with being writing up on each other and still social
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  Speaker 1: distance and all of that. Then when we did the movie,
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  Speaker 1: we were being tested as well to three times a
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  Speaker 1: week and it was not so as confined as the
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  Speaker 1: base of Tyler Perry Studio. But they kind of told
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  Speaker 1: us that didn't really want us going out. It's like
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  Speaker 1: we will go film tests and be like right in
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  Speaker 1: the hotel pretty much everybody. They had everybody stay at
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  Speaker 1: one hotel. They almost runted out the whole hotel for everybody,
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  Speaker 1: so it would just be us there. But we tested
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  Speaker 1: like two to three times a weekend. They were really pushing,
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  Speaker 1: you know, social distance and keeping your mask on and
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  Speaker 1: the actors we had to do these shields once they
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  Speaker 1: put your makeup on, but everybody had to be masked
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  Speaker 1: up like hair makeup has to have on two masks,
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  Speaker 1: like a mask and a shield. So they were being
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  Speaker 1: everybody was being very careful. We've been really blessed. We've
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  Speaker 1: been really blessed. So now that's it. We got the
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  Speaker 1: two movies. We got the sold Santa out the way,
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  Speaker 1: We got the Tyler Para Badelia film out the way.
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  Speaker 1: Then she shot two seasons. I'm telling a myou she'd
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  Speaker 1: been talm on man shot two seasons Tyler Perry's and
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  Speaker 1: Sister Living Girl. Okay, uh, how you interviewing with me?
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  Speaker 1: Why you ain't tied? I was tired. I took I
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  Speaker 1: took a few breaks breaks, but and then to working
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  Speaker 1: on the music. But you know what, you have to
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  Speaker 1: kind of work while it's day. You have to just
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  Speaker 1: keep doing why you can because you don't know what
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  Speaker 1: we do. You don't know what's gonna happen, So you
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  Speaker 1: kind of have to work when it's time to work.
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  Speaker 1: And I think a lot of people don't play. Then
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  Speaker 1: you play, a lot of people don't do that. They
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  Speaker 1: put restrictions on what they can do. I do say,
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  Speaker 1: they'll say something like I do it later, or that
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  Speaker 1: opportunity they're gonna come back around, and it's not always true.
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  Speaker 1: It's not it's not and so that it's not true
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  Speaker 1: that it's gonna come back, they may go get somebody else.
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  Speaker 1: And that I love about you because I always talk
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  Speaker 1: about you being a businesswoman. Was the launch of your
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  Speaker 1: clothing line, the Tambla Man Collection, because to me, you know,
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  Speaker 1: because you know, I love seeing talent, I love seeing
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  Speaker 1: gifted people. But some people just can see you in
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  Speaker 1: that lane and think that's all you can do, and
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  Speaker 1: that's all. I always champion your business on the track,
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  Speaker 1: you know, every time I talk to you, we talked
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  Speaker 1: business to talk about that hold the Tambla Man Collection.
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  Speaker 1: How did it get started and what motivated you to
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  Speaker 1: do it? What motivated me to do it was trying
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  Speaker 1: to go find some nice things for plus size because
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  Speaker 1: you know, a lot of times when it comes to
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  Speaker 1: our fabric, you know, they have some stuff that look
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  Speaker 1: like table cloths, and we don't want to look like
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  Speaker 1: a table cloth. Know we may be thick, you don't
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  Speaker 1: want to look like We want to look cute too.
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  Speaker 1: So I was really tuned in on like the plus
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  Speaker 1: size thick ladies out of you know, I hate I
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  Speaker 1: don't even like the word plus size. I say thick,
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  Speaker 1: you know, nice with our curves everywhere. But where we
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  Speaker 1: got wherever your curves are, I like that. That's we're thick.
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  Speaker 1: So size is twelve and thirty two. It was for
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  Speaker 1: your everyday woman. Something nice and comfortable is what we
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  Speaker 1: were aiming for. And the quality it was all. It's
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  Speaker 1: all about Templeman collection with the quality of work and
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  Speaker 1: how well it's put together. So when I'm talking to
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  Speaker 1: my my young the managers, which is my daughter MoU
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  Speaker 1: that runs it and the other lady that helps us
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  Speaker 1: with distribution, I'm all about pushing the fabrics that we choose.
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  Speaker 1: My daughter helps my daughter and my daughter and we
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  Speaker 1: all three of us and they're younger, so we're trying
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  Speaker 1: to help for my age group and the younger age group,
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  Speaker 1: so we can have something for everybody. So we try to,
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  Speaker 1: you know, dress up. I want to be cute, comfortable
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  Speaker 1: where it's you can do do your errands, actually work
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  Speaker 1: out in it. Those comfortable clothes you can just throw
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  Speaker 1: on and throw and go and get to worry about
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  Speaker 1: ironing it things like that. That's how that came about.
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  Speaker 1: It's something comfortable and cute for our thick ladies. So
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  Speaker 1: till David to do the same thing for me. Because
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  Speaker 1: when I get out of these suits, I just want
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  Speaker 1: some comfortable stuff that I can just go out in
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  Speaker 1: the yard, or I can just go to the store
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  Speaker 1: and go to home deep or go to the Krogers
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  Speaker 1: or whatever. Comfortable, but look good. I still I have
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  Speaker 1: my little style on me. You now my flavor. That's
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  Speaker 1: what you're saying. Your clothing line is you can look comfortable,
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  Speaker 1: you can feel comfortable, but you still look good and cute.
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  Speaker 1: The Chapel collection, that's what we talked about. Now that
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  Speaker 1: now this leads to the song He did it for me. Now,
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  Speaker 1: when I when I heard that title, he did it
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  Speaker 1: for me? That that that resonated with me because I'm
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  Speaker 1: not a person that I'm not. I'm telling straight up,
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  Speaker 1: for I'm not the Church Gore. I'm not a person
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  Speaker 1: can recite quotes from the Bible. You know, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: gonna even say that, but that my faith. You cannot
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  Speaker 1: question that because I am strong in my faith. I'm
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  Speaker 1: strong in my belief that I'm blessed to be here.
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  Speaker 1: I wake up because of the mercy of God. My
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  Speaker 1: family is here because of the blessings that He had
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  Speaker 1: provide for me to be able to take care of them,
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  Speaker 1: and the fact that I come home every day. It's
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  Speaker 1: tied to his blessings. So when I hear he did
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  Speaker 1: it from me, what did it resonate to you? Because
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  Speaker 1: you created the song you've seen the song he did
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  Speaker 1: it for me comes from a place I had did this.
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  Speaker 1: I had did um an interview, and then I heard
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  Speaker 1: I got back of someone saying, you know that I'm
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  Speaker 1: doing a lot of things and a lot of doors
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  Speaker 1: are opening for me, and why is she getting all
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  Speaker 1: these things? And it really hurt me to the core,
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  Speaker 1: honestly where it brought me to tears. Where I'm not
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  Speaker 1: out here, no one is handing me anything. We're working for.
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  Speaker 1: We've worked for everything that we have, and I just
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  Speaker 1: I was talking to the producer, which was Phil Briant
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  Speaker 1: at the time, and I was like, man, this don't
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  Speaker 1: come easy, the gifts that we have, and I just
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  Speaker 1: didn't understand why the words were being saying, why is
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  Speaker 1: everything coming to her? Why Like it's I guess it
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  Speaker 1: looks easy, but it's not easy for me, and I
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  Speaker 1: just don't I just really, I just really didn't understand, honestly.
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  Speaker 1: So I was like, it was God who did this
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  Speaker 1: of me. I didn't do it for myself. It was
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  Speaker 1: a favor that He's placed upon my life with the
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  Speaker 1: work that I've put in, and that's how he did
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  Speaker 1: it for me. Came about that there's no goodness of
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  Speaker 1: my own, but the Lord saw fit to bless me.
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  Speaker 1: the interesting thing about it is that I look at
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  Speaker 1: I look at my life, you know, and and I
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  Speaker 1: look at your life too, because you know, we've known
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  Speaker 1: each other long time. And when when you're young, you know,
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  Speaker 1: when you're young and you're twenties and third, you don't
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  Speaker 1: see forties and fifties. You just don't see it. And
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: then and then I look at young people being successful
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  Speaker 1: when their twenties and thirties, and I often think, do
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  Speaker 1: they understand how much it takes to get to the
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  Speaker 1: forties and fifties with that same level of success? And
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  Speaker 1: then I realized, I'm blessed. I'm blessed because I work hard,
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  Speaker 1: but I blessed because the opportunity is presented to me,
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  Speaker 1: and I just I guess it. What I'm just trying
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  Speaker 1: to say to you is that he did it for me. Really,
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  Speaker 1: it's a testimony to that you understood that twenty he
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: did it for you, thirty he did it for you.
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  Speaker 1: In your forties and older, he did it for you.
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  Speaker 1: So a lot of people don't understand that they get
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  Speaker 1: lost because they only live in for the moment. Because
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: I tell people I'm gonna live as long as I
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: don't know what retirement means. I don't know how you
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: supposed to walk in fifty or sixty or seventy. But
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: Rus Shan gonna walk over Shanna Shan. And I think
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  Speaker 1: that when I hear this here and hear the title,
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  Speaker 1: he did it for me, that's all you're saying. Don't
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  Speaker 1: criticize me for what I'm achieving, because I'm not trying
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: to take credit for what I'm achieving exactly exactly. That's
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: so true. That's true. And and and I think sometimes
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  Speaker 1: people feel like, you know, give me a shot, but
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: you know it once up all the time in my life,
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  Speaker 1: I can't see I would be looking at like, Lord,
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: I'm not being blessed. But once I honestly started putting
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  Speaker 1: the work in and start believing what I prayed for,
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  Speaker 1: that's when the Lord started moving in my behalf, because
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: my faith started standing on its own to trust God
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  Speaker 1: to be God, and he started doing it. He started
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  Speaker 1: doing it for me right now. You know when I
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: went about your life, you know, my my, I got
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  Speaker 1: on the scale of the day. I just recently had
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  Speaker 1: a gall bladder surgery. You know, you like three weeks ago,
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  Speaker 1: and uh what you're doing it. I'm to enjoying my life. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: God told me I get up. I'm just telling you,
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  Speaker 1: tat be telling me. Don't be criticizing me for sitting
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  Speaker 1: up your interviewing you. Okay, I keep telling you. God
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  Speaker 1: woke me up, saying okay, it's good. I'm not pushing myself.
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  Speaker 1: I ain't out there running on marathon. I'm not on
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  Speaker 1: I'm not on a balance being Okay, I'm not doing
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  Speaker 1: none of that. I'm just getting up, putting on a
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: nice suit, sitting in the acrotism in the room interviewing
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  Speaker 1: a friend. Okay, you can stop. Stop. Okay. So I
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  Speaker 1: had gone blot of surgery and then and just so
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  Speaker 1: in my stupid behind. I'm taking uh a concessor, I'm
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: talking Tom's I'm thinking it's a stomachache. You know what
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: I'm saying, because that's what we do. You know, we
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  Speaker 1: don't realize our bodies talking to us. We try to
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: ignore and try to REMITI of certain needs. So recently
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  Speaker 1: in your life, this journey we're talking to that ed
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  Speaker 1: you to the album that we're gonna hear the Overcomer.
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  Speaker 1: You had double knee surgery, You have physical therapy or
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  Speaker 1: a wellness journey. Talk about that, because I always check
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  Speaker 1: you on the show. I try to present a life
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  Speaker 1: that I'm not perfect. I try to present a life
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  Speaker 1: that I make mistakes and sometimes I don't understand because
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  Speaker 1: people look at me like I know it all. I'm successful.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have any problems. You know, I don't have
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  Speaker 1: any money issues. I do have money issues every day.
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  Speaker 1: And so you doney surgery, your physical talk about that
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  Speaker 1: whole journey of wellness for you that makes you comfortable
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  Speaker 1: to talk about it today. Okay, Well, that's how Overcoming
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  Speaker 1: came about. The last five or six years, I was
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: actually working in pain, dancing around, doing filming. All of
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: these things were happening, and I will be in so
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: much pain. And you know, once but while I was working,
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: it's like it didn't bother me. But once I came
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  Speaker 1: off stage or sit down, my knees will be hurting
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  Speaker 1: me so bad. And after going through the surgery, not
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  Speaker 1: knowing how I was gonna if everything was gonna work properly,
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  Speaker 1: you know, if my body was gonna just to this
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: material being in my body, and I'm like, Lord, you
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  Speaker 1: know I need you to help me overcome this. And
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: then with the wellness thing again, it's like I didn't
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  Speaker 1: want to be a liability of my family. So it's like,
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: you gotta do something different if you want some different results.
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  Speaker 1: So it's I'm still That's why I took the album
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  Speaker 1: the name Overcoming, because it's a day by day walk
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  Speaker 1: that by faith, I'm gonna overcome. I'm overcoming. I've lost
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  Speaker 1: some weight, but it's I still got goals that I
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: want to reach. I want to complete and finish that
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: that I started. And with the with the needs and everything.
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  Speaker 1: I went through therapy, like you said, and it's like
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: every day, every day, you know, it's getting better and better.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's been two years. July so it's like I'm
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  Speaker 1: getting better and better, and I just want to be
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  Speaker 1: like that. Even in my life, I just want to
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: get better. I don't want to be even though I'm fifty,
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  Speaker 1: in my fifties, I still want to be able to
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  Speaker 1: learn from somebody. I can learn from a young person
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  Speaker 1: or even the older person. I'm open to receive it.
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  Speaker 1: If it's gonna make me better, I'm willing to do that.
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  Speaker 1: So that's how I'm working at being an overcome up
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  Speaker 1: every day, and I'm encouraging those who are watching it
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  Speaker 1: and listening that we all can overcome and we can conquer.
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  Speaker 1: Come on that you special that the two albums songs
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  Speaker 1: on the album Overcoming and comfort, did you just slip
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  Speaker 1: that in so smooth? That's dealing with a pro you know,
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  Speaker 1: and you can overcome And that's not the words started
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  Speaker 1: with completion. And when I looked the word up finishes
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  Speaker 1: in it so a lot. And I realized a lot
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  Speaker 1: of things we've started in our lives, and I even
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: in my own life, I took it personal. All these songs,
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  Speaker 1: I took it personally. I've started things that you know,
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  Speaker 1: you start cleaning up in the room and before you
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  Speaker 1: know you know, started another room and you haven't even
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  Speaker 1: finished completing that task. So my thing is to stay
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  Speaker 1: focus and finish this album. We're started with finished work,
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  Speaker 1: the work that God has begun in us. We're gonna
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  Speaker 1: finish and with his help, we're gonna complete it. And
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  Speaker 1: then the album. The last song on the album is
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  Speaker 1: called finish that we wouldn't finished, and we're gonna finish well,
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  Speaker 1: well the beauty If this's not you've always had people
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  Speaker 1: write songs for you, you always never participating in that
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  Speaker 1: side of it. Talk about that because you know it's
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: it's about confidence too, It's about well, what you write
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  Speaker 1: makes sense. Well, if you told somebody you wrote this
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  Speaker 1: with they what they look at you and just pacify you.
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  Speaker 1: But and then say that's good you you you well
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  Speaker 1: you in order to do what you do, because those
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: are my exact out as a as a songwright, it's
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: just gonna make sense. I don't know, and I mean
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: me and my daughter were sitting with the producer and
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  Speaker 1: he really helped me on. He did it for me.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: He helped me on, help me to really realize that
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  Speaker 1: my words and even with Travis Green he wrote finished,
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  Speaker 1: I sit and talk to him for about about an
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  Speaker 1: hour of what I wanted to talk about it. He
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  Speaker 1: took all my words and put them into finished and
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  Speaker 1: the same thing when he did it for me with
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  Speaker 1: feel and all of us just working together. It's like
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  Speaker 1: he helped my confidence come alive, you know, like dealing
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  Speaker 1: with sometimes you know, it takes you switching up and
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  Speaker 1: doing something with somebody else to see to stir up
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  Speaker 1: the gift in, you know. And that's what's happened on
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  Speaker 1: this album that I realized that my words can be good,
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  Speaker 1: and that that they are important, and that they're not
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  Speaker 1: too small, that they can be that they can be used.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely know that she's talking about Philip Bryant and my
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: boy are Kurt Franklin knows only Travis Green, who I love.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: I loved it. I gotta get back on the show.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: And then you have my bar. I called him the
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: church outlaw, Todd, the lady, the church all tell him outlaw.
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  Speaker 1: That is good for him. How you get the church outlaw?
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: All your church girl huh overcome punkrock? He did it
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  Speaker 1: for me. I called Tied and I said, Tod, I
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  Speaker 1: wanted to talk about finishing. I said, I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: talk about the work that we've begun in the Lord
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  Speaker 1: to finish. And when I tell you, he called me
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  Speaker 1: back and I was it was a scratch of him
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  Speaker 1: playing on the piano and I said, man, I said,
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  Speaker 1: this is it. So we wound up going to Chicago
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: with his band and singers and recording it live with
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: his producer, and man, I tell you, it was so
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: it was like a heavenly experience. And we was in
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: a in a sanctuary with just us and just a
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: very few people that work in the church. But when
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  Speaker 1: I tell you, it was like the Lord met us there.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm I'm so excited because it's like another side
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  Speaker 1: of me that no one's seen or heard on finished work.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm just I'm just geet and nervous forever. You know.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: Of course, when you come with new music, you don't
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: know what people gonna receive and all that. But I
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  Speaker 1: just believe in my heart that that God has given
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: me it's gonna really be able to bless the people.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: And that's my goal, is to bring hope, inspiration and
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: let people know that the mercies of God still exist
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: on this earth and everybody is not out to get us,
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: and that we can accomplish those things that God has
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: begun on us. He's a healer that he can heal
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: us of all manner of diseases that's going on in
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: the world. We don't have to walk in fear. If
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: we do what we need to do and do what
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: we're supposed to do, we're gonna work out and we're
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: gonna be fine. One of my all time favorites. And
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: when she did the amazing Grace and i'ma be honest
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  Speaker 1: with you, Um, every time I see you, I see
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: I see that moment, And there's gonna be a moment
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: when you're gonna just settle into understanding all your blessings.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: Like that's why this album is special, Overcome Up, because
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: you you finally stepped past the things and said, my
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  Speaker 1: words have value. You know, I can write it down
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: and it's gonna mean something to somebody else because it
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: means something to meet. The next thing is going to
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: be like that journey you went up to Chicago and
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: did with Todd. The next half, all y'all gonna be
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: in the room. Travis Green gonna be in the room
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: with you, Kurt Franklin gonna be in the room, Philip
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: Bryan gonna Kimbro gonna be in the room with you,
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: and it's gonna be about you telling everybody you know
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: about the King about he did it for me, talk
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: about the conqueror, talking about all these journeys that means something.
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: And I just want to let you know this, this
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  Speaker 1: album is a blessing for you because finally, I think
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: that's the final step. Because you know, every time I
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: interview you, I'm always I love David, I'm always stepping
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: into you because I know you a person, how all
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: these great talent you kind of background in a little bit,
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: and David has pushed you out there, and finally you
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: fill the anointment of who and what you can be.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: I just I was just so happy for you. I
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: am so happy for you. Thank you so much. You look,
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: you're bringing tears to me. That's great, you know. I
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: know then and then you know, every time I come
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: on this show, I got to talk about the family
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: because you mentioned your daughter earlier. And you know, y'all
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: y'all went out on tour a couple years before the pandemic.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: Was all of the country doing there the telling man
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: entertainment to him talk about the family. Your eyes all
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: coming together, how they how they how they went through
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: the pandemic and all that good stuff. Just just talk
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: about the journey that you and your husband are putting
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: together in the future that you're gonna have for us,
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: because we already know you got movies coming out, TV
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: shows coming out, Alvin Overcoming coming out. What's coming out
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: with you and your husband. I gotta go back to
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: the family core. Not my daughter till the youngest one
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: vocal produced me in the album. She had her hand
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: and everything. Uh, and her her boyfriend name is Justin Pierson.
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  Speaker 1: They're actually sitting right here with me right now, and
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: it's amazing how they were able to help. They took
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: a relief off of David Sr. And they were they
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: stepped into the role, and I mean they really stepped
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: into the role to help me with this thing. And
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: it's been incredible just to see her develop and and
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: for her skills to come out, and for all of
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: us to see that this hidden and fear that she's had.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: It's like, finally she's stepping into herself and into her
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: own and you know, even like everybody, you know, with
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: my other daughter that works in the in the company Porsche,
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: and then David Jr. Everybody is finding their rightful place,
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: which is causing the company to grow. And you know,
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: I have to pray hard because once everything gets really smooth,
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: the enemy tries to show his head and and it's like,
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: of course, to try to bring discord and make try
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: to mess things up. But he's doing his job. That's
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: why I have to steal on my job praying. And
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: we have to steal on our job in what we
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: need to be doing and stand in our lane to
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: make this thing grow. Because even as individuals, they have
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: great talents of their own that I really appreciate. You
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: thank God for the Lord stirring up. But I always
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: tell them you gotta keep God at your base if
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: you want to be blessed. This is how your mom
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: and dad has been blessed. It's been the favor of God.
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: It's been God keeping his hand on our lives. I
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: can't take no credit for none of it. It's all
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: been God using us and be directing us. We know, um.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: We laugh with her. We've seen her grow as a
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: young lady, as a as a wife, as a mom,
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: and but the new CD, an overcoming Kamelaman has been
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: more involved than ever in this songwriting, lending her input
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: to nearly every track. Never actually been more creative with
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: her vision, been more powerful or heart more than this
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: collection upon your songs the past few years. You've seen
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: the physical setbacks, you've seen overcome. You've seen her smile
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: when she had paint and all paint and her body.
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: But what never stopped me is telling you I love you,
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  Speaker 1: telling you I love your husband, and thank you for
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: coming on Money Making Conversations again. Thank you so much,
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: Thank you. This has been a joy today. You got
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: you got me hyped up. Well. I hope whoever's after
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: you today is gonna be as hype. I know it
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  Speaker 1: not because you you You got your own you got
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: your own pain. You're in the lane out about yourself.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for shocks as usual. You're a
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  Speaker 1: blessing to me and you're a blessing to our community.
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: Thank you for sharing and bringing us some good information.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much. Cool. We will be right back
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  Speaker 1: You are now tuned into the Money Making Conversations Minute
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: of Inspiration with Rashan McDonald Hollywood, super produced to Will
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: Packer has produced films that have earned more than one
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: billion dollars at the box office. Will Packard tells me
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: why marketing his brand as a producer wasn't normal in Hollywood. Well,
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: when I came in as a producer, I knew how
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: important it was to connect with an artist. That really
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: started with my journey at Family because I made my
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: first film project, which was Chocolate City, while I was
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: still an undergraduate at Family, I was a junior. We
• 34:26
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  Speaker 1: My next guest is Alan Maldonado. A smile when I
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  Speaker 1: say that name. He's an actor, writer, director, and entrepreneur.
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  Speaker 1: Among his films and TV critics include Straight Out of Compton,
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: Equalizing Cake, Sony's remake of The Superfly, the Netflix movie
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: Project Power, the Netflix series Sneakerheads, the TVs TV series
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  Speaker 1: The Last O, g Blackish, You're the Worst, and many more.
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  Speaker 1: Now that is the past. Now this is what's coming
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  Speaker 1: up new and the movies and on TV. Alan starting
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: a new Stars action back series Heels Plus this fall.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: He'll be starting in the Wonder Year's reboot for ABC,
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: the House Party movie reboot, and Psyche three. This is
• 37:05
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  Speaker 1: to a man, actor, writer, director and entrepreneur. My man,
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  Speaker 1: Alan Maldonado. Hey you doing, Alan, I'm excellent, man, Thank
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: you so much. What an incredible intro. I appreciate it. Man.
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  Speaker 1: I'm over here listening liqually as you go down the list, like,
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: oh man, I was on all that stuff. But you
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: know something, Alan, every time you come on the show,
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: you know, like I said, man, we've been having this
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: relationship going on four years, you know, uh, you know,
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: and and just watching watching the growth because we you know,
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: because we really started talking about the entrepreneurship side of you,
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: what you were doing in Hollywood and how he was
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: making a difference. And and now it's being overwhelmed by
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: your talent as an actor, which has always been out there,
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: but it's now starting to be recognized on so many levels.
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: How are you able to balance that? And all you
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: are is being able to balance the acting. Is it
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: taking you away from the entrepreneurship side or you're being
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: a balance both? Wow? Man, I guess how what's the
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: best way to put it? Put it all in perspective? Um? Well,
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: for me, I had to understand balance. I had to
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: understand balance, as you know. And in the last four years,
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: and you know, it's been it's been crazy, it's been.
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: It's been in a good way. Um. God has given
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: me everything I wanted and it's one of those things
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: where it's like, Okay, this is what you've been asking
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: for for years. Now go do something with it. Um. So,
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: just a balance between work and rest and relaxation has
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: been the biggest challenge and the biggest thing that I
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: know is important. Um As you know, those four or
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: five years where I was doing Blackish, Survivors, Remors, You're
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: the Words, all these things simultaneously while writing and starting
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: on other shows, I burned myself out. I'm not gonna lie,
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: you know. So, uh, after the quarantine, I really made
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: it my business to make sure I have a proper
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: balance between working and working extremely hard as I do,
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: and then finding time to get those breaks where either
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: just a three day vacation, two day vacation or daycare
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: or whatever like. I just have to be adamant, just
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: as focused and goal driven for business and acting success,
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: I gotta be just as driven in my personal and
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: self care. Absolutely. I'm talking to interviewing Alan maldon Alto.
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  Speaker 1: I remember when you first came on Money Making Conversation,
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: it was Survivor's Remorse, which out of Lebron James's company,
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: and then I brought him back. It was it was
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: the Last O G which was changed, and then I
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: brought him. After that was Project Power on Netflix with
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: and that's with Jamie Fox, and now bringing you back
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: for a serious and not just one. It's a series
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: of things, which is really beautiful and uh, and let's
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: talk about Heels. You know, because on social media, you know,
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: you let everybody know you got some fitness going on
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: in your life. You know, I know it makes me
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: feel bad, but I'm alright up older than him, so
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: I don't take it personal. But if you're young like him,
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: you might want to take it personal. Not follow his
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: feed sometimes because he's looking good. So finally, all that personal.
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: So that's why I like about your alum. You know,
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: you prepare for success and we don't know where it's
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: gonna come from. And because you're doing all that personal
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: training and some people say, man, why are you doing
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: the work off? You know what you're going for you
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: and you just never know where your opportunities are going
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: to come. And because of that, you are with additional
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: training that they've given you are pretty much wasn't shocked
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: by the request of this level of fitness, physical fitness
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  Speaker 1: that they need for this series that's on Stars called Heels. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't. I wasn't shocked at all. Man. Um I had, uh,
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: just a quick story as more of a testimony than
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: anything in um. You know, two years ago, like I said,
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: I kind of burnt myself out and I had to
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: recharge mentally, physically, spiritual and all those things. And God
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: put it on my heart to get stronger and uh
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: be more um focused on my you know, self care
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: and personal fitness. And in that conversation, uh, he gave
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: me the crazy notion to run marathons. So I began
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: to run training for marathons in Spain while I was
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: shooting a film out there, uh called American Carnates that
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: would be out I think next year as well. Um
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: it was. I ran four marathons in five months. I
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: ran in New York Marathon, the Disney Marathon, the Miami Marathon,
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: and the l A Marathon. And a week after I
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: ran the March the l A Marathon, which is my
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: fourth marathon. Uh, I booked hills. So it was one
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: of those things where God told me to do something
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  Speaker 1: to get prepared for two years ago for an opportunity
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: that came you know later down the line. So uh,
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: it was just me meeting up with my blessings. Um
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: that's how this whole kind of fitness kind of journey
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: begin with that, you know, wholeheartedly. It was. It was
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: very selfish simpleness and I respect because I always tell
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  Speaker 1: Do you go sleep? Because I always tell people I'm
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: never shocked by my opportunities because I'm always preparing for
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: my opportunities. And I've always felt that about you when
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: I'm talking to you, because we have a good time.
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: But we always always see activity in your eyes, and
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: your eyes tell me your brains active. You know what
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: I'm saying, because you always this conversation is just one
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: a minute that's going that's happening in your life as
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: supposed to happen in your life. Now. When I saw
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: the show Heels, know that I am a wrestling fan
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: from the from from elementary school. Okay, well that's how
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: fall back I go. And so the series Heels when
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: it's being advertised on Stars has my man who started
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: who blew up in Fame on the series Vikings. If
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: you have not seen the series Vikings, plead it's an
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: incredible series. And then also a man who started in
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: this series Arrow, which is on the seat of your platform.
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: When those guys, I went, I got to watch that,
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: and then I started seeing the trailers and then I
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: guess who popped up one of my favorite people, Alan
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: mauldin Off and guess what you were sitting just like
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: that with short sleeves and your heck no, he's showing off.
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: Yea man. Now working with those guys are incredible, I
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: got I must say that. Shout out to our showrunner
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: Michael O'Malley, uh, and just everybody has stars for collecting
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: a group of actors that are extraordinary. Um. You know,
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: it's a dream team. Man. You you wake up as
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: an artist in you dream of being surrounded by people
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: that share your same passion, your drive, your intensity to
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: uh being an artist. And that's the cast appeels and
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: everybody down even shout out to you know, my biggest bro,
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: James Harrison, who I often tease and I'm the little
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: brother that he never asked for. But even with him
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: being this being his first series as an actor, he
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: came in and showed up and showed out as an
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: elite athlete, prepared um and giving it his all. And
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: that was It's an incredible environment and that's what I'm
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: excited for people to see just all of these talented
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: people come together and we kind of just you know,
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: form the Avengers on screen and it's it's just beautiful.
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: It's beautiful. Man. I can't wait for people to say
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: now when he said, James Harrison look a little background
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: on an incredible linebacker for the Pittsburgh Steelers who ran
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: back that touchdown and like ran over like fifteen people
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl and playoffs on Super Bowl for touchdown.
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: It was a super Bowl supero. I was there. He
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: don't ever try to claim that I was there with him,
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: but he always they always neglect me out of NFL history.
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: But it's all right because you know, he's a workout freak.
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: That's one thing. That's one thing for sure. If you
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: think you can work out, Alla, hang around James Harrison
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: because I had I had a good fortune of meeting
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: him when I was with Steve Harvey on the Steve
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: Harvey Talk Show. He didn't talk show, and we sat
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: down my office, had a good conversation because he's a character.
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: He's a character and he will tell you what's on
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: his mind. If you if you're sitting across from him, Ala,
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: we're talking about James Harrison, and you don't want the
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: truth or some positive feedback that might become negative that
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: you expected what they say, hold back his words. You're
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: talking no, not at all, no, no, But but that's
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: the type of person because he's competitive, he's gonna push
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: you towards your greatness. When you're talking about that, talking
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: about working with him, I got I got the chance
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: to train him for nine months. So while we were
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: shooting hills, it was basically a part of our it
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: was a part of our contract to work out basically
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: five days out of the week, even when we're shooting
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: and when we're not shooting. So I took it upon
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: myself to you know, basically shadow him, shodow him while
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: he trained. So these are four four or fifteen wake up,
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: five am. We in the gym, and we're training, and
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: we're working for at least two hours, um every day,
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: Monday through Saturday. And I did that with that man
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: for nine months, and I learned what it takes to
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: be an elite athlete, the approached, the mental side of it, all,
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: the physical, the importance of recovery. Like I've learned so
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: much from from him and um so like it was
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: life changing to be able to have nine months to
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: train with such an elite athlete and kind of just
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: you know, mimic and being inspired by his routine and
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: and learn, like you know, as an actor, you you you,
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: you you portray and you portray these type of characters.
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: But to actually be next to one and befriend one
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: and kind of pick his brain on how it all
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: comes together was just another blessing. Now we were talking,
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: let's let's talk about we're talking about We're talking with
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: Ala Malton Aldo. We're gonna talk about another project, but
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: right now we're talking about the stars action drama called Heels.
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: What's your rolling in? And uh, how do you interact
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: with the other characters? Rooster Robbins is the name. It's
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: Rooster time. He is the high flying act of the
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: show and of the rest of the league. Um. We're
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: part of this independent wrestling league and Duffy called d
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: w l UM. I'm one of several wrestlers on the show. Uh,
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: and you kind of see me go through my growing pains.
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: I'm a I'm a VET, but I started off as
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: a young prodigy, so you kind of see the frustration
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: of uh in the eagerness to get to the next
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: level in this series. It's a drama, So I know
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: people used to me being in comedies as of late.
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: But I'm excited to be able to flex that and
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: just remind people, Like, you know, the last five years,
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: people have known me for my comedy, but you know,
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: I've been doing this a long time and like the
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: first ten years in my career, I did nothing but
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: dramatic work. So I'm excited to kind of flex that
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: muscle and and remind people that I can. You know,
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: I'm all around. Well. The special thing about that when
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: I watched Kevin Hart, you know, and can flex his
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: his his drama muscle, and I watch you. But like
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: I said, because you do so many different projects, that
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: lets me know you can do this too, because you're
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: not to me pigeonholes. As far as any of the
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: roles that you play, because they all are different, they
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: all involved some research, like this involved some research. But
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: more importantly, I gotta ask you the physicality of this
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: particular role because of the fact that you know, you
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: see you know, the Friday Night Wrastling or the USA
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: Wrastling on fridayn Fox. These guys coming off that turn vocal,
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: hitting that hitting that floor. Talk about that training and
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: how you were able to recover because you talk about
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: recovering from things like that, and then when you were
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: doing the training process, that meant when you had to
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: have the confidence that you will be all right when
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: you finally hit the mat right. Well, you know that's
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: what the importance of the weight training and like stretching
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: was something that I really grew to love while shooting
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: the show and again working with James, like the importance
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: of it. I never really stretched before like an idiot,
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: but now it's it's a part of my routine where
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: I got like thirty minutes uh before and after every
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: workout that I'm I'm stretching in the importance of that.
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: So with that being said, training and all of the
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: wrestling routines that we would learn, and we had a
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: fantastic group of stunt doubles. Um. You know, I was
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: blessed to be able to do most of my stunts. Uh,
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: I was excited. I was that six year old kid
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: jumping off a outes, you know. So anytime they would
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: have asked me to do this ridiculous stunt and I
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: always took a beat because the grown Maldonado was like
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: many on this like come on, chill, chick, six year
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: old maldon I was like, what are you talking about?
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: This is what we dreamed. Uh, Jumpy got a a
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: rig front flipping back rope, back flipping off the top ropes,
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: backflipping on, James Harrison, jumping on, jumping out of the ring, flipping.
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: I said, you know what, I want to do it
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: all and I want to experience what it feels like
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: to be a real wrestler. And wrestling is real. It's predetermined,
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: but it's real. Those those those um hitting, that hitting
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: that canvas is real. And it gets even really after
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: you get close lines seven times in a row by
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: James Harrison. So definitely by nine. By the ninth month
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: of us filming this thing, Uh, my body was It's
• 51:02
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• 52:43
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• 53:05
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• 53:08
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• 53:16
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• 53:20
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• 53:25
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• 53:27
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• 53:30
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• 53:32
  Speaker 1: this back flip. He definitely inspired me to take a
• 53:37
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• 53:39
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• 53:41
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• 53:46
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• 53:49
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• 53:54
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• 53:56
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• 54:00
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• 54:03
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• 54:06
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• 54:12
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• 54:14
  Speaker 1: you know the whole problem, Like the whole good thing
• 54:17
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• 54:20
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• 54:22
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• 54:25
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• 54:28
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• 54:33
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• 54:48
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• 54:50
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• 54:56
  Speaker 1: my man, you got the Wonder Years reboot, that's a
• 54:59
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• 55:03
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• 55:18
  Speaker 1: with the Wonder Years reboot. Your role, how you got
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: involved in that? And that's on ABC? Uh that will
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: I played coach Long. Um. I'm also the father to um,
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: the best friend of the show. Uh so Um how
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: Wonder Years came about Saladeine Patterson as the show runners
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: shout out to Saladein, Um incredible writer, incredible person overall.
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: Uh the honor of working with him, uh at the
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: writer's room because he show ran lass o. G So
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: when the opportunity came where there was a role, Uh
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: that I suit I was suited for. Um he just
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: reached out and Um, you know, made the phone call
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: and we worked it all out. Uh. We had our
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: prior you know, working working relationship with the last o
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: G and we worked so well together. It was you know,
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: it was a no brainer, UM going in and just
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: shout out to do le Um who we also started
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: the Psyche movie, which spawned from how well we worked
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: together on Wonder Years and a Wonder Years pilot. So
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm a I'm a big believer in work
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: gets you more work, and that's how I've built my
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: career of just being consistent, being on time, being professional, UM,
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: trying my best to supersede anyone's expectations of what they
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: what they want out of whatever character I deliver on screen.
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: And that's how all of this stuff continues to happen. Man.
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: So I'm blessed, and I look forward to just continuing
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: the consistent work ethic and just giving him all as
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: an artist. Man, I really, I really, really really love
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: this acting thing. I don't want to short change you know, actor, writer, director, entrepreneur.
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: You know, in the writer's room in Blackish, you know,
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: we all talked about this. So you know, sometimes I'm
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: jealous of you because I was in the writer's room,
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: but I couldn't act. So you know, so you got
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: me that, you know what I'm saying, I could tell
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: a joke, but I couldn't that. So you still got
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: me that I could direct but I couldn't that. So
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: you know, you always go top. Regan McDonald, is that
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: what you talked about was relationships and a lot of
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: people that don't understand that really is the value. And
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: black actors now are starting to get relationships with people
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: that look like us. They are making phone calls. You know,
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: used to be Spike Lee was the only black person
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: that can make phone calls, you know, but now there
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: are other black people in this business starting to make
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: phone calls and becoming decision makers. And you create these
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: relationships and into making you feel comfortable about the future
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: and what you can do not only as an actor
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: but as a writer and a director, because you want
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: to bring your own projects to the screen, whether it's
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: small or large. Correct, Yeah, I mean that's I mean
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: life has built off relationships, not just you know, entertainment.
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: I think people lose sight that the real value on
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: this uh this other world is pet the people um
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: in your relationships. If everything went the dirt. We will
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: be relying on each other's relationship to survive, whether it
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: like if this person hunting and this person caught fish,
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: or this person was good as a blacksmith. For all
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: these things, um, we had to depend more on what
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: technology in the way society has built. You're not really
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: um measured by your talents, your natural talents rather um,
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: so people try to diminish your worth. Um So overall, man,
• 58:54
  Speaker 1: I think relationships and being a good person and respecting
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: one another will get you a very very very long way. Um.
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: And I'm happy to uh have built a you know,
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: reputation of being a stand up person and uh professional
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: at the end of the day. And really just I'm
• 59:16
  Speaker 1: just a cool dude man, Like I do my work
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: and go home. Man, we do a lot of good
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: works and I respect that. Now you went back now
• 59:23
  Speaker 1: you're doing a movie and went back to my era,
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: you know House Party reboot. You know that brought back
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: some memories and the fact that you're inbroughved with it.
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: You know. Uh, I thleeve Jacob Latimer from The Shy
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: is uh starting in the movie with you, Uh talk
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: about that reboot? I know you know back then, Uh
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: you know, a lot of comedians were involved in a
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: lot of great comedy actors were involved in it. When
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: that was approached to you put on your docket, talk
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: about that experience. Like you said, you have a past
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: relationship working relationship with Lebron James on Survivor's Remorse, And
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: that's what I love about you whenever we talk, you
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: have a clear understanding that, like we've talked about a
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: few minutes ago, relationships build opportunity, and on that opportunity,
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: you still have to deliver the work, and you don't.
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: You don't fall back on I just that's my boy.
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: He's gonna take care of you. Going there with the
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: mindset that I still have to deliver in order to
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: get the next opportunity from my board or from my girl.
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: Correct that it's correct, man um, I think people uh.
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: And that's the respect aspect of it all. Just because
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: you're you know, friends are you're closer to one person
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: versus the next, doesn't mean you lose respect for your
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: craft or your job or what they have hired you for.
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: And a lot of times we do do that, and
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: it's disrespectful to whoever your friend is. Because it's like, man,
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: that's something separate, like I hired you to do something,
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 1: but House Party it is one of those I p
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: s are you know, classics that to be a part
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: of this new version and this new creation of it.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: As you know, you know, people tend to think of
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: reboots as sequels, and that's not really what it is.
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: The reboot. It's a different version of this similar world,
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: this coming of age story that we got to experience
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: that impacted the culture in such a way in the
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: early nineties that you know has transferred to to now
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: which is almost thirty years UM. Shout out to Reggie
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: who directed the first one, who's um, you know, the
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: mind and the creation, the brilliance behind the first one.
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: He's a part of the reboot as well as an
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: executive producer. So we're in good hands with Lebron. Uh.
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: Shout out to Chuck, our director. Um, you know, and
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: we we we were looking in and we're determined to
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: put some very very funny on screen. Now. Yeah, that
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: you know people would enjoy at the end of the day,
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: and that's all that matters. You know. Before I go,
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: I I'll be remissed. I kind of mentioned their names
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: a little bit. We talked a lot about James co
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: starring with you and the Stars series he years. But
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: you have two leads in there, because I mentioned started
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: in this series, Viking series and also starting the Arrow series.
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: Can you talk about that their talents and working with
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: their talents and how how they just incredibly gifted young
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: men and nice people as well. Oh Man, Stephen the
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: Mill uh and Alexander. Um, They're they're pure professionals. Man.
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: I love sharing the screen with them. Some of some
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: of my favorite scenes in the series are with them. Um,
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: some some really good dramatic work uh and just lions
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: man like we gotta we gotta den for the lions.
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: And Stephen the Mill is the captain of the ship
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: man uh. And second up Xander and they set the tone. Um.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: You know there's scenes I've seen with scenes with Xander's
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: throwing chairs and all types of crazy stuff. I love it.
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: It's it's it's it's a beautiful, you know, sort of
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: dance that you get the witness close and personal. When
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: you when you get to work with phenomenal actors such
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: as such as them and and along with the entire
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: got Chris Boo like shout out to Chris he plays
• 1:03:10
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• 1:03:14
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• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: down one of my favorite actors to watch work this witness. Uh.
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: He's such a pure artist. Uh. And every time, every second, uh,
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: and every frame that you see him in, it's something
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: special when you go get something unique. So I'm telling
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: you it's the whole cast is incredible and oh my god,
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: I just can't wait. Well before I want to end
• 1:03:44
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• 1:03:47
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• 1:03:51
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• 1:03:55
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• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: and it is death. Unfortunately the allowed me to see
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: only do Kobe Bryant the basketball star. You know, I
• 1:04:06
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• 1:04:09
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• 1:04:12
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• 1:04:15
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• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: that you have that on your back wall and Kobe
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: Bryant and why he has an impact in your life. Uh.
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: He you know, Mama mentality is the gospel. It's the uh,
• 1:04:32
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• 1:04:35
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• 1:04:40
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• 1:04:44
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• 1:04:48
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• 1:04:52
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• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: like there is no nos, only yes uh. And and
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: it's a lot inspired by you know, Kobe, watching him work,
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: watching watching his um in his rise, his struggles, his wins,
• 1:05:12
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• 1:05:17
  Speaker 1: work ethic is what uh you hear about. And only
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: this is gonna the legend is only gonna grow as
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: the stories continue to go. Even in his past and
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: so uh, Kobe personally means a lot of an l
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: a kid as well. So um, we we watched him
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: grow and you know, to see him pass in the
• 1:05:39
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• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: it's impacted everyone, you know, definitely condolescence to his wife
• 1:05:47
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• 1:05:55
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• 1:05:58
  Speaker 1: so uh uh. Just an incredible human being, incredible inspiration.
• 1:06:03
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• 1:06:07
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