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RHOA Reunion + Belle Collective's Latrice Rogers · Reality with The King

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  Speaker 1: So I would say, what makes me to Beyonce? You know,
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  Speaker 1: to me Beyonce's perfection.
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  Speaker 2: She liked me. I think she over analyzed everything. She
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  Speaker 1: And you know, as you can see, anything that I do,
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  Speaker 1: you know.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to do it to the best of my
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  Speaker 3: Stay tuned. We'll get into my conversation with Laterrese Rogers
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  Speaker 3: right after these quick ads. Welcome to Reality with the King.
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  Speaker 3: It's me Carlos King, the King of Reality TV and
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  Speaker 3: one of the most soft after executive producers in reality
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  Speaker 3: television with over ten years of production experience. Twice a
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  Speaker 3: week on Reality with the King, we'll sit down with
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  Speaker 3: my friends across the entertainment industry, recap our favorite reality shows,
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  Speaker 3: and revisit unforgettable moments that we are still talking and
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  Speaker 3: tweeting about. Hey, rain Drops. So before we get into
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  Speaker 3: my conversation with Laterce Rogers about this season of Bell Collective,
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  Speaker 3: I first must give y'all my recap and review of
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  Speaker 3: the Real Housewives of Atlanta Reunion Part one. Now, the
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  Speaker 3: reason why I'm not giving this reunion review an entire
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  Speaker 3: episode of Reality with the King podcast is because I
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  Speaker 3: just don't think it deserves one no shade, I don't
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  Speaker 3: think it deserves me talking about it more than ten
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  Speaker 3: to fifteen minutes at the most. The reunion was okay,
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  Speaker 3: it wasn't great to me. Kenya Moore did an interview
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  Speaker 3: a few weeks ago and she said that she thought
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  Speaker 3: the reunion was tame and baby one thing about the icon,
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  Speaker 3: the legend, the moment, Kenya Moore, miss thing does not lie.
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  Speaker 3: It was a very tame Part one reunion, and base
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  Speaker 3: on the coming attractions for Part two, it's even tamer.
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  Speaker 3: So I don't think I'm going to talk about Part
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  Speaker 3: two because based on how Part one went, I really
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  Speaker 3: don't want to talk about this one so much. But
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  Speaker 3: I will because I know you guys haven't asked me
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  Speaker 3: to recap Atlanta Housewives, and I haven't done it since
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  Speaker 3: that episode where the girls went on the cabin trip
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  Speaker 3: and I told you guys, it was the worst episode
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  Speaker 3: in the history of the franchise to me, and I said,
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  Speaker 3: I just can't continue talking about the season if these
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  Speaker 3: episodes are going to give me life like some episodes
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  Speaker 3: have this season. I gave the premier episode B plus
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  Speaker 3: I gave two other episodes this season and A, so
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  Speaker 3: I did talk about those. So, yes, I'm very fair,
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  Speaker 3: I'm very honest when it's great, O baby, please believe
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna talk about it in my lista rental voice.
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  Speaker 3: So I felt the need to talk about part one
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  Speaker 3: because you guys have asked me to and I'm gonna
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  Speaker 3: do it, but I can't promise you i'm gonna do
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  Speaker 3: it fo part two or part three, just saying so
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  Speaker 3: let's get into it, okay. For starters, the set looked beautiful.
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  Speaker 3: I love the set. It had this Jamaican theme. It
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  Speaker 3: had a lot of birds and parakeets. I mean throughout
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  Speaker 3: the reunion hearing them was a bit of a distress,
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  Speaker 3: but whatever, it was fine to me. They had a bridge, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: and then, yes, honey, a bridge, not you know, the
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  Speaker 3: London bridge, hey, Fergie, not bridge over troubled waters for
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  Speaker 3: my gospel christians. Honey, who knows about those gospel songs?
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  Speaker 3: Nor Michelle Williams from Destiny Child who is the queen,
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  Speaker 3: honey of seeking a bridge? Yes, so they had a
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  Speaker 3: bridge where the ladies were walking down. I thought the
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  Speaker 3: ladies looked beautiful. My favorite looks was. I mean, I
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  Speaker 3: think Sharai Whitfield is one of the most beautiful women
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  Speaker 3: on Bravo. She looked stunning. She looked gorgeous. The body
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  Speaker 3: was right, Charae was flawless, soft look. The blonde was
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  Speaker 3: a hit. Her boobs were boobing. She looked gorgeous. Kenya
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  Speaker 3: icon More looked like a superstar.
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  Speaker 2: Baby.
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  Speaker 3: She was giving me solid gold. She was giving me
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  Speaker 3: some renaissance of the Beyonce album Baby, she was giving
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  Speaker 3: me superstar. She looked like a star, a star, a
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  Speaker 3: star who's sit in the middle, which we'll get into
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  Speaker 3: that later because that was interesting. And I love Marlow look.
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  Speaker 3: Marlow to me is very pretty Marlow. I mean, in
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  Speaker 3: my opinion, I think Marlow's skin is gorgeous. I love
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  Speaker 3: when Marlo wears her hair bone straight. I think Marlow
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  Speaker 3: is a very, very very pretty woman. I mean, I
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  Speaker 3: think she's so soft looking, very pretty. I thought she
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  Speaker 3: looked great, and I thought Drew looked very nice. Drew,
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  Speaker 3: if you're listening, cause I know you are, keep that look.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know that was go naked hair. Whatever was
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  Speaker 3: Keith the wig. I love the bundos. You looked beautiful,
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  Speaker 3: you looked very soft. I would keep that looked you
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  Speaker 3: never looked better. Stop with the blond wigs that you
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  Speaker 3: wore at the finale. That wasn't hitting it. You was
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  Speaker 3: giving me good Anna the Cole Smith teas makes you
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  Speaker 3: rest in peace. That wig was giving me Early days
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  Speaker 3: of Brittany Jean Christina Aguilera, jess A Consimpson mixed them
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  Speaker 3: and Mandy Moore. Do not ever do a blond wig,
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  Speaker 3: Drew Sidora. Okay, the look you gave at tonight's reunion
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  Speaker 3: was nothing short of fantastic. You look great. Okay, I
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  Speaker 3: got up. I got that out the way. The girls
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  Speaker 3: look good. Okay. The most controversial thing about this reunion
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  Speaker 3: was not the content. It was the scening arrangements. I
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  Speaker 3: don't know who thought that sening arrangement was the buz Nai.
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  Speaker 3: It was very confusing and it makes no damn since
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  Speaker 3: and Kenya, if you're listening, because I know you are,
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  Speaker 3: they are playing in your face, Kenya. And I gotta
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  Speaker 3: be honest, Marlow took Kenya seat. So if you are
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  Speaker 3: a long watcher a viewer, I should say of the
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  Speaker 3: real House Walks of Atlanta. You know that every single season,
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  Speaker 3: starting season five, Kenya Moore sits camera left. She sits
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  Speaker 3: on the left couch, so when you're facing the television
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  Speaker 3: to your left, Kenya always sits on that couch. She's
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  Speaker 3: been sitting on that couch since season five when she started.
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  Speaker 3: And Kenya normally gets first chair. There's been two reunions
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  Speaker 3: where she didn't, and I'll get into that in a second,
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  Speaker 3: but Kenya one percent always sits on the left couch,
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  Speaker 3: camera left. Girls. They gave marlow her seat, and to me,
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  Speaker 3: that was a message to Kenya. I felt like that
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  Speaker 3: was a loud bull horn Kenya more haircare display of
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  Speaker 3: a message to Kenya that, yeah, Marlowe is here to
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  Speaker 3: take your spot. Because Marlowe literally took her spot. And
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  Speaker 3: I know Kenya very well. When Kenya walked out last
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  Speaker 3: and saw Marlowe in her seat, I promise you, promise you.
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  Speaker 3: Kenya was not happy, and Nord should she be. It's
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  Speaker 3: sort of like Nini Leaks, So let's go to the
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  Speaker 3: history of the reunions for that franchise. Nini Leaks always
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  Speaker 3: sits on the right couch, camera right. Nini Leaks, who
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  Speaker 3: is the greatest housewife of all time, regardless if Nini
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  Speaker 3: is going to speak, raise her voice, yell at the girls,
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  Speaker 3: or give a very much no response comment that she gave.
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  Speaker 3: I believe that was season twelve reunion when she wore
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  Speaker 3: the black dress. She never looked ooh, she looked so
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  Speaker 3: beautiful in never union. Nini gave no response. Porsis like
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  Speaker 3: Ni Needy It no response, Cynthia Needy, no response. They
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  Speaker 3: never did throw Niani seat. Ever, even when Nini did
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  Speaker 3: I have a good season, Nini leaks knew when she
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  Speaker 3: walked out that she was going to sit next to
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  Speaker 3: Andy on the right side of him on the right couch. Period. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: same thing with Kim Zosiak, even when Kim Zosiak was
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  Speaker 3: a friend to the show. Baby Season ten reunion. Let's
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  Speaker 3: be clear, by the way, Season Tim reunion is so
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  Speaker 3: fucking iconic, and we don't talk about that reunion enough.
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  Speaker 3: Season Tim reunion was good, really good, honey. Kim Zosiak
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  Speaker 3: would always sit on the left couch. So when I
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  Speaker 3: just said about Kenya being on that side of the couch,
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  Speaker 3: that's because when Kim left the show, Kenya replaced her
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  Speaker 3: In terms of that seating assignment bitch. When Kim was
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  Speaker 3: a friend to the show season ten and she came out,
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  Speaker 3: I believe part two of the reunion, she told I
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  Speaker 3: believe it was Porsche. Excuse me, Porsia, Yep, you can
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  Speaker 3: secre datto yap, because baby, I'm back to proclaim I seat.
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  Speaker 3: And she sat next to Andy rightfully so, because she
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  Speaker 3: is an og and her and Ninnie gave one of
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  Speaker 3: the best reunions I have ever seen. I love that reunion.
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  Speaker 3: Kenya was not only booted from her original couch, she
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  Speaker 3: had to sit in the middle between Candy and Charay,
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  Speaker 3: and I just believe that was a slap in the
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  Speaker 3: face of Kenya because at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 3: Kenya knows how to give a great reunion. And when
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  Speaker 3: you want a star to give you a great reunion,
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  Speaker 3: you make sure that they are in the seat that's
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  Speaker 3: going to give the best performance.
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  Speaker 2: I e.
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  Speaker 3: Nini, Kim, Giselle Bryant. Gaselle Briant has never lost her seat.
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  Speaker 3: Same thing with Bethany Franco, Teresa Judais. These are women
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  Speaker 3: who never lost their seat as being next to Andy.
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  Speaker 3: I believe the only season where Teresa wasn't next to
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  Speaker 3: Andy was season one, I believe if I can, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I believe season one. I could be wrong, but I
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  Speaker 3: believe was season one. But other than that, Teresa will
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  Speaker 3: always sit next to Andy, period, point in the blank.
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  Speaker 3: So for me to see that Kenya did not have
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  Speaker 3: that seat, that was a gag and one thing I
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  Speaker 3: know about producing that show for so many years. In
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  Speaker 3: addition to of course the reunion, if you want a
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  Speaker 3: good reunion, you have to make sure the seating arranged
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  Speaker 3: is to a t. It has to be perfect. Let
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  Speaker 3: me give you guys an example. Season eight reunion, Kenya
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  Speaker 3: Moore was sitting on her original couch, her original seat,
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  Speaker 3: next to Andy on the left, and Nini Leeks was
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  Speaker 3: a friend to the show season eight and Nini Lee's
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  Speaker 3: was not going to be brought out to the reunion
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  Speaker 3: until part three, so that left room for somebody to
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  Speaker 3: sit on Nini's couch next to Andy. And there were
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  Speaker 3: conversations about who should sit next to Andy, and they
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  Speaker 3: brought a Phaedra and I was like, Faedra is going
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  Speaker 3: to give you Phaedra if she sits next to the bathroom, Like,
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  Speaker 3: Faedra isn't going to give you much more than what
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  Speaker 3: she's going to do because Faedra doesn't care about the
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  Speaker 3: sitting assignment. Same thing with Candy. Candy doesn't care where
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  Speaker 3: she sits, and regardless of where you said, Candy, she's
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  Speaker 3: going to give you the same Candy. So I said
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  Speaker 3: to them, y'all need to sit Portia next to Andy,
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  Speaker 3: and I said, hear me out, Porsche is burgeoning and
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  Speaker 3: this is season eight. I said, Porsche is burgeoning and
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  Speaker 3: being a star of this franchise. And mark my words,
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  Speaker 3: if you sit Porsche next to Andy, it's going to
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  Speaker 3: empower Porsche to give you everything because she knows that's
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  Speaker 3: a special seat and Porsche is going to take it seriously,
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  Speaker 3: and it's going to mean something to Porsiche if you
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  Speaker 3: give her that seat, okay, and if Kenya sees that
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  Speaker 3: across from her, it's Porsche. Kenya is going to make
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  Speaker 3: sure to give you an even better reunion because at
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  Speaker 3: that time there were arch Nemesis, and that's a psychology
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  Speaker 3: in how you produce a show of this magnitude. So
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  Speaker 3: that's why season eight reunion was also a really good
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  Speaker 3: reunion because it's all about this seating assignment. So to
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  Speaker 3: see that Kenya was on the opposite couch that she's
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  Speaker 3: used to and in the middle. I'm not surprised that
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  Speaker 3: Kenya gave y'all nothing because Kenya was probably in her
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  Speaker 3: mind thinking like, y'all got me fucked up, and I'm
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  Speaker 3: sorry y'all had her fucked up. And it explains why
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  Speaker 3: this reunion part one was okay. It wasn't spectacular. It
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  Speaker 3: was very reminiscent of last season's dreadful reunion where it
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  Speaker 3: was just okay, like nothing to me happened that was spectacular.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, look, your boy loved the fact that Martell
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  Speaker 3: Holt from My creation, Love and Marriage Huntsville was talked about.
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  Speaker 3: They even talked about Melody and it's funny because they
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  Speaker 3: talked about them without using their names. But how we
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  Speaker 3: all know. They talked about Martel Charai's new person of interests.
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  Speaker 3: I can't say boyfriend because Charai said, that's not my boyfriend.
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  Speaker 3: And yes, I'm very much aware that's saying person of
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  Speaker 3: interest is giving very much law and order SBU So
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  Speaker 3: I get it, But honey, I don't know what to
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  Speaker 3: call that relationship. So Charie's lover, Martel Hope was brought
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  Speaker 3: up at the reunion and they brought up the fact that, Wow,
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  Speaker 3: you dating somebody who people are saying treated his ex
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  Speaker 3: wife horribly had a baby on her. So we all
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  Speaker 3: know they were talking about Melody Cherie, his ex wife
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  Speaker 3: who dropped the name Hopes and goes by Melody Chari. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: So I enjoy that because I mean, honey, you just
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  Speaker 3: can't escape Carlos king honey. Speaking of which, so outside
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  Speaker 3: of that mentioned with Charae and Martell, I thought that
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  Speaker 3: was funny. I really enjoyed that the Candy and Marlowe
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  Speaker 3: thing fell flat to me because I wanted more. But
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  Speaker 3: what's so interesting? And listen, this is my opinion, so
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  Speaker 3: take it as fact. I'm Teza. But we all know
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  Speaker 3: that this podcast has driven conversation and viewership to this
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  Speaker 3: season of the Real House Squads of Atlanta because of
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  Speaker 3: my podcast. Marlowe and Charay has said some things about
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  Speaker 3: Candy that have been picked up by the press, the
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  Speaker 3: blogs everywhere. And it's interesting because it's evident that they
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  Speaker 3: could not or chose to edit it out the fact
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  Speaker 3: that what Marlowe and Charay said about Candy on my
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  Speaker 3: podcast is really the reason why this beef has happened,
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  Speaker 3: which is why Charay was so confused, like, what do
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  Speaker 3: you talk I don't talk about you, you talk about
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  Speaker 3: me and your confessionals. She made a comment, but we
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  Speaker 3: all knew it had to do with my podcast. So
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  Speaker 3: on my podcast Scharay talked about how she felt that
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  Speaker 3: it wasn't fair that Candy has said publicly that if
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  Speaker 3: Pedro was to come back on the show that she
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  Speaker 3: would leave, that Candy would leave if Fatri came back
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  Speaker 3: on the show, and Sharay sent on my podcast that
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  Speaker 3: she did not feel like that was right and how
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  Speaker 3: she is an og meaning Chara, and that her Nieni
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  Speaker 3: and Kim would always give everything to the show and
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  Speaker 3: they never cared about who you brought on. They felt like, look,
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  Speaker 3: bring any bitch on, I'm going to give you my reality.
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  Speaker 3: And Sharay thought that wasn't fair and that hit the
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  Speaker 3: bloggers fear like crazy, and apparently that's what got some
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  Speaker 3: people upset. In addition to that, Marlowe came on my
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  Speaker 3: podcast and said that Candy doesn't do much for the
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  Speaker 3: black community, that instead of selling sex toy, she should
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  Speaker 3: be helping out the community. So when Candy said on
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  Speaker 3: the reunion that you sell, don't help people you sell,
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  Speaker 3: don't help people. She's talking about the podcast, but of
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  Speaker 3: course they could not talk about the podcast because at
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  Speaker 3: the end of the day, from Love and Marriage, Huntsville,
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  Speaker 3: Martell and Melody and my podcast, that's really what the
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  Speaker 3: part one was about. So I just wanted to give you,
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  Speaker 3: guys contacts because I saw that a lot of the
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  Speaker 3: feedback on social media was I'm confused, Is it really
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  Speaker 3: about Marlowe getting a show with Todd?
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  Speaker 2: Like?
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  Speaker 3: What is this? We all were confused because the root
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  Speaker 3: of their issue has a lot to do with what
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  Speaker 3: marlow said on my podcast about Candy. And look, listen
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  Speaker 3: to that particular episode with Marlowe and you will see
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  Speaker 3: what I'm talking about. Okay, So there we have it.
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  Speaker 3: Other than that, I'm trying to think, guys, what else
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  Speaker 3: was interesting about this reunion? I mean, look, I thought
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  Speaker 3: Drew's funny. I enjoy more of this Drew. Drew and
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  Speaker 3: Sonya sitting next to each other was just weird, Like
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  Speaker 3: why would you sit to rivals next to each other.
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  Speaker 3: It's like sitting Nini and Charay next to each other.
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  Speaker 3: It's like sitting Kenya in portion next to It was
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  Speaker 3: just and it make any sense? So if I was
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  Speaker 3: producing this season, this would have been Carlos King's scenic
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  Speaker 3: assignment for this reunion. So on the left couch, it
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  Speaker 3: would have been Kenya next to Andy, Candy next to Kenya,
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  Speaker 3: and then Drew next to Candy Okay. So on the
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  Speaker 3: left side of the couch, I would have had Andy, Kenya, Candy,
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  Speaker 3: Drew Okay. On the other side of the couch, I
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  Speaker 3: would have had Andy, Marlowe, Chara and Sonya. That would
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  Speaker 3: have been my seating assignment if I was producing this season,
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  Speaker 3: because that to me, would have made the most sense
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  Speaker 3: in terms of chemistry, seeing how the two people who
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  Speaker 3: don't get along I e. Kenya, Marlowe, Candy and charae
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  Speaker 3: Jur and Sonya, that they'll be able to see each
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  Speaker 3: other face and face and just like talk to each
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  Speaker 3: other and go at it. That would have been my
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  Speaker 3: seting assignment. So let me know if you guys would
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  Speaker 3: agree with me. Do y'all agree with my seating assignment?
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  Speaker 3: Let me know by tweeting me hashtagging reality with the King.
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  Speaker 3: So overall, I guess of this reunion, I give it
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  Speaker 3: a C plus. I was gonna say C minus. I'll
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  Speaker 3: give it a C plus because I did enjoy hearing
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  Speaker 3: Marlow's backstory. I would not have ended the episode on
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  Speaker 3: that personally. I would have put that in the middle.
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  Speaker 3: That's that's just me because when you end a part
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  Speaker 3: one reunion, you need to cliffhang it on something that
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  Speaker 3: would bring people back to part two. So yeah, that would.
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  Speaker 2: Have been me.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, So I give it a C plus. Like I said,
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  Speaker 3: I can't make any promises that I'm going to review
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  Speaker 3: part two or three. I guess you just have to
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  Speaker 3: wait and see. Don't you go anywhere. Stay tuned for
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  Speaker 3: my conversation with LaTrece.
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  Speaker 4: Will be right back after this quick break without burgerdo.
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  Speaker 3: Let's get into my conversation with Bell Collectives LaTrece rogers Hey,
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  Speaker 3: rain Drops. So I got my girl from Bell Collective.
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  Speaker 3: You know, she calls herself the Beyonce of Jackson. She
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  Speaker 3: is a diva, honey, she also considers herself the real star. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: a Bell Collective I've talked about the one y'all love baby,
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  Speaker 3: miss Latrese rogers Hey, rain Drops.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you so much Carlos for having me on today.
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: So let's get right into it. Bell Collective is such
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: a big show it's a huge hit for the Upper
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: and Women Network. People are loving this season. But before
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: we get into all that, talk to the audience about you,
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: because one thing that I have said to my audience
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: about you is when I first laid eyes on you,
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: I was like, Oh, she is a starr. She is
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: meant to be on television. This girl is at buried thing.
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: So did you always know that you would be in
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: front of the camera and famous?
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: I did not, And honestly, I always tell people it's
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: thanks to you because you believed in me when I
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: didn't even believe in myself. So that gave me the
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: confidence when you came through. Was like, listen, girl, you're
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: a star. Like I didn't see myself as that person,
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: but I've always been like the person behind the scenes.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: And I'm a hell of a business owner. Hell I'm
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: probably the only business real business owner. But that's another conversation.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: But the show, it's just amazing, Like I'm glad that
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: the people perceived it the way that they did because honestly,
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: I'm an introvert and a lot of people don't see this,
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: but you know that's just my that's my personality, and
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: you know, I don't know, I just love it. Thank
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: you Carlos for giving me this opportunity. Once again, I
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: always thank you for that. But also you know because
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: now my business, it was already worldwide, but now it's
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: another spectrum, so you can't to me, you can't pay
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: for this type of publicity, and you gave me that opportunity,
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: So I'll always be grateful.
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: Oh, thank you, Treat, Treat. That means a lot to
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: me because look, at the end of the day, I
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: know that my purpose is to make people happy in general,
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: and obviously as the owner of this production company, it's
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: to make people famous, is to make people businesses thrive.
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: And the one thing about creating Belt Collective for me
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: was the opportunity to show successful black women in Jackson, Mississippi,
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: similar to what I did with Love and Marriage Huntsville,
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: which was show successful black people living in what some
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: people would consider like the forgotten town. And I feel
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: like Jackson was like that for a large part of
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: the population in the world. So I'm honored that you
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: have given me my flowers, but I'm going to give
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: them back to you, honey, because you are such a
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: joy to watch on the show. When you were approached
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: to do bell Collective. Did you have any reservations to
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: showing your life so the world can judge you, considering
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: you are an introvert.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: I definitely had all the reservations, Like you know, like
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: you literally had to talk my husband into joining.
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: The show because our life is so private.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: As libros, you know, we tend to overanalyze and overthink everything,
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: and you know that about me, You're like, you're overthinking
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: literciare out huh everything because I want everything to be perfect,
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: and you know, when people see me as a business owner,
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: I always want to put my best foot forward because
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: I know people are always especially you know, little girls,
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: little boys that look up to me, So I always
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: want to present myself. And with reality TV, I didn't know,
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: like it was an unknown territory and I'm like, oh
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: my god, like I'm gonna look so crazy because we
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: feel so much and we don't know what you guys
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: are gonna air and we feel crazy stuff. So you know,
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: like I said, I'm always overanalyzing and overthinking how am
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: I gonna look?
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: You know, did I stay the wrong thing? But you
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: know I just gave.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: The row the real me and people I was overthinking
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: how people were gonna.
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: Precede me, and they actually took me for what it
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: was and was like.
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: We love her, No, they do, they they love you, girl.
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: What makes you the Beyonce of Jackson, honey.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: Because I'm the only one with a real fucking business
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: and I'm just kidds.
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: You know, shady honey, shame, I'm not.
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: Shady, honey. You know you get.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: I love that you give all the girls their flowers, honey.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: And we do have some boss women Mississippi, and I
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: love the cast that I feel with.
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: Love him to death. Don't get messy.
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: Now, Oh that's already, that has already started with out.
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: Go ahead, baby.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: So I would say, what makes me to beyoncey? You know,
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: to me, Beyonce's perfection.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: She like me.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: I think she over analyzed everything. She want everything to
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: be exactly the way that it should be. And you know,
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: as you can see, anything that I do, I put
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: my heart and my soul into it, so you know.
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: I'm going to do it to the best of my
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: fucking ability. And that's a Beyonce.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not necessarily saying that I look like Beyonce
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: or you know, I would say that's a Beyonce fucking perfection.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: She has a definition. Her name is a definition.
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: You better baby. She is an adjective, a verb, a
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: pro now, a noun. Yeah, when you pursue anything in life,
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: you should be the Beyonce of your world. You know
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: what I'm saying, Like, you should. You should strive for
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: perfection in the sense of just being great. And she
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: represents that. And yes, I also heard that Beyonce may
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: may be a watcher of Bell collective.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: I know I'm her favorite. She's like the girl real
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: that's the only one will Beyonce. If you're watching the show,
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: I love you.
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: I just love her.
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: Oh and she loves me.
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: So look.
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: Who you don't love seems to be Marie Monroe. One
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: of the things, let's get right into it says what
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: we have seen when it comes to reality television. There
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: always seems to be two cast members who just do
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: not get along, and they just are oil and water.
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: We've seen it with Nannie and Kim or Atlanta Housewives.
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: We've seen it with Tiffany Pollard. You know, I Love
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: New York and every other girl that came her way.
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: We see it with Melody and Tisha. On love and marriage, Huspital,
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: Ashley and Winter on Love and Marriage DC. We've e
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: been seeking now with Aikeisha and Latitia, who's fighting to
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: be the Queen of Jackson and the Queen of fair Street. Honey.
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: But when it comes to you and Marie, without giving
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: so much away because we will, we want, you know,
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: people to still watch this season. What is it about
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: Marie where you two just do not get along?
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: I mean one thing for sure, two thanks for certain.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: A jealous person will lie. You know, my mom always
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: told me that. And when it comes to Marie, I
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: think I'm actually what she wants to be, what she
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: aspires to be. And you know I'm not gonna be
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: down to her. Let's less regardless of the age, dear
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: friends or whatever, like you're not You're not gonna talk
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: to me in this type of way.
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: She knows my life.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: She did enough research out here to know what it
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: is when it comes to me. And one thing about it,
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: any anything that she researched, it came back fact.
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: And that's one thing that me and my husband made sure.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: He was like, listen, when we do this reality to TV,
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: because people fact, chick, and I don't want you to
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: go back and be like, oh my god, LaTrece lied
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: about this.
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: She lied about this.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: Whatever you see me do or talk or say on
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: the show, that's what it is. And I can't say
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: the same for everybody that's on the show. Love them
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: to death, you know. Like I said, they're all bossed women,
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: but sometimes we over exaggerate our bossiness. And I think
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: with her because she knows, you know, my presence, my personage,
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: just everything is what it is, and she just can't
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: take it.
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: So you are a tree.
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: So that's your title.
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: I'm the king of reality TV, but you may be
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: the Queen of Shade and Jackson.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: Listen, that's really occasion. When I said that she quick
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: with I was like, I never want.
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: To go up against her. Girl. You that girl, she
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: is quick.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: On her feet. Yeah, like, we don't like the drama.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: We don't like the mess. I sit here and look
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: at you, or I walk away in a heartby because honey,
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: if it's not about Cohens or my family, what are
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: we sitting here talking about?
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: So yeah, I.
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: Could not agree more. I could not agree more. You
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: brought up something so interesting in the sense of how
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: sometimes women and men who get on reality TV can
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: over exaggerate their success. They can call themselves millionaires when
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: they're not, or say they own these businesses where they
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: may be renting some Uh right. So one of the
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: feedback that we got my Belt Collective. When the show
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: first started, a lot of these viewers were like, now, look,
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: I don't think all these women are multi millionaires. But
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: to our credit, no one ever said it if they
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: weren't to me, right, like now, all five cast members
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: several millionaires.
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: No, they definitely didn't.
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you said you were one, and Marie Monroe said
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: she was one. But let's focus on you really fast.
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: Are you a multi millionaire latrese Rogers.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: According to my tax returns and the iris and we
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: have to fucking pay them out his money.
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: I would say, yes.
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: You better work, bitch.
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: Yes, Like I said, I don't fabricate anything because anything
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: can be researched. So if you research anything about me whatever,
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: I stay out of my mouth. It's gonna come back
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: at just as that.
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: Listen you you see what's up now?
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: Look, I have been to Latree since estate. Latrees owns
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: an estate of acres and acres of land. And if
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: you're a fan of Belt Collected, you saw some of
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: that season one where Miss Thing had to go on
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: a golf cart just to go down to the gazebo, Like,
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: if that ain't blosso, I don't know what is. But
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: her house is gorgeous. You know, no shade. You know
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: Latree's house is similar to mine?
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: Honestly it is. It is, no shade, no shame. I
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: literally face timed you one day and I was like,
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: why the hell does your house look like our house?
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: So, because baby Libra's love coins in real estate, But
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: teach the girls and the guys who are listening how
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: you were able to be this woman who grew up
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: as a little girl in Jackson with humble beginnings and
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: you amassed to be a multi millionaire in your own hometown.
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: Tell us how you were able to become successful although
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: growing up in your environment nothing spoke to you know
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: the success you have now, Honey.
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: I can talk about this story all day. I'm gonna
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: try to make it as short as possible. But you know,
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: I grew up in a small town called can, Mississippi.
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: Like my father, he was on drugs.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: My brothers they were into the street life because they
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: felt like, you know, I have to pick up the
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: slack for my father and less face it, most boys,
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: young black males, they aren't shown the right way to
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: do things, so they revert to violence or you know, robbing, stealing.
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: Stealing drugs.
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: Like that's the typical of what I grew up around
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: in what I saw, Like I can remember sleeping at
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: night and the police kicking our door in and dogs
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: are over our head, guns that pointed at us, and
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: we're kids, so you know it was. I came from
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: very humble beginnings where I didn't see or I didn't
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: have anybody to look up to. So I was the
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: first one to ever go to college. You know, they
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: always tell you that you go to college and you graduate, you'll,
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: you know, have this six figure job and you'll be good.
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: But in my case, that wasn't you know, it didn't
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: work out like that.
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: I watched too many movies as a child and as libras.
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: You know, we're a thinker and we imagine a lot
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: of stuff and how we want our world to be
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: and we won't stop until it's exactly that way.
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: We're hard driven.
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: So I went to college, graduated, working at office depot,
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: and I was making like eight dollars an hour, and
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: I was like, fuck, no, you know my parents here,
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: she's proud of me because you know my mom. She's
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: just looking at it like my baby graduated from college
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: and she doesn't know the you know that society really
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: set you up.
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: Listen, this is a whole scam.
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: To me, college is a scam if you're not going
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: for you know, doctors or engineers.
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: To me, it's a waste.
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: I'm also a college drop out. I dropped out of
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: college my junior year, and I dropped out because I
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: got a job workingt BT. And I said, look, bitch,
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: look here, half of you people in my class want
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: to get a job at BT. I'm already ten steps
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: ahead of y'all. So I remember LaTrece leaving my g
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: agraphy class, and I knew that I wanted to be
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: in television, and I thought to myself, why the fuck
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: am I in geography class where I'm not going to
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: use any of the skill set for my career. I
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: thought it was the dumbest thing to me. So I
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: remember leaving class, chucking the deuces at the hundreds of
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: people in that freaking auditorium, and I said, you guys
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: will see me later I got to go. So I'm
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: with you there, Like in terms of college is not
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: for everybody, and unless you want to be a doctor,
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: a lawyer, or like you said, an engineer, where there's
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: certain positions that you need the college education. I just
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: don't believe that you should waste your money on getting
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: a degree if you know that you're able to get
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: a job without it. That's my opinion. I know it's unpopular,
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: but you're speaking to two people who have similar homes
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: that are speaking facts. So continular Trees, thank you for that.
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: So working at office depot making eight dollars an hour,
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: so I always knew that I wanted better for myself
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: and that you know, working for the white man wasn't
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: going to get me there. So saved up about it
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: was about three for three to five hundred dollars, and
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: I bought my first batch of hair. And for whatever reason,
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: like I was like I was always fascinated with beauty
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: and hair and you know, makeup, nails, all of it.
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: Like that's always been something that I was passionate about.
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: And one thing about it, like when it comes to
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: selling hair, the bill was so diluted and people can say, oh,
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: it's just selling hair. But at the end of anybody
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: can do it, just like you know anybody can Hey,
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: anybody can go to school, anybody can pat shoes, anybody
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: can sell water.
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: With me, like people look at selling hair like, oh girl,
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: you just sell hair. But honey, I built an empire
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: out of it because you know, I had a debate
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: with a doctor. You know, you went to school all
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: these years to become a doctor, and here it is
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: a person that can sell T shirts is making.
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: More money than you. So you can't you know, you
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: can't get mad at that, Like you have to respect
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: the hustle. And with me, you know, I don't.
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: I don't like to say I have a hustle mentality,
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: but I have a brilliant mentality.
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: And with hair, like it was.
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: Like a snowball effect when I first put it on
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: the market, Like the town was going crazy. I would
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: literally be sitting in a target's parking lot and I
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: would have like people lined up like around my car
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: down the block trying to get hair out of my car.
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: So it kind of started from there, and like I said,
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: it was a snowball effect. I went into my first
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: brick and mortar I got my first vending machine, and
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: a lot of people don't know, and I think I
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: just got into it this season is I took my
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: money from hair and I started investing it into real estate.
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: So I'm more than just that that's where I started from.
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: So I always rep oh, you know I'm a hair connoisseur,
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: but you know I have rental properties, I buy land spend.
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: When me and my husband first met, like he didn't
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: have a woman like me, Like I'm telling him, I'm
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: going and I'm paying cash for houses. Like, listen, we
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: need to buy homes. We need to buy houses. So
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: you know a lot of people can say, oh, well,
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: her husband is older and he did this, and he
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: did that, And I can tell the people all they
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: and they still won't believe me. But my husband will
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: tell you, honey, I put fucking money in his account.
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: Like me and my husband get money together. So we
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: make a hell of a team. Which why you think
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: he want to pop a baby in me?
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: Cause baby Clifton Rogers aka Zaddy wants to make sure
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: that he also has a billion dollar baby child.
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: That's right, Listen, don't play with me. I'll be telling
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: people don't play on my top.
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: Listen.
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: So to dispel the rumors, did Zaddy fund your business?
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: Did he give you startup money to start your hair business?
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: I wish he did, honey, listen, and I asked, and
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: he was like, no, I'm not gonna lie.
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: I asked him.
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: I was like, are you gonna help me? He was like,
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: we did the grand opening and I'll never forget.
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: We had a line.
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: It was so hot outside. We had like hundreds of
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: people wind up to get hair. And I was like, hey,
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: can you go get my customers some water, because you
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: know I want to you know, I don't walk them
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: out there dehydrate trying to get some hair or falling out.
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: And he would not.
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: He was like, no, you need to bring me my money.
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: You need to give you my money for this water.
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to get the face.
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: I was like, water that.
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: Meant And he would tell you he did not fund
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: my business. I wish he did, and I'm not gonna lie.
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: I wish he did, but I'm so glad that I
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: did do it myself in a same sense.
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: But hell, I'm not gonna turn down money.
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: And then if he did find my business, it doesn't
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: take away from where.
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: My business is today.
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: I did this, and by me saying this, people are
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: still be like, oh, he's still fun to her business.
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: We believe what you want?
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: No, no, no, and and and Zaddy has already corroborated
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: the story that he did not give you any money.
• 41:25
  Speaker 3: That listen. And for me, it's more so like, yes,
• 41:29
  Speaker 3: a black woman can be a self made millionaire. Stop
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: thinking that all women have to marry a rich man
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: in order for her to be rich, or she has
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: to get seed money from her man in order for
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: her to start her business. Like we are on a
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: network that was founded by a black woman who is
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: a self made billionaire and who's also from Mississippi. So
• 41:57
  Speaker 3: it goes to show you that there is something in
• 41:59
  Speaker 3: mississ Zippy Baby, that is producing these smart, beautiful, successful, intelligent,
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: hardworking women who are definitely following the steps in which
• 42:10
  Speaker 3: Oprah Winfrey has created for herself.
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: For sure, thank you, lady, oh as well for giving
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: me this opportunity.
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: Yes, love lady, oh day down here.
• 42:22
  Speaker 3: Yes we love you lady. Oh Okay. So going back
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: into this season, we are seeing that there's two new
• 42:29
  Speaker 3: bells on the show. We got Aikeisha and so Gucci
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: do you think Akesha and so Gucci brought something different
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: than the show than season one.
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: Oh most definitely Gucci brings it funniness her and JJ.
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: I love them forget her of a couple.
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: You guys are gonna enjoy diving more into their lives
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: because they have some issues. Honestly, like they got some issues.
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: It's more than the funniness. The you know what, mesa
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: a lizen. Then Akeisha and Gucci they came in swinging
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: and the show would not be what it is honestly
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: without them.
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: They brought a great addition to the show.
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: No, I agree, I agree and listen this season Latrees
• 43:16
  Speaker 3: is so spectacular. People are loving it. And what I
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: like about this season two is all the women are
• 43:22
  Speaker 3: born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi. And for me, as
• 43:25
  Speaker 3: a creator of shows, there's always something special when you
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: have people who were born and raised in the town
• 43:32
  Speaker 3: that's also a character in the show. And Jackson, Mississippi
• 43:35
  Speaker 3: is definitely a character. And Aikeisha brings this this legacy
• 43:41
  Speaker 3: based on her lineage, and so Gucci and JJ bring
• 43:45
  Speaker 3: comedy and levity to the show based on this season. Obviously,
• 43:51
  Speaker 3: we know that Antoinette decided not to return to a
• 43:53
  Speaker 3: second season A bell collective. Yes, and you two obviously
• 43:59
  Speaker 3: had this budding friendship season one. My my rain drops
• 44:04
  Speaker 3: would like to know if you and Antoinette are still friends.
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: Yes, me and Intimate and Tounette, we're still cordial. Listen,
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: don't start because you're so missed.
• 44:15
  Speaker 3: You said cordial, so go ahead, I'm listening.
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: No, we're cordial, like I could call her, she'll still
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: call me.
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: It's not as strong as it was. Let's face it,
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: like the show brought us. We knew each other and
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: we hung out like we have mutual friends, so you know,
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: we would see each other in the same circle, but
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: the show being on a show together it brought us closer.
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: And now that she's not on the show, it's kind
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: of like back to where we were.
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: Like we're cordial in the sense of, you know, when
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: I see you, I see you, I might call you
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: to ask you some but when I see you, I
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: see you and I still love her.
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: Yes, and I do too. Have you heard from her
• 44:57
  Speaker 3: since the show's been airing.
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: I have none, which.
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: Is crazy, Like I think when the show first no,
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: it was when we were getting ready to go into
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: filming or whatever, and she was like, you don't call
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: me because the show, because of the show, and I'm
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: not on the show, and I'm like, girl's fucking busy
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: for one of the show takes up so much time
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: out of my day, and then I have a business
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: to run, so I didn't have time for anyone. So
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: if you said that, you know, I didn't know where.
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: It was coming from.
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: And I thought she would understand because you have a
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: dental office and you know what it's like filmy, So
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 45:35
  Speaker 3: I feel my girl. No. Listen, when she decided not
• 45:40
  Speaker 3: to return, it was definitely something that she wanted to
• 45:44
  Speaker 3: do the folks of her business and we wish her well.
• 45:48
  Speaker 3: But the good news is this season nothing has felt off.
• 45:54
  Speaker 3: Everything has felt like we are back being bosses, We're
• 45:57
  Speaker 3: back to being great. Yes. Now we have a situation
• 46:00
  Speaker 3: that's coming up in these episodes where Akesha allegedly called
• 46:05
  Speaker 3: the girls ugly and her and Leaticia just seemed to
• 46:10
  Speaker 3: be at odds. So number one of me ask you this,
• 46:13
  Speaker 3: do you think Akesha called the girls ugly? And number two,
• 46:18
  Speaker 3: what is going on between Akesha and Letitia in your opinion?
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: Listen, she may have called the girls ugly. I know
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: she wasn't talking about me.
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: My thing is, I mean, you're not.
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: Gonna sit here and say that you've never called the
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: person ugly. So her opinion is her opinion. She may not,
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: she may or may not think the ladies, you know,
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: look up the part that I can't control how she feels,
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: so it get over. We're grown women. Whatever she feel
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: about me is how she feels, Honey.
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: I know what it is.
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: When it comes to me, I know I can step
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: out and I can take the next person manion if
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: I wanted to so speak.
• 46:55
  Speaker 3: The truth, shame the devil, honey.
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: But with her and Tea, sure it may be a
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: little jealousy here and there. Oh who's part of Oh
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: Carlos got to talk about this?
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: Both of my girls. I'm like both of them.
• 47:11
  Speaker 3: But when you say there could be a little bit
• 47:13
  Speaker 3: of jealousy, is it from both sides? Or is it
• 47:16
  Speaker 3: Alkeisha side or La Titia side of jealousy?
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: No?
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: I really think it may be a power struggle, like
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: having some new people come in when we're actually we're
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: the o gs.
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: You know you're gonna look at it like you know,
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: I know this bitch.
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: Then you know that that's how some of the women
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: are looking at the situation. Child Listen, I I don't
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: know if they'll ever be cordial with each other because
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: it's just it's too much animosity and it's too much.
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: You know, I'm Queen b No, I'm Queen Bee, you
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: know when it shouldn't be that way. But I understand
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: where I understand where both of them is coming from. Tisha,
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: she has a point to prove. I Kesha had a
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: point to proof. Like Akesha, I'm the baddest bitch like
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: my family. I own Jackson. If Tasha bitch, no, you did.
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: I tharted this. I thought at Ferris Street. If it
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: wasn't for me, you won't even thought of Farri Street.
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: The girls, I love them, oh.
• 48:17
  Speaker 3: I love I love them too, and I'm loving this season.
• 48:20
  Speaker 3: Before I let you go, we recently taped the reunion
• 48:26
  Speaker 3: and without giving so much away, Latrese Beyonce knows. Carter Rogers,
• 48:33
  Speaker 3: what can you share with my listeners about the reunion
• 48:39
  Speaker 3: of Bell Collective that's coming up?
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: What I can say is, like I said before, a
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: person their lives.
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: I guess they feel like they have a lot of
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: game So for me, what I.
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: Want the viewers to do is actually listen, watch what
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: a person is saying, because you know, I'm just got
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: I want to put it out there. Like Maurice, she's
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: a great storyteller, Like she could sit here and.
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: Tell a story and you'll be like, oh my god, like.
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's what it is, and that's not what
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: the fuck it is, you know, So be mindful, watch,
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: really analyze and listen. The reunion was a bit much
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: for me, Like you know it, you know, the reunion
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: was a lot, and.
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: I had so much that I want to say.
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: And that's the thing I love about myself and I
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: hate about myself. I got so much shit. On't listen anybody.
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: Everybody can get it, but I choose not to. Like
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: I always like to take the high road and be like, okay,
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: well you know, regardless of what they do to me,
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: I still you know, I don't I don't want to
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: take it there.
• 49:47
  Speaker 3: Well you kind of took it there without spoiling it. No, no, no, no, no.
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: No, cause I could have took it further.
• 49:55
  Speaker 3: Oh really, Okay.
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: The thing is like, why would you play with me
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: when you know, girl, I know probably know your social
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: security numbers.
• 50:04
  Speaker 2: Don't play with me.
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: Now I did on the surface, but I could have
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: took it there.
• 50:10
  Speaker 2: You would have been like, LaTrece, you're no longer welcome
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: on the show.
• 50:17
  Speaker 3: Real talk. So Lord Jesus and I.
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: Be telling the people like, don't don't play with me,
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: because you know, you know what's up. You know what's up,
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: and that I love my people, the people that surround me.
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: I'm from the hood to wherever, like, I'm highly protected
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: and well respect So yeah, but I can't wait to
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: see the reunion.
• 50:39
  Speaker 2: I'm excited to see it.
• 50:42
  Speaker 3: So I spoke to Latitia last week. I'm speaking to
• 50:45
  Speaker 3: you now. This reunion, my rain drops. It is one
• 50:50
  Speaker 3: you do not want to miss. But we still have
• 50:54
  Speaker 3: more episodes about Collective and this season. I just want
• 50:58
  Speaker 3: to thank you, LaTrece for I'm back to another season
• 51:01
  Speaker 3: a belt Collective. This has been enjoyable to watch. I
• 51:06
  Speaker 3: love every single thing about this season. It's fantastic, it's funny,
• 51:10
  Speaker 3: it's shady, and again, without me even giving away the reunion.
• 51:15
  Speaker 3: The best part about this reunion, and I'm going to
• 51:18
  Speaker 3: go on record by saying this, I produced many reunions
• 51:22
  Speaker 3: in my career. This is by far top two of
• 51:26
  Speaker 3: the best reunions. Okay, girl that I've been a part
• 51:29
  Speaker 3: of it. I'm gonna say why. It was definitely dramatic
• 51:34
  Speaker 3: and shady and intense and all that stuff. But one
• 51:39
  Speaker 3: thing I love is when I'm able to laugh.
• 51:41
  Speaker 5: And I laugh for six hours because even with you
• 51:47
  Speaker 5: girls are going at it, it's funny because y'all are
• 51:52
  Speaker 5: shady a in a comedic way, and it's not like
• 51:55
  Speaker 5: you're scared or you're worried somebody's gonna.
• 51:58
  Speaker 3: Pop somebody in the head, like it's none of that.
• 52:00
  Speaker 3: It's more so like it's funny. And I think that
• 52:04
  Speaker 3: also represents why people love this season so much, because
• 52:09
  Speaker 3: even when y'all are shady towards each other, it's still funny.
• 52:12
  Speaker 3: I mean the fact that you told SSI with the
• 52:14
  Speaker 3: messy that she's that she reaped a white diamonds that
• 52:19
  Speaker 3: broke twitter.
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, listen, and I loves she's the more
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: senitible one I can.
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: I can honestly tell who runs the business.
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say the business is the business, but right.
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: We'll take it however you wanted. People need to wake up.
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: As far as why listening, really listening, But honestly, listen
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: this reunion, they don't get to see another side of you.
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: I was like, well, not to get too much away.
• 52:56
  Speaker 2: You know, we had moments and you had a moment.
• 53:00
  Speaker 2: It was just it was really good.
• 53:02
  Speaker 5: Way, it's good.
• 53:04
  Speaker 3: Give me listeners, so listen.
• 53:07
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 53:07
  Speaker 3: I'm not gonna say spoiler alert, but yes, I did
• 53:09
  Speaker 3: host the reunion obviously, but you're saying that I surprised
• 53:13
  Speaker 3: you during the reunion.
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: Yes, I was like, do you know when I call
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: you reginalha like Reginald.
• 53:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I saw a different part of you. I knew
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: you had it in you, but.
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: Like, oh, so I hope y'all don't I hope y'all
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: put that part in there.
• 53:31
  Speaker 3: Oh it's definitely going to be put in honey, absolutely,
• 53:34
  Speaker 3: especially now that my listeners are like, okay, bitch, I
• 53:37
  Speaker 3: need to see this other side of Carlos King that
• 53:41
  Speaker 3: Latrese is saying she's never seen before. So that's enough
• 53:47
  Speaker 3: tea for y'all today. But before I let you go, LaTrece,
• 53:52
  Speaker 3: tell my listeners where they can find you and follow
• 53:54
  Speaker 3: you and support you.
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: My love, oh for sure, So you can find me
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: on Instagram. Latrese Rogers Official, Facebook, Latrees Rogers Instagram, Latree Underscore,
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: Rogers one and.
• 54:06
  Speaker 3: Your business is too boo.
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: So you can find me on Goddess wins dot com,
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: five Star event watch dot com or you know, honey,
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: I'm googleble.
• 54:20
  Speaker 3: And on that though, Google the Girl. But remember, guys.
• 54:24
  Speaker 3: Bell Collective airs every Friday night at nine o'clock A
• 54:27
  Speaker 3: Central on the Oprah Winfrey Network. So t all love Latree.
• 54:37
  Speaker 3: She is funny and absotly shady. The rest of the
• 54:43
  Speaker 3: season is so good and I cannot wait for you
• 54:46
  Speaker 3: guys to unpack it all and make sure in the
• 54:50
  Speaker 3: next week or two we have the two part reunion
• 54:54
  Speaker 3: of Bell Collective and why I said it is one
• 54:58
  Speaker 3: of the best reunions I have ever been a part of.
• 55:03
  Speaker 3: And don't forget an all new episode comes on tonight
• 55:06
  Speaker 3: at nine o'clock A Central on the Oprah Winfrey Network.
• 55:10
  Speaker 3: Here's a clip from tonight's episode of Beil Collective.
• 55:17
  Speaker 2: On you for me.
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: There are so many holes You're beast, leave our names
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: out of your mouth. Oh hell Now Collective new episode
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  Speaker 1: Friday at ninety eighth Central.
• 55:34
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