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Jenifer Lewis Describes 'Walking In My Joy', Living With Bipolar, "Retiring" + More · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Wait that ass up in the morning. Breakfast club Morning.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody is DJ Envy Angelu Ye, Charlomagne the guy. We
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  Speaker 1: are the breakfast club. We got a special guest in
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  Speaker 1: the building that she's moving it around here. That's right, yeah, Charlomagne.
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  Speaker 1: Charlomagne always has his book behind everybody. That's right. Learn
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  Speaker 1: that ship, Jennifer, Welcome back. George's Fine Street look like
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  Speaker 1: a white house for better ordering. If I don't run
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  Speaker 1: to New York Times best sell, everybody goes down and
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  Speaker 1: aunt is over, I'll be satan. Fuck y'all were welcome.
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  Speaker 1: How are you doing? How you feeling? How are you feeling? Guys,
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  Speaker 1: come on scressful time, Mary, not at all? Okay, I'm
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  Speaker 1: happy as a lord. I got a view of Central Park.
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  Speaker 1: I could just take off and fly. I am. I
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  Speaker 1: feel on top of the world. Now. I didn't work.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't work. I wrote this book during COVID, and
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  Speaker 1: I put everything in there. I had to get it
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  Speaker 1: out of me. There's not a person in the world
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  Speaker 1: that did not contemplate their death. You're right, and I
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  Speaker 1: told my family, I said, if anything happens to me,
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  Speaker 1: because I'm sixty five. Now you get that fucking book out,
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  Speaker 1: you know, no sixty five. Yes, I am fine, And
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  Speaker 1: then I find bitch I hate see straight. I get
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  Speaker 1: up every more that the kids love that I brushed
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  Speaker 1: my teeth, spit it out, look in the mirror. I pause,
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  Speaker 1: I say it, then I start my dad, that's right.
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  Speaker 1: You can't be touched when you start off good. That's right.
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  Speaker 1: I can't get on you. That's right. Hard. I'm in
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  Speaker 1: this world because I feel like the world is just
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  Speaker 1: going to shoot on so many levels. No it is.
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  Speaker 1: Don't listen. That's okay to be scared right now, but
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  Speaker 1: you must be unafraid. Stand the fuck up now. Are
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  Speaker 1: we in trouble? Yes? Are they trying to take democracy itself? Yes?
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  Speaker 1: But evil will not win out. Love is the glue
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  Speaker 1: that holds us together. So start loving. Why don't you?
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  Speaker 1: I said it here last time. Nothing's changed. Lead with love.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, before you go in any room. You see
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  Speaker 1: how I came in here in a bastard I think
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  Speaker 1: was how you motherfucker? Do you get that? So? So,
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  Speaker 1: I want to know why you decide to write the
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  Speaker 1: book during COVID so much going on? What made you say?
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  Speaker 1: I want to put it all out there. Well, that's
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  Speaker 1: what I do while I'm writing a book or not.
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  Speaker 1: I put it all out there. I talked to the kids.
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  Speaker 1: They said, Kevin Hart got these chips kenya short ass.
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  Speaker 1: He made them short on purpose, like they don't adjust,
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  Speaker 1: so everybody's the same size as him. Dumb ass. Nancy,
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  Speaker 1: that's a name. That's a name of one of the
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  Speaker 1: chapters in the book. Yeah, let me tell you a
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  Speaker 1: little bit. This is the only story you're gonna get
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  Speaker 1: from the book because you got a bait. I'll give
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  Speaker 1: you one teaser. I fainted at the White House and
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  Speaker 1: broke up the medical marines the White House. Doctor. I
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  Speaker 1: woke up, I went go take care Obama. Motherfucker. All
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  Speaker 1: I did was fake but or something that's happening to Obama. Baby.
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  Speaker 1: They gave me three Christmas cookies and some water, you know,
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  Speaker 1: to revive me. I was sitting down. Ain't this the
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  Speaker 1: White House? I know? Goddamn Well, Michelle got some chicken
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  Speaker 1: in that. I said, y'all gonna get me some checket baby,
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  Speaker 1: They said, I heard saw somebody whisper. They were saying,
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  Speaker 1: get this bitch out of here. They put me in
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  Speaker 1: a wheelchair like an hospital rolled me out the front
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  Speaker 1: gate because that security had locked down. I was the
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  Speaker 1: last one to leave. They rolled me out of the
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  Speaker 1: front gate of sixteen hundred Pennsylvania and dumped my ass
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  Speaker 1: out of it. Yeah, to get that bit out here. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: they loved me up you know, they loved they loved
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  Speaker 1: me up there. Everybody was so concerned. I forgot to eat.
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  Speaker 1: I was so excited to me to meet the President
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  Speaker 1: and the first lady come. I and met them before,
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  Speaker 1: maybe two or three times. But I met Barack when
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  Speaker 1: he was a senator. Oprah had a fundraiser for him.
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  Speaker 1: Stevie one to sang, it was beautiful. That bitch had
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  Speaker 1: so much land. I was like, gone, Oprah, gone of all,
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  Speaker 1: but she had art. It was a beautiful time that.
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  Speaker 1: But did Obama's check on you afterwards? Hell no, He'd
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  Speaker 1: gone on upstairs with Michelle an email later or nothing,
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  Speaker 1: for he probably had never told him that a crazy
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  Speaker 1: bitch was in the White House. Oh my god. But
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  Speaker 1: you know what I learned from Obama that day when
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  Speaker 1: he spoke, I said in the book, I never heard
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  Speaker 1: a word he said. I only saw his compassion for
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  Speaker 1: the families of the victims that had been shot in
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  Speaker 1: the church Manuel Ammy. Yes, he was so compassionate. And
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  Speaker 1: I have been a real big activists since Trump was elected.
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  Speaker 1: So because you see what's missing, Like you know, even
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  Speaker 1: if you don't agree with everything that Obama did policy wise,
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  Speaker 1: that compassion and the other thing he led with love. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: that's why Trump can't fuck with him. Come on, now,
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  Speaker 1: you're leading with Hayt. He's leading with love. You don't win.
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  Speaker 1: You cannot destroy love, you can't match it. The only
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  Speaker 1: thing that matches love is love, and it'll knock everything
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  Speaker 1: else out the way if you're in a loving state.
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  Speaker 1: I agree with you, But how do you explain white
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  Speaker 1: supremacy because that's been leading with hate since the day
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  Speaker 1: we got him. Y'all don't want to start me, Yes
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  Speaker 1: we do. I'm thinking it's so much to say about
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  Speaker 1: what's going on white supremacy. I wrote a song called
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  Speaker 1: Our Children Shouldn't have to Run from Bullets. I've written
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  Speaker 1: a lot of political songs and they have been effective.
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  Speaker 1: That January sixth, shit, they looked like roaches climbing those walls.
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  Speaker 1: How dare you you? Motherfuckers? We built this fucking building
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  Speaker 1: and then they thought they see they went on tour
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  Speaker 1: the day before to see why they were gonna get in,
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  Speaker 1: and whoever took them around forgot to tell them those
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  Speaker 1: windows are not the same qualities as the ones in
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  Speaker 1: your trailer. They are babbled and they are thick. And
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  Speaker 1: they thought they were gonna be able to break them
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  Speaker 1: easy a shanna right. They didn't know they were gonna
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  Speaker 1: have to go get a police that yes, and break
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  Speaker 1: that bitch while somebody filmed your stupid ass. When the
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  Speaker 1: girl got gassed tear gass in her eyes and somebody,
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  Speaker 1: uh interviewed her. But what's going on? She said? They
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  Speaker 1: they little Karen. They there gasped me and he said, well,
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  Speaker 1: who are you? My name is Sylvia William And then
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  Speaker 1: they went on and they got her dress. She gave
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  Speaker 1: them my dress, and shit, that dumb bitch. She was
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  Speaker 1: just you know, she was being interviewed and she was distressed.
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  Speaker 1: You dumb bitch. She's in jail. She got eight years,
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  Speaker 1: damn stupid bitch. Oh they were so you know, here's
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  Speaker 1: the other thing, our privileged asses, the complacency of America
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  Speaker 1: and Americans. All I could vision was a few of
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  Speaker 1: them having stopped at an ice cream store and stood
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  Speaker 1: there and couldn't decide amongst the one hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 1: flavors where you just get back to vanilla, you're dumb backs.
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  Speaker 1: But as they licked, they ate ice cream on their
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  Speaker 1: way there. Yeah, the privilege. That shit made me sick,
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  Speaker 1: Oh dare you? And smeared shit on the wall trying
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  Speaker 1: to kill the fucking vice president of the United States,
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  Speaker 1: and people reacted like it was just a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: kids having fun that spring break. You know, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: be honest with you, but those Republican senators are all sociopaths,
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  Speaker 1: you know what. I know, Trump with his mafia ass
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  Speaker 1: as soon as it got in, he got all the
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  Speaker 1: dish on all those senators. They can't they can't go
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  Speaker 1: with him sew you know, look with little boys and
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  Speaker 1: hookers and they got pictures, I'm sure, so they can't
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  Speaker 1: even be human no more. They're just scared. What do
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  Speaker 1: you think about the new president? And Vice president Biden
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  Speaker 1: has experience. It's a shamis the age is? Because I
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  Speaker 1: know it's hard for him. Kamala a bad bitch, I'm sorry, um,
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  Speaker 1: and he he's good And I bet you any mind
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  Speaker 1: of money he calls it Obama every morning. Barack please,
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  Speaker 1: Barack please? Did you do this for eight fucking years?
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  Speaker 1: Jasus Christ? Do I bomb a country? Now? Why should
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  Speaker 1: I shoot them? Should I shoot them down? From the wallas?
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  Speaker 1: I gotta tell y'all, I don't hate. I don't hate nobody.
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  Speaker 1: But that was some nasty shit. But let me tell
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  Speaker 1: you another thing. History does repeat itself. I thought we
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  Speaker 1: had evolved beyond that. We just got the sound of
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  Speaker 1: a black hole. We have closed shops of Jupiter, put
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  Speaker 1: a man on the moon, and all we can do
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  Speaker 1: is destroy Earth. That's right, you see. I just got
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  Speaker 1: back from Antarctica. Y'all know I travel. The captain of
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  Speaker 1: the ship was a French ship. Couldn't understand the thing
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  Speaker 1: that motherfucker said. I said, nigga, please speaking abonics or something.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry French people, I like y'all, but what was
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  Speaker 1: I talking about? Got some man. He took me to
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  Speaker 1: the front of the ship, showed me the waterline, and
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  Speaker 1: he's said to me, miss Lewis, I know you're a celebrity,
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  Speaker 1: but my crew tells me you're an activist. I said, yes, sir,
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  Speaker 1: I am. He said, I would ask that you go
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  Speaker 1: back to your country and tell whoever will listen, we're
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  Speaker 1: in trouble. H The Arctic is melting at the light
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  Speaker 1: of speed, y'all. We need the fucking Pawlas to orbit.
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  Speaker 1: And these bastards don't want to believe in science. Dumb Trump.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I don't. I don't want to want to
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  Speaker 1: say his name. What do you think built your buildings?
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  Speaker 1: Your dumb pitch a science? And then then let's just
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  Speaker 1: start that. Let's let's let's let's get back to the
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  Speaker 1: book and everything. First of all, congratulations, do you put
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  Speaker 1: the star on the Hollywood Walk? I got a planet,
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  Speaker 1: my plane, my plane, plane, my plane. Watch it. I'm
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  Speaker 1: getting my stock on the Hollywood Okay, oh god, I
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  Speaker 1: wrote a song. How did it feel? You know it felt? Um?
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  Speaker 1: Let me tell you, y'all. Anybody can be famous. Now
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  Speaker 1: you gotta do as fuck somebody. But I studied, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I studied Shakespeare. There you go found in Christ with bootohogging.
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  Speaker 1: I am trained. That's why I speak with distinction. That's
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  Speaker 1: why y'all love my voice, Because I studied. I used
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  Speaker 1: to say knuckle knocker for a nickel, give me a knuckle.
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  Speaker 1: That's how we talked back home. We talked like that
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  Speaker 1: was until I got to college. I found out it
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  Speaker 1: was nickel. You know, Black people ain't got time to
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  Speaker 1: finish the word. Oh God, y'all, can you believe it
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  Speaker 1: when you got it? When you got it, it it feels surreal.
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  Speaker 1: I told the audience that day. It was not the
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  Speaker 1: work I did on camera on stage, It was the
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  Speaker 1: work I did off. I went and got help. Damn
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  Speaker 1: near everybody in the show businesses bipoland, but they don't
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  Speaker 1: know it because they got in it to hide that
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  Speaker 1: mania so they wouldn't be different out there in the
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  Speaker 1: normal world. See, they could hide that edge even I was.
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  Speaker 1: I hesitated to take medication because I didn't want it
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  Speaker 1: to take my edge. It didn't. I stayed in literally
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  Speaker 1: had to be re raised. My mama didn't halftime to
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  Speaker 1: take care of me. There was no affection. I was
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  Speaker 1: her seventh child and she was twenty six. The hell
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  Speaker 1: is she gonna do with seven babies running around scrubbing
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  Speaker 1: white people's floors. Half time to hold me, tell me
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  Speaker 1: I'll come here in sugar boomboo. I didn't get none
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  Speaker 1: of that, But what she did give me was work ethics.
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  Speaker 1: She stopped scrubbing white people's floors, and she went and
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  Speaker 1: got her certificate and became a nurse's aid. She said,
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  Speaker 1: I'll be damned if those white people come to my
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  Speaker 1: house to check it out so I can get a
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  Speaker 1: well for check. You remember, they used to come in
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  Speaker 1: there make sure the father wasn't there. See if the
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  Speaker 1: daddy was home. You didn't get welfare. If they came
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  Speaker 1: in there and saw you had that you had a
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  Speaker 1: nice stuff that was reported. Here's a story you don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I'm about how old am I now? I'm six to
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  Speaker 1: five nine, But I'm trying to tell a story. I
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  Speaker 1: was seven years old. Then white man came to my
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  Speaker 1: mama's house to check on it so she get a
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  Speaker 1: welfare check, so she couldn't get a well fuck check.
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  Speaker 1: He peers in the door, comes right to the front door,
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  Speaker 1: doesn't come roll the way in. Yet my mother was properly.
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  Speaker 1: She was not in the fucking mood. He peered in
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  Speaker 1: and saw an upright piano that a white family had
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  Speaker 1: given my mother, and he said these words, where you
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  Speaker 1: get that piano? Niggah? My mother said, just a moment,
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  Speaker 1: I was standing there with my thumb in my mouth, thinking, no,
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  Speaker 1: you the nigga this morning. As you're going down, I
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  Speaker 1: knew that motherfuck wasn't. My mother went to the back,
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  Speaker 1: came back with the bucket we used to used to
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  Speaker 1: in and because we had an our house, but we
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  Speaker 1: were pee in a bucket, but if you had to poop,
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  Speaker 1: you had to go outside. She and you know, your
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  Speaker 1: toilet papers in there. My mother came back with that
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  Speaker 1: bucket of pissing, threw it all over and I'm standing
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  Speaker 1: there like, and there's toilet paper. What I was like, Well,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna say that ship. My mother was a gangst alpha.
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  Speaker 1: She fed us that whatever she had to do, the
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  Speaker 1: pipes were breaking, that cold Saint Louis weather. We would ice,
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  Speaker 1: skate on the kitchen floor, run around. You know, we
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  Speaker 1: didn't know that had to empower you with the child.
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  Speaker 1: Damn straight, she got a job. We were off welfare.
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  Speaker 1: She said, these motherfuckers will not tell me what to
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  Speaker 1: do with my life and my children. My mother didn't play.
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  Speaker 1: She taught me work ethics. That's why I'm still here.
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  Speaker 1: That's why I have sustained in show business. You see,
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  Speaker 1: you can't chall not. I told y'all this last time.
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  Speaker 1: I think not even me can stop me. I was
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  Speaker 1: given a gift and I honored it, stayed alive, stayed healthy.
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  Speaker 1: Look at me now, God, damn ya? Walking in my joy? Joy?
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  Speaker 1: Who has the audacity to write a book called walking
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  Speaker 1: in my How do somebody walk in their joy? How do?
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  Speaker 1: How do she we only in five men because she
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  Speaker 1: has to go? But fuck out. I don't get fuck
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  Speaker 1: about the other interview. I'm standing here because I know
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking to a lot of black kids there. Take
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  Speaker 1: the question again, how do somebody walk in their joy?
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  Speaker 1: Live on purpose? Oh God, just don't go Willie Nelly
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  Speaker 1: through this. It's called life. Look what we have the planet,
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  Speaker 1: Oh God, y'all. I've been over all over the world.
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  Speaker 1: It's so beautiful. I just got back from the him
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  Speaker 1: of Laying Mountain Range. I saw Everest. I took a helicopter.
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  Speaker 1: I saw the base camp, you know where they started
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  Speaker 1: to climb the summit. We saw a few of them
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  Speaker 1: going up. Y'all know, I wanted to climb that mountain.
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  Speaker 1: When I was thirteen, there were commercials on TV that
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  Speaker 1: the tallest man in the world, the tallestness, and they
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  Speaker 1: showed Everest. And that's when I didn't know. I was bipolar,
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  Speaker 1: because when you're in a state, you shop, you know
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  Speaker 1: your manic. Everything's big, you're immune to danger. And there
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  Speaker 1: I was looking at Everest, a little poor girl from Kenlock, Missouri.
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  Speaker 1: I went to the taj Ma Hall there I was.
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  Speaker 1: I went to Anchor Watton, Cambodia. I went to the
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  Speaker 1: Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi and Petra in Jordan, all
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  Speaker 1: cultural treasures of the world. We shouldn't destroy this. Human
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  Speaker 1: beings have got to be nicer, live on purpose. Y'all.
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  Speaker 1: Do your homework. Do the work, write it down what
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  Speaker 1: you want to do today? How are you gonna be nice?
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: How can I be nice today? Why the road rage,
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: the the stained for your co workers? I told you
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  Speaker 1: last time, you gotta be happy on your way to happy.
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  Speaker 1: Don't think you're gonna get there and then I'm happy. Old,
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  Speaker 1: Look what I got. No, you're the same piece of
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  Speaker 1: shit you were when you're starting right. If anything, it
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  Speaker 1: makes it worse. What gives you that joy? What gives
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  Speaker 1: you the most joy? Is it acting? Is it activism
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  Speaker 1: or is it traveling? Is it something that you haven't mentioned.
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  Speaker 1: What's more exciting to me right now than anything is
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  Speaker 1: that I can look at you, all all of you
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  Speaker 1: that call me Auntie, and know that the only thing
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  Speaker 1: I can do for you is live my best life. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: look at me. I take care of myself. You think
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  Speaker 1: this is easy. I'm in pilates, I'm you know, yoga.
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  Speaker 1: I eat as well as I can. Stop being now
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  Speaker 1: the fried chicken. It's so sick to seeing my fellow
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  Speaker 1: sisters walking down the street and it can't even get around.
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  Speaker 1: What are you gonna die? Leave your children here for
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  Speaker 1: somebody to molest. Keep your ass healthy, stop it. Come
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  Speaker 1: out of them dark rooms with all that depression. Stop yourself.
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  Speaker 1: You go get some help, But you can start by
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  Speaker 1: journaling what do I want? Who am I? And if
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: you don't know, make some shit up when you first
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  Speaker 1: start going to therapy. Wow, I'm thirty three years old, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I spent half my life depressed and mannic as hell?
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  Speaker 1: Did you know it was depression? Resolutely not? It was normal.
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  Speaker 1: I cried every night of my life. Well, there were
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: some nights I had sex, and that was all right.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't cry that night. I like married Christmas bad sex.
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  Speaker 1: I wish the fuck he would not, I think my twenties.
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  Speaker 1: Then you get it. Up. I wish I wish you
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  Speaker 1: would bring a lip dick in my house niggably. Oh
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  Speaker 1: my god, I want oh man. Life is not a rehearsal,
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  Speaker 1: but practice living well. You can do it, you can.
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  Speaker 1: I did. I was poor, I had mental illness, sex addiction,
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  Speaker 1: molested all of it. But I wanted to live. Wow,
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  Speaker 1: did you did you really almost retire after Black? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: I did. I want to go home, Uh COVID what's happening?
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: And I wanted to go with people, people I loved.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: I didn't know if I was gonna die. I want
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: to be with my siblings. I'm still going back. I
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: just signed a six year contract or a show on
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: a show on One Showtime. It's called I Love That
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: for You. It stars Molly Shannon and Vanessa bear To
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  Speaker 1: a Saturday Night Live alumnis and they are comedic giants.
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  Speaker 1: A six year contracts six when you know, when you
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: do a show, you gotta sign a contract and us
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: thank you. I'm so happy And the role I'm doing
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: guess what what? They waited till I was sixty five
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: years old to make me a paun star. I'm fucking
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: in this show. Yeah, it's you gotta watch it. What's
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: her name? Her name? Her name is Patricia Cochrane. I
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: put that cockran on it her name. When I got
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: the script, her name was Patricia Conkin. So I asked
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: the writers. I said, so, you never know what they're
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: gonna do with the stories. So I said, well she married.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: They said no. I said, well once this Conkin shit.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: Ain't no black people named Conkin. So I said, let
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: it be Cochrane, and let her um be Johnny Cochrane's cousin.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: Bad bit, he's a billionaire and uh, cuss everybody. When
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: does it come out? It's out. There are eight episodes
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  Speaker 1: on Showtime right now, and we're waiting to see if
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: the show's gonna be picked up. And I'm ready for it.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: This is a great role. It is, by the way,
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: it's my best work. Really. Maybe I'm in that character.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: I walked into that character like a fitted glove. And
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: I'm having the time of my life because the environment
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: is so nice. You know, you can get on some
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: toxic sets and then you can't create well. And but
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: I'm guys, I'm having the time of my life here.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: It is. I'm doing fifteen animations right now in fifteen
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: different voices. Wow, I got the new series, new book, Wow,
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: Walking Joy, new book. I'm one book tour now, cussing
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: everybody out, loving them. God. This woman stood up last
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: night at Barnes and Noble. She told the saddest story
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: and then she said, it's my birthday. I said, damn,
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: Now I can help, sang my ass. I saw there's
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: a picture in the book where you posted with a
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: swollen face, but the caption ain't no shame in my game.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: Looks fell asleep. Let me show them. I gotta cast up. Well,
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: we'll get it on ye. Now listen, I fell asleep
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: with the massager that I only put on my neck.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: Fell asleep and it was over here. When I woke
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: up all night woke up my shit. I just was like,
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: oh my god, what is this. I thought it was COVID.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: I thought, you know, some side effect from something or whatever. Anyway,
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: I wanted y'all to see me like that so you
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: can know I'm human. I get my heart broken, I
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: fuck up. I walk in my joy, but I'll take
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: a bit down in my joy too. It ain't that
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: much medication in the world, okay, but personality will break through.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: But what do you want to reader to take away
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: from walking in My Joy, grow up, be nice, dream
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: and don't drop the ball. It is hard. Life's hard.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: Ain't nobody. Ain't nobody promised you a rose garden without thoughts?
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: Worked your way through it. You know. It's so much
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: in that book, but it's mostly funny because after COVID,
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: I knew the world had to laugh. When I was
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: in Cambodia, everything was boarded up. My guide said on
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: any any given day there was seven thousand tourists at
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: and Kawak. There were four hundred that day. Everybody's suffering
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: the residue of COVID. So that's why you gotta be nice.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: People had family members. Many people died from this thing.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: I think it's three three millions something past. The world
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: is mourning. Stop fighting, be compassionate, take care of one another.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: We all bleed. Didn't it teach us that if one
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: of us sneezes, we're all sick. It went around the world.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: Somebody sneezed. They didn't know, So be nice. Keep saying that,
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: do something for somebody. I fed a lot of families
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: during COVERD That's how I tie Lee would love live
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: on purpose. Jennifer Lewis walking in my joy in these streets,
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: in the string to get y'allt kick. You don't get
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: one because you didn't have you still can do it?
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah we did, say good bye. I don't know if
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: you can still do it. Come on now, you thirty five,
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: that's what this time. I do have to warm it
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: up and let me show you how to get it up. Okay,
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: don't go, don't go through, don't don't cut down. Tunk tunk,
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: you can't. I don't try to do it. I've been
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: doing this since I was nineteen. I got trained by
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: yes man to me standing in the doorway and just
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: let the like a pendulum. Wow, yes man, So you
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: know that was homework. That's history. Absolutely. You don't stop.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: Keep training, keep working out, move your body, walk around
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  Speaker 1: the block, try to eat right. I want my people
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: to be healthy. Right. Well, you got two eyeglasses. I'm
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: a crazy motherfucker. I gonna lose some shit. I think
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: my short memories going. Yeah, that's okay. Well I'm gonna go.
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go get do whatever I gotta do. I
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: need this water. You left drink water hydrate please, man,
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: you left you left us a lot of memories. We
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: love you, miss Jennifer Lewis showing it. Oh okay, it's
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: Jennifer Lewis. It's the Breakfast Club. Good boarding,