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A Heartfelt Chat with Elise Hollywood Evans · Yeah Buddy! Podcast

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  Let me get my sniffles out now allergies oh
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  yeah that's the worst i know every time i wake up and like my eye
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  just starts swelling up i'm like oh it's that time of year oh my god your eye
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  doesn't turn into like bernie mack right we talk about that eye yeah no yeah
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  yeah allergy seems to be ugly for me i'm like god damn yeah like i just got
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  my ass whooped i was like who beat you up i was I was like, Paulin. Yes.
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  Yeah. What's going on, world? This is your man, Buddy Romig.
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  And we are back at it with another episode of the Yeah Buddy podcast.
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  And now we all get into this episode, y'all. Y'all, just like every episode
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  of the Yeah Buddy podcast, I always try to bring in some of my friends from
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  the entertainment business, the entertainment industry.
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  We could chop it up, see what we've been up to, what we got going on,
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  talk about our journeys in the entertainment business.
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  And this episode is like no other, y'all. This episode is like no other.
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  This time I got my good friend right here. We got a, she's an actress.
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  She's a fashion designer, fashion model, just overall fashion icon is what I would call it.
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  Talk show host. She is the self-proclaimed, well, not self-proclaimed,
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  she owns, she lives up to it every time I I've talked to her,
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  but she is the go-to joy icon.
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  That's what we call it. She has a clothing line, Joy Life. Right now,
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  I want y'all to make it live, make it loud for my good friend,
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  Miss Elyse Hollywood Evans.
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  Hey, everybody. How you doing? That's H-O-L-L-Y-W-O-O-D. Yeah,
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  buddy. It's a great opportunity.
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  Thank you for inviting me to your show. I'm excited, man.
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  Yes. I'm excited about what you're doing. The show's coming up.
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  And let me throw my hat in the ring for comedy.
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  No, I'm not a comedian, but I did work for the biggest comic out there. But, yeah.
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  Who is this? Who is that? Paul Mooney. Okay. Oh, yeah. Paul Mooney.
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  He a barrier. Barrier. Yeah.
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  Oh, he was my godfather.
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  You be making some moves. I've been like on your Facebook and on the Instagram
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  and stuff like that. You be like everywhere.
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  Yeah. Everywhere in the Bay Area. Well, that's what, you know,
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  my, you know, my hands are everything. Because I like jumping in and out of sandboxes.
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  You know what I mean? That's what I call it. You know, the play area,
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  the dramatic play area. So I'm in the dance community.
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  You know, I'm in two bands. I mean, like performing bands. I have a show this weekend.
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  You know, I work with my babe, Dr. Robert Parham on movies, soundtracks. Man, I'm writing songs.
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  I'm excited to be here with you. Like life is exciting for me right now.
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  Now I got my podcast coming up.
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  I host a free flow showcase, man.
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  I am out there working hard in the industry.
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  What's up everybody out there. Nice to meet you.
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  This is, this is the lady right here. Y'all she, she, she, how do you like with
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  all those things that I do this, this, this, this, this, this,
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  this, this, how, how do you manage to, to, to do all these things?
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  And all the, are you doing these things? You're doing them at a high level.
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  Like you're succeeding at these things.
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  Well, wait a minute. I came on this with my glasses because I wanted to be cool
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  like you and look like my shirt. But let me take off my glasses to answer that. Okay. Okay.
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  I'm not sure how to do all of that. I don't know what I'm doing.
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  I just do it. You know what I mean? Sometimes I feel like, dear God,
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  what did you do to me? Like, I'm an artist.
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  I brought some of my work here. I'm about that merchandise. I'm about that bag.
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  I'm about that band life. I'm about being on that stage.
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  You know, our band leader to me, he's like James Brown, and you better be on your stuff.
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  I work with people that you got to be on your toes. So when I'm out there,
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  I mean, we're going to light that stage on fire.
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  So every time I step out on stage, oh, no, we're going to give it to you.
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  I'm going to serve it to you, whether or not I'm hosting a show,
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  whether or not I'm in my dance crew, whether or not I'm in the band.
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  Oh, we are here to entertain.
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  And that's what I do every single day. I wake up entertaining.
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  That's Robert. Robert, no. No, that's... We... Robert, is this...
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  No, because, like, the first time I was introduced to you was at the Sactown
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  Movie Buff Film Festival, the mixer and stuff like that.
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  I remember I was outside, like, the back patio area because I was looking at
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  the food truck. I was like, this shit look good, but I don't know.
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  My pockets, the way my bank account is set up right now, I don't know.
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  But I see you out there, you had the whole, like, your phone set up on the tripod
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  and you was just... I don't know if you was taking pictures or recording yourself on stage.
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  I was all like, yo, this lady's a fucking star. Yeah, this is what I do everywhere I go.
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  You know, you got to be your own selfie stick show, right?
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  Sometimes you got to be the show, take the show with you. So no matter what
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  else is going on around you, I'm still going to be my own show and my own show.
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  Yeah. You know, and then, of course, we're content builders, right?
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  So no matter where I go, taking pictures, doing video, meeting great people
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  like yourself, you know, and always posting because it's all about what the numbers. Yeah, yeah.
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  It's a numbers game. games yep so i'm about
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  that i'm about them numbers yeah but on the
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  one no on the one hey bootsy on the one but anyway
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  all right so yeah so the go-to
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  joy icon yes how did how did that name come about and i mean because you embody
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  it but like how did that name come about it how did you choose to like like
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  embody like you just everywhere you go you're just spreading joy yeah well it's Well,
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  first of all, my parents were into the entertainment industry.
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  My father's a jazz musician.
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  And then my mother just, she loved plays.
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  She's a thespian, right? We would go all kinds of places. She's from New York.
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  So she, you know, first of all, she was into fashion.
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  One, I went to all the plays and my mother would always want to go backstage
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  to meet the people. So she was always dragging me with her, right?
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  And then, you know, as a little girl, I met Sammy Davis Jr..
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  Lou Ross, you know, my dad got a chance to play with Miles Davis,
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  although I never met him.
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  But I heard Miles Davis has been to my house. That's a whole nother story.
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  Dad played with Dave Brubeck. So, you know, I grew up in it,
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  you know, and when I was a kid, my mother used to take her foot,
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  get out there and dance. I'm like, what?
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  I didn't want to do it. Yeah, but I was in it. And so my mother had me in fashion
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  shows because she was really active and active in politics and and all this.
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  So I was always around people and I was always in a parade. You know,
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  if there's a drill team, I was on the drill team.
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  So I was always in front of a lot of people all of my life.
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  So that so it just all that just comes natural and easy walking in a room doing
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  whatever. What do I need to do?
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  How do we need to make this work? What we got? You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah.
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  Because I was going to say, because like most people who I know who I've met
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  in the like the entertainment world, this entertainment atmosphere,
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  they got into it at like either either they got into it at an older age or they
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  were they were the only people within their circle that was doing it and stuff like that.
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  You, like you said, your your your mom was a thespian. Yes. And then you're
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  into plays and all that. Yeah.
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  So so you like so you got like like you just that was just that was just naturally
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  ingrained in you to be like.
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  Like this entertainer. Yeah, because my dad helped put the Fillmore District
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  in San Francisco and the Fillmore Jazz District on a map. I'm from San Francisco.
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  Born in the 60s. Don't tell anybody, but I still look good. You know what I'm
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  saying? Black dough crack, black dough crack.
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  Thank you. Thank you. And there's a mural of my father. His name is Earl Evans.
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  He went by Chibo. There's a mural of him and Eddie Moore and Merle Saunders
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  on Hamilton in the Fillmore District honoring Pete Escovedo.
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  I've had the opportunity to work with the Escovedos. That's Sheila E.'s father
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  or whatever. But I didn't come of age until I got older in terms of wanting
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  to act and do all the things that I do, even though I wasn't. I mean, I was around it.
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  But what got me forward was I carried a camera with me everywhere I went.
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  And so I would tell people, oh, I'm a part of press.
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  And I would just go backstage and kept going backstage, filming people, filming people.
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  And then what happened was some people.
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  Especially when social media was early on. Some people never had anybody take
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  photographs of them and they would say, oh, my God, you were in the audience
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  taking pictures of me or you were backstage.
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  And I would capture that moment.
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  And that moment started getting passed around, meaning shared, shared.
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  Those photos started getting shared. So people would see me and then they started
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  to believe that I belong backstage.
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  Stage you know what i mean yeah yeah yeah so it'd be
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  like come on come on let's you're supposed to be back there or i
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  would threaten people and say wait a minute you know that guy that's on
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  stage right now let's say from confunction right one time they
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  were letting all these ladies on chase me get up there and start dancing and
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  the guy was like no that's it nobody else can get on stage now i had already
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  wormed my way backstage and i said you see the bass player over there that's
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  my brother eric do you know if you don't let me on stage oh it's going to be
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  a problem and then i I got on stage. Now you got on stage. Now you do your thing.
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  Yeah. And then just like with the Fantastic Negrito, right? Since I'm a designer
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  and I wear it myself, sometimes I put celebrities on.
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  Yeah, I noticed that. Yeah, because you was wearing yourself at the Phil Festival.
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  I was like, it's not just Jesus Market, but it's nice clothing,
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  though. Thank you. Yeah.
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  Thank you. So I have different celebrities that I wear that I've interviewed.
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  Like you interviewed on a shirt. So to get backstage and meet the Fantastic
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  Negrito. What's up, Xavier?
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  Anyway. Yeah. I said, if you don't let, I said, you see this shirt right here?
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  This is the, this is Mr. Fantastic. And if you don't let me backstage, Mr.
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  Fantastic is not going to like it. They let me backstage. So now it's like,
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  people call me, listen, I'm giving this concert. I need you to be there.
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  Listen, I want you to interview Angie Stone. I've interviewed her,
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  Confunction, the The Daz Band, Lakeside.
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  Oh, what's up, Lakeside? I love y'all. But the Tonys, the Escovitos,
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  I mean, and then all the people that Dr.
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  Robert turned me on to in the movies and all that.
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  Man, it's like I listen to the radio. I know the people on the radio.
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  I've watched a movie now. I know the people in the movies. I just feel like
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  I belong there. Have you ever felt that?
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  Yeah. No, especially once I started doing stand-up comedy. Once I started doing
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  stand-up comedy, I was...
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  I don't want to say a loner, but I was always just the person that was like,
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  just to myself, just always doing my own thing, always going to do my own thing and stuff like that.
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  But then once I got ingrained into the comedy community and stuff like that,
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  I was like, okay, this is kind of like my tribe.
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  And I was even doing acting before I started doing stand-up comedy,
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  but there was just something about the stand-up community and the comedians
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  where I was just like, this is my fucking group of people right here.
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  Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Well, I was blessed, like I said, to work with Paul Mooney,
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  my godfather, and Dick Gregory, and may they rest in peace.
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  Yeah, but through, wow, through Uncle Paul, godfather, I've met so many people
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  because it was my job to bring first.
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  OK, this is at the Berkeley Black Repertory Theater when I started there maybe
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  15 years ago or whatever.
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  And the night that I met Paul Mooney was the night that I started working for
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  him through. And thank you, Dr.
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  Scott and everybody at the Berkeley Black Repertory Theater,
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  because they love me and I love them. Right. And so, yeah.
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  So Paul would bring out new comedians, introduce new.
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  So I met everybody, not everybody, but, you know, there's like out of Oakland,
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  like even Stevens, Rich.
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  I forgot Rich's last name. There's Mario Hodge. Yeah.
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  J. Rich. J. Rich. Hey, I'm sorry, J. Rich. I love you. He's like my son.
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  God, it just goes on and on. You name a person. I just can't think of all the
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  names right now. I probably know them.
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  No, one thing that I will definitely say about the Bay Area comedy community, it is fucking strong.
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  Yes, it is. From Oakland, San Francisco, even out here to Sacramento and stuff
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  like that, there's just something in the waters out here when it comes to the
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  comedy scene where we just got some monsters, bro. And that anybody who even...
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  Maybe not born in the area, but will, you know, come out here to soak up some game.
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  Just just figure out like there's just something about it that just make that
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  just makes you a beast of a comedian out here.
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  Yeah, you're absolutely right. And the thing is, they all work so hard.
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  So I've seen a lot of them grow and now they're opening up for D.O.
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  Hughley and Faison Love and all that. And I met him, too.
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  You know, shoot. I knew Charlie Murphy.
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  You know what I mean? I met a lot of people through Paul and doing comedy.
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  I'm not saying I'm a comedian, but I know how to be a little funny.
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  You got the personality for it. You got the personality for it.
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  I can see you. I can see you on a BET comment view or something like that just
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  because you got the stories, you know what I'm saying? You got the personality.
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  You got the stage presence.
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  You can sing, so you can switch it up. You got the package.
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  Man, I'm an old package, but let me tell you, y'all, I'm out here trying to
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  do it while I have breath. You know what I'm saying? Because we're not going to last forever.
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  So my thing is, what will they say about you? you.
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  And so I'm just trying to leave that joy here, share joy, inspire others,
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  unite humanity through curiosity, conversation, and community building.
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  And that's living the forever joy life.
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  You know what I mean? And a person like me, I took care of both of my parents
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  at different times. They passed away.
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  They made their transition while I'm there. And I'm looking at them.
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  That's like my face at different times.
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  You know, I said, wait a minute. I don't have any shame, fear,
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  guilt, guilt, hate, animosity, jealousy, there is no room for it.
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  There's no room for anything but joy because, see, life is going to throw a
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  lot of stuff at you, and you've got to deflect it.
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  But you know what? While you're doing this, it's like I've got to find some joy within the chaos.
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  And so I try to keep a smile on my face. So no matter what happens,
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  listen, we won't be here forever, so I'm not going to take all this negativity in.
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  I'm just going to try to find as much joy amongst the chaos that I can find
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  and just spread it and be that person no matter what anybody thinks, I don't care.
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  All right. I'm happy with who I am. That's nice. Cause that was,
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  I mean, you kind of answered it, but like my next question was like,
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  cause we live in a, in a society where everybody like views things from a scope and we like being on,
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  having to be on social media so much, but like people on social media feed so
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  much into negativity and wanted to see people fail and look at other people's
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  shortcomings and laughing at it and stuff like that.
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  You do, you're like the complete opposite of that. Now you're just,
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  like I said, you embody, like we say, the joy icon, the joy life.
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  Well, Well, you are answering the kind of question, but like,
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  why is that important to you?
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  It's important because we're not going to be here and I can't take in negativity.
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  You know, I lost a son to suicide. You know what I mean? I went through years
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  ago, a really nasty divorce.
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  It was, you know, that snowball from the suicide.
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  So, you know, we've all had tragedies. We all have a story, right?
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  But that story doesn't have to make you because we can create more stories.
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  You know what I mean? Yeah.
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  And so I want to create my own fairy tale. We can create our own fairy tales
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  and live the life that we want to live.
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  And it starts here and it starts in here.
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  And then you got to just, you know, put a shield around you.
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  I mean, not be too protective where you don't let love in.
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  I mean, but you got to protect yourself. You have to protect your spirit.
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  You have to have your boundaries.
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  Yeah, your boundaries. So in the world that we are in, in comedy.
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  When you were talking to Dr.
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  Parham, you know, about, you know, how do you stay grounded or whatever?
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  The way I look at it is I cannot compete with anybody for any reason because
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  God gave them what God gave them and God gave me what God gave me.
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  Now, in this human world, we do compete and that's a little fun.
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  But what I'm saying is in terms of who I am, a person may think that they are
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  far greater than I am. I don't care what you think.
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  It only matters what I think and it only matters that me share joy.
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  And so that's what I, when I walk in a room, I want you to feel that.
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  When I leave, I hope that you feel that.
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  And I do the best that I can to stay on my best behavior so I can always live up to that.
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  Awesome. And so you've taken that whole joy life mentality.
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  You turned that into like the fashion line now or the merch line and just in general. Yeah.
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  Okay, so I grew up in an era, again, I'm dating myself, where we had home economics.
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  So I learned how to sew, cook early, you know, and then we had,
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  what, print shop, so metal shop.
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  So I learned how to make things. And so back in high school,
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  only reason why I didn't win best dress, because Molly Woo won that best dress
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  for the high school, but I should have won.
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  But anyway, I would take, since I could sew, I would just repurpose a lot of
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  things, like cut my jeans and then put fishnet on the side or something like that.
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  And then put another color on the inside, put fringe on my cuffs or whatever.
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  Whatever, you know, I just wanted to be different. I didn't want to look like everybody.
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  So I was always different. And my mother was into fashion. So, you know what I mean?
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  So I would just change up, change my look, my look up all the time.
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  And that started early. Yeah.
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  So me wearing myself, my first T-shirt that I had of me was in 1991, I think.
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  So I started wearing me in 1991.
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  Then I met a gentleman who's an amazing painter, Lee McCormick, Lee Casso.
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  And he said to me one day, how about, you know, have you ever had anybody just
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  paint you? How many stars have someone paint them?
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  So in five years, we amassed 19 paintings, and then the paintings turned into merch.
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  Merch and then i work with a lot of photographers and the photographers
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  love it when i wear their work yeah
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  and so uh this is mel peter's work right here so
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  then next thing you know my shower curtains are
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  me you know what i mean but it's just art it's art you know like
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  when lee was painting me it's a lady that's painted it wouldn't you
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  wouldn't know it was me necessarily it looks like me you know what i'm saying if
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  you saw it in the store you wouldn't say oh that's elise hollywood evans
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  or anything maybe when you see this yeah but anyway yeah so
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  it turned into the merch and i'm all about that merch merch
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  and we got merchant movies like in our movie i'm
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  mad as hell i have my suitcases in there with my face
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  on there a couple of other things in there in this movie cocaine roach hey i
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  can't wait till it comes out you know the pillows in there i created you know
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  some of the art in there i created and let me segue see we need a pillow let's
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  do it we're gonna get into the movie section right now but i want this all about
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  this pillow wait a minute no Well, we're going to talk about the movies.
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  But no, when I saw this pillow, I said, we got to move that pillow.
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  We got to have this one over here. There we go. Hey.
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  So she's from my, there's Power in the Afro collection for our young black girls.
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  I have black boys too. You know, Power in the Afro, Power in the Fro.
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  There's power in our color. You know, we illuminate power. Yeah.
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  You exude that black excellence and stuff like that. Where can people get this?
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  Okay. Well, let me tell you, you can go just email me because Elyse Hollywood Evans at gmail.com.
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  Because guess what? All of my stuff is exclusive, signed, and it comes with paperwork.
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  Because I'm an artist. And before I started acting, dancing,
• 19:16
  singing, and all that, I was an artist first.
• 19:18
  And so I was in galleries. So I have people that collect my art.
• 19:22
  So it has to stay at a certain level.
• 19:25
  Place price point whatever because i have collectors
• 19:28
  who have invested in me as an investor yeah in
• 19:31
  art and so now i'm just you know i'm doing creating pillows
• 19:34
  and i also customize so if you gotta i was
• 19:36
  gonna say can i get i can get a pillow me yes i would love to have like
• 19:39
  my old like merch to like sell out like shows yeah man like
• 19:43
  my like a yeah buddy pillow like yeah yeah buddy we
• 19:46
  can work that out yeah yeah i got
• 19:50
  you so and yeah and people ask me to do their daughters or whomever
• 19:53
  and i yeah i customized too so i'm
• 19:57
  going to start my online store but in the meantime it's just
• 20:00
  like i'm just trying to just keep up and we're going to switch this
• 20:02
  pillow out real quick yeah so in our movie cocaine roach yeah we have merch
• 20:07
  and so we're all about that and then we're going to have merch when we have
• 20:10
  our okay my little boy hey he's a you know one of those young mind motors you
• 20:15
  know what i mean we molding the mind he's our next scientist our next president, our next banker.
• 20:20
  Yeah. You know, our little black person. Got the suit and everything, yeah.
• 20:23
  Yeah, you know, yeah, we got to celebrate our young people because,
• 20:27
  you know, everything that I do is not about Forever Joy, girl.
• 20:30
  It's the Forever Joy life and spreading joy and, you know, and leaving something
• 20:34
  seven years out, seven generations out.
• 20:37
  This is not about me. This is about selling, but also teaching my children how
• 20:42
  to have their own company, leaving a company to my children so they could feed
• 20:46
  their children, so they could feed the masses.
• 20:48
  Because it's not about one individual, it's about all of us.
• 20:51
  And so I have to use the talent that God gave me to spread the joy and to spread
• 20:56
  some entrepreneurship, make some money and spread the love and share.
• 21:01
  Everything that you've shown me so far, it just feels like, because I got my
• 21:04
  start acting, working in the Bay Area.
• 21:07
  So I was able to meet, they connect with a lot of wonderful like Bay Area entertainers,
• 21:10
  actors, artists and stuff like that.
• 21:12
  And everything that you're showing me right now, it kind of just embodies what
• 21:15
  it is to, to the Black Bay Area culture where it's all about,
• 21:20
  you know, independence.
• 21:21
  You're doing your own thing. It's about spreading...
• 21:24
  Excellence it's about representing our people putting
• 21:27
  our people on and not only that but then like how you say putting
• 21:29
  people in positions to to be better than what they
• 21:32
  are today you know be a better person tomorrow yeah that's just a wonderful
• 21:36
  thing there was no real question to that but i would like just give you your
• 21:39
  kudos or your props for that you know say like it's it's a wonderful thing to
• 21:42
  see people doing that and it's a it's a complete honor to have you here here
• 21:46
  on the couch you know being on this podcast and just just spreading this wisdom
• 21:50
  this joy this the joy Boy,
• 21:52
  you know, this is dope shit.
• 21:55
  Thank you so much. And it's a joy to be right here with you and talk about art and stuff.
• 22:00
  I just got a call today from someone that wants to start a program.
• 22:04
  And she was asking me, can you teach art?
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  I said, well, not only am I going to teach art, we're going to take our creation
• 22:09
  from physical form, bring it into digital form and turn that,
• 22:14
  take the digital form right back out and put art right back on top of that and
• 22:17
  then turn around and sell it.
• 22:19
  And I'm going to help these kids start their own business. business so you
• 22:22
  know what i mean so we're going to start maybe with backpacks you know with
• 22:25
  duffel bags or something like that t-shirt or whatever and
• 22:28
  then teach them you know from creation to product
• 22:32
  you know what i mean and teach them how to put together a shirt or whatever
• 22:36
  because if you give a kid a child a fish you teach i mean give them a fish you
• 22:40
  don't you feed them for one day but if you teach them how to fish fish you feed
• 22:43
  them forever i'm about seven generations out we We got to empower our people.
• 22:48
  And I don't know what to do. The only thing God, not the only thing,
• 22:52
  the one thing that came to mind is through product.
• 22:54
  I don't know what to do. So this is what I have to offer to the world.
• 23:00
  And so one question I want to ask, we'll start getting into the whole entertainment
• 23:05
  sphere, like the movies and stuff like that.
• 23:08
  Being a Black woman in the entertainment industry, what has been your experience?
• 23:15
  Because I, like I said, like me, like being into similar things of,
• 23:19
  you know, going out auditions, you know, hearing the rejections and hearing
• 23:24
  the no's, hearing the yes's and stuff like that.
• 23:26
  But for like a Black woman who's trying to pursue this industry to any capacity,
• 23:34
  whether it be an artist, you know, doing the talk shows, you know,
• 23:36
  just just try to be in all these places.
• 23:39
  What what can you kind of advice you already told us like your your story,
• 23:44
  but what kind of advice can you give black women trying to pursue this business?
• 23:48
  OK, well, first of all, you don't have to raise your dress.
• 23:52
  Let's start there, because every man or woman these days will promise you anything
• 23:57
  and everything just to get to them cookies.
• 24:00
  You ain't got to give away the cookies to get to where you need to go. oh, you got to have this.
• 24:05
  You got to have, because if this door doesn't open, open up your own door,
• 24:08
  kick a door down, build a damn door.
• 24:10
  I'm about building doors to open myself. If you don't want to open up the door
• 24:14
  for me, that's all right.
• 24:16
  What did James Brown say? I don't want nobody to give me nothing.
• 24:20
  I'll open up the door and I'll get it myself.
• 24:23
  So, you know, so that's what I would tell a woman to be, stay true to who you are.
• 24:29
  Don't put your, don't feel like you got to be groped. Let me tell you,
• 24:33
  when I started this business, in this business, I was with Soul Beat a long time ago.
• 24:39
  And at the interview, all I could get was somebody trying to touch.
• 24:43
  And I made my 20s touch on my legs, feel on me. It's just...
• 24:48
  It doesn't feel nice. Yeah. It doesn't feel good when you know that you have
• 24:52
  this. I graduated from UC Berkeley.
• 24:54
  You know what I mean? I got a brain. I know how to write.
• 24:57
  There's a lot of things I could do, you know, and then have certifications in
• 25:01
  all kinds of things, graphic design or whatever.
• 25:03
  So, you know, you have to, I would say to young ladies out there,
• 25:07
  like I said, you don't have to raise your skirt and feel good about who you are and be confident.
• 25:12
  And no matter what anybody says, including yourself, don't talk yourself out
• 25:16
  your own genius. Don't talk yourself out your own blessing.
• 25:20
  No. Use what you got. And if it doesn't work over here, go over there.
• 25:24
  Yeah. Because not one person is your God.
• 25:28
  Mm-hmm. Not one person has the king. And if Hollywood don't let you in,
• 25:33
  baby, listen, I'm a locksmith.
• 25:36
  I'm going to unlock my own door.
• 25:38
  Mm-hmm. Yeah, because this is a male-dominated industry,
• 25:43
  you know, but like you're saying, That's why I want you to tell,
• 25:47
  you know, any woman, I mean, it's black women, but women in general,
• 25:51
  just what their experience is like, because I can't speak on it or anything like that.
• 25:54
  But just want them to know, like I say, set boundaries for yourself.
• 25:58
  Just be true to yourself and use that brain.
• 26:01
  You got to use that brain. Yeah, I've had to have men escorted out of clubs, acting crazy, you know.
• 26:06
  And then when I didn't know I had it going on when I was younger,
• 26:09
  oh, it was just really ridiculous trying to get in. And but then,
• 26:12
  you know, you get to a point.
• 26:13
  I know how to be firm and I'm not afraid to be firm.
• 26:17
  Yeah. But it took a long time to do that. And I wasn't sleeping around,
• 26:19
  you know. And then plus, let me tell you, Paul Mooney, thank God.
• 26:23
  He you know, he told me, he said, let me tell you, well, a wet pee or wet.
• 26:27
  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Wap.
• 26:29
  Wap. OK. A wet wap. Yeah. A wet wap doesn't something. Well,
• 26:34
  it doesn't. A wet pussy doesn't.
• 26:36
  Something. A dry purse. I can't think of it at the moment The
• 26:39
  bottom line is Don't give up your cookies You ain't getting nothing out of it
• 26:43
  Yeah A wet pussy in a dry purse Or something like I said it Anyway We could
• 26:48
  cuss We could cuss all this podcast I said the pussy work Yeah It's all good
• 26:53
  Anyway We're not editing it out But we just let y'all know Okay,
• 26:57
  Okay, I'm sorry But anyway Yeah, a wet pussy A wet pussy in a dry purse Don't
• 27:03
  make any sense There we go That's it,
• 27:06
  That was like a double entendre because it's like S-E-N-S-E and there's also
• 27:11
  C-E-N-T. Oh. That was... Yeah.
• 27:15
  Gotcha. Yeah. You know, thank you.
• 27:18
  Yeah, buddy. Yeah. Yeah. We love our black women up here. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
• 27:26
  Now, smooth transition from the WAP to the band play.
• 27:33
  You're also, you do the singing, you're in the band.
• 27:36
  I saw something on Instagram about that. It was like Too Funky something.
• 27:42
  Hey, Too Funky Shoes with New Souls. Hey, what's up, family out there?
• 27:47
  I'm also with the Funky Heroes, but let me back up to Too Funky Shoes with New Souls.
• 27:51
  Yeah, we were together over 20 years ago. I was their dancer back then.
• 27:57
  And that's when I learned graphic design 20-something years ago.
• 28:01
  I was taking classes with Steve Jobs.
• 28:03
  Well, not with him exactly, but, you know, going to Macworld.
• 28:05
  I was taking classes with the writers, you know, of the books and the people that created Adobe.
• 28:12
  So with that, I started teaching the best practices of graphic design in many universities.
• 28:17
  And when I was learning, I started off with Two Funky Shoes with New Souls when
• 28:21
  we were the 11th Commandment. And that's how I started getting my chops.
• 28:24
  I didn't know anything about design. I was making their posters.
• 28:26
  And then they went away for China, 10 years plus.
• 28:29
  Then they came back out because they kicked black folks out of China during
• 28:34
  the pandemic. Oh, wow. Yeah, it did.
• 28:36
  Well, you know, you had the president going, chain that, chain that.
• 28:39
  Oh, I could see them doing that. We was blaming Chyna Fair for this.
• 28:42
  So they was like, y'all got to get the fuck out of here. Yeah, right.
• 28:44
  Y'all ain't about to be spreading that propaganda and then come over here eating
• 28:47
  our food. You got us fucked up. That's right. So they got basically...
• 28:53
  No, they had to leave. Because if you didn't leave, you would have been locked in.
• 28:57
  So they were like, we're not going to get locked in. So they came out here.
• 29:00
  So we started having backyard boogies, no audience, and just rehearsing.
• 29:05
  And then we just kept doing it, kept doing it, kept doing it,
• 29:07
  kept getting better, better, better.
• 29:09
  I was still kind of like the dancer. And then Tambora was like, no, you need to sing.
• 29:13
  And I was like, well, okay, I'll do that. that
• 29:16
  and then so we then the world kind
• 29:19
  of opened up and then we started going into the clubs and
• 29:22
  then ever since then i mean we are rocking and rolling i
• 29:25
  got a show coming up this saturday at tupelo in
• 29:28
  san francisco and hey sacramento you know we
• 29:31
  come out here once a month to the torch club all right cool this is this just
• 29:35
  adds up this is going to air in about two weeks so anybody who's watching this
• 29:38
  i heard about two weeks so by the time it happened by the time it happened by
• 29:42
  the time people watch this it already happened but it was a wonderful show It
• 29:45
  was a great fucking show. It was a great effing show.
• 29:48
  Y'all come back to the next one. The next one will be like two weeks from now.
• 29:52
  Well, there you have it. For real.
• 29:53
  No, because we work hard. And I'm telling you, we are a bad, bad band.
• 29:58
  And we do all the festivals and all that. Man, I love being on stage.
• 30:03
  It's something about it and just seeing all the people out there.
• 30:07
  And, you know, at first I get a little nervous in the beginning.
• 30:10
  And then it's like it's on. on because see my job is
• 30:13
  to go into the audience because i'm the hype person too
• 30:16
  so not only do i dance and backup sing i'm the
• 30:19
  hype person so i jump off the stage i get into
• 30:22
  the audience i get in their face and have a lot of fun i'm
• 30:25
  taking pictures as i'm singing and going along the way so that's two funky shoes
• 30:29
  with new souls our lead vocalist she is amazing the other special case she's
• 30:35
  also sings we have a guy now in our group who sings and then the musicians are
• 30:40
  just off the So it's just like when I'm with them...
• 30:45
  I think that they are amazing. It just makes me want to get that much more amazing, right?
• 30:50
  And then, so that's Two Funky Shoes with New Souls. I'm also the host for the Funky Heroes.
• 30:56
  That's by Andre Preston. And we dress up like funky heroes, and we play to a
• 31:01
  comic book that he's written.
• 31:03
  So that's a multimedia show that we do.
• 31:06
  So we have the movie playing in the background, and we're kind of singing and
• 31:10
  acting out what's going on in the comic book.
• 31:13
  And so that's the funky heroes we love that
• 31:15
  and it's a it's a family show so we
• 31:19
  were doing this right before the pandemic we were going to all the schools
• 31:21
  in the oakland unified school district you know join
• 31:24
  the funky heroes or whatever and then you know there's power in the afro and
• 31:28
  the kids would love to touch the afro and all that so then i'm also a part of
• 31:32
  samba funk hey king theo been a member i think 14 years now samba funk um so
• 31:40
  professional samba dancing my children and also are available,
• 31:43
  I mean available, a part of Samba Funk.
• 31:46
  And I currently have a podcast with a guy named Gentleman, an awesome person,
• 31:51
  Tony Mayfield. He's Curtis Mayfield's son.
• 31:55
  He has the trillion dollar studio. We're about to start our tiny desk.
• 31:59
  We have a full on studio in Point Richmond, California.
• 32:03
  All the instruments are there. You don't need to bring anything but yourself.
• 32:06
  And we got the recording booth, the console.
• 32:09
  I mean, everything is a beautiful situation.
• 32:11
  All new equipment.
• 32:13
  So we're starting our tiny desk there. Then I also host a free flow showcase.
• 32:18
  That's at the Berkeley Black Rep every other Tuesday.
• 32:21
  We have a full band there, a DJ, camera people, and we promote people with original
• 32:27
  music at the free flow showcase. case.
• 32:30
  And then, of course, I'm working with Dr. Robert and all of his films.
• 32:34
  I was in Snow Black with him.
• 32:37
  Of course, Mad as Hell, and now I'm the star, the lead role of Cocaine Roach.
• 32:43
  And so working with Dr. Robert, it's like, oh, my God, I write a lot now.
• 32:48
  I mean, I'm almost finished writing two movies.
• 32:51
  Because he writes and he's such a great writer, and I'm so motivated to do that.
• 32:57
  So, yeah, in addition to the bands
• 32:59
  and the dancing and then the movies and putting the merch in the movies.
• 33:03
  And here's the other part. All right. Ooh wee, our soundtrack is fire, right?
• 33:07
  So then everybody who's submitting songs to Dr.
• 33:10
  Robert, guess who gets to listen to them? Okay. Me. So with that said,
• 33:14
  everyone that I've reached out to have given me some music.
• 33:18
  Now I've just written like 10 songs.
• 33:21
  So, you know, I'm ready to go. And then Robert's business partner connected
• 33:26
  us with someone with a high profile record company. I don't want to say which
• 33:30
  record company. No, we can't.
• 33:31
  We shh. but this is this is what we're working on this is huge and like i said
• 33:36
  the soundtrack that we have currently for cocaine roach you know oh we got schooly
• 33:41
  d in there it's our our uh musical director,
• 33:44
  nocturnal what's up yeah yeah oh he was signed to uh aftermath right at one
• 33:48
  point yeah yeah yeah dr drake for sure yeah so we got knock on that oh did i
• 33:52
  clap myself oh okay not and oh my god Ron Kat.
• 33:56
  Ron Kat Spearman. He's a P-Funk all-star.
• 33:59
  Oh, my God. He wrote, don't walk away, boy.
• 34:03
  He's in the movie, too. And then some other artists in there.
• 34:06
  The soundtrack is ridiculous.
• 34:09
  And we got Tupac in it. I know Tupac is not there.
• 34:12
  With us but nocturnal has the music and
• 34:16
  just to be with the cast and all
• 34:18
  that so for me from the bands to the movies
• 34:22
  to the dance community to the comedy community
• 34:25
  the acting oh my god i'm around some amazing people y'all amazing you're a real
• 34:32
  uh a fixture in the city with the way you have your head like i said we said
• 34:36
  at the beginning about like having your heads and everything stuff like that
• 34:38
  you're a real fixture in the city an important person in the city was that
• 34:43
  is that something that you take is that something that you like you recognize
• 34:46
  like you look at the mirror you'd be like yo i'm like i'm important out here
• 34:49
  or is is you just you just do you no i'm doing the work of the lord no you know
• 34:54
  i mean doing the work of joy no i i just do me but here's the deal i'm a people
• 34:58
  person yeah and i work with a lot of people i know a lot of people and yeah,
• 35:04
  people are drawn to me like I am drawn to them. It's like being in a vortex.
• 35:11
  So right now I feel like I'm in a vortex of great opportunity.
• 35:15
  You know what I mean? Like I said, no matter what comes my way,
• 35:17
  because we all got problems, we could, why talk about it? Let's focus on that joy.
• 35:21
  So I'm in this vortex right now of just great people, great things happening.
• 35:27
  And I just want to share it and then help somebody else along and feed seven
• 35:31
  generations out. I'm going to always go back to that feeding seven generations
• 35:35
  within everything that I do. Yeah.
• 35:38
  Because the reason I had brought that up, like you being a fixture in the city,
• 35:41
  you know, being a person of importance, trying to do my research,
• 35:45
  stuff like that, like your Facebook page and stuff like that.
• 35:48
  You had made a post, something about like you had won. Let me get my note because
• 35:52
  I don't want to fuck it up. The Black Excellence Award. Yes.
• 35:55
  You was the woman of the year. Yes, sir. And this was this past year? Yes.
• 36:00
  2023. 2023. Yes. I mean, that was just like a couple of months ago.
• 36:03
  Yes. So I mean, like, what was that like when you did that? How did that whole
• 36:08
  thing happen? You went in woman.
• 36:10
  That's a woman of the fucking year. Yeah. No. And thank you to the Barony Company.
• 36:14
  And thank you to Lito. Oh, my God. Well, they found me out there.
• 36:19
  You know, I'm out there like you.
• 36:21
  You're out there in the world. And so, you know.
• 36:24
  They were watching me. And so then that's how that happened.
• 36:28
  And I'm just, I have a lot of gratitude because I really try.
• 36:32
  I work with politicians too.
• 36:34
  I really try to, I used to go to all my city council meetings and stuff like that. Not so much now.
• 36:39
  So I'm really involved with helping the community out there.
• 36:43
  So, yeah, and then I'm in a sorority, so I volunteer when I can with the organization,
• 36:49
  you know, and when I can volunteer in general, I do that. Not so much now.
• 36:53
  I'm really busy. But for a long time, I was out there in the community and I
• 36:57
  give back as much as I can.
• 36:59
  You know what I mean? Whether or not I'm teaching or leading a seminar for free
• 37:04
  or hosting something for free to me, that's not free.
• 37:06
  It's just for love because I'm giving back. back
• 37:10
  yeah so as far as like feeling important in the
• 37:13
  community i mean okay yeah
• 37:16
  to some degree because i am a connector right i'm a connector people call me
• 37:20
  say hey i want this actor can you find that person i may not know them but i
• 37:24
  bet you i'll find them yeah and then i bet y'all make that phone call to make
• 37:27
  that happen you know what i mean yeah so important like that only important
• 37:33
  in terms of what can i do to the for the community and to help somebody else
• 37:39
  along the way because i have help yeah yeah and that's what it is i think one
• 37:43
  of the things that people.
• 37:44
  Truly take for granted in this industry is the importance of paying it forward
• 37:50
  you know somebody blesses you you got to bless somebody else or you got to bless
• 37:55
  two more people you know it's,
• 37:57
  It's such a, because with the egos and the personalities of,
• 38:02
  like, especially if you're the person that's in front of the camera,
• 38:05
  or you're the person that's on stage, you get that whole, it's gotta be about
• 38:07
  me, it's gotta be about me, but it's really not, it's about.
• 38:13
  The people in the audience, the person that you're entertaining,
• 38:15
  the person who, the people whose eyes are on you, that's going to look, that's watching this.
• 38:20
  And it doesn't matter whether it's, I mean, 35 people at my comedy show or 3000
• 38:24
  people or 3 million people watching me in the Matrix Revolutions.
• 38:27
  Shits, but it's about the people that is watching it.
• 38:34
  They're going to, they're going to look at that and watch that.
• 38:36
  And they're just going to be all like, shit, man. Like I want to do that. I think I could do that.
• 38:41
  And then they, they, they might meet you one day.
• 38:44
  They talk to you, ask you for advice, whatever it may be, some sort of help
• 38:48
  you got to pay it forward.
• 38:49
  Because the only reason why I was able to get onto the matrix is because I had
• 38:52
  great mentors, people who gave me an opportunity and it would be extremely selfish
• 38:57
  of me to not pass on that knowledge, pass on that wisdom.
• 39:01
  So I say, well, again, like what you're doing and stuff like that.
• 39:04
  When the woman of the year just put these people on.
• 39:07
  The Honorable Barbara Lee's 12th Congressional Award, me and my BFF Althea,
• 39:13
  we get, we produced the Light of the World gospel concert.
• 39:16
  So we were recognized as a Berkeley Black Repertory Theater.
• 39:20
  That's really big. Thank you. Thank you so much, Dr.
• 39:23
  Scott, for believing in us and supporting us so much so that we're coming back
• 39:27
  this year at the end of the year with another gospel concert.
• 39:30
  We sold it out. So we proved ourselves that we're producers as well.
• 39:33
  You know what I mean? Yeah, we put on that event. And then prior to that,
• 39:38
  that March earlier that year, my retaining wall fell during the rains.
• 39:42
  Another story. I gave a big soiree there.
• 39:46
  You know, I had samba dancers. I had band. I had wine tasting at my event.
• 39:52
  The talk show portion of the event. And since I'm an artist,
• 39:55
  I had the Mojo Lounge going on.
• 39:57
  I had the food catered. So, you know, I try to involve everything that I do
• 40:02
  and the people that I'm working with.
• 40:03
  If I have something to do with it, you're going to be a part of my show.
• 40:07
  And if I make money, you make money. When I eat, you eat. And that was the Light
• 40:12
  of the World Certificate. What was the exact name of the certificate?
• 40:15
  The 12th Congressional Award. It's a certificate of achievement from Barbara Lee's office.
• 40:21
  You know, we brought the community together for the light of the world.
• 40:27
  And we had Dolores Thompson hosted from KBLX.
• 40:30
  We had Percy May, who's a comedian, I met when I was working with Paul Mooney.
• 40:35
  She came through the rep. You know, we had the baddest singers out there.
• 40:39
  We had a full band, a sound system.
• 40:41
  I mean, you know, it takes like to make a production.
• 40:44
  We had a choir. So we couldn't have done all of this without everyone being involved.
• 40:51
  You know what I mean? Yeah. So that award. And, you know, of course,
• 40:55
  with Mad as Hell, I won three awards for Best Supporting Actress in Mad as Hell.
• 41:00
  And I play the director's the main character, his wife in the movie.
• 41:03
  So I have a pretty big role in that movie as well.
• 41:06
  And I think I really did good in Mad as Hell because I really approached,
• 41:12
  I was not dating the director at the time.
• 41:15
  If you ever see that movie, you'll say, well, were they dating? Not at all.
• 41:19
  I came in as a professional and I wanted to slay it. And he's a hard director sometimes.
• 41:25
  Yes. He was, when I messed something up, I didn't know how to die.
• 41:29
  I practiced everything. I knew my lines. I knew my lines because I was nervous.
• 41:35
  And then Amy's so cute, and I didn't really know her. She said,
• 41:38
  oh, I can help you with your lines. I was like, no, I got my lines.
• 41:42
  I didn't know how to die. Yeah. Yeah, no. I couldn't call the right way.
• 41:47
  And then he started sweating it. And then he says to me, I only do three takes, three takes.
• 41:52
  And I was like, mm-hmm, mm-hmm, yeah.
• 41:56
  I got one more question, then we're going to dive deep into this whole movie-making
• 41:59
  world that you're in with the maddest hell in the cocaine world.
• 42:03
  But just one more question then we're going to dive into that atmosphere.
• 42:06
  So did you win on Pictionary?
• 42:10
  No, thank you. Hey, that was so, oh my God. I'll see, I'll try to do a little bit of research.
• 42:16
  Yeah, man, my daughter set that up and that's what I love about my daughter.
• 42:20
  I mean, she sets it up for us to go on different auditions.
• 42:23
  So we did, we're still waiting to hear back. I think it's Wells Fargo,
• 42:26
  you know, to see if we could do a mother-daughter thing. But no,
• 42:29
  she enters us in different contests or whatever.
• 42:32
  So we got the Pictionary. We're looking forward to other things that she does, handles that part.
• 42:37
  But oh, my God, just the entire experience from driving onto the lot and just
• 42:42
  checking in three different times.
• 42:44
  And then we had to bring our wardrobe, but they had somebody steam our clothes.
• 42:48
  They had the makeup people. And then they had the people in the audience.
• 42:51
  I said, oh, my God, I can live like this every day.
• 42:54
  I need my own talk show. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 42:59
  Yeah, so a little bit of that. I was like, all right, let's show up.
• 43:01
  I was on Let's Make a Deal last year. So yeah, I was on that.
• 43:07
  Did you win? Yeah. Yeah. They didn't air me winning, but I did win.
• 43:10
  I did win. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. You sure that you won?
• 43:13
  Oh, yeah. They didn't air me winning. They didn't air it. They didn't know what
• 43:16
  happened was is because I didn't, like, go down and, like, you know,
• 43:18
  play, like, one of the games or whatever.
• 43:20
  It was just more so, like, when Wayne Brady, like, points at somebody out of
• 43:22
  the audience and said, like, I'm going to ask you some questions or whatever.
• 43:25
  And so he was just asking me random trivia, pop culture trivia questions and stuff like that.
• 43:30
  But, like, the reason why that cut me out of it is because, like,
• 43:33
  everybody there, I don't know what it was.
• 43:35
  I don't know what it was about like the energy that I was bringing or like that just
• 43:38
  like I don't know what it was but everybody was just wanting to be just so helpful or
• 43:41
  whatever so like he would ask me a question and
• 43:44
  then somebody else in the audience would just yell out the answer for me and
• 43:47
  I was just all like I got this I know this but you know it don't make for good
• 43:51
  TV with these all he's like hey yo buddy what's you know what TV show is Queen
• 43:57
  Latifah on and then I get ready to say hey the equal and then somebody else
• 44:00
  is like buddy it's the equalizer and I'm all like Like, okay,
• 44:04
  next, next, next question. Next question.
• 44:06
  That happened like three different times, but every time it did,
• 44:08
  it just added more to my money pot. But yeah, they, they, they had to cut it out.
• 44:12
  Let me move this pillow. Cause you got a little bit of money looking.
• 44:14
  We looking for some investors.
• 44:15
  No. Where do you think, where do you think this podcast equipment came from? This was Wayne Brady.
• 44:21
  Wait a minute. I don't know you, Wayne Brady. I would love to interview you.
• 44:24
  Let me tell you, you dance, act, sing, you do it all.
• 44:28
  I try, I call myself like the female Wayne Brady for real, the Bay area,
• 44:32
  because he He can actually do it all, and that's what I want to do.
• 44:36
  I want to be way, way, way, way. Yeah, multi-talented. Yeah.
• 44:41
  Because I put a lot of effort into all of it, like Sammy Davis Jr.
• 44:45
  Did. You know, they could dance, act, and sing, and do whatever else. I want to be that person.
• 44:52
  Yeah. All right. So now let's get into these movies.
• 44:56
  You was mad as hell. We'll start off with Mad as Hell because that was the one
• 44:59
  that had just recently premiered, not premiered, but showed at the Sactown Movie Buff Film Festival.
• 45:05
  You've already won 34 awards for this thing.
• 45:09
  Seeing it on the IMAX, seeing yourself on IMAX, the biggest screen in the world. What was that like?
• 45:14
  It was like I wish my mother was still here to see it because my mother was
• 45:19
  like, well, my parents, they really supported me in what I did. My mother.
• 45:24
  Yeah, I wish she could have seen it more so than me, but just to see myself
• 45:28
  there and then and I was good.
• 45:30
  Yeah. I mean, you know, it's not about bragging or anything like that is on
• 45:34
  the great direction and working with great people.
• 45:37
  But when I look back at myself, I can say that I'm actually proud of myself
• 45:41
  and look outside of myself because I went in there as a professional and wanting
• 45:46
  to do a good job. And I respected Robert.
• 45:49
  You know, I met him years ago on the set of Jackson Bolt. He actually not on the set of Jackson Bolt.
• 45:55
  I was doing media and my children were working with me and he connected with
• 45:59
  me to come down there to cover his to be one of the media people.
• 46:03
  And then I was down there. I was like, oh, Gloria Hendry. Oh, my God.
• 46:06
  Oh oh my god just to meet her to
• 46:09
  see her i saw like he mentioned like art camacho don
• 46:13
  the dragon wilson was there then through
• 46:16
  him i got a chance to meet fred the hammer williamson oh.
• 46:19
  My god it was just just wonderful and
• 46:22
  i just wanted more you know what i mean having the opportunity to
• 46:26
  interview the stars of the icons that i
• 46:28
  grew up watching and then actually be a part of
• 46:32
  it and it just makes you want to get better and better
• 46:35
  and better just want to do it so i've got the movie bug
• 46:37
  now the acting bug but it's kind of already in me because i
• 46:40
  was doing plays as a little girl you know what i mean and then
• 46:43
  i was at the berkeley black repertory theater for many
• 46:46
  years and so i grew up it kind of like
• 46:48
  in it so i knew what to do but to do it on screen and
• 46:52
  see yourself on imax thank you sacramento
• 46:55
  movie bus thank you so
• 46:58
  much i got a chance to see myself to make just i
• 47:01
  feel good i feel good beat on stage
• 47:04
  is cool but there's no experience better than like
• 47:07
  seeing yourself on on the big screen you're
• 47:10
  just like damn that's me right there yeah
• 47:13
  that's me like i'm watching me but i'm right here but
• 47:16
  then that's me right there too i was i mean like two places at
• 47:18
  once right now yeah but imagine yeah so you've
• 47:22
  been you've done a lot of work yeah i mean wow i mean because you know i looked
• 47:26
  at your list too and your list just kept going on and on and on and on and on
• 47:29
  and on and on and on and now you're doing this and then you're part of this
• 47:32
  comedy competition that's coming up yeah yeah i'm host of the yeah the host
• 47:35
  of the comedy cash cow competition and like i said that that just comes from being.
• 47:42
  Like say paying it forward so the way i even got a
• 47:44
  part of that this isn't supposed to be about me
• 47:47
  but i see the
• 47:51
  tv hosting but like the
• 47:54
  way that got started is there's this casting director her
• 47:57
  name is tony stanowitz and she basically got
• 48:01
  me started broke me into the tv
• 48:05
  and stuff like that from doing tv shows
• 48:08
  like i almost got away with it tv show called love kills
• 48:11
  wives with knives oh my daughter was on wives with
• 48:14
  knives what's your daughter tamra lawrence okay she's an actor too you know
• 48:18
  i i've met her before not on a set well it was on a set but not that i was acting
• 48:24
  it she was out here she was doing a music video for john q it was like it was
• 48:28
  like at a roller skating rink or whatever stuff like that tammy green eyes you
• 48:32
  know my daughter yeah yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 48:33
  Hey, that's what's up. It's a family affair.
• 48:37
  Yeah. So, well, I don't know her, but I met her once. No, no,
• 48:39
  I got you. Yeah, you know what I'm saying. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 48:42
  So, yeah, so Tony Stato, as a matter of fact, because Tony Stato,
• 48:44
  she had directed that music video.
• 48:45
  Uh-huh, uh-huh. So she, back in like 2018, she started this film festival called
• 48:52
  the Wild West Film Festival.
• 48:53
  And it's a whole film festival dedicated to Western movies.
• 48:57
  And she's all like, buddy, I just need somebody up here to, you know,
• 49:01
  tell jokes. I just need, you know, some entertainment in between the showing
• 49:04
  of these movies and stuff like that. And I was like, no problem.
• 49:08
  No problem at all. I come whatever, however much time you need me to do. I got you. I'll do it.
• 49:12
  I'm there for you. And then from there, it kind of she gave me the unofficial
• 49:15
  title of the comedy director, you know, to where she needs a comedian or whatever.
• 49:21
  But I just need you to reach out to this comedian, see if they could do this or whatever.
• 49:24
  But then eventually she had just put in my ear one time. She's like,
• 49:27
  so eventually I want to do a comedy festival.
• 49:30
  And I was like, all right, cool. We could do that. And then she just asked me to host it.
• 49:34
  You know, she's like, because of the things, she's not only seen me as a funny
• 49:38
  comedian, but she basically helped me create my resume, like where people see
• 49:43
  the work that I've done and stuff like that.
• 49:45
  She was a very integral part in that.
• 49:47
  And so now that I have things like, I'm a member of the Screen Actors Guild,
• 49:51
  but then also starting my own production company where we're producing our own
• 49:55
  comedy shows and things of that nature, funny business comedy at the Uli Theater every month.
• 50:00
  Yeah we we just she just
• 50:03
  seen that and she's like well you've helped me
• 50:06
  create my film festival so here's here's kind of like this for you now that
• 50:10
  goes back just to the importance of of paying it forward because i could have
• 50:13
  i could have been like no i don't really feel like doing like doing stand-up
• 50:17
  for you know this film festival or like or you you gotta you gotta pay me or
• 50:22
  something like that it's just it's just just really out of love and just seeing
• 50:24
  the work that she's put in.
• 50:27
  Helping other people out, I'm like, one, why would I say no?
• 50:30
  And then two, she's presented me with a great opportunity as well.
• 50:34
  And I never knew that it would grow into, like I said, me hosting this film,
• 50:38
  this comedy competition. Yeah.
• 50:40
  You know, but now we're giving other comedians the opportunity now to break into the film industry.
• 50:46
  You know, and it's all based kind of off of the blueprint that I kind of set
• 50:51
  for myself as an entertainer.
• 50:53
  So it's just like I said we just talked about like going back like paying it
• 50:56
  forward and stuff like that it's just a beautiful thing to see what happens
• 50:59
  with you when somebody helps you out and that you in return help somebody else
• 51:05
  out yeah right on that's what's up so that's,
• 51:08
  how we rock it well you know I'm going to come through that comedy show and
• 51:12
  support you yeah yeah that's what we're going to do I want to see you
• 51:14
  in action I'm going to be the live yeah buddy get a
• 51:18
  dose of this funny business yeah I want to get
• 51:21
  a dose of that funniness yeah we're killing
• 51:24
  it yeah then either even like with that just networking you
• 51:27
  know my agent and stuff like that he's on board with helping me
• 51:30
  produce my comedy shows now he's helped me hook up
• 51:33
  with a streaming service platform that sound like roku and stuff like that and
• 51:38
  then you got connections to like 2b and stuff like that so as the the shows
• 51:41
  at the funny business and all these productions that i am putting on is growing
• 51:44
  we having people help me out and like
• 51:46
  i said it's It's just a testament to understanding that this industry,
• 51:51
  because it's not even an industry up here.
• 51:53
  It's more so a community. I always call it an entertainment community.
• 51:56
  It's always more, I'm going to fuck this word up, this saying up,
• 52:02
  but it's bigger than me, basically, just to sum it up.
• 52:05
  It's bigger than me. What things I'm doing, like you say, seeing my resume,
• 52:09
  seeing the movies and stuff that I'm being on and stuff like that,
• 52:12
  it's bigger than just me having a resume.
• 52:14
  It's about showing other people that this this is possible yeah man it's possible
• 52:19
  because nothing to it but do it you know what i'm saying and like you surround
• 52:23
  yourself and your energy that you put out and the love starts to come back to
• 52:27
  you so i look forward to seeing you and congratulations,
• 52:29
  on hosting that so let me ask you this no i'm just kidding.
• 52:34
  We're gonna switch pillows here because we're about to get into the movies because
• 52:38
  i'm about the movies and the merch because you want to get more into that you
• 52:41
  want to talk to me more about Cocaine Roach? Cocaine Roach.
• 52:43
  Cocaine Roach. Let's get into this.
• 52:46
  Literally, everybody who's going to listen to these past three podcast episodes
• 52:49
  is just going to be nothing but talk about Cocaine Roach because we had Dr.
• 52:53
  Perm last time and then before that we got Nakia. We was all just...
• 52:57
  Cocaine roach that's the fucking movement right now man we uh
• 52:59
  but what what is this so before i well
• 53:02
  the funky the funky hot links are
• 53:05
  in the movie this is merch in the movie you know what i mean so i'm
• 53:08
  all so when you go to our premiere you're gonna see the funky hot links there
• 53:12
  as well as us probably selling some packages or candy roaches or something like
• 53:16
  that you know because we have to keep we have to keep building the empire you
• 53:20
  know what i mean and then somebody might like the funky hot links and they like
• 53:24
  the art and they see it in the movie it's like hey Hey, let me get that.
• 53:27
  So, you know, the movie is giving more love.
• 53:30
  Not only are they going to the theaters, but they're seeing things,
• 53:32
  products within the movie that they could buy.
• 53:35
  Yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah. So then it keeps giving and giving.
• 53:38
  Nice, nice, nice. And so, Colt K. Roach, this is your first lead in a movie.
• 53:43
  Are you the lead? I know you play a substantial role in the film.
• 53:47
  No, I am the lead. Okay, yeah, I like how you said that. Wait,
• 53:49
  let me say that again. Say it one more time. Twice. Say it twice.
• 53:51
  Listen, I am, I am, I am, I am the lead. No, I am the lead.
• 53:56
  But no, I have had the opportunity to work with award-winning film director Sandra A. Smith.
• 54:02
  I was in her Three Men and a Laptop Part 1 and 2 and in The Gumbo.
• 54:06
  And I'm the lead of a movie that we're still in production for.
• 54:10
  It's called Julia Stiles. She's a talk show host who's turning 50.
• 54:14
  She hasn't gotten married and she's looking for love. And her and her best friend
• 54:17
  Candace, they go on these different capers.
• 54:19
  So then that's a feature film as well. And so we're still in production for that movie.
• 54:25
  Yeah. And so, but this one, so that's, yeah, I'm the featured actor starring
• 54:32
  in her movie and I'm the star along with Lawrence Hilton Jacobs.
• 54:37
  That's so awesome to see somebody that you went to the movie theater to go see
• 54:40
  when you're a little girl, Cooley High, and now you falling into the man's arms
• 54:44
  when at the end of the movie, you know. Mm-hmm.
• 54:47
  It's cool. But anyway, yeah. So I love doing Cocaine Roach, Marlon Kai.
• 54:55
  He's a phenomenal actor. First of all, everybody's a phenomenal actor,
• 54:58
  but he was my guy, you know, in this. So we had this antagonism between us within
• 55:02
  the movie and he did that and I did that. Gary too. I mean, everybody.
• 55:07
  But just when you work with people who are seasoned actors, they know their
• 55:12
  lines and they know the story.
• 55:14
  So no matter what, how we go around the lines or whatever, we know the story
• 55:19
  and we can get in there and just do it and vibe off of each other.
• 55:22
  So just the ensemble that we work with, just amazing people. Yeah.
• 55:28
  No, Marlon, that's the homie. Me and Marlon, about like in 2015,
• 55:32
  we started this short film together called The Two Gamers.
• 55:35
  I mean, it's just this movie about two guys.
• 55:37
  One's a slacker dude, that's me. And Marlon's like more the buy the book type of guy.
• 55:41
  But we were just waiting and a bit anticipated the release of this video game
• 55:45
  and stuff like that. And, you know, he's first in line and he's all ready to go.
• 55:48
  And me, I'm the slacker. I'm running behind. I don't got no cash on me and stuff
• 55:51
  like that. It's just this whirlwind story and stuff like that.
• 55:54
  But it's premiered at like, yeah, film festivals all around the country, even Canada.
• 55:59
  But then, Marlon, that's the homie right there. Yeah, Marlon's super professional.
• 56:03
  Yes. That's the dude right there. Yeah, he comes, he does his homework.
• 56:07
  Yeah. Yes. So I got to get Marlon on the episode. We're going to have like a two gamers reunion.
• 56:11
  Oh, that would be nice. Shout out to Marlon. That's the homie right there.
• 56:15
  Yeah, yeah. Shout out to Marlon and Josh Alvin. And, of course,
• 56:18
  Gary Turner and everyone that was in it, part of it. Tori, oh, my God. He killed it.
• 56:24
  Of course, Lawrence Hilton, Jason Todd, Sonofonte.
• 56:27
  It's a lot of people. Oh, Freeman, Free Jack is in it, and a lot of other people.
• 56:33
  My daughter's in the movie. Come on now.
• 56:35
  Oh, my God. What am I thinking? It's a family affair. It's a family affair,
• 56:38
  and that's what I love about Robert.
• 56:39
  You know, Dr. Robert, he keeps the same people.
• 56:43
  We're close-knit, and we know how to gel, and we come in, and we make it professional,
• 56:48
  and we do it, and we listen to his direction, and it's fire.
• 56:51
  I saw a little bit of it. you have a pretty powerful monologue in that thing
• 56:57
  where you had to like really like break down and you just give it to Marlon and shit like that.
• 57:03
  How heavy, like, not say heavy, but I mean, that's a heavy scene to do.
• 57:06
  But what is it like just trying to, like, put it all out there for everybody?
• 57:12
  How, what was the preparation like going into, like, shooting that,
• 57:16
  doing that monologue specifically, knowing you're going to have to show such an emotional range?
• 57:20
  And then, like, afterwards, were you just, like, emotionally drained?
• 57:25
  First of all, they kicked me out of the room because I didn't get it right.
• 57:29
  The first time, not even the second time. And everybody in there was looking
• 57:35
  at me like, bitch, if you don't get this right, you know what I'm saying?
• 57:38
  I said, three takes. Three takes. That's all you get.
• 57:40
  It was like you got the third take. So everybody, including Vert.
• 57:44
  But maybe you ought to go think about it.
• 57:47
  And I was like, okay, that's all right. That's all right. Because when I come
• 57:50
  back, when I come back, it's going to be fire.
• 57:54
  Yeah. Oh. And then I said, what? When I went outside, I said,
• 57:57
  what would my mother say?
• 57:58
  And she would always say you got to have the courage of
• 58:01
  your own conviction to stand up for what you truly believe in yeah
• 58:05
  and so it can't it all stem from that
• 58:08
  and i say how would my mother do it and then i love working with cinder williams
• 58:14
  what's up cinder williams you're amazing so she has this uh scene that she has
• 58:19
  in mad as hell that's so powerful is the her monologue and i I kind of brought my inner Cinda.
• 58:26
  And then I thought about, you know, I love Viola Davis, you know, and Angela Bassett.
• 58:33
  So all of the inner divas that I like to watch, like I said,
• 58:36
  including Cinda, including Gloria Hendry, just bringing it. And my mama.
• 58:40
  And I brought all those women in the room with me. So somebody was going to come out.
• 58:45
  Yeah. No, yeah. I saw you definitely brought it. I see Marla was breaking down.
• 58:48
  He's like, oh, shit. When Marla give you that Blake stare, like,
• 58:52
  I know you bring it in and shit. You're like, all right, for sure. For sure, yeah.
• 58:56
  Yeah, yeah. So it was a pleasure working with him. There's some funny scenes
• 59:00
  in that movie I cannot tell you about, but you just got to see the movie. I can't wait.
• 59:04
  But the movie is called Cocaine Roach.
• 59:07
  Roaches that do cocaine, and they're trapped in this building,
• 59:10
  and everybody, and then there's a story to it. There's an actual plot behind
• 59:14
  it, not just roaches. Like, hey, let's do some fucking cocaine and see what
• 59:17
  happens. No, there's a huge plot to it, a story behind it.
• 59:20
  Listen, I play a co-cat, too.
• 59:24
  That's somebody that's complete opposite of your actual personality and stuff
• 59:27
  like that, because you go to church, you're part of the gospel and stuff like that.
• 59:30
  What is your preparation like as far as acting when you see,
• 59:33
  okay, this is what I'm going to be doing.
• 59:36
  I'm pretty sure no method acting. Let me just do some fucking lines real quickly.
• 59:41
  But what is your preparation like when it comes to just getting a role?
• 59:46
  Well, first of all, with this particular movie, I played two different characters
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  and Robert really made it like you got to be.
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  He was like, nope, you bring a deal, a big deal out. No, we don't want her. No, we want Tanisha.
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  So then I had to consciously be Tanisha, consciously get, you know, not ghetto.
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  I don't know how to say it. A little hood swag. Thank you.
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  I like that. I had to have a little hood swag. Y'all know, you know,
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  I had to bring out that hood swag.
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  So, you know, I had to do that. And then, oh, my God, I love Eddie Murphy, right?
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  So I had to channel my inner Eddie Murphy, meaning that he could do five characters
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  in a movie or whatever. So I said, OK, I got to do two.
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  This is my first movie with two characters. I want to build up to three, four and five.
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  Yeah. Five different people in a movie and just playing completely different roles.
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  I look forward to that. So, Dr. Robert, let's. We're going to see.
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  I'm going to be there for that one. And I'm definitely going to be there for
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  that, for the premiere of Cocaine Roach.
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  Yeah, we want you there. And in our next movie, we got to have you in the movie.
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  Yeah, I heard about the food that y'all have on set.
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  I'm definitely going to be there. Even if I just got to tell some jokes during
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  lunch, I'll cook for the chicken. It's all good, man.
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  Oh, yeah. His daughter, she's like, she's a chef, like a cordon bleu chef.
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  So, you know, anytime she caters food, oh, my God.
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  The dessert, everything, just top to bottom. bottom but
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  yeah like you talked about earlier we make sure we feed our
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  people good food good people yeah so yeah
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  when we were talking about when robert was talking about doing the
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  movie we went to go see cocaine cocaine cocaine bear
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  and then he says oh yeah i'm gonna do a movie about cocaine roach
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  and i was like get the fuck it sent you you curse get
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  the fuck out of here yeah we curse okay get the fuck
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  out of here that's what i said he was like no i'm gonna really do it and then
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  you know he started he's like no i'm gonna write it and i'm like baby
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  what you doing i'm writing and cocaine ranch and i was
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  like oh that's what's up and then you
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  know when he was and then we were just talking about diva big
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  deal and he put diva big deal in there she has this big personality
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  so i even want to do a show around diva big deal yeah okay once we wrap all
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  this up yes yeah yeah y'all are busy y'all are busy before we do wrap up this
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  episode because i think my laptop is going to die and stuff like that you don't
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  say but before we keep talking but we do we do what we
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  call is the the mount rushmore route rushmore is
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  of course the you know your four influences in the game people that you've seen
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  on the tv screen or the magazine that inspired you or motivated you to be the
• 1:02:18
  person you are today alive or gone both both okay well of course paul mooney mm-hmm.
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  Like my favorite. Oh, well, you know, I love me some Angela Bassett. Mm hmm. OK.
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  Legend. Legend. Robbed up that Oscar, but we'll get it. We'll get it back. Yeah.
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  You know, I like Viola Davis. I love Whoopi.
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  Me and my mother used to go see Whoopi Gold before she was big,
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  big, big. She was doing a one woman show.
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  So and then there's so many people like that's not fair because then I want
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  to put Robert on Mount Rushmore. Theo, who I work with.
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  Tambora, who I sing with. Andre, who I sing with. Tony, who I have the podcast with.
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  Spider-Man, who I do the Free Flow Showcase with. Like, everybody that I'm working
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  with, they are my Mount Rushmore right here today.
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  They are alive, making it happen. And then everyone else, like,
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  hey, Angela Bassett, I would love to do a movie with you.
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  But then, you know what I'm saying? Yeah. So, yeah, I think I answered that
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  question right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Did I? Yeah.
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  There's about like six different Mount Rushmores at that mountain. But we but we got it.
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  We got it. And then, of course, my parents are on top of Mount Rushmore because
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  they were they're my heroes.
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  They pushed me through my cousin, John. Yeah, man, it's a lot of folks.
• 1:03:38
  And then and then I want to say this. Hey, everybody out there in the area, you know, I love you.
• 1:03:44
  And I didn't mention everybody's name is so many amazing performers out there. You know, I love you.
• 1:03:49
  And just thank you for supporting me. Support.
• 1:03:52
  Yeah, buddy. Tune into his show. You know what I mean? He's got an amazing platform.
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  It's an honor and a privilege to sit down on your couch.
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  Thank you so much for listening to all the stuff that I had to say.
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  You know no i appreciate you shedding shedding this
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  wisdom this light your joy you know it's
• 1:04:10
  been a wonderful thing but like i said what uh okay do i want to you know okay
• 1:04:13
  well this is hey the funky christian canines are coming out so these are gonna
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  be shows the funky christian canines along with the funky hot links who are
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  actually in our movies plus let me before you wrap it up hey i'm a fine artist
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  too right meaning that did i draw.
• 1:04:31
  And so, I don't know if y'all can see this. Yep, this is called Mod City Silhouettes.
• 1:04:35
  These are my shopping bags. So, I'm a fashion designer, too.
• 1:04:39
  That'd be dope. I can see somebody give that like a birthday gift.
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  Like, you know, people have put the birthday presents in the birthday bag.
• 1:04:45
  That's like the present on top of the present.
• 1:04:46
  Yeah, thank you. So, the art, my art is on clothes, too. It's in frames.
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  I make a huge, like, that sign.
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  You know what I mean? My next mission is to make these out of metal.
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  You know what I mean? And do an art installation. But you see,
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  I know somebody that could do that. Really?
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  Like it's like it's like a weird it's like a wire type of thing,
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  almost like, you know, yeah. Yeah.
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  I'll hook you up with them. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. So, you know,
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  know you know but it costs you a little something because what we out here feeding
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  Shout out to good parenting. Yeah.
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  Okay, cool. And like I said, this has been the guest, wonderful guest,
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  Elyse Hollywood-Evans. Hey. All right, I'll catch y'all later. I'm out.
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  Boop, boop. Boop, boop. Wait, I want to say this. Listen, everybody out there, you know what?
• 1:07:05
  Listen, buddy. If you want to get rid of a roach, tell it you want a real relationship.
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  Cocaine roach. Yeah. And they give it cocaine afterwards. All right.
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  All right thank you.