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- 0:00Speaker 1: If my keys is out there and I'm passing by
- 0:03Speaker 1: and she's outside fighting on the side of the road,
- 0:05Speaker 1: I'm pulling over, taking my shoes and I'm helping her.
- 0:08Speaker 1: But the crazy thing about that, Carlos, I would do
- 0:10Speaker 1: that for each and every one of these ladies on
- 0:12Speaker 1: the show, even if they will not do it for me.
- 0:14Speaker 2: That's my character. That is my character.
- 0:17Speaker 1: I'm used to cheering for people who do not cheer
- 0:19Speaker 1: for me, and I'm okay with that.
- 0:23Speaker 3: Stay tuned.
- 0:24Speaker 4: We'll get to my conversation with Tama Sharie right after
- 0:27Speaker 4: these quick ass hey rain drops. So before we get
- 0:39Speaker 4: to my interview with Tama Sharie, girl, we got something
- 0:46Speaker 4: to talk about. Yes, we got a few things to
- 0:49Speaker 4: talk about actually on this fine Friday.
- 0:52Speaker 3: So first thing.
- 0:53Speaker 4: First, we got to get into what's been happening in
- 0:58Speaker 4: the streets of Alta.
- 1:01Speaker 3: And y'all know what I'm talking about.
- 1:03Speaker 4: Martel Hope Baby filming for the Real Housewives of Atlanta.
- 1:08Speaker 4: We've seen the pictures, we've seen the photos, we've seen
- 1:12Speaker 4: the videos. Honey, we've seen it all. I'll just talk
- 1:15Speaker 4: about this stuff that we've seen online, and who knows,
- 1:19Speaker 4: maybe I'll confirm some stuff yes, okay, So we've all
- 1:24Speaker 4: have been seeing pictures of Sonya Richards Ross's husband Ross,
- 1:32Speaker 4: that's his name, right, Ross. Yes, he had a birthday party.
- 1:35Speaker 4: I believe it was his fortieth birthday party. And he
- 1:38Speaker 4: had a great Gatsby theme. So look, if I see
- 1:46Speaker 4: one more great Gatsby theme, I am going to poke
- 1:52Speaker 4: myself in the eyeball. Ross had a great gas beet thing,
- 1:56Speaker 4: because that's what men who are turning forty one?
- 1:59Speaker 3: Okay, whatever I mean, I digress. Okay.
- 2:02Speaker 4: So Martell showed up with his boo Cherie, and there's
- 2:08Speaker 4: a video that has leaked online that appears to show
- 2:13Speaker 4: Martell filming with Charae by his side and Kenya legend
- 2:20Speaker 4: more across from him, and a lot of people are
- 2:25Speaker 4: speculating whether or not Kenya and Martell we're having a
- 2:29Speaker 4: heated discussion, like what.
- 2:31Speaker 3: Was going on?
- 2:33Speaker 4: So look y'all about to give me a trouble, honey,
- 2:35Speaker 4: I got bills to pay.
- 2:37Speaker 3: The other thing I'll say is.
- 2:40Speaker 4: I heard it went down basement and that yep, Martell
- 2:47Speaker 4: versus Kenya. To know that something may have went down
- 2:51Speaker 4: with Martel and Kenya.
- 2:53Speaker 3: One thing we know.
- 2:54Speaker 4: About Martel Martel speaks his mind. Unlike most of the
- 2:58Speaker 4: husbands on the show, Martell's speaks his mind and he
- 3:02Speaker 4: goes off on anybody that he feels is going off
- 3:06Speaker 4: on him. We've seen it on my show Love and
- 3:10Speaker 4: Marriage Huntsville, and Martel speaks his mind.
- 3:14Speaker 3: He's a Capricorn.
- 3:16Speaker 4: He pledged the fraternity Kappa Alpha Si, so to know
- 3:21Speaker 4: that him and the Titan, like Kenya had a moment.
- 3:27Speaker 3: Oh, I can't wait.
- 3:29Speaker 4: He's going to make sure that these women know, like I,
- 3:33Speaker 4: I'm not the husbands y'all used to like, I am
- 3:36Speaker 4: going if y'all go gutter, I am going Jason Project
- 3:42Speaker 4: the thirteenth Basement on ya. Okay, Martel ain't the one
- 3:47Speaker 4: to play with.
- 3:48Speaker 3: He's not. He's not.
- 3:50Speaker 4: And it'll be interesting to see how Charae handles it,
- 3:54Speaker 4: because look, Charay and Kenya are friends, and although I'm
- 3:59Speaker 4: aware of what A heard, I'm not gonna say it,
- 4:02Speaker 4: but I am curious to see whether or not Charae
- 4:07Speaker 4: is able to, you know, defend her man without losing
- 4:12Speaker 4: her friendship with Kenya. Because one thing we know is
- 4:15Speaker 4: Kenya and Charay are really friends in real life, their neighbors,
- 4:19Speaker 4: and they really do enjoy each other. They sit next
- 4:23Speaker 4: to each other at the reunion. They had a good
- 4:25Speaker 4: old key key, So it'll be very interesting to see
- 4:30Speaker 4: what happens. Kenya is just somebody who is a force multiplier.
- 4:36Speaker 4: And look, Martel is one of the best male force
- 4:40Speaker 4: multipliers on reality television.
- 4:43Speaker 3: I don't think.
- 4:46Speaker 4: Those peaches are ready for the likes of Martell Hope.
- 4:49Speaker 4: And what's so interesting is not since Peter Thomas, have
- 4:54Speaker 4: you seen a husband on the show just speak his
- 4:57Speaker 4: mind and don't care if he's involved in the woman's
- 5:00Speaker 4: business or not. So it'll be interesting.
- 5:02Speaker 3: Now. Look, Martel is still.
- 5:06Speaker 4: I want to make it very clear my loves Martella
- 5:09Speaker 4: is still very much a part of the Love and
- 5:13Speaker 4: Marriage Huntsville universe.
- 5:15Speaker 3: So you know he went over there to play with
- 5:17Speaker 3: the girls for a second. That's cute.
- 5:19Speaker 4: So the only thing I'm going to say is buckle
- 5:25Speaker 4: up because I can't wait to get my hands on
- 5:28Speaker 4: Cherie Whitchfield in Huntsville.
- 5:32Speaker 3: Stay tuned.
- 5:34Speaker 4: Speaking of Love and Marriage Huntsville, last week's episode was
- 5:40Speaker 4: the most anticipated episode of the season, and you finally
- 5:48Speaker 4: got to see what happened at Destiny MADNNI location where
- 5:54Speaker 4: Melody Miss Wanda, Martel and Marcel. Oh like this big
- 6:01Speaker 4: old melay that happened, and let's talk about it.
- 6:06Speaker 3: What's going to be interesting to see.
- 6:09Speaker 4: Is how the cast is able to move forward after this, which, yes,
- 6:16Speaker 4: you're going to see episodes where they talk about it.
- 6:19Speaker 4: You're going to see episodes where the original six, the Scott's,
- 6:23Speaker 4: the Hotes, and Scott's two point zero have a conversation
- 6:28Speaker 4: about what happened. You're going to see Marcel and Tisha
- 6:31Speaker 4: talk to Miss Wanda. You're going to see a very
- 6:36Speaker 4: interesting way of how adults deal with a situation to
- 6:41Speaker 4: where something heated happen. The best thing I love about
- 6:47Speaker 4: this show is this cast is super real, but they're
- 6:51Speaker 4: also very super aware of their position. And that's why
- 6:57Speaker 4: when you see what happened after this melee, you're going
- 7:02Speaker 4: to see a very mature conversation just about respect. And
- 7:06Speaker 4: what also makes me happy is the fact that no
- 7:10Speaker 4: punches were thrown, no hits were landed, and that's what
- 7:16Speaker 4: we like to see on reality television. Y'all could tweet
- 7:20Speaker 4: me all day long about Ratchet, this Ratchet that I'm
- 7:23Speaker 4: happy that no one got hurt. I'm happy that these
- 7:27Speaker 4: grown adults felt the need to have this heated moment,
- 7:32Speaker 4: but also new to separate themselves from it, and that's
- 7:37Speaker 4: something that should be applauded. And we will get more
- 7:42Speaker 4: into this at the upcoming reunion that's taping in a
- 7:46Speaker 4: few weeks. But the main thing that I want to
- 7:50Speaker 4: address is this this social media commentary about the word ratchet.
- 7:56Speaker 4: I feel like it's overused and y'all are using it
- 8:01Speaker 4: a lot when it comes to black people having a
- 8:04Speaker 4: very heated moment on reality television. Y'all don't use the
- 8:07Speaker 4: word of ratchet when Teresa July split the table. Y'all
- 8:12Speaker 4: don't use the word of ratchet when Lisa Renna put
- 8:16Speaker 4: a glass on the table, broke the glass and threw
- 8:20Speaker 4: a drink at Kim Richards. Y'all only use the word
- 8:24Speaker 4: ratchet as it applies to black people, and that pisces
- 8:29Speaker 4: me off. And it pisses me off because it's the
- 8:33Speaker 4: black audience some of y'all who run with that narrative.
- 8:38Speaker 4: It's the real world. Everyone in the real world. I
- 8:43Speaker 4: don't know any families or friendships black white agent or
- 8:48Speaker 4: Latino where people haven't had a huge disagreement that escalated
- 8:56Speaker 4: and people wanting to defend each other. That's life. White
- 9:01Speaker 4: folks do it, black folks do it. Everyone does it.
- 9:05Speaker 4: But still y'all use the word ratchet as it relates
- 9:08Speaker 4: to what happened in this episode. And then y'all love
- 9:12Speaker 4: to say, well, oh my gosh, y'all make black people
- 9:14Speaker 4: look bad. Let me tell y'all something, You are responsible
- 9:18Speaker 4: for yourself. Not one person of color should feel that
- 9:23Speaker 4: they carry the weight of the community or their shoulders.
- 9:26Speaker 4: And we all make mistakes. What's the point of living
- 9:29Speaker 4: this life if you're going to live this life without
- 9:32Speaker 4: making mistakes.
- 9:32Speaker 3: We all make mistakes.
- 9:34Speaker 4: When you guys saw Will Smith slap Chris Rock, I
- 9:38Speaker 4: don't think the word ratchet was ever used. And that
- 9:42Speaker 4: was a physical contact. And what's so interesting about that
- 9:46Speaker 4: moment is that happened on a mainstream stage called the
- 9:50Speaker 4: Academy Awards. But that was an act of physical contact.
- 9:55Speaker 3: So that's not ratchet. But black people are having a
- 9:59Speaker 3: heated moment.
- 10:00Speaker 4: You need to look deep down inside and figure out
- 10:03Speaker 4: where it comes from and why you feel the need
- 10:06Speaker 4: to say it, and why you feel the need to
- 10:09Speaker 4: care what the white community feels about you. It's a
- 10:15Speaker 4: very deeper conversation in terms of why you feel the
- 10:17Speaker 4: need to judge a group of black folks that had
- 10:22Speaker 4: a moment that they apologized for and moved on from it.
- 10:27Speaker 4: Why can't you move on from it while you have
- 10:29Speaker 4: to put labels on us. That's some deep rudish shit
- 10:34Speaker 4: that some of you guys need to figure out moving on.
- 10:40Speaker 3: Oh Pastor King came out, baby, Okay, let me stop.
- 10:44Speaker 4: So, as you all know, the Real Housewives of Potomac
- 10:48Speaker 4: is back.
- 10:49Speaker 3: Yes, you know.
- 10:51Speaker 4: That's one of my favorite franchises. I love this show
- 10:55Speaker 4: so much. Mia, who is in her second season of
- 11:01Speaker 4: the Real house Vibes of Potomac. She recently tweeted a
- 11:07Speaker 4: video of an upcoming friend to the show named Jacqueline.
- 11:12Speaker 4: She it appeared she was being filmed cussing somebody out
- 11:16Speaker 4: and they're trying to say that it was like her
- 11:20Speaker 4: baby daddy.
- 11:22Speaker 3: Or something like that.
- 11:24Speaker 4: So long story short, Mia posted the video, and I'm
- 11:30Speaker 4: paraphrasing because Mia deleted the post. But Mia called out
- 11:38Speaker 4: violence and how violence is not okay.
- 11:41Speaker 3: Blah blah blah blah blah.
- 11:42Speaker 4: So doctor Wendy saw that and responded to Mia and said,
- 11:49Speaker 4: and I quote girl, I know you not talking about
- 11:54Speaker 4: not condoning violence.
- 11:56Speaker 3: You threw a drink on me and hit me.
- 12:01Speaker 4: With your purse multiple times, breaking three nails in the process.
- 12:08Speaker 4: You are the poster child for violence. Okay, what we
- 12:13Speaker 4: saw on the super trailer for this season of the
- 12:17Speaker 4: Real Housewives of Atomac is the fact that Mia did
- 12:20Speaker 4: throw a drink in Doctor Wendy's face. And yes, it
- 12:24Speaker 4: happened at Bar one, Miami. And guess that is Peter
- 12:29Speaker 4: Thomas restaurant. Oh lord Jesus, so rain drops. Doctor Wendy
- 12:38Speaker 4: just spilled some tea. Girl, I didn't know.
- 12:42Speaker 3: Y'all got to wait, was this a physical fight?
- 12:44Speaker 4: I thought she threw a drink on you and then
- 12:46Speaker 4: y'all were pulled away by security. But doctor Wendy is
- 12:51Speaker 4: alleging that Mia hit her with her purse multiple times
- 12:58Speaker 4: and she broke three of her nails in the process. Okay,
- 13:04Speaker 4: that's not okay. And look, I like Mia. I think
- 13:10Speaker 4: Mia is a great housewife. I just don't think it's
- 13:14Speaker 4: interesting when you have to have a physical fight in
- 13:20Speaker 4: order to have a moment. But I'm also aware that
- 13:23Speaker 4: shit just happens. My hope is that doctor Wendy and
- 13:28Speaker 4: Mia are able to move on from this, well, Child,
- 13:32Speaker 4: Carlos Reginald King the first you just saw that doctor
- 13:37Speaker 4: Wendy blasted her, So ain't not moving on?
- 13:41Speaker 3: Okay, I have to talk to myself. Okay. So yeah,
- 13:44Speaker 3: it looks like they ain't gonna move on from it.
- 13:46Speaker 3: So rain Drops, I want to hear from you.
- 13:50Speaker 4: How do you guys feel about physical violence on reality television?
- 13:55Speaker 3: Do you think it ruins the show?
- 13:57Speaker 4: Do you think it's unnecessary or do you think it
- 14:01Speaker 4: shouldn't happen at all and we shouldn't air it. I
- 14:04Speaker 4: really want to hear that. And again, I'm somebody who's
- 14:07Speaker 4: aware that shit just happens. But one thing that I
- 14:11Speaker 4: talked to my cast about, whether it's Love and Marriage,
- 14:13Speaker 4: Huntsville Love and Marriage, DC Bell Collective, etc.
- 14:17Speaker 3: Et cetera.
- 14:18Speaker 4: I talk to them about using the power of your
- 14:21Speaker 4: words in order to defend yourself, because that's what I
- 14:26Speaker 4: would like to see in any situation. Let's talk about it,
- 14:29Speaker 4: Let's have an open discussion and make sure you hashtag
- 14:33Speaker 4: reality with the King and without further ado, here's my
- 14:38Speaker 4: conversation with Tama Sharie, who child. We talked about so
- 14:42Speaker 4: much stuff after the Part two Bell Collective Reunion. Oh
- 14:50Speaker 4: ray drops, we got the midday Diva in the building today,
- 14:55Speaker 4: Bell Collective star, Miss Tambra Sarie.
- 15:00Speaker 1: Hey girl, Hey Carlos, here are you?
- 15:05Speaker 3: I'm doing good.
- 15:06Speaker 4: Listen, we have to get into this overall season of
- 15:11Speaker 4: Bell Collective. The reunion has aired, a lot of people
- 15:16Speaker 4: have a lot to say. But before we get to
- 15:18Speaker 4: all of that, Tambra, I want the listeners to get
- 15:22Speaker 4: to know you. Talk to us Tambra about how did
- 15:27Speaker 4: you get started.
- 15:28Speaker 3: In radio being the mid a diva?
- 15:31Speaker 4: Knowing that you come from very humble beginnings in Jackson, Mississippi.
- 15:35Speaker 1: I started in college through a internship. My major is
- 15:40Speaker 1: not mass communications. I actually went to I was in
- 15:44Speaker 1: business school in management and marketing. I had the NBA degree,
- 15:47Speaker 1: But I realized when I interned at a corporation, I
- 15:51Speaker 1: would finish the work really fast. I would start looking
- 15:55Speaker 1: at entertainment news like that, I would start listening to
- 15:59Speaker 1: music like I loved entertainment. So I interned at a
- 16:03Speaker 1: radio station and from there the rest is history.
- 16:07Speaker 4: And how long have you been a radio personality? Because listen,
- 16:12Speaker 4: we like to humble brag on reality with the king.
- 16:14Speaker 3: Because I believe in giving people their.
- 16:17Speaker 4: Flowers, especially while they're still alive. So you have been
- 16:21Speaker 4: the number one Miday Diva in Jackson, Mississippi for a
- 16:25Speaker 4: very long time. Talk to us about that and what
- 16:27Speaker 4: is your goal with being this radio personality that now
- 16:31Speaker 4: is a television personality.
- 16:35Speaker 1: Well, honestly, this is my third radio station throughout my career.
- 16:39Speaker 2: This is my third.
- 16:40Speaker 1: Yes, so yes, I started. I started as an entertainment
- 16:44Speaker 1: news reporter. I started. I was doing overnights when I
- 16:47Speaker 1: was interning. Then when we became actually on air, I
- 16:50Speaker 1: started doing entertainment news. And I was doing an entertainment
- 16:52Speaker 1: news reporter in the afternoons on another station. And then
- 16:56Speaker 1: when I had I came to ninety seven is Black
- 16:59Speaker 1: owner bought this station. I was doing television in this market.
- 17:04Speaker 1: I was actually doing television on CW thirty four. I
- 17:06Speaker 1: was doing an entertainment television program where I was interviewing
- 17:09Speaker 1: artists and covering events on that show as well. So
- 17:12Speaker 1: that's how and then they came. They found out about me,
- 17:15Speaker 1: and I don't even remember interviewing for the job. I
- 17:19Speaker 1: don't remember filling out an application. I just came in
- 17:22Speaker 1: and it was like you're hired, and that's my story.
- 17:25Speaker 1: I will say this and then you'll learn this about me.
- 17:28Speaker 1: As far as like internships, I remember the very first
- 17:31Speaker 1: time I did intern at a radio station. I remember
- 17:34Speaker 1: walking in and they were putting me with the midday
- 17:37Speaker 1: personality that was at that radio station. And I was
- 17:41Speaker 1: so excited because I loved like this person was super talented.
- 17:47Speaker 1: I listened to her every day, so I was excited.
- 17:51Speaker 2: And the program.
- 17:51Speaker 1: Director walked me in and he's like, you'll be interning
- 17:54Speaker 1: with her. As soon as he walked out, She's like,
- 17:59Speaker 1: I do not know why they brought you in here.
- 18:01Speaker 1: I don't even do interns, and that lady did not
- 18:04Speaker 1: speak to me for weeks. I would just do her
- 18:07Speaker 1: entertainment news exactly exactly, and we're friends to this day now.
- 18:14Speaker 1: Now I grew on her, but I vowed to never
- 18:18Speaker 1: do another female in this industry like.
- 18:20Speaker 2: I was done.
- 18:22Speaker 4: You know what is so interesting, I'm so happy you
- 18:25Speaker 4: shared that story because it reminds me of just how
- 18:28Speaker 4: important internships are. So I got my start in this
- 18:32Speaker 4: business being the king of internships because I'm a student
- 18:36Speaker 4: of entertainment.
- 18:37Speaker 3: So I would read.
- 18:38Speaker 4: Endless articles and biographies of just celebrities right and puff daddy.
- 18:44Speaker 4: This is like in the nineties. He would always say
- 18:46Speaker 4: intern intern. So, long story short, I moved to New
- 18:50Speaker 4: York City. I intern at The View twenty twenty primetime
- 18:55Speaker 4: Live of Barbara Walters MTV, and my last internship was
- 18:59Speaker 4: at Beet And what you said about your experience is
- 19:02Speaker 4: very similar to mine. Long story short. When you have
- 19:06Speaker 4: a calling in your life, it can either make people
- 19:09Speaker 4: embrace you or make people shun you because I'm just
- 19:12Speaker 4: gonna say it, because of jealousy and their own insecurities. Long
- 19:16Speaker 4: story short, this woman was so mean to me. Okay,
- 19:24Speaker 4: she she was the department head of the network and
- 19:31Speaker 4: she did not like me at all.
- 19:34Speaker 3: So mind you. I was twenty five years old at
- 19:37Speaker 3: this time.
- 19:38Speaker 4: While some people think at twenty five you need to
- 19:41Speaker 4: be making six figures and.
- 19:43Speaker 3: At the height of your career. No, my journey was different.
- 19:47Speaker 4: So I was twenty five years old, still in college,
- 19:50Speaker 4: and this woman hated on me so much that she
- 19:57Speaker 4: would never speak to me. She saw how other people
- 19:59Speaker 4: loved me and admire my work. And when I got
- 20:02Speaker 4: hired to be a production assistant, I got paid less
- 20:06Speaker 4: than my white counterpart, who was also an intern. That
- 20:11Speaker 4: got promoted to be a PA and he and I
- 20:14Speaker 4: exchanged stories about how much we're making, and I've realized
- 20:16Speaker 4: he was making fifty dollars more than me, and I
- 20:19Speaker 4: was devastated, like, I'm this black boy trying to make
- 20:23Speaker 4: it at this network and you're paying this white boy
- 20:26Speaker 4: fifty dollars more than me. Okay, it gets worse. Then
- 20:32Speaker 4: I got this PA job. She told my boss to
- 20:37Speaker 4: fire me, and she said, I just don't like him.
- 20:41Speaker 4: He walks around smiling all day. He's he's always happy,
- 20:46Speaker 4: which means he's not working. And all I see him
- 20:49Speaker 4: do is talk to people. This this whatever so long
- 20:53Speaker 4: story short. It goes to show you that when you
- 20:57Speaker 4: are coming up in this business, always the tey to
- 21:02Speaker 4: match negativity with negativity, and you always have to stand
- 21:07Speaker 4: into your purpose and know that people's problem with you
- 21:11Speaker 4: has nothing to do with you, and then you have
- 21:13Speaker 4: to rise above it.
- 21:15Speaker 3: And look where I am now, Look where you are now.
- 21:17Speaker 4: And I know my listeners are either starting in their
- 21:20Speaker 4: career or already into their career, and some may be interns.
- 21:23Speaker 4: Our purpose is to share these stories so that when
- 21:28Speaker 4: people are going through this experience right now, they know
- 21:32Speaker 4: never match the.
- 21:33Speaker 3: Energy, always rise above it, and.
- 21:35Speaker 4: I guarantee you you're going to win in the end.
- 21:39Speaker 1: Yes, absolutely, because you can easily get discouraged in this industry.
- 21:44Speaker 2: We go through things.
- 21:46Speaker 1: So what it is when I find women who genuinely
- 21:49Speaker 1: care about you and who genuinely want to see.
- 21:52Speaker 2: Other women win. I love that because I did not
- 21:55Speaker 2: have that.
- 21:58Speaker 3: Baby.
- 21:58Speaker 4: I hate t interrupt, but stay two because we'll get
- 22:01Speaker 4: back into my conversation with Tama Charie right after this
- 22:06Speaker 4: quick break.
- 22:16Speaker 3: This is reality with the King, and I'm Carlos King.
- 22:19Speaker 4: Let's get back into my conversation with Tambra Scherie. Let's
- 22:25Speaker 4: get started about Bell Collective, a show about women supporting women.
- 22:31Speaker 2: Are you sure? Are you sure?
- 22:40Speaker 4: Well, honey, I watched it and sold millions of people
- 22:43Speaker 4: because this season was litty okay, So with Bill Collector
- 22:47Speaker 4: first camera around, I'm gonna give y'all some insider tea.
- 22:53Speaker 4: So long story short, I decided to go through this
- 22:57Speaker 4: consultation where this wonderful I named Jacoby McGee was like,
- 23:02Speaker 4: I want, you know, I want to pitch a show
- 23:03Speaker 4: to you, mister King, about Latitia Pearce's Brunch. I want
- 23:07Speaker 4: the show to be about that, and I was like,
- 23:10Speaker 4: I don't know, that's too small.
- 23:11Speaker 3: I like to think bigger.
- 23:12Speaker 4: And I said, I want to do a show about
- 23:15Speaker 4: the movers and shakers of Jackson, Mississippi, black women who
- 23:19Speaker 4: are married or in relationships or just to show the
- 23:22Speaker 4: success of these women and also to show that you
- 23:27Speaker 4: don't have to live in the big cities in order
- 23:30Speaker 4: to be successful. And long story short, I met Letitia
- 23:33Speaker 4: and I got a chance to meet all these women.
- 23:36Speaker 4: Tamborough Cherie was not a part of the pilot. So
- 23:41Speaker 4: this is what happens oftentimes in television. So when you
- 23:46Speaker 4: pitch a reality show to a network, nine times out
- 23:50Speaker 4: of ten, you have to shoot a pilot. It's called
- 23:52Speaker 4: a proof of concept. You have to show if this
- 23:57Speaker 4: show is worthy of being greenlit to a series where
- 24:01Speaker 4: you get multiple episodes. So we did a pilot with
- 24:06Speaker 4: five black women and Jackson. We have Marie Latrese, Latitia, Antoinette,
- 24:15Speaker 4: and another female and the show was great.
- 24:19Speaker 3: The pilot was great. We got picked up to a series.
- 24:23Speaker 4: A few weeks before filming, one other ladies backed out
- 24:27Speaker 4: and we were like, oh.
- 24:27Speaker 3: My gosh, what's about to happen.
- 24:29Speaker 4: That guy Jakobe I said, look, honey, can you give
- 24:33Speaker 4: me some more names of entrepreneur women and Jackson.
- 24:38Speaker 3: I got a list of names.
- 24:40Speaker 4: I saw Tambracheries tape and I said, there is something
- 24:47Speaker 4: special about this woman.
- 24:49Speaker 3: I never told you this story, tamber. I said, there's
- 24:52Speaker 3: something special about her.
- 24:54Speaker 4: She has star quality, she's super humble, and I just
- 24:57Speaker 4: love the fact that.
- 24:58Speaker 3: She was born and raising jacks.
- 25:00Speaker 4: And then I pitched you to the network and they said,
- 25:03Speaker 4: we see what you see, and Miss Tambra got a
- 25:07Speaker 4: call and two weeks later she started filming Bill Collective.
- 25:12Speaker 3: Yes, yes, it was very.
- 25:14Speaker 2: Fast for me. Yes, thank you, Carlos, thank you.
- 25:18Speaker 1: And I tell people all the time they're like hello us,
- 25:20Speaker 1: and no, for me, it went by so fast. And
- 25:24Speaker 1: I was the last person to pretty much come on
- 25:27Speaker 1: this show, and the process went very very fast, like
- 25:31Speaker 1: we interviewed, and I literally felt like I was feeling
- 25:34Speaker 1: like you said just weeks later.
- 25:36Speaker 2: And I'm thankful for.
- 25:37Speaker 1: That because that goes back to say, when God has
- 25:41Speaker 1: something for you, it's for you. And I strongly believe that.
- 25:46Speaker 1: And I was not familiar with you.
- 25:49Speaker 2: I was already with you. Yes, I was.
- 25:52Speaker 1: Already familiar with you. Your work like. It's just like an alignment.
- 25:55Speaker 1: And I share this story all the time. In that
- 25:58Speaker 1: particular year, when I received that I had Owned on
- 26:02Speaker 1: my diss board, I had Oprah Winfrey on my division board.
- 26:07Speaker 1: I did, but in my mind I was thinking because
- 26:10Speaker 1: I have a book, my book Surrounded by Sin, Grounded
- 26:13Speaker 1: by Love.
- 26:14Speaker 2: I had this.
- 26:14Speaker 1: Book and I knew Oprah had a book club. So
- 26:17Speaker 1: when I did that vision board, I've always loved Oprah.
- 26:20Speaker 1: Of course I look up to her, and I had Owned,
- 26:24Speaker 1: but I did not put the pieces together. There was
- 26:26Speaker 1: I was not thinking a reality show on own because
- 26:29Speaker 1: I did not know anything about one.
- 26:31Speaker 4: It's super inspirational and informational because I had no idea
- 26:36Speaker 4: that you had Oprah and Own on your vision board.
- 26:39Speaker 4: And it goes to show you that when you operate
- 26:42Speaker 4: in your spirituality and manifest the life that you have, it.
- 26:47Speaker 3: Does come true. I'm a big manifestor.
- 26:50Speaker 4: Like I love to hear that because it goes to
- 26:53Speaker 4: show you two Tambra that you were destined to be
- 26:55Speaker 4: on the show. Because when one door closes, when the
- 26:59Speaker 4: other female decided not to do the show, it opened
- 27:02Speaker 4: the door for you to come in and make your mark.
- 27:05Speaker 4: So let's talk about the first season, knowing that a
- 27:08Speaker 4: reality show was list.
- 27:12Speaker 2: Look, I had to tell you.
- 27:14Speaker 1: I had to tell this story because you just said
- 27:17Speaker 1: something that made me think about it.
- 27:19Speaker 2: You just said something.
- 27:21Speaker 1: You just said something that was not on my vision
- 27:24Speaker 1: board when it came to own an Oprah before the
- 27:27Speaker 1: year before, there was a reality show that was trying
- 27:32Speaker 1: to come to Jackson that actually interviewed me. That was
- 27:37Speaker 1: a reality show that was trying to come to Jackson
- 27:39Speaker 1: that actually interviewed me, And it was something I would
- 27:43Speaker 1: give you a little inside about it, you know, since
- 27:45Speaker 1: we're talking.
- 27:46Speaker 2: But they interviewed ladies and men that were.
- 27:51Speaker 1: Very kind of like super successful, and they were like
- 27:53Speaker 1: they kept saying the word rich. Okay, So I remember,
- 27:58Speaker 1: to make a long story short. I remember calling this
- 28:01Speaker 1: guy who had interviewed me and I said, I don't
- 28:04Speaker 1: think this is for me. I just really I don't
- 28:07Speaker 1: think I'm a fit for this. And he told me,
- 28:10Speaker 1: and it was a Caucasian man, he said, you're making
- 28:13Speaker 1: the biggest mistake because opportunities like this will never come
- 28:16Speaker 1: around again.
- 28:17Speaker 2: A year later, you came around, so trut and that
- 28:22Speaker 2: show never was picked up.
- 28:25Speaker 4: So here's some tea from my rain drops. I know
- 28:28Speaker 4: exactly what sure you're talking about, Tamboro. So I'm not listening.
- 28:32Speaker 4: People think I'm messy. I'm not really messy because I
- 28:35Speaker 4: would say the name of the networks. But I'll say this, Yeah,
- 28:38Speaker 4: I'll say this. Two cable networks were trying to do
- 28:43Speaker 4: a show in Jackson, Mississippi, around the time that I
- 28:47Speaker 4: was figuring things out with Bell Collector. One network is
- 28:52Speaker 4: a major network, major cable network, and they wanted to
- 28:56Speaker 4: do a franchise in Jackson so much so one of
- 29:00Speaker 4: the ladies that I wanted to be a part of
- 29:03Speaker 4: my show, long story show, she turned me down and
- 29:07Speaker 4: she said, no, I'm going to go over here because
- 29:10Speaker 4: this network is more mainstream. And she said to the
- 29:14Speaker 4: other cast members who are still on the show, Shade,
- 29:18Speaker 4: she told them, come over on this show because it's
- 29:22Speaker 4: going to be a better look for us because it's
- 29:27Speaker 4: more listen.
- 29:28Speaker 3: I'm just gonna be river ch'all.
- 29:29Speaker 4: She inferred that because this network had more white audiences, right, Tambra,
- 29:36Speaker 4: She felt this network had more white audiences and a
- 29:41Speaker 4: lot of people felt that white is right. And she
- 29:46Speaker 4: decided not to do Bell Collective because she felt it
- 29:50Speaker 4: was going to be ghetto and she felt like I
- 29:54Speaker 4: Am going to be the Queen Bee of this other show.
- 29:56Speaker 4: And all I'm going to say is that show did
- 29:59Speaker 4: not get picked up. They shot a pilot and Bell
- 30:02Speaker 4: Collective is coming on their second season and the rest
- 30:05Speaker 4: is history.
- 30:06Speaker 3: But I digress, honey, and I.
- 30:07Speaker 4: Spoke about this to Akesha because Akesha talked about how,
- 30:10Speaker 4: you know, she was approach to do real house swats
- 30:13Speaker 4: in New Jersey. And one thing I always tell my
- 30:15Speaker 4: listeners is this, you can't always go for the shiny penny.
- 30:20Speaker 4: There is something interesting about being a big fish in
- 30:23Speaker 4: a small pond. And in no way and I'm saying
- 30:26Speaker 4: I'm a small pond or whatever or anything, I'm attached
- 30:29Speaker 4: to a small pond. A lot of people in the
- 30:32Speaker 4: black community feel like white is right, and they will
- 30:37Speaker 4: turn down an opportunity to work with a black organization
- 30:41Speaker 4: person because they feel like it's too.
- 30:45Speaker 3: Small for them.
- 30:46Speaker 4: And as a creator of reality TV, I get that
- 30:49Speaker 4: a lot from my black counterparts who I may want
- 30:53Speaker 4: to hop on a show. And I had a conversation
- 30:56Speaker 4: with a cast member one of my shows and she
- 30:59Speaker 4: was like, you know, I just wish our shows have
- 31:02Speaker 4: more eyeballs. And I said, actually, your shows have enough
- 31:06Speaker 4: eyeballs because look at Melody Hote. She had three singles
- 31:12Speaker 4: reach number one, and there's other girls on other networks
- 31:16Speaker 4: who can't even get a number one single.
- 31:17Speaker 1: For me, I believe every platform I has the purpose
- 31:21Speaker 1: of its own.
- 31:23Speaker 4: Yes, I gotta get into your first season. A lot
- 31:28Speaker 4: of people leave nasty comments on the page's girl, and
- 31:31Speaker 4: they love to read you for filth. You had that
- 31:34Speaker 4: experienced season one. People talked about your hair Tambra, They
- 31:38Speaker 4: talked about your voice, they talked about everything associated with you.
- 31:44Speaker 4: What was it like, makeup, make up, everything, everything. What
- 31:52Speaker 4: was it like for the first time experiencing being in
- 31:56Speaker 4: front of the camera weekly and being judged?
- 32:00Speaker 3: Was that hard for you?
- 32:01Speaker 2: No?
- 32:02Speaker 1: And I'll tell you that because it wasn't, because actually
- 32:06Speaker 1: I had gone through that. When I guess host on
- 32:09Speaker 1: Bring It and then Bring It, You're dealing with kids
- 32:12Speaker 1: and children who were always on Twitter, and so I
- 32:16Speaker 1: dealt with that. When I was guest hosting on Bring It, Like,
- 32:21Speaker 1: people are like, who is this? She looks like a
- 32:23Speaker 1: little broken version of Nikki Mna girl?
- 32:26Speaker 2: Who is this? Housting?
- 32:27Speaker 4: Like?
- 32:27Speaker 2: Ye? Like when you're dealing with kids.
- 32:32Speaker 1: You do have to think about this industry already prepared
- 32:35Speaker 1: me for Bell Collective because at the end of the day,
- 32:39Speaker 1: everyone is a critic in radio. So all God did
- 32:42Speaker 1: was prepare me for what was next.
- 32:45Speaker 2: That's all he did. That is it, and that's just
- 32:48Speaker 2: the truth.
- 32:48Speaker 1: So when it came to that, no one thing, I
- 32:51Speaker 1: can honestly say, I'm always going to stay grounded and
- 32:54Speaker 1: I'm always going to have a positive attitude. That's what
- 32:58Speaker 1: and I'm going to stay that way. It took a
- 33:00Speaker 1: while to get here. I grew up in this industry.
- 33:03Speaker 1: Think about it. I've been here since I was in college.
- 33:07Speaker 1: I've gone through a lot, so that doesn't bother me.
- 33:10Speaker 1: There are so many people more people that absolutely love you,
- 33:13Speaker 1: and sometimes people dislike the way people love you, and
- 33:16Speaker 1: they'll hate you for that, just because the way other
- 33:19Speaker 1: people look at you and love you.
- 33:21Speaker 2: And you have to understand that.
- 33:23Speaker 1: So every like I said before, every platform has a purpose,
- 33:27Speaker 1: and for me, it has to have a purpose, and
- 33:29Speaker 1: Bell Collective has a strong purpose for me. Yes, we
- 33:33Speaker 1: are going to entertain you, but in the same time,
- 33:36Speaker 1: you're gonna be informed, you're gonna be inspired, you're gonna
- 33:39Speaker 1: be motivated.
- 33:40Speaker 2: We're gonna encourage you.
- 33:41Speaker 1: You're gonna be able to see something in all of
- 33:43Speaker 1: us that you're gonna be able to relate to. That's
- 33:46Speaker 1: what's important. And I'll be honest with you. I want
- 33:48Speaker 1: to call from my high school from someone in my
- 33:51Speaker 1: high school this morning that watched last week's episode.
- 33:56Speaker 2: And I'll be honest, I have.
- 33:57Speaker 1: Not even seen it all because it's totally honest, But
- 34:03Speaker 1: I Kisch and I went to the same high school.
- 34:05Speaker 1: She wanted us. I guess it's bullying going on with girls.
- 34:09Speaker 1: How do you deal with that? She wanted us to
- 34:12Speaker 1: come and speak to young women to see how you
- 34:15Speaker 1: resolve issues and you stick together and show sisterhood. That
- 34:18Speaker 1: came off of Bell Collective. That's the things that's important
- 34:21Speaker 1: to me. That's purpose. That's what I.
- 34:24Speaker 2: Love about it.
- 34:25Speaker 4: I love hearing that because you know, listen, producing reality
- 34:29Speaker 4: TV as a black man, I get a lot of
- 34:32Speaker 4: shade just based on.
- 34:33Speaker 3: Oh my God, look at You is a drama Cheryl Tayane.
- 34:35Speaker 3: It's like, girls shut up.
- 34:37Speaker 4: Like at the end of the day, there is a
- 34:39Speaker 4: bigger message here, and if you want to just focus
- 34:42Speaker 4: on what you want to focus on. That's on you, sis,
- 34:45Speaker 4: But I know that my purpose is I have given
- 34:48Speaker 4: so many opportunities to Black people in front, up and
- 34:52Speaker 4: behind the camera. I have given more opportunities to Black
- 34:56Speaker 4: women in front and behind the camera. I have given
- 35:01Speaker 4: more opportunities to the lgpt Q IA plus community in
- 35:06Speaker 4: front and behind the camera. So I don't care what
- 35:09Speaker 4: anyone says about Bell, Collective Love and Marriage, Hans Bell,
- 35:12Speaker 4: beyond Core, the list goes on and on. I know
- 35:15Speaker 4: that I am building generational wealth, not only for myself
- 35:19Speaker 4: but for the people who are associated with me, because
- 35:22Speaker 4: I know what it feels like to not have anyone
- 35:25Speaker 4: support you.
- 35:26Speaker 3: Tamber knows the same thing.
- 35:27Speaker 4: You are such an inspiration, Tamber because when it comes
- 35:31Speaker 4: to your storyline specifically, what I love about your honesty
- 35:34Speaker 4: is you represent the career woman who said in her
- 35:38Speaker 4: twenties and thirties, you.
- 35:40Speaker 3: Know what I gotta, I gotta focus on my career.
- 35:43Speaker 4: I gotta there's a place in my life that I
- 35:47Speaker 4: want to be at. And you decided that after forty
- 35:50Speaker 4: you know what, I want to have a baby. The
- 35:52Speaker 4: time is now, and you are educating black women through
- 35:57Speaker 4: the television screen about out listen, maybe don't wait until
- 36:03Speaker 4: your forties to decide to do something with your fibroids
- 36:06Speaker 4: and eggs. Try maybe doing that in your twenties or thirties.
- 36:10Speaker 4: And that messaging has come across and that is the
- 36:13Speaker 4: reason why Bell Collective is the number one docuseries on
- 36:19Speaker 4: Friday nights, like.
- 36:20Speaker 1: Thank You and I'm happy to be a part of
- 36:23Speaker 1: it because our stories matter.
- 36:26Speaker 4: No, it does, it does, and listen what comes with
- 36:28Speaker 4: being on reality television. Yes, is spreading the messages of
- 36:31Speaker 4: success and being an inspiration, but it also talks about
- 36:34Speaker 4: some very deep issues and experiencing sometimes, you know, issues
- 36:40Speaker 4: within friendships. It's no secret that you and Akisha went
- 36:45Speaker 4: to high school together and that over the course of
- 36:48Speaker 4: just years y'all kept in touch, not being best friends
- 36:51Speaker 4: or being close friends.
- 36:52Speaker 3: But just kept in touch.
- 36:54Speaker 4: It was revealed on the reunion that you elect made
- 37:01Speaker 4: it seem to Latisha and Latrees that you did not
- 37:05Speaker 4: want Akesha a part of the cast. Akesha was on
- 37:10Speaker 4: this podcast and she felt like after the reunion, she
- 37:15Speaker 4: doesn't understand the relationship that you and her have. What
- 37:22Speaker 4: was it about that initial conversation you had with Latisha
- 37:25Speaker 4: and Latrese where they both felt that tam Bra does
- 37:28Speaker 4: not want Akesha on the show.
- 37:31Speaker 2: Okay, let's clear that up. Let's clear that up. Since
- 37:34Speaker 2: we're here, that's not true.
- 37:36Speaker 1: That's absolutely not true that I did not want her.
- 37:39Speaker 2: That's insane. That's not true.
- 37:42Speaker 1: Now since we're here and we're off camera. When it
- 37:47Speaker 1: comes to the comment that I made as far as
- 37:50Speaker 1: her being very blunt, because I do believe a Keisha
- 37:54Speaker 1: is very blunt. She's been blunt with me. Akesha, she
- 37:57Speaker 1: is absolutely.
- 37:58Speaker 2: I remember that from high school.
- 38:00Speaker 1: She just said some things to me in high school
- 38:01Speaker 1: and I was like, dang, she is blunt, like she
- 38:05Speaker 1: is like you know, And I did say she will
- 38:08Speaker 1: throw some shade. I said that, but let's be clear,
- 38:11Speaker 1: I initially said that to a producer, not to the girls.
- 38:16Speaker 2: So when it came to.
- 38:18Speaker 1: Aikeisha coming on, I asked Akesha herself before casting and everything.
- 38:23Speaker 1: I say, are you gonna come to Jackson. I had
- 38:25Speaker 1: a conversation with her. So when she said yes, that
- 38:28Speaker 1: was it.
- 38:29Speaker 3: That was it for me.
- 38:30Speaker 2: That was it. But when I talked to.
- 38:32Speaker 1: Latsha, I did tell her, look, she is blunt and
- 38:36Speaker 1: she gonna throw shade. Latitia was out for it. Latinisa
- 38:40Speaker 1: was like, this is what we need. Yes, it wasn't
- 38:42Speaker 1: an issue.
- 38:44Speaker 4: I definitely hear what you're saying and then listen. One
- 38:46Speaker 4: of the things that really struck struck a nerve with
- 38:50Speaker 4: the with the bells was the comment about Aikeisha allegedly
- 38:55Speaker 4: calling the girls ugly or saying they're not cute. Right,
- 38:58Speaker 4: So let's just say, for argument, wow, why would it
- 39:00Speaker 4: go ahead?
- 39:01Speaker 1: Why would it strike a Why would it strike a
- 39:03Speaker 1: nerve if you think that she's not talking about.
- 39:05Speaker 4: You, well, I mean, why would it strike a nerve?
- 39:10Speaker 1: Latrice said it, I know she's not talking about me,
- 39:12Speaker 1: and she left it alone.
- 39:15Speaker 3: So when you told the girls that, I didn't.
- 39:20Speaker 2: Tell the girls, I told her producer. That's why.
- 39:22Speaker 1: I said, that's where it's that's where the miscommunication comes.
- 39:26Speaker 2: And I told Latsia.
- 39:28Speaker 3: Did Laticia go back and tell the girls.
- 39:31Speaker 1: I'm giving you the I'm giving you the REOs, yes,
- 39:37Speaker 1: and so I'm going to give you the reality, I
- 39:39Speaker 1: told Laticia, and I used that as an example when
- 39:43Speaker 1: she said, as far as blunt, what do you mean?
- 39:45Speaker 1: And I'll be honest, I don't want to give the
- 39:47Speaker 1: reunion too much away. It was something that she saw.
- 39:50Speaker 1: It was really something she saw. She had not met
- 39:52Speaker 1: the girls yet. She saw something and she did not
- 39:55Speaker 1: and she was just like, oh, girl, they didn't have anyone.
- 39:58Speaker 1: And she didn't use the word ugly. She was like,
- 40:00Speaker 1: they didn't have anymore. And that's why I said it
- 40:02Speaker 1: was she was like, oh, she's blunt like that. It
- 40:05Speaker 1: was never an issue.
- 40:06Speaker 3: Let's get into it because the.
- 40:08Speaker 4: First four letters of reality with the key Huddy is real.
- 40:12Speaker 3: So let's talk says.
- 40:13Speaker 4: A lot of people on Twitter have said they felt
- 40:16Speaker 4: like Latitia was a ghost producer.
- 40:19Speaker 3: A lot of.
- 40:20Speaker 4: People, including me, will call that a force multiplier. It's
- 40:23Speaker 4: sort of the cast member who moves story around.
- 40:28Speaker 3: But Letitia has been.
- 40:30Speaker 4: Accused of being a ghost producer by the fan, meaning
- 40:35Speaker 4: she she goes and tells people think, oh, they feel
- 40:38Speaker 4: like she has her hands and a lot of the stuff.
- 40:41Speaker 3: Do you feel like Letsha.
- 40:45Speaker 4: May have set you up so that there could be
- 40:48Speaker 4: drama at the hands of Tambora sery.
- 40:50Speaker 2: I feel like.
- 40:51Speaker 1: That's the only reason I told Latitia that because I
- 40:53Speaker 1: did feel like she had a hand in the creation
- 40:57Speaker 1: and creator of the show. So when we're talking about casting,
- 41:00Speaker 1: that was why I used that example when I said,
- 41:02Speaker 1: yes she's gonna be blunt and yes she's gonna throw shade.
- 41:06Speaker 2: I did not lie. I Kisha brought all that and
- 41:08Speaker 2: I was here for.
- 41:09Speaker 1: It, so to be honest, I did not tell a
- 41:13Speaker 1: lie none whatsoever. Like it's just the reality of it.
- 41:18Speaker 1: That's what she She brought a lot, and to me,
- 41:21Speaker 1: they were excited about that, so I didn't really understand
- 41:24Speaker 1: when it came. But I, like I did say when
- 41:27Speaker 1: we were filming, I was told, well, tell me, they
- 41:29Speaker 1: say you don't have drama. I felt like I had
- 41:31Speaker 1: plenty of drama going on. To be honest with you,
- 41:33Speaker 1: because I felt.
- 41:35Speaker 4: Like, oh, no, you did that, felt like I had.
- 41:39Speaker 4: Oh you absolutely did, and we're gonna get into that too.
- 41:42Speaker 4: But that's why. That's why for me, I'm so confused
- 41:44Speaker 4: by it, and a lot of people saw at the reunion,
- 41:46Speaker 4: I was very confused, and someone's Marie to me, it
- 41:50Speaker 4: felt like Latitia and Latrese had something on you that
- 41:55Speaker 4: they didn't want to reveal, and it appeared that you.
- 42:00Speaker 3: Were in the hot seat and it affected.
- 42:03Speaker 4: How Akesha saw you. Did you feel that at the
- 42:06Speaker 4: reunion two?
- 42:07Speaker 1: I mean I kind of felt like I didn't feel
- 42:09Speaker 1: like I had just friends.
- 42:11Speaker 2: Is that what you're saying?
- 42:12Speaker 1: I felt like that they really That's why I asked
- 42:14Speaker 1: the question. I felt like I didn't say anything for
- 42:17Speaker 1: you to even feel that way. To be honest, I
- 42:20Speaker 1: felt like there was nothing I said for you to
- 42:23Speaker 1: feel that way. That's why I'm like, what did I say?
- 42:26Speaker 1: I don't even talk about people, So what did I
- 42:29Speaker 1: say for you to feel that way? And my intention
- 42:34Speaker 1: was I thought I was helping get her here.
- 42:36Speaker 2: That's all it was.
- 42:38Speaker 1: I didn't mean anything for it to be bad like
- 42:40Speaker 1: that was never the case. That was never the case
- 42:42Speaker 1: at all. When it came to casting, I thought I
- 42:45Speaker 1: was helping oooh okay.
- 42:48Speaker 3: Oh right, well we cleaned that up. Okay, So it
- 42:51Speaker 3: all in all? You felt like me me.
- 42:54Speaker 4: Talking about Akesha's characteristics. Let's say that is me helping
- 43:00Speaker 4: to get her on the show because the show needs
- 43:02Speaker 4: somebody who's blunt.
- 43:04Speaker 3: Because one thing we know.
- 43:06Speaker 4: I get it now, I see it all. It took
- 43:08Speaker 4: all that girl, Now I get it. Because one thing
- 43:11Speaker 4: we know about Southern belles, oftentimes Southern bells aren't aren't
- 43:17Speaker 4: in your face shady. They're very sly shady. They talk
- 43:22Speaker 4: behind your back shady, but in your face they're very
- 43:25Speaker 4: much like hey girl was tee but you felt like
- 43:27Speaker 4: na Akesha is going to be blunt up in your
- 43:30Speaker 4: face and that's what the show needs, and now I
- 43:34Speaker 4: get it, yes, and.
- 43:37Speaker 2: That's what it needs.
- 43:38Speaker 1: And a lot of people don't like people they cannot control,
- 43:41Speaker 1: and you can't control Akesha and that's what I love
- 43:43Speaker 1: about her.
- 43:44Speaker 2: And a lot of people feel that when.
- 43:46Speaker 1: You can't control a person, they want to have some
- 43:47Speaker 1: type of control and if you don't have control, that
- 43:50Speaker 1: becomes a threat. And I love that about her because
- 43:52Speaker 1: I know you can't control her, and that's what I like.
- 43:56Speaker 1: That's the person, that's the characteristic that you want. I
- 43:59Speaker 1: found Aikeisha and our families are into swine, like I
- 44:02Speaker 1: know like that some of the to they are into swine.
- 44:05Speaker 1: And we have cousins that are cousins. My father grew
- 44:08Speaker 1: up with her mom, like our grandparents knew each other.
- 44:12Speaker 1: So it's like that's why I said, like, you know,
- 44:15Speaker 1: I know she's big on family, just like me. So
- 44:19Speaker 1: I look at a Keisha a different way because I
- 44:21Speaker 1: look at her as family. And you can argue with family.
- 44:24Speaker 1: I have thirty first cousins. Notice I said first cousins.
- 44:28Speaker 1: I come from a big family. We can have a disagreement,
- 44:30Speaker 1: and once we have a disagreement, we're playing at six o'clock.
- 44:33Speaker 2: And we had a.
- 44:33Speaker 1: Disagreement at twelve. That's the type of family I come from.
- 44:36Speaker 4: Well, I Keisha said on Reality with the King that
- 44:40Speaker 4: it's going to be hard for her.
- 44:42Speaker 3: To get past y'all beef.
- 44:44Speaker 4: And she said that she thought she was able to
- 44:47Speaker 4: get past it, but she can't, and that she's going
- 44:50Speaker 4: to have and I quote.
- 44:52Speaker 2: Oh, I didn't know that.
- 44:53Speaker 3: She yeah, she said, and I quote, oh, I didn't
- 44:57Speaker 3: know that.
- 44:57Speaker 4: I'm gonna let Tamba run around behind Tisha like a
- 45:00Speaker 4: lab dog, because that's the same woman who brought her
- 45:05Speaker 4: man's you know, side check on the show.
- 45:08Speaker 2: Oh, I didn't know that. Look, look, I got the
- 45:11Speaker 2: news to me. I didn't know that. This was after
- 45:13Speaker 2: the reunion because I talked to her. I dropt some
- 45:15Speaker 2: gifts off for her kids.
- 45:17Speaker 3: She said this last week.
- 45:18Speaker 2: Girl, Oh yeah, but you know what look like like.
- 45:22Speaker 2: I did not know that.
- 45:23Speaker 3: But at the same time, well, how do you feel
- 45:26Speaker 3: knowing that now?
- 45:27Speaker 2: Ahead I still feel the same I'm not.
- 45:29Speaker 1: That's not going to change how I feel like at
- 45:31Speaker 1: the end of the day, that's not going to change
- 45:32Speaker 1: how I feel, you know. And I say people try
- 45:34Speaker 1: to play sides, like I've heard things that they try
- 45:36Speaker 1: to tell me. A Keisha said about me that stuff
- 45:38Speaker 1: goes in one ear and really goes out the other.
- 45:40Speaker 1: That's why I say I'm built a little different. I've
- 45:43Speaker 1: heard things like here. I don't know if they're true.
- 45:44Speaker 1: I don't care to be honest. I go off of
- 45:47Speaker 1: people how they treat me, and that's still the same
- 45:50Speaker 1: how she treats me.
- 45:52Speaker 2: That's what's important.
- 45:53Speaker 1: If like Keisha's out there and I'm passing by and
- 45:56Speaker 1: she's outside fighting on the side of the road, I'm
- 45:58Speaker 1: pulling over taking my shoes and I'm helping her. But
- 46:01Speaker 1: the crazy thing about that, Carlos, I would do that
- 46:03Speaker 1: for each and every one of these ladies on the show,
- 46:05Speaker 1: even if they will not do it for me. That's
- 46:07Speaker 1: my character. That is my character. I'm used to cheering
- 46:11Speaker 1: for people who do not cheer for me, and I'm
- 46:12Speaker 1: okay with that. I will always be that way. That's
- 46:15Speaker 1: not going to change, and that's the truth.
- 46:18Speaker 4: Did it hurt your feelings when you saw that your
- 46:20Speaker 4: cast members brought the decorator in my Tambor.
- 46:24Speaker 3: Voice, because Tabah.
- 46:29Speaker 4: Real Talk said, when you say the decorator, it sends me. I,
- 46:34Speaker 4: me and the fans of the show have definitely called
- 46:40Speaker 4: on with your emphasis of decorator.
- 46:43Speaker 3: I think it's hilarious, but.
- 46:45Speaker 1: The decorating, that's what she is. She will never be
- 46:48Speaker 1: able to say that I kept her name.
- 46:49Speaker 2: In my mouth. That will not happen.
- 46:52Speaker 4: That will not happen and be real because and not
- 46:56Speaker 4: saying you haven't been real, you are is real. But
- 46:58Speaker 4: did it hurt your feelings though, Tambor a little bit,
- 47:00Speaker 4: knowing that you had to watch your Cold stars and
- 47:04Speaker 4: your friends film with her and bring her around.
- 47:09Speaker 1: Yes, yes, because I would never do that to them.
- 47:12Speaker 1: And I've had plenty of chances. I've had people calling
- 47:15Speaker 1: this radio station. I work at a radio station. I
- 47:17Speaker 1: have people calling, I have people with stories, I have
- 47:20Speaker 1: people giving names and dates. I don't entertain any of that.
- 47:25Speaker 1: People come to me all the time, bring me on
- 47:27Speaker 1: the show, bring it. I don't entertain any of that.
- 47:30Speaker 1: That's why I said, you can't expect.
- 47:33Speaker 2: You from everyone. I wouldn't have done it.
- 47:35Speaker 1: You saw my parents they've been married for what fifty
- 47:38Speaker 1: two fifty three years? My grandparents they've been married for
- 47:40Speaker 1: fifty years. I was always taught the relationship is between
- 47:44Speaker 1: two people, and that's the success of a relationship. No
- 47:49Speaker 1: one matters but the two of you. I don't speak
- 47:51Speaker 1: on their relationships because it's not my business to speak
- 47:54Speaker 1: on These are marriages. These are marriages. I don't speak
- 47:58Speaker 1: on their marriages.
- 48:00Speaker 3: That's just me.
- 48:01Speaker 2: Everyone is different.
- 48:02Speaker 1: But I learned you can't expect you from other people.
- 48:06Speaker 2: Just be true to yourself.
- 48:07Speaker 4: Speaking of relationships, we saw at the reunion that you
- 48:11Speaker 4: and Demand are living together and having unprotected sex.
- 48:17Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 48:17Speaker 4: I know that's a lot to celebrate, but I listen, girl,
- 48:28Speaker 4: work are things between you and Themond now? Because one
- 48:34Speaker 4: I think about Demand and a lot of people did
- 48:36Speaker 4: not get a chance to see all the behind the
- 48:38Speaker 4: scenes stuff of me and the month When I say
- 48:40Speaker 4: I love Demond, he's such a good guy. Demon is
- 48:44Speaker 4: a home grown Mississippian and all jumps aside, like he
- 48:49Speaker 4: and I have a great time and we're together.
- 48:51Speaker 3: I think he's such a good guy.
- 48:54Speaker 4: And I listen, No cap I adore Demand, I really
- 48:59Speaker 4: do and I adored him a lot because at the
- 49:02Speaker 4: end of the day, he did not have to come
- 49:04Speaker 4: on the show because we saw that other people man
- 49:08Speaker 4: did not come on the show child, So I appreciate
- 49:11Speaker 4: a mom for doing that. How does it feel knowing
- 49:15Speaker 4: that a lot of people thought, like Tambra, this relationship
- 49:18Speaker 4: is fake, he's not really into you. It's obvious he's
- 49:22Speaker 4: cheating on you. Did that do a number on you?
- 49:26Speaker 4: Reading these things and hearing that low key? Some of
- 49:28Speaker 4: your castmates felt the same way.
- 49:31Speaker 1: Yeah, to be honest with you, well, when it comes
- 49:33Speaker 1: to castmates, it's just really let me know how they
- 49:35Speaker 1: really don't know me, because if you know me, you
- 49:37Speaker 1: would actually know him, and role people who know me
- 49:40Speaker 1: know him, And so it did. But I actually, when
- 49:46Speaker 1: it came to demand, I honestly felt not the best
- 49:53Speaker 1: for him because I always knew the truth and because
- 49:57Speaker 1: first and foremost, you can't cheat on someone that you're
- 49:59Speaker 1: not with. That's just the truth of it. So for me,
- 50:04Speaker 1: it hurts to see him so upset and so hurt
- 50:09Speaker 1: because he's here because he wanted me back. That's the
- 50:13Speaker 1: only reason he's here. That was the only reason he's apart,
- 50:16Speaker 1: because he actually came in a part of my life
- 50:19Speaker 1: where he's working to get me back.
- 50:21Speaker 2: Last season, you.
- 50:22Speaker 1: Guys had a whole thing ex boyfriend, so you have
- 50:25Speaker 1: to think about that when we were not together, and
- 50:29Speaker 1: so when we do make this decision to maybe let's
- 50:31Speaker 1: try this again, because Deman and I we were apart
- 50:34Speaker 1: for many years. We were apart, and I don't know
- 50:37Speaker 1: if the viewers realized that that we were actually apart
- 50:40Speaker 1: for so long. And throughout those years, you grow, you
- 50:45Speaker 1: really do. So when you have this like okay, well
- 50:48Speaker 1: let's try it again, as soon as you try it again,
- 50:52Speaker 1: it's like you're hit with he's cheating and he knew
- 50:56Speaker 1: he did not cheat.
- 50:57Speaker 2: He knew that.
- 50:59Speaker 1: So he's such a behind the scenes person that he's not.
- 51:05Speaker 1: He didn't know how to deal with that. You know,
- 51:07Speaker 1: he felt like he didn't have a voice. He did
- 51:09Speaker 1: not know how to deal with it whatsoever. He's used
- 51:12Speaker 1: to being very supportive of me and encouraging me through
- 51:16Speaker 1: everything because I've always been at the forefront. So now
- 51:20Speaker 1: when he's hit, I'm trying to steal encourage him. I'm
- 51:27Speaker 1: still trying to teach him how to deal with that.
- 51:31Speaker 1: And that does take a strain because our focus now
- 51:34Speaker 1: it becomes off of us and we're focused on other things.
- 51:38Speaker 1: I always say, whatever you focus on growth, That's why
- 51:40Speaker 1: I don't give a lot of things the energy because
- 51:42Speaker 1: you're only adding to it. Whatever you focus on growth.
- 51:45Speaker 1: So when I took that focus off us and we
- 51:46Speaker 1: started putting on other things, it took it. It took
- 51:49Speaker 1: it off of us, and so we're at a halt
- 51:51Speaker 1: when we were really working to feel something. But then
- 51:53Speaker 1: we came at a stop sign because we're dealing with
- 51:57Speaker 1: other things and I'm trying to teach him how.
- 51:59Speaker 2: To get through.
- 52:00Speaker 1: This is not his industry at all. He's not used
- 52:03Speaker 1: to that. He's not used to critics. He's not used
- 52:05Speaker 1: to people talking about him like. He's not used to that,
- 52:10Speaker 1: And unfortunately, you know I am because it took a
- 52:15Speaker 1: while to get here. Think about how many years I've
- 52:18Speaker 1: been here. That takes a while to build up. So
- 52:21Speaker 1: I was used to it, but he wasn't. So it
- 52:25Speaker 1: takes a strain on him because he's having to hear it.
- 52:27Speaker 1: Although he's never he's still never sit down and watch
- 52:29Speaker 1: the show because he just can't. He gets it from
- 52:33Speaker 1: his mom, his sisters that are mad, his his his
- 52:37Speaker 1: family that are calling from Chicago, and with they they're mad,
- 52:40Speaker 1: they're hot, Like his mom is upset, like she doesn't
- 52:43Speaker 1: know this person.
- 52:43Speaker 2: She's hot.
- 52:44Speaker 1: His sisters, his cousins, they want to pay like they
- 52:47Speaker 1: are hot.
- 52:48Speaker 2: I'm just yes, they are so upset.
- 52:51Speaker 1: And his friends and then his job people on the
- 52:54Speaker 1: they're joking with them at work and like you know,
- 52:56Speaker 1: so he's getting it all at one time, and he's
- 52:59Speaker 1: just was not prepared for it whatsoever to someone that
- 53:05Speaker 1: he actually thought we were all friends.
- 53:08Speaker 4: So that's why I wanted to make sure that he
- 53:10Speaker 4: and I have some FaceTime before we started the reunion.
- 53:13Speaker 4: And like I said, I personally adore Demand and my
- 53:18Speaker 4: interactions with him has been nothing but positive. Listen, he's
- 53:21Speaker 4: great and what you said is so good, Like what
- 53:24Speaker 4: you focus on grows. So but that being said, is
- 53:27Speaker 4: there a growing baby in your belly?
- 53:34Speaker 1: So I can honestly say no, I'm not pregnant yet.
- 53:39Speaker 2: I will say.
- 53:39Speaker 1: That because when you're having a good time, time flies
- 53:43Speaker 1: you enjoying yourself, you're building your brand, You're not thinking
- 53:46Speaker 1: you like, your focus becomes on you and building, and
- 53:49Speaker 1: you're having a.
- 53:50Speaker 2: Good time in the process.
- 53:52Speaker 1: So that's how all that time flies and you're like, wow,
- 53:55Speaker 1: you know family.
- 53:56Speaker 2: I don't have a family yet. I do want that.
- 53:59Speaker 2: I want that.
- 54:00Speaker 1: You know, my parents are getting older now, you know,
- 54:02Speaker 1: so it's a lot of things, but it's still like
- 54:05Speaker 1: I want to be able to take care of them
- 54:07Speaker 1: when they're older, and for you to do that, I
- 54:10Speaker 1: have to have a very successful, successful career.
- 54:13Speaker 3: I love you, I adore you.
- 54:15Speaker 4: I want you to hear this from me, and I
- 54:18Speaker 4: want to say this publicly, thank you so much for
- 54:21Speaker 4: being a part of Bell Collective. Like I stated at
- 54:23Speaker 4: the top of this interview, you were not even supposed
- 54:27Speaker 4: to be on the show. And the fact that God
- 54:30Speaker 4: allowed one door to close another to open, you walk
- 54:35Speaker 4: through it, we got a chance to meet. You are
- 54:39Speaker 4: just as much a part of the success of Belt
- 54:42Speaker 4: Collective as I am. And I want to thank you
- 54:45Speaker 4: so much for giving your life to this show, your
- 54:50Speaker 4: honesty to this show, your whimsicalonist to this show. All
- 54:55Speaker 4: of that factored into the success of Bell Collective. And
- 54:59Speaker 4: I want to s say thank you so much, Tamasheri.
- 55:02Speaker 4: And look, we'll see if we're able to do this
- 55:05Speaker 4: all over again, and if we do honey, oh baby,
- 55:10Speaker 4: it is going to be a ride.
- 55:12Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 55:13Speaker 4: Sound Tell the girls and the guys where they can
- 55:17Speaker 4: find you, follow you, support you, and all the things
- 55:19Speaker 4: you have going on.
- 55:20Speaker 1: Well, first, let me say thank you too, as well
- 55:23Speaker 1: as follow me. Yes, you can follow me on my
- 55:26Speaker 1: Instagram at Temper Street. Everything is pretty much my name,
- 55:29Speaker 1: and you keep saying if let me say.
- 55:31Speaker 2: We speak things into existence.
- 55:32Speaker 1: When we do this again, you will have another successful season.
- 55:43Speaker 4: What I loved about our conversation is the fact that
- 55:46Speaker 4: we were able to go on a deeper spiritual level
- 55:50Speaker 4: just in regards to how you need to manifest what
- 55:53Speaker 4: you want out of life.
- 55:54Speaker 3: Baby. That is power and I love it.
- 55:58Speaker 4: What I also love is Yes, own just announced that
- 56:03Speaker 4: Bell Collective is coming out with the new season who
- 56:09Speaker 4: Buckle up because it's about to get even better and juicier.
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