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The Breakfast Club BEST OF(Patti LaBelle, Stephanie Mills and Chaka Khan, Phylicia Rashad, And Mara Brock Akil Interview) · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Wait the program Your Alarm to power one oh five
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  Speaker 2: Good morning Usa yo yo yo yo.
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  Speaker 3: Yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo
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  Speaker 3: yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo yo.
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  Speaker 4: What's up? Just Larry Charlamani God, it's Thursday. Happy New Year?
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  Speaker 5: That's right, Happy New Year?
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  Speaker 6: How long could you say Happy New Years?
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  Speaker 7: You fit?
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  Speaker 4: Did you say it for another weekly? Did we just
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  Speaker 4: say it one more day? Had long?
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  Speaker 6: Did we say half the New Year?
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  Speaker 3: I really shouldn't even be saying it now because we're
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  Speaker 3: on vacation, you know what I'm saying. But you know,
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  Speaker 3: since they got us doing these these type of things
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  Speaker 3: on our vacation, I don't know how happy I am
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  Speaker 3: about that.
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  Speaker 4: But Happy New Year, that's right.
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  Speaker 2: And today's all about the queens, right like Patti Leabell,
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  Speaker 2: Miss Patty Leabelle, Stephanie Nell Shaka Khan, Felicia Rishard and
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  Speaker 2: Marra brocka Kit.
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  Speaker 4: Do you know the goosebumps I get when you name
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  Speaker 4: every single one of them names?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, every single one of those women give me
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  Speaker 3: absolute goose bumps. If you've ever been around any of
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  Speaker 3: these women, you know that you're not you know around
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  Speaker 3: just regular individuals. You are around actual spiritual beings, just
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  Speaker 3: living human existences, and we are all blessed to have
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  Speaker 3: all of those people on our planets.
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  Speaker 4: Still, that is.
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  Speaker 6: Right, Well, let's get into those interviews.
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  Speaker 4: We're gonna be talking to those queens in a little bit.
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  Speaker 4: It's the Breakfast Club on the morning for Moody.
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  Speaker 1: Is it your time to get it off your chest,
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  Speaker 1: whether you're mad or blessed, time to get.
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  Speaker 4: Up and get something.
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  Speaker 1: Call them now eight hundred and five eighty five, one
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  Speaker 1: oh five to one.
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  Speaker 4: We want to hear from you on the Breakfast Club.
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  Speaker 4: What's up on mylone? Who's there?
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  Speaker 8: Hello?
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  Speaker 9: This is Sian. Good morning y'all. So I just want
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  Speaker 9: to say, whoever used the last little bit of my
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  Speaker 9: coffee creamer.
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  Speaker 10: Last night at work? I work starts at the hospital?
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  Speaker 10: Whoever us my last bit of coffee cream at work?
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  Speaker 11: Your mom?
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  Speaker 12: A ho?
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  Speaker 4: Damn? What hospital you work at? And where are you
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  Speaker 4: calling from? Okay?
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  Speaker 9: I'm calling from Florence, South Carolina. I work at MUSC
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  Speaker 9: and someone had the audacity to use.
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  Speaker 4: My That's crazy that you even left did was your
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  Speaker 4: name on it? No?
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  Speaker 13: Damning your coffee people do this to her all the time, dismay,
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  Speaker 13: they just did this.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, they they're nasty people in it, and I hate them,
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  Speaker 9: but their mom's the whole.
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  Speaker 10: I'm on, I'm on the way to get my daughter
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  Speaker 10: ready for school this morning, and I'm so hot about this.
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  Speaker 14: I understand.
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  Speaker 3: Take a breathe, And I don't know why you whole
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  Speaker 3: shaming people mamas like, damn, mamas can't have a whole face.
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  Speaker 10: No, they can't, not in my world.
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  Speaker 4: It's crazy to think about that, y'all.
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  Speaker 3: Y'all too, It is a lot of mamas out there
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  Speaker 3: that holds to somebody that is crazy thinking about and
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  Speaker 3: grandma's and everything.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think there's anything wrong with it. I think
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  Speaker 4: that everybody should have a whole face.
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  Speaker 14: Okay, everybody do at some point.
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  Speaker 3: That is a very hard thing for people to grasp
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  Speaker 3: the like your mama at some point gave some manfulation
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  Speaker 3: a few times.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't want.
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  Speaker 4: To think about that. I don't know about grandma like that.
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  Speaker 14: Either.
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  Speaker 3: You're doing it to somebody, Mama, I'm doing it to somebody.
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  Speaker 3: Think about that logan slam your daddy one time just
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  Speaker 3: because Okay, hello, who's this irritated uber?
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  Speaker 14: Driver.
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  Speaker 3: He irritated, Uber driver, how are you blasting?
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  Speaker 15: How be medicated?
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  Speaker 4: There you go?
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  Speaker 15: Okay, I'm irritated.
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  Speaker 16: I drive in the city of Detroit, and in my
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  Speaker 16: car I got a picture of Barack Obama and Michelle
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  Speaker 16: Obama as I should. I got a picture of Kamala
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  Speaker 16: Harris when I met her in Betray. I had the
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  Speaker 16: Trump supporter in my car tell me yesterday, if he
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  Speaker 16: knew what a ninjab was picking him up, he would
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  Speaker 16: have counted the right, said, I said, I said hey.
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  Speaker 15: I said go, so he said it and I dropped
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  Speaker 15: his ass.
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  Speaker 16: Off on the east side of the tray.
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  Speaker 4: I said, I.
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  Speaker 16: Figure it out.
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  Speaker 3: Why did he think he could beat the ninja? Did
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  Speaker 3: you have your mask on, your sword and everything else?
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  Speaker 4: Shut up?
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  Speaker 9: Man, you know what, You're all funny.
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  Speaker 15: But these Trump supporters, y'all do not run this y'all.
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  Speaker 16: I'm tired of y'all talking about what Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 15: Has done for this country.
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  Speaker 16: He's segregated us. He wants to try to put us
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  Speaker 16: in our place. And then I'm tired of him talking
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  Speaker 16: about construction workers that we make too much money. I
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  Speaker 16: told the Trump supporter get out there and do the
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  Speaker 16: jobs that a construction worker does put some respect on
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  Speaker 16: our page and leave our affordable wages alone.
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  Speaker 4: I agree with you. How many stars did he give you?
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  Speaker 16: He gave listen, he gave me one star, reported me
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  Speaker 16: telling me that I have the sense of pictures.
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  Speaker 10: Up in my car.
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  Speaker 16: Boober called me yesterday and said, man, what's going on?
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  Speaker 16: You gotta complain? I said, okay, and I said I
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  Speaker 16: got a picture of my president, Barack Obama and his wife.
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  Speaker 16: They said maybe I should take it down. I said,
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  Speaker 16: maybe you should kiss my ass?
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  Speaker 4: Right? I wonder what the policy though?
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  Speaker 16: They tell us to be neutral and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 16: I said, there's no neutral about it. When you get
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  Speaker 16: in my car and talking ignorant.
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  Speaker 14: You call me your.
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  Speaker 16: Name, and then you're gonna call me out my name.
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  Speaker 16: Thank you, jes you heard that you're gonna call me
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  Speaker 16: out by name. Put some respect on my melani.
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  Speaker 4: First of all, well, I'm mad.
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  Speaker 3: I'm mad at you that you didn't mad at you
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  Speaker 3: that you didn't call him a cracker back. But also
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  Speaker 3: if you know what.
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  Speaker 16: I called him, call him an ignorant, blooney smelling damn
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  Speaker 16: trust oh joe head oh. I called him up everything
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  Speaker 16: else too. But I can't say it on the radio.
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  Speaker 15: But if you want me to, I will. But I'm
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  Speaker 15: a Trump reporters.
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  Speaker 16: Y'all need to stay in y'all lane.
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  Speaker 4: You should have called me, because you should. You should
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  Speaker 4: have called him a milk cricket.
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  Speaker 3: But also to look at the flip side, right, if
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  Speaker 3: you would have gotten into a car and the person
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  Speaker 3: had a bunch of magapart for Neilia, how would you
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  Speaker 3: f l.
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  Speaker 11: I would have got in that car.
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  Speaker 16: I want to cancel that, right.
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  Speaker 4: So it's kind of the same thing. Yeah, yeah, but
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  Speaker 4: he should have canceled it.
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  Speaker 16: He should have canceled it if he's seen a beautiful
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  Speaker 16: black woman with.
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  Speaker 3: Hello damn cut the call off.
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  Speaker 4: Playing whole Wow.
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  Speaker 2: I was gonna tell the baby should download the lift app,
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  Speaker 2: you know, just in case you go, so she'd have
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  Speaker 2: some some other income coming in down.
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  Speaker 3: But also to man, if you want to get where
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  Speaker 3: you're going this mind you god damn business. You can't
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  Speaker 3: hold your political opinion for two seconds.
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  Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 3: You get in the car, you see Barack Obama picture,
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  Speaker 3: Michelle Obama picture, Shut.
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  Speaker 4: The hell up.
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  Speaker 3: You're getting somebody call you see macapraff and shut the
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  Speaker 3: hell up all Like she said, cancel the ride.
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  Speaker 13: I was gonna say, just get out like you you
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  Speaker 13: I pull off and then you you tell me that
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  Speaker 13: you if you knew that I was gonna be black,
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  Speaker 13: you would have canceled.
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  Speaker 4: You can always get out.
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  Speaker 6: Now, yeah, get out right now.
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  Speaker 13: That's why if she said, if she did what she
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  Speaker 13: said and dropped his ass off in the hood, good time.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm like selo, if I got to get to
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  Speaker 2: the airport, I ain't got time to mess with you
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  Speaker 2: out Just get me there.
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  Speaker 6: I don't care.
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  Speaker 3: I don't care what you got in the reality is,
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  Speaker 3: you don't know what's in the person's head.
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  Speaker 4: That's heart, you know, or trunk. So you got it,
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  Speaker 4: got to put.
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  Speaker 6: It off your chest. Eight hundred five eighty five, one
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  Speaker 6: oh five.
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  Speaker 2: If you need to, then hit us up. Now it's
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  Speaker 2: the breakfast Club, go morning. This is your time to
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  Speaker 2: get it off your chest. Eight hundred five five five one.
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  Speaker 2: We want to hear from you on the breakfast club.
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  Speaker 4: Hello, who's this.
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  Speaker 11: Hey, I'm gonna remain anonymous.
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  Speaker 3: Why we can't see you? You can say your name
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  Speaker 3: is Jill Scott for.
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  Speaker 11: All we know, no, no, no, not ba nah I
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  Speaker 11: ain't gonna say my name.
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  Speaker 10: Let me care what happened.
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  Speaker 11: I worked for the airlines and I got injured on
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  Speaker 11: the clock, and then the doctor said I can go
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  Speaker 11: back to work.
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  Speaker 4: You don't.
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  Speaker 11: Manager, don't want to let me come back towards from
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  Speaker 11: one hundred percent. But the doctor said, you will never
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  Speaker 11: be one hundred percent. Ain't that stupid?
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  Speaker 2: So basically you said you ain't trying to ever go
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  Speaker 2: back to work because the doctor said you ain't never
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  Speaker 2: gonna be one hundred percent, So you ain't never going
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  Speaker 2: back to No.
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  Speaker 11: I want to go back to one. I want to
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  Speaker 11: go back to it, but they have this dumb ass
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  Speaker 11: one hundred healed policies that don't exist that they want
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  Speaker 11: to use. But they've got stoop for it. I't ever
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  Speaker 11: called top dog law.
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  Speaker 4: You called dog law. I won't tell what they said
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  Speaker 4: at top laws.
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  Speaker 11: My impairment rating was too low, so they can't take
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  Speaker 11: my thing.
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  Speaker 4: So what you gotta do? What are you gonna do?
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  Speaker 4: In the meantime, I gotta.
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  Speaker 11: Keep calling lawyers because airlines got a history of when
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  Speaker 11: people get injured on the clock, and let's they say
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  Speaker 11: they're not gonna ever be one hundred percent. They want
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  Speaker 11: to push them back to try to make them quit.
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  Speaker 11: I didn't quit it for my job. I want to
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  Speaker 11: them horse even get that job.
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  Speaker 4: I agree, man, I'm sure it might.
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  Speaker 11: Not be a good paying job, but I'm still gonna
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  Speaker 11: try to get my job. I've been calling lawyers and everything,
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  Speaker 11: but this manager she also kind of races too.
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  Speaker 3: We're gonna have Laura La Rose reach out the top
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  Speaker 3: dog law for you, man. You know she gotta she
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  Speaker 3: got a different relationship with them, so you're gonna have
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  Speaker 3: her reach.
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  Speaker 4: Out and see what she can do for you. Man,
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  Speaker 4: all right, yea, it just sounds good to say, you know.
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  Speaker 6: What I mean, I have Laura reach out.
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  Speaker 15: Who's this three?
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  Speaker 6: See you from AATO three?
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  Speaker 4: What's up? Get it off your chest?
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  Speaker 15: Brother, But mad I'll just call you just to get
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  Speaker 15: telling how I'm so blessed, man, I'm just blessed for
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  Speaker 15: the circle I got even do all this hard times
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  Speaker 15: going on. Man, I'm just blessed to have a single
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  Speaker 15: like that. Shout out of my beautiful wife, edge and tailor.
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  Speaker 15: I tell you, man, my beautiful son.
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  Speaker 10: Man.
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  Speaker 15: Now it's the time to just appreciate them things, man,
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  Speaker 15: because hard I am. But that's all I said, I'm
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  Speaker 15: blessed man.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, I pray every morning before I leave
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  Speaker 6: the house. I wake my wife up when we pray.
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  Speaker 2: And the biggest thing we pray about it you say,
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  Speaker 2: thank you God for waking this up. Thank you God
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  Speaker 2: for our family and and them kids running around, my wife,
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  Speaker 2: my parents running around, thank you. You know that with
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  Speaker 2: a lot going on in this world, the little things
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  Speaker 2: are just seeing them smilers is all I need to
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  Speaker 2: get me through the day.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what it's about.
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  Speaker 15: Hey, here, before I go, can I shout out my
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  Speaker 15: podcast now? I want to shout out the podcast called
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  Speaker 15: The Pot About Nothing. You're going on to night now
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  Speaker 15: on Spotify. Shout out to my ball Marlly Bellichier Cord
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  Speaker 15: done it man in here tonight, y'all.
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  Speaker 6: Tune in, have a good one, get it off your chest.
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  Speaker 6: Eight hundred and five eight five one oh five one.
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  Speaker 6: If you need de Vin, call us.
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  Speaker 4: Up right now. It's the Breakfast Club. Good morning morning.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody is dej NV just hilarious, charlamage the guy we
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  Speaker 2: are the Breakfast Club.
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  Speaker 6: Lola Rosa is here as well, and we got.
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  Speaker 4: A special guest in the building, Legendary.
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  Speaker 2: That's right, Miss Marl brock a kill, welcome, thank you.
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  Speaker 17: Good morning, good morning, nice to be here.
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  Speaker 4: How are you Less Black and Holly Fie. How's your energy?
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  Speaker 4: It's great?
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  Speaker 17: I'm really I'm floating.
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  Speaker 4: How does it feel to have yet another hit TV show?
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  Speaker 17: Another another hit TV show? But this is global? This
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  Speaker 17: is like the first time I have been on a
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  Speaker 17: stage this six. Normally my shows are on up and
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  Speaker 17: coming network, so I feel like an an. Actually I
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  Speaker 17: feel both veteran and both. I'm also an off, you know.
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  Speaker 17: It's just this is to an idea, is a global
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  Speaker 17: conference station. That is kind of I'm sitting in that
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  Speaker 17: mostly my career, I've been thinking about a national conversation,
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  Speaker 17: but this is a global one. And I mean, I've
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  Speaker 17: always known that our stories are global, but for it
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  Speaker 17: to be a reality, it's pretty special and another hit,
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  Speaker 17: right to be at it? Thirty years in the game,
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  Speaker 17: thirty years in the game, but.
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  Speaker 4: Let's talk about it.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, for people that are just tuning in, you
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  Speaker 2: creating shows like Girlfriends the Game, Being Mary Jane, You've
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  Speaker 2: written on The Jamie Fox Show and so many others,
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  Speaker 2: but this one is so many, so many.
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  Speaker 4: This one's on Netflix.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, this one's on Netflix. Yeah, so how did the
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  Speaker 6: Netflix play come together?
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  Speaker 17: We're doing for I had a deal, you know, my
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  Speaker 17: career did garner me a really wonderful deal out of
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  Speaker 17: that deal? I did stamp From the beginning, I hope
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  Speaker 17: you guys also have that amazing documentary that Roger ross
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  Speaker 17: Wild directed, but about doctor Abraham Kindy's work about the
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  Speaker 17: myths of racism. That was like first offering in my deal,
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  Speaker 17: and this was the second.
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  Speaker 18: It was special.
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  Speaker 17: From the beginning, I met Judy Bloom somebody else's come on,
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  Speaker 17: come on.
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  Speaker 4: Two of my favorite storytellers.
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  Speaker 17: Coming come on, I mean, and that's God. First of all,
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  Speaker 17: I didn't even realize that the book was going to
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  Speaker 17: be fifty years old by the time we released. It
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  Speaker 17: was not even in my thinking of that time seventy five.
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  Speaker 17: It was a beautiful synergy. One thing I will say
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  Speaker 17: about Netflix, when they're behind something, they are behind it
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  Speaker 17: completely supported, resourced. I think that's what's important to me
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  Speaker 17: in this moment of this hit show is that it
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  Speaker 17: was my vision was supported financially and it was amazing
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  Speaker 17: to feel like, Wow, I'm supported to got money to
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  Speaker 17: have the vision that I want and to get the
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  Speaker 17: people that I need, the collaborators. It's an amazing you said.
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  Speaker 4: Judy Bloom was your first permission slip as a storyteller.
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  Speaker 17: Oh my goodness.
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  Speaker 4: So how does your inner child feel knowing that you
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  Speaker 4: have done such justice to win her iconic work?
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  Speaker 17: Why does my inner she feels on cloud nine? She
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  Speaker 17: is twirling, she is Cartwill I see Cartwell back in
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  Speaker 17: the day, I could cartweel backband, all the things she's doing,
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  Speaker 17: all of that. I'm very proud of myself. When the
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  Speaker 17: opportunity to reimagine one of her books, there was so thinking.
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  Speaker 17: My hand just went up and I feel like it
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  Speaker 17: was a little protective as well. It was like, I
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  Speaker 17: want to protect that story. I want to be able
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  Speaker 17: to tell that story. But my little girl is like
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  Speaker 17: she's she cabbage patches.
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  Speaker 4: Do you feel like she made it? Do you feel
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  Speaker 4: like you made it?
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  Speaker 17: Felt like she's felt like she's made it a long
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  Speaker 17: while ago. I think this is different in that it's
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  Speaker 17: a full circle moment.
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  Speaker 14: I feel.
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  Speaker 17: I often say that you become a writer as a
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  Speaker 17: reader first, and so I used to get lost in
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  Speaker 17: the pages of Judy Blue, and so for me to
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  Speaker 17: be just the divinity of it like the divineness of
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  Speaker 17: it that I would come full circle fifty years later,
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  Speaker 17: Like those kinds the thing right, It's almost like it
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  Speaker 17: was written for me. It was written for me and Judy.
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  Speaker 17: Matter of fact, I'm going to get a chance to
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  Speaker 17: meet her personally. I'm so excited.
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  Speaker 4: You go down to Key West.
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  Speaker 18: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, yeah yeah.
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  Speaker 17: You live this life once and I'm gonna live in
• 14:13
  Speaker 17: that dream. So I'm excited to meet her. We met
• 14:16
  Speaker 17: at the time on zoom and talked on the phone
• 14:20
  Speaker 17: and emailed, but just to meet her and say thank
• 14:22
  Speaker 17: you and have her signed my book. I'm just that
• 14:25
  Speaker 17: twelve year old girl is running.
• 14:27
  Speaker 4: To Key with it. I've done it a couple of times,
• 14:31
  Speaker 4: just to cook. Yeah.
• 14:33
  Speaker 17: Just what I really would love is for people to
• 14:36
  Speaker 17: honor more of their story, the craftsmanship putting in the
• 14:40
  Speaker 17: chair and writing. That woman sat in the chair and wrote,
• 14:43
  Speaker 17: I mean like I mean, it's like she never got
• 14:46
  Speaker 17: out of the chair, just writing and that, and what
• 14:49
  Speaker 17: it would do just someone sharing the story, just like
• 14:52
  Speaker 17: my own testimony is it ignited something in me. And
• 14:55
  Speaker 17: I think that even the feedback I'm getting from the show,
• 14:58
  Speaker 17: not just the show, but the shows I've had in
• 14:59
  Speaker 17: my career. Is ignited other storytellers. I want us to
• 15:03
  Speaker 17: do more by that. We have so many stories in
• 15:06
  Speaker 17: us that will die in us if we don't even
• 15:09
  Speaker 17: start crafting them and writing them down. Her book is
• 15:12
  Speaker 17: still through through this show now, is still it still lives,
• 15:17
  Speaker 17: It's universal, It's it's forever. But I'm bump what I
• 15:21
  Speaker 17: did there? The original book was written in the seventies,
• 15:24
  Speaker 17: yees seventy five. Why did you choose to specifically set
• 15:27
  Speaker 17: this story in twenty eighteen. Well, I had to look
• 15:30
  Speaker 17: at what would make it fresh today and what to
• 15:34
  Speaker 17: maybe have to look at what where the kids are today?
• 15:37
  Speaker 17: And Judy and I talked about, well, they know a
• 15:41
  Speaker 17: lot about sex, intimacy, connection, those things. I think we're
• 15:47
  Speaker 17: further away. Even though we are more technologically advanced, we
• 15:52
  Speaker 17: don't have these tools are meant to connect us. We
• 15:56
  Speaker 17: are using them in very disconnecting ways. And I think
• 15:59
  Speaker 17: that to bring the phone into the conversation wanted it's
• 16:03
  Speaker 17: an opportunity to talk about something unique to this culture.
• 16:07
  Speaker 17: I mean, excuse me the culture, but this generation. Excuse
• 16:09
  Speaker 17: me what it is doing to them personally emotional their
• 16:13
  Speaker 17: emotional self there and then how it's even affecting their
• 16:16
  Speaker 17: physical self and then affecting their future. And that's what
• 16:19
  Speaker 17: the book was about. How do we explore our emotional self,
• 16:22
  Speaker 17: our physical self while maintaining a healthy future. I also
• 16:27
  Speaker 17: want to talk about in the black family. By changing
• 16:29
  Speaker 17: the white family to black, it allowed me to also
• 16:32
  Speaker 17: talk about a time that I think is very important
• 16:35
  Speaker 17: for us to document. Between Trayvon Martin's murder and George
• 16:39
  Speaker 17: Floyd's murder, we as black people, we as black families,
• 16:43
  Speaker 17: as mothers and fathers, we were screaming into a vacuum
• 16:47
  Speaker 17: about the fear over our children and there was no
• 16:49
  Speaker 17: amount of fancy zip codes or education that can save
• 16:55
  Speaker 17: your child, you know, And that was scary and I wanted,
• 16:58
  Speaker 17: I needed a place for me as a mother to
• 17:02
  Speaker 17: release all of that year. And then also then look
• 17:05
  Speaker 17: at how much we are out of love, but we
• 17:08
  Speaker 17: are raising our children from that field, and how that
• 17:12
  Speaker 17: is hurting our children and their inability to have a
• 17:16
  Speaker 17: natural right of passage to explore again their emotional their
• 17:20
  Speaker 17: emotional self, their emotional maturity, their physical self, their physical maturity,
• 17:26
  Speaker 17: to have sex or not have sex, who to have
• 17:28
  Speaker 17: it with? What's the right conditions, all of those choices
• 17:32
  Speaker 17: that they're supposed to be making right now to protect
• 17:36
  Speaker 17: the beautiful future. And that's another thing. We need to
• 17:39
  Speaker 17: open up some space because our children also need a
• 17:42
  Speaker 17: future and it's tough out there and I couldn't imagine
• 17:45
  Speaker 17: being them today, thinking about what do you want to be?
• 17:49
  Speaker 17: We should grow up? Well, what's out there? And so
• 17:52
  Speaker 17: and we adults need to get it together. And so
• 17:55
  Speaker 17: this is a part of my offering.
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: Warning everybody is dj V just hilarious. Charlamagne the God,
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: we are the Breakfast Club. We're still kicking it with
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: Marral brock a Kill. Her new show Forever is on
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: Netflix right now, Lauren.
• 18:09
  Speaker 19: And back in the seventies it was controversial because of
• 18:11
  Speaker 19: the things that it explored. Today it's not controversial because
• 18:13
  Speaker 19: we are so open. Like what you talk about when
• 18:16
  Speaker 19: you were crafting, like what the storyline would be and
• 18:18
  Speaker 19: how you would redo it. Were there things that you
• 18:20
  Speaker 19: were like, I want to make sure I get to
• 18:22
  Speaker 19: or make sure I get in this storyline. Because you
• 18:24
  Speaker 19: also made it feel closer to home for like black teams.
• 18:26
  Speaker 19: You know, now Forever feels like it's our story. But
• 18:29
  Speaker 19: you had to do it a different way.
• 18:30
  Speaker 17: You know, I think it's controversial black male vulnerability. It's
• 18:35
  Speaker 17: just there's no room for it. I think there's no
• 18:37
  Speaker 17: images for it. And yet when I'm looking in the
• 18:40
  Speaker 17: world and within my own children, their friends, and the
• 18:43
  Speaker 17: community beyond that, a lot of boys, and more specifically
• 18:46
  Speaker 17: black boys, they're not all that hard, you know. They
• 18:50
  Speaker 17: don't have any room for their complexity. They don't have
• 18:53
  Speaker 17: any room for their feelings. Like it's always funny to me,
• 18:56
  Speaker 17: especially about in the group of boys I'm around. They're
• 18:58
  Speaker 17: all privileged, they live a great life. Time to take
• 19:01
  Speaker 17: a picture. They were laughing two seconds ago, you trying
• 19:03
  Speaker 17: to take the picture, and then they get that stoic face.
• 19:08
  Speaker 14: What you mean mugging for?
• 19:09
  Speaker 17: Like, you know, and if you realize how much that's
• 19:11
  Speaker 17: imparted on young black boys all the time, about what
• 19:15
  Speaker 17: is manly? What are those images of what a man is?
• 19:18
  Speaker 17: I wanted to make a room for the real reflection.
• 19:21
  Speaker 17: I'm actually looking at the real thing. It's just what
• 19:23
  Speaker 17: gets on that bigger screen, and how important it is.
• 19:26
  Speaker 17: I know, we talk about representation matters. That's why it matters.
• 19:30
  Speaker 17: You got to see yourself in order to decide is
• 19:33
  Speaker 17: that beautiful? Is that how I want to look?
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: You know?
• 19:36
  Speaker 18: Is that right?
• 19:37
  Speaker 14: Ezact type?
• 19:37
  Speaker 17: You know, I can't see it, And I think boys
• 19:41
  Speaker 17: are getting their heartbroken a lot sooner.
• 19:43
  Speaker 18: I felt so bad for adjusting the whole time.
• 19:45
  Speaker 19: Why because I just felt like a lot of times
• 19:48
  Speaker 19: the characters they were yearning for this like space of
• 19:51
  Speaker 19: like I don't know, to just be okay and the
• 19:54
  Speaker 19: things would be going good and then something what else
• 19:56
  Speaker 19: would happened to be? Something small would be like for Keisha,
• 19:58
  Speaker 19: like the video get sent to her phone and she's
• 20:01
  Speaker 19: finally in this relationship, you know what I mean? Like
• 20:03
  Speaker 19: things were just like happening. I'm like dying kids, Like
• 20:05
  Speaker 19: why can't they just be and not deal with these things? Yes,
• 20:09
  Speaker 19: it's life, and it's also technology that we didn't have.
• 20:12
  Speaker 19: We got some freedoms without you know that they don't.
• 20:15
  Speaker 19: They're not afforded. That's what I want to talk about.
• 20:17
  Speaker 19: It's like, are we making any room for them? Like
• 20:20
  Speaker 19: one of the things that I love when we every
• 20:22
  Speaker 19: production meeting, I said, we're making an epic and intimate
• 20:25
  Speaker 19: love story within a love letter to Los Angeles, right,
• 20:29
  Speaker 19: And what that meant to me is that we need
• 20:31
  Speaker 19: to see them in scope and scale and epic. I
• 20:35
  Speaker 19: need to see them their bodies in the space in
• 20:38
  Speaker 19: Los Angeles. What that means is that they it's a
• 20:41
  Speaker 19: feeling cinematically that I'm making you feel that they belong here.
• 20:46
  Speaker 19: And when they belong here, they belong to us.
• 20:48
  Speaker 17: And so you would engage with our children differently, psychologically, emotionally,
• 20:53
  Speaker 17: those things are important in our image on the details,
• 20:57
  Speaker 17: the details on anyone makes them feel more human. So
• 21:00
  Speaker 17: I want to make just room for their humanity, so
• 21:02
  Speaker 17: that we think about the measures around technology, we think
• 21:07
  Speaker 17: about what the rules are for these kids. I mean,
• 21:10
  Speaker 17: these kids are being told today that you make one
• 21:12
  Speaker 17: false move, you won't get a scholarship.
• 21:14
  Speaker 6: I mean, come on, it's the truth that follows them
• 21:15
  Speaker 6: for the rest of their lives.
• 21:16
  Speaker 17: But the rest of their life said, there's no humanity
• 21:18
  Speaker 17: in that, And as much as it's a story about
• 21:20
  Speaker 17: the kids, it's a story about the adults, right, Like,
• 21:23
  Speaker 17: like the.
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: Way Judy Bloom made people feel seen at thirteen, it
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: feels to me like you're making us feel seen at
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: forty something fifty something, So what do those ages need
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: that nobody's writing about.
• 21:33
  Speaker 17: I'm going to keep saying this over just more complexity,
• 21:38
  Speaker 17: more of our human side. Like don't you know, I've
• 21:42
  Speaker 17: said before, I don't you know. I don't really believe
• 21:45
  Speaker 17: in positive images. I think they can be just as
• 21:47
  Speaker 17: damaging as negative images.
• 21:49
  Speaker 6: Really found on that down.
• 21:51
  Speaker 17: Because so the negative image is is a product of
• 21:57
  Speaker 17: a lie. Going back to the documentary, it's the perpetuating
• 22:02
  Speaker 17: the lies and the midst of us that's been out there.
• 22:06
  Speaker 17: So a lot of black people want a positive image
• 22:09
  Speaker 17: because they want to rewrite the wrong of somebody else's
• 22:13
  Speaker 17: view of me. But what that doesn't as an artist,
• 22:16
  Speaker 17: It keeps me behind the eight ball. I'm chasing up
• 22:18
  Speaker 17: and trying to clean up somebody else's mess. I'm from
• 22:21
  Speaker 17: the Zori Neil Hurston school of thought. I know my people,
• 22:24
  Speaker 17: I see my people. I want to be able to
• 22:26
  Speaker 17: talk about them fully and in the spectrum of our humanity,
• 22:29
  Speaker 17: there is light and dark. We are not. We are
• 22:33
  Speaker 17: not perfect to be perfect. That's just as hard to
• 22:36
  Speaker 17: be perfect as it is to be bad. Like I
• 22:38
  Speaker 17: want to out the spectrum of my humanity. I want
• 22:40
  Speaker 17: to be able to make a mistake and have my
• 22:42
  Speaker 17: village patch me up and put me back out there.
• 22:45
  Speaker 17: I deserve that. You deserve that, we deserve that, and
• 22:48
  Speaker 17: so I want the spectrum of who I am and
• 22:51
  Speaker 17: sometimes i'm you know, sometimes I'm not great, and sometimes
• 22:54
  Speaker 17: I am in the same day, in the same hour,
• 22:57
  Speaker 17: and I deserve that. That's exploration of who I am
• 23:01
  Speaker 17: as a human being, and I give that to my characters.
• 23:03
  Speaker 17: I think Don for instance, you know, people there's a
• 23:06
  Speaker 17: lot of conversation about her as a mother, but that
• 23:09
  Speaker 17: black mother has raised a lot of kids to get them,
• 23:13
  Speaker 17: to keep them alive. Does she deserve looking at herself? Yes,
• 23:18
  Speaker 17: my high my name is marb Barack and Kill and
• 23:20
  Speaker 17: I'm a former Don. I've put my pain on the screen.
• 23:23
  Speaker 17: I think, you know, I wanted to out of love.
• 23:26
  Speaker 17: I'm trying to overprotect my children.
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: Hi.
• 23:29
  Speaker 6: We got more with Marro brock a Kill when we
• 23:31
  Speaker 6: come back.
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: It's the breakfast Club.
• 23:32
  Speaker 6: Good morning.
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: What emotional space does forever occupy that none of your
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: previous shows have.
• 23:37
  Speaker 17: I think the cross generational idea. I just think the
• 23:41
  Speaker 17: complexity of family and the generational connection and that I
• 23:49
  Speaker 17: just really enjoyed that. I think also the scale emotionally.
• 23:53
  Speaker 17: It allowed me to really scale us and I enjoyed
• 23:59
  Speaker 17: that and you know the kids say take up space.
• 24:04
  Speaker 17: It allowed me to take up space for us and
• 24:07
  Speaker 17: for myself.
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: It's forever about love you've had, love you've lost, or
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: love you still believe in.
• 24:13
  Speaker 17: All the above. I believe in love. One of the
• 24:15
  Speaker 17: things I'm really proud of with the ending. I know
• 24:18
  Speaker 17: there's a controversy about the ending, but what I love
• 24:20
  Speaker 17: that Justin and Keisha showed us is how love endures
• 24:24
  Speaker 17: and it takes its shape, shifts, it's dynamic, can change,
• 24:28
  Speaker 17: but love can stay present. And they showed us how
• 24:33
  Speaker 17: to let go and keep love in that ending. I
• 24:40
  Speaker 17: think we could learn a lot from Justin and Keisha.
• 24:44
  Speaker 17: You know the question is this a forever love or
• 24:47
  Speaker 17: the one you remember forever? And I would like to
• 24:50
  Speaker 17: think that we as we move through our lives as
• 24:54
  Speaker 17: human beings, that when we choose to use that word right,
• 24:59
  Speaker 17: I loved you, that you there's a present, that you
• 25:01
  Speaker 17: were so present and so loving that even if you
• 25:04
  Speaker 17: don't last, the couple doesn't last, the love can last.
• 25:08
  Speaker 17: It just it might shift to wow, it might just
• 25:11
  Speaker 17: shift to we always just sort of text each other
• 25:14
  Speaker 17: on each other's birthday that you matter to me. You know,
• 25:17
  Speaker 17: one of the fun things you realize when you're re
• 25:20
  Speaker 17: visiting the work, especially as young people. Oftentimes that's where
• 25:26
  Speaker 17: our big dreaming happens, and those young loves that a
• 25:31
  Speaker 17: lot of times, the best part of you is packed
• 25:33
  Speaker 17: in somebody else's memory of you, and so to have.
• 25:36
  Speaker 18: Access back to those people actually is.
• 25:39
  Speaker 17: Good for you to remember who you are when you
• 25:42
  Speaker 17: lose your way, because you're gonna lose your way, and
• 25:46
  Speaker 17: so love holds you there. So it is about the past,
• 25:49
  Speaker 17: the present, and the future. And I think that love
• 25:51
  Speaker 17: can take many different forms.
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: Not playing tomorrow, Yeah, hit after heat in multiple decades. Okay,
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: stream is services to linear television. Give her what she wants.
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: That's right, including the fifty million dollars for girlfriends.
• 26:06
  Speaker 14: We need color.
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: It's that simple.
• 26:08
  Speaker 18: It's that simple.
• 26:09
  Speaker 17: We've been talking about this. It's real. It's really that simple.
• 26:13
  Speaker 18: I think it's time.
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: And a success. Girlfriends just had on Netflix.
• 26:16
  Speaker 19: Oh my god, oh my god, Like they should see
• 26:18
  Speaker 19: generational success and people watch it.
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: I watch that.
• 26:20
  Speaker 19: I rewatched the whole thing with my mom and I
• 26:22
  Speaker 19: was like, this is so different.
• 26:24
  Speaker 17: But you know, it's fine finding out people are putting
• 26:26
  Speaker 17: girlfriends on for their go to sleep. It's their they
• 26:29
  Speaker 17: call it their comfort TV show that they put on
• 26:32
  Speaker 17: and they just let it run. And some people let
• 26:33
  Speaker 17: it run while they go to sleep.
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: What do you want for ever to get people permission
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: to do it? And that's my last question. I problem love.
• 26:39
  Speaker 17: I want people to think more about love in every
• 26:42
  Speaker 17: aspect of their life. And actually, even if we're older,
• 26:46
  Speaker 17: that it's okay to want that that first love kind
• 26:49
  Speaker 17: of feeling. Like what do we need to do to
• 26:51
  Speaker 17: get back to that first love kind of feeling?
• 26:54
  Speaker 12: I don't know.
• 26:55
  Speaker 17: I just think it's I think as a human spirit,
• 26:57
  Speaker 17: having a human experience, dancing with love all the time,
• 27:01
  Speaker 17: it's got to be our top endeavor. So that's what
• 27:04
  Speaker 17: I want.
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: Mar Rocker kill Legend. Appreciate you so much. We love you,
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: we value you, appreciate you and all your work.
• 27:13
  Speaker 14: That's right, Thank you.
• 27:14
  Speaker 17: I really appreciate being here. Thank you.
• 27:16
  Speaker 18: Breakfast Club.
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: That's the Breakfast Club.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: Good morning everybody you stej Nvy just hilarious. Charlamagne de
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: goud we are the Breakfast Club. Lon La Rosa is
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: here as well. We got a special guest in the building.
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: We have a woman who has represented you know, black people,
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: especially black women correctly forever.
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: Miss Felisa Rashad is here. How are you, queens.
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: I'm good, good to see you, and you're here for
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: I mean, we're gonna talk to you about a lot
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: of stuff.
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: You're making your Broadway directorial debut and purpose. Yes, how
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: did that feel? Well?
• 27:45
  Speaker 20: It was wonderful. This is the first time I'm directing
• 27:49
  Speaker 20: in a Broadway theater. But this play and this cast,
• 27:54
  Speaker 20: it's a real gift. You'll come and see, yes, yeah, yes,
• 27:58
  Speaker 20: And I hope you'll come to Brandon. Jake Jenkins is
• 28:00
  Speaker 20: the playwright. He received the Tony Award last year for
• 28:03
  Speaker 20: his play Appropriate And this particular production originates at Chicago
• 28:11
  Speaker 20: at the Steppenwolf Theater, and the Steppenwolf has its own ethos,
• 28:15
  Speaker 20: its own legacy for theater as it was formed by actors.
• 28:19
  Speaker 20: So it's ensemble work, and that's the best work. Absolutely
• 28:24
  Speaker 20: ensemble work. But then that spirit I watched it move
• 28:29
  Speaker 20: through the cast into everybody, the designers, the production office
• 28:35
  Speaker 20: and staff, the theaters of everybody. It's one.
• 28:39
  Speaker 12: We call it collective intention.
• 28:42
  Speaker 21: Yeah.
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: When I think about the thing that you and your
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: sister have done, Miss de Wie Allen, You know, I
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: just wondered, what did y'all dream of when y'all was kids,
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: when y'all was just two little girls growing up?
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: Like, what did y'all play about? What did y'all think about?
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: What did y'all imagine?
• 28:57
  Speaker 20: We grew up in Houston, Texas. Our father doctor Andrew A.
• 29:02
  Speaker 20: ELM's a dentist. Our mother Vivianaires.
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: It's a poet.
• 29:06
  Speaker 20: We grew up with a poet. We grew up with
• 29:09
  Speaker 20: a visionary and it was about freedom. It was about
• 29:13
  Speaker 20: realizing your full potential as a human being. Can you
• 29:16
  Speaker 20: imagine things like this? Teaching dual children like this?
• 29:19
  Speaker 14: She would teach us.
• 29:21
  Speaker 20: Things like She'd have aphorisms and she'd give them to
• 29:24
  Speaker 20: us to say, the universe bears no ill to me,
• 29:27
  Speaker 20: I bear no ill to it. And we'd repeat that
• 29:30
  Speaker 20: the universe fair is no ill to me. I bear
• 29:33
  Speaker 20: no ill to it. If we just go around, the
• 29:35
  Speaker 20: universe s fairs no ill to me. I bet when
• 29:37
  Speaker 20: you teach a child like this, be true, be beautiful,
• 29:41
  Speaker 20: be free.
• 29:41
  Speaker 14: She would say.
• 29:42
  Speaker 20: Things like this to us. We grew up to be fearless,
• 29:46
  Speaker 20: but not to be stupid.
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: Fearless but not stupid.
• 29:50
  Speaker 20: Well, I mean, look, if you see a rattlesnake.
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: In front of you, come on, that's right, that's right.
• 29:54
  Speaker 20: Don't be stupid. If you see a car come in
• 29:57
  Speaker 20: your way.
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: Don't be stupid. Absolutely, What was.
• 30:01
  Speaker 19: Your mother's upbringing like? Because she seems like she was
• 30:03
  Speaker 19: so steell and so short of herself. And I'm sure
• 30:06
  Speaker 19: she had, you know, experienced a lot.
• 30:09
  Speaker 20: My mother grew up in Chester, South Carolina.
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: A South Carolina what part. I was born in Charleston,
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: rad in a small town called Most Corner. Oh you
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: the people?
• 30:19
  Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, Chia you the people?
• 30:23
  Speaker 20: Okay. So it was a small mill town. Her father
• 30:26
  Speaker 20: was a blacksmith, one of his brothers was a mortician,
• 30:29
  Speaker 20: and the other brother was a barber. And these businesses
• 30:32
  Speaker 20: had been owned by her grandfather. It was an agricultural community, right.
• 30:37
  Speaker 20: But there was a school there that had been founded
• 30:39
  Speaker 20: by the presbytery. There was such a number of such schools,
• 30:42
  Speaker 20: pardon me, that had been founded by the presbytery for
• 30:45
  Speaker 20: the descendants of freed African people throughout the South. This
• 30:50
  Speaker 20: school was Brainerd Institute. And in this school there was
• 30:53
  Speaker 20: this classical education administered by black people. My mother it
• 31:00
  Speaker 20: was always interested in music. Oh, she was quite the pianist.
• 31:03
  Speaker 20: She described herself to me once as saying, she was
• 31:06
  Speaker 20: a little girl swinging high on the swing, looking up
• 31:10
  Speaker 20: at the sky and dreaming big breed. That's how she grew.
• 31:14
  Speaker 20: Her mother passed away when my mother was nine. She
• 31:17
  Speaker 20: lost her mother, And she said, as she sat at
• 31:20
  Speaker 20: her mother's funeral and listened to the things that people
• 31:24
  Speaker 20: were saying, she decided none of them were intelligent enough
• 31:28
  Speaker 20: to tell her anything to do. She would chart her
• 31:32
  Speaker 20: own course at nine, at nine, at nine, and she did.
• 31:37
  Speaker 20: It was not an easy life, but there was this
• 31:40
  Speaker 20: spirit living in her, burning in her, that carried her through.
• 31:46
  Speaker 20: Her first publication is Spice of Dawns. This is a
• 31:49
  Speaker 20: collection of forms. Her second publication Hawk. If you read Hawk,
• 31:55
  Speaker 20: you will understand how I grew. This is an inner journey.
• 31:59
  Speaker 20: This is an hour of freedom, which parallels flight through
• 32:02
  Speaker 20: space without a vehicle. It was published eleven weeks before
• 32:07
  Speaker 20: the launch of Spot.
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: Make ie, Wow, what did you learn from your father,
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: because you said he was a dentist.
• 32:13
  Speaker 20: Oh, my father. My father was born on the back
• 32:17
  Speaker 20: porch of a farm in Lovedale, Louisiana. He was one
• 32:22
  Speaker 20: of nine children. His father worked on the railroad. He
• 32:26
  Speaker 20: was a fireman on the South Pacific Railroad, and his mother,
• 32:29
  Speaker 20: you know, his house keeping, right. My grandfather put great
• 32:33
  Speaker 20: emphasis on education and he made sure that all of
• 32:37
  Speaker 20: his children went to college.
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: Imagining, especially in that time imagining.
• 32:42
  Speaker 20: So my father was a very kind and generous man.
• 32:48
  Speaker 20: He was what was called a man's man. Men loved
• 32:52
  Speaker 20: him and trusted him. He was always the treasurer of
• 32:56
  Speaker 20: the dental Association because they said, if text takes care
• 32:59
  Speaker 20: of the money, we're we're in good shape. He was organized,
• 33:03
  Speaker 20: he was very clean. He loved music, he loved theater,
• 33:07
  Speaker 20: he loved the arts. He came to see any and
• 33:10
  Speaker 20: everything we did, whatever it was. He was very supportive.
• 33:15
  Speaker 20: He was so handsome. He did things that people didn't
• 33:17
  Speaker 20: know he did.
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: He was like that.
• 33:19
  Speaker 20: And in his office he dealt with people's pain and
• 33:23
  Speaker 20: anxiety every day, and they came to him and trusted him.
• 33:28
  Speaker 20: And when they couldn't pay, he'd work out a payment
• 33:31
  Speaker 20: plan for them that was convenient for them. They didn't
• 33:35
  Speaker 20: have to go anywhere and incur interest rates. He would
• 33:38
  Speaker 20: work that out for him. When my father passed away,
• 33:42
  Speaker 20: at his viewing the line stretched out of the mortuary. Wow,
• 33:47
  Speaker 20: all the way down the street, Wow, all the way
• 33:51
  Speaker 20: round the block. And when the last person came, he said,
• 33:55
  Speaker 20: he looked.
• 33:56
  Speaker 12: At it and he said, you don't understand. That's my dentist.
• 34:01
  Speaker 20: And that motiicaid as I remember that motiicaid on the
• 34:05
  Speaker 20: way to the cemetery, stretched as far as the eye
• 34:08
  Speaker 20: could see. He was so beloved.
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: That's why I asked, just because you know when you
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: look like I said, you know, we look at Felicia
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: Shade and wi Allen, two strong queens.
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: Somebody had to raise them. Somebody had to insteal that
• 34:19
  Speaker 4: in them.
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: And as a father raising four beautiful black girls, you know,
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: I'm just always thinking about, you know what should me
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: and my wife be in stealing in them all the time,
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: just so they grow up to be strong black women.
• 34:30
  Speaker 14: When you love them, my mom says, all the time,
• 34:32
  Speaker 14: when you love.
• 34:33
  Speaker 20: Them, that's all. If I can remember one great instruction,
• 34:36
  Speaker 20: my father gave me two great instructions. And I was
• 34:39
  Speaker 20: a little girl. He said, never let anybody run over you.
• 34:42
  Speaker 20: It was five years old. You told me that never
• 34:44
  Speaker 20: let anyone run over you. And then later on in
• 34:48
  Speaker 20: life he said always know the balance of your bank
• 34:51
  Speaker 20: account and keep your own money.
• 34:54
  Speaker 21: What can you tell us about without spoiling it? But
• 34:58
  Speaker 21: what can you tell us about the story of purpose?
• 35:00
  Speaker 14: Oh?
• 35:01
  Speaker 20: This is wonderful family family drama. Oh, and there's humor
• 35:05
  Speaker 20: in it. A young man is recalling a visit to
• 35:10
  Speaker 20: his home and on this night of nights, so much
• 35:14
  Speaker 20: happens one night, and so much is revealed in one night,
• 35:19
  Speaker 20: and some things are resolved. That's all I'm ontario.
• 35:25
  Speaker 14: Except to tell you that.
• 35:26
  Speaker 20: Cast Harry Lennox, the Tanya Richardson, Jackson Glen Date, Alana
• 35:32
  Speaker 20: Arenas and John Michael Hill. It's the most incredible ensemble
• 35:37
  Speaker 20: that I've ever witnessed. Each one is a mess and
• 35:40
  Speaker 20: the inimitable carry Young who was Loudy Bell in Parly
• 35:44
  Speaker 20: Victorious nat Season. That's our cast. People come at the
• 35:48
  Speaker 20: end of the play and have various reactions. One woman said, ooh,
• 35:52
  Speaker 20: that scene at the dining room table, that was my
• 35:56
  Speaker 20: family's thanksgiving for the past five relatable, right, And she
• 36:01
  Speaker 20: was not an African American woman.
• 36:03
  Speaker 4: Wow.
• 36:04
  Speaker 20: People see themselves and that's when we know we are
• 36:07
  Speaker 20: really doing our best work. When you see yourself.
• 36:10
  Speaker 18: I was gonna say, speaking of doing your best work.
• 36:12
  Speaker 19: I think you know, for a lot of us and
• 36:14
  Speaker 19: watching you on television the iconic role of Claire Huxtable
• 36:18
  Speaker 19: and just what that image of you know, having a
• 36:21
  Speaker 19: mom that was just so graceful and so like everything
• 36:24
  Speaker 19: that you were in that show. Do you, like in
• 36:27
  Speaker 19: real life, is there ever pressure or was there at
• 36:30
  Speaker 19: the time for you to like upkeep like a certain
• 36:33
  Speaker 19: like I don't know, like an image or like just
• 36:35
  Speaker 19: anything that.
• 36:36
  Speaker 18: People try to house.
• 36:37
  Speaker 19: No, like so not in your house, but like in
• 36:40
  Speaker 19: real life, like in Hollywood and other roles you were taking,
• 36:43
  Speaker 19: and like you know what I mean, Like, did you
• 36:44
  Speaker 19: ever feel like because I think for us like you
• 36:47
  Speaker 19: are like the perfect like image of like a black woman.
• 36:50
  Speaker 19: Like so I always wondered if you felt that pressure.
• 36:53
  Speaker 20: No, light is not heavy, carry light, sheer light, light is.
• 36:59
  Speaker 21: Not even in interviews back then you would still have
• 37:04
  Speaker 21: this same deposition, the same grace, you know, outside of
• 37:08
  Speaker 21: that rule.
• 37:09
  Speaker 14: I'm gonna tell you the one that sticks for me.
• 37:11
  Speaker 13: When you told uh Saundra's boyfriend Alvin that is iconico.
• 37:18
  Speaker 22: You and doctor Huxtable like some coffee.
• 37:20
  Speaker 18: Coffee, Yeah, coffee, you mean you're.
• 37:22
  Speaker 4: Gonna get it.
• 37:23
  Speaker 20: Yeah, you're surprised.
• 37:25
  Speaker 18: I'm sorry, missus Huxtable.
• 37:27
  Speaker 4: I didn't think you did that kind of thing.
• 37:28
  Speaker 22: What kind of thing you don't serve, serve whom serve him.
• 37:34
  Speaker 20: Doesn't serve your man?
• 37:36
  Speaker 22: Well, yeah, let me tell you some Elvin. You see,
• 37:38
  Speaker 22: I am not serving doctor Huxtable. Okay, okay, that's the
• 37:42
  Speaker 22: kind of thing that goes on in a restaurant. Now
• 37:44
  Speaker 22: I'm gonna bring him a cup of coffee, just like
• 37:46
  Speaker 22: he brought me a cup of coffee this morning. And that,
• 37:48
  Speaker 22: young man, is what marriage is made of. It is
• 37:51
  Speaker 22: give and take fifty to fifty.
• 37:53
  Speaker 20: And if you don't get it together and drop these
• 37:55
  Speaker 20: macho attitudes, you will never go have anybody bringing you
• 37:57
  Speaker 20: anything anywhere, any place, anytime ever.
• 38:01
  Speaker 13: And then when Vanessa wanted to go to Baltimore where
• 38:04
  Speaker 13: I'm friend, to see the wretched lying.
• 38:08
  Speaker 20: On the floor of some burning building, dying of that
• 38:10
  Speaker 20: fixed up and you down.
• 38:12
  Speaker 22: In Baltimore, Melolne with the wretched to have big fun,
• 38:17
  Speaker 22: weren't you, Vanessa?
• 38:18
  Speaker 5: Isn't that where you were?
• 38:19
  Speaker 20: Didn't you go down there to Baltimore and have big fun?
• 38:21
  Speaker 10: Vanessa?
• 38:22
  Speaker 5: Tell me, didn't you go for big fun.
• 38:25
  Speaker 17: Mom, shut up, don't you can't.
• 38:28
  Speaker 20: Open your mouth when I'm asking you a question?
• 38:30
  Speaker 13: Oh my god, when I tell you those are my
• 38:33
  Speaker 13: two like key episodes, right, well, yeah, because I'm from
• 38:38
  Speaker 13: Baltimore and I done snuck out the house. And you
• 38:40
  Speaker 13: know I don't done all that. You ain't knocked Vanessa out.
• 38:43
  Speaker 13: I got knocked out a few times, but well.
• 38:45
  Speaker 4: She almost did quack.
• 38:47
  Speaker 18: Well yeah, right, how do you now a days like?
• 38:53
  Speaker 19: Because I mean, you obviously pick and choose what you
• 38:55
  Speaker 19: want to do with your roles. Like I watched you
• 38:57
  Speaker 19: in Dre from Detroit, and I like the one thing
• 39:00
  Speaker 19: we all in the car and you were talking about
• 39:02
  Speaker 19: the temptations.
• 39:06
  Speaker 20: All of them.
• 39:06
  Speaker 17: She's gonna tell you right now.
• 39:07
  Speaker 18: I felt bad watching that. I'm like, I don't think.
• 39:09
  Speaker 20: I was supposed to hear her.
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: The first time I saw the clips, they didn't tell
• 39:15
  Speaker 4: me it was from a TV show.
• 39:17
  Speaker 13: Yeah, yes, he thought that she were reflecting all your life.
• 39:27
  Speaker 13: I said, damn, she slept with all the temptations.
• 39:30
  Speaker 20: No, that was a character, Darling, that was a character.
• 39:34
  Speaker 20: As actors, we play these roles.
• 39:36
  Speaker 19: When you choose a character like that, where it's like
• 39:38
  Speaker 19: it's a lot different than how we've seen you or
• 39:41
  Speaker 19: how I've seen you anyway, and different things that you've done.
• 39:44
  Speaker 19: What's your thinking behind Is it because you want to
• 39:46
  Speaker 19: you want people to see you in the different lights,
• 39:47
  Speaker 19: or is it just I just want to.
• 39:49
  Speaker 20: Do what she was doing. Yes, that's why I chose
• 39:52
  Speaker 20: the character because of what she was doing. Yeah, people
• 39:55
  Speaker 20: get all caught up in funny stuff. Yeah, what was
• 39:58
  Speaker 20: that woman doing.
• 39:59
  Speaker 18: She was rescuing people.
• 40:00
  Speaker 20: She was rescuing people. She was living with the deepest
• 40:05
  Speaker 20: hurt that a mother can have, that she lost her
• 40:08
  Speaker 20: child because she was not paying attention, and in her
• 40:12
  Speaker 20: heart she felt that her child was alive somewhere. And
• 40:16
  Speaker 20: this is years later, but just in a moment of
• 40:19
  Speaker 20: being too tired and too annoyed and too distracted and
• 40:23
  Speaker 20: wanting to do something else, she turned away, and in
• 40:27
  Speaker 20: that instant, her child was taken from her. And so
• 40:31
  Speaker 20: she set about the saving people. She went on one day,
• 40:35
  Speaker 20: somebody would save her son. So I choose people because
• 40:39
  Speaker 20: I choose a character because of what people are doing.
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah, gotcha, I want to go back to something just
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: that she brought up the Elvin scene, right, because that
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: was a role.
• 40:50
  Speaker 4: Well, when you schooled Elvin on I guess the marital,
• 40:53
  Speaker 4: the marital. How much input did you have.
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: On that scene and what were you trying to convey
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: when you saw it on paper? What did you say
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: to yourself, Oh, I know what I can do in
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: this scene to convey a larger message.
• 41:04
  Speaker 20: Oh, I didn't say anything. I just said I just
• 41:06
  Speaker 20: said the lines.
• 41:07
  Speaker 4: It was just as it was there. Oh it was,
• 41:10
  Speaker 4: but it was the way.
• 41:11
  Speaker 14: You deliver it, you know.
• 41:12
  Speaker 4: It was like battle rapping. It was so good. I
• 41:20
  Speaker 4: thought it was imprime.
• 41:21
  Speaker 20: You know, this is this is a part of your
• 41:24
  Speaker 20: training as an actor in language and how you use it.
• 41:27
  Speaker 20: And there's rhythm in this pace and so much it's
• 41:29
  Speaker 20: conveyed in that way. If you said it another way,
• 41:32
  Speaker 20: it wouldn't be as effect If you tried to say
• 41:37
  Speaker 20: it like you were singing the lazy No, it wouldn't work.
• 41:44
  Speaker 4: Like a black mama. What would in writers' rooms like though?
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: Because it felt like a black experience with black writers writers.
• 41:53
  Speaker 20: The thing was to write a human story, to write
• 41:56
  Speaker 20: about human behavior, the truth of human behavior. That's what
• 42:01
  Speaker 20: makes comedy and theater real, the truth of human behavior.
• 42:06
  Speaker 20: You don't have to make something up if you're writing
• 42:10
  Speaker 20: about something that's real, you can take a different perspective
• 42:14
  Speaker 20: on it, and your skills as a writer, you know,
• 42:16
  Speaker 20: show up in your language or your you know those
• 42:22
  Speaker 20: things that writers do.
• 42:24
  Speaker 21: What do you do to channel roles like your role
• 42:27
  Speaker 21: and fall from grace, like where you're the villain?
• 42:29
  Speaker 12: What do you do to channel those roles?
• 42:32
  Speaker 20: Everybody's a human being, right, Yeah, she's just a nasty human.
• 42:39
  Speaker 14: This is a person who is sick.
• 42:41
  Speaker 20: Her whole perspective is warped. You've got to be sick
• 42:45
  Speaker 20: to mistreat another person.
• 42:46
  Speaker 14: I'm sorry.
• 42:47
  Speaker 20: You cannot be sane and do hurtful things to people.
• 42:51
  Speaker 20: You just the same person won't do that.
• 42:55
  Speaker 14: Do you agree?
• 42:59
  Speaker 3: One of the four even says, you know, don't don't
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: take offense to things. Don't take things personal because what
• 43:04
  Speaker 3: you do, what somebody does to you is not a
• 43:06
  Speaker 3: reflection to you, is something that's going on internally with them.
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: It's hard, you know, to put yourself in that position,
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: but you really got to know that.
• 43:14
  Speaker 20: Yes, sometimes you want to just clutch somebody, shake them
• 43:17
  Speaker 20: real good.
• 43:18
  Speaker 3: My daddy used to say, you'll stop taking everything personal
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: personal once you realize that it's a bunch of people
• 43:22
  Speaker 3: out here on cocaine.
• 43:23
  Speaker 4: Who people out here doing all types of stuff that
• 43:30
  Speaker 4: you have no idea about.
• 43:31
  Speaker 19: I was going to say, your time at at Howard.
• 43:33
  Speaker 19: I'm an HBC, you graded went the Delaware State.
• 43:35
  Speaker 4: Have you ever heard of it? Yes?
• 43:37
  Speaker 12: Wow?
• 43:39
  Speaker 18: The police next, exactly right.
• 43:43
  Speaker 19: I wonder like for you, what was like one of
• 43:45
  Speaker 19: your favorite things about walking on campus every day with
• 43:47
  Speaker 19: those students as a.
• 43:48
  Speaker 20: Dean walking on campus? If it where I look? I
• 43:52
  Speaker 20: was reminded of my time there, it's excuse, and I
• 43:56
  Speaker 20: was reminded of my friends, and I was my minded
• 44:00
  Speaker 20: the things that week and the time in which we
• 44:04
  Speaker 20: were viving with students. It was an important Doctor King
• 44:09
  Speaker 20: was assassinated in my sophomore year.
• 44:11
  Speaker 4: Wow.
• 44:12
  Speaker 20: Yeah, I watched these things happened. So much unfolded on
• 44:17
  Speaker 20: that campus. I remember when Muhammad Ali came and spoke
• 44:21
  Speaker 20: on the steps of Frederick Douglas Hall, and I remember
• 44:24
  Speaker 20: him standing there.
• 44:25
  Speaker 4: And said, look at me.
• 44:27
  Speaker 20: Can't you see that I'm free?
• 44:29
  Speaker 4: And you come?
• 44:30
  Speaker 20: So there was a time, you know. I was just
• 44:32
  Speaker 20: referencing back to my father's area dentistry. There was a
• 44:36
  Speaker 20: time when African Americans were trained could be trained at Harvard,
• 44:41
  Speaker 20: but they wouldn't hire them to teach. So these people
• 44:44
  Speaker 20: who were trained in these great quote great institutions went
• 44:50
  Speaker 20: to HBCUs to teach. You were receiving that education there,
• 44:56
  Speaker 20: that discipline, those demands they were.
• 45:00
  Speaker 19: Were you when you when you decided not to return
• 45:03
  Speaker 19: back to Howard did you feel like you didn't return
• 45:05
  Speaker 19: because your work was done there? Or was it just
• 45:07
  Speaker 19: like a personal decision because like business reasons, Like I
• 45:10
  Speaker 19: just felt like people like you, we need you on
• 45:12
  Speaker 19: campuses every day. But I know it's probably it's a
• 45:14
  Speaker 19: lot to do well at once. But like, what was
• 45:17
  Speaker 19: that like for you, that decision not to go back.
• 45:19
  Speaker 20: Well, I will always be connected. I will always be
• 45:21
  Speaker 20: connected down with university. As a matter of fact, next
• 45:24
  Speaker 20: week I will be in Washington, D C. For the
• 45:27
  Speaker 20: one night only reading of Chadwick A. Boseman's Deep As
• 45:31
  Speaker 20: You Are. He wrote that, So he was one of
• 45:35
  Speaker 20: my students early early on Wow, when Al Freeman Jr.
• 45:39
  Speaker 20: Invited me to come and teach for a semester. So
• 45:42
  Speaker 20: we were in the studio doing the show Monday through
• 45:45
  Speaker 20: Thursday and Friday morning, I'd get up and fly down
• 45:49
  Speaker 20: and I'd teach. And he was one of my students
• 45:51
  Speaker 20: A'leecchi Susan Collecci Watson was one of the students. Camilla
• 45:56
  Speaker 20: Force is one of the students. Was He was fearless,
• 45:59
  Speaker 20: he was great South Carolina, and he was also very respectful.
• 46:06
  Speaker 20: This is why I say as a people, we are
• 46:08
  Speaker 20: a respectful people. We are naturally you know. So Anyway,
• 46:14
  Speaker 20: he kept in contact with me, and after he had graduated,
• 46:17
  Speaker 20: one day I received this call, I'm sending you something,
• 46:20
  Speaker 20: mister Shady, but always call me that I'm sending you something.
• 46:24
  Speaker 20: Even after he had attained fame and notoriety, he still
• 46:29
  Speaker 20: called me miss always.
• 46:32
  Speaker 14: Is that okay?
• 46:33
  Speaker 20: And what he sent was a copy of the script
• 46:35
  Speaker 20: that he had ridden. Hip Hop theater was born on
• 46:37
  Speaker 20: the campus of Howard University, and he was one of
• 46:40
  Speaker 20: the progenitors.
• 46:42
  Speaker 14: He was one of the innovatives.
• 46:44
  Speaker 20: Hip hop language and rhythm through the voice and experience
• 46:47
  Speaker 20: of a classic be Trained act.
• 46:50
  Speaker 4: It is grand Wow.
• 46:52
  Speaker 18: The I had a question about the Deep Azure.
• 46:55
  Speaker 19: So the proceeds from the One night Only are going
• 46:57
  Speaker 19: back to the College of Finite Arts at Howard. Yes,
• 47:03
  Speaker 19: what like today if Chadwick could see kind of like
• 47:06
  Speaker 19: you know how the final product has come along and
• 47:08
  Speaker 19: everybody that's evolved, Like, what would his sentiments be, Like
• 47:12
  Speaker 19: how happy would he be to see all of this
• 47:14
  Speaker 19: coming to fruition from that first phone call that you
• 47:16
  Speaker 19: guys had about I'll.
• 47:17
  Speaker 20: Tell you his wife is very and he's producing partner
• 47:20
  Speaker 20: who was his best friend of college very and because
• 47:25
  Speaker 20: it's happening. God, we're so honored. We're so honored. And
• 47:29
  Speaker 20: our Honorary host Committee, I mean, you know who's on that.
• 47:33
  Speaker 19: So the Honorary Host Committee. Ryan Coogler is the honorary chair,
• 47:37
  Speaker 19: Common Susan Khalichi Watson, don Cheto, Tonney C. Coats, I'm sorry,
• 47:43
  Speaker 19: Talahsee Coats, Camilla Forbes, Reginald Hudling, Kenny Leon and Terrell,
• 47:50
  Speaker 19: Alvin McCraney.
• 47:54
  Speaker 18: Yes, Universe, Yeah, all to some brace legacy.
• 47:59
  Speaker 20: Yeah, to support his legacy. Chadwick was He was really amazing.
• 48:04
  Speaker 20: Chadwick was an actor. Yes, Chadwick was a writer. Chadwick
• 48:08
  Speaker 20: was a director. Chadwick was a scholar. He studied many things.
• 48:12
  Speaker 20: The etymology of words. He was deep into that, into
• 48:17
  Speaker 20: names and the means of it. He studied the Bible,
• 48:22
  Speaker 20: not to Bible thump, but to understand its origins really
• 48:27
  Speaker 20: and its deeper meanings. And then he combined all of
• 48:31
  Speaker 20: that with you know, I hate to say it like this,
• 48:35
  Speaker 20: but I'll say it like this with African cosmology. Why
• 48:39
  Speaker 20: don't I hate to say it like that because Africa
• 48:40
  Speaker 20: was a huge continent and it is not a monolithic proposition, right,
• 48:46
  Speaker 20: but there is a certain ethos that runs through all.
• 48:50
  Speaker 4: He was brilliant.
• 48:52
  Speaker 20: There was nobody else to play Black Panther but Chadwick.
• 48:57
  Speaker 20: And you know what he really cared about. He called
• 49:00
  Speaker 20: me one day, and this was after graduation. He was
• 49:03
  Speaker 20: living in New York, and he was so excited and
• 49:07
  Speaker 20: he wanted me to know what he was doing and
• 49:09
  Speaker 20: to come and see. And I was thinking, Okay, now,
• 49:11
  Speaker 20: let's see what premiere is this, What film is this?
• 49:14
  Speaker 20: What play is this?
• 49:16
  Speaker 14: It was none of that.
• 49:17
  Speaker 20: He was working with young people in the Chamberg Library
• 49:21
  Speaker 20: and he was so excited about Wow. Yes, and that's
• 49:26
  Speaker 20: who he was.
• 49:27
  Speaker 4: Do you mean so gracious with your time? So I've
• 49:29
  Speaker 4: got a couple more questions.
• 49:30
  Speaker 3: What's the lesson you learned way too late in life
• 49:33
  Speaker 3: that you wish you figured out sooner you would teach
• 49:35
  Speaker 3: the next generation.
• 49:37
  Speaker 20: Was that I'm enough as a young girl growing up,
• 49:41
  Speaker 20: you know, and young girls go through this, You'll know,
• 49:43
  Speaker 20: you know, you go through a period where you feel
• 49:47
  Speaker 20: like and it's because you're looking outside yourself. You compare
• 49:51
  Speaker 20: yourself to everyone else you see, and you're not enough
• 49:54
  Speaker 20: because you don't dress like that one, or you don't
• 49:58
  Speaker 20: have hair like that one, or you do you don't
• 50:00
  Speaker 20: have legs like that one. You can think of any
• 50:03
  Speaker 20: number of things. Young girls go through. This kind of
• 50:06
  Speaker 20: thing usually happens around adolescence, where you feel like you're
• 50:10
  Speaker 20: not enough. Part of that had to do with my
• 50:12
  Speaker 20: mother being so beautiful, my father being so handsome, and
• 50:16
  Speaker 20: my sister being so cute, my brother being so whatever,
• 50:19
  Speaker 20: And I just thought, well, when I was born, the
• 50:23
  Speaker 20: Lord was doing something else.
• 50:25
  Speaker 4: So when did you get to that place of worthy?
• 50:27
  Speaker 20: When did I get to that place?
• 50:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 50:29
  Speaker 20: Think that was about thirty four, thirty five years old? Wow,
• 50:35
  Speaker 20: And now I look back at those pictures of myself
• 50:38
  Speaker 20: and I say.
• 50:39
  Speaker 14: Why did you feel like that?
• 50:40
  Speaker 4: Ye? Yes, yeah.
• 50:42
  Speaker 20: The mind. That's why it's important to teach young people
• 50:46
  Speaker 20: to look inside the mind, the state of mind. And
• 50:51
  Speaker 20: there's too much going on right now that's so distracting
• 50:54
  Speaker 20: for them. I don't know how young people feel. If
• 50:57
  Speaker 20: they listen to news reports today, they can't feel empowered.
• 51:02
  Speaker 20: It's not meant to do that for us, for anybody.
• 51:05
  Speaker 18: Well, thank you, not just for the interview, but for
• 51:08
  Speaker 18: your career.
• 51:08
  Speaker 4: Ok, thank you, just thank you for being you.
• 51:11
  Speaker 14: Yeah, thank you.
• 51:12
  Speaker 3: You know, it is not every day you get to
• 51:15
  Speaker 3: meet people that you you know, you grew up on
• 51:17
  Speaker 3: and watch. You know, said to yourself, Man, that person
• 51:20
  Speaker 3: right there is a pillar of our community and what
• 51:22
  Speaker 3: we need to be as a people. And then you
• 51:24
  Speaker 3: meet them and you're just a gracious and regal in person. Yeah,
• 51:27
  Speaker 3: thank you. Thank you to your mother and your father
• 51:29
  Speaker 3: for raising such a.
• 51:30
  Speaker 4: Beautiful, strong woman, and I hope I can do the
• 51:34
  Speaker 4: same for my thoughts.
• 51:35
  Speaker 20: I think you are. I think when they look at you,
• 51:38
  Speaker 20: they know that.
• 51:39
  Speaker 14: They're in love and they're protected.
• 51:42
  Speaker 4: That's all we need.
• 51:43
  Speaker 3: Absolutely, make sure y'all go check out Purposes running through
• 51:47
  Speaker 3: on Broadway through July sixth.
• 51:48
  Speaker 4: It is Queen Felicia Rashad. Thank you for joining us.
• 51:51
  Speaker 6: Now, thank you absolutely, it's the Breakfast Club. Good morning again.
• 52:00
  Speaker 4: Drop that Charlotte made the truth.
• 52:06
  Speaker 3: Don't here today goes to La Trance Battle Latrance Battle
• 52:10
  Speaker 3: is a fifty two year old Bay County, Florida woman.
• 52:13
  Speaker 4: What does your uncle Shalla always say about the great
• 52:15
  Speaker 4: state of Florida.
• 52:15
  Speaker 3: The craziest people in America come from the Bronxon all
• 52:17
  Speaker 3: of Florida, and today is no exception. Salute to everybody
• 52:21
  Speaker 3: who listens to us on one of four or five
• 52:22
  Speaker 3: to beat in Orlando dropping the clues bombs for Orlando.
• 52:25
  Speaker 3: I was in Orlando majority of the weekend. I figured
• 52:28
  Speaker 3: out what makes Florida crazy. It's the heat, Okay. There
• 52:32
  Speaker 3: is studies that show how excessive heat impacts your mental health.
• 52:35
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 52:36
  Speaker 3: By the way, we in the black community have always
• 52:38
  Speaker 3: known this, but over the years, with climate change global warming,
• 52:41
  Speaker 3: the world has gotten hotter. Therefore, places like Florida have
• 52:45
  Speaker 3: gotten hotter, so people have gotten crazier.
• 52:48
  Speaker 4: I'm not debating with you about this. It's science, okay.
• 52:52
  Speaker 3: Study suggests that he can have a significant impact on
• 52:54
  Speaker 3: mental health, potentially leading to increased irrability, anxiety, and even
• 52:59
  Speaker 3: a great high temperatures can disrupt sleep, impact cognition, and
• 53:04
  Speaker 3: affect mood, potentially exasperating pre existing mental health conditions. So yes,
• 53:09
  Speaker 3: people in Florida are crazy because it's hot. Global warming
• 53:14
  Speaker 3: has made people even crazier. Okay, that's all I got.
• 53:18
  Speaker 3: But one thing about people in Florida. They are creative,
• 53:21
  Speaker 3: very very creative. They do things that make you say wow,
• 53:24
  Speaker 3: that's a unique crime. Okay, I've never seen that before.
• 53:28
  Speaker 3: And that's the case with Latrans Battle. See La Trance
• 53:31
  Speaker 3: Battle was upset that her ex boyfriend had a new wife. Now,
• 53:35
  Speaker 3: I could play a game or guess what race it is,
• 53:37
  Speaker 3: but I need to tell you what race they are
• 53:39
  Speaker 3: for proper context. Latrance Battle is a black woman as
• 53:42
  Speaker 3: far as I can tell, and her ex boyfriend's.
• 53:44
  Speaker 4: Wife is clearly a foreigner.
• 53:46
  Speaker 3: Based off the facts of this situation, based off the
• 53:50
  Speaker 3: fact is Florida, and based off what Latrance did to her,
• 53:53
  Speaker 3: I can only assume she's some type of Latino. Now,
• 53:56
  Speaker 3: if you are a black woman, okay, and you're in
• 53:59
  Speaker 3: Florida and your ex boyfriend's wife was Latino in twenty
• 54:02
  Speaker 3: twenty five, and you wanted to get her out of
• 54:04
  Speaker 3: the picture, what would you do?
• 54:07
  Speaker 4: Okay? Oh boy, let's go to news for news for
• 54:15
  Speaker 4: the report.
• 54:16
  Speaker 23: Please, investigator, say a woman posed as an immigration officer
• 54:19
  Speaker 23: to pull off a deer and kidnapping. They also claimed
• 54:22
  Speaker 23: Latrent's battle had a police type radio and a business
• 54:26
  Speaker 23: card to persuade another woman she was an Ice officer.
• 54:29
  Speaker 23: According to the Bay County Sheriff's Office, the victim eventually
• 54:32
  Speaker 23: escaped all battle faces kidnapping, and other charges.
• 54:36
  Speaker 4: Ten ten for her creativity round the loss.
• 54:38
  Speaker 3: Okay, she clearly committed to the role.
• 54:42
  Speaker 4: She had a costume, a T shirt that's that ice
• 54:45
  Speaker 4: on the front.
• 54:46
  Speaker 3: She had props, She had some type of little walkie
• 54:48
  Speaker 3: talkie that looked like a radio. She clearly had the
• 54:50
  Speaker 3: language because she was able to convince the woman to
• 54:53
  Speaker 3: come with her. She was able to convince the woman
• 54:55
  Speaker 3: that she was indeed an Ice agent and you needed.
• 54:57
  Speaker 4: To come with me.
• 54:58
  Speaker 3: Now, where she went wrong She clearly didn't plan all
• 55:01
  Speaker 3: the way to the end. Because this feels very wily
• 55:03
  Speaker 3: coyote road runner isshit. She didn't think about what she
• 55:06
  Speaker 3: was going to actually do if she caught her. I
• 55:09
  Speaker 3: feel like she didn't have a plan after kidnapping her,
• 55:11
  Speaker 3: unless she was gonna take her to this apartment complex
• 55:15
  Speaker 3: to kill her. But I'm gonna tell you how dangerous
• 55:17
  Speaker 3: this was for her ex boyfriend's wife. Do you know
• 55:19
  Speaker 3: how many Latinos are afraid to have any interactions with
• 55:22
  Speaker 3: law enforcement because they believe it's going to lead to
• 55:24
  Speaker 3: them having to deal with ICE and possibly being possibly
• 55:29
  Speaker 3: be deported. This woman believed La Trance was an ICE
• 55:32
  Speaker 3: agent because she is currently in the process of becoming
• 55:36
  Speaker 3: a legal US resident. Latrance had to know that too,
• 55:39
  Speaker 3: and that's how she knew she could get this off.
• 55:41
  Speaker 4: That could have ended up really bad for her ex
• 55:44
  Speaker 4: boyfriend's wife. But hell, maybe that's what Latrance wanted. I
• 55:47
  Speaker 4: don't know. All I know is I have to give
• 55:50
  Speaker 4: Latrance an E for effort, and I have to give
• 55:53
  Speaker 4: her a D for donkey. And you know what else.
• 55:54
  Speaker 4: Rhym's with D he as in hall.
• 55:56
  Speaker 3: And that's exactly what I want you to give La
• 55:59
  Speaker 3: Trance battle right now.
• 56:04
  Speaker 4: We live in a cruel, cold, hilarious world. Y'all. Won't
• 56:08
  Speaker 4: play game.
• 56:10
  Speaker 12: We know the race.
• 56:14
  Speaker 4: Let little rhetor let him you know he don't listen? Sure, Sure,
• 56:19
  Speaker 4: and you want to play a game?
• 56:20
  Speaker 6: Nope, I don't play games.
• 56:22
  Speaker 4: Okay, all right, I didn't listen. I just turned the
• 56:26
  Speaker 4: mic back on.
• 56:27
  Speaker 6: I'm broadcasting live.
• 56:29
  Speaker 4: Listen what you call in me? I caught the end
• 56:34
  Speaker 4: of it. I caught the end of it.
• 56:37
  Speaker 6: You caught the tip pause morning.
• 56:40
  Speaker 4: Everybody is d J n V.
• 56:42
  Speaker 6: Just hilarious.
• 56:43
  Speaker 2: Charlamagne the God, we are the breakfast club. Law La
• 56:45
  Speaker 2: Ross is here with us as well, and we got
• 56:47
  Speaker 2: a special guest in the buildings.
• 56:49
  Speaker 3: Know he's an icon, right. I think legend is even
• 56:54
  Speaker 3: an understatement. I can only think of three one word queens, Yes,
• 56:59
  Speaker 3: another word I that's it.
• 57:01
  Speaker 6: But there you have it. We have Stephanie Mills. Come on,
• 57:09
  Speaker 6: how are y'all feeling?
• 57:10
  Speaker 5: Y'all look amazing, Thank you, We're happy to be here.
• 57:13
  Speaker 5: We are, We're happy to be here.
• 57:15
  Speaker 12: Good morning.
• 57:16
  Speaker 3: Now y'all are on the Queen Store. Why couldn't this
• 57:18
  Speaker 3: have happened decades ago? Like decades ago, Why couldn't people
• 57:21
  Speaker 3: put this together?
• 57:22
  Speaker 14: Weren't old enough?
• 57:25
  Speaker 8: No, I just think it wasn't the right time. I
• 57:27
  Speaker 8: think this is definitely the right time. And Patty and
• 57:30
  Speaker 8: Gladys and I have worked together, and I've always wanted
• 57:33
  Speaker 8: to work with Shaka, so they came together and put
• 57:35
  Speaker 8: it together, and I was like, yes, let's do it.
• 57:38
  Speaker 2: Is there are enough time for a show to happen.
• 57:40
  Speaker 2: I have so many hits, so many records. How long
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: is the show?
• 57:43
  Speaker 4: How long is this a concert? It's about two hours long.
• 57:46
  Speaker 5: It's not long.
• 57:47
  Speaker 12: We have quick, quick moments.
• 57:49
  Speaker 21: We have like fifty minutes apiece, and you can hardly
• 57:52
  Speaker 21: say hello and good night with that.
• 57:54
  Speaker 14: That's what we do.
• 57:57
  Speaker 4: How do y'all decide who closes? Though I feel like
• 57:58
  Speaker 4: that might have been a little debate.
• 58:02
  Speaker 8: Closes the Gladys offense, I come on second, and then
• 58:06
  Speaker 8: miss Daddy comes.
• 58:08
  Speaker 12: I like to open the show.
• 58:10
  Speaker 14: Gets actually.
• 58:15
  Speaker 4: Right, that's why you like over the show work? Okay?
• 58:20
  Speaker 13: Yeah, cookies, cookies.
• 58:27
  Speaker 3: At this stage in your careers, is it harder or
• 58:30
  Speaker 3: easier to navigate?
• 58:33
  Speaker 4: I guess ego would be the right word. Are there.
• 58:37
  Speaker 21: I don't I haven't seen any not.
• 58:41
  Speaker 7: No, God not ego is the only ego, the honest one.
• 58:47
  Speaker 19: When you said you guys weren't old enough to do this? Okay, yeah,
• 58:54
  Speaker 19: I mean because when you mentioned God is the only ego,
• 58:57
  Speaker 19: I didn't know if it was like you were saying
• 58:58
  Speaker 19: that you had to get to a point where that's
• 59:00
  Speaker 19: something that you realize in the industry because you deal
• 59:02
  Speaker 19: with so many egos navigating.
• 59:03
  Speaker 18: I still am it never stopped.
• 59:06
  Speaker 14: Life never stop?
• 59:08
  Speaker 6: Is there any friendly competition, because no, not at.
• 59:11
  Speaker 14: All, not at all.
• 59:16
  Speaker 21: Yeah, we have fun watching each other and doing each
• 59:19
  Speaker 21: other individual We got to keep on giving.
• 59:22
  Speaker 7: The jewel own rights. We are all different people. We
• 59:25
  Speaker 7: do we do individually.
• 59:28
  Speaker 4: Yes, So how did this tal come together?
• 59:30
  Speaker 3: Because I know it's it's hard to get any of
• 59:32
  Speaker 3: y'all to want to do something.
• 59:34
  Speaker 4: It's, you know, because y'all got great lives, our schedules
• 59:39
  Speaker 4: as a collective. Like well, the.
• 59:41
  Speaker 7: Whole thing with me was that I felt that this
• 59:44
  Speaker 7: is going to be a one off ever in life
• 59:46
  Speaker 7: like some of us, some of us, you know, we
• 59:49
  Speaker 7: weren't going to get the chance to be able to
• 59:52
  Speaker 7: be seen together on one stage.
• 59:54
  Speaker 6: And one night for all of us collectively.
• 59:58
  Speaker 7: So and when I realized important that for people who
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 7: grew up listening to our song baby we got on
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 7: us hearing that was that was compelled me.
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we have a surprise about the the ages of
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 2: people that come to the show because it varies from
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 2: young teens.
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 14: That I did because I get it off of you kids.
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 14: I was weaned on you. Yeah, exactly.
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 5: They made children on our music.
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 14: People have babies going on music.
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 6: But when you have those young individuals in the show.
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 2: Let's say they're twenty one, twenty two and they're trying
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 2: to holler at y'all this dad s like, I still
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 2: got it.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 19: No, I don't give anybody you're talking about young.
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 2: Because looks so beautiful that I'm just.
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 6: Asking a questions.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 8: Young boys at them, like, damn no, young boy, I
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 8: want to mature and older.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 4: But the problem with them is they want the young girls. Why.
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 4: I don't know, especially when y'all look like this, don't
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 4: because we want to.
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 8: Show them that this is how you age and you
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 8: could still do your thing.
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 5: We're all beautiful.
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 3: What do you have a routine to, like keep your
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 3: voice wrong and your body ready?
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 20: Sleep?
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 8: I sing, I sing every day and six days awaking.
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean I don't sing.
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 5: She don't sing every day, but she keeps it together.
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 12: I'll be hitting the tigh notes. Thanks, thank you, honey.
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 12: I do what I do, and that aby one. I'm still.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 14: The queen. She's the queen, the Queen, my queen.
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 2: Yes, baby, yeah, I still patty and pull up. I
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 2: promise I was gonna come on Thanksgiving. My kids are
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 2: a little older now, so that they're a lot, they'll
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 2: sit in the corner when you tell them to sit
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 2: in the corner now, So I'm gonna pull up one Thanksgiving.
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 20: Yeah you should.
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 14: We would be playing a big place of food.
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 19: Good are you cooking for them some of the stops?
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 7: You know, I'm not letting the cook because why because
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 7: after the tour she's being good because I'm trying.
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 14: To be good.
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 20: No, I better.
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 3: Do y'all feel like towards like just remind people with
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 3: a real show is supposed to.
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 8: Yes, absolutely, because we have real band, nothing staped, Our
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 8: microphones are on singing.
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 5: Yes, we are actually singing.
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 3: And do you think fans have the same appreciation for
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 3: live instrumentation and raw vocals that they did? Like when
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 3: you'll first hit the stage.
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 7: I think may not even know the difference. Someone may
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 7: not even know what the hell is going on, you know.
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 7: And that's what's unfair and messed up at it is
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 7: that when you go up there, you should represent yourself honestly.
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 20: You know, you.
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 7: Singing the mic, you know you have to have tricks
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 7: and gags and googles and stuff like that. Ye know
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 7: that you gotta do. But I'm saying I'm not about it.
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 7: I've got I've walked up, We walked on the stage.
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 14: Man's horse.
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 7: You can't hit all the notes. That's just the way
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 7: life is. You know what, you give everything, You give
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 7: everything you got and that is something that people can
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 7: definitely they know they can feel that.
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 6: What do you think make this this tour so important?
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 12: Right?
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 2: Because seeing so many icons and queens and legends on
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 2: that stage. You don't get to see that so much.
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 2: But the fact that we see it with you guys,
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 2: what makes it so important? Why did you all guys agree.
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 21: That we as black women represent ourselves the right way?
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 21: Like Steph said, there's no pretend singing, no no stuff
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 21: because people have a lot of stuff in their shows.
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 8: We just go out train tricks. There's nobody flying through
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 8: the air, none of that. You know, not that that's
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 8: not good, but I mean we just give shows like
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 8: we did back in the day's pure black foot stand
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 8: there and sing.
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 7: I mean we come from like actually similar but almost
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 7: the same generational generation levels are like like that stairs
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 7: and it's close. You know, they're close enough yet far
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 7: enough all right to reach a really big audience, you
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 7: know what I'm saying, a huge audience. And it has
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 7: been the by the grace of God, they just gone
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 7: together in such as it a good way.
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 4: Ms Mills. We saw you earlier this year. You caught
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 4: out the Essence Festival, and I thought it was constructive criticism,
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 4: you know, it wasn't like you were just bashing. And
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 4: why did you feel the.
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 21: Need to red.
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 12: What's so happened?
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 8: Because I was there the whole weekend and I saw
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 8: all the apps and it was just very poorly run
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 8: and it didn't it didn't show respect to the artists,
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 8: you know.
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 5: And I remember Essence from Susan Taylor and.
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 8: Mister Lewis and it was always prestigious.
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 5: And ran with respect, and that just was not there.
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 8: So I could not sit and let them accuse, you know,
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 8: people for being late when it was them that was
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  Speaker 8: late and running it.
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  Speaker 5: I just it bothered me. And at sixty eight, I
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  Speaker 5: really don't.
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  Speaker 14: Care what people think about me.
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  Speaker 12: I'm gonna say and.
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  Speaker 8: Do what I want to do. I feel like I
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 8: learned that right, absolutely, So I wanted to call them out,
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  Speaker 8: but I did it respectfully, you did. I didn't want
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 8: to be ghetto about it. I wanted to be constructive
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  Speaker 8: and that's.
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  Speaker 20: What I did.
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  Speaker 6: Well, they said they were going to fix it.
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  Speaker 2: They said they were getting down to the bottom of
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  Speaker 2: the things that went wrong and they were going.
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  Speaker 6: To make sure that I'm glad. I'm glad they took
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  Speaker 6: full of accountabilities.
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  Speaker 20: Patty was there.
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  Speaker 14: Yeah, it was awful.
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  Speaker 18: It was awful.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 12: So when I saw what you did, I said, go girl,
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  Speaker 12: talk Yeah, don't stop. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: She tells me to keep on talking, don't stop.
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  Speaker 14: Yeah, you have a lot to say.
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  Speaker 4: What did you do?
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  Speaker 3: Miss You got them privately or did I did you
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  Speaker 3: say anything that them privately?
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  Speaker 15: Or no?
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  Speaker 12: No?
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  Speaker 21: And I have one song with yo'se cusain right. I
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 21: couldn't cheat you too much about anything because I didn't
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 21: have a set of my own, you know, so I
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 21: know somebody would take care of it.
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  Speaker 5: I felt like I spoke for everybody.
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  Speaker 18: You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 8: I feel like because I'm not afraid. I don't have
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 8: any fear. I only fear God.
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  Speaker 4: So I'm not.
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  Speaker 8: Afraid when people say, oh, if you do this, you're
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 8: going to be blacklisted.
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  Speaker 5: I'm black already, So you know what I'm saying, I
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 5: don't really care. You put all my glasses and see
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  Speaker 5: if I give it.
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  Speaker 14: Damn about it.
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  Speaker 6: You were date a whole weekend, so you see a
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 6: bunch of artists.
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 5: I've seen a bunch of artists.
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 8: I saw what they did, I saw how late they
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 8: were putting the shows together. And I had an incidents
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 8: with the owner's daughter and I didn't talk about that,
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 8: but it was just not respectful.
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 2: I was gonna ask what artists are you loving right
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 2: now that you've seen, since you watched a lot of
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 2: the shows, the artists right now, that just came out
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 2: to me, like, I really like that person. That person's
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 2: doing an amazing job.
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 5: I love Jasmine Sella.
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 8: Then I love Selina Johnson, I love uh.
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 5: I love Leilah Hathaway.
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  Speaker 8: You know I love I love a lot of the singers,
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 8: but I see I listen to a lot of the
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 8: old when I'm singing to get ready for my shows.
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 8: I'm doing Ashford and Simpson, and I do them because
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 8: they sing the melody, but they still go around it,
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 8: so they stay in the pocket. And that's what I
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 8: That's what I try to do. And then I listen
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 8: to my songs so I could sound somewhat.
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 12: Like I sounded back in the day.
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 6: What about you shot the artist right now that you
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 6: like an R and B artist that.
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 14: Yeah, I like a lot of them, not ever like her.
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 4: Her, She's special.
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 7: Yeah, we're gonna do some stuff together. Really, he's the
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 7: closest thing to Prince.
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 14: Wow.
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  Speaker 4: Pat Labell, who do you feel, honey?
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 14: Young people?
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 12: So many, so many? Yeah, I mean I do love Coco.
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 21: Oh yeah, Singe you know likes so many is I
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 21: mean she sings her face off? There are so many
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 21: young girls of course singing. I might not remember the names,
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 21: but I know I like certain music.
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 2: Now, some of these art has reached out to do
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 2: besides her, reached out to do records.
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 6: And would y'all consider doing it? Moll, You're like, I
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 6: don't know.
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 12: Well, there's some thoughts, you know, me and Cardi B.
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 4: Possibly you and Cardi B. I love that. I love
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 4: that you're thinking about it. You her?
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 21: No, she wants to. Yeah, No, Cardi is my girl.
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 21: We did a commercial together blond It. But I haven't
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 21: had a record out in like fifteen years, R and
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 21: B album for twenty years, and I've been working on
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 21: her for the.
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 14: Last six months.
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 12: But I got it coming still on tour.
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 6: Card What about you?
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 4: I'm sorry, I'm no.
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 6: Column.
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  Speaker 4: I want to I want to see.
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 14: Whatever makes you?
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 4: What about yourself?
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 7: At the beginning of the year, Yeah, I see you
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 7: and I got together did a little pop album and
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 7: I got oh Snoop is on there, I got wrapping one,
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 7: but I got quite a few other surprises.
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 14: But you do, it's gonna be interesting.
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 18: I saw you performed with du Leap as well too.
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 14: Yeah, we did. We jammed. Yeah, I came with jam
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 14: brother the other day.
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 19: How do you how do you pick and chooser? All
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 19: three of you, ladies? How do you pick and choose?
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 19: Like what artists call you and say, hey, I'm almost
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 19: paying tribute. We'll love to have you where you're like
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 19: you leaning your actual face and presence to an artist
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 19: if they can.
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 14: Say that's it, gonna do something special?
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 21: Yeah, I mean Cardi is not a singer singer, right,
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 21: but she's special.
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 14: Entertainer. Yeah, you know what I'm saying.
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 2: Would you say you made more money now in the
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 2: last ten years than you it in your career?
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 20: Absolutely? Absolutely?
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 14: Thank you right now.
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 8: Well, because I'm independent and I'm more veriable about what
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 8: I want. I know exactly what I want, I know
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 8: how I want it to be done, I know what
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 8: percentages I want, So yeah, absolutely absolutely.
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 4: What about how much of the industry is changed and
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 4: how much is the state is.
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 12: Say, it's changed a lot. I think women are getting
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 12: more play these days.
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 21: And like Stephanely says, you have to know what you
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 21: are and you have to know that's ever doing your
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 21: business with you, they're safe, which is hard to find.
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 12: You know, my son is with me, yes forever?
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 5: Oh no, no, go ahead, finishment. I just want to
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 5: say that you have.
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 8: To know your work and you have to be willing
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 8: to say no and not chase the money because all
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 8: money ain't good money.
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 12: Yeah, because it's real.
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 21: I mean, you can't go out and say I'm going
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 21: to do this and you embarrass yourself when you talked
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 21: about barely.
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 12: For taking that check, right, you know.
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 21: So I know all of these things are done well
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 21: with me and my son, but he'll stop it in
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 21: a minute.
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 12: No matter how much it is.
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 21: So you know, I'm blessed again. I'm blessed with business.
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 4: What about you?
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 7: No, you know the big you know the big house,
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 7: the big you know the big companies.
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 14: I was very thrilled.
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 7: I was thrilled when I found out that a lot
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 7: of artists, hip hop artists were like in their hotel room,
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 7: cutting records. I was like, yes, that's the way it
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 7: to be, Absolutely and Prince. Then I went through a
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 7: really big fight with you know for some years you
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 7: know about how crooked they were, and so finally I'm
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 7: in a good place. I own everything. I'm of mine.
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 7: Get to come through me first.
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 3: If there's one message you want the audience to take
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 3: away after seeing all of y'all perform together, what is
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 3: it unity?
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  Speaker 12: And that what we respect each other?
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 4: Love.
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  Speaker 14: We've been talking about this for years, you know together.
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 14: This is when this came. So here's our chance.
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 4: You know, night too. She's also.
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 21: Sweeta, So that's why she's not with us today.
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 14: She's her because she has other jobs. Yeah, we love
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 14: glad Amazing. I grew I grew up on her. Yeah.
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 2: Well, thank you ladies for joining us, the queens, the Queens,
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 2: the legends, the icon and make sure you go out
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