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ReLive Living Single with Queen Latifah, Erica Alexander and Kim Cole · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: just talking about the beauty of social media and honestly
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  Speaker 1: the beauty of podcasting, you know, but the latest with
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  Speaker 1: Laura Morosa, the beauty of podcasting and just the beauty
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  Speaker 1: of content creation.
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  Speaker 2: Right now in the space that it's in.
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  Speaker 1: We talk a lot about how any and everybody having
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  Speaker 1: a microphone being able to get on the internet express
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  Speaker 1: an opinion has become dangerous and has become very like
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  Speaker 1: clouded and saturated.
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  Speaker 2: But I want to talk about.
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  Speaker 1: Today the beauty and the blessing in that, the blessing
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  Speaker 1: that it is for Erica Alexander and Kim Coles to
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  Speaker 1: be able to create a podcast called the Reliving Single
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  Speaker 1: Podcast where they sit down and they talk about and
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  Speaker 1: dissect Living Single as a show, the episodes, the characters,
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  Speaker 1: the storylines, the crew, the moments that we had no
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  Speaker 1: idea even happen, the personal moments that we had no
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  Speaker 1: idea that happened between the cast and their personal lives.
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  Speaker 1: And it has been such a beauty watching people begin
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  Speaker 1: to give, you know, like I said, the icons and
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  Speaker 1: the legends that I'm speaking of, their flowers because you
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  Speaker 1: get to relive certain things and stories and honestly even
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  Speaker 1: relive hard times with them, but from their own voices,
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  Speaker 1: their own perspectives literally from their own platforms.
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  Speaker 2: So today we're going.
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  Speaker 1: To kick off the latest talking about the Reliving Single
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  Speaker 1: podcasts because Queen Latifa graced the podcast and they discussed
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  Speaker 1: and broke down so many of their favorite episodes and
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  Speaker 1: you know, just so many different things that And y'all
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  Speaker 1: know Queen Latifa, she don't do a lot of the
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  Speaker 1: press and the talk and the things, but it was
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  Speaker 1: a beauty to see her in this space because instantly
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  Speaker 1: you felt the chemistry of living single, You felt the friendship,
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  Speaker 1: you felt the automatic cues and the timing, and all
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  Speaker 1: they were doing was literally just having a conversation. But
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  Speaker 1: it was so natural and it just made you remember
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  Speaker 1: good quality storytelling because just in their natural state reminiscing
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  Speaker 1: and revisiting various moments and times of the show in
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  Speaker 1: their careers, it was so entertaining. And these women are
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  Speaker 1: i mean, pillar of the entertainment industry and in their
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  Speaker 1: perspective lanes of what they do operating at all time high.
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  Speaker 1: So of course it is going to be that. But
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  Speaker 1: we talk a lot about and I know I've talked
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  Speaker 1: a lot to people about just really right now in entertainment, they're.
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  Speaker 2: Not being a lot of stars.
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  Speaker 1: And when I watch this podcast episode with Queen Latifah
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  Speaker 1: and saw the chemistry between the ladies and the natural
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  Speaker 1: conversation and all the things I just mentioned, I'm like, man,
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  Speaker 1: we are so far from this, but it gives you
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  Speaker 1: hope that if you're a dreamer, if you're young, if
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  Speaker 1: you have a vision, and you've got a good group
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  Speaker 1: of people around you who are also young, talented, vision focused, talented, talented,
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  Speaker 1: talented and just willing to take a chance, you know
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  Speaker 1: what I mean, maybe you could bring that beauty back.
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  Speaker 2: So let's get right on into it.
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  Speaker 1: So Queenla Tifa sat down with Erica Alexander and Kim
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  Speaker 1: Coles for the Reliving podcast and they talked about, you know,
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  Speaker 1: just the building and the basis of living single. And
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  Speaker 1: one of the things that I found that was so
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  Speaker 1: interesting was that Queen Latifa actually had no idea or
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  Speaker 1: she couldn't fathom the thought that a television series for
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  Speaker 1: a music artist in her time was even possible until
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  Speaker 1: Will Smith did what he did with his show Let's
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  Speaker 1: Take a Listen.
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  Speaker 3: If I can recall correctly, because these was many manys ago,
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  Speaker 3: many moves, I was a rapper as you know, because
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  Speaker 3: y'all pretty much taught me everything I know about acting.
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  Speaker 3: I was rapping and it was you know, me and
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  Speaker 3: shot Kim.
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  Speaker 2: We on tour.
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  Speaker 3: We went out with Will Smith a lot. He had line,
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  Speaker 3: so we became like family out there on the road
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  Speaker 3: for months. At the time, I was seventeen eighteen, I
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  Speaker 3: was like eighteen, no, eighteen week eighteen babies. Yeah, But
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  Speaker 3: when Will got his TV show, that's when it became
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  Speaker 3: like an actual possibility. And I wasn't really thinking about
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  Speaker 3: a TV show until Will got one. And then when
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  Speaker 3: Will did it, We're like, Will got a TV show
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  Speaker 3: and Will can do it?
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  Speaker 2: We can do it.
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  Speaker 3: So we just started kicking around ideas like how can
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  Speaker 3: we make this happen? That was the next step. But
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  Speaker 3: then still being on the road on a tour bus.
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  Speaker 3: One of our favorite shows was Living Color.
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  Speaker 1: Of course and hearing that because I think for anybody
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  Speaker 1: that you know didn't grow up in that time period
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  Speaker 1: and didn't really feel how Martin and Will Smith, Fresh
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  Speaker 1: Prince of bel A or how those shows actually change.
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  Speaker 1: The Cosby Show changed how people saw black people, but
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  Speaker 1: also the trajectory of what we were able to do
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  Speaker 1: in our own storytelling. Whenever I hear these stories, I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: I can't imagine like it's like today, even though we
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  Speaker 1: we still got a lot of work to do. I
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  Speaker 1: can't imagine a world without Fresh Prince of Bella, or
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  Speaker 1: without Martin, or without Living Single, without in Living Color.
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  Speaker 1: But they were doing it. They were in it, hanging
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  Speaker 1: with mister Cooper. So to hear her say that she
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  Speaker 1: didn't even think it was possible for her, I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: didn't think it was possible for you. I can't imagine
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  Speaker 1: the world without you doing that without set it off.
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  Speaker 1: And she also talked too in this about just the
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  Speaker 1: hustle and bustle that she was experiencing Queen Latifa in
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  Speaker 1: her career at that time, while you know, also very
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  Speaker 1: early on morning the death of her brother and not
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  Speaker 1: being fully over that. But everybody on the crew and
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  Speaker 1: the people she was working with made it the same
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  Speaker 1: place for her, especially Kim Coles, and I, oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: I just now I understand the sisterhood of the two
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  Speaker 1: leading ladies of that show, Queen Latifa and Kim Cole's,
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  Speaker 1: and that these characters in essence weren't characters. This is
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  Speaker 1: who they really were. The loving, nurturing. I got to
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  Speaker 1: you don't got to worry about nothing. Character that Kim
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  Speaker 1: Cole's played in Living Single was hurt in real life
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  Speaker 1: to Queen Latifah, let's take a listen to that.
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  Speaker 4: It's interesting that Kim always talks about the home that
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  Speaker 4: y'all made together in the quick change room, because being
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  Speaker 4: sad is like being in another home, right, so she
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  Speaker 4: tell about the change.
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  Speaker 5: Talking about so remind everybody that you know on a
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  Speaker 5: set so that you don't have to go all the
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  Speaker 5: way back out to your trailer.
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  Speaker 2: Because we had trailers.
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  Speaker 5: Uh, we had these quick change boots and they are
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  Speaker 5: designed so that you can go in and quickly change
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  Speaker 5: into the next outfit for the next scene. You all
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  Speaker 5: were each separated, but for some reason, they never separated
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  Speaker 5: our room.
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  Speaker 2: That's a weird.
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  Speaker 4: I wanted to make it seem safe, say they would,
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  Speaker 4: because you guys were the leads.
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  Speaker 5: No, they kept us together. I provided a place where
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  Speaker 5: you get.
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  Speaker 3: Y'all have a whole conversation.
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  Speaker 5: Have a whole conversations would make it good.
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  Speaker 3: And striking up conversations.
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  Speaker 2: So she'll be like, did you see this?
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  Speaker 5: And I remember I was doing what you saying? You
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  Speaker 5: couldn't striking the conversations.
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  Speaker 2: I'll talk too much.
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  Speaker 5: You're trying to say, I wanted you to feel it
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  Speaker 5: home because you like they might be a little home homesick,
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  Speaker 5: because I.
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  Speaker 2: Was definitely homelocke. And then she gets into the hustle
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  Speaker 2: on bustle.
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  Speaker 1: I mean she said for at least a month straight,
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  Speaker 1: she wasn't even sleeping.
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  Speaker 3: And then I just remember I got the role, and
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  Speaker 3: but I worked like thirty days straight at one point
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  Speaker 3: because I couldn't get the time off from the show
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  Speaker 3: and do the movie. So at some point I had
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  Speaker 3: to like just go back and forth.
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  Speaker 1: But I think one of the most you know, vulnerable
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  Speaker 1: moments I've ever seen Queen Latifa in was this moment
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  Speaker 1: right here when she talked about the death of her
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  Speaker 1: mother and just experiencing that and in real time while
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  Speaker 1: also you know, at this point she's Queen Latifa, and
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  Speaker 1: there's career and there's all these things, but it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: change what she was experiencing in real life.
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  Speaker 4: We actually have not talked about in the very serious way.
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  Speaker 4: We haven't talked about your mother's passing because it snuck
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  Speaker 4: up on her. And I want to make sure that
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  Speaker 4: we talk about the disease and the sign so people
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  Speaker 4: don't know that this exists because this is something that
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  Speaker 4: actually and I applaud you because you did a documentary
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  Speaker 4: I looked at scare the hell out of me.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, scary stuff. Yeah, she had she had some things
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  Speaker 3: going on. So she had something called sclaroderma which kind
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  Speaker 3: of went undiagnosed and you can't really get the oxygen
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  Speaker 3: that you need, so she just passed out in class
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  Speaker 3: one day and that was the beginning of this journey
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  Speaker 3: of trying to figure out what was going on because
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  Speaker 3: we didn't know. She finally got a diagnosis of for sure,
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  Speaker 3: diagnosis of this sclaroderma. Her heart was being treated and
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  Speaker 3: it instantly started to come back. So I think that
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  Speaker 3: people should definitely, you know, see their doctors and not
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  Speaker 3: play around with it, you know.
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  Speaker 2: So my mother actually retired at fifty.
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  Speaker 3: It was like she couldn't keep that pace of what
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  Speaker 3: she was doing and have and figure out what was
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  Speaker 3: going on with her whole body at the same time time.
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  Speaker 2: This is very weird to.
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  Speaker 3: Talk about because I don't really talk about this. Thank
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  Speaker 3: you for sharing because you shared her with us so
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  Speaker 3: beautifully on the show and in our lives and thank you.
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  Speaker 2: For sharing that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, shared my whole life. She belonged to everyone, and she.
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  Speaker 2: Did a great job because she's if you're here at
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  Speaker 2: she's here.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Man, I just I just hope that. And anytime I
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  Speaker 1: am in the space where I'm watching or getting the
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  Speaker 1: interview or getting to learn from talent of this cloth,
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  Speaker 1: of this elk, this cloth, you know, this is this
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  Speaker 1: is cloth talk right here. It's a little different when
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  Speaker 1: you're talking about legends and icons like Queen Latifa.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 1: The thing I always think about is like and I
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  Speaker 1: pray about, it's like, God, please allow me to touch
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  Speaker 1: people in my work the way that a person like
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  Speaker 1: a Queen Latifa has, because we go through our day
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  Speaker 1: to day every day just head down doing the work,
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  Speaker 1: regardless of what we're going through. When you're really dedicated
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  Speaker 1: to something, and even if you don't know the passion
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  Speaker 1: and the purpose, or if you know the passion but
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  Speaker 1: you don't know your purpose behind your work.
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  Speaker 2: And I battle with that a lot because.
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  Speaker 1: Entertainment news can be very like fluffy report the story
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  Speaker 1: you move on. I always struggle with is it impactful
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  Speaker 1: and if so, how, But when I hear people like
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  Speaker 1: Queen Latifa talk about what she was going through behind
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  Speaker 1: the scenes with her mother and how it impacted her,
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  Speaker 1: and then prior to that, she talks about just how
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  Speaker 1: her mom was like her biggest supporter and shaped her
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  Speaker 1: and taught her and allowed her to be expressive and creative.
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  Speaker 2: And all of those things.
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  Speaker 1: It just makes me think about space, like what space
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  Speaker 1: is my life creating for other people, Because again, seeing
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  Speaker 1: a Queen Latifa running magazine and in Living Single was like, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I could do this, Yeah, we can bring brown gar
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  Speaker 1: grinding can be for uction company because Khadijah had a
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  Speaker 1: magazine and Living Single. So I mean, I just you
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  Speaker 1: just gotta really sometimes sit back and just thank God
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  Speaker 1: for everything that you were able to actually see and
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  Speaker 1: experience in real life. To see these women sit down
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  Speaker 1: and have this conversation and to be able to talk
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  Speaker 1: about it and just you know, taking the gyms and
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  Speaker 1: I'm not even witnessing in a real time. I was
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  Speaker 1: watching this like God, thank you for this, Thank you
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  Speaker 1: for this podcast. Thank you for everything that I'm feeling
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  Speaker 1: and the warmth I'm feeling just from watching it, even
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  Speaker 1: in like the darker moments where they expressed some of
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  Speaker 1: the things they went through in real life, because Erica
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  Speaker 1: Alexander was also experiencing death in her life while working
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  Speaker 1: on a living single and you never you don't know
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  Speaker 1: when you're pouring yourself into something despite what you're going through,
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  Speaker 1: what it does for other people. And these women, I
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  Speaker 1: feel so connected to them. It's just like Girl Friends
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  Speaker 1: and any other show man or women women like Martin
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  Speaker 1: Fresh Prince. I feel so connected to these shows because
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  Speaker 1: it's like, because of these shows, I felt like, Okay, Hollywood,
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  Speaker 1: I'm coming, you know what I mean, I'm packing it
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  Speaker 1: up and I'm heading there.
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  Speaker 2: So yes, I want it. End the podcast. I know.
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  Speaker 1: In our last episode, please go check it out if
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  Speaker 1: you have not already, I talk to you guys a
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  Speaker 1: bit about Wendy Williams and some new reports that came
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  Speaker 1: out about whether she has frontal temporal dementia or not.
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  Speaker 1: These new neurologists that she tested with independently outside of
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  Speaker 1: the conservatorship are saying that she does not. And I
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  Speaker 1: told you guys, I owed you some you know, answers
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  Speaker 1: on that I've been trying. Still don't have them, but
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  Speaker 1: I promised to bring them to you right back here.
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  Speaker 1: But another thing I'm investigating currently is the fact that
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  Speaker 1: Diddy's release date has gone from May twenty eighth, twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty eight, to June of twenty twenty eight, according to
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  Speaker 1: the Bureau of Prisons website. So I'm trying to get
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  Speaker 1: more information as to why didn't even talk about this
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  Speaker 1: on the Breakfast Club yet, because I want to be
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  Speaker 1: able to provide some answers as to why this is happening.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of speculation right now that it's you know,
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  Speaker 1: caused from the reporting that he had gotten in trouble
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  Speaker 1: for through a phone call, which I am told from sources,
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  Speaker 1: you know, family sources, that was a phone call between
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  Speaker 1: him and his attorneys. But I'm trying to figure that
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  Speaker 1: out now. When I get that, I will bring that
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  Speaker 1: right back here to you guys as well. In the meantime,
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  Speaker 1: please make sure you go and check out that full
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  Speaker 1: episode of the Reliving Single podcast with Erica, Alexander and
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  Speaker 1: Kim Coles.
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  Speaker 2: I'll catch you guys in my next episode at the
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  Speaker 2: end of the day.
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  Speaker 1: I tell y'all any single time you guys are here
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  Speaker 1: with me, my lowriders checking in with me, because y'all
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  Speaker 1: could be anywhere else. Listening and talking about all these topics.
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  Speaker 1: But y'all are right here with me at the latest
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  Speaker 1: with Lornda Rosa. I appreciate you, guys. I'll catch you
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  Speaker 1: guys in my next episode.