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Charlamagne Tha God X Quinta Brunson · The Breakfast Club

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Speaker 1: Hollywood is being rebuilt by artists not afraid to disrupt
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Speaker 1: the status quo, telling fresh stories and bringing to life
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Speaker 1: characters who until now have been confined to the margins.
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Speaker 1: This is emerging Hollywood, piece of the planet. I go
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Speaker 1: by the name of Charlemagne and God, and today I'm
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Speaker 1: here with writer, actor, comedian, and executive producer of one
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Speaker 1: of my favorite shows to hit comedy, Abbott Elementary quinta
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Speaker 1: brunch in his hair. How are you feeling, I'm feeling good.
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Speaker 1: I am really happy to have this conversation because I
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Speaker 1: am a real big Fanary. I'm glad that we finally
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Speaker 1: get to talk. Now. You're the youngest of five, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: what was life like growing up? You know, in West Philadelphia,
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Speaker 1: going and raised. I'm sorry, yeah, I know, it's okay.
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Speaker 1: I let people get it out of their system. You know,
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Speaker 1: it was great. I love growing up in Philly. It's
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Speaker 1: a beautiful city with a ton of culture. It was
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Speaker 1: a nice environment to grow up in. And being youngest
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Speaker 1: of five, I just kind of took so much from
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Speaker 1: my siblings. They were older. They were experiencing comedy in
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Speaker 1: their own ways, like their favorite things range from Kings
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Speaker 1: of Comedy to I don't know, like Conan to my
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Speaker 1: mom and dad, like really old shows like the Bob
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Speaker 1: Newhart Show and The Jeffersons and stuff. So I feel
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Speaker 1: like all that funneled into me and my brother who's
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Speaker 1: closest to me, like the Hespin Tour, so I got
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Speaker 1: the stupidest stuff too. It all just funneled down. So
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Speaker 1: it was na being the youngest of five, did you
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Speaker 1: get away with a lot? I have more eyes on me,
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Speaker 1: for sure. My parents were very overprotective. Really by the
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Speaker 1: time they get to the youngest ones, they kind of
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Speaker 1: like they don't read the youngest like they do the oldest.
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Speaker 1: In my case, they were very overprotective. You said that
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Speaker 1: when you can make your siblings laugh, you knew you
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Speaker 1: were doing something right. So how would you make them laugh?
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Speaker 1: One of the big things was them putting me in
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Speaker 1: a car seat and making me do impressions of Wanda
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Speaker 1: from and Living Color. They made me redo Martin episodes,
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Speaker 1: like from beginning to end. You can remember whole episodes
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Speaker 1: of Martin when I was younger, Yeah, I still can.
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Speaker 1: There's there's a lot of Fresh Prince episodes I can't
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Speaker 1: remember from beginning and like you can almost quote so
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Speaker 1: stuff like that. It was kind of knowing these shows
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Speaker 1: like the back of my hand to be able to
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Speaker 1: say the lines to them later. That was the way
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Speaker 1: to connect to them. I was also so far away
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Speaker 1: from them. My closest sibling is eight years older than
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Speaker 1: me and my other siblings. It's you know, ten years,
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Speaker 1: fifteen years, and then twenty years. As a kid, I
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Speaker 1: couldn't really relate to them. But making them laugh was
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Speaker 1: how I got to, you know, hang out with them
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Speaker 1: and our whole family like my mom and dead too.
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Speaker 1: We all really came together over comedies. It was like
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Speaker 1: the one thing that we could all agree on was
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Speaker 1: a good a good sitcom. At the end of the day.
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Speaker 1: You were raised hval witness, So was I. You were
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Speaker 1: absolutely my mom My mom still go to the kingdom
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Speaker 1: all to this way what I did not. Yes, so
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Speaker 1: it is mine. So how strict was your upbringing? Ye,
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Speaker 1: I'm saying over active. I can just use now you
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Speaker 1: know what I'm talking about, Like they were very strict. Also,
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Speaker 1: I was the only kid that was born and raised
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Speaker 1: in it. You know what I mean? Wait, that's not true.
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Speaker 1: Me and my young my brother closest to me, the
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Speaker 1: rest of them weren't like raised jos Oh. I was
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Speaker 1: a whole family. What oh yeah, I had the whole righteous,
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Speaker 1: ratcheous mom and dads. My dad ended up getting this
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Speaker 1: fellowship because he got baptized on the annual business getting back.
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Speaker 1: I believe this conversation right now. Absolutely, I should beat
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Speaker 1: this fellowship. I'm on the run. You'll never get me.
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Speaker 1: I never got baptized. That's why. Yeah, because I knew
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Speaker 1: that was too much freshure. I did because I was
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Speaker 1: so ambitious. I was such an ambitious thirteen year old.
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Speaker 1: Oh my god. Yeah, because I was like, I love God.
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Speaker 1: I didn't too, but that's too much Fresshire. I know, well,
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Speaker 1: you had enough foresight. Have you held on to any
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Speaker 1: of those traditions? I haven't. You go to Memorial service still.
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Speaker 1: Memorial is the one thing I'll try really hard to
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Speaker 1: go to, and it gets harder for me every single year.
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Speaker 1: There's always a new obstacle. Last year I tried to go.
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Speaker 1: I show up. It's a Korean hall. I was like,
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Speaker 1: what the hell, Like, why can't I could not win?
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Speaker 1: I'm just sitting there dressed like a slut. In comparison, like,
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Speaker 1: because I was also trying to go to this party
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Speaker 1: after so I was like, I'm just wearing this dress.
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Speaker 1: It was a little short, but I was like, it's cool.
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Speaker 1: I'm sitting the back. They're just like appalled at what
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Speaker 1: I'm wearing, and I'm like, calm down. I was gonna
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Speaker 1: sit in the back if I could get in anyway.
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Speaker 1: The brothers are just like looking at me. All you
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Speaker 1: want to do with passing bready wine. I'm like, it
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Speaker 1: gets hurt or hurt every single year, but I keep
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Speaker 1: trying to show up. Yeah, there was a lot of
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Speaker 1: reasons why it wasn't for me, but I don't think
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Speaker 1: it's bad, and I think it weren't for that. I'm
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Speaker 1: not sure that me and my siblings would have like
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Speaker 1: survived Philadelphia at the time. Yeah, because that kind of structure,
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Speaker 1: I guess in faith, it kind of keeps you out
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Speaker 1: of trouble, which is why people hold on dear to
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Speaker 1: religion period. You know, it keeps you on a good path.
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Speaker 1: So I'm grateful about holidays. How do you feel about
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Speaker 1: those now? You know we didn't get those kids. We
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Speaker 1: didn't There was one year I just wanted to see
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Speaker 1: what it feels like, what it feels like, so I
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Speaker 1: went to write eight and got like a plastic Christmas
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Speaker 1: tree and I just put it and I put it
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Speaker 1: in my apartment and I just looked at it, and
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Speaker 1: I left it there for like maybe one night, and
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Speaker 1: then I took an out through it in trash. But
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Speaker 1: I just wanted to see what it felt like. You
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Speaker 1: never just wanted to see. I mean, I do it.
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Speaker 1: I got to know a whole family, so it's like
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Speaker 1: my wife up, so you'd be out here sober in Christmas.
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Speaker 1: I enjoy it though, but not because yo, that's so Awkwarls.
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Speaker 1: Did you have any insecurity growing up? There was a
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Speaker 1: point where I thought if I had a big butt
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Speaker 1: and I could sing, then my life would be different.
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Speaker 1: And that was an insecurity for a while. I remember
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Speaker 1: like stuffing my pants like I were like three pairs
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Speaker 1: of tights to school one day because I wanted to
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Speaker 1: have a bigger butt. That was before I know, I
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Speaker 1: don't know what the girls are gonna do now. I
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Speaker 1: had a really bad breakup in college. High school boyfriend,
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Speaker 1: and then college we broke up and it was so bad.
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Speaker 1: It was so bad that I had no choice but
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Speaker 1: to put myself back together. And when you get your
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Speaker 1: heartbroken that bad and everything falls apart and you put
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Speaker 1: yourself back together. You didn't, You didn't become invincible. And
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Speaker 1: then like all that kind of stuff doesn't matter anymore,
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Speaker 1: Like I just don't care about it anymore. What helps
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Speaker 1: you put things back together? You said everything fell apart
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Speaker 1: after the breakup? Like, did you start going to see
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Speaker 1: a therapists? Are? No? Therapy wasn't It wasn't the conversation
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Speaker 1: that it is now, Do you know what I mean?
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Speaker 1: At the time, I think I probably should have back
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Speaker 1: then because I was like depressed, but I barely had
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Speaker 1: the language to identify it as depression. Did you drink?
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Speaker 1: Have really smoked? No? I wish no. I probably wouldn't
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Speaker 1: help me get through it better. No, I was such
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Speaker 1: a nube at the time. I didn't really drink. I
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Speaker 1: had many days that were pretty much dropped out of
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Speaker 1: school because of that, which was crazy. I never I
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Speaker 1: don't talk about that a lot, but I did pretty
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Speaker 1: much drop out because I just could not peel myself
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Speaker 1: out of the bed and depression. It was depression and
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Speaker 1: I just didn't identify it as such. And I watched
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Speaker 1: the same DVD of Bruce Almighty on repeat every day.
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Speaker 1: I couldn't pick up the remote to change the DVD.
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Speaker 1: I couldn't even peel myself out of bed to take
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Speaker 1: the DVD out of the DVD players. I'll watched it
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Speaker 1: over and over. I sought out like help from friends,
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Speaker 1: you know, like friends helped me out big time. I
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Speaker 1: had one friend, Brandy, who gave me a list of
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Speaker 1: affirmations to say in the window, sorry, in the window,
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Speaker 1: in the mirror and that. I remember that being a
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Speaker 1: specific thing that helped me. I remember thinking it was
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Speaker 1: very stupid, but then I would say the affirmation to
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Speaker 1: myself in the mirror every single day, and after a
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Speaker 1: year it felt like they had worked. It's crazy, those
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Speaker 1: little things like that. I picked myself back up eventually
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Speaker 1: and started making plans to work, to go to LA.
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Speaker 1: It was really making plans that helped pull me out
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Speaker 1: of that, I think, because even when I came to LA,
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Speaker 1: I was still dealing with it, and I just, I
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Speaker 1: don't know, I worked my way out of it. Did
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Speaker 1: it feel you in some way? Like? I always think
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Speaker 1: about that? Uh. I think that Markus Zuckerberg w un
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Speaker 1: at the end. He kept hitting he created because of
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Speaker 1: this young lady. Feel you like that. Yeah, I mean
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Speaker 1: when that away from broke over me, I was like,
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Speaker 1: I don't know how, but you're going to see my
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Speaker 1: face everywhere and then and I did not know how,
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Speaker 1: and then you know, like then I like head going
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Speaker 1: viral on Instagram and stuff like that. So I think
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Speaker 1: it definitely did. But now that's all going away, I like,
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Speaker 1: did that and we're friends now, and yeah, but it
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Speaker 1: definitely feeled me at the time. Yeah, for sure. Did
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Speaker 1: you ever start your own journey going to therapy things
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Speaker 1: like that, like how it's quick to heal. I haven't
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Speaker 1: gone in therapy. I do have a journey, though, Like
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Speaker 1: there are things that I do to take care of
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Speaker 1: my mental health. Sometimes that's just resting. Sometimes that's just
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Speaker 1: being with friends and family when I need to. Sometimes
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Speaker 1: it's checking in with myself making sure I'm not doing
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Speaker 1: harmful things to my for my mental health, Like comparisons.
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Speaker 1: I think that's a small thing that people don't think
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Speaker 1: about that really messes with your mental health, you know, comparing.
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Speaker 1: And I always have to check in, especially as I'm
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Speaker 1: you know, having this moment with Abbot. Always have to
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Speaker 1: check in and ground myself. So I try to be
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Speaker 1: very active doing that. I feel like my mental health
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Speaker 1: is in a really good place. But if it ever weren't,
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Speaker 1: I would tap in and not ignore it. I think
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Speaker 1: who had more influence on your career Your sixth grade teacher,
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Speaker 1: Miss Abbott. I heard you ran in the Paul Rudd
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Speaker 1: at a movie theater. Yeah, that little gym that Paul
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Speaker 1: Rudd dropped on me that I don't that he barely remembers.
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Speaker 1: It was just one of those little sparks that makes
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Speaker 1: you believe something is possible about my teacher, Miss Abbott
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Speaker 1: and my mother. Really, who's like the inspiration behind Abbott?
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Speaker 1: Your teachers are to me ultimately responsible for your ability
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Speaker 1: to read, right, articulate, present yourself. They turn you into
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Speaker 1: a human. So I was really fortunate enough to have
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Speaker 1: really good teachers that I loved. It always like bugs
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Speaker 1: me out when people talk about having a teacher they hated.
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Speaker 1: I just never had that experience. So not only did
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Speaker 1: it inspire me to make Abbit clearly influential for that reason,
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Speaker 1: but they were good at making people like like, turning
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Speaker 1: kids into good people, citizens, creators, etc. So it's Abbot
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Speaker 1: a real school in Philly. I did you name the
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Speaker 1: school after? I named the squafter the teacher. Yeah, wow,
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Speaker 1: how does she feel about that? She loved it. She
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Speaker 1: she didn't even realize it until she saw me talking
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Speaker 1: about it on the news, And that's how humble she is.
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Speaker 1: I was like, you didn't see the name abbit and
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Speaker 1: think it was about you? And it just so just
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Speaker 1: humble that it didn't even cross her mind at first.
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Speaker 1: I think that's so funny, But yeah, she loves it.
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Speaker 1: Elementary is a hit, like a hit, hit, like a
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Speaker 1: big Like, how does it feel to receive so much
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Speaker 1: praise for the show. It's so crazy, I you know,
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Speaker 1: I keep saying when we made the show, when we
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Speaker 1: sold it, we felt like this is good. When I
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Speaker 1: wrote the pilot, I was like, this is good. We
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Speaker 1: got the writers and I was like, oh my god,
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Speaker 1: we're making good stuff here, right, And then you get
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Speaker 1: on set and everyone's like, we feel like we'ren't making
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Speaker 1: a good show. Like from everybody from you know, hearing makeup,
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Speaker 1: to directors to to the COVID crew. Everyone's like, this
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Speaker 1: feels good. And so we knew we're making something good,
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Speaker 1: but for it to go out into the world and
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Speaker 1: people feel the same way and to come to the
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Speaker 1: show so soon. I was expecting it to be like,
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Speaker 1: I don't know. I was like, all right, it's airing
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Speaker 1: weekly on ABC, like it's not going to catch one
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Speaker 1: until it's full season on streaming. I did not imagine
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Speaker 1: this energy so fast, and I'm just like in awe
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Speaker 1: of it, very humbled by it. I'm so happy that
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Speaker 1: people are seeking out something like this to watch, do
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Speaker 1: you know what I mean? There were times I wondered
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Speaker 1: if it was too I knew it was good, but
11:43
Speaker 1: I was like, ah, man, I wonder if people don't
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Speaker 1: want heartwarming. I don't know where people are these days,
11:49
Speaker 1: but I knew that there was a market there for
11:51
Speaker 1: it because people keep rewatching old sitcoms on Netflix. My
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Speaker 1: Nieces fourteen and she's just now discovering like you know,
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Speaker 1: Friends and the Office, and she she loves it. She
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Speaker 1: loves the feel of it, you know. And I was like,
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Speaker 1: so that feeling people there will always be run for that.
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Speaker 1: I guess I just expected people to ignore it for
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Speaker 1: a while, and the fact that they hadn't, I mean,
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Speaker 1: thank you thanks to everyone for watching, because you know,
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Speaker 1: like Avid, is what happens when these networks give black
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Speaker 1: creatives real budgets and and and don't get in their way. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: when it comes to notes and stuff like that, I
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Speaker 1: have to agree with that. ABC was definitely the place
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Speaker 1: I just felt they were gonna let me. They believed
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Speaker 1: in me. Like you said, the budget was there up front.
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Speaker 1: You know, it wasn't a fight for because it's surprising
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Speaker 1: how much you know, we still have to fight for
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Speaker 1: pennies sometimes. Absolutely. Yeah, I mean it's clear you have
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Speaker 1: a lot of respectful teachers, and you know I love
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Speaker 1: that because my mom is a post school Yeah. So
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Speaker 1: did you set out to make to make commentary on
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Speaker 1: undefunded schools? Was that the goal? Not necessarily? I think
12:51
Speaker 1: a good show begins with a grounded topic, right, Like
12:56
Speaker 1: we may not think of it that way, but like
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Speaker 1: the Office was about, um, you know, the work crisis
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Speaker 1: at the time. You know, we were coming out of recession,
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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And when you build something
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Speaker 1: from that place, it automatically yields good fruit most of
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Speaker 1: the time. So my idea was to begin from that place.
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Speaker 1: We have this, I've seen it firsthand what teachers go
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Speaker 1: through from day to day. But I wasn't necessarily setting
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Speaker 1: out to change anything or like beat people over the
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Speaker 1: head with the message. I just knew that if we
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Speaker 1: started in the real place, with the state of where
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Speaker 1: we are right now, that that's the best way to
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Speaker 1: start a comedy. I think that's because a lot of
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Speaker 1: people just like to be funny first, and that's what,
13:40
Speaker 1: you know, just funny funny. It's like, no, can I
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Speaker 1: create a story, can start something real and funny will come.
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Speaker 1: That's it's weird because people look at it. The jokes
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Speaker 1: are really like the easy part. You can, you know whatever,
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Speaker 1: but you have to have a soul of a show first.
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Speaker 1: The show doesn't have a soul then you know what
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Speaker 1: I mean, Like the jokes don't matter and anyone can
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Speaker 1: say them. Like the soul of the show creates the
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Speaker 1: humor of the show. There are things that people find
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Speaker 1: funny in the show that aren't even jokes, but it's
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Speaker 1: because you know the soul of the show. And I
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Speaker 1: think that also is a marker of a good comedy,
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Speaker 1: like in Seinfeld, like no soup for you like means
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Speaker 1: nothing if you haven't seen Seinfeld. But if you have
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Speaker 1: seen Seinfeld, that can make you cry laughing, And that's
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Speaker 1: because of the soul of the comedy. You know, like
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Speaker 1: that kind of stuff matters. I think you're making a
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Speaker 1: good show. I think I read some with it. You
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Speaker 1: don't like tackling issues. I don't know really If this
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Speaker 1: show gets tackled, and so be it. But I'm trying
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Speaker 1: to like, that's so much pressure, and why do we
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Speaker 1: always have to tackle issues? How come Mark can't make
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Speaker 1: some dumb shit like you know, like that's a great point.
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Speaker 1: I think it's only because black people feel like we're
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Speaker 1: not being represented, so we kind of want to show
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Speaker 1: the world like what's going on a lot of times.
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Speaker 1: But is it still not representation? If not, that's true?
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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, I really don't like I
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Speaker 1: had that in an interview and I felt like that
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Speaker 1: came out wrong. But I'm just saying like I don't
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Speaker 1: want to start from that point because that's not funny
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Speaker 1: to me. That's not where I operate best. Like I said,
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Speaker 1: the issue gets tackled and so be it. Similar like
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Speaker 1: what's happening with Abbott. But those were naturally the places
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Speaker 1: we were going to go and talking about what happens
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Speaker 1: in a school, what happens with the school district. But
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Speaker 1: starting there just feels so you know what I mean,
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Speaker 1: how do you feel when you think about, you know,
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Speaker 1: the fact that people might see themselves in the character
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Speaker 1: of Janine. I love that. That makes me happy. I
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Speaker 1: actually love when girls will tweet and say, oh my god,
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Speaker 1: I think I'm Janine. Like it's the worst revelation because
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Speaker 1: you know, Jane's kind of annoying and peppie, but she's earnest,
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Speaker 1: and I think it's beautiful that people can see themselves
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Speaker 1: be all of that. You know. One of the big
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Speaker 1: things for me with Janine was clearly she has a
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Speaker 1: big heart, but to a fault, you know, and she's
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Speaker 1: wrong a lot and right a lot. And I think
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Speaker 1: it's really cool that young men and especially young black
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Speaker 1: women can see themselves in this poorly dressed like always
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Speaker 1: making mistakes girl. I think that's actually special for us.
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Speaker 1: To me, that feels like a new version of representation,
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Speaker 1: Like to identify with someone who is not together yet.
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Speaker 1: I think that's fun. You know. So at some point
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Speaker 1: she has to break up with the spire and RAPPERO okay,
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Speaker 1: what is why are people so nad? People like like,
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Speaker 1: because you could do bad, people's parents call me, we
16:33
Speaker 1: got to lose Treeka. I'd be like what, Like I
16:37
Speaker 1: was at like a Jewish wedding and this Jews grandmother
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Speaker 1: grabbed my face and was like, you need to leave
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Speaker 1: the boyfriend. I'm like this, it's just a show, and
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Speaker 1: she's like, I don't like it. Like people felt very strongly.
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Speaker 1: If he makes it, are you gonna you gonna get
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Speaker 1: a deal? You go sign our dream chases or sometimes
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Speaker 1: a deal. Look, people hated him in an episode two
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Speaker 1: Now They're said they nearly don't want to see him
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Speaker 1: go after his fade performance. They're like, they're all about him.
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Speaker 1: You said, Abbot, the first time since high school that
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Speaker 1: your mom says she's proud of you. Wow, how did
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Speaker 1: that make you feel? That was a moment. I almost
17:08
Speaker 1: cried when she said that, and she didn't even know why.
17:10
Speaker 1: I was like, you have not said that to me,
17:11
Speaker 1: And I don't know how long because everything else I
17:13
Speaker 1: was doing, you know, Witnesses she found blasphemous like Black
17:17
Speaker 1: Lady Sketchule. She was like HBO the nudity Network, and
17:21
Speaker 1: I was like yeah, So she didn't like that. I
17:23
Speaker 1: would tell her work in this place called BuzzFeed, and
17:25
Speaker 1: she would like, tell me the truth. Are you stripping?
17:28
Speaker 1: And it'd be like she really could not I'm so serious.
17:32
Speaker 1: She could not understand what but it made no sense
17:35
Speaker 1: to her, And Yeah, showed her the website and she's like,
17:37
Speaker 1: this is nothing. This is a website. And I would
17:40
Speaker 1: show her videos and she's like still not, well, how
17:42
Speaker 1: are you making money from this? But now you know ABC,
17:45
Speaker 1: she can understand a TV show that made sense to her,
17:49
Speaker 1: so she gets it now and she loves it. She's
17:51
Speaker 1: such a sitcom watcher that if she didn't like it,
17:55
Speaker 1: she would like say it like her comedy opinion means
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Speaker 1: a lot to me. She told me two weeks ago,
18:01
Speaker 1: She's like, I'll watch this even if you know it
18:03
Speaker 1: wasn't your show, Like I love this show. That means
18:06
Speaker 1: a lot to me for sure. I don't think parents
18:08
Speaker 1: realize how much those I love you and I'm proud
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Speaker 1: of you, how far they go for all of us,
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Speaker 1: even when we've become a dose that a child still
18:15
Speaker 1: wants to hear that. I know she probably won't told
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Speaker 1: me again for like ten years, but I'm gonna hold
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Speaker 1: on to that one because it meant a lot. And
18:22
Speaker 1: she she didn't say it to make me feel good
18:25
Speaker 1: or anything. She genuinely meant it. I damn, it's crazy
18:33
Speaker 1: your star of Abbott, executive producer, head writer as well. Yes, okay,
18:37
Speaker 1: it's a lot of responsibility. Yeah, it's got to be
18:39
Speaker 1: at least two hundred people. Yeah, right, Yeah, it's a
18:42
Speaker 1: lot of pressure. Does that weigh on you mentally? Only
18:45
Speaker 1: sometimes when I feel I like, even right now, I'm like,
18:49
Speaker 1: I have to I am speaking for myself, but I
18:51
Speaker 1: do feel like I need to represent an entire group
18:54
Speaker 1: of people. I want people to be able to have
18:56
Speaker 1: jobs next year on the Abbot. I want to make
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Speaker 1: sure the show keeps going, so I want to try
19:02
Speaker 1: to present myself on behalf of the entire production. And
19:08
Speaker 1: besides that, No, because everybody else is so good at
19:12
Speaker 1: their jobs that it made my life so much easier.
19:15
Speaker 1: It made it easier to delegate, to communicate because everyone
19:19
Speaker 1: else was so fantastic. Yes, it's a lot of work
19:22
Speaker 1: and a lot of pressure, but I don't feel it
19:24
Speaker 1: because everyone rose to the occasion to stay grounded. I
19:28
Speaker 1: play video games, yep, I go bowling. I see my
19:33
Speaker 1: family as much as I can. I talk to my
19:35
Speaker 1: family constantly because my family is they're not like my
19:39
Speaker 1: sisters still just like will make fun of me, and
19:42
Speaker 1: I think I need that, do you know what I mean?
19:44
Speaker 1: And they keep me very ground it just staying connected
19:47
Speaker 1: to them, and I honestly even staying connected to Philly,
19:50
Speaker 1: like working with m Philly organizations. There's an organization called
19:53
Speaker 1: Yeah Philly that I've been working with since twenty nineteen
19:57
Speaker 1: and that they work with youth in the areas, like
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Speaker 1: an anti gun violence initiative ran by Philly kids. It's
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Speaker 1: incredible and just saying tapped in with the city and
20:08
Speaker 1: my family, I think really keeps me, keeps my feet
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Speaker 1: on the ground. Do you feel success yet? I feel
20:14
Speaker 1: it in small ways, Like when I was like I'm
20:18
Speaker 1: gonna buy a cappuccino maker. I know that seems small people,
20:24
Speaker 1: but like little ways where I'm like oh, and then
20:27
Speaker 1: I called my business manager and it like leave us
20:29
Speaker 1: alone buy the cappuccino maker, and I just was like, Okay.
20:32
Speaker 1: I thought, so a little ways like that where I
20:34
Speaker 1: want to buy something, but I'm so used to being
20:36
Speaker 1: I used to be broke for a long time, so
20:38
Speaker 1: I don't know those things seem big to me. This
20:41
Speaker 1: I wasn't doing this last year. I was afraid to
20:43
Speaker 1: talk to you. Actually, I was like afraid because you
20:45
Speaker 1: show sometimes you're like yeah, and I was like, oh
20:47
Speaker 1: my god. I've talked to Charlotta Magne and I was like,
20:50
Speaker 1: but that's also a good sign of doing something I
20:54
Speaker 1: don't want. By the way, no positive affirmations for me.
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Speaker 1: This has been nice. This has been lovely. This is positive, right,
21:04
Speaker 1: this has been lovely. But I have had such a
21:06
Speaker 1: good time. Yeah, final question, what does Quinta ultimately want
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Speaker 1: to do? What do you want out of all of this?
21:15
Speaker 1: I hope that after you know, the show finishes airing,
21:19
Speaker 1: it will it will have made something in the world
21:23
Speaker 1: just a little bit better. And I don't want to
21:26
Speaker 1: do that by putting it in the show. I just
21:28
Speaker 1: want people to have a good time watching it. I
21:30
Speaker 1: want them to leave thinking about the human condition a
21:35
Speaker 1: little bit more. As you can see, we've we've started
21:39
Speaker 1: doing our part with helping with schools and so we've
21:43
Speaker 1: got that covered. But if other people are inspired to go,
21:47
Speaker 1: you know, help in any way they came to schools,
21:49
Speaker 1: that's incredible. I love when people like just tell me, hey,
21:52
Speaker 1: I made a donation today, or hey, I checked into
21:55
Speaker 1: a meeting, a local meeting at because anyone can go
21:57
Speaker 1: to these meetings for schools at you know, government meetings
21:59
Speaker 1: or whatever. All that makes me really happy. Um. And
22:04
Speaker 1: other than that, i'd like a farm eventually. Oh so
22:08
Speaker 1: I'm working towards that nice farm. I'll live in la
22:11
Speaker 1: and I'll live in the city and stuff. But one
22:12
Speaker 1: day I want to retire and you will never see
22:15
Speaker 1: me again. Why a farm? Why not a farm? Everything's
22:18
Speaker 1: going to ship. I want to grow my own food.
22:21
Speaker 1: I want to have a compound and uh, you know,
22:23
Speaker 1: I have some animals, and so that's my plan. Well, acquinted.
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Speaker 1: It was a pleasure, and I just want to continue
22:28
Speaker 1: to see you grow lovely, I hope. So it was.
22:33
Speaker 1: I like, this was a wonderful experience. It's a long
22:35
Speaker 1: change of perception to me. You hated me. I didn't
22:38
Speaker 1: know what did you think of me? Coined fact. Don't
22:41
Speaker 1: answer that. I don't want to you know what. I
22:42
Speaker 1: don't want to know for my own compidence sake. Okay, Yes,
22:45
Speaker 1: thank you, thank you.