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INTERVIEW: LeToya Luckett On Staring In 'I Thought My Husband's Wife Was Dead,' Destiny's Child Reunion + More · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning.
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  Speaker 2: The Breakfast Club Morning, everybody in stevej Envy just hilarious.
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  Speaker 2: Charlamagne the guy.
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  Speaker 3: We are the Breakfast Club.
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  Speaker 2: We got a special guest in the building. She has
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  Speaker 2: a new movie premiere on Saturday, August third. I thought
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  Speaker 2: my husband's wife was dead.
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  Speaker 3: Ladies and gentlemen, LaToya Luckett.
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  Speaker 4: Morning, I'm up, go bless me with another day.
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  Speaker 1: I'm up. I love this hair. Thank you, yes, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: It's so good to hear your voice and see everybody. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: You know, I keep looking at the title of this
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  Speaker 5: movie and I just can't figure out what it's about.
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  Speaker 4: You know what, I thought the same thing when I
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  Speaker 4: read the script. It's like what Actually it was intriguing.
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  Speaker 4: It's like, here, what is this really about? And I
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  Speaker 4: guess I'll go into that.
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  Speaker 1: My character Victoria, I'll start there.
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  Speaker 4: Vicky was presumed dead and when she shows back up,
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  Speaker 4: she just reaks habit.
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  Speaker 1: So she shows back up to.
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  Speaker 4: Her current husband's home and it's greeted by his new wife.
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  Speaker 1: I'll say that.
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  Speaker 4: Current husband or ex husband, but current that's why you
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  Speaker 4: gotta watch the movie.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, So they she shows up to.
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  Speaker 4: Her current husband's home and meets his new wife five years.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, in real life, would you be upset if
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  Speaker 3: your man moved on.
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  Speaker 4: If if he thought that I was presumed dead. I No,
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  Speaker 4: I wouldn't be upset about that. I wouldn't be upset
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  Speaker 4: about that. I mean because obviously life goes on, and
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  Speaker 4: I wouldn't want to I wouldn't want to make him
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  Speaker 4: feel like, you know, he can't move on with his life,
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  Speaker 4: he you know, can't find love again.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's a bit unfair.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think I could as a man unless I
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  Speaker 3: knew for sure. No, I don't think I could. There
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  Speaker 3: was no body. Yeah, I would have to know for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the thing.
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  Speaker 6: That's why you gotta watch the movie, because this is
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  Speaker 6: a different it's different something that it depends on the situation.
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  Speaker 1: It does depend on the situation.
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  Speaker 4: Now, if I if if my you know, my signific
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  Speaker 4: and other passed on and this wasn't the case, then no,
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  Speaker 4: I'm not gonna, you know, say he can't marry or
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  Speaker 4: not go in peace knowing that he would probably remarry
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  Speaker 4: in the next couple of years.
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  Speaker 3: Do you feel like Toy came back a little two entitles?
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  Speaker 1: No, no, oh no, not at all. No, she came
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  Speaker 1: back to get what was hers abstely well deserved.
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  Speaker 3: I mean you were talking to I mean you.
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  Speaker 2: Were talking life insurance policy, you were talking everything that
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  Speaker 2: was in that house.
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  Speaker 1: Run me. Yeah, it was that, and I ain't good
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  Speaker 1: to see you. Run me my fund.
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  Speaker 4: Oh no, no, no, no, we got to And I think,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I do see both sides.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I understand that they probably thought, Okay, we
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  Speaker 1: can move on with our lives.
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  Speaker 4: We can invest here, we can invest there. But I
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  Speaker 4: think obviously when she shows back up, it's like, Okay,
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  Speaker 4: this does belong to her, this came from her father,
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  Speaker 4: you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 1: Is this really my I'm gonna at that point say.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, whatever we gotta do to fix this, and whatever
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  Speaker 4: makes you comfortable, because obviously you've probably.
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  Speaker 1: Been through some things. However we can help. I'm here
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  Speaker 1: for it.
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  Speaker 4: But I don't I don't necessarily know if she was
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  Speaker 4: greeted with that energy.
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  Speaker 3: It's hard to talk about the movie.
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  Speaker 6: And just spoiling it because that's exactly And don't be
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  Speaker 6: the watcher that watches for thirty.
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  Speaker 1: Seconds and be like, okay, what's next?
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  Speaker 4: Let me, No, you have to be invested in this
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  Speaker 4: movie because it's not It's not a slow movie movie
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  Speaker 4: at all. As a matter of fact, it's gonna catch
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  Speaker 4: It's gonna catch you immediately. But I feel like in
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  Speaker 4: order for you to really get into it, you have
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  Speaker 4: to put some things down, sit there and actually watch engage,
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  Speaker 4: and then I think your mind is gonna be blown
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  Speaker 4: by the.
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  Speaker 3: End of the movie. You have a little crazy to
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  Speaker 3: play this character.
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  Speaker 1: See, I have to tap into something.
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  Speaker 3: You tapped into something.
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  Speaker 4: But the thing about being an actor you can't judge
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  Speaker 4: the character. So I couldn't go into this thing saying, well,
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  Speaker 4: Toya wouldn't do that, or uh wla, Toya really say that?
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  Speaker 4: Or I can't do that. So I and the reason
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  Speaker 4: I decided to play this characters because I felt her
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  Speaker 4: story deserve to be told. And there are people out
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  Speaker 4: here not going through something as extreme as this, but
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  Speaker 4: people that are maybe suffering in silence or you know,
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  Speaker 4: they feel they're being treated unfairly in the marriage or
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  Speaker 4: any kind of relationship and they don't.
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  Speaker 1: Have the guts to speak up about it. So I
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  Speaker 1: enjoy playing roles, you know, like this, And I wanted
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  Speaker 1: to feel stretched. I wanted to. This was something that
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  Speaker 1: was out of the ordinary for me. I've played the
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  Speaker 1: well to do wife who has it all together. No,
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  Speaker 1: I wanted.
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  Speaker 4: I got in there and I was like, strip me down,
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  Speaker 4: I want to look absolutely crazy. And when I was
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  Speaker 4: sending photos from set to like my family members.
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  Speaker 1: Like, okay, wait, let me show up. Where are you at?
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  Speaker 1: Because you look nuts?
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  Speaker 2: You ever got that crazy in a real relationship?
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  Speaker 3: You have at all had to get a little crazy?
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  Speaker 1: You know what's so funny? At the airport just yesterday?
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  Speaker 3: Oh you got crazy yesterday.
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  Speaker 4: I was looking I didn't get crazy yesterday. I was
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  Speaker 4: looking through my phone for something and I saw that
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  Speaker 4: I had stored like a side.
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  Speaker 1: Chick's number for my ex boyfriend and my phone. I
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  Speaker 1: was like, why do I still have this?
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  Speaker 3: You forgot to call her?
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  Speaker 1: I never called her. Yeah, but why do I even
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  Speaker 1: have this in here?
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  Speaker 3: Because you wanted to call it?
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  Speaker 4: It was just a just in case, just in case,
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  Speaker 4: but I had to have a little bit of offness.
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  Speaker 1: It was a little bit of something. Does that mean
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  Speaker 1: it's been there? Maybe before? Wait, I'm gonna say two
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  Speaker 1: thousand and seven.
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  Speaker 3: Jesus.
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  Speaker 4: That's why I was like, why is I know I've
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  Speaker 4: had several phones since this.
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  Speaker 3: Did you feel like? Just texted her and like, are
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  Speaker 3: you still with him? I just want to know, you know, did.
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  Speaker 1: They work out for you? It did not? It did not.
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  Speaker 1: He is no.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think he's the settling type. But I just
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  Speaker 4: feel like I had to have a little bit of
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  Speaker 4: some off that means you off. Why did I have
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  Speaker 4: it though?
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  Speaker 3: Because you wanted to call her and see what was
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  Speaker 3: going on? Woman? The woman I'm just calling you.
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  Speaker 4: I had the I was ready to go for the
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  Speaker 4: woman to woman conversation, right, but I didn't even But
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  Speaker 4: I'm also the type that I'm like, I'm not even
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  Speaker 4: gonna give you that type of energy, Like, okay, if
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  Speaker 4: I'm not going to be in no competition for anybody.
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  Speaker 4: So if you want and if he want you, boy
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  Speaker 4: me gotcha. You know y'all have that.
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  Speaker 3: But did you erase the number?
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  Speaker 1: I did not. I should go and handle that.
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  Speaker 3: If she's a well known side check you never know
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  Speaker 3: she's not.
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  Speaker 1: She was very and after at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 1: me and her probably could have been friends. She's super sweet,
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  Speaker 1: quiet to herself. You know it's about this.
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  Speaker 3: Get a whole profile check on her. She's a virgo.
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  Speaker 1: Social Security and number is you know, no, no, I did. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we can off that. But yeah, yeah, I thought about
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  Speaker 1: that last night.
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  Speaker 5: Now, not to give away too much of the movie,
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  Speaker 5: but would the money that you were old make up
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  Speaker 5: for everything that happened to you?
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  Speaker 4: No? Okay, oh no, this woman was terrible. Okay, oh
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  Speaker 4: this was It was awful. Like I can't even begin
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  Speaker 4: to describe the things that she went through. She went
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  Speaker 4: through some things. So no, money, money doesn't make up
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  Speaker 4: for it. But I mean it's the best they can do.
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  Speaker 4: I mean they you can't make up for time. You
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  Speaker 4: can't get time back.
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  Speaker 1: And she lost what six years? Six years and get
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  Speaker 1: that time back.
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  Speaker 4: You know, there were things that she wanted to do
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  Speaker 4: in her life. She was you know, she wanted to
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  Speaker 4: have children, she wanted to, you know, do things with
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  Speaker 4: her business.
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  Speaker 1: All these she can't get that time back. Yeah, you
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  Speaker 1: can't buy that time.
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  Speaker 5: Just because I saw you schooling somebody, who was who you?
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  Speaker 5: The dog asked in just no, no.
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  Speaker 3: It was nice.
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  Speaker 6: She's trying to eat in the living room but sweeding there.
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  Speaker 3: So I told the glor in the kitchen, okay, but
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  Speaker 3: you had a question. She got this baby bout to
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  Speaker 3: drop fi.
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  Speaker 5: O.
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  Speaker 6: Look, what I love about the movie is that you
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  Speaker 6: actually played it well. Vicki or Tory goes through yeah right, both,
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  Speaker 6: like all the traumas like losing her parents early and
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  Speaker 6: then being kidnapping, almost killed and all of that. What
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  Speaker 6: did you do, Like, what were your methods to get
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  Speaker 6: into this role?
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  Speaker 1: Because you said you had to tap in, but that's.
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  Speaker 2: All you said.
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  Speaker 1: Can you expound on it?
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  Speaker 6: Like, what what are some things that you that you
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  Speaker 6: had to do to get ready for this?
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  Speaker 1: Because this is a pretty serious.
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  Speaker 4: Role, very very very I did like do some research
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  Speaker 4: and look up things on because I didn't get the chance.
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  Speaker 4: I really wanted to go and sit with some women
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  Speaker 4: who would even if they were shelters, like to talk
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  Speaker 4: to women who had been through abusic or you know,
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  Speaker 4: domestic violent relationships. I've known people that had experienced that before.
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  Speaker 4: But I did, you know, read up on things like that,
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  Speaker 4: you know, kidnappings, that's that's a lot.
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  Speaker 1: It's a whole whole lot.
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  Speaker 4: It's it's it's something you actually have to I'm sure
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  Speaker 4: experience in order to really yeah, tap in like truly.
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  Speaker 1: Happened to it.
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  Speaker 4: But honestly, I just went into it, not judging it,
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  Speaker 4: allowing myself to feel those moments when we did the
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  Speaker 4: kidnapping scenes, when we did the stuff in the forest
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  Speaker 4: or whatever, like I was afraid, Like we were shooting
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  Speaker 4: those scenes at night.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a scared cat.
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  Speaker 4: I don't even watch scared commercials like very real. I'm
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  Speaker 4: it's very real. So I allowed myself to feel that fear.
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  Speaker 4: I allowed myself to, you know, feel like, Okay, I
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  Speaker 4: don't know what's gonna happen next, what you know, even
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  Speaker 4: though cameras were rolling, I knew hom Hee was gonna.
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  Speaker 1: Push, you know, pop out the bushes.
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  Speaker 4: I still, in that moment, allowed myself to feel. There
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  Speaker 4: was a scene I did in the bathroom. I'm a
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  Speaker 4: whole germaphobia, Like I'm a for real I take for real.
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  Speaker 2: Bath and move your hands off that desk. Then I
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  Speaker 2: don't do that to it. We wipe it down before,
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  Speaker 2: we wipe it down before you got you wipe it
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  Speaker 2: down before even though he is, even though he is
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  Speaker 2: that type, even microphone get close to it, we wipe
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  Speaker 2: it down. We wipe it down before anybody comes in there.
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  Speaker 2: I read right here. One of our producers wipes it down.
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  Speaker 2: We wipe it down, but.
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  Speaker 1: We can't get no chlorox.
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  Speaker 3: He wipes it down with cloroxes.
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  Speaker 1: Now I'm just okay.
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  Speaker 4: So here's the thing I had to do, y'all. A
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  Speaker 4: scene on a public bathroom floor.
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  Speaker 3: No, sure did, did you have the cooties?
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  Speaker 5: No?
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  Speaker 1: And guess what he was a men's bathroom. No, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I thought, And they kept saying, we cleaned it, you know,
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  Speaker 1: we put bleach on the floor. It's the whole thing.
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  Speaker 4: I said, Oh no, no, no, no, I need to actually
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  Speaker 4: see somebody get down there and scrub because that's gross.
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  Speaker 4: And I had to lay on a bathroom floor, and
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  Speaker 4: I just allowed myself to feel all the eishness of
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  Speaker 4: that moment, and I just put it into the scene.
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  Speaker 4: There was a scene where I had to do in
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  Speaker 4: the forest in this I don't even know what it was, win,
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  Speaker 4: a bagel, whatever it was, but it the smells the
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  Speaker 4: quiet of the moment, because because just imagine being hell
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  Speaker 4: captive somewhere for six years and it's quiet, nobody's hearing
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  Speaker 4: your screens, you talking to yourself, You're doing all kinds
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  Speaker 4: of things Like I allowed myself to feel a little
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  Speaker 4: out of my mind, and I I just allowed myself
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  Speaker 4: to go there. And that's what I think made those
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  Speaker 4: scenes so wonderful and believable, in my opinion, is because
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  Speaker 4: I really just allowed myself to step outside of myself
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  Speaker 4: and be uncomfortable.
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  Speaker 1: How you come back, That's where That's where the process was.
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  Speaker 4: It was being able to snap out of that and
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  Speaker 4: leave all of those emotions on set. That was the
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  Speaker 4: hardest part, like going back to your room and not
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  Speaker 4: carrying that because even with some of the emotional scenes,
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  Speaker 4: I had to tap into some of my own traumas.
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  Speaker 4: And there were so many times where the cameras would
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  Speaker 4: stop rolling and they would yell cut, and I would
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  Speaker 4: be crying for another thirty minutes because I was still
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  Speaker 4: there and still shook, and still could feel all of
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  Speaker 4: the those feelings. And I said, Okay, okay, you're doing
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  Speaker 4: your work today. You're doing your work today, because if
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  Speaker 4: I'm having to call my therapist after a scene, that
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  Speaker 4: means I've really tapped into something that I thought I
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  Speaker 4: was probably over.
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  Speaker 5: I promise you I was thinking that because I always
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  Speaker 5: wonder if you're a person that that's doing the work,
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  Speaker 5: and we all know healing is not a linear journey,
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  Speaker 5: right but if you're doing the work and you know,
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  Speaker 5: you do make some steps forward to where you're getting
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  Speaker 5: to a closer place of being healed.
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  Speaker 3: But then you got to go do a movie for
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  Speaker 3: three months and like kind of trauma dump.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, I'm away from my kids, I'm away from everything
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  Speaker 4: that I know, Like I it really that quiet is.
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  Speaker 1: That's what bothered me the most.
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  Speaker 4: I'm so used to being in a home full of
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  Speaker 4: you know, kids and all kinds of things going on,
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  Speaker 4: and to be by myself and still that's when I
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  Speaker 4: was like, Okay, maybe I'm maybe I need.
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  Speaker 1: To dig a little deeper into things.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, And I was okay with that, But that's where
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  Speaker 4: the I'm honestly not even y'all talking about it right now,
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  Speaker 4: I'm wanting to cry or I'm feeling those emotions again.
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  Speaker 1: And would you do anole like this?
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  Speaker 4: I would, because I do feel like sometimes people are
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  Speaker 4: scared to play roles like this. They don't want to
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  Speaker 4: be ugly on camera. They don't want people to see
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  Speaker 4: that ugly cry. They don't want people to see them, you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, outside of glam and nah like that.
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  Speaker 4: That's why I love being an actress and outside of
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  Speaker 4: you know, music, it's because I want people to see.
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  Speaker 1: All sides of first of all, LaToya.
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  Speaker 4: But also I truly want to speak for women. I
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  Speaker 4: really want to be the best representative I possibly can.
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  Speaker 4: And if there's a woman out there that is going
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  Speaker 4: through something like Victoria has gone through, I just I
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  Speaker 4: think her story.
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  Speaker 1: Needs to be told.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I always wonder.
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  Speaker 6: I was asking them because she I'm sat outside of music.
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  Speaker 6: Would you say that your love for actings are passion
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  Speaker 6: love for music? Because I know music is your number
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  Speaker 6: one passion.
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  Speaker 4: That's it is it is, But I mean, it's like
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  Speaker 4: asking which one is your favorite child.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: They're both gifts given by God, and it's like I
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  Speaker 4: love that He has allowed me and giving me a
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  Speaker 4: platform to be able to share them.
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  Speaker 1: And that's I can't. I can't say which one I
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  Speaker 1: love the most.
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  Speaker 2: Did you did you always love acting? Or it was
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  Speaker 2: one of those things where music was your love and
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  Speaker 2: he was like, let me try this, and you fell
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  Speaker 2: in love with it.
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  Speaker 4: I know, I just fell into acting. I would do
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  Speaker 4: school plays as a kid.
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  Speaker 1: We all did which one but.
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  Speaker 4: Pinocchio, my dog played and he played Sandy and Annie.
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  Speaker 4: That's funny you say that but yes, dog, my dog,
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  Speaker 4: My dog got cast to play Sandy and Annie and
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  Speaker 4: a well Miller out door theater in Houston, Texas.
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  Speaker 1: Like that's a big thing.
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  Speaker 3: Paid.
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  Speaker 1: I think my parents probably got it. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what with the funds for that.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know who got paid the dog. I mean
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  Speaker 4: the food stayed the same, so he didn't get.
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  Speaker 1: No extra treat. Dog got rested soul Sam, yeah, he.
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  Speaker 3: Or Peter.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know the baby got paid. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if you know what.
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  Speaker 4: I asked my mom and dad later on about okay,
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  Speaker 4: But I fell into acting.
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  Speaker 1: I was actually doing UH.
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  Speaker 4: I was on the road with a place that was
• 15:29
  Speaker 4: my first time really doing uh, anything to do with acting,
• 15:32
  Speaker 4: And I got a call from an agency, Paradigm Agency,
• 15:35
  Speaker 4: and they asked to take a meeting. They sent me
• 15:37
  Speaker 4: on my first audition. My first audition was for Preacher's Kid.
• 15:40
  Speaker 4: I got cast it as it was.
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: A smaller role.
• 15:44
  Speaker 4: And then I think a week before they actually started production,
• 15:47
  Speaker 4: they asked me to would be okay with taking the
• 15:51
  Speaker 4: lead and I didn't think.
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: Twice I got on a plane in Atlanta and here
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: we are.
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: I always wondered how it was life.
• 15:58
  Speaker 5: Uh, in discreet different now from when you first started,
• 16:02
  Speaker 5: because it feels like a whole new world.
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: Whole new world, a whole new world.
• 16:07
  Speaker 4: I mean, you gotta think I started when I was
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: twelve years old. We were singing everywhere, I mean in
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: front of grocery stores, on planes, anywhere that our voices
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: could be heard, talent shows.
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: The grind was different and there was no like.
• 16:24
  Speaker 4: I feel like, everything's happens a lot faster now. Of course,
• 16:28
  Speaker 4: we have social media platforms. People can post their music, YouTube,
• 16:31
  Speaker 4: all these sound cloud, all these things that wasn't available
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: to us. So we depended on local news. We dependent
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: on just you know, local talent shows, the hot local
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: producers to produce our records, and.
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: The grind was a lot tougher.
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: I feel like the barrier, the barrier of entry was
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: tougher too.
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: First of all, the main goal was to get a
• 16:53
  Speaker 4: record deal. Now you don't really even need that, you
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: know what I mean. So if you got your record deal,
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: oh you was on you know, or to even get
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: the attention.
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: If you think back in.
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: The day, the you had to get a manager first.
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: So getting a manager was like the big deal before
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: our time. And then to get a producer to recognize
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: you so that they would produce your album.
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: It was so many huge steps that you had to
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: take before you got your big opportunity.
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: And that's why I think like once you got that
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: big opportunity you.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: It was it was a different feeling. You didn't take
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: it lightly. You showed up, showed up. We know how
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: to show up on time. We showed up ready the
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: live performances.
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: We was giving it all. I mean, you had to
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: be able to sing, act and dance when we was
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: coming up. You had to have all of the things.
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: And I think now you know, it's just a little different.
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: It's no, I'm not saying that you Honestly, folk got to.
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: Like you for some you could line. But would you
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: want your kids to do it? Would you want your
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: kids to be in this industry?
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: You know what I wouldn't. I wouldn't say don't.
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: I would.
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: I would share my experiences with them and say, hey, honey,
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: this ain't for the week, and don't do it.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: Don't just do it for money.
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: Why you say you wouldn't, I wouldn't because I know
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: mentally the things that you have to go through.
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: I saw a lot I've seen a whole whole lot
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: good and bad.
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: In my time in this entertainment industry, and I know
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: that I had to become a different type of person
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: hart I mean not I've never hardened my heart towards anybody.
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: But you have to have a very strong mentality to
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: be in this industry and unwavering in your faith in
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: so many other things.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: You have to stay true to yourself.
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: And I think that nowadays, especially with you know, the
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: new generation, somebody leave a bad comment on Instagram and
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: they ready to be done, you know what I mean,
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: And you can't have you can't be that fragile.
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: Now you said your faith tested, what was the worst test.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: That you had to overcome or what was the worst
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: thing that you've seen without.
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: Saying I mean, I'm saying some things, you know. I mean,
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: of course I had my experience which we went through
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: that as children.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: So thank God, whoa.
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: You know, with having to go through even just not
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: being having friendships kid friendships like we started at twelve,
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: some of us started at nine. So to lose a
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: best friend or not you know, have that communication with
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: them anymore, and for that to be such a major
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: chaine shift in your life to be able to have
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: to deal with that. And back then, like therapists weren't in,
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: we didn't have a therapist to walk us through a
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: transition like that. So it was basically I think for me,
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: the grace of God that he was able to put
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: angels in my life to help guide me into you know,
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: the next phase of my life. And I don't know
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: how many people would have been able to survive that.
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: H And also, you know, you see greed. You see
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: greed in this industry a lot. You see people caring
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: about you one day. And this is not me speaking
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: on my experience, but you know, people love you one
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: day and the next day's well, I don't even know
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: their name who And you got to just be a
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: different kind of person to deal with that.
• 20:31
  Speaker 5: I was because you said, you know, you can't be
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: too fragile, and you did kind of touch on them.
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: You said there was no therapist back then, But even
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: back then, y'all had to be fragile too. So if
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: what I for, those people are walking y'all through you
• 20:40
  Speaker 5: to and I'm sure you did crack.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: What I mean. I mean, here's the cool part.
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: Like there wasn't like a shade room or media takeout
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: to see the cracking. Like I was able to actually
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: do have my my feelings and my mess ups in
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: my emotions in my the comfort of.
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: My home until you want. He was trying top there
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: was one, it was.
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: But Wendy didn't have She ain't had nothing to say
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: about me, thank god.
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: And I was.
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: I was just able to heal and go through everything
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: that I needed to go through without a camera in
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: my face or a blog finding out or something like that.
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: And I remember when everything first happened, I was in
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: my bedroom listening to the local radio station and they
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: started talking about it, and I was alone in my room,
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: seventeen eighteen years old, and I just remember putting the
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: sheets over my head.
• 21:31
  Speaker 6: Up.
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm sure that's got to be like frustrating to
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: constantly hear about because it's like.
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: They didn't that didn't go away for a while. It
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: didn't go away and it and it's.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: Like having a for real relate. It's a divorce.
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: It's a major divorce and seeing your partner move on
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: and be successful and folk love them, and it's you know,
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: and here's the part, like I am glad that that
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: situation happened because one.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: I was able to.
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: I'm a pre PK, but I got to know God
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: on a whole other level, you know what I mean.
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: My relationship with God changed. I also became confident in myself.
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: Had I not, you know, gone through that, I wouldn't
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: have become a solo artist.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't have been able to.
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: I didn't even feel that I was even ready to
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: move on or be a part of this industry. After
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: that happened and God allowed the opportunity for me to
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: get back in the studio.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: Then I got a record, Then I got a record deal.
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: Then I started performing, and I was having like major
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: breakdowns before even going live on stage because I was like,
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: I'm up here by myself.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: I'm up here by myself, Like what am I going
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: to do?
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: But had I not gone through those things, I don't
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: think I would be as confident as I am today.
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: I don't think I would believe in my voice the
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: way that I do today. I don't think that, you know,
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: I would have even said, Okay, I'm going to expand
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: and believe in God to take on this new career
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: as an actress. I probably just would have stayed in.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: My comfort zone. So I'm glad a.
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: Question because you said something just not that made me
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: think about it.
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: You know, you said, you're watching everybody going to have
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: tremendous success, right, But when you're in a group, like
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: a Destiny's child, I would think even at a young age,
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: you kind of knew who was going to be the
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: breakout star, Like you knew like did they tell did
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: they tell.
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: All of y'all that all of y'all was going to
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: be breakouts us?
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: No? I mean we are.
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: It was a team player of mentality, So I don't
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: think any of any of us at that time were thinking.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: Someone was gonna go solo.
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: It was about the group group, and we were groomed
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: to have that group mentality. But I mean, come on,
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: you hit that girl, open her mouth. It's different, and
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: I'm not gonna sit up here and compare myself or
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: go well, you know, she doesn't deserve more opportunities.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: First of all, she brought me in the group. She
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: showed up to school and showed me the T shirt
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: and asked me, you know, to audition for her.
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: Dad, And she said, you want to be a child
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: of Destiny.
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: She did not say that because that was not the
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: name of the group called Girls Time at the time,
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: and uh, you know, she said, you know what you
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: want to you want to audition for my dad? And
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: I said absolutely, And she gave me the biggest break
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: of my life. Wow.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: I will always be grateful for her.
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: I will always admire her for her talents and her
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: her this I don't I don't think I've ever met
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: someone who works harder than Beyonce Zelle Knows.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: That is not her name anymore. It's Beyonce Knows Carter
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: and I am.
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: I am so proud of everything that she's done and
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: to even say that I was a part of a
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: chapter of her life and and a part of such
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: a phenomenal group.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: Shout out to all the.
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: Girls of the Children, Kelly, Beyonce, LaTavia, Michelle. I love
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: y'all all, Dearly, Happy birthday, Michelle, Happy birthdaysh but.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: I I I'm grateful. You'll never hear ugly work.
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: I just had a reunion earlier year.
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: We were in the same room for the first time
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: ever and it was a I really still can't wrap
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: my head around that moment because we I've all been
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: around all of them individually over the you know, the
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: past few years, but having us all in the same
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: room at the same time with all our different energies.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: Was kind of like, hey, okay.
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: You know we were you know, Mom's wives, all the things, and.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: We were talking more about that, and then we prayed together,
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: we hugged, cried, and.
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: People always would ask is there any possibility of a
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: reunion tour, reunion song.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: I'd be down reunion show. I would love something like that.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: Who would it?
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: But it's uh, if if the opportunity presented itself, I
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: would welcome it.
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I saw you earlier this year. You said that
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: created a wonderful space.
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: What she did, she really really did, and it was
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: it was so cute when she when she came off stage,
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: she was on her cart, her and Jay and she
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: dang hopped that off that cart while it was still
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: moving to come in and embrace us and give us
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: a hug.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: And she's like, yes, girl, that's outfit.
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: Dah dah dah.
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: You know immediately we went first of all to watch
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: her go from doing was that a three hour show?
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: Yes?
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: It was it three hours? Okay, it was three hours,
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: three hour show? Go backstage.
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: I don't know how the baby switched into that hoodie
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: so quick that black hoodie outfit got on the cart
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: with her husband. Immediately that energy presented itself. Okay, she's
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: gone right into wife mode. And then she hops off
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: the cart and the children just run and I said, okay,
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: she she didn't even have time to woo saw. She
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: goes right back into being a mom, you know. And
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: then we're there and there's this big new moment for her.
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: I'm like, how is she taking all this on? And
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: I at that moment wanted to go, girl, did you.
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: Have you had ten? If somebody bring up some water,
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: some lemon, you need some towels. She didn't really get
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: to have that. She just went with the flow.
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: But it was beautiful to see her come off the
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: stage entertaining I don't know how many people over seventy
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: five thousand people, and go straight into making sure she
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: was present for her daughters who were present there, you know,
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: and that just speaks to who she is, it really does.
• 27:27
  Speaker 5: I know you got to wrap, but I do have
• 27:28
  Speaker 5: one last question, because you said you wouldn't want your
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: kids in the business.
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: I said that what I had said chall was I
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: wouldn't say don't be in the business, but what I
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: would do is share my experience, and I would say,
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: you know, it's not for the week. And also, I'm
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: a person that feels like God doesn't take you through
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: things for nothing. And I love to share my testimony.
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: I love to share things that I've been through so
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: that it will hopefully be a learning experience for somebody else.
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: And also show somebody, hey, even though you might be
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: going through a storm right now, there's light of the
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: end of the tunnel. It might be for real, might
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: be okay, you might come out of this thing all right.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: So I would share that with.
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: My children and say, hey, you know, if you're gonna
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: do it, you better be serious about it. Don't do
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: it just for no money, don't do it just for
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: just for fun. But you got to do it for
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: the deep love of it. And when I say love,
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: I'm talking about that unfailing love. I'm talking about that
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: you know, when when it hurts, when you don't feel
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: like doing it no more, when you tired, when you
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: don't feel like showing up for people, when you don't
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: feel like performing, when you're having a bad day, when
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: somebody done piss you off right before, or saying something
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: to throw you off.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: You still got to get up there and share your gift.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: If you can still do it and not think or
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: blink twice, then do it.
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: Well.
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: My question is why didn't you share all of that
• 28:48
  Speaker 5: amazing advice with your dog?
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: You just let your dog go out there?
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: Can we still talking about Sam with the Lord?
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: We appreciate you for joining us.
• 28:57
  Speaker 6: Absolutely.
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: That's not my mass, that is not, that is not.
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: I don't like him.
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: I don't like him.
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: I like I don't asked the question why didn't the
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: dog get the same dog?
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: You know what?
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: I was there the conference Sam at all times, like
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: I I loved Sam.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: I brushed him often.
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: I fed him a bearded collie.
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: I don't know what that is.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: You don't exactly.
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: He was a rare dog, rare breed and was like
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: he had loving eyes, friendly eyes, beautiful brown eyes.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: Gorgeous dog.
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: Hey listen, he did his thing, honestly. He popped off
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: and then my brother popped off.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: He's in the room right now. Shout out to Gama
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: Lucky Geo Productions.
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: He played uh in the movie Challenger with Angela. I
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: have to say it right, Auntie Angela, Angela Bassett or
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: Bessett and also Joe Martin.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: So I was like third.
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: In the family to really do anything with my life.
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: I was the one sitting in the trailer, mad and
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: jealous of questions about the dog, right because he wants
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: to you know what, I'm gonna call after.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: Now we're going back.
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, Rest in peace, Sam.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: I love you.
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: Around.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: Look around, y'all to see what's that? What's that?
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: What's the graveyard dog movie? No, not our dogs, the
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: scary one cemetery military. No.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: I start thinking about saying, how did.
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: We get to the day, how did we talk?
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: How did we get here?
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: Thank you for joining us?
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: Like you can we Please watch the movie, y'all.
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: I thought my husband dog was dead. Saturday. I thought
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: my husband's dog was dead. No, I thought my wife
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: was dead.
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: Yes, eight seven Central Saturday, y'all just watch the movie.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: If your girl in there looking all the way crazy,
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: just know that.
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: It's a lifetime movie.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: It's a lifetime movie.
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: Saturday, August third, I thought my husband's wife was dead.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: I know it's a long title, but please watch.
• 31:01
  Speaker 6: It is very intriguing.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: Like you said, it makes you want to be like, okay, thank.
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: You, Jess and blessings to you and your the rest
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: of your pregnancy. I hope baby shows up soon and
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: on time and healthy and blessed and favored in Jesus'
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: name so much.
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, LaToya luck it. It's the Breakfast Club.
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: Good morning.
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: Wake that ass up in the morning.
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: The Breakfast Club.