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- 0:03Speaker 1: Reality with the King is hosted by me, Carlos King.
- 0:06Speaker 1: I'm an executive producer who have produced some of your
- 0:10Speaker 1: favorite shows from the Real Housewives of Atlanta, New Jersey,
- 0:13Speaker 1: and my own creation, the Love and Marriage franchise and
- 0:17Speaker 1: Bell Collective. Every episode, we recap reality television from the
- 0:23Speaker 1: Real Housewives franchise to The Bachelor or Selling Sunset. in
- 0:27Speaker 1: addition to celebrity guests, whether in the unscripted space or
- 0:31Speaker 1: scripted as well. We got so many hot topics to
- 0:38Speaker 1: get into. I mean, from Savannah Jane's first class problems.
- 0:44Speaker 1: We got the actor Da Vinci who caught himself in
- 0:47Speaker 1: a debacle.
- 0:48Speaker 2: We got a friend to the show, Ebony K.
- 0:50Speaker 1: Williams, with her take on what's going on with Todd
- 0:53Speaker 1: Tucker and Candy's Not divorce, but his divorce movie that
- 0:59Speaker 1: actually premiered this weekend in New York City. And, you know,
- 1:04Speaker 1: somebody actually attended. And we're going to talk about what
- 1:06Speaker 1: this person said.
- 1:07Speaker 2: But first, please help me welcome a new, okay, friend
- 1:14Speaker 2: to the show. She's a friend in our lives as well.
- 1:19Speaker 1: We have special guest Dominique Morgan joining us along with
- 1:23Speaker 1: our mainstays, y'all faves, Claudia and Dustin.
- 1:26Speaker 3: Hello. Welcome, Dominique.
- 1:33Speaker 4: Hello, hello, hello. Thank you. What's up, Dominique? What's up, Claudia?
- 1:36Speaker 4: What's up, Lois?
- 1:38Speaker 2: Hey, y'all. How's it going?
- 1:40Speaker 5: Welcome, y'all.
- 1:41Speaker 2: Dominique Morgan. Yes.
- 1:44Speaker 5: I got a brand new girdle out the pack for this.
- 1:47Speaker 2: Oh.
- 1:48Speaker 6: Bitch, I got to bring out the silks, honey. You know,
- 1:51Speaker 6: Carlos is going dirty. Dustin has the newest, most fresh-fitted caps.
- 1:56Speaker 4: Don't even try it, Dominique.
- 1:58Speaker 5: We've shot, what, once or twice in the last week.
- 2:00Speaker 5: I know you keep a silk piece.
- 2:01Speaker 2: And....
- 2:03Speaker 5: And a cat in your lap, sister.
- 2:05Speaker 2: So, yes.
- 2:06Speaker 3: There's pussy galore over here.
- 2:09Speaker 5: God bless the children. You're not going to get me
- 2:11Speaker 5: caught up already with these comments on this show.
- 2:13Speaker 3: Dominique, you've been with me a couple times, so you
- 2:16Speaker 3: already know how to get down. You know my mouth
- 2:17Speaker 3: is low-ranking.
- 2:18Speaker 6: I ain't never did live to tape with you, sister,
- 2:20Speaker 6: so I'm just going to buckle up.
- 2:23Speaker 4: Claudia, I done heard a double-fisted, but.
- 2:25Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
- 2:26Speaker 3: We love a double fist.
- 2:28Speaker 1: We have a jam-packed show, so let's get right into it.
- 2:30Speaker 1: Once again, we're discussing Savannah James, First Class Problems, Da
- 2:34Speaker 1: Vinci debacle, the actor who says some things about Americans.
- 2:39Speaker 1: We got our friends of the show, Ebony K. Williams,
- 2:42Speaker 1: discussing Todd Tucker's divorce movie. But first, let's get into
- 2:45Speaker 1: Savannah James. Okay, so Savannah James, as you all know,
- 2:49Speaker 1: she is the beautiful wife NBA legend LeBron James, who is,
- 2:57Speaker 1: according to Forbes, a billionaire.
- 3:00Speaker 3: Okay.
- 3:01Speaker 1: Savannah and LeBron have been together since they were high
- 3:04Speaker 1: school sweethearts. They had three kids together. And Savannah was
- 3:09Speaker 1: always behind the scenes. You know, this doting wife and
- 3:12Speaker 1: mother who, you know, was supporting her husband on the court. Now,
- 3:19Speaker 1: the court of public opinion says, has Savannah James in
- 3:24Speaker 1: the leagues when it comes to her commentary with her
- 3:29Speaker 1: best friend, April Daniels. They have a podcast together, and
- 3:32Speaker 1: they've been doing a lot of press together. Long story short,
- 3:36Speaker 1: April mentioned how there was one incident as Savannah was
- 3:42Speaker 1: talking about the dynamic of their friendship. and what it's
- 3:45Speaker 1: like to have friends with people who may not be
- 3:49Speaker 1: on the same monetary level as you. And Savannah mentioned how,
- 3:54Speaker 1: you know, listen, it's sometimes challenging with other friends, but
- 3:57Speaker 1: she feels like she has a great group to where
- 4:00Speaker 1: if she wants to plan a trip, it's not an
- 4:03Speaker 1: issue based on where they're going, the cost of the ticket,
- 4:08Speaker 1: and where they're staying. April chimed in and said one
- 4:12Speaker 1: example of how She remembers them going on a trip.
- 4:17Speaker 2: She was in business class.
- 4:20Speaker 1: And how Savannah was in first class. And she mentioned
- 4:25Speaker 1: that they were going on a trip together on the
- 4:28Speaker 1: same flight. And April left business class and snuggled up
- 4:34Speaker 1: to Savannah in first class to watch a movie. Now,
- 4:39Speaker 1: social media went crazy because they felt like Savannah was
- 4:44Speaker 1: You are the wife of a billionaire. Why aren't you
- 4:47Speaker 1: paying for an upgrade or a first-class ticket for your
- 4:50Speaker 1: best friend if you are traveling to the same location?
- 4:54Speaker 1: This has divided social media. I want to start with
- 4:57Speaker 1: you first, Dustin. A lot of people are calling out Savannah.
- 5:02Speaker 2: There's tons of funny memes.
- 5:04Speaker 1: We like a good joke. Our friend on Twitter, it's Kerry,
- 5:07Speaker 1: has been posting tons of videos. about this topic. I
- 5:14Speaker 1: find it to be funny, but I also find it
- 5:15Speaker 1: to be a topic to where it really.
- 5:17Speaker 2: Does showcase friendships.
- 5:19Speaker 1: So, Dustin, do you agree with the majority of the
- 5:22Speaker 1: people online who are saying that Savannah James is dead-ass wrong?
- 5:28Speaker 4: No, I don't. If it's me, I'm a generous friend.
- 5:33Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying? I love... People gave Drake
- 5:36Speaker 4: a lot of flack last week when he talked about
- 5:38Speaker 4: quote-unquote tricking. But he was saying how he loves seeing
- 5:41Speaker 4: joy on the faces of his loved ones. And I
- 5:44Speaker 4: can relate to that. I also believe that experiences and
- 5:47Speaker 4: memories are what life is all about. So if I
- 5:50Speaker 4: can provide and facilitate the best time that I can
- 5:53Speaker 4: for my friends and loved ones, that's what I'm going
- 5:55Speaker 4: to do. Whether that's paying for dinner, whether that's paying
- 5:59Speaker 4: for them to have a travel experience that is elevated,
- 6:01Speaker 4: if I can afford that, I'm going to do that.
- 6:04Speaker 4: But that's me being generous. I don't think it's an obligation, right?
- 6:08Speaker 4: That's just the kind of nigga I am. In her
- 6:11Speaker 4: friend's case, I think that ego plays a lot of
- 6:14Speaker 4: part here, plays a big part here, rather, in the
- 6:16Speaker 4: response we've gotten from people and money. Motherfuckers are broke.
- 6:19Speaker 4: We all are broke and struggling. Everybody's trying to do
- 6:22Speaker 4: the best they can. And so money is very valuable
- 6:26Speaker 4: to people that have never had it. And you think
- 6:28Speaker 4: that when other people have it, there is this magical
- 6:32Speaker 4: access pass that does kind of exist, but it doesn't
- 6:35Speaker 4: equate to And I think that's the line that's being
- 6:40Speaker 4: crossed in some of the commentary here. The plane going
- 6:43Speaker 4: the same place. You know what I'm saying? They both
- 6:46Speaker 4: getting off at the same stop on the plane. So
- 6:49Speaker 4: who cares where you sit? Now, if I'm in first
- 6:51Speaker 4: class and my friend is with me who I know
- 6:55Speaker 4: cannot afford first class and isn't making a choice not
- 6:59Speaker 4: to spend the money to fly first class or deserves
- 7:02Speaker 4: the experience of that luxury and shit, of course I
- 7:05Speaker 4: would do it. I'm just that type of person. But
- 7:07Speaker 4: everybody's not like that and everybody doesn't have to be.
- 7:10Speaker 4: So I think that we should be grateful when people are,
- 7:14Speaker 4: show some humility and adjust our expectations because Savannah James
- 7:18Speaker 4: is married to a billionaire. She's not the billionaire. So
- 7:21Speaker 4: we don't know what kind of financial arrangement her and
- 7:23Speaker 4: LeBron have. We don't know any of that. So before
- 7:26Speaker 4: we spend other people's money, we need to exercise a
- 7:29Speaker 4: little humility and gratitude. Again, I would have put my
- 7:33Speaker 4: friend in first class But I don't think Savannah James
- 7:36Speaker 4: is wrong for not putting her friend in first class.
- 7:40Speaker 2: Okay. Claudia Jordan, what are your thoughts on this?
- 7:44Speaker 3: I agree. You're not entitled to me and my husband's
- 7:48Speaker 3: because I'm married to this guy. Now, when it's an obligation,
- 7:52Speaker 3: it feels like I'm being forced to do it. But
- 7:56Speaker 3: if she wants to, I think it's beautiful for her
- 7:58Speaker 3: to do that. Special occasions, your birthday, I got you.
- 8:01Speaker 3: I would probably do that. But it seems like this
- 8:03Speaker 3: is one of her closest friends, so they probably do
- 8:05Speaker 3: a lot of trips together. So every time we go somewhere,
- 8:08Speaker 3: I got to put you in first class. And the friend,
- 8:10Speaker 3: I can see if I'm in first class and my
- 8:12Speaker 3: friend's in 36B in a middle seat by the toilet.
- 8:15Speaker 3: I'm going to see what I can do about that.
- 8:18Speaker 3: But your friend was in business class where it was
- 8:20Speaker 3: totally fine. Um, and, and all these people to comments,
- 8:24Speaker 3: like just wanting to spend Savannah and LeBron's money. Um, uh,
- 8:29Speaker 3: I think it's made to sound a lot worse than
- 8:31Speaker 3: it was. Like at first, my first story, it did
- 8:33Speaker 3: sound like a first class slash coach thing, but first
- 8:36Speaker 3: class slash business. One of my friends, one of my
- 8:38Speaker 3: closest friends, Andy, she always wants to go first class.
- 8:41Speaker 3: I don't want to be going first class cause I
- 8:42Speaker 3: don't want to pay for it.
- 8:43Speaker 4: I don't.
- 8:44Speaker 3: And I would not be mad if she was like,
- 8:46Speaker 3: I'm in first class. And I'm like, well, I'm going
- 8:47Speaker 3: to be back here. And guess what I'm going to
- 8:49Speaker 3: spend my extra $ 1, 000 on when we land? Pina coladas
- 8:51Speaker 3: and gambling.
- 8:52Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 8:53Speaker 3: But if you, you know what I'm saying? If you
- 8:55Speaker 3: want to upgrade me, you don't have to. You're not obligated.
- 8:58Speaker 3: If you want to, great gesture. But when people start
- 9:01Speaker 3: feeling like an obligation to your money, F out of here. No.
- 9:06Speaker 3: But now if, like I said this before, I think
- 9:09Speaker 3: I accidentally informed. Now, if LeBron messes up, then you
- 9:13Speaker 3: take that credit card and you run it up and
- 9:15Speaker 3: you take all your friends. on Delta One to Dubai,
- 9:18Speaker 3: you go to Europe, you go to Fashion Weekend, you
- 9:21Speaker 3: run it up. But in peaceful times, nah, no.
- 9:27Speaker 2: Okay. Dominique Morgan, what are your thoughts on this particular topic?
- 9:30Speaker 1: Is Savannah James in the wrong for not upgrading her
- 9:34Speaker 1: best friend from business class to first class?
- 9:38Speaker 5: I think labeling it as in the wrong is... is
- 9:41Speaker 5: what is activating people.
- 9:43Speaker 6: Because I think saying what is right and what is wrong,
- 9:45Speaker 6: I think that's where it gets kind of fucked up.
- 9:47Speaker 6: And however, I wrote about this on my sub-sack. I
- 9:51Speaker 6: think that one, the details in this instance with April
- 9:55Speaker 6: matters to me, which it was like 15 years ago.
- 9:59Speaker 6: because people brought up april's access today it was like
- 10:03Speaker 6: 15 years ago savannah had told invited them on a
- 10:07Speaker 6: trip to japan they weren't going from atlanta to new
- 10:09Speaker 6: york they were going to japan And if you were happy, well,
- 10:14Speaker 6: why didn't you keep your ass back there instead of
- 10:15Speaker 6: coming up into my suite and watch the movie with me, niece,
- 10:18Speaker 6: if that's where you wanted to be? And that gives
- 10:20Speaker 6: me an indication you knew you couldn't get your whole life. Now,
- 10:22Speaker 6: that being said, the entitlement label, I think, is important.
- 10:26Speaker 6: No one is entitled to anything. And I would like
- 10:31Speaker 6: to add a tinge of context from maybe it feels
- 10:35Speaker 6: a little bit activist-y, but one, she's been with him
- 10:39Speaker 6: since they were kids.
- 10:40Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
- 10:41Speaker 6: We spend our days talking about if a girl gets
- 10:44Speaker 6: a text message from a guy and he asks her
- 10:45Speaker 6: on a date, she better get her comeuppance for that
- 10:48Speaker 6: mere exchange. You've birthed his children. You've given him a
- 10:51Speaker 6: namesake that is now in the NBA as well. If
- 10:54Speaker 6: you don't have 10% of $ 1. 4 billion, which will be okay,
- 10:59Speaker 6: then that doesn't make sense to me. But on a
- 11:03Speaker 6: bigger scale, when we talk about relationship, we've been talking
- 11:06Speaker 6: about today about interracial relationships and what does that look
- 11:09Speaker 6: like with power dynamics. I think inter-financial relationships are important
- 11:14Speaker 6: to think about as well. So if I do choose
- 11:17Speaker 6: to make you my closest friend, like we're not talking
- 11:20Speaker 6: about acquaintances, we're not talking about randoms, we're talking about
- 11:23Speaker 6: people that you've now gone into business with. How do
- 11:26Speaker 6: you navigate the inequities of society when you are a
- 11:30Speaker 6: have and they're essentially a have not? Not that you
- 11:33Speaker 6: have to, But that's something that I think about if
- 11:36Speaker 6: because when Savannah was like, they understand my situation. I'm like,
- 11:38Speaker 6: so you talking like you got eviction notice or something
- 11:40Speaker 6: like that.
- 11:41Speaker 5: Like I did. The context concerned me.
- 11:43Speaker 6: But I think in a bigger space and like Claudia,
- 11:46Speaker 6: you and your friend, I'm like, there's a difference between like, girl,
- 11:49Speaker 6: you want to spend your money on that.
- 11:51Speaker 5: I'm going to spend my money on this. And compared to.
- 11:55Speaker 5: One point four billion dollars, a lot of money. A
- 11:59Speaker 5: lot of money.
- 12:00Speaker 6: And also business class is not all that. Why are
- 12:02Speaker 6: y'all acting like business class is comparable? There might be
- 12:05Speaker 6: a little extra nuts. You might have a little extra
- 12:07Speaker 6: leg room.
- 12:08Speaker 4: It's comfort plus.
- 12:09Speaker 1: Boots.
- 12:10Speaker 6: I don't know why everybody is making it seem like
- 12:12Speaker 6: it's a sick thing said. And again, those are the
- 12:17Speaker 6: things that our opinions are based on. But what I
- 12:19Speaker 6: have been sitting with is if you choose to stay
- 12:23Speaker 6: in relationship with people who exist in a far different
- 12:26Speaker 6: financial bracket than you, not that you're required, how do
- 12:30Speaker 6: you manifest equity in your relationship? And how do you
- 12:35Speaker 6: experience life when you can go close out the restaurant?
- 12:40Speaker 6: And this person, you may have to wait until their payday.
- 12:42Speaker 6: And that's something I think about as someone who sits
- 12:45Speaker 6: in kind of the middle space of access. I have
- 12:47Speaker 6: friends who have far more than me and far less
- 12:49Speaker 6: than me. But we really got to be thoughtful of
- 12:52Speaker 6: who we build deep bonds with, especially in this time
- 12:55Speaker 6: with money. Yeah.
- 12:57Speaker 2: Yes, and I want to add this.
- 13:00Speaker 1: Thank you, Dominique, for adding the context of when it happened,
- 13:03Speaker 1: the timeline, and the location, because I do think once
- 13:07Speaker 1: you have all the information, it.
- 13:09Speaker 2: Does help serve this particular argument. I will say this.
- 13:13Speaker 1: You know, I looked at the situation like we all
- 13:18Speaker 1: did and said, listen, she wasn't in the Mia Thorne
- 13:20Speaker 1: section of the plane, you know.
- 13:22Speaker 4: Excuse me?
- 13:23Speaker 3: Wait, wait, wait.
- 13:24Speaker 2: What?
- 13:26Speaker 3: He wasn't aware now.
- 13:30Speaker 1: You know, if you watch Potomac, Gisele Bryant alleged that
- 13:34Speaker 1: Mia Thornton was at the back of the plane.
- 13:36Speaker 2: The back.
- 13:38Speaker 3: Was Bobby Valentino with her?
- 13:39Speaker 4: Did she steal the plane seats too? Not too much.
- 13:43Speaker 3: Not too much on Mia.
- 13:44Speaker 4: I like her.
- 13:46Speaker 2: Are they still together?
- 13:54Speaker 5: We are not talking about Mia and Bobby.
- 13:56Speaker 6: He keep getting her facial feminization surgery so she can
- 13:58Speaker 6: look like a tranny, honey.
- 13:59Speaker 5: They better stay together. It's a fool.
- 14:03Speaker 3: I thought you was on Behave, Dominique. You lied. I
- 14:06Speaker 3: love it. Thank you.
- 14:07Speaker 5: I can't be up here with Claudia. I'm sorry.
- 14:11Speaker 3: Well, come on to the dark side. Yes.
- 14:14Speaker 1: The comments said the Rosa Parks section. So we got
- 14:17Speaker 1: the Rosa Parks section and the Mia Thornton section. So
- 14:20Speaker 1: April was not in the Mia Thornton section, allegedly, right?
- 14:23Speaker 1: The back of the plane where Giselle alleged that Mia
- 14:26Speaker 1: was there. Business class is comfortable. However, is it first class? No,
- 14:32Speaker 1: but it's a good class. He was in the middle
- 14:34Speaker 1: of the seat in the back of the plane by
- 14:35Speaker 1: the bathroom, child.
- 14:37Speaker 2: I do think this. I do think this. I do
- 14:39Speaker 2: think this.
- 14:41Speaker 1: And I think this is something that we all can
- 14:43Speaker 1: either relate to personally or know someone in our lives
- 14:47Speaker 1: who have this dilemma.
- 14:49Speaker 2: It is a.
- 14:50Speaker 1: Very strange feeling when you have a friend group and
- 14:56Speaker 1: you make a lot of money. And your friends may
- 15:00Speaker 1: not make as much as you, less than half of
- 15:03Speaker 1: you or nothing at all.
- 15:05Speaker 2: It is a very strange dynamic.
- 15:08Speaker 3: Tell us about it, Carlos.
- 15:11Speaker 2: You tell us about it.
- 15:13Speaker 3: I'm wearing sheen. What you talking about?
- 15:15Speaker 2: I'm wearing aloe.
- 15:19Speaker 3: This was $ 698. Okay, your outfit was like $ 300. Your shirt.
- 15:22Speaker 5: Carlos is a Libra. That's why Carlos don't fuck with
- 15:24Speaker 5: nobody like that.
- 15:26Speaker 3: Oh.
- 15:27Speaker 4: Yeah, come on.
- 15:29Speaker 6: It took two years of building a relationship with Madison
- 15:33Speaker 6: the Libra as well. It took two years. And I
- 15:36Speaker 6: literally was like, I don't ever want you to buy
- 15:39Speaker 6: anything from... I was like, I need to show you
- 15:40Speaker 6: all I want to do is be around you.
- 15:42Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 15:43Speaker 4: Right?
- 15:43Speaker 6: And that's what I meant by... Not only the person
- 15:46Speaker 6: in the financial privilege... if you want to be in
- 15:48Speaker 6: relationship with people who have more of a financial privilege
- 15:51Speaker 6: and you really want it to be sincere.
- 15:54Speaker 5: You got to do the work.
- 15:55Speaker 6: So April had to, cause this was, there's a, they
- 15:58Speaker 6: talked about it on their podcast first. The followup recently
- 16:00Speaker 6: is on a mental health podcast. They were talking about
- 16:03Speaker 6: and promoting their podcast. I wish they would have dug
- 16:06Speaker 6: into why not just for Savannah, but April, were you
- 16:11Speaker 6: trying to show her, you know what I'm saying? Like, girl,
- 16:13Speaker 6: I don't, I don't want to extract from you.
- 16:15Speaker 5: Do you see what I'm saying?
- 16:16Speaker 4: Yeah. It could have been a gesture of her even
- 16:20Speaker 4: sitting there in the first place. I also think if
- 16:22Speaker 4: we really zoom out, everybody needs to grow the fuck up.
- 16:25Speaker 4: Like I said the first time, the plane is going
- 16:27Speaker 4: to the exact same place. All of this shit about
- 16:29Speaker 4: where you sit on the plane is about your preference, right?
- 16:33Speaker 4: People sit in first class to have more room, be
- 16:35Speaker 4: more comfortable. I be wanting to stretch out. When I
- 16:37Speaker 4: get to the airport, I just smoke. I'm ready to
- 16:40Speaker 4: lay down anyway. You know what I'm saying? So there's
- 16:42Speaker 4: reasons why people sit where they sit. But there is
- 16:45Speaker 4: no shame attached to sitting in the back of an airplane.
- 16:49Speaker 4: And I think that's what people really need to come
- 16:51Speaker 4: up off of. Judging people over where they sit on
- 16:54Speaker 4: a fucking airplane is really immature and ridiculous. That's the
- 16:59Speaker 4: bigger conversation here. You know what I'm saying?
- 17:01Speaker 1: It is.
- 17:02Speaker 4: You're going the same damn place.
- 17:04Speaker 3: I'm actually about the destination when we get there. I mean,
- 17:07Speaker 3: certain things I won't skip on, like the food and
- 17:09Speaker 3: the experiences and stuff like that. I'm going to probably
- 17:13Speaker 3: be asleep on the plane.
- 17:15Speaker 4: I am.
- 17:16Speaker 3: Now, I don't want to be in no middle seat
- 17:18Speaker 3: between two big people.
- 17:19Speaker 4: I don't want to be in no middle seat.
- 17:21Speaker 5: You know the only way to control that?
- 17:23Speaker 3: First class.
- 17:24Speaker 1: Hello.
- 17:25Speaker 3: Well, next time Carlos flies me in for an appearance
- 17:31Speaker 3: and I'll make sure.
- 17:31Speaker 2: It's first class. Oh, here we go.
- 17:33Speaker 5: The girls don't want to buy their second seat. It'll
- 17:35Speaker 5: be a mess.
- 17:36Speaker 4: I'm sorry.
- 17:37Speaker 2: But I do think this. I do think I've seen.
- 17:41Speaker 1: a lot of mean things about Savannah being said when
- 17:44Speaker 1: it comes to this.
- 17:46Speaker 2: And she's such a sweet woman. She doesn't deserve... Listen,
- 17:51Speaker 2: I'm also.
- 17:51Speaker 1: Of the school of the moment you become a public
- 17:54Speaker 1: figure and you say things, you have to accept the
- 17:57Speaker 1: fact that people are allowed to talk about it.
- 17:59Speaker 4: Yeah, the scrutiny.
- 18:00Speaker 2: The scrutiny of it. What I will say is this.
- 18:03Speaker 1: What I do find fascinating, just me, is the choice
- 18:08Speaker 1: she made to even have a podcast.
- 18:10Speaker 2: And to even.
- 18:11Speaker 1: Now have the world know more about her, I do
- 18:15Speaker 1: sometimes wonder if she regrets opening up her private life
- 18:19Speaker 1: so much because now people are talking about Savannah in
- 18:24Speaker 1: a negative light and that was something that no one
- 18:28Speaker 1: ever did.
- 18:29Speaker 4: You know why, Carlos? Yes. You know why, brother? Because
- 18:32Speaker 4: they've been one too. Savannah James is a rich, beautiful
- 18:36Speaker 4: Black woman who stayed out the way and out the drama.
- 18:39Speaker 4: Rumors be damned. You know what I'm saying? Her and
- 18:42Speaker 4: LeBron are still together. They have successfully raised their kids
- 18:46Speaker 4: or whatever. And people have been waiting for a hole
- 18:49Speaker 4: to be poked in that. Savannah kind of opened the
- 18:51Speaker 4: door and gave them an entryway with the podcast. And
- 18:54Speaker 4: I don't know how she feels about that. Maybe she
- 18:56Speaker 4: needed that outlet, right? But I believe these are feelings
- 18:59Speaker 4: that people have been harboring for a very long time
- 19:01Speaker 4: when it comes to Savannah James, purely of being haters.
- 19:05Speaker 4: Because Savannah is up and she been up. And she's
- 19:07Speaker 4: done nothing but improve and ascend since we've been introduced
- 19:10Speaker 4: to her. She's only gotten better and better. Unfortunately, we
- 19:14Speaker 4: live in a world where people will hate on that.
- 19:15Speaker 4: And I believe that contributes largely to the discourse that
- 19:19Speaker 4: we witness in right now about a goddamn plane seat.
- 19:23Speaker 3: I'm going to tell you right now, when it comes
- 19:25Speaker 3: to women, especially in media or personalities, when you don't
- 19:29Speaker 3: speak and have zero opinion or they don't know your opinion,
- 19:33Speaker 3: all they have is how you look and how you dress.
- 19:36Speaker 3: The love comes so freely and so generously. The moment
- 19:40Speaker 3: you have an opinion and you give them something, they
- 19:43Speaker 3: will find a reason to dislike you. I remember how
- 19:45Speaker 3: much people used to love Amber Rose. And not that
- 19:48Speaker 3: she doesn't say unproblematic. things because she does.
- 19:50Speaker 4: Yeah, I was about to say. I was about to say.
- 19:53Speaker 5: She dug that grave with fire.
- 19:55Speaker 4: She gave it to them.
- 19:56Speaker 3: Well, okay. Yeah, now, right? But remember she first had
- 19:58Speaker 3: a talk show? It was like on V.
- 20:00Speaker 4: Yeah, Dr. Phil produced it.
- 20:02Speaker 3: So she wasn't very problematic when she first came out
- 20:04Speaker 3: with those times. It was after that when she started
- 20:06Speaker 3: saying all the goofy shit and turned MAGA and all
- 20:07Speaker 3: the other nonsense, right? And white woman shit. But she
- 20:12Speaker 3: may be an extreme example. Let me maybe pick someone else.
- 20:14Speaker 3: But I'm just saying, the more you have opinions as
- 20:17Speaker 3: a woman, the more you're going to get... This is
- 20:20Speaker 3: the beginning. And they better leave Savannah alone because she
- 20:22Speaker 3: has every right to speak on her lived experiences just
- 20:25Speaker 3: like anybody else without being crucified for... Because she just
- 20:30Speaker 3: happens to have a very blessed life. It ain't like
- 20:32Speaker 3: she just rolled up on someone. She's been down shooting
- 20:34Speaker 3: in the gym for a very long time with him.
- 20:39Speaker 1: This is Reality with the King, and I'm Carlos King.
- 20:42Speaker 1: Let's get back into the show.
- 20:44Speaker 6: We need to get better at disagreeing or not agreeing
- 20:48Speaker 6: on a topic and not making that the whole definition
- 20:51Speaker 6: of what a person is. We suck at that, and
- 20:55Speaker 6: we throw Black women away very quickly. I also feel
- 20:57Speaker 6: like Carlos, when you said this, it kind of hit me.
- 21:01Speaker 6: I think so many of the girls who are legacy
- 21:03Speaker 6: girls in regards to being in the league with husbands,
- 21:07Speaker 6: they watch the Juanita Jordan of it all.
- 21:10Speaker 5: And those kids are almost all out the house. I
- 21:15Speaker 5: think it's great.
- 21:16Speaker 6: I think she needs to not pull away, but get
- 21:18Speaker 6: a better team that helps prepare her.
- 21:21Speaker 5: Because I think if they would have.
- 21:22Speaker 6: Went on this podcast and the conversation had evolved from
- 21:25Speaker 6: their podcast to this new conversation... People would have been open.
- 21:29Speaker 6: It's the same thing they said like a year ago.
- 21:31Speaker 6: So it doesn't feel like they've processed anything. I think
- 21:33Speaker 6: she has a beauty brand that she's launching as well.
- 21:35Speaker 6: I think I saw something. She has some partners. So
- 21:38Speaker 6: I would say she's beautiful. Her hair color is the
- 21:40Speaker 6: color I sent to my hairstylist last week.
- 21:43Speaker 2: Fab.
- 21:45Speaker 6: And yeah, I think we should be able to critique.
- 21:48Speaker 6: black folks and not tear them apart.
- 21:50Speaker 3: Agreed. We do want to get better at that. It's
- 21:53Speaker 3: either black, but black folks, we are the people, we
- 21:55Speaker 3: are zero or a hundred. We don't really be halfway, right?
- 21:58Speaker 3: We like, we fucked with you. Oh, we hate you. Like,
- 22:01Speaker 3: why can't it be like, I don't hate you, but
- 22:02Speaker 3: I don't agree with you.
- 22:03Speaker 4: I didn't like what you did or said. You know
- 22:05Speaker 4: what I mean?
- 22:06Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 22:07Speaker 4: But to me, it depends on what they do or say.
- 22:09Speaker 4: Cause some motherfuckers like it's one and done. It's just, it's, it's,
- 22:12Speaker 4: it's case specific for me.
- 22:14Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 22:14Speaker 3: I agree.
- 22:15Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 22:16Speaker 2: All right.
- 22:17Speaker 4: I hate a motherfucker.
- 22:18Speaker 3: You said what?
- 22:19Speaker 4: I reserve my right to hate and be a motherfucker.
- 22:21Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying?
- 22:22Speaker 3: Well, some people deserve it, but not for a different... Yeah, like,
- 22:25Speaker 3: you know, like, you know who I can't stand from
- 22:28Speaker 3: reality TV. Begins with a O.
- 22:30Speaker 2: So, let's move on to the next topic. Claudia, please!
- 22:37Speaker 3: Oh, God.
- 22:37Speaker 2: All right. So, second topic of the day. We have
- 22:41Speaker 2: to get into the actor, Da Vinci.
- 22:44Speaker 1: A lot of you guys may know him due to
- 22:46Speaker 1: his Starring role in 50 Cent executive produced show BMF
- 22:52Speaker 1: that unfortunately got canceled last season. But he is now
- 22:57Speaker 1: currently starring in Chicago Fire that's coming out. And he's
- 23:01Speaker 1: also starring in a Tyler Perry movie, not movie, series
- 23:06Speaker 1: as well. So he was on Cam Newton's.
- 23:11Speaker 2: Podcast.
- 23:13Speaker 1: And he's catching a lot of heat due to a
- 23:15Speaker 1: few things he had to say when it comes to
- 23:20Speaker 1: the criticism of American work ethic.
- 23:23Speaker 2: He stated that Americans have been lazy. These are his words.
- 23:28Speaker 1: Americans have been lazy and incompetent for a really long time,
- 23:35Speaker 1: contrasting modern American culture with his Haitian upbringing.
- 23:41Speaker 2: He also expressed.
- 23:42Speaker 1: And weighed in on the contentious ongoing perception surrounding how
- 23:47Speaker 1: some Caribbean Americans view black Americans as well. He is
- 23:54Speaker 1: receiving a lot of backlash for this in regards to
- 23:58Speaker 1: his thoughts on it. Dominique, starting with you, what are
- 24:02Speaker 1: your thoughts on the things Da Vinci has said in
- 24:05Speaker 1: regards to referring to Americans as lazy and incompetent?
- 24:10Speaker 2: And also I want.
- 24:11Speaker 1: To add, he did mention that he understood why some
- 24:15Speaker 1: producers look for actors overseas because of the work ethic.
- 24:22Speaker 2: Of course, highlighting why he thinks Americans are lazy.
- 24:26Speaker 6: As someone who was born and raised in Brooklyn, like, nah,
- 24:30Speaker 6: didn't come over here like in his teens. So I,
- 24:33Speaker 6: first of all, as a educator and a person who
- 24:38Speaker 6: digs into the science of people, I saw the clip
- 24:41Speaker 6: and then everyone was like, y'all don't know what y'all
- 24:43Speaker 6: are saying because you're only going off of a clip.
- 24:44Speaker 5: I'm like, okay, great.
- 24:46Speaker 6: So I spent the weekend. I not only looked at
- 24:49Speaker 6: the full interview, I reviewed seven interviews of Da Vinci
- 24:53Speaker 6: from May 16, 2023 until the most recent one. Almost
- 24:57Speaker 6: seven hours of interviews and almost 80,000 words in the
- 25:02Speaker 6: transcription that I cross-referenced to pull out. I needed to
- 25:05Speaker 6: aggregate this because I'm like, are y'all making... I know
- 25:09Speaker 6: I'm not a dummy bitch like this. It just can't be.
- 25:11Speaker 6: And y'all are saying, talking to me like I'm a
- 25:13Speaker 6: dummy bitch. And they were stuck on these things. He
- 25:16Speaker 6: said American. He didn't say African-Americans. You are on a
- 25:20Speaker 6: show talking to Cam Newton, who exclusively, I think, on
- 25:25Speaker 6: Funky Friday has interviewed black folks or folks of color.
- 25:27Speaker 6: Maybe Gary Owen has walked through there or something like that.
- 25:30Speaker 6: But on average, this is a space that's curated by
- 25:33Speaker 6: a African-American man that has an audience of African-American folks.
- 25:38Speaker 6: You became known for being on shows that are clearly
- 25:41Speaker 6: centered in the African-American experience. You are not someone that
- 25:45Speaker 6: people go to to be a patronage to talk about
- 25:47Speaker 6: a mainstream conversation of American experience. If they're asking you
- 25:52Speaker 6: to come someplace, they're asking you to go to the
- 25:54Speaker 6: Essence Festival. They're asking you to go to Culture Con.
- 25:57Speaker 6: So let's stop acting like that. So he didn't say African-Americans,
- 26:01Speaker 6: but I do not think that he was speaking with
- 26:04Speaker 6: a idea.
- 26:05Speaker 5: Of all Americans, too.
- 26:09Speaker 6: I found a through line of these conversations he's had
- 26:13Speaker 6: where his experience, which we can't negate his experience, I
- 26:17Speaker 6: think it's crappy that you had to run a whole
- 26:20Speaker 6: household at seven and eight years old. And I think
- 26:23Speaker 6: it's absurd for you to think that African-American young people
- 26:26Speaker 6: don't go through the same thing, right? This idea that
- 26:30Speaker 6: within a marginalized community, you have to make us feel
- 26:34Speaker 6: like we're less than for you to be validated when
- 26:36Speaker 6: all Blackness is important. And I'm from Omaha, Nebraska. I
- 26:39Speaker 6: didn't grow up with the diaspora conversation. Like, I still
- 26:43Speaker 6: be like, okay, why are the girls angry with each other?
- 26:46Speaker 6: And at the end of the day, I feel like
- 26:47Speaker 6: DaVinci showed up in a very anti-Black way. And I
- 26:52Speaker 6: think he did not do service to his Haitian community
- 26:55Speaker 6: because he put them in the middle of this conversation
- 26:57Speaker 6: where people who are being xenophobic, people who do want
- 27:00Speaker 6: to engage in a diaspora war, found a reason to
- 27:03Speaker 6: do that. Last but not least, he had an hour
- 27:06Speaker 6: and some change talking with Cam Newton, and he talked
- 27:08Speaker 6: about what the Haitian community experienced, but he didn't talk
- 27:11Speaker 6: about TPS removal. He didn't talk about how there are
- 27:15Speaker 6: entire throngs of Haitian people who are no longer safe.
- 27:18Speaker 6: The young man who walked into traffic and killed himself,
- 27:21Speaker 6: unalived himself a few weeks ago due to being put
- 27:23Speaker 6: on an anchor monitor.
- 27:25Speaker 2: So I.
- 27:27Speaker 6: I really want people to listen to his interview. I
- 27:30Speaker 6: want us to not act obtuse about the specificity of
- 27:34Speaker 6: language to think about who we're hearing from. And last
- 27:36Speaker 6: but not least, how many times can Da Vinci talk
- 27:38Speaker 6: about and be online advocating for the ability to date
- 27:42Speaker 6: outside of his race and not be a barrier to
- 27:45Speaker 6: him and align himself with whiteness before people respect who
- 27:49Speaker 6: he is and what his values are? You just said, Carlos, like, oh,
- 27:52Speaker 6: people don't give people opportunities to make mistakes. Across platforms,
- 27:57Speaker 6: they're making excuses for Da Vinci everywhere. Oh, he didn't
- 28:00Speaker 6: know what he was saying. Oh, we need to give
- 28:02Speaker 6: him grace. We need to give him support. You're going
- 28:04Speaker 6: into the Dick Wolf universe, and I understand that is
- 28:06Speaker 6: a very white-centered space, but you built a platform on
- 28:10Speaker 6: Black people, specifically a story about an African-American man who
- 28:13Speaker 6: was put into the carceral state and had to survive it.
- 28:17Speaker 5: And I think that's disingenuous as hell.
- 28:20Speaker 2: Claudia Jordan?
- 28:23Speaker 3: Thank you for doing all that research that I did not. Um,
- 28:27Speaker 3: but from what you're saying and what we've seen here
- 28:29Speaker 3: and what little I've heard, I haven't heard much about him, uh, in,
- 28:33Speaker 3: in what I look at online, but I'm tired of
- 28:36Speaker 3: this kind of narrative from black people and like this,
- 28:40Speaker 3: this wedge between like black American, African Americans and Caribbean,
- 28:44Speaker 3: black American blacks. And it, it, I don't know what
- 28:48Speaker 3: the goal is with this. I really don't. I don't
- 28:51Speaker 3: know what the goal of this is. Um, Dominique, you
- 28:53Speaker 3: touched on a lot of things, like a lot of
- 28:55Speaker 3: black people, African-Americans have gone through similar experiences. And I
- 28:58Speaker 3: don't know about grouping everybody into this big, bad pot
- 29:02Speaker 3: of lazy black niggas in America. And then not unlike
- 29:06Speaker 3: us in the Caribbean, we work so much harder. You
- 29:08Speaker 3: can find bad apples and lazy MFs right in Jamaica,
- 29:12Speaker 3: right in Haiti, right in the Caribbean, right in Aruba,
- 29:17Speaker 3: right anywhere, okay? So that's a little bit irritating. Isn't
- 29:22Speaker 3: that kind of what white people do to us? Ain't
- 29:25Speaker 3: that what they do to us and just want to
- 29:26Speaker 3: put us all in one batch, one box, one bad
- 29:29Speaker 3: batch of black folks? So I don't know. I just
- 29:32Speaker 3: feel like I don't like that a lot of Let
- 29:35Speaker 3: me not say that. I don't like that I've seen enough...
- 29:40Speaker 3: black men and some women in media where they're getting
- 29:44Speaker 3: this attention from negative commentary on us as a whole.
- 29:49Speaker 3: And it gets attention because when a black man says it, oh, look, look,
- 29:53Speaker 3: and it resonates. It does numbers. And I'm kind of
- 29:55Speaker 3: sick of it. And it just seems... I don't know
- 29:59Speaker 3: what the point of it is. I really don't. I don't.
- 30:03Speaker 3: And thank you for doing the seven hours of research
- 30:05Speaker 3: that I don't want to watch, but maybe I should.
- 30:09Speaker 4: Should I?
- 30:10Speaker 3: Was it interesting?
- 30:12Speaker 6: I put everything together on my sub stack and I
- 30:14Speaker 6: put all the transcripts up there and I coded all
- 30:17Speaker 6: of the information because also I think in this media age,
- 30:22Speaker 6: people are struggling with understanding context clues.
- 30:25Speaker 3: Yes, we are.
- 30:27Speaker 6: Everyone has a podcast, everybody has a platform, but people
- 30:29Speaker 6: are not reading. And so I literally pulled everything and
- 30:32Speaker 6: put it online because I'm just like, okay, if y'all
- 30:34Speaker 6: want to talk about this, really read what this man
- 30:37Speaker 6: is saying.
- 30:37Speaker 4: Be informed.
- 30:38Speaker 5: Be informed.
- 30:40Speaker 3: Well, the average, I mean, especially with like our short
- 30:44Speaker 3: attention spans collectively as a society now, remember when we
- 30:48Speaker 3: used to be able to watch long form interviews and
- 30:50Speaker 3: stuff online and it just went from That to one
- 30:53Speaker 3: minute to 15 seconds to a headline. So it's easy
- 30:58Speaker 3: to have these be, to be rage baited over these things.
- 31:00Speaker 3: So thank you for doing the work that, you know,
- 31:03Speaker 3: I did not do.
- 31:04Speaker 2: As a former journalist, so you say.
- 31:08Speaker 3: Well, do I need to really do a report on
- 31:10Speaker 3: Da Vinci? I'm more a political girl.
- 31:14Speaker 5: I did say that I didn't say that.
- 31:18Speaker 1: She knows I'm messing with her. Dustin, what are your
- 31:20Speaker 1: thoughts on what he said? Do you think people are
- 31:22Speaker 1: reacting to what he said? Or based on even what
- 31:28Speaker 1: his best friend said, I want to add this to you, Dustin. Obviously,
- 31:32Speaker 1: Dominique and Claudia chime in, too. So, Chris, put up
- 31:35Speaker 1: a comment from a former friend of Da Vinci who
- 31:42Speaker 1: also had something to say about his comments.
- 31:46Speaker 2: And I want to be able... to read that.
- 31:48Speaker 1: For you guys as well before Dustin responds because his
- 31:53Speaker 1: friend is saying that this is pretty much Da Vinci's
- 31:58Speaker 1: character and who he is. So let me get the
- 32:04Speaker 1: actual quote from his friend.
- 32:07Speaker 2: But Dustin, while I get that, let me know what
- 32:10Speaker 2: you think about what.
- 32:11Speaker 4: He said first. Yeah, so Da Vinci, I think, is
- 32:15Speaker 4: 30 years old now. and he's a really, really talented actor, man.
- 32:19Speaker 4: I saw him on stage in Candy's play, what was
- 32:24Speaker 4: it called? Thoughts of a Colored Man. I thought he
- 32:26Speaker 4: was great on BMF, which is a story that was
- 32:29Speaker 4: important to me as a Michigan native. Carlos, you a Detroiter,
- 32:32Speaker 4: you know the story of Big Meats. That was important
- 32:34Speaker 4: to us, so I was really excited about that show.
- 32:36Speaker 4: And I think that this is a lesson later in
- 32:39Speaker 4: life that Da Vinci needed to learn. I think the
- 32:42Speaker 4: discourse surrounding his comments on Cam Newton's show, who, by
- 32:46Speaker 4: the way, Cam Newton looks like they shot his clothes
- 32:49Speaker 4: on him out of cannon. Every time you see him,
- 32:51Speaker 4: they look like they loaded up a cannon with a
- 32:53Speaker 4: whole bunch of clothes and pieces and just shot him out.
- 32:56Speaker 4: And he just stood out and let the clothes fly
- 32:59Speaker 4: on him like that.
- 33:00Speaker 3: Like no rhyme or reason?
- 33:03Speaker 4: No, I mean literally loaded into a cannon, shot out
- 33:05Speaker 4: and placed on his body that way. Now, also, I
- 33:11Speaker 4: think that this was a lesson that Da Vinci needed
- 33:13Speaker 4: to learn. And this is what it looked like. And
- 33:17Speaker 4: at this stage in his life for him to understand
- 33:20Speaker 4: that he misunderstood black Americans, being a black American himself,
- 33:25Speaker 4: black Haitian American, he misunderstood that. I also think that
- 33:28Speaker 4: he needed to learn that he was parent, because in
- 33:32Speaker 4: the readings, and I want to be clear, the reason
- 33:34Speaker 4: that I think he needed to learn these lessons is
- 33:36Speaker 4: because they were in the way of a very promising
- 33:39Speaker 4: trajectory for him as a thespian, as an actor. So
- 33:42Speaker 4: he needed to get this shit out the way, right?
- 33:44Speaker 4: He needs to understand that he had black Americans fucked up.
- 33:48Speaker 4: He needs to understand that he was parroting and repeating
- 33:52Speaker 4: MAGA talking points, white Christian nationalist talking points about black Americans.
- 33:57Speaker 4: And I hope he doesn't want to align himself with
- 33:59Speaker 4: those things. I hope he wasn't doing that unknowingly, but
- 34:02Speaker 4: this is a way he can learn that lesson. And
- 34:04Speaker 4: I think he also needs to understand how to better
- 34:07Speaker 4: maximize his time in the media, doing interviews and speaking
- 34:12Speaker 4: to the public. Talk about important shit. He's very proud
- 34:16Speaker 4: of his Haitian heritage, so why not speak on, like
- 34:19Speaker 4: Dominique said, the plight of Haitian Americans? Why not speak
- 34:23Speaker 4: on Donald Trump calling Haiti a shithole country? We can
- 34:26Speaker 4: take it all the way back. You know what I mean?
- 34:28Speaker 4: There's so many other ways that Da Vinci could maximize
- 34:32Speaker 4: and best use his time in the media, which I'm
- 34:35Speaker 4: sure he'll have more of, because again, He's a gifted actor,
- 34:38Speaker 4: and I want to see him do it more. We
- 34:40Speaker 4: need him more as an actor, right? But while he's
- 34:43Speaker 4: out there on the main stage in the media, utilize
- 34:47Speaker 4: your time spent better, brother, and maybe this is a
- 34:49Speaker 4: way that he can learn that, right? Sometimes you have
- 34:53Speaker 4: to learn lessons the hard way. It's a lot of
- 34:55Speaker 4: very important conversations going on right now surrounding his comments,
- 35:00Speaker 4: and people are researching what he said. Dominique, The consummate
- 35:04Speaker 4: professional that she is just sat here and told y'all
- 35:06Speaker 4: that she watched over seven hours worth of interviews before
- 35:10Speaker 4: offering an opinion on what he said. Inform yourself the
- 35:15Speaker 4: same way Dominique did, DaVinci. Now's your chance to really
- 35:18Speaker 4: turn this around. Make statements that convey a more clear
- 35:22Speaker 4: understanding of what you misspoke on. Make statements that convey
- 35:27Speaker 4: an acknowledgement of the hurt that that may have caused.
- 35:29Speaker 4: and keep acting your ass off in projects so that
- 35:32Speaker 4: we can celebrate you and uplift you the way that
- 35:35Speaker 4: we should and focus on the acting. If we zoom
- 35:38Speaker 4: out right now, we got way bigger fish. This conversation
- 35:41Speaker 4: is about Black Americans, Haitian Americans, both of whom have
- 35:44Speaker 4: way bigger fish to fry than what this brother thinks
- 35:48Speaker 4: about anything, to be honest with you, but definitely about
- 35:51Speaker 4: whether or not Black Americans are lazy. Much bigger fish
- 35:54Speaker 4: to fry. He's got a lot of visibility, and I
- 35:57Speaker 4: really hope that he learns from this moving forward and
- 36:00Speaker 4: that we get to see him in more projects.
- 36:02Speaker 3: Especially right now with all the stuff that Haiti's in
- 36:04Speaker 3: the news for right now. He definitely could have used
- 36:06Speaker 3: his platform for kind of shining a light on that.
- 36:10Speaker 3: Y'all got a whole issue with the Dominican Republic right
- 36:12Speaker 3: now shunning you guys and trying to stop your athletes
- 36:15Speaker 3: from even performing there and competing. There's a whole bunch
- 36:17Speaker 3: of stuff going on.
- 36:18Speaker 4: And that's generations deep, that beef you're speaking of, Claudia.
- 36:21Speaker 4: That is ages old. So again, much more things that
- 36:26Speaker 4: he could focus on. That's all.
- 36:28Speaker 2: Yeah, like you said, he's actually a great actor. I
- 36:31Speaker 2: was a big fan of BMF. I'm from Detroit.
- 36:33Speaker 1: I'm very familiar with that whole family.
- 36:36Speaker 2: And I thought he did an incredible job as an actor.
- 36:41Speaker 1: His friend named Brandon, just to add context to it,
- 36:44Speaker 1: these are alleged things he has said about his friend,
- 36:49Speaker 1: his former friend Da Vinci. His name is Brandon Brown,
- 36:53Speaker 1: who claims that Da Vinci allegedly would try to separate
- 36:58Speaker 1: his personal brand from his black identity, frequently saying, I'm
- 37:02Speaker 1: not black, I'm OJ.
- 37:03Speaker 2: He didn't say that, guys.
- 37:05Speaker 5: He said- I have the transcript from the friend too.
- 37:13Speaker 1: All right. So I'm going to start with you, Dominique.
- 37:18Speaker 1: He's alleging that Da Vinci said, I'm not black, I'm Haitian.
- 37:24Speaker 1: He alleged that Da Vinci explicitly stated that he did
- 37:27Speaker 1: not want to wear a t-shirt with the word black
- 37:29Speaker 1: on it.
- 37:29Speaker 4: Because he wanted to move away.
- 37:31Speaker 2: From the black thing. He's alleging that Da Vinci did
- 37:35Speaker 2: not want to date black women.
- 37:36Speaker 3: Okay.
- 37:37Speaker 2: It was a whole thing. So listen, these are things
- 37:41Speaker 2: he's alleging.
- 37:43Speaker 1: It's one of those things where, listen, when something comes out,
- 37:47Speaker 1: there is this trend of a pile on that happens
- 37:51Speaker 1: because it's an opportunity to put your name out there
- 37:57Speaker 1: when people don't know who you are. I'm not saying
- 37:59Speaker 1: what Brandon Brown is saying is true or not. The
- 38:04Speaker 1: information has not been verified yet.
- 38:06Speaker 2: But these are accusations he has said.
- 38:10Speaker 5: So I did, I looked at Brandon's career. He is
- 38:12Speaker 5: doing pretty well.
- 38:14Speaker 6: The only reason he wasn't on the new evolution of
- 38:17Speaker 6: A Different World is because he didn't live in Atlanta.
- 38:19Speaker 6: So like people are hiring him, working with him. I
- 38:22Speaker 6: watched the video and in the video, he does allege
- 38:25Speaker 6: that it was, Brandon was starting a clothing line. And
- 38:28Speaker 6: so Brandon is a photographer. You know, he does all
- 38:31Speaker 6: sorts of visual arts on top of being a actor.
- 38:34Speaker 6: And so he would do Da Vinci's head shots on
- 38:36Speaker 6: and so forth in the pandemic. Brandon started a clothing
- 38:41Speaker 6: line of like vegan is black or black like vegan
- 38:43Speaker 6: or something like that. Da Vinci allegedly has him come
- 38:45Speaker 6: over and take the pictures as he's on the way home.
- 38:47Speaker 6: Da Vinci allegedly calls and says, hey, my team doesn't
- 38:50Speaker 6: want me doing the black thing. Now, Brandon did post
- 38:52Speaker 6: the picture of Da Vinci in the T-shirt in the video. Also,
- 38:58Speaker 6: when you look at their videos on TikTok where Da
- 39:01Speaker 6: Vinci used to be on live. debating with Black women
- 39:04Speaker 6: about his right to date outside of his race, how
- 39:08Speaker 6: Black men are being persecuted for dating white women. And
- 39:11Speaker 6: so when you extrapolate the words out of his mouth
- 39:13Speaker 6: with the statements from his friend, where you can look
- 39:16Speaker 6: at some of these pictures, I think that's where we
- 39:18Speaker 6: can't say it's complete evidence, but when I talk about
- 39:21Speaker 6: pulling things together, you.
- 39:24Speaker 5: Can present a vision.
- 39:25Speaker 6: And to what Dustin said, when you have opportunities to
- 39:29Speaker 6: speak to a Cam Newton, to speak, he, you know,
- 39:32Speaker 6: my seven interviews was a shade room interview. I, where
- 39:35Speaker 6: he sat down with another person who is black, but
- 39:38Speaker 6: not African-American. So I want to see how you spoke
- 39:40Speaker 6: to people from his community, lip service with Angela Yee.
- 39:43Speaker 6: How does he talk when he's in a room full
- 39:44Speaker 6: of women that are light skin that are his preference
- 39:47Speaker 6: closer to whiteness? How does he, he sat down with
- 39:50Speaker 6: the sister from sisters. He sat down with Ricky, who the, the,
- 39:55Speaker 6: the comedian, the, the church guy, Ricky Smiley. Ricky Smiley,
- 39:58Speaker 6: he sat down with the two guys from Power, the
- 40:01Speaker 6: young boys who have the podcast from Power.
- 40:03Speaker 4: Yeah, Michael Rainey.
- 40:04Speaker 2: Right.
- 40:04Speaker 6: So I want to see how you spoke to different
- 40:07Speaker 6: communities and it stayed the same. So I just feel
- 40:10Speaker 6: like we shouldn't throw anybody away. I also want to
- 40:13Speaker 6: say this as someone who's new to the diaspora conversation.
- 40:18Speaker 6: We should hold him accountable to his statements and not
- 40:21Speaker 6: make his statements the statements of an entire.
- 40:23Speaker 5: Community of people.
- 40:23Speaker 4: Yes. Yes.
- 40:25Speaker 6: Because I am flabbergasted the number of Haitian people who
- 40:27Speaker 6: have inboxed me and like thanking me for like comprehending that.
- 40:31Speaker 5: He doesn't speak for everybody. Like I was like, oh,
- 40:33Speaker 5: like that's not normal.
- 40:34Speaker 6: But I think that takes away from us being able
- 40:37Speaker 6: to challenge him, which is what Dustin was pointing to
- 40:39Speaker 6: of this is his chance.
- 40:40Speaker 4: To be like.
- 40:42Speaker 5: I fucked up.
- 40:43Speaker 4: You know what?
- 40:44Speaker 5: Let me sit with it. And even if.
- 40:46Speaker 6: You just going to just be better about not saying
- 40:48Speaker 6: dumb stuff, maybe you going to want to hunt. You
- 40:51Speaker 6: love a Quincy Jones set. You love hunting on a wife.
- 40:54Speaker 6: Work your set. That lady sacrificed her life for that
- 40:58Speaker 6: loving law.
- 40:59Speaker 5: Work it.
- 40:59Speaker 4: Get your life.
- 41:01Speaker 5: Have all your pieces.
- 41:02Speaker 6: But you, greater levels, greater devils, like the girls want
- 41:07Speaker 6: these huge careers and y'all don't want to get a team.
- 41:10Speaker 6: And so either learn, either figure out how to speak
- 41:12Speaker 6: better or get a team that can prepare you to
- 41:16Speaker 6: do so because I don't think you're going to get
- 41:17Speaker 6: many chances.
- 41:22Speaker 2: I agree.
- 41:28Speaker 1: Listen, and this is me speaking as the host of
- 41:31Speaker 1: Reality with a King podcast.
- 41:33Speaker 2: That interviews people.
- 41:34Speaker 1: But I do think what the three of you are
- 41:36Speaker 1: saying that I could not agree with more is is
- 41:39Speaker 1: when you put yourself out there, just make sure you
- 41:43Speaker 1: have the right team around you so that I could
- 41:47Speaker 1: have lived my life not knowing this.
- 41:50Speaker 2: That's how I feel.
- 41:51Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying? This is not making me
- 41:54Speaker 1: want to watch the successful career he has, and I
- 41:58Speaker 1: don't understand why this was even a necessary topic. Now, granted, listen,
- 42:05Speaker 1: we're talking about it only because it's out there, but
- 42:07Speaker 1: I do think If you're going to put yourself out there,
- 42:10Speaker 1: make it meaningful first.
- 42:13Speaker 4: And I just want to dig a little bit deeper
- 42:15Speaker 4: into the team conversation because I don't want to absolve him.
- 42:18Speaker 4: And I'm not suggesting that you, Dominique, or you, Carlos,
- 42:21Speaker 4: are trying to do this with your commentary. But I
- 42:24Speaker 4: don't want to absolve Da Vinci of any accountability in
- 42:26Speaker 4: what he spoke about because what he spoke on were feelings,
- 42:30Speaker 4: his feelings, his opinions, and his perspectives. And so... And also,
- 42:37Speaker 4: as a 30-year-old man who claims to have such strong
- 42:40Speaker 4: feelings that are related to race and related to... It's
- 42:43Speaker 4: also a Libra. Yeah, and I don't know nothing about that.
- 42:47Speaker 4: But being a Libra, too, damn it, because I trust
- 42:50Speaker 4: that you're right, Dominique. You know your shit. So being
- 42:52Speaker 4: a Libra, too, I just think he should know he
- 42:55Speaker 4: should be more media savvy as somebody who he should
- 42:58Speaker 4: value his work and his career more than to speak
- 43:02Speaker 4: carelessly about in those spaces and in his quest to
- 43:05Speaker 4: not speak carelessly, he should really pursue a true understanding,
- 43:09Speaker 4: pursue rather a true understanding. Like he's got to get better.
- 43:13Speaker 4: This ain't really about a team telling somebody don't ask
- 43:17Speaker 4: him this and don't ask him that. He needs to
- 43:19Speaker 4: understand that he's on a world stage as an actor,
- 43:23Speaker 4: as a thespian. You want your work to reach all
- 43:25Speaker 4: around the world. That means all kinds of people. You
- 43:28Speaker 4: know what I'm saying? I just think he, The problem
- 43:30Speaker 4: is he needs to look within in order to move forward.
- 43:33Speaker 4: That's what I think.
- 43:35Speaker 3: When I used to host Out Loud with Claudia Jordan,
- 43:39Speaker 3: it was like they would find me actors. Especially during COVID, right?
- 43:44Speaker 3: The producers would find my guests, right? I didn't have
- 43:47Speaker 3: that much of a hand in it. And sometimes they
- 43:49Speaker 3: would book a lot of actors that were promoting TV shows, right?
- 43:53Speaker 3: My least favorite interviews were male actors, right? And I
- 43:59Speaker 3: feel like, especially the ones that were eye candy, I
- 44:02Speaker 3: know this is going to sound a little surface, but
- 44:03Speaker 3: it's okay. I'll own that. A lot of times, sometimes
- 44:07Speaker 3: they would come on here. And they would just talk
- 44:11Speaker 3: and talk and talk and thinking the more they talk,
- 44:13Speaker 3: the deeper they sounded and the way they were taking
- 44:16Speaker 3: the focus off of their looks, right? It was about like,
- 44:19Speaker 3: I'm deep. I used to call it fake deep. I'm like,
- 44:21Speaker 3: can you please stop sending me these fake deep brothers?
- 44:23Speaker 3: Because I would cringe doing these interviews. Sometimes there is
- 44:26Speaker 3: an option, you guys, of just shutting the fuck up.
- 44:29Speaker 3: Like you don't have to say these things. You can
- 44:32Speaker 3: sometimes just talk about your project if you're not going
- 44:34Speaker 3: to say something of note or that's good or if
- 44:36Speaker 3: it's an area that you're weak in. several areas that
- 44:39Speaker 3: I'm weak in, guess what I do? Shut up. Don't
- 44:41Speaker 3: say anything. Let everybody else talk. Let them say their piece.
- 44:45Speaker 3: And you avoid a lot of missteps when you do that.
- 44:48Speaker 3: You know what I mean? And maybe you got a
- 44:50Speaker 3: homeboy you can run things by. Hey, what do you
- 44:52Speaker 3: think if I talk about this? I don't really fuck
- 44:53Speaker 3: a black woman, but I'm about to go on this
- 44:55Speaker 3: show where the audience is 99.9% black. You think I
- 44:58Speaker 3: should say this part? Your boy might say, hey, dog,
- 45:03Speaker 3: not too much. Sometimes they're even that deep. Sometimes it's
- 45:06Speaker 3: as simple as, Shutting the fuck up.
- 45:11Speaker 2: And that's that. All right. Hey, all right. I love
- 45:16Speaker 2: the sound effect now. On to our next topic. Friend
- 45:20Speaker 2: to the show, Ebony K.
- 45:21Speaker 1: Williams was on a podcast recently and had some very
- 45:27Speaker 1: choice words about Todd Tucker, who had a movie premiere
- 45:34Speaker 1: for his series about his divorce with Candy. And these
- 45:38Speaker 1: are some things that Ebony K.
- 45:40Speaker 2: Williams says. We're going to play it for you guys
- 45:42Speaker 2: so y'all could hear it from her mouth.
- 45:45Speaker 7: I'm more concerned with Todd and Todd in a very
- 45:49Speaker 7: particular and predictable way, leveraging his relationship and proximity to
- 45:55Speaker 7: his extremely famous and rich wife, Candy, into now what
- 45:59Speaker 7: is a secondary career for him.
- 46:02Speaker 3: And who do I blame? I blame Kandi.
- 46:04Speaker 7: See, this is why in my world, highly visible women
- 46:07Speaker 7: who have built platforms from scratch is a multi, multi, multi,
- 46:11Speaker 7: multi Grammy award winning, multi, multi, multi millionaire. You pick
- 46:14Speaker 7: this little Negro and ain't nobody mad at the pig.
- 46:16Speaker 7: But then you platformed him. Look at Stephen A looking disgruntled.
- 46:22Speaker 5: Why is his back like that?
- 46:23Speaker 4: I'm so glad y'all left that part in. Look at
- 46:25Speaker 4: Stephen A looking disgruntled.
- 46:28Speaker 2: Can I just say this?
- 46:31Speaker 1: Y'all could never make me hate FDK Williams. The one
- 46:35Speaker 1: thing I love about her, and there's actually several things.
- 46:40Speaker 1: I love the way she speaks because she has the
- 46:45Speaker 1: ability with her voice to make you hold court, pun intended.
- 46:51Speaker 1: And you listen because she speaks with such fire and
- 46:54Speaker 1: passion and intensity.
- 46:55Speaker 3: And authority.
- 46:57Speaker 2: Thank you. Thank you.
- 46:58Speaker 1: And authority that I can literally watch this woman talk
- 47:03Speaker 1: all day long.
- 47:03Speaker 2: And Ebony, I love you. And that's why we did
- 47:05Speaker 2: stuff together. And we'll continue to. But Ebony says some
- 47:09Speaker 2: very strong things.
- 47:12Speaker 1: Me, Claudia, Dustin, and Mandy have a show on my
- 47:15Speaker 1: Patreon called Reality of the Dark. And on every other Friday,
- 47:19Speaker 1: Freaky Fridays, shameless plug, but Dominique, on that show, I
- 47:25Speaker 1: did mention how Ebony is known, obviously, for saying something
- 47:32Speaker 1: that people took as controversial, which is she doesn't want
- 47:35Speaker 1: to date the bus driver.
- 47:37Speaker 2: She has no interest.
- 47:38Speaker 1: When Candy and Todd was going through their divorce and
- 47:41Speaker 1: custodial battle, she said on my platform, this is the
- 47:46Speaker 1: reason why I said I'm not dating the bus driver.
- 47:49Speaker 3: They were so mad.
- 47:50Speaker 2: They were angry.
- 47:51Speaker 1: She said, based on what Todd was doing with wanting
- 47:56Speaker 1: full custody, she said, in no way, shape, or form
- 48:00Speaker 1: am I going to date a man who makes less
- 48:03Speaker 1: than me when society has positioned men to out-earn their
- 48:09Speaker 1: female counterparties. She said, I'm already losing starting that. And
- 48:13Speaker 1: then to add insult to injury, you want to take
- 48:15Speaker 1: my baby that I gave birth to and want full
- 48:18Speaker 1: custody of this?
- 48:20Speaker 2: No.
- 48:20Speaker 1: And she said that's the reason why as a woman,
- 48:23Speaker 1: she decided to have her beautiful baby Liberty the way
- 48:27Speaker 1: she wanted to because no man was going to enter
- 48:30Speaker 1: her life even threatening to take custody away from her.
- 48:34Speaker 2: Claudia, I want to start with you on this. What
- 48:36Speaker 2: are your thoughts, although I may know, What are your
- 48:38Speaker 2: thoughts on.
- 48:38Speaker 1: What Ebony said in terms of, you know, listen, she said, listen,
- 48:42Speaker 1: Love Candy, I gotta blame you. You platformed this individual
- 48:47Speaker 1: and you pretty much can't be mad at what he's doing.
- 48:50Speaker 3: I agree that she can't be mad at what he's
- 48:52Speaker 3: doing because he, listen, he has a right to talk
- 48:55Speaker 3: about his side of the story. You know, I always
- 48:58Speaker 3: rock for the ladies and I love me some Ebony.
- 49:01Speaker 3: She did platform him and, you know, whether you agree
- 49:04Speaker 3: with them getting together or not, you know, that's on you,
- 49:07Speaker 3: but He has a right to speak about his side
- 49:11Speaker 3: of the story.
- 49:12Speaker 7: He does.
- 49:13Speaker 4: He does.
- 49:13Speaker 3: I'm not mad at him about that. I don't think
- 49:16Speaker 3: he needs to just shut up and dribble.
- 49:18Speaker 2: I don't.
- 49:18Speaker 3: I don't think so. And Ebony is free to have
- 49:24Speaker 3: that opinion of, hey, this is why I don't date
- 49:27Speaker 3: this kind of guy because she's operating from a place
- 49:30Speaker 3: where she's protecting herself. But I don't think, listen, I
- 49:34Speaker 3: may not agree with everything he's doing or saying, but
- 49:36Speaker 3: I don't think he needs to just shut up and
- 49:38Speaker 3: not say anything. I don't like some, now we had
- 49:40Speaker 3: some nuanced conversations about the threesome stuff and like his
- 49:45Speaker 3: timing and how he chose to kind of weaponize it
- 49:48Speaker 3: after the fact. It's one thing when you talk about
- 49:50Speaker 3: it when we're in a good place, but it's another
- 49:51Speaker 3: thing when you kind of drag it when we're not
- 49:53Speaker 3: in a good place. I agree with that. I think
- 49:56Speaker 3: that wasn't cool. But if he's just talking about his experience,
- 49:59Speaker 3: one thing, but don't start dragging the woman that gave
- 50:02Speaker 3: you this platform. That's when I would have a major
- 50:04Speaker 3: problem with it.
- 50:07Speaker 2: Dominique Morgan. Yeah, no.
- 50:10Speaker 6: I agree that he has the right to share his
- 50:13Speaker 6: experience and his story. Earlier, I was just thinking about
- 50:17Speaker 6: the responsibility of covering your partner and what does that
- 50:20Speaker 6: look like in relationship. And oftentimes, people will discuss, like
- 50:24Speaker 6: when we think about trad wives and stuff like that,
- 50:27Speaker 6: where men will display.
- 50:29Speaker 5: Like if they don't love you, they don't know how
- 50:31Speaker 5: to like you still.
- 50:33Speaker 6: And so you automatically become an enemy or someone who's
- 50:36Speaker 6: on the opposite side. And I think that And I
- 50:40Speaker 6: have not seen the movie. I think it just premiered
- 50:42Speaker 6: this weekend, right? I saw some of the clips. But
- 50:44Speaker 6: I remember what sat with me. And, of course, you're
- 50:47Speaker 6: producing things. You want people to kind of be zoomed
- 50:49Speaker 6: in and want to know more. Is that when Candy
- 50:52Speaker 6: did talk about their sex life, we never got clear
- 50:57Speaker 6: details about what Todd did and who Todd did it with.
- 51:01Speaker 6: Regardless of what the city of Atlanta says. It never
- 51:05Speaker 6: came out of Candy's mouth. it was always more in
- 51:08Speaker 6: a affirming way of talking about how they kept their
- 51:10Speaker 6: relationship healthy, which everybody was in agreeance to it. It
- 51:15Speaker 6: felt like this is being told in a way to
- 51:18Speaker 6: sully Candy. And what I mean by that is I
- 51:21Speaker 6: don't think Black women get to be sexually liberatory. And
- 51:24Speaker 6: this is me talking as a former sex educator, you know,
- 51:26Speaker 6: in the clinic and working in the classroom. And so
- 51:30Speaker 6: I was surprised that when Candy shared it years ago
- 51:32Speaker 6: that people gave her room to have the candy-coated nights.
- 51:37Speaker 6: That surprised me because I don't know about y'all, I
- 51:40Speaker 6: don't know the last time there's been a Black woman
- 51:42Speaker 6: with the level of celebrity that Candy has who walked
- 51:46Speaker 6: into this sex conversation the way she did and it did.
- 51:50Speaker 5: Not deeply impact her.
- 51:52Speaker 6: And I think that's one of the reasons she is
- 51:54Speaker 6: really angry about some of the things that happened on
- 51:56Speaker 6: that show. But I think Todd can really show discretion.
- 52:00Speaker 6: And I don't think that equates to silence. I think
- 52:04Speaker 6: that equates to you'll win more. And if this is
- 52:07Speaker 6: his desire, you'll win more people who fall in love
- 52:10Speaker 6: with you as Todd Tucker if you demonstrate an ability
- 52:13Speaker 6: to handle this well. Because this is how you break
- 52:16Speaker 6: off from people saying you only have this because of candy.
- 52:19Speaker 6: This is your moment for someone to be like, oh,
- 52:21Speaker 6: you know what? Todd really could have went in.
- 52:24Speaker 5: He didn't.
- 52:25Speaker 6: Let me look at the thing that he has going on.
- 52:29Speaker 6: But from what Ebony said, 100%, like, Candy knew who
- 52:33Speaker 6: she married. And I think going back to what I
- 52:36Speaker 6: said about like in relationships that are that your systems
- 52:40Speaker 6: are are not the same. So you knew you had money.
- 52:44Speaker 6: He might have been successful, but you weren't equitably connected
- 52:48Speaker 6: when it came to financial capital. You made that relationship
- 52:52Speaker 6: and this is what comes with it. And I just
- 52:55Speaker 6: hope that I hope that Todd just they have young children.
- 53:00Speaker 6: And I'm not concerned about the children hearing things. I'm
- 53:03Speaker 6: concerned about the culture of the relationships. Because I think
- 53:05Speaker 6: Kenny had another interview I saw today where she was talking.
- 53:09Speaker 6: It might have been Ricky Smiley.
- 53:12Speaker 4: It was.
- 53:13Speaker 6: And she was, because Ricky was like, oh, y'all were
- 53:15Speaker 6: on vacation. She was like, oh, that was a while. And,
- 53:17Speaker 6: you know, Candy's a tourist. And once it's a chop,
- 53:20Speaker 6: it's a chop. I'm thinking about Kenny's daughter talking about
- 53:23Speaker 6: the strain with her relationship with Todd's daughter. But that's important.
- 53:26Speaker 6: So it's not fair. But Todd is still the man
- 53:31Speaker 6: of that family. And so how does he take that
- 53:35Speaker 6: role while having the right to tell his story, while
- 53:37Speaker 6: having the right to be a entrepreneur? He can show
- 53:40Speaker 6: us who he is and he can gain his own
- 53:42Speaker 6: fan base through these actions.
- 53:45Speaker 3: If he handles this right, he can have a way
- 53:46Speaker 3: bigger fan base than he ever had. Like you're saying,
- 53:49Speaker 3: if he handles it right, we could be like, you
- 53:50Speaker 3: know what? I got nothing. No notes.
- 53:54Speaker 4: No notes.
- 53:54Speaker 3: Because you still... You can tell your side of the
- 53:56Speaker 3: story without dragging or besmirching and selling up and dirtying
- 54:01Speaker 3: candy because we all know you got to pick a
- 54:03Speaker 3: platform because that's not even debatable.
- 54:06Speaker 5: And stop eating coochie to keep a man. It don't
- 54:08Speaker 5: work like that, Nia. Oh, yeah.
- 54:09Speaker 3: I'm too lazy.
- 54:11Speaker 5: Same.
- 54:11Speaker 2: Well, we can talk about that, too.
- 54:13Speaker 1: But, Dustin, before we do, let me hear your thoughts
- 54:18Speaker 1: on what Ebony K.
- 54:19Speaker 2: Williams said. It was the first time that I heard.
- 54:23Speaker 1: anybody say, okay, Candy, you have to own up to
- 54:28Speaker 1: the fact that you play a role in this too,
- 54:32Speaker 1: based on you marrying him and platforming him. Do you
- 54:40Speaker 1: agree with Ebony when it comes to, should Candy take
- 54:43Speaker 1: ownership based on what's happening right now?
- 54:46Speaker 4: Well, I agree with Ebony because what she said was
- 54:48Speaker 4: not an opinion. It was an analysis. She mapped out
- 54:53Speaker 4: what took place, right? She said this happened, then this happened,
- 54:56Speaker 4: and here's why that happened. So I don't really feel
- 54:59Speaker 4: like there was anything for me to disagree with. It
- 55:01Speaker 4: was literally what took place. And also, y'all know me.
- 55:06Speaker 4: Y'all know Ebony. It's like family to me. She said
- 55:08Speaker 4: what the fuck she said. You know what I'm saying?
- 55:10Speaker 4: That's it. And that's just what it's going to be.
- 55:12Speaker 4: I love Ebony. It's personal, and I'm biased. And I'm
- 55:15Speaker 4: going to be honest about it, okay? It just is
- 55:17Speaker 4: what it is. Now, I also agree wholeheartedly with Dominique's
- 55:22Speaker 4: commentary because Todd has a great opportunity here. You have
- 55:26Speaker 4: to look out, look at things. You have to take
- 55:28Speaker 4: your emotions out of things sometimes, even though I just
- 55:30Speaker 4: put mine all the way into the Ebony conversation, knowingly. Okay,
- 55:34Speaker 4: I don't give a fuck. But sometimes you have to
- 55:36Speaker 4: take your emotions out of a situation, especially as a father,
- 55:39Speaker 4: especially in this patriarchal society that we live in. You know,
- 55:43Speaker 4: men are always having these conversations about banning the house,
- 55:47Speaker 4: pay the bills, wanting my way, whatever. Well, this is
- 55:50Speaker 4: how you show your fortitude as a leader and as
- 55:52Speaker 4: a head of a household, by making decisions that reflect discretion,
- 55:58Speaker 4: just like Dominique just said, and saying, hey, I could
- 56:01Speaker 4: do it this way right now and be rightful and
- 56:04Speaker 4: entitled to do it that way. But maybe if I
- 56:06Speaker 4: do it differently, it can yield this outcome. Maybe if
- 56:10Speaker 4: I do it differently, it can create an environment or
- 56:12Speaker 4: a mood or a temperature that when we share space
- 56:16Speaker 4: that doesn't lead to arguments and our kids looking at
- 56:19Speaker 4: us like, why do my parents hate each other? You know,
- 56:21Speaker 4: if I just do things this way, that's true leadership.
- 56:25Speaker 4: That's true headship. And that's the shit that all these
- 56:27Speaker 4: motherfuckers say they want. So Todd has a great opportunity
- 56:30Speaker 4: to do that. And I think it is also very
- 56:33Speaker 4: important that we note that when Candy shared details, just
- 56:36Speaker 4: like Dominique broke down, when Candy shared details about their
- 56:39Speaker 4: sex life, it was, you know, and with a view
- 56:43Speaker 4: to protect them both. And Todd is now offering glimpses
- 56:47Speaker 4: into their private matters with a view that can be questioned, right?
- 56:52Speaker 4: And I think that's the difference here. So I agree
- 56:56Speaker 4: with Ebony. I don't give a fuck. That's my girl.
- 56:59Speaker 4: So just being honest, you know what I'm saying?
- 57:03Speaker 3: And also- I'm sure when Candy was speaking on their
- 57:07Speaker 3: relationship and handling it with care, like giving you a glimpse,
- 57:09Speaker 3: but not like putting everything in blasts, all the dirty details,
- 57:12Speaker 3: that was when they were on the same roof and
- 57:14Speaker 3: they were laying up together and probably had talks about it.
- 57:16Speaker 3: Y'all ain't together now, so who knows what kind of
- 57:18Speaker 3: level of communication you're allowing. Are you running this by, Candy,
- 57:21Speaker 3: before you do this? I don't think you are. It's different.
- 57:25Speaker 3: It's different.
- 57:25Speaker 2: But I also think this. First of all, I agree.
- 57:28Speaker 2: I do think.
- 57:31Speaker 1: It's a slippery slope because to me, They were both
- 57:36Speaker 1: on the same reality show together. Yes, she was the
- 57:40Speaker 1: housewife and he was the husband. He was not contracted
- 57:43Speaker 1: by Bravo. He was not getting paid by Bravo.
- 57:46Speaker 2: They both said... And they had their own show?
- 57:49Speaker 1: And they had their own show, yes, exactly. They had
- 57:51Speaker 1: their wedding special. They had Candy and the Gang, Candy
- 57:55Speaker 1: Ski Trip. Candy is the queen of spinoffs at Bravo, right?
- 57:59Speaker 1: Happy Black History Month, although it is October.
- 58:02Speaker 2: because Da Vinci has ruined it for the Libras. So,
- 58:05Speaker 2: happy Blacktober, child.
- 58:07Speaker 4: Okay, so with that being said.
- 58:10Speaker 2: Damn, Da Vinci, we were celebrating doing good. We still
- 58:14Speaker 2: got Usher. Now, with that being said, though, one thing
- 58:18Speaker 2: that I really am.
- 58:23Speaker 1: Till this day, I really am having a hard time reconciling,
- 58:29Speaker 1: like what Claudia said that I agree with, And you
- 58:32Speaker 1: guys said the same thing. He does have every right
- 58:34Speaker 1: to tell his story. He's a public figure. Yes, because
- 58:37Speaker 1: he married Candy. These are facts.
- 58:42Speaker 2: Todd Tucker is famous because he married Candy. There's no
- 58:47Speaker 2: dispute there.
- 58:48Speaker 4: Period. That's it. That's it.
- 58:51Speaker 1: This isn't a Beyonce, Jay-Z, Will Smith, Jada. This is
- 58:54Speaker 1: strictly the facts, right? Because they both had these spinoffs together...
- 59:02Speaker 1: And they both talked about their lives to where we
- 59:04Speaker 1: saw Mama Joyce say the craziest things to Todd. We
- 59:08Speaker 1: saw Todd's mother rest in heaven. and Candy's mom almost
- 59:12Speaker 1: getting to blows. We've seen them both share very intimate
- 59:17Speaker 1: details of their marriage. The only thing that I'm having
- 59:21Speaker 1: a hard time grasping is I don't think he's dragging Candy, though.
- 59:26Speaker 2: That's the one thing. I don't think he's dragging.
- 59:30Speaker 1: her to the point where it's making her.
- 59:35Speaker 2: Look like something she's not.
- 59:37Speaker 1: That's the only thing I'm not computing with people.
- 59:40Speaker 3: I don't think he's dragging her, but I do think
- 59:42Speaker 3: that I wish he would just wait a little bit
- 59:44Speaker 3: because Candy, as a Taurus, she don't really be putting
- 59:47Speaker 3: her feelings out there like that, but she has given
- 59:49Speaker 3: us little glimpse that she's hurt.
- 59:51Speaker 2: By- We did a one-woman show, though.
- 59:52Speaker 4: That you had to lock your phone up at.
- 59:54Speaker 5: Did anybody go to the show?
- 59:56Speaker 4: He's talking to the media.
- 59:58Speaker 3: He starts immediately. She seems like she.
- 1:00:02Speaker 3: When you're the one that got their heart broken in
- 1:00:05Speaker 3: a breakup, allegedly what they was like cheating. Isn't that
- 1:00:08Speaker 3: what the world on the street is? There was some
- 1:00:09Speaker 3: cheating by Todd. And then you're out there talking. It's
- 1:00:13Speaker 3: almost like, to me, it's different. If I cheated on
- 1:00:17Speaker 3: you and then I also go out there and add
- 1:00:20Speaker 3: salt to the wounds. And even if I'm not dragging you,
- 1:00:22Speaker 3: but I'm still giving enough where I'm at. It's like
- 1:00:25Speaker 3: I could see how Kanye would feel a way, and
- 1:00:27Speaker 3: it comes across worse than maybe he's intending it to be, right?
- 1:00:31Speaker 3: He's probably thinking, oh, I'm just telling my story. But
- 1:00:33Speaker 3: maybe just give the girl six months. Let y'all divorce
- 1:00:38Speaker 3: kind of marinate for a minute. It's a lot to
- 1:00:40Speaker 3: have to deal with. I lost my husband, my relationship,
- 1:00:43Speaker 3: and I'm heartbroken still, and it hurts. And this is
- 1:00:46Speaker 3: from someone that doesn't like to show their hand. And
- 1:00:48Speaker 3: then on top of that, I got to hear little
- 1:00:50Speaker 3: things and bits and pieces about my relationship. Almost downplaying
- 1:00:53Speaker 3: a little bit, well, we add threesomes all the time. Like, okay, maybe,
- 1:00:57Speaker 3: but can I heal a little bit? Do you really
- 1:01:00Speaker 3: still care? I think, I don't know. I think that's
- 1:01:02Speaker 3: maybe why some of us are feeling a little bit
- 1:01:03Speaker 3: more protective about her in this. And I don't think
- 1:01:05Speaker 3: he's dragging. He's probably just like, hey, this is my story.
- 1:01:08Speaker 3: But I guess I'm just thinking from the standpoint of
- 1:01:10Speaker 3: Candy and what she's probably, what her process is right now.
- 1:01:15Speaker 5: I think we've all said that people don't handle Black
- 1:01:17Speaker 5: women with care.
- 1:01:18Speaker 3: Because it's so used to being resilient.
- 1:01:20Speaker 7: So it's like, oh, you're going to be all right.
- 1:01:23Speaker 5: Kandi also, we know she's incredible.
- 1:01:25Speaker 6: But I also want to name that out of escape,
- 1:01:28Speaker 6: people talk the most crap about her voice. She is
- 1:01:31Speaker 6: the most deeper melanated woman within the group. Like, there's
- 1:01:34Speaker 6: just things that we see. And again, none of this
- 1:01:37Speaker 6: negates Todd's right. I think there's the right, and then
- 1:01:41Speaker 6: it's like, what can you do?
- 1:01:43Speaker 5: And I think that that's maybe where he should sit
- 1:01:45Speaker 5: his spirit at.
- 1:01:46Speaker 6: I think Kendi is a consummate businesswoman. And I just wonder,
- 1:01:49Speaker 6: like Claudia said, if you took a little time, you
- 1:01:51Speaker 6: took a beat and you came back and said, hey,
- 1:01:53Speaker 6: you know, Kendi, I want to do this. I'm going
- 1:01:55Speaker 6: to make this money. Maybe I get a little less
- 1:01:57Speaker 6: spousal support. It ain't like you ain't got a coin.
- 1:02:00Speaker 6: It ain't like you got no money. And you still
- 1:02:01Speaker 6: got these, you know what I'm saying? Like you are good.
- 1:02:04Speaker 5: But just take some time, Todd. Heal for yourself. You
- 1:02:07Speaker 5: know what I'm saying? Like that's what I would want
- 1:02:09Speaker 5: to see.
- 1:02:10Speaker 6: The only equalizer I would have is if Kandi talked
- 1:02:13Speaker 6: about their sex life in her one-woman show, I'd be like, oh,
- 1:02:15Speaker 6: you kind of set that up. But I don't know
- 1:02:18Speaker 6: anyone who's been to the show because they always sell out.
- 1:02:19Speaker 4: You know why, Dominique? Because her show was one of
- 1:02:22Speaker 4: those shows where you have to lock your phone up
- 1:02:24Speaker 4: and nobody's really leaked any footage from the show. She
- 1:02:27Speaker 4: hasn't talked publicly about what she shared in the show.
- 1:02:31Speaker 4: And so that's why their disclosure essentially feels.
- 1:02:34Speaker 2: Different to me.
- 1:02:35Speaker 4: That's why it feels different.
- 1:02:37Speaker 1: I now have the aha moment that was missing. I
- 1:02:42Speaker 1: had no idea that when she did her one woman show,
- 1:02:48Speaker 1: she had the phones locked. And that's the reason why
- 1:02:51Speaker 1: we never saw leaked footage because she protected from the
- 1:02:55Speaker 1: world viewing it. And now what he's doing, she feels
- 1:02:59Speaker 1: like you are not protecting me from the world viewing me.
- 1:03:03Speaker 2: Okay, I got that.
- 1:03:05Speaker 3: Yeah, even in breakups, she still found a way. She
- 1:03:10Speaker 3: found a way to make her money and still protect
- 1:03:12Speaker 3: him in some regards, and he's not. Okay. You know?
- 1:03:16Speaker 3: I get it now. It's not very Libra-ish. It's like this.
- 1:03:20Speaker 2: Ah! The ballast can.
- 1:03:23Speaker 5: I now get it.
- 1:03:24Speaker 2: I now get it. I now get it.
- 1:03:26Speaker 1: I was always confused with, well, she did the one-woman show.
- 1:03:29Speaker 1: Why can't he do the one-man show? But I now
- 1:03:31Speaker 1: get it. She never put teasers out from her one-woman show.
- 1:03:35Speaker 1: And the reason why, like Dominique said, who went to it?
- 1:03:38Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't know who went to it because
- 1:03:39Speaker 1: she locked the phone.
- 1:03:40Speaker 4: Okay.
- 1:03:41Speaker 2: Okay, now I get it.
- 1:03:42Speaker 1: I now have a greater understanding, all right? Raindrops, let
- 1:03:46Speaker 1: me know if you also have the aha moment. Because
- 1:03:49Speaker 1: the interesting thing about this too, guys, is it was divided.
- 1:03:53Speaker 1: There's a lot of women who are on Todd's side.
- 1:03:56Speaker 1: I mean, and no shade. I was surprised. Only because,
- 1:04:02Speaker 1: you know, the bubble that I'm in when it comes
- 1:04:05Speaker 1: to reality television is nobody cares what men think.
- 1:04:08Speaker 2: So I was surprised.
- 1:04:10Speaker 3: Yeah, as many pick me women are out there that
- 1:04:11Speaker 3: always want to run to the defense of a brother. Please,
- 1:04:14Speaker 3: I'm not surprised at all. Especially Candy is someone to
- 1:04:17Speaker 3: be jealous about. She's rich, got a coin, doing a
- 1:04:19Speaker 3: lot better than 90%, 99% of us. Yeah, I'm not surprised.
- 1:04:24Speaker 3: I'm not surprised.
- 1:04:25Speaker 5: They can lead in a purity culture.
- 1:04:27Speaker 6: They feel like these are consequences for her to being
- 1:04:29Speaker 6: sexually promiscuous in her marriage.
- 1:04:32Speaker 4: Not just hippie culture.
- 1:04:33Speaker 6: It's if you didn't, It's I'm on your side because
- 1:04:36Speaker 6: you shouldn't have did that anyway. That is why purity
- 1:04:38Speaker 6: culture is harmful.
- 1:04:41Speaker 2: And do you think too, I'm going to move on
- 1:04:43Speaker 2: with this.
- 1:04:44Speaker 1: Do you also think it has to do with the
- 1:04:46Speaker 1: fact that, listen, I always say this and people will
- 1:04:50Speaker 1: be like, Carlos, what are you talking about?
- 1:04:52Speaker 2: I do believe privately because social media ain't the real world.
- 1:04:57Speaker 1: I believe that there's tons of black people who are
- 1:04:59Speaker 1: really conservative and.
- 1:05:02Speaker 2: Based on how being raised in the South.
- 1:05:05Speaker 1: So another aha moment that I'm getting, this is why
- 1:05:07Speaker 1: I love doing this show, is there's a lot of
- 1:05:10Speaker 1: black women who are conservative.
- 1:05:13Speaker 2: Where you don't talk about sex.
- 1:05:14Speaker 1: The idea of bringing another woman to the bedroom is
- 1:05:18Speaker 1: not something that black women were raised to even think
- 1:05:22Speaker 1: was a possibility. Whether it's your preference or not, you know, one,
- 1:05:26Speaker 1: I remember when Sissy Houston, the mother of, Whitney Houston
- 1:05:31Speaker 1: when she spoke to Oprah Winfrey and Oprah Winfrey said
- 1:05:34Speaker 1: there were rumors that her daughter Whitney Houston was gay
- 1:05:37Speaker 1: would you have been okay with Whitney Houston being gay
- 1:05:40Speaker 1: and she did this.
- 1:05:43Speaker 2: Oprah gagged and said you would have had a problem
- 1:05:47Speaker 2: with your daughter being gay she said yes and Oprah
- 1:05:50Speaker 2: said you would not have accepted that she goes.
- 1:05:53Speaker 4: No But your other son can have a drug problem
- 1:05:57Speaker 4: and all these other things that are false equivalencies. But still,
- 1:06:01Speaker 4: she wasn't publicly saying that. I just think that's why
- 1:06:04Speaker 4: I always thought it was poetic that her name was Sissy.
- 1:06:09Speaker 3: Look at God.
- 1:06:10Speaker 4: God will do it. Won't he do it?
- 1:06:12Speaker 2: I am done.
- 1:06:13Speaker 1: Do y'all think because Candy is a black woman that
- 1:06:17Speaker 1: is sexually liberated, that some, not all, but that the
- 1:06:21Speaker 1: reason why some of Black women on Todd's side is
- 1:06:26Speaker 1: because they are conservative in terms.
- 1:06:29Speaker 2: Of thinking that's what you get for allowing your man
- 1:06:32Speaker 2: to even eat the cooch.
- 1:06:34Speaker 4: Yes.
- 1:06:34Speaker 6: Why are you divorcing him for cheating? You was already
- 1:06:36Speaker 6: having three ways. At least you have a husband. You
- 1:06:38Speaker 6: have these young kids. It's a scarcity model.
- 1:06:42Speaker 4: Yep.
- 1:06:43Speaker 5: You're already, in their mind, opening up your relationship.
- 1:06:46Speaker 6: They don't know the ethics of their non-monogamy or whatever
- 1:06:49Speaker 6: is happening because Kenny.
- 1:06:50Speaker 5: Didn't give us those details.
- 1:06:52Speaker 2: And.
- 1:06:53Speaker 6: Then you left him because he cheated you. Already we're
- 1:06:55Speaker 6: having sex with other women. That's not enough to leave.
- 1:06:58Speaker 6: And so you had something that most of us don't get.
- 1:07:01Speaker 6: You're throwing it away. And now he has the right
- 1:07:04Speaker 6: to tell his story because if I hear him tell
- 1:07:07Speaker 6: his story about how you weren't worthy, it'll make me
- 1:07:09Speaker 6: feel like I'm worthy when that's not how the hierarchy
- 1:07:12Speaker 6: really works.
- 1:07:15Speaker 2: Thank y'all so much. And you guys will catch us
- 1:07:17Speaker 2: next Monday.
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- 1:07:27Speaker 4: Love you guys. Bye.
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