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Crystal Renee Hayslett Talks Sistas, Zatima, Tyler Perry & Building Her Empire · The Baller Alert Show

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  Speaker 1: I know you get access a lot, but what's what's
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  Speaker 1: you would say the best advice that Tyler Perry has
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  Speaker 1: given you?
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  Speaker 2: Oh gosh, it's so much you shows Tyler Perry Sisters
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  Speaker 2: and a spinoff show caused the TIMA.
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  Speaker 3: We're on Paramount Plus with the Teama.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah number one and number.
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  Speaker 5: Three, Yeah, yeah, nah. Your crying scene is real.
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  Speaker 2: No, yeah, it's real, like and just to the point where,
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  Speaker 2: like the first time I really had a rough scene,
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't stop crying. And I looked at Tylan and
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  Speaker 2: I was like, let's just keep going, because I know
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  Speaker 2: there was other scenes where I needed to cry, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, I can't stop crying.
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  Speaker 6: So I read that you're now a co owner of
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  Speaker 6: a professional women's soccer team.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, in d C and crazy how that works?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, graduation. I was just like, can everybody else hear?
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  Speaker 3: What's up? Y'all? I'm Christopher haz It. I'm coming up
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  Speaker 6: Broadcast live from the Danny nagel Loaf from Studios. Welcome
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  Speaker 6: to the baller Sean for right Sims.
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  Speaker 5: I'm you know BT Crystal Day the builder.
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  Speaker 3: It is have some good energy in here.
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  Speaker 7: That emailed me.
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  Speaker 5: They was like, oh no, they called me. It was like, hey,
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  Speaker 5: you want I put in the group chat. They was
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  Speaker 5: like hey.
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  Speaker 1: Everyboy was like hell yeah, okay hearboy like hell yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Energy like the way you know what lot you have
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  Speaker 4: to Yeah yeah it's a power Yeah power something.
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  Speaker 6: Shout out to because she's big energy. She's always talking
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  Speaker 6: about energy. I would like to start by saying, how
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  Speaker 6: is your energy today?
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  Speaker 2: My energy is fantastic. I'm vibrating really high right now.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, even with the rain and both of y'all are
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  Speaker 6: hairing today?
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  Speaker 3: Hair why not?
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  Speaker 5: That's why I feel like you need the hair. The
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  Speaker 5: hair is.
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  Speaker 3: Looking at Thank you I love it so beautiful, I.
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  Speaker 2: Love it.
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  Speaker 4: Glowing energy.
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  Speaker 6: Are there yeah on television?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, I got two shows, Tyler Perry Sisters and
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  Speaker 2: the spinoff show caused the teama.
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  Speaker 3: We're on Paramount Plus with the team.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah number one and number three.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah yeah yeah, no, God is good.
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  Speaker 3: I'm grateful because it was a time when I wasn't
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  Speaker 3: making money.
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  Speaker 6: So I want to start there because I feel like
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  Speaker 6: people need to hear the story because our audience are
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  Speaker 6: is just a wide variety and yeah.
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  Speaker 5: They're super nosy.
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  Speaker 6: So who is Crystal Renee? Where is she?
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  Speaker 4: Where are you from?
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  Speaker 3: I'm originally from Martin, Tennessee.
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  Speaker 2: Martin Tennessee where exactly it is in the far northwest
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  Speaker 2: corner of Tennessee close to Kentucky.
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  Speaker 3: Like my town is like ten minutes from Kentucky.
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  Speaker 5: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So I lived there all my life and then moved
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  Speaker 2: to Washington, D C.
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  Speaker 3: After college.
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  Speaker 2: Actually, like the young lady, she's interning, I interned on
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  Speaker 2: Capitol Hill and ended up getting a job.
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  Speaker 3: So I moved to Washington, D C. And that's where
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  Speaker 3: I really found myself. Huge culture shock.
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  Speaker 2: Where I'm from, it's a lot of Caucasian people you know,
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  Speaker 2: DC is Chocolate City.
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  Speaker 3: It's a lot of us And I was, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Wow, I was, I like, that's DJ. Now what age
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  Speaker 5: are you when you go to.
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  Speaker 3: D C at that age? I was twenty two.
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  Speaker 7: No, don't skip, don't skip. We will live on to
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  Speaker 7: Martin Tennessee.
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  Speaker 6: Where growing up in Martin Tennessee, what was that like?
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  Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, it's a real town. We didn't have
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  Speaker 3: a mall. All we had was a Walmart at the time.
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  Speaker 3: We didn't have Super Walmart.
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  Speaker 6: We had to drive like it is the difference between
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  Speaker 6: Walmart Supermar, you know that, what's what's the difference?
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  Speaker 5: Super Walmart got the grocery, you.
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  Speaker 6: Know, super you can go get your eggs, Yeah, you
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  Speaker 6: get some closed.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. We had to go to E. W.
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  Speaker 2: James to get the groceries. I actually used to work there.
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  Speaker 3: And then then we had to go to Walmart to
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  Speaker 3: get like everything else.
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  Speaker 1: I guess I didn't know that because I'm from Arkansas
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  Speaker 1: and Walmart originated in Arkansas. So it's like you can
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  Speaker 1: get closed and grocery and my gun.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah that's a super Walmart because super Center, but you
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  Speaker 6: know its it on.
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  Speaker 1: That But you know in in Arkansas, he's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: in the majority.
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  Speaker 6: It's all super Walmarts now yeah, even think it's like.
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  Speaker 5: Because before it's just to be Walmart.
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  Speaker 6: It's no groceries anyway.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, that's real.
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  Speaker 2: So we had to drive like two hours to Memphis,
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  Speaker 2: which is really close.
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  Speaker 3: What part of the Arkans are you from? Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 3: so not par at all. So we had to drive
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  Speaker 3: to Memphis to go shopping.
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  Speaker 2: If I needed like real back to school clothes and
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  Speaker 2: I needed my fly stuff, I would drive to Memphis
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  Speaker 2: draw two hours.
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  Speaker 5: Damn to go to get some clothes.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, especially if I wanted the good. No, it
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  Speaker 2: was no Timey Hill figure. The closest one was Jackson's.
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  Speaker 5: In that chair remember no no, no, no, no, Yeahboddy no.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, it was a place that I always attribute to.
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  Speaker 2: There was not a lot to do, so it gave
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  Speaker 2: me the room to dream as big as I wanted to.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't a lot of distractions in Martin, so.
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  Speaker 3: Very family oriented.
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  Speaker 2: Every like it wouldn't know, like sneaking and doing something
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  Speaker 2: because somebody before.
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  Speaker 3: By the time you wake up, Smiken called and told them, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I saw Christal and give me city at the basketball court.
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  Speaker 2: W everybody knows everybody.
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  Speaker 3: So it's one of those towns.
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  Speaker 6: So I'm pretty sure when you move to d C,
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  Speaker 6: that's a culture shock.
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  Speaker 3: Huge culture shock. Like where we're from.
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  Speaker 2: Like when you drive past somebody in the other the
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  Speaker 2: other lane, you wave yeah yeah, and even if you
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  Speaker 2: can't see who it is, your hand just goes up.
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  Speaker 2: It's a gestion that we do. So even in the morning,
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  Speaker 2: I would say good morning to people on the sidewalk
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  Speaker 2: and they look at me like, like, why is she
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  Speaker 2: this girl talking to me?
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  Speaker 3: I was like, oh, so they don't speak okay, So
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  Speaker 3: I learned real quick. Every completely different.
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  Speaker 2: I learned, like you just mind your business, stay focused,
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  Speaker 2: keep your head down. And I feel like that's where
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  Speaker 2: I really learned, just how to one stay in my
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  Speaker 2: lane and just focus on what I was focused on.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah that's fine, but I feel like you kind of
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  Speaker 4: carried the personality of Martin into d C. And that's
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  Speaker 4: where your flavor comes from. Where I'm like, your energy,
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  Speaker 4: your energy, your energy is that small town man. It's
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  Speaker 4: just it's an experience that you can't get from nothing else.
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  Speaker 3: No for sure where you're from.
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  Speaker 4: I'm from Wisconsin, small town. So when you talk about
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  Speaker 4: when I went to school and I went to New
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  Speaker 4: York and like the first time I ever walked downtown
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  Speaker 4: and they stepped on my shoes. I'm like, how does
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  Speaker 4: keep going? Yeah, at least to say part of me
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  Speaker 4: or something. But that same experience though, just like where
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  Speaker 4: it teaches you to be lady focused. But I feel
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  Speaker 4: like having the grounding of the small town it kind
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  Speaker 4: of haves you like centered.
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  Speaker 3: It does it. It's kept me that way my entire life.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's felt, it felt.
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  Speaker 1: You giving that And in d C, they they probably
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  Speaker 1: locked in because it's a lot of successful black people,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of lawyers and doctors and you know people
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  Speaker 1: in the politically.
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  Speaker 6: That's where the highest amount, yes, of black successful wealth is.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, wealths in d.
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  Speaker 3: The city.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Sure. So when did the acting bug hit you?
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  Speaker 3: It hit me when I was a kid.
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  Speaker 2: It's one of those things, you know, life just has
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  Speaker 2: a funny way of taking on these different journeys. I
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  Speaker 2: knew since I was five that I wanted to act
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  Speaker 2: and sing.
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  Speaker 5: Really yeah, that's good.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, my mom put me in the choir. Yeah, it
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  Speaker 2: was Janna Jackson. It was like control that during that time.
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  Speaker 2: It was something about seeing her do this thing.
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  Speaker 6: She did, and yeah, she did.
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  Speaker 2: Everything, and I was like, I like her and I
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  Speaker 2: identified for some odd reason, even though I didn't see
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  Speaker 2: it around me, I identified with her through the TV
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  Speaker 2: screen and it was in that moment that I knew
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  Speaker 2: that was what I want. I want to do that
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  Speaker 2: that thing that she's doing, and it's something that stayed
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  Speaker 2: with me.
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  Speaker 3: But life took me in so many different journeys.
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  Speaker 2: I had a political science teacher and he's the one
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  Speaker 2: who had me write an essay to our state senator
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  Speaker 2: in d C. Lamar Alexander at the time for an internship.
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  Speaker 2: So out of all the college students who wrote, only three.
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  Speaker 3: Of us got to go. And I was one of
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  Speaker 3: the three that got chosen for that semester you went three. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: it was confirmation.
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  Speaker 2: And then even more of confirmation was a year later
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  Speaker 2: when I got the call for a job. So I
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  Speaker 2: was like, I did something right and I moved to
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  Speaker 2: DC and it was just one of those things where
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  Speaker 2: I was like, I just kept following, like what my
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  Speaker 2: parents said, make sure you have get your education, get
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  Speaker 2: a degree, get a good job, get your four o
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  Speaker 2: one K your benefits. But as I sat there and
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  Speaker 2: I saw myself like just not enjoying work, and I
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  Speaker 2: was like, there's something more. And that little that see
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  Speaker 2: that was playing as a little girl started to sprout
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  Speaker 2: and I was like, man, all my friends are in
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  Speaker 2: Atlanta thriving, Like I see so many people doing their
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  Speaker 2: thing in the arts and entertainment business. TV and film
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  Speaker 2: was taken off here around that time. It was like
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  Speaker 2: two thousand and nine, so Will Packard then were down
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  Speaker 2: here doing their thing. I sawt Tyler was doing his thing,
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  Speaker 2: and something said just go for it. So I literally
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  Speaker 2: called my mom and I said, hey, Mom, I'm moving
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  Speaker 2: to Atlanta. My uncle Tyrone's gonna let me stay in
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  Speaker 2: his spare bedroom until I get my feet on the ground.
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  Speaker 3: And she said, okay, we'll pray about it.
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  Speaker 2: I already have our Volkswagen Jedda packed to the brown,
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  Speaker 2: put everything else in a cube and had it shift
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  Speaker 2: and I was driving to Atlanta and the rest was
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  Speaker 2: literally history.
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  Speaker 4: Damn this small town like transition, that first scary transition
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  Speaker 4: you had going from you know, Martin to Chocolate City,
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  Speaker 4: Like do you feel like that created like that driving
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  Speaker 4: you to where it's like I'm not scared.
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  Speaker 2: To take a rest exactly yes, I feel like when
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  Speaker 2: you jump off the porch, as they say, and really
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  Speaker 2: go for it. I was like, if I can make it
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  Speaker 2: in DC, I definitely can go make it anywhere, like a.
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  Speaker 5: Little bit, a little bit more friendlier in Atlanta.
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  Speaker 6: Absolutely, drivers are a lot more crazier.
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  Speaker 5: I think.
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  Speaker 6: I think Atlanta has the worst traffic.
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  Speaker 2: It's so bad even now, Like I felt like DC
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  Speaker 2: had bad traffic.
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  Speaker 3: I got to Atlanta during that time.
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  Speaker 2: It was cool, like you can know, like around ten
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  Speaker 2: o'clock the roads be clear, like there was pockets when
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  Speaker 2: it's going to be clear now.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody they was like they living like that down there.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to Atlanta, and don't it don't help that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, when it rains in Atlanta. That's what I'm
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  Speaker 1: scared because I know for sure people can't drive. That's why.
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  Speaker 1: You know, if you ever get into a car wreck,
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  Speaker 1: make sure you call.
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  Speaker 5: Gap there you go. But yeah, people can't drive in Atlanta.
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  Speaker 5: Like I don't know what it is.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: It's because half the people, you know, some of the
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  Speaker 1: cars probably hot day and you know what I'm talking about,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 7: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 6: Now Crystal. How much of yourselver are in the characters
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  Speaker 6: that you play.
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  Speaker 3: There is a little bit of Crystal in every character.
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  Speaker 2: I think for any actor, you have to pull from
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  Speaker 2: real life circumstances experiences to make it authentic, but also
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  Speaker 2: becoming the character. You know, a lot of times when
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  Speaker 2: we take on a role, we do a character breakdown
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  Speaker 2: where we become the character. So I had to become Fatima.
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  Speaker 2: In the beginning, I was literally judging everything. Tyler bro
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, she wouldn't she would never do that? And
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  Speaker 2: deval Ellis, my castmates, said no, you would never do that.
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  Speaker 3: There is a Fatima out.
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  Speaker 2: Here in the world that we did, and it's so
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  Speaker 2: many women. Every time I lead a house like girl,
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  Speaker 2: you are just like me. I'm like you crazy.
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  Speaker 6: I always wanted to ask an actress or actor this Sometimes,
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  Speaker 6: do you feel like you're in character and you forget
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  Speaker 6: in real life?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 6: So let's just say you go out and you're in
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  Speaker 6: currently shooting and you have to be psychologically that character.
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  Speaker 5: You could go to reds of food.
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  Speaker 6: Do you feel like maybe you forget that you're still
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  Speaker 6: in character?
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  Speaker 3: Not for Fatima, not now.
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  Speaker 2: In the beginning, because I was learning the way Tyler
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  Speaker 2: shoots and how you have to kind of slow down
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  Speaker 2: and drag things out and take beats.
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  Speaker 3: It's not like how we're having a conversation.
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  Speaker 2: We're not taking these long dramatic pauses because what I
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  Speaker 2: really want to say. And I would talk like that outside,
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, oh my gosh, talking like.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm saying like we would. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I would start talking like I would talk like her,
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  Speaker 2: and it would take me about a week or so
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  Speaker 2: to get out of that.
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  Speaker 1: The way we shoot, so you would be talking like
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  Speaker 1: and taking back you're actually filming and take