RHOBH Fanbase + Belle Collective Chat!

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Speaker 1: I'm so vulnerable and open because I can't remember lies. So if this is what it is, and people can only respect the real that's in any situation that you're in, and they can feel if you're not being true, So yes, definitely, I'm gonna say yes without a doubt.

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Speaker 2: Yes, I am the star of Bell Collective. I'm the start of any room that I walk in.

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Speaker 3: Stay tuned look into my thoughts on the recent allegations on the real house spots of Beverly Hills, plus my exclusive conversation with Bell Collective star Letitia Pearson right after these quick asss. Welcome to Reality with the King. It's me Carlos King, the King of Reality TV and one of the most sought after executive producers in reality te television with.

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Speaker 4: Over ten years of production experience.

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Speaker 3: Twice a week on Reality with the King, we'll sit down with my friends across the entertainment industry, recap our favorite reality shows, and revisit unforgettable moments that we are still talking and tweeting about.

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Speaker 4: Hey, rain drops.

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Speaker 3: So before I get into my conversation with Bell Collective star Letitia Pearson about this hit season of Bell Collective, I wanted first to start talking about what's been going on on the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills as it relates to Garcel's fourteen year old son being attacked by social media bullies online. This right here is a call to action for the fans of not only just the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, but for reality TV in general. There seems to be this unfortunate situation where no longer are fans of reality TV just enjoying the shows. Is becoming a situation where some people, not all. I want to make it very clear some people, some people take it too far, and you take it too far as relates to the comments you leave under these reality stars pages, and now it is trickling down into the kids being attacked on social media. Unless you've been living under a rock, I think you all know that Garcel from the Real Houseworks of Billy Hills, her fourteen year old son, Jacks, has been targeted on social media by these bots. Apparently we don't know it's real people or bots. Where someone left a comment saying something so disgusting that I don't.

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Speaker 4: Even want to repeat on this podcast.

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Speaker 3: But it has to do with him being a black boy and it has to do something that me as a black man and my community have been suffering from for a very long time. Especially you know when the George Floyd murder happened, and we all know how he died, So to see that this fourteen year old black boy had to succumb to this disgusting comment makes me so fucking angry. And for the listeners who are fans of reality TV, especially Housewives, and yes, I'm going to just go there for a second, there is something happening with the fans of Housewives where it no longer is a franchise where you can just have your opinion and state it and just keep it moving. It's now becoming a situation where some of you guys are going so far in your comments, where you are making threats of bodily harm to people, where you are now attacking kids, and enough is enough. I don't know what has happened when it comes to the Housewives culture, and it's the culture of some of the fans. Because this podcast has been a huge hit, and I thank you my brain drops so much for making this podcast a huge hit. I've now even been subjected to some very mean things on Twitter. But because I'm a grown ass man. I don't give two fucks which I'll say about me. So you're wasting your time tweeting me, you're wasting your time talking about me.

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Speaker 4: I don't care.

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Speaker 3: But what I have even experienced is if I say my opinion about a housewife's show and stating my opinion about what I'm watching on television when it comes to a particular housewife, this particular person's fan base.

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Speaker 4: Feels the need to just even read me.

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Speaker 3: But again, because I have such thick skin, I don't care.

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Speaker 4: But I'm also not fourteen years old.

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Speaker 3: But I'm also not somebody who's in front of the camera trying to give my life to the show. It's one thing to have an opinion based on what you're seeing. I even do that this podcast is my opinion based on what I'm watching on television. I give my professional opinion and my opinion as.

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Speaker 4: An audience and a viewer.

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Speaker 3: I don't take it too far where I am threatening bodily harmed to any of these women. And I've now have been seen that some of you fans of reality TV and housewives have taken it so far that the shows are now no longer enjoyable to tweet about. It's to the point now where a lot of people have now decided to just let me watch it, stay off Twitter, and keep it moving.

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Speaker 4: And now I understand why.

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Speaker 3: It has now been revealed that Diana from the Real Housewats of Beverly Hills has now hired twenty four hour security because of death threats she's been receiving.

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Speaker 4: That is fucked up.

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Speaker 3: Regardless if you think Diana is cool or should not be on the show, that's fine, talk about that. Why are you guys taking it so far to where you are threatening to kill her? That is not okay under any circumstance, And that's the creator of Reality TV. What we're trying to do is really give a platform for these regular people to have the courage to live their real life. These aren't actors who get to hide behind a character. These are regular people who are showing you who they are in their real life. And yes, we can judge them. We can judge them based on what we're seeing on the show. That's fine. On last week's episode of Reality with the King, I talked about how dark Kimsley used to be this very interesting housewife, but in my humble opinion.

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Speaker 4: I felt that the.

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Speaker 3: Viscerals she received from the fans on Twitter has now caused her to be a show of herself, and a lot of you guys agree with me. So imagine what's going to happen to the state of reality TV when you guys take things so far where you're sending death threats to cast members. Why would they go on TV anymore to get you guys something to watch if they have to be subjected to hiring security when all they're trying to do is be themselves and give you guys a slice of their authentic life. From what I understand, Diana has been receiving death threat because people believe she paid for these bots to attack Garcelle's son. I just don't believe that's true. I would be shocked if this woman is doing that because she feels the need to defend herself against the social media bullies. I don't think Diana is an interesting housewife, and that's okay to say. I think Diana signed up to do the show because she was bored, and like most rich people who have so much money, the one thing some of them don't have is fame.

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Speaker 4: And I think Diana.

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Speaker 3: Chose to be on the show for fame, so we can talk about that. We can talk about whether or not she's interesting. We could talk about how she licks her lips as if she's on a marathon to win the Olympics, like, we can talk about that. But to subject her to death threats based on what you think she may have done. Again, the operative work here is think there's no factual evidence that shows she's done that. So leave that situation alone, but most importantly, leave these kids alone. Leave these reality stars alone. When it comes to you guys threatening physical harm to them, it's not cute, it's not funny, and what's going to happen? And mark my word, they're no longer going to want to be able to be on TV anymore because for them, it's not worth it. And what have you guys accomplished by doing that? A show possibly being put on palls a show being filled with cast members to fulfill some sort of demand that people think needs to happen. Some of you guys are going so far with it, are ruining these shows.

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Speaker 4: Let these people live their lives.

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Speaker 3: Let's have fun talking about what we're seeing. Let's have fun sharing our opinions. Let's get back to the fun days of that. I don't know what has happened in the past five years to where things just have been more disgusting, to the point where when I post shit on Twitter, I post it and sometimes.

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Speaker 4: I keep it moving.

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Speaker 3: And I love engaging with the audience. And again, this isn't about the entire audience of reality TV. I want to keep saying that this is about a select few of people who go too far with it.

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Speaker 4: I love engaging with the fans.

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Speaker 3: I love engaging every Friday and Saturday night when Bell collected of Love and Marriage, Hansville, Love and Marriage, DC. Like I love engaging with the fans. I just love it. Like I purposely stay home on the weekends because I like to live tweet with the audience, because the audience means the world to me. And I say this all the time. Without the audience, I don't have nothing to do, Like I don't have a job because if no one watches my shows, what am I producing?

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Speaker 2: Not that?

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Speaker 4: So I love the audience. But what I.

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Speaker 3: Don't love is when a select few of you guys go too far.

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Speaker 4: So what I would like for you all.

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Speaker 3: To do cut the shit when it comes to these threats not only to the housewives, but most importantly to their children and to the reality stars as a whole.

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Speaker 4: Leave them alone.

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Speaker 3: Have your opinion, judge, all you want continue to live treat with the hashtag of the show. And let's get back to the fun aspect of watching live television because as of right now, it's not getting fun anymore.

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Speaker 4: Okay, well, look, I just have to share that and get that off my chest.

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Speaker 3: But now, without further ado, please get into my exclusive conversation with Letitia Pearson, star of Bell Collective. Let's get into explaining Bell Collective. My listeners are fans of reality television and they're also fans of my shows, The Love and Marriage Franchise, BT Presents, the Encore and now Bell Collective. Can you explain to the listeners, Letitia, how this show came about with you starring in it.

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Speaker 1: For sure, absolutely, I mean, Carlos, you are definitely.

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Speaker 2: The king of reality TV.

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Speaker 1: You went into Huntsville, you went into all these other amazing spots and found what some people like to say, in the middle of nowhere. But they didn't know that there were gems homing in all.

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Speaker 2: Of these areas well. For me, personally.

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Speaker 1: I have an organization that I started called Women Brunch Mississippi, and it's all for women entrepreneurs to get together network because people that know that there were women out here making moves, nor did the women here understand the power of networking because it's from Mississippi and it had it had never been shown before. So I've always wanted to showcase the Mississippi in a different life, the women here.

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Speaker 2: Just to show what we're doing.

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Speaker 1: So at that time, someone was working very close with be a good friend of mine by the name of Jacobe McGee, and he knew my passion and his passion and everything. So he came about and said, Hey, I know you want.

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Speaker 2: To showcase women.

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Speaker 1: It's this guy who just opened this admission Yes.

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Speaker 4: Ideas, yap, yeah, And I was like, okay.

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Speaker 1: He said, I think he would be good to showcase the women and everything.

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Speaker 2: And his name is Carlos King.

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Speaker 1: So I went out and I started googling you because I was like, let me see what's up with him. I saw like Hollywood Real Housewives of Atlanta. I mean it was like, I think you even produced like something with Oprah's documentary like that. Yes, I was researching you bo I was all in it, and I was like, okay, let's shoot the shot.

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Speaker 2: And again I.

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Speaker 1: Have no problem ever paying homage. So I appreciate you and just for coming out here in this place of nowhere that some people may think to, you know, to give us a shot.

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Speaker 2: So thank you, no, thank you.

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Speaker 4: And what was so interesting?

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Speaker 3: So this god by the name of Jacobe signed up for consultation with me and said, I want to do a show about Latitia's brunch.

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Speaker 4: She has this amazing brunch in Mississippi.

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Speaker 3: And Latitia was on the Zoom and Latitia, I may not have said this to you, but when I first saw you, I was like, oh my gosh, she's a star. She's everything like she it is meant to be on TV. And what was funny, guys, is Latitia was like, oh.

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Speaker 4: I don't want to be on the show.

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Speaker 1: I was like, I'm okay with the water like the water girl, I'm okay being a servant. I was like, let's do it, you know, and I remember you you were like what you were like, what a glendoe?

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Speaker 2: What do you do? What do you kill me this again?

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Speaker 1: And you were like, oh, go go find somewhere girl, go find some friends. I'm right, Oh my god. So I always credit that to you, that you were able to see something in me that I didn't even know was inside of myself. I just wanted people to see Mississippi that there are women out here running multi million dollar IT benches. They look at the trees out here, she saw like a million dollars worth of hair.

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Speaker 2: We need that, We need people to know this. We need so thank you, no, thank you. I didn't think anybody cared about a brunch.

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Speaker 1: Well, honey, they or whatever they saying these brunches are now, I don't even know.

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Speaker 2: That's a whole nother story, bro.

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Speaker 4: Whatever, and you know we're gonna get into that too.

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Speaker 3: So it was me being told like, okay, let's do a show about this brunch and I was.

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Speaker 4: Like, no, I think bigger.

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Speaker 3: And it's similar to when Martel and Melody Holt, who was married at the time, when they were like, we want to do a show about me and Martel's business, and I was like, I love the two of you, but I see something bigger, and that was love and marriage. Huntsville turned out to be that I created, and then for this one, I was like, let me do a show about boss women and Jackson who are married and have this interesting life. But yes, we can't incorporate the brunch into this. And that's how Bell Collected came about. Guys, And this show is a huge hit on the network, the Upper Winfrey Network. So thank you guys for watching. Thank you God for that most importantly, But this show is so so different than any other show that I've ever produced, and a lot of that has to do with it being in Jackson, Mississippi, and the look and the language and the personality. Before Pea Valley came about, we have Bell Collective, and the beautiful thing about both shows is we're paying homage to Jackson, Mississippi, and that, to me is what was missing from television. So now that you have Bell Collective and Pea Valley representing the SIP, what has Mississippi been like nowadays?

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Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, totally different. I mean it seemed to me.

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Speaker 1: This is my perspective that with us being on a national television show and seeing that it can be done and being an inspiration, I see so many people moving faster towards their purpose. This show and Bell Collective alone has given people your hope because it's like, Wow, Latita, I just saw you up here, girl.

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Speaker 2: And mccallis is getting a sandwich.

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Speaker 1: Then I'm gonna watch you on Friday Night on own like and you know, they always want to come and tell me about their business, and I'm like, oh my gosh, this is so amazing. So, Jess, I can't speak for pe Valley, I'm gonna speak for Bell Collective. I know the asset that Bell Collective has has provided in Mississippi, and that is hope, inspiration, honey, in some good old Southern shadiness.

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Speaker 3: Okay, now, speaking of Southern shade, this is the second season of Bell Collective, which brought onto New bells Ai Keisha and so Gucci. And what we've been seeing so far this season is this sort of like I'll say this.

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Speaker 4: You may disagree with me, but the audience and I.

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Speaker 3: Feel like it's this cute battle between you and Aikeisha over Ferry Street and who is the true queen of Jackson? So let me ask you this, who is truly the Queen of Jackson?

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Speaker 1: Listen, Honey, I'm from Pelahatchie. I've never rapped Jackson and never will. Shout out to everybody in Jackson.

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Speaker 2: But honey, you can have that. I'm not gonna create a beef over a title.

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Speaker 1: That I don't even want. I don't want to be labeled as a Queen of Jackson.

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Speaker 2: I'm not from Jackson.

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Speaker 1: Now, we're gonna do the Queen of Mississippi. Now, that's something else. But I'm definitely not gonna say the Queen of Jackson. There are so many queens here. I'm from Pelahatchie. She can have that title. I mean her two months that she's been back in Jackson, she can have it.

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Speaker 3: Who charl I hate to do this, but stay tuned for more of my conversation with Letitia. We'll be right back after this quick break. This is Reality the King, and I'm Carlos King. Let's get back into my conversation with Letitia. Do you think I Keisha moved to Jackson just to be on Bell Collective?

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Speaker 1: Well, absolutely a Keisha moved back to Jackson or rented out an apartment.

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Speaker 2: To be here to film this. I mean, if you know, you know that's the truth.

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Speaker 1: Of course she did, since it's in Jersey and doing her thing. Honey, Okay, but I listen, any woman that's that determined and persistent.

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Speaker 2: I listen here, I salute you. I mean, listen, go ahead. That's all I can say. Go ahead, honey, you deserve to be here. That's that's dedication. I salute that.

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Speaker 4: See what I'm saying, y'all, This southern sho need.

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Speaker 1: Some of her sky miles because flying back and forth, I need some sky miles.

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Speaker 2: Honey, I need some of her sky miles.

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Speaker 4: That's your social media clip. Bir okay La, you are crazy job.

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Speaker 3: So without giving too much away, because you know we're in the middle of this amazing season two a Bell collective. What can the viewers expect to see as it relates to your relationship with Glenn, The viewers.

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Speaker 2: Can expect to see an emotional roller coaster. Listen.

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Speaker 1: I will say this. During filming Carlos, your tour of your producer said, I feel like I'm on a roller coaster. When don't we like I said, you know what, come on, Honey said right beside me.

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Speaker 2: We on emotional roller coaster.

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Speaker 1: Emotional sometime, you know, the little hood come out of us a little bit here and there. But I mean what you can see is a real relationship, a real marriage, trying to.

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Speaker 2: Figure it out. Whatever that may look like.

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Speaker 1: To whoever, that's what that's what you're gonna see. And you guys caught us dead in the middle. And I don't know if they told I don't know if.

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Speaker 2: I told you this, but from August all.

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Speaker 1: The way to January, Glenn and I had minor conversation. When you guys came here to start filming. We talked the most during that because we had to. So basically Glenn.

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Speaker 2: Will say shout out to you know, Bell.

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Speaker 1: Collective and us filming because he had access to me. More so so dead in the middle when you guys started filming, we didn't know what that was gonna look like, you know.

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Speaker 2: And that's what you got go see.

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Speaker 4: And that's what the autists been seeing.

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Speaker 3: Because one thing about me leaving the Real Housewives of Atlanta and starting my production company, moving to la and just really wanting to change the narrative of what I was seeing on reality was I really wanted to show aspirational couples and to really show the voice of the black woman, but also the black man too, because I remember working on the Real Houseworks of Atlanta and Peter and Apollo were such great mainstays on that show, but when they got divorced, they just disappeared, and I hated it because I felt like, at the end of the day, the audience fell in love with this man or these men, and they still want to see them. I feel the same way watching Marathi Medicine and I love Quad, but I also loved seeing Doctor G and seeing Quad's relationship with the doctor. And now that they're divorced, child Doctor G is gone somewhere. So when it comes to Bell Collective, I really wanted to show how these men operated in Jackson, not only in their profession, but in their personal relationship. And one thing I will say about Glenn, Glenn is somebody who wears his heart on his sleeve.

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Speaker 4: And without giving so much away.

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Speaker 3: One thing that we are seeing is his regretfulness in cheating on you and possibly having another child that's been born. And you're trying to figure out that relationship as you are filming this season, were there are moments where you truly did want to give back in this man's arms and bedroom and just forget about the issues you were having.

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Speaker 1: Carlo absolutely, first, let me just say, let me go back to that thank you for showcasing the men, because showcasing the men.

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Speaker 2: I listen, You're exactly right.

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Speaker 1: When I watched Real Housewives of Atlanta even Quad Doctor G, I'm like I did, I.

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Speaker 2: Said, I wonder what doctor G is doing.

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Speaker 1: I said that, and I love Quad, but that did cross my mind. So thank you for even highlighting these men because they are a part of us. But getting to your question, there was several times, Honey, that I wanted to get in bed with Glenn.

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Speaker 2: I was stressed out. I was I started inflaming.

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Speaker 1: I needed a stress relief, Like I said, I have PCOS, so I started I felt inflammation down there and my stomp.

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Speaker 2: I cause, mind you, I.

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Speaker 1: Hadn't slept with this man since August, so it was like, oh my god. There were several times he came on set looking good, smelling good, talking good, and I wanted to say man as the words they don't like me saying, and I want to say.

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Speaker 2: Man, infem holds, baby, come on, I'm just being honest. But at the same time, I'm like, no, I am teaching you. No, no, no, no, because.

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Speaker 1: Sweet nothings again, making love, love, you know, and all that kind of stuff. Glenn was staying in your ear, and no, I would have been like, you know what, guys, what we would have came on set and been like, uh, Carlos, now are you ready to go ahead an EPI wedding special because we're about to renew our vowels?

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Speaker 2: So I know, I know, honey. I was like, so you were right.

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Speaker 1: There was some and they were hard times, even on like in our confessionals, it was hard. And I can remember, uh, Michelle the showrunner the first the first confessional we had, and Glenn dressed himself contrary to where people believe a lot of times we were dressed alike. I'm like, this is a coincidence, honey, please believe me. He would he would have had on purple and I had on light blue. Okay, had I been involved, But I can remember I said, you know what, he's gonna do all this on his step, on his own.

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Speaker 2: He's gonna miss me.

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Speaker 1: And I can remember Michelle saying, we don't like what what's on. You know what Glenn is wearing. You're gonna have to go back and get him a jacket. And I was like, oh no, in this moment, I'm standing in my ground.

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Speaker 2: Let him, Let him do it. Let them. Let them bitches go get a suit.

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to do it. Glenn came. I said, baby, you're know man, this together, Tisha, You're everything.

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Speaker 2: I said, I love you. Oh I got you look amazed. I said, I'll be bad. I'm about to go get his suit.

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Speaker 1: I was like, no, no, no, Carlos.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, you're right.

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Speaker 1: There was several times I felt like I miss him, but it is what it is.

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Speaker 4: He's very charming. I think you know me. I love Glenn.

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Speaker 3: I think he's so handsome. How do you feel with people called Glenn little Boosy?

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Speaker 2: Oh my goodness.

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Speaker 1: The crazy thing is even in our hometown in Pelahatchie, and even at his hometown up and where he's from, they'll say, go little boozy. So it's not like a new thing, you know. And mind you, Glenn was into the music industry at once. The crazy thing is we have had a conversation with little Boosie. So it's kind of right, and it's I think it's hilarious. I saw somebody saying Glenn, get out of here with the boosy fade, or that little Boosey trying to be with I'm like, man, so I said Glenn, you boozy again, you little boosy crazy.

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Speaker 3: I love it speaking of that too, when how do you feel when people say that you and Glenn are the melody and Martell Holt of Bell Collective.

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Speaker 2: Shout out to him.

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Speaker 1: I love them, but that's definitely not a compliment because I feel like, and I'll say, and hey, I know it's not a popular opinion, but I do wish that they could figure it out. I think that they were such a cute couple together. I definitely still see the love. But I understand her too, being in it. How much more can you take? Like, come on, you know how much more? But they are like the cutest, but everybody has to.

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Speaker 2: Do what's great for them.

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Speaker 1: But being compared to them, that's not a compliment. Yes we're going through infidelity, Yes we're going through situations, but.

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Speaker 2: That's not a compliment.

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Speaker 3: Look, the thing about it is you are such a star and when people found out that you did not want to be on the show, that you were just pitching your brunch and you want to know involvement, everyone was like, I cannot see.

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Speaker 4: Bell Collective without Letitia.

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Speaker 3: So a lot of people say they can't see love and Marriage Hunts Fell without Melody. So I also think a lot of it has to deal with your position on the show. Do you feel like, how can I say this without getting you in trouble? But do you feel like you're the star of the show.

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Speaker 1: I absolutely feel like I'm the star of the show. I'm the star of any room that I walk in. Absolutely that goes without saying no offense to anybody else. But when you show up as your authentic self and be who you are, people don't feel at They gonna respect that and they're gonna see that it is what it is.

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Speaker 2: I feel like.

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Speaker 1: For me, I'm so vulnerable and open because I can't remember lies. So if this is what it is, and people can only respect the real that's in any situation that you're in, and they can feel if you're not being true, So yes, definitely I'm gonna say yes without a doubt. Yes, I am the star of Bell collective. I'm the start of any room that I walk in.

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Speaker 3: So when people say akesha maybe or LaTrece may be, what do you say to that, they should feel.

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Speaker 2: The same way.

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Speaker 1: You know, the Tree's gonna feel that way anyway, that's her if she's the trees anywhere.

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Speaker 2: She's gonna feel that, and that's how people should feel. And that's just what it is.

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Speaker 3: Some people have tweeted they want to defund women's empowerment brunches in general. They feel like women's empowerment brunches are nothing but an open form for mean girls to be mean. What do you have to say about that? Knowing that you are known as the queen of these brunches.

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Speaker 1: I think that first of all, everybody's entitled to their opinions. And I have gone to empowerment brunches.

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Speaker 2: That was like, what is this? What are we doing? Nobody's networking.

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Speaker 1: Everybody's sitting there, baby, and they red bottoms hunting and best hair hunting that God is hair. Everybody's sitting there hunting looking good, but nobody's actually networking. So when I started these brunches back in twenty seventeen, that's why all of my true supporters that's actually attended the brunches, they're like, what the honestifs that we're seeing we were actually networking. We bring in business consultants, someone from the irs my they are those types of brunches.

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Speaker 2: I'm not offended by that. I just know that you're only as good as your leader.

00:32:15
Speaker 1: So whatever I put out and whatever I treat people, they're coming not to just be like, oh, I'm just empowering because it's nothing else to do. In Jackson, They're saying, you know what, I know who Latitia is. I know her heart and I know what she stand for, so they, you know, they come and support the brunches. However, I have I have attended of several brunches where I'm like, I didn't even get to meet the host and it was like she she left, Okay, you just got them a little money on event, right, Okay, you know so I get it. I get where people are coming from. I totally get it. And at the end of the day, they have the right town their own opinions. But you have to know me and my character and it speaks for itself. So I mean, it is what it is. I've been empowering before empower became trending. I was the girl sitting on the bus when nobody wanted to sit with her. I was the girl pouring into someone else when they ran away from home. So before empower meant became a theme or I don't know, how is it a money mark, money making thing, because the close that I've ever gotten was breaking even so I don't even know how that's.

00:33:19
Speaker 2: The money market, but.

00:33:21
Speaker 1: You know, I've been that girl and this is what I do. I genuinely love pouring to other people. So, honey, define all.

00:33:29
Speaker 2: You want to baby out here.

00:33:32
Speaker 3: Shifting years a bit, your friendship with Marie has caused a lot of conversation. Some people love the fact that the two of you had this great bond and that you're always there for her, while other people think you need to cut the cord.

00:33:49
Speaker 4: And get rid of her ever being at your brunches Again.

00:33:53
Speaker 3: Now that you watch a couple of these episodes and been watching with the fans, do you feel that Marie's behavior has single handedly ruined your brunch and possibly your reputation?

00:34:08
Speaker 1: Yes and no No, because I know Marie as a person myself.

00:34:13
Speaker 2: I know Marie. I know who Marie is, I know the type of person she is.

00:34:19
Speaker 1: The heart Now, when we give Marie Monroe, see now we're talking about somebody else, Marie is going to be Marie. But I will say that I've had people come up to me. We were just sitting the grocery store, me and Josh the other day getting his snacks.

00:34:33
Speaker 2: Lady I've never met in my life.

00:34:35
Speaker 1: And she was like, I love you so much, and she whispered in my ear and she said, please start Marie from Ma tena of your brunches by I don't mean any harm.

00:34:43
Speaker 2: I was like, and she left, and I'm like, oh my god, did this.

00:34:47
Speaker 1: Lady just come up to me while we're while we're getting chips. So I'm going to say that I personally don't think in every brunch.

00:34:57
Speaker 2: Let me just say this every brunch.

00:34:59
Speaker 1: That I've had, a majority of my brunches that I've had, whether on television or not, Marie's attended, so I can say that for her.

00:35:08
Speaker 2: And it's just like, if LaTrece isn't in the room, she's fine.

00:35:12
Speaker 4: Now that is true.

00:35:13
Speaker 1: You know that is fine. She's fine if LaTrece is absent. And you know, from the empowerment branch, we're going to empower.

00:35:23
Speaker 3: So the goal is to never have LaTrece and Marie at the same brunch at the same damn time.

00:35:30
Speaker 2: Right, We'll probably try like a brunch at night. What's doing night?

00:35:34
Speaker 4: Maybe so she can have her eighty proof and hennessy, oh.

00:35:37
Speaker 1: Yeah, if Latrice's drunk, she could kill it. She's Marie.

00:35:48
Speaker 3: So I want people to know too, that your brunches have been around, like you said, since twenty seventeen, so much so that you may have Portia Williams hosting one of your brunches talk to us about, Yeah, how that came about and what that experience was.

00:36:05
Speaker 2: Like, Oh my god.

00:36:07
Speaker 1: First, let me tell you what it was like working with Porsche in her team.

00:36:11
Speaker 2: That was just so amazing.

00:36:13
Speaker 1: I always like to create things and do things that other people aren't doing. I love to stay at my own line, on my own lane. I was the first person in my brunches to bring a housewife.

00:36:22
Speaker 2: To Jackson, Mississippi.

00:36:23
Speaker 1: I wanted to here's the thing, how the brunches started. Not to discredit our local coffee shops.

00:36:29
Speaker 2: Or anything like that.

00:36:30
Speaker 1: They are amazing, but here in Jackson I had to trick women into knowledge. And what I mean by that is you put them in a nice place, nice food, nice to core, dress up. When you look good, you feel good. When you feel good, you look good. So all of my brunches, it was levels to it. I'm not gonna lie.

00:36:47
Speaker 2: My brunches are levels like that's just what it is. The brunches that I put together, it's levels to it. You.

00:36:53
Speaker 1: Nobody can tell you that they've attended Honey a Women Brunch Mississippi Leatisha Latisha pierris In brunch and it was not top tier. So what I wanted to do the Boss Up Brunch. Porsche had her hairline, she was really I loved her energy. I'm a cancer and she's a cancer, and I feel like I always try to link up with people that I feel like we share some type of something similarities because that's how I messed. That's how I meshed. So I reached out and I said.

00:37:20
Speaker 2: You know what, let me get Porsche. Let me reach out to Porsche.

00:37:23
Speaker 1: I loved her, I loved her energy, and I felt like the women here would love her as well. And we're talking about boss and beauty, but Porsche is a boss and she's a beauty.

00:37:32
Speaker 2: So I'm like, you know what, let me reach out. So I reached out to.

00:37:35
Speaker 1: Her team, Karen and Ants and Rob and they were amazing. When I say amazing, they were so amazing. And I'm gonna tell you something too that I hadn't shared, and I hope I don't get in trouble with Porsche about it, but I'm gonna share something with you. So the team, they were so amazing. We booked Porsche. Everything was good.

00:37:53
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh my god, tickets started to sell.

00:37:56
Speaker 1: I mean like, oh my god, I want to see Porsche. She's so relatable, Like, oh my god, this is amazing. She came, we got everything, Uh, situated her flights everything. She was getting ready to fly for her birthdays in July, so she was getting ready to fly out right after my event. I got a call a couple of days before. She has a foundation. Well she was getting ready to film something with Bravo. So there was like a conflict of interest in her schedule. So what she did they called, she called me.

00:38:26
Speaker 2: Her manager call.

00:38:27
Speaker 1: And first her manager call was like, hey, we're gonna refund you everything that had We're gonna refund you. You know, there's a conflict, and you know she's obligated, like you know us to Bravo and Da da dada.

00:38:39
Speaker 2: And I was like, my reputation at my brand.

00:38:42
Speaker 1: I was like, no, let's go back to the drawing board because this is not it. She was like she she this is this is her job, and I was like, I understand that, and this is my brand, right. So a few minutes later and poor she got on the phone and she called and she was just like, oh my god, I'm so sorry, Like there was a conflict of interest. I will refer you to Eva and I love evil, But I said.

00:39:04
Speaker 4: That ain't what it is the girls and what is he Eva at Jackson, Mississippi. Port Yeah, they had ever the girls at Jackson, Mississippi.

00:39:15
Speaker 1: So I was like, and I went through this spill and we talked and I was like, Porscha, this is my reputation. You know, I'm building something here. I can't let these women know that maybe I just.

00:39:26
Speaker 2: Tried to get tickets and I lie. They're not gonna.

00:39:28
Speaker 1: Believe old Porsche had a jose here in in Jackson. If someone if they don't show up to.

00:39:34
Speaker 2: An event, they say chat, they couldn't afford them.

00:39:36
Speaker 1: They ain't even selling up tickets. They couldn't afford them.

00:39:39
Speaker 2: You know what I mean? What I love about Porsche.

00:39:42
Speaker 1: When we ended that call, she said, carrying them whatever we gotta do, make it work. And I love her for that and forever. And when she came in, she was amazing. Her energy was amazing, so down to earth, and I mean, it is what it is.

00:39:58
Speaker 3: So yeah, no, and that's the that I love and know, and I'm happy she made that commitment to And speaking of another housewife, you also did something recently with Juice Dora and something happened where my name came up in conversation.

00:40:17
Speaker 4: That miss Letitia.

00:40:19
Speaker 2: Yes, Carlos.

00:40:21
Speaker 1: First of all, ju and I share like the same team in a sense when it comes to managing stuff.

00:40:28
Speaker 2: So we were talking and she was like, oh my god, I love Carlos. I love him so much.

00:40:34
Speaker 1: Oh my god, she here, she's still Their talks still over you know, the King of reality about you when you were all Real Housewives of Atlanta and I was like, well, honey, he's over here on bell Collective.

00:40:46
Speaker 2: I even said, love and leave him alone. Y'all can erase all of that because this is his business over here, honey.

00:40:52
Speaker 1: Okay, he's birth in the Bells. So we appreciate it, we accept that, we accept it, and I'll let him know. But let's sim her down.

00:41:02
Speaker 2: And I loved you. She and I are actually getting ready to do some things together.

00:41:06
Speaker 3: I loved you now, Juesus sweetheart. We follow each other on Instagram. I met her at Chara's finale. I'll just say that because I want to get about in trouble. And Drew was very sweet when she met me, and she also said that to everybody loves you. Your name is constantly brought up as we're filming, and she said, look, this is season fourteen. I'm still a newbie. You left five years ago, and baby, people are still bringing up your name when we're filming.

00:41:35
Speaker 4: So I appreciate that, and I love the fact that you guys have that rapport.

00:41:40
Speaker 3: So before I let you go, I got two more things for you. The first is you're such a fan of reality television and I am going to in.

00:41:52
Speaker 4: A few months.

00:41:54
Speaker 3: Okay, guys, give y'all my list of the greatest reality stars of all time. But I would love to hear from you, laticiha, who would you crown as the greatest reality star of all time?

00:42:11
Speaker 2: And why, oh, that's gonna probably be biased. It's so many that I love.

00:42:18
Speaker 1: It's so many that I love, but the one that I met personally and I was able to experience her energy, I would definitely have to say, Well, I've met a few but the one that I experienced her energy and I was able to see her heart outside of cameras, and that.

00:42:35
Speaker 2: Would have to be Porsche Williams.

00:42:38
Speaker 1: That's because I mean the experience was beautiful. I love where she is, I love her owning who she is that she's just been throughout if you can't. It's one of those things where I think what makes a good reality start is that they allow us to go through life with them and that's something that Portia has allowed us to see good bad going on of situations growing and I love that.

00:43:03
Speaker 2: I love that she seems so relatable to me and in her heart. I was able to.

00:43:08
Speaker 1: Experience that outside of outside of India.

00:43:11
Speaker 3: I love I love that, And and again, Porsche is a sweet girl. She's very Kincio, has a good heart, and Porscha don't give a fuck about what I think about her, and she is going to live. Porscha is going to live her life. And guess what we're all going to say? Okay, honey, I just want to follow along, so there.

00:43:31
Speaker 2: You go, There you go.

00:43:35
Speaker 4: I just okay, so I'll let you go.

00:43:39
Speaker 3: Tell my listeners what they can expect for the rest of the season of Bell Collective.

00:43:46
Speaker 2: Oh my god, guys, listen.

00:43:50
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not trying to toot our own horn over here. But if you want some reality TV, honey, you can expect nothing but up downs, reality and girl fight, boyfriend, husband drama, good vibes and good fight toget and it is explosive. But at the end of the day, you definitely gonna see inspirations and you're gonna see all of us trying to figure it out what everybody's trying to figure it out.

00:44:14
Speaker 2: And that's how I can sound.

00:44:16
Speaker 1: That we navigating through a tragedy, we navigate through friendships. We're trying to figure out friendships, We're trying to figure out marriages, we're trying to figure.

00:44:24
Speaker 2: Out if we really want to move to Jackson and I you know, I just don'na see a lot.

00:44:28
Speaker 4: You just had it there.

00:44:31
Speaker 3: Oh and I recently tweeted on my social media about we guys, we just taped the Bill Collective reunion. And I will say and mark my word, in my fifteen year career, it is top three. I'm not gonna say which number it is yet, it's top three of the best reunions I've have ever ever done in my life.

00:45:00
Speaker 4: Oh wow, that's being what can you give?

00:45:03
Speaker 3: Give a little latza, just a little tea about what they can't expect from the reunion that's coming up in a couple of weeks.

00:45:11
Speaker 2: I left the building a couple of times mentally any so so mean, I don't think I'm the right one to ask. I don't think that I was all the way present A lot of times I left.

00:45:29
Speaker 1: But when I was present, it's like something I've never witnessed before in my life. It is on a whole nother level, Like it's beyond reality TV.

00:45:41
Speaker 2: It's like on a whole nother level. You. I mean, you just you went for the you was that your last show that you was going to ever produce?

00:45:52
Speaker 4: Their life?

00:45:52
Speaker 2: Because you went hard the honey. Okay, so I'm like this.

00:46:00
Speaker 4: No, look, I I listen. I love this podcast.

00:46:04
Speaker 3: I love my late night show, The Nightcap, But I also love hosting reunions because it's the camaraderie that I have with my cast that you ladies and men have with me. And that's why the host seat is so important, because you want to make sure, as you are revealing things to the audience that the host is somebody who's like your friend that you trust, who you love and respect. And I think that was the reason why we were able to have such a great reunion because this love that was in the room, but there was also a lot of shame, a lot of hate. But look it was it was definitely one for the books. But Letitia, I'm so happy you finally made it.

00:46:51
Speaker 4: On Reality with the King Podcasts.

00:46:53
Speaker 3: Know you welcome baby. Where can my listeners find you? Where can they follow you? And how can they supper for you?

00:47:01
Speaker 2: Absolutely?

00:47:02
Speaker 1: Latitia Pearson Underscore on Instagram, Leatitia Pearson Facebook, Latitia Pearson Twitter and of course anytime Latitia Pierson dot com.

00:47:13
Speaker 2: It's all things Lea Tisha Honey, just put my.

00:47:15
Speaker 4: Name in you'll find the girls.

00:47:17
Speaker 2: Letitia, please please please, it's l say it with me. L A t E s h i A. Okay, I love Tisha Tisha from a Huntsville. But I am not hurt. I am l A t E s h i A.

00:47:38
Speaker 1: That's me because I can't find some of you guys what I'm trying to go out here and answer answer your questions.

00:47:43
Speaker 2: Because that's not even me. So some stuff I'm like that ain't talking to me. They're talking to Letitia. That's not me. L A T E S H I A nah. And I love you, guys, I love everybody. Thank y'all for supporting.

00:47:57
Speaker 3: You can watch Bell Collective airby Friday night, nine o'clock A Central on the Upper Winfrey Network, and you can follow Latitia Pearson wherever you are on social media.

00:48:09
Speaker 4: Thank you, Latitia, baby, I love you, I love you more.

00:48:14
Speaker 2: Thank you.

00:48:15
Speaker 4: B Yes, I hope y'all enjoyed that shady, fun.

00:48:24
Speaker 3: But also insightful conversation between Letitia and I and I have to say this.

00:48:30
Speaker 4: Before I end. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.

00:48:33
Speaker 3: Thank you to the audience and the viewers for making The Collective such a huge hit.

00:48:38
Speaker 4: I mean to see.

00:48:40
Speaker 3: The love that y'all have for this show means the world to me. And I'm so happy that all of you guys plus the new viewers, decided to come back for a second season and give this show a chance. I can tell that y'all are living for it, and all I'm going to say is there's more to come. But tonight there's an all new episode of Bell Collective at nine o'clock A Central on the Oprah Winfrey Network Tonight's episode Baby There is a sister vention where Akesha Versus everybody is on display.

00:49:22
Speaker 4: Here's a clip.

00:49:25
Speaker 1: Damn Akisha throwshet Aur Keisha kydas ugly.

00:49:28
Speaker 2: Clearly she's not talking about me. I need to figure this woman out. Girl, get away from me.

00:49:34
Speaker 4: This what we're doing here, Bell Collective. New episode tonight at nine eighth Central.

00:49:42
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