BET MEDIA HOUSE: All Power, All Purpose

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Speaker 1: Hey, Sweys, I'm so glad you enjoy be Et Media House Part one.

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Speaker 2: But there is more. We are about to drop part two. There are so many gyms drops, and I hope you enjoy it. Kim's family.

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Speaker 1: We are at the Beet Media House for the twenty fifth BET Awards and I have with me right now the iconic, the beautiful Angie Martinez.

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Speaker 2: Hey, sweet, nothing much. I'm so happy to have you on the couch now I get to be in this sign. Yes, last time you was on Nasade, I was in the hot seat.

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Speaker 1: So you have your podcast in real life at Agie Martinez. What has been something for me? Because I know for me with doing my podcast, I've learned things about myself real it's almost therapeutic.

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Speaker 2: Yeah for sure. Yeah. How will it been for you?

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Speaker 3: Because it forces you to frame the way you think about things? Yes, because you gotta have something to say about the thing. It forces you to be like, how do I really feel about this right as you're talking about it? For me too, I talk less about my personal stuff on the radio. Radio is like about you know, what's trending topic and what artists are doing and music and the plot guess is like you know, we're talking about real things, yes, real like it's just light bulbs and ways that we got to the other side of things, just the things we learned and real life. Yeah, and so that requires me to to be honest about things and so yeah, definitely.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, interesting, it's interesting. It is where else is. Yes, we're all about positivity here. Keep it positive. By the way, I told you already this. I love the name of this probably thank you. It was funny.

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Speaker 1: I was trying to change it at one point and was like, no, you cannot feel good.

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Speaker 2: I hear the name. I know exactly where I stand. I feel comfortable sitting with you.

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Speaker 3: I know, you know, there's no like if somebody didn't know the platform on the pod, that.

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Speaker 2: Name lets you know out the gate with the yes yes.

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Speaker 1: How have you been able to keep it positive in an industry that has been so negative and chaotic?

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Speaker 2: A sometimes and sometimes it's really hard? Yeah, I don't know that.

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Speaker 3: My whole career, I've always I definitely have fell victim to like getting hot headed or upset about something or maybe react overly reactive to things.

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Speaker 2: But that never feels good, right, you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 3: It's ultimately being positive and trying to take the high road and and.

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Speaker 2: Do right by people, and that just feels better. Yeah. So I just tried to do that as much as I can. I love that. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Sometimes people get under your skin. Yes, but you know life is short, man. You do bad things, bad things happen. I really believe a karma I have you know, I believe a god him off in any way?

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Speaker 4: Same, Yes, absolutely, Like I'm one of those people to like if I were to do something that was not positive and not the right thing to do, I would immediately feel the blowback of that.

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Speaker 2: Definitely. I feel you. I'm the same way. Immediately, I could get sick.

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Speaker 3: I could just say something's gonna happen, media a little back because I know better, right, you know what I'm saying, do something I wasn't supposed to do.

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Speaker 2: I immediate it's gonna hit me in Yeah, I'm with you on that. Just it's easier to do the right thing. Yeah, No, for sure. What's up?

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Speaker 1: Kids, family? I have someone with me that we all know because she's already been on the sofa, the one, the only le Vassie.

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Speaker 2: What's up? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: So I would love to ask you we always talk about positivity here on Keep It Positive Sweeping.

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Speaker 2: What is one way that you've kept it positive during the season.

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Speaker 5: M One way I've kept it positive during the season is I've started to work out.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I've now become a pilates girly. Pilates is everything, girl, and.

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Speaker 5: It's become a big part of you know, my weekly you know, day to day things that kind of keep me grounded and you know, keep me taking care of my temple, you know. So that's been a huge addition, you know, to my day to day.

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Speaker 2: I love that. I love that. Before you get out of here, I want to play a quick game of this or that. Okay you ready? All right? Pray first or journal first? Pray audiobook or paperback paperback? Need too. I love the smell of paper. We were just talking about this. I love the smell of paper.

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Speaker 1: It's something about like just flipping the pages and highlighting. Yes, yeah, I'm the girl too. Riseing car in silence or ride with music blasting.

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Speaker 5: You know, I used to be silenced, but I just got a new car and I love the South speakers.

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Speaker 2: Listen like I don't listen to the album.

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Speaker 1: Yeah car, you gotta ride to it listen, No, like it's how I do music. I have to get in the car and see how it feels when I'm riding. Yes, and I gotta blast it as a lot as it can go.

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Speaker 2: I love that. Are you the first to arrive or the last to leave? Probably first to arrive in first leave? Yes, that's me. I'm like, I'm going and get there so I can get out. I love that. All right, let it slide or we ride it down. I know, for me, let this lost. So I don't.

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Speaker 5: Believe in dot in the I ain't at all actually right, I believe in I know this is a this or that. Right, It's like I believe in grace, but I'm not about to die for you. So it's kind of like I'm like somewhere in the middle, right. I love it positive Patty or negative Nancy?

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Speaker 2: Positive? I know this one, yes, because we would keep it positive, sweetie. Hello, Oh my gosh, y'all.

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Speaker 1: I first laid eyes on this woman on Instagram, was instantly obsessed. Then I got to meet her and get to know her. The beautiful kaiser Hi, gorgeous.

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Speaker 6: I'm so excited to be here.

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Speaker 1: I'm so excited when I saw you coming in, I was like, we gotta get her on the couch.

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Speaker 2: How are you feeling? I'm good.

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Speaker 6: You know, this is new territory for me, you know, new people, new environments, but definitely feel like God placed me here and to be surrounded around people like you is just more fulfilling it.

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Speaker 2: I love that.

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Speaker 1: I love that you have a personal relationship with God. I'm really big on faith and I'm really big on talking about it here and keep it positive.

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Speaker 2: Sweet. How has God guided you through.

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Speaker 1: Like even this transition where you're like you're embarking on different territories.

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Speaker 2: How has that journey been with him?

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Speaker 7: Yeah?

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Speaker 6: I mean He's the only reason why I'm on this journey, to be honest, if it were to leave it up to me, Lord knows, I would probably be keeping myself one dimensional. Being able to see the gifts that He has given me and to utilize him. I think that's the gift that I am able to give back to him.

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Speaker 2: I love it.

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Speaker 1: I love it, and I pray that God continues to blow your mind. You are so deserving guys as well.

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Speaker 2: See him all on you. Thank you so much. Same same.

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Speaker 1: I'm really big on mental health and so are you, And how has I know, like, probably within the past four or five years, mental health has become really big in our community. Whereas we were just kind of trained to like push things aside and keep pushing. How have you been able to find those moments to really deal with your mental health?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I think me making the ultimate decision when I was at the height of my career so young. Yeah, and when I was a rookie coming in. You know, I was a top five pick and I had chose to walk away from the game even though I had spent my whole life working up to this moment, and it didn't feel what I thought it would be because of all the trauma that I've endured, things just trying to sweep underneath the rug to go play the games. You know, I had just lost my father right before I got drafted in the middle of the season. It showed up the next day, kept playing like just things that behind closed doors, people didn't know about it. And when I saw myself on a billboard and when I would come home, I realized I was living a double lifestyle. And that's when I realized, I'm like, Okay, I'm gonna choose me instead of choosing the world, and this is when I started learning about mental health. Now it is part of my boundaries. I need my solitude. I need to have time with myself. I need to recharge and check in Lorens. I'm Leo Codd, So I appreciate my loane space. But it's some matters that I am the matter I can be for others around me.

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Speaker 2: That is so true. That is so I agree with you wholeheartedly, and with none.

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Speaker 1: Other than twenty time Grammy Award winning my brother Kirk Franklin.

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Speaker 2: What's going on? Christ Due?

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Speaker 8: That's your theme music?

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Speaker 2: That's it.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna keep that sound like that's gonna be at the beginning of season eight.

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Speaker 8: That's gonna be horrible. Good to see you, queen, you too.

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Speaker 2: Love How you feeling good? Good?

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Speaker 1: It's always good to see you. You always have the best energy. How you feeling today?

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Speaker 8: I'm good.

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Speaker 9: I got up them Ac cardio this morning, so my anxiety levels are down right right right.

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Speaker 2: You have a new single you.

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Speaker 1: I feel like, do you live in the studio because you stay on top of it. You're always coming out with new music, You're always collaborating. I love you got a new single, Yeah, let's talk. I saw you in the car playing in for Taybor. That was so cute.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 8: Yes, called do it again.

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Speaker 9: And you know, for people to have spiritual amnesia, it's so easy to forget what God did because you come up to another problem and it's like in a panic, a panic, and so I'm like, God is like, bro, didn't you just see me pull up the last situation?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but you know, our.

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Speaker 9: Fears won't allow us to hold on to those memories. And so hopefully this song does the job of reminding us.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and if he did it before, he'll do it again. He'll do it again, and he will. That is so good because we do get spiritual amesia. That's real and we all do. Oh my goodness, we all do. I do we all do.

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Speaker 2: That's so good.

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Speaker 1: I love that I had to use that because I know for me, y'all definitely like as soon as something crazy happens, my first instinct is a panic, like, oh, guys, not remembering how many times he's brought you out.

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Speaker 9: And you got a history where the men will still do it so and what's so beautiful though, is that he don't throw us away because of.

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Speaker 2: That I'm on now. He does not. He does not.

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Speaker 1: I have with me a woman that is near and dear to my heart, the one and only Miss Kimberly Page.

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Speaker 2: How are you doing? So excited for you to be here? And you look amazing and.

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Speaker 1: You you too serious like the fashions. You are like the epitome of class. No seriously, yes, no, you are like I just wish I could be as lady like as you please, because you walk in and it's like like your feet don't test.

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Speaker 2: The ground, like it's an inner spirit. I love it. It starts from with it. I love it. No, that is yes, you do it very well. Thank you. I'm going to get there. I'm working on it. I really get in this stage my life.

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Speaker 1: I'm working on being more lady like and exuding my soft girl era and softness.

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Speaker 2: So I'm trying to get there. You're there, but a.

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Speaker 1: Lot of people do not know that you are literally the heartbeat behind everything that happens at BT. You so into so many people, a lot of things that you see happening that are big. You're the person that's signing off saying yes, let's support them. How did you come to be the campage that everyone knows now.

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Speaker 2: You know, I think for me, I've always been.

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Speaker 10: I have a spirit of service that makes sense, and so as I'm thinking about anything, whether it's you know, work, my family, my friends, my team, I try to come and center from that that space of service. And I think when you're willing to serve, great leaders have to be servers.

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Speaker 11: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I love that. This next guest, y'all have seen him on the kip sofa.

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Speaker 1: He is my friend, my brother. I love him so so much. He hit me day he said, asis you at that media house. I said, yeah, he said, I'm pulling up and he is here.

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Speaker 8: Major, what's happening. It's so good to see you in your light.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 8: You are light.

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Speaker 7: But it's good to see you spotlighted and you have a whole corner. You don't get corners in the media house unless you're doing something.

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Speaker 2: Somebody else said the same.

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Speaker 8: I want to be clear. This is called favor.

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Speaker 7: It's called it's called God said now is your time, and you're showing up and showing up.

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Speaker 1: For I love you, Thank you so much. Let's talk about everything you have going on. I prayed for you number one two weeks.

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Speaker 2: In a row.

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Speaker 7: That's right, that's right, Row, that's my new new that's my new news, and I'm super it sited. So I Prayed for You just went number one on Billboard. A gospel airplay more specifically, Why I Love You went platinum, and the thing as an independent artist who's mama named a major, the journey is very unpredictable, and oftentimes the things that you expect to happen happen out of order. And it's kind of wild, but out of order from how I planned it. You know what they say, give God your plans and you make laugh. Yeah, So it's crazy that you know. Years later, I get my first ever number one on Billboard with the song about Prayer, and you know, to talk about that song, Crystal. It came by way of a text message that Chadwick Boseman sent me. He said, at ten forty five Eastern Standard time on April fourth, twenty twenty, let's collectively pray for the hope of the world because people are drowning in a sea of hopelessness. Yes, from their mindset on how to heal, how to recover from COVID nineteen, the civil unrest in the land, And I didn't know that my brother would be passing four months later. But my thing is if he had the audacity to hope for the world while he was going through his own things, I think I can lock in on that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's beautiful, But no, I am so proud of you. You have been very open about the ups and downs of this industry or the impact that has had on your life.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, and you work so hard and you want.

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Speaker 1: To be noticed and you want to be awarded for your good works. So and He's like, you were almost there so many times. And now it's like God is like, iet, Yo, you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 7: You know what it feels like when you've been on this journey of hoping and wishing and believing and sacrificing and giving, and when you're in a season.

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Speaker 8: As you are, it's a perpetual rollout.

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Speaker 7: Only a god like our God can plan a rollout like that. But it's like, man, did the church say Amen? Yeah, y'all know what I'm talking about. Literally, it has been perpetual. I saw you, I've had you, I got you.

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Speaker 11: Yes.

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Speaker 7: Berkeley College of Music, my alma mater, just inducted me into the Hall of Fame.

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Speaker 12: Uh.

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Speaker 7: I got the number one for two weeks in a row. Uh, there's just so many things. Tammeron hall. I do her one one one show, and then she's like, can we bring you back next month? I'm like, yes, yes, And I stayed at the hotel that I knew you did that. I said, I know what hotel is. I ain't gonna tell you.

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Speaker 8: We don't know hotel.

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Speaker 13: You know.

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Speaker 1: That was my first time staying there because what I usually said it was there was some tech conference going.

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Speaker 8: On, but that one that it hits it.

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Speaker 2: Oh yes, and they upgrade me to this, like like I got a little living room and.

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Speaker 8: A bedroom set a little corner.

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Speaker 2: Yeah that if you weren't where you open up the.

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Speaker 8: Hudson, you might have had my.

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Speaker 2: Right you Like that sounds very familiar. That thing was nice.

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Speaker 8: This is nice, But it's the fun thing.

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Speaker 7: The beautiful thing is when we take a beat and just let God be God, he shows us that he's the master curator of answered prayers, of blessings, of I see you, I got you.

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Speaker 8: When I say yes, nobody can say no.

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Speaker 2: No.

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Speaker 7: That's what we're living with and that's what we're living in. So I'm excited about it.

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Speaker 1: I am so excited for you. You deserve everything. When I say I love you, I truly love you. I'm always rooting for you. Have a heart of goal.

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Speaker 8: Thank you so much as do you and I enjoy seeing you win.

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Speaker 7: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, what's up, y'all? Kissing only day two at the BT Media House and I'm sitting here with my good sister, Shemiah Morton. What's up boo, hey, best friends. You know, I'm excited to hang out with the kids family. Anytime I get advitation come hang out with y'all, I am jetting it on. We love you, like you oh much, so much so. The last time we talked, you had just gotten your peach. Yes, season had not dropped yet. So how is that going now? On the Real House Lives, I learned, Oh my goodness, when I tell you, there have been such high highs and low lows. It's been insane. I mean I started out it was amazing, and you know, I was.

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Speaker 2: Like, oh, we love Samia.

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Speaker 1: And then I was in the hot seat for like three weeks. They're like, oh, she's forced slapdog, she's you know, all these things, and I'm like, oh, please, let's give me a break people. Yeah, it's when I say they were giving it to me, but what it It gave me a thick skin there you go, yeah, like you know, it made me like I gotta say out the comments.

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Speaker 2: But now I'm back in a good place with our fans. I love it. I love that. Such your wave, such an emotional rollercoaster. We just finished shooting our reunion.

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Speaker 1: Oh wow, that's always which had me with such anxiety. It's crazy because you never know what's gonna happen. You never know what it's gonna happen, you never know who's gonna come for you. I also have to recap sixteen seventeen episodes have an entire year in one day, and it's a very long day.

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Speaker 2: I want to say, it's like a twelve hour shoot. Oh wow. Yeah, that's the costing.

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Speaker 1: It's exhausting, and even leading up to it, it's just emotionally training because you're like, you lived some dark moments on TV, then you have to watch them and yeah, the second time you see it union, it's the third time that you relive it, and so it's like reliving something over and over again. It's just overwhelming at times, but I'm so happy I survived it. I survived my first A feature to thank you. So when people I started out the seasons in it was sweet sixteen, Sweet sixteen. I'm excited Sweet sixteen, and I'm.

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Speaker 2: Ending this season sad. It's a bittersweet sixteen.

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Speaker 10: You know.

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Speaker 1: It had its bitter moments and it's had it's had its sweet moments. But I would not change any of it happened, No regret.

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Speaker 2: Good, That's all that matters.

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Speaker 1: It's christernity Hazlet and I have with me the legendary Salt. Hey, how are you great? I'm ray I'm fingerling out inside because I can't believe you're sitting here.

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Speaker 2: Thank you. Congrats to you on all your things. I think you're doing all the things. I'm loving it. Keeping it positive. Oh, thank you, Vie. You ain't the positive, that's right.

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Speaker 8: I was allowed.

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Speaker 1: So this is the thirty fifth year anniversary of your album Black Magic. How does that feel to thirty five years?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 11: No one.

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Speaker 2: We always say salt and pepper, but fun, fashion and femininity to have parted.

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Speaker 14: We were authentically ourselves and I feel like that's why we lasted this long. We also made timeless music YEP, So it feels. Did I think it would be to this level still all these years later.

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Speaker 2: No, it definitely.

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Speaker 14: I appreciate it. It's kind of surreal it. You know, the assault in this Sheryl right.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yelling it out here in the streets, right, It's amazing. She's amazing. She is amazing. I love that. And you also have some solo music, can you? That's what you're working on.

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Speaker 14: So I'm working on some personal music just about my journey. Just sharing with the ladies and things that I've been through is very personal, kind of wi pimonial and also fun, just expressing myself as an artist.

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Speaker 2: Still, that's amazing. That is what we do. It has what resonates, and that's what and we will want the music.

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Speaker 1: Yes, the dude, and they wanted to hear your stories because that's how they connect with you. Yeah, I love that for you. And I am so excited about the Wars thing. I cannot wait to see rock the States. You're gonna kill it, and congratulations on Everything's gonna be a moment.

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Speaker 2: It will be. You're welcome, Thank you so much.

00:19:38
Speaker 1: And I have with me none other than the director of Zatima. You may see me on that He is the writer of the latest season of Sisters. He also has a short film that's going to be presented at many film festivals, starting with ABFF this coming up week, The Old Gray Mayor, starring daval Ellis and.

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Speaker 11: Bro and ty Lepley Charnelle short of Oh my Gosh, Yes, yes, yes, people know her as Kimberle reach her.

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Speaker 8: Yeah yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 2: So so good.

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Speaker 1: So let's get into it. We also have a film coming out as we assume that we're gonna make.

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Speaker 2: Together, called A Love.

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Speaker 1: Give y'all that little sneak tip right there, So talk to me. Tell me what you are most excited about in this season of your life. Everything has literally skyrocketed.

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Speaker 8: I love, I love, Yeah, because A love is I know.

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Speaker 11: So the thing is, I've always had to make films with what I had, not what I've wanted. So, like you know, like I saw you on as the team, I saw the things that you do. I saw what you've done on film, and honestly, some of the things that people you guys get to see aren't the things that that's not all the shots. So I get the opportunity to see her in a light to where y'all it might not make that particular cut to where she cries, she's happy, she said, and all of that, and I saw something in her that made me want to bring her into a part. So now I had the opportunity to choose the actress that I want, and we built such a great relationship. This will be the first time that I'm working with somebody one that I love and in our in our respect, and we get to do this dance. I'm really really excited to do this because now I can show who Courtney is versus kind of like pulling tooth and nail trying to make money for this and adjusting.

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Speaker 8: I don't have to adjust, So yeah, now they get to really really see it.

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Speaker 1: So I'm excited for it, and I'm excited for them to see who Crystal is as an actor because I think this will be the first time I'm actually able to like really like take time and cultivate.

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Speaker 8: Absolutely a character. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 11: This ain't the Crystal that y'all are used to sing. Just to be very clear, this ain't the same Crystal. So and I guarante I'm not doing it now because we're gonna tell them. I'm gonna end up talking about something. We're gonna spoil it. You're talking about the next episode. Yah, yeah, yeah, you know what I'm saying. No, No, it's gonna be great now. But that's my that's what I'm excited about this year.

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Speaker 1: You know you, And I'm proud of you. Thank you then, so proud of you and everything that you're doing. It's is like we just met a year ago. Yeah up, you're out of this world. Yeah nah, it's it's up.

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Speaker 11: And again, like I think I do give a lot of credit to you of of Shepherd shepherding me into what the Tiler period universe was going to be like and all of this ship like like this ain't you know?

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Speaker 8: Don't you know what I'm saying. But just hit me, checking on me, making sure.

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Speaker 11: That I'm good. The one thing that you guys need in this in this industry, especially when you're entering it, it's somebody that's a veteran into it that can tell you what corners to turn, what corners and who to stay away from.

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Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. So you've definitely been there for I always keep it real.

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Speaker 11: Yeah yeah yeah yeah, And gonna ain't gonna call you and tell you, hey, this this hell, I don't, I don't.

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Speaker 8: I don't know about this one. I don't know about this one.

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Speaker 1: You know what I love about you is that you take you take my advice but hear me either if you you can throw it away or you can keep it, but you hear me absolutely.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I want to be better man, Like I.

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Speaker 1: Want you to be the best, and like I'm gonna let you know arouse, I know what you're capable of where you.

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Speaker 11: Are great friends. Ain't people that just tell you you good at everything? This one's gonna be like, I don't know about that shit, bro, don't I don't know if you should.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, So you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 2: It's good to have you in my corner always.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

00:23:13
Speaker 2: I appreciate you and I have with me none other than l Russell your How are you feeling, I'm well, I feel great.

00:23:24
Speaker 1: I love talking about ownership. What is the impact of ownership and what does it mean to you?

00:23:28
Speaker 15: You don't have the ability to fully execute your vision if you don't own it, because there's always somebody that could tell you no. And sometimes your vision is just based on how you feel. You don't have data or anything to prove it. It's just like, I want to do this because this is what feels good to me. And uh, it's hard to do that when you don't have control or rain over over what you creating, what you do. So our ownership just it means a lot because it just allows you to move from your heart.

00:23:57
Speaker 8: I love it.

00:23:58
Speaker 2: I love it.

00:24:00
Speaker 1: It's your christ her name Hazlet And right now I have with me Ki Ki Elaine ki Ki.

00:24:06
Speaker 2: What's up, beautiful man. I'm so happy to be here. Yes, is this your first BT award?

00:24:11
Speaker 11: It is?

00:24:12
Speaker 2: How exciting is that? It's amazing? Yes, I love us.

00:24:16
Speaker 12: I love celebrating us. So when I can be in that room, yeah, I'm most happy. What has been like some of the lessons that you learned during this time?

00:24:25
Speaker 6: You know.

00:24:25
Speaker 12: The first thing that popped in my head was something that Regina King said to me. It was actually she was presenting the Essence Black Women in Hollywood Award to Years and I got up on a stage and she knows me so well, she could tell I was freaking out, and she just said, breathe.

00:24:41
Speaker 2: Oh, she just said breathing. Yeah, Because you know, we get to going and going and going, and it.

00:24:46
Speaker 16: Is we forget.

00:24:47
Speaker 2: Yeah.

00:24:47
Speaker 1: I was at a retreat and the lady who was doing like our session, she said, we live in a world of shallow breathers and we don't even realize we don't take deep breaths because we're like you said, we're just going going.

00:25:00
Speaker 12: Yeah, that's so important to just breathe. Yeah, better said there. Everything else can grow, but it always starts with your Yeah.

00:25:08
Speaker 2: I love that. And I have one of my favorite people. He is so funny. I love him on Instagram. This is my Actually we met at a Hawks gang. I don't know if you remember. She kind of looked at me like you I know who you are.

00:25:19
Speaker 1: Okay, because you kind of looked me like you didn't know if I was like, it's like sometimes it's like it's just it's just like in shock.

00:25:25
Speaker 2: I'm still in shocked to be able to be in rooms with you know, great people. I feel, you know, I still pinched myself.

00:25:30
Speaker 1: I was on the plane the other day and the lady, her daughter recognized me and she said next to me, and she goes, are you famous?

00:25:35
Speaker 2: And I'm like it hasn't really sunk in yeah, because it's like.

00:25:39
Speaker 17: I'm just crystal, like you can like, you know, I work that popause. Imagine you at Papa's like what she's doing here? That's where you know, you just look famous. Somebody asked, you're so sweet, work up?

00:25:48
Speaker 2: Yeah terming.

00:25:50
Speaker 8: Yeah, I use that line on a lot of people.

00:25:53
Speaker 2: It works, it works. You are so funny. So what brought you to be to this weekend?

00:26:02
Speaker 8: The airplane?

00:26:03
Speaker 2: All stupid? That's the car dad, I don't even need to carry.

00:26:09
Speaker 17: But you know what, I start to learn that just being in a room with people and leaving energy and moments of more important.

00:26:17
Speaker 6: Yeah.

00:26:18
Speaker 17: You know, when you when you come in your era and you build your career, sometimes you just think it's about your team setting things up, and also sometimes you think it's about money.

00:26:29
Speaker 2: But sometimes it is better to meet people of real life.

00:26:31
Speaker 17: And just lead moments with them and you never know who you're running to and like start a relationship and then y'all can start, you know, and bring something to and.

00:26:38
Speaker 2: Bill together from there.

00:26:39
Speaker 8: Yeah.

00:26:39
Speaker 2: I love that.

00:26:40
Speaker 8: I love this.

00:26:40
Speaker 2: So you have your father as well?

00:26:42
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you're so beautiful than you yes, oh my god, gorgeous. What is it like balancing your life and then also being a father.

00:26:51
Speaker 8: It's just being there for like being something that you never had. Monday dude was like he was. He was like that guy.

00:26:57
Speaker 2: He was a drug dealing and stuff.

00:26:58
Speaker 17: So with him being in and out and when he got like when he got killed, it just showed me to be more about for my kids because I knew how I was not to have a father, so I won't be there for my kids. And I'm also a good stepdaddy. So ladies, if you have any problems with your baby daddy, I can't. I'm the guy that come to I'd be doing matching pictures and stuff with the kids. I really don't like when I talk to girls I got kids, I want their baby daddy be out the way because.

00:27:25
Speaker 8: I'd be like, like, I'm trying to be the daddy.

00:27:27
Speaker 17: I know I ain't got fighting nobody. No we two girl up that yeah yeah, no one wants stepdaddy. Yeah you remember that song Stepdaddy? Yeah yeah that's yeah, that's you. Yeah that's your flyers too. I like how you care yourself and you're very consistent.

00:27:45
Speaker 2: Thank you. It's like you just I appreciate that. That means a lot of coming you because I really admire your word. No, so what if somebody has say, what's another answer you will say? If someone said, yeah, say the same thing. Thank you? Oh okay, good? Yeah, this is crazy?

00:28:09
Speaker 8: Oh wow, thank you?

00:28:11
Speaker 7: Is it?

00:28:13
Speaker 2: And I have with me one of my favorite people growing up, y'all. I just love her. When I saw her, I was like, we have to interview her, the one and only Maya. How are you?

00:28:25
Speaker 6: So?

00:28:25
Speaker 2: Are you good?

00:28:27
Speaker 13: Like?

00:28:27
Speaker 2: You literally had not aged? Thank you, you have not.

00:28:31
Speaker 1: We have all aged and gracefully, honey. So what is it like to continue to work on your crafts?

00:28:37
Speaker 13: I love touring, you know, I stay on the road. I'm an independent artist. I've been just producing a lot of projects since the end of two thousand and seven independently through my own label, and it's been a wonderful educational journey, I bet, and also empowering and then creatively very fun. So Give It to You comes out June tenth, and it is basically a nod and a salute to all the music that I.

00:29:04
Speaker 2: Grew up to in my living room.

00:29:06
Speaker 13: It feels like my living room.

00:29:07
Speaker 2: When I was a kid.

00:29:08
Speaker 12: Oh.

00:29:08
Speaker 2: I love the funk of the eighties.

00:29:10
Speaker 13: The late seventies, vibes, Prince Jam and Lewis the Time, Mary Jane Girls, Patrice Russian, all that and barbecue music. We're hitting the summer very soon, so it's a summer record. Roller Skates I parted.

00:29:25
Speaker 2: Yes, Oh, I need that, need that. You are also big on philanthropy. What does community mean to you? What does it mean to give back? Yeah?

00:29:33
Speaker 13: We Community to me means a reflection of self. You know, we all had someone to hold our hands.

00:29:39
Speaker 4: Yeah.

00:29:40
Speaker 13: We all came into this world pretty much incapacitated, without the ability to even hold our heads up.

00:29:46
Speaker 2: Yeah.

00:29:47
Speaker 13: Then we crawl and then we stand, and then we walk, and then we run. And so to be that light for someone or at least involve yourself, it makes life worth living. And then it's very rewarding to be able to affect one's life for the positive and elevate because everyone has a purpose, each and every one of us. And the simplest thing is your gift and we have many of those. Yes, So we all come from a place of needing community, and it's also culturally a part of us that sometimes society interferes with. And that's the most functional part of life.

00:30:24
Speaker 2: When you are aligned with.

00:30:26
Speaker 13: Your community or you create that for others and be a light in this world that goes so far beyond what you could even imagine. For sure, just a conversation can change somebody's trajectory.

00:30:39
Speaker 2: No, So that's what this podcast, Keep It Positive Sweety has been about.

00:30:44
Speaker 1: And like, I didn't want to do it at first because I'm private, and I was like, but in order to do it, you kind of have to open up about who you really are, and just talking about it has built.

00:30:53
Speaker 2: A community of healings and growth has.

00:30:56
Speaker 1: Just been beautiful. So you are absolutely spot on with that. Yeah, yeah, kid's family. You guys have seen this next guest, you have bingelized his new show on Netflix Forever, the one and only Michael Cooper Junior.

00:31:11
Speaker 2: How are you doing.

00:31:12
Speaker 8: I'm good, I'm good.

00:31:13
Speaker 2: Thanks for having me in very thank you.

00:31:16
Speaker 1: Like I literally lit up when you walked up. I read now, I was like, I looked up and you were there. Let me just I'm gota give your flowers right now. You were absolutely phenomenal forever. The way you captured your character justin it just I don't know, it was something about you. The way you just he has a form of adah actually is the way you embody that Oh my.

00:31:37
Speaker 2: God, it was so subtle, but like you could it. Oh, it was so good.

00:31:42
Speaker 1: Yes, from one access to another, I was like, he really did the character breakdown and really figured out how to develop this character.

00:31:48
Speaker 8: You did it so well, thank you.

00:31:49
Speaker 16: Yeah.

00:31:50
Speaker 2: So talk about like I want to know, like what was that process of bringing Justin to life?

00:31:54
Speaker 10: Yeah?

00:31:55
Speaker 2: I mean it really starts with the writing.

00:31:57
Speaker 18: So when I got the script, you know, Mars very specific with her writing, which is so beautiful. Yes, and I just remember reading it. He has one foot in confidence, the other foot of insecurity. You know, he goes to a speech therapist, and he has ady AHD all these different things that I thought, you know, I've never seen a guy like Justin on my TV screen before.

00:32:18
Speaker 2: No, no, And so I thought it was a challenge to step in.

00:32:21
Speaker 8: Two and ultimately a gift. He's such a vulnerable dude.

00:32:27
Speaker 18: Yeah, And through that character, I was able to be able to become more vulnerable more in two with my feelings.

00:32:36
Speaker 8: So it's a gift and grateful for I love that.

00:32:38
Speaker 1: I love that you guys have shifted the culture with this show. It's something that we needed to see. The family dynamic that you guys have shown on the show with your mom and dad.

00:32:49
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, shout out Woody and best TV dad, best TV mom, your mom, Oh my god. I absolutely love Karen. She's the phenomenal beast, oh my goodness beast.

00:32:59
Speaker 1: And it's how lucky are you to work beside two eye guys like they are phenomenal?

00:33:04
Speaker 2: Like I'm sure you're like soaking so much up on set.

00:33:07
Speaker 16: From Regina King, Tomorrow, Rocker Kill, the Anthony Heavyway, Aaron Fitman, what airs lovey now? Because I grew up watching Even Love You and Ni, So it's just to work with these people who I've seen on my screen for so long.

00:33:20
Speaker 2: It's like, what is going on?

00:33:22
Speaker 10: You know?

00:33:23
Speaker 2: But again, blessing, Yes, what a blessed bless love that Sueeze.

00:33:30
Speaker 1: I hope you guys enjoy these moments just as much as I did, because I sure enjoy sharing them with you.

00:33:35
Speaker 2: Well, you had to wait no longer. Season eight is coming up next week. I know y'all have been waiting patiently, and I appreciate it.

00:33:42
Speaker 1: So make sure you tell a friend to tell a friend subscribe, and make sure you tell those dumifications because.

00:33:47
Speaker 2: You do not want to miss it. I'll see y'all next week.