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Dean Edwards Talks Working with Tiffany Haddish on Comedy Series ‘They Ready’ | SWAY’S UNIVERSE
Feb 17, 2021
Tiffany Haddish recently launched here new codey series with Netflix, ‘They Ready’, that features some of the top comics in the game. One of those featured names is comedian Dean Edwards, who called into Sway In The Morning to talk about the series with some hilarious impressions.
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i got to work with him for years in
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different comedy clubs different shows
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all over the country
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and i just love them y'all please make a
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whole lot of noise
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for dean edwards
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yeah yeah make some boys clap it up la
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what's up what's good how y'all doing
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all right
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good space i'm in a good mood man i'm in
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a good mood everybody's been funky
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because 2020 was kind of funny
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yo find a way to put yourself in a good
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mood spoil yourself
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i travel a lot i'm flying first class
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y'all that's what i do that's how i get
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down
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people treat americans based on whoever
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the current administration is
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from 2008 to 2016 people loved him
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because he was full of hope and change
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and change and hope
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and hopeful change i like going overseas
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internationally because any time i went
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over people treated me like i was
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related to obama i like that
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but after obama
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it's a slightly different energy
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we haven't talked to him in 2021 but
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it's good to have him here with us
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ladies and gentlemen give it up for my
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brother the one and only dean at worst
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dean at work
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heather how you all doing man
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what up dude how are you man
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i'm feeling wonderful man you know as we
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we've uh
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we've been out for the last week uh with
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day ready season two and uh
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and you know we were trending on netflix
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so i'm like let's get to that top ten
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get that top ten son yo this is amazing
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uh dean's talking about tiffany hatters
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presents they ready
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um season two she already did season one
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and tiffany's really been killing it and
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she really dug in her bag and
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reached out for uh comedians that she
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came up with along the way and
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really sharing her platform man one of
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the things i noticed is that
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each episode that features each comedian
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you guys get
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um executive producer credit right
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yeah man yes sir yeah that's that's uh
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yeah i'm still floating i'm an ep now
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sway you know
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uh you know i'm just i'm excited because
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tiffany has really gone above and beyond
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um not just giving us a platform to
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showcase
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you know what we've all been doing for
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so many years but also
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empowering us and giving us the power um
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you know of that executive producer
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credit you know it it opens doors it
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already has open doors and and
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there's just a different level of
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respect that uh that comes with that man
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i you know much love to
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she really is the black unicorn dude
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she's like an angel to us and what we
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appreciate and and hold up that way
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it is it's uh interesting because one of
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my favorite parts of i literally
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called godfrey up and said bro you had
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me in stitches
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from beginning to end but one of my
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favorite parts was at the end when
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you guys kind of have a round table
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discussion and then there's all the
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comedians barbara carlisle dean
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on kimberly clark who's amazing and
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beautiful tony woods aaron jackson
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godfrey tiffany you guys are talking and
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i'm hearing stuff that i didn't even
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know
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existed really in the comedy world
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like yeah yeah good i'm sorry no no go
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ahead jump in i want to see what you
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take no
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you know what i i what i was i was so
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happy that uh
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that that netflix um you know gave us
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that platform and said you know what we
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we have all these great comics but
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i think shout out to tiffany and paige
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hurwitz um and wanda sykes at pusha
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productions because
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i've been getting as much feedback and
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positive energy as i've been getting
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about the uh the set not only from just
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the lay person but also um
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other comics everyone is saying how much
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they love that because i think it also
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sort of humanizes us all and and shows
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us you know the the peaks and valleys
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and the trials and tribulations that
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that you know entertainers go through
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and specifically in this case because
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it's black history month
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showing what uh what we've gone through
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as uh you know the story i tell
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where as as a comic that did death
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comedy jam and didn't use profanity and
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then me going
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to a comedy club to ask about getting on
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and then sort of uh
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you know using deaf comedy jam as as a
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detriment and and
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and uh preconceiving what they thought i
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was gonna do on stage so
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those are the stories that people people
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need to hear you know to understand
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the representation that's necessary yo
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hb if you went to a club
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especially like even a white club comedy
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club because there are differences
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and you had did death comedy jam at one
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point
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which was the biggest comedy stage on tv
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but i bet at one point
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it was a stigma attached to it and
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people wouldn't let you play because
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they thought
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you would be like whatever that
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stereotype was and so
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that's right and so i'm hearing these
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though ain't that crazy i didn't even
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know that part about
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comedy yeah you know what i
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i think uh you know unfortunately what
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it is like a ball player you know lebron
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people people know um what lebron does
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on the court but they don't realize
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everything he's dealing with off the
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court you know i mean and so
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similarly people like you know with with
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the whole idea of
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set up and dribble um people like well
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you know they're better seen and not
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heard but you know every every
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comic that gets on that stage has a
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story and and
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you know the the the hope is that we
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each are bringing
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some sort of truth on that stage when we
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get on that stage and and it
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you know opens up people's minds and and
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hearts and spirits to
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to know that they're human beings behind
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um
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everything that they're saying and we
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did that on the same stage that richard
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pryor shot
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live in concert man that's that's for me
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that's uh
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that was incredible because you know
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there's a stage that richard richard
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pryor followed patti labelle
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and and put down what many consider the
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greatest stand-up comedy uh
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concert film ever and for us to just be
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able to sit on that stage and
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share those stories man i'm getting
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goosebumps right now just reflecting on
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it
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yeah yo man uh dean edwards is here the
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funniest thing on netflix right now is
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tiffany hattis presents
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they ready and it's just a group of
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great comments i love what she's doing
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that's kind of what we do for
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mcs too man dean i told heather and
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tracy that you you were going to bring
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denzel with you that you guys were
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you know building on yeah yeah yeah yeah
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yeah no no
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you know what you know denzel is always
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always at the ready
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yeah you know i i just i listened and i
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was very proud
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to hear the creators behind uh
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judas and the black messiah and uh it it
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really uh it it it gave me pride
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that the next generation of filmmakers
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that are black
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have taken what sydney handed me and
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what i'm now handing them
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to give give the world something uh so
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you know something
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i think incredible
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well done dean edwards is here with
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denzel
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and we're celebrating today um
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i don't know if you notice uh but 19
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years ago heather b
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released her second album
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no no it's okay hb i'll say it for you
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and um
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i know that um you know you're good
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friends with michael jackson and and
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sometimes you channel him and and what
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would michael say to heather
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no you know i listen um heather we
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i i don't know if you knew but
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right before brownstone and crow
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we tried getting in contact with you we
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tried because we wanted i
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i wanted i wanted
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um i needed a female
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female emc and you know it never it
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never happened but
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it would sway now and and tracy
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no listen listen i'm trying to explain
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i've been trying to
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talk talk to people and explain it but
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tracy morgan comes
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i need to let people know i've been i've
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been holding down attributes for years
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i've been i've been
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i've been not only a friend but a fan i
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remember all blocks down
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i remember all blocks doubted and i
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remember all my apps in the front of the
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jeep cherokee
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i finished cracking up laughing that d
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was doing that dean i had a dope
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conversation yesterday with my friends
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about like
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starting over and resetting and it feels
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like you know just after you took some
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l's
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after 2020 like a lot of times you have
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to start reset and we hear um
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artists like yourself comedians if you
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will say that
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you know every night is not a great
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night sometimes you walk out there and
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the crowd just ain't feeling which
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you feeling you they ain't messing with
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you um any particular night
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that you feel like you just bombed and
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it was so bad you thought about not
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doing it again
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how did you reset if you don't mind
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sharing
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no you know that's that's a great
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question i you and it's funny because
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tiffany actually asked us all that they
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it it got edited out um oh wow i've
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never i've never uh because i mean we
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spoke for a good hour
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um i've never i've always had such a
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strong
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faith not only in the creator but also
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in myself
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to know that this is my calling this is
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what i'm supposed to be doing
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and so i've never had a moment where
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where i doubted
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and said you know maybe i'll i'll go
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back to telemarketing
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but we all have those nights right we
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all have those nights where
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hey the crowd just doesn't connect the
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way you want them to you know when we
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actually
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what a lot of people don't realize we
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shot
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the specials um for day ready season two
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um that's actually they did an amazing
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job building a stage in front of the
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theater
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right we shot that outdoors um and so
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and we shot it in long beach and so
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the first night didn't go as well as we
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all expected because
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it was our first time really doing
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something of that magnitude
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in in forever um i think a helicopter
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went overhead when godfrey was
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performing i think i had two
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two motorcycles that drowned out punch
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lines
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and you know fortunately
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between myself and tony woods and
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bartlett carlisle aaron jackson and
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godfrey
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um we all are seasoned veterans
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that could say you know what i that's
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not what we wanted
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wanted it uh to be so how do we adapt
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and make the necessary adjustments and
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so saturday night
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saturday night everyone went out there
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and
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and put on even more phenomenal sets
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than they probably would have
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had uh we have not had those issues
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arise on friday night so
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with any performer whether you're a
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comedian you're a musician an
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actor you're gonna have bad nights but
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you just gotta i was in the military so
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you know we learned some years ago suck
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it up and drive on you got to keep
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pressing god keep pressing on you know
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similar to
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what what they uh were talking about and
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um you know with with
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judas and the black messiah the panthers
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um
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were faced with a lot of uh adversity
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but they they had to keep pressing on
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they had to keep giving out uh breakfast
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you know absolutely i like it
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look i'm sorry tracy no worries at all
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you know dean earlier we were speaking
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about
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um dave chappelle and how we have the
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chappelle show
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back on um netflix and suey was
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noting how we have a new blueprint that
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has been crafted by
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dave and also even thinking about the
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issues that monique had with netflix as
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well and
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both of them being comedians one did you
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feel like all right let me
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super listen during these meetings here
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at netflix so i don't end up in no type
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of situation similar to them
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and then two just from having these
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titans be transparent
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about their challenges with the money
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side of the game
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what have you learned well you know what
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sister let me tell you some of my loves
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you know if i'm channeling monique i
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have to explain
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a few things to you okay
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maybe they didn't give what what we
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wanted but you know what i appreciate
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about dean edwards was he made sure
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monique still got love and they ready
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season two monique still wound up on
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that stage
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on netflix so you know so
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i still you know what i there was there
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was never um
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for me at least and i i can't speak for
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everybody but
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we never we never felt any pressure we
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we were
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we were happy with not only the
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opportunity but also
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you know tiffany and and paige and
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his company they and even netflix they
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they made sure we
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we felt comfortable and and there was
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never a moment that i felt uh
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felt self-conscious on something yeah i
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want to mess up my money i would mess up
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this opportunity
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you know i just i i went they they hired
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me
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to to to go in there and do a job
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and i you know as a matter of fact
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someone texted me
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uh yesterday and they said um they said
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did you have to
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clear with netflix that you were gonna
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do that joke um
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referring to monique or that impression
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of monique and i said you know what
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i ain't gonna front when when they
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wanted our bullet points on what jokes
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we were doing
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i might have negated to include that
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but i'm i trust that's again their faith
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i had faith that
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my stuff was funny enough that if it
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crushed
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nobody's going to have a problem with it
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and and it crushed so
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you know they wrote it they actually all
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came up to me they were like that that
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was good all the execs from netflix were
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like
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okay they were let's see they hit me
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with the desert okay okay i see what
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you're doing
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what'd you learn about the money game of
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comedy i mean you've been in it um
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as long as they have but just seeing uh
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to tracy's question
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just seeing what they went through and
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how they're coming out the other end and
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i will say
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monique's crusade is why i think
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people's contracts are going to
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became tighter with netflix because
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monique i feel like
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gave a lot of exposure to a part of the
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business none of us was really privy to
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right you know right it almost made her
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the sacrificial
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uh lamb but she's a queen so she stood
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up and of course she was always knew she
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would be fine but
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that makes that makes the company go
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okay damn it we got to make sure we
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tighten up
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you know what i mean it makes it better
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for the next person you agree with that
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i agree i agree i think man i you know i
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remember
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when she was when that first came to
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light and and uh
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you know you you heard sort of punish
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pundits on each side
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saying what they felt and i'm like you
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know what people have to understand
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monique
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um was one of the original queens of
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comedy
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um monique still sells out um
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you know large venues you know but
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she can do clubs but she can also go do
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large theaters man
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and has built a built a career for the
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last
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nearly 30 years where you know
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you have a following in not just major
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cities like like a new york city but you
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have
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you have people in western new york in
15:35
buffalo and rochester that
15:36
when she goes up there and she's
15:38
performing in smaller
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quote-unquote uh uh regions still has a
15:43
large following and that's and that's
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to me that's that's success you know and
15:47
and uh i think
15:49
she her going above and beyond she did
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definitely you know sort of take a
15:54
sacrifice
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so that you know what we all uh are
15:58
privy to we're now getting to reap the
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benefits
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of her sacrifice so so shout out and
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much respect and salute to
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monique absolutely dean edwards is here
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you could um find him on netflix the
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funniest show on netflix right now
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sent it by tiffany hattis you know
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uh you could season two they are ready
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we got uh stephen on the line from
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rochester stephen graham rises how you
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doing
16:22
what up steve i'm doing okay y'all
16:25
shout out to uh uh rocket bells we just
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signed the executive uh james tufter
16:30
from uh rochester new york he's he's a
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president
16:34
shout out to dean for coming to mcc back
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in the day
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we remember you what up that's what i
16:40
started that's my first game
16:41
as well tweet everybody shout out
16:44
that's david's name one second
16:48
dean edwards is here stephen give it up
16:50
for dean edwards uh
16:52
all right
16:56
what tell me how you just went through
16:58
that you just went through this oh
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okay okay okay okay okay i got enough
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you
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actually went to mcc it's called
17:04
memorial community college with dean
17:05
back in the day
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i'm just giving a mad shout out for his
17:08
success man that he's doing a netflix
17:10
and i enjoy that show
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okay you was gonna shout out the nation
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he was about to shout out the nation
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stephen
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not the nation i'm saying i'm saying
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rochester rochester new york mexico oh
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okay
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okay because uh dean had went through
17:23
there too as well mcc
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it's called my room yes sir but much
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respect
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even yeah you know what that's uh the
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first time i was ever on stage
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doing comedy was february 21st 1992 at
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mcc merlot community college um you know
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so
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big shout out to uh to to all my people
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up in rochester and western new york man
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they were the foundation that helped me
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uh you know do my thing
17:49
and come come this far man so thank you
17:51
man
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and also and also that uh ceo for be
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um um rock the bells man he from
17:58
rochester too
17:59
the brand-new president that's what's up
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man
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okay stephen
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all right uh dean man thank you man
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congratulations man round of applause
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for dean
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edwards i love watching you on this sent
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tiffany i love
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i love what she's doing man she she
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truly is a unicorn
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all right hey thank you brother yes sir
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thank y'all i appreciate y'all much love
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follow me on i am dean edwards more love
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all right take care dean be safe brother
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be safe
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peace man
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you
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