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Sherri Shepherd On New Daytime Talk Show 'SHERRI' & Freestyles | SWAY’S UNIVERSE
Oct 21, 2023
Sherri Shepherd is a woman of many talents. She has proven herself as an excellent comedian, an actor with a remarkable range, and an accomplished author whose books have been best-sellers. But it’s her talk show, SHERRI, which has pushed her fame to new heights. This Daytime Emmy Award-winning show has quickly become one of the most loved daytime shows in America and with Sherri’s unique and hilarious perspective, it’s no wonder why. Recently Sherri stopped by Sway in the Morning to talk about the show, and it was an entertaining conversation that every fan of daytime television shouldn’t miss.
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Sherri Shepherd On New Daytime Talk Show 'SHERRI' & Freestyles | SWAY’S UNIVERSE
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wow I never heard that kind of
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[Applause]
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Celebration listen come on man she came
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in here like a gusta wind she and her
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crew look like they at Fashion Week
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early yes that's true everybody in her
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crew took a little bit of my style
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that's why they they shining right
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now look at her crew fellas come here
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come here come here no no get him on
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camera look at her crew look at her crew
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he he a nothing
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he took my hat gang no he didn't he took
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my hat gang come here okay look look
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look look at this look at him need he
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has your old hair he got my old hair and
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and then he got he got the look JayZ
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took from me when I put the ni cap over
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my locks see and I need y'all to know
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this these are all Emy nominated there
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you go people name congratulations my
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stylist with the glasses is Willie
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Sinclair the thir from the Milwaukee
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Sinclair he's my stylist uh Rodney John
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in the middle is Emy nominated makeup
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artist Theo Barrett is Emmy nominated
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hairstylist yes and they all Brothers
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working I love
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them Ying y y' a still nothing from sway
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don't wor about it gentlemen you're
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welcome you know you keep the Emmy
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though I don't want no credit and and
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the white man over here holding the
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camera Emmy nominated for all of the
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digital my man what up his name and your
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name is your name is white man
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huh that's
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Tor okay all right oh wow Sher Shephard
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is here congratulations on all your
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success thank you this is like I
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literally feel like I'm in the living
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room with my cousins y all look like my
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cousins we are your cousins I know
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that's right oh my gosh this feels want
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to cry go for it welcome welcome home
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welcome home I'm just looking at your
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rap sheet right here what's happening 30
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Rock trial and error Rosewood man with a
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plan How I Met Your Mother Everybody
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Loves Raymond friends in the Jamie Fox
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show uh Netflix is a week away uh gez
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joh of the Joneses woodlon One for the
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Money abducted the I mean okay I'm
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getting I'm getting on my nerves you
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reading all and I ain't even talked
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about the tours the ladies night out
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Comedy Tour man I haven't talked about
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touring with Kim and baby face it's it's
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too much I haven't talked about the
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NAACP Awards oh my God I haven't talked
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about all of this Sher well all you got
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to sum it up is thank you Jesus look at
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God look at look at at God look at God
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daytime TV what was it like when you
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were first cuz I you know I've worked in
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television Heather be was the first on
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real world first season first African
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Aman reality t
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should be on
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your listen before hip hop Housewives of
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any season the OG there was Heather be
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the OG the reality TV genre owes Heather
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be uh a great deal of respect and some
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residuals wouldn't be here would not be
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here wouldn't know how to like operate
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without the sisters pav in the way you
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know what I'm saying you know what just
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thank you Sher and I want to add on I
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want to shout out yes New York was first
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the New York season the real world was
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first and then don't do that you said
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New York nobody care but I also want to
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shout out Tammy Tammy Tammy did Real
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World season 2 in LA and I think if you
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look back at the at the black women who
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have been able to do those reality shows
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the early ones it it's hard to sustain
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it's hard for people it's 30 years later
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I don't think people realize that this
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is 32 years later I did Real World in
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'92 to be blessed to people still giving
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flowers and we're still working and
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gainfully employed it's a blessing and
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so thank you Sher cuz I remember seeing
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you um I had a residency at melus and
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you were coming to melbour and you were
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always nice to people you it's just a
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note that I I would make and and you
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always nice to people and I was you was
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acting and doing your thing and I just
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always made a note of that about you you
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know um we didn't have the chance to
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talk because I was behind the bar
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working but you were coming you and
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Melba were always friendly and talking
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and you would talk with people but I
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watched you as well do your thing and
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congratulations for absolutely I don't
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take it for granted so thank you so much
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no I saw you you I saw you you know the
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support of of my folks it means
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everything to me it just like uh I I I I
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don't know because going I think going
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through hardships you always know your
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folks will keep you that you will be
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able to it's a soft Landing place you
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know your family when I say family every
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every family is not blood but the fact
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of the support uh my talk show is number
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one with black women 25 to
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54 and that that means so much to me
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because absolutely going through you
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know remember going through my was it my
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first or second divorce I don't remember
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like the second divorce you know
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what it's all but it's just you know
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black folks but especially black women
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yes I remember sitting at the courthouse
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so despondent going I going to get
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through this and a woman put her hand
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she worked in the cafeteria she put her
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hand on my shoulder she was like baby
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girl we got you we going to be praying
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for you cuz he and she just was speaking
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into my life and the fact that I'm on
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this talk show and so many people say
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I'm praying for you I brought my mother
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I brought my auntie I brought my niece
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it that's why I get emotional I cry on
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the show all the time because I don't
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take it for granted the support cuz you
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could be supporting anybody you know and
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and the thing that I love about my folks
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y'all ain't up for the BS yeah you know
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and you you recognize real and it just
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means a lot yeah man we see you out
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there Sher I watch your show I watch you
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let me tell you I do watch and the first
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thing I noticed see I watched from
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haven't worked on MTV for 20 years and
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being thrown out on live broadcast all
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the time important issues whether it's
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hard news to pop culture news and then
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being expected the whole court for an
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hour
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by yourself you're not on The View no
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you ain't got somebody you throw to I
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got a whole team I barely work here now
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I just throw it to right overworking
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everybody else though sh don't leave out
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the truth way don't leave out that part
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but that part way a long time I feel
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like I earned it right we talking but
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you handle it um really
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naturally you look very informed you
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look excited you look energetic and
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that's what translates but that's life I
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you know the the sitting in the chair
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for me when they say oh can you talk for
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21 minutes that's not a problem this is
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where you got to look at everything in
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your life what it leads up to whatever
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your purpose is or whatever dream you
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have like you use those things in in
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life to help you get there that's what
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I'm doing stand up I got to stand on
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stage and talk for 90 minutes by myself
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to an audience and I got to make them
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laugh like I can't you know I'm not I'm
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not doing poetry I'm like people
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snapping and going girl yeah I got to
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make you
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laugh and I've had to come up in the
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ranks of black comedy clubs where they
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like I didn't pay all this money for
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just be sitting there for you to just be
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talking you got to make me laugh so
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that's where I got that you know reading
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the prompters when I was on Dish Nation
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co-hosting all brat and everybody was in
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Atlanta I was in La by myself in the
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studio so I had to learn to read that
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prompter and talk to people who weren't
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there so looking in the camera doing the
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view taught me resilience to not take
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stuff personally to not pay anybody
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ain't paying bills for me or Jeffrey I
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don't pay no attention to I being on The
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View taught me of falling when when
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people said you not smart you don't know
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nothing about politics you it it was me
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crying for years but going get up re
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research you know about politics know
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what's going on in the world around you
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failures have helped me be in this place
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age has helped me be in this place yes
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I'm 56 years old come on let's
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go
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incredible thank you and just sitting
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there guys thank you I work for this I
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work [ __ ] I'm sorry I had I'm telling
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you this I know this ain't your mama 56
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I know that's right I know that's no but
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I'm I'm in the gym look like you doing
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acrobatics it's squats and weightlifting
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I was in the gym at 5 this morning let's
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go but it's just it's the failures and
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the falls and the hardships that brought
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me to this point and I and all of it
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made me who I am now and that's I I
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really feel like God gave it to me now
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because I know who I am I know what I
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bring I know how to access those gifts
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sometimes when you're younger you don't
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know what you know where you at who you
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are so I know when somebody gives me
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something I don't want to do I can say
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no no I can say no easy cuz I'm cranky
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that's what happen okay hold on let mey
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I'm look sexy but I'm cranky as can I
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try this out yeah what okay what you
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going to Freestyle for us today you you
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know
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I what it I'mma you know good and well
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can't freestyle I watch sh this was a
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test because I love the show so much and
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I watch everybody come on hand and y'all
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put that beat on they be like uhhuh
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throw a beat on throw a be on you might
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feel it Sher you might feel it you might
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feel it I don't know you might feel
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it
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[Applause]
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stop don't stop I'm sexy I'm 56 you
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can't be beat sexy from my hand to my
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feet what what I'm sexy what is
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confidence and a style ooh baby I'm
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making what you
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want I'm
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sexy I FL like I Flo no titties no
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more okay y'all better stop okay cuz I'm
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starting to feel I'm starting to feel
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like I need to call Little Kim up and do
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a du I'm starting to I'm starting to
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feel like I could be a backup singer y
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you sound good you do this I feel like I
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need I can karaoke rap there was there
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you just need a few more words that that
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hit me like like I was out beating I was
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like oh shoot it's okay okay I'm feeling
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a little orgasmic on this dog on
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microphone I ain't never y wasn't that
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liberating yeah everybody got to come
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over here this is like I feel so so it's
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like when you know you had your first
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orgasm first and another one's coming
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and another one's coming oh my God
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go
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minute my leg is
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sh hold up we have no napkins in here oh
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my God all right m m take her home mik
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take her home how do I follow
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that Mike so today and we was just
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talking about
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Jesus this thinking of Jes this is
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experience unlike
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any oh my
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go like you I would love for you to come
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on my show and like because I like to I
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like to challenge uh uh people to try
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something they've never tried before cuz
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life is short and that's something like
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I would never you heard me stutter like
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you've never done that I've never done
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it and it was so like y'all and you know
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like it was so wonderful to just try it
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yes go
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[Music]
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okay now now I'm like Pavlov's dog okay
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now yall put the music on I just well
12:11
Sher shepher is with
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us talk about Joy because this is what
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it is right now and I feel like you're
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just in a great joyous place you're
12:20
receiving the love you feel great you
12:21
feel light you feel everything I'm just
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curious how do you reconcile like
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feeling that love and accepting the love
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that you have because we're taught
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particular in this industry don't read
12:32
the tea leaves right keep your head down
12:34
do the work ignore the praise ignore the
12:36
criticism just get to the next day but
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it seems like you are actually enjoying
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it how do you reconcile that to you have
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to embrace every experience you really
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do because that's who makes you who you
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are all of the all of the like I said
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the hardships the falling down the
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failures embrace it get back up I'm so I
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I look at every day I wake up I I teach
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Jeffrey even when he wakes up thank God
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for three things when you pray thank him
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for three things like I'm grateful I'm
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great you know at this age when you in
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your 20s your birthday pass and you just
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be like I'm going to party I'm going I'm
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going to get effed up at this age I wake
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up and I go oh I'm still here I'm oh
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shoot like I you start wiggling your
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hands and Toes you like oh shoot this
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ain't the day you took me my grandmother
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used to say Lord thank you for another
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day thank you and now I know what my
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grandmother me so as you start getting
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you know you start getting older you
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appreciate life more I think because you
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know how short it is and and like and
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with everything that we've gone through
13:39
we were inside the house for almost two
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years you know I said fear is not
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serving me in this place that I am so I
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do stuff scared um I was nervous to come
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here I didn't know what the reception
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was going to be but you were nervous to
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come here I was nervous cuz it's like
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you know it was something I've never
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done before this and and I just said but
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you know what you got to do stuff scared
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that's wake up every day and go what
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else can I do there's everybody we're
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here to change the world in some way
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shape form of fashion what is it that
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you have God gave us something something
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to change the world and it ain't nothing
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like we everybody we ain't all made to
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be president or vice president but
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there's something you're going to affect
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people around you and so if I can
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encourage people especially women to
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just do what scared take just take a
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risk
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and go in there and do it I love it man
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I love it went oh man she went from
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orgasmic
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RS started she started with Jesus though
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start with Jesus with Jesus at some
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point you going to end with
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Jesus help her out Tracy I I love your
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many many layers Sher and like one of
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the things that really stands out too is
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your comfort and the freedom of saying
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your age out loud yeah I remember a time
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I'm in my 30s right now in my
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and even in my 20s I don't think I ever
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heard like a woman in the entertainment
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industry mention her name and then of
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course her Agee thank you Billy and of
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course we always have that saying that
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it's rude to ask you never ask a woman
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her age when did you become comfortable
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sharing that publicly I think when I was
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maybe 51 I was so depressed because I
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felt like I had turned 51 and I told my
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assistant I don't want no gifts I don't
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want to answer the phone I I felt like
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because you're in Hollywood they make
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you feel like your life is going
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downhill in your 50s and I was so I I
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can't even tell you the level of
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depression I was in cuz I wasn't working
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at the time and a dear friend of mine
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unbeknownst to me had made a photo book
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of me at 50 or 51 and he put in pictures
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of all of the people in my life that
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felt that I had impacted them and they
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had a little story like you know Shutter
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Fly something like that and everybody
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should get a book like that you should
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do one for your friends um and it just
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had pictures I remember there was a
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picture of uh garcel bouvet and she was
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like this is what Sherry did for me how
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she changed my life my girlfriend Vonda
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who I knew since sixth grade this is how
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Sherry what I and it was and as I'm
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turning the pages I'm crying because I
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went oh my gosh like I've really
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affected a lot of people and then they
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at the end it was Jeffrey and it was
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very simple my mommy did this and I I
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treasure that book right now and I do it
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for other people I always make them a
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book you know because sometimes you just
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need to know who you impacting and so it
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was at that I said because I used to
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when people ask me how old I was ask me
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how old I am how old are you Sher fine
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thank you that's what I used to say fine
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thank you ask me again I'm gonna keep
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saying fine thank you till you get it
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but now but people say how old you and I
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go 56 because I know I'm doing the work
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I'm I'm you know working on eating right
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I'm walking I'm I'm you know I prepare
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myself I love life and 56 there was an
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actress we were talking about who said
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she hates she don't want to be 50 and
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then don't talk to her and I'm like come
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on over here it's a beautiful thing in
17:06
this neighborhood aside from my knee
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hurting when I wake up and sometime I
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sat AC I was on the couch talking to Len
17:13
T and for one moment I was like who is
17:15
this s who is this and then I'm like the
17:19
Tate okay all right all right sometimes
17:23
it happens you get them brain do that's
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why he over you be doing that so and
17:28
then you got to sit there for a minute
17:29
just you be glad you don't hot flash me
17:32
man came on I didn't know if I was
17:34
getting hot or hot flashing but I think
17:36
it was a hot flash that was a great
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interview with the r or Method Man with
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both but with Method Man I thought was
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awesome super awesome I say both of them
17:45
are so coolen Len was incredible too
17:48
family yeah I just yeah it's just you
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know it's just I love when they come on
17:52
when they actually say yes and come on
17:54
to support you know and and yeah yes
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well we're here to support you too okay
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um and shout out to Kim Whitley Kim
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Whitley that's one of my besties I'm
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known Kim since we was poor living
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across the street we were struggling
18:09
Comics living across the street from
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each other me and Kim my my my crew I've
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known for all 25 years so like you know
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those are my my core people Kim and I we
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had no money uh we were sharing wigs
18:23
literally she I mean I'm not lying we
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did not have any money and we was just
18:29
trying to make it we would sit and talk
18:32
about our hopes and our dreams now this
18:34
girl over she got a tennis court and
18:36
during quarantine we would go skating
18:38
Sheila E me Tisha Campbell we called her
18:41
Whitley on Wheels and we and then now
18:43
she got she gonna give me a bill talking
18:44
about I got to pay for the lights on her
18:46
tennis court I said what happened to the
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struggle she was like what happened to
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this
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bill Le you said Sheila E Sheila E my
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God e can skate wow and our boua where
19:01
she where's Sheila from uhoh she she
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from Oakland I feel like you better work
19:06
that town business in the building he
19:08
set you up Shar he set don't even know
19:10
what happened with thatz he from
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Oak oh look at that oh my gosh I got it
19:16
right there we go Tisha Campbell that's
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our family Tisha Campbell I sent Tisha
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and this is you got to cherish your
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friendships tisha's birthday just passed
19:26
and I called her and I just told her how
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much she meant to me Tisha we've been
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through it in the divorces she has
19:33
called me in tears I've called her in
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tears both our sons are on the Spectrum
19:39
she has helped me you know and so you
19:41
got to call and give people their
19:42
flowers and I was like tsha I just need
19:44
you to know I love you so much and I'm
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so happy in my life so you know and I
19:49
got regular friends y'all just don't
19:50
know them you don't know Janisha who
19:52
work you know she at the bank y so I I
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tell you my Hollywood friends but I I
19:56
don't have that experience in Hollywood
19:57
where they say people fake phony cuz my
20:00
crew they real Tia loud she ready to
20:03
fight I mean that girl where she where
20:06
she from she from Jersey oh when you
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said she ready to fight I should have
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known she was from Jersey women in
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Jersey fight she be fighting and I'll be
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like Tisha you got to calm it down she
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like please don't even don't let the
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don't let G the fool you I will fight
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you but all my girlfriends like that ni
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nie n she she from con from see y'all be
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looking at y'all be thinking Claws and
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she got the nails and N from Compton
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okay all my girlfriends they all you
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know they be
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figh hang out with thugs it sound like
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to me no what when I found out my first
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husband he cheated on me ni came by she
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had put her hair up in a and a ponytail
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had braided it and literally she was
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like let's go we going we going to fight
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and I was like you sure she was like
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let's go we going to go get some catfish
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first and then we going to fight we not
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playing around I love it oh my God first
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we like we got to eat first we big girls
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we the thick girls we like to eat we got
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to eat first did y'all fight them no we
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you know why we didn't cuz we was
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getting ready we trying to go to the
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girl's house and we couldn't we didn't
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know if it was Street or lane or Avenue
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in the GPS couldn't find a d on place
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was looking for the girl you supposed to
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look for the guy nah well no I already
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no no but that that was my husband I
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already got him cuz I I tore up his car
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and I took a a fork and tore up his car
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and tore up his seats but he had like
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this uh 70 the limitations yet we yeah
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we passed the girl stop paying child
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support and everything but the car was
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real old it was like was it literally
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was a Chevy chevet and that's even pass
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all y'all but it was already tore up so
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I didn't really do too much more damage
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but I toore his car up I did I went out
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there what you say that was so much
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pride though look at
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you girl I would throw a brick through
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that well I can't say I'm going throw a
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brick through my Chicago oh Chicago sh
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sh sh
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W don't
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even yo give it up for Sher shepher
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congratulations to Sher yes make sure
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you watch Sherry in the mornings you
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going to see us in the crowd hanging
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out we coming the whole crew going to
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come we want to come we going to pull up
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I appreciate y to pull appr okay
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congratulations you are inspiring
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Millions can I plug a comedy show I'm
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I'mma Be Kim Whitley and we're going to
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be on our two funny M Comedy Tour um and
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I'm going be in Bethesda Maryland
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October 28th at the Bethesda comedy
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theater okay and uh we got our podcast
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to funny M which comes on every Thursday
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we won two NAACP image
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award so yeah that's what's up
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congratulations on all your success well
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deserved okay and we know we know we're
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in good hands in the morning give it up
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for Sherry
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okay
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