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Jul 29, 2022
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hey man listen man this already sounds
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like fun it's relatable to people like
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me if you're single you need to go watch
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this movie
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and me too you too right
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okay that's why you win it
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you probably wrote it okay
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probably it might be loosely
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listen i gotta tell you man we were just
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talking about all the different um
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amazing um just
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culture bending moments that tisha has
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been a part of
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and uh i you know i've done so many
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introductions with her
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um that i just i'm i truly feel like i'm
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a blood relative but
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but let me tell you something uh-oh
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it's not often that every time you see a
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person they bring you joy right that's
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so sweet every time i see you thank you
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you bring me joy
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you bring me
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come
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i really appreciate seeing y'all i love
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coming here thank you
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thank you
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did i just see you what was your bt with
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yeah uh so good it was amazing because
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you know you get to you don't really get
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to see people unless you're like at
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those kind of situations because
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everybody's on their grind so you know
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it's always great to see carl and and
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hook up with him and be backstage and
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rewrite what we going to say and
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it was just great i love working with
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him and he was just dropping i know
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y'all was off script because you were
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yeah
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i was letting call in too i let them
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live i was like
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we had wonder sykes here and um
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i'm k wanda sykes talked and i think
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about you in this in this conversation i
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know you don't know where i'm going with
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this wonder sykes
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wanda was here and we were talking about
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her working with kim fields yeah
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and she said i'm working with jordan
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yeah
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michael jordan yes she's the michael
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jordan
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is she no kim is the truth like she's
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she's also like most people know her as
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just an actress but she's also a
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director a producer and she really is
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the truth like she knows that sitcom she
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knows comedy game period like she
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understands it there's like there's a
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comedy logic to her she's like a
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commonly comedy intellect to her she
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just knows how to you know throw you the
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ball or you know be the straight man she
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just it's the truth i love kim i've
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known her forever yeah yeah i think
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we've never worked together what really
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that's
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bananas why not i don't know
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who to hate her
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shut up so i don't even try it
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we got it we got to do that because
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she's she's i love her who's somebody
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you went opposite of that you feel like
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oh [ __ ]
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you know what recently it was neil
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patrick harris because we've been in
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this business since we were toddlers
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both of us and so we understood one
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another and to watch this man move
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and to be in a scene like
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the way that they right it's darren
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starr and jeffrey richmond darren star
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y'all know he created sex in the city
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and um emily in paris and melrose place
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jeffrey was modern family so the way
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that they're right sometimes you get
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long monologues cylindricals and tits
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and me and neil will lock eyes and we
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will just be in there together and um
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there was this one scene that you will
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see you know and maybe maybe the second
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or third episode and it's just
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scene after scene after scene and we
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were just locked in and we were so happy
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with one another and it's just a good
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feeling to be amongst people who are
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like award-winning actors and and he's
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like hosted the dagger on tony's
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yo he kills it he's like a quadruple
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threat so but oh the whole cast is like
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that so people who are that enthusiastic
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who get it who just want to you know put
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their kids through college like they
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don't take it too seriously but they
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take their job seriously you know they
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want to make make sure that they're
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supporting you and i want to make sure
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i'm supporting them so it's it's a love
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fest in that you know we're all artists
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and we take that [ __ ] seriously i'm
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trying not to curse sorry you did good
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though you did good it's gonna happen
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it's only one you only did one so far
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okay it's coming up okay
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you want to preface for it right
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well i love t-shirt i think that it
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should be mentioned that you know we
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talked about kim and kim told us that it
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was four decades for her and we were all
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four decades for me too that's what i'm
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saying
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47 years in this business rags to
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richard you're the only one watching
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rags ridges in america
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where did it go
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they was like oh he's watching it so
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we can't keep it up
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how dope is that though you talking like
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when we have y'all sitting here like
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this it's beautiful for us t-shirt for
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real like tashina yourself
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like those flowers have to be given to
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you guys and every time we see y'all pop
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up and get booked i'm like [ __ ] it get
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them
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get them every single time you know
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martin until my wife and kid like when
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we see y'all we like it's a celebration
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for us and we need you to know that
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absolutely
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this game is not easy no it's not it's
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not but what people don't realize is
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that most actors uh career lifespan is
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only five years who that's the average
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think about it if if it was a musician
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or or a singer they might have a
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sophomore album maybe
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they don't even do albums no more you
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know what i'm saying um or if it's a
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football player you might get a good two
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three years you might that's my career
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lifespan is only five years really and
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probably less for black wow so you have
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to like it's it's it's a blessing every
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time we we you know and we support one
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another yeah regina you know all of us
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yeah we support one of we all support
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one another and we're cheering each
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other on to be able to stay in this for
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as long as we do but i think it really
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is a
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you know a testament to
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you know how we were raised too like
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you know y'all everybody knows i've
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known tasheena and carl and i mean since
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we were like 11 and 12 years old she
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always makes me say 12 because i was
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older than her remember
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yes
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you did she's not even here and you did
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it you honored it because i don't want
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to get a call okay
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she was 15.
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right gotta tell them so but you know we
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grew up around this area i'm from north
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she's from queens and um i think carla's
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from harlem she said north suede
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recognize that that's jersey that's
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jersey n-o-r-k
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okay
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don't play with it let's see that let's
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see latifa came up in here whenever
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jersey women get together it gets
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violent
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i don't know what that's about yo hey
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and y'all always threaten me i don't
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know what that's about because that
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oakland energy be coming over here like
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what you doing down business baby you
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know what this is
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but go ahead go ahead with yourself
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it's a grind it's this grind that we you
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know we always look for we never look
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backwards i just started watching the
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martin show like a couple of years ago
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because my friend over there she's like
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a millennial and she was obsessed with
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it and i was like oh this show is funny
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because we don't look backwards we
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always move forward to see what the next
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thing is because you're only as good as
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this is how we're raised in this
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business you're only as good as your
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last job
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so we go okay did that now what's next
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you know i like that mentality though no
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you have to and especially you know
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things are getting better for
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african-americans and people of color in
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general you know they want to see
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representation really does matter and
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when you were watching rags to riches i
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was the only black person kim wasn't kim
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wasn't on um facts of life at the time
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so right after facts of life came rags
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to riches
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and i was the only little black girl at
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the time on television representing us
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representation
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prior to that i didn't see nobody buck
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him mm-hmm wow there was nobody my age
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nobody so he got hold up man let's go
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yeah
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and i'll be joking about the crush and
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all of that not really but
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but but the crush was because i see this
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black this black woman or the black girl
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at the time on tv i'm not accustomed to
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seeing right and i didn't have anybody
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we didn't have anybody when we were
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growing up like you guys are younger to
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me so y'all make your hair yeah we are
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in the same pocket we're playing a
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t-shirt
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i appreciate you though that's sweet um
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y'all just did y'all 30-year reunion for
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martin we just did our 30-year reunion
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for real world we stopped playing listen
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y'all on the same campus so happy that
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you did that
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oh thank you i really was i was happy
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that you did that because it's sort of
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like it's like like the martin show
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reunion we didn't realize how important
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it was why you was doing it while we
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were doing it we didn't realize how
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important it was until we were actually
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there and the the energy was so freaking
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high you guys like from the pas to pick
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up in hair to like they were there right
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y'all like everybody was working so hard
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to make sure that it was going to be
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comfortable and it was going to work
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people were like like busting their
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behinds and i was like this is really
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important huh
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that [ __ ] was a game-changer you better
10:09
stop playing but it's the same thing
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with you guys that's true you guys
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changed the face of television like we
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this reality show
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change the faces thank you television
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and you were you were an icon in that
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game and i just you know i appreciate i
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was like oh good they doing it like
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we felt the same way when we saw the bar
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we was like oh god
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heather was the first african-american
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reality tv star
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in history
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[Music]
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this has been like three years in the
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making we have been trying to do this
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for three years the only problem was was
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that we couldn't coordinate everybody's
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schedule because thank you god
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everybody's booked and busy yes thank
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god you know tashina's on the
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neighborhood we got carl he's he's on
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the show um yes and and he's directing
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it yeah you know with little dylan um
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and everybody's so booked so if that was
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and martin is martin martin
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i love martin but it was like we we have
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been trying so hard and and thank you to
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i have to say this out loud she's not
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here but robbie reed is a robbie reed
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yes she's a famous african-american
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casting director and she casted me in
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school days wow
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when i was 18 years old wow
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and she you know she casted a lot of you
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know all of a lot of stuff that you guys
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know of different work a whole bunch of
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stuff but she's the head of casting at
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bet and they they really worked very
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hard to get us all together so it's
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amazing so now you you when did you
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start watching martin like how you said
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oh like how many what maybe three years
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ago
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yeah about three years ago because she
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kept she kept quoting [ __ ] at me she was
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quoting me like one day we sitting down
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and she said look at the white shoes and
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i go what are you talking about
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and she goes that's from martin i said
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i'm so sick of you
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look at that
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i'm
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i said ain't no way you gonna google
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some look at the white shoes and there
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it was she popped up and it was martin
12:42
going look at the white shoes as you as
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jerome
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but but i like you know i think you guys
12:48
may have seen this but that was most of
12:50
the the quotes the uh euphemisms were
12:54
inside jokes for the cast oh that's the
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past
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it's like it was like look at the white
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shoes martin would never let us see
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jerome get dressed he would n never let
13:03
us see um shanaynay so it was always a
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shock he wanted us to be shocked and
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have a real reaction
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so he wanted us to see his dumb white
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shoes
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so he added look at the lights
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right and so we both looked down
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but the only time he actually got me
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because people talk about how it was it
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was very hard not to laugh when he was
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doing his thing
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and people always discuss like how did
13:30
you do it i go i don't know i just
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didn't want to lose his magic whatever
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he was going to do i knew it couldn't be
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me that messed up and started laughing
13:37
everybody else could but i had to like
13:39
make sure that they caught his magic
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so like the one time he almost got me
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was when he came out he was beat up in
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his head
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from that fight
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i got it i caught i said i called him in
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the dress i said martin you have got to
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let me see this is what i get on that
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stage
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you got to he was like nah i said no
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martin please i'm not gonna make it
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somebody told me they saw you
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so he comes backstage and he does that
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he does this
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so when you watch yourself do you
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understand now when you watch it
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cause you can watch it out of body now
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i'm watching it out of body now so the
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in the last three years i started
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watching it and um i'm watching it and
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it's so funny it's a really funny show
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i realized like you know you're in it
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and you're just trying to feed your
14:49
family like that's right
14:51
thinking of it we trying to have fun
14:52
we're trying to laugh we're trying to
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feed our families but when you sit back
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and you watch it those many years later
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and people are still enjoying it or the
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other day it pops up while i was you
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know packing she was helping me to get
15:06
up out of here and it pops up she was
15:09
like no you don't understand people turn
15:10
this on in the morning and it's just in
15:12
the background yeah getting ready yeah
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really yeah
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but i don't know this or they go to
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sleep to it like taraji hit me and she
15:20
was like
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[ __ ] i might as well be mad to you
15:22
because i watch you every night
15:29
i watch it every single night it's
15:30
always on in my house was it good
15:32
training grounds though for you because
15:34
you jumped right into my wife and kids
15:37
like this is like like you no let me
15:39
tell y'all so okay i could not get
15:41
arrested doing comedy if you wanted
15:43
somebody to cry if you wanted the drama
15:45
girl coming from the broadway and stuff
15:47
i was your girl but when i started first
15:50
started auditioning for like sitcoms and
15:53
stuff
15:53
back in the 90s um this cast director
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was like
15:58
really you need sitcom classes
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and so i was like oh okay where do i get
16:04
those and she was like there aren't
16:06
any so i was like oh damn so i went to
16:10
like comedy act theater comedy store
16:13
live factory and i would sit in the back
16:14
in a cut with the comedians to try to
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figure out what the hell is comedy
16:18
because i knew in the 90s they was
16:19
giving all these um
16:21
these deals to all these comedians these
16:23
male comedians i was like i gotta hop on
16:25
one of them i gotta work that's smart so
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i sat back there and i realized the
16:29
people who were really really funny were
16:30
the ones who were telling the truth and
16:32
there's a thin line between drama and if
16:34
they were telling this story right
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anywhere else right yes if you're
16:38
telling the story in any other platform
16:40
somebody will probably cry
16:43
you know what i'm saying so there's a
16:45
there's a thin line and once i
16:46
understood i was like oh so it's going
16:48
to be easy for me to play this dance if
16:50
they need to be big i ground the scene
16:52
if they need to you know what i'm saying
16:54
it's it's a it's a waltz yeah so i
16:56
understood it once i understood it i
16:58
started booking like crazy but when it
17:00
came to my life in kids
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it's the cutest story because you know
17:04
i'm friends with the family yeah yeah i
17:06
love the way you shout out to them
17:07
always friends
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they're amazing right so when this pilot
17:12
came up i didn't get an audition right
17:15
so
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i call my asian i call yo
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this wife and kids tasheena just told me
17:20
she going out going out
17:23
there was like no
17:24
um what i heard was damon loves you you
17:27
know you're a friend of the family but
17:28
he just doesn't see you meet himself
17:30
playing opposite of gina and i was like
17:32
oh okay i get that yo to sheena
17:35
yo you got that script she was like yeah
17:38
i was like send it to me
17:44
i want you to get it like we always so i
17:47
called her she sent me the script and i
17:49
was like
17:50
i could do this i said yo to shayna
17:54
yo when is your audition she was like
17:56
it's this this this i said all right
17:58
send me the um thing i'm gonna show up
18:01
and this was you just showed up let me
18:03
tell you don't do that job
18:06
that's a really bad idea
18:09
so not follow my lead but i'm a little
18:12
aggressive so and i don't hear no until
18:15
like the third time right
18:17
so i've always been like that so
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so okay so
18:22
wife and kids so it's everybody's like
18:25
final callback and you know i'm just you
18:28
know my first time so i ain't got [ __ ]
18:30
to lose right so but when i pull up to
18:33
um the disney lot
18:36
you know they got it on lockdown there's
18:38
two two guards at the gate there's a
18:40
brother and another and i was like damn
18:42
i hope i get the brother cause maybe
18:44
he'll let me in right so then as soon as
18:46
i pull up the brother goes on a break
18:48
and i'm like ah
18:51
so then
18:52
so then i turned
18:55
hey um i'm supposed to be here and he
18:57
and my name is tj campbell and he was
18:59
like your your name's not on the list
19:00
and i was like oh my god
19:03
you didn't do this to me again
19:05
i can't believe this can you check one
19:07
more time you got your t-shirt and so he
19:09
does he was like i'm sorry miss you're
19:11
not here no wait i can't believe this
19:13
i'm so late i'm so late and he goes wow
19:15
i'm i'm just going to let you in there's
19:16
a lot of people that look like you that
19:18
came in today i'm dying
19:20
they're asking before the acting let's
19:22
go i was like thank you very much thank
19:24
you thank you
19:27
[Music]
19:32
my agent hits me he was like um are you
19:34
on your way to that audition i was like
19:36
yo i'm here and he was like look what
19:38
you're gonna ruin your career you're
19:40
gonna do this you're gonna do that i was
19:41
like oh you're so negative click
19:45
so i walk on to the thing right again
19:48
nothing to lose so i sit in there and
19:50
the girls are all nervous this their you
19:52
know third call back everybody wants
19:54
it's the only job of the year because
19:56
they weren't hiring black women at the
19:58
time it's the only job of the year so
20:00
everybody's walking around i'm just
20:01
sitting there like this right so then my
20:03
agent calls me he was like you need to
20:05
hide
20:07
he got too bad
20:09
he said yes you need to hide because
20:13
they found out that you're there and um
20:15
the producers are really upset because
20:17
they don't know how damon's going to
20:18
react and i was like i am not hiding i
20:21
am a grown ass woman okay goodbye you're
20:24
so negative
20:29
i sit there for a second i go maybe i
20:31
should hide
20:35
i get ready to go into the other room
20:36
and i want to smack dab in the game and
20:38
i go oh hey
20:41
all right and he goes
20:42
hey hey t-shirt how are you and i was
20:45
like i'm good i'm good it's good to
20:55
yeah he goes in the room he tells me
20:57
later
20:58
that he said what the hell is tj
21:00
campbell doing here right
21:01
so then
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somebody comes out she says she's first
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person and she comes out she says it's a
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cold bloody room up in there boy they
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said that that's what the woman said and
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i was like thanks okay it's cold blood
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room pissed off damon pissed off the
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producers i'm going to have fun yeah go
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in there
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and me and damon click like crazy we're
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you know sitting on the edge of our
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seats we're going back and forth we're
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ad-libbing it's like chemistry
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out of the world right wow so i go hey
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guys thank you for the audition good
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luck with this you know i walk out
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and i'm gathering up my stuff my agent
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calls me right there i'm still in the
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you know in the waiting room and he goes
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what have you done i said what did i do
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because that's when it hit me of what i
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actually did and snuck into this
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audition he says tisha they want you for
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the network audition they want your
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callback
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i'm not even out of the room
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so my heart is palpitating because i
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realized the complexity of what i had
22:01
just done to myself
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but i it winded up working out and he
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fought really hard and wanted me badly
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and i just needed to prove myself and
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sometimes you got to do that but don't
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sneak don't sneak don't sneak
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don't be like me booster learn daddy
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that's beautiful
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come on
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yeah what's the learnable moment you
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think people should you walked away
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yeah yeah uh don't settle
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don't settle don't sneak in but don't
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don't settle for just the no
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yeah like i don't settle for the first
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no i try to go around i'm you know
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i'm on my ground i'm on my hustle i'm a
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single mother i got [ __ ] to do i got i
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got bills to pay and i have to make sure
22:46
even then you know everything i've ever
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done
22:48
everything i've ever done or tried to do
22:52
even getting into this business it
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wasn't for fame it wasn't for money for
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myself it was always to help other
22:57
people to help my family or help other
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people and that's i think that's the
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most important understand what an artist
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is and understand what a celebrity is
23:04
there's two different things come on an
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artist is somebody who understands that
23:07
they're there to serve other people
23:09
a celebrity doesn't understand that yet
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give them time don't judge them they'll
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get there
23:15
they'll get there or they're going to
23:17
learn a lesson in order to get there
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because it never lasts when you just
23:21
trying to be a celebrity but if you are
23:23
truly an artist like there are some
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artists that you cannot deny like tammy
23:28
roman is an artist you cannot deny cardi
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b is an artist you cannot deny i don't
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care whether you started on a reality
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show first of all i love reality shows
23:36
don't judge people um um nene leakes you
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can't deny her
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she's on broadway you can't deny that
23:43
and there's different ways of getting
23:45
into this business but there are certain
23:47
people that you cannot deny
23:49
and you can't deny yourself of any
23:51
opportunity however it presents itself
23:54
so i don't know i'm gonna just keep
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talking about tisha campbell
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come on round of applause i mean really
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you just ended the show
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yeah no no every word you gave was goals
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you see we didn't get in the way of it
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no we need to yeah i want y'all to stop
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me when i talk to them
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we ain't the only people that needed to
24:18
hear that yeah yeah yeah yeah
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but i hope you all watch a couple
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okay yeah let's uncouple friday on
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netflix neil patrick harris who's also
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executive producer emerson brooks uh um
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marcia gay harding
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yes tuck it's a it's an amazing amazing
24:40
cast it's it's to me it's like it's
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gonna open doors like poles did and make
24:45
and put a human face on on people's you
24:49
know heartbreak tragedy it doesn't
24:51
matter whether you're gay or straight it
24:54
doesn't matter who you love everybody
24:56
understands heartbreak absolutely so
24:58
that's what this is about then next time
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you come up we'll talk about we'll talk
25:01
about our hearts next time yes yes okay
25:04
i mean you am i yeah yeah we're both
25:06
single people yeah you're still single
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right hell yeah
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[Laughter]
25:22
make sure you watch uncoupled friday on
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netflix
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