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head if you hadn't chewed through that
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cage
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[Applause]
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hey you know what's wrong with mike epps
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and wanda sykes
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that's what's wrong that's what's wrong
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with mike f man
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she's so incredible this show the
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upshaw's is available now on netflix
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it's called the upshaw's
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listen you're gonna laugh at least every
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three to five seconds
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and one of the reasons why is we got the
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creator the executive producer and the
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start a new
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series um with us right now db please
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run it down man she's friend of the show
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[Applause]
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hey sorry about that sorry they have
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some technical difficulties over here
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but
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she's been on the show plenty of time
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she's a citizen we love having her up
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she she was a writer on the chris rock
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show and she made appearances in some of
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his movies like foodie thang
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but we love her and her work as a
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comedian as an actor as a writer as a
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producer i mean she does it all
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and she's back with us today to promote
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the new show the upshaw's please welcome
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wanda sykes
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[Applause]
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family how you been wanda i'm good i
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am i am good we are number two in the
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u.s
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right now on netflix hello good
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god y'all thank y'all so much man
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i was actually uh re-watching episode
1:23
one
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and saw that you was up on that scale i
1:26
was like damn man she's number two in
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the
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united states what does that mean like
1:31
is the deal already done or do you get
1:33
residuals
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you know what i'm waiting to see what
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that means you know uh
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hopefully hopefully we get to season two
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hopefully we get the season two
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uh it's a great dynamic how you set up
1:48
the offshores i want to talk about that
1:49
but first personally man how you been
1:51
wanda how you you know pandemic
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quarantine
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and now we're here now we're in maine i
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am i am good i got
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you know but the me and my wife both of
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us you know we got vaccinated
2:02
we all good um my parents are good
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family's been good so um i'm just
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i'm just ready to you know get out here
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and touch some people
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and get back on that stage and tour
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that's what you know i miss all that and
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i'll tell you i'm just sick of standing
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outside
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uh standing by a fire pit you know
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chilling out with friends and stuff i'm
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i'm sick of fire pits i smell like a rib
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you know what son i'm over it she says
2:33
she smell like a rib
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how
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[Laughter]
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how did the quarantine uh did it make it
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challenging in your relationship or it
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made it better
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you know what it it it it was it was
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challenging
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but we just had to have a talk i was
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like you know i was like look sometimes
3:04
i'm gonna slip up and call you an mf
3:06
because it's just you the only one i've
3:08
been around
3:08
i like to say it and sometimes you know
3:12
you know people have to start talking to
3:14
each other a little differently
3:17
you know but it was it was funny like
3:19
you know you get you get to that
3:21
part where you like to snap we just go
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okay it's the quarantine
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but you just got to catch this one right
3:27
now you know
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but it was it's all good okay
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sykes is here hb you want to highlight
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wanda yes wanda what's up it's heather i
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i just want to
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say thank you like i follow you on
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instagram
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and what i love about just watching your
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story and watching you know
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like so much that you share i just want
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to just say thank you for just being a
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champion
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of other artists you know other creators
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it you know we've been in this movement
3:55
lately where people are talking about
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you know
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help help help somebody look out i got
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you i got your back
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but like you and tiffany haddish and
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just certain people out there
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i really see y'all doing it like i don't
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think people realize becoming
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an ep and creating these shows the
4:14
process of getting it all together
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then going to pitch and trying to
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explain to other folks
4:19
to the green light these things why
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these things are important and what you
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had to go through
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to get to the point in your career where
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you're able to go through those doors
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and get it done
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it's so dope to see wanda so i just
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wanted to say thank you
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like just personally thank you because
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i've always been a fan you know that but
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just watching all that you do
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to help other people walking these
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projects through and being a part of
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walking these projects through
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it's just really really dope to see and
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congratulations wanda for real
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oh thanks husband i appreciate you i
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really do
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and you know i i just i i just live by
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you know like when
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when you you're blessed it's it's your
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duty to bless other people you know and
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uh
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and that's just that's just how i live
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and uh
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so it it just thank you i just want to
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say thank you for
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of course getting it you know and uh
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and it is it is a process to get these
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projects out there
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but man i just love that uh
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like when you do get something you know
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to go you get the green light
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that you've just created thousands of
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jobs down the line you know
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and uh and i just i just i just love
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that so i appreciate you
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thank you you know and it goes
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it's very widespread i was actually to
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heather's point um
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had a conversation with chris chris rock
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he was a writer on the show you guys are
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great friends
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and i was telling him hey i'm gonna be
5:46
speaking with wanda what are your
5:48
thoughts about wanda sykes and and
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all that she is and he made an
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interesting comment about you and i'm
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gonna play it back
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wanda i know she wrote with you with the
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chris rock show and you guys done things
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in the past she's incredible she's like
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one of my favorite too
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top five people to ever live well i just
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smart like like wanda can
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you know rhonda's got real you know
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she's a real producer you know what i
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mean like
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like you know [ __ ] bad when
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they can solve your problems
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you know i mean wanda can solve your
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comedic problems
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really so you could sit on the couch and
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say man my jokes ain't landing or
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i'm not connecting and she could assess
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it yeah she's she's
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she's like that she's like that she's
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she's a man and she's just a
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good person man wow
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wow wow wow wow
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talk about flowers that's a lot of wows
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um man that
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that that messed me up wow
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[Laughter]
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for real i mean you know it was so funny
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we chris and i i i love that dude and
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and we you know we had real talks and uh
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but wow i didn't know it was that deep
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that's
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that's pretty freaking amazing
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yeah take your time with it
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i i was trying to make you cry to be
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honest with you
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if you want to
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play tears by the force fds
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you know but i thought it was powerful
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when he said that i sat with me i was
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like i gotta play this back for her
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um was there someone for you coming up
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that was the um
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how did he who who could help solve your
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problems that you could go to
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you know what and it's not if even if
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you hadn't played that clip if you asked
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me
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you know how did i get here where i am
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right now
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i definitely would have given it to
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chris rock i would have said chris
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rock's show
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is that's that was the catapult that was
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the thing
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not just to put me on but all the
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information man like
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everything that i know about tv
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and and film and producing all those
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skills i
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learned at the chris rock show and
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and that's how you know chris set it up
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like that man it was like
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this dude was like a farmer man he he
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grew everything you know it's like
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um you know it's like we
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we wrote our stuff and then he he gave
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it the green light so now you got to go
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produce it you got to go cast it
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you got to you know go out and film it
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and and then go edit it
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and and put it on so like i said
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everything was was from
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from that dude show right there so yeah
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okay here's a funny story about about
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the chris rock show
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when um when when he hired me
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right um he he told me i don't know if i
9:08
should even repeat this but
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he he hired somebody else
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at first during the pilot that he
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thought was me
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and because he told cause he told he
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told the dude he said look man he said i
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just
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this this female comment opened for me
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she was really funny
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um i want her right on my show on the
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pilot
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and and the guy hired somebody and he
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was and he said he told me he said i'm
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so glad
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that we got you know that the pilot got
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picked up because
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we hired somebody that i thought was you
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and
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he said he said so we sitting at the
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table the first date i looked
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and i was like that's not her he was
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like what you said he's like i'm sorry
9:51
but that's not
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what the hell you know what did you ever
9:56
meet this woman who the hell was
10:02
catfishing
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is available on netflix i'm gonna keep
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saying this during this conversation
10:14
number two in the country
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today let's make it number one in the
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country
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[Applause]
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citizens let's go stream that thing
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stream that thing stream that thing the
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up sauce
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tracy yeah wanna i'm curious
10:28
because you we're hearing from your
10:31
peers
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and there seems to be so much
10:33
camaraderie in a way with
10:35
comedians and i think about with a lot
10:37
of artists like yesterday we were
10:38
speaking about
10:40
little nasdaq and he was admitting how
10:41
he felt
10:43
envy when it came to billy eilish and
10:45
we've spoken about other
10:46
artists in the past whether it's saying
10:48
they don't listen to anyone's music
10:50
because they don't want to be
10:51
influenced they want to feel pressured
10:52
to compete with somebody else you know
10:55
does did you ever experience that like
10:57
hearing another comedian just get a lot
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more laughs than you maybe when you are
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on the climb and being like damn
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did you ever have to figure out how to
11:07
rid this relationship with envy
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um you know what it's it's
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it it's different with comedy i guess
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because
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it's like i i i can't do somebody else's
11:21
jokes you know it's as far as like
11:25
what their style is you know be honest
11:28
with you like
11:29
comics they they they do have that thing
11:31
where it's like
11:32
man this dude this dude or whatever up
11:34
there getting these jokes let me get
11:36
these big laughs
11:38
off of these cheap jokes what the hell
11:40
you know and and
11:42
and it gets to you but but you know you
11:44
just have to
11:45
you have to do what's good for you like
11:47
i just can't do certain type of
11:49
material it's just not how my mind works
11:52
so
11:53
i and you do you i just had to to
11:57
deal with and and just be comfortable
11:59
with
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with myself and what i like to do and if
12:03
i'm happy with
12:04
my performance and i'm happy with the
12:07
material that i'm
12:08
putting out there it makes me feel good
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then
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if i'm only performing for a thousand
12:14
people
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i got to be happy about that you know i
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can't go
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oh man i should be in a in an
12:21
arena well you don't have enough people
12:24
who want to hear what you think
12:26
being in in an arena but
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i'm happy with uh those people who are
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who are there to see me and want to hear
12:35
what i have to say
12:37
no but um but i but i love seeing comics
12:41
win i love seeing comics
12:43
uh sell out you know arenas and all that
12:46
[ __ ] i love that because
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it's overall it's good for comedy you
12:50
know i love it
12:52
uh db you wanted to jump in yeah if you
12:54
don't mind um wanda i wanted to ask
12:56
because um
12:57
recently when we all saw dave chappelle
12:59
uh call out comedy central about
13:02
the contracts that he signed and how he
13:03
felt that he was owed a lot of money
13:05
from
13:06
the success of the chappelle show and it
13:08
made me think about when
13:09
you stood by monique when she was
13:12
calling out netflix for basically the
13:13
same reason about how she felt
13:15
um she was being lowballed for the
13:17
comedy special she pitched to them
13:19
and you were one of the few people who
13:20
stood by her side and was like yo she's
13:22
right you know but the thing is
13:24
in a way it felt like monique got some
13:27
backlash or some people thought she
13:28
might have been
13:29
you know wrong in her way of going about
13:31
it but everybody praised chappelle for
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calling out comedy central so
13:35
i don't know if it was like a double
13:36
standard or or i just wanted to get your
13:38
opinion on why
13:40
monique sort of got pushed to the side
13:42
while everybody sort of praised
13:43
chappelle
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oh man you that's that's beautiful that
13:47
you pointed that out because
13:49
it it's exactly a double standard it's
13:52
sexist it really is
13:53
and i wasn't gonna let people you know
13:56
uh drag monique and and you know
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and tell her that you know she wasn't
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you know uh
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it was basically saying that she was
14:05
crazy you know and and they tried to
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make it
14:08
just calling out calling out her name
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and it just just it was just wrong and i
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wasn't gonna let
14:12
you know leave her out there like that
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because she was right she was absolutely
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right
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you know we had monique on the show and
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all you know definitely opened up the
14:19
platform to hear her voice
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monique was the first person to ever put
14:23
me on nighttime tv so i'm
14:25
wow she was the first and i've never
14:27
done it since i know
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i don't even desire to do it only with
14:31
her and then she was the first person
14:33
to embrace me the first cameo on the tv
14:37
sitcom i ever did was on the parkers
14:40
what was my name on that what was my
14:41
character name you remember heaven
14:43
yeah uh sway no it was corey
14:47
okay yeah yeah y'all corey but i played
14:49
sway in every other cameo
14:52
yeah i killed it too wanda i was nailing
14:55
that dude
14:56
um and you know how it is on set man not
14:59
everybody is cool with you and nobody
15:01
was talking to me and monique took me in
15:03
her
15:04
dressing room while she was putting on
15:06
her makeup it was like baby then i was
15:08
like monique i don't know what i'm doing
15:09
baby don't worry about it just read
15:11
and see she embraced me in my first
15:14
acting scene ever
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uh was with monique and so um i'm always
15:19
going to have her back but i think that
15:20
was a great question
15:21
um db and wanted to thank you for taking
15:23
that on um i want to talk about the
15:25
upshaw's too one of the things i like
15:27
about
15:28
you know kim fields oh man you got
15:32
one oh man of course
15:35
talk talk about how how did you select
15:38
kim phil's how did that come about
15:41
um no in audition you know we were
15:44
you know we were looking for our regina
15:46
and uh
15:47
it's so funny i was going into the into
15:50
the uh building
15:51
uh you know for the audition and
15:55
so i you know threw the horn at me and i
15:57
turned
15:58
and it was like hey wanda no it was kim
16:00
phil i said hey ken what's up
16:01
and she's like girl i got to find a
16:02
parking space and i'll be up and i was
16:04
like okay
16:05
because i had read the list as far as
16:07
who was coming in to read
16:10
and when and and i and i turned around i
16:13
was walking up the steps i was like
16:15
oh [ __ ] kim fields is coming in to read
16:18
and i was like oh my god what you know
16:22
and at first i just thought how
16:24
beautiful that was because someone of
16:27
her stature
16:28
and and with her her her resume
16:32
i was like tim feels should be offer
16:35
only i can't believe she's coming in
16:37
here
16:38
to read for this or or you know
16:40
chemistry test you know
16:41
and uh so so and i and i've never met
16:45
her
16:45
but i felt like i'd known her for years
16:48
because i've seen her on tv all these
16:49
years right
16:50
and uh she came in and she just she just
16:53
blew it out the park she just
16:55
killed it and uh and like i i knew right
16:59
away
16:59
oh that's she she's regina that's that's
17:02
it
17:04
okay and and what excited me was that
17:08
um it just opened it up for us writers
17:11
like where we could take that character
17:14
you know
17:15
i like i like the dynamic too like when
17:17
i look at shows
17:18
like let's say like um good times my
17:21
family
17:22
emulated good times you know kind of
17:24
these shows kind of
17:25
inform us on you know how we can be
17:28
potentially
17:29
in a family dynamic even though they're
17:30
not based on they're not
17:32
reality you know they're sitcom shows
17:34
but the huxtables
17:36
uh the cosby show you know all of these
17:37
things kind of gave us ways to aspire to
17:39
be like
17:40
you know the upshaw's has a very re you
17:43
know very real
17:44
undertone to it it's a it's a family
17:46
with about three kids
17:48
and then it's an innocent uh you know
17:50
you have a mother of another child from
17:52
a previous relationship
17:53
as well and it definitely reflects a lot
17:56
of what we've seen
17:57
uh growing up but how did you how did
18:00
you architect that dynamic how did you
18:02
decide okay we're going to have a
18:03
outside relationship with a mother who
18:05
has another kid
18:07
how what made you decide to write all of
18:08
that in there well when i
18:10
when i met with mike and you know he
18:13
told me he wanted to do the show about
18:15
you know working class family in the
18:16
midwest
18:18
um i i just talked to him more and
18:21
i cuz i was like i'm not from the
18:23
midwest so just tell me you know a
18:24
little bit more
18:25
and tell me about your about you know
18:28
your your situation
18:30
and and i told mike i said mike look if
18:33
if you're going to be in the show
18:34
and you know we i i i need to take a
18:38
little bit
18:39
of of your life
18:42
um to create this character that you
18:44
want to do that you want to play
18:46
and uh and you know so i
18:49
drew some you know yeah some stuff from
18:51
him and uh
18:53
and and everybody has that if if you
18:56
don't have that situation
18:58
you know somebody who's in that
19:00
situation
19:01
so i wanted to to make it about you know
19:04
like just make it feel
19:05
current like how people are living right
19:07
now and mike said something
19:09
to me that um that kind of like
19:11
solidified everything he's like
19:13
you know wanda like people you know
19:16
people mess up and people
19:18
make mistakes or whatever but it's just
19:21
life and it's like what you gonna do
19:24
you know what you're gonna do about it
19:26
it's just you
19:27
you've got to keep keep it going keep it
19:29
moving and uh
19:31
and he's like getting you you know you
19:33
just gotta just keep keep loving your
19:35
family just
19:36
and just love love who you with and
19:38
where you're at and just
19:40
you know and just keep keep keep going
19:42
i'm like all right
19:43
okay so that's that's the tone of the
19:45
show right there
19:46
yeah and then you and mike they go at it
19:48
their characters go at it like esther
19:50
and
19:50
fred g sanford
19:54
yeah we talked about that too i was like
19:56
yeah i was like okay let's
19:58
let's do let's do esther and fred let's
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go let's do that
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oh y'all kilted shout out to luanda page
20:04
and red fox on
20:05
come on we got to do that uh
20:08
we're going to make this the number one
20:10
show in the country the upshaw
20:12
on netflix citizens we got to go to
20:14
netflix you got to go to netflix and
20:16
watch it the upshaw's ronda sykes is
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here
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we have um we have a couple callers uh
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andrew and denver been waiting a long
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time appreciate you andrew grand rises
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what up andrew hey drew how you doing
20:28
miss sykes hey y'all
20:30
good morning good morning ma'am i just
20:33
want to give a shout out man back when
20:35
you were in down to earth uh my father
20:36
and mother and i went to see that now
20:38
i probably would have been in high
20:39
school around then but you created a
20:41
hell of a memory i know your part wasn't
20:43
like the starring role
20:44
but you stood out you made us laugh so
20:47
hard
20:47
and then listening to this conversation
20:49
this whole time just made me like
20:50
solidified how beautiful a spirit you
20:52
have
20:52
and i don't have social media or
20:54
anything so i don't get to see you do
20:55
all these cool things they're talking
20:56
about
20:57
um but yeah your spirit shines so i just
20:59
wanted to give you that compliments
21:01
oh thank you andrew appreciate you man
21:03
thank you so much
21:04
that's beautiful that's just beautiful
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hey drew you watched the up shawls
21:10
huh you watched the show yet no sir i
21:14
i you know i stay i just graduated
21:16
college man i was single dad i've been
21:17
grinding so i haven't watched a whole
21:18
lot of tv but i'm about to get out of it
21:20
now i graduate tomorrow so
21:22
hey congratulations yeah yeah you ain't
21:25
even got cables oh hey
21:26
you smoothie i'm like how you even got
21:30
siriusxm what's this the free trial
21:32
you good so i i call and re re
21:35
resubscribe it every time tell them i'm
21:36
gonna leave if they don't don't help me
21:38
out so they always give me the same
21:39
special so we're good
21:42
i shouldn't interrupt
21:57
yes yes grand rise and
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caesar citizen hey good morning guys
22:04
thank you hey hey morning
22:13
what's up beautiful rainbow child
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well i'll make it short and sweet uh
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some of us are born gay because we start
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off as
22:27
blank you know and then it will eat
22:29
either go one or both ways or sometimes
22:32
it gets physiologically messed up
22:35
because of all the
22:36
drugs and then chemicals that we are
22:40
assaulted with on a daily basis in the
22:42
land food and water
22:44
and and psychotropic they're trying to
22:46
make us transgender and everything
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and uh i want to say
22:52
much love and courage for the people who
22:56
have come out because
22:58
i wasn't born gay but because of
23:00
mistreatment
23:02
by men in my family and my father
23:05
since i was born sexual assaulting an
23:08
incest and all that
23:09
domestic when i began dating and my
23:12
children's father
23:13
i wanted to turn the other way
23:16
but i do like penises you know
23:23
what's your question for wanda i just
23:26
want to say
23:27
i i am glad for your courage to come
23:30
around all of you ellen everybody
23:33
the whole world because the thing that
23:35
kept me from
23:36
switching fast is i didn't want to get
23:39
deep down or killed or harassed by
23:42
homophobic people and that that's that
23:45
way man
23:48
i'm not sure you have a quick treat do
23:50
you have a ques
23:52
wanda i don't know where that was going
23:54
could you make a skit out of that
23:56
um we gonna put her on the prayer list
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um yeah
24:05
jesus on the main line tell him what you
24:08
want yeah
24:09
so so yeah i didn't know i didn't know
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uh the
24:13
food and and all that in the water is
24:17
it makes makes you gay okay um
24:21
it okay yeah yeah we're gonna keep it
24:24
moving
24:24
yeah i'm just i'm just glad she didn't
24:26
blame it on the vaccine because we need
24:28
people to
24:29
get vaccinated so
24:38
[Laughter]
24:44
david wilde james bring bring us home
24:47
bring us home james
24:49
okay uh there's a lot on my plate for
24:52
that one but i just want to say a wand
24:53
i've been a big fan
24:54
like you said i first seen you and um
24:57
down the earth
24:58
but i want to say for the show i thought
24:59
you did a great job um i saw
25:01
a lot of shows that are trying to do um
25:03
nowadays have been lacking just for the
25:05
simple fact that when you try to add
25:07
audience i feel like they do like
25:08
gimmicky jokes
25:10
everything from the show was really
25:11
great as far as i thought it was
25:13
relatable
25:14
i have a son and i'm also married at the
25:16
same time so uh
25:17
but and the son's not with my current
25:19
wife i thought that was really
25:20
um realistic about you know you can have
25:23
a break and have a baby from there and
25:25
even with
25:26
his oldest son being gay um i thought
25:28
that was relatable that you can still
25:30
love your son
25:31
and not understand it completely but
25:33
that doesn't change the love you have
25:34
for it and even with the kids cussing
25:36
i thought that was realistic because
25:38
kids because i was cussing at 13
25:40
10 and 11. so i thought everything about
25:42
it was good and even the last that y'all
25:44
were doing
25:45
y'all weren't doing it for um shock
25:47
value you weren't doing it to play to
25:48
the audience you were just doing the
25:49
comedy
25:50
and um it wasn't martin and uh pam
25:54
type of back and forth but i agree it
25:55
was uh fred sanford and uh
25:57
uh esther i really agree i like the
25:59
dialogue between the two so i thought
26:00
you touched everything that was
26:02
realistic and even a current situation
26:05
was realistic like he working at this
26:07
place
26:07
he just did dumb stuff and then when she
26:09
had enough she ain't just go to the next
26:10
episode forget
26:11
she took his money she kicked his ass
26:14
out and he had to earn it back
26:15
so i binge watched the whole thing and i
26:17
thought uh
26:18
everything was great i even know the the
26:21
plot for the end what y'all doing for
26:22
season two
26:23
about the little girl i won't spoil it
26:25
for people who ain't seen it but i
26:26
thought y'all
26:27
you know i'm not gonna spoil it but it
26:31
was great i didn't turn it off i saw all
26:33
10 episodes but
26:34
oh wow you you binged
26:38
yeah you finished and took notes you can
26:40
write a paper
26:42
on this i appreciate it james thank you
26:45
so much man
26:46
but yeah it was important for us to to
26:49
really
26:50
make it feel real you know i i wanted
26:53
these uh
26:54
these things to breathe you know because
26:56
sitcoms it's
26:57
it's the it's a rhythm you know that
27:00
laughs
27:00
about and i was like nah we we throwing
27:02
that out let's just
27:04
you know we'll make make it make a joke
27:07
where it feels
27:08
natural where you know how we like how
27:11
people
27:12
um talk so i'm i'm glad you picked up on
27:16
all that and appreciated it because
27:17
that's what we were trying to put out so
27:19
thank you
27:20
yeah thank you too james for the type of
27:22
caller that you are man you're a citizen
27:24
brother
27:24
jesus
27:27
right there yeah yeah he brought it back
27:30
right
27:31
okay cool man wanted to leave this
27:32
conversation
27:41
[Laughter]
27:47
wow hey wanda it's always always a
27:50
pleasure to have you on the show
27:52
and um continue success your national
27:54
treasure and the upshaw's
27:56
is it's funny like you wanted to you i
27:59
miss this kind of funny
28:00
i missed this kind of writing basically
28:03
i missed this kind of acting mike
28:05
f's congratulations man you knocking
28:07
that thing out the park
28:09
kim feels the kids it's just a great
28:12
it's a great
28:13
ensemble and so i suggest citizens let's
28:15
make it number one in the country to
28:17
upshaw's on netflix
28:18
wanda thank you i love y'all so much man
28:22
thank you so much thank you love you too
28:25
wanda have a great day tell your wife we
28:27
said hi okay yes
28:31
take care
28:45
[Music]
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you
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