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Dec 17, 2021
The Game is back on Paramount + and Wendy Raquel Robinson called into Sway In The Morning to talk about the hit shows revival.
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every time the black people move forward
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they gotta move the goalposts it's time
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that somebody fought back
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that's somebody
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it's tasha mac
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oh
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come on man tasha
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come on played by the
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incomparable the unmatched
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i can't tell you how much she's been a
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staple in hollywood for years she's
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she's been in our households she's been
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a part of our growth our development
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she's always been solid 10 toes down in
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the trenches hb and i said it earlier
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it's not just on the set but it's off
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the set too because she helped raise a
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lot of babies including my daughter
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kayomi calloway we could talk about that
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again okay but she's back because you
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can't keep talent down she's back ladies
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and gentlemen on the tenth season of the
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game streaming on paramount plus tasha
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mac nah nah we got wendy raquel robinson
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this morning come on
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thank you
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thank you so much oh my god what i get
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emotional thank you
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i was just sitting up here i'm sorry i
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was just thinking about your longevity
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man
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it's so good to hear your voice it's so
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good to you with your boys how you doing
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i've been well wendy i've been really
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well um and i i i make no bones about it
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wendy has uh uh has been a part of a
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incredible organization co-founded the
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amazing grace conservatory agc
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and i always talk about it because i
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remember my daughter chiomi being in it
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and that's the first time i got to see
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her on a stage play
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you know you know me and um blair
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underwood used to you know hang out i
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met blair because of agc
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yeah i've met a lot of people and you
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you know i i feel i feel like we spoke
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but you know kayomi actually graduated
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from tisch university um at nyu yeah she
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was a kid
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she was always exceptionally gifted and
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talented i am really crying it's so
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funny it's like you just
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brought back so much you know maybe i'm
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just cool it's just been a season of
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just abundance and um
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i'm so proud of her
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you know what tissue was always on my
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wish list and it's so crazy they always
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say your seeds should exceed you and she
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is definitely one of those what an
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amazing young woman she is
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drop her off and you know whenever you
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drop your kid off somewhere you got to
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leave because y'all would make us leave
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um oh yeah
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no parents ain't no parents no parents
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were allowed
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and if you weren't i used to have some
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saying if you if you come on time that
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mean you're late or something like that
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you have something to be early is to be
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on time to be on time and to be late and
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to be late is unacceptable
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yes indeed and here we are today but you
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know you talk about my longevity let's
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talk about your longevity you know your
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longevity has been uh remarkable and
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thank you your your career choices have
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been great you know i love seeing you in
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certain films like um flatliners and i
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love seeing you when you would pop up on
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the screen um even in the descendants
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all these different places i'll say i'll
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be watching the movie is not expecting
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to see you grey's anatomy and then there
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you go and you'll pop up right
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um and then it makes me think about the
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steve harvey show and you know all the
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different things you did and when you
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look at steve's career from that point
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to now what do you say about that
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i'm just so blessed i really really am
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and one thing i've learned you know is
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relationships as well you know and how
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you treat people and i tell that to my
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kids all the time be kind and be
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grateful and just keep it moving be tall
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you know you got to study your craft to
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know exactly what you're doing but i
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think that's a huge part of it as well
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and i've just been so
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fortunate to have you know just great
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projects come along the way as well as
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great people you know to come along the
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way and i want to say steve was a he was
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a hell of a mentor you know even when we
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started because you know i have been
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working a little bit but steve would sit
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us all down and you know he he
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hooked us up with his investment people
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you know way back then that are still
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you know working in my life and working
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through my life because one of the
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things they always said was you know you
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never want to be auditioning for a
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mortgage payment so you know set
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yourself up right now
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you know and um just you know heeding
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the advice of those that are around you
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and surrounding yourself by experts in
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the field and you know nobody knew the
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trajectory where his career was going to
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go and look at where he is you know so
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he's the godfather so to speak but um
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just i'm just blessed man
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i'm sitting up here crying i'm so
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grateful you know i listened to my
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little affirmations this morning you
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know
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you will raise your frequency and you
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just took me higher you know come on
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we need to be reminded you know what i
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mean you know because there's some hard
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knocks out here but uh
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i've just been so blessed and i guess
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because you know now i'm
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agc is still moving we got a show next
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weekend so you know i was up late doing
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the rehearsals and production and all of
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that and still trying to do my career
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and trying to do this and trying to do
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that but
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thank you for blessing me with your
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words for that intro thank you seriously
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thank you
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the intro doesn't do you service
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you know unless the people you know i
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know we're here to talk about the game
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by the way get salute to you on the game
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man that was
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you holding that down so cold right
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you watched it hb
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oh my gosh wendy hi good morning it's
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heather thank you so much for hey
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heather hey just joining us today all
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right i need a quick minute sway because
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you you just like you know talking about
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these moments that we've been blessed to
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see wendy from the steve harvey show and
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then like you said these pop-ups i
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remember you know we've been home so
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just like going back and watching old
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episodes of martin i'm like
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oh my god
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yo she was a episode of martin like and
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just watching somebody's no wendy
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watching somebody's persistent and grind
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and blessing and annoying because being
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in this industry we know that it takes
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so much just to get first to audition
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then a call back then another call back
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and then you're praying and you're
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hoping for that rent and that mortgage
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payment and all the things
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listen so we know what it takes and to
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see all of this and and watch you
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blossom and then to turn into a series a
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hit series with the steve harvey show um
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out the game uh sway and i and tracy we
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still have the game
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yeah because there's so much in between
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that but i know tracy got questions too
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but the game like we supported this from
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day one with jose and pooch and tia and
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you and everybody coming through to the
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show and so to watch you guys have this
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big hit show on bt and rocking with it
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and then that whole thing happened and
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then it disappeared and it came back me
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personally i was like damn i'm mad at
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them i'm not watching this i want
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everybody back i'm so mad but baby let
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me tell you
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the way
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the way you took the game and put it on
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your shoulders and let god continue to
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hold your head up straight and your back
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just hit like let me tell you this is
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the next level wendy like
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see god in it like that's what because
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wow
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everything we're going through with the
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nfl personally as fans what y'all
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touching on spirituality everything i'm
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wendy i'm invested
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i'm riding on the wings of devon gregory
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and mara bracaquillo they came in let's
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go devon is the new show runner and he
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was like i'm determined to make this
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something different i don't want it to
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be what he had i don't want it to be
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this it's got to be different and it was
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really difficult the the greatest
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challenge for me was number one i've
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been away from the character for almost
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10 years so i'm like how do you step
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back into the shoes of somebody that was
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you know 10 years ago and it's like okay
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well how is she
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how has she changed how is she elevated
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how has she
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or has she not you know what i mean we
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got those friends that are still stuck
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on stupid you know what i mean and i was
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so
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i was so nervous about coming back to
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that role number one oh god what are
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people going to think oh god am i
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shrinking am i not challenging myself am
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i not this you know all of those doubts
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came in and then i was like wait a
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minute god gonna give me this blessing
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come on the third time that's the
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trinity honey i'm about to step in here
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and we're gonna roll with it rock with
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it let's go
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and so then
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it's a whole other vibe i mean yeah it's
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new blood that has come in with the
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young ones you know and from their
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perspective and then you got me and jose
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in the trenches and then we still got
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the og's that are coming through but the
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usual of the show is crazy the object is
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crazy it looks so beautiful it shot so
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well yes the stories are so grounded and
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true
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reality is familiar it's fresh it's
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still funny but it's different it's
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different it feels it's different wendy
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wasn't expecting it i was like it's
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different
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is it different it hit differently
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number one we had so much fun doing it
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but i mean it was rough you know
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shooting covered it was rough you know
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just trying to get the momentum of a new
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show it was one of those almost anything
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that can go wrong did go wrong just
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coming back sets weren't ready so we had
10:03
to find locations you know and but now i
10:06
see once those set i have never worked
10:09
and if you follow me on instagram and
10:11
that's not a plug just to follow me on
10:12
instagram but what's your instagram
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what's your instagram address thank you
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for asking
10:18
[Laughter]
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but i have to take everybody through the
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behind the scenes
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of this show
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because wow where you see not only the
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senses of color
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behind it instead of the machine but you
10:37
see the magnitude
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of these sets
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and the world and i i've been blessed to
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work on a lot of sets
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but i have never
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seen like this it's like when i say the
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optics are off the chain
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yeah it's wow
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yeah i'm still i'll be walking like ooh
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can i take a picture of this
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yeah i still got so much more footage i
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gotta drop just to show everybody just
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the machine behind this
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new thing and paramount plus they
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they've been oh i'm like they got
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paramount plus dollars yo hey
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listen listen i
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[Laughter]
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that it's all good listen your spirit
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has always been so big and before we
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ever even spoke to you is something that
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was felt you know i didn't even
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necessarily need to have this experience
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although i'm grateful for it to believe
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that you are such a god-filled woman
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and in a way i feel like as humongous as
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hollywood is as humongous and impactful
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as paramount plus is like it still can't
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contain all of the spirit inside of you
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you feel me and so i wanted you to so
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wendy to speak about the philanthropic
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aspect of your purpose and how that
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pours back into you
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um as equally as your job as an actress
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or maybe even more so
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wow and you know suede touched on it
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just a little bit but 25 years ago
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which is crazy 25 years ago i couldn't
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get a job i couldn't get a phone call i
12:23
couldn't get anything and i just
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graduated howard kuhn you know
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anything about if you if you if you
12:29
thank you
12:30
if you if you've ever
12:32
experienced the hvcu the one thing that
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they really thrive on is just preparing
12:37
you there's nothing you cannot do get
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out there you know and conquer the world
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and
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it was the exact opposite so i'm born
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and raised in south l.a so i came back
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home
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and i got a job teaching acting and
12:51
dance you know at marla gibbs she had a
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whole performing arts school and it was
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called crossroads arts academy
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and that summer that i came home and i
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was teaching it was the last one and she
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was closing the doors and it was like oh
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my god and i was working with these kids
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and i just found a wonderful rhythm and
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i loved it and the kids loved me you
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know because you know you know i was
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like 20 you know my early 20s and stuff
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and um
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she passed the torch onto myself and my
13:18
best friend who was teaching there was
13:20
the vocal director morehouse man and
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she's like if you want to continue it
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continue it on and she dropped that seed
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that i had not even been thinking about
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you know because i was like i'm gonna be
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an actress you know
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but sometimes you know the path changes
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and it takes you you know you got to
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pivot if you got a piece and i pivoted
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and we sat down we developed a
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curriculum we found a space we put our
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heads and our hearts together and
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unbeknownst to us 25 years later still
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in the trenches he's going on the glory
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he passed in o2
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but
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25 years later the likes of issa rae
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ashton sanders aldous hodge
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ryan nicole brown
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you know
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calloway they have all come through
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those doors and have not only poured
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into me but we've poured into them and
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it's just such a i want to say it's such
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a circle of
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i don't even want to say a circle of
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life because
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it's a circle of joy i ended up playing
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issa's mom or insecure you know she's
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like the twizzy you know it's like damn
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you know like i said your seed should
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exceed you and just seeing
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you know not only how things can just
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blossom and just
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beyond your expectations you know what i
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mean and i feel like i didn't dream big
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enough you can never dream big enough so
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i'm gonna talk to everybody out there
14:43
that's got some kind of dream
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you know what i mean and now
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here we are getting ready for our 25th
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anniversary and it's like wow what does
14:51
that look like you know what i mean we
14:53
got a building but now we need not only
14:55
a bigger building but you know we need a
14:57
theater so because we've outlined all
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the space and just
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we've been impacting so many lives and
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not just in the entertainment industry
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you know there are teachers and doctors
15:08
and lawyers and you know just good human
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beings you know what i mean just putting
15:13
good people out there in the world
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because we need that
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so that's if you want to talk about a
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philanthropic side girl i'm tired
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it's like every night that's where i am
15:28
that's my baby since i've been back in
15:30
l.a you know we were shooting in atlanta
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but i couldn't wait
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to get back to agc it's just that home
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away from home just for me as well it
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keeps me grounded
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you know and purposeful and passionate
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about what i really do
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i know i went on the tangent i'm sorry
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no no no no no no i want to give you
15:50
this i want to give you this i'm like
15:52
wait a minute am i talking too much no
15:54
you're giving me chills because you know
15:57
i'm not even sure if you you realize um
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you learned i learned a little bit about
16:03
parenting
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by watching how y'all
16:06
dealt with my daughter
16:08
you know i learned that i could
16:10
you know i
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some things some nuances that i can do
16:14
to
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try to keep her
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uh walking her right path you know y'all
16:19
didn't take a lot of mess with parents
16:21
sometimes we tend to ah you know this
16:23
battle i'm gonna go ahead and sweep that
16:25
one under the rug let her get that let
16:26
her get down
16:27
and so for me you know you know i was a
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she's my first and only so you had her
16:32
when she was young so when i was when i
16:36
when i was dropping her off it was like
16:37
you know okay
16:39
you know i was learning and so i was
16:40
watching how y'all dealt with the kids
16:43
you know wendy like seriously i was
16:46
watching how y'all dealt with the kids
16:48
it was getting them to cooperate in in
16:50
ways that i don't think a lot of us did
16:52
you know at times especially
16:55
so you you got to add that to the
16:57
repertoire you know because thank you
17:00
you know that's why i'm you you you get
17:02
that listen you could be
17:04
passing out water at a a city marathon
17:07
i'm gonna put you on this show to
17:09
promote it
17:13
so appreciate it and you know what's
17:15
interesting i don't have any biological
17:17
children but i feel like i have
17:19
thousands
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and what's insane is that you know
17:24
coming out of quarantine and just seeing
17:26
where our young people are now
17:29
so what you're talking about and trapped
17:31
on i had to really touch into especially
17:33
my young ladies they were talking about
17:35
suicide like uh give me a number nine
17:37
and a pink dragon surprise
17:39
you know what i mean and the things that
17:41
they would share with us
17:44
you know and of course you know we have
17:45
to intervene and you know at least you
17:47
know share it with the parent as well
17:49
but there's a trust
17:52
system that's there and i tell the kids
17:54
all the time there are four walls
17:55
s-a-f-e and what you have and what you
17:58
say here you know it's it's a safe space
18:01
so they feel not only comfortable to be
18:03
themselves but to exceed themselves as
18:06
well so
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it's just um
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i cannot explain it it's it's just
18:12
god just put us there to do whatever we
18:14
do and you know i don't take it for
18:16
granted so when you said philanthropic
18:18
it's more like a ministry that i wasn't
18:20
trying to you know i wouldn't i wasn't
18:22
going out to pass it to nobody because
18:24
lord knows i got to get my life together
18:26
but
18:28
you know what i mean he just puts you in
18:30
a position to just
18:32
do what you need to do and you know the
18:34
staff you know i i can't do it by myself
18:36
i'm surrounded by soldiers for real you
18:38
got a real tribe let me ask you this to
18:40
it and it's um
18:42
by the way we didn't mention el varner
18:44
did you mention el varner el varner
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my baby
18:49
wow
18:51
gabrielle vanna yeah
18:57
and ryan nicole brown was there i feel
19:00
like when kiyomi was there so she did
19:02
lincoln heights and she did our kind of
19:04
people and she's slaying it
19:06
you know
19:08
wow
19:09
empire are you kidding me
19:10
that's right empire
19:13
you know i did some empire too because
19:14
of you wendy
19:19
you stupid but let me let me ask you
19:21
this because in this day and age it must
19:22
be kind of it's a little different from
19:24
when when kiyomi was there you know
19:26
because social media wasn't so prominent
19:28
in their lives and these kids looking
19:30
for approval a lot on and you know
19:33
rejection is really hard for a lot of
19:35
the younger generation to deal with so
19:37
how do you especially being you know
19:39
pursuing you know acting how do you
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teach them to cope with no
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well
19:48
i have painted on the wall in the acting
19:51
studio to dine on self be true
19:54
and it's painted there as a reminder and
19:57
as a constant i want to say uh
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an intentionality that if you are doing
20:03
everything
20:04
that you know your body your soul your
20:07
mind your spirit says to do you were
20:09
doing the right thing just do you just
20:10
keep doing it keep doing it keep doing
20:12
it and it's so interesting you mentioned
20:14
elle varner because you know my fingers
20:17
it's hard out there in that music game
20:18
it's so hard ravon brown is one of my
20:21
babies too and you know and they're out
20:23
there and you know we do our pep talks
20:26
and it's like get back to you baby you
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are so gifted
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you play instruments the world has not
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even seen
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a smidget or a fraction of the talent
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that you know both of those young ladies
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have and it's just reminding them at all
20:39
times to just do you you know and of
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course you're gonna get that rejection
20:42
but what do you do that door closes find
20:45
that window there's a crack underneath
20:46
that door get in create your own space
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and the one thing that we did not have
20:52
growing up that i didn't have i didn't
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have the youtubes and the instagram and
20:56
the tick tocks and this and the other
20:58
but there is so much fortitude and
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things that you can do
21:01
to create yes it takes time it takes
21:03
energy it takes a lot but if you want to
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make your own platform it's there for
21:08
you for the taking
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you know so that's
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what i implore to them to use every
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resource because we didn't have that i
21:17
remember trying to get to my auditions
21:19
looking through that uh what was that
21:20
the blue remember that what was that
21:22
thing called it was a blue book where
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you had to look through to find the map
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you had to go through the old thomas
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[Applause]
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you know so just reminding them of their
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resources yeah because they came out the
21:44
room with it so a lot of times they take
21:46
it for granted but you can create
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you know create your podcast
21:51
you know it's just
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yeah so that when do you that's what i
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tried you know when did you say
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something you are sorry sorry
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yeah
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you said sorry you said something very
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early on that i didn't want to um i
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wanted to go back to because we're here
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to show not only we about giving folks
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their flowers but just so folks can
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understand the history and you mentioned
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the name of the great the talented the
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incomparable marla gibbs now for a lot
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of people they only know her as florence
22:22
from the jeffersons but when you go back
22:25
and like read her history and or how
22:28
talented that she really was can you
22:30
talk about even the time that you spent
22:32
with her and just give her some flowers
22:34
because what you just shared i had no
22:36
idea that's how you inherited that that
22:39
space and how
22:40
how your situation was here so i i would
22:42
just love to hear about something with
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marley gibbs
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yeah i call her my fairy godmother so
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wow she had if you know anything follow
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her history
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she had a huge theater it's called the
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vision theater and the irony is after
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all these years they did a huge
23:02
renovation and it's about to open up
23:04
again in lemur park which is the only
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african-american
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i want to say hub we got here in l.a you
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know what i mean it's like we holding on
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to the black core in lamert park
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she was so far ahead of her time so she
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had this huge theater and performing
23:21
arts complex and program where she had
23:24
youth and adults and everybody and they
23:26
were doing plays and you know just
23:28
really bringing the arts because it
23:29
really does save lives so then she not
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only had that then she opened up marla's
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memory lane which is off of king and
23:36
crenshaw you know anytime you say king
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boulevard you know it's the hug
23:41
but it was like a little it was a supper
23:43
club where they had you know dinner and
23:45
drinks and all of that so she was using
23:48
and investing her money in the community
23:51
and everything and so while she was
23:53
still doing
23:54
the jeffersons and then she did 227 as a
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play
23:59
at the vision theater so it started as a
24:02
play with regina king and you know
24:04
everybody else
24:06
invited norman lear come see this little
24:08
play we doing norman lear came saw the
24:10
play and booyah kabooyaka booyah cut to
24:13
227 was not only a show and a series but
24:16
it launched a career and got you know
24:19
jackie emmy marla's emmys and all of
24:22
that so when i say she is a staple
24:25
not only in the community but she's a
24:27
staple to this world that she just got
24:29
her star on the hollywood walk of fame
24:32
this summer so we were all there and
24:33
just giving her her flowers and i could
24:36
go on and on she and my mama were born
24:38
the exact same day exact same year
24:41
so it's just kismet she's
24:44
she's a beast man and her daughter
24:46
angela gibbs is a
24:48
incredible actress in her own right and
24:50
she's also an acting coach and
24:52
you know just following those steps
24:54
they're just legacy
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not even black legacy that's legacy
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period
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yeah you know what i mean yeah yeah
25:03
we did the first time um in l.a when we
25:06
were i was i was still working on a beat
25:08
in the 90s we did a big concert at that
25:11
theater marla gives gibbs and she
25:13
allowed us to do a big concert in lamert
25:16
park it was the first time anybody
25:18
really saw the roots play the roots was
25:20
like our house band and we had goodie
25:23
mob
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uh
25:25
who else we had chino excel i feel like
25:27
chris might have been there hb uh krs-1
25:30
we had a ton of folks just exhibit uh
25:35
all these folks just came and the roots
25:37
was the back band and it happened at
25:38
that theater in denmark park
25:41
theater you know and you would never
25:43
know boy no no one was
25:46
would have gave us the opportunity to do
25:48
that
25:49
you know at that time no one would have
25:51
gave us would have opened their doors
25:52
for us to do that at that time
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wow yeah
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so thank you for yeah let me shed some
26:06
light on her she deserves it and all of
26:08
her accolades and uh
26:11
incredible woman because you know la is
26:12
not like new york at all you know we're
26:15
not a theater town per se we don't
26:18
you know like
26:19
i don't know what's really happening in
26:21
new york but i feel like where are my
26:23
people in l.a for disappearing and i'm
26:26
born and raised here so it's like we're
26:29
so spread out so lemur is that
26:33
it's the hub of culture and you know
26:35
community and all of that and to see
26:37
that now
26:38
almost 30 years full circle there's a
26:41
resurgence and it's going to reopen
26:44
you know and she's still alive to see it
26:46
so um i'm glad we given her her flowers
26:49
this morning yes amen
26:51
absolutely i'm glad we're giving you
26:52
your flowers yeah that part
26:55
yes because i'm taking them all
27:00
you are a pillar okay in the community
27:02
and in hollywood and continued success
27:05
what else you got coming up on your
27:07
plate something we should be looking
27:08
forward to
27:10
yeah y'all need to look forward to the
27:11
new episode dropping tonight on
27:13
paramount plus of the game
27:16
get that plus
27:18
the game okay
27:21
and right now um i'm doing actually a
27:23
soulful christmas it's a show that i
27:25
wrote and directed and uh it opens next
27:27
uh
27:28
sunday actually at la southwest college
27:31
so i'm back in theater and doing that
27:33
and then i'm just going to take some
27:34
much needed mindfulness and some time
27:37
off and spend the holidays with my
27:39
family and recharge
27:42
and just look forward to the new year so
27:44
full transparency no i ain't got this
27:46
dropping that dropping no i'm i'm taking
27:48
care of wendy and just checking in with
27:50
her
27:50
it's been a ride it has been a ride i'm
27:53
ready to recharge well you you you're
27:56
amazing okay
27:58
and stay the path okay and i'll let you
28:00
know i'll be talking
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[Applause]
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and just loving on her and it's so good
28:15
to hear you guys thank y'all so much
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this is a wonderful interview thank you
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guys
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