Episode 283: Hey Big Head (Feat. Tyler Lepley)

happened for you know. So, um, you know my uh, you know, my way into the game was a little bit unorthodox for sure. Um. I came up right outside of Philly. I went through a string of failures. Um thought I was gonna be you know, playing football on Sunday in the NFL. Didn't work out like that, you know, But I learned a lot. I learned a lot from those losses. But you know, when I went through the string of losses, I moved out West just because I

kind of wanted to start fresh. I was about twenty three when I graduated from college and Uh, I came out West and actually I kind of just found my way into the gym. My cousin was a boxer, so I was just hanging around the gym and um, you know, if I'm I got a person kind of finessed a personal training job and then, um, you know LA is very saturated. Yeah, l A is very saturated with people

in the business. So you know, just hanging around it for a few months, probably like maybe months two or three. Someone had to after the audition, Um, this is probably about ten audition for something small, and this is about ten years ago. Um, but I booked that role and that was kind of the start of me being intrigued by something new. So you know, at that point I

started to apply myself. You know, I got the head shots for myself into an acting class and you know, you did the initial steps that actors try to, you know, do And ten years later, this is what I've been Um, you know, this is what I've been applying myself to and this this is my passion. I found it in

an unorthodox way though. Sure. I actually found out that you was involved in the box and after you called out oh boy, that knocked out Nate Robinson, Jake Paul, I really would love to see you knock him out. What do we have to do, what we have to do to make that happen, Like if there a petition we could sign and you better knock him out because that would be awful. I'm doing this for p Valley and then now it's the TI Challenge. No, no, you

ain't gotta worry about that. But I'm listen. If there is a petition, I'll be we'll we'll be the first to sign to us for right here. So but um, yeah, man, you know, I uh, for for whatever reason, you know, I couldn't really articulated, but for whatever reason, I ain't like what I saw, you know what I mean? And you know, to see him, to see him do that. First of all, I gotta give my hats off to

both both of those men. You know. I guess we can call them fighters, even though they're not professional fighters, but they're they're they're stepping in the ring as if they are, So hats off to them for doing that. But it's like when you know the game, you know, if that was a sanction about that would never go down, right. You don't have heavyweights fighting middleweights you know what I mean.

But but because this is like a YouTube type of thing and no one's really gonna check Jake doing that. You know, they're just in it for the money that they allowed it to go down. But you know, me being a part of that sport and having the background to go ahead and do that, Um, you know, I think I think he needs to pick on someone who likes to fight back, someone who wants to you know what I'm saying, stepping there and ice him real quick,

so you know, you know, you know what's funny. Though I was popping, I was popping my uh hold on, we allowed to we allowed to be ourselves. We have the curse. I was popping my ship the other day, and um, you know, I had noticed that he came out maybe a few days after he started calling everybody out. You know, I had noticed. I didn't noticed he didn't

call he didn't call me out. If he's smart, if he's smart, he'll just let it go because you know, if he sees the dollar signs and steps into the ring, he might uh, he might see his first loss. I don't know, as he lost yet. I feel like he's been doing this for a little bit now. He only like four fights, I think, But I believed you when whatever you said you was gonna do, I believe. You know. The thing is I got I got the family, like the boxing camp that would help me for pairing for that.

I think where those people get into trouble is that they don't take it seriously. You see what I'm saying. I've seen I've seen a little bit of Nate Robinson's camp, and he kind of, you know, he he didn't look like he was really prepared to go in there, you know what I mean. So I don't want to put it all on him. It's really it's really the camp's

job to get the fight already. So one thing that I'm comfortable with is, you know, having again, you know, the cousins of the family, having the boxing camp to really prepare me for something like that, you know, outside of what I'm you know, normally ready to do anyway. But you know, he wouldn't understanding how long three minutes is until you're three minutes trying to fight and stand up in the ring. Yeah, it's a it's a really

tough it's a really tough sport. That's why they always you know, they have that saying, you know, you play basketball, you played football, you're gonna play boxing? Yeah you don't. Yeah, some thing about when you were a personal trainer. To flash back to that question that has to happen, right, I was gonna ask how many women would hire you just because they look good? Yeah, you know that's not that's not for me to say because I don't really know.

I never asked them. But here's what I did notice. I didn't notice that about probably like of my clients were it was it was a female base. Um, but that was but that was for me. But that was also like even if I look at you know, I was mentioned to my cousin who's a boxing name is Leon. He owns a few gems out here. They're called glove Works. Um, he actually owns one in uh in New York too. But even even the client base at the gym is like,

uh female. So it's like, you know, it's interesting something of a sport like boxing, how it attracts like the ladies like that. You know that there I see the ladies in there kicking ass and whatnot. But you know, to get back to your your question, it's probably like nine of the uh my client base was female though, you know what I mean, knock a bitch out, so that I used to do that thing for that purpose.

So I think women do that also because when I did it, because I wanted to be able to defend myself in case something happens, because you know, you walk by yourself, somebody comes up on you, you gotta fight somebody up. You want to at least know how you are able to defend yourself. And I was way better at me and J J. Mby did it together and I was definitely way better than him. You know, I

got a lot of UM I have. I have lady friends, and you know, say if we're um well pre COVID, you know, back when we were all you know, if we were out with something like that, or someone's going to the car, you know, I would make sure they get to their car, you know what I'm saying. Or I would make sure they get out or in in

the venue properly. And you know, a lot of it was just because of that, Like you know, I kind of I kind of empathize and feel what Angelie was talking about because you know, it's just it's just a scary place out there. If you don't know how to defend yourself, especially for um, you know, a woman like solo, just you know, running around the world by itself. So I I implore everybody to take a couple of lessons too,

because it's always nice to um. It's always a piece of my know how to how to put them together. You know. Angela convinced me to go to Rumble for something with ye. But it was a midnight boxing class and I was so tired because it was late. It wasn't Yeah, it was nice, it was nice, but I wanted to drink at the same time. I'm like, wait, it's like two eggs doesn't go together. It seemed like drinking time, not boxing time to me. But you're you're

dedicated for getting in there at twelve am. Ship, Thank you. So are you an only child? I remember I read that somewhere and you said you said you grew up outside of Philly. I'm actually from Philly, So what specifically I probably do? Yeah? So I was. I was born in Abington. You know, I was raised in like really Bucks County area, So I bounced around Bucks County, um, Duelstown, Warranton, Worcester a pretty much pretty much Bucks County is definitely Um,

like the white area I had, you know. So it was interesting. You know, I grew up um probably until like middle school, it was all white, you know what I mean. So I'm about I'm a biracial man, so I was always growing up. I was always you know, too black for the white kids, you know what I mean. I remember I remember in second grade one of the best friends, Peter Samuel's, and we were riding home on the bus together. He said, uh, he said, hey, Tyler, Um, do you know do you know what the nigger is?

And I said uh, And I was like yeah. I was like you know again you know, growing up in that white area, I was not prippy to this information yet, see what I'm saying. I didn't know, you know again, only child too. It's like I had a big brother, big sister like school me to what was going on. So I was like, um, you know, no, no, um, and he was like, uh, well that's where you are. And then you know, I got all the bus went home and it was interesting. It was like he was

really he was really informing me. He wasn't trying to be exactly, that's just how that area was, you know. And then I and then I got older, and then I um um, I went to I lived in Vegas for a random year, but I moved out there in like ninth grade. I went the Foothill and all of a sudden, the whole school was black. And now all of a sudden, I was. I was like, I was a light I was a light skin, you know, white for the black kids and too white for the black kids. Yeah.

So I was like, you know, I had an interesting, um, I have an interesting like like perspective grown up in that in that realm. You know, you get a black school, they call me white boy, you like, with the hell that's something that we can Unfortunately, all somem relate to Angela's half Asian Glorios cam Puerto Rican. Both my parents are mixed. Sod was white when she was younger. I was the other truth I was at a point of time. It wasn't when I was younger. It was in my

early twenties. I went through this phase where I really connected with white people and I had a connection I had. I had a serious connection with white people. And I was music and I what was it was? It was my surroundings. I was dancing at I was dancing at the Lila's in Philly. Oh yeah, I was dancing at the Lilas and when I saw down Tyler, you said, you know where that? So you've been to? The Lilas is like the premier gentlemen's club, and it's right next

to the US. It's like your old city, right yeah, Landing, Yes, didn't you have to know every strip club to do your role in pe Valty And know I'm joking you did a lot of took it very serious. Yeah, he took it serious, right. Yeah. Well I'm a method actress, so you know I had to act. Are you good? Are you good at throw my money in the strip club? Because I feel like that's also something that like take some you have appearance. I'm not good at it. Trying

to teach me. Yeah, I've been throwing the whole thing and pumped up she making it. Speaking of pe Valley, I am actually very close friends with Virgo and Simone who played extra extra and also on Brazil Brazil. We all worked at Magic City together. Um, and Virgo was one of my really really really really really closest friends in my entire life. Um. Yeah, we're actually uh currently cast it on a reality show on WeTV together. So she literally just left my house and she'll probably be

here before we end. So she comes in, I'll I'll tell yeah. But they talked so how real how realists? How realist? P Valley for your like when you watched the show because I'm coming from me, Well, um, of course, since I'm so close to them, and uh, Simone actually she was the one who ended up being pregnant at the end. You guys, she's the She was actually working

behind the scenes to help authenticate the script, so to say. Um, as well as being an actress dancer, so um and with it was four girls and total who were actually really strippers in real life, so they were able to help, you know, make sure that everything went the way it's supposed to go. Um. I absolutely love everything about the show. Y'all know that. Um, I was like O D obsessed And it was wasn't just the fact that I'm a former stripper and that my friends were acting on the show,

but it was really authentic. Um. A lot of people were like, oh, that's not Atlanta strip clubs, but it wasn't supposed to be. It was Mississippi, you know, So like the slang and and and everything, and the words and everything that they used in the way that they went about things um to me it was perfect, Like it was really really really good And now I left the show. But G G O D S Like when I tell you every time I go to the house, if I go to the house right now, the valley

is on it, I'm like, you're watching this again? She watched She must have watched it fifty times. The who I probably did. I probably did no cat yeah and watched this new Yeah. I said. It wasn't for utility to be castid on that show because obviously when you were first filming it, you never know how successful something's gonna be. No, yeah, I think you know, first of all, it's a blessing to be to have a job, you know what I mean. We all know what it's like

to be to work in this entertainment industry. It's a very fickle one. You know, sometimes you're hot, sometimes you're cold, and it's like, you know, to have a steady job is always a blessing. So it was. It was nice too. It was nice to work. But I think, you know, a show like this is probably something I would watch even if I wasn't on it, you know what I mean. It's really got, it's really got its thumb on the post of our culture. So you know, I remember when

I got the call for it. I was, you know, I was super excited because here I was being able to work on something that was really it's it's very um, it's very like deep difficult material, you know what I mean. But those types of roles, that type of material is what really you know, strengthens or or sharpens your tool as an actor, right, you really get get to work on your chops to call it. Um. So I was

really excited to do that. But it's also you know, as exciting as it is, um, working on stuff like that, it's like a daunting test, you know what I mean. Like you just mentioned how you know authentic it is, and that's uh, that's the really tip our hats to the creator and the writer. Pury Hall. Now she's from Memphis, right, Um. She's also she also went to Juilliard, so she's also

like a very um. She's also she's she's it's kind of like academic with the way she she she um you know, writes writes her art if you will, So She'll be the first one to tell you if you're doing it wrong. And if you and if you're not getting it, you won't you won't be there, you know what I mean. It was it was a very difficult.

I don't I mean everything is difficult when you go in the audition room, but it was a very long auditioning process, probably over a span of like five or six months, maybe maybe going in the room six six, seven times. You know what, I'm working on, working on different things here and there, you know, um, and then to and then to get that the dialect down, you

know what I mean. Um, because even before we went on set and we had dialect coaches, you still have to try to go into the audition room and and and still try to hit that twain and come Yeah. So coming from up top, you know, and from the northeast, like I was not. I was not well versed with that, you know what I mean. So it was it was nice to go through the gauntlet and come out on

top because they're really like family. Now, you know, I'm in the Valley universe now and then one and then you have a lot of beautiful women around you, so are they like do you have them coming at you left and right, or because I know it happens in real life. I see your comments and stuff like that, and the women are going crazy over you. So is that something that you dealt with on set, like where they were getting hitting on you here and there extra

than anything. Yeah, listen, it was. I mean it was definitely very hyesthetically pleasing, you know, bunch of absolutely a bunch of a bunch of beautiful women, a bunch of beautiful people, you know, black people doing their thing. But but I will say that, you know, everyone on the set was was kind of like kind of like myself. I'm a very driven, focused, focused person, you see what I'm saying. So it's like I've never really been like

a victim of the flesh like that. And I when it comes to like getting your money and and and like further in your dream. You see what I'm saying. I take my legacy very seriously. So when it comes to, you know, something frivolous like that, you know, I can kind of let it, you know, run off my shoulder. Um, and everyone around was pretty much like that. It wasn't

like it isn't anything crazy. Um, we were linking up after like you know, like to have after work drinks though, so we was all turned you know what I'm saying, were turned down there, you know what I'm saying, smoking big drinking. It's like everybody was mad fun down there. Um. But in terms of like the extracurriculus stuff like the fraternization, you know, everyone was really like like very professional, right.

You know, do you have to understop yourself if you feel like there is a little bit of chemistry because that does happen in real life? Do you ever have to like kind of like put a block up and to stop yourself? You know, how do you do that? Yeah? What's you know? It's it's um, it's a it's a great thing you touched on because this is something they

don't teach you in the acting class. Right, is walking that line, you know, because on one side, you want the chemistry to be real, right, because we're portraying real life here, we're trying to capture those moments. It's almost like capturing lightning in the bottle, you know what I mean. You can't capture lightning in the bottle if you're scared of going around the lightning, you know what I mean. But you have to you have to know how to,

you know, again, compartmentalize some of that energy. It's like, you know, you want to walk to the but you don't want to go over it, you know what I mean. So again, even teetering that line right there is something that it's a skill set to be developed. So so what is your type of woman? And are you single right now? I'm not single right now? But I like them. I like them pretty in the face, sticking away though, you know. But I mean that's just that's that's what

I'm drawn to, you know. I will say that I've seen, you know, I've seen a beautiful woman in every race, shape, color, size, you know what I mean. So it's like I don't think that, you know, I don't think beauty knows any boundaries, you know. But what I'm drawn to, you know, is uh, you know, definitely a little more currly. Did you forcating of your songs on p Valley too? By the way, It's awesome. It makes sense you've got some strip club songs. Yeah, yeah,

for sure, I appreciate that. So they're definitely gonna be on season two. Yea, But sep with Uncle Clifford for it to get shout out, shout out to my boy, and shout out to my boy, and you can lead the cool Judy. But now I ain't. I ain't sleep while I'm clipping for that. You know, I'm I've always wanted to be taken seriously with my heart, no matter what it is. You see what I'm saying. You know, I understand networking, and you know you can you can

get a favor here, and then I understand that. But like I've always wanted to be taken seriously as an actor. You know I also and I see the same. I want the same respect as a musician too, And I also understand people's babies, right, Sometimes when you do something for the first time, I don't know if you remember your first you know, your first hosting gig or you know, I remember some of my first gigs. But like this

was people baby, you see what I'm saying. So she so I just wanted to respect what she wanted to do. She had a very specific way she wanted to craft her soundtrack, so I didn't want to be like bombarding her. I kind of wanted to, you know, garner my own audience first. I want to drop my own stuff first. So that. It's kind of it kind of it kind of worked organically as opposed to you know, hey, I'm just another rapper trying to put my stuff on even

though Diamond on the show. It's like, know, I wasn't really known yet for my music, so I wanted to drop. I wanted to drop more and create my own buzz first so that you know, it was easy when I did it. And you know, we've talked, We've talked lots about you know, getting my music on the soundtrack, so it's already it's a goal for season two. But I

kind of just wanted to work it that way, you know. Congratulations. Yeah, people call you Diamond because I know sometimes you get caught in your character and that's kind of a name right there, Like yeah, for sure. For sure, it was always Benny for a long time, like all of a sudden, Yeah for sure. And it's interesting like that. I have some friends that really get upset when when their their supporters, um don't know their name, you know what I mean.

I try to tell them all the time. It's like it's like sometimes when you got when you got a hit. It happens with music all the time too. Sometimes you won't know the rapper, but as soon as you hear the song, it's like, oh, that's you, you know what I mean. Sometimes they just know your work first and it's a it's a blessing to have that. So it's like, you know, someone called me Diamond. I look around answer to the name, like what's up? Okay, that means you're

doing a good job. I think, like absolutely, character that's all we see, right Mari higwach marity highway cates when people call home ghosts. Yea, yeah, that hates that. And then you know, not like being an urk. Well, of course, who would be Diamond? The way that Diamond is on the show, he's you know what I mean, he's the best dude on the show. To me, that's like a compliment. I appreciate that, you know. I remember I remember, you know again, just to go back to like, you know,

my string and failures coming from the East Coast. Man, I just remember, you know, trying to get any job, and I remember trying to do something now you know here I was. I was gonna do this this acting thing, you know what I mean. People look at me like I was crazy, you know. So so for real, It's like, I just remember, I'm not too far removed from a space where no one supported me, you know what I mean.

So when I have these people running up to me here and there you want to picture or whatever you call me whatever, it's like, you know, I see through all of it for what it truly is, what your support. You know. That's interesting because people will look at you

and be like, hip, are right, he's cute anyways. Right, it doesn't matter because I'm sure all the time, like growing up, you didn't have problems with women, and I'm sure you've always been like have you always been a popular person, because, like you said, you've had some losses. But people probably like, he'll be okay, Yeah, you know, I went through I went through phases, you know when I was growing up. When I was growing up you know, in Bucks County and I was I was like the

only black kid. It was definitely I was definitely made to feel you know. It was it was definitely like a like a negative like ugly aesthetic type of thing, you know what I mean. So I was definitely like growing up and it was like an ugly thing. I was like the ugly duckling. But all of a sudden, I hit like high school or even like a middle school, and like people started getting sexually active all of a sudden, and now and then it started changing, you know what

I'm saying. Then then I was kind of like, you know, kind of like what the girls liked a little bit, even though it was new for them. You know, they're never like being like a black guy or something like that, you know what I mean. Um. And then I started playing sports, right like yeah, yeah, like that got you to see how they changed. Even when I was running for touchdowns and now, all of a sudden, I was like the like the popular running back, so like it

was different. So I went through phases of it. Um, so it is you know, it is what it is? What age did you lose your yet? Fourteen? Okay, so what's so it had to be to Yeah, so no, this was actually when I was in This is actually when I went to in Vegas and it was actually um um, it was actually to a junior in high school.

So it was like it was like fourteen and like fourteen and seventeen, which at which at the time, you know, so I'm I'm thirty three now, so thirty thirty and thirty three is not a big deal, but seventeen and fourteen a criminal? Yeah, yeah, it is. What's their names that we could send the police to go lock around, no name, but it was, it was, it was. It

was very premeditated. We had we had kind of planned it out the night before and it was actually at school underneath the bleach, not the bleachers, but like the steps. We had a portion. Um, we have a portion where like some of the classes were over at the college, so we wouldn't go walk across the street and like if you if you think about underneath the stairwell, it's

kind of like that that space. Yeah, like we brought the blankets and like you know what I'm saying that we had planned it all out, you know what I mean, she knew what she was doing, though it was it was in between school. We had like a little dead like a dead dead spire. It was at lunch, so you clearly did after There wasn't the hot rag after that, right, there was. There wasn't nothing proper after that, you know what I'm saying for your sex directed and that yes

I did. So I brought brought the customs, She brought the towels, and actually know she brought the condoms, she knew what she was doing. I brought the towels, and uh, you know we were prepared, we did. She knew what she wanted. Did you know that you were a virgin? No? Because I definitely, you know it definitely like that J. Cole song forget like I was. I was definitely you know, I'm spitting my game, and you know, because I didn't want to come off like you know, lame, you know

what I mean. I wanted to I want to make my girl feel good. And you know, um, I had up a little bit. You think it was obvious. It was obvious. It was obvious. Wait, so it was like two seconds, like explain how second? Now? You know? I just remember, Um, I remember I remember her. I remember her getting getting on top, and she was like I remember all of a sudden, she was gonna like take

control of it. You know what I'm saying. She she she got on top, she started doing a thing, and you know what I'm saying, it was a few minutes. It was a few minutes. You I'm saying, my rhythm is off. Though you probably was. You probably didn't even have it in. It was probably in between her guys, one of the best tell us your virgin story and the services. We ate a lot of people that question, and this is like this I probably should have a lie. I'm keeping it two reel with y'all. Did you again?

Did you? So? Yeah, I did get a second chance. It was much better the second time. But you guys in the bed the second time, Yes, we were, Um, we were in the house, so we weren't on the bed, but we were like, you know, we're on the couch floor area kind of bounced back before um, but then it was then she was a little she was a little promiscuous, so she was bouncing around after that. So she kind of so she was no. I remember she went to like she went to a upper classroom, so

she was junior. She started messing around with a senior. Now, so it's like fourteen compared to eighteen. I didn't have no shot. He had a car, and every day I thought she was interesting. You know what's interesting though, once I hit that TV she called me up. Yeah, hey, big head. This is like, this is like ten years later now, so we're both like big out of high school. Um, you know, I graduated from college, but you know, It's interesting.

It's interesting how relationships always continue to redefine themselves, you know again ten years later, be honest, No, no, I did I honestly, honestly, Now she can't, she can't, no, she can't do that right now, she's Uh. Guys have been what they're doing. They're so vindictive. They'll try to like make you fall in love with them to get back for the hurt that you're calling them from years ago.

You know, you know, guys always and I ain't gonna snitch on my guys, but I'll talk about myself, you know, I always try to. You know, we try to play off that that you know, that first puppy love like it ain't nothing, because truly, in the grands scheme of things, you know, it's it's really nothing. But you know, if you if you take that moment for what it is, you know, it kind of redefines the way you have

an outlook on life or even relationships. So it does it does have an impact, you know, significant exactly, even though we don't may not think about the individual, you know that experience is significant. I just picture you in the hallway against the locker, looking down while she's with another guy, no beer, Yeah, no beard, no, Jerry Curl said, j get the little one. You probably with scrawny. Oh yeah, yeah,

big scrawny back then. Yeah, for sure. I'm trying to figure out how I'm trying to figure out how she got your number ten years later, child, because I know what the same that it was. Yeah, she hit me on I think it was like Facebook. It was Facebook. You already know. How How does she look? How does she look now though, compared to high school? Not the same. Yeah, we're just gonna say that you don't look the same.

But um, you know, but you know, uh, like life happens, and like stresses real and circumstances happen, and you know, people's outlook and perspectives change. So I just see her differently now. She was like just calling to tell you you got a ten year old son and you need to take it. Did you did you practice putting on a condom before the first time? You actually you know what I did, But I didn't know. I didn't. I kind of just, um, I don't even think i'd had

like seen one out of the wrapper. Um, And this is crazy. I didn't even really thought about this experience to this conversation. So I'm like, I'm kind of reliving it right now. Um I was. I was definitely on the fly with it for sure. Um, she definitely definitely, no, No, she definitely helped. Yeah, she definitely helped me out. You know what I'm saying. She was like, oh, the little version, he doesn't even know how to put a condom on. Yeah, but she made she made sure she put it on

and she jumped on though. So it got me right, jump on that horse. You gotta riding, Yeah, she was riding. She was doing thing. Is that your favorite position now to the day, to have a girl on top? Because that was like your first real experience. I like, how how does it work for you? You know? I'm like, I'm very much like a like like a dancer when it comes to it. I like to communicate, you know, verbally, but I'm also listening to so I'm I'm definitely you know,

I'm definitely hitting from the back for sure. But yeah, I need I need to see that ass move, you know what. Definitely. Um, you know, uh, you know, my my my girls, my girls very pretty in the face now. Um, so you know, I like, because there's times I gotta flip back over. I gotta I gotta look at I gotta look at the face like I you know, I gotta use my mama tyler. Were there times that you had women you didn't want to look at their face? Oh? Yeah,

for sure. Yeah I'll turn around, you know. So it's like, you know, you gotta I forget what I was reading. I think, you know, these memes pop across your time time about all the time. And someone had said, like, you know, would you prefer like a you know, a six in the face and the turn in the body or a real pretty face and like, you know, like

a bad build body. So I've definitely had that you know, five in the face, you know what I'm saying, with a nice booty and uh, you know, you just make it do it to do you know, hit the lights, turn the lights, turn turn it over something, turn around. But I find, uh, you know, I find I find

lots of different characteristics about a woman sexy too. So even if you don't got it all together in the face, it's like, you know, there's there's lots of things about a woman that that get me right, turn me on. So you know you're you're smelling good, your head is looking nice. You know what I'm saying. You're doing your thing. It's uh, you know what I'm saying, we get faster. Have you ever had a woman tricker? Have you ever had a woman trick on you when you were younger?

Like what you mean by like what you mean? Trick on me? Things? Trick on me? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah for sure. Um. Not not when I was like young, young, but when I started getting um. I remember my girlfriend in high school was checking on me a little bit. But then you know what it was when I got to l A. When I got to l A, um, I like I was introduced to even before l A, but like once I graduated in high school, I was

introduced to the cougars, you know what I mean. And the Cougars were like, for sure tricking on me, you know, not then coogers. But I remember, well, we don't have to go into the specifics, but yeah, I've definitely had you know what I'm saying, been a part of that, And it's like you gotta be you gotta be careful though.

It's like when you received and I'm sure maybe your ladies go through this too, or if you have or not, I'm not sure, but like you know, when you're receiving gifts, you know what I'm saying, without anything in return, you know they're going to be expecting something. So I was a part of a scenario where she was giving me stuff, and all of a sudden she broke it to me she wanted she wanted me to show up with her

at like her like ex husbands like whatever. And I had realized that, Yeah, I had realized that her ex husband was like, he was someone that was going to try to protect his space, if you understand what I'm saying. And so it was like she was using me like a pam, you know what I'm saying, And I thank thankfully I was smart enough to understand and said, hey, you know, I'm not gonna I'm not gonna do this anymore because you know, if you put me in that scenario,

I'm gonna be forced to defend myself. And now you've got two men going crazy at each other, you know. So it's like whether they're expecting that or whether it's or you know what I'm saying, Yeah, yeah, he's like I gotta fight every night to prove my love. Yeah. Sure, I wasn't knowing that. So I you know, one thing that came to my attention. You had a video that circulated.

You had an interview where basically I think they asked you about going fifty fifty on a date and your response I really like, So I want to ask you what if a woman did sit down with a man and he was like, hey, um, here's my half. What you're gonna do? What should she do? M hm? You know it's gonna be different from from woman to a woman. You know, It's it's like it's it's not one of those answers where one size it's all, you know what

I mean? I think if the woman, if the woman has in her head where let's let's say, for instance, she was raised in a household where she was taught that women aren't supposed to pay any bills, you know what I mean, your daddy, Your daddy teaches you that, you know, I'm always gonna take care of you, and I take care of your mother, and you know, a

man that's dead and you should do the same. Right and she's put in this scenario that you just presented and the man says, hey, here's fifty, where's your fifty? You know, if if she's about her morals and she doesn't want to do that. She has every right to say, you know, I'm gonna pass on this, know, but I think that's funny to say, like I'm gonna pass on that. Yeah, yeah, what if you did say, I'm enjoy love when it's like on the flip side, you know, and and a

and a practice and a practical. Um. You know, if we if we look on the other side of the point and we say, um, you know we're gonna be in this fifty fifty um, you know it's you know, it's gonna be a true uh, both feed in the relationship. We're gonna give and take. You know, we're just gonna be a true fifty fifty relationship. And and and you're okay with that. You know, you have every right to

go ahead and accept that. And you said, okay, baby, here's my fifty and let's let's run it up like that. But not on the first day. Not not on the first date though it's not I think you ever asked the person on a date is supposed to pay, Like if I ask you, like, hey, this is I think

the guy is always supposed to pay? It depends. But if you ask a guy out and you're like, hey, I want to take you out, Like I mean, if it's a birthday, yes, If you say I want to take you out and here's and you set up everything, then I do feel like you should at least offer to pay because it was all your idea. I'm not gonna be like, I'm gonna take you out, now pay

for me now. I was just gonna say, like I've done that before where I'm like, okay, let's go out, and then the guy would be like, you're not paying this bill and we're like damn, they're trying to fight me to snatch with just fine, which is fine, But I do think you should offer. Now. If you're in a relationship and you're like, let's go to the movie is then it's just whatever whoever decides it. No, I

got it this time, it doesn't matter. But I feel like on a first date, if you ask somebody on a date, that's who pays, right, because it's your idea. You're coming up with the whole plan. I'm asking you to go somewhere. Imagine somebody asked you to do something and then make you pay for it. Yeah, for sure, I think I think if we're talking about you know, a date, um, the first date, we're gonna be specific

with that. And again not not to go back to an interview, but like you know, I'm just I'm just uh, I'm just an old school person, you know what I mean. And and I'm just I'm gonna take care of it. That's just the type of way. That's type of person I am. Um, And I think that I think that it should be like that. You know, women and women man, y'all, y'all give us a lot, you know what I mean, And it's unfortunate that I feel like most people don't

give you the credit that you deserve. But like you know, if if I were to give a woman a seed, you know, she she turns it into Yeah, I like that. You know, if I want to give a woman, you know my you know, my offspring might see, she she literally grows it into a into a human, to a child. You know, if I buy the house, she's gonna date it into a really elevate us. You see what I'm saying. So you know, the least I can do is go ahead and pick up you know, I'm saying, pick up

the food tab. It's really not a big deal. So, um, you know I'm I uh, you know, I root for you know, men like myself to keep shivalry allied. Everyone always says, should where his dad? Sho where his dead? That don't go out and be you know, get played and just get trampled all over. But you know you shouldn't be You shouldn't be afraid to try to provide, to try to go ahead and pick that tab up. It's really not a big deal. Now, I have to be honest, I've never asked anyone in the date, so

I have to never had to be in this. Have you guys ever asked anybody on a date? Lorial gig? Have you ever asked a guy on a date? You know my boyfriend like somebody that I was with, and it's more so like let's go out first date. No, I'm definitely, like I said, in a relationship, I definitely really been like, let me go out today. And again

he still wouldn't let me pay. No matter what we ate, he acts like he was gonna let me pay, and then he like walked to the bathroom and paid, and I was like like this, bet you know, what do y'all fel what do y'all feel about the woman proposing for marriage. I wouldn't do that either. Yeah, I mean, I don't knock anyone. I don't knock anyone. I think it's a new day and age, and sometimes they're stay at home dad's now you know what I mean, and the woman goes to work. So but me, personally, I

would want somebody to propose to me. I wouldn't want to. I would feel like I'm not forcing, but I feel like, what guys really gonna say? No, it's gonna make it no. That's my question. You're in a relationship. If your woman was to propose to you right now, would you accept the proposal? How don't? I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to laugh all out like that. It's just like he is. Just yesterday my girlfriend proposed to me. But you know, you're asking it back to me, makes it

real all of a sudden. So now I'm like putting myself in it. Um, you know, there's two there's two scenarios, just like so. So first of all, I don't I don't know if marriage is for me. Me and my girlfriend talked about the offense, so I don't know if I'm I don't. I don't know if I'm gonna get married in like period. Uh, but if I'm in this scenario, I'm definitely gonna be the one getting on the name. Now, if we are in a blue moon, you know, the world turned on its head, and now my girl gets

on one knee and proposes. Uh then which I which is one of my favorite beers. By the way, But I think that if I think if we were alone, um, in in whatever way, in whatever way I could that came to me in the moment, I would try to articulate that I want to be the one to propose to you. So it's not like I'm saying no, but allowing me to be the one that does this allow me to do this the right way. UM, I think it would be important if I was gonna say yes,

to articulate that I do want to get married. It's not like I'm saying, you know no, but it's just that I want to do this the right way, the way that I see it going down. Um. And now I don't think take that you know what it is. I just I just feel I feel I just feel we you're like, um, you know what I'm saying, I'm married to check it out. You for that, and I'm like, yeah, like that's just don't don't know, and the like I was just preferred to be the other way around, that's

all anybody who does that and I mistaken. All your parents have been together, they're still married, correct? Yeah, yes, so my parents are still together. It's been Um, I've been married for I was four when they got married. Um, so it's my mother and my and my stepfather. I only I don't call him that, call my dad. He raised me. Yeah, he's had me even since I was

like three. You know, they were together for a while and then they definitely your dad, yeah for sure, but just for descriptive purposes, like you know, I'm just just calling it out. So you know, my mom and my dad been married for Um so I'm thirty three, so twenty nine years now, W have a I have a great and then if they still leave each other, you know, little notes on you know, on the magnet on the fridge. So I have a really great I have a really

great example of what it's supposed to look like. Yeah, well there's some things that you do in your relationship. Um, you know, you always got to making that effort. Yeah, not for sure, I think, Um, you know, there are certain things that um that are like you know planned. I try to make sure that, you know, we have date night often. You know, we don't just get caught up to work because I work a lot and she

works a lot. Um, so it's easy. It's easy to just get It's easy to have your date night be a premier or something like that, or to have it be like amongst a lot of other people going out pop and bottles or something like that. We're having fun. But it's like, you know, I try to always carve out um, you know, intimate time for us. You know

what I'm saying. Um, you know, whether it's whether it's something as simple as going to the movies or you know, you know, picking out her favorite restaurant or you know what I'm saying. Maybe maybe you know, written the boat for a day or doing something on the water. But there's also things, um, you know, things that happen in the spur of the moment. You know, my my girl

is a uh, it's a very cerebral person. So there's certain conversations that I always make sure that we have, um that I feel like she's not having anywhere else in life that she wants to touch on. Um. So she's, uh, we're very much really call it like like sato sexuals also right and like you get on by the mind. Right. So there's there's there's all over the spectrum certain things that I do you know that makes you I beat it down, right, you hear me? You know I sent you.

He's like, I'm serious, sent Do you ever have tantric sex? Tantric sex enlightening? Yeah, you don't know us about this. We did have a clubhouse about it. Yeah, pantric sex. That involves a lot of breathing and closeness without touching, And it's when you feel each other's sexual energies without actually touching each other, and it brings you to orgasm if you do it right. Um. So our orgasms are always like hands on, um, but our organs the stuff

from But you know, but I can't I can't say that. Um, I can't say that, Like, you know, we take that step very seriously though, you know what I'm saying, Like that that part is not glossed over, it's not brushed over.

And I can say that, like you know, younger in my life it was it was a space that was brushed over, you know what I'm saying, Like even after um, you know, even after my experience you know that I told you about when I was fourteen, Like even even like young twenties, it's like, you know, you're so worried about getting in there, getting to action that like you know, you're glossing over some of the most some of the most important you know, intimate parts, you know what I mean.

He's really and I had to you know, I had to learn that there's you know, just over my experience in life. I had to learn there's a big difference between like men and women. You know what I'm saying, How we get there if you will, um, and like and like for a man, you know, a man can were very simple, you know what I'm saying. You were, you were in the right dress, We're ready to go, and it is there. Um and you know you know

y'all uh all the time. Yeah, And y'all have enlightened me and you know, UM helped me understand that there's a whole other side to it. Even even right now, you guys are putting me on a game right now, because I didn't know that it had a term for it. What's it called? Again? And yeah, how did you and your girlfriend? Did you approach her? Did she approach you? She approached me? Um, she approached me. Yeah, she might be playing it proposal now coming. I have to tell

her not to watch this and get any idea. She's a very she's a very direct one she wants to be. But um, she's she's she's not really she's not really liked that. Um she approached me, I mean at least not at least not from what I know, you know what I mean. But this day she was and she and she um, and it was thing like she came

and said, hey, listen, I want to funk. It wasn't like that, but it was like, you know, she she made her way over and made it a point to come, you know, initiate the conversation, you know, and from there, you know, I take it from there. But that initial, you know, opening up the door was But how did you move from the space stuff being like just talking to being in a committed relationship. So we went through, uh, a long period of time when we were friends. So

she approached me. We went on a couple of dates. Uh, you know, we were intimate with each other. Um, and developed a friendship that lasted for a long time because we worked we worked in the same industry, so it was like we were just always we were around each other a lot, and and it just organically developed into a place where you know, I was I was really the one I keep it real. I was the one that kind of just I have these epiphanies a lot of time in life, A lot of times in life,

you know. I had one on the East Coast. I said, you know what, Tayland, it's time to move. It's not for me anymore. You know what I'm saying. I want I want something different. Um. So I had another epiphany, I said, Um, I kind of all of a sudden started I don't know if it's good or bad, but uh, I started thinking about like if I were to you know, because she was she was easily accessible to me. I could reach out and and have her if I wanted to. And I think because of that, I was taking I

was taking her for granted. And I kind of had this epiphany where I was like, man, I was like, this is she's She's like someone that like I want to be with, and I don't know what I would do if I if I went away. You know, I work, I work on you know, away often, so um, you know, I'm I'm in Atlanta five months out of the year. I got a new show on Amazon coming out where I'm shooting in New York. Uh, five months out of

the year. So it's like, I would hate if I came back and she's brewed up with somebody else, you know what I'm saying. It would hit me different if like I've seen her on someone else's arm. So it's not like it was a territorial thing, like I just don't want no one else to have you. I had just realized that I want to have you, you know what I'm saying, So I want to At this time, I was direct and I said, you know, you know

I want to be with you. Let's be with each other, you know, and in different words, but that was the message. What about kids? You said, no marriage, But what about kids? We have a child together? You yeah, girl, I have a son. I have a son. So listen, do you think that it's good to keep things private and that's why your relationship lasts? Yeah? Yeah, And I think I think you chose the correct word. People often talk about like, you know, so why do you keep it a secret.

It's not saying it's like if it was a secret, I would have just lied to you right there. Um, But it's like, you know, it's I've found that you know, working in a public space. You know what I do for a living, and any ladies know, you know, well what we're doing right now. This is work right now, but this is going to be broadcasting to everyone, right So we work in this public space. And when you work in this public space, you know, you end up

having extracurriculars that are in the public space. And if you look at the whole spectrum, you know, like your your your life has lived out where people are watching you, you know what I mean. So I've I've I've understood for a long time and I've experienced this that having having a space that's private is very beneficial and really helps to be able to unplug, you know, for me, especially as you know, especially as a black man, you know,

to go into the world. The last thing that I want from being at war with the world every single day is to come home for around two you see them saying I like to have calm waters at home and uh, and I think I think being private helps that and uh, you know, I gotta my girlfriend understands that. Um. And so it's just it's just a great fit. You've had girlfriends in the past that didn't understand that, and they want to They want everything to be public. They'll

understand why we can't publicize everything. And you won't see my kids. You won't see my kids on my i G. Yeah, exactly, And you won't see my kid on my i G the same way you want to see like my parents and my I G. I just want to keep um. I've chosen to keep the my private life private and and everything else. Like we can we can talk and we can chat and I talked people for my i G. And it's like we can we can do all that over here in this space. You know. I feel that

and I respected. And that's what makes people come up with like all their own stories that they create. You know, I saw they were trying to say that you were gay, and I was like, well, really, I didn't see that. Yeah, I didn't see it, but it's like, you know, they they you know, I remember when I first I remember

I first started out. I was seeing it here and there UM for forward forwardever reason people were associating with UM, Like my first show, I came out on the Tyler Perry Show, and like, for for whatever reason, he gets a wrap like that. And I know, Tyler person, he's not gay, you know what I'm saying. But it's like, you know, being I was, you know, I was seeing around him and all of a sudden it was just rubbing off on me and people thought like I was

gay or something like that. And then I remember, Um, I had taken it. I don't know if I had taken a I don't know, I don't know what it was, but I done something. I was on the set of Peas Valley and uh, maybe I was a Clifford. I was like maybe. I think I was taking a picture of Alphands who plays a little murder and um, and

people started off with the gay thing again. I think, like I think, if you have a space like you were saying, Angel, if you have a space that people can't figure out, they may just tackle whatever they can. They can just create a judgment, you know what I mean. I will say Perry. My thing about Tyler Perry, I never think that he's gay. He just knows how to pick a fine man to cast in his shows, and if he don't pick the most nice looking guys, like an array of them, and I'd be like, where the

hell did he find them at? I want to hang out with Tyler. Perry's tact all of it. He got all of fine man. That's why people think that because he has a good eye for looks as well. I think maybe that's what I mean. And he plays media so well. People can't get over the fact that he's a woman so well. He does because I I think media coming back, that's just had to pause up for

a little bit and then show come out. Then you're gonna make a return, you know, as a Tyler, as a black man and as an actor playing the role of a woman. Is that's something that you wouldn't do? You know, because I've heard both sides like whatever the road calls for, and then I've heard people say I wouldn't do that. You know. It's interesting when you get into these questions as an Actor's another thing they won't teach you in an acting class. Having class is just

seen study. It's very like basic even though it's necessary. Um. This other side that we're touching on, right Now it's something that only comes with experience. It only comes with like making decisions. So when you get into this this uh this realm or you're booking stuff, you you get presented with these options, you know, do you wanna do you want to play? And the question is always do you want to play something that you aren't in real life? Right?

Some people have a problem with playing playing a woman. Some people have a problem with playing gay. Some people have a problem with playing a rapist or playing you know, an abuser or whatever it is, right, getting into these circumstances that aren't normally yours. So when you're doing that again, it's it goes back to like, what what is it that you want to do? You know? So for me, like, uh, you know, I love the roles that I've accepted, you know,

Benny Um, Diamond uh and my new show Ian. So from me, if I was ever going to you have to play it all the way. You see what I'm saying, what I don't like, what I don't like When what actors do is they'll sit here and they say, Okay, you know what, I'm gonna accept this role because the hell of a check and I'm gonna get famous, right, because you know val Vallegna blow up. Let's let's take Uncle Clifford, Let's take Little Murder or something like that. Right, Um,

let's go ahead and accept the role. We're gonna blow up, We're gonna get all the accolades and stuff like that, all these positive things. But then when you know, when the flip side of it comes and you have the trolls that come out of nowhere and people that are judging you and saying crazy stuff, you may not want that. So then when you're in the space of actually playing the role, you're holding back a little bit, actually going

all the way there. So now you're doing a disservice to the to the role and actually the whole universe, like you know, the p Valley universe, if you will, the whole storyline. Um so I do think whatever, if you're going to accept the role, you have to go all you have to go in like hats yeah, I have I give my hats off to uh he you know he's developed into my friend. Now his name is Alphons, who plays a Little Murder. You know my hat off on Yeah, because he's playing he's playing that role for

real and he's a straight man with the kid. He has a wife and a kid. You see what I'm saying. So he's doing that all the way. He's a he's a he's a veteran as an actor. He comes from he comes from the theater, right, so he's checking all the way in there, and he deserves all the accolades that comes to UM. So just your to do your question. You know, I'm I'm thankful for the roles that I've got. I don't UM. I don't see myself playing a woman, but that's um. Just like it's okay to to play

a woman, It's it's okay. It's also okay to choose not to. You know. The only thing is as as an actor, you just have to make sure that you truly understand what you're stepping into, and if you step into it, you have to give a percent and cannot You know. Will Smith talks about it often. In his first role, I forget what it was that he played

a gay role. I think so, and he talks about in hindsight he wishes he would have just did it all the way because in the moment he's worried about what his boys were gonna think, and all these outside circumstances, and he actually didn't do it. They had to cut around it to make it look real, and it kind of takes the performance down a little bit. You know what I'm saying, What about what about full frontsity? So

I again I would do it. It would So if I was gonna do full frontal, it has to be on something like a P Valley, You see what I'm saying, where it's done tastefully. You know, you'll you'll see it there and you'll see the girls get you know, fully there. There's full new to be on that show. But it's done. It's done to support the story. It's not done out

of nowhere. Look at it. Tell what if they tell you that we want you to be limp and then everybody's gonna be like, oh my god, this Penis is so small and you gotta ask him to be the shower grower first he might be he might be a shower. We need to do this Penis and I'm gonna shower. I'm good. So you got it, don't worries P Valley the middle person de Alley. So that's interesting too, because you know this was this was the first show that

um in this in this season. I was not new. Um, we were getting into Diamond storyline and we weren't there yet. You know, who knows, maybe second season when you go home and you see or he's coming out the shower or something like that, when you see him in his life, you know, you actually never seen Diamond outside of the club. You have not exact but you was about to get it in with Mississippi in there. You didn't have to get out of there right under those we'll go to

the breakroom. But I was said, we was ready to fight her after I don't I don't want to pull it just in case everybody didn't watch yet, but we was ready to jump her as a unit, like because you're like, girl, what are you doing right? How dare you? I think that, UM, don't give it real to wrap that up, because I wanted to touch it on, touch on the real quick. So this is my first time, she said, being a part of a show that had so much nudity. So I had seen the nudity writers

and the nudity clauses and stuff like that. So there are certain things that you can show on certain things you can't show. So I didn't know if you guys know this, if you ladies know this, but you're actually not allowed to show a fully erect penis. Said that, so you can't show it differ like that on TV TV. So yeah, it's like so on TV you're actually only gonna see limp vix. Yeah when there like when um, what's his name Corbyn when he was in the in the cloud and he was there naked and the cloud,

actually I heard it was a fake penis. Virgo told me that that wasn't even his real penis. But it wasn't hard. It wasn't look in his face. He's like, you wouldn't know, but it wasn't. But but but if you pay attention to when you watch it, it wasn't hard. He was just laying there and it was just laying there. So that I wonder why they would make that a role. That's so weird like way because that's yeah, and like same thing with you know, with the female anatomy, you're

not allowed to show the lips. You're not like there's certain you can show up, but not like you know what I'm saying, like, yeah, but you can't show like really in between the ladies can't wet Okay, you can't really you can't really get all of it like that. So there's certain rules. There's certain rules to the game. But to get into you know, Mississippi. Now, one thing that I can say about that because there was a lot of reaction on that last scene where she pulled

the gun on Diamond. Um. There was a lot of it. Um. So now real quick, before I get into it, what do you think, like, what were you what were you all so upset about? What do you think that the audience was still in that more because she was still defending him, you were defending her against him, and then she came in there defending him and boud, I don't you Like I get abuse and all that, I understand, trust me, I'm more I overstand. But like we wanted y'all to hook up, you know what I mean, And

we also wanted him to die. Guy you wanted with it asked or we wanted her to kill him. And then I think if he's a white boy too, like it didn't help. Sorry, So I think and Angela, did you see that? Did you see that thing? Yes? I did? Similar, Yeah, I mean, of course I think as a woman, and then we look at you like that's the you know, that's the guy, go to him, and then you put it and then you also put yourself in that position,

like what would you do? But then of course we never know what we would do in real life, but from watching it, and I always think it's from the outside and you're watching something. And that's what makes these characters more complex, because anybody could watch something and say, if that was me, this is what I would do. But the anti school, so let us know with tea. Okay, so here's my thing on it. So I have to

give again. I gotta just give a hat my hats off and a shout out to the Tory Hall because you know, as a writer, she's very specific and she's the one that really made this thing go, you know, getting got a hundred percent on Rotten Tomatoes. You know, she's the one that really drives this thing. So she's the one who wrote that scene, right. So it's so easy to give the audience what they want that, you know, and here comes down, here comes diamond the night and shining.

You're gonna save the day, you know, But if you look at you know, that would be just doing what the audience wants. That's not actually staying true to the story. Yeah, and like if you look at if you look at you know, the human condition. It's like if you if you look at unfortunately a lot of these people, you know, a lot of times it's it's females. But even then a lot of times these abused go back to the abuser like for whatever reason. It's crazy. It's like it's

like something you know, something psychic exactly. So for her to keep it real in that moment, even though everyone wanted the opposite, it's like, man, my hat's off to her as a storyteller, because I know lots of storytellers that would have just given the audience what they wanted to a couple for a couple of ratings. You see what I'm saying. Because then think of the reaction that you had it so much stronger, because yeah, because if y'all they just would have been like, oh yeah, we

wouldn't be talking about that right now. Probably would have just been another love scene. But like you said about all of us, how many times we've defended our man that was cheating us, like from everybody else. And the more people go ask somebody, the more defensive you become of that person. Even when they don't. But being from the outside, if I was Mississippi, we would have shot that white man buried him and then when they had sex and sun like, let's go. I'm here, definitely need

to be on there. What you don't know about me is I created the Last Dance ten years ago at Magic City. I retired and we named my retirement party the Last Dance Magic and and it and it became a thing. So after that, every time a dancer um left the club, she had a last dance. Yeah, Bibergo and Simone was the trinity. You see how you guys

had the trinity. So in Magic City we were called the snack Tack and we were their very first feature performance crew, Like we started that whole feature performance group performance thing in strip clubs. And again, uh Contori even said, and one of her press junkets that you know she created that night at the club to kind of mimic

that Sunday night that Uh Mercedes had. She created that the kind of mimic times at Magic City where and she actually said, my name, Gigi McGuire would pack out the club right now that I learned something from you that I remember my first time going to Magic City and I walked in and Gig was in there where and she just jumped off whatever she was doing and came to get me on and I was at my friends and I was like, I was like, this is

my first time in Magic City. And then I walked into DJ was like angels there and then runs over there like girl, you shut this your first lives there right Still, we gotta have you ever thought about you ever thought about coming coming onto the set? I would love to. Yeah, on season two see til we're gonna film. We're gonna film it this summer, so hopefully, you know, the pandemic should be uh, if not all the way gone, like you know, much more subsided to like it's pandemic

in Atlanta. We're open that should don't skip the Atlanta. But listen, this is really Funantila. We do appreciate you. You were really amazing. I didn't know what to expect when we did this interview, but we actually had a really great time with you. So we appreciate you being so. I knew he was fun because he was break dancing at Karen Civils. We have we have fun though, we have fun, so much fun. Care and so it was the birthday party. It was a great Yes, so so much.

I've been support to you and we can't wait for the next season. We can't wait for the Amazon what's this series coming on Amazon Prime? So it's called it's called Harlem, and it's brought to you. Tracy Oliver is creating it and making goods on it. Uh, great, great, great viruses on it, and um, you know a few other phenomenal ladies and myself and uh, we're so we're gonna resume production, um in three weeks. So we were doing it, but we've been we've been on hiatus with

the pandemic for like nine months now. Yeah, so we just figured out a way to get back on there. So we're gonna we're gonna resume. You are living a life. It's always a bunch of phenomenal women in yourself, you know life. But man, before before we before we bounced, real quick, I just wanted to say, you know, I've been, uh, you know, I've been I've been following you for a

long time. Um, you know, and I had had a chance to, um, you know, obviously, get get on get on with you here and um and and I'm sorry real quick it's we've been we've been friends since Karen's party, but I didn't want to butcher your name. Yeah, I think everybody messes up my name. It's just you know, it's it's been extended to Loria and also Gi and you know, to have you ladies. You know what I'm saying, uh, you know, repping the way you are and continuing to

follow your dreams. It's a man, it's inspiring. So again, keep keep doing what you're doing because I'm a fan of all three of you, and thank you for opening up your platform to allow me to come and just you know what I'm saying, talk to my ship and just just be with y'all for this morning. Well, I guess after over there, love ya, we love you, and thank you for waking up early. Yeah, we love you something.

Thank you, thank you. I hope you doing a person, So absolutely we'll bring some blue moon with the oranges. With the oranges, I got you