Chopping It Up with Tiffany Haddish

the end. We leave it with just a lift. You spirits think you want to revisit, tell your first take a list of your folks. Say it's lif all folks that we take it. No do what you don't, No fish do what you do? Can't, No fish do what I do? No fish? What's up? Y'all? Welcome to laugh and learned with Flame Monroe, Laurie Hogi, that's Lauren and Nick Smith. We're gonna bring him on a minute. Our very special guests will be here in a minute. She's

running a little late. She's bucked and busy. She's very booked and she's very busy, but she's very here. Long. I can't see you slide over. I am today. I took a bath, but we do have a fabulous cameraman Kendle here and I wonderful producer Triple and we got you Flame's coming on the end. We're gonna give you all the show. We're gonna talk about some things and you've been in the world. Wait a minutelet me give you all this. Y'all see my circus tent. Look at

the circus tent. Look at the heels are alive with the sound of music. No, we're gonna have a great time today. How have you been. How was your week traveling? Honey? Yeah, last week was rough. It was very, very busy work wise, and then I went to Atlanta on Thursday and I got back yesterday morning and found out for my other job, I'm gonna be on a plane at least once a month until December. So it's gonna be nice and fun. You know, traveling is not the same traveling. It can

be a little horrendous right now, everybody's on edge. Some people want to be disgrunted. You do know that with traveling, the restrictions are you must wear your mask on the planes. That is one of the biggest issues that people are having on the plane. Because I was just traveling to to Chicago and people just do not want to see with that mask on for three or four hours, but they'll pull it like halfway down. So the and the flighter tendants are like, can you please put your mask

over your nose, in your mouth. I'm gonna need the flat the flight of tendants to get more personal with that. Stop staying it publicly and just go to that person. Dude, do you want to get kicked off this plane because we could just let you off for a thirty feet That's what I had on my plane. It was a real white lady. She was like, sir, you need to lift up your mask. She was she was on it. She was a little aggressive, but you know she you

have to be with these people because that's where we're at. Um. Today's show is going to be very inspiring for me more so than anybody else, because this was the lady who's coming on, who gave me a break, who saw me and said, you know what, come on, I got something for you. So she didn't let me stand in hers and she didn't let me stand in her shadow.

She let me stand in Harshan and it worked. Bring Nick on Lawrence, so we can bring on other co host Nick Smith news Oh oh oh you flame mess, you'll get it, questions together and type of big because you know I can't see oh man t but I look good, smells. I did a drag show last night. Thank you guys for coming to on cash app and tipping and watching the show on Instagram and all that. Hi Nick, Hello, everybody. How are you doing? Lauren? I'm good.

How are you doing? All right? You're the one who's been on the road, so we you know, we keep you in prayer and in in thought anytime you're traveling like that. Thank you, Please do yes. Because I was telling the Flame Loki this man got into a flight attending yesterday. It was a lot, literally and I was sitting by the door too, and you know they already had the situation where somebody tried to open up the door in the middle of the flight. I did go to sleep,

but still, you know, it was a lot. It was a lot going on. So but I appreciate the prayer. Thank you. You seem a little low. Your your volume seems a little low. How was your a week? My volume sees because you just shine so bright. Flame, that's what it is. Somebody that that part we know but I'm just asking about your the sound of your bed. You know, I'm a beach. I know that. Feel like I don't need validation from you at all. I got this thing. You just okay, let me a justice volume.

But bit ask triple how that sounds? Now? How am I now trouble you? Sound good? Alright? Alright, sounds good. A little late, she'll be here about ten minutes. The world has opened up, and you know we're in Long Beach and the traffic is back to California traffic. Absolutely. Can we talk about a rather spectacular show yesterday? What the sho uh? From the shot? Yes, from the shot,

So that's that's close. But I'm looking at all the comments from the flame mats, it looks like I was not the only one to tune into someone really bringing down the house old school style. Talk to us about that, Well, I got to be old school song so like, and we're gonna say old school, I worked at it. Let me check something. Two cans and and in Palm Springs is a bar that caters to uh. Seasoned White gave me, in season White gave me and love Diana Rolls, Donna Summer,

and Tina Turner. I e seasoned black gave me and that du Dreg loves Diana Rowles do too. I did give y'all some babies that shot town. Baby. You know I'm always representing my city. It was great. Thank you guys for tuning in. I had a really good time. So Nick, how was your week? What's been going on with traveling a little bit too, Lauren, you know it's been um, It's been a good week. Nothing over the top.

I've been kind of preparing this week because I'm gonna go to drop in and see my mom this weekend. But block block them. Sorry, enjoy popped up. Sorry, somebody says something nasty, bitch, go jump off a bridge without water up under the bottom because my thought that your mama's busted in your daddy, or your daddy busted in your mama. He should have busted any other lady. Then you wouldn't be here. Trollers are moving. I have no issues with black controls. I'm real grown. Kiss my dick

in the face. I don't care how you feel, nigger. This may be a good time to remind flame Matts and those who may be joining us for the first time that if you want to sound out, we encourage you to do so, but we do ask that you be respectful and that you type in capital letters so that Flame can read it at the bottom, and Lauren and I will continue to monitor. But if you go sideways, Flame has no problem called straightening you up, babe. If you come at me sideways, I will straighten you up

something that you didn't get in your DNA. But guess what Mother is here to deliver nine times out of time might see it before Flame, So you know these these as a no good I can't see. I'm like Stevie wonder, I ain't never made a mistake what this was that? But I can hear it, I can smell it. I think Stevie can smell it. Probably, I think you know Stephanie Mills. Stephanie Mills was on Breakfast Club this morning.

She said she was dynamic and she was saying to Stevie she believes Stevie can see step Stephanie Mills said, a whole lot of ships. So let me just start right, you know what to Flame before we go in too far. I do want to give a shout out to our photographer Kendall. Why because Kendall and I communicated over the weekend, he was working on editing the show. So if you all have not had a chance to see last week's show with Tashak our special guest, I encourage you to

do so on Flames Page, Lawrence Page or mine. Boy Kendall did is he did a little bit of editing, and he gave me a Chicago skyline. So he's like, Nick, I like the green screen behind you. Keep that going because that helps me get more creative. And we knew that mother Voucher would approve. Well, maybe if you would have given you a California skyline, you'd be here. You know how about right? Thank you those great Let me tell you something. Kinder Love's coming too the house because

guess what Kendall can do. This skinny food can eat. I don't know how he stayed one pound and no ounces because I look at food and just be like, Kiki way just pregnant if you just look at but she could say, so, I have one. I have one other shout out I want to give out you guys. This weekend, as you know, was June tenth, So this weekend I went to the memorial for Little Rock Central High School. What is that? Little Rock Central High School

was the site of the first place for integration. Well, I one, I just did that tour because I wanted to do something in recognition of our history and where we've come. So I went to the statue which is across town near the state capitol here in Little Rock, Arkansas, and I met Miss Elizabeth Eckfort MS. Elizabeth Effort was the first She's part of the group to uh integrate and uh it was amazing running into this woman who was living history, you know, and she could not have

been more gracious. I introduced myself, told her how how inspiring her story was and the courage it must have taken, and just recognize him once again, the power of strong black women. So I'll keep going until you want us to go ahead and get settled there. Keep on. So

it was just amazing, Elizabeth Effort. I posted a picture of the two of us on my Instagram page because the picture of where she was being yelled at by a crowd of um white citizens and spat at brick strown at the courage and strength it not only took her, but the other eight who were all part of the Little Rock Nine, was just absolutely amazing. So if you all have not had a chance to either hear the

story or learn the story. I would encourage you to, uh just look up miss Elizabeth Effort and the other members of the Little Rock Nine. So it's just it was amazing to see her and see her story. I saw your photos, Nick, they looked really lovely. I didn't even know that they actually had that statue there. So that's really impressive and amazing that they erected that for people to see and have that moment in history. Hill. Look who's here, everybody? Our special guest just arrived. It

looks like, thank you, thank you. There you go, welcome, welcome to I'm good. How are you to drink? Thank you? Thank you, thank you, very special guests in the house. Not only is she my friend, but I am a fan. I am humbled and honored that she saw me. And I mean just what I said, that she saw me and allowed me to stand not in her shadow but in her shine. Lady, Please welcome to the stage or to the show. Our girlfriend, my baby, the executive producer

of this show. She also our boss. We ready, We'll be ready, were ready for this one hour? That for why do white Netflix? One hour and left the road it's good to see. The driver was okay, did you charge your car? You said, got of charging more? Yeah, I thought it like I didn't. I didn't need to charge it up though it was already charged. I'm just goodn't say I'm plugging it up. Oh you feel so good. Thank you. I've been putting moisturized what's his name, moisturized shake,

but very pleased to have you here. Thank you for this show, this platform and coming on and push this with us, so we appreciate it to talk. I love you more, and I know you love me. That's that's what's real. I do know that you actually love me. Everybody's gonna say that because you know I could be a bit me too. I have a head name. I haven't had the experience, okay, just like a show. I don't have the experience of your bitchy side as of yet.

You haven't experienced it yet and somebody else. But see, I'm a smart bitch. When you when you go into that tippany, guess what I do. Back the funk up. Like I'm leaving, I just come back later. I'm about my business. Very that's and that's what people need to know. What Tippany has that because to me, greatness is getting to a platform and the world sees you as great.

What makes you great is that you take so many other people with you along the journey to help other people, because we put on earth to love God and help other people. That's what I believe, and you have helped a lot of us. Well, you know, I'm just doing for others what I wish they would have done for me. You know, treat people the way you want to be treated. And you know that. Somebody the other day was telling me, Tippy, you know you're a gatekeeper. You know you're a gatekeeper.

I say no, no, no no, no, no, no no, I'm not a gatekeeper. I'm a gate remover. I'm over there trying to take the gate off the henges Maid Dawn and we can just walk on across and it's like, come on, everybody, if you're ready, let's go, like go through. It's no excuse to be like, oh, I can't do this. They're not letting me know. You you can create it, you can make it happen. And I knocked the gate down,

So let's go. So the new project that you have right now, first of all, let's talk about the kids, says Donna's Things is probably one of my favorite show because I love that you get down with those kids. You don't make them be grown, You go right with those kids. Are yeah, yeah, that is the real talent. Where where did you actually because you have no children? Right right? Right? But how can you relate to these kids so well? Because these kids love you too well.

I feel like I'm a big kid at heart, right, let's be honest. And and I missed being a kid. But and and I just talked to them the way that I wish adults would have talked to me back then, you know. And I treat them like they are people. They are they are little people, and you know, listening

to them, I think it's super important. A lot of times the producers are in my ear and they're like asking this, asking this, asking that, change something to go to this, and I'm like, no, I'm listening to this child. I'm having a conversation with him, and they see me seeing them, and and that's that. And that's where the magic happens. Is when people feel like they are being recognized, especially children, when they are being heard, then magic happens.

I mean, it's number one on prime time right now. So I'm doing something right, you know what I'm thinking it a part of the it is now that you move to a different network, you change clothes, you change hair, You give them so many different flavors and so many different options, and people love options, and you get those kids options. That is dope. Well, that's for the people at home. That the looks, it's for the people at home. You know. I'm trying to check it to the new levels.

The goal is to be on the cover of every Vogue magazine all around the world for fashion. Because I haven't seen any comedians to do that yet. I was thinking about really dressing up, dressing up, and I thought, it's too hot today. Where my beautiful son dressed Yeah yeah, which kicked off this Friday, your new talk show on TVs, right yeah. And you have Snoop on that. I love you. Snoop got some piece I got you who I will

give it to you now. But girl, you might say something, man, I might say something Landage without this rock this um And you had Dion Cole on that, who's from Chicago like me, who's been coming in comedy longer than me. But it's a good friend of Man. How is in this show? How do you like it? Um? I like it a lot. It's super fun. Um, we get really great guests. We have some really cool ones coming up

in the next episode next Friday. And what I love the most about it is it's another place where you haven't seen me yet, but you will see where I get to give more people opportunity to shine new talent. It's like get them a chance to be on and so I'm super excited about that part that's coming. That's our partner there, Nick Smith, Nick saying hello, Tiffany. You know the deal is Tiffany, like Flame just said, just want to give you your flowers right here right now

because of all the different projects that you're doing. But one of the questions that I have for you, Tiffany is going back to kids, say the darned this thing. How did you make that your own? How did you decide that, you know what, I'm going to make this the way that I want to do it and not

listen to everybody else in my head? Well, um, first of all, but it's a team effort, right, So the producers that I'm working with, Eric shots and belling me the way the way that we are communicate is super duper important, right, And we wanted this show to be original, to be of my voice. I was very specific about, like, if we do this, I'm not doing it like all these men did it because I'm not a man. Okay, I'm a woman and I and I think, in my now, in my heart, i think I'm a gay man in

a black woman's body. But that's a whole another situation, a whole another day. Okay, a whole another time. But but um, I definitely wanted it to be like something I would want to watch, Like, can we make a show that I would want to watch? Can we make something that when I'm sitting at home, I'm like, oh yeah, let me leave this one. This makes me smile, And I feel like if it makes me smile, it makes me feel good, then it'll make at least another five

thousand people feel that way. And for every one of those five thousands, they'll tell ten and that'll be you know, next to you know, you got fifty thousand, three million, three million people are watching, you know, so that's huge. When do you sleep? Um, when I'm not talking, I got a testa for a reason. They drive itself. Well, speaking of black Girl magic, because I'm gonna switch to this. Um.

We're seeing so many things around the Olympics. You know, Shikari richards Oh my goodness, she's just such an amazing job. Simone Biles is going to Tokyo. I saw someone man well for a swimming. You gotta talk about Shakari Richardson and then your new project, Flow Jo because they're comparing her to Flow Joe and you have that coming up. So how is that project going? How did you prepare for it? Are you excited? Okay? So we are currently

preparing for it. I don't know if you noticed. I lost about forty pounds and and losing more and lifting weights and getting my body shredded down to be Flow Joe. I'm learning everything there is to learn about her, spending time her husband is training me and teaching me and sharing footage with me. And when as I'm watching Chicari,

I'm just so super proud. I'm so proud of her because I know how difficult where she coming from and where she's going and how hard that path is, and how everyone doubts you, and and and the devil be busy. He never the devil never takes vacation. Okay, the devil stay on trying to mess you up, and she is not allowing nothing to sway her. And I feel like,

I mean, she's so young too, she's um. I feel like by the time she's she's gonna most likely if she stays consistent and focuses, she will most likely break that record. And I will be excited for her, very proud of her. And what is it like, what is it like working with Al Joyner? You're working with Al Joiner? He literally worked with the fastest woman ever. What is that like? What? What? What is that spiritual moment? Like? Well, it is It's huge because Al reminds me of like

the big brother. I always wanted the uncle, the person that you always wanted in your life to be like motivating and pushing, and his guidance and advice is so on point, and he he can see you like he see me, like he passed all of jokes passed out of you know, the fame and all that. He sees Tiffany the little girl who just wants to do her best right, and he knows how to make that go. Like He's really been very instrumental in my last like

two years on this planet. He's really been very I'm so glad I reached out to him on Instagram and he believed it was me because I was not gonna stop bothering him because I saw a video of him saying how he was able to you know, he was rehabbing this his um, his uh, his athletes and who had injuries. And I had tore my meniscuits while shooting my special and I'm like, I need help, and they wanted to do surgery and I was not about that surgery life. I'm not about it. I'm afraid of being

put to sleep. And so he helped me, and I'm able to run, fast, jump high, and all kinds of things. Now, now, wait a minute, now, I don't be afraid of being put asleep. If it's the right kind of put to sleep, if it's some if it's something that's putting me to sleep, I'm with you. In fact, I'm Now we're drinking a little red wine, a little romance thing, and then oh, this is this is one of the reasons why you

appeal to so many different audiences. This Tiffany is funny, can turn it on the you know, kids say the darknest things is the one I can sit there with my grandmother and and and and children and watching. It's just there are so many different facets to you. Do you continue to feel inspired to introduce the audiences to something new or you just like, hey, just go on this journey with me and let me let's figure it

out together. Well, I think that let's go on this journey with me and let's figure it out together is the best way to go about it. I mean, I'm an onion. There's many many layers to me, and I might I might be delicious, I might be a little bitter,

I might be hilarious. I might make you cry. Like it's it's so many different layers to me, and I'm I'm no different than any other human being, right, And I love a good adventure on a journey where you know, I kind of like that, I don't know what I'm gonna get, but let's go, let's see where we go, let's see where we end up. It's the wizard of us, you know, you know, And um, I love to bring my friends along with me to it really lift the journey up and make it more exciting. And and that's

what we do. I mean, that's what I'll do. I'm I'm open to sharing. There are three lessons that I learned from you while we were touring on with the First Day Ready tour. Um one was never let anybody pay me less than you pay me. Number two was Tiffany would go on stage for all the haters and people would say, oh, she's not funny, she not this. Tiffany would go on the stage after selling out eight

thousand seat arena. Our names were not on the bill, not mine, not Shontage's, not trade, She's not Marlowe's, not Iteas or April's. Our name was not on the bill. It said Tiffany had it sold out. We were just the asterisks, and she sold the place else. And so when she would come out, she said, just in case you, I wasn't funny for y'all the bitches that I brought more funny, So you still got your money's work. Even though Timmy would go out and do that hour and wreck.

But it made me know that I was. You were so comfortable with you that no matter what a hater said or anybody else said, Babe, this is my job. I'm doing my job and I'm good at and y'all still coming. They kept coming. The meeting green Lands was as long as the eight thousands seat theaters, So meet and Greek would last for about three hours. Real taker, because I talked to every single person and talked to If you try to talk to me, I'm gonna talk to you. You know. I treat every single person the

way I would want somebody to treat me. Now, if you treat me shitty, I'm gonna treat you what you get you get with you here. Tip told me never changed who I was to meet somebody else's demands, And I think I had that in my head, but until somebody else says it to you, then you don't know that. That's what's the reassurance. When you told me that, I was like, charl I could do anything. Come on with what y'all guy, let's do it. It was. It was great until I appreciate you. Not even to kiss your

ass right now. Cameras it all the time anyway, But get that comments. You know, he from the Chicago, from the South Side. I don't want to roll up. What's the thing you taught me to tell him? That he do that? He makes me feel the food, the food fops that Chicago about the food pops. I'm not my mother watches the show. Your mama got the food pops

to have your ass. I understand. So, Timmy, I know what's near to do to you, because everybody thinks that you're comical and that you're always doing this and doing that. But Tiffany is on Tippy was on the ground in Atlanta during the whole flipping Atlanta Flipping Georgia blue out. She was on the ground. How was that? How was that? Wait? Wait wait wait, I wasn't in You didn't. Oh, I thought you for because I saw you doing some fund raises in l A, l A Common Common you know,

we like him gonna do the footwek. I was over here supporting holding down the household, you know a little bit, and talking about l A, holding down l A and talking about building generational wealth exactly exactly, sharing the information,

sharing knowledge, doing that and doing it that way. I didn't go out there now, but you were entriguing part of the Black Lives Matter, Black Lives Matter movement here because I saw you on the microphone out there when they were Yeah, but I wasn't talking necessarily about black lives matter. I was talking about how important it is for us as a people to pound together, to stick together, and how much s up it is that the police are constantly, I feel like, trying to take us out.

Not all the police, but there are someones that's trying to take us out. And I just wasn't feeling that, and I was expressing my emotions and my feelings about the situation and how I've watched people being killed and it's like, it's horrible, and I don't I just don't support the destruction of a race of people. And yeah,

that's that's what I was talking to. You agree that with with Police Reformed, that you can't grow up a little billy in this Caucasian community where he has never been introduced to black and brown people, and then you put them in our situation and we talk regressive, We talked about hid. Now, we're not gonna be violent towards you. We talked violent. We do we so if you learnt familiar with who we are, you instantly go for your guns. Yeah,

because they're scared, and it's and that it's true. They there needs to be like, oh, if you're gonna be a police officer in this community. Then they need to live in that community exactly. They need to live over there, you know, like, don't live forty miles away and then you drive into work and like all that. Like, no, they need to live in the community that they're patrolling, because then they'll have a better understanding of what how

the people are. I think another project that's near and that you always talk about this and is maybe more than the ones that we're gonna get to. But I know you love you talk about the foster care system. That is majorly important to you because I might for you to say because that's where I come from, because I was a part of the foster care system. I was definitely a youth in that system, and that was

a very difficult time. I think the most I don't care how I really feel like the hardest time of your existence as a human being is like your child, your adolescent years, like being a child, being a teenager, because you don't have a whole lot of say so over how you live, where you live. You're depending on these other people to nurture you and take care of you. And it's very um, it's unpredictable, and it's very scared

because you have no control. Once you're an adult, at least you got the power to say no, yes and make the choices. And when you're a child, you really don't have. You You're hoping someone cares enough to make the right decisions for you, to guide you in the right way, and then you have the choice to agree with it or not. But no times out of tend like when you're in the system, they take you at the aluge. You can't say no, I want to stay with my mama, who mentally ill, even though she beat me.

This is where this is what I know, right, you don't have that choice. They just move you. And then you're like moving into a place where maybe somebody's doing some inappropriate things to you, but you don't even know if that's inappropriate or not. You think they're trying to help you, and the really molesting you don't know. It's so many things that, um, you just don't know. And as an adult, um, life is difficult. I've had some difficult moments as an adult, but never as unpredictable and

as difficult as when I was a child. And I think that the children really need a very strong foundation and support system. And like they say it takes a village, It really really does. And um, just being that one member in the village who's willing to pay attention and listen, I'm willing to do that. You know. I talked to kids all the time. I'm always talking to whether they're in falsecure system or not, if they're trying to talk to me, I'm talking to them because it is so important.

There are future. You know. There's a song by Whitney Houston called I Believe Children Are the Future, and that song is one of my favorite songs in the hawai world. And I sometimes I get in a lot of times I get in the mirror and I just speak those words, you know, I believe that children are the future. You teach them well and let them lead the way, show them all the beauty they possessed and signs, give them a sense of pride, and let the children's laughter remind

us how we used to be. I used to be skinny. Count The children will remind you of that too. We'll tell you you got got fat. Don't take you speaking because you're saying, because you're saying in the movie with Billy Crystal, Yes, what's the name of that movie? Here today? Yeah, you came to the rap party. What I love about Tim. When Tim introduces me to people, she don't say, oh,

this is a comedian. Flame. Tim holds me by my hand and leads me to meet these big celebrities like this my beach right here, This like talented, beautiful Flame Monroe, who would like to meet you? Flame is very talented. And then frames and then it's a whole conversation and I could just slowly fade away. Told you the person you introduced her to that mattered the most that she was most in all of Yeah, yeah, and she crying

and everything. I was prying and everything. We were on the set of Good Times, And I wanted to meet Norman Lear because the whole Beverley the Sale story with Beverley the salary, you don't know play the character on All the Family. She was a drag queen. She was the first person who I saw that I could identify at nine years old. That made me know that I wasn't crazy. So when I wanted to meet normally, Tippy had left. She was already in her car about to

pull I wasn't I was in my trailer. Well, they said you were in the car, so I thought that you were just sitting in your car wait for them to take you out because so many people there. So, Dion, who's your makeup artist? I said, Frame, what's your way? You know? I said, I'm waiting. She said, Tiffany Gone, said I'm waiting to meet Norman Lear. She said you wanted me normally? I said yeah. Dion called somebody else who called Tiffany. Tiffany got out, came out, the trailer,

came back and Mitch, who you want me? Grabbed me by my hand like her kid, and walked me through everybody to meet. And I was an emotional sissy, cry baby rap because it was a full circle moment that

that was probably one of the most joyous moments. And of course that check from Netflix from you that I do want to backtrack though to what you were saying about kids, because I recently saw this story or a video about this little boy named Tyler whose family literally put him on social media for being gay, and you know, they shaved his head and his head in his head,

they were literally hitting him on camera. So just in situations like that, like what do you what do you do for those kids you know that are in and these are their actual family members, you know, like what do you? What do you do? But I think first though, that he needs to be removed from that home. He needs to be away from those those children. And that's that's that's a child that needs to be nurtured, listening

to talk to and shown the way. Right Like, so already there's probably a whole bunch of damage that's me and done. And that's what I'm talking about as a child. He can't he can't just leave there, right. It's and it's probably what he's been experiencing his whole life. And they're probably calling him gay and probably doing gay things

to him. They're probably the ones that's actually you know, they're probably who know, like you'd be so surprised how somebody not really that surprised, but somebody will try to put something on you when it's really them that's suffering with the issue. This them that's feeling guilty about what they've been doing to you, and then they think it's funny or whatever. They're taking their pain out on you because somebody has done it to them. Like it's a mess.

But that baby needs to be taken up out of there. He need to be placed in a in a home where you don't necessarily need to be, like a gay home or a mom and dad home or whatever. Just God need to put that baby where he's supposed to be, and that's not with them, But that needed to be seen so people understand that this is going on all the damn time. This is happening in a lot of households. There's a lot of big brothers that's been torturing their little brother or sister. It's it's a lot of that

going on. I mean, let me be honest, I might not have been the best big sister all the time. I was definitely scaring my brother and sisters, making them things zombies were real. I definitely just doing that, and I might I might have put my little brother in the trunk one time, and I might have I might have taught my my little cousin up to offense and hosts or damn what called walking holes because she's going

in my diary. But that that's neither here that I apologize for my actions, and I was wrong for doing what I did, but I was I was young, and I did not know how to get them to not keep messing me up. So anyway, I think all of your childhood tragedies attributed to why you are so wonderful with those kids on um. Yes, he said, because that. I've seen other hosts on there, and some of them are pretty good, but not as good as you, because you meet the those kids were there, but I meet

everybody where they're at. If I can meet him there, I meet him there. Unlet's say in a super love Girl, You're gonna see something I had, and I love you and I love you, but I've seen a lot of things, Tiffic. I want to talk to you more about about the bio pick Um and your collaboration with like Greg Ekonomu, and you too as a producer. You're wearing this producer had. How do you all decide on the structure of the movie, the direction that will go, and what can we expect? Well, Um,

you can expect a beautiful love story. Okay, I want to show how you know, Florence was doing real good before she met al Right, she was doing good, right, and with Bob Kersey and all that, she was doing good. But once her and al came together, both of them

were unstoppable. And I want to show how in in sports, but in any aspect in life when when a couple comes together and truly so poured each other and truly love and and hold each other up, how dynamic they both can be right, and how you can break world records and you can you can really inspire a whole generation, a whole community of people, and become a legendary hero like and not even just a hero, but I mean just what she did was phenomenal and she set up

so many of us for the future when it comes to she made sports for women a beautiful thing. She made it because, let's be honest, women in sports before him was like, oh if that's a man, Oh she ugly, you gotta be Yeah, she's a little rushed rough around the edges. You know. She made it beautiful. She came out there with her hair done, makeup done, nails for the gods. Okay. She she designed her own uniforms, her

constoms like the one leg. Yeah, and then every that was a huge controversy, but everybody else are hearing booty shorts with the whole booty singing out it. She got her whole lead covered in that. Oh she's taking such risk, it's risk a risk, a really, she's covered she is absolutely covered. At one point problem I read that you called her your shiro. She is my shiro. She is

definitely my shiro. She showed me for me anyways that you can be creative, You can be in your bag and still be the best at what you do, and don't worry about what everybody else is saying. Don't worry about what everybody is thinking. How do you feel about you? And go for it. And that man helped her do that, he lifted her, he allowed her to be her like.

He didn't try to tell down like, oh man, I don't think you should be doing like and cut your nails down with no. If that's what you feel good in, do it, baby, do what makes you feel right. And I just want to show especially black people like you don't see that all the time. You don't see us

really supporting each other the way that we should. You wonder why these men, these fortune companies is killing it because they got some woman behind him that's lift them up, and he's lifting her up like they're lifting each other. They're supporting each other. And we need to be seeing more of that. We need to see more black love and not just like oh sexy, no, we need to

see support. Support is love. I think she allowed. She gave her story and her journey and how she was so confident when it gave the new girl Shikari confident to be who I am. I want to have long blond hair. I want to have nails because you're a woman, and oh she's she's ghetto. That's not ghetto. This is how we fashion. If we take me away from me and you can go all the way back to Africa, Honey, a hundred years ago, even a hundred and fifty, whenever

they were taking pictures it was black. When when long nails in Africa and all this head dresses on and everything like, that's in our blood, Honey, to be eccentric and unique and out there, and it's it's queen that her shine, that her queen. This is how you was acting when you was a legendary. Look. I know I made a lot of people mad with that legendary, but I don't give a damn. I wasn't if I wasn't entertained, I wasn't entertained, and I need you didn't make me bad.

I was hilarious. I was getting a whole lot of messages that people were very angry. Why would you chop them? I'm like, just because one person did poorly and the other person did excellently and they're on the same team, I'm not about to just let that slide. That's how I felt. Anyways, everybody needs to be bringing a hunt of their tin. Yeah, we gonna bring me in Nicholas

in a second. But I know what Tiffany wants to talk about because she blew me out the water last week when we talked about it, because I didn't know because I'm not biologically a woman. Can you believe it? But in the South, young women of color are being arrested and put in jail for abortions, and and these are very unwanted pregn Some of my unwanted pregnancy someone some of my accidents, some of them were not playing.

But this is very near and dear to Tippany is hard, So we want her to talk about it because I'm telling you, I was so unfamiliar with what was going on down there until tip brought it to my attention. I was like, Oh, you have to come and talk about that, because people only think Tiffany is this this actress and comedian and go get her and she's a black woman, and black women are very empowered in this

country right now, especially what she just said. If you get a strong man on your side that believes in you and not just a man, just a partner, a partner, you could be another woman, it could be whatever, it could be a he she wek it don't matter where you're support and you got together, I would lift you up, just as I hope you would lift me up and support me. Whatever you decided you wanted to do, I would.

I would be right there. We got the hell you got me on that problem in the room with titties and a paenis must be me? But till I know how that is to you? So what? And they are these girls, some of these girls as the youngest fifteen and sixteen years old. Yeah, well here's my thing. So like, um, so, there's these laws that have been passed in certain states down south where there where it's illegal to have an abortion.

You can go to jail right if you have an abortion, which okay, cool, But if you're gonna inflict that and say, oh, you have to have this baby and you're determining, you're saying what somebody can do with their body right in what they can and can't have, Well, then what's this thing with You know, insurance is covering sex changes for people that are fourteen, fifteen, sixteen years out. Thirteen is youngest thirteen. So you can cut your penis off if you want to and turn that into the vagina and

that will stop production of people. But if if a woman is raped or molested or whatever, she has to have this baby, you're demanding that she has this baby. But if somebody that's very young besides I'm I'm a I'm a woman, and I want you all to cut to give me titties and and put my penis inside of me, and I want to vagina. The insurance is gonna pay for that. We pay the taxpayers. Is playing for that's not that's not They're giving them away and

that's not okay. I feel like if that person can decide that they don't want their penis anymore, then somebody should be able to decide if they don't want to have a child. Yeah. I think that's a good thing to bring up because it's really about almost like policing women's bodies. And it's not just black women too. Like I said, it's all women, especially in Texas, they have this new law that the governor just signed that if after four weeks it's considered murder and it's illegal, you

can get arrested. I also saw a young woman who gave her class valedictorian speech and totally shifted it and made it about this abortion right skill what you know. Hats off to her, But to your point, though, it's absolutely ridiculous that so you're forcing me to have this baby, you're gonna help me raise the baby? What you have?

The financial means, there's mental health's part of them. Are you gonna help me actually bring this child into life and raise it in a positive environment or no, they're not gonna help you do that. And then they said, well you can just give the baby up for adoption or drop it off at the police, at the fire station or whatever. Okay, man, that's another person that that's that needs to find a home, that's gonna be potentially homeless, that's gonna be whatever. And you know what I am

all for. We need more humans. Yes, we need more productive humans. We I'm for life, but I'm also for the right to protect your body, the right to make decisions for your flesh for your life, and if somebody's already violated that, Like, I don't know about any of y'all, but I've been righted before. I know what that feels like. I know what it feels like to have some something taken from you and then that that's like that rape last for a whole lifetime, and it doesn't if you

have an abortion, it doesn't go away. Like you're you're always gonna feel that and you're always gonna suffer with that, right, that's not something that ever goes away. And now you're you're gonna make me raise this child, and I've been My mama didn't like me if she would say, really meeting things, you look like you're ugly as dad, you ain't never gonna be shipped like like, I just don't

think that should be put on a child, Okay. And then if they are giving up for adoption and it's twenty years later, they want to find their mom and they find them and they go, why did you give me up? Well, I was forced to have you. The law made me have you, and I just couldn't stand looking at you because the reason I was even pregnant with you was because I was right now. Now they know that they are product of right, how does that make them feel like it's just a whole realm? Like

either way, you don't win. Not there's no winning. But I just think like, if you're gonna say, if you're gonna demand that a woman, you're gonna implement this a lot of a woman can't change her body or decide what happens with her body, then I don't think you should be allowing people to cut their bigs off. Well, you ain't got to worry about me doing that. I don't know what y'all along with that one, but they

got build the Bear and the impossible Burger. But until you can come up with pick a pussy, I'm gonna keep what I got because if I can't pick the one I want, I don't want Megan's. I don't want Beyonce's. I don't want Kim Kardashian's. I want y'all do want to make it. I want Megan Marco the sparklecause she made that white boy change. Dna't want your prints, you don't even want to be white. I want what she got.

I'm just saying I think that should be a choice that is made when you're grown twenty one plus, twenty plus, And I don't think that taxpayers should be paying for that. I think that should something that should come out of your pockets. So what do you think we could do as people, especially women, because black women and powering of women right now is the strongest that it has ever been. What do you think that they could do tivity to help implement some changes to help that. We got to

change the politicians was making the laws. We have to get in we gotta get into the right offices, like we have to be supporting our people and and get people in there that believe the way you believe. And as that's really that simple. I saw somebody in the thing say that that. Somebody says something about like they're doing it because there's not enough white babies being born, or something like they're trying to keep the white women

from having abortions. I don't give a damn what kind of baby it is or what kind of persons they are, Like people should be allowed to have choice. Alison is a flame Matt Tip. She is running for a city commissioner in Lakeland, Florida. Young, twenty seven year old black, So she's a teacher. Teacher, teachers black history, and she's very on black history is not being tied in the schools. But it's your job to teach your children their history

because you're the parents. They should learn it at home. You can depend on the school. So we're gonna bring her in. And I told her I was gonna bring her in because she is pretty informed and pretty bright. What she at? Hello? Hello, Hello, Yes, so I have listened to the conversation Tiffany Hattris. I'll tell you my hat goes off to you. Congratulations on all your success. Thank you. I found crazy. But I'm just speaking to you. Yes, absolutely,

absolutely and and let me just go me dillingback. So I am running for Lakeland City commission Commissioner in Lakeland, Pope County, Florida. Um. But again, yes it and when you when you stated, uh, it starts locally. Excuse me, it starts with the politician. It starts locally because the local your local. Because people think that your government is top down. Your government is down up, local, state, federal, right. You know when when you touched on the foster care system.

I'm gonna say this, I almost put out of law school because I got me and some of my comrades to start doing some research on foster care systems. And so here in Florida, what was happening is these people would create these businesses about these homes to get these false to get these students, get these children in the foster care system. And of course you get a percentage and it is called incentive for having these type of children.

And you know the little kids, you get more do ones with disabilities, and come to find out these children wasn't treated being treated well. And the thing about it is it's the information. Because here in Florida, when you go through the Falster Care system, you're going to college for free. And a lot of kids did not do not know about that. And so I am putting in. And then in your local government there is money, right

taxpayers money. Instead of put it in a p p P which is public private partnerships like your Amazon and FedEx, put it into the Falster care sister, put it into you can see your programs. And that's one of my pillars. Put it. If an idle mind is a devil's workshop. So if you don't give these children anything to do,

your city will continue to be wrecked. And so if we if we put these dollars and to our children, the future will be much brighter because at the end of the day, if we don't invest in the children, our future will be nothing. Yes, like that song, I believe children. You know what ither thing? You got my vote. I ain't even the Florida citizen, but I'm gonna make sure if they vote for you, because you already I feel your energy. You already on the white right right wavelength,

not white right right right. And so again, I am an advocate for children. Um I teach world's history, teach history, and and and and as I tell my children all the time, listen, I'm here for you. And I don't have any kids biologically, but at the end of the day, all these kids are our responsibility because I'm growing, right, You're grow and so you listen. You just have to

reach out. I'm everybody's auntie because at the end of the day, at the end of the day, if you're not doing it for these kids, then who are you doing it for? What are you sitting around that table for? You know, we want to change, we want to change our local police force. But in order for that to change, we have to sit in the seat to change it. And if we sit around these tables, sit around the right tables, if you sit around in your local government, because at the end of the day, the federal is

the federal. But if but if you understand that those who was once in your local excuse me, what those who who's in your federal was once at your local. And if we stop it at the local, if you stop it at the local, that state and that federal is going to look different. The Senate is going to look different, the House is going to look different. Yes, talk about defunding the police. But yes, in order for us to defund the police, we have to get the

right people around the table in order for that to happen. Right, And and it's not that we want to defund the police, We just want to correct officers to treat everybody right. Because if you because if your grandmama gets sick and you call nine one one and you talk about defunding public safety, who gonna come get grandma? You see what I'm saying. So we have to ensure that the words that we say and we put the right people in position to get what we need, because it's not that

we want their money. We just want the opportunities, if you let me know about them, if you implement these things into the system, right, then that's how can we can leverage this as as as people of color and as people in general, because just as many blacks and and the colored people who are in poverty, there are just as many whites. And so if we're not going to if we're so, My things to this is if in order for this system to change, we got to

put the correct people in place. You, but you have to start at your local your public your public, private hospitals. You were talking about women, women in the abortions and things of that nature. Listen, that starts on the local level. That starts on the local level, your local city. Get all this money. There shouldn't be a way that we're having to pay for all these said things, especially with

women in our health. There shouldn't be. But if you have the right people in place that believe in our rights, right, because now they have some women not even believing in women's rights, and it's absolutely it's absolutely absurd. You a whole woman out here in these streets, but you don't believe in our rights. You want but that's why we have to vote you have to vote, you have to study, and so that's I don't know this. I just know this.

If men could get pregnant, and if they were getting raped and they end up pregnant, they gonna I'm just saying they would would not be implemented. I'm a whole woman out here. What you were like, Allison's twenty seven year old. She's a teacher, and Allison has really made me believe that all politicians should be teachers first, because you get to be with them, children are and you know what, it's important for the future. So tiff And

let me ask you a question. Would you want to consider later down the lane and you're like running for any kind of public office? Yeah, I have thought about it. I was thinking about when I saw who was running from I was thinking the governor. I think you, I think you can hold it down. You could be the new Maxine like I'm not the new but Tiffany had again. Yeah, yeah, I mean I feel like I could do especially if I had the right team around me. I think I could.

I think I could do anything I had. Tiffany, listen, if Marge Taylor Green and all these same people, it's running for office I'm quite sure you would do just fine. Yeah quite yeah, yes, fine, I think so. I mean, I'm running my business pretty good. I feel like it's like kind of like how you run business. You gotta and you gotta listen to the people, and then you start implementing what needs to be implementing to the people.

And let me just share this with you all, for all those future politicians, and let me tell you something. I sit at the feet of people I like to learn because at the end of the day, what can I share? What can I share if I don't sit at those who come before me to speak to those who want to come along, right, And so at the end of the day, you don't have to know everything about politics to be in politics. I don't know everything.

But one thing I do is I study, and I have a heart of a servant and a heart of a servant. That's all you need because you're serving the people. It's not about you. Because I always give this example, when you step on the towers and the floor, you don't step on one tower without won't stepping on the next time. So that's the same way that life and people. You don't just pass one person a day. You don't just pass one person out of the year. You pass

multiples of people. That's why you have to pass them and assure you're pass them with love and kindness and peace. And that is what needs to be in our polity and if we approach if we approach politics that way, we have a far better world today. We love you, Alison over yea with you. So every Thursday when I do Love Lounge Tiffany, this month of Jim we have donate that dedicated to Alix Coat. You know, it takes money to win a campaign. She has another contender on that,

so we've been donating. I'm glad you're following up Tifficy gonna get behind you, but tifty makes her own man house. And believe me, Alison al lewis okay following back the one and only the tiff. I like what you're talking about, and I'm looking forward to see what you're doing the future, and who knows, you may be the next president girl to state. I gotta get thirty five. You gotta get thirty five, get five, get there and you got my support though, since you got my thank you so much.

Thank you all, actually all donate to Alison Lewis's campaign. I'm telling you she looked like us, she thinks like us, and she is for us because some of them look like us, but they don't think like us. And said, you're gonna make me run for office? You need to Oh no, no, no, you need to. Let me tell you something. We already got a training that funk about the up the government if she win. But but we are complete opposites. She's white, she's rich. She killed the

white woman. I'm black. I ain't rich, but I'm pretty, and as of today, I have not ran over white woman. My god, but you understand the issues, and you have good resolutions, and you're a good listener, and you know how to bring people together, and I think that's very important. I learned everything from Tip. You didn't you live it already? You know it already, everything from you. When I first let me tell you when I first met himself back at the Comedy Union. Oh my god, I don't even

tell you what a a year. I was a younger. I was a damn piece and Timpany was really young. She I thought she's like sixteen. I was like, look and she was twenty years ago. And she says, excuse me, Can I ask you a question? Very innocent, very cool? Are you? Are you a drag queen? I said, I am? And then I went on stage and did it. She came and she says, oh my god, I just love you, and we just bought it from there. And I think that if more women went to trans women authentically, like respectfully,

you know, can I ask you a question? Not I mis saying I know your tea and all that you know. Don't get that familiar with me. If I don't know, you don't get that coming me, because I will, I will blast you. This right here is deadly. But Tiffany was never like that. She was already and we just became fast. And I was like, who made your shoes? With shoes and those? And where like my friend of Chicago made me thease and whether the dress that you're wearing,

where is that? And like she wanted to get a drag y'all real talking? She really did want I still do we should do a d show together. So I did a drag show last night. Was great and post you should do a drag show with me too. I don't do it, they would love it. I'll do it. Hello, I'm with it. I want to be specting and pretty do flips with heels one that's the one thing you amazed, did you know? Yes, with how heels are where? If d W T. S Will called me, I can do

it for the world. That's what the stars. If you listen, I'm available. Let's start making that happen. We're gonna campaign that. I'm gonna make some fune calls. We're gonna make that happen. Baby. Let me tell you someone another Joy's moments. When you introduced me to Billy Crystal and he said he had just watched me on the Ready. I've been in love with Billy Crystal since he played Jody on soap. When I told him that, he said, oh you went Wade. You know I love soap and Jody. That was great.

So last year Tip introduced me to Common with her boyfriend. And now if he's not my boyfriend, he's my man. He correct, he's not a boy, he's a man. He's my mind. Definitely a man. And I don't know about if a man and no other capacity, but the way he treats me, he was respectful, he was genuine. He talked to my son who just got this whatever comment said to my son at his house on my birthday last year, what's some stuck with him? Because dude just kind of turned around with his wrap and with how

he expresses himself. And I thought that was great. And I think that common met me while I was because of you, Tiffany, not to say that he would not have been fair to me outside of this capacity. I probably would have met him in different spaces and he has never judged me. I'm his he she we what's up? Flame? What's up? HOMEI We talked to each other like two brothers, and I appreciate that we stayed in the hotel room together. Meet him and Tip, don't get it twisted me him sweet.

I was in my room, they was in there. But I felt so at home with the both of them. We was up playing cars. He loved you too, ready to whoop his ass? He wrapp and you want to oscar, But then whoop me if you are the all around the best person I know, and that you pay us so for now, where did you get that from? Because so many comedians before you have had opportunities to bring

so many others along. But then when you came, they people looked at you and God that you helped so many of us unknowns to say, come on, let me give you an opportunity. Where'd you get that from? Who did that? Watching these white men? I watched The White Man. I watch how they get down. I figured it might as well move away. They move um and they stick together.

They put their friends and their movies, they put their friends in shows, they produce things with their friends, and they keep close and they make money with their friends. And that's what I want to do. So I'm always pushing, Like they don't like it's so funny because we're like, oh, they're giving you everything. If they gave me everything, you would just see me with my friends all the time. Like,

because that's why I want to be around period. But they have to fight, and I get so tired sometimes. I like so hard to make sure that we like we can be together, we can work together, like pulling this person in on this project, pulling this, and it's like even my own team. Sometimes they push, they opposed the people that I want on and I'm like, stop fighting me on this. If I was Adam Sandler, you wouldn't be fighting me on this. If I was Will Farrell,

if I was anybody like y'all wouldn't fight. Y would just be like, okay, yes, whatever you want, sir, however you want to do it, sir. But I have to fight like too now, and I get so tired in the world. It's like attacking me. I'm gett attacked over your typed over there. And I just need to be around people that support me so that I could do my job. But also like I want to see my

friends win. I want to see them brow. I want to see them with their own movies, they're own TV shows, they're aren't like that makes me feel good at my spirit. And so when I see Okay, so Dan could he always take the same people on the road with him. He take his boys on the road with him. And I said, Dan, can I go with you? He said, no, no, you I have my set, my set group because I know they're gonna support me. They're gonna look out for me,

and I'm gonna look out for them. They know where I'm weak at they make me strong, and that stuck with me like I need to be able to do. I gotta build friends like that and bring those people with me everywhere I go, and I try to ploy y'all on these movies. Put on my TV show, like

please take the acting class. I could get you on this goddamn movies so I don't have to fight with these mothers like please, Like it's it's so difficult to make it so hard, and that's why I want to produce, so I could say, no, I'm producing this and I'm not doing it without this person, and that's how it's

gonn to be. Like it's but and then they said, you were diva, you're being a bit, you're being difficult to work with whatever, and when I wouldn't be so difficult to work but if you just give me what I fucking asked for, because if I was anybody else, she would just give them what they asked for. I lived that experience with Tiff because when we were taking they ready, uh, they were taking me to clubs that

were not comfortable at that was not my audience. And when I sitting out my audience, it was just not my audience. And so the one of the people involved with the Tiffany he was like, I don't think flame gat it. I don't think flame can do it. And Tiff called me. She didn't say that, she said Flame, just don't let me down. I knew what it was. I said, Tiff, I got you. So when we were at the actual taping of They Ready, I was in the back and I prayed and I said, God, this

is her first baby, this is her first baby. I have to kill this because this woman gave me a chance. I might not get another chance. I'm fifty years old. I might not get another opportunity. Tiff came in the room, we talked. She said, just bits, just do you. That's it, That's all she said. Just go and have her and do you. We all went out there did our thing, but there was there was opposing forces in an Tippanty's ear to say, we don't think Flame had what it

takes to be on the show. Shit, shit, you don't know who you was with. And that's why I was so proud of everybody, because I'm telling you, there was like in my like, why are you putting this? So you put this? You shouldn't put these people on. You shouldn't look after like they was telling me all the things I should not do. Who who? Who else? And I'm like, no, this is who I said, and this is what it is. And then if it fails. It

fails like kiss my ass I don't like. And that's why I just came to eat you and every money I'll like, just do you bring the best whatever you can bring, like I love you regardless. I'm here for you, regardless of what they're saying. Like and this that could have destroyed me. It could have been like, that's the end of your career to me, you have a bad choice and talent. But I knew that it was gonna

because that's what you did know. And you said that when we were at that spot, because what you saw I don't even think I saw, because you knew it was gonna be a monster. I mean me and you was laying in the massage and we had to get naked, y'all, so Tippy on one side, Nick and I want to us that my naked is very different from tickety Tiffany naked let me just and the man was beside me. I said, okay, don't go too low, you're gonna get a bit. But Tiffany knew this was going to be

a major And I'm tring. I didn't even see that because but the ingenious part was Tippany, and it was slick. Her and her and Wander and Paige, who were the executive producers from Pushing productives, like okay, so the first one, just go out, this is the one we're gonna take. Just do about the book. And then the second one just do yourself. They were smart because to do yourself when they used because most of us, okay, we got to get it into the cane. We're gonna get our check,

not gonna have fun. They used to have phone because we were relaxed. Smoke screen was down and we was we were just able to go and just help came and hugged, she wrapped. What y'all do not know is that she gave each and every one of us a

great gift outside of the check and the opportunity. She made each and every one of us the executive producer of our own thirty minutes special, which was they could have kept the check behind that be well not really, but no, you need your check, but the executive producing gives you a little cloud. So but now, and I thought that was so important because you you are the

one who came up with the material. You are the one who was in those nightclubs working at you don't want They got bumped off of shows you don't want that had to go right around of this city, that city, and that, Like, you earned that executive producer credit because without you producing this content, there would be nothing for us to see, there would be nothing for us to put on camera. So um, and I'm so, I'm very I'm a big advocate of people having producer credits for

where they deserve it. You're producing, you're creating content like you are putting in the work you made, the phone calls, you did that you put you did the hard work to get there, so you deserve the credit. And they didn't want to give that up at first. Now I was like, no, you're gonna give it to him and take my name off then put them on like you

know they did it, though I wouldn't. I want to give you kudos too, because I don't even think you probably remember I was back stage when you did they already season two. I came with flame, and I just want to say, what you're saying now is not just like a facade of what you did, because even then, when you were doing it in the midst of COVID, you still made it happen. You still gave these comedians

this amazing platform. And you said backstage too, you said, I'm using everybody black because that's what I want to do, and I can do it because of the hard work that I put in. So I want to give you major credit. I'm seeing all of your passion and just your drive, and I'm wanna thank you. Even if people aren't giving you your flowers yet, you giving me your flowers because you flowers, because you've really been doing this for a while and you were really giving back. I mean,

and Flamers always talked highly of you to me. But to see you do it like being action. You had your Eddie Murphy tribute suit on you. It was a very black show. It was a good show, like Eddie. Eddie is another prime example of someone who got in there and pulled his friends on and put his friends in the movies, put his friends on the shows with him, like that is a prime example. And he was just

doing what he's seen the white boys wan to. But they don't always allowed us to do that, like and it's it's very few of us that do it, like men Keenan Thompson, like female comments barely ever do it, if at all, you know, it's like, because but we have to fight so hard. It's it's sometimes people aren't just not built for the fight. It's terrible that they think that female comedians don't work well together and they can't do it, and we do work and they we

worked exceptionally well. It was so much love on they ready with all the female comments. It was it was nothing like you would have thought. Everybody was empowering each other and hugging and praying and petting each other on the back. Go kill it, go kill it, go kill And Tip was right at the forefront like mother Goose, like baby, you did it, Go do your thing. She was waiting on the Saturn stage and none of that

was for the camera. She was waiting like our mothers at the Saturn stage, like when you which, when you do it, you come up. I'm waiting right here to give you your big hooks, like your first day at school. I'm gonna be waiting on you that this first show. What y'all didn't see it's my microphone thing was hanging out. So Tiffy ran up on me like my titty was outside. I think because I wanted you to be perfect. The best was with the production of it that it needed

to look good. You need to be your absolute best because this was Netflix, you know it was it was It ain't even that it was about Netflix. It was it's you. It's you, and you deserve to have the best and look the best and feel the best, and be protected and be looked out for and not just left out there floundering or looking crazy. I wasn't feel allowing it. I wasn't allowing it. But Netflix, did you

hear that? Call a bit? I'm ready? She we is, damn sure already back to let me go back, back, backtrack, a little nick for you come in. I want to just give a shout out to Dwayne Wade and his wife Gabriel, because if that's on that daughter of the Azire Wade, if the little boy who got the gay shaved in his head had a supportive team like that in his household from his hand, the child will grow up to be great. Whether it was gay or anything else,

the child will because at home, you're safe. That's all I wanted. When I was at home, I wanted a safe space because the world was I assisted this miss markts fighting and all that. I wanted to be able to go in my house and know I'm safe in my house, but I wasn't because I had my mother was violent. You know, my uncle's didn't want me to be gay. They would fight me. You can't fight the

gay out. That's why not how to box awhere? Because I was happy, But that's what you need, and so I applaud them, and I think the I used to be zieway. The only difference was I didn't have a parent at home to protect me. You know, Balley was doing her things, she was on drugs. She didn't care what I was doing. But I had to learn to fan for myself. And a lot of us trans women are on the defense because we have to be on

the defense, but all the time. But although you went through that and they weren't there the way they could have been there for you. Look how awesome apparent you are now you're like the best version of what they were. But you're like the best, best mommy daddy, Like you're the best. I don't think my seventh year od deal will agree with you right there. I'm not right now. But because they're seventeen and they want to get what they want to do, what they want to do in

this that's a part of growing up. But they're never hungry. They ain't never been sleeping the streets, you know. They always got clothes on their back, always got shoots on their feet. They've never been abused. Like you take care of them the best, and that's because of what you've been through, and you know you do want to them as you wish someone would done. If we would be hungry, I just called you and said, girl, I ain't got no money, please send and I send it. I'd be like,

out to my house and bring it to you. Brought us a dog one time for Christmas. I'd be like, what you need grown speed, I'm about to go get you something like with the kids, what are the allergies? It is uncanny to think that you are such a phenomenon as a woman, Tiffany, as an artist, as a as a as a human, because everybody doesn't have that capacity that you have to just make people feel good

about themselves. You know, that's what you do. You make people feel so comfortable about who you because you are you. Never she never changes. This is Tiffany period. And I changed my clothes and my hair, my mind. That wasn't about getting no check that didn't get I mean, I did do a movie right there, but that wasn't The hair do wasn't for the movie. That was because I wanted to see my scalp. That was for me. That

was something for me. And I'm gonna tell you, I wish I would have did it at a younger age because I think every woman, every human being should be bald headed at least one time. And they're like, you know what I'm talking about, playing amazing when that the

rain drops hit your scalp. Feel like, guys, just go like when that water and like if somebody touch your scalp, and it seemed like my senses like I'm I can sense bullshit way quicker, Like I don't know, it's just the feeling of being bald was kind of a freaking amazing And I don't care if you got a funny shape head. Let that funny shape head breeze one time in the universe. Let the sun kissing. Let the sun

kiss it. What the sun kissing? That's not that's not That wasn't her name, but she did kiss Listen, lorde of that you did was Madame C. J. Walker. I loved you and Madame C. J. Walker, did you take acting classes? Because you were really, really, really good. Thank you. I've been taking acting classes for years. I'm trying to take something too. I've been taking them for years. I've

been taking them since two thousand and one, two two. Um, I've been in acting really before then, because I was taking them in nineteen nineties six and said, and I mean I won drama festivals in ninety four and nine, so like I've been doing it for years. Um. But yeah, that that Madame C. J. Walker. That was a lot of sitting down and like, okay, focus on the times. How did they talk? How do you carry yourself? What,

what if me can I bring to this character? What does this character have to offer um to to grow me as a person? And that I played with that a lot. Nick, I know you had a question, Go ahead, Well, I wanted to talk about Tiffany's uh internship where she's providing opportunities for people to succeed, because Tiffany, this also ties back to you having the ability to do all the stuff that you want to do because you want to provide an opportunity for others to be able to

have that agency and do that. Talk to us about that because there are so many people who are tuning in right now who won't have a chance to speak with you directly. How can they learn more about that? And what do you want people at home to know?

So I started a foundation called that She Ready Foundation, And when I originally started it, I just wanted it to be something that was super simple, that um, I just I just wanted to give suitcases to foster you because I remember what it felt like being moved around from house to house and all my clothing trash bags, and how that made me feel as a person, like I was garbage being moved around, right, And once someone gave me a suitcase, I started feeling like a person,

like a travel like I was on an adventure, like I was a visitor as opposed to be in garbage dropped off at these people's house. And that evolved over the course of time. Like so, I was just giving out suitcases every comedy show I do. I would like people wanted to take pictures with me, I would make them bring a suitcase. And they got to the point where I started performing at bigger venues and I couldn't

buy the trucks anymore. That was filling up with the suitcases, and it was okay, you you can do a meet and greet with me, but you pay this much. And now that money went directly to the to the foster us where we were getting them suitcases, toiletries, clothing, the books and things live this nature. And then as I started talking to more and more the youth, and I'm the more ingratiated I got into business. I started realizing that these people that I work with and these organizations

that I work with, they don't understand me. They don't understand people like me. They're confused. And as I'm talking to the kids, I'm realizing that they don't understand that there's opportunity for them in this field. They're thinking all I can be is an actor or a writer or a director. But there's so many other positions in entertainment. There's so many other things you can be. You can be a DP, you can be a camera operator, you can be an editor and executive at a company. You

can be you know, there's so many different positions. You could be craft services, like, there's so many other positions, but they're not exposed to it, so they'll never be able to do it. So I decided I would starting internship program where we start placing these falseter youths that are in college, you know, in that are interested in

the arts into these companies. So we have some at Disney, we got some at UH william or U t A. We got some artists person and management companies, we got them at um uh Sony Pictures, we got them everywhere, like all these different places. So first we're just starting with California. This is our first year doing it, and we're just seeing how it works out. And so far it's been going really really well. Now there's some kids that's a little stuck up, like, oh no, I can't

do I really want to be a writer. And I don't think that researchers like it was like, because when you're intern you're doing the base, the basic job, and so you and you need to learn these things. I mean, I was an extra before I was ever a paid actress, right, I was an extra learning how things work, seeing, learning the you know, the cause that they may like okay, pictures up, sound, speeding, different things like I was learning all these things at the base level of acting, right,

the background which is important to making something feel real. Um. I never said I'm too good to be sitting in the background though. I need to sit back here so I can see how this should go right. So, but this is one kid I had to have a conversation, like, look, like research is important to writing. You saying you want to be a writer, you need to understand what you

are writing. You need to be writing things that are informative, that are real, and if you're even writing imaginary, you need to have an understanding of what's real so you can write the imaginary period. And the more that you read and the more information that you gathered, the better writer you will be. But still they thought they were too good to be doing research. So you can search your grass about it here. Yeah, and it blows me

because people think that you just up overnight. They don't even know that you've been doing comedy camps since how old? I started doing this standard comic at nineteen nine seven, so in the I was like sixteen. Yeah was that important? What did that help mold you to be the comedian that you are not doing all those times? Yeah? I

mean that was okay. So, like, so I was getting in trouble and I was I think who frame Rodger Rabbit got me started because there was a scene in the movie where the detective says to the rabbit, why are these people doing these nice things where? And he said because I make him laugh, Attie, if you make people laugh or do anything for you, right, And that was like, that's the ticket. This is how I'm gonna make friends. That's how I'm gonna get help with my homework.

Is I'm gonna get get through life. Is I'm gonna make people laughing, They're gonna help me. And and people did help me, and it was in a way where I didn't have to really ask for help. They kind of noticed. Or I'd be like, let me see your homework. You probably didn't get that, right, let me see, like and then I copy copy, copy, Um, that's how cheated on. So that's how I got through high school. And then but I was also like getting in trouble school a lot.

And the social worker was getting tired of coming up to the school and she was like, clearly, there's something wrong with you. Because I had these imaginary friends, I might have been a little bit, you know, racist. I had to burden named Cracker and I'd be like, what's answer number seven? Cracker? And I went to like the whitest junior high high school ever. I'm like, what's the answer number seven? Cracker? And I'd be like the teacher like,

who are you calling a cracker? My bird, my bird, my bird on my shoulder, And I'm like, there's no bird on your shoulder. I'm like, that's because you're blind. You're a blind. Cracker said that you were blind, like so um. Then they would send me to the dean's office and the social worker come up there and be like, look, something is clearly wrong with you. You got two choices this summer. You go to the last factory comedy camper,

you can go to psychiatric therapy. I ended up in the comedy camp and that was the first time that I was surrounded like I was in an environment that supported my silliness, but also in an environment where, you know, it was a man. There were men there that were telling me you're talented, you're funny, you're beautiful, you're smart.

And I didn't think something bad was gonna happen, right because at that point in my life, any time a man told me anything positive, he was gonna do something negative. You know, something bad would happen. And so this was mind blowing to me, and um, I was like, I

like this. And then as I started going to the comedy club and how comics would hug each other like like I realized now, like I didn't get many hugs coming up like and to get that nurturing and from a man and didn't feel like he was gonna like violate. It wasn't him, It wasn't him making a move. It was it was just genuine camaraderie right like that was really super important to me, Like as I don't even know how to describe what it was, but it turned

something for it turned something. I was like, I love this in the sound of people laughing, that to me is the most magical sound in the world's people could be laughing at me with me, it doesn't matter to hear people laughing it. It's it's like I know, I won't get physically hurt, you know. It's it's a I don't even know how to I just love the sound,

especially babies laughing. When you know you're hilarious. If you can make a kid laugh like a little baby like one years old too, I don't know, to me, that means you're super funny and like good spirit um and to see people smiling even if they ain't got no teeth and they got the ugliest teeth. To me, that's just it's just beautiful. So that's why I don't like babies laughing with me. I'll be doing they'd be clocking the tea. I'll be like, you know, I know you're

a man. So recently we lost Paul Moone because we all wrap it up really, so we lost Paul Mooney recently, who is a comic gold mine, legend, and so Tiffany sent in a video talking about telling us a story about what Paulman was said to you and I could not share because it was good yet the thing, but you have to tell us, oh Man, So Pulmony, I know Paul since I was fifteen years old, seen sixteen

years old. He was one of those comedians that was constantly, you know, giving me that positive reinforcement, also telling me when I was messing up, tell me when I was doing good, tell me when I was looking good, tell me when I was looking dad like. He was always honest. It's like the uncle home that I always wish I had, like the family member I wish he taught me about I mean, he talked me about stones and stuff and like energy and like he was always so positive and

when I was homeless. When I was homeless, He's like, so I heard Jamie told me he was home. So you ain't gonna where to live. You sleeping in the streets. So now I'm sleeping in my car. But yeah, I'm definitely homeless. She was like, well, let me call my sister. Coming, sister, she got some kids they need to be babysitting, and you could live with her and you can babysit their kids. And I was like, I think I'd rather be homeless. I don't want me. I've been already taking care of kids. Man,

I think I'm gonna be homeless. And I'm just sticking with that. Man. He would always like guide me on my jokes, like he would see me doing the joke, he like, oh, that's a lot of children right there. Okay, what you need to do is flip this, flip that dude, and uh, I don't know. Plus the makeup, come here looking crazy like come here, come my hair, and making sure you know I look presentable. And I got some days,

I mean I could, I couldn't. I didn't have I didn't have the resources sometimes, but he was the most amazing and he taught me so much in I just I'm missing him terribly, you know, and I've been missing him for a long time because he was not himself those last few years. So um. But he always greeted me with love, always was kind to me. Sometimes he would cuss me out, but to me, that was his way of Yeah I was every time. Yeah, but that was his kindness. It was he would be coming to talk.

Shit your ass down, let's talk. You asked me, do they get your hard time? I say they do? He said, we beat You know, you're not a real girl, so you're expected fun and as a joke, but did you ever give Kevin at three hundred dollars? Yes, yes, he got his three dollars plus that. I mean that movie made a lot more than Yeah, he got that money. Man. That was nice school. Yeah, nice school. I loved doing

that movie and Kevin. That was a funny ass movie about three o'clock and more and and how for edible good guy. I was laughing, didn't even though I was laughing. Tiffany, we thank you so much for joining us. If you didn't know that Tiffany Hatties is the executive producer of Laugh and Learning. This show probably would not have happened for Charlotte Maye not giving us a pass and Tiffany standing on to say green light this, bitch, let's go. We love you. We have a message that we leave

here every week. Nicholas here at Laugh and Learn. First of all, Nicholas, tell us where we can find you. You can find me at Nick Smith News. On all social media platforms. Lauren Oh, I'm Lauren Hogan on YouTube, as well as Lauren Armani h on Instagram and I am all over the internet. Just don't follow me on Twitter. It's all poorn, that's where God, It's all boy and it's all can of Port. Good guy. I am Flame

Monroe on What am I Flame wrong? YouTube? Um um in Monroe Flame on Instagram and a Marcus flame man role Parkert that's the wholegal name. Just kids. You want to write a check. On Facebook, please follow my Girl, my baby, my mentor, my muse, my love life, my everything. My Tiffany had his on. Tiffany has all social media platforms at last I say I don't do to my birthday last year high and my daughters. That's I know.

She a big as kid. They had to do about a hundred and Tiffany knew every damn dance that those kids were doing well. I tried. It was way more advanced than me. But yeah, TikTok and Tiffany ha does she want? I believe Tippy had this one. Nicholas, what's that message here? And laugh and learned. We are not trying to get anyone to change their minds. We are simply trying to get you to use your mind, because wife flame. In order to do that, you have to

have one. Critical thinking is important. The decisions you make about you should come from you. I don't care what this bitch think. She paid me, but I'm looking for you. Have to me that many times, I don't care what you think what I'm telling you because how I feeling. That's what I'm doing. And she has always respected my boundaries like I have to respected her. Tiffany had his as my friend. I love you as my flawyer. I

appreciate you as my mentor. I applaud you and as the woman that you are and what you have done for so many people. Humble myself and point we're gonna do a dram show together, y'all. How we're gonna do a draft showing. It's gonna be sounding pemples here and we're in enough to get it. Let me see I Laughing Learning, Thank you so much. Please finow tifty had

to show on Instagram. This will be dropload on I Heart, Apple, Spotify, Amazon, on the blackfac Network, or wherever you listen to your podcast. We thank you Laughing Learning, flame Man, because we could not have this show without you. Peace. Laugh and Learner is a production of the Black Effect Network and I Heart Radio. Our executive producer is Tiffany Haddish. The show is produced by Triple Our theme music is by Chrissy Paine eight