"Tracee Ellis Ross"

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Speaker 1 Hey fellas. Hi, Amy.
You guys look rested. Yeah.
I'm I'm feeling pretty good. Had nice dreams last night? I'm feeling a little sick.
Huh. Talking to Will mostly.
Yeah, he looks great.

Speaker 1 Will, you must have had some nice dreams. I've had some really, some really sweet dreams.

Speaker 1 You remember them?

Speaker 1 You got a little log book next to your bed there? Yeah, I like to wake up and jot them down.

Speaker 1 And I just sort of jot them down and a lot of them, and then I wake up, and it's usually like math equations. Oh, wow.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 You figure a lot of stuff out while you're sleeping. Yeah, yeah.
I've just figured a lot of stuff out. You're crunching numbers over here.

Speaker 1 Like this one, if I do, I wrote this one, Y, and you've moved the equals to the power. Basically, translation is welcome to Smartless.
Oh, great. Huh.
Smart.

Speaker 1 Smart.

Speaker 1 Look at this. Look at this guy.
Wait, Wait, wait, which guy? This guy.

Speaker 1 Ricky's got this. Is that Robbie? It's Ricky.

Speaker 1 Hey, Robbie.

Speaker 1 Ricky, his name's Ricky. Yeah, I know.
I'm doing this. What's the size of this cone around his head? That looks like an expensive cone.
Usually

Speaker 1 you just see just a regular plastic one that's kind of cloudy, and you've got a fabric cone.

Speaker 1 Look at the look on his face. I know.
He's got it. He had a like a cyst, like a big bump, like a big ball on his butt.
Like a

Speaker 1 Oh, here we go. Yep.
Will.

Speaker 1 I can hear Will's cogs turning, writing something

Speaker 1 hurtful. No.

Speaker 1 Why would I

Speaker 1 cyst on his tail on his bottom, and they gouged it out. And so he has to wear this big cone.
Speaking of balls on your bum, Jay, how's your weekend been?

Speaker 1 So they cut, so they cut, so they removed the balls from his bottom. Yeah, like there was a big cyst on his tail.

Speaker 1 They gouged it out. And he was still able to get around there and

Speaker 1 chew it, lick it, kind of agitated. Yeah, any chance he got, he would.
And so they put the cone on. How long has the cone been on the dog? About a month.
He's got another month to go. Wait a minute.

Speaker 1 Yeah. It was pretty intense.
I've never heard of a cone being on a dog longer than like a few days. Look at this.
Look at this tail. Oh, you can't see it.
I can see it. But

Speaker 1 I think you might want to look into a different vet, someone that might charge you a little bit bit more, but

Speaker 1 do it right. Yeah, two months with a cone.

Speaker 1 Maybe they can make a cone for you that stops you from eating Chinese food. You know what I mean? What would that look like?

Speaker 1 There's not a big enough one out there. No.
No, he had a cone that was too small. So we had to sleep in shifts, Scotty and I, because he would, until we found the right size.

Speaker 1 Because he's like 100 pounds. I think your vet is really

Speaker 1 causing you

Speaker 1 a lot more problems than

Speaker 1 but we would we would um we'd start we started watching the crown so we'd like we'd watch an episode and then kind of like fall asleep but we'd poke up and

Speaker 1 anyway who cares yeah I don't about

Speaker 1 you didn't even need to speak we could just see it on your face don't worry

Speaker 1 so the crown would be your your your your your visual ambient that was yeah because like for like a month we had like sleep and shift so we'd we'd each catch like an episode and then catch the other person up on what that episode is.

Speaker 1 Well, I sure hope your guest isn't somebody starring on the crown. This is my guest, it's his guest.
Oh, it's your well. I hope your guest is clearly your guest is not a cast member from the crown.

Speaker 1 No, but I love the crown. The crown's really good, isn't it? Why do you use it to fall asleep with? No, I don't use it to fall asleep.
We would, we would, that's what we do in the interim of

Speaker 1 swapping out. That's what they do.
That's what they do to stay awake. Yeah.
Huh. Yeah.
The crown. Yeah.
That was so good. It's very,

Speaker 1 I'm so late to the party. Like, I know it's like 10 seconds.

Speaker 1 I'm even later.

Speaker 1 Oh, you love it. I just saw the first three episodes of White Lotus finally.
Oh, isn't it good? Of the first season? The first season, yeah. Oh, wow.
I get it.

Speaker 1 I'm into it. I'm on it.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Come on in, Will. Water's great.
It's really, really good. I'm such a contrarian, though, that I'm like, no, everybody else has seen it.

Speaker 1 Really?

Speaker 1 What'd you guys do on our little break in between shows?

Speaker 1 I've written reviews for White Lotus.

Speaker 1 I just went and wrote scathing reviews, even though I'd never seen it. And I love Mike White.
Yeah. Love that, Mike.
Now, what'd you do, JB, on your rule of break ski?

Speaker 1 I made some oatmeal for my colon. And my daughter asked me a bunch of questions about why I like it and why.
And I told her, and then she tasted it. She said, huh.

Speaker 1 I said, would you like me to make you a bowl? She goes, yes, a small one, please. So I made her a bowl of oatmeal.
And she walked me through all of her

Speaker 1 studies that she's going through for chemistry right now. She's got a chemistry final coming up.
And I never took chemistry in school. No way.
Yeah,

Speaker 1 I don't know how or why.

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 1 that looks difficult. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Well, in their defense, in your school's defense, it'd be dangerous to do chemistry on that bus on Wilshire.

Speaker 1 Puns and burners and beakers. You know what I mean? I told you that story about my.

Speaker 1 Yeah. You sure did.
You don't remember anything, do you? Nope. No.

Speaker 1 You went to school on a bus. On a bus.

Speaker 1 Well, just for one year. That was heartlight.

Speaker 1 But it was one continuous year it never stopped moving the bus it was just one well no no those are just on the city days the the city days were on the bus right where we go in and for for the listener that hasn't heard this before we we we'd drive the the base of the school was out at this dude's house in calabasas which is out

Speaker 1 deep west valley not accredited shocker this school um we would uh we'd get on a converted uh uh full-size uh large uh yellow uh school bus where the back half of it was converted into into desks.

Speaker 1 Front half was still your driver Charles Manson or

Speaker 1 he did smell of weed and patchouli, but I didn't get his name.

Speaker 1 And then so we would have these long drives into the city as we go to these cultural places like museums and whatnot. And

Speaker 1 the

Speaker 1 hippie that started the school thought it might be productive to do schoolwork in traffic while we're on our way to these museums. That's why he converted the bus.

Speaker 1 While we're on the Ventura Freeway for an hour and a half, we'd do schoolwork. And then the country days, the odd days in the week, we'd be out at the house there in Santa Barbara, in Calabas.

Speaker 1 Will and I

Speaker 1 left our little,

Speaker 1 we're still telling stories.

Speaker 1 No, but there's

Speaker 1 a story. And then on the weekends,

Speaker 1 were country days at his house? Was it a lot of like raking his yard and like vacuuming his living room?

Speaker 1 You're not far off. We would start each day in the teepee, and then

Speaker 1 we'd go into his house, and

Speaker 1 you could take history, math, or massage.

Speaker 1 That's a true story. That's not true.

Speaker 1 Jason just

Speaker 1 creepy. And

Speaker 1 there were 20 kids, all from like fourth grade to senior in high school. Well, who wouldn't take the massage, by the way? I mean, like, you get up to the map.
The massage class was packed. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Oh, wow. It's so creepy.

Speaker 1 All right. Well.
That's why I'm so smart, you guys.

Speaker 1 If you're ever wondering why. I'm going to get right to our guest who has been so patiently waiting.
She's a very special girl. Really? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Besides her incredible talent, this woman is often praised for her impeccable style and fashion.

Speaker 1 She'd said that probably from an early age when she'd borrow her mom's clothing once she saw her car pull out of the driveway in the morning, she'd borrow the clothes. Ditto.

Speaker 1 She's one of the co-founders of the Times Up movement, which she helped kick off at the 2018 Golden Globes. The year after she won for best actress in blackish, you guys, it's Tracy Ellis Ross.

Speaker 1 Tracy Ellis Ross. Look at her Ross.

Speaker 1 Look at her go.

Speaker 1 Now, you know, hello there. Oh, listeners, she's just wearing a simple blue

Speaker 1 sweatshirt,

Speaker 1 maybe, or sweater.

Speaker 1 And so

Speaker 1 you're known for your styles, but yet you're keeping it very safe. I noticed that with hairdressers that are really good at haird, they're all, they have shaved heads.
Well, that's interesting.

Speaker 1 That's interesting.

Speaker 2 I will say, I worked, I used to work in fashion. I worked, I was a, hi, all of you.
How are you? Hi.

Speaker 1 Hi.

Speaker 1 We like to jump right in.

Speaker 2 Hello.

Speaker 2 And I did notice back in the day that fashion editors would wear like sort of a blank canvas.

Speaker 1 Like they were all black. It was like a little uniform.

Speaker 2 Yeah, it was like the, yeah, kind of like a uniform. And then, you know.

Speaker 1 Super safe.

Speaker 2 Well, I feel like if you work in fashion, if you do fashion, if you love fashion, but no, I love the extravagance of it, the glamour.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I think I said this before on the show, but not to you, Tracy. So,

Speaker 1 but you're so right because I went to this years and years and years ago. I went to Milan to watch this Armani show.
And afterwards, there was like this party. He's been going to space for years.

Speaker 1 Yeah, absolutely. I was like, I have to leave that.

Speaker 1 And I went to the, then he had like this after party at his house. And I asked one of the guys who worked there as like a waiter or something.
I'm like, can I go look at his closet?

Speaker 1 Because I wanted to see him.

Speaker 2 And it was all the same.

Speaker 1 All the same outfit. All the same outfits.

Speaker 1 Really? 30 of the same outfit. What was the outfit? Black suit.
No, well, no, it was a navy t-shirt and jeans. Oh, interesting.
Really? No. Just a thousand pairs of jeans.

Speaker 2 There's a lot of freedom in that.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.
It's like a uniform. Not for me.
Serial killers do that too, I think. Yes.

Speaker 2 That's one of the telltale signs of a serial killer.

Speaker 2 The difference with a serial killer will is that they don't have multiple pairs, it's just one.

Speaker 1 Yeah, just the one. You're right.
Nothing that shows blood too well either.

Speaker 2 You're right. And you just use, it's the same one.

Speaker 1 But you know what I was talking about? The guy who's got the, you go to his closet, everything is the exact same. And then they do end up committing.

Speaker 1 I'm not saying, suggesting Armani did, but if that person, they said, turns out they were a serial killer, we'd say, was there ever any inkling that he would. Yes.
Yes.

Speaker 1 There was always an inkling.

Speaker 1 We never knew.

Speaker 2 We never knew.

Speaker 1 Yeah. No, we always knew.

Speaker 1 Wait, Trace. So, first of all,

Speaker 1 hi, I love you. Wait, no, so do you guys know each other?

Speaker 1 Ish, yeah.

Speaker 1 Get it, black wish. Ish, know ish.
Plugging the show already.

Speaker 1 Know each other-ish.

Speaker 1 No, there's like a connection. There's a spiritual connection.
I live for this girl. I love her.
I think she's a girl.

Speaker 1 How did you meet you two? On the Jimmy Kimmel show, but I think we met before that, too, when I was a guest host, and I interviewed you on Jimmy Kimmel. Yep.
All right. So listen.
So

Speaker 1 you were born in L.A. like,

Speaker 1 by the way, like Jason was.

Speaker 1 I was born in L.A. Yeah, I see you.

Speaker 2 So I did not go to school on a bus.

Speaker 1 Did not go to school.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I was going to get into that. That's what I was going to say.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 There was no massage class. No, no massage.
So I was born here in 1972. Actually, went to the center way back then, Center for Early Education, before it was this thing that it is now.

Speaker 2 Lived here until my mom was going to New York to do the whiz.

Speaker 2 Wow.

Speaker 2 And then was in New York.

Speaker 1 Let's make sure your listener knows who mommy was.

Speaker 3 Barbara Streisand.

Speaker 1 Wow.

Speaker 1 Interesting.

Speaker 1 Diana Ross. Right now, Sean's sister is like, fucking what? What? Barbara Streisand.

Speaker 1 Barbara Streisand.

Speaker 2 My mom is Diana Ross. My dad is Bob Ella Silberstein.
And

Speaker 2 was in New York, went to school there until seventh grade, then moved to Paris because my mom was supposed to do a movie there. She also met her husband

Speaker 2 that, anyway, whatever.

Speaker 2 And lived in Paris and went to the American School in Paris for a little while and then moved to Switzerland and went to Le Rosé

Speaker 2 and then moved back to the States.

Speaker 2 And then I, well, you're a a Canadian, yeah?

Speaker 1 Yeah, but I don't speak. Okay, yes.
Okay. You speak French.
You speak fluent French. Well, I don't know about that.
But anyway, sorry, I interrupted you. By the way,

Speaker 1 it should be pointed out that Tracy, when she goes, and then my mom,

Speaker 1 just whatever, her whatevers are more interesting than the bulk of my story. Yes, right.

Speaker 1 So let me just, that's my kind of question is

Speaker 1 like, because in Chicago, I didn't grow up around, like, you know, in this town, which you're surrounded by fame and all that stuff. So, so I, you know, I didn't have a sense of other.

Speaker 1 Well, our senses of other is different, right? Which for opposite reasons. So what was that like as a kid, I wonder?

Speaker 2 Well, it's all you know. So it's all I knew.
The nice thing was that when I went to school, first of all, my mom is a mom before anything else.

Speaker 2 So she's, I didn't have the sort of fantasy life of what people imagine it would be or what you see in reality shows, for example.

Speaker 2 That was not my childhood. Right.

Speaker 2 And yes, I had incredible opportunities. I went to school in Switzerland.
I went to the best schools and

Speaker 2 Marvin Gaye called our home and Andy Warhol painted me and

Speaker 2 all these things that are very extraordinary. I'm looking at screen.
So those things are extraordinary, but because my mom was such a mom, she's in your face right now. It's amazing.

Speaker 1 I just think it's so great. I know.
It's so amazing.

Speaker 2 So because of all that,

Speaker 2 but there was a sense of normalcy to my life. And I didn't know there was something different.
And then when I went to Dalton.

Speaker 2 In New York. In New York,

Speaker 2 the other kids that I was going to school with were Ralph Lauren's kids, Robert Robert Redford's kids. So that was taken off the table for us.

Speaker 2 So it wasn't a thing.

Speaker 1 Right.

Speaker 2 And only as I've gotten, you know, as I became an adult and realized the magnitude of the fact that my mother's an international treasure, as they say.

Speaker 1 You know, just a goddess of. Well, I mean, you joke about it, but she's an

Speaker 1 audience. No, I know.
No, but you're not. But you have to couch it in that icon.
But I have to say, you've achieved the impossible and you're an icon. Like to me,

Speaker 1 like, you know, the best example I can think of, when you watch Janet Jackson, I don't think of Michael Jackson. When you watch Michael Jackson, I don't think of Janet Jackson.

Speaker 1 When you watch Diana Ross, I think of her. I think of Tracy Ellis Ross as two completely different people.
And you're surprised to know that, oh, Diana Ross, oh, that's the Ross. Wow.

Speaker 2 Yeah. It's actually funny.
And then when people,

Speaker 2 you know, I do look a lot like my mom. And then I also look a lot like my dad.

Speaker 2 But people are surprised and it's fun because they're like, you didn't tell me. I'm like, why was I supposed to tell you that?

Speaker 1 That would not be.

Speaker 1 And we will be right back.

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Speaker 1 Wait, so tell me about when you were a kid, because I heard the story once, but it was a while ago, that you grew up in a family of five kids or five people.

Speaker 2 So we're five, my mom has five kids, but we were three girls with my mom. And then 15 and 16 years later,

Speaker 2 my brothers were born.

Speaker 1 And tell me about getting the wiggles out or something.

Speaker 2 Oh, yeah. It's Rhonda, Tracy, Chudney, Ross, and Evan, just to get through the siblings.
And my mom is one of six. So it's a big family.
Like even just the immediate family is like 22.

Speaker 2 Everybody, all my siblings have husbands or wives and multiple children. I'm the like lone single lady who, you know, just gets to come and go.

Speaker 1 What do you, what do you think is wrong with you?

Speaker 1 Sorry.

Speaker 1 She's

Speaker 1 fucking sorry. Sometimes

Speaker 1 there is.

Speaker 2 Did you, there's a long list.

Speaker 1 I'm so sorry that I just said it like that. I didn't.
What I'm

Speaker 1 drunk is.

Speaker 2 What you meant was,

Speaker 1 what I meant was, how's it going?

Speaker 2 So far, so good. I mean, I just turned 50, and I think I just started working some of this shit out.

Speaker 1 Oh, believe me, I'm 52, and I am fucking, I am not even close to halfway working out.

Speaker 2 At 12 years old, I said to my mom, I think I need a therapist.

Speaker 1 At 12. I wish I'd known.
I wish I'd known there was such thing as therapy at that age.

Speaker 2 I don't know how I knew.

Speaker 1 Well, you grew up in LA, New York. I think that that's kind of stuff.
I I didn't have sushi till I was 22.

Speaker 2 I love that that's the marker.

Speaker 1 I didn't know what to,

Speaker 2 what was, well, I couldn't even think of a fish. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Nigiri. Okay, wait, you asked if Nigiri.

Speaker 2 You asked about the wiggles. Wiggles, yeah.

Speaker 2 So I was a very hyper child and very silly. And

Speaker 2 I also really loved, it was, my sister Rhonda is very cerebral and I'm very physical.

Speaker 1 And so it was really frustrating for my sister, which I thought was very funny.

Speaker 2 And so I was just very energetic and I always, you know, and so my grandmother said it was the 12-year-old giggles, the eight-year-old giggles, the nine-year-old giggles, it just kept going.

Speaker 2 It never stopped. And so my mother, in order to keep the peace at dinner, would say, would you like to go outside and get your wiggles out?

Speaker 2 And I would say, yes, I would. And so I would go outside the glass sliding door and entertain myself.

Speaker 1 Like a dog has zoomed in.

Speaker 2 And I would bounce around out there, like trying to get my sister to laugh, like trying to do stuff. And then I would come back in.
And it would make me even more hyper.

Speaker 2 And my mom would say, and are they out?

Speaker 1 And I would be like, I don't know. And then, nope, I think there's a few more.
And I would go back out and do it again and come back.

Speaker 1 Like a doggy has zoomies.

Speaker 2 God bless my siblings. It was actually funny.
There was a period when one of my brothers was going through a phase and I was like, Rhonda, I'm just so worried. And she goes, worried about what?

Speaker 2 I'm like, how he's going to turn out.

Speaker 1 She goes, what?

Speaker 2 I said, well, I mean, you know, like with all this going on. And she goes,

Speaker 2 you figured it out and you were 10 times worse.

Speaker 1 Wow.

Speaker 1 Really?

Speaker 2 She was like, yeah, nightmare. I was in a god.

Speaker 1 Do you remember the moment if there was a moment where you wanted to pursue something

Speaker 1 in the public? And then you thought, well,

Speaker 1 am I going to be able to live up to what I'm I always worry about that with children of

Speaker 1 you know

Speaker 1 you want to drop the hammer on her? Yeah, go go ahead, Tracy. Well, that would be good for you.
He dropped the hammer because what was yours? Well, my question is, mine are letter.

Speaker 1 Mine are more like growing up in LA, did you ever, while you were driving, run it, did you ever see like a school bus with kids giving each other massages go by?

Speaker 1 That was me.

Speaker 1 Wait, can I tell you?

Speaker 2 I want to get to your question, but can I tell you? Because I feel like I told you this like waiting for our cars at an award show.

Speaker 2 But I'm going to tell you again while other people get here because it's so good. So Silver Spoons.

Speaker 1 Yes. Huge fan.
Okay. Very big.

Speaker 2 Very big during my RH group.

Speaker 2 And, you know, everybody loved Ricky. They loved Ricky Schroeder.
I was like, no, I'm the Jason girl.

Speaker 2 You were the one that was teen beat, like that I would pull out and put on my wall.

Speaker 1 Yeah. And then you had to flip through a few pages before you got to me.

Speaker 2 I found it. And so, and then now for some reason, whenever I'm asked like childhood crush, I can never get it right.
And I say Justin

Speaker 2 because I combine you with your sister. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Do you ever get that, Jay? Jay, do you ever get that? Do you ever get that?

Speaker 1 Three times a day. Do you get that all the time? Really? Oh, yeah.
At least. Oh, I thought that was unique.

Speaker 1 No, no, I get Justin all.

Speaker 1 I will say he's really good about it. I've been with him many times with people, and they'll go like, isn't that right, Justin? You'll go, yep.

Speaker 1 Oh, my God. You don't even, he doesn't even exist you anymore.
It doesn't even exhaust it.

Speaker 2 But yes, you were, all these other people were so dumb. I mean, look, oh, that wasn't nice.
Um,

Speaker 1 I'd have those same, I'd have those same team beat magazines looking at Jason, too. Yeah, it was great.
Yeah,

Speaker 2 you were like a teen, like a teen heart throb.

Speaker 1 Hey, Sean, hey, Sean, why don't you, uh, Sean, why don't you

Speaker 1 walk us through that? Unbelievable, unbelievable, Will. Beautiful, Will.
Unbelievable. I know.
I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 I want to get back to your question, though.

Speaker 1 Oh, what's wrong with you? Yeah, so I mean, good for you that

Speaker 1 you didn't let that be a barrier and like, no, screw it. I don't want to, I don't want to have it fail or not be able to live up to her.
You know, and that still haunts me.

Speaker 1 There's a misconception that you could have been anything you wanted just because of where you came from, but that's not how it felt to you.

Speaker 2 Well, a couple things. Like, if you think back to when we were younger, are we all in the same age range? And you're younger.

Speaker 1 Yes, yes. The youngest.
No, I'm 52. Okay.
You are the youngest, actually. Yeah.
Of us. Well, of us, of the three of us.

Speaker 1 But Will, you play the youngest, don't you? What's the oldest you can play, Will?

Speaker 1 What do you think the oldest you can play? I could stretch to 44, probably. Yeah, true.
Yeah. You know what I mean?

Speaker 2 When you do that, I would say I would give it a 60.

Speaker 1 Would my eyes get like this? Yes, yes. I call smoke in the room.
We call that smoke in the room.

Speaker 1 It tightens things up there. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Is that like a guy thing?

Speaker 1 No, we'd go along red carpets and we'd see other actors doing it. We'd be like, oh, look, it's real smoky over there.
Some guy be getting a squint.

Speaker 2 Hey, what's going on? I've had to learn how to not be an over-peaker on the carpet. Yeah, where you look over the car.

Speaker 1 If you can see your tonsils, it's like a problem.

Speaker 2 Like, I'm like,

Speaker 1 not

Speaker 2 Yeah, like turn it down to a two. Like I'm on like 11 on a carpet.

Speaker 1 Yeah, me too.

Speaker 2 You know, when I was growing up, when we were younger, being a child of was not what it is now. And a lot of people would change their parents' last name.

Speaker 2 And I think from a really young age, I was very aware of the fact that people were paying attention to me because I was an extension of someone they loved as opposed to because of me.

Speaker 2 And because of that, I felt very compelled to figure out who I was, what I wanted, who I wanted to be. And that was my driving force.

Speaker 2 It was challenging.

Speaker 2 You know, I mean, like growing, not challenging, that's the wrong word, but people, I used to have the metaphor that people would unlock the door and then sit on the other side, like, how's she going to walk through?

Speaker 2 As opposed to being excited or like, oh, this is so intriguing.

Speaker 2 But no, I mean, like, like everybody in this business, I, and especially at that time, I really had to like fight my way through and make a lot of failures. And

Speaker 1 yeah, you turned it into a positive, it sounds like, where you knew that the bar was going going to be higher that was going to be more scrutiny and so you really yeah it's arguably harder to do because you have so many more preconceived notions but get it coming into the room as opposed to some other performer who comes in and does has no there's no there's nothing yeah there's nothing blank slate yeah you know I think um the singing like I actually wanted to be a singer that was

Speaker 2 guess what love myself I love that song you did it you're so I at 40 something how old was I I don't know I did a movie where I sang and let me tell you that like the internal journey on that was real challenging.

Speaker 2 Like facing that monster for myself.

Speaker 2 And I remember seeing God Bless Her, Lisa Marie, when Lisa Marie Prestu, when she had come out with her first album, and they obliterated her. Oh, really? They obliterated her.

Speaker 2 And I was like 16 years old at the time, I think. And I was like, oh, that's not a good choice.
Like, that's a hard path. Right.

Speaker 2 And then, yeah, I did the high note and I recorded songs and I made it through that terrible

Speaker 2 sort of internal monster of I'm never gonna be my mom. And I realized I'm never gonna be my mom.
I'm never supposed to be my mom.

Speaker 1 You're never supposed to be your mom. And you killed it and you killed it.
It's so good. I love that.

Speaker 2 I always used to say to myself, yeah, I mean, you're a failure. Like you will never actually

Speaker 2 enter the Super Bowl in a halftime show in a helicopter. Like, babe,

Speaker 2 it's all going to be garbage.

Speaker 1 But you don't need to. Yeah, you don't need to.

Speaker 2 Nobody's going to kill you.

Speaker 2 But wait, what about, but didn't you have an embarrassing moment in high school or something where you sang and yeah, I sang an a cappella song and I started on the wrong key and my voice cracked and I panicked and like froze.

Speaker 2 And then I tried again and messed it up again and the entire audience started going, you can do it. You can do it.
And my best friend at the time like came on stage and hugged me and I did it again.

Speaker 2 And then I was like, that's it.

Speaker 1 We're good.

Speaker 2 We've handled that little singing desire.

Speaker 1 I had, I talked about, I think I talked about it before. I had the same kind of thing when I was doing a show called, guys.

Speaker 1 Promises, Promises. You promises, Promises.
Yeah. Promises on Broadway.

Speaker 1 Where I had.

Speaker 1 It was the pressure.

Speaker 1 Will you asleep on the mic? Will you're asleep on the mic?

Speaker 1 Good night, Oscar.

Speaker 1 What was my cube? Shit, I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 Opens April 24th.

Speaker 1 Which theater? Which theater? Belasco. Belasco theater.
Oh, my God. I didn't even remember.

Speaker 1 I know more more than you. But anyway, so

Speaker 1 the pressure of singing in front of all these people a solo song is a lot. Like when everybody's looking at you to sing great.

Speaker 1 And then you have like the X-Factor and American Idol and, you know, the voice and all these singing competition shows where people judge you for singing.

Speaker 1 And so all that pressure was, and it made me not be able to sing. And I was like, I got to quit.
I quit. I got to get fired.
Please fire me. I can't do this anymore.

Speaker 1 And then I went to therapy and I got over it. And then I sang fine.
But I know what you mean about like cracking or anything. It really is like traumatizing.
There's nowhere to hide.

Speaker 1 Yeah, there's nowhere to hide.

Speaker 2 Yeah, there's nowhere to hide. I will tell you now, like, there's nothing I like better.

Speaker 2 During filming of that movie, I was like, get me on a stage with a mic and just an audience.

Speaker 1 Just

Speaker 2 get out there and listen.

Speaker 1 Just listen to me.

Speaker 2 And if I'm not singing, I'm going to be talking. Listen, let me change my clothes so you can see another outfit.
Look up. Just sit there.
Don't go to the bathroom. I got more.

Speaker 1 It's like, there's nothing.

Speaker 1 There's nothing.

Speaker 2 I'm like,

Speaker 2 hold on a second. I got more to say nope i didn't ask you a question i'm answering it myself thank you so much like i just want to like get in there and just keep going

Speaker 1 remember star search are we all old enough to remember that was

Speaker 1 bad wasn't it sam smith yes sam smith

Speaker 1 was on star search do you remember he was the one not sam smith not sam smith sam um

Speaker 1 oh god he sang the star spangle winter over the rainbow and sam harris

Speaker 2 sam harris yeah he's amazing you do remember him if i showed you him right now and he was like

Speaker 1 really went in was amazing he was amazing Ed McMahon was the host right all by himself he didn't have a co-host with him did he no no no I remember that star search that was like the first American Idol or something Rosie O'Donnell was yeah I was gonna say it launched a bunch of people I think yeah remember that I should bring that back anyway if you're at home just google it right now go ahead and we'll take a second and take a look and you can see catch up what we're talking about this is

Speaker 2 you know I'm I was just talking about the other day we are also the generation that remembers Ovaltine Tang Yes.

Speaker 2 I'm trying to think of some of the other things I was trying to think about.

Speaker 1 College and all I drank was Tang. Tang.
It was just what you needed to be.

Speaker 1 I was just knee-deep in Tang.

Speaker 1 Crushing. The drink.
What is your problem, dude?

Speaker 1 I can't have a conversation without being, you know what?

Speaker 1 You don't need to say poo. You don't need to say the other part.

Speaker 1 No, because I just got it. All right.
So listen.

Speaker 1 So wait, Tracy. Sorry, Tracy.
First of all, that's my sister's name and I love her and I love you. All right.
So listen.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 A big fan of the podcast. So listen, I heard you on.

Speaker 1 So I heard you on Glenn Duel.

Speaker 2 I listen to the podcast. I just ignore when I get anyone listening.

Speaker 1 Believe me, I get it. I heard you on Glenn and Duel's podcast, and you were fantastic.

Speaker 1 And you wished you, you, you, I get it because you always talk about, we talk about this too, about like how you love being home.

Speaker 1 And, you know, you, you wished you wanted to go out more when people invited you to cool places, but you, you don't often like to go out there.

Speaker 2 It's like the weird tangle between wanting to be invited and also like not.

Speaker 2 Right.

Speaker 1 But I love this quote of yours, which is so great. You said, I'm an introvert who plays an extrovert in life.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 I think that's true. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I think that's a lot of people. I'm the same.
Yeah. I don't, I, I would love to not go out every time it's time to go out.
You don't play an extrovert. I don't even try.
You don't do anything.

Speaker 1 you're an introvert who acts like an introvert yeah yeah yeah well i mean well it's because amanda i got amanda right there who's just like the greatest extrovert so i can just lay back let her do all the talking and socialize you got a built-in bad guy is what you got don't worry

Speaker 1 travel with your bad cop a little bit tracy how are you single

Speaker 1 my daughter

Speaker 1 I mean, it's kind of an argument.

Speaker 1 You know what?

Speaker 2 I'll tell you.

Speaker 1 Let's get back.

Speaker 2 No, let's get back to Will's question. Because I'm broken.

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 1 No. I think yourself, Tracy.
No, no.

Speaker 1 What guy wouldn't go nuts? You know what? My theory is, Sean.

Speaker 2 I feel like I'm a unicorn, and so it's hard to find another one. Yeah.

Speaker 2 But it's not to say that I have had a boring life.

Speaker 1 You know what? The one thing that's true about all unicorns. What? They're really horny.
Hey, guys.

Speaker 1 I can't believe we're laughing. No, I just snorted.
That is just inappropriate.

Speaker 1 That was the worst joke.

Speaker 1 It's one of the worst jokes. By the way, also.

Speaker 1 Oh, not good. None of them are good.
there's only one unicorn. That's the whole purpose of a unicorn.

Speaker 2 No, there's a village of unicorns, Will.

Speaker 1 We'll be right back.

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Speaker 1 Let's talk. How about this for a segue? I want to talk about your career and how great you are and how amazing Blackish was and that it's off the air now.
And do you wish it was still on the air?

Speaker 1 Did it end at the right time? Did you, you know, and by the way, I remember hearing some story about how you used to make yourself cry as a kid and something like that. I did.

Speaker 1 To become a better actress or something like that.

Speaker 2 Well, yeah, my favorite thing to do is like I would get upset about something and cry and then I just lay down and I would notice the tears were just puddling on the floor and then I would move myself as quickly as I could towards the mirror to just see what it looked like.

Speaker 1 Oh my God, look at it.

Speaker 2 Is that good? I don't know. Just sort of really trying to just

Speaker 1 see what it looked like.

Speaker 1 Do you have a cry trick?

Speaker 1 Do you have a certain thing that you think about that can be a little bit more like a musician?

Speaker 2 I just think of the most awful thing that, like my worst nightmare of what could happen, somebody being gone. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I do the same thing. It's terrible.
It's so bad to do to yourself.

Speaker 2 So bad for your soul. Like it is just terrible.
I remember on Blackish, we had a scene where that's that season when Dre and I were getting a divorce and then it all ends with like Bo's father dying.

Speaker 2 And I have to say Bo's father dying because I kept. We did this scene.
I was supposed to be a mess crying hysterically. And then we're on a comedy.

Speaker 2 So then they were like, all right, let's get to the next scene.

Speaker 1 And I was like, I'm still like my dad died. I'm still sensitive.
I'm like, still, like the wound is still open inside my soul.

Speaker 1 I haven't stopped rolling yet. Like, like, it's still, I'm still bleeding inside.
Just give me a second.

Speaker 2 But it's like impossible. Like, how do you, you know, I'm still.

Speaker 1 I'm still rolling.

Speaker 1 No one said cut in there. Okay.

Speaker 1 You're still crying on the way home.

Speaker 1 Still, no one said cut.

Speaker 2 It's ridiculous.

Speaker 2 What did you ask? You asked if, I think, you know, I did eight years on Girlfriends and eight years on blackish.

Speaker 1 I know. What a career.
I mean, that's crazy. Two big shows.

Speaker 2 And I think it was perfect timing for it to be done. The beauty of blackish ending was we knew it was ending.

Speaker 2 So I was able to walk into the last year, the last season, so present to sort of all of it. Gotcha.
And to actually get the ritual of saying goodbye and...

Speaker 2 and having it be over. Whereas on Girlfriends, we didn't know.
We ended the last episode that we shot of Girlfriends, I directed, and it was during the writer's strike.

Speaker 2 So we had no writers on set, and then we just disappeared. There was no rap party, there was no nothing after eight years.

Speaker 2 So this was really special to be able to sort of finish this way.

Speaker 1 And that's like whenever I have a gathering at my house, people just leave. And I get to do it.

Speaker 2 And you don't even know.

Speaker 1 Oh, wait, where did everybody go?

Speaker 2 They were like, we didn't like the door slam.

Speaker 1 It's like dad's screeching tired. That's my dad leaving.
Wait, we didn't have a rap party, dad.

Speaker 1 But wait, wait, she said it's that's 16 years. I know

Speaker 1 of sitcom television, of episode television. I mean, that's so long.
A, that's an incredible run. And lucrative.
And do what?

Speaker 2 Hold on. I'm a black actress.

Speaker 1 Okay. Now please continue.
Okay. Uh-huh.
Fair enough.

Speaker 2 I've done well, but let's compare.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, for sure. For sure.

Speaker 1 Let's compare. Fucking.

Speaker 1 Now, is it true that when mom used to drive out of that driveway and she was away, you

Speaker 1 try on her dresses and her outfits, and that's where fashion comes from. Because, you know, I do.
I tried, put it on. You put it on.
I would take it. No, no, no.

Speaker 2 It was even worse. I would literally, she would be pulling out of the driveway.
I would go look. She's okay.
She's pulling out. Great.

Speaker 2 And I would go into her bathroom, into the closet, and I would start taking everything I wanted, throwing it over my arm to move it into my closet for the time she was gone.

Speaker 2 So it's like I would open my closet as if these things were mine.

Speaker 2 And one time she came back, she had forgotten something. She was like, What are you doing?

Speaker 1 I was like, I am going to surprise you by organizing your closets no way no way did you really that's amazing i was like i know but go i just get out of here what'd you forget

Speaker 1 it for you stop it

Speaker 1 that's hysterical wait so and is that is that where fashion where your is your mom the inspiration for for loving fashion or i don't know because i follow you like a crazy person on instagram and all of your like gorgeous you always look so gorgeous and thank you i love the stuff you wear I will always shop and there will always be dirty dishes in my sink.

Speaker 2 Combination of both. Two things that are just true about me.

Speaker 2 But I stack the dishes nicely because I'm extremely organized.

Speaker 2 Fashion was an armor for me.

Speaker 2 And looking back, I've actually realized it was one of the ways that I sort of protected myself from the world and fought microaggressions and racism.

Speaker 2 In the world that I lived in, I would navigate myself and my external appearance in a way that gave somebody an impression, that and my articulateness, and I would sort of dive in in a way that like, you cannot belittle me.

Speaker 2 Not only my clothes telling you that, but, and also around men and whatever, like I just was able to sort of clothe myself in a way that told the world what I wanted them to know about me.

Speaker 2 And now it's a creative expression.

Speaker 1 What age do you think? That's such an interesting.

Speaker 1 What age do you think that you started, A, doing that, doing that, especially sort of against the microaggressions?

Speaker 1 And B, did you become actually cognizant of the fact that that's what you were doing?

Speaker 2 I wasn't cognizant of that until now.

Speaker 1 Oh, wow.

Speaker 2 Because I started to think back. I can't remember who I was talking to.
And I was like, wait a minute, that was fascinating. Because as I said, I've always loved clothes.

Speaker 2 And so I was always a shopper, like, but a lot of it was,

Speaker 2 there's a way you're not going to talk to me because I'm presenting myself in a particular manner.

Speaker 2 And I think that is a part of it. You know, as black people in this country, there is an idea of who we are, black and brown people.

Speaker 2 And so there's an external presentation that is expected that goes into

Speaker 2 respectability politics and all of these different things. There's a

Speaker 2 way to sort of play into that. And I used clothing as one of those weapons for myself.

Speaker 2 I don't think I realized it, but it was from young, because I also am a person who was very independent from a young age and I always looked older than I was.

Speaker 2 I had to prove to people that I was younger, you know, and didn't have an ID or something.

Speaker 2 And some of it was my sort of stature. And I've always been very, like, I've always looked older for my age and sort of very articulate and clear in my communication.
And so I don't know.

Speaker 2 But now it's just a way I spend my money.

Speaker 1 If this character doesn't hit the road, I'm going to fucking

Speaker 1 go.

Speaker 2 There's a couple of characters, they're behind me, you can't see them, but there's Madame Iver, who's the alcoholic acting coach. Related to Bone at all?

Speaker 1 Yeah, I was just going to say, Boney Ver? Vera?

Speaker 2 No.

Speaker 1 How dare you fuck her?

Speaker 2 You're a dear sweetheart. You're such a dear.
I love the way you smile. It's wonderful.

Speaker 1 Yes, yes.

Speaker 2 Madame Vera, she's all eyebrows. There's a picture of her behind me.
Apparently, I've done this my whole life. And my mom, one day, I was on the phone with my mom.

Speaker 2 She started talking in this weird voice. I was like, mom, what are you doing? She was like, I'm just doing what you're doing.
And I was like, I don't know what you're doing.

Speaker 1 So I'm not sure.

Speaker 2 She's like, you always do this when you're telling stories. You just go into different voices.
And I was like, do I?

Speaker 2 And yeah, so I apparently do this all the time. I love it.

Speaker 1 Let me ask you something about fashion. How do you know what is happening right now?

Speaker 1 Like, is there an agreed upon magazine that like, oh, if you see pictures of, let's say, like, how would you know that overalls are back?

Speaker 1 Like, if it's in vogue or if it's at the store asking for a friend?

Speaker 1 Here's the thing, though.

Speaker 2 So there's a difference between style and fashion, in my opinion. Thank you.
Amen. It's like a difference between spirituality and religion.
Style is how you do things.

Speaker 2 It's sort of the, and fashion is the sort of what everybody is saying is in or out. Oh my God, Will, what are you about to say?

Speaker 1 Sorry, I'm just agreeing with you and I'm listening to you tell these two heathens. Keep going, Tracy.
We're on the same page.

Speaker 1 Go ahead.

Speaker 2 And so for me, I really don't follow what's in and out. There are things that will tell you what the trends are, and you'll start to see, but it's just like with anything.

Speaker 2 There's a zeitgeist and like certain things come in at the same time.

Speaker 2 And then there's somebody, there's, you know, an Anna Winter, whomever, Edward Annifel, who will tell you like this year, the trend is overalls, pink lips and black nails. You know what I mean?

Speaker 2 But for me,

Speaker 2 I think that I should wear my clothes and they shouldn't wear me. So I follow what makes my heart sing.
And the truth is, I've been, the things that I wear have been the, my body's been the same.

Speaker 2 The shape of my body's been the same, slightly changed, but I still wear the same shapes, high-waisted pants, wide-legged trouser. I do love an overall.

Speaker 2 I love a big chunky shoe, always have. You know, it's like those things are the same for me.

Speaker 1 Girls have so much more options. And the guys are like a suit.
Not anymore.

Speaker 2 Not anymore. You can wear whatever you want.

Speaker 1 But like, that's, I always, I always feel comfortable when Amanda is like, you know, sorry, I just heard my name. I was asleep for a second.

Speaker 1 I think guys have it so easy. Like you go to some like black tie event.
Well, it's just a tuxedo. Great, I'm done in 10 minutes.

Speaker 2 But have you guys looked, though, if you like notice now, like men

Speaker 2 are leaning into all these different spaces and wear skirts? And I mean, didn't Brad Pitt just wear a skirt for his press junket or something?

Speaker 2 You can wear whatever you want. Jason, I would love to see you in a skirt or some sparkles.
Sure.

Speaker 1 Didn't you run into Brad at the Oscars or something and you're like totally stars?

Speaker 2 I ran into Brad. Brad did not see me, but I saw him.

Speaker 1 I saw him.

Speaker 2 And we made eye contact.

Speaker 1 Oh, that's it. He is.
That's it.

Speaker 1 That's it. I love that.

Speaker 2 That is a good-looking dude.

Speaker 1 Oh,

Speaker 2 it's like weird. Who's the other one? There was someone else recently, and I was just like, what is wrong with that that face? Why does it look like that? It's so pretty.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Well, it wasn't. Obviously, it wasn't any one of us.
Keanu Reeves.

Speaker 1 Do you know what? Yeah, that's okay.

Speaker 1 What was that, Sean? Hold on a second. Did you say Keanu Reeves? Keanu Reeves.

Speaker 1 But is that pretty high on your list, Sean? Keanu? No, she's not. I think I love Kiana.
I'm a huge fan of good-looking guys. Not my type.

Speaker 2 I mostly have dated black men. I date, I'm, but

Speaker 2 as a youngin', it went from, it went like this, Jason. Yep.
Yep. Then I think it was Keanu.

Speaker 1 Okay. Yep.
Really?

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 2 never been, I've never been like a Brad Pitt fan, like like, like he was not like a crush from movies. But when you see him in person, it's like weird.

Speaker 1 Startling.

Speaker 2 Like you're just like, my God, what is happening with that face? Yeah, he's got,

Speaker 1 he's got tons of Riz.

Speaker 2 It's really extraordinary. What's Riz? Riz.

Speaker 1 Is that what the I'm not explaining it to you guys? You guys don't know what it is. You have to because I'm a guest and I don't know.

Speaker 1 Riz is like what all the kids, like my kids say, they all talk about. They'll talk about like a guy who's got like game or like

Speaker 1 charisma, but they're not. Oh, Riz.

Speaker 2 That's amazing. I'm totally stealing that.
Yeah, Riz.

Speaker 1 My kids hate it because I use it all the time and they're really embarrassed by the way that I use it. Why don't you switch it to ma? This guy's got a lot of ma.

Speaker 2 I actually kind of like that too. You know?

Speaker 2 But the charisma, you know, the thing is, as you, as you, you know, you realize like

Speaker 2 that has nothing to do with sex appeal. Like, the physical, this is not that at all.

Speaker 1 No, wait, wait, sorry. So keep going.
So you went, it was Jason, then Keanu. Then it was never really Brad, although we all agree that Brad Pitt is incredible.

Speaker 2 Like objectively. It's like objectively.
That's just like a

Speaker 2 nobody's going to dispute that.

Speaker 1 Yeah. And a great guy.
Keep going.

Speaker 1 Now, talk about Riz. You got a lot of Riz.
And I didn't know, Tracy. And

Speaker 1 I didn't know. I was like, why doesn't she have her own podcast? And now you do.
And it's called I Am America.

Speaker 2 It is very different from a Riz podcast, though.

Speaker 1 Wait.

Speaker 1 Wait, what? Tell me, when did it start? And how is it?

Speaker 2 It's not a podcast.

Speaker 1 It's not a thing.

Speaker 1 We're going to make it a thing. Just pick a different syllable.
I'm embarrassed in the way that my kids are. God.
I can't wait to see you. Jason's about to dab.
Jason's about to dab for fuck's sake.

Speaker 1 He doesn't even know. Did I do it right? No.
No.

Speaker 1 I don't even know.

Speaker 2 That looked like something from cheer camp.

Speaker 1 Hi.

Speaker 1 Ready? Okay.

Speaker 1 Great. And docks.

Speaker 1 Yes.

Speaker 2 I have a podcast that is January 31st that I'm very excited about. It's called I Am America.
And we meet people who are

Speaker 2 redefining their own identity and the idea of community.

Speaker 2 what I think is the possibility of our country. And I, and the thing that's so exciting to me is it's a version of,

Speaker 2 it's the best of our country and a version that I just don't hear enough of

Speaker 2 around people that are looking to belong and end up creating a sense of belonging for so many others. And so they tell their own stories.
It's some people you might know, some you don't know at all.

Speaker 2 Deanna Van Buren, who is one of very few black female architects.

Speaker 2 A man by the name of Tony Hillary, who started Harlem Grown

Speaker 2 in

Speaker 2 New York, and his beautiful story and realizing that

Speaker 2 it takes a lot to grow children and it's it's not what you expect.

Speaker 2 Kiera Gaines who's a therapist, a black male therapist and

Speaker 2 really works with people and so I then sort of create context and so much of what happens for the black and brown stories in this country is they're decontextualized and we don't get to really hear the context and the

Speaker 2 fertility, the sort of depth of their stories. And so I do the intro and the outro and I sort of frame and give context to their stories.

Speaker 2 and um i'm just very excited about it every time i listen and and the editing process i just have been i'm moved to tears at how beautiful these stories and these people are so it's been really fun for me i love that that's great i can't wait to hear that yeah it's uh

Speaker 2 you say we is it you by yourself or just you and your team of people me and my team we we've put together a really beautiful team that honestly is just as beautiful of a tapestry as the people we're interviewing just amazing people doing our sound design and um and uh our producer nicole hill it's really been a really fulfilling process for me.

Speaker 2 That's great. That's so great.

Speaker 1 I love it. I can't wait to hear it.
Well, you know, we've taken up too much of your time. I love people with two names.
I love people with three names even more.

Speaker 1 Tracy Ellis Ross. You're amazing.
Thank you for your time.

Speaker 2 This has been so much fun.

Speaker 1 I am a huge fan. You know how much I love you so much.
God, you're so funny. You're so hilarious.
Yeah. Oh, my God.

Speaker 1 You are.

Speaker 1 You are. You are.
It's so great to meet you and to talk to you. And

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Congratulations, Chris.

Speaker 2 No, I still have really, really nice buns. Thank you.
Yeah, sweet buns.

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Speaker 1 Thanks, Tracy. Thank you so much.
What a pleasure. Please soon.
Bye, sweetie.

Speaker 1 How great is she? Jason, have you ever met her? I have. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Super duper nice. Tracy.

Speaker 1 Well, what about you? Had you met her before? I've never met her before. Isn't she unbelievably funny? She's so cool.
She truly does have charisma. Oh, my God.
I mean, off the charts.

Speaker 1 I think she could talk about like, and I know Dana Carvey was on a recent show.

Speaker 1 It's like she could do like sketch like a be a super huge sketch comedy person oh my gosh she is not slow yeah she's so witty and she's so witty and so funny and the energy and you know what like a lot of people there's this equation i think like that suits certain um

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Speaker 1 you got something and i think her name trace i think just she just equals joy i think she's so joyful and you're saying you hear her name, when you hear her name, you think joy. Yeah, for sure.

Speaker 1 Don't you? What do you think people think of when they hear your name?

Speaker 1 My name just, I got to take a potty break or something. Oh, Sean Hayes.
I got to shit. No,

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Not in your stomach. It's a good feeling.
Also, Sean, is another person just like Tracy Ellis Ross who you're like, that person brings.

Speaker 1 good positive energy and I think laughter and it's fun and good. Seriously, they do.
That's how I feel when I think of you. Oh, well, that's very nice.
Yeah. The no button coming here, huh? I know.

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