August 30, 2023 • 25 mins
Did you know that Tiffany Haddish had singing skills?? Hear all about why music is so special to her and we get a sneak peek at the song she has coming soon with Paris!
Tiffany opens up about her passion behind access to healthy foods, financial literacy, and helping kids in the foster care system.
And we hear the story of what happened when Tiffany took Paris to prom!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
I am embarrassed.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Hey everyone, we are back with another episode with my siss,
tiffinny Hattish.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
That's that. I love you, I love you.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
I had so much fun last time. I'm excited.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
I decided to wear the same outfit too, because we recycled.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Well it's such a good vibe last time, I just
felt like we had to wear them again.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Yes, the next we are we just gonna keep rocking
the same outfits because that's what we do.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Yes, So again, we will not be talking about any
of the incredible projects that my siss is doing because
of the strike. So you guys better than this so
that we can talk about these things.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Well, look, I am working on projects, but not movie stuff,
not TV stuff. But I got some projects. Oh perfect, Yeah,
I got some projects.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
So let's go into it. Yeah, I know you're doing
a lot.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I know what.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
We're recording a song after this today.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Yes, Yes, we got music projects, which I'm really excited
about and I can't wait to see people dancing to
it in the club and bumping in the beach and
making TikTok videos. And someone was asking why music, Tiffany,
why are you going into music because music has always
been a part of my life and I always I
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just feel like music is a universal language. It's universal
no matter what language the song is in. You can
either get with it or you can't get with it,
like you feel it or you don't feel it. And
I want to like bring joy. I want people to
be happy because it's so much sadness, it's so much darkness,
and everybody can't come to a comedy club and everybody's
not going to understand my jokes. But people understand music.
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They get with it, even if they speak English or not.
They love music. And for me to be able to
do something with you, it's like so huge, it's so
exciting for me, and like and then all the different
artists that I got involved, like Little Wayne, Snoop, five Year, FOURMN,
Little John, you know, like these these are like megastars,
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and I'm really excited about being able to like work
with all of them. It's like dream come true for me.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
I'm so excited. Yeah, I love the song we did together.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
It's so funny. It's like object of it.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
You can't get it out of your mind.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
I could let us sleep.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
For the first couple of weeks after I recorded it,
I kept singing it in my mind. It was like
in my head every second, I was like, oh my god.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
It's all I'm thinking about.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Yeah, that's what I want. Like, but that's how you know.
It's a good song and it brings some sort of
joy and it made you feel something, like if you
can't forget it, it made you feel something, And I think
that's really important to make people feel more than just
hurt or pain, which it seems like the world is
trying to keep projecting, like, let's make people feel some joy.
And I don't have to make you feel it. It's
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just gonna like kind of ooze it there like a
little earworm and then next thing you know, it's on
your heart and you're like feeling it. So that's that's
what I want. Yeah, And then I'm opening the grocery
store doing that like and that with your fruits and vegetables,
with some of my fruits and veggies and honeys and
things ms and some colored greens and things. But really
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I've been like reaching out to different farmers. I've been
so here's my thing. You know, I'm Jewish and I've
been going to the Jewish grocery store for a long time,
and I noticed, like, yeah, okay, the Jewish grocery store. Cool.
And then I'm at the Korean grocery store, at the
Japanese grocery store, I'm at the Indian grocery store, met
the Mexican grocery store. But there's no black grocery store.
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There's no African American grocery store. There's no like African
grocery store. You got like African mini marks that you
can get certain herbs and spices from if it's important,
if they can get a hold of it. And it's
like there should be a there should be a black
grocery store. I mean, maybe there's some down south somewhere
that I don't know about, but there is none in
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Los Angeles that I know of. So I'd like to
open one. But it's not just your typical grocery store.
It's gonna have an Airwan feel to it, uh, and
it's going to have local growers, local farmers, but also
farmers that are part of the diaspora. And then food.
I want the food to be really good quality and
really good and affordable. So we make it like a
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co op, make portions of the store a co op.
So then it's a community based store, and there'll be
a class there and not just no regular classroom. That
classroom will have financial literacy classes, cooking classes, life skill classes,
and where I want to open the stores, like right
next to the Kaiser Permanent, so maybe we can do
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some medical screenings and health screenings. Like I want a
place where people can come and it feels like you're
part of the community, and it feels like a place
you can go where you can learn something, where you
can heal, where you can get some education. Like I'm
talking to kids about it, Like I go to all
these different group homes and stuff and I talk to
the kids and mentor and all this, and they're talking
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to me like I'll never be able to buy a house.
I'm like, what, your credit score is excellent right now,
You'll definitely be able to buy house. Get you a job.
You got to do this. Say, this is kind of money.
If you take ten cents from every dollar you make
and you put that to the side, and then you
get the right kind of account that can grow you,
like make your money grow. You want to get interests,
And there's these type accounts and these they're like nobody's
ever shown me none of this stuff. And I was like,
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I know, I read a book like five years ago
and learned about it, and I would watch like different
like you know, money channel stuff like because I always
figured I'm gonna have money one day, I need to
learn how to make it grow. And I learned so
much more and I want them to learn because that's
our future and it's like generational wealth and that probably
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for me. Anyways, I felt like once I learned how
food and money worked, I became a more happier and
productive human being. My family became more happier and productive,
and I see my community becoming more happier and productive.
And if I can make sure at least seventy five
percent of the people in my community are feeling that
are getting that information, crime would drop, be less need
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for police trying to pull guns out, They could actually
have conversations. And really, the food, I think really affects
mental health in a lot of ways. Too definitely affects
my mood. I can guarantee you that if I eat
too much sugar, I'm not nice. So like finding that
balance and teaching people how their body works, I think
it's super important. And you know, school they say, like
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I was asking these during pandemic. I gathered ninety principles
together and ask them why did they take home economics
out of school? Cause it's like, I have known so
many women that don't know how to cook a meal,
and I'm just like, why don't you know how to cook?
You got kids? You need to know how to cook
at least three basic meals, because what if you don't
have time to get to the store. What if all
the stores are shut down, how are you gonna feed them?
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What if you don't have any preservative, but if you
got to go outside and just pull what's on the
on the branches, whatever, Well, how you gonna feed them?
And they're like, girl, we are ain't gonna drink water
and soda. They're gonna be like, no, you gotta know
how to make at least three basic meals. Boiler egg,
you know, scramble the egg and then maybe make some
egg egg for young soup. I don't know, some egg
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drop soup, I don't know, but you gotta know how
to make some basic stuff. So I think it's important.
I think every human being should know how to make
three basic meals. I just think that's important and if
you are struggling with money, which I know you don't
know what that feels like all the time. I know,
maybe maybe once in a while you're done have that experience.
But honey, money struggles makes you think, oh, am I
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gonna be able to eat? Am I gonna be able
to have a roof over my head? And how am
I gonna live? Like? That causes mental angst, and then
that causes crime, you know, because mothers will be stressing
out and the kids will be seeing that, and the
kids will be like, I'll get you some money, mama,
I'll get you something like next thing, you know, your
baby in jail. Now you got to put the house
up to get the bell in them out. Then you
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lose the house. It's a horrible cycle. So just trying
to figure out how to break that cycle. That's all
I'm trying to do. That's so cool that you just
yeah so much. I do you know why, because nobody
else cares.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
You've taken care of people your whole life since you're
a little.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
I know, it's what makes me feel good, like, well,
it's people out here that hate my guts, that feel
like you're wasting your time. I don't know why you're
trying to help these people that don't give about you.
Why would you do that? And it's not about It's
not always about them or the act of It's about
what makes me feel good. And I do it for
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God too, Like if God put it in my heart,
if this is in my heart to do this thing,
I feel like God put that in my heart. And
it's like it bothers me. If I don't do what's right,
it bothers me. So I gotta do it. If nobody
likes it and nobody cares, don't.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
I don't care.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
I'm gonna make the money and I'm gonna build it
and people can't come.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Yes, I love you.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Do you want to invest in the grocery store? We
could just buy a farm together. We could put we
could buy one little farm together. If Bill Gates can
buy a farm, you and I could buy a farm
and we could grow some good foods. I already got
a farm in Africa growing fruit trees. Yeah, I got
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farm Africa growing fruit trees. And we dehydrating the fruit
and package it up and calling it God's candy because
that is God's candy, the fruit. You know, sweetness, God,
we do love you God. I do it for you God.
I like it when you do that hit your hogh pitched?
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What is that? It's a battle cry? God loves it.
It's so so. I learned it from my mom. My
mom learned it from my dad, and it erit trail.
When erit trail is where my dad is from the
east side of Africa. When a family member comes home,
or when there's a celebration of when you're excited about something,
you do that. And when you about to go to
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war and you about to charge, you do that too. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
I feel like I've heard in a movie.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Oh yeah, you definitely heard it in the movie girl. Yeah, yeah, definitely,
especially some African stuff going on. Oh yeah, you heard that.
You heard that. You're like, oh, shoot, you better get
to run in rent to the family or run to
the war.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Yes, you do so many things in your life. You
have so much happening all at once. How do you
unwind and relax?
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Well, the way I unwind and relax there's several different ways.
My favorite way is to play music and dance and
dance till I'm tired, and then just turn on some cartoons,
light a joint, and then I love cartoons too, uh
or or or what I've been doing lately over the
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last few months is I've been just turning on like
my favorite cartoon like Shira and ThunderCats, Like I love ThunderCats. Yes,
she is an icon. Shira is an icon. I love Shira.
I found some old Rainbow Bright. What happened to I
love her? O g is ol ge.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
They need to remake that is a movie.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Yes, and I love what we could make. We could
do it, we could do it. And what the kids
of color like? It was all these the color Kids
I think they were called Maybe that's probably why because
it was called Color Kids. Well, she had a group,
she had a little post. Anyways, we got to figure
that out. It was the eighties, a different time.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
No one talks about her.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Nobody it took, you know, the Rainbow got took and
then nobody talked about Rainbow Bright who made them both popular.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
I love her, I love her.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Her outfits were like space Age, so cute, Color Halloween
a couple of years ago. You Sira too. I love
Shira man by the power of grades girl like just
I just love those gym Yes, I just love those
cartoons that had like female leaders and just like women
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doing stuff and like fighting for what's right. So I
watched those cartoons, but that's pretty much how I Why
not go for long walks? Uh? And I said, dancing? Yeah, dancing,
or I'll just like call my friends and be like, hey,
what are you doing? Like let's oh, you want of
that birth Can I go with you to the birthday party?
Can I hang out with you and just hang out
with my friends and like, we don't talk about work.
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We just laugh and have a good time, and you
know that that's what we do.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
So fun. That was so fun the other night at Selena's.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Birth Yes, did you say? I dance all night? I know.
I did till my feet hurt and then I was
like look damn and I wanted to dance more, but
I was tired.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
It was so fun.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
It was such a good time. Yeah, so good. It
was a little cold, that might be also wild. Kept dancing,
Yeah so cold? And yeah, and then two vodkas that'll
keep you, that'll keep you going. It's a good time.
Yea Diplo played my song. That was a good time.
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That was a good time.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
You're a successful comedian and actress, but more importantly, you're
an advocate for foster care youth with your foundation, the
she Ready Foundation. What are the main problems with the
foster care system.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
There are so many problems with the foster care system,
but I would say to me, one of the main
issues is so many issues. There is a lot of
mentally ill foster parents that probably shouldn't be foster parents.
There's also the social workers that don't really pay attention.
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They're not really paying attention or they're not listening to
the kids, or they think the kids are liars. And
if a kid is lying to you, first of all,
there's a reason for that. There's a reason they're lying,
and you need to dig into the why of that,
because kids aren't like Kids will lie because they feel
like they're going to either hurt somebody's feelings or they
feel like they're in danger. So remove them from the
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danger and find out what's really going on. Also, I
think the moving them around so much into different so
many different households is an issue because kids need a foundation.
They need to feel safe. If they're moving around all
the time with their actual family, that's one thing, because
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they still have their family, they have that foundation, But
you take them away from what they've known their home life,
and then you keep moving them from here to here
to hear and even if their whole life all they've
known is, oh, every five or six months or once
a year, I move into a new person's household. You
need to be giving them some kind of like life
skills or motivation to know that they're okay. It's not
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their fault. A lot of times as a kid, you
feel like it's your fault, like something is wrong with you,
that they're moving you around. When it took me until
I was like twenty one to realize they wasn't moving
me around because it was something wrong with me. There
was moving me around around because it might have been
something going on in that household that I didn't know about.
There might have been there short and I'm too old
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to be in that house at that point, and I
need to be in a different house. Like just better
communication with the children, communicating with them better. Also better
transitioning out of the out of foster care system. When
I came out, I was homeless right away. That was hard.
That was really hard on me. And although I had
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family here in LA, they weren't that close to me
and my Grandma's like, look, you're grown, Like not. Granted,
I was supposed to go to NYU, but I didn't
know how I was gonna pay for that. How do
you like you tell I didn't even understand comprehend you know,
thousands of dollars. I was barely making a few hundred dollars,
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you know. In two thousand dollars, that's wow. And when
they send any thing, it's gonna be forty thousand a semester.
That's not including the books, that's not including housing, that's
not including food, just forty third, Like, how do I
really need to be educated that day? I don't need
that kind of I don't know where am I gonna
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I'm gonna have to sleep with me and to learn.
I'm cool on that because that's the only way I
could think to get that kind of money, Like, how
could you get that kind of money? We didn't This
was the nineteen hundreds yard We didn't have the internet
like that. So to have better programs, which I think
they are doing, like in California, if you're which I
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love that California did, and I commend everyone who voted
on this, But in the state of California now if
you're a foster youth, you can go to a UC
college for free. You can go to UC University for free.
The curriculum that's free. That's so dope because these foster
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kids be smart, they know how to be around all
kinds of different people. I try to hire people that
come from the foster care system, that come from the
ya you know, that come from juvenile detention centers and stuff,
because they got something to prove and they're going to
want to prove it, and they are the most resourceful,
figure it out person. And this business can be vicious.
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It can be vicious, but it's nowhere near as vicious
as that system, so they usually are able to handle it.
Some of them are sensitive, but that's when you put
them in a sensitive department. You put them into, you know,
with the department for systative and stuff. HR.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Yes, what's the best way for people to help kids
in the foster care system?
Speaker 1 (18:11):
I think the best way for people to help is
to find an organization that you love, to find an
organization that that you think is really doing the best
that they can, and check them out. You can you
can ask a lot of questions, you can check you
can do the research, see where they're putting money, See
where they're doing things, check and see and volunteer. If
you don't want to put money there, volunteer. Volunteering your
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time is the best thing you could ever give. I
think in any situation, your time is so valuable. And
for a child to see that you showed up, for
them to see that you care every mentor I had
as a kid that showed up to take us to
this thing or take us. I remember every single one
of their names. If I come across them, I love them.
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I love every single one of them. They taught me something.
I mean, I remember this guy. His name was Courtney,
and he had a nose ring here like one of
the rings. He had earrings. He was this big black
man and I thought he was a genie. I to
be like, are you a genie? You a gangster genie?
You got a gangster genie? And he'd be like, no,
I'm not no genie. Tiffany, and he was like, show me,
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like how to grow. Like he showed me the proper
way to grocery shop, like the proper way to buy
like pats and pans for your house, and the proper
way to cut out coupons, and this is a man
showing me this, right. I'm like night, I was nineteen
years old and this grown man is showing me how
to properly shop. Right. It was huge for me. I
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didn't know if he was gay straight, and I didn't care.
All I cared about is this big gangbanger, pirate looking
man cared enough about me to show me how to
take care of myself, right, And I'm would telling him.
He'd be like, let me show you how a properly
grocery shop. I'm like, I know how to grocery shop.
You ain't sure. I shot my sister brother shot from
my ground. I know how to grocery shop. You ain't
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got show me how to groc shop. And then he
was like, okay, you do your basket. I'm gonna do
my basket, let's see. And so we grocery shopping. Everything. Man,
My groceries was so damn expensive and he got the
same kind of stuff I got in his was so cheap.
I was like, how y'all got y'all self cheap?
Speaker 2 (20:16):
How'd y'all do that?
Speaker 1 (20:17):
How'd you get this? And then he showed me how
to do it though, Like now I could feed thirty
people for forty five dollars. Now it's gonna be spaghetti,
but it's gonna be the best dance spaghetti you ever had.
And you'll be able to get seconds because he showed
me how to do it.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
You have to show me.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
I will show you. I will teacher, girl, I got you.
That's a whole nother show. Yes, cooking on a budget.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
I had so much fun djang at your first adult
prom she Ready Foundation party. That was so cool because
I remember me and you talking about a kid's birthday
and then to see like a year later, do you
put together this incredible night?
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Like everybody was so grateful.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
I spoke to so many of the foster children there,
so many of the people who work at the foundation. Everyone
was so just grateful and so happy, and it was
just so much fun.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
First of all, parents, that whole thing happened because of you.
All of that happened. Like when I think about it, it
makes me a little emotional because that's when you started
opening up to me and telling me about your history.
And I was like, girl, you was just like me,
Like you wasn't this like you in a system. It's
a different system, but it's a system, and I wanted
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to make that happen. You said you had never been
a prom and I'm like what, And you, and like
seventeen other people that I know that are famous substantially
doing well people never been a prom. I couldn't believe it.
I'm like, what do you mean you've never been? It
was like y'all just never been there, didn't have it,
and I couldn't go, and I just I've never been.
I'm like, what? Mind blown? So I'm like, Okay, We're
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gonna have an adult prom. I'm gonna invite everybody. I
don't care if we make a billion dollars. And you
were like, you should charge ten thousand dollars a ticket.
I was like, what, that's that's too much money, like meltively,
trust me, it's not that much money. Ain't And then
I started going to fundraisers after that. I was like, oh,
it's not that much money. O pay crazy money to
be at these things. I didn't even know. But we
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charged the fair price, I think, even though it wasn't
the ten thousand dollars like you said, but maybe in
a couple of years we'll charge that. But I wanted
it to be the perfect prom setting because I wanted
you to have a great experience. And at first I
didn't even want you to DJ, and everybody's like, you
should ask her, and I was like, I just want
her to come and have fun. I want her to
come to this problem with her husband and I want
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her to have fun. I want her to have that
prom experience. And they're like, ask her to DJ to
I bet you she would love the DJ and I
was like, damn it, I don't want to ask her
to do that. I wanted to just come and have fun.
And we changed date. I asked you, I wanted her
to ask you. You say yeah, and then you were like,
but I'm not available that day. And I was like
all right, bet, and we changed the date and everything
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that was for you, it was for you. But the
kids were so happy. Everyone was. It was so much
joy in the room. And we raised so much money
and we were able to give scholarships to like five kids,
get them in college, get them situated, and like, we
were able to do so many cool things. And thank you, Paris, Paris,
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thank you. And that was because you were willing to share.
That's because you were willing to share. You change the
lives and we're gonna do it again. Yes, I'm gonna
do it again, Wenna, I can't wait. We gotta figure
out the theme. I'm thinking eighties prom the thing. We
could throw it back. Yeah, and it'll be even bigger
and better, and we'll charge five thousand, ten thousand, like
you see it. Oh No, that bothers my spirit to
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charge that much money to have a good time. But
it's good because it is a good cause. It is
a good cause. We make it.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Worth the night because it's so fun.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
You just such a good job too. Everybody was like, yo,
she's a really good tej who knew parents was such
a good teacher. I was like, I knew, I knew,
but I really know how to dance. They have a
good time, and that's why I kept saying, you having
a good time, and you having fun, You're like God.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
And then Snoop came out and performing. We were like
his backup dancer. So fun.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
It was like the perfect night. It was a perfect night.
I didn't get laid that night, though that's prominent. You're
supposed to get laid, I think. But it's cool. It's
panned out to be like all my other proms.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Next year.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Next year, I'm getting late. Did you get late? No?
Speaker 2 (24:31):
I was so tired that with my husband, obviously, but
I was so tired after that was such a long
day and we were just jumping and dancing for like
five hours.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
We were That was so much fun. Yeah, they say
we buff gonna get late next year. Perfect. I don't
know how we'll know how you're gonna do it. I
don't know how I'm gonna do it, but I'm gonna
figure it out.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
I'll find you someone nice.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Yeah, what's up with your brother in law?
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Let me look into that. He's single?
Speaker 1 (24:58):
I think now, okay, So am I all right there?
We could be? Yes, I got it.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
It was so cool.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Is he smart? Very good? That's what I need.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
Runs in the family.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Yeah, I like intelligent man. I cannot be with no
dumb man. It's something about a dumb man. It's just like, well,
they get around the house. I guess they're not good
for conversation, and I don't learn nothing except that I'm smart.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
So much fun of guys.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Yes, I can't wait to meet your brother in law.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Yeah, so we'll be hooking that up and then I
can't wait for the next episode.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
The Future episode, See you Guys, See you then peace.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
Hey everyone, we are back with another episode with my siss,
tiffinny Hattish.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
That's that. I love you, I love you.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
I had so much fun last time. I'm excited.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
I decided to wear the same outfit too, because we recycled.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Well it's such a good vibe last time, I just
felt like we had to wear them again.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
Yes, the next we are we just gonna keep rocking
the same outfits because that's what we do.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Yes, So again, we will not be talking about any
of the incredible projects that my siss is doing because
of the strike. So you guys better than this so
that we can talk about these things.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
Well, look, I am working on projects, but not movie stuff,
not TV stuff. But I got some projects. Oh perfect, Yeah,
I got some projects.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
So let's go into it. Yeah, I know you're doing
a lot.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I know what.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
We're recording a song after this today.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
Yes, Yes, we got music projects, which I'm really excited
about and I can't wait to see people dancing to
it in the club and bumping in the beach and
making TikTok videos. And someone was asking why music, Tiffany,
why are you going into music because music has always
been a part of my life and I always I
(01:29):
just feel like music is a universal language. It's universal
no matter what language the song is in. You can
either get with it or you can't get with it,
like you feel it or you don't feel it. And
I want to like bring joy. I want people to
be happy because it's so much sadness, it's so much darkness,
and everybody can't come to a comedy club and everybody's
not going to understand my jokes. But people understand music.
(01:53):
They get with it, even if they speak English or not.
They love music. And for me to be able to
do something with you, it's like so huge, it's so
exciting for me, and like and then all the different
artists that I got involved, like Little Wayne, Snoop, five Year, FOURMN,
Little John, you know, like these these are like megastars,
(02:15):
and I'm really excited about being able to like work
with all of them. It's like dream come true for me.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
I'm so excited. Yeah, I love the song we did together.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
It's so funny. It's like object of it.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
You can't get it out of your mind.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
I could let us sleep.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
For the first couple of weeks after I recorded it,
I kept singing it in my mind. It was like
in my head every second, I was like, oh my god.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
It's all I'm thinking about.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Yeah, that's what I want. Like, but that's how you know.
It's a good song and it brings some sort of
joy and it made you feel something, like if you
can't forget it, it made you feel something, And I think
that's really important to make people feel more than just
hurt or pain, which it seems like the world is
trying to keep projecting, like, let's make people feel some joy.
And I don't have to make you feel it. It's
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just gonna like kind of ooze it there like a
little earworm and then next thing you know, it's on
your heart and you're like feeling it. So that's that's
what I want. Yeah, And then I'm opening the grocery
store doing that like and that with your fruits and vegetables,
with some of my fruits and veggies and honeys and
things ms and some colored greens and things. But really
(03:23):
I've been like reaching out to different farmers. I've been
so here's my thing. You know, I'm Jewish and I've
been going to the Jewish grocery store for a long time,
and I noticed, like, yeah, okay, the Jewish grocery store. Cool.
And then I'm at the Korean grocery store, at the
Japanese grocery store, I'm at the Indian grocery store, met
the Mexican grocery store. But there's no black grocery store.
(03:46):
There's no African American grocery store. There's no like African
grocery store. You got like African mini marks that you
can get certain herbs and spices from if it's important,
if they can get a hold of it. And it's
like there should be a there should be a black
grocery store. I mean, maybe there's some down south somewhere
that I don't know about, but there is none in
(04:09):
Los Angeles that I know of. So I'd like to
open one. But it's not just your typical grocery store.
It's gonna have an Airwan feel to it, uh, and
it's going to have local growers, local farmers, but also
farmers that are part of the diaspora. And then food.
I want the food to be really good quality and
really good and affordable. So we make it like a
(04:30):
co op, make portions of the store a co op.
So then it's a community based store, and there'll be
a class there and not just no regular classroom. That
classroom will have financial literacy classes, cooking classes, life skill classes,
and where I want to open the stores, like right
next to the Kaiser Permanent, so maybe we can do
(04:52):
some medical screenings and health screenings. Like I want a
place where people can come and it feels like you're
part of the community, and it feels like a place
you can go where you can learn something, where you
can heal, where you can get some education. Like I'm
talking to kids about it, Like I go to all
these different group homes and stuff and I talk to
the kids and mentor and all this, and they're talking
(05:12):
to me like I'll never be able to buy a house.
I'm like, what, your credit score is excellent right now,
You'll definitely be able to buy house. Get you a job.
You got to do this. Say, this is kind of money.
If you take ten cents from every dollar you make
and you put that to the side, and then you
get the right kind of account that can grow you,
like make your money grow. You want to get interests,
And there's these type accounts and these they're like nobody's
ever shown me none of this stuff. And I was like,
(05:32):
I know, I read a book like five years ago
and learned about it, and I would watch like different
like you know, money channel stuff like because I always
figured I'm gonna have money one day, I need to
learn how to make it grow. And I learned so
much more and I want them to learn because that's
our future and it's like generational wealth and that probably
(05:52):
for me. Anyways, I felt like once I learned how
food and money worked, I became a more happier and
productive human being. My family became more happier and productive,
and I see my community becoming more happier and productive.
And if I can make sure at least seventy five
percent of the people in my community are feeling that
are getting that information, crime would drop, be less need
(06:15):
for police trying to pull guns out, They could actually
have conversations. And really, the food, I think really affects
mental health in a lot of ways. Too definitely affects
my mood. I can guarantee you that if I eat
too much sugar, I'm not nice. So like finding that
balance and teaching people how their body works, I think
it's super important. And you know, school they say, like
(06:35):
I was asking these during pandemic. I gathered ninety principles
together and ask them why did they take home economics
out of school? Cause it's like, I have known so
many women that don't know how to cook a meal,
and I'm just like, why don't you know how to cook?
You got kids? You need to know how to cook
at least three basic meals, because what if you don't
have time to get to the store. What if all
the stores are shut down, how are you gonna feed them?
(06:56):
What if you don't have any preservative, but if you
got to go outside and just pull what's on the
on the branches, whatever, Well, how you gonna feed them?
And they're like, girl, we are ain't gonna drink water
and soda. They're gonna be like, no, you gotta know
how to make at least three basic meals. Boiler egg,
you know, scramble the egg and then maybe make some
egg egg for young soup. I don't know, some egg
(07:17):
drop soup, I don't know, but you gotta know how
to make some basic stuff. So I think it's important.
I think every human being should know how to make
three basic meals. I just think that's important and if
you are struggling with money, which I know you don't
know what that feels like all the time. I know,
maybe maybe once in a while you're done have that experience.
But honey, money struggles makes you think, oh, am I
(07:38):
gonna be able to eat? Am I gonna be able
to have a roof over my head? And how am
I gonna live? Like? That causes mental angst, and then
that causes crime, you know, because mothers will be stressing
out and the kids will be seeing that, and the
kids will be like, I'll get you some money, mama,
I'll get you something like next thing, you know, your
baby in jail. Now you got to put the house
up to get the bell in them out. Then you
(07:59):
lose the house. It's a horrible cycle. So just trying
to figure out how to break that cycle. That's all
I'm trying to do. That's so cool that you just
yeah so much. I do you know why, because nobody
else cares.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
You've taken care of people your whole life since you're
a little.
Speaker 1 (08:18):
I know, it's what makes me feel good, like, well,
it's people out here that hate my guts, that feel
like you're wasting your time. I don't know why you're
trying to help these people that don't give about you.
Why would you do that? And it's not about It's
not always about them or the act of It's about
what makes me feel good. And I do it for
(08:40):
God too, Like if God put it in my heart,
if this is in my heart to do this thing,
I feel like God put that in my heart. And
it's like it bothers me. If I don't do what's right,
it bothers me. So I gotta do it. If nobody
likes it and nobody cares, don't.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
I don't care.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
I'm gonna make the money and I'm gonna build it
and people can't come.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Yes, I love you.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Do you want to invest in the grocery store? We
could just buy a farm together. We could put we
could buy one little farm together. If Bill Gates can
buy a farm, you and I could buy a farm
and we could grow some good foods. I already got
a farm in Africa growing fruit trees. Yeah, I got
(09:28):
farm Africa growing fruit trees. And we dehydrating the fruit
and package it up and calling it God's candy because
that is God's candy, the fruit. You know, sweetness, God,
we do love you God. I do it for you God.
I like it when you do that hit your hogh pitched?
(09:54):
What is that? It's a battle cry? God loves it.
It's so so. I learned it from my mom. My
mom learned it from my dad, and it erit trail.
When erit trail is where my dad is from the
east side of Africa. When a family member comes home,
or when there's a celebration of when you're excited about something,
you do that. And when you about to go to
(10:14):
war and you about to charge, you do that too. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
I feel like I've heard in a movie.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
Oh yeah, you definitely heard it in the movie girl. Yeah, yeah, definitely,
especially some African stuff going on. Oh yeah, you heard that.
You heard that. You're like, oh, shoot, you better get
to run in rent to the family or run to
the war.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Yes, you do so many things in your life. You
have so much happening all at once. How do you
unwind and relax?
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Well, the way I unwind and relax there's several different ways.
My favorite way is to play music and dance and
dance till I'm tired, and then just turn on some cartoons,
light a joint, and then I love cartoons too, uh
or or or what I've been doing lately over the
(11:12):
last few months is I've been just turning on like
my favorite cartoon like Shira and ThunderCats, Like I love ThunderCats. Yes,
she is an icon. Shira is an icon. I love Shira.
I found some old Rainbow Bright. What happened to I
love her? O g is ol ge.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
They need to remake that is a movie.
Speaker 1 (11:34):
Yes, and I love what we could make. We could
do it, we could do it. And what the kids
of color like? It was all these the color Kids
I think they were called Maybe that's probably why because
it was called Color Kids. Well, she had a group,
she had a little post. Anyways, we got to figure
that out. It was the eighties, a different time.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
No one talks about her.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Nobody it took, you know, the Rainbow got took and
then nobody talked about Rainbow Bright who made them both popular.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
I love her, I love her.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
Her outfits were like space Age, so cute, Color Halloween
a couple of years ago. You Sira too. I love
Shira man by the power of grades girl like just
I just love those gym Yes, I just love those
cartoons that had like female leaders and just like women
(12:25):
doing stuff and like fighting for what's right. So I
watched those cartoons, but that's pretty much how I Why
not go for long walks? Uh? And I said, dancing? Yeah, dancing,
or I'll just like call my friends and be like, hey,
what are you doing? Like let's oh, you want of
that birth Can I go with you to the birthday party?
Can I hang out with you and just hang out
with my friends and like, we don't talk about work.
(12:47):
We just laugh and have a good time, and you
know that that's what we do.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
So fun. That was so fun the other night at Selena's.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Birth Yes, did you say? I dance all night? I know.
I did till my feet hurt and then I was
like look damn and I wanted to dance more, but
I was tired.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
It was so fun.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
It was such a good time. Yeah, so good. It
was a little cold, that might be also wild. Kept dancing,
Yeah so cold? And yeah, and then two vodkas that'll
keep you, that'll keep you going. It's a good time.
Yea Diplo played my song. That was a good time.
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That was a good time.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
You're a successful comedian and actress, but more importantly, you're
an advocate for foster care youth with your foundation, the
she Ready Foundation. What are the main problems with the
foster care system.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
There are so many problems with the foster care system,
but I would say to me, one of the main
issues is so many issues. There is a lot of
mentally ill foster parents that probably shouldn't be foster parents.
There's also the social workers that don't really pay attention.
(14:12):
They're not really paying attention or they're not listening to
the kids, or they think the kids are liars. And
if a kid is lying to you, first of all,
there's a reason for that. There's a reason they're lying,
and you need to dig into the why of that,
because kids aren't like Kids will lie because they feel
like they're going to either hurt somebody's feelings or they
feel like they're in danger. So remove them from the
(14:35):
danger and find out what's really going on. Also, I
think the moving them around so much into different so
many different households is an issue because kids need a foundation.
They need to feel safe. If they're moving around all
the time with their actual family, that's one thing, because
(14:56):
they still have their family, they have that foundation, But
you take them away from what they've known their home life,
and then you keep moving them from here to here
to hear and even if their whole life all they've
known is, oh, every five or six months or once
a year, I move into a new person's household. You
need to be giving them some kind of like life
skills or motivation to know that they're okay. It's not
(15:19):
their fault. A lot of times as a kid, you
feel like it's your fault, like something is wrong with you,
that they're moving you around. When it took me until
I was like twenty one to realize they wasn't moving
me around because it was something wrong with me. There
was moving me around around because it might have been
something going on in that household that I didn't know about.
There might have been there short and I'm too old
(15:41):
to be in that house at that point, and I
need to be in a different house. Like just better
communication with the children, communicating with them better. Also better
transitioning out of the out of foster care system. When
I came out, I was homeless right away. That was hard.
That was really hard on me. And although I had
(16:04):
family here in LA, they weren't that close to me
and my Grandma's like, look, you're grown, Like not. Granted,
I was supposed to go to NYU, but I didn't
know how I was gonna pay for that. How do
you like you tell I didn't even understand comprehend you know,
thousands of dollars. I was barely making a few hundred dollars,
(16:25):
you know. In two thousand dollars, that's wow. And when
they send any thing, it's gonna be forty thousand a semester.
That's not including the books, that's not including housing, that's
not including food, just forty third, Like, how do I
really need to be educated that day? I don't need
that kind of I don't know where am I gonna
(16:45):
I'm gonna have to sleep with me and to learn.
I'm cool on that because that's the only way I
could think to get that kind of money, Like, how
could you get that kind of money? We didn't This
was the nineteen hundreds yard We didn't have the internet
like that. So to have better programs, which I think
they are doing, like in California, if you're which I
(17:05):
love that California did, and I commend everyone who voted
on this, But in the state of California now if
you're a foster youth, you can go to a UC
college for free. You can go to UC University for free.
The curriculum that's free. That's so dope because these foster
(17:26):
kids be smart, they know how to be around all
kinds of different people. I try to hire people that
come from the foster care system, that come from the
ya you know, that come from juvenile detention centers and stuff,
because they got something to prove and they're going to
want to prove it, and they are the most resourceful,
figure it out person. And this business can be vicious.
(17:49):
It can be vicious, but it's nowhere near as vicious
as that system, so they usually are able to handle it.
Some of them are sensitive, but that's when you put
them in a sensitive department. You put them into, you know,
with the department for systative and stuff. HR.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Yes, what's the best way for people to help kids
in the foster care system?
Speaker 1 (18:11):
I think the best way for people to help is
to find an organization that you love, to find an
organization that that you think is really doing the best
that they can, and check them out. You can you
can ask a lot of questions, you can check you
can do the research, see where they're putting money, See
where they're doing things, check and see and volunteer. If
you don't want to put money there, volunteer. Volunteering your
(18:34):
time is the best thing you could ever give. I
think in any situation, your time is so valuable. And
for a child to see that you showed up, for
them to see that you care every mentor I had
as a kid that showed up to take us to
this thing or take us. I remember every single one
of their names. If I come across them, I love them.
(18:57):
I love every single one of them. They taught me something.
I mean, I remember this guy. His name was Courtney,
and he had a nose ring here like one of
the rings. He had earrings. He was this big black
man and I thought he was a genie. I to
be like, are you a genie? You a gangster genie?
You got a gangster genie? And he'd be like, no,
I'm not no genie. Tiffany, and he was like, show me,
(19:18):
like how to grow. Like he showed me the proper
way to grocery shop, like the proper way to buy
like pats and pans for your house, and the proper
way to cut out coupons, and this is a man
showing me this, right. I'm like night, I was nineteen
years old and this grown man is showing me how
to properly shop. Right. It was huge for me. I
(19:41):
didn't know if he was gay straight, and I didn't care.
All I cared about is this big gangbanger, pirate looking
man cared enough about me to show me how to
take care of myself, right, And I'm would telling him.
He'd be like, let me show you how a properly
grocery shop. I'm like, I know how to grocery shop.
You ain't sure. I shot my sister brother shot from
my ground. I know how to grocery shop. You ain't
(20:01):
got show me how to groc shop. And then he
was like, okay, you do your basket. I'm gonna do
my basket, let's see. And so we grocery shopping. Everything. Man,
My groceries was so damn expensive and he got the
same kind of stuff I got in his was so cheap.
I was like, how y'all got y'all self cheap?
Speaker 2 (20:16):
How'd y'all do that?
Speaker 1 (20:17):
How'd you get this? And then he showed me how
to do it though, Like now I could feed thirty
people for forty five dollars. Now it's gonna be spaghetti,
but it's gonna be the best dance spaghetti you ever had.
And you'll be able to get seconds because he showed
me how to do it.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
You have to show me.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
I will show you. I will teacher, girl, I got you.
That's a whole nother show. Yes, cooking on a budget.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
I had so much fun djang at your first adult
prom she Ready Foundation party. That was so cool because
I remember me and you talking about a kid's birthday
and then to see like a year later, do you
put together this incredible night?
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Like everybody was so grateful.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
I spoke to so many of the foster children there,
so many of the people who work at the foundation. Everyone
was so just grateful and so happy, and it was
just so much fun.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
First of all, parents, that whole thing happened because of you.
All of that happened. Like when I think about it, it
makes me a little emotional because that's when you started
opening up to me and telling me about your history.
And I was like, girl, you was just like me,
Like you wasn't this like you in a system. It's
a different system, but it's a system, and I wanted
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to make that happen. You said you had never been
a prom and I'm like what, And you, and like
seventeen other people that I know that are famous substantially
doing well people never been a prom. I couldn't believe it.
I'm like, what do you mean you've never been? It
was like y'all just never been there, didn't have it,
and I couldn't go, and I just I've never been.
I'm like, what? Mind blown? So I'm like, Okay, We're
(21:55):
gonna have an adult prom. I'm gonna invite everybody. I
don't care if we make a billion dollars. And you
were like, you should charge ten thousand dollars a ticket.
I was like, what, that's that's too much money, like meltively,
trust me, it's not that much money. Ain't And then
I started going to fundraisers after that. I was like, oh,
it's not that much money. O pay crazy money to
be at these things. I didn't even know. But we
(22:18):
charged the fair price, I think, even though it wasn't
the ten thousand dollars like you said, but maybe in
a couple of years we'll charge that. But I wanted
it to be the perfect prom setting because I wanted
you to have a great experience. And at first I
didn't even want you to DJ, and everybody's like, you
should ask her, and I was like, I just want
her to come and have fun. I want her to
come to this problem with her husband and I want
(22:38):
her to have fun. I want her to have that
prom experience. And they're like, ask her to DJ to
I bet you she would love the DJ and I
was like, damn it, I don't want to ask her
to do that. I wanted to just come and have fun.
And we changed date. I asked you, I wanted her
to ask you. You say yeah, and then you were like,
but I'm not available that day. And I was like
all right, bet, and we changed the date and everything
(22:58):
that was for you, it was for you. But the
kids were so happy. Everyone was. It was so much
joy in the room. And we raised so much money
and we were able to give scholarships to like five kids,
get them in college, get them situated, and like, we
were able to do so many cool things. And thank you, Paris, Paris,
(23:22):
thank you. And that was because you were willing to share.
That's because you were willing to share. You change the
lives and we're gonna do it again. Yes, I'm gonna
do it again, Wenna, I can't wait. We gotta figure
out the theme. I'm thinking eighties prom the thing. We
could throw it back. Yeah, and it'll be even bigger
and better, and we'll charge five thousand, ten thousand, like
you see it. Oh No, that bothers my spirit to
(23:43):
charge that much money to have a good time. But
it's good because it is a good cause. It is
a good cause. We make it.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Worth the night because it's so fun.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
You just such a good job too. Everybody was like, yo,
she's a really good tej who knew parents was such
a good teacher. I was like, I knew, I knew,
but I really know how to dance. They have a
good time, and that's why I kept saying, you having
a good time, and you having fun, You're like God.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
And then Snoop came out and performing. We were like
his backup dancer. So fun.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
It was like the perfect night. It was a perfect night.
I didn't get laid that night, though that's prominent. You're
supposed to get laid, I think. But it's cool. It's
panned out to be like all my other proms.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Next year.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Next year, I'm getting late. Did you get late? No?
Speaker 2 (24:31):
I was so tired that with my husband, obviously, but
I was so tired after that was such a long
day and we were just jumping and dancing for like
five hours.
Speaker 1 (24:39):
We were That was so much fun. Yeah, they say
we buff gonna get late next year. Perfect. I don't
know how we'll know how you're gonna do it. I
don't know how I'm gonna do it, but I'm gonna
figure it out.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
I'll find you someone nice.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Yeah, what's up with your brother in law?
Speaker 3 (24:56):
Let me look into that. He's single?
Speaker 1 (24:58):
I think now, okay, So am I all right there?
We could be? Yes, I got it.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
It was so cool.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Is he smart? Very good? That's what I need.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
Runs in the family.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Yeah, I like intelligent man. I cannot be with no
dumb man. It's something about a dumb man. It's just like, well,
they get around the house. I guess they're not good
for conversation, and I don't learn nothing except that I'm smart.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
So much fun of guys.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Yes, I can't wait to meet your brother in law.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Yeah, so we'll be hooking that up and then I
can't wait for the next episode.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
The Future episode, See you Guys, See you then peace.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Thanks for listening to I in Paris.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Don't forget to follow us on Instagram with I in
Paris Podcast.
Speaker 3 (25:47):
Email us at Paris at iHeartRadio dot com. Be hot
and subscribe now loves that
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