March 18, 2024 • 46 mins
T TIME with Theresa - Season 4, Episode 22 "I Am Relentless". Hosted by Theresa Farrell. Tonight's guest is Actor, Writer and Producer Staxx Cordero. T TIME with Theresa is aired live on Strong Island Television from Paradise Studios NY - www.strongisland.com
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Good evening and welcome to tee Time. Hey everybody, welcome to tea Time.
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I'm so glad you're joining me tonight. It is Monday, March eighteenth.
I'm gonna talk about my weekend realquick and get to my guests.
Friday, I just stayed in.I'm actually learning some lines for a show.
Saturday, I went to my brother'shouse in Massapequa for some corn,
beef and cabbage for Saint Patti's Day, hence the green since it was yesterday.
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And then I came here to BeautifulParadise Studios with Kathy Arnold and Emily
Sentosis. There they are. Theyhad their first See You Next Tuesday comedy
all female show here on Satday night, and I came to support and there
I am. They put me upas a guest spot and it was a
lot of fun. We had agood night. So thank you Kathy and
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Arnold. Kathy and Arnolds, Hello, Kathy and Emily. Tune in on
Tuesday Nights eight thirty to see theirshow and on Sunday's laundry Day and you
know, we all need clean underwearand you know, and learning lines again.
I do want to get to myguest because there's so much to talk
about. She's an actor, she'sa writer, she's a producer. We
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worked together on something which we're goingto talk about a little later. But
Stax Cordero is here. Hi's Dax. How are you? Thank you for
making it? Thank you so much, thank you, thank you. This
girl came from Jersey, Jersey.So I'm excited you're here. I want
everyone to get to know you.You know, originally from Harlem. Yeah,
correct live there a long time andnow you're in born and raised.
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Wasn't born there, You're in Jersey. I'm a suburbs. Yes, yes
you are. Yes, am outthere. You are out there, you
are. So it all started foryou when you were really, really young.
Someone was listening to some kind ofmusic and you listen to it and
you're like, oh, I likethat, And then all of a sudden
you did like some kind of impromptukind of song during class or something that
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was in junior high school. Thatwas in junior high school. We would
want we want a cheese bus.The yellow bus we were going to uh
were going on a trip or maybecoming back from the trip. Anyway,
the person that I sat next to, she was listening to rox Sane Chante
and she was so excited about her, and I'm like, who you listening
to? Who are you listening to? It was like sh I know,
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and she was so cute, thatactress. Oh my god. Yeah,
I had to get somebody to playher because that was really a staple.
And what and what really really promptedme to even really want to be a
part of hip hop. I lovedit anyway, but now hearing a female
rapper, which was kind of likeunheard of, you know, I said
wow, and it was just somethingin me. And then yeah, one
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day sitting in class and beating onthe table and I just stood up and
I started rapping. Yeah, sowhat you called the ice cream Crew the
ice cream the ice cream team?Yeah, the ice cream team, right,
yep, Vanilla chocolate and buttery Can. I was, buddy Can,
that's my favorite ice cream. Butyou know, it was like this little
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group that you had together. Butyou know, your first love really was
rapping? Right? Is that wasthat? Like really your first love?
Dance? Dance first? Yeah,dance was my first love. So I
would be the in the mirror singingand performing. Michael Jackson inspired all of
that. He inspired all of that, and I used to so like writing,
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acting, rapping. It's always beena part of my fabric because of
what I would do people, youknow, kids were outside playing. When
they were outside playing, I hada magazine, or I'd be in the
house looking at the lyrics on ona thriller album, or because they used
to have lyrics on the back ofthe album, or like you know,
you pull it out and you canread the lyrics. So that was really
like what I was into. Butyeah, so if I wasn't doing that,
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then I was in dance class orpreparing for a show. And as
I got older than you know,then it became more son. You went
then act very very famous high school. Tell everyone what high school you went
to. So I went to LaGuardiaHigh School. That is a performing arts
high school, the famed school wherethere's a lot of famous people came out
of there. Oh yeah, inthe class before me, some people that
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I was friends with, Marlon Wayamson my Epps, Adrian Brody was in
my graduating class, or king Woodbine. There's so many people. Nicki Minaj
went to the school too. Hmmmmhmm. Wow, Yeah, how are
those days in that school though,How amazing were they? Absolutely amazing.
Well, see, the thing issometimes what you think it's for you is
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not for you. So when Ifirst auditioned, I auditioned for dance right,
and I didn't get in right.And then my teacher was just like,
well, don't tried trauma. Youhave this missus Green. Miss Green,
she really said to you, hey, I think you should act,
and you really never thought about that. I hadn't thought about it, but
she was just like, you read, you know, you read with such
expression, and you know in youryour facial expressions, and I think you
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should try it. And she coachedyou right with your pelogue. She coached
me because I had no idea whatwas going on. Can you imagine if
she never told you that? Though, I think that I think it would
have came out later. I thinkit would have came out later. But
we're still friends to this day.They say that is a teacher that really
Yeah. Yeah, I was justwith her like two weeks ago. Oh
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that's so sweet. Yep, Iwas with her two weeks ago. We
can call her Kate now, hey, Kate, you can call her Kate.
And so yeah, I kept herin my life. And that's actually
her in the movie. It isactually her as her she because she went
to LaGuardia as well. She wentwhen it was music and arts. She
was a student. Yeah, soshe was like, that's that is that
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is so cool? So cool?All right? So then you also went
on to study psychology and you alsostudied elementary education as well. Yep,
because you all know in this industryyou need a backup plan. I did
need a backup plan. And mymom said, if you don't get a
record deal, like when I graduatedfrom high school, she said, if
you don't get a record deal withina year, you have to be in
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school. And I'm like, youknow, yeah, which even motivated you
even more to a degree. Itdid. Agree It did because to me,
I'm like, no, I'm gonnahave a record deal. I'm not
gonna have to go to school.And the year came went and here I
was signing up for school. Welllisten, I know, I know you
did. But eventually you you didsomething, you did perform you you you
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actually you had your first demo,is that right? With east Side Records?
That is a fabricated label that's inthe movie. I made up that
label in the movie. But eastSide Records was Tommy Boy Records. Okay,
okay, it was Tommy Boy Records. And what he wanted me to
do was bring bring back a demo, okay and right, So then he
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took his sweet ass time doing that. I didn't know. I didn't I
I had no idea what a demowas. I didn't know how to get
a demo. So I just kindof never went back. I was like,
well, I'm not gonna go back. I don't know. I don't
know how to get that. Ididn't know what I was doing, right
right, I had no idea whatI was. I was sixteen, Yeah,
and there was nobody, you know, really disappointment in that direction.
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So I went back to the talentshow again. Yeah, and I auditioned
no, and and that was wasthat the rap the rap ther the wrap
off where you were like rapping againsteach other. No before that, okay,
okay, before that, uh,where the guy gave me the card
and he was like, make makesure you show up, right, And
so I showed up and and Imet the person. His name is Gerard,
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that's his name. Gerard introduced meto He reintroduced me oka to the
person from Tommy Roy Records and hereand I were like, he said,
yeah, where's a demo? AndI didn't have one at the time.
So Gerard helped me, you know, to really learn how to formulate my
my songs and create verses and hooks, and he taught me pretty much how
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to format songs. And I hada lot of opportunities. You did you
D Nice and ac Light and Iwrote a song to them, and I
wrote a song from I wrote askit for Heavy D for McDonald's. It
was on Black Inventors. So therewere checks involved with working with them and
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also with writing. So the writingwas something that was always there, but
it was like a hidden talent thatwas right in front of my face that
I really wasn't paying attention to.And you you actually you opened for Naughty
by Nature yep, right, BusterRhymes yep, just to name a few.
And and how exciting is it,which is in movie which we're going
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to talk about, when you heardyourself on Hot ninety seven right for the
first time? God, You're likeit's on and like everyone called each other,
yeah seven turn it on my song? Yet Yeah, I had to
have ebony big shots at you Evne. I had to have Abny called my
mom because my phone was turned offhalfway, so I'm not calling my mom.
Listens struggling artists, right, that'sthe true story of a struggling artist.
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You don't have any money. Allof your money is going towards trying
to record, trying to pay yourbills, you know, and because you're
so fueled by your passion, theonly thing that you can see is directly
what's in front of you, whichis your dream, right exactly. Yeah,
so she called my mom, butyeah, I was excited the whole
Yeah, the whole Black was playingit, you know, playing it,
and I could hear it. I'mcrying. It was great. It's like
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a pinch a pinch me moment.Yeah, it really is. It was.
And then you also did Showtime right, the Apollo's Showtime. Yes,
I did Showtime at the Apollo.I didn't win, but my performance was
picked to be a part of Bestof Showtime at the Apollo and that's still
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running on Rocal. Really Yeah,wow, that's great. Yep, I
hadn't seen it, but I haveit on my I have it on my
Instagram page, all right. Butyeah, every once in a while,
and I was like, hey,I saw you in showtime at the Apollo.
I'm like, where where because Iwould like I want to see it.
Yeah, I'm like, I wantto see it. Oh, it's
great. Shout out to everyone watchingthe show, Hyanne and Bruno, Michael,
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everyone, thank you for watching theshow. Please like it, please
share it. I went Sax Colldor. She is an actor, writer,
producer. She's done so much.You know, you've done music, and
you've obviously dancing and acting, andI want to get into a little bit
of your acting and what you've doneand how that started. Few But we're
gonna take my first commercial break,so don't go away more with Sax after
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this wonder woman was everything to littlegirls, especially that looked like me.
She stands for being a voice forpeople that need a voice. My organization
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renovates homes for people with disabilities,and when I come home a self care
routine makes me feel my best.I'm very proud of the difference that we're
making. It. To see thatimpact in my community inspires me to work
even harder for everyone around me.All right, is everybody having a good
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time tonight or ut? That's whatI thought. I don't want to call
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that down on this Well. Hithere, Teresa, It's John Yorick from
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General Hospital. I am just checkingin because apparently you have a great talk
show called Tea Time on Strong IslandTV. I want you to have continued
great success and have a lot offun. It sounds like you're having a
lot of fun, and that's prettymuch the key to everything, isn't it.
So continued success. I'm proud ofyou. Have a great day,
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Casa Bye. Hey, everybody,welcome back to Tea Time. I'm so
glad you're joining me tonight because mybeautiful friend and actor and writer and producer
Stacks Cordi Cordio. I'm saying rightCardero is here, and she's had an
amazing career. I went to thetheme school and did dancing and acting,
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and she was She was a rapper. You started out really rapping at a
young age. You fell in lovewith It was on the Apollo. She
had a song on ninety seven,the whole name. But there she is.
Thank you. I was gonna askyou for some pics. There we
go. There's a couple of picks. Thank you and uh yeah, back
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in the day. But you youstarted also in acting. Yeah, and
there was a wonderful man, JamarJoseph, Jamal Joseph. Yeah. So
Jamal Joseph was my was my professorin intro to film at so College,
and so that really re sparked myinterests in acting, and he he gave
me some opportunities just like that,Hey, do you wanna do you wanna?
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Do you wanna do this? Doyou want to do that? And
I'm like yeah, So I wasin two skits that were on Comedy Central
and then I had I Had.I was featured in a film that he
had that played on Stars and soa lot of people started to see that.
And so you know, from it'slike if I wasn't rapping, I
was acting, it was either one. Dance kind of went out the window.
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I would take dance classes here andthere, but like I fell kind
of out of love with that becausedance is very specific and you have to
be like a certain size yes,and I'm curvy yes. So now now
it's more accepted. Now is waymore accepted. Even with hip hop,
it was still like, no,they want you to be a size three
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or four and I'm like, I'mnot. At the time, I was
like a five six or seven eight, and they're like, you're fat,
and I'm like, way, I'mnot fat. You know what. I'm
so like in my in my communityaround you know, the people that I
see every day, I wasn't fat, but for industr industry standards for what
they wanted at the time, Iwas considered fat. Now you can buy
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it, and you know, youcan build the stacks. And I'm like,
they bought everything that I got already. It's funny. They bought you
bought everything that I had. Theybought everything that they would complaining. So
in twenty twelve, you did TheColors of Love, which actually was a
short you played Sandy. Yeah,you did that, yep. And then
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and then you went on you dida bum Rush, which was a web
series bum Rush. Yes, sobum Rush. There was that with Jay
that was with JV. Yeah.So I'll take it. I'll take you
back a little bit. I wasin a play called The Dvan the Rapper.
Yes, and I'm a very determinedperson, So if you tell me
something, I'm gonna jump to it. I went in an auditioned for that
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play with no headshot, no monologuememorized, and they just needed me to
rap and act, and so Iwent wow. And then they said,
oh, the callbacks are Saturday.So I'm like, okay, cool.
So when I went back, Ihad my head shot I had, I
had my resume attached to the backand they were like, oh no,
but we didn't call you because wedidn't have a head shot. I said,
you, but I'm here. OhI got that show and I went
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on to do it sixty times.Wow. Yeah, I had sixty performances
out of the d vent a rapperthat was performed at the American Theater of
Actors in Midtown, and then itwas in Harlem and then it went out
to t Neck, New Jersey.Uh. Throughout that time, you know,
still rapping acting and I kind ofput hip hop to the side for
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a little while and I picked upmy script. So with the Air It
Out Show, I have a show, Air It Out Show, Yes,
And we interviewed this gentleman. Yeah, and it's on Scratch Vision on Saturdays.
When I went there, I hada play that I've been sitting on
for a little while. It's calledpoor Girl, Rich Girl. Yes,
we have a real think of thatPoor Girl, Rich Girls in silhouette.
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There you are yep. So whenPoor Girl, Rich Girl, it started
out with six characters, right,and then I started adding characters. So
this is where JV comes in.JV and dre Foreman, they were both
in the play. Yes, theybecame very close friends, and they went
on to write bum Rush, whichthen had three seasons. So when Poor
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Girl, Rich Girl started to diedown, bum Rush started to pick up
and they cast me as the captain. Nice yep. And I still continue
to work with JV, who issuper talented. He's the best, very
driven, and he was like,stax, I want to I want to
do comedy. Speaking of mister JV'scomedy series, So bum Rush is on
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to be the first season of bumRush is on to be. Mister JV's
comedy series is on to be.And so yeah, big shout to you,
JV. I'm gonna get him onthe show. He's gonna come on
the show. Yeah. Four menso productions, Yeah, and a creative
soul. It's so cool. Yeahyou did. I got a call back
which was also a short and youknow you did you write that? I
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write that? Yeah, you did? I wrote that. That was produced
by produced by Lester Green, producedand starring Lester Green, Stay Strickland and
and David Roberts, all very talentedyoung men and thriving actors that are you
know on film and so the showis basically about the me too movement from
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a man's perspective. Okay, Soit won a lot of awards. It
had a lot of attention, andit won Best Writing in uh nice,
Yeah, in a film festival.I think that was twenty eighteen. That
was one of my brightest moments becausea lot of times people don't recognize the
writer. You never hear oh bestwriter, you never hear that. So
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for me to win that, tome, that was just like confirmation.
Right, absolutely, rightly. Youdid Timeless Guilt, which was also a
TV series and you're also the wineproducer. Yes, that was that was
written, produced and also starring BennyFlames. Right. And then when as
we talked about the Mister j Vseries, you played Rose Perez. Yeah.
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Yeah, she's so funny because Ros, she's she's very fascy, she's
very fast. To me, howdon't get started? Well, yeah,
you started? You have your halfDominican, right, I am? You
are? I am? Okay,I am? And and my dad would
never let me live that, andI am, yeah you are. And
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I know Grandma spoke Spanish to you, but you really couldn't understand her that
well. I couldn't. But thething is that I would get like one
hundred, I would the highest grades. Yeah, and I will come speak
to her. She's like, yeah, yeah, I gotta slow it down,
Graham. Yeah, she said Iwas speaking like I was speaking Noroper
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proper Spanish. I'm calling she wasthat. Yeah, you know, because
they would they would speak more ofa broken down right it was more slang.
So I couldn't pick that up Ihad. I couldn't pick it up
the proper right school. I getit. You did something called The Needs,
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which you played Missus Scott. Yes. So The Needs is on Amazon
Special movie it is, Yeah,it is. That's the short film.
It's on Amazon Prime. It's aboutparents, uh challenges that they face,
the challenges that they face having specialneeds children. Yeah, and it was.
It was really good. It wasreally good. Big shout to you,
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Jamine Smith, thank you so muchfor that much appreciated YEP. Twenty
twenty was very busy year for you. They're very busy. You did a
King's Tail, which was a podcastseries. It was, and then you
did whatever it t it takes themovie when Blood Runs Cold that we had
a picture of you and makeup havinghad a makeup? Was that? What's
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this from? Oh? Wow?That was from? What was that from?
Cause I couldn't figure it out.It was twenty twenty three. My
friend called me and he was like, he said, do you wanna do?
He said, do you wanna doa haunted House? And I was
like, yeah, fun. Itwas so much fun. It was so
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much cause because it was so simple, but the people were running, crying,
screaming, they were trying to tearterrib you know, tear down the
walls to get out of there.It was the best fun we ever had.
It's so much fun. It wasYou did Cassidy, which was a
TV series and you actually played yes, and I was Cassidy. So it's
some Cassidy is crazy. She's shesmokes weed to keep herself calm, and
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she has two children who pay herabsolutely no mind. Dating. Her dating
life is like non existent, butshe believes that it is. Yeah,
her life is upside down and she'slike approaching menopause. So she's very slow.
Oh yeah, very colorful woman.Yep, make shut to you Andrea
Clinton for that. We love Cassidy. You did the Christmas Coquito Christmas,
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which was a podcast series. Yes, that was with Litersa Baker. She
called me to do that and shealso called me to do a kings Tell
too. Yes, I have thatdown. Then you have Murder at the
Hands, which was also a shortwhich you co produced and you also were
the casting director. No, Idid not produce it. I directed it.
Oh you did directed fix? Ohhey, if he put me down,
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he put me down. But Ididn't. I did not say.
I did not say that I producedit. But if that's the credit you
want to give me, thank youmister. Again. That was Jamaine Smith.
That was kind of like a thrillerand find It that's all so on
Amazon. Yeah, it's a thrillerwhere they're trying to find out how this
woman's daughter was killed, and it'svery surprising at the end when you find
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out who it was. It's kindof like a cliffhanger, but you it
leads you to what it was.Yeah, you did also short, not
New York. You played Nelly,not New York. No, I know.
Not ringing a bell was that recentI don't know two unless that might
have been when they put it out. Okay, but sometimes things saying they
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can please charge it in my brainand not my heart COVID. Yeah,
really kind of shock up. Well, you know, like that takes us
now to your baby. I amrelentless, oh, because this is this
is her baby, this is thisis her true story. Yeah. And
I laughed, I cried and Iit was you know, there were some
parts that were so uplifting and thensome moments moments I'm gasping, and it
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was like it really keeps you onthere, Thank you, Bobby. It
really keeps you on an emotional rollof because when you think it's going in
one direction, it goes in another. And you lived this, so you
know it makes it even more intense. And yeah, I wanted to know
it was originally a book. Correct, Yes, it it. I started
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out journaling, okay, And howlong did it actually take you? I
mean this was like a process.Yes, it was definitely a process because
every time I sat down to addon to the book, I would start
from from the beginning and just seewhere I was. And as I started
to add on, I'm like,damn, I don't want to grow up.
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M. I did. I didn'twant to grow up because I knew
what I was gonna face. Iknew what I had to recount, and
I was just like, oh,I don't want to I didn't want to
get to that. To that certainpoint, you kept it very real,
very authentic, very raw. Imean it was you put everything out there.
M. He really did. Yeah. Where there's some hesitation with the
couple of stories maybe in the movie, Yeah, they really didn't maybe didn't
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wanna go there, but you putit in. There's more in the book
to be honest with you. Okay, Well, then I have to read
the book. You gotta read thebook. But I felt like it was
necessary because every every experience good,bad, you know, and different makes
me who I am. Yeah,and I I can't go back and change
anything. And I don't know thatI would, yeah, because then I
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wouldn't be me. You know.There are some things you're like, oh,
God, whin me? But it'sme because now I can encourage anybody,
any anyone else, you know,to keep moving forward. Yeah,
to just keep moving forward. Everythingis not gonna be for you. Every
audition, every opportunity that I thoughtwell, this is gonna be for me,
and it wasn't for me. It'smade me stronger. Well, I'm
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just acting audition for something now andthey're like, yeah, no, you
all be like okay, maybe nexttime. It was nice to meet you,
though, so I'm not you know, you don't walk away like a
yeah didn't yet? Girl? Getup? Yeah? Keep going? Yeah,
yeah that's it. How like howlong did it take you to sh
film the entire okay? Hm?When I actually said let me put the
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book out, I really really like. There was there was a young lady.
She had something called Show Up andShine Challenge okay on Instagram, and
my sister said, you should youshould join this. I think this would
be good for you. I said, okay, So what it was was
it was a challenge. It wasa twenty one day challenge where you video
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record yourself saying how you were gonnashow up and shine, how you were
gonna face your fears okay. AndI said, wow, cause I had
kind of been sitting on the bookshout I should na should I should not,
you know? And so I said, I'm gonna show up and shine
by adding another chapter to my book. I'm gonna show up and Shine by
you know, releasing this book.And then finally I said, today I'm
gonna put the last I'm gonna putthe period on the last sentus of this
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book. Right. That was theday that I won and I want five
hundred dollars. Wow, And sothat kind of helped me to I think
it was the book cover. Itwas like little tiny things I needed to
take care of. But I justput it into Amazon and I promised them
the rest of the show up andShine folks, you know, to keep
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your white big shout to you.I said, at the end of these
twenty one days, I'm gonna havethe book in my hand, and I
did. Wow. So like ifI say I'm gonna do something, it's
very important to me and to whoI promised for me to do it,
because all you have is your word, don't I don't want anybody to be
like the little kid that's waiting atthe window when you said you were gonna
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come back and get me for icecream and you never come back. Because
these are the things that you rememberabout people. But you also remember when
someone keeps their word and they comeback for you. So after I released
a book in January of twenty one. I wanted to get back to the
One Woman Show because I was supposedto happen in twenty twenty. COVID shut
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it down right, So I calledJV. I'm like, JV, I
want to do a movie, andhe's like really, I'm like, yeah,
I I need some prices. Youknow what is creative flow gonna charge
me? And so I just startedwriting, you know, scenes and creating
scenes from the book, and wefilmed. I would say the writing process
of filming I was maybe from Marchis when I started writing, so from
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March or twenty twenty one and filming. The last of the filming that we
did was maybe some pickup scenes inJanuary twenty twenty two, but we were
really done in November twenty one,but just last things that I was like,
no, we need this, weneed that, you know, littl
peppering. So in January twenty twowe were done, so maybe like a
eight month off and on, youknow, a month a few months gap
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with filming, and then we debutedit. It at a city plex,
Newark City Plex, Nice and itwas the scariest moment ever because it was
a three hundred seater, and hedidn't tell me. It's I'm like,
oh my god, oh god,I'm not gonna do this. I was
so scared. So I go inthe theater and they're like, we're gonna
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start a five minute stacks go tellthem. I'm like okay. So I'm
like, you know, I comein and I'm like, all right,
so just let everybody start, youknow, filling up the top first and
don't worry about the bottom. Igo in there and the whole top is
packed. I'm like wow, yeah, yeah, yeah, speechless, Yeah.
I needed a minute to gather myself. I was emotional, like,
(30:30):
oh my god. And then thewhole theater was packed, and there were
still people that were just they justdonated tickets and those people couldn't even be
there. But it was like threehundred seats. Please you. You almost
needed another theater. I almost needed. It was really really a blessing.
And it was well, family,your friends were there, yeah in the
(30:51):
movie and yeah, you know everyonewho you know was behind the project.
Yeah, it was it was love. It was a lot of love.
It was a lot of love.Big shout to Shanna Lee, Anita Sparrick,
omar A Style Gatto, Uh,to Pan Holloway to JV. It
(31:14):
was some of that. So manypeople took to my directors, Caught and
Candy Litersa Baker, Jessica, Joseph, and myself. I also picked up
the directing hat and I was justyeah, yeah, and we have a
couple of stills from uh from thefilm. Yeah we do, Okay,
a couple of stills so in thatOkay, So is there anything specific you
(31:36):
would I know, yeah, we'regonna get to it. What did you
think about this guy? Though?Uh? He was a dog. He
was a bad. Wow. Man, he was such a dog. I
was like, oh no, please, No, I was like no.
And then get there in the parkwhen the girl wanted to fight you,
Oh that's so real. Yes,yes, So I don't know. You
(32:00):
know, Tony was like come on, come on, just that he was.
He was just so special. Hereally was. He really was.
Just you need to see it.It's on to be It's called I Am
Relentless. Watch it. You're reallyreally going to enjoy it. I know,
I saw it twice and I andagain I watched it once. Then
you go back and you kind oflike catch you know, like I said,
(32:22):
you catch some things that you cancatch the first time. But I
mean it was it was amazing.It was amazing and and and and to
be like I said, so soauthentic and raw and and just put it
out there. I mean, it'sit's it's not easy thing to do it
not only isn't. So here's myquestion to you. Did you have to
get consent a permission for the peoplewho you mentioned in the movie. How
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does that work? So I didn'tuse their names, okay, So all
names were changed to protect the innocence. So pretty much, yeah, pretty
much everyone's name okay. And thenthat was it. I didn't check with
anybody for anything because I I didn'tlie about anything. I I held myself
accountable, okay, And so Ididn't feel as though I needed their permission
to tell my story, right good, Yeah, alright, cause I'm I'm
(33:13):
in the middle of writing a shortand I'm gonna have to be changing some
names. Change the names. Yougonna have to be change the name.
You may have to embellish here andthere. But I mean, right,
there was some there was it's reallyshort, okay, Yeah, so there
was some. There was Uh,when you read the book, you'll call
me and be like what everybody isasking me about that, asking me,
(33:38):
there's a specific part in my life. Why did I put that in the
movie. And that's because this personis a celebrity and he's married, and
I did not want any kind ofbacklas like I'm trying to, you know,
ride the wave or ride his ridehis coattails anything. No, I
feel like the movie can stand onthe son. Yes, and I didn't
(33:59):
even it does. Thank you forthat. And I didn't even really name
his real name in the book.Yeah, no, it really, it
really does. I chose not todo that, all right, everything is
not you know, for display.Yeah no, I totally get it.
You know what I gotta get.I gotta get my next break, So
stay right there, don't go awaymore with sex when we come back.
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Wonder Woman was everything to little girls, especially that looked like me. She
stands for being a voice for peoplethat need a voice. My organization renovates
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It. To see that impact inmy community inspires me to work even
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Kinda Stracy. Make sure you followTeresa on Facebook Tee Time with Teresa Kindas
Tracy fo. We'll see you there. Not the way you say my name.
Hey, everybody, Welcome back totea time. I'm with Dax Cardero.
She is an actor, a writer, producer, uh a rapper back
(36:24):
in the day. She opens upfor a noty by Nature and Buster Rhymes
and other people and had it.Has an amazing career. She and and
and her baby, her baby,I Am relentless. Please watch it on
t B. It's an amazing truestory of her life and and it's just
it's great. You really you reallydo need to watch it. But we're
gonna we're gonna get to now ashow that we've done together. We did
(36:47):
we did Paper, but we actuallydidn't have any scenes together in Paper.
Paper is Omar Moore. Shout outto Omar, I play the secretary.
Who did you play in Paper?Miss? She has such a miss fon
Miss Fondeville, Fondeville, Fondeville,Miss Vondeville. Okay yep? And great
(37:08):
series yes, and award winning series, Yes it is. And we's won
best Ensemble. Hey yeah, Heydead little the best director by shout for
you, some big thing. You'redoing great things, which leads us to
Me and My Nuts and me amI Nuts and Me and My Nuts is
a comedy which we did work ontogether. We did episode two, yep
(37:32):
together, and you played doctor.I did play the doctor. Would you
like to say your name? Ohno, okay, you have watched to
find out, but I played Wanda, the secretary. We won't say her
name. But you're don't have towatch it, so listen. You know
you can watch it because on Apriltenth, okay, April tenth, we
(37:54):
are showing uh, episodes one andtwo of Me and My Nuts on April
tenth in Stanaten, Italy. Soyou need to contact me Italy, me
or oh mom more for tickets tocome see episodes one and two. And
we're both in two together and youyou're do an amazing job. You saw
(38:17):
it already. I ain't see it. I didn't see it yet. But
she does an amazing accent. Imean, you transform yourself into these characters
like I do. And I loveit. Yeah, I love it.
She was a lot of fun.She was a lot of fun. She
was a lot of fun. Ichose last minute to give her, yeah,
(38:42):
to give her an accent. SoI was African, and it was
just they were like, wait aminute, is that what she's gonna do.
I said, yes, this iswhat I'm going to do Yes,
this is going to be my access. Yes. And they were like,
because I didn't be her sta butsomething no, But it just came out
of you. That was how youheard her, That's what I heard.
I have to go with that.So Me and My Nuts is a great
(39:07):
series. It's a comedy, asyou can figure that out, and it
was a lot of fun to film. Again. Shout out to Omar Moore.
We're we're in the middle of rehearsingepisode three. He's already halfway done
through episode four, introducing more characters, more doctors. It's hysterical. It
just it just becomes funnier and funnier. He's just the scripted I'm trying to
(39:28):
get through the lines and I'm tryingto bite the side of my cheek because
I have to deliver them seriously,and I'm like cracking up. I'm like,
how am I gonna do this?It's Hysterilaris April tenth, please put
on your calendar. I'll have somethingon my Tea time page and my regular
Teresa Cannash Jacy Farrell page and justcome come if you could come live in
Jersey Staten, Italy's just just calmqueens. Just come and laugh. Just
(39:52):
laugh your butt off. It's somuch fun. But tell everybody how they
can follow you, where they canfind you as far as social media.
Okay, just real quick, Iwant to plug the movie Unknown. Yeah,
that's so I'm going to get tothat. Yeah, okay, I've
just yeah, so it's that's that'son Amazon right now. I think it's
(40:15):
ninety nine something like that. Yes, and you play Nurse Jones. I
played Nurse Jones. That's based onon COVID, and so it's very interesting
the way the way it kind ofplays out, it's very interesting. But
I'm always on Instagram. You canfind me there at Stax Caredero the same
way it's spelled m M yep.Yeah. And we mentioned that you are
(40:37):
co founder and CEO of uh airedOunce Show, which is also on YouTube
YouTube, and you've been doing thatsince June twenty ten. Huh. Yes,
it's a long time. It's avery long time. We've done a
lot of things. We've produced sometalent shows. We've been on Brick TV,
We've been on YouTube, We've beenon several differ friend platforms. So
(41:00):
right now we're on scrash Vision Radionice on Saturday? Is that one?
Okay? Yep? Good, Sowe have to have you? Oh I
loved I love to bed. Waitno, no, how do you did
you do that? Virtually? Dohave to come to Jersey? We can
do zooe. Okay, we'll figurewe'll definitely figure it out, all right,
(41:23):
so we have I just want togive again shout out to everyone watching.
Thank you so much. I reallydo appreciate you know, everyone watching
tea time. We have like fiveminutes left because I'm gonna get you do
the train on time. But inthat five minutes, tell me about what
(41:45):
you're working on in the future,what you have going on. Okay.
So what I did over the twicelast year was I actually did do the
One woman show. Yes, andso I did a review in March and
that went over really well, andit was just kind of like just a
tester just to see how it willgo. But everybody really loved it and
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they were like, wow, Ididn't know that. Okay, okay,
and so we went larger and thistime I went with I went with Stephen
Strickland as my director and producer.And normally I carry everything on my back.
I take care of everything from thebeginning to the end. And he
(42:28):
said, let me help you,and totally took and he carried the weight
of everything. Nobody had to talkto me. He's like, no,
you just as long as you knowyour lines, that's all you need to
know is your lines and and andyour spacing. That's that's all you need
to know. Where are you going? Where are your lines? You know
what songs are you going to do? And so there were some things that
(42:52):
took me away from from hip hop, some life experiences that took me away
from hip hop. Yeah, soas the One Woman Show musical as well,
you throwing a couple of songs out, a couple of songs and that.
So I've been in the studio lately. I was gonna say, I
know you're recording something. Yep,I've been in the studio lately, and
(43:12):
I'm excited to return to the stage. And actually on Wednesday, March twentieth,
I have a performance up at theShrine awesome, Yeah, with Maria
Davis. It's her thirtieth anniversary andso I'll be there. I'll be there
performing and yeah, and the OneWoman's Show, when can people just please
(43:34):
watch the page? Okay, pleasewatch the page, because I'm gonna collaborate
with another group of women, andso they'll be like snippets of their One
Woman shows. And so by thattime I might have a better idea of
when I'm gonna do it. I'mthinking about doing it again in July.
So what I did was we didit at what's the name of this place.
We had it in on forty secondStreet, theater row. Okay,
(43:57):
we had it at THEATERO for mybirthday, milestone birthday. Yes, yeah,
I wanted to do something really bigin July. It is July,
okay, all right, So Ididn't want to do it on my birthday
July nineteenth, yep, oh yeah, this is good tonight, Okay,
all right, I remember, thankyou for having girl. But it was
(44:20):
it was well attended and it wasmore than than what I expected it to
be. And we recorded it,so you know, you know, life,
life's yeah, and so I'm waitingon the edits right, want somebody
to show the One Woman's Show?Yeah, the film. Then I'll be
inviting folks out. You're definitely invited. Oh girl, I can't wait,
I really can't, I really reallycan't listen. Again, I want to
(44:44):
thank you for taking the trip hereyou I know it wasn't around the corner
for you. Cool. Like Isaid, we're gonna we're gonna end the
show just a couple of minutes earlyso I can get her to the train
on time because she's gonna go backto Joys. But thank you so much
for coming out. I hope youalways open. I love this place.
If you haven't been here, you'vebeen invited. It's great. I'm off
(45:05):
of a zoom and common person.It's definitely definitely left the trip and she's
a great hope. Thank you.Well, listen, thank you everyone for
watching tea time, supporting me.Thank you again for this. I am
so glad on my show. I'mgonna have Jay, gonna have Omar definitely
definitely definitely more me and my nuts. All right, listen, everyone,
please take care, Tell everyone youlove you love them, and I'll see
you next week. Shout everybody.Two
Good evening and welcome to tee Time. Hey everybody, welcome to tea Time.
(01:27):
I'm so glad you're joining me tonight. It is Monday, March eighteenth.
I'm gonna talk about my weekend realquick and get to my guests.
Friday, I just stayed in.I'm actually learning some lines for a show.
Saturday, I went to my brother'shouse in Massapequa for some corn,
beef and cabbage for Saint Patti's Day, hence the green since it was yesterday.
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And then I came here to BeautifulParadise Studios with Kathy Arnold and Emily
Sentosis. There they are. Theyhad their first See You Next Tuesday comedy
all female show here on Satday night, and I came to support and there
I am. They put me upas a guest spot and it was a
lot of fun. We had agood night. So thank you Kathy and
(02:09):
Arnold. Kathy and Arnolds, Hello, Kathy and Emily. Tune in on
Tuesday Nights eight thirty to see theirshow and on Sunday's laundry Day and you
know, we all need clean underwearand you know, and learning lines again.
I do want to get to myguest because there's so much to talk
about. She's an actor, she'sa writer, she's a producer. We
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worked together on something which we're goingto talk about a little later. But
Stax Cordero is here. Hi's Dax. How are you? Thank you for
making it? Thank you so much, thank you, thank you. This
girl came from Jersey, Jersey.So I'm excited you're here. I want
everyone to get to know you.You know, originally from Harlem. Yeah,
correct live there a long time andnow you're in born and raised.
(02:53):
Wasn't born there, You're in Jersey. I'm a suburbs. Yes, yes
you are. Yes, am outthere. You are out there, you
are. So it all started foryou when you were really, really young.
Someone was listening to some kind ofmusic and you listen to it and
you're like, oh, I likethat, And then all of a sudden
you did like some kind of impromptukind of song during class or something that
(03:15):
was in junior high school. Thatwas in junior high school. We would
want we want a cheese bus.The yellow bus we were going to uh
were going on a trip or maybecoming back from the trip. Anyway,
the person that I sat next to, she was listening to rox Sane Chante
and she was so excited about her, and I'm like, who you listening
to? Who are you listening to? It was like sh I know,
(03:37):
and she was so cute, thatactress. Oh my god. Yeah,
I had to get somebody to playher because that was really a staple.
And what and what really really promptedme to even really want to be a
part of hip hop. I lovedit anyway, but now hearing a female
rapper, which was kind of likeunheard of, you know, I said
wow, and it was just somethingin me. And then yeah, one
(03:59):
day sitting in class and beating onthe table and I just stood up and
I started rapping. Yeah, sowhat you called the ice cream Crew the
ice cream the ice cream team?Yeah, the ice cream team, right,
yep, Vanilla chocolate and buttery Can. I was, buddy Can,
that's my favorite ice cream. Butyou know, it was like this little
(04:20):
group that you had together. Butyou know, your first love really was
rapping? Right? Is that wasthat? Like really your first love?
Dance? Dance first? Yeah,dance was my first love. So I
would be the in the mirror singingand performing. Michael Jackson inspired all of
that. He inspired all of that, and I used to so like writing,
(04:44):
acting, rapping. It's always beena part of my fabric because of
what I would do people, youknow, kids were outside playing. When
they were outside playing, I hada magazine, or I'd be in the
house looking at the lyrics on ona thriller album, or because they used
to have lyrics on the back ofthe album, or like you know,
you pull it out and you canread the lyrics. So that was really
like what I was into. Butyeah, so if I wasn't doing that,
(05:06):
then I was in dance class orpreparing for a show. And as
I got older than you know,then it became more son. You went
then act very very famous high school. Tell everyone what high school you went
to. So I went to LaGuardiaHigh School. That is a performing arts
high school, the famed school wherethere's a lot of famous people came out
of there. Oh yeah, inthe class before me, some people that
(05:29):
I was friends with, Marlon Wayamson my Epps, Adrian Brody was in
my graduating class, or king Woodbine. There's so many people. Nicki Minaj
went to the school too. Hmmmmhmm. Wow, Yeah, how are
those days in that school though,How amazing were they? Absolutely amazing.
Well, see, the thing issometimes what you think it's for you is
(05:53):
not for you. So when Ifirst auditioned, I auditioned for dance right,
and I didn't get in right.And then my teacher was just like,
well, don't tried trauma. Youhave this missus Green. Miss Green,
she really said to you, hey, I think you should act,
and you really never thought about that. I hadn't thought about it, but
she was just like, you read, you know, you read with such
expression, and you know in youryour facial expressions, and I think you
(06:15):
should try it. And she coachedyou right with your pelogue. She coached
me because I had no idea whatwas going on. Can you imagine if
she never told you that? Though, I think that I think it would
have came out later. I thinkit would have came out later. But
we're still friends to this day.They say that is a teacher that really
Yeah. Yeah, I was justwith her like two weeks ago. Oh
(06:38):
that's so sweet. Yep, Iwas with her two weeks ago. We
can call her Kate now, hey, Kate, you can call her Kate.
And so yeah, I kept herin my life. And that's actually
her in the movie. It isactually her as her she because she went
to LaGuardia as well. She wentwhen it was music and arts. She
was a student. Yeah, soshe was like, that's that is that
(07:02):
is so cool? So cool?All right? So then you also went
on to study psychology and you alsostudied elementary education as well. Yep,
because you all know in this industryyou need a backup plan. I did
need a backup plan. And mymom said, if you don't get a
record deal, like when I graduatedfrom high school, she said, if
you don't get a record deal withina year, you have to be in
(07:25):
school. And I'm like, youknow, yeah, which even motivated you
even more to a degree. Itdid. Agree It did because to me,
I'm like, no, I'm gonnahave a record deal. I'm not
gonna have to go to school.And the year came went and here I
was signing up for school. Welllisten, I know, I know you
did. But eventually you you didsomething, you did perform you you you
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actually you had your first demo,is that right? With east Side Records?
That is a fabricated label that's inthe movie. I made up that
label in the movie. But eastSide Records was Tommy Boy Records. Okay,
okay, it was Tommy Boy Records. And what he wanted me to
do was bring bring back a demo, okay and right, So then he
(08:11):
took his sweet ass time doing that. I didn't know. I didn't I
I had no idea what a demowas. I didn't know how to get
a demo. So I just kindof never went back. I was like,
well, I'm not gonna go back. I don't know. I don't
know how to get that. Ididn't know what I was doing, right
right, I had no idea whatI was. I was sixteen, Yeah,
and there was nobody, you know, really disappointment in that direction.
(08:31):
So I went back to the talentshow again. Yeah, and I auditioned
no, and and that was wasthat the rap the rap ther the wrap
off where you were like rapping againsteach other. No before that, okay,
okay, before that, uh,where the guy gave me the card
and he was like, make makesure you show up, right, And
so I showed up and and Imet the person. His name is Gerard,
(08:52):
that's his name. Gerard introduced meto He reintroduced me oka to the
person from Tommy Roy Records and hereand I were like, he said,
yeah, where's a demo? AndI didn't have one at the time.
So Gerard helped me, you know, to really learn how to formulate my
my songs and create verses and hooks, and he taught me pretty much how
(09:16):
to format songs. And I hada lot of opportunities. You did you
D Nice and ac Light and Iwrote a song to them, and I
wrote a song from I wrote askit for Heavy D for McDonald's. It
was on Black Inventors. So therewere checks involved with working with them and
(09:39):
also with writing. So the writingwas something that was always there, but
it was like a hidden talent thatwas right in front of my face that
I really wasn't paying attention to.And you you actually you opened for Naughty
by Nature yep, right, BusterRhymes yep, just to name a few.
And and how exciting is it,which is in movie which we're going
(10:00):
to talk about, when you heardyourself on Hot ninety seven right for the
first time? God, You're likeit's on and like everyone called each other,
yeah seven turn it on my song? Yet Yeah, I had to
have ebony big shots at you Evne. I had to have Abny called my
mom because my phone was turned offhalfway, so I'm not calling my mom.
Listens struggling artists, right, that'sthe true story of a struggling artist.
(10:26):
You don't have any money. Allof your money is going towards trying
to record, trying to pay yourbills, you know, and because you're
so fueled by your passion, theonly thing that you can see is directly
what's in front of you, whichis your dream, right exactly. Yeah,
so she called my mom, butyeah, I was excited the whole
Yeah, the whole Black was playingit, you know, playing it,
and I could hear it. I'mcrying. It was great. It's like
(10:48):
a pinch a pinch me moment.Yeah, it really is. It was.
And then you also did Showtime right, the Apollo's Showtime. Yes,
I did Showtime at the Apollo.I didn't win, but my performance was
picked to be a part of Bestof Showtime at the Apollo and that's still
(11:09):
running on Rocal. Really Yeah,wow, that's great. Yep, I
hadn't seen it, but I haveit on my I have it on my
Instagram page, all right. Butyeah, every once in a while,
and I was like, hey,I saw you in showtime at the Apollo.
I'm like, where where because Iwould like I want to see it.
Yeah, I'm like, I wantto see it. Oh, it's
great. Shout out to everyone watchingthe show, Hyanne and Bruno, Michael,
(11:31):
everyone, thank you for watching theshow. Please like it, please
share it. I went Sax Colldor. She is an actor, writer,
producer. She's done so much.You know, you've done music, and
you've obviously dancing and acting, andI want to get into a little bit
of your acting and what you've doneand how that started. Few But we're
gonna take my first commercial break,so don't go away more with Sax after
(11:56):
this wonder woman was everything to littlegirls, especially that looked like me.
She stands for being a voice forpeople that need a voice. My organization
(12:18):
renovates homes for people with disabilities,and when I come home a self care
routine makes me feel my best.I'm very proud of the difference that we're
making. It. To see thatimpact in my community inspires me to work
even harder for everyone around me.All right, is everybody having a good
(12:43):
time tonight or ut? That's whatI thought. I don't want to call
(13:05):
that down on this Well. Hithere, Teresa, It's John Yorick from
(13:41):
General Hospital. I am just checkingin because apparently you have a great talk
show called Tea Time on Strong IslandTV. I want you to have continued
great success and have a lot offun. It sounds like you're having a
lot of fun, and that's prettymuch the key to everything, isn't it.
So continued success. I'm proud ofyou. Have a great day,
(14:03):
Casa Bye. Hey, everybody,welcome back to Tea Time. I'm so
glad you're joining me tonight because mybeautiful friend and actor and writer and producer
Stacks Cordi Cordio. I'm saying rightCardero is here, and she's had an
amazing career. I went to thetheme school and did dancing and acting,
(14:26):
and she was She was a rapper. You started out really rapping at a
young age. You fell in lovewith It was on the Apollo. She
had a song on ninety seven,the whole name. But there she is.
Thank you. I was gonna askyou for some pics. There we
go. There's a couple of picks. Thank you and uh yeah, back
(14:46):
in the day. But you youstarted also in acting. Yeah, and
there was a wonderful man, JamarJoseph, Jamal Joseph. Yeah. So
Jamal Joseph was my was my professorin intro to film at so College,
and so that really re sparked myinterests in acting, and he he gave
me some opportunities just like that,Hey, do you wanna do you wanna?
(15:09):
Do you wanna do this? Doyou want to do that? And
I'm like yeah, So I wasin two skits that were on Comedy Central
and then I had I Had.I was featured in a film that he
had that played on Stars and soa lot of people started to see that.
And so you know, from it'slike if I wasn't rapping, I
was acting, it was either one. Dance kind of went out the window.
(15:31):
I would take dance classes here andthere, but like I fell kind
of out of love with that becausedance is very specific and you have to
be like a certain size yes,and I'm curvy yes. So now now
it's more accepted. Now is waymore accepted. Even with hip hop,
it was still like, no,they want you to be a size three
(15:52):
or four and I'm like, I'mnot. At the time, I was
like a five six or seven eight, and they're like, you're fat,
and I'm like, way, I'mnot fat. You know what. I'm
so like in my in my communityaround you know, the people that I
see every day, I wasn't fat, but for industr industry standards for what
they wanted at the time, Iwas considered fat. Now you can buy
(16:12):
it, and you know, youcan build the stacks. And I'm like,
they bought everything that I got already. It's funny. They bought you
bought everything that I had. Theybought everything that they would complaining. So
in twenty twelve, you did TheColors of Love, which actually was a
short you played Sandy. Yeah,you did that, yep. And then
(16:33):
and then you went on you dida bum Rush, which was a web
series bum Rush. Yes, sobum Rush. There was that with Jay
that was with JV. Yeah.So I'll take it. I'll take you
back a little bit. I wasin a play called The Dvan the Rapper.
Yes, and I'm a very determinedperson, So if you tell me
something, I'm gonna jump to it. I went in an auditioned for that
(16:55):
play with no headshot, no monologuememorized, and they just needed me to
rap and act, and so Iwent wow. And then they said,
oh, the callbacks are Saturday.So I'm like, okay, cool.
So when I went back, Ihad my head shot I had, I
had my resume attached to the backand they were like, oh no,
but we didn't call you because wedidn't have a head shot. I said,
you, but I'm here. OhI got that show and I went
(17:18):
on to do it sixty times.Wow. Yeah, I had sixty performances
out of the d vent a rapperthat was performed at the American Theater of
Actors in Midtown, and then itwas in Harlem and then it went out
to t Neck, New Jersey.Uh. Throughout that time, you know,
still rapping acting and I kind ofput hip hop to the side for
(17:41):
a little while and I picked upmy script. So with the Air It
Out Show, I have a show, Air It Out Show, Yes,
And we interviewed this gentleman. Yeah, and it's on Scratch Vision on Saturdays.
When I went there, I hada play that I've been sitting on
for a little while. It's calledpoor Girl, Rich Girl. Yes,
we have a real think of thatPoor Girl, Rich Girls in silhouette.
(18:03):
There you are yep. So whenPoor Girl, Rich Girl, it started
out with six characters, right,and then I started adding characters. So
this is where JV comes in.JV and dre Foreman, they were both
in the play. Yes, theybecame very close friends, and they went
on to write bum Rush, whichthen had three seasons. So when Poor
(18:26):
Girl, Rich Girl started to diedown, bum Rush started to pick up
and they cast me as the captain. Nice yep. And I still continue
to work with JV, who issuper talented. He's the best, very
driven, and he was like,stax, I want to I want to
do comedy. Speaking of mister JV'scomedy series, So bum Rush is on
(18:47):
to be the first season of bumRush is on to be. Mister JV's
comedy series is on to be.And so yeah, big shout to you,
JV. I'm gonna get him onthe show. He's gonna come on
the show. Yeah. Four menso productions, Yeah, and a creative
soul. It's so cool. Yeahyou did. I got a call back
which was also a short and youknow you did you write that? I
(19:08):
write that? Yeah, you did? I wrote that. That was produced
by produced by Lester Green, producedand starring Lester Green, Stay Strickland and
and David Roberts, all very talentedyoung men and thriving actors that are you
know on film and so the showis basically about the me too movement from
(19:33):
a man's perspective. Okay, Soit won a lot of awards. It
had a lot of attention, andit won Best Writing in uh nice,
Yeah, in a film festival.I think that was twenty eighteen. That
was one of my brightest moments becausea lot of times people don't recognize the
writer. You never hear oh bestwriter, you never hear that. So
(19:56):
for me to win that, tome, that was just like confirmation.
Right, absolutely, rightly. Youdid Timeless Guilt, which was also a
TV series and you're also the wineproducer. Yes, that was that was
written, produced and also starring BennyFlames. Right. And then when as
we talked about the Mister j Vseries, you played Rose Perez. Yeah.
(20:19):
Yeah, she's so funny because Ros, she's she's very fascy, she's
very fast. To me, howdon't get started? Well, yeah,
you started? You have your halfDominican, right, I am? You
are? I am? Okay,I am? And and my dad would
never let me live that, andI am, yeah you are. And
(20:41):
I know Grandma spoke Spanish to you, but you really couldn't understand her that
well. I couldn't. But thething is that I would get like one
hundred, I would the highest grades. Yeah, and I will come speak
to her. She's like, yeah, yeah, I gotta slow it down,
Graham. Yeah, she said Iwas speaking like I was speaking Noroper
(21:03):
proper Spanish. I'm calling she wasthat. Yeah, you know, because
they would they would speak more ofa broken down right it was more slang.
So I couldn't pick that up Ihad. I couldn't pick it up
the proper right school. I getit. You did something called The Needs,
(21:26):
which you played Missus Scott. Yes. So The Needs is on Amazon
Special movie it is, Yeah,it is. That's the short film.
It's on Amazon Prime. It's aboutparents, uh challenges that they face,
the challenges that they face having specialneeds children. Yeah, and it was.
It was really good. It wasreally good. Big shout to you,
(21:48):
Jamine Smith, thank you so muchfor that much appreciated YEP. Twenty
twenty was very busy year for you. They're very busy. You did a
King's Tail, which was a podcastseries. It was, and then you
did whatever it t it takes themovie when Blood Runs Cold that we had
a picture of you and makeup havinghad a makeup? Was that? What's
(22:11):
this from? Oh? Wow?That was from? What was that from?
Cause I couldn't figure it out.It was twenty twenty three. My
friend called me and he was like, he said, do you wanna do?
He said, do you wanna doa haunted House? And I was
like, yeah, fun. Itwas so much fun. It was so
(22:32):
much cause because it was so simple, but the people were running, crying,
screaming, they were trying to tearterrib you know, tear down the
walls to get out of there.It was the best fun we ever had.
It's so much fun. It wasYou did Cassidy, which was a
TV series and you actually played yes, and I was Cassidy. So it's
some Cassidy is crazy. She's shesmokes weed to keep herself calm, and
(22:56):
she has two children who pay herabsolutely no mind. Dating. Her dating
life is like non existent, butshe believes that it is. Yeah,
her life is upside down and she'slike approaching menopause. So she's very slow.
Oh yeah, very colorful woman.Yep, make shut to you Andrea
Clinton for that. We love Cassidy. You did the Christmas Coquito Christmas,
(23:21):
which was a podcast series. Yes, that was with Litersa Baker. She
called me to do that and shealso called me to do a kings Tell
too. Yes, I have thatdown. Then you have Murder at the
Hands, which was also a shortwhich you co produced and you also were
the casting director. No, Idid not produce it. I directed it.
Oh you did directed fix? Ohhey, if he put me down,
(23:45):
he put me down. But Ididn't. I did not say.
I did not say that I producedit. But if that's the credit you
want to give me, thank youmister. Again. That was Jamaine Smith.
That was kind of like a thrillerand find It that's all so on
Amazon. Yeah, it's a thrillerwhere they're trying to find out how this
woman's daughter was killed, and it'svery surprising at the end when you find
(24:08):
out who it was. It's kindof like a cliffhanger, but you it
leads you to what it was.Yeah, you did also short, not
New York. You played Nelly,not New York. No, I know.
Not ringing a bell was that recentI don't know two unless that might
have been when they put it out. Okay, but sometimes things saying they
(24:29):
can please charge it in my brainand not my heart COVID. Yeah,
really kind of shock up. Well, you know, like that takes us
now to your baby. I amrelentless, oh, because this is this
is her baby, this is thisis her true story. Yeah. And
I laughed, I cried and Iit was you know, there were some
parts that were so uplifting and thensome moments moments I'm gasping, and it
(24:53):
was like it really keeps you onthere, Thank you, Bobby. It
really keeps you on an emotional rollof because when you think it's going in
one direction, it goes in another. And you lived this, so you
know it makes it even more intense. And yeah, I wanted to know
it was originally a book. Correct, Yes, it it. I started
(25:15):
out journaling, okay, And howlong did it actually take you? I
mean this was like a process.Yes, it was definitely a process because
every time I sat down to addon to the book, I would start
from from the beginning and just seewhere I was. And as I started
to add on, I'm like,damn, I don't want to grow up.
(25:37):
M. I did. I didn'twant to grow up because I knew
what I was gonna face. Iknew what I had to recount, and
I was just like, oh,I don't want to I didn't want to
get to that. To that certainpoint, you kept it very real,
very authentic, very raw. Imean it was you put everything out there.
M. He really did. Yeah. Where there's some hesitation with the
couple of stories maybe in the movie, Yeah, they really didn't maybe didn't
(26:03):
wanna go there, but you putit in. There's more in the book
to be honest with you. Okay, Well, then I have to read
the book. You gotta read thebook. But I felt like it was
necessary because every every experience good,bad, you know, and different makes
me who I am. Yeah,and I I can't go back and change
anything. And I don't know thatI would, yeah, because then I
(26:26):
wouldn't be me. You know.There are some things you're like, oh,
God, whin me? But it'sme because now I can encourage anybody,
any anyone else, you know,to keep moving forward. Yeah,
to just keep moving forward. Everythingis not gonna be for you. Every
audition, every opportunity that I thoughtwell, this is gonna be for me,
and it wasn't for me. It'smade me stronger. Well, I'm
(26:48):
just acting audition for something now andthey're like, yeah, no, you
all be like okay, maybe nexttime. It was nice to meet you,
though, so I'm not you know, you don't walk away like a
yeah didn't yet? Girl? Getup? Yeah? Keep going? Yeah,
yeah that's it. How like howlong did it take you to sh
film the entire okay? Hm?When I actually said let me put the
(27:11):
book out, I really really like. There was there was a young lady.
She had something called Show Up andShine Challenge okay on Instagram, and
my sister said, you should youshould join this. I think this would
be good for you. I said, okay, So what it was was
it was a challenge. It wasa twenty one day challenge where you video
(27:33):
record yourself saying how you were gonnashow up and shine, how you were
gonna face your fears okay. AndI said, wow, cause I had
kind of been sitting on the bookshout I should na should I should not,
you know? And so I said, I'm gonna show up and shine
by adding another chapter to my book. I'm gonna show up and Shine by
you know, releasing this book.And then finally I said, today I'm
gonna put the last I'm gonna putthe period on the last sentus of this
(27:53):
book. Right. That was theday that I won and I want five
hundred dollars. Wow, And sothat kind of helped me to I think
it was the book cover. Itwas like little tiny things I needed to
take care of. But I justput it into Amazon and I promised them
the rest of the show up andShine folks, you know, to keep
(28:15):
your white big shout to you.I said, at the end of these
twenty one days, I'm gonna havethe book in my hand, and I
did. Wow. So like ifI say I'm gonna do something, it's
very important to me and to whoI promised for me to do it,
because all you have is your word, don't I don't want anybody to be
like the little kid that's waiting atthe window when you said you were gonna
(28:36):
come back and get me for icecream and you never come back. Because
these are the things that you rememberabout people. But you also remember when
someone keeps their word and they comeback for you. So after I released
a book in January of twenty one. I wanted to get back to the
One Woman Show because I was supposedto happen in twenty twenty. COVID shut
(28:59):
it down right, So I calledJV. I'm like, JV, I
want to do a movie, andhe's like really, I'm like, yeah,
I I need some prices. Youknow what is creative flow gonna charge
me? And so I just startedwriting, you know, scenes and creating
scenes from the book, and wefilmed. I would say the writing process
of filming I was maybe from Marchis when I started writing, so from
(29:23):
March or twenty twenty one and filming. The last of the filming that we
did was maybe some pickup scenes inJanuary twenty twenty two, but we were
really done in November twenty one,but just last things that I was like,
no, we need this, weneed that, you know, littl
peppering. So in January twenty twowe were done, so maybe like a
eight month off and on, youknow, a month a few months gap
(29:47):
with filming, and then we debutedit. It at a city plex,
Newark City Plex, Nice and itwas the scariest moment ever because it was
a three hundred seater, and hedidn't tell me. It's I'm like,
oh my god, oh god,I'm not gonna do this. I was
so scared. So I go inthe theater and they're like, we're gonna
(30:08):
start a five minute stacks go tellthem. I'm like okay. So I'm
like, you know, I comein and I'm like, all right,
so just let everybody start, youknow, filling up the top first and
don't worry about the bottom. Igo in there and the whole top is
packed. I'm like wow, yeah, yeah, yeah, speechless, Yeah.
I needed a minute to gather myself. I was emotional, like,
(30:30):
oh my god. And then thewhole theater was packed, and there were
still people that were just they justdonated tickets and those people couldn't even be
there. But it was like threehundred seats. Please you. You almost
needed another theater. I almost needed. It was really really a blessing.
And it was well, family,your friends were there, yeah in the
(30:51):
movie and yeah, you know everyonewho you know was behind the project.
Yeah, it was it was love. It was a lot of love.
It was a lot of love.Big shout to Shanna Lee, Anita Sparrick,
omar A Style Gatto, Uh,to Pan Holloway to JV. It
(31:14):
was some of that. So manypeople took to my directors, Caught and
Candy Litersa Baker, Jessica, Joseph, and myself. I also picked up
the directing hat and I was justyeah, yeah, and we have a
couple of stills from uh from thefilm. Yeah we do, Okay,
a couple of stills so in thatOkay, So is there anything specific you
(31:36):
would I know, yeah, we'regonna get to it. What did you
think about this guy? Though?Uh? He was a dog. He
was a bad. Wow. Man, he was such a dog. I
was like, oh no, please, No, I was like no.
And then get there in the parkwhen the girl wanted to fight you,
Oh that's so real. Yes,yes, So I don't know. You
(32:00):
know, Tony was like come on, come on, just that he was.
He was just so special. Hereally was. He really was.
Just you need to see it.It's on to be It's called I Am
Relentless. Watch it. You're reallyreally going to enjoy it. I know,
I saw it twice and I andagain I watched it once. Then
you go back and you kind oflike catch you know, like I said,
(32:22):
you catch some things that you cancatch the first time. But I
mean it was it was amazing.It was amazing and and and and to
be like I said, so soauthentic and raw and and just put it
out there. I mean, it'sit's it's not easy thing to do it
not only isn't. So here's myquestion to you. Did you have to
get consent a permission for the peoplewho you mentioned in the movie. How
(32:49):
does that work? So I didn'tuse their names, okay, So all
names were changed to protect the innocence. So pretty much, yeah, pretty
much everyone's name okay. And thenthat was it. I didn't check with
anybody for anything because I I didn'tlie about anything. I I held myself
accountable, okay, And so Ididn't feel as though I needed their permission
to tell my story, right good, Yeah, alright, cause I'm I'm
(33:13):
in the middle of writing a shortand I'm gonna have to be changing some
names. Change the names. Yougonna have to be change the name.
You may have to embellish here andthere. But I mean, right,
there was some there was it's reallyshort, okay, Yeah, so there
was some. There was Uh,when you read the book, you'll call
me and be like what everybody isasking me about that, asking me,
(33:38):
there's a specific part in my life. Why did I put that in the
movie. And that's because this personis a celebrity and he's married, and
I did not want any kind ofbacklas like I'm trying to, you know,
ride the wave or ride his ridehis coattails anything. No, I
feel like the movie can stand onthe son. Yes, and I didn't
(33:59):
even it does. Thank you forthat. And I didn't even really name
his real name in the book.Yeah, no, it really, it
really does. I chose not todo that, all right, everything is
not you know, for display.Yeah no, I totally get it.
You know what I gotta get.I gotta get my next break, So
stay right there, don't go awaymore with sex when we come back.
(34:29):
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stands for being a voice for peoplethat need a voice. My organization renovates
homes for people with disabilities, andwhen I come home a self care routine
makes me feel my best. I'mvery proud of the difference that we're making.
(34:51):
It. To see that impact inmy community inspires me to work even
harder. For everyone around me.Hi, I'm Georgia Rose, founder of
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And so we've got Mars and theSun together in Scorpio, which creates
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taro when the four cups right sideup. It means we have a lot
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are you watching me? You shouldbe watching Lisa Kindistracy tee Time with Teresa
(36:02):
Kinda Stracy. Make sure you followTeresa on Facebook Tee Time with Teresa Kindas
Tracy fo. We'll see you there. Not the way you say my name.
Hey, everybody, Welcome back totea time. I'm with Dax Cardero.
She is an actor, a writer, producer, uh a rapper back
(36:24):
in the day. She opens upfor a noty by Nature and Buster Rhymes
and other people and had it.Has an amazing career. She and and
and her baby, her baby,I Am relentless. Please watch it on
t B. It's an amazing truestory of her life and and it's just
it's great. You really you reallydo need to watch it. But we're
gonna we're gonna get to now ashow that we've done together. We did
(36:47):
we did Paper, but we actuallydidn't have any scenes together in Paper.
Paper is Omar Moore. Shout outto Omar, I play the secretary.
Who did you play in Paper?Miss? She has such a miss fon
Miss Fondeville, Fondeville, Fondeville,Miss Vondeville. Okay yep? And great
(37:08):
series yes, and award winning series, Yes it is. And we's won
best Ensemble. Hey yeah, Heydead little the best director by shout for
you, some big thing. You'redoing great things, which leads us to
Me and My Nuts and me amI Nuts and Me and My Nuts is
a comedy which we did work ontogether. We did episode two, yep
(37:32):
together, and you played doctor.I did play the doctor. Would you
like to say your name? Ohno, okay, you have watched to
find out, but I played Wanda, the secretary. We won't say her
name. But you're don't have towatch it, so listen. You know
you can watch it because on Apriltenth, okay, April tenth, we
(37:54):
are showing uh, episodes one andtwo of Me and My Nuts on April
tenth in Stanaten, Italy. Soyou need to contact me Italy, me
or oh mom more for tickets tocome see episodes one and two. And
we're both in two together and youyou're do an amazing job. You saw
(38:17):
it already. I ain't see it. I didn't see it yet. But
she does an amazing accent. Imean, you transform yourself into these characters
like I do. And I loveit. Yeah, I love it.
She was a lot of fun.She was a lot of fun. She
was a lot of fun. Ichose last minute to give her, yeah,
(38:42):
to give her an accent. SoI was African, and it was
just they were like, wait aminute, is that what she's gonna do.
I said, yes, this iswhat I'm going to do Yes,
this is going to be my access. Yes. And they were like,
because I didn't be her sta butsomething no, But it just came out
of you. That was how youheard her, That's what I heard.
I have to go with that.So Me and My Nuts is a great
(39:07):
series. It's a comedy, asyou can figure that out, and it
was a lot of fun to film. Again. Shout out to Omar Moore.
We're we're in the middle of rehearsingepisode three. He's already halfway done
through episode four, introducing more characters, more doctors. It's hysterical. It
just it just becomes funnier and funnier. He's just the scripted I'm trying to
(39:28):
get through the lines and I'm tryingto bite the side of my cheek because
I have to deliver them seriously,and I'm like cracking up. I'm like,
how am I gonna do this?It's Hysterilaris April tenth, please put
on your calendar. I'll have somethingon my Tea time page and my regular
Teresa Cannash Jacy Farrell page and justcome come if you could come live in
Jersey Staten, Italy's just just calmqueens. Just come and laugh. Just
(39:52):
laugh your butt off. It's somuch fun. But tell everybody how they
can follow you, where they canfind you as far as social media.
Okay, just real quick, Iwant to plug the movie Unknown. Yeah,
that's so I'm going to get tothat. Yeah, okay, I've
just yeah, so it's that's that'son Amazon right now. I think it's
(40:15):
ninety nine something like that. Yes, and you play Nurse Jones. I
played Nurse Jones. That's based onon COVID, and so it's very interesting
the way the way it kind ofplays out, it's very interesting. But
I'm always on Instagram. You canfind me there at Stax Caredero the same
way it's spelled m M yep.Yeah. And we mentioned that you are
(40:37):
co founder and CEO of uh airedOunce Show, which is also on YouTube
YouTube, and you've been doing thatsince June twenty ten. Huh. Yes,
it's a long time. It's avery long time. We've done a
lot of things. We've produced sometalent shows. We've been on Brick TV,
We've been on YouTube, We've beenon several differ friend platforms. So
(41:00):
right now we're on scrash Vision Radionice on Saturday? Is that one?
Okay? Yep? Good, Sowe have to have you? Oh I
loved I love to bed. Waitno, no, how do you did
you do that? Virtually? Dohave to come to Jersey? We can
do zooe. Okay, we'll figurewe'll definitely figure it out, all right,
(41:23):
so we have I just want togive again shout out to everyone watching.
Thank you so much. I reallydo appreciate you know, everyone watching
tea time. We have like fiveminutes left because I'm gonna get you do
the train on time. But inthat five minutes, tell me about what
(41:45):
you're working on in the future,what you have going on. Okay.
So what I did over the twicelast year was I actually did do the
One woman show. Yes, andso I did a review in March and
that went over really well, andit was just kind of like just a
tester just to see how it willgo. But everybody really loved it and
(42:06):
they were like, wow, Ididn't know that. Okay, okay,
and so we went larger and thistime I went with I went with Stephen
Strickland as my director and producer.And normally I carry everything on my back.
I take care of everything from thebeginning to the end. And he
(42:28):
said, let me help you,and totally took and he carried the weight
of everything. Nobody had to talkto me. He's like, no,
you just as long as you knowyour lines, that's all you need to
know is your lines and and andyour spacing. That's that's all you need
to know. Where are you going? Where are your lines? You know
what songs are you going to do? And so there were some things that
(42:52):
took me away from from hip hop, some life experiences that took me away
from hip hop. Yeah, soas the One Woman Show musical as well,
you throwing a couple of songs out, a couple of songs and that.
So I've been in the studio lately. I was gonna say, I
know you're recording something. Yep,I've been in the studio lately, and
(43:12):
I'm excited to return to the stage. And actually on Wednesday, March twentieth,
I have a performance up at theShrine awesome, Yeah, with Maria
Davis. It's her thirtieth anniversary andso I'll be there. I'll be there
performing and yeah, and the OneWoman's Show, when can people just please
(43:34):
watch the page? Okay, pleasewatch the page, because I'm gonna collaborate
with another group of women, andso they'll be like snippets of their One
Woman shows. And so by thattime I might have a better idea of
when I'm gonna do it. I'mthinking about doing it again in July.
So what I did was we didit at what's the name of this place.
We had it in on forty secondStreet, theater row. Okay,
(43:57):
we had it at THEATERO for mybirthday, milestone birthday. Yes, yeah,
I wanted to do something really bigin July. It is July,
okay, all right, So Ididn't want to do it on my birthday
July nineteenth, yep, oh yeah, this is good tonight, Okay,
all right, I remember, thankyou for having girl. But it was
(44:20):
it was well attended and it wasmore than than what I expected it to
be. And we recorded it,so you know, you know, life,
life's yeah, and so I'm waitingon the edits right, want somebody
to show the One Woman's Show?Yeah, the film. Then I'll be
inviting folks out. You're definitely invited. Oh girl, I can't wait,
I really can't, I really reallycan't listen. Again, I want to
(44:44):
thank you for taking the trip hereyou I know it wasn't around the corner
for you. Cool. Like Isaid, we're gonna we're gonna end the
show just a couple of minutes earlyso I can get her to the train
on time because she's gonna go backto Joys. But thank you so much
for coming out. I hope youalways open. I love this place.
If you haven't been here, you'vebeen invited. It's great. I'm off
(45:05):
of a zoom and common person.It's definitely definitely left the trip and she's
a great hope. Thank you.Well, listen, thank you everyone for
watching tea time, supporting me.Thank you again for this. I am
so glad on my show. I'mgonna have Jay, gonna have Omar definitely
definitely definitely more me and my nuts. All right, listen, everyone,
please take care, Tell everyone youlove you love them, and I'll see
you next week. Shout everybody.Two
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My Favorite Murder is a true crime comedy podcast hosted by Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark. Each week, Karen and Georgia share compelling true crimes and hometown stories from friends and listeners. Since MFM launched in January of 2016, Karen and Georgia have shared their lifelong interest in true crime and have covered stories of infamous serial killers like the Night Stalker, mysterious cold cases, captivating cults, incredible survivor stories and important events from history like the Tulsa race massacre of 1921. My Favorite Murder is part of the Exactly Right podcast network that provides a platform for bold, creative voices to bring to life provocative, entertaining and relatable stories for audiences everywhere. The Exactly Right roster of podcasts covers a variety of topics including historic true crime, comedic interviews and news, science, pop culture and more. Podcasts on the network include Buried Bones with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes, That's Messed Up: An SVU Podcast, This Podcast Will Kill You, Bananas and more.