Ep. 206 - Guest: Cedric Pendleton

Guest: Cedric Pendleton

Episode Transcript

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This is the FCB Podcast Network.Welcome to Jown Brown. Jo Hey,

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y'all, we want to h hey, jocol tune into another exciting episode of
Self Brown with Coco Brown. Self. They don't know if you're laughing or
breaking up. Listen, I'm sorry, it's just funny, man. You
know, I love our show becausethere's always dialogue and conversation before we go

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on, before we get and itjust always trinkles over to uh, to
the actual show. So this isreal time conversation. So Ken, welcome
to the show. You already know. I got the family with me.
We got the lovely side of theshow as always. We call her the
Smile. But y'all know where thesister Auntie, you know, my girl.

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Uh. Coco Brown, I'm sorry, y'all, y'all, you know
what he is not breaking up everybody. He just can't stop laughing. You
know that rests be catching up withthat. We capt we cat that man,
build it all the family. Listen. It's not a hot topics we

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gotta deal with today. And Iknow we got a couple of special deaths
coming on later on the show.But let's Cocoa. We were talking about
the strike Okay, what you reallyyour your thoughts about this, and you
know, I know you're talking onhow you've been contributing in your way,
you know, but let's really talkabout the writers strike because I know a

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lot of people are being affected bythis a lot of times, a lot
of concent creators actors on strike too, right, Yes, it's the actors.
They still keep saying writer strike.This actors and writers strike. It's
the way all striking right now,everybody strike. Yeah, and we have
already set our bail money aside forCocoa. So if y'all see, if

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y'all you won't need it because I'mnot going out there. I'm sorry.
It is one hundred and hell andI'm going through full blow. Men of
pause. I cannot sorry. Ihave I have sent money over to the
Actor's Fund to help my fellow thesbiansand I'm yeah, I'm sorry, But
anybody gonna resuscitate me when I fallout from a h So now I don't

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I don't know, Coca. Itmight be some of the male actors that
like you, you know what I'msaying, They might be the opportunity to
jump on in you feel me,I mean, I mean, honestly,
I mean, I can name afew that could definitely resuscitate me, but
real oh absolutely, it's definitely acouple of actors and I could get it,

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but no, but you know,I don't tend to, you know,
poop where I eat, so youknow, yeah, I don't know,
yeah, you know, you know, yeah, yeah, you know.
I feel bad for the you know, for for the folks, but
I understand that you have to definitelymake a stand and absolutely do your think.

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And also I want to welcome tothe show, my man Cep Pendleton
to the show actor and director,my man Sepric. What's good, brother,
what's happening? What's happening? Washappening? To see if I can
get myself situated? Can I comebright? I don't. Let's come out?
Well, come right back in?Yeah, yeah, yeah, we
see you glaring. Yeah, letme come. Let me come right back

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in. Come on, looking likethe glove power baby, come out looking
like the last dragon with the glove. Hey, alight, man, me,
let me come out, Let mecome out and come right back in.
All right, come on back onthere. Now that is that's a
fan of print baby White you live. That's that ain't a fang of print.

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That was something else, but Iain't gonna talk about it. Oh,
filming a lot. So you're saying, say you're filming during the strike.
Okay, yeah, now what's you'refilming? You know begs to be
understood. But you gotta make ahome movie. You gotta make a home
movie while we strike. Man.That's that's that's okay, that's last catching

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all, it's catching all the tea. Baby, I'm just saying. I'm
just saying, anybody say you can'tmake a home movie. Hey with the
I phone fourteen? Is I phonefourteen plus? I got Let me tell
you something, man, you knowthey got all these features for video and
and you know with your pictures andyour video, so I'm always on cinematic,

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and I'm telling you it looks likea movie like I am so impressed
with technology. You know, I'mget an only fan Coco. You know,
I would be utterly disgusted in myspirits, because I would be utterly
disgusted in my spirit if I havesitting up, greased up in a town

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on own what's some cocoa butter on? I would need therapy. I would
need therapy. I would need Iwould need therapy. You're here. Let
me say this, saying that thesea that the CEO only fans makes a
million dollars he's supposed to. Ithink listen, tell you listen, this

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guy uh is, he's he's brilliant. He's brilliant. He's brilliant. I
mean a million dollars of that.Yeah, I mean, think about it,
Darbio. You get all these peoplethat want to, you know,
show their ass and they body parts, and they're making like what every time

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somebody subscribed, making like what twoor three dollars subscribe twenty dollars, nineteen
dollars a subscribe. Come on,come on, I don't know. You're
more pro than I am on that. So I don't know. Yeah,
yeah, you know, you know, Darbio, trying to get right with
the Lord. He can't be going. I forget her, trying to get
right with the Lord that he cando dirty, right. He ain't out

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here trying to live like us.You know what I'm saying, I ain't
gonna lae to strike. Keep goingon, y'all about to see a whole
lot of COVID. Damn. Look, I just left the doctor too.
I'm the healthiest I've ever been.My eight one seed down, my cholesterol
down, my blood pressure is perfect. I have lost another seven pounds.

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Oh honey, only fans about toget all of this, all of this,
if this, if this day's gonnastrike. Look, look, I'm
about to go. Buy me somelingual ree and get y'all in the business
for nineteen ninety nine a month.Well, listen, yo, long,
ain't no Grandma lingerie. That's all. That's all I'm saying, Nan moves

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you don't want to see. Idon't know about you, Jeff. I
don't know about you, Jeff.That movement kept my granddaddy locked and loaded
for sixty one years. I'm saying, hey, I'm not saying it didn't
work. I'm just talking about I'mtwenty twenty three. If my mama want
that moved around the house and mydad's stay here fifty four years, I'm

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just saying, hey, if Ilisten, if I'm gonna play nineteen ninety
nine, I want to see nineteenninety nine worth for lingering. Okay,
you will, you will. That'sa lot of material in the movement.
You will, I don't, don't. Don't put on omen listen right,
yeah, put on some baby,right and get all the sugar. Daddy's

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giving me twenty dollars an talking aboutLord looking at her and that polyester playing
Lord. Well, hell, forforty dollars, you can get butt nacking.
I don't want you to have nigga. No, you know what this
give me the platinum playing forty dollars. Now white bras, you know,
look like a bulletproof vest with thegirl y'all be playing that? Kept that

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kept that, that kept Our granddaddyis at home, honey. I don't
know you out here getting all thesethombs and messing up your pH balance.
Better get you a moment walking aroundand some bloomers. Why, I don't
know you. I'll see the video. Hey, did y'all see that video?
We're gonna get to my man said, because you know we're proudly YouTube.

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Man, you know you got anew You're gonna be starting a new
hit show coming up real soon.Correct, So we're gonna be talking about
that later in the show. That. Did y'all see that video? Do
y'all posted about the young girls thatwas rapping? Yes, you're talking about
you're talking about the little the littlePoundtown Girl and then the shook it with

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the good But I tell you,that whole video just reeked of, like
Monostat seven. It just reeked of. I have a use infection and I'm
holding on to it because it's gonnacome in style. I just like or
No. That video made my phonese They made my phone side made my

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phone sad. Man. Man,you had to be all Jeff and Austin.
That had to be one of thetop two wor first songs I've ever
heard in my life. How oldare you? You're on the second sick?
Yeah, what I'm talking about.That was awful. Hey, when
I first saw it, I hadI couldn't stop laughing. And then when

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I saw it again when she saidshe wanted to the suck off the president
and then she said Joe Biden,I was like, oh my god.
When that health was said, That'swhy I stayed prigging in. I said,
prigging in, I have to go. I have to it. Just
that video, like in front ofmy Popeye's like that my whole phone stinker.

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I had to like disaffect my phonePopeyes no more. Since that video,
I used to sneak Popeye some timeto time. I don't want them
to know. Man, that wasthe most ratcheting you. No, ratchet
is a compliment. Ratchet is acompliment. We have to come up with
a new word for that. Yeah, the new The new word is,

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oh, that was so monaster.That was so naster, Grandma, Grandma
ain't teaching youth to hum lord becauseGrandmama out there tworking too. Grandma tworking.
Two. Yeah, my family goton Rainbow. Listen, Grandma like
twenty two. Like grand Grandma,I'm telling you my child. I showed

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it to my son and I said, you bring anything home like that,
I'm gonna kill you, and I'mgonna kill her. Understand me. Be
happy to God, you be happythat he brought her home. Don't play.
Oh. Look, I hate tosay it out my mouth right now,

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but if my son bought home awhole man other than that, I'd
be like, you know, whatis this my new son in law?
Grandma, don't you bring home thattrash. Don't you bring on that nasty
trash. It just wreaked of Godaria. It just read media and victorial vaginosis.

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When you know one of them,when you know cooker, one of
them bragged about they had clamydia likethree times or something like yeah, yeah,
yeah. They talked about condoms someabout condoms make her stuff smell like
fish. I said, no,baby, that's your p H balances all
from that chlamydia. Grandmama ain't teachersnothing nothing. They probably I bet that.

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I bet they wipe back the front. I know they do. Oh
my god. Well listen, hey, y'all, we're gonna hold the monstat
seven and we're gonna make sure thatmost No, we'll be y'all gonna see
me behind pause, but my childwill understand the assignment. Don't you bring

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them home with me? What't youbring nothing home to me? Wearing beauty
supply store clothes? Okay, bothof them have had on beauty supply store
outfits. Nope, I'm afraid minaset seven. Stop. That's what I'm
saying. You need to because I'mgonna tell you the rate these little girls

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is going on. They gonna needa whole lot of it. Hey,
that whole I want to do condomsfor a ten year old? They probably
do. We'll be right back onthat note. Fix it, just fix
it? Lord, Oh lord,No, this is the Jeff Show.

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We back educated women are not claimingthat now, So what what COVID's talking
about this? We just came backto the break. I mentioned that on
the post that Jeff and I bothsaw with you with the video from somebody
that we both know. It waswomen, educated black women in the commons

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defending it, talking about liberally,talking about how liberating it was. No,
there's nothing that we're writing about that. No, that's trash. No,
and y'all gonna stop putting educated womenin the same category. I went
to a four year institution. Iwent to a two year institution. I
have a bachelor's and a master's.Divide does not count. You have a
certificate. Okay, there talking aboutif you if, if you if,

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if you lose that certificate, youcan't get another one because they're not open.
No more. I can't go backget copy of my degree. You
got a whole degree and you don'teven know you can't even get a copy.

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Let me get a copy my hangingup on the wall. I have
a bachelor's of science and computer science, Thank you very much. Don't give
out bachelors folding everything, don't playand seven can you can you work on
a c units? No? Wework on computers. We work on the

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on the board of the a cU. So when you when your air
go out and you're looking for somebodyto fix it your a cun computer,
don't call me, don't call butbut you Pedro, but he he don't

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figure goodness exactly forty dollars at abox of corona. Y yeah, good
worker, great lad. He's notin Florida. No, not that,
oh honey, Georgia then came upan autemn Latinos that came up from Florida.

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You can't. I mean, Igot ten different lawncare right now,
honey, they just rotate what kindof lawn they mainnucing to two point one
acres, baby, two point onethat's what That's what a four year degree
gets you. That's what a fouryear degree gets you. How you stay

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on your acres? Yeah you right, I got, I got my forty
acres in the music. You canhave your houses dealing with all that I
ain't got trying to deal with noairbnbo shoot, that's what the TOMPs No
right, hey, hey said,man, you you you like? Now

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you're gonna be on PBS. Let'stalk about you got He's gonna be on
PBS. He black mister Rogers withsome swag. Leave me along. Okay'll
be talking like this. I'm enjoying, all right, all right, so

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talk to talk to me about theshow man and the concept of the show,
and you know, let's talk alittle bit about it. So the
show in itself is called The Cooland the Strong basically among black and brown
people. Our education level with kidsafter Corona dropped to two levels, reading

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levels, our grade levels, Ishould say. So you know, South
Carolina is number forty eight in thecountry in a sense of education. Georgia
jumped from number forty six to thenumber thirty. Mississippi is at dead last.
Alabama's right behind it. My wholepoint to you is there has to

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be something that motivates kids in orderto do better. And so this particular
show addresses that issue, teaching kidsthat they can follow their dreams and do
whatever they want to do. AndI play a character called Mister and Mister
Gray is a retired magician who isbasically bringing magic into the classroom to bring

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children's dreams to reality. That's it. So ye, So, so CB,
we shot, we shot the pilot, and right now, the pilot
is on YouTube. They put thepilot on YouTube for people to be able
to take a look at it andsee what it is and that kind of
thing. But it's called The Cooland the Strong and so they're in the

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process now ordering additional episodes. Sowe're about to go to series. So
that's the deal. Okay. Soso let me ask you a question.
You're you're saying that through the throughthe aftermath of COVID, Okay, we
you saw through studies and research adecline, okay, in education right now?

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Is this this is in the blackcommunity or this is overall? Well,
let's let us lets let us bereal. The black communities are there.
The communities are the most effective becauseyou know that they don't put they
don't put my fault, they don'tput money in our communities in the same
man that they put money in othercommunities. And so from a from a

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black and brown perspective, it's anit's it's something that needs to be addressed.
So I'm glad to make that pointbecause here here's my point. How
are we how are we to motivateyoung black men and women, especially what
we're seeing out of them now violence? Uh, you know, a lot

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of uh uh, what we callproximity crimes amongst our brown and black folks.
How how are we able or throughyour platform or through this show,
what methods are you using to motivateuh, this target audience to you know,
to turn their life around, tounderstand education, to invest back into

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their drains that egg. You don'thave to you know, have the alternative
life, but you can really havethis life of of peace success if you
work hard. You can see otherrewards behind you know what you're doing,
and you can live a long lifeangevity if you work hard. I mean,
how are you able to motivate youngmen and black women to do that?

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And brown folks well, I mean, you know, the biggest thing
is is just like we talked aboutjust a few minutes ago. I mean,
you know, kids immulate what theysee, and so if mama and
daddy, if if mama and daddyor pushing education in the house or pushing
reading in the house, then ithelps. But let's take let's be real.

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Mom and daddy are business. They'reworking two jobs in order to make
ends meet in this economy, sowhich means that kids in themselves often find
themselves being entertained by by the cellphone or by the television or that kind
of thing. So the full pointof it is to feed a child in
the manner that they're used to eating. So they're used to eating off the

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cell phones, they're used to eatingoff the television and things of that magnitude,
and that's what this show does.It feeds them in a manner that
they don't know that they're being fed. It's sort of like The Lord of
the Rings was the story of revelationsand chasing something precious, you know what
I mean. The Matrix was aboutrevelation. You didn't know you were being
fed. Well, the Cooler andthe Strong is the same way we're feeding

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kids and don't know that they're beingfed. And in that same instance,
there's a storyline for adults to hookadults into it. So there's an adult
story and there's a child's story.And so that's the whole thing is to
be able to do exactly that.Okay, and I know we got to
go to break. I'm gonna bringyou right back to talk about it.

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My question is, and you cananswer this real quick, you get like
a minute, have you seen anyresults based on the methods of dealing with
this issue. Have you seen anypositive results based on Well, the biggest
thing is is it was tested infront of a television audience that was comprised

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of teachers that score and not evenone out the gate before it even hit
the air, And so it wasdone by South Carolina a PPS in order
to determine whether or not the numberswere high enough to go to national.
And so now it's been pushed thenational and we're in the process of getting
orders on in a sense of theepisode in the series in itself. So
that's the process that we're in.But to answer your question, there's not

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a child or an adult that's seenit that has had anything negative to say
about it except my hair needs tobe trimed. But other than that,
well we got that part. Okay, that's cool. Listen, hey said,
don't go nowhere. Man, We'llbe right back with my man said
Pilton. We'll be right back,man, right back, right back,

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Jeff brown Ship, We're backing backand back. I'm loving this echo.
But you know, I'm looking atyour hair man you're talking about They said
you need to are you doing?Are you doing now? Are you doing
something with their man. No,man, I'm letting I have broke.
I'm thankful. I got head.Okay, you are you? I thought
maybe you might be getting dress orsomething. They mean, are you going

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for a different No? No,this this car. Let it do what
it do. Would be thankful yougot it? Okay, I got I
know. Oh look, yeah he'sgiving me shaggy vibes. It wouldn't me.
Yeah, go ahead, Darby.I know you had a question for

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for said yeah, yeah, Iknow you were just kind of talking about
where where black and brown kids are, right, you know, as far
as the gray levels and the readinglevels and stuff like that, and it's
really at a it's got a crylevel. I mean, all of through
COVID, all of the kids acrossthe board have suffered, Like white kids
are down fifty six percent, butit's for black and brown. For black,

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for brown folks, it's nearly eightypercent of our kids, and for
black folks it's over eighty percent.So it's at for blacks and Hispanics,
it's at a crisis level. Sowhen did you when did you become you
know, aware of the issues theconditions that that black and brown kids are
suffering with right now, and whatmade you decide you wanted to do something

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to try to address it. Well, I mean, let's be clear,
at my executive producer in this particularsituation. You know, I found myself
becoming the star, one of thestars of the show, but also found
myself being offered the opportunity to bea co executive producer for this. And
so you've got an executive producer onthe PBS side that it's a black woman.

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You've got a executive producer show runnerthat came up with the concept in
itself that's a black woman. You'vegot a black woman behind the lens directing,
first time director who is fabulous.And so with those elements coming into
play, it called to me.And both my parents were educators, and
I know the value of education,and once a kid is educated, there's

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nothing that we as a people cannotdo. And so knowing that that is
part of my calling. I've alwaysbeen involved with kids and giving back and
helping and educating and that kind ofthing. So this just kind of fit
my calling. Doesn't necessarily mean thatI'm going to be you know, PPS
exclusive by any means, because ifHBO calls and asked me to do the

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news saying I'm doing that too.But the point is is that this is
a calling for me. This isnot just something I'm doing for money.
This is a passion and a senseof helping kids in the next generation.
We have to put a vibration inthe world for the next generation that makes
sense, and this is my attemptto be to do that. Yeah.

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Absolutely, I mean, the statisticsshow that if you if you have kids
who are not reading at the levelthat they're supposed to, they're more likely
to eventually end up in the system. So this is very important to try
to stop that from happening, totry to help and I just feel like,

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you know, I'm sorry, no, you know, as as as
a former educator, you know,I learned that a lot of these children
that I was dealing with that werestruggling with reading came from a household where
the parents struggled with reading that right, And you know, we have to
take the stigma off of someone whodoesn't read well or write well and they're

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an adult. We need we needto focus on finding a way to educate
the parents as well, so theydon't feel like, you know, they
don't want their child to know thatthey're struggling with reading, so therefore they
don't push reading for their own children, and then their children fall behind,
and it just creates this generational curseof these children who don't read and can't

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read. And I don't know howwe can do this because it needs to
start at home, and a lotof times it starts with the parent.
You know, most of my friendswho are educated or have you know,
or have a love for reading,they do put that into their children.
But I've also noticed that when Iwas teaching, there were parents who came

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in and they struggled just to reada report card. They and the thing
was, they felt embarrassed and theystruggled with that, and therefore they're not
pushing it with their children because intheir minds, I've made it this far
and I can't pronounce words, Ican't read, I don't need to read,
and they're not pushing it. Well, maybe if we start with the
parents and see where they are andencourage them, you know, maybe have

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something. I know they had institutedthis in LA when I was teaching there,
that they had the parents come inand do story time with their children,
helping them to learn to read betterwith their should. But you know,
the interesting thing, coach is youare correct. You are adamantly correct.
But there's another issue that happened duringCOVID that most people are not addressing,

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which is there was a mental stressthat was put on kids that we
never experienced. I mean, amental stress of being sitting in front of
a computer, sitting in front ofyou know, the noise that's going on
in the household. Do I haveInternet? Can I get a computer?
I don't want to sit here.I'm bored. I want to go do
something else. I mean, itbecame a situation where you're almost teaching kids

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to a desire, not to wantto learn. And so that whole scenario
is kind of what my passion hasbecome because I'm at the age of realizing
that, you know, it's myresponsibility to put as much good into the
world as I can and to influenceas many as I can. And that's
the youth. Yeah, I don'tcare nothing about you all here. I

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don't care nothing about you old here. I do care about the parents,
but I don't care nothing about youold heads. It's that next generation that
we need to be concerned with.And I think you said that so eloquently,
Coco, from a perspective of wegotta deal with the parents too,
But first I gotta let me playdevil's advocate here and Cocoa, I think
you hit that nail on the headlike because it because it because it starts

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at home. But I think whatwe also got to understand too, is
that a lot of these parents thatare single, A lot of these parents
that are single parents. Now,you got a lot of mothers, Cocoa,
You're a phenomenal single parents yourself,and you understand the responsibility of raising
a young man, right. Youare a mother and father, you have
a lot of and you're blessed,you know what I'm saying. I'm not

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talking about all you. I canput all your business out there, but
as your brother, I know thatyou're blessed. And they're not a lot
of people in in in your positionright Like Actually, so a lot of
these parents they're not reading, butthey're trying to do a survive. So
what has to happen is we havethere has to be a way to create
resources. And I'm not talking aboutjust safety nets, right because we're not

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talking about a crutch, but therehave to be an ability to create real
revenue resources for these families, sothese parents can be able to pour into
their their their children and be ableto better themselves as well, because I
can't better a person if I'm hurting. I can't give to a person when
i'm when I don't have anything togive, but I'm forcing myself to give

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what I don't have. So ultimately, I send my kids to school and
I let the teachers raise them,I let the principle raise them so out
of eight hours out of the dayand they come home with me, and
then I, you know, Ido whatever I can and give my best.
So there has to be a narrativethat creates opportunities for these parents so

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that way they can ultimately be ableto better themselves and at the same time
be able to pour into their children. And and and I think, and
that's where I'm at with that,because I agree, if the parents can't
read, then they can't invest intothe children to be able to read.
But there are a lot of parentsthat are focused on just surviving. And

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I totally get that. I havenot always been in the position i'm in
financially right, you know, Iwas very much a struggling actress, struggling
comedian at one point, and evenwhen I became a single mother after my
divorce, you know, it wasnow you know, this one income household
that I had to maintain. Ihad to go make the money. I

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had to leave my child with babysittersand family and friends and things of nature.
But there are things that can bedone. I mean, this is
gonna sound really crazy, but ifyour child can be on YouTube and TikTok
for hours of the day, theyneed to be on some kind of education
program for just amount of time.I remember putting my two year old in
front of ABC Mouse so I couldmake dinner. He wasn't watching you know,

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Yo Gabba Gabba and all of thatall day long. At some point
ABC Mouse was going on, andhe would sit there and watch it.
You don't know what they're internalizing.They're internalizing everything you put in front of
them. I know that you needtime. I'm a single mother. I
get it. There are times Ilet my child be on his notebook,
his computer, his phone, whatever, But I'm also monitoring. It's about

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monitoring. I'm not saying you haveto stand over your child's shoulder, but
if they can have TikTok on theirphone. They can also have some kind
of program that teaches them something too, right, So, which brings us
to why the project was created.First of all, the series was based
off a series of books called TheCool and the Strong by Stephanie Perry Moore.
She's the showrunner and executive producer Button. We develop this whole scenario with

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the idea of address the issues,so addressing the issues of motivating kids and
giving teachers the tools that they needwithin the classroom in order to show their
students to move forward. But letme just simply say this, in February
twenty twenty four, I'm also workingon a tour that actually will address the

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mental health and mental wellness of kidsfrom six through the twelfth grade and then
college kids in themselves. So we'reworking on that actively. But again,
that's a passion project. This isa project that I know that for the
rest of my life I will probablybe the LeVar Burden of freaking wow.

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You know what I mean? Thatthat that's the that's the that's the thought,
that's the that's the premise. Butno, we need we need more
of that. I mean, becauseyou know, our parents let us watch
TV, and the TV raised us. But we also had programs like Reading
Rainbow, and we had Electric Covering, and we had Sesame Street, and

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we had programs that not only entertainedus, but they also educated us.
And the thing is, it takesten minutes for you to go through the
remote on your dag on Roku andfind programs that actually educate and entertain your
children at the same time. Ifyou want the TV to raise your kids,
then make sure they're watching something.You know, even on Saturdays when

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I was growing up, we hadSchoolhouse Rock and they and they would educate
us on how how bills were werepassed in legislation, how you know,
they had all these different avenues evenwhen we were watching Looney Tunes and all
the different cartoons, but they madespace to educate us because they knew on

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Saturday morning that's where most of uswould leave. We'll be looking at cartoons
and we're looking at that. Butthey would put that type of you know,
content and platform there. Oh man, he gone, yeah the way,
I don't know what happened to him, but yeah, well he come
back. I know, we gottawrap up the show. But Coco,

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you make a great point about that, and you know what, you know,
it's funny, Coco. I'll beforgetting then you were an educator because
you yeah, Kim Whitley were educators. No, Kim was a teacher too
in California. Yeah, so I'vebeen getting that, yeah, you know,
and like for me, I'm stillteaching. I teach acting now,

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but I'm still educating. So Iuse a lot of what I learned as
an educator teaching history and English,but I also use it in my classes.
But for me raising a son whoI have found has natural gifts.
My son is extremely well in mathand science. He hates writing, wow,

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comprehension. He didn't like that,that whole that whole thing about writing
and having to write a book report. He'd rather poke his eyebows out with
a Bobby pit Wow. And gettinghim, you know, it took me
finding a journal that said black boyright, and I said, okay,
every night we're gonna write in ourjournals. We don't share it with each
other unless we want to, butI need you to write, you know.

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And now he does it on hisown because I told him, that's
your diary. I can't read that. If you want to cuss me out
in that book. That's you,that's that's your privilege. I said,
I won't read it unless you wantme to read it. So that got
him to writing that he's able toexpress himself and have his privacy. You
gotta find a way to get yourkids and then reading. He likes reading,

(36:30):
but he's the kind of kid.It's got to be all of those,
you know, graphic novels that thekids read and the superhero stuff,
which is great. But I alsomade sure that he was reading books about
fred Rick Douglas and reading books aboutMartin Luther King and reading books about Malcolm
X. Yeah, you know,and we'd watch the movie. Then I
say, okay, every movie I'mshowing you has a book based on it.

(36:52):
Let's read the book too. Andyou gotta find a way. I
had to reward him, Okay,if you read this book for one hour,
got one hour on xbox. Whatyou want to do? Sometimes you
gotta figure out a way. Alot of times, you know, they
always say, well, parents aresingle and they're struggling, and they're this,
and they're that. Honey, letme tell you something. Once you
get first of all, let's geta structure in our households. Once you

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put a foundation, boundaries, anda structure in your household, and there's
no there's no deviating from that,you don't have to keep going back to
monitor because you're training your child tohave discipline, you're changing, You're training
your child to know what they haveto do to get A, B and
C. I must do A andB to get C and D. The
thing is we're not doing that.We're letting these babies and this TV and

(37:40):
TikTok's raise our kids, and thenwe want to screen. The system is
failing us. No, the parentsare feeling their kids. The same amount
of time it takes you to goget your braids done and you're weed done,
you can be making sure your kidis watching something education. So that's
that's the primary reason that it's donein the manner day is done is because

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meaning that it's done and been pushedtowards social media is because we wanted to
give kids the food that they're usedto eating in the palette, on the
plate that they're used to You havethere, Well, listen, man,

(38:22):
man, we can continue this conversationall day, because this is what it's
all about. Entertainment and envirownerment andyou know said that, you know,
you are a family to us.You know, you always welcome to come
on, and we are exciting andproud of what you're doing and you're leading
away in this and you have oursupport. Also, let me publicly say
right now that, uh, thattour that you're planning, come back Cleveland.

(38:46):
Man. We've got I've got somefolks we can connect you with and
we'll love to, you know,to do that because we're dealing with a
lot of avenues with mental health righthere. So with that said, uh,
you know, we just come tothe to this part of the show
I Love and it's called what didyou learn Today? So seven you are

(39:06):
our guests. What did you learnthat? That's the somebody got two point
one minute, two point one acresover in the Atlanta but there ain't got
no man down there helping her out. So you need somebody to come look
at that funny look at the hair, Go look at the hair. Just

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because I got a back, girl, I got a thrown back. Okay,
come on, get down on thisroster, baby, because that's just
because I say I ain't got aman, don't mean I don't have men.
I know I need a rotation,but I'm cold with it. Come
out share, I need a lightstan. I need to like staring at
my roster. Come on, goodtreaty good, Come on baby, come

(39:51):
on be my cream baby like youjust lighting up, just going away,
little paper sad God for your littleAlabama paper sack. Go at day.
No we get made out water onbread. Okay, well there you have
it. Come What did you learntoday? I learned that I should not

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be so judgmental against the ride degrees. That's a that's a good lesson.
That's a good lesson. It's stilla degree, even though it's so regular
paper, even though it's and they'reno longer in business, right right,
right, right exact. What didyou learn today? I learned that Jeff
said he's gonna make a business planto start his new only fans. And

(40:40):
I learned that that Darbio got hissecond degree. D listen, oh my
lord, oh god. With thatsaid, lest man said, how do
we follow you? My brother?Real quick? How do we follow?
How we connect with you? Tofollow the show and give us the name
of the show, real real quick. I'm sorry, the show is the

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