Speaker 1: And That's what you really missed with Jenna.
Speaker 2: And Kevin an iHeartRadio podcast.
Speaker 1: Welcome to and That's what You Really miss podcast. I
Speaker 1: am Jenna, I am Kevin.
Speaker 3: We are recovering from laugh attack, and we are here
Speaker 3: because there's more laughs to be helped.
Speaker 2: Oh my god, Amber Riley is here. We just thought
Speaker 2: her for over an hour. She does left the studio.
Speaker 2: I've never cried laughed more in my life.
Speaker 4: Kevin ran away at one point he was so moved.
Speaker 2: Is so moved?
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, she speaks for herself.
Speaker 3: She's an Olivia winner, She's Mercedes Jones.
Speaker 2: She is the voice of our generation.
Speaker 4: Correct, it's miss Amber Riley.
Speaker 2: You guys, we have a special guest, the one, the
Speaker 2: only Mercedes joke.
Speaker 4: She's here. I'm alive.
Speaker 2: She's barely hanging on, but here, week here.
Speaker 4: And is making her round. It is Grammy.
Speaker 5: We all to know who the responsible one is because
Speaker 5: when I said I was hungover, brought coconut water.
Speaker 2: Smart one, not her first rodeo.
Speaker 5: Liquid Ivy, I'm a mom and Kevin offered champagne.
Speaker 2: Well, mine was hair, the hair of the dog. I
Speaker 2: wasn't sure if you wanted to keep the.
Speaker 5: Dog is supposed to be like like hard liquor or beer.
Speaker 4: I don't think it's supposed to be.
Speaker 2: You could have requested that.
Speaker 1: Where did that even come?
Speaker 2: Like champagne was an easier drink.
Speaker 5: I can't drink champagne. It hurts my stomach. Really the
Speaker 5: dog until Glee when we did the and when you
Speaker 5: say hair of the dog yoke, I was like, what
Speaker 5: does that even mean?
Speaker 2: I didn't know what it meant either, I said, looked
Speaker 2: it up, like what does this mean?
Speaker 4: That's fine?
Speaker 2: Because I had heard it. I got a text remember
Speaker 2: this morning, being like, I just want you to know
Speaker 2: how much I love you guys, because I haven't slept
Speaker 2: since Saturday.
Speaker 4: Key, she lost her keys.
Speaker 6: It's Wednesday's windy, It's wed It's only Wednesday.
Speaker 1: Yes, it's Wednesday.
Speaker 3: Do you have other Grammy parties? You have to get
Speaker 3: good good every day? Oh my good every day. I'm
Speaker 3: tired for you.
Speaker 2: You look great?
Speaker 4: Yeah you do.
Speaker 2: That's infuriating. This is the worst I slept and I
Speaker 2: don't look I just you.
Speaker 3: Know, hydrate, yeah, with Hennessy and then and then coconut water.
Speaker 5: Oh wait, are we going to talk about me taking
Speaker 5: you out and making you drink.
Speaker 4: Yeah at like two o'clock.
Speaker 2: Take me out on a Monday night, no night, and
Speaker 2: I'm like, okay, we go to a concert. She introduced
Speaker 2: me to Jesse Ware and I was wow, big Jesseware fan.
Speaker 2: They're friends and have worked together. Is that sure it's
Speaker 2: still airing in the UK right now?
Speaker 4: By the way, No, it's over.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I literally just shot the finale like a month ago.
Speaker 2: How was it? It was good you live in Greece
Speaker 2: for I did.
Speaker 5: I had to live in Greece for over a month.
Speaker 5: It was really it was really relaxing, Like.
Speaker 1: Are they slower that everything?
Speaker 4: Well, we were on a.
Speaker 5: We were on a more quiet island. We weren't on
Speaker 5: one of the more like you know, like we were
Speaker 5: like atartment islands. Okay, we weren't really on the party.
Speaker 5: I mean we found the parties, but like it, you know,
Speaker 5: but it was it was needed.
Speaker 4: I really enjoyed the slow pace. Honestly.
Speaker 2: Has the response been good to it?
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's been really really good. People have have enjoyed it.
Speaker 5: You know, I'm always like really scared to show my
Speaker 5: actual personality.
Speaker 4: That's not amer Amber un filtered. Everybody don't like it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but that's their problem. That's their problem.
Speaker 4: That's my favorite.
Speaker 5: I don't like it, but you know, I'm being more
Speaker 5: and more, more and more myself and I was like,
Speaker 5: I guess.
Speaker 2: People, there's no way to yourself around.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, No.
Speaker 5: I honestly had an amazing time with everyone that was
Speaker 5: on that stage, like they're really like. We hung out
Speaker 5: out outside and Samantha Barkston was on the show. She
Speaker 5: was actually pregnant the whole time and nobody knew, Wow,
Speaker 5: she just had her baby, literally just had her baby.
Speaker 5: But she's but like no one knew, and we all
Speaker 5: like kind of like mam averted her, like wanted to
Speaker 5: protect her because like nobody knew, but we knew, like.
Speaker 4: Can get her some water, can get her blanket like
Speaker 4: she was.
Speaker 5: Like, but I really enjoyed working with him, Like I
Speaker 5: would love to work with him again because everyone was
Speaker 5: just like stars.
Speaker 2: So we went to Jesse Ware concert and Amber's like,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go to my friends carryo, We're gonna go
Speaker 2: do karaoke. Do you want to come do karaoke?
Speaker 1: Well that's the way to get them to me, that's
Speaker 1: the way to get them.
Speaker 2: And I was like, Okay, where is it.
Speaker 1: She's like two blocks away.
Speaker 2: So Austin and I we're down and I haven't seen
Speaker 2: Amber in a while. I was like, cool, it's a club.
Speaker 2: It's a club.
Speaker 4: No, it wasn't not karaoke.
Speaker 2: It was okay, But the difference is it wasn't like
Speaker 2: we're going to a private room, you know karaoke like
Speaker 2: in Koreatown. It is public and everyone could sing.
Speaker 4: It was it a live band. It was a live band.
Speaker 4: It was tracks.
Speaker 5: It was a DJ and a live bancer's piano, drums,
Speaker 5: bas like and.
Speaker 2: Host of the whole night.
Speaker 5: So this is I'm a plug them. This is Monday
Speaker 5: Night vibes at Station sixteen forty on Kuenga. I go
Speaker 5: there pretty much every Monday. There's my cheers like that,
Speaker 5: that's my cheers. Like all of my friends. We want
Speaker 5: to relax and like chill out. We go there ow
Speaker 5: Monday nights.
Speaker 2: Okay, And if you want to feel famous walking with
Speaker 2: Amber in that.
Speaker 1: Place, oh, I'm sure anywhere with it was hilarious.
Speaker 2: I was like, I feel like this is twenty ten.
Speaker 2: I walked in there and it was just like the
Speaker 2: sea parted and we got Monday night. You guys at
Speaker 2: like ten PM and then and I was like, what
Speaker 2: do you want to drink? I'm like, how about she's
Speaker 2: having She's like she turned her head so fast. She's like, well,
Speaker 2: I'm happy.
Speaker 4: Are you sure?
Speaker 2: I was like I will yes. And then they asked
Speaker 2: my mixer, what did you do? I said diet coke?
Speaker 2: And it was like it was like the music cut.
Speaker 2: Everyone's stuck, and the waitress and emers started laughing like
Speaker 2: they're trying to be really nice about it, and the
Speaker 2: waitress like, I don't know if we have diet coke
Speaker 2: in this entire place.
Speaker 1: What would you mix with?
Speaker 2: Tennessee regular coke?
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, that coke? We literally like.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was like the white and gay Really she
Speaker 2: found one though she did?
Speaker 4: How was that?
Speaker 2: I had a great time? So it was okay, And
Speaker 2: it was like it was like my place. It was
Speaker 2: all They played several one twelve songs. Yes, like you
Speaker 2: know that.
Speaker 4: We had a Brian Michael Cox night on Monday.
Speaker 2: See, I want to go to a place that's having
Speaker 2: a Brian Michael Cox.
Speaker 5: He was there, like he was up on stage singing
Speaker 5: all of the songs that he has produced.
Speaker 4: He literally produced my whole entire day.
Speaker 2: Do you remember there was like a ten year period
Speaker 2: or it was just Brian Michael.
Speaker 5: Cox And now like the recent stuff that he's done,
Speaker 5: like the moneylong song that go the area nobody know me,
Speaker 5: like he produced that pressure but pressure, and like he
Speaker 5: he has produced my whole entire life. And he was
Speaker 5: there on stage and they made me go up there
Speaker 5: and sing. I was sad because I was so horse guys.
Speaker 2: Okay, first of all.
Speaker 1: Well, worst day is somebody's my best.
Speaker 5: I was so mad though, because he was like, come
Speaker 5: on Amber. I was like, bro, please something to see.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna drinking all night.
Speaker 2: Because he knows the amount of times I told people.
Speaker 2: I was like, yeah, Amber was on vocal rest. And
Speaker 2: she showed up and still saying in rehearsal, sitting crosslegged
Speaker 2: on the stage and nailed beautiful, like get out of here.
Speaker 2: There's no oh, I can't no.
Speaker 3: I don't know about Amber on vocal rest. Though, how
Speaker 3: long does it last? She says, I'm on vocals Like.
Speaker 4: Okay, very true.
Speaker 5: I had to do a three week vocal rest from
Speaker 5: an injury, and I, when I tell you, it was hell.
Speaker 4: Hell. I had a little board and like, yeah.
Speaker 5: I'm like writing I couldn't write stuff fast enough, and
Speaker 5: like I had so many funny things that I wanted
Speaker 5: to say, Like timing was important. I just couldn't write.
Speaker 4: The funchline was gone. She saw it.
Speaker 2: She's a commune clean. Wait did you have when you
Speaker 2: did dream Girls? Because that show is obviously the hardest.
Speaker 4: Yes yes of all time?
Speaker 2: Yeah? How did you not speak in between shows?
Speaker 4: I couldn't like, how did I really?
Speaker 2: Did you actually not speak the first time?
Speaker 5: Okay, so this was my first time ever doing anything
Speaker 5: like this, right, it was very much so a learning curve.
Speaker 4: It's like, oh no, you really literally have to shut
Speaker 4: up life.
Speaker 5: Yeah, like you have a show like so my I'm
Speaker 5: gonna tell you how Game of Thrones broke my.
Speaker 4: Yes, my best friend came down to see me. I said.
Speaker 5: He literally was there for like maybe twelve days. Remember
Speaker 5: we went to go see the friends. The friends there Karen, Yes, Karen.
Speaker 5: So I literally told him, Okay, this week we can
Speaker 5: hang out whatever, because I had like a lot of
Speaker 5: time off. But I said, next week, I have to
Speaker 5: be quiet. I'm not gonna talk to you much. I'm
Speaker 5: just we're literally going to be passing strangers. So the
Speaker 5: first week I kind of entertained him. The next week,
Speaker 5: he was like entertaining himself until I watched that goddamn episode.
Speaker 5: I screamed a blood curdling screams to where he ran
Speaker 5: into it like he thought somebody was trying to kill
Speaker 5: me because what Yes, it broke my girl.
Speaker 2: But that's the reason. Yeah, I was not expecting. When
Speaker 2: I watched that, I I I blacked out. The next thing,
Speaker 2: I was standing like holding my if you.
Speaker 5: Were there, my mom and my sisters. That's me and
Speaker 5: my mom and my sisters are how we bonded. While
Speaker 5: I was in the UK, we watched Game of Thrones
Speaker 5: and we will call and talk about it, and like,
Speaker 5: I watched it after them and they were like, you haven't.
Speaker 4: Watched the episode yet. They were like, let's just not
Speaker 4: let's just not talk.
Speaker 5: I was like, why is everybody Like they were like,
Speaker 5: let's just talking because I knew that somebody was gonna
Speaker 5: go everything like.
Speaker 1: That like that, Wow, it's a change TV.
Speaker 2: It is forever.
Speaker 5: I thought I thought Shonda Rhymes was a bully. Ryme
Speaker 5: doesn't give a she will.
Speaker 4: Kill ruthless, ruthless everybody.
Speaker 1: But they really killed them all in one.
Speaker 4: They killed them all in ones. I was just like
Speaker 4: a whole bloodline.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 4: Isn't that wow?
Speaker 3: Wow?
Speaker 2: I've never recovered from that neither.
Speaker 4: I was very iconic. Okay, so let's talk about a
Speaker 4: little bit.
Speaker 3: Because I think we should statistically remember podcasts.
Speaker 1: You don't have to remember.
Speaker 2: Do you remember meeting us?
Speaker 4: I do, I remember. I remember Jenna.
Speaker 5: Jenna was pretty quiet. I feel like you're pretty quiet.
Speaker 4: Kevin.
Speaker 5: I already knew who you were because my sister, Remember
Speaker 5: my sister came into the first rehearsal with me.
Speaker 4: She drove.
Speaker 5: She drove me because I wasn't driving it, so my
Speaker 5: mom and my sisters were always.
Speaker 4: With me, that's right. And she goes, that's the guy
Speaker 4: from NLT.
Speaker 5: Actually, no, dead she knew, she knew, and so I,
Speaker 5: you know, just walked up and said hi, and like,
Speaker 5: of course, chatty Kathy over here.
Speaker 4: Kenny was very chatty. Yeah, super chatty.
Speaker 5: And then I remember this was the first time you
Speaker 5: guys heard me saying, yeah, he's saying the piano.
Speaker 4: Kevin was like, what, well, yes, for people don't know.
Speaker 3: We met at our rehearsal was Chris Amember, me and Kevin,
Speaker 3: and they started us like they.
Speaker 1: Didn't really know. We didn't know what we were doing.
Speaker 1: They didn't know what they were doing.
Speaker 3: So it was like, let's do some vocal warm ups
Speaker 3: and let's like everybody sing their audition song or whatever
Speaker 3: you auditioned with and at the piano. So we all
Speaker 3: kind of just like went around and like sang her you.
Speaker 4: Guys audition songs though that you sang in the show.
Speaker 3: No, okay, mine was supposed to be if I were
Speaker 3: a bell from Guys and Dolls, because I was supposed
Speaker 3: to look like Artie. I was supposed to like sweater
Speaker 3: vests and jeans. And then they changed Tina midway through
Speaker 3: because they were like, he looks she looks too much
Speaker 3: like Kevin.
Speaker 1: Oh, she looks like a white gay man.
Speaker 4: M hm.
Speaker 2: So we had those quota had been met and succeeded.
Speaker 2: I feel drunk, Kevin.
Speaker 4: What wait? Okay, so what was your auditions?
Speaker 2: Got it?
Speaker 4: Let it be okay?
Speaker 5: Yeah you did sing that, and I remember you, I guys,
Speaker 5: I remember you guys singing.
Speaker 2: But it's just not Amber went last.
Speaker 3: Yes, of course she did, which was just there like
Speaker 3: just leave her for last, don't scare the other.
Speaker 2: Can you imagine? I had to sing sit Down Your
Speaker 2: rock in the boat of all. I knew I was fat,
Speaker 2: and I'm like, I'm never getting to these notes and
Speaker 2: then Amber opens her mouth. We're like, oh, excuse me,
Speaker 2: I think we're on different shows.
Speaker 1: I don't think I belonged here.
Speaker 2: I was already wondering how I got the gig, and
Speaker 2: I'm now just like I don't know.
Speaker 4: Everybody was cast very perfectly.
Speaker 5: That's part of the reason why the show worked so well.
Speaker 2: It's also you're so soft spoken when you meet people.
Speaker 4: People don't know yes until they know.
Speaker 2: Then you start singing, and it is the craziest like
Speaker 2: what how, what how? I don't where did this come from?
Speaker 3: You? You would also said like you would, You didn't
Speaker 3: really sing like that.
Speaker 4: Before, you know.
Speaker 5: He literally really traumatized me to sing now I'm kidding.
Speaker 5: I had always been like a soft, floatier singer. I'm
Speaker 5: classically trained also, so like belt the belty thing, I
Speaker 5: could do it, but it's not my preference, Like, that's
Speaker 5: not my preference to sing that way. And so when
Speaker 5: I did my audition first for Robert Ulrich, I sang
Speaker 5: sweet Thing by Chaka Khan, which like is not necessarily
Speaker 5: a belty song. But Shaka Khan, Patti LaBelle, Dinah Washington,
Speaker 5: like Aretha Franklin, they're mixy singers.
Speaker 3: They're not belty singers. They sound like they're because they
Speaker 3: can just hang up.
Speaker 5: They can hang up there. And so that's where my
Speaker 5: voice naturally said. And so Robert Ulrich is the one
Speaker 5: that said, can you sing? Well, I don't know. And
Speaker 5: I was like, well what song?
Speaker 4: You know? He was like what can you sing? And
Speaker 4: I'm telling you and I was like, oh my god,
Speaker 4: I ain't never saying.
Speaker 3: That shit in my life also, and so I was like, okay,
Speaker 3: well I'm just gonna try it.
Speaker 4: And I did.
Speaker 5: I shocked myself, to be honest, I legitimately did.
Speaker 4: That's crazy.
Speaker 5: I shocked myself because I'm not a chesty I'm just
Speaker 5: not a chesty singer like that. I don't consider I'm
Speaker 5: a mix I'm a mixedy girl. So I sang and
Speaker 5: he was just like he took me around to like
Speaker 5: all the casting directors and made me and made me
Speaker 5: sing for them. He was like, I need you, I
Speaker 5: need you to hear this.
Speaker 2: I was insane as that is, and like not fair
Speaker 2: for you. I get it.
Speaker 5: I was completely like wait what I was just confusing.
Speaker 5: I didn't also hadn't been auditioning for a long This
Speaker 5: was my first auditioning audition back since I was like
Speaker 5: maybe sixteen. Like, I hadn't been auditioning, so I'm just like, oh, okay,
Speaker 5: is this like is it like round one fight? Like
Speaker 5: every round I gotta go sing for another? Like I
Speaker 5: didn't know what the hell was going on. I don't
Speaker 5: know why I was singing for all these people. I
Speaker 5: was like, okay, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: No, I have no idea, but I think you did
Speaker 2: it twice. And then I was like a better recording
Speaker 2: of this. I was like, yes, I wonder if I
Speaker 2: still have it, like somehow, I don't know if I do.
Speaker 4: I don't know if the cloud existed, but.
Speaker 2: I think the millions of people who have heard you
Speaker 2: sing now it's a universal reaction because I don't I
Speaker 2: don't know what it is, but your voice, in your
Speaker 2: tone and like your technical ability.
Speaker 4: Is just.
Speaker 2: We talked to Adam Anders and he was saying, there
Speaker 2: was a time when you were in the studio that
Speaker 2: you locked yourself in the closet and you wouldn't.
Speaker 1: Like I'm not doing this I think it wasn't that
Speaker 1: I'm telling you or you're like I'm not coming out.
Speaker 5: No, I think it was uh, I had a really
Speaker 5: hard time with try a little tenderness. I think it
Speaker 5: may have been that one where I was just kind
Speaker 5: of just like, I don't want to do this, like
Speaker 5: how many? How many more times are you guys going
Speaker 5: to Like? I think I did the oh you may
Speaker 5: get we like. I did that part fine, but when
Speaker 5: it got to the end. I think for also, I
Speaker 5: didn't know I had ADHD back then, so it was
Speaker 5: very hard for me to organize my thoughts and that
Speaker 5: song they wanted me to riff and like that song
Speaker 5: didn't make sense to me, like the end of it,
Speaker 5: what they wanted me to do, I couldn't do what
Speaker 5: he did because it's it's for first of all, it's
Speaker 5: a man's song. Yeah, and my voice is so high,
Speaker 5: and I think I was just like confused because nobody
Speaker 5: was really giving me direction. They were just kind of
Speaker 5: just like, yeah, just going there and sing, and I
Speaker 5: was just like okay.
Speaker 4: When it got to that point, I was just.
Speaker 5: Like I just didn't I didn't know what to say,
Speaker 5: and it like I didn't I just didn't know, cause.
Speaker 2: You have to know to do that. You also have
Speaker 2: to know the song in and out and backwards, and.
Speaker 4: Also really saying anything.
Speaker 5: He's not saying anything, and I'm like, I don't know what.
Speaker 5: I don't know what you guys want me to do? No,
Speaker 5: And I'm telling you my legs went out and I
Speaker 5: I don't remember locking myself in the closet.
Speaker 4: I don't think I locked myself in the closet. I
Speaker 4: think maybe I would.
Speaker 1: Like I had to bribe Amber.
Speaker 5: I think I maybe went to like the lobby and
Speaker 5: was like, yea, I don't want to do that.
Speaker 3: You just see Amber running away. I could see her
Speaker 3: like running right now.
Speaker 5: I was really like real first, some of those some
Speaker 5: of those sessions were very frustrating.
Speaker 4: I'm sure super frustrating.
Speaker 1: Did they expect a lot of you to like just
Speaker 1: show up?
Speaker 5: And I think that I just was maybe not even
Speaker 5: their expectation. Maybe my own expectation was to perform at
Speaker 5: a certain level all the time. And yeah, and I
Speaker 5: think it just sometimes the pressure and then and then
Speaker 5: you know, we didn't always get feedback that it was good.
Speaker 5: You know, it was just kind of like, hey, get
Speaker 5: in there and do your ship and go back to
Speaker 5: sex right, you know. So I think I didn't even
Speaker 5: know sometimes if I was actually doing a good job
Speaker 5: where my marker was you know. Yeah, just it was
Speaker 5: just the nature of the show that you just had
Speaker 5: to keep ford. You just had to keep moving forward
Speaker 5: so much that we had to get done all the time,
Speaker 5: and so not there was there couldn't be a lot
Speaker 5: of handholding.
Speaker 2: I also feel like they could just let you go
Speaker 2: in there and be like, yeah, yea, do it, like
Speaker 2: figure it out. Like with us, it was mapped out completely,
Speaker 2: like we had no freedom problem for the best, no, no,
Speaker 2: thefore I had a meltdown. I'm like, I don't know.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think in the beginning I had a lot
Speaker 5: more freedom towards the end because it did need to
Speaker 5: be more of a train, you know, the scheduled stops
Speaker 5: if you will. Yes, I think there was a little
Speaker 5: bit more structure, which then that started frustrating me because
Speaker 5: it was like, you have to do it exactly like
Speaker 5: the demo, and I'm like, but my voice is not
Speaker 5: her voice, Like I want to do it my own
Speaker 5: way so I can feel it. So it was definitely
Speaker 5: a balance. It was definitely a balance.
Speaker 2: Because you came up with somebody to love. Yeah, big moment,
Speaker 2: like that was your idea you did?
Speaker 1: Were you there when she did that?
Speaker 5: Also when I did a sweet trans best site, did
Speaker 5: you They didn't know what to do when I came
Speaker 5: in there.
Speaker 4: They thought I was gonna do it like.
Speaker 2: UH supposed to.
Speaker 5: It was just like how you do? I said, I'm
Speaker 5: gonna do this ship like Tina Turner. I said, what
Speaker 5: if I just go? I said, I'm gonna do like
Speaker 5: Shaka and Tina. What if I just know last see
Speaker 5: you mana like? Because in my mind it made sense,
Speaker 5: But I was like, I don't know tone wise if
Speaker 5: this is gonna make sense when I actually sing.
Speaker 1: It right right? Yeah, wow wow.
Speaker 2: Speechless because that version is so favorite.
Speaker 5: Me and Anna was just like I started recording it
Speaker 5: low and I was like, it's not right.
Speaker 4: It just doesn't.
Speaker 5: It feels boring, like it's not as exciting as a
Speaker 5: dumb dumb and it doesn't feel charactery, like I didn't
Speaker 5: feel like I was in a character. I just kind
Speaker 5: of felt like I was like imitating. And I was
Speaker 5: like what if I like, we started just talking and
Speaker 5: I was like, what if we do it more?
Speaker 4: Like a rocker.
Speaker 5: A rocker kind of like feel like a Shaka con
Speaker 5: because she's funk, you know.
Speaker 3: So yeah, oh my gosh, I can't even imagine it.
Speaker 3: You doing it the Tim Curry way now, I mean
Speaker 3: you're like, neither can I.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's why.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right, you just do you it did.
Speaker 4: Not What was your favorite?
Speaker 3: So, I mean you're saying I'm literally so many songs.
Speaker 3: I'm curious, like what was your favorite saying? Or like,
Speaker 3: what is your favorite one?
Speaker 4: My favorite final production?
Speaker 5: My favorite song surprisingly two actually that I actually recorded
Speaker 5: was Don't Make Me Over by Diane Woman.
Speaker 2: It's my favorite.
Speaker 1: That is such a surprise, but I get it.
Speaker 5: I absolutely just love where my voice sat in it,
Speaker 5: and I love that I got to.
Speaker 4: Really show Yeah, you're type of singing, but my type.
Speaker 5: It's my type of singing. Also tell him that Kevin
Speaker 5: finally sent to be asking for that song for years.
Speaker 4: She'll upset that song never aired.
Speaker 1: It was so.
Speaker 5: It was so freaking good on that song. She's likely
Speaker 5: showed us up on that.
Speaker 1: I'm sad that we never did that.
Speaker 3: We were supposed to be go moving across the football
Speaker 3: field and slow motion. We recorded that and and then
Speaker 3: Amber dm me the other day of a version somebody
Speaker 3: was singing, somebody else was saying. She's like, I need
Speaker 3: to hear this Glee version, our version of this, and
Speaker 3: I was like, Amber Kevin has it. And then she
Speaker 3: told me, yeah, I thought you had a good one.
Speaker 2: Because I've said it so much publicly, they know it's
Speaker 2: going to come from me.
Speaker 1: I know they keep asking to hear all the week.
Speaker 2: So bad sounds so good together.
Speaker 5: Sound voices are so different. Our voices blended really well.
Speaker 5: But when everyone stood out, they still you know, you
Speaker 5: knew who was singing.
Speaker 2: There's a part on the song.
Speaker 4: Exactly what you're talking about.
Speaker 2: Okay, there's a part of it. So the song. Ever
Speaker 2: told me when I first heard it, She's like, I'm
Speaker 2: going to do my best white girl. Hey, and she did.
Speaker 4: You did, but one.
Speaker 2: Part, but there's one part or she goes full Brandy.
Speaker 1: I had.
Speaker 2: And I lost.
Speaker 5: I had to sneak it in and I completely thought
Speaker 5: and and and the thing about it I was like
Speaker 5: about Adam.
Speaker 4: Adam was just like, can you do it straight? And
Speaker 4: I'm like.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I just kept doing it over and over again,
Speaker 5: so they had to use it.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna. I'm getting it in so like if you.
Speaker 5: Want to try and do some computery ship to like
Speaker 5: make it straight good look, I love that.
Speaker 4: Yeah okay.
Speaker 5: And then eventually I think he just kind of like
Speaker 5: gave up because I literally was just like, guess, like
Speaker 5: this so.
Speaker 1: Good, like okay, sure, ye yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah. There's nothing better than like a well placed,
Speaker 2: well executed like.
Speaker 3: So it was it was the give me there she is.
Speaker 5: So I wasn't bored singing that in the in the
Speaker 5: the studio, but I was just like.
Speaker 1: Give me something.
Speaker 2: It is so good. It is crazy because I don't
Speaker 2: know if like you never neither of you really got
Speaker 2: to sing that style.
Speaker 4: Very they kind of gave us.
Speaker 5: They kind of gave us like everybody had their lane,
Speaker 5: you know what I'm saying. So like we worked with
Speaker 5: the story and the character, but I actually love Celine Dione,
Speaker 5: I love Barber Streisan like I love you know those singers.
Speaker 1: Let me show you my mature side. Let me show
Speaker 1: you my mature my maturity.
Speaker 2: Your voice on that my radio also just fully like dropped.
Speaker 4: But even when we did the God, I miss Jenna's voice.
Speaker 4: It's so and it's your voice.
Speaker 5: Is so much more mature now and like your tone
Speaker 5: is so beautiful. Like I really enjoyed when you were
Speaker 5: recording when we redid when we redid Nayas.
Speaker 4: Song, like did the backs and song. I was like,
Speaker 4: oh my god, I'm miss that's the.
Speaker 1: First time I sang.
Speaker 2: Yeah this rasp Now that is like the smokiness that
Speaker 2: you didn't used to have.
Speaker 1: I'm tired.
Speaker 4: I'm just I'm tired to your advantage.
Speaker 3: Thank you gotta here's your faus.
Speaker 2: Because we're in the middle of watching season three right now,
Speaker 2: and so Sam Sam said in Trouble Tones.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, why okay, why wasn't there spin off
Speaker 3: of the Trouble Tones, Because I am we are watching
Speaker 3: this and I am like standing the greatest.
Speaker 5: He was so much fun doing that, Like I still
Speaker 5: I still watch our Oh no.
Speaker 4: Not I wheel yo.
Speaker 1: Well in the Stronger one, we just watched this.
Speaker 2: You do you do this dance move that is the
Speaker 2: opposite of what you're singing like, and I don't know
Speaker 2: how you stronger and stronger there's at the end or something.
Speaker 2: It's the rhythm of the damn lib and then the
Speaker 2: dance shouldn't go together. It was like she's working.
Speaker 3: You got these we must have we must have like
Speaker 3: rehearsed that, yeah, because oh yeah, you guys look tight.
Speaker 4: It was really good. It must have really really rehearsed that.
Speaker 4: It was so good. Trouble was like that.
Speaker 5: Was like a moment in the show where I was
Speaker 5: just like, it was just so much fun being able
Speaker 5: to just do that and do that with like a
Speaker 5: bunch of women, like kind of like having all those
Speaker 5: girls on stage singing together. I don't know, it just
Speaker 5: it felt it was just like a different, different feeling. Yeah,
Speaker 5: super empowering.
Speaker 2: Yes, it was powerful to watch.
Speaker 4: It was It's my favorite watch.
Speaker 2: I was met like why didn't they have an album?
Speaker 3: I was like, why do I know all this choreography?
Speaker 3: And I was like, oh, because we literally were doing you.
Speaker 2: That's like there was there's one shot of Amber in
Speaker 2: one of the numbers and there's like a brief panic
Speaker 2: in her.
Speaker 4: Eyes because because yeah.
Speaker 2: Poleiicography was so fast and you don't stop singing.
Speaker 3: And I was we were dancing in heels or how
Speaker 3: about the time you did River Deep and tour by yourself.
Speaker 3: It was running a round stage like a chicken with
Speaker 3: my head.
Speaker 1: She was going back and forth.
Speaker 4: I was like, what is happen?
Speaker 2: You have two heads? Two heads a video of Jenna
Speaker 2: and I. When you finish the song or you get
Speaker 2: through the albums, we like high five each.
Speaker 5: Other each other because because they were just like, we
Speaker 5: can't really cut the song because of the timing of
Speaker 5: the show, And I was like, what does that have
Speaker 5: to do with me?
Speaker 1: Exactly, like it has everything to do with you amber
Speaker 1: to do.
Speaker 2: But the thing is, I was expecting you to like
Speaker 2: just sing the hook, just sing the end.
Speaker 4: Because she hd brock. I can't separate. I can't separate.
Speaker 4: I need to do it.
Speaker 5: If I was gonna do it, what was in my head?
Speaker 5: Like it was my part? And then did her part.
Speaker 5: In my head, I was going to miss the next
Speaker 5: part because I was thinking about her.
Speaker 4: I just do it all.
Speaker 2: She did it all and she crushed it. And I
Speaker 2: wheeled myself off that stage. You did I you could not.
Speaker 4: We were I wasn't.
Speaker 2: Acting, knew were on the stage. Was like supporting our friends.
Speaker 2: I'm like this, just.
Speaker 4: Like everybody scared.
Speaker 2: Is she going to do it? She got that one?
Speaker 4: Is she going to explode? Oh my god?
Speaker 5: Remember when I turned around. Everybody's like everybody on stage
Speaker 5: was like, that's yeah, he did you got through.
Speaker 2: You're an insane person.
Speaker 4: I didn't have a choice. You didn't have a choice.
Speaker 3: Damn, Sadies, everybody has to wants to know about.
Speaker 2: Because I'm like watching it like living through it the
Speaker 2: first time. You guys are both great, love you both
Speaker 2: watching it now as like a real viewer.
Speaker 4: You was the cutest thing.
Speaker 2: Are adorable court And it's so funny because obviously knowing
Speaker 2: you guys in real life, it's very very.
Speaker 4: It is like my son, not even my child.
Speaker 2: But that's why it's so baffling.
Speaker 4: This works so well. I got it. I got it well.
Speaker 5: I think. I think it's because there's genuine love there
Speaker 5: and they're genuine friendship and when you when you have that,
Speaker 5: it's like that's what you use to kind of create
Speaker 5: that that that chemistry.
Speaker 4: You got to find some truth somewhere.
Speaker 3: But people really, they really loved it, and I think
Speaker 3: that that's really cute.
Speaker 4: We just wish you guys.
Speaker 2: I know, I didn't realize I was gonna love it
Speaker 2: so much.
Speaker 5: I know, I mean to I wouldn't watched it in
Speaker 5: such a long time, Like I don't, guys, I remember
Speaker 5: some of the scenes, but like I really don't remember
Speaker 5: too much, but I know that it was just like
Speaker 5: really sweet and you know Court Court is sweet, like
Speaker 5: he's just he's just so sweet, and like it was
Speaker 5: very much so like his his his character. Yeah, boy, Bambi.
Speaker 3: You guys are in the coffee being the first time
Speaker 3: we find out about on sades and you're like, do
Speaker 3: you think they saw us? And they're like no, and
Speaker 3: then they panned down to you guys like grabbing hands
Speaker 3: and your little backpacks like they pull out and You're like,
Speaker 3: this is the cutest thing I've ever seen you.
Speaker 5: They never told me that this was going to happen.
Speaker 5: I just got this script and I was like, oh, did.
Speaker 1: They ever tell us anything that's gonna happen?
Speaker 2: Was that weird? Though? It was?
Speaker 5: It was my first relationship on TV, like you know,
Speaker 5: having to be and like I'm I was very I
Speaker 5: was always the kind of person in general where I
Speaker 5: was very career focused and greer driven. I didn't date
Speaker 5: a lot in general, right, So, like living that out
Speaker 5: on television was awkward.
Speaker 4: It was so awkward at first, and.
Speaker 5: Then you don't know what the other person is thinking
Speaker 5: and what they feel and like, you know, also being
Speaker 5: like a bigger girl, and on television you're not necessarily
Speaker 5: always showed in like the slide and.
Speaker 4: Relationships, so like where is this going to go?
Speaker 5: So we did end up having those kind of those
Speaker 5: kind of conversations with like Brad and stuff of like
Speaker 5: where the story is going to go, because you know,
Speaker 5: with our characters, were very not sensitive but protective about
Speaker 5: how those characters because it means so much to so
Speaker 5: many people, right, so you want to kind of kind
Speaker 5: of protect that, you know.
Speaker 4: But I think that they did. I think that they
Speaker 4: did a really excellent.
Speaker 2: Yeah, especially when you guys get together and then Chord
Speaker 2: disappears for a little bit of the next season. But
Speaker 2: when he comes back and you have a boyfriend on
Speaker 2: the show, even though it's you know, it's like TV
Speaker 2: and are we cheating on my boyfriend's sort of thing,
Speaker 2: it still was handled so well. And I think it
Speaker 2: also is due to the two of you, you and
Speaker 2: Chord being so likable and obviously that real chemistry. I
Speaker 2: was like, you know, we did a lot of crazy
Speaker 2: things and that storyline could have looked bad, Yeah, and
Speaker 2: it was perfect.
Speaker 3: I think I think that they did a really great job,
Speaker 3: and even showing high school relationships like they're not that deep.
Speaker 4: They're very surface level, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: And people don't really stay together after after high school
Speaker 5: and they become different people and they grow and like,
Speaker 5: you know all those things.
Speaker 4: There was supposed to be.
Speaker 5: An episode where she lost her virginity to Sam and
Speaker 5: I tell Brad absolutely not.
Speaker 2: She said, how did you find out?
Speaker 4: He gave me the blue pages or whatever. I said no,
Speaker 4: and he probably said okay.
Speaker 5: He said yeah, he said okay, well what if instead
Speaker 5: of because it was like a full blown I'm not
Speaker 5: doing it right, and then he said, well what if
Speaker 5: we just, you know, have you guys hold hands and
Speaker 5: walk to the room and then like close the door.
Speaker 3: And I was just like, no, amazing respect, I'm not
Speaker 3: doing it.
Speaker 4: I'm not doing it.
Speaker 5: I don't I don't tell y'all, no, I don't fight anything.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna do this. Yeah, it would have been so awkward,
Speaker 5: and I feel like it would have read awkward. I
Speaker 5: also just feel like, yeah, it just wasn't what my
Speaker 5: character would have done. I just I just didn't feel
Speaker 5: feel that way right, And so yeah, see.
Speaker 2: It helps you save up those like.
Speaker 3: Nose for yes, pick your battles. Ye, but that yeah,
Speaker 3: I agree with you though, Like it just would have
Speaker 3: felt like that just another high school couple. Yeah, it
Speaker 3: had already been done, right, let her stick to her
Speaker 3: guns if that's what she's saying, that.
Speaker 4: She didn't need it. It wasn't necessary for you. Guys
Speaker 4: clearly agree. We love you, you know we love I.
Speaker 2: Think that's also a really good point to bring up that,
Speaker 2: like we all did protect our characters, like to the
Speaker 2: best of our abilities, Like we all thought about all
Speaker 2: of these things that might seem minor, like very deeply.
Speaker 2: Ye make sure because each of us were presenting some
Speaker 2: sort of marginalized group, and it was like, we all
Speaker 2: need to make sure we're doing this with the best intention,
Speaker 2: we actually care about them.
Speaker 5: And I also knew like with that character like she's
Speaker 5: supposed to be, I mean, I grew up the church
Speaker 5: girl like that, that it just wouldn't happen like not
Speaker 5: at that age, Like you know what I'm saying, Like
Speaker 5: not that easily you know, being you know, and then
Speaker 5: being pressured and all that kind of stuff. I was like,
Speaker 5: it's just and doing it for someone else when it's
Speaker 5: not really what you really believe. Like the message I
Speaker 5: felt like that that would have said to young girls
Speaker 5: wouldn't have been right. Yeah, now, you know, I mean,
Speaker 5: I'm inside, I got a man. At one point I
Speaker 5: was outside, And that's okay too, That is okay.
Speaker 1: It's your journey.
Speaker 4: It's not mercedes journey.
Speaker 3: It's your journey in her hand.
Speaker 1: I'm old now.
Speaker 2: If they asked me to do that, now, I'd write
Speaker 2: the scene for him. You know what, though, I feel like,
Speaker 2: as like fans of Mercedes people would notice that too.
Speaker 2: If I didn't feel right for you, it also wouldn't
Speaker 2: have felt right for the character.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: And so because you've we've all seen shows or movies
Speaker 2: when a character does something.
Speaker 4: Like I don't you feel out of character?
Speaker 2: Watch the show for that many years, you do get
Speaker 2: some sort of knowledge and feel for what that character is.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I feel like the writers also did, like you know,
Speaker 3: at least the you know, the Holy Trinity to brad Ryany,
Speaker 3: and like they respected that, like we knew our characters
Speaker 3: really well. Yeah, And like they have a responsibility to
Speaker 3: like take care of all the people, but we have
Speaker 3: a responsibility to care of ourselves too, to like speak
Speaker 3: up when we believe in something or don't believe in something,
Speaker 3: because they have a lot to manage, so you know,
Speaker 3: you can kind of get lost in the shuffle.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, there's a lot of fan questions.
Speaker 2: There's so many fan questions really, yeah, every other one
Speaker 2: with Sam Sades.
Speaker 4: That is so funny to me.
Speaker 5: Wow, I really need to rewatch my boyfriend.
Speaker 4: I think watched.
Speaker 3: Maybe like two you guys were acting your faces of
Speaker 3: episodes and it's.
Speaker 2: Hard to be charming. I think that because we were
Speaker 2: so used to so many actors who were just naturally
Speaker 2: charming and like to put that in a scene. It's like,
Speaker 2: I think such a skill and the two of you
Speaker 2: so good, are just like irresistibly charming together.
Speaker 4: It was a lot of respect there too.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so cute. So cut because we're in the middle
Speaker 2: of season three, we're talking about how the wheels sort
Speaker 2: of fell off for personally, Yeah, because it was the
Speaker 2: days had just gotten so long that Michael Jackson episode
Speaker 2: had gotten really like that was sort of like the
Speaker 2: point where everything that came to a head. To talk
Speaker 2: about episode, Yeah, I want to know what your feelings
Speaker 2: were around that time, because we've all had like Max
Speaker 2: came on, another came on to talk about his scene.
Speaker 2: In like the following episode, everyone was and like Damien
Speaker 2: joined and Sam Larson joined.
Speaker 4: And it was very disjointed for me.
Speaker 5: I felt I felt very I remember I left. I
Speaker 5: That's the first time I ever walked off set. I
Speaker 5: left Michael during thriller. Oh yeah, because I was recording.
Speaker 5: So I I told him, like, remember you guys learned
Speaker 5: to dance a thriller? What that morning, the night before,
Speaker 5: the day before, something like that. I was, we were,
Speaker 5: we were, if I'm not mistaken, filming like two episodes
Speaker 5: at one time. Yes, they had me in the studio
Speaker 5: so much. I didn't even I didn't.
Speaker 2: When we were like that rehearsal. It was at high
Speaker 2: school and the one in Hollywood we shot auditorium, I
Speaker 2: mean the gymnasium stuff. Yeah, we rehearsed up there in
Speaker 2: like a random room. We had never done that before.
Speaker 2: Because we had.
Speaker 4: Filming so many people, I wasn't there.
Speaker 5: And so the next day I'm like, Okay, well, I
Speaker 5: guess I'm just not going to be in like the thriller.
Speaker 5: The thriller scene that we were recording in the parking lot.
Speaker 1: Oh, bad, bad, Bad Got Bad.
Speaker 2: Yes, we learned that film.
Speaker 4: We learned that on the day.
Speaker 5: On the day lunch, I was in the studio the
Speaker 5: whole time I was shooting my scenes and I was
Speaker 5: in the studio. I got back to set and they're
Speaker 5: just putting me in my costume for Bad and I'm like, you,
Speaker 5: guys know, I don't know. I don't know this dance,
Speaker 5: no idea, what's going on. So I get over to
Speaker 5: the actual parking lot and they're telling me just run
Speaker 5: in and do this, just keep running into the camera
Speaker 5: when you think you know so the choreography.
Speaker 4: What what?
Speaker 5: Yes, just running And I'm like what, I've literally been
Speaker 5: filming at this point for like fourteen hours.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, at least.
Speaker 5: Yeah, fourteen fifteen hours. I need to leave and I
Speaker 5: had to come back tomorrow. And that day I think
Speaker 5: I recorded that Spanish song for Spanish teacher. I feel
Speaker 5: like I did am I wrong?
Speaker 1: No, it came after that. I mean it was shortly
Speaker 1: after that.
Speaker 5: I sang I saved, Yes, sang that song. They had
Speaker 5: no one there that spoke Spanish.
Speaker 2: At the studio.
Speaker 1: Oh no, Amber.
Speaker 4: Oh, but That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: Everything was just disjointed and there were so many things
Speaker 5: going going on at once that so many, so many
Speaker 5: communications were falling through the crack. So when I got there,
Speaker 5: I'm like, you got a black girl and.
Speaker 4: A Swede.
Speaker 5: Having to sing a Spanish You think I'm going to
Speaker 5: sing the Spanish song and insult a whole entire community
Speaker 5: of Spanish people. Get somebody in here to speak Spanish,
Speaker 5: remember it and not tim, Get somebody immediately, not damn,
Speaker 5: get somebody else that here. Now they had somebody, and
Speaker 5: I was like, I just need to know that I'm
Speaker 5: pronouncing these words correctly.
Speaker 4: Show of course.
Speaker 2: Wow, what it was about it was I think everything
Speaker 2: was like everyone was there was no capacity for anything extra.
Speaker 2: And then like the episodes, like the Michael episode had
Speaker 2: a billion songs in it and billion dance numbers, and
Speaker 2: like we're just at capacity.
Speaker 5: We're at capacity, and we we weren't getting direction in
Speaker 5: that we were it was just like going.
Speaker 1: And do because nobody had the time to.
Speaker 5: Nobody had the time to say anything. Like it was
Speaker 5: just I mean, it ended up being cool, but like
Speaker 5: it was that's that that I felt it the most
Speaker 5: during that episode where I was just like, there is
Speaker 5: so much going on, I have no idea what I'm doing. So,
Speaker 5: like I said, there couldn't be a lot of hand holding.
Speaker 5: Even when I left, they didn't even know.
Speaker 2: That I left the house, didn't even notice, which is wild,
Speaker 2: Like that's how you know.
Speaker 4: It was really late. That's why that's why I left.
Speaker 4: I was like, they have no idea that I'm here,
Speaker 4: They have no clue. I'm insane.
Speaker 5: And that was one of Grant's first and I think
Speaker 5: I did. I think when I got to base camp,
Speaker 5: I was like, you know, just let them let them
Speaker 5: know I'm going home.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And I think that they took there, you know what,
Speaker 4: She's had a day.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: There were a couple of times where you, I think,
Speaker 2: because so much was asked of you in that way.
Speaker 2: There was another time, a couple of seasons later, and
Speaker 2: we were filming I don't know if Skyler was there,
Speaker 2: we were filming something and you might have been sick
Speaker 2: as well, and you were just like, unless you really
Speaker 2: need me in this scene, please let me go. Yeah,
Speaker 2: And I think Brad was like, yeah, just yeah.
Speaker 4: Because if I'm if I'm just sitting here, yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's there's a billion of us, Yeah, like
Speaker 2: show one of us two times instead of one.
Speaker 4: Literally shoot around, yeah we're okay.
Speaker 5: Well, but you know it did have to be that
Speaker 5: way because the thing and the thing about it is
Speaker 5: the squeaky will really does get the oil. So and
Speaker 5: like I am not a complainer, and I'm not usually
Speaker 5: the one that like I advocate for myself, but like, yeah,
Speaker 5: I can take a lot, yeah I'm saying.
Speaker 4: But when it got really really bad, I was just
Speaker 4: like I gotta go. I have to go. Please let
Speaker 4: me go, you know, please let me go. And they
Speaker 4: they were gracious enough to be like, okay, members asking it.
Speaker 2: Probably yeah, it's like we don't want to amber here
Speaker 2: cranky and probably you know you really don't.
Speaker 4: You don't.
Speaker 5: You don't want me hungry, you don't want to and
Speaker 5: you don't want me hot or tired, and you don't
Speaker 5: want me sleeping.
Speaker 2: You aleep a couple of.
Speaker 4: Times sleep on camera. I literally.
Speaker 5: I was not you guys are assholes too, because they
Speaker 5: you guys pushed in on my face.
Speaker 4: And I was just like she was just and all
Speaker 4: I quiet, and when I was like this and the.
Speaker 5: Cameras like right here, and I'm like, yeah, you ain't shit,
Speaker 5: y'all couldn't let me take my little cat nap.
Speaker 4: The camera was not even.
Speaker 3: Remember the games we used to play, the kill game
Speaker 3: where we blink Chris was.
Speaker 4: We have to die. Oh my gosh, it's.
Speaker 1: My favorite, one of my favorite times.
Speaker 4: I remember that and you have to die. I think
Speaker 4: we saw they caught one of it.
Speaker 5: Remember when we when we are drinking games at the
Speaker 5: Golden Globes, like a war shows.
Speaker 3: Somebody wearing a tie instead of a bow tie or
Speaker 3: they said, I.
Speaker 2: Don't think I was a part of those I was
Speaker 2: on the other side of the table.
Speaker 4: Oh cavin, No, you were at the table.
Speaker 2: I was at the table.
Speaker 4: You were at the table.
Speaker 3: You played with us was probably dun Yeah, yeah, anybody anytime,
Speaker 3: like somebody said like or forgot somebody on the in
Speaker 3: the speech every time we drank every time time.
Speaker 4: Pretty much it was for really really fun though. Yea
Speaker 4: and long golden longst say it.
Speaker 2: There was champaign.
Speaker 5: At least say a champagne the Zaga words. At least
Speaker 5: say in the Champagneyeah. I mean they give it to
Speaker 5: you right when you walk in because they.
Speaker 1: Emmys, the Emmys.
Speaker 2: Nothing there's alcohol again, Oh really found.
Speaker 3: Out we snuffed flasks and when they weren't serving alcohol
Speaker 3: for warm vodka vodka, yummy, yummy, so long like the
Speaker 3: Daily Show wins.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I also loved that, like your family was always around.
Speaker 1: In the show.
Speaker 5: My mom was in the choir a lot. My sister's
Speaker 5: in the choir a lot, like my god sisters, my cousins.
Speaker 5: Like anytime they needed somebody in the choir, I will
Speaker 5: always call, Like my friends. One was king Yon Dixon,
Speaker 5: who's Grammy nominated this year, nominee this year. And I've
Speaker 5: known Kenyon since he was like eighteen, you know, seventeen.
Speaker 5: We used to sneak him in clubs crazy to come
Speaker 5: to come in and sing. And now he's a Grammy
Speaker 5: nominee and this is second Grammy nomination, but this is
Speaker 5: his first individual Grammy for his song that he wrote
Speaker 5: Wow himself. So yeah, and he was on, he was
Speaker 5: he was in the choir, him and his sister, we
Speaker 5: were in the choir like a couple of times.
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh. The show.
Speaker 2: It was a family affair, like your family felt like
Speaker 2: our family, yeah, because none of our families were here
Speaker 2: in LA and they'd come around and obviously.
Speaker 5: The drinking came to say she was there when we
Speaker 5: did Survivor.
Speaker 4: That's right. She was on set that all the.
Speaker 2: Kids, like my nieces and nephews would come.
Speaker 5: Every time I see them, I'm like, I spent Christmas.
Speaker 5: She's not this past one, but the last last Christmas
Speaker 5: with Kevin's family and just seeing them, I'm like, you
Speaker 5: guys are not kids, isn't it.
Speaker 1: Grown adults in their twenties. Yeah, insane. It is really
Speaker 1: hard to see it is.
Speaker 2: All those kids are on the set with us.
Speaker 1: Yes, like children, just dancing around.
Speaker 2: They'll talk about memory, like they'll say, like you remember
Speaker 2: when you guys did this number?
Speaker 1: They remember that?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Wow?
Speaker 4: Yeah, Jack was so cool.
Speaker 2: He was he's still cool.
Speaker 4: He was like the coolest key.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 4: Rose was crazy. Rose is crazy. She was always She.
Speaker 1: Is wild, wild, wild. Make sure this episode we love Rose.
Speaker 3: She's just are like so tight now too.
Speaker 1: That's crazy, that's crazy.
Speaker 4: That was a chaotic Christmas.
Speaker 2: Because I don't put up Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, well Kevin facetimeed me and there's Amber's face
Speaker 3: that I'm like, yeah, I don't know either.
Speaker 2: Like are you here? What is happening?
Speaker 4: Literally like fifteen minutes away too?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Oh my god, you go back you were with your family, Like,
Speaker 2: I don't know if I can do this another day.
Speaker 1: And there's a few fan questions that I want to.
Speaker 3: Okay, so somebody said, how's your back doing after carrying
Speaker 3: all those belting notes for years on the show?
Speaker 4: That's my favorite one. First one, I see a chiropractice. Yes,
Speaker 4: yes you should, Yes you should. That is funny.
Speaker 2: Do you have a favorite outfit? You were.
Speaker 4: Crazy?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Those she was designing all that those outfits were.
Speaker 2: I wish they continued more with that storyline. It was
Speaker 2: like mentioned in the pilot.
Speaker 4: It was just yeah, it was too hard.
Speaker 5: They had to like were they had to start like
Speaker 5: designing everything, and like I had to come in.
Speaker 4: I had too many fittings. It was just becoming it
Speaker 4: a lot.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I can't really remember anything like specifically, but there
Speaker 5: was a time where I was really obsessed with creative
Speaker 5: recreation sneakers. That's why they got me, like all of them,
Speaker 5: and so that was really cool.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 3: The Quin Sades friendship in season one is loved by many.
Speaker 3: Is there a storyline you wish wasn't discontinued?
Speaker 4: A storyline was like Quinn, I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 3: I actually just want to talk about quin Sades for
Speaker 3: a second, because like that was such a sweet relationship.
Speaker 1: It didn't it didn't like pan out past like season one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just like the baby disappeared exactly, and thank goodness
Speaker 3: for that.
Speaker 4: Never talked to beautiful when you had that.
Speaker 3: You know that that episode with Paris and Quinn comes
Speaker 3: in and talks to you in the nurse stuff.
Speaker 1: It's it's so great, it's such a great scene.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there were some tender moments. There was some tinder
Speaker 4: moments there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, who made you break character the most?
Speaker 4: Chris.
Speaker 2: I try to convin and I don't know if I
Speaker 2: do a good job of it of how he could
Speaker 2: do that even in the most subtle way, subtle way
Speaker 2: and in the most serious scenes.
Speaker 4: I got into so much trouble from laughing when he
Speaker 4: was talking about they gluted the lawn chairs.
Speaker 1: I was just gonna bring it up.
Speaker 3: So we're like shooting the pilot. We hadn't been around
Speaker 3: for very long. This is one of the first things
Speaker 3: we did together. And he's talking about gluing the stuff
Speaker 3: on the room and Amber.
Speaker 4: I couldn't hear.
Speaker 5: I couldn't thought it was the way he was delivering
Speaker 5: it every single time it made me laugh.
Speaker 4: So they grew with the lawnchair. Just first of all,
Speaker 4: it's a ridiculous line.
Speaker 3: It's ridiculous, it's so monotized, it's so ridiculous. But I
Speaker 3: remember not not like having to look at like the
Speaker 3: ceiling tiles to like get myself out of it, because
Speaker 3: it was so bad.
Speaker 4: And it was like our first yeah.
Speaker 5: First, our first time like really on a set and
Speaker 5: doing whatever, and so like I didn't know how to
Speaker 5: not laugh or like I really tried my best with
Speaker 5: the more that I tried to suppressed the laughter, the
Speaker 5: worst they got.
Speaker 4: And I was the only one laughing. I got in trouble,
Speaker 4: but you kept getting us. You would start and then
Speaker 4: we would.
Speaker 3: Laugh and really are But then doing two thousand and nine,
Speaker 3: remember we were doing two thousand and nine and the finale,
Speaker 3: and we were all dressed like that and looking like that,
Speaker 3: and we couldn't keep it together either.
Speaker 2: In the aim we were all and she was keeping
Speaker 2: a straight face.
Speaker 4: Yeah, she was really good.
Speaker 5: She no, because there was a moment and then there
Speaker 5: was also some day some days we were just delirious
Speaker 5: like we have been filming for However, many hours and
Speaker 5: then you know, we we had we all had our
Speaker 5: inside jokes like we had.
Speaker 4: There was just like so.
Speaker 5: Many, so many variables to why even like Brad and
Speaker 5: then we'll be making like Brad and Ryan like everybody
Speaker 5: kind of was like always in on the joke and
Speaker 5: had to somebody had to be the parent and one
Speaker 5: way and we were all the kids.
Speaker 1: All the especially we're ring.
Speaker 3: That laugh comes from the village and you're like, I
Speaker 3: made r laugh. I yes, it's like doping laugh.
Speaker 5: Oh my god, yeah, good times, good times.
Speaker 2: What was your favorite Trouble Tone song?
Speaker 4: How many do we have? What were what were they?
Speaker 5: The Adel Survivor Stronger, Candy Man, Kenny Man Man, that
Speaker 5: was the Kenny Man. The harmonies on that and Crazy.
Speaker 5: The harmonies on that were crazy. And Nya was singing.
Speaker 2: I mean, the best part about Trouble Tones was that
Speaker 2: it was just more you guys, songs for you and
Speaker 2: sing together.
Speaker 5: Because my favorite, my favorite, some of my favorite moments
Speaker 5: was was being able to sing with her because she
Speaker 5: could keep it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, she could, she could keep up.
Speaker 4: She gets you running too.
Speaker 1: She was the only one she could say, she was
Speaker 1: the only.
Speaker 5: One she could sing. She could she could, she could
Speaker 5: sang her ass off. So I really loved singing with Night.
Speaker 3: How was it going from singing dream Girls on Glee
Speaker 3: to starring in It? Was there any like transition or
Speaker 3: was it weird or did you have any space between?
Speaker 5: So Dina's character name was Dina Jones, and there was
Speaker 5: a moment.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 5: For some reason while I was on the show, I just,
Speaker 5: I literally will always be like, Okay, there's this part
Speaker 5: where I have to be like really exciting because I'm
Speaker 5: calling her mom and I go miss Jones. And I
Speaker 5: always would be afraid that I was gonna say Mercedes Jones,
Speaker 5: like because that was just so ingrained in my head.
Speaker 5: And so there was one time Miss Jones and in
Speaker 5: my head I was like, did.
Speaker 4: I said Mercedes?
Speaker 5: And I'm having this whole dialogue in my head on
Speaker 5: stage and all you hear is the music and I
Speaker 5: completely blank, and I'm like looking at Lacy who plays Dina,
Speaker 5: and I'm like and she's like this, She's like, bit
Speaker 5: you on your own. I don't know, and like literally
Speaker 5: the scene could not continue until I remembered the line,
Speaker 5: and so I had to just like and it was
Speaker 5: a long like it was.
Speaker 4: It was a very long, long, long pause before I remember.
Speaker 3: That that's what they called entering the white room and
Speaker 3: turn the white the white, and it's there's nothing, no
Speaker 3: way out, there's no doors, there's no windows.
Speaker 4: You are in the white room. I was, yes, it has.
Speaker 5: Yes, But the difference that I would see is like
Speaker 5: my voice was just different by that time.
Speaker 4: It was way more mature.
Speaker 5: I've been through more things in life, so I could
Speaker 5: connect to the songs a little bit better. But when
Speaker 5: I listened to and I'm telling you, I'm like, god,
Speaker 5: she's a baby.
Speaker 4: And even Jennifer Holiday.
Speaker 5: Came and solid show, Oh my god, and she goes
Speaker 5: you know, they told me to come and see you
Speaker 5: see this show because she's she's the dream yeah, dream
Speaker 5: girl like Jennifer.
Speaker 2: I'm sure she's seen a billion people do it.
Speaker 5: And they kept saying Jennifer's coming, and I'm thinking they're
Speaker 5: talking about Jennifer Hudson, right, So I was just like, oh,
Speaker 5: you Gen's coming, like you know, my homegirl. It was
Speaker 5: Jennifer Holiday. And I'm glad that I was not. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I'm grad that I didn't know that because I psyched
Speaker 5: yourself out. I psyched myself out right. And she comes
Speaker 5: up after and she goes, yeah, I heard you singing
Speaker 5: on the show. I was just thinking like, oh, not like.
Speaker 4: That, but like just like, oh, she's.
Speaker 5: Hurt and I'm telling you. And she was just kind
Speaker 5: of like yeah when I heard you sing on the show.
Speaker 5: I was just like thinking like, yeah.
Speaker 4: She did good. But then she was like, this is
Speaker 4: this is the best that I've ever heard heard it done.
Speaker 5: I've heard a million people do it, and you are
Speaker 5: you have been. I'm taking a back so like to
Speaker 5: hear that from the dream Girl.
Speaker 4: The compliment, I'll take it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you take that the standard award and that's right.
Speaker 1: I want to tell to do that you missed a moment.
Speaker 2: I don't have any regrets in my mind.
Speaker 5: That is one because if that question is on that page,
Speaker 5: let me just answer it now.
Speaker 4: No I'm not doing it. Don't you heard it here?
Speaker 2: Folks ask a six month contract.
Speaker 5: I would probably do it for a month, right right
Speaker 5: that ship eight shows a week.
Speaker 2: Okay, what if you that's too much?
Speaker 4: I mean that's what That's what I was doing.
Speaker 5: Towards the end, I could only no one has ever
Speaker 5: done dream Girls on Broadway or traveling and.
Speaker 4: Was able to sustain it.
Speaker 3: It's impossible to do so because it's just it's their their,
Speaker 3: their R and B Belty songs.
Speaker 1: They're not yes exactly, you can't.
Speaker 2: You're using your full ring and like you can't.
Speaker 3: You have to give one hundred percent of your time
Speaker 3: and you can't give ady to like.
Speaker 4: And I had to train up to it.
Speaker 5: I wasn't even making it through the whole entire show
Speaker 5: when we first started rehearsals. I had to train myself
Speaker 5: up to that that.
Speaker 4: Moment because you're also not just singing like I'm dancing.
Speaker 2: I have also watched lots of clips on that were
Speaker 2: legally recorded and your performance at the Oliviers, But you
Speaker 2: are crying through a lot of those numbers especially, And
Speaker 2: I'm telling you, and it's not just like the effect
Speaker 2: that has to have on your voice too, because.
Speaker 4: When you try, you contract right.
Speaker 5: So I always say it's the emotion behind And I'm
Speaker 5: telling you Ivo I vocally tried to master I Am
Speaker 5: Changing because I'm Changing its technically the harder song in
Speaker 5: the show. But and I'm telling you, was all about
Speaker 5: the emotion behind it, not necessarily the notes. It's more
Speaker 5: about how you emote, and I think that that's what
Speaker 5: people kind of connected to because I just used that moment,
Speaker 5: whatever frustrations, whatever sadness, anything that I was feeling. I
Speaker 5: used that moment as my my therapy when I was
Speaker 5: on stage. So I think that that's more what people
Speaker 5: responded to, because, like I said, I'm not necessarily a belter.
Speaker 5: I don't have a Jennifer Holiday Jennifer Hudson's voice. They
Speaker 5: have bionic steal lungs. You know what I'm saying, Like
Speaker 5: you know, so, yeah.
Speaker 3: Well you left it all on the floor of that
Speaker 3: theater was I don't even remember what theater.
Speaker 4: It was, but it was a disappoint left.
Speaker 1: Yes, you left it on the floor. You left it
Speaker 1: all there.
Speaker 3: I mean basically by the end of it, and I'm
Speaker 3: telling you, you were like in like a crotched position.
Speaker 3: It was graceful, but I mean literally just reaching and
Speaker 3: I was like, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Where I am right now, truly, just like jaw on
Speaker 1: the ground, hands on the head.
Speaker 3: It was always really tried to go like the extra
Speaker 3: mode though when I had family and stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I remember when you won the Olivier. I just
Speaker 2: I saw I was watching it I remember when you
Speaker 2: got denomination, I like freaked out, and then you won.
Speaker 2: I was just like balling, and then I was able
Speaker 2: to like go and watch your performance on the That
Speaker 2: was the first time i'd seen you sing it. Wow really,
Speaker 2: and I was like holy shit.
Speaker 5: And then Harry and Showby came to see me do it,
Speaker 5: but I had pneumonia when they came. So they get
Speaker 5: to see me in the show. I think I still
Speaker 5: sent them. They still saw the show, they just didn't
Speaker 5: get to see me.
Speaker 1: Okay, when can we expect your next EP?
Speaker 4: Hopefully this summer. It's it's pretty much done.
Speaker 2: Send me songs now, sure, great, Okay, keep answering.
Speaker 5: Kevin's like my an r No, they should be done
Speaker 5: this summer. The songs are pretty much finished. They just
Speaker 5: need to be mixed and mastered. And like, I'm an
Speaker 5: independent artist and everybody's like, why is your music? I'm like, y'all,
Speaker 5: it takes so much to put music out, and you know,
Speaker 5: I can. I can talk about this for days. I'm
Speaker 5: not going to, but it's it's very hard for independent artists.
Speaker 5: With streaming and stuff, They're making it very hard for
Speaker 5: you to really reach your audience. But yeah, my music
Speaker 5: will be out by summer, and I'm really excited about
Speaker 5: this this EP. I'm really really excited about it. Like
Speaker 5: I love the music. It's fun. Like I'm in a
Speaker 5: completely different space from my last EP, and so yeah,
Speaker 5: I'm really excited for people to hear.
Speaker 2: I still walk around my house and big girl energy.
Speaker 2: It happens, I'll be walking around like what is this melody?
Speaker 2: I'm like, it's catchy, it is.
Speaker 4: I hope.
Speaker 5: I'm hoping also that when this EP comes out that
Speaker 5: people go back to the last pe and take a
Speaker 5: listen again again. Because it came out during the pandemic,
Speaker 5: so I didn't get to tour it. Oh, I didn't
Speaker 5: get to do much promore or anything for itself.
Speaker 2: How you had a song in one of your songs?
Speaker 4: Yes, a colorblind Yeah?
Speaker 2: How was that right?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Emily wrote that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, I told that. I was like, you know, Emily's.
Speaker 4: Love she wrote that gorgeous song. Yeah, it's beautiful.
Speaker 2: But did you feel scared to have like one of
Speaker 2: your songs in there?
Speaker 4: Absolutely? You kidding me? Yeah, I was terrified.
Speaker 2: How was the response to it?
Speaker 5: It was pretty good. I mean, like a lot of
Speaker 5: people still cover it. I get I get videos of
Speaker 5: people covering it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, so you've won Dancing with the Stars one singer,
Speaker 2: what else can you win?
Speaker 4: A Grammy?
Speaker 2: That part she's Grammy nominated.
Speaker 5: Uh yeah, I really want. I mean, you know, as
Speaker 5: I've gotten older. First of all, I always said I'm
Speaker 5: not getting married until I went a Grammy, So, like,
Speaker 5: I don't know, I don't know why I said that.
Speaker 5: It was like a goal, and I feel like like
Speaker 5: the universe is keeping me to it.
Speaker 4: A bitch.
Speaker 2: Get to work.
Speaker 5: Awards awards mean a lot, but they don't mean as
Speaker 5: much to me any anymore, Like I really have. I'm
Speaker 5: more worried about humanity and like how my music can
Speaker 5: affect people in a good way and like healing, Like
Speaker 5: I think I'm more of that, and award shows and
Speaker 5: stuff are fine, And I think because I've also seen
Speaker 5: behind the veil and I kind of know totally politics
Speaker 5: behind a lot of it, and I'm just like, oh,
Speaker 5: it's not a really so much about.
Speaker 2: It kills the mystery of it.
Speaker 5: It's not as much about like the work that I
Speaker 5: put into it, and like the creativity and the artistry.
Speaker 4: It's not so much that anymore. But it's still amazing.
Speaker 5: It doesn't mean that it's not deserved or important, you know, sure,
Speaker 5: but yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 4: I don't know what else I can I can wait.
Speaker 4: Let's win at life. Let's do that.
Speaker 2: Do that.
Speaker 3: Before we let you go. I just have to tell
Speaker 3: you that you know, helps them Out is a bop.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, Okay, I know, but if you rewatch it.
Speaker 3: I was like all these songs that we were doing,
Speaker 3: and I was like, we have to watch these and.
Speaker 5: Helps them a is a bob. Everyone loves it and
Speaker 5: I hate it so much.
Speaker 2: Love that makes sense. It's like people's like first singles,
Speaker 2: you know, like I can't believe that was a single,
Speaker 2: and that's.
Speaker 4: My biggest one. I like, shut up but better. I
Speaker 4: liked that one better than.
Speaker 2: Like the voice of a generation.
Speaker 1: The people here are everybody, Wait, what is it?
Speaker 5: I can't remember it. I'm gonna have to now, I'm
Speaker 5: gonna have to go and listen to it.
Speaker 2: I need to ask you about Victoria money.
Speaker 4: You're you're newest obsession.
Speaker 2: It's not new. I need it on record that I
Speaker 2: am not new to the Victoria.
Speaker 5: He is not new to the Victoria Monette fandom. He
Speaker 5: actually has known about Victoria Monet and how crazy talented
Speaker 5: she is before she even put out a project.
Speaker 2: And Amber's really good friends with her, and I can't
Speaker 2: get over it. And she's dominated for a billion Grammys.
Speaker 4: He is Bill and deserves.
Speaker 2: By the time this comes out, the Grammas have already happened.
Speaker 2: But regardless of what happens, she deserves it all. She's
Speaker 2: on the cover of like Variety this week.
Speaker 4: It's like she's being honored.
Speaker 2: Her.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I went to her party last night, her Grammy party last.
Speaker 4: Night, and I think she's just Victoria is just Victoria.
Speaker 5: Like she's just pretty even and like super humble, and
Speaker 5: I'm like, it's so amazing to meet somebody in the
Speaker 5: industry that is wildly talented but also just a really
Speaker 5: great individual. But she's just a really great person, and
Speaker 5: so I'm really genuinely proud proud of her.
Speaker 4: And she's always willing to help and like she listens.
Speaker 5: To my music and like, oh, you should do this,
Speaker 5: you know y bpm faster, Like oh I like this
Speaker 5: part or try this, Like she's like that with all
Speaker 5: her friends. She's been at this for fifteen years in
Speaker 5: the music industry, writing for others, she was in a
Speaker 5: singing group called Purple Rain, writing for just like all
Speaker 5: these any artists that you can think of, Like, she's
Speaker 5: put her marker on and so she finally really bet
Speaker 5: on herself and puts something into a project, became a
Speaker 5: mommy in the in the middle of it, and it's
Speaker 5: like killing it a better example for her for her
Speaker 5: daughter Hazel. So I love I love her and her
Speaker 5: boyfriend John and and their daughter Hazel, like they're just
Speaker 5: an amazing family.
Speaker 4: Shake shake shakes. She shaking my head, shake shake, shaking
Speaker 4: my head. Yeah, it's like shake shaking my head.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I like see.
Speaker 3: I like that one.
Speaker 1: Okay, tell us about your movie.
Speaker 5: Okay, So Single Black Female came out two years ago.
Speaker 5: It debuted like five million streams and overall we've gotten
Speaker 5: eight point one million streams over all platforms, and it
Speaker 5: was just like a big It was the like the
Speaker 5: biggest movie that they had had that year to ever
Speaker 5: stream that way, and so we decided to do a sequel.
Speaker 5: So Single Black Female too. I cannot give you guys
Speaker 5: any details what it's about. It is a trip and
Speaker 5: you need to watch it because it is a trip.
Speaker 5: It's really fun. Comes out March second, and so yeah,
Speaker 5: I'm really excited for people for people to see it's myself,
Speaker 5: Raven Goodwin and Ky Michelle and yes, and like I
Speaker 5: really enjoyed doing the movie with them. Raven Goodwin is
Speaker 5: such an amazing actor. That's my industry twin. And ca
Speaker 5: Mi Shelle is a hoot. She's so funny in this movie,
Speaker 5: Like she's literally the comedic relief.
Speaker 2: So yeah, how excited were you? You're getting another one? Oh?
Speaker 4: I was really excited.
Speaker 5: I was really excited because, like I know that Lifetime
Speaker 5: doesn't normally do a lot of sequels, and so like
Speaker 5: that's an that's an honor in general, and like doing
Speaker 5: a Lifetime movie is kind of like on your bucket
Speaker 5: list as an actor. Like there's certain things like being
Speaker 5: on Law and Order, you know what I'm saying, Like
Speaker 5: there's a certain thing I feel that.
Speaker 4: So this is really cool. I'm March second.
Speaker 3: Okay, really for the last time before we let you go,
Speaker 3: what is the feeling that Glee leaves you with?
Speaker 5: Oh my gosh, I would think besides if I ever
Speaker 5: had a child, that is the most amazing thing that
Speaker 5: I've done. Wow, it was a roller coaster. It was
Speaker 5: I grew up on that show. I became an adult
Speaker 5: on that show. I became an artist on that show.
Speaker 5: I just it really made me who I am. So
Speaker 5: it leaves me with this just this fulfilling feeling. I
Speaker 5: feel fulfilled that if I didn't do anything else in life,
Speaker 5: I did that ship.
Speaker 4: And that's and and that's what we did.
Speaker 5: Not a lot of people are going to be able
Speaker 5: to say they can they've done that in their career.
Speaker 4: And we did.
Speaker 2: Everything everything we got an Oprah.
Speaker 4: Oprah white House sang at the O two.
Speaker 2: You singing at the White House was one of the
Speaker 2: best moments of my entire life.
Speaker 5: I mean, it's we've done what we got to do
Speaker 5: on that show. People just never in their lifetime, we
Speaker 5: never get to experience. So I feel very fulfilled. I
Speaker 5: can always look back and be like, Yeah, I did that.
Speaker 2: You've always had such a great perspective on it too,
Speaker 2: because you laugh and remember all like the good ship.
Speaker 2: Also laugh at all like the stupid hard stuff.
Speaker 5: Because it's all a lesson at the end of the day,
Speaker 5: Like the bad stuff teaches you, and then it doesn't
Speaker 5: it doesn't necessarily have to stay with you. You know
Speaker 5: what I'm saying, like you can learn from it, you
Speaker 5: can learn to not repeat it, you know what I'm saying, Like,
Speaker 5: you can learn you can learn to recognize it in
Speaker 5: other things and stay away from it. Like it's just
Speaker 5: you got to take the good with the bad. And
Speaker 5: and another thing that I've learned too, because you know,
Speaker 5: we when we started Twitter and social media just started popping.
Speaker 5: And it's one thing that I've always held on too.
Speaker 5: You're never as bad as they say you are, but
Speaker 5: you're never as good as they say you are either.
Speaker 5: It has kept me so so balanced in this in
Speaker 5: this industry.
Speaker 2: So that's the exception, is that Amber actually is as
Speaker 2: good as whatever. That's the difference. You don't have to
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