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Speaker 1: Our theme is there's no perfect time to start following
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Speaker 1: a perfect example of leading with her gifts, understanding the purpose,
Speaker 1: and accomplishing her dreams because she lives them every day.
Speaker 1: Her name is Shirley raft In the Word winning actress, singer, producer, author,
Speaker 1: and philanthropist. Sureley's renowned entertainment career on screen and stage
Speaker 1: spans over a three decks aids in the ever changing
Speaker 1: entertainment landscape. Shirl's career has spanned a range of comedy, drama, TV,
Speaker 1: famme and theater. She's starting currently in a new comedy series,
Speaker 1: very very funny comedy series Calls Abbot Elementary airs on
Speaker 1: ABC on Tuesday nights at nine pm. And also I
Speaker 1: saw the three episodes on Hulu, so you can catch
Speaker 1: on ABC dot Com or Hulu. I saw him on
Speaker 1: Hulu all three episodes. Fantastic. But she plays the character Barbara,
Speaker 1: a long time and respected Philadelphia Kidneycarten teacher, and it's
Speaker 1: amazing and very very relatable. By the way, and while
Speaker 1: working in front of the camera, she keeps her life busy.
Speaker 1: She's also a passionate health advocate and honored AIDS advocate.
Speaker 1: She is the founding director of Diva. Please welcome to
Speaker 1: Money Making Conversations Masterclass. The incredible, incredibly accomplished. Shirley Raff.
Speaker 1: How you doing, Cheryl?
Speaker 3: I'm doing.
Speaker 1: What should I say, Miss Rapp? What should I say,
Speaker 1: Miss Ralph?
Speaker 4: Because you can say goddess.
Speaker 1: Because you look like a goddess. You look like a diva.
Speaker 1: You have an amazing career. I recently saw this interview
Speaker 1: it was on YouTube which we was talking about Sidney Poitier.
Speaker 4: You know it's so interesting. Well, first of all, you
Speaker 4: gave me, you took a few years off of my career,
Speaker 4: which I'm sure is a wonderful thing, except for the
Speaker 4: fact that it's been close to forty five years.
Speaker 3: My very first job.
Speaker 4: I was nineteen years old, fresh at college, and Sidney
Speaker 4: Quatier gave me my very first job in a film
Speaker 4: called A Piece of the Action, which was the last
Speaker 4: of a trilogy of.
Speaker 3: Films that he did.
Speaker 4: Me absolutely, and I played a bad young girl, Barbara hanleyper.
Speaker 3: It's so funny because Barbara Hanley.
Speaker 4: I've been hearing people say that's why Barbara Howard is
Speaker 4: such a great teacher, because she.
Speaker 3: Was Barbara Hanley.
Speaker 4: So I just love the fact that people are able,
Speaker 4: you know, through all of these generations, are able to
Speaker 4: put it together full circle like that, and that The
Speaker 4: start for me was mister Potier, who stayed in touch
Speaker 4: with me for most of my career. The last time
Speaker 4: I spoke with him, I had just gotten cast in
Speaker 4: a series called Instant.
Speaker 1: Mom Y Tamari right, Tamori.
Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, And he was so wonderful and he told
Speaker 4: me how proud he was of me and that I
Speaker 4: didn't let him down, and it was a great, great conversation.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, the interesting thing about your character, because
Speaker 1: you know, I've been a sitcom writer and so I've
Speaker 1: been fortunate to you know, create lines or saraph and Johnson,
Speaker 1: who was Sarahani.
Speaker 4: You know, sarap Phony is one of the greats Sarah
Speaker 4: is another one of those people who you know, she
Speaker 4: was one of the creators of Moesha. And from generation
Speaker 4: to generation people know Sarah from.
Speaker 3: The Quad, they know her from you know, so many things,
Speaker 3: and right now she's on Queen Sugar.
Speaker 4: But there have been so many series that Sarah Finney
Speaker 4: has had a major hand in quite literally.
Speaker 1: Well you know, you you've had your hands in several levels.
Speaker 1: You know. We can all go back to Dreamgirls, and
Speaker 1: I remember what I was doing the Steve My first
Speaker 1: income was Steve Harvey's and me and the boys and
Speaker 1: all we could do. And that was in nineteen ninety four.
Speaker 1: And all they kept saying, we got to get Shirley
Speaker 1: Raff on it because she's the one, She's the one.
Speaker 1: We got to have a messal because he needed a
Speaker 1: love interest our first because our first love interest was
Speaker 1: Wendy Rickare Robinson. He said, yes, he's good, but we
Speaker 1: gotta get Shirley Raff. And I remember it was just
Speaker 1: a push in the writer's room, and all the executive producers,
Speaker 1: all the ABC networks said, she's the one and you've
Speaker 1: always had that. She's the one tone from the industry
Speaker 1: and it comes from not only relationships, but doing the
Speaker 1: job and being a professional. And a lot of people
Speaker 1: misstep that because of the fact that you can only
Speaker 1: I think, have a long career when people have worked
Speaker 1: with you and want to work with you again. Talk
Speaker 1: about longevity and relationships.
Speaker 3: I think you just put your voice on it.
Speaker 4: Who knows you, who likes you, who wants to work
Speaker 4: with you, who wants to work with you again.
Speaker 3: I just came back from Philadelphia.
Speaker 4: You know, I commute my husband, Senator Hughes of Pennsylvania.
Speaker 4: He and I, well, I do the commuting. But we
Speaker 4: were laughing because a friend of mine has a new series,
Speaker 4: Sean McBride. Shy and I did a movie together called
Speaker 4: Distinguished Gentleman.
Speaker 3: Absolutely Murphy, Absolutely Yeah. And then Shy and I have
Speaker 3: you know, on and off, you know, in Touch.
Speaker 4: He got his new sitcom and he said, I got
Speaker 4: to get shry.
Speaker 3: Lee Rout and I can't.
Speaker 4: I was on the plane and they were like, Shi
Speaker 4: has asked me if you do this show with him,
Speaker 4: and you know it's small, But I'm just like when
Speaker 4: your friends and people call you because they've got to
Speaker 4: have you, the least you can say is okay.
Speaker 1: Yes, Well, I never to tell everybody I've been in
Speaker 1: the room when they've been demanding and asking for this
Speaker 1: young lady, this diva, this goddess. And over the years
Speaker 1: I've seen her, you know, and I guess what. She
Speaker 1: came on the set and she delivered. But here's the
Speaker 1: thing about it is that she delivered with humbleness, professionalism.
Speaker 1: There's a certain way you come on because I've been
Speaker 1: fortunate to be around a lot of stars, and some
Speaker 1: stars I don't want to be around, okay, and some
Speaker 1: talent that aren't stars I don't want to be around. Okay,
Speaker 1: we don't even get in that because she knows what
Speaker 1: I'm talking about. And so, but the problem that the
Speaker 1: issue is always delivering. If because we are working under
Speaker 1: a stress situation, you know, we have to deliver. We're
Speaker 1: doing lines, we have to make sure the lin reach right.
Speaker 1: You have to write a character, you have to come
Speaker 1: in and we're all hoping in praying that this series
Speaker 1: gets renewed. People watching the series and get the ratings.
Speaker 1: There's so many things that go into creating the project.
Speaker 1: Then you have to put it out there and see
Speaker 1: if the geral public likes it. And then you have
Speaker 1: to have a talent like Shirley Raff who wants to
Speaker 1: promote it. See see if she.
Speaker 4: Doesn't want to saying you see, that's why you're doing
Speaker 4: this show about money making because promotion, promotion, promotion. You
Speaker 4: can have the most incredible idea script series out there,
Speaker 4: but if nobody knows it's there, it means absolutely nothing.
Speaker 4: You know, I shoot two series. I shoot Abviod Elementary,
Speaker 4: and I shoot a series called Motherland Fort Salem, which
Speaker 4: is an outstanding series on the Spree form. Absolutely I
Speaker 4: don't I got you, I got about you.
Speaker 1: I got you. Okay, I got you because Demetria she's that's.
Speaker 4: Exactly right, and people should see Demetria.
Speaker 3: People should see the show.
Speaker 4: When you've got a woman like me as the forty fifth,
Speaker 4: the forty fifth president of the United States in an
Speaker 4: alternative world where the future is truly feminine, they should
Speaker 4: see it.
Speaker 3: But they don't see it because of a lack of promotion.
Speaker 4: But Abviod Elementary, Abbod elementary is pouring the sauce, stated
Speaker 4: on Nymorrow.
Speaker 1: You hear me.
Speaker 3: Oh gosh.
Speaker 4: When we were shooting this show in secret, people were like,
Speaker 4: molte up, wait a minute.
Speaker 3: That that little girl from what Black Lady Sketch show? No, no, no,
Speaker 3: that little woman.
Speaker 4: From BuzzFeed, the Q Lady that I call her the
Speaker 4: true Queen Bee.
Speaker 3: Oh, we need to know about this. It has been amazing.
Speaker 3: It is amazing.
Speaker 1: You know, thing't think about it because before the show
Speaker 1: came on my radar, you know, it hit buzz And
Speaker 1: then my staff I said we shouldn't have you saw emplementary.
Speaker 1: I said, no, I have seen Raell. You got to
Speaker 1: see it. It's funny. This is funny. This is really
Speaker 1: really funny. And so and then I saw an article
Speaker 1: on her. Because I live in two city. I live
Speaker 1: in Atlanta, I live in Houston. I always read the
Speaker 1: Houston newspaper and I just saw an article on the
Speaker 1: creator and the lead in and I was just reading
Speaker 1: about her, and I go okay. And then they said, oh,
Speaker 1: you know, Shirley Raft scheduled to do your show. I
Speaker 1: go okay, I gotta watch it because what I don't do,
Speaker 1: Shiryl I do not interview people on that, you know,
Speaker 1: just read your bio and ask your in their questions.
Speaker 1: I hate that. I hate that. So I'm sitting on
Speaker 1: my sofa yesterday and I saw episode one, I saw
Speaker 1: episode two, I saw episode three, and I the principle.
Speaker 3: James.
Speaker 4: Now James, I think is a bright talent that she
Speaker 4: has not acted before.
Speaker 3: This is her a show like this, and she is
Speaker 3: killing it.
Speaker 1: Killing it you. And and here's the thing about it
Speaker 1: is set in Philadelphia as a kindergarten citty, you know.
Speaker 3: Like it's a primary.
Speaker 1: Primary school center and so and so when we say
Speaker 1: that means that it's a public school, correct, because they are.
Speaker 1: They're struggling for funds, they're struggling to kids supplies, they're
Speaker 1: struggling to deliver adequate and correct education to these young kids.
Speaker 1: And and it is a black population of kids to
Speaker 1: attending school, which is typical for a public school. And
Speaker 1: her character, Barber is the seasoned teacher. I would say,
Speaker 1: you always have these shows where you have to have
Speaker 1: somebody who's extreme, and that's uh, that's the white character.
Speaker 1: She's extreme because you don't know if she because she
Speaker 1: has a line and she said, you know, I can
Speaker 1: make more money on the streets, and you don't know
Speaker 1: what that means. You go, is that drugs? Is that prostitution?
Speaker 1: What is she talking about?
Speaker 4: And that's played by Lisa and Walter and is really
Speaker 4: amazing and wonderful as well.
Speaker 1: And you feel the reality of a character, you feel
Speaker 1: the comedic frustration of all these characters that are put together.
Speaker 1: And I think that's what it all happens when we
Speaker 1: talk about this series Abbott Elementary. You do a table read,
Speaker 1: surel and a table reader to tell everybody's like you know,
Speaker 1: they bring everybody in the cast, the producers there, sometimes
Speaker 1: network is there, of course, the person who wrote the
Speaker 1: script and other writers and then the cast sits around
Speaker 1: the table and they read the script. Okay in seats.
Speaker 1: That's when you really get a sign a sense. So
Speaker 1: if something's flat or something works, they will expand on it.
Speaker 1: You add to it all that, We'll fix that, We'll
Speaker 1: fix that, We'll fix that. How is it that table read?
Speaker 1: When you set down for this series.
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Speaker 4: I honestly have to tell you that sitting there listening
Speaker 4: to the show, I really knew that I was onto
Speaker 4: something very special. When we were doing dream Girls back
Speaker 4: in the day and we would stand in the wings
Speaker 4: and listen to Jennifer Holidays sing, I knew we were
Speaker 4: onto something special. When I met Brandy doing Moesha and
Speaker 4: this young girl came on in all of her braides
Speaker 4: and just being herself, I knew we were onto something special.
Speaker 4: That table read with ABD Elementary I was doing.
Speaker 3: Yes.
Speaker 1: First of all, I felt you were you were two
Speaker 1: of my teachers in high school. That's that's Lenda Trailer,
Speaker 1: she's my biology teacher, and as Georgia Nelson that she
Speaker 1: was my math teacher. You know, they were both people
Speaker 1: who focused me. Who who who allowed me to sit
Speaker 1: here in this chair today because of those two teachers.
Speaker 1: So I felt your character Barble was very relatable from
Speaker 1: that step because because I needed that, I needed that
Speaker 1: person that Okay, you stop stop all this silliness. This
Speaker 1: is who you are and that's what your character is,
Speaker 1: defines this role in there and the beauty of this
Speaker 1: series and everybody. It's kind of like shot like it's
Speaker 1: a docuseriies. In other words, if it makes it seem
Speaker 1: like a documentary team is following them around. Cool. So
Speaker 1: you get a lot of action towards the camera and
Speaker 1: then a lot of did I say that in front
Speaker 1: of the camera, and so so and so so that
Speaker 1: also plays into another a fourth wall and you are
Speaker 1: the fourth wall that they're talking to. And that really
Speaker 1: makes for an original concept for us to review this
Speaker 1: sitcom because I'm pretty sure it's a single camera they're shooting.
Speaker 1: It's not a multi camera, single camera no we have.
Speaker 4: It's amazing because what Quinta has developed here is something.
Speaker 3: Literally brand new.
Speaker 4: Okay, well maybe it's not brand new, but it's it's
Speaker 4: very different because when we're working, we have a whole
Speaker 4: ballet going on with the cameras.
Speaker 3: They they're never still. They're they're not on you know,
Speaker 3: not rack and roll.
Speaker 4: They're sort of scooters with wheels and everything.
Speaker 3: So they're there. It's almost like a dance, right that.
Speaker 4: They're doing each other to make sure that they catch everything.
Speaker 3: There are some things that they have caught and I
Speaker 3: was like.
Speaker 4: I know they didn't just catch that.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: And sometimes I see the show and I'm like, oh
Speaker 4: my god, they're like watching everything.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 4: It's it's it's like that, and it's been it's been
Speaker 4: great to be a part of something brand new. And
Speaker 4: I say this a lot, but Quina Brunson, when I
Speaker 4: look at Quinta Brunsen, I feel the way I believe
Speaker 4: Maya Angelou.
Speaker 3: Felt when she looked at me.
Speaker 4: Maya Angelou looked at me and said, one day, when
Speaker 4: I hear you speak ry Lee Ralph, I know it
Speaker 4: was all worth it. And I felt so oh my god.
Speaker 4: It just made me feel so good. And now when
Speaker 4: I look at Quinta and here she is, writing, creating,
Speaker 4: producing this show, I look at her and I've been
Speaker 4: through it with this industry, and I feel it was
Speaker 4: all worth it, and I'm just so proud of her.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, and you should be. You know, her background,
Speaker 1: her mom was a teacher. The Quinta that's the star
Speaker 1: of the show and the creator, and so that so
Speaker 1: she's she's she's gaining information from a lifestyle that she
Speaker 1: grew up around. And then it still goes back to
Speaker 1: the characters that you know, the whether it's the janitor,
Speaker 1: whether it's the sub teacher.
Speaker 4: William Stanford janitor, and he is funny because he's always
Speaker 4: in the room and then he says something crazy and
Speaker 4: you're like, I forgot he was right there.
Speaker 1: Oh he knows y'all. When y'all in the break room,
Speaker 1: he can say whatever, y'all not listening, I'm going fishing.
Speaker 1: I'm going fishing. Nobody goes what did he say? But exactly, well,
Speaker 1: you know that. It's just the fun part about it.
Speaker 1: I'm speaking to Shirley Ralph Credible. Shirley Ralph I on
Speaker 1: one show.
Speaker 6: We all know her history and television stage director author, uh,
Speaker 6: but this show that she's starting in Abbot Elementary, which
Speaker 6: airs on ABC on Tuesdays.
Speaker 1: If you miss it, go to ABC dot Com, go
Speaker 1: to Hulu. I called it on Hulu. It's an amazing
Speaker 1: show from a docu series style. Because the cameras they
Speaker 1: they are there. Sometimes they go ooh, I didn't know
Speaker 1: what the cameras were there. I didn't really mean to
Speaker 1: say that. You're gonna cut that right and then so
Speaker 1: and so it captures a lifestyle. It's a very modern
Speaker 1: approach to school. The principal. The school principal, she actually
Speaker 1: has a green screen studio in her in her office.
Speaker 1: And so that's why I really loved about it. It felt
Speaker 1: so modern, but it didn't feel forced. And I think
Speaker 1: that I think that that's important that people hear that,
Speaker 1: because I had a friend of mine that were saying
Speaker 1: that they were working on a project, a sitcom project,
Speaker 1: and they said that the executive came back and said, well,
Speaker 1: it feels kind of dated, it feels like a feels
Speaker 1: like a traditional sitcom. Well, this is not a traditional sitcom.
Speaker 1: And I'm just gonna let you know that it's a
Speaker 1: very innovative. It's very it's very modern, it's very sensitive.
Speaker 1: It also has those dramatic moments which I like in
Speaker 1: brilliant sitcoms, where you know, we can laugh through the pain,
Speaker 1: but then we got the message of the pain.
Speaker 3: Talk about that, thank you. You know, it's so interesting.
Speaker 4: When I first saw the script, I loved the character
Speaker 4: of the principle and I said to Quin to give
Speaker 4: me a shot at the principal, and she said, no,
Speaker 4: absolutely not. We need a queen from Missus Howard, and
Speaker 4: that's you.
Speaker 1: Yes, and she.
Speaker 4: Has given me the wonderful task of doing exactly what
Speaker 4: you just said.
Speaker 3: I delivered the heart and the message of the show.
Speaker 1: You know, it's really interesting you say that, because you know,
Speaker 1: if you you know a slice of my life. And
Speaker 1: I grew up in the hood, and I grew up
Speaker 1: a six sisters, two brothers, two bedroom shotgun house. That
Speaker 1: was me. So I go through high school and I'm
Speaker 1: going to tell you it wasn't to college that I
Speaker 1: actually used a fork knife. You know. So when I
Speaker 1: would eat, and when I eat, my friends would go,
Speaker 1: why you eat everything with a spoon? Well, that's all
Speaker 1: I had at the house was a spoon, and so
Speaker 1: I would cut my meat with a spoon. I would
Speaker 1: they go, dude, there's a knife and a frot there. Well,
Speaker 1: guess what I didn't know. I didn't have it, so
Speaker 1: guess what I was. I was cool with it, And
Speaker 1: then of course I realized, Okay, there are others that
Speaker 1: you can use. Did you use But that's exactly what
Speaker 1: you're saying. If you don't know, then you're comfortable with
Speaker 1: Guess what. It didn't hurt my growth. It didn't stump
Speaker 1: my growth. It was just something I didn't know was
Speaker 1: available to me. But it didn't stop me from being successful.
Speaker 1: And that's what I take away from that line. When
Speaker 1: I saw that moment, it was just a flashback to
Speaker 1: my life when I was just in college cutting everything
Speaker 1: with a spoon. I was eating with a spoon, and
Speaker 1: when I when I went through the line, I just
Speaker 1: grabbed a spoon and because you know, they got a
Speaker 1: knife and fok over, I go, okay, no, biggie, I'm cool.
Speaker 3: But wonderful point.
Speaker 4: The wonderful point to this is that you were raised
Speaker 4: in a home that made you feel good about what
Speaker 4: you had.
Speaker 3: You did not feel.
Speaker 4: Less than yes, And I love the fact that we
Speaker 4: were able to say that out loud. You should not
Speaker 4: be made to feel less than because you don't have
Speaker 4: as much as others. You know, I tell you, I'm
Speaker 4: a plane ordinary middle class child of the sixties kid.
Speaker 3: And I always thought I was rich, always thought I
Speaker 3: was rich.
Speaker 1: I grew up and.
Speaker 3: Found out I was rich right now.
Speaker 4: Parents made me feel good about what I had and
Speaker 4: where I was in life. And just like you, it
Speaker 4: did not stop me from reaching for my dreams.
Speaker 3: It did not deter me from being becoming who it was.
Speaker 3: I am still becoming.
Speaker 1: I want to talk about you being an eight A
Speaker 1: actor before I close out, because I think it's important.
Speaker 1: Part of who you are. I've seen what you've done
Speaker 1: over the years is you've been front and center, and
Speaker 1: I think that's important that people know that. You know,
Speaker 1: you want to you know, like I see how recently
Speaker 1: Betty White passed away and they honored her on one
Speaker 1: hundredth birthday by because he's an advocate for pets, you know, animals,
Speaker 1: so and I'm not comparing her activism for AGE to pets.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying that people are more than what you
Speaker 1: see they are. They do more behind the scenes and
Speaker 1: sometimes just because they are public figures, you're entertained. That's
Speaker 1: all we care about. That's all we want to know.
Speaker 1: You've been an activist in age. Talk about why that
Speaker 1: was so. You've been honored the United Nations, You've been
Speaker 1: honored the Jamaica. You know, you have been an international advocate.
Speaker 1: Talk about why that has been so important to you.
Speaker 4: As an original company member of dream Girls, the musical,
Speaker 4: the original on Broadway, you know, we lost one third
Speaker 4: of our company to AIDS, not HIV to AIDS, and
Speaker 4: nobody said anything about that loss, And somehow it stuck
Speaker 4: with me and I said, no, we have to do better.
Speaker 4: We have to acknowledge these talented, amazing, beautiful men that
Speaker 4: we have lost, and a few women too, but not
Speaker 4: in our company.
Speaker 3: But that's how I got involved. And it's so hard for.
Speaker 4: Me now after everything I learned about the HIV virus.
Speaker 4: That tell me a lot about human behavior. People are
Speaker 4: hard headed. Yes, people do not believe the truth even
Speaker 4: when it is told to them. People enjoy lives. When
Speaker 4: they say ignorance is not bliss, it is only a
Speaker 4: saying as a warning.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 4: When it came to HIV, we knew that condoms were
Speaker 4: a known barrier to the disease.
Speaker 3: Could we get people to wear condoms?
Speaker 4: Could we get women to carry condoms and protect themselves? No,
Speaker 4: it doesn't feel good, it doesn't fit HIV get tested?
Speaker 3: Could we get people to get tested? And if they
Speaker 3: did get tested, they would.
Speaker 4: Only go in for their first test and would not
Speaker 4: come back for their results. People who know or knew
Speaker 4: that they were positive for HIV back in the day
Speaker 4: did not tell anybody and.
Speaker 3: Then act like it's a lie.
Speaker 4: Yes, HIV did not have to become a black woman
Speaker 4: in the South burden, but it is. People are hard headed,
Speaker 4: they don't want to listen to the truth, and they
Speaker 4: want to make up all kind of stories around these things,
Speaker 4: talking about why should people why should the government be
Speaker 4: telling me what to do? Well, here's here's some things
Speaker 4: that you don't have to do. Please, do not get
Speaker 4: a driver's license. Get out there and drive without your license.
Speaker 4: See what happens when they find you driving without a license. Please,
Speaker 4: if you're in a state where they charge you income tax,
Speaker 4: don't pay your taxes.
Speaker 3: Just don't pay your taxes, because when.
Speaker 4: The IRS finds you, you're going to see what happens
Speaker 4: when people tell you some of the things that you
Speaker 4: have to do. And by the way, we vaccinate our
Speaker 4: children for a lot of diseases so that they can
Speaker 4: go to school, so that other children don't get sick.
Speaker 4: I suggest you try not vaccinating your child for anything,
Speaker 4: because that child will not.
Speaker 3: Be going to school anywhere. So those are just a
Speaker 3: few of the things that the government tells you you
Speaker 3: must do. What you're going to do, that's what I
Speaker 3: need to know what you're going to do, because see.
Speaker 4: I need you to survive and I need you to
Speaker 4: fight for our dog on right to vote, because if
Speaker 4: you want to make some money, you need to be
Speaker 4: able to vote and tell people where to spend the
Speaker 4: money that they have got for you that you don't
Speaker 4: know about because you're not part of this, you're not voting.
Speaker 3: I'm just saying, don't get misstarted. That's my life.
Speaker 1: Well, I will tell you this. That little porster right
Speaker 1: there will be clipped and put on my social media
Speaker 1: because that's the part of it life. That's Shirley Raft.
Speaker 1: I know that's surely if I've seen, that's the part
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