All Good News ( Tyler Perry's 250K Surprise and Brandy Gets a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame)

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Let me get this straight.

You're in Italy.

Ciao.

Pretend it to be the white Italian man's fiancé.

Hard to believe.

This is Michael.

My nephew.

One job.

No.

Then you ended up catching feelings for the black Italian cousin brothers.

On April tap, she came for the pasta and got lost in the sauce.

Please just tell me that you support me.

No.

No.

Is he fine though?

Come on baby.

He's trying to love me baby.

You be in Tuscany.

Ready to beat you 13.

Only Peter's April tap.

Maybe inappropriate for children under 13.

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Let me get this straight.

You and Italy.

Ciao.

Pretend it to be the white Italian man's fiance.

Hard to believe.

This is Michael, my nephew.

And y'all know.

Then you ended up catching feelings for the black Italian cousin brothers.

On April 10th, she came for the pasta and got lost in the sauce.

Please, just tell me that you support me.

No.

Is he fine though?

Come on, baby.

She's not gonna say you love me, baby.

You be in touch today.

Pretty PG-13.

Only Peter's April 10th.

Maybe inappropriate for children under 13.

So I just actually got off the phone with Tyler Perry's rep.

So Shantal, who is a publicist for Tyler Perry.

They gave me a call today because there's a report that is circulating.

Via a local out of Atlanta that Tyler Perry's team.

In the $1,000 gift cards that they issued to TFA agents.

Are now being rejected and are being held by higher ups at the airport.

Because of protocol measures that were not adhered by Tyler Perry.

And you know, rules just around getting monetary things to get the agent.

Now, I was told that this this reporting was completely false.

So over the weekend, Tyler Perry and team went to the Atlanta airport.

And they gave out $250,000 worth of gift cards.

$1,000 a piece to various CAK agents totaling $250,000.

Now, if you guys remember, we didn't cover this here on the podcast.

But you may have seen some reports about it.

For those of you guys who have not out refreshed your memory.

About a week ago, Tyler Perry's team went to the airport with a large sum of cash.

And wanted to get cash out to all the TSA agents who were there and working and not receiving money.

The TFA agents are not receiving money because of the government shutdown.

Which, you know, as of yesterday was reported to not completely up.

Comes to a stop.

But basically some agents are reported that they've received some retroactive paychecks.

But from the report that I've seen, this kind of varies.

Where the agents are based, then, you know, it's going to take some time to get to everybody.

But they were working and not getting paid any money.

So Tyler Perry was like, hey, let's go.

Let's get them some cash direct.

When they got their hand off the cash, they were stopped.

The reason why they were stopped was because they were not allowed to give cash on hand to any of the airport employees.

It's just, there's just rules around gifting to avoid the TSA agents.

So Tyler Perry and team went back to the drawing board.

I'm told that they worked with the TSA assistant federal security director.

And they worked with them very closely on Thursday of last week.

And what they came up with was a gift card process.

Made it where the TSA agency will receive $2,000.

It will be allowed to be received.

So Tyler Perry's team took all of those gift cards up to $250,000 worth to this federal security director, this assistant federal security director, who then disperse the gift cards to the TSA agent.

So the reporting of a day other than that, what I'm being told on the record from Tyler Perry's team is not true.

Now, I did just get off the phone with them because I know prior to my reporting.

There were reports that a security director is basically holding the gift cards because there's some sort of hiccup still.

Tyler Perry's team is completely confused.

They are, you know, trying to get back in contact with the people that they worked with, but they're like, there's no way this would be happening because we came and did the $250,000 donation directly to that office that, you know, people are holding as the office at a standard.

They're not able to be dispersed someone would have given us a call and no one had.

So as of right now, exclusively, I could tell you guys that Tyler Perry team and Tyler Perry are telling me that they've been able to give out these gift cards via an assistant federal security director at the airport.

So where he is developing, I'm literally waiting on a call back just because they wanted to call and just poke around because they're confused and that happened last week.

Friday, we went through a whole weekend and now Monday, there's a report, which is very confusing because from what they understood all of the gift cards were given on Friday.

So I keep your eyes updated there.

Let me get this straight.

You're in Italy.

Ciao.

Pretend it to be the white Italian man's fiance.

Hard to believe.

This is Michael, my nephew.

What's up?

Then you ended up catching feelings for the black Italian cousin brothers.

On April Tap, she came for the pasta and got lost in the sauce.

Please, just tell me that you support me.

No.

Is he fine though?

Come on, baby.

She's not getting it.

She's trying to love me, baby.

You and me in Tuscany, ready to pitch 13.

Only Peter's April Tap may be inappropriate for children under 13.

Now in other good news, oh my God, Brandy, our girl, the lyrical Bible.

Okay.

The harmony Bible.

I just see her star on the Hollywood.

It's okay.

I have a job.

This is not overdue.

I feel like she's had such a massive career and broken so many barriers and records and have a mass so much success.

That she should have been had a star on the walk of fame.

Well, maybe you guys should be feeling like that.

But she received her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame today in California with her family in attendance.

And eat the right and baby face folk on her we had.

And Brandy also spoke as well too.

A lyricalist and a Brandy accepts the star and just talking about how this is like a dream in any day.

I was just a little girl with a big dream.

But growing up in Hollywood made those dreams feel close enough to touch.

Seeing the stars on the walk of fame lit something in me.

It made me believe.

It made me affirm over my own life.

I'm gonna sing my way onto one of these stars.

And I did.

That is what makes this moment so profound for me.

So full circle, so sacred.

I am beyond grateful.

Let me tell you something.

Okay.

Moisha literally was one of the reasons I wanted to work in television.

I met Megan good the other day.

I met Megan good but I saw Megan good the other day.

She came by the breakfast club and I was selling her you on television.

Brandy, Gabrielle Union, like y'all were the girls, especially Brandy and Megan good.

Brandy, I'm trying to tell you guys.

I used to sit up in my room.

I used to sit up in my room and write in my diary and talk to myself.

The same way Brandy did on Moisha when it came.

I wanted to be Moisha.

I wanted to live in California.

I wanted to go to school or Brandy went to school and go hang out at the din.

And just, you know, be able to walk in the house and say, what's up?

What's up Uncle Frank?

Like I wanted that life because it was what you saw on TV.

And it was full.

Like her friends were like, you know, everybody had their thing.

And they were performing and they were open mics and she was a young and trying to figure it out.

And then she goes and becomes Cinderella.

We're Whitney Houston.

Brandy has literally been a living testament of representation matters before that was like the cool things that literally before that was a cool thing to say.

So it was amazing to see her get her start on the walk of fame.

But it was crazy at the same time because she was so like in all and like shop and taking it back.

And I'm like, girl, you would have there about full five limited ease.

Okay.

You have a great ability to inspire so many generations and not just intelligence, but also in music as well too.

Let's take a listen to Issa Rae who spoke at the induction ceremony.

The walk of fame was car ceremony.

I thought it was so fitting for Issa Rae to speak.

Because when you think about representation of television and doing things your own way and storytelling and being, you know, the black girl in the space who's like really a black girl and really rep it for us.

And tell the stories that are near and dear to our heart.

The new age version of what Brandy did with Moisha was Issa Rae on the secure.

Let's take a listen to Issa Rae.

The first time I saw Brandy, I had no idea how much I needed to see Brandy.

I was in fourth grade when I want to be down came out and that single was the first tape I ever bought.

And when the broken hearted remix came out on the school bus, I was so excited when it came on in the radio.

Brandy came on the radio and I was singing it and I was sitting next to my crush.

And he was like, who sings a song? And I was like, Brandy proudly.

And he was like, then let her sing it.

So that was my first heart break.

Thank you, Brandy.

And so much for that.

Brandy is a star for so many reasons, but her transition to acting was a gang changer.

While her first official role was Asthia's daughter in Thea, it was really Moisha that made me understand what was possible.

It was the first show that I had ever seen told from an ordinary black teenage girl's point of view, said in L.A.

The same city I was born in and were moved back to that same year it premiered.

Brandy made Moisha someone I wanted to be friend.

The girl I wanted to be at a time when beauty standards on television looked nothing like us.

Brandy was the standard.

And then of course, babyface had to pull up because don't ever forget that my bro is the vocal bible.

Here he is.

And if you have ever heard Brandy live on a stage, you understand why they call her that you understand it not live.

But seeing Brandy perform live in concert with Monica on the board of the boys mind towards.

I remember watching her on that stage being like, and it's so effortless.

Like you know, sometimes the singers you see them saying, and it's like, was like, alright, like you know they hanging you can see you can feel it.

Brandy be hanging down.

And literally just be like jokingly like, belt not a tune real quick.

It's so effortless like I all the time think about whether talent like that like really Monica.

You know the girls of that generation, literally vocal vocalist sound by just the upper echelons of celebrity that they aren't if that even like what we I don't I don't a lot of things come back around.

I don't know what ever get there again.

It was just the different time and like Brandy was acting singing Broadway like, I don't know where we get back there.

Let's take a listen to Babyface because you got to come in the music with Brandy.

I'm so honored to be here and speak for you.

When I think of the first time I met you, I think was somewhere in 1995 we were on to a voice to men and Babyface and you opened up.

You were this little girl that was opened up and singing, I want to be down and I wanted to be down with you then because you were amazing.

The voice that I heard, I didn't know that so much soul and so much good feeling could come out of someone so young.

It's like you had already been here before and when I finally got the opportunity to actually work with you on the waiting to exhale project which I have to tell you when Whitney and I sat down.

We went over a list of who we wanted to be on the album and yours was the first name that came up that she said, I want Brandy on it.

And she said because you had one of the best voices she had ever heard.

For me, you have one of the best voices I've ever heard.

You give one of the best feelings I've ever heard.

You're the soul that's in your voice, the way you move your voice.

You're like an athlete, the way you can move your voice.

No one can do it the way you do it.

Nobody can.

Okay.

Brandy, if you're listening, I've been standing forever.

I need to play you the biopic.

Okay.

Hey, Swin.

Congrats, Swin.

So excited for her.

Oh my God.

That is.

It's a goal of mine as well too.

And people always talk about the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

I think nowadays it's not as like, ooh, oh my God, right.

Depending on your talking to because now people know that like, okay, paid for and normally paid for by something.

So like people do it when like they have movies coming out and the movie budget will take care of it.

I know.

Brandy had.

Brandy has her book phases coming out.

So I don't know maybe the marketing budget around the book is making sure she gets her Hollywood Walk of Fame scar because it's a talking point.

It's a marketing point.

It's a, you know, it gets the people going.

Edit brain needed that, right?

But it does.

It just puts you top of mind in the media and the press.

And it's just, you know, something that just.

It looks great.

It feels great.

It's a moment for people to celebrate you.

But it's also.

It's a great press moment.

It's so positive.

People didn't remember, you know, all of your accolades.

And it funnels down to whatever you're going on.

So.

A brandy has her new book phases coming.

And now she has a Walk of Fame star.

And thank God, they didn't let Brandy get nowhere near that market.

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